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It was mentioned this mission is "officially" called "The Dragon Hatchery", so obviously we have no idea that we're heading back to the raider camp. No idea at all.
We visit the monk Leosin again. He's standing, and looks much better than when we last saw him.
He tells us that he needs our help. With all we've already done for Greenest, he doesn't want to ask more, but the need is great.
He wants us to return to camp, and see if anything substantial is carried in or out of the camp. He doesn't recommend getting captured, as after he and Alissa escaped being prisoners before, they'd probably execute us on the spot.
We ask how long we should say, and he answers simply that we should stay long enough to discover their plans, and where they go next.
He tells us to meet him in the city Elturel, and tells us he has a reward of 150 gold a piece for us, if we succeed. If he's not there, find a paladin called "Ontharr Frume".
We tell him we'll do our best, and leave.
We get close to camp. Alissa cautiously scouts out the outskirts of the camp. She doesn't see any patrols, although the watchtowers could still be manned.
She returns, and suggests we approach cautiously. Perhaps we can pass as mercenaries. Alissa and Luke disguise themselves, but Shale and I possess no such skill, so we let them go ahead.
The camp seems to have been burned deliberately, and the watchtowers are unmanned. We head towards the back of the camp, where some small fires still smolder.
It seems the back of the camp has been converted into a butchery, where a small hunting party composed of several kobolds is skinning some antelope. It looks like there is room for several other hunting parties as well. At the cave entrance, which we have heard there are hatchlings within, stand two guards.
We can see a recent path leading west, which seems most likely where the rest of the camp went, with anything they couldn't take with them and didn't leave the hunting parties, being burned down.
We decide we should probably figure out where the rest of the raid camp went, and catch up with them. Leosin will want to know.
We pass as mercenaries, and so Luke and Alissa go to talk to the two guards outside of the cave. They talk a little, one of the guards gestures at a still standing tent, and then Luke and Alissa return to Shale and I.
They didn't find anything useful. In fact, they've directed us to be on hunting duty as well. Luke wants to check the cave out, so veils himself with an invisibility spell, and sneaks past the guards.
After almost an hour, Luke returns. There's a bunch of cultists inside he tells us, where a barracks area was set up. We should be able to avoid them though, as they're in a hallway off to the side. There's something weird inside though, something we should investigate.
There's a drop off into a violet fungus patch, but there's a small stairway down into it, and two paths around the fungus. Unfortunately, the stairway is also trapped, with a ramp trap of sorts, which he had activated accidentally.
Luke really wants to know what is on the other side, but it seems like its probably too dangerous to go alone. He can use his invisibility on the rest of us, but it'll take time, as he can only sustain it on one person at a time. He'll give us 20 minutes each to get in and get hidden, before he dispels the invisibility and starts getting the next person in.
It's not long until nightfall, so we wait, and decide that we should send Alissa first, and then Shale, with me going third. Luke will come in last.
Twenty minutes pass, and Luke dispels the invisibility on Alissa and applies it to Shale.
Shale is halfway to the cave entrance, when we hear yelling from inside the cave. The guards start to turn, and Shale charges forward, and impales him, dispelling the invisibility effect Luke had cast upon her. Luke and I charge into the cave after.
I put some of them to sleep, and my magic flows out of me, making me glow very brightly. Shale lights her sword on fire, so it also grows brightly, with a divine fire.
We can see several cultists running from the side hallway towards the stairs where Alissa is. Alissa comes up from the stairs, and I put one of the cultists blocking her way to sleep (causing another surge of uncontrollable power, which opens my third eye), so she runs over him to us.
Apparently Alissa couldn't see very well in the darkness, fell down the stairs on the trap, and then stumbled into the fungus, where one of them wanged her in head. She crawled out of the way, and a winged kobold landed on her head, without realizing what it had found. Alissa escaped the kobold, and rolling a natural one accidentally stumbled into a group of kobolds, giving them a bug hug.
They yelled, and Alissa yelled, and Alissa got stabbed by small pointy sticks, and that was when we heard something wrong.
I'm very bright, and several cultists run up to me, but find my light blinding. Luke is very cold, and cultists find attacking him inflicts them with a deep cold. With that, and Shale's glowing sword, we make good work of them.
Alissa stands too closely to me and is blinded by my light, and one of the cultists takes an opportunity to knock her out cold. More cultists fall to us, and with only two left, suddenly everything turns back to me as well.
I was out for only a moment, apparently, and Shale and Luke vanquished the last two cultists. Luke had tended to Alissa first Who immediately rolled a natural one on death saving throws, so was in very desperate need of attention, and was now tending to me.
I stand up, a little wobbly, and walk over to the edge of the fungal pit, with my light still gleaming and my third eye still open. I can see where Alissa went wrong. The stairs lead down into pit, and it leads directly into the right path. But the right path is only barely tread, and the left path is much more obviously used, and the route Alissa should have taken.
We explore the barracks area. Luke had mentioned a drunk cultist before, and while the other cultists had come to fight us, the battle hadn't seemed to bother this one, who is still sleeping among a pile of bottles.
We slap him awake, and attempt to interrogate him, but he refuses to talk. We discuss what to do with him, but I don't remember what we ended up doing. As far as I'm concerned, we probably slit his throat. It's okay, he's evil.
We find a hallway Luke hadn't found on his first look around. We decide we should continue down it, and find an office of sorts. It's dimly lit by two oil lamps, and dragon themed rugs cover the floor.
In the center of the room is a desk, with maps and notes. One of the maps is of the Greenfields around Greenest, and is heavily marked. An arrow points towards the west at Bereghost. Another arrow points north, with numerals and in columns "everything must be freighted north to Naerytar". It also says "Rezmir let us keep ring and small stones" and has some bad poetry about dragons.
There are several trunks, which Alissa investigates. Some of it is some common well made clothing, but one of them is a purple robes, which Alissa says is the full cult of dragon regalia, for Mondath.
Luke notices that one of the rugs seems depressed. so blue seems to be covering some sort of depression, and points it out to Alissa. Alissa rolls natural one rips the rug off the hole, revealing a rope ladder leading down.
We start down the tunnel, with Alissa leading first.
Alissa seriously, stop rolling natural ones slips on the ladder, letting a bunch of rocks and dirt from the tunnel wall fall noisily.
A voice from below yells "I'm surprised you survived, Shale, and I don't know if it's good or bad. Come down and fight me!"
It's Cyanwrath's voice. We couldn't possibly fight him and survive. Doing so is certain death. Shale protests, but we head back up the tunnel, with Cyanwrath yelling of our cowardice behind us.
We cautiously leave the cave and return to Greenest.
The mayor seems to always be happy when we show up.
We tell him what we found, and say we need to head to Bereghost, to try to head of the attack, and that we need to have a message sent to Leosin. He frowns at this.
He says Leosin has bought horses for us, and riding gear. He strongly suggests we go to Leosin directly, as Leosin would better be able to get access to allys. It's strongly suggested that we wouldn't be able to stand up against the attackers, and it wouldn't change anything other than causing our own deaths. It's also implied that the players going that direction isn't planned, and we already have messed some things up with how the cave went.
Ok, we'll send a messenger to Bereghost, and head to Elturel.
..Jeff seriously rolled like six natural ones...
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There’s a new address to design and dining, The Secret Room at Five Palm Jumeirah Hotel by designer
There’s a new place to party in town. The Secret Room, designed by Toronto-based Paolo Ferrari, is a nightclub that deftly threads together space and time with authenticity. The complex design draws inspiration from the far corners of the world—not unlike the cultural panoply of Dubai—and grounds it within the subterranean depths of the Five Palm Jumeirah Hotel.
“When we started this project, we had a visual of Villa Farnese [a renaissance-era mansion in Rome], then we spliced it with Anish Kapoor’s The bronze-coloured arched bar acts as a luminous showstopper in the nightclub Cloud Gate,” says Ferrari of The Secret Room’s early inspiration. Then, to anchor the idea of bacchanalian decadence with a feeling of noble restraint, the design team employed the concept of duality. “We articulated this as the duality of history (the past) and invention (the future),” explains Ferrari. “It’s about creating a kind of ambiguity of time and place.” Through that lens, a series of time-travelling assemblages could complement each other, rather than overwhelm.
The Dalí-esque statement bar speaks to the future, while soft furnishings conjure up an aesthetic reminiscent of the ’60s and ’70s. The classic interior architecture of the walls, ceiling, and floors delves farther back still, alluding to pre-20th century. These elements were also loosely inspired by the final moments of Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey, set in a Louis XIV-era French bedroom. “That scene has always resonated for me,” Ferrari says. “There is an incredible tension between the interior architecture, but at the same time it feels uncomplicated.” A similar effect is achieved in The Secret Room and, with it, a nod to retrofuturism is made clear. The bar serves as a visually weighty object of discovery for guests and exudes an aerodynamic feel while also anchoring the space.
The fibreglass bar was meticulously 3-D modelled from the inside-out then milled from custom moulds—not unlike fabricating a custom speedboat—and its design is mirrored in the sculpted aesthetic of the host and DJ station. The seduction of an underground lair invites a sense of artistry from those who set foot within the multi-faceted speakeasy. “For us, The Secret Room is a unicorn in our portfolio. It is a reminder that a great club pulls on your alter ego,” signs off Ferrari.
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Introduction – A history of cystic fibrosis by Dr James Littlewood OBE
“To write an article of any sort is, to some extent, to reveal ourselves. Hence even a medical article is, in a sense, something of an autobiography” – John Chalmers Da Costa (1863-1933). Selected Papers and Speeches, 1931
The author and the Leeds Regional Cystic Fibrosis Service
There follows a miscellany on various aspects of cystic fibrosis (CF) as seen by one person, a general paediatrician from Leeds in the North of England who qualified in medicine in 1956. I was originally a general paediatrician in the true sense of the term involved in all aspects of paediatrics as was usual in the Fifties, but by the nature of the childrens’ problems referred to me following my appointment as a consultant general paediatrician in 1968, I became particularly involved with respiratory, gastrointestinal disorders and neonatal care. Over the next twenty years or so this eventually evolved into an increasing and ultimately a major involvement with the treatment of people with CF and the development of the Leeds Regional Cystic Fibrosis Centre. Since retirement from the National Health Service in 1997 and since the early Eighties I have had a continual close involvement with the UK Cystic Fibrosis Trust – first as a Member and then Chairman of their Research and Medical Committee, from 2003 I was Chairman of the CF Trust and eventually in 2011 elected its Honorary President.
St James University Hospital, Leeds
Seacroft Hospital, Leeds
The details of the development of the Leeds Regional Paediatric CF service, which started with a small monthly clinic at Seacroft Hospital, Leeds in 1975 and later at St James’s University Hospital, have been described elsewhere (Littlewood & Kelleher, Cystic Fibrosis News, Cystic Fibrosis Trust. Dec/Jan 1988/89), as has the later development of the service for adults with CF first under the leadership of Dr Steve Conway and now of Professor Daniel Peckham (Conway & Littlewood, Association of CF Adults Newsletter. Cystic Fibrosis Trust. December. 1990
A more detailed account of the development of the Leeds CF Service is described in two sections of my personal website (www.jimlittlewood.com) as The Origins and Development of the Leeds Regional Cystic Fibrosis Unit Parts 1 & 2.
The encouragement and support of the late Mr. Ron Tucker OBE, the then Director of the UK Cystic Fibrosis Trust from 1964, and his frequent advice to parents, patients and doctors in the UK to seek an opinion in Leeds, was another major factor encouraging the early development of our CF service.
Ron Tucker OBE Chief Executive of the UK CF Trust
Joe Levy CBE BEM
Teresa Robinson
Dr. Mike Miller
Also there was invaluable financial support from the UK Cystic Fibrosis Trust and the Joseph Levy Foundation which allowed us to appoint a CF Research Fellow, Dr Mike Miller (a registrar grade doctor) and CF Nurse Specialist (Mrs. Teresa Robinson) from the early Eighties; both these colleagues, and those who followed them, were absolutely crucial in the development of the CF service and were among the first specialised CF appointments in the UK.
On this local note, for a service to flourish it must be perceived to be benefiting the patients. This must have been the case as many families and patients returned year after year, often from great distances, even from as far away as Hong Kong, for an Annual Comprehensive Assessment by the small but increasingly expert team at St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds (to where we had moved the 2 miles from Seacroft in 1980).
The Leeds CF Service is recognised by the Yorkshire Regional Health Authority in 1983
Patients referred to Leeds for Comprehensive CF Assessments
Paediatricians in the Yorkshire Region also found the Comprehensive Assessments of their patients helpful and in 1983 their Regional Paediatric Advisory Committee recommended that the Yorkshire Regional Health Authority officially recognise the service as a “tertiary referral service” for cystic fibrosis – the first to be so recognised and funded in the UK. The support of the hospital managers over the years was a major factor in establishing the regional status and funding through the Eighties – particularly Mr. Roger Canon, St James’s Finance Manager.
Roger Canon
We are grateful to the numerous colleagues at Seacroft and St James’s Hospitals who, for over 30 years, have contributed their skill and expertise to the care of the patients allowing the development of a CF service which now provides full care for over 500 adults and children with cystic fibrosis (adults at St James University Hospital and children at Leeds General Infirmary); the involvement of these colleagues and their specialist skills was absolutely essential to the development and success of the service.
Access to information on Cystic Fibrosis via modern electronic communications
The major developments in electronic communications in recent years have been timely for an undertaking such as this History. The unprecedented advances in access to previous published work via the Internet, into Medline and PubMed in particular, and the availability and ease of transferring visual images, have presented an opportunity which I hope will add a slightly more human touch to some of the important contributions over the years. To actually see pictures of Harry Shwachman, Paul di Sant’Agnese, Archie Norman and many others, who have made such major contributions to our knowledge of the disorder will I hope add to the interest and value of this account of some aspects of the remarkable story of cystic fibrosis.
Daniel Peckham, Steve Conway, Jim Littlewood and Sister Rachel Metcalfe at opening of the new adult CF unit at St James in 2008
These developments resulted in the decision to publish this account on the web so as to provide easy access for all those interested in the story of cystic fibrosis. The excellent and widely used website developed by Professor Daniel Peckham and his colleagues in Leeds (www.cfmedicine.com and more recently www.cysticfibrosis.online) seemed to be the ideal place to publish this history. I am most grateful for Daniel’s suggestion that we publish it on his Leeds website and for his collaboration, guidance (and patience!) during implementation of the project. Daniel has kindly agreed to co-author the New Millennium sections to ensure a CF expert, currently involved in a busy CF centre, would ensure accuracy, relevance and credibility to the content and my personal comments relating to recent developments.
Main sources of information
Where abstracts were available for the more recent papers I have endeavoured to extract the relevant message and reduce the number of statistics as, with the modern electronic databases, the reader can obtain these from the abstracts or the originals if necessary. Also most of the articles mentioned have a [PubMed] link, which from around the mid-Seventies, allows access to the full abstract. In more recent years touching any of the authors’ names in the abstract will bring up a list of their PubMed references.
Mr. Archie Crompton
I have read and made photocopies of many of the early papers from before 1960 from the originals in the library of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) where I stayed regularly during my frequent visits from Leeds to London from 1995 until 2011. During this time I was first Chair of the Research and Medical Advisory Committee and then from 2003 to 2011 Chairman of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. These trips to the RSM library involved many hours in the basement among the old bound journals dating back to the nineteenth century.
I am also particularly grateful to my friend and erstwhile St James’s surgical colleague Mr. Archie Crompton for the German translations of a significant number of these older articles I recovered from the basement of the Royal Society of Medicine .
During the Sixties I worked in the late Professor Stuart Craig’s Leeds University Department of Paediatrics and Child Health until moving to the NHS in 1968 as a NHS consultant paediatrician. When Professor Craig retired he kindly gave me most of the US Year Books of Pediatrics from 1934 to the late Fifties; these have been an invaluable source of information.
Professor Stuart Craig
The content of the whole of this History is, of necessity, heavily biased towards publications in English, developments in the UK and my own slant on these developments. Progress was relatively non-existent during the Forties in the UK and Europe during the Second World War. It is almost certain that many important contributions in German, French and other languages have been overlooked. For this I apologize and do hope that those who recognise these omissions will contact me to rectify the situation as this present on line version of the History can be edited as soon as any omission or error is brought to our attentio
The various phases of research and understanding
Some research since the identification of CF in 1938, although of basic scientific interest, was of little or no immediate relevance to the treatment of people with cystic fibrosis. Unfortunately, and understandably, in the past a significant amount of CF research has fallen into this latter category, particularly when there was no clear idea as to the nature of the basic defect. Fortunately, since the early Eighties and particularly after the identification of the CF gene in 1989, much scientific research is clearly focused on the investigation and correction of the basic defect, by either gene therapy or pharmacological means. With the introduction of CFTR modulators over the past decade treatment has entered a new phase.
Maurice Super
However, I am in total agreement with the late Maurice Super’s observation that “it is far easier to write on these milestones in retrospect, since discovery of the gene and agreement on the transport defect. For a long time CF was fertile only in the perfusion of false dawns and in controversy between workers who could not reproduce one another’s work. Now we have a fine distillate from what was once very muddy wine” (Super, 1992 below).
Maurice wrote these words in the heady days soon after the identification of the CF gene in 1989 and before the first papers on gene therapy were published from 1993 onwards i.e. before the many problems in correcting the basic defect were experienced. Nonetheless, the identification of the CF gene was the definite turning point in the investigation, understanding and treatment of CF after which there was steady, focused progress in correcting the basic defect by either gene replacement or pharmacological therapy. Undoubtedly with the introduction of CFTR modulars treatment has entered a quite different new and very encouraging phase.
Award of the Paul di Sant’Agnese Award in 1989 to the leaders of the successful teams (in italics)- Lap Chi Tsui, Paul di Sant’Agnese Evelyn and Milton Graub, Francis Collins and Jack Riordan
So cystic fibrosis is truly a disorder of our times
Dorothy Andersen
During the lifetime of many of us, including myself, the condition was first clearly described as a specific entity in 1938 by Dorothy Andersen, a New York pathologist (when I was 6 years old); she also first recognised the heredity aspects in 1946. The treatment has steadily improved, the gene and its product were identified in 1989 and by 2012 the first drug, ivacaftor (Kalydeco), to modify the effects of one of the genetic mutations (G551D), became available to treat patients first in the USA; also in 2012 the first multi-dose trial of gene therapy commenced by the UK Gene Therapy Consortium and was completed in 2015.
Advances in related fields relevant to cystic fibrosis are discussed
At times I will digress to discuss the impact of parallel developments in related fields of medicine where progress has been central to further understanding and treatment of cystic fibrosis, for such advances have been absolutely essential to the progress in CF research – for example the understanding of the role of gluten in coeliac disease, the many advances in genetics and molecular biology and the many technical advances in investigation and general laboratory medicine.
SOME SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO USE THE “HISTORY’
The main format considers the developments by decades, starting each of the earlier decades with a short commentary followed by some of the important references of that decade with the author’s (JML) personal comments on many. One reader referred to the work as a “Paper Trail History” which seems appropriate.
To obtain a general overview of the History of Cystic Fibrosis
It would be appropriate to read the introduction at the start of each decade. Also refer to the section entitled “More History” in the menu list where there are more previous publications on the history of cystic fibrosis.
For readers requiring a more concise account there is also a recent article at the end of this Introduction – ” A Short History of Cystic Fibrosis. from recognition (1938) to treatment of the gene (2012)”
Hodson and Geddes’ Cystic Fibrosis 2016
The 2004 Joseph Levy Memorial Lecture
Also I recommend you read my Joseph Levy Memorial Lecture – “Looking back over 40 years and what the future holds” delivered at the 2004 International Birmingham CF Conference; the full text of the lecture is on the CF Trust website (www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk) and also it can be accessed on the internet by entering ” Joseph Levy Lecture 2004″ which enters the CF Worldwide website where the full lecture is also available.
Also for those with access to a medical library or the appropriate textbook the following two chapters in the Fourth Edition of the textbook Hodson and Geddes’ Cystic Fibrosis Edited by Bush A, Bilton D, Hodson M. published in 2016 provide a concise account of the history of cystic fibrosis from early days to the present time –
Chapter 1. “Introduction: from the discovery of the CFTR gene in 1989 through to 2014”. by Kris de Boeck.
Appendix A. “History of cystic fibrosis (up to 1989)”. by James M Littlewood
To read about a particular subject consult the ‘Topics’ section or the Site Search Box on the headings of the website.
Although there is no index as such, the publications are presented in chronological order in the main text up to the new Millennium, where each year has an individual sectioned the entries are in alphabetical order of the first author. Also the references dealing with more frequently discussed subjects (for example antibiotics, sweat tests, neonatal screening, modulators etc ) are also grouped together in their own sections in Topics where the entries relating to particular subjects appear in chronological order – this is a good place to start.
The words “above” and “below” after a particular reference indicate the particular reference is present either earlier or later in the main text and it can be identified there by its date. Some of the images that appear in the main text have not been transferred to the Topics section.
To locate an image of a particular author consult “Author Image Index”.
This is in the main right hand menu in the History section. Here in alphabetical order are listed over a thousand authors whose image and brief biographical details are included in the main text. The date against the individual’s name indicates the date of their entry in the main text where their image appears . The images do not always approximate to the appearance of the author at the time the reference first appeared!
Some publications on CF are designated as “Megapapers”
These are publications that have had a major influence on the understanding, diagnosis, treatment or outlook of people with cystic fibrosis. For example Dorothy Andersen’s 1938 paper clearly describing the condition (Andersen DH, 1938) following which CF was generally recognised as evidenced by the many reports that soon followed when pathologists reviewed their previous autopsies. Also Paul di Sant’Agnese’s recognition of the abnormal sweat electrolytes (di Sant’Agnese et al, 1953) clearly comes into this category.
Precisely which of many other important publications deserve a “megapaper” rating is a purely my own personal opinion – of a non-scientist clinician treating hundreds of people with CF and frequently learning from experience and from colleagues whilst doing the job. Some of these articles definitely influenced our treatment of people with CF and others advanced the general understanding of the condition.
Any suggestions of papers that deserve designation as megapapers would be most welcome.
Very many thanks to the numerous colleagues in so many disciplines and many countries who have contributed to our knowledge of CF – not least the patients and their families. These people are too numerous to mention by name. Much of our experience in Leeds has been gained during treatment of hundreds of children and adults with CF – treatment which has been continually changing and improving; the experience gained forms the basis of the “The Leeds Method of Management” which by 2008 had reached the 7th edition; much of the information is now available on this www.cysticfibrosis.online website.
Finally, there will be many people and publications that should have been included but have been omitted. I would welcome comments if there are significant omissions; also if there are factual errors or misinterpretations. Comments from people with CF and their families would also be most welcome. Any anecdotes, images or personal recollections which would add interest to this History would be most welcome.
The text is revised frequently “on line” so there will be an opportunity for immediate alterations and additions rather than waiting for the next edition. The first ten years of the New Millennium were added in late 2010 and with this latest revision we have added 2010 to 2019.
Please do feel free to contact me, Jim Littlewood at jimlittlewood@btopenworld.com
For readers requiring a brief overview there follows –
A Short History of Cystic Fibrosis
From recognition (1938) to treatment of the gene (2012)
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common life-shortening recessively inherited disorder of Caucasian people affecting as many as 1 in 2000 newborn infants in some countries. Both parents are healthy carriers as are up to 1 in 25 of the population. If untreated, signs of severe intestinal malabsorption, failure to thrive and lower respiratory infections, which are slow or fail to clear, are present from an early age. Mutations of the CFTR gene, of which there are now around 2000 described, result in salt and water transport abnormalities across the lining cells of a number of organs leading to viscid secretions which become infected and difficult to clear (lungs) or damage by obstruction (pancreas and liver).
Since 1938, CF has changed from a hopeless condition, fatal in infancy and early childhood, to a chronic condition affecting more adults than children
During the Thirties some infants with so-called “coeliac syndrome” had pancreatic abnormalities noted at autopsy. Dorothy Andersen1, (1) a New York pathologist, reviewed these and her own cases and described them as having “Fibrocystic Disease of the Pancreas”.
Review of experience at some of the larger children’s hospitals revealed some infants had fibrocystic disease of the pancreas. Sydney Farber recognised CF as a generalised disorder, rather than due entirely to the effects of the malabsorption, and he introduced the term “mucoviscidosis” (2). The recessive mode of inheritance was soon described (3). The major treatment advance in the Forties was the first use of penicillin in 19464 and later other antibiotics (aureomycin and terramycin) (5) without which most of these children did not survive.
Paul di Sant’Agnese
Following the heat prostration suffered by some CF infants during the 1948 New York heat wave, Paul di Sant’Agnese later identified the increased salt content of the sweat (6) which became the main diagnostic test. Soon the more convenient pilocarpine iontophoresis was used to stimulate localised sweating (7). There were reports of an improving outlook from the few clinics in N. America gaining experience in treating the condition (8).
In 1957 a young Cleveland paediatrician, Leroy Matthews, funded by the CF parents, introduced a “comprehensive and prophylactic (preventive) treatment programme” which involved early accurate diagnosis, a programme to deal with all the aspects of the disease and data collection to validate the treatment (9, 10, 11).
Physiotherapy, in the form of postural drainage and percussion, the so-called “English” method of physiotherapy12 was introduced and commended by Harry Shwachman (12) – a leading expert for many years.
Various lay and professional organisations started. The first, the US National CF Research Foundation (later CF Foundation) had been was formed in 1955 and others followed usually on initiatives of the parents (13).
In 1960, di Sant’Agnese visited Europe and in 1965 the International Cystic Fibrosis (Mucoviscidosis) Association (ICFMA) (now CF Worldwide) was formed in Paris under his chairmanship – the aims to improve the care of people with CF, foster research and increase awareness. The European Working Group for Cystic Fibrosis (Later the European Cystic Fibrosis Society), chaired by Ettore Rossi, soon followed in 1969 (more information can be found here ).
However, although there was modest clinical progress during the Sixties, the nature of basic defect remained totally obscure and there were few scientists researching the problem.
During the Seventies there was a definite change to more comprehensive and intensive treatment in a few clinics for example Cleveland whose methods had formed the basis for the network of CF Centres in the USA from 1961 (9,10).
From the early Seventies, Douglas Crozier, who founded the Toronto CF clinic in 1958, abandoned the traditional low fat diet and changed his patients to a high saturated fat diet requiring the patients to take 60-100 pancreatic enzyme capsules daily (15) improving their nutrition, growth and eventually their long term survival (16). In Copenhagen, Niels Hoiby showed by immunological studies that chronic Pseudomonas infection carried a bad prognosis (17) so a policy of regular 3-monthly courses of intravenous antibiotics was introduced for infected patients with an improvement in survival (17, 18, 19).
There was increasing interest in nutrition as survival lengthened. When energy intake was measured accurately, many CF children had a very poor nutritional intake (20). Various regimens and supplements were tried some with modest success, for example an unappetising elemental diet of beef serum protein hydrolysate, glucose polymer and medium chain triglycerides (21, 22). However, the new, acid resistant pancreatic microsphere enzymes (Pancrease and later Creon) became available in the early Eighties and revolutionised the control of the intestinal malabsorption 23.
The few scientists working on CF in the Seventies explored a wide variety of possible abnormalities and serum “CF factors” which may be related to the pathophysiology but by the end of the decade they were no nearer identifying the basic defect.
Lap Chi Tsui
This was a decade of remarkable scientific and clinical progress. Michael Knowles’s demonstration of an abnormally high potential difference across the nasal mucosa providing direct evidence of epithelial dysfunction (24) was followed by Paul Quinton showing by microperfusion experiments that the sweat gland abnormality was chloride impermeability rather than defective exchange (25). Hans Eiberg and co-workers, in Copenhagen, demonstrated a linkage between a liver enzyme marker paraoxinase, which exists in two forms but was present in the same form in 90% of CF siblings (26). In the same year, Lap Chi Tsui demonstrated a marker on chromosome 7 linked to both paraoxinase and cystic fibrosis (27) and in 1989 the CF gene was eventually identified and termed the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (28, 29, 30).
There were many important clinical advances during the Eighties. The CF Foundation’s patient registry and others confirmed a rise in median survival of those patients on the registry from 14 years in 1968 to 20 years in 1977 (31), matched by one centre in the UK (32). The use of the blood immunoreactive trypsin test for neonatal CF screening was a major advance (33) and became the basis of most neonatal CF screening programmes (34,35,36,37). CF Centre care was already well established in some parts of N. America, Europe and Australia where survival improved almost certainly due to CF Centre care (38). Subsequently the UK CF Research Trust gradually financed the appointment of an increasing number of doctors (CF Research Fellows), CF nurses, physiotherapists, dietitians and social workers in the UK hospitals where CF clinics were developing.
During the Eighties, in Europe in contrast to N. America, there was a gradual increase in the use of nebulised anti-Pseudomonal antibiotics to stabilise patients chronically infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa (39) also to eradicate early P. aeruginosa infection (40, 41) thus delaying or preventing chronic P. aeruginosa infection (42, 43). Intensive courses of intravenous antibiotics became routine treatment for exacerbations of the chest infection and new anti-Pseudomonal antibiotics became available. The repeated courses of intravenous antibiotics required improved venous access and delivery systems e.g. totally implantable venous access devices (44, 45). Also home intravenous antibiotics became available at most CF centres (46, 47, 48).
Magdi Yacoub
A major advance, for those who had reached the end stages of their disease, was heart-lung transplantation in 1985 by Magdi Yacoub in London andJohn Wallwork in Cambridge (49, 50). Bruce Reitz had performed the first successful heart–lung transplant in 1981 on non-CF patient in Stanford; later double lung transplants became more popular (51) and a few surgeons had success with living donor lung transplants (52). The results of liver transplantation in the few patients with severe CF-related liver disease were surprisingly good (53). Various new devices and techniques for physiotherapy of CF were described and evaluated during the Eighties e.g. the forced expiratory technique (54, 55), positive expiratory pressure (56) and high frequency chest compression 57.
Involvement of dietitians and the use of the new acid resistant enzymes improved nutrition (58, 59) – undoubtedly the availability from the early Eighties of the new acid resistant enzymes (23) was one of the major advances in treatment during the Eighties. For the severely malnourished there was nasogastric (60), gastrostomy (61) or parenteral feeding (62). In 1989 the beneficial effect of regular ursodeoxycholic acid treatment in improving CF related liver disease was reported (63). Towards the end of the Eighties more CF Centres for adults were started for the increasing number of people with CF who were now reaching adulthood and the transition of these adolescents to the adult clinics received increasing attention.
The steady improvement in clinical progress continued and although the hoped-for gene therapy treatment did not materialise during the decade there was steady scientific progress in this direction. Welsh and his colleagues were the first to achieve correction of the defective chloride channel in CF epithelial cells (64). It was soon shown that the most frequent gene mutation, DF508, was incompletely processed (65) and did not reach the cell membrane (66) but when it did, it functioned reasonably well. Also growing CF cells at a reduced temperature improved expression of CFTR chloride channels (67). Eventually CFTR was confirmed to be an actual chloride channel (68).
It was important to develop an animal model for CF for research to progress and in the early Nineties this was achieved by three groups – in North Carolina (69), Edinburgh (70) and Cambridge (71). Within a year the first report of successful gene transfer into the airways of a CF mouse was reported (72); eventually in 2008 a pig model with CF was produced (73).
In 1993 the first attempt at gene therapy into the nasal passages of a person with CF was reported (74). There followed further reports of gene transfer into animals and humans using either viral or liposome vectors but none resulted in clinically adequate gene expression. However, there were some practical benefits for people with CF resulting from identification of the CF gene including reliable carrier detection, accurate antenatal diagnosis, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and the incorporation of DNA testing into most neonatal screening programmes.
Attempts to correlate phenotype and genotype indicated that some “mild” mutations were associated with some residual pancreatic function 75. CF carriers were over represented among non-CF infertile men 76, and those with recurrent pancreatitis (77, 78).
The improvement in outlook which characterised the Eighties continued through the Nineties as a result of steady improvement in care and the increasing expertise of the staff at the now well-established CF Centres in many countries. Notable additions to the treatments available included recombinant human DNase (Pulmozyme), the first really effective mucolytic (79,80), a new preparation of tobramycin for inhalation (TOBI) (81) permitting a more widespread use of inhaled antibiotics in N. America, and long term Azithromycin (82) also for patients with chronic Pseudomonas infection. However, the provision of “optimal care”, which is complex and very expensive, for all people with CF proved to be increasingly difficult.
Cross-infection between people with CF, with B. cepacia complex and transmissible P. aeruginosa, resulted in a radical change in the organisation of CF care. In 1977 Pseudomonas (now Burkholderia) cepacia in people with CF was first reported in North America 83 and later in the UK 84; later the organism was shown to spread between patients causing serious even fatal illness (85,86,87,88).
Also there was increasing evidence of cross-infection with particular “highly transmissible” strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (89, 90). So the need for cross-infection control radically altered the whole attitude to cross-infection and social contact in both CF Centres and in the community. From the early Nineties all people with CF were strictly segregated according to their microbiological status.
Another significant advance in treatment during the Nineties was the widespread adoption of eradication treatment for early Pseudomonas infection in Europe but not in the USA (41) which subsequently resulted in a significant reduction in the incidence of chronic infection in the UK and Europe (42).
From the early Nineties the new high strength pancreatic enzymes (e.g. Pancrease HL, Creon 25,000) were available and welcomed by people with CF and used by many today although care was needed to avoid very high doses which rarely could cause damage to the lower bowel. With increasing survival into adulthood major problems related to CF including diabetes mellitus, liver disease, osteoporosis, pregnancy and infertility became increasingly common and presented further chronic management problems.
The New Mellennium
The main scientific research efforts were directed towards better understanding the function and control of CFTR and continuing efforts to treat the basic genetic defect with either gene replacement therapy or pharmacological correctors or potentiators of the mutant gene.
In 1999 three research teams in London, Oxford and Edinburgh were encouraged to form the UK Gene Therapy Consortium (GTC) and eventually a multidose gene therapy trial started in 2013 and succsessfully completed in 2015 although unfortunately the modest effect was not sufficient to take the product forward (www.cfgenetherapy.org.uk) The use of CF animal models remained an essential part of research, particularly CF mice, which had been available since the early Nineties (69, 70, 71). Eventually towards the end of the decade a CF pig was produced (73) and also a CF ferret (91).
In N. America, and to a lesser extent in Europe, the emphasis of research has been on pharmacological correctors and potentiators of the abnormal gene (www. cff.org/treatments/pipeline) including gentamicin for “stop mutations” (92) and subsequently of PTC 124 (Ataluren) (93).
Drugs to treat specific genetic mutations represent a major advance.
In 2012 the first, Ivacaftor (VX-771), became available for treating people with one or two G551D mutations; the results were quite dramatic (94). However, this mutation affected only some 4% of people with cystic fibrosis. By 2015 Orkambi, a combination of lumacaftor (VX-809) and ivacaftor was approved for treating patients with two F508del mutations (95). in 2018 a combination of tezacaftor (VX-661) and ivacaftor (known as Symdeko) was approved for treating people with homozygous for F508del or with at least one such mutation (96). In 2019 a more effective triple combination, Trikafta, (elexacaftor (VX-445), ivacaftor (VX-771) and tezacaftor (VX-661) ) was introduced for patients with a single F508del mutation (97,98,99). The results of this last triple therapy are quite dramatic and are considered will have a major impact on the care and lives of of those treated.
Trials with inhaled hypertonic sodium chloride solution showed positive results in reducing exacerbations and this was introduced into the treatment regimens of some patients (100).
Early diagnosis in the first weeks by neonatal CF screening, early expert advice, support and monitoring by a specialist CF team, and early appropriate treatment of respiratory infection and malabsorption are now well established as essential and should be the right of all people with CF both now and in the future. Chronic gastrointestinal problems of pain and distal intestinal obstruction syndrome are still relatively common and it is encouraging that they are receiving more attention. A greater proportion of care will be provided from Specialist CF Centres – virtually all advances in clinical care have occurred at such centres. The persisting inequalities of care so clearly revealed in the past and yet still present as revealed by the CF registries in North America, the UK and elsewhere, hopefully will lessen.
More user-friendly “conventional” treatment to control symptoms will be available e.g. more efficient nebulisers, powder rather than liquid delivery of inhaled drugs. Also increasing efforts to improve adherence from various psychosocial strategies are of increasing importance.
More lung transplants will be required and measures are being taken to increase the supply of donor organs where this is a problem. Other major and complex problems will increase as the population ages e.g. diabetes, liver disease, osteoporosis, pregnancy, infertility, chronic renal problems, drug allergies as well as complex psychosocial issues. There will be increasing use of home care and CF Nurse Specialists as part of the CF centre team will be increasingly important. Protocols for prevention of cross-infection will be even more important as new organisms emerge and resistance and allergies to current antibiotics increase.
Carrier testing of relatives, the option of antenatal screening and, if positive diagnosis, and pre-implantation diagnosis (PIGD) for high risk couples should be encouraged and available. Unfortunately this opportunity to ensure an infant of two carriers does not have CF by the use of PIGD does not receive the attention it deserves at present.
Consensus meetings and publications outlining the best available treatments, making the information available to all, and registries to monitor treatment received and the results will become even more important. Provision of the best available treatment for CF is very expensive and is likely to remain so. Unfortunately funding will continue to be a major problem. Most professionals involved with CF care appreciate the major problems of people with CF and their families and will continue to provide a sympathetic, high standard service. The addition of expert psychological advice can do much to assist patients and families to come to terms with their many and varied problems as they occur.
Major efforts to treat the basic defect will continue and increase and CF is a template for other genetic diseases. It is very likely that either gene replacement or pharmacological treatment (perhaps depending on the patient’s particular mutations) or both will effectively normalise, or significantly improve, the disturbed physicochemical condition particularly within the CF airways, so that much less treatment or even no other treatment will be required for the respiratory tract. There are many other encouraging developments relating to restoring the airway surface liquid some are already of proven value e.g. hypertonic saline, dry powder mannitol.
There has never been a time when there was more hope of major progress in CF care than the present. In contrast with the really hopeless outlook in the early years, the present state of knowledge, clinical care and the involvement of so many highly regarded scientists would have been beyond belief even 25 years ago. In fairness to the early workers, there have also been massive advances in medicine, science and technology generally, many of which have facilitated the advances in CF research.
While research, prevention, improvement in diagnosis, treatment and provision of optimal care for people at all stages of the condition will remain of the highest priority, progress both in the pharmacological treatment and gene replacement therapy to correct the basic defect is definitely gaining momentum and success in this area is likely to benefit even patients whose condition is more advanced. It is no exaggeration to say that the availability of the new modulators, singly or in combinations has significantly altered the lives and outlook for an increasing number of people with cystic fibrosis
Jim Littlewood 2021
Based on -“The History of Cystic Fibrosis” by Dr James Littlewood OBE Edited and produced by Prof. Daniel Peckham.
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You are on page 1of 13 Search inside document Lampbrush Chromosome Lampbrush Chromosome First seen by Flemming in It is the largest chromosome known and is found in the amphibian oocytes immature eggs. Also seen in diplotene in oocytes of fish, birds, reptiles, and some invertebrates. Lampbrush chromosomes occur during the diplotene stage of meiosis I. They are meiotic bivalents, each consisting of each consisting of two pairs of sister chromatids. Lampbrush chromosomes are so called because the chromosomes seem to have a chromomeric pattern with loops projecting in pair from majority of chromosomes and they appear like the brushes, that were used for cleaning glass chimneys of Kerosene lamps.
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You are on page 1of 13 Search inside document Lampbrush Chromosome Lampbrush Chromosome First seen by Flemming in It is the largest chromosome known and is found in the amphibian oocytes immature eggs.
Also seen in diplotene in oocytes of fish, birds, reptiles, and some invertebrates. Lampbrush chromosomes occur during the diplotene stage of meiosis I. They are meiotic bivalents, each consisting of each consisting of two pairs of sister chromatids.
Lampbrush chromosomes are so called because the chromosomes seem to have a chromomeric pattern with loops projecting in pair from majority of chromosomes and they appear like the brushes, that were used for cleaning glass chimneys of Kerosene lamps. First observed by Flemming in and were decribed in detail in shark oocyte by J. Ruckert in who later coined the name. In vertebrates during the diplotene stage of meiosis, lampbrush chromosomes discovered by Ruckert in are formed in the nuclei of yolk rich oocytes during the active synthesis of mRNA molecules for the future use by the egg during cleavage when no synthesis of mRNA molecules is possible due to active involvement of chromosomes in the mitotic cell division.
It is larger in size. Hence it is called a giant chromosome. Lampbrush chromosomes are clearly visible even in the light microscope, where they are seen to be organized into a series of large chromatin loops emanating from a linear chromosomal axis giving a furry, brush-like appearance.
Each lamp brush chromosome consists of a main axis and many lateral loops. The main axis of each chromosome is formed of 4 chromatids. The main axis contains a series of thickenings called chromomere.
From each chromomere a pair of lateral loops arise one on each side. Each loop has an axial fibre, which is a continuation of the chromonema of the main axis. Loops have transcriptional activity. The axial fibre of the loop is surrounded by a matrix. The matrix is formed gives a fuzzy appearance. The synthesis of proteins and yolk takes in the lateral loops These chromosomes are producing large amounts of RNA for the oocyte, and most of the genes present in the DNA loops are being actively expressed.
The majority of the DNA, however, is not in loops but remains highly condensed in the chromomeres on the axis, where genes are generally not expressed. Giant chromosomes in the lampbrush form are useful model for studying chromosome organization and gene expression during meiotic prophase, since they allow the individual transcription units to be visualized.
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Continue Reading Loading… They are named so because of the structure observed under light microscope resemble to the brush used for cleaning chimneys. These are the largest known chromosomes found in the yolk rich oocytic nuclei of certain vertebrates such as fishes, amphibians, reptiles and birds. They can be seen with naked eye and are characterized by fine lateral loops, arising from the chromomeres, during first prophase diplotene of meiosis. These loops give it a brush-like appearance; that is why these are called lampbrush chromosomes first discovered by Flemming in and were described in shark oocytes.
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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103259
Title: Nanoscale phase mixture in uniaxial strained BiFeO3 (110) thin films
Authors: Liu, Huajun
Yang, Ping
You, Lu
Zhou, Yang
Fan, Zhen
Tan, Hui Ru
Wang, Junling
Wang, John
Yao, Kui
Source: Liu, H., Yang, P., You, L., Zhou, Y., Fan, Z., Tan, H. R., et al. (2015). Nanoscale phase mixture in uniaxial strained BiFeO3 (110) thin films. Journal of Applied Physics, 118(10), 104103-.
Series/Report no.: Journal of Applied Physics
Abstract: A strain-induced nanoscale phase mixture in epitaxial BiFeO3 (110) films is investigated. High resolution synchrotron x-ray diffraction shows that a monoclinic M2 phase (orthorhombic-like, with a c/a ∼ 1.01) coexists as the intermediate phase between monoclinic M1 phase (tetragonal-like, with a c/a ∼ 1.26) and monoclinic M3 phase (rhombohedral-like, with a c/a ∼ 1.00), as the film thickness increases from 10 to 190 nm. Cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy images reveal the evolution of domain patterns with coexistence of multiple phases. The different ferroelectric polarization directions of these phases, as shown by piezoelectric force microscopy, indicate a strong potential for high electromechanical response. The shear strain ϵ13 is found to be a significant driving factor to reduce strain energy as film thickness increases, according to our theoretical calculations based on the measured lattice parameters. The nanoscale mixed phases, large structure distortions, and polarization rotations among the multiple phases indicate that (110)-oriented epitaxial films provide a promising way to control multifunctionalities of BiFeO3 and an alternative direction to explore the rich physics of perovskite system.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103259
DOI: 10.1063/1.4930049
Rights: © 2015 American Institute of Physics (AIP). This paper was published in Journal of Applied Physics and is made available as an electronic reprint (preprint) with permission of American Institute of Physics (AIP). The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4930049]. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic or multiple reproduction, distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper is prohibited and is subject to penalties under law.
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Correspondence of Spirits to the Greek Alphabet
February 21, 2019 By polyphanes in mathesis, occult, pgm, philosophy Tags: agrippa, angels, coptic, correspondence, gods, grammatemerologion, grammatomancy, greek, hellenismos, kieren barry, letter, pgm, theoi, words of power Leave a comment
Judging from my recent blog post history, you’d be forgiven if you thought that this whole damn blog, and my whole damn practice, was just about geomancy. Technically, that’d be wrong, but I do, indeed, talk about geomancy a lot. There’s just a lot to talk about when it comes to that topic. One of the things I still keep up with, albeit not as much as I’d like or as much as I’d otherwise have time for, is my old Mathēsis practice, that whole system of Greek letter mystiticsm, a kind of neo-Pythagorean quasi-Hermetic system of theurgy and meditation that works closely with the Greek gods. I’ve made some good innovations when it comes to developing this practice, from coming up with a Tetractys-based “map” of the cosmos, as well as various other meditative and purificatory practices that, even when I’m not working in a mathētic framework, still help out one way or another. This whole thing came about through my interest and development of grammatomancy, the Greek alphabet oracle, which I’ve found to be an excellent system of divination that I also specialize in along with geomancy. One of my finest innovations, I think, is the Grammatēmerologion, a lunisolar calendar that maps the days, months, and years themselves to different letters of the Greek alphabet for tracking feasts, holidays, rituals, and meditations, whether according to the days purely or overlaps between the letters of the days along with astrological and astronomical phenomena. I’ve found it incredibly helpful, and I hope that others can, as well.
One of the things I find it especially useful for is arranging the days of the lunar month, from New Moon to New Moon, to the different gods of the Hellenic pantheon and other aspects of ancient Greek and Mediterranean mythos. However, in a naïve or simple way, the Greek letters don’t really have very many associations to the various deities, divinities, and spirits, but I wanted to see how far I could take things. For instance, it makes sense to honor Asklēpios along with Apollōn, his father, and by extension the goddesses of health like Panakeia or Hygieia or Iasō. But what about the more obscure divinities, like Triptolemos or Amphitritē or Themis? I began to expand the associations I was working with to associate the Greek letters to the gods, and I ended up with…well, quite a large set, especially because I wanted to be pretty darn complete or at least reasonably so. Yanno, just in case.
That ended up in making a table so big even I wasn’t comfortable with it, so I ended up making four tables of correspondences of the various deities and spirits of a Hellenic, Pythagorean, or generally Greek pagan practice to the letters of the Greek alphabet. I tried to make the associations as reasonably as I could, and despite the overwhelming number of entities present in Greek myth, I tried to focus on those that tended to receive cult in classical times. Below are those tables, as reasonably complete as I could make them. When gaps exist in the tables, that indicates that I couldn’t find anything to fit there, but that doesn’t mean that there can’t be; perhaps this table could be expanded upon over time, and I’d look forward to it. Heck, even for the cells that are populated, I’m sure there can be additions or changes made.
What’s also nice is that these tables can also play well with the use of the Kyranides, a famous proto-grimoire “index” of the various minerals, animals, and plants of the world according to their initial letter by their Greek names; connections between those sorts of associations according to the Greek alphabet and how they might play well with the associations given by other authors and sources would be a great thing for me to (eventually) research.
Before we begin, let me share a few resources that were helpful, instrumental, or otherwise important in helping me devise these tables of divine correspondences to the Greek alphabet:
K. Barry, The Greek Qabalah: Alphabetical Mysticism and Numerology in the Ancient World. Weiser, 1999.
H.D. Betz, The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, including the Demotic Spells, volume I. University of Chicago Press, 1996.
M.W. Meyer and R. Smith, Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton University Press, 1999.
H.C. Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy. 1651.
Theoi Greek Mythology.
Table I: The Table of the Whole. This table gives the high-level associations of the letters of the Greek alphabet, both the 24 letters in use from ancient times to modern times as well as the three obsolete letters Digamma, Qoppa, and Sampi, to their various associations: those of the various forces of the cosmos of the elements, planets, and signs of the Zodiac based on Cornelius Agrippa’s associations (book I, chapter 74); the singlemost important deity for that letter of the alphabet based on its corresponding force; a sacred word of power taken from PGM CI.1-53, a holy angel for each letter taken from the Coptic magical manuscript Berlin 11346, and a general part of the body commonly associated with the letters of the Greek alphabet apart from other zodiacal associations. Note that the three obsolete letters Digamma, Qoppa, and Sampi lack most associations, and are instead given to three classes of spirits of the dead: Digamma has Ancestors of Kin (one’s own blood- and name-related family), Qoppa has Ancestors of Work (ancestors, founders, and forebears of one’s mundane and spiritual professions and lineages), and Sampi has Ancestors of the Great (culture heroes, legendary founders of cities and civilizations, as well as forgotten and wandering dead). Other oddities, such as the presence of Eōsphoros and Hesperos for Ēta or Zeus Euēnemos for Phi are discussed below in tables for that specific class of letters.
Alpha Moon Selēnē ΑΚΡΑΜΜΑΧΑΜΑΡΕΙ
Akrammakhamarei ΑΧΑΗΛ
Akhaēl Head
Bēta Aries Athēna ΒΟΥΛΟΜΕΝΤΟΡΕΒ
Būlomentoreb ΒΑΝΟΥΗΛ
Banūēl Neck
Gamma Taurus Aphroditē ΓΕΝΙΟΜΟΥΘΙΓ
Geniomūthig ΓΑΝΟΥΗΛ
Ganūēl Arms
Delta Gemini Apollōn ΔΗΜΟΓΕΝΗΔ
Dēmogenēd ΔΕΔΑΗΛ
Dedaēl Breast
Epsilon Mercury Stilbōn ΕΝΚΥΚΛΙΕ
Enkuklie ΕΠΤΙΗΛ
Eptiēl Chest
Ϝ
Digamma — Ancestors
of Kin — — —
Zēta Cancer Hermēs ΖΗΝΟΒΙΩΘΙΖ
Zēnobiōthiz ΖΑΡΤΙΗΛ
Zartiēl Back
Ēta Venus Eōsphoros and
Hesperos ΗΣΚΩΘΩΡΗ
Ēskōthōrē ΗΘΑΗΛ
Ēthaēl Belly
Thēta Earth Hēra Geēros ΘΩΘΟΥΘΩΘ
Thōthūthōth ΘΑΘΙΗΛ
Thathiēl Thighs
Iōta Sun Hēlios ΙΑΕΟΥΩΙ
Iaeouōi ΙΩΧΑΗΛ
Iōkhaēl Knees
Kappa Leo Zeus ΚΟΡΚΟΟΥΝΟΩΚ
Korkoūnoōk ΚΑΡΔΙΗΛ
Kardiēl Legs
Lambda Virgo Dēmētēr ΛΟΥΛΟΕΝΗΛ
Lūloenēl ΛΑΒΤΙΗΛ
Labtiēl Ankles
Mu Libra Hēphaistos ΜΟΡΟΘΟΗΠΝΑΜ
Morothoēpnam ΜΗΡΑΗΛ
Mēraēl Feet
Nu Scorpio Arēs ΝΕΡΞΙΑΡΞΙΝ
Nerksiarksin ΝΗΡΑΗΛ
Nēraēl Feet
Ksi Water Persephonē ΞΟΝΟΦΟΗΝΑΞ
Ksonophoēnaks ΞΙΦΙΗΛ
Ksiphiēl Ankles
Omikron Mars Pyroeis ΟΡΝΕΟΦΑΟ
Orneophao ΟΥΠΙΗΛ
Oupiēl Legs
Pi Sagittarius Artemis ΠΥΡΟΒΑΡΥΠ
Pyrobaryp ΠΙΡΑΗΛ
Piraēl Knees
Ϙ
Qoppa — Ancestors of
Work — — —
Rhō Capricorn Hestia ΡΕΡΟΥΤΟΗΡ
Rerūtoēr ΡΑΗΛ
Raēl Thighs
Sigma Aquarius Hēra ΣΕΣΕΝΜΕΝΟΥΡΕΣ
Sesenmenūres ΣΕΡΩΑΗΛ
Serōaēl Belly
Tau Pisces Poseidōn ΤΑΥΡΟΠΟΛΙΤ
Tauropolit ΤΑΥΡΙΗΛ
Tauriēl Back
Upsilon Jupiter Phaethōn ΥΠΕΦΕΝΟΥΡΥ
Upephenūru ΥΜΝΟΥΗΛ
Hymnūēl Chest
Phi Air Zeus
Euēnemos ΦΙΜΕΜΑΜΕΦ
Phimemameph ΦΙΛΟΠΑΗΛ
Philopaēl Breast
Khi Fire Hadēs ΧΕΝΝΕΟΦΕΟΧ
Khenneopheokh ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΗΛ
Khristūel Arms
Psi Spirit Dionysos ΨΥΧΟΜΠΟΛΑΨ
Psykhompolaps ΨΙΛΑΦΑΗΛ
Psilaphaēl Neck
Ōmega Saturn Phainōn ΩΡΙΩΝ
Ōriōn ΩΛΙΘΙΗΛ
Ōlithiēl Head
ϡ
Sampi — Ancestors of
the Great — — —
Table II: the Table of the Seven Vowels. This table expands on the seven vowels of the Greek alphabet, which are given most strongly to the seven traditional planets. Each planet has its own specific astral titan associated with it, such as Selēnē for the Moon or Hēlios for the Sun, but note that Venus has two astral titans for it, Eōsphoros and Hesperos, because historically this planet was reckoned as two separate entities, Eōsphoros as the Morning Star when Venus rose before the Sun and visible in the dawn hours before sunrise, and Hesperos as the Western Star when Venus set after the Sun and visible in the dusk hours after sunset. Based on the directions associated with these letters as given in the Heptagram Rite of PGM XIII.734—1077, each of these planets may also be given to the four Elder Titans along with their mother Gaia and their father Ouranos. Other deities may also be assigned to the planets, such as Artemis for the Moon, along with clusters of lesser deities and other spirits associated with those deities.
Α Moon Selēnē Hyperiōn Hekatē,
Artemis Mēnai,
Hōrai
Ε Mercury Stilbōn Koios Hermēs Dioskouroi
Η Venus Eōsphoros,
Hesperos Iapetos Aphroditē Hesperides
Ι Sun Hēlios Kriōs Apollōn, Dionysos,
Eōs, Theia Hēliades
Ο Mars Pyroeis Gaia Arēs, Hēphaistos,
Hēraklēs —
Υ Jupiter Phaethōn Kronos Zeus,
Ouranos —
Ω Saturn Phainōn Ouranos Kronos, Adrasteia,
Khronos Erinyes,
Moirai
Table III: the Table of the Five Complex Consonants. This table expands on the five complex or double consonants of the Greek alphabet, which are given to the four elements plus the quintessence, the meta-element of Spirit. Each of these is presided over by one of five gods, with the four classical elements associated with Zeus, Hēra, Hadēs, and Persephonē according to the Greek philosopher Empedocles. To distinguish this specific Zeus and Hēra from their other forms, the titles “Zeus Euēnomos” (Zeus of the Good Winds) and “Hēra Geēros” (Hera of the Earth) are given specifically to them. Along with these major divinities, other minor divinities who often received cult and are associated with these elements are given, along with important clusters of (often-named individual) spirits and lesser gods as well as general classes of various spirits.
Θ Earth Hēra Geēros Gaia, Rhea, Kybelē,
Mēter Theōn Kourētes,
Korybantes Karpoi,
Ξ Water Persephonē Aphroditē, Ōkeanos,
Tēthys, Hekatē Seirenēs Naiades,
Potamoi
Φ Air Zeus Euēnemos Aiolos,
Hēra Anemoi,
Harpyiai Aurai,
Nephelai
Χ Fire Hadēs Hēphaistos, Hestia,
Hekatē Erinyes,
Nekrotagoi Lampades
Ψ Spirit Dionysos Promētheus, Iakkhos,
Priapos — Mainades,
Satyroi
Table IV: the Table of the Twelve Simple Consonants. This table expands on the twelve simple or single consonants of the Greek alphabet, which are given to the twelve signs of the Zodiac. Each of these zodiac signs are assigned to one of the twelve Olympian gods according to the Orphic Scale of Twelve as given by Cornelius Agrippa (book II, chapter 14) as their prime divinity, along with lesser or alternate divinities who are closely associated with the functions, roles, and ideals of those gods. Along with these, other sacred figures are given according to the specific body of the zodiac sign, such as the divine twins Dioskouroi to the sign of the twins of Gemini, as well as important clusters of (often-named individual) spirits and lesser gods as well as general classes of various spirits that are also associated with the major divinities of these letters.
Β Aries Athēna Nikē, Mētis, Pronoia,
Hēphaistos, Erikhthonios — — —
Γ Taurus Aphroditē Erōs, Adonis, Harmonia,
Peithō, Parēgoros — Kharites,
Erōtes Naiades
Δ Gemini Apollōn Aristaios, Lētō,
Hymenaios, Asklēpios,
Hygeia, Panakeia, Iasō Dioskouroi Mousai —
Ζ Cancer Hermēs Pan, Morpheus,
Maia, Hērakles — Pleiades Panes, Oneiroi,
Oreiades
Κ Leo Zeus Tykhē, Nemesis, Themis,
Ganymēdēs, Hēraklēs,
Bia, Nikē, Kratos, Zēlos — Moirai,
Hōrai —
Λ Virgo Dēmētēr Persephonē, Triptolemos,
Hekatē, Ploutos, Iakkhos Asteria Hōrai —
Μ Libra Hēphaistos Athēna, Kēladiōn Dikē Kyklōpes,
Kabeiroi,
Palikoi Kēlēdones,
Kourai
Ν Scorpio Arēs Phobos, Deimos,
Eris, Enyō — Graiai,
Gorgones —
Π Sagittarius Artemis Lētō, Hekatē Kheirōn — Nymphai,
Dryades
Ρ Capricorn Hestia — Pan — —
Σ Aquarius Hēra Hēbē, Eileithyia, Iris Ganymēdēs Hesperides,
Kharites —
Τ Pisces Poseidōn Prōteus, Amphitritē,
Tritōn, Nēreus,
Palaimon, Leukotheua — — Tritones,
Nēreides
One of the fascinating things I find about this Table IV is that there’s a subtle logic in how the major divinities are assigned to the signs of the Zodiac based on the opposing sign. Consider that Pan is the god most commonly associated with the actual form of the sign Capricorn, but Pan is also often associated with Hermēs in mythos, sometimes even being Hermēs’ own son; there’s an interesting dichotomy here between these two signs, with Hestia essentially being the goddess of what happens inside the home while Hermēs is the god of what happens outside the home. Likewise, note how the famous centaur Kheiron (or Chiron in modern spelling) is the god of the form of the sign Sagittarius, the opposite sign of Gemini, which itself is associated with Apollōn, his adoptive father and also the father of Asklēpios, whom Kheiron later teaches as his pupil. Ganymēdēs, too, was the famous cup-bearer taken up by Zeus and placed into the sky as the sign Aquarius, yet this sign itself is given to Hēra, who disapproved of Ganymēdēs, while the sign opposite of both Hēra and Ganymēdēs is none other than Leo, given to Zeus himself. It’s kinda fascinating to see the logic and polarities going on with how the gods are given to the signs and how they play off each other in a coherent whole of reinforcing-oppositions.
And there you have it! My system of correspondences I use to categorize and organize the various gods, demigods, daimones, and spirits of the classical and mythic Hellenic world according to the letters of the Greek alphabets. I’ve personally gotten good mileage out of it, and I hope others can, too, inasmuch as a letter-based system of mysticism might be helpful, but also to just pick out associations and links between the different entities of Hellenic mythos.
The Physical and Subtle Human Body According to Geomancy
July 26, 2018 By polyphanes in geomancy, occult Tags: arabic, body, chakras, correspondence, correspondences, elements, energy, experiment, felix klein-franke, john case, john heydon, physiognomy, stephen skinner, subtle body, zunbul 6 Comments
Every year, towards the end of summer leading through the middle of autumn, is my Hell Season. Not that it’s a particularly chthonic or calamitous time of year or anything, but it’s just super busy. Between my and my husband’s birthdays and our wedding anniversary, thirteen saint feast days, eight religious anniversaries, and a few other events and tasks every year take place during this time, and it always gets almost overwhelming at times. We got a big start on that this year by taking a road trip to Maine this past weekend…all of fourteen hours up and fourteen hours down, with my husband and my sister and I in my tiny two-door coupe. Plus, there’s a few more things happening later this week that will keep me out of contact for a few more days, so this year’s Hell Season is really getting to a strong start. (If I’m slow with getting to your messages or requests, I gratefully appreciate your patience!)
Over this past weekend, I was apparently summoned in a Facebook thread; someone was contemplating the elemental arrangement of the geomantic figures, such that the topmost line is given to Fire, the next one down to Air, the next one after that to Water, and the bottommost line to Earth. Given such an arrangement, they were interested in seeing how the elements given in such an order could overlap with the elements given to particular energy centers in the body (the resource they were using was some neopagan/Wiccan-derivative text that involves another rehash of the seven Vedic-system chakras with a novel Western elemental approach). There are obvious issues in straightforwardly trying to map the elemental rows of the geomantic figures to a system of chakrasa, not least because they’re different systems with different bases of logic, but also because Western occult systems haven’t historically had a notion of “chakras” or bodily energy systems before the advent of Theosophy and the influx of “Oriental” traditions. This isn’t to say that there are no energy practices in Western occulture historically, but nothing like what we’d commonly think of as having discrete energy centers or “chakras” in the body connected by meridians.
Still, it was an interesting idea; conceiving of a subtle energy body that uses the structure of the geomantic figures as a basis could be useful. After all, I find the notion of energy centers in the body to be a useful one in many contexts, so why not conceive of the human body itself as structured geomantically? From the reply I made on that Facebook thread:
…the system of how the elements are arranged as rows within a geomantic figure is based on their elemental density as well as their natural motion: Fire is the most subtle and burns outwards and upwards, Air is slightly more dense than Fire and moves sideways, Water is even more dense than Air and moves downward, and Earth is densest of all and compresses and condenses unto itself into a stable, unmoving form. This order (Fire, Air, Water, Earth) is different than that used in the Zodiac (Fire, Earth, Air, Water) due to a different logic, however, due to a different logic of how these two systems are built (I don’t have my notes on the latter zodiacal order at the moment and forget that system’s particular logic here).
Historically, the lines of the geomantic figures were already given to parts of the body:
Fire line: head
Air line: throat or arms
Water line: belly
Earth line: feet or legs
In this sense, we can see a sort of match between the metaphorical “geomantic” body parts and the elements of the rows they correspond to: the head with Fire due to the intelligent Divine Spark given to us as well as with sight and perceiving light or Light, the throat or arms with Air as means of communication and breathing, the belly with Water due to it being the seat of health and the humours of the body, and the legs or feet with Earth because they are what support us on the Earth. Such a system doesn’t match with one based on chakras, however, because there wasn’t historically a “chakra system” of the West, though there are other types and notions of energetic or subtle bodies (though not necessarily in those terms). Using Agrippa’s Scale of Four, for instance, we can consider a multipart “human” composed of Mind, Spirit, Soul, and Body, which are given to the elements of Fire, Air, Water, and Earth, respectively, each with the faculties of Knowing, Thinking, Emotion, and Physicality, but these are more like interconnecting “layers” (think of the Egyptian notion of the multipart soul, with the physical body, spiritual body, identity, personality, shadow, heart, double, intelligence, power, and so forth).
Perhaps, if you were to shoehorn a variant of chakra systems onto the geomantic “body”, you could reinterpret it so that the third eye or crown chakra was given to Fire (giving it Will or Divinity) and the throat to Air. Such a “geomantic energy center” system could work, and might be useful to experiment with: the Fire center in the head, the Air center in the hollow of the throat, the Water center in the belly, and the Earth center either in the feet or at the perineum (where the legs meet the rest of the body). Could be interesting to experiment with!
The idea of using a geomantic template of thinking about energy centers in the body does seem interesting to me, but before we go onto that, how are the geomantic figures associated with the body in the extant literature we have available to us? Given that the planets and signs of the Zodiac are associated with different parts of the body as well as the different organs and systems of the body, it also makes sense that the geomantic figures themselves would also be associated with them, too. So, let’s start simple, shall we? John Case in book III, chapter 9 of his 1697 work The Angelical Guide gives the following list of figures associated with parts of the body:
Puer Head or face
Coniunctio Belly
Puella Spine and lower back
Rubeus Arms
Carcer Feet
Via Breast or stomach
Albus Belly
Fortuna Maior Legs
Populus Knees
Cauda Draconis Thighs
Caput Draconis Belly
Acquisitio Head
Laetitia Throat
Amissio Navel
Tristitia Genitals and groin
Fortuna Minor Face and cheeks
However, it’s important to note that these associations may be limited in scope. Case brings this list up in a discussion of queries related to house I, which is also the house that should be inspected to make sure the chart is authenticated: not necessarily valid, but useful and accurate as well as valid. Specifically, Case says that “the Figure [chart] is verified also by certain moles, marks, or scars”, with the figure in house I indicating the part of the body where the mark may be found. It’s important to note that the parts of the body are associated with the figures by means of their zodiacal correspondences, though it’s not made explicit in the list above; thus, because Case gives Populus to Capricorn (using the traditional associations of the figures to the Zodiac that I also use), and because Populus rules over the knees (and also bones, skin, etc.), Populus gets all the body associations that Capricorn has.
So much for Case’s simple scheme. Then there’s the extraordinarily complex method of John Heydon in the Theomagia, where he gives a table of how the figures relate to the parts of the body based on what sign they fall in (book I, chapter 26). (I understand the table is probably gonna be too wide for the usual width on my website, but just bear with me and accept that Heydon did not like to be concise.)
Aries Breast
Shoulders Heart
Stomach Head
Belly Head
Thighs Feet
Lower back Legs
Genitals Head
Taurus Heart
Breast Shoulders
Upper spine
Belly Neck
Lower back Knees Head
Genitals Thighs
Feet Throat
Gemini Stomach
Navel Breast
Loins Arms
Genitals Legs
Ankles Neck
Thighs Head
Knees Arms
Cancer Lower back
Genitals Stomach
Bladder Breast
Thighs Feet Arms
Knees Neck
Legs Head
Leo Genitals
Lower back Belly
Thighs Heart
Knees Head
Eyes Breast
Legs Arms
Feet Neck
Virgo Thighs
Feet Lower back
Knees Belly
Legs Neck
Throat Stomach
Feet Head
Lights Shoulders
Libra Thighs
Knees Legs
Genitals Lower back
Feet Shoulders
Arms Head
Hips Neck
Stomach Breast
Scorpio Knees
Legs Thighs
Heart Neck
Loins Shoulders
Belly Stomach
Sagittarius Legs
Back Shoulders
Genitals Breast
Lights Bowels
Capricorn Head
Hips Breast
Thighs Stomach
Genitals Reins
Aquarius Head
Neck Arms
Feet Breast
Legs Lower back
Thighs Genitals
Pisces Neck
Shoulders Head
Heart Heart
Feet Genitals Hips
Knees Thighs
It’s important to note that, in this case, Heydon uses the usual planetary association of the figures, but only gives Cauda Draconis to Saturn and Caput Draconis to Jupiter. Later on, in book III, chapter 7, Heydon talks about moles, marks, and scars as well:
Having projected your Figure, consider the Figure in the first House and the Idea and Ruler that governs it, and what part of member in mans body they govern: for the Querent hath a Mole, Mark or Scar in that part of his body. Example: if Puer be in the first House, it is a cut in the head or face, or burn, or red Mole: If Coniunctio, it is on the belly, viz. a Mole, Mark or Scar: if Puella be in the first, it is on the Reins, viz. a Mark, &c. If Rubeus, the Secrets.
Consider if the first Figure go into any other House out of the first, the Querent hath a Mole in that part also: Consider Populus, and wheresoever she is, that House and Figure tells you in what part the Querent hath another.
What Figure is in the sixth House, notes usually a Mark, Mole, or Scar in the Member it signifieth, as you may read in the 26 Chapter of the first book: if Carcer or Tristitia signifie the Mar, &c. it is generally an excrescence of a dark obscure or black colour.
If Acquisitio or Lætitia, it is usually a purple or blewish Mole: If Puer or Rubeus, it is commonly some Scar, Slash or Cut, chiefly in a House governed by a fiery Idea [i.e. ruled over by a fire sign]; and sometimes a reddish Mole or spots of Gunpowder: If Fortuna Major, or Fortuna Minor, generally of an olive or chestnut colour: if Amissio or Puella, of a hony-color.
If Albus or Conjunctio, whitish or lead-color: if Populus or Via, white, and of the color the Figures signifie that behold them: Caput Draconis, white; Cauda Draconis, black or read: If the figure be Masculine that represents the Mole, Mark, &c. it is on the right side of the Body; if Feminine, judge the contrary.
If the Significator of the Mole, &c. be in the first, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth of any question; it is then visible to the eye, and other forepart of the Body: but the other Houses signifie the Mole is to to be seen, but it is on the back-part of the Body.
If ill Figures be in the first, the Querent is usually blemished: for the Face is signified by the first, let what figure soever be in it.
Note that, in general, the table Heydon gives above is related mostly to specific inquiries about house VI, while the figures themselves as described here typically are simply given the usual zodiacal correspondence to the body. Heydon, I should note, uses the planetary-zodiacal associations common to later geomancers and which is in use by the Golden Dawn and John Michael Greer and not the older system that I and other geomancers historically used. Heydon’s information above, however, is useful in determining not just the specific location of marks on the body, but also their type and coloration, too, which is information not otherwise commonly seen in the geomantic literature available to us.
So much for the scant Western resources we have on associating the geomantic figures with the parts of the body: the rule appears to be to link the figures to the parts of the body by means of their shared zodiacal correspondences. I can’t recall there being other sets of explicit associations of the figures with the body in Fludd, Pietro d’Abano, or other European authors, though I don’t doubt they exist; however, I do doubt that they’d do much more than retranslate existing sets of correspondences that exist for parts of the body using their shared zodiacal or planetary associations.
However, that’s not the only such correspondence available; there are others that directly link the figures to the body without a zodiacal or other correspondence go-between. One Arabic treatise on geomancy, MS Arabe 2631 from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, gives the following diagram on folio 64v detailing a correspondence between the sixteen geomantic figures and the different parts of the body:
In this system, the parts of the body are given to the following figures:
Laetitia Head
Rubeus Throat and neck
Puella Left shoulder
Puer Right shoulder
Carcer Chest and breast
Amissio Left hand and arm
Acquisitio Right hand and arm
Albus Upper belly, stomach, solar plexus
Coniunctio Left torso and ribcage Ribcage
Populus Right torso and ribcage (?) Back
Via Navel, lower belly, and intestines
Tristitia Crotch and genitals
Fortuna Maior Left hip, thigh, and upper leg
Fortuna Minor Right hip, thigh and upper leg
Cauda Draconis Left foot and lower leg
Caput Draconis Right foot and lower leg
Stephen Skinner in his Geomancy in Theory and Practice gives a translation of these, but some of them are incorrect; he says that “the figure…faces outwards from the page, so left and right have been designated from the point of view of the figure rather than the manuscript page”, so he gives e.g. Puer to the left shoulder, although Puer in the diagram is clearly designated as “al-kutuf al-ayman”, or right shoulder. I retranslated from the diagram in the manuscript as best I could. The only figure in the list that was truly mysterious was Via, which was not given a label; Albus is designated as “belly”, so I interpreted that as the upper belly and stomach, and Via as the lower belly and intestines, though it could also refer to the back and spine (which, physically speaking, would resemble the shape of Via). Similarly, I couldn’t make out what word is given to Populus, but given the symmetry here, I’m assuming it’s referring to the right side of the torso in general, though there is a chance that it refers to the inner viscera of the upper torso and Coniunctio refers to the outer flesh and the ribcage on both sides of the torso in general. However, I can’t be certain as yet; those who can read this kind of older, book-script Arabic are welcome to comment.
EDIT: Thanks to a few people from the Geomantic Study-Group on Facebook, I’ve amended some of the translations further. Populus is given to the back and Coniunctio to the ribs. Via, though unlabeled, can be interpreted as the navel, which still ties into the lower belly and intestines. There still is some ambiguity in the diagram, but this is still far better off than we were before. My thanks go out to Masood and B.A.!
Personally, I like the layout of the “Geomantic Adam” design above and how the figures are clearly arranged on the body, though I also like the use of planetary and zodiacal associations. I suppose a blended approach could work: use the geomantic arrangement for general body areas, and the organs and physical systems associated with the planets and elements to fill in the gaps. So, for instance, since Laetitia rules the head in the Arabic design, one could say that Laetitia would also rule over the brain; however, since Mercury rules over the nervous system as a whole, this could be given to Albus or Coniunctio, and given Albus’ location closer to the solar plexus, I’d wager that Albus could rule both the belly as a general physical area as well as the nervous system. Further clarification on expanding the Arabic system would be good, I’d think, in one sense or another.
Anyway, back to the diagram. Even with the parts of the body that are clearly labeled, we can see something fascinating: the figures with only one element active are associated clearly with the parts of the body that we’d call those corresponding elemental rows: Laetitia, with only the Fire/Head line active, is given to the head; Rubeus, with only the Air/Throat line active, is given to the throat; Albus, with only the Water/Belly line active, is given to the belly; and Tristitia, with only the Earth/Feet line active, is given to the privates and groin, which is the lowest part of the torso to which the feet and legs are connected. Though the manuscript dates only to the 18th century, it’s likely that it has much earlier origins or carries on an older Arabic tradition of geomancy from whence the body-names of the rows of the figures comes. This, along with a clear use of geomantic relationships between parts of the body that match each other (right hand and left hand, right shoulder and left shoulder, etc.) is greatly indicative that the body-correspondences given in MS Arabe 2631 are strictly geomantic in nature rather than using planetary or zodiacal go-betweens.
This reinforces the idea behind the notion of naming the four rows of a geomantic figure after their corresponding body parts (head, throat, belly, feet) and can be a key to coming up with a geomantic system of energy centers in the body:
The Fire Center would be found in the head, likely just under the crown of the skull directly above the top of the spinal column.
The Air Center would be found in the throat, in the middle of the neck though perhaps slightly closer to the spine than the front.
The Water Center would be found in the belly, closer to the stomach just under the ribcage near the solar plexus.
The Earth Center would be found in the groin, near the perineum at the base of the spine.
To offer a conjectural way to work with these energy centers, I’d feel that an intonation of some sort would be appropriate. My usual power words for the four elements are based in Greek stoicheia, where each of the Greek letters has an occult signification, so I’d normally use ΧΙΑΩΧ for Fire (Khi is the Greek letter associated with this element combined with the divine name ΙΑΩ), ΦΙΑΩΦ for Air, ΞΙΑΩΞ for Water, and ΘΙΑΩΘ for Earth. However, we can do better than that, especially given even what little we know about Arabic geomantic practices and how they tie into the elements. One interesting technique comes to mind that crops up in some early European sources with a clearly Arabic origin: the use of the word BZDA. From my translation of the 15th century work Lectura Geomantiae:
By the Greek word “b z d a” we can find the house of the figures, which is to say in which house the figures are strongest, wherefore when the first point starting from the upper part of the beginning figure is odd, the second house is strong; when the second point is odd, the seventh house is strong; when the third point is odd, the fourth house is strong; when the fourth and last point is odd, the eighth house is strong. Thus we will find by this number the proper houses of the figures; by “b” we understand 2, by “z” 7, by “d” 4, by “a” 8, as in this example: “b z d a”.
This may not make a lot of sense on its own, but compare what Felix Klein-Franke says in his article “The Geomancy of Aḥmad b. `Alī Zunbul: A Study of the Arabic Corpus Hermeticum” (AMBIX, March 1973, vol. XX):
The best taskīn is that of az-Zanātī; it bears the key-word bzdḥ: according to the principle of Gematria, the transposition of letters of a word into numbers, in place of bzdḥ there result the numbers 2748. Thus the Mansions of the taskīn are indicated; each spot denotes one of the four elements; in the 2nd Mansion there is only the element Fire (Laetitia, ḥayyān), in the 7th Mansion only Air (Rubeus, ḥumra), in the 4th Mansion only Water (Albus, bayāḍ), and in the 8th Mansion only Earth (Cauda Draconis, rakīza ẖāriǧa).
Stephen Skinner clarifies this even further in his works on geomancy. From his 1980 book “Terrestrial Astrology: Divination by Geomancy”:
Further specialized configurations or taskins are outlined together with mnemonics for remembering their order. Gematria, or the art of interpreting words in terms of the total of’ the numerical equivalents of each of their letters, is introduced at this point. Using the mnemonic of a particular taskin such as Bzdh, Zunbul explains that the letters represent the four Elements, in descending order of grossness. Each letter also represents a number in Arabic, thus:
b – 2 – Fire
z – 7 – Air
d – 4 – Water
h – 8 – Earth
This mnemonic therefore indicates House number 2 for Fire, House number 7 (Air), House number 4 (Water), and House number 8 (Earth). For each of the Houses indicated in this taskin, we see that the second is most compatible with Fire, the seventh with Air, and so on. Therefore, if the geomantic figure Laetitia (or in Arabic Hayyan), which is solely Fire, occurs in the second House, this would be. an extremely favourable omen. Likewise, the occurrence of Rubeus (or Humra), which is solely Air, in the seventh House would also be extremely auspicious. Further chapters are devoted to even more complicated combinations of the basic figures, and to labyrinthine rules for everything from marriage to medicine. Diagnosis by raml even became a lay rival of the latter, and tables were educed of the relationship between specific parts of the body and the geomantic figures.
In other words, based on these letters, we could intone a particular sound that starts with the letter “b” for Fire, “z” for Air, “d” for Earth, and “ḥ” (think of the guttural “ch” of German, but further back in the throat). To vocalize them, since the Arabic alphabet doesn’t have vowels, I’d probably borrow Greek vowels which I know have similar-enough elemental qualities to what I’m looking for. Thus:
Fire: bi
Air: zu
Water: de
Earth: ḥa
Those who might want to use a more Greek or Western approach could use the Greek letters and the natural vowels associated with them, which is simple given that they all have the same vowel Ēta:
Fire: bē
Air: zē
Water: dē
Earth: hē
Instead of using these, one might also use the Arabic terms for the elements instead for intonation purposes. These are just the standard terms for the four elements, but Skinner gives them according to Aḥmad b. `Alī Zunbul as:
Fire: nar (pronounced “nahr”)
Air: hawa’ (pronounced “HAH-wa” with a sharp stop in the throat)
Water: ma’ (pronounced “ma” with a sharp stop in the throat)
Earth: turab (pronounced “tuh-RAHB”)
Of course, this is all highly hypothetical and experimental stuff we’re getting into, but then, that’s never stopped me before. I would venture to say that this sort of geomantic energy center work could easily and happily be paired with my system of geomantic gestures or “mudras”, such that when working with the Fire Center in the head, one would make the gesture for Laetitia while intoning bi or bē or nar. With enough experimentation, I suppose a full (or at least fuller) system of energy work with a geomantic subtle body could be developed for other magical work, or used instead of Vedic- or Chinese-based systems that are commonly found in later Hermetic or Western magical systems. This is definitely something I want to (slowly) explore, but if you’re interested and willing to give it a shot, why not try experimenting with this system as a base for your own work? If you do, I’d love to hear what you’d think of such a practice!
Mathetic Pathworking of the Tetractys
June 10, 2016 By polyphanes in mathesis, occult Tags: agnosis, astral temple, contemplation, correspondence, dominic deegan, gnosis, grammatomancy, isopsephia, pathworking, stoicheia, tetractys, vision 1 Comment
Alright, time to actually talk practice again. The past few posts were heavy on number theory, but the end of the last post touched on how it impacts our traversal of the Tetractys and how we can start thinking of numbers in terms of how we can actually use them for our spiritual progression.
So, disclaimer, guys: although this post is going to be on pathworking, astral/clairvoyant exploration, and similar topics, I make no claims to being an expert on this. Although pathworking is not something foreign to me, it’s something that I underutilize in my work, if not outright ignore, even though I recognize the usefulness of it. I’m geared more towards physical ritual, but astral exploration is something I’d like to get more into. To that end, Tetractyean pathworking, yay!
The idea behind pathworking is actually fairly simple, and I’ve employed it before when doing meditations on the geomantic figures waaaay back in the day, but also more recently when meditating on the letters of the Greek alphabet. The technique I use for “astral contemplation” is straightforward:
Sit or lie in a comfortable position. Clear the mind and regulate the breath.
Visualize the symbol to be contemplated as clearly as you can. Focus on the symbol becoming as real as possible in the mind.
Vizualize a door, gate, veil, or curtain on which the symbol is written, engraved, embroidered, or whatever. Let the symbol to be contemplated mark the gate as the entry to the “world” of that symbol. You might picture the same door each time, or let the door form on its own around the symbol.
Once both the symbol and the gate are fully realized in the mind, open the gate (or have it open) and step through it.
Explore the world of the symbol. Take note of all you perceive, and interact with the world as desired.
When ready to leave, exit the world by taking the same path backwards, passing by each thing that was encountered on the way in until you reach the gate.
Exit through the gate back into your own headspace, and close the gate.
Visualize the gate dissolving into the symbol itself so that only the symbol remains.
Visualize the symbol disseminating into one’s own sphere to as to retain the power and lessons learned from the contemplation.
You can use this with any set of symbols, from the seals of spirits to the geomantic figures to the planetary sigils from Agrippa to Greek letter or Tarot cards. It’s a very malleable process that doesn’t rely much on ritual, if at all, though it can certainly be augmented by it through the use of mind-enhancing incenses, consecrated candles or oils, preliminary chants, and the like.
However, what this process best benefits from is preliminary study of the symbol. What is the symbol’s name? What spirits is it associated with? What planets, elements, animals, plants, stones, forces, stars, and numbers is it associated with? What mythic figures from different religions does it connect to? In other words, it’s a vital, crucial part of the process to understand the correspondences of the symbol first. You don’t need to see how they all interact with each other; I can hardly tell you how or why the twelve tribes of Israel are associated with the Zodiac signs the way they are, but they’re there for a reason. It’s the astral exploration and contemplation that help with understanding the subtle interactions of everything, and give one a deeper knowledge of the symbol by means of experience.
So, let’s review our map, the Tetractys with the paths of letters. As before, there are two main sets of paths, the Gnosis Schema with its Mitsubishi-like turns, and the Agnosis Schema with its hexagram-hexagon set.
The difference between the Gnosis and Agnosis Schemata involve the kind of force associated with each schema, as well as what sphairai they reach. The Gnosis Schema is based on the twelve signs of the Zodiac, one step for every sign, as the student travels around the Tetractys. The Agnosis Schema, on the other hand, contains the non-zodiacal forces: the seven planets and the four elements plus the quintessence of Spirit. This is where one can get trapped in the cycles of this world, buffeted around by the archons and cruel fate; the Gnosis Schema, on the other hand, indicates the natural, fluid, smooth passage through all aspects of the cosmos up to and including purest Divinity, where we take the reins of our chariot and proceed on our true path to accomplish our One Thing.
Let’s focus first on the twelve paths of the Gnosis Schema. Each path has an associated letter, and each letter with a sign of the Zodiac. If we use Agrippa’s Orphic Scale of Twelve, we already have a wealth of symbolic knowledge on each path, to say nothing of what Liber 777 or other books of correspondence can get us. However, the number 12 isn’t strictly given to the Zodiac, even in Hellenic reckoning. There’s also the notion of the Twelve Labors of Heracles (of which the Thelemites have a fascinating view), and some medieval alchemists considered the Great Work to be composed of twelve stages, such as the Gates of George Ripley or the Keys of Basil Valentine. All these can be considered as a single group, quest, set of paths, tasks, or transformations required to traverse the entirety of the Tetractys by means of the Gnosis Schema.
What of the Agnosis Schema, then? The Agnosis Schema isn’t just one set of forces; in fact, according to how things are set up on the Tetractys, we can divvy these twelve forces up into three groups of four. The first set, known as the Ideal forces, are the four elements themselves: Fire, Air, Water, and Earth. The second set, the Empyrean set, are the two luminaries, the planet Mercury, and the quasi-element quasi-planet quasi-force Quintessence, aka Spirit. The third set, the Ouranic forces, are the other four non-luminary planets of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The four elements and the seven planets all have their usual correspondences (cf. Agrippa’s Scale of Four and Scale of Seven plus, like, literally everything else written in the Western and Near Eastern occult corpus for 5000 years, give or take a millennium), but it’s that last force of Spirit that kinda confuses things a bit. Spirit wasn’t really considered a separate force way back when; sure, as there are five Platonic solids mentioned in Plato’s Timaeus, there was a notion of a fifth…something out there, but it wasn’t considered to be an element like how Fire or Water was. Nor was it a visible object in the night sky like the planets or stars, however Plato claims that this force decorated the entire cosmos. I claim that Spirit is best seen as a median between the elements and planets, or a substrate underlying any other force out there, a type of non-materialized metaforce required for the materialization of anything else. It’s like how, in order for an object to exist, there must exist a space for it to be present. That kind of thing. You can figure out the rest.
However, in addition to the zodiacal, planetary, and elemental forces, each path on the Tetractys is given one of the 24 Greek letters (indeed, this was really the whole impetus for having the paths to begin with). Each Greek letter can be viewed in different ways. The first three of these are fairly mundane: the name, the glyph, and the sound of the specific letter, all of which are given on a post way back when I first started considering the Greek letters as a vehicle for theurgy.
Name: alpha
Glyph: Α
Sound: /aː/
Isopsephic number: 1 (see this page on isopsephy, aka Greek gematria)
Stoicheion: Moon (see this page on associating the Greek letters with the forces)
Grammatomantic oracle: “The god says that you will do everything well” (see this post on this divination method, also buy my ebook!)
Sacred name: ΑΚΡΑΜΜΑΧΑΜΑΡΕΙ (see this post on the abacedarian words of power)
Other symbolism, some of which are given to the letters in this post
Okay, so. At this point, I’d normally provide a table listing all the correspondences I’ve just mentioned to recap them all, but…the format of my blog would have this table run off the column of this text into the wild unknown, and gods only know what havoc it’d wreak on any number of RSS feeds, so I’m going to refrain from doing so this once. I mean, if you wanted a table of correspondences that big, just get a copy of Skinner’s Complete Magician’s Tables. Maybe, one day, I’ll publish my own focusing more on the Greek letters than Hebrew, but that’s not now. Instead, go ahead and take a gander at all the links I’ve posted above and feed your hungry mind on the connections of the paths to the letters and to the forces and to everything else.
Why study all this? Because the more information that is accessible to us in our minds, the more tools we’re providing our spirits for when we begin astral exploration and contemplation of these symbols. It’s a commonly-heard refrain in some circles that “the limits of my language are the limits of my world” (cf. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis); if you don’t have an appropriate symbol set to work with, you can’t communicate, hold onto, or receive information that could use those symbols. The more symbols we become familiar with, the more our minds and spirits have to work with, which expands the possibilities of vision and clairvoyance. After all, it’s as my favorite comic seer Dominic Deegan says:
When a seer looks into a crystal ball and spouts some cryptic message, it’s not because second sight is inherently mysterious. It’s because the seer doesn’t know what he’s looking at and he’s probably disguising his ignorance with cliché mysticism. To master second sight you must have knowledge, which is found in books, which is why we have so much required reading for this class. (January 5, 2007)
Second sight is hard. It requires a solid knowledge of history, politics, religion, arcane theory and even geography to really be of any use. Otherwise it’s just looking at pictures. (January 11, 2007)
Study hard, kids. That’s important, no matter what you do in the occult.
Okay, so, say you’ve got a good grasp of the symbols, correspondences, associations, and affiliations of the letters with everything else. What now? We tap into that with pathworking, which is ritualized contemplation within a specific theurgical context. Taking into account what’s commonly done in Golden Dawn and related orders, we would first mentally place ourselves within a particular sphaira as its own separate “temple”, envisioning a path leading to it (the one we used to enter) and other paths leading away from it (the possibilities of egress from the temple along the other paths). Taking Alex Sumner’s brief discourse on qabbalistic pathworking, there are several steps to this process (rephrased from Sumner’s approach):
Preparation of the physical temple and the pathworker.
Visualization of the origin of the pathworking.
Invocation of the forces of the path to be worked.
The departure onto the path from the origin.
The vision of the path.
The arrival from the path unto the destination.
The return to the world and normal consciousness.
Now, we can’t simply replace all the qabbalistic elements with mathetic ones; in many cases, I simply haven’t developed all the same things, and in others, I have no need to. However, the underlying idea is the same, and many of the same methods can be adapted to this. The important part that needs to be figured out first, however, is…where exactly do we start?
The whole point of undergoing initiation into the Gnosis Schema is to bring us from wherever we might be on the Agnosis Schema to the central sphaira on the Gnosis Schema. Before that point, we don’t know where we are or how we got there; we need to be brought to a point of balance so as to be able to grow from that point, rather than trying to catch our bearings while we’re lost adrift on stormy seas. After initiation, we find ourselves at the central sphaira, which has six paths leading to it all, all equally spread apart. Thus, we begin at the sphaira of Mercury, and thence proceed onward to the path of Beta, which leads us down to the sphaira of Jupiter/Air. We repeat the process time and again, periodically returning to Mercury, and continue along our paths.
So, if we begin at Mercury, how do we envision a “temple” or world for this sphaira? That…well, I don’t really know what it would look like. I do not know whether I can slip in my own visions of the planetary sphere of Mercury, and I doubt I could very easily, though it might make sense. I do not know if the image I already have in mind can work, since I haven’t actually gone and explored what this sphaira looks like yet (to my own great shame). But, if I were pressed to come up with a simple (if not simplistic) view based on what we already know and what we’ve already developed, I suppose we could always go with this little imagining I came up with:
Around you is a forum, a marketplace, filled with stalls and tents and shops all around you. For some, these stalls are each manned and staffed with heaps of all sorts of foods, spices, riches, and goods; for others, the marketplace is deserted and dilapidated, with it looking more like a shantytown full of ghosts. In either case, you stand at the center of three roads crossing each other in six directions. The sky has the usual weather, the air balmy and breezy, and the road is full of dust sweeping in from each of the roads to the center where you now stand. At the very center of the marketplace, in the exact middle of this six-way crossroads, stands a tall brazier atop a round altar. This brazier has a fire lit of pure white gold flame, gently warming but weak. Each road is lined with stalls and shops, though they start becoming fewer and farther between the further you look down each road. Looking down one of the roads in the direction of the morning sun, you see at the far end of it, where the shops and buildings and tents give way to grass and rocks and dirt roads, a tall stone arch glittering in the light of the sky.
As you walk down this path, the bustle and business of the marketplace (or, alternatively, the whispers of wind and loose tentcloth) die down to silence, almost in anticipation of you reaching the arch. As you get closer to the arch and further from the tents, you see that the arch leads onto a bridge crossing a deep chasm, heading off around you to both the left and the right. The whole marketplace is on a large island, cut off from the surrounding lands yet connected by means of these six arches and their bridges wide enough to carry travelers, merchants, pilgrims, warlords, princes, paupers, and others of all kinds and nations. Yet, these bridges are all but empty. Beyond, however, you can see a whole new world through the arch, hearing all sorts of new voices and sounds, yet somehow it was not apparent to you until you looked through the arch itself.
The arch is elaborate, delicately engraved with repetitive motifs echoing long-lost languages that yet look familiar to you, mixed in with baroque depictions of cities, wars, crops, livestock, wildlands, gods above and below, and so many other scenes that could never be descried except at close distance, and at a close enough distance, you see all these patterns forming an infinitely-detailed fractal building upon and within itself endlessly. At the very top of the arch, you see that the whole arch has been engraved with the ancient Greek letter Β; under it, suspended by gilded iron chains, is a brightly-gleaming lantern. It has not been lit, though you can tell from the slow way it sways that it is full of oil and ready to be ignited at a moment’s notice. Just above where the flame would be is a rope, tied to both columns supporting the arch, and from that rope a gate that, although fine and delicately-wrought, prevents you from passing through the arch proper.
Light the lamp and let its light beckon to those who would seek to enter, guided and amplified by the white gold flame in the crossroads. Burn the rope, and bring down the gate. Open the path to this new road and to this new world. Leave the town as you are, and return when you are not.
…a bit of fancy prose, sure, but why not? I don’t have much else to go on at the moment. Besides, when I do get around to actually exploring the central sphaira, I’ll be able to get a better vision of the place and use that as the preliminary setup for a “mathetic temple”. The use of the “gate blocking the arch” bit was to show that one cannot simply proceed immediately without doing work to earn the right of passage upon the path; in the Golden Dawn style of pathworking, each path had its own guard that needed to be appeased or tested first before one could go along the path. Similar things should apply here, I figure, though the methods of testing would likely be different. Plus, I might actually become inspired enough to give the damn thing its own proper name and title, as opposed to just calling it the “central sphaira” or “sphaira of Mercury”.
On Geomantic Figures, Zodiac Signs, and Lunar Mansions
April 3, 2015 By polyphanes in geomancy Tags: agrippa, correspondence, geomantic figures, gerard of cremona, lunar mansions, mansions of the moon, paul tannery, picatrix, zodiac 23 Comments
Geomantic figures mean a lot of things; after all, we only have these 16 symbols to represent the entire rest of the universe, or, as a Taoist might call it, the “ten-thousand things”. This is no easy task, and trying to figure out exactly how to read a particular geomantic figure in a reading is where real skill and intuition come into play. It’s no easy thing to determine whether we should interpret Puer as just that, a young boy, or a weapon of some kind, or an angry person, or head trauma or headaches, or other things depending on where we find it in a chart, what’s around it, what figures generated it, and so forth.
Enter the use of correspondence tables. Every Western magician loves these things, which simply link a set of things with another set of things. Think of Liber 777 or Stephen Skinner’s Complete Magician’s Tables or Agrippa’s tables of Scales; those are classic examples of correspondence tables, but they don’t always have to be so expansive or universal. One-off correspondences, like the figures to the planets or the figures to the elements, are pretty common and usually all we need.
One such correspondence that many geomancers find useful is that which links the geomantic figures to the signs of the Zodiac. However, there are two such systems I know of, which confuses a lot of geomancers who are unsure of which to pick or when they work with another geomancer who uses another system.
The planetary method (or Agrippan method) assigns the zodiac signs to the figures based on the planet and mobility of the figure. Thus, the lunar figures (Via and Populus) are given to the lunar sign (Cancer), and the solar figures (Fortuna Major and Fortuna Minor) are given to the solar sign (Leo). For the other planet/figures, the mobile figure is given to the nocturnal/feminine sign and the stable figure to the diurnal/masculine sign; thus, Puella (stable Venus) is given to Libra (diurnal Venus) and Amissio (mobile Venus) is given to Taurus (nocturnal Venus). This system doesn’t work as well for Mars (both of whose figures are mobile) and Saturn (both of whose figures are stable), but we can say that Puer is more stable that Rubeus and Amissio more stable than Carcer. Caput Draconis and Cauda Draconis are analyzed more in terms of their elements and both considered astrologically (not geomantically) mobile, and given to the mutable signs of their proper elements.
The method of Gerard of Cremona is found in his work “On Astronomical Geomancy”, which is more of a way to draw up a horary astrological chart without respect for the actual heavens themselves in case one cannot observe them or get to an ephemeris at the moment. He lists his own way to correspond the figures to the signs, but there’s no immediately apparent way to figure out the association.
Thus, the geomantic figures are associated with the signs of the Zodiac in the following ways according to their methods:
Gerard of Cremona
Populus Cancer Capricorn
Via Leo
Albus Gemini Cancer
Coniunctio Virgo Virgo
Puella Libra Libra
Amissio Taurus Scorpio
Fortuna Maior Leo Aquarius
Fortuna Minor Taurus
Puer Aries Gemini
Rubeus Scorpio
Acquisitio Sagittarius Aries
Laetitia Pisces Taurus
Tristitia Aquarius Scorpio
Carcer Capricorn Pisces
Caput Draconis Virgo Virgo
Cauda Draconis Virgo Sagittarius
As you can see, dear reader, there’s not much overlap between these two lists, so it can be assumed that any overlap is coincidental.
In my early days, I ran tests comparing the same set of charts but differing in how I assigned the zodiac signs to the figures, and found out that although the planetary method is neat and clean and logical, it was Gerard of Cremona’s method that worked better and had more power in it. This was good to know, and I’ve been using Gerard of Cremona’s method ever since, but it was also kinda frustrating since I couldn’t see any rhyme or reason behind it.
The other day, I was puzzled by how Gerard of Cremona got his zodiacal correspondences for the geomantic figures, so I started plotting out how the Zodiac signs might relate to the figures. I tried pretty much everything I could think of: looking at the planetary domicile, exaltation, and triplicity didn’t get me anywhere, and trying to compare the signs with their associated houses (Aries with house I, Taurus with house II, etc.) and using the planetary joys of each house didn’t work, either. Comparing the individual figures with their geomantic element and mobility/stability with the element and quality of the sign (cardinal, fixed, mutable) didn’t get me anywhere. I was stuck, and started thinking along different lines: either Gerard of Cremona was using another source of information, or he made it up himself. If it were that latter, I’d be frustrated since I’d have to backtrack and either backwards-engineer it or leave it at experience and UPG that happens to work, and I don’t like doing that.
Gerard of Cremona wrote in the late medieval period, roughly around the 12th century, which is close to when geomancy was introduced into Europe through Spain. Geomancy was, before Europe, an Arabian art, and I remembered that there is at least one method of associating the geomantic figures with an important part of Arabian magic and astrology: the lunar mansions, also called the Mansions of the Moon. I recall this system from the Picatrix as well as Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy (book II, chapter 33), and also that it was more important in early European Renaissance magic than it was later on. On a hunch, I decided to start investigating the geomantic correspondences to the lunar mansions.
Unfortunately, there’s pretty much nothing in my disposal on the lunar mansions in the geomantic literature I know of, but there was something I recall reading. Some of you might be aware of a Arabic geomantic calculating machine, an image of which circulates around the geomantic blogosphere every so often. Back in college, I found an analysis of this machine by Emilie Savage-Smith and Marion B. Smith in their 1980 publication “Islamic Geomancy and a Thirteenth-Century Divinatory Device”, and I recall that a section of the text dealt with that large dial in the middle of the machine. Turns out, that dial links the geomantic figures with the lunar mansions!
However, I honestly couldn’t make heads-or-tails of that dial, and neither could Savage-Smith nor Smith; it dealt with “rising” and “setting” mansions that were out of season but arranged in a way that wasn’t temporal but geometrical according to the figures themselves. Add to it, the set of lunar mansions associated with the figures here was incomplete and didn’t match what Gerard of Cremona had at all. However, a footnote in their work gave me another lead, this time to an early European geomantic work associated with Hugo Sanctallensis, the manuscript of which is still extant. A similar manuscript from around the same time period, Paris Bibliothèque Nationale MS Lat. 7354, was reproduced in Paul Tannery’s chapter on geomancy “Le Rabolion” in his Mémoires Scientifiques (vol. 4). In that text, Tannery gives the relevant section of the manuscript that, lo and behold, associates the 16 geomantic figures with 21 of the lunar mansions:
Lunar Mansion
Geomantic figure
1 Alnath Acquisitio
2 Albotain
3 Azoraya Fortuna Maior
4 Aldebaran Laetitia
5 Almices Puella
6 Athaya Rubeus
7 Aldirah
8 Annathra Albus
9 Atarf
10 Algebha Via
11 Azobra
12 Acarfa
13 Alhaire Caput Draconis
14 Azimech Coniunctio
15 Argafra Puer
16 Azubene
17 Alichil Amissio
18 Alcalb
19 Exaula Tristitia
20 Nahaym Populus
21 Elbeda Cauda Draconis
22 Caadaldeba
23 Caadebolach
24 Caadacohot
25 Caadalhacbia Fortuna Minor
26 Amiquedam
27 Algarf Almuehar
28 Arrexhe Carcer
(NB: I used the standard Latin names for the figures and Agrippa’s names for the lunar mansions, as opposed to the names given in the manuscript. Corresponding the mansion names in the manuscript to those of Agrippa, and thus their associated geomantic figures, is tentative in some cases, but the order is the same.)
So now we have a system of 21 of the 28 lunar mansions populated by the geomantic figures. It’d be nice to have a complete system, but I’m not sure one survives in the literature, and one isn’t given by Tannery. All the same, however, we have our way to figure out Gerard of Cremona’s method of assigning the zodiac signs to the geomantic figures. Each sign of the Zodiac is 30° of the ecliptic, but each mansion of the Moon is 12°51’26”, so there’s a bit of overlap between one zodiac sign and several lunar mansions. As a rule, for every “season” of three zodiac figures (Aries to Gemini, Cancer to Virgo, Libra to Sagittarius, Capricorn to Pisces), we have seven lunar mansions divided evenly among them. If we compare how each sign of the Zodiac and their corresponding geomantic figure(s) match up with the lunar mansions and their figures from Tannery, we get a pretty neat match:
Zodiac Signs and Figures
Lunar Mansion and Figures
1 Aries Acqusitio 1 Alnath Acquisitio
2 Taurus Fortuna Minor
3 Gemini Puer
4 Cancer Albus 8 Annathra Albus
5 Leo Via
6 Virgo Caput Draconis
Coniunctio
7 Libra Puella 15 Argafra Puer
8 Scorpio Amissio
Tristitia
9 Sagittarius Cauda Draconis
10 Capricorn Populus 22 Caadaldeba
11 Aquarius Fortuna Maior
12 Pisces Carcer
If you compare the figures for the zodiac signs, in the majority of cases you see the same figures at least once in a lunar mansion that overlaps that particular sign. There are a few exceptions to this rule, however:
Fortuna Maior and Fortuna Minor are reversed between Gerard of Cremona’s zodiacal system and Tannery’s mansion system, as are Puer and Puella. I’m pretty sure this is a scribal error, but where exactly it might have occurred (with Gerard of Cremona or before him, in a corrupt copy of Gerard of Cremona, or in Tannery’s manuscript) is hard to tell.
Populus, being given to mansion XX present in Sagittarius, is assigned to Capricorn. If we strictly follow the system above, we get two geomantic figures for Sagittarius and none for Capricorn. To ensure a complete zodiacal assignment, we bump Populus down a few notches and assign it to Capricorn.
And there you have it! Now we understand the basis for understanding Gerard of Cremona’s supposedly random system of corresponding the signs of the Zodiac to the geomantic figures, and it turns out that it was based on the lunar mansions and their correspondences to the geomantic figures. This solves a long-standing problem for me, but it also raises a new one: since we (probably) don’t have an extant complete system of corresponding the lunar mansions to the geomantic figures, how do we fill in the blanks? In this system, we’re missing geomantic figures for mansions VII, XI, XII, XVIII, XXII, XXIII, and XIV (or, if you prefer, Aldirah, Azobra, Acarfa, Alcalb, Caadaldeba, Caadebolach, Caadacohot, and Caadalhacbia). All of the geomantic figures are already present, and we know that some figures can cover more than one mansion, so it might be possible that some of the figures should be expanded to cover more than the mansion they already have, e.g. Rubeus covering mansion VI (Athaya), which it already does, in addition to VII (Aldirah), which is currently unassigned.
This is probably a problem best left for another day, but perhaps some more research into the lunar mansions and some experimentation would be useful. If an Arabic source listing the geomantic figures in a similar way to the lunar mansions could be found, that’d be excellent, but I’m not holding my breath for that kind of discovery anytime soon.
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Globally the number of natural disasters, i.e. climate related disasters such as flooding, drought, storms/cyclone and extreme temperature changes are increasing worldwide, particularly in the last few years.<br/>
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Globally the number of natural disasters, i.e. climate related disasters such as flooding, drought, storms / cyclone and extreme temperature changes are increasing worldwide, particularly in the last few years.
<u>Number of climate-related disasters around the world (1980-2011)</u><ref>http://infographics.idlelist.com/number-of-climate-related-disasters-around-the-world-1980-2011/</ref>:<br/>
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Within the period from 2000-2012, climate related disasters* had a serious impact on the world. In total they have caused <ref>Source: UNISDR</ref>
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*2.9 billion people have been directly affected
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*Within this section we will be considering a wide range of natural disasters but will be primarily focusing on natural disasters associated with climate change.
It has been forecasted that if the trend continuous damages could reach up to 20% of the entire global GDP at the end of the century.<ref>http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CEEQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmudancasclimaticas.cptec.inpe.br%2F~rmclima%2Fpdfs%2Fdestaques%2Fsternreview_report_complete.pdf&ei=2gZ7U5OJAsO9uATvk4KICw&usg=AFQjCNFFmJMSu0en0pplIr5kIHqbzrRKsA&sig2=LCadmR9f5OtEtEOmF4XbWg&bvm=bv.67229260,d.c2E</ref>
<u>Disaster Impacts / 2000-2012</u><ref>http://www.indexmundi.com/blog/index.php/2013/06/03/economic-and-human-impact-of-natural-disasters/</ref>:
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Within this section we will be considering a wide range of natural disasters but will be primarily focusing on natural disasters associated with climate change.
Over the period of the last 10 years, of the 10 deadliest disasters that have occurred worldwide, 7 have occurred within counties of Asia. In the graph below, the countries in red experienced more than 119 natural disasters. A closer look reveals that most of these countries lie in the Asian region.<ref>Source: EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database – www.emdat.be, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels (Belgium)</ref>
It has been forecasted that if the trend continuous damages could reach up to 20% of the entire global GDP at the end of the century.<ref>http://bit.ly/1khD1al</ref>
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Over the period of the last 10 years, of the 10 deadliest disasters that have occurred worldwide, 7 have occurred within counties of Asia. In the graph below, the countries in red experienced more than 119 natural disasters. A closer look reveals that most of these countries lie in the Asian region.<ref>EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database – www.emdat.be, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels (Belgium)</ref>
Urbanization exacerbates the damages that natural disasters causes, thus necessitating the need for communities to become resilient<ref>Source : http://esa.un.org/unup/Maps/maps_2011_2025.htm</ref>.
[[File:Asian one.jpg|thumb|center|430px|Number of natural disasters by country 1976-2005|alt=Asian one.jpg]]Urbanization exacerbates the damages that natural disasters causes, thus necessitating the need for communities to become resilient<ref>http://esa.un.org/unup/Maps/maps_2011_2025.htm</ref>.
[[File:Urban Growth Rate.jpg|frame|center|1000px|alt=Urban Growth Rate.jpg]][[File:Urban Growth Asia.jpg|center|222px|alt=Urban Growth Asia.jpg]]<br/>
[[File:Urban Growth Rate.jpg|thumb|center|542px|Urban Growth Rate|alt=Urban Growth Rate.jpg]]''Resilience is defined as the ability of an individual, household, community, a country or a region to withstand, adapt and quickly recover from stresses and shocks caused by natural disasters.<ref>Source: European Commission</ref>''
''Resilience is defined as the ability of an individual, household, community, a country or a region to withstand, adapt and quickly recover from stresses and shocks caused by natural disasters.<ref>Source: European Commission</ref>''
An important strategy to increase overall resilience is to improve the resilience of the transport system. Under normal conditions, it provides capable mobility options for moving passengers as well as goods. However under emergency or evacuation situations the significance of a system’s utility and value as a support role become more apparent. The same holds true for the system’s ability to support post-disaster recovery and supply efforts<ref>Amdal. James, Swigart. Stan , 2010; Resilient Transportation Systems in a Post Disaster Environment: A Case Study of opportunities realized and missed in the Greater New Orleans region</ref>.Transport systems allow movements away from adverse conditions (i.e. removing things or people away from the destruction or damage being caused) or towards areas of greater need (i.e. provide resources to help with recovery work). In addition, the longer a transport system remains disrupted during and after a shock, the more severe economic losses will be for community/region. Climate changes taking place, in form of more natural disasters occurring, have the ability of severely disrupting transport services and/or damaging the infrastructure thus limiting mobility or putting it to a standstill in time of dire need<ref>Adapted text from http://www.transport.vic.gov.au/research/sustainability/transport-resilience-and-climatic-extremes</ref>.
An important strategy to increase overall resilience is to improve the resilience of the transport system. Under normal conditions, it provides capable mobility options for moving passengers as well as goods. However under emergency or evacuation situations the significance of a system’s utility and value as a support role become more apparent. The same holds true for the system’s ability to support post-disaster recovery and supply efforts<ref>Source: Amdal. James, Swigart. Stan , 2010; Resilient Transportation Systems in a Post Disaster Environment: A Case Study of opportunities realized and missed in the Greater New Orleans region</ref>.Transport systems allow movements away from adverse conditions (i.e. removing things or people away from the destruction or damage being caused) or towards areas of greater need (i.e. provide resources to help with recovery work). In addition, the longer a transport system remains disrupted during and after a shock, the more severe economic losses will be for community/region. Climate changes taking place, in form of more natural disasters occurring, have the ability of severely disrupting transport services and/or damaging the infrastructure thus limiting mobility or putting it to a standstill in time of dire need<ref>Adapted text from http://www.transport.vic.gov.au/research/sustainability/transport-resilience-and-climatic-extremes</ref>.
Thus an efficient transportation system can play an important role towards making the community resilient<ref>Adapted text from Evaluating Transportation Resilience: Evaluating The Transportation System’s Ability To Accommodate Diverse, Variable and Unexpected Demands With Minimal Risk(http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm88.htm)</ref>. The limited funds that are available for supporting transport infrastructure need to be used in an efficient and just manner in order to make the communities’ mobility resilient. This can be done by designing, developing and maintaining transport infrastructure that is able to meet the existing and future climate change conditions.
The following tables provide information on resources and projects on resilience in a transport sector, with a focus on adaptation to climate change. Please also have a look at the article Adapting Urban Transport to Climate Change ([https://energypedia.info/wiki/Adapting_Urban_Transport_to_Climate_Change https://energypedia.info/wiki/Adapting_Urban_Transport_to_Climate_Change]) which provides more in-depth information.
The following links below provide information on resources and projects on resilience in the transport sector, with a focus on adaptation towards climate change. Please also have a look at the article [[Adapting Urban Transport to Climate Change|Adapting Urban Transport to Climate Change]] which provides more in-depth information.<br/>
= Projects and Resources in field of Resilience and Transport =
= Practical Example: The Green Road Concept<br/> =
== [[Publications_and_Resources:_Resilience_in_Transport|Publications and Resources]]<br/> ==
The Green Road Concept (GRECO) in the Nepal Himalayas describes a holistic vision of integrated sustainable Rural Road Access Development with short-term benefits of local income generation and long-term benefits of improved access. The GRECO is an experienced-based compilation of principles on environmental-friendly participatory low-cost Rural Mountain Road Development.
Under this thematic area, all work that has been published or reported in field of Transport Resilience is mentioned.
The construction work phase is optimally utilised for local off-farm income generation applying conservation-oriented labour-based technologies to overcome the current prevailing practice of uncontrolled and hasty, often mechanised linear rural road construction by inappropriate bulldozers in an extraordinary fragile mountain environment causing massive soil erosion in form of landslides and -slips along new roads and no future maintenance setup behind.
GRECO Principles:
1. Basic Rural Road Access Improvement is considered as socio-political and socio-economical agent to provide a basis for integrated rural development to reduce the economic rural-urban gap.
== [[Research_Projects:_Resilience_in_Transport_Sector|Research Projects]] ==
2. Conservation-oriented road net and road corridor planning maximising the access to settlement; road centre line selection between start and end points to minimise the destabilisation of the fragile hill slope balance and their protective vegetation cover.
Under this thematic area, all research work that has been undertaken in field of Transport Resilience is mentioned.
3. Social Mobilisation through formation of Local Road Coordination Committees and Road Building Groups offering preference of off-farm employment to local labourers which can compensate some negative road construction impacts.
4. Rural Road Project Resources Mobilisation combining various contributions from the stakeholders including natural and human resources from local partners and financial contributions from district and central government partners.
== Implementation Projects<br/> ==
5. Institutional Development and federal governance through active involvement of a decision-making legislative District Roads Coordination Committee, an executive District Technical Office implementing Local NGOs and/or Consultants for construction supervision.
Under this thematic area, implementation work that has been undertaken in field of Transport Resilience is mentioned.
6. Conflict mitigation through active involvement of opposite stakeholders and parties and neutrally balancing out their duties and benefits. A combination of emergency relief, poverty reduction and road building efforts through food/cash for work providing an optimum basis for post-conflict and natural disaster rehabilitation.
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7. Ecologically sustainable construction through phased and sectoral road construction methods and optimum preservation of barren slopes with a protective vegetation cover. Economical need-based road comfort development through staged road upgrading in line with the growing traffic volume and fund availability.
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Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Pilots
(Impact region:USA)
8. Good Governance promotion & application through "Public Audit", emphasising on financial transparency through local publication of available funds and actual expenditure, payment monitoring of pay rolls to each labourer.
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9. The Development of sustainable regular rural road maintenance and rehabilitation system already during the construction period through development of ownership for the respective classified roads.
| style="width: 444px; text-align: left" | This project funded by DOTs and MPOs aims to conduct a pilot Conceptual Model to use in conducting vulnerability and risk assessments of infrastructure to the projected impacts of global climate change (GCC). The purpose of the pilots was twofolds; 1) to assist State DOTs and MPOs to quickly advance existing adaptation assessment activities and 2) to assist FHWA in "test-driving" the model.Based on the feedback received through the pilots, FHWA will revise and finalize the model for national application.
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Bangladesh: Coastal Climate Resilient Infrastructure Project (CCRIP)
Impact Region: Bangladesh
10. Participatory Preparation and Legalisation of a District Transport Master Plan including a long-term vision of the national, inter-district, district and village roadway, trail-, air-, water- and cableway networks for Longer-Term spatial rural-urban Accessibility and Transport Planning.
| style="width: 105px; text-align: left" | Climate Change, Infrastructure, Road maintenance
| style="width: 444px; text-align: left" | The goal of CCRIP is to achieve improved livelihoods, in the form of higher incomes and food security, for poor households in the selected Upazilas. The project development objective is to achieve enhanced climate resilience of coastal road and market infrastructure and people in the project area.
Transport Sector Development Project
Impact Region: Somon Islands
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== Publications and Resources<br/> ==
| style="width: 444px; text-align: left" | The project is aimed towards improving access to socioeconomic opportunities by rehabilitating and maintaining land, sea, and air transport infrastructure. Solomon Islands has been offered significant parallel grant co-financing from the governments of Australia and New Zealand but has insufficient capacity to plan and implement the necessary civil works. The project will therefore strengthen transport sector institutions by establishing a central project implementation unit (CPIU) to reform the government's institutional structure, implement civil works, and conduct technical and managerial capacity development
Resilient Transportation Systems in a Post-Disaster Environment: A Case Study of Opportunities Realized and Missed in the Greater New Orleans Region, 2010
Impact Region: USA
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► [[Publications and Resources: Resilience in Transport|Publications and Resources: Resilience in Transport]]
| style="width: 444px; text-align: left" | This project uses the New Orleans Region as a case study to assess transportation resiliency both pre and post- Katrina, the devastating storm of 2005. Using the Katrina experience as a point of reference, the project aims to understand how the New Orleans region progressed in terms of transportation resiliency. Pre–event planning and post-event recovery highlighted the importance of a transportation system’s ability to withstand the stresses associated with a catastrophe of this magnitude. In order to review the system as a whole, the study focused on pre-storm transportation and policy composition, the failures that resulted from the event, and what policy changes have strengthened the post-storm transportation system. “Lessons learned” and key policies in both the public and private sector post-disaster are highlighted. Inputs from planning and government officials were also used to identify policy and procedural changes that affected both evacuation and disaster response.
Climate Resilience in Cities in the Greater Mekong Sub-region
Impact Regions: Vietnam, Cambodia, Lao PDR
| style="width: 105px; text-align: left" | Climate change adaptation planning, Climate change impact and vulnerability assessments, Climate change modeling, Community engagement, GIS and spatial analysis, Mainstreaming environment and climate change
== Research Projects ==
| style="width: 444px; text-align: left" | This ADB project is designed to assist Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) cities to increase their understanding of climate change impacts and adaptation, to promote ‘climate resilient’ development. ICEM will conduct a climate change threat and vulnerability assessment in the towns of Battambang (Cambodia), Dong Ha (Vietnam), and Kaysone Phomvihane (Lao PDR), focussing on critical infrastructure. Through knowledge-sharing events and policy dialogues on climate change risks and adaptation, participating towns will learn about climate change impacts on critical infrastructure and the tools and processes necessary to adapt to climate change, tailored to their unique circumstances. The information and lessons learnt will be synthesized into a handbook, outlining good adaptation practices from the region and internationally.
► [[Research Projects: Resilience in Transport Sector|Research Projects: Resilience in Transport Sector]]
= Concluding remarks / Summary<br/> =
As illustrated through the work undertaken under various streams mentioned above, it is clear that at present our transportation systems are fragile. On the other hand, the transport sector plays a vital role in achieving economic growth of a country. Thus to ensure unhindered economic progress, it is increasingly becoming urgent to safeguard the transportation systems against the after math of natural disasters whose frequency of occurring is increasing at an alarming rate. To design such a resilient transportation system will require a robust regulatory reforms from the governments. Hence transportation sector should be considered as a key <del cite="mailto:Dominik%20Schmid" datetime="2014-05-26T10:02">mitigating </del>enabler towards making communities more resilient towards the climate change.
Under this thematic area, implementation work that has been undertaken in field of Transport Resilience is mentioned.<br/>
► [[Implementation Projects: Resilience in Transport Sector|Implementation Projects: Resilience in Transport Sector]]
= Further information<br/> =
As illustrated through the work undertaken under various streams mentioned above, it is clear that at present our transportation systems are fragile. On the other hand, the transport sector plays a vital role in achieving economic growth of a country. Thus to ensure unhindered economic progress, it is increasingly becoming urgent to safeguard the transportation systems against the after math of natural disasters whose frequency of occurring is increasing at an alarming rate. To design such a resilient transportation system will require a robust regulatory reforms from the governments. Hence transportation sector should be considered as a key enabler towards making communities more resilient towards the climate change.
*[[Publications and Resources: Resilience in Transport|Publications and Resources: Resilience in Transport]]<br/>
*[[Research Projects: Resilience in Transport Sector|Research Projects: Resilience in Transport Sector]]<br/>
*[[Implementation Projects: Resilience in Transport Sector|Implementation Projects: Resilience in Transport Sector]]<br/>
*[[Portal:Mobility|Mobility Portal on energypedia]]
= References =
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[[Category:Transport]]
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2 Impact and Importance of Resilience in the Transport Sector
3 Practical Example: The Green Road Concept
4 Projects and Resources in field of Resilience and Transport
4.1 Publications and Resources
4.2 Research Projects
4.3 Implementation Projects
5 Concluding Remarks / Summary
6 Further Information
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Number of climate-related disasters around the world (1980-2011)[1]:
Number of Climate related disasters around the world (1980-2011)
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Within the period from 2000-2012, climate related disasters* had a serious impact on the world. In total they have caused[2]:
US$ 1.7 trillion of damage
2.9 billion people have been directly affected
1.2 million people have been killed
Disaster Impacts / 2000-2012[3]:
Disaster Impacts
It has been forecasted that if the trend continuous damages could reach up to 20% of the entire global GDP at the end of the century.[4]
Over the period of the last 10 years, of the 10 deadliest disasters that have occurred worldwide, 7 have occurred within counties of Asia. In the graph below, the countries in red experienced more than 119 natural disasters. A closer look reveals that most of these countries lie in the Asian region.[5]
Number of natural disasters by country 1976-2005
Urbanization exacerbates the damages that natural disasters causes, thus necessitating the need for communities to become resilient[6].
Urban Growth Rate
Resilience is defined as the ability of an individual, household, community, a country or a region to withstand, adapt and quickly recover from stresses and shocks caused by natural disasters.[7]
An important strategy to increase overall resilience is to improve the resilience of the transport system. Under normal conditions, it provides capable mobility options for moving passengers as well as goods. However under emergency or evacuation situations the significance of a system’s utility and value as a support role become more apparent. The same holds true for the system’s ability to support post-disaster recovery and supply efforts[8].Transport systems allow movements away from adverse conditions (i.e. removing things or people away from the destruction or damage being caused) or towards areas of greater need (i.e. provide resources to help with recovery work). In addition, the longer a transport system remains disrupted during and after a shock, the more severe economic losses will be for community/region. Climate changes taking place, in form of more natural disasters occurring, have the ability of severely disrupting transport services and/or damaging the infrastructure thus limiting mobility or putting it to a standstill in time of dire need[9].
Thus an efficient transportation system can play an important role towards making the community resilient[10]. The limited funds that are available for supporting transport infrastructure need to be used in an efficient and just manner in order to make the communities’ mobility resilient. This can be done by designing, developing and maintaining transport infrastructure that is able to meet the existing and future climate change conditions.
The following links below provide information on resources and projects on resilience in the transport sector, with a focus on adaptation towards climate change. Please also have a look at the article Adapting Urban Transport to Climate Change which provides more in-depth information.
[edit] Practical Example: The Green Road Concept
2. Conservation-oriented road net and road corridor planning maximising the access to settlement; road centre line selection between start and end points to minimise the destabilisation of the fragile hill slope balance and their protective vegetation cover.
[edit] Projects and Resources in field of Resilience and Transport
[edit] Publications and Resources
► Publications and Resources: Resilience in Transport
[edit] Research Projects
► Research Projects: Resilience in Transport Sector
[edit] Implementation Projects
► Implementation Projects: Resilience in Transport Sector
[edit] Concluding Remarks / Summary
[edit] Further Information
Publications and Resources: Resilience in Transport
Research Projects: Resilience in Transport Sector
Implementation Projects: Resilience in Transport Sector
Mobility Portal on energypedia
[edit] References
↑ http://infographics.idlelist.com/number-of-climate-related-disasters-around-the-world-1980-2011/
↑ Source: UNISDR
↑ http://www.indexmundi.com/blog/index.php/2013/06/03/economic-and-human-impact-of-natural-disasters/
↑ http://bit.ly/1khD1al
↑ EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database – www.emdat.be, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels (Belgium)
↑ http://esa.un.org/unup/Maps/maps_2011_2025.htm
↑ Source: European Commission
↑ Amdal. James, Swigart. Stan , 2010; Resilient Transportation Systems in a Post Disaster Environment: A Case Study of opportunities realized and missed in the Greater New Orleans region
↑ Adapted text from http://www.transport.vic.gov.au/research/sustainability/transport-resilience-and-climatic-extremes
↑ Adapted text from Evaluating Transportation Resilience: Evaluating The Transportation System’s Ability To Accommodate Diverse, Variable and Unexpected Demands With Minimal Risk(http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm88.htm)
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Help, My Fursona’s Dick Is On National TV!
OwO What’s this? *A million people notice ur bulge*
Imagine trademarking ‘UwU’ & ‘OwO’. Here’s a story about owning and using ideas.
Original fandom art can be an oxymoron sometimes. The topic started with one furry’s story about John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight:
My fursona’s dick was LITERALLY on national television. — (Reddit)
It's real: pic.twitter.com/sWi26FV7ew
— Changa Lion (@LurkingGrue) June 22, 2020
Here's @RadiantOtter's statement and I got to say they and their knotted otter cock are amazing.https://t.co/lP2sk0Zepp
Third arrest tied to Furry Raiders and Foxler/ Lee Miller.
Lee Miller, a Colorado furry fan and internet troll who goes by Foxler, is heading to trial for child sex offenses. His April 2019 arrest followed years of allegations of grooming and “neo-nazi-cult-like” activity in his group the Furry Raiders. Miller’s trial is set for May 26, 2020.
In February 2020, the investigation brought new charges for Miller. This followed a December 2019 arrest for his associate Jacob Kovar (known as Sneps or Flare). Kovar was a Furry Raiders admin with a felony record. He got arrested for alleged witness tampering in Miller’s case that was uncovered by Dogpatch Press. Kovar hid that activity as “Dodger”, Head of Security at a Wyoming furry convention that dropped him when the “batshit story” came out.
The Daily Beast has their finger on the pulse.
Third arrest on 3/6/2020
A new arrest puts a third name on public record. (Original source.) It’s a 23 year old man charged with “16-19-103 DENVER: TAMP W. EVID”.
What’s life like for a teenage LGBT furry fan in Iran?
Fursona of Rastin, a furry in Tehran
The Iranian people seem pretty cool: Just last month, they were doing huge anti-austerity protests. Then they marched with over 1,000,000 to mourn the death of a military leader. Now they're demanding their gov't resigns after killing 176 civilians. https://t.co/2rzzxZ2l5O
— WHITEY OwO BULGER (@Kamunt) January 13, 2020
Governments are supposed to represent their people. Instead they often end up representing a few haves against many have-nots. It might put oligarchy and corporate greed first, or theocracy and military power. You can read between the lines of headlines about the USA vs. Iran.
But how often do people in both places talk to each other directly without borders, filters, propaganda, stereotyping, and forced conflict? And when they’re pitted against each other, what could these different societies possibly share in common?
Pizza time! Pizza battle! Which one do YOU prefer?
— Rastin 🌻 (@Rastin_Woof) January 7, 2020
Like pizza, you don’t need to speak the same language to love art. So furry fandom builds bridges around the world. That’s how Croc (@Microdile), a California furry, first made friends with Rastin (@Rastin_woof). Rastin is a 16 year old member of a generation living after the 1979 Iranian revolution, which put religion and laws together, unlike the USA which separates church and state (at least in theory.)
In the following Q&A, Rastin uses forbidden internet contact to discuss forbidden topics — criticizing authority, oppressed LGBT identity, parents who don’t understand, and fandom that isn’t shared by anybody near him. His fursona species isn’t even tolerated (dogs aren’t loved pets in Iran.) What stands out more than differences is the universal stuff in common: creativity and self expression, and wishes to escape to a more peaceful world.
Furry Raiders sex crime case: Arrest for felon tied to witness tampering and Milo’s “troll school”
Here’s a wild story that has all this: Internet harassment, the disgraced alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos, the furry fandom pariah Foxler (known for stories in Rolling Stone and Newsweek about neo-nazi furries and his Furry Raiders group), his right-hand man “Sneps” who has a heroin trafficking record, and their plan to frame a witness for sex crime that Foxler is charged for doing. There was even a bungled plan to target me for reporting. It blew up in their faces, put “Sneps” behind bars, and leaves the crime witness needing vindication after being framed.
If you were Foxler — AKA Lee Miller of Fort Collins, CO — what would you do if:
In 2017, Dogpatch Press reports you’re tied to grooming kids and intimidating witnesses with your “neo-nazi cult-like group” (The Furry Raiders).
In 2019, you’re charged for a 2015 child sex offense (details not public) uncovered during reporting for Dogpatch Press (credit to Aristide).
If you were Foxler, how would you defend from these charges? Maybe get a good lawyer or well-regarded community member to help clear your name?
A smart person with a good future could do that. That’s not Foxler. He got his close friend and Furry Raiders admin, known as Flare or Sneps, and they cooked up a scheme to get him out of trouble by attacking the sources. I helped uncover it and report it to the police, with this result:.
Arrested with a “Fugitive from justice” charge — it looks like Sneps was already wanted by police.
Dogpiling on Social Media: Without long term goals, it’s just empty performance – by WhiteClaw
WhiteClaw previously submitted Why furries should care about politics in 2018.
Dogpiling
Most of us on the internet have probably heard of and witnessed dogpiling. Some of us have even been unlucky enough to be on the receiving end. But nearly everyone will deny having taken part in it.
Even people in the middle of dogpiling will resist the label. According to them, they are: critiquing, complaining, offering their opinion, standing up for themselves and/or others, responding, calling out — and any other number of words and terms that can be used to describe their actions.
But never are they dogpiling.
So, what is this strange act that seems to be everywhere, but committed by no one? To answer that question, we have to start at the beginning.
Underrated furry news sources
So, you want to know what’s up in furry news. There’s that site from the dog with holographic pants, but it’s blabbing about obscure art movies and being too sexy to handle. There’s that site that smells like carrots, but their comment section is toxic waste. Maybe there’s a more respectable site ready to grow. Hmm… nothing but a merchandising front here, and a spam blog there… why hasn’t this need been solved yet?
Writers have lives, and fandom won’t pay for 1/10th of the cost for ones willing to slave over a hot keyboard all day. Social media can make reach, but has negatives like users who bite the hand that feeds. If you find anything decent, it’s like a gift given despite the costs. You won’t find it for sale in the mainstream.
When it’s a labor of love, think of this oxymoron: “unbiased fandom.” That’s self contradicting, and it’s possible there will never be a news source for furries that isn’t run by some agenda (personal passion is a fine agenda). Don’t hunt for a unicorn, just go find the ones that do it well. There’s stakes too. When “sensational media” is blamed for image problems, the solution is “Be The Media”. That’s how fandom works, so be a fan for the little ones with potential.
The “New Paws” Hoax: How alt-right trolls piled on a disabled man to boost their failing careers.
Read to the bottom to see how this hoax keeps getting deleted from forums when admins realize they’re spreading fake news.
4chan started a conspiracy theory that PretzelCollie used dry ice on his hands because he wanted them to be amputated and replaced with paws.
Hands-down one of the most depraved harassment campaigns I've ever seen. And it's of course blatantly untrue too. https://t.co/rC2pzgITL1
— Mythic (@MythicalRedFox) August 31, 2019
A shocking accident.
In 2015 I met a furry who joined furmeets I organize in Northern California. He’s bright, enthusiastic and fun to host. It was a shock when he posted on Facebook about suffering an accident. There were graphic medical photos of extreme frostbite caused by dry ice.
Welp, I’m in the hospital with a life changing situation. It was my own damn fault. Been pushing myself so hard for so long, sleep deprived, pushing myself with arthritis in my wrists. Basically I fell asleep while icing my wrists last night. Woke up 6 hours later, hands were frozen. Went to the hospital, they care flighted me to a burn center in California. It was too late, damage had been done, it’s resulting in a bilateral hand amputation so things are about to get very interesting in my life. I’m doing ok, remaining optimistic. Honestly I’m anxious to get it over with and move on with my life.
To help with costs of hand amputations, one of his co-workers started a crowdfund. I shared it on Twitter, and added a light-hearted comment about helping him to get “new paws” with an article I wrote 6 years ago: Scaly, feathery alternative limbs leap the uncanny valley into the future of prosthetic design (2013). It was about improving the lives of amputees. Instead of hiding prosthetics, they can be featured, like transforming scars with cool tattoos.
I commented about “new paws” before I saw anyone else say it. The crowdfund was his co-workers idea. Those ideas didn’t come from him.
EDIT: My comments were found again after deletion. They’re from 3 days post-accident. HE NEVER SAID HE WANTED PAWS.
Having top google result also lets this story debunk the hoax.
Great accounts to follow: Unintentional Furries
Announcement – until March 31, vote for the Ursa Major Awards to support the best works of furry fandom!
If you’re a talking animal on social media, Furry Twitter is the place to be. And if you aren’t on there yet, or if you’re new, it may seem like a perplexing jungle of stunning art, cute fursuits, drama, social commentary, memes, nature videos, hitting on corporate mascots, and crazy happenings with a huge fandom of friends who have fun like nobody else. Finding the good stuff could use a guide to bushwhack through the wilderness. Wouldn’t it be cool to get an article series about entertaining and well curated accounts?
These will ask the account owners a few short questions about what they do. Enjoy whether they’re new, or you like learning more about stuff you already love.
Great accounts to follow: Furries Out of Context.
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Photodynamic therapy of onychomycosis caused by Trichophyton rubrum. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2008 Nov. 59(5 Suppl):S75-6. [Medline].\n[Guideline] Ameen M, Lear JT, Madan V, Mohd Mustapa MF, Richardson M. British Association of Dermatologists' guidelines for the management of onychomycosis 2014. Br J Dermatol. 2014 Nov. 171(5):937-58. [Medline].\n[Guideline] American Academy of Dermatology. Ten Things Physicians and Patients Should Question. Choosing Wisely. Available at http://www.choosingwisely.org/societies/american-academy-of-dermatology/. October 29, 2013; Accessed: April 30, 2016.\nPiraccini BM, Sisti A, Tosti A. Long-term follow-up of toenail onychomycosis caused by dermatophytes after successful treatment with systemic antifungal agents. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2010 Mar. 62(3):411-4. [Medline].\nPiraccini BM, Tosti A. White superficial onychomycosis: epidemiological, clinical, and pathological study of 79 patients. Arch Dermatol. 2004 Jun. 140(6):696-701. [Medline].\nTosti A, Piraccini BM, Lorenzi S. Onychomycosis caused by nondermatophytic molds: clinical features and response to treatment of 59 cases. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2000 Feb. 42(2 Pt 1):217-24. [Medline].\nTosti A, Piraccini BM, Lorenzi S, Iorizzo M. Treatment of nondermatophyte mold and Candida onychomycosis. Dermatol Clin. 2003 Jul. 21(3):491-7, vii. [Medline].\nTosti A, Piraccini BM, Stinchi C, Colombo MD. Relapses of onychomycosis after successful treatment with systemic antifungals: a three-year follow-up. Dermatology. 1998. 197(2):162-6. [Medline].\nDistal subungual onychomycosis. Onycholysis and yellow streak. Image courtesy of Dr Antonella Tosti.\nDistal subungual onychomycosis. Subungual hyperkeratosis onycholysis and yellow streak. Image courtesy of Dr Antonella Tosti.\nProximal subungual onychomycosis. Proximal leukonychia. Image courtesy of Dr Antonella Tosti.\nWhite superficial onychomycosis. Image courtesy of Dr Antonella Tosti.\nCandidal onychomycosis in a patient with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis. Total onychomycosis and paronychia. Image courtesy of Dr Antonella Tosti.\nDermoscopy of distal subungual onychomycosis showing irregular margin of the onycholytic area with spikes projecting into the proximal nail plate, reported as the \"aurora borealis\" pattern. Handyscope at 20X.\nAntonella Tosti, MD Professor of Dermatology, Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, University of Miami, Leonard M Miller School of Medicine\nAntonella Tosti, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Dermatology, International Society of Dermatology, European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, Women's Dermatologic Society, Canadian Dermatology Association\nDisclosure: Serve(d) as a speaker or a member of a speakers bureau for: PharmaDerm<br/>Received income in an amount equal to or greater than $250 from: Valeant; Pharmaderm.\nRichard P Vinson, MD Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Dermatology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Paul L Foster School of Medicine; Consulting Staff, Mountain View Dermatology, PA\nRichard P Vinson, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Dermatology, Texas Medical Association, Association of Military Dermatologists, Texas Dermatological Society\nDirk M Elston, MD Professor and Chairman, Department of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine\nDirk M Elston, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Dermatology\nRichard K Scher, MD Adjunct Professor of Dermatology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine; Professor Emeritus of Dermatology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons\nRichard K Scher, MD is a member of the following medical societies: Alpha Omega Alpha, American Academy of Dermatology, American College of Physicians, American Medical Association, Association of Military Surgeons of the US, International Society for Dermatologic Surgery, Noah Worcester Dermatological Society, Society for Investigative Dermatology\nThe authors and editors of Medscape Reference gratefully acknowledge the contributions of previous authors, Mark Blumberg, MD, MS, Gary R. 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19 Gujarat Congress MLAs Moved To Rajasthan Resort After 3 Resign
Congress has 65 MLAs in Gujarat (File)
Nineteen Congress legislators from Gujarat have been shifted to a resort in Rajasthan ahead of the Rajya Sabha elections in the state. Three MLAs of the party have already resigned and there is apprehension that others may follow.
Congress sources said the party is eventually expected to move 26 MLAs to the resort, located in Rajasthan's Mount Abu. Rajasthan is ruled by the Congress and the party expects te MLAs would safe from BJP poaching there.
The Congress has 65 MLAs in Gujarat, some of whom have already been packed off to different resorts.
The party decided to take action after two of its MLAs resigned on June 4. A third resigned a day later.
The spate of resignations was in fact, the second. The first wave was in March, days after the Rajya Sabha polls were announced. Four MLAs had resigned at the time.
With its current strength, the Congress can only be assured of a single seat instead of two, which it could have commanded earlier.
Of the four Rajya Sabha seats up for election in Gujarat, the BJP has three and the Congress, one. The BJP has fielded Narhari Amin, Abhay Bhardwaj and Ramilaben Bara.
The Congress has named Shaktisinh Gohil and Bharatsinh Solanki for the polls and now has to decide who will be its first preference candidate as that person is likely to win.
Around 100 students from schools, colleges to watch Republic Day parade from PM's box
President Ram Nath Kovind to address nation on the eve of Republic Day
‘I am innocent,’ says mother charged with sexually abusing minor son in Kerala
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10th World Masters Hockey World Cup Postponed (2021/Kansai) for 1 Year
We announce that 10th World Masters Games 2021 Kansai have been postponed for 1 year. The next schedule will continue to be arranged.
News From Official Site
For those who are aiming to participate in the World Masters Games 2021 Kansai
About postponement of the World Masters Games 2021 Kansai
Regarding the result of IMGA General Assembly
* The latest information will be delivered in the official sites and social media below
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15min PR Video
Announcement for 10th World Masters Games 2021 Kansai(at the date of October 2, 2020)
13-16th place match of U-21 Men’s Junior World Cup (2016/Lucknow) [Japan 1-0 Egypt]
Game Schedule of 29th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup (2020/Ipoh) – Men’s National Team (Samurai Japan)
3rd day Result of Hawke’s Bay Cup 2017 [Japan 1-2 Australia]
Pitctures of Men’s Candidates to represent Japan in 17th Asian Games in Incheon, Korea
U15 Men’s Junior Youth Team for All-Star Games
Game Schedule of 6th Asian Champions Trophy (2021/Donghae) – Sakura Japan (Women’s National Team)
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Vietnam bolsters cooperation in diabetes prevention
A Vietnamese delegation led by Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien attended the Ministerial Conference on Diabetes in Singapore on November 26-27.
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Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien (Photo: VNA)
Singapore (VNA) – A Vietnamese delegation led by Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien attended the Ministerial Conference on Diabetes in Singapore on November 26-27.
The event drew the participation of 300 delegates, including health ministers, senior government officials, academics, and experts from 18 countries and territories.
Speaking at the conference, Tien said Vietnam is facing a huge burden of non-communicable diseases in general and diabetes in particular, adding that diabetes accounts for 4 percent of the country’s total death figures.
The rate of people with diabetes in Vietnam has doubled in 10 years, currently standing at 3 million people. The disease is also among the 10 major causes of disabilities in both males and females over the years, she noted.
This year, the country launched the Vietnam Health Programme, focusing on 11 prioritised fields to improve people’s well-being, address factors such as nutrition, physical activity, and the prevention of harmful substances such as cigarettes, alcohol, and beer.
To enhance the prevention, screening, and treatment of diabetes, Vietnam has paid due attention to technological application in health information provision, as well as work to improve individuals’ behavioural capabilities in management and healthcare, she said.
In particular, the country has built a portal for the national health plan to raise public awareness and bolster guidance for people to assess health risks, discover their diseases, and take care of their health.
Accordingly, Vietnam looks to cooperate with other countries to share information, update new technology, and learn of the best practices in technology application and behavioural science in prevention of non-communicable diseases and diabetes, said the Health Minister.
Participants at the conference also called for more cooperation among countries in preventing diabetes in order to reduce the cost burden on patients and countries’ welfare systems.
According to the World Health Organisation’s statistics, an estimated 8.5 percent of adults in the world, or 422 million people, live with diabetes. –VNA
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Vice Chairman of the Hanoi municipal People’s Committee Chu Xuan Dung has required departments, agencies, mass organisations and people to continue seriously comply with the Prime Minister and municipal authorities’ instructions on strengthening COVID-19 prevention and control.
Two new imported COVID-19 cases bring total to 1,546
Two new imported cases of COVD-19 were reported in the past 24 hours to 6pm on January 21, bringing the country’s total count to 1,546, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
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EL-CELL / EL-Software / Application Note: Nothing but Lithium
Application Note: Nothing but Lithium
This application note is supposed to be the first in a series dealing with the electrochemical testing of materials for lithium-ion batteries (LiB) using the PAT system from EL-CELL. More precisely, we will show you the advantages of the PAT-Cell (compared to other test cells like button, Swagelok and pouch cells) and the PAT battery testers (compared to other high-end battery cyclers, impedance analyzers and electrochemical workstations).
For that purpose, we are going to look into typical test cases from the battery lab: full cells made up of NCM and graphite as the two electrodes, or so-called half cells comprised of either NCM or graphite as one electrode, and lithium metal as the second electrode, or the like.
Part of the mission is to convince you that a reference electrode is indispensable, and so we will perform all tests with a reference electrode as the third electrode.
Which electrodes should we start with?
Lithium metal is an obvious candidate, although it is not at all contained in a real lithium-ion battery. However, lithium metal is a component of the half-cells that are often built in LiB research laboratories. Therefore, and for the sake of simplicity, we will start using lithium metal for all three electrodes of the PAT-Cell: the two main electrodes (marked 1 and 2 in the sketch below) and also the ring-shaped electrode at the separator edge (marked R). Granted, this is not a battery, but it’s a good starting point.
Figure 1a: Sketch showing the PAT-Core configuration (cell stack) inside the PAT-Cell.
Figure 1b: Sketch showing the connection between PGStat and PAT-Cell (EL-Software Connection Matrix).
Let us take a brief look at the connection between PAT-Cell and potentiostat / galvanostat (PGStat). As a special feature of the PAT-Tester, this connection can be changed during runtime of the experiment by a simple command in the test script.
Watch the video to learn more about the Connection Matrix:
For the present experiment, we will move lithium ions with a constant current of 2 mA from electrode 1 to electrode 2 for about 3.5 hours, then reverse the direction of the current and move the lithium ions in the opposite direction for another 3.5 hours. This cycle is repeated once. Intermittently, during the whole test, a small sinusoidal current was superimposed on the dc current, at frequencies between 62 kHz and 10 Hz, in order to measure the impedance.
We made a few short videos that illustrate the work with the PAT system and with EL-Software. Here you go:
Video 2: Building the PAT-Cell:
Video 3:Writing the test procedure in EL-Software:
Video 4: Running the experiment in EL-Software:
After 2 cycles and 16 hours the experiment was stopped and the gathered data were imported into and plotted with OriginLab™.
Figure 2: Cell current, voltages and impedance of the Li-Li-Li(r) PAT-Cell. For details, see text.
The diagrams in figure 2 show from bottom to top the applied direct current i12 (the alternating current contribution for the EIS measurement is hidden), the voltages (V12, V1R, V2R) and the impedances (magnitudes of Z12, Z1, Z2) of the full cell and the two individual electrodes.
Every 5 minutes a small sinusoidal current in the frequency range from 62 kHz to 10 Hz was superimposed on the applied direct current. This intermittent GEIS technique (galvanostatic electrochemical impedance spectroscopy) results in the up and down of the |Z| curves when plotted against the experiment time (Fig. 2 c). To facilitate interpretation, we have also plotted the impedance values at a fixed frequency of 10 Hz (Fig. 2 d).
Fig. 2 shows just a subset of the many data acquired during the experiment. Especially, there is much more information available about the frequency dependence of the impedance. As only one example, Fig. 3 shows two impedance spectra for each half cell. The first spectra were measured 5 minutes after starting the experiment (label A). The second spectra (B) were measured at the end of the first half cycle. As a common feature all Nyquist spectra share a semicircle whose diameter can be interpreted as the charge transfer resistance of the SEI.
Figure 3: Single electrode impedance spectra 5 minutes after starting the cycle (A) and at the end of the first half cycle (B). Lithium is getting plated on electrode 2. For details, see text.
What do we observe (and what do we speculate)?
By applying a positive current i12, lithium metal is getting dissolved (stripped) at electrode 1 and deposited (plated) at electrode 2. This way, fresh lithium surface is continuously created on both sides, and immediately covered by the decomposition products of the spontaneous reaction with the electrolyte solution: The famous solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) is being formed as the bottleneck for charge transfer. One could believe that this Li|Li cell behaves completely symmetrically. The opposite is true: The surface morphologies of the two electrodes develop in very different ways. At electrode 1 the metal dissolution leaves a rather smooth surface behind. In contrast, at electrode 2, new metal is deposited as a dendritic, porous layer with continuously increasing surface area. This difference in surface area (and therefore in “real” current density) is clearly reflected in the over-voltages of the two electrodes. During the first minutes of the experiment, both |V1R| and |V2R| decrease in a similar way. During this initial period the “as-received” passivation layer on the metal surface probably transforms into the SEI-type passivation layer determined by the chemical species in the electrolyte. However, as time goes by, the over-voltages get more and more determined by the very different evolution of the electrode porosity. Consequently, the overvoltage at electrode 1, which remains smooth, settles at a much higher value than the overvoltage at electrode 2, which becomes more and more porous.
When the current direction is changed after 3.5 hours, the previously formed porous metal layer on electrode 2 begins to dissolve again, while dendritic lithium starts to deposit on the previously smooth metal surface of electrode 1. Again, the observed over-voltages mainly reflect the different porosities (“real” surface areas), while the SEI layers, which are formed on the fresh metal surface by spontaneous chemical reduction of the electrolyte solution, are supposed to be similar on a microscopic scale. The renewed rise of V2R at the end of the second half cycle fits well into the above picture: At this stage the dendritic lithium on electrode 2 is almost completely depleted, so that non-porous lithium must be dissolved again.
From the perspective of the experimenter, a clear advantage of a lithium metal electrode over a Li-ion battery electrode (such as NCM or graphite) is that its equilibrium potential is always constant and known, almost exactly 0 V against Li/Li+. Thanks to this fact, the measured electrode potential is equal to the over-voltage (in magnitude) and scales, at constant current, with the charge transfer resistance of the respective electrode. This relation can be clearly observed in the evolution of the electrode impedances.
How can we get more evidence?
When dismantling the PAT-Cell after the experiment, one can clearly see a greyish residue of dendritic lithium in the separator and on the surface of the two lithium electrodes.
Video 5: Disassembling the PAT-Cell
An even more direct way is to observe dendrite growth through a window in the test cell. The ECC-Opto-Std is the perfect test cell for this purpose. Here you go!
Video 6: ECC-Opto-Std – Watch lithium dendrites grow
Unfortunately, the time lapse video stops before the first cycle is completed. But even this short period of time is enough to realize that many dendrites lose contact to their “mother” electrode and must be considered lost for the rest of the experiment.
Bad news is that during plating / stripping of lithium metal some of the precious metal is lost due to the chemical reaction with the electrolyte solution and, what is even worse, some dendrites can find their way to the counter electrode and cause a short circuit. This is the sad truth about the lithium metal electrode and even today prevents its use in rechargeable batteries.
Another piece of bad news is that the lithium metal electrode behaves very differently at rest, during stripping and plating, and that its impedance depends heavily on the history of the experiment. This fact makes lithium a difficult electrode to study anode and cathode materials in two-electrode half cells. We will demonstrate this in our next application report, which will focus on the cathode half cell: NCM versus Lithium – Too much Lithium?
I should also remember the good news. The good news is that there is plenty of room for new inventions around a reversible lithium metal electrode and that the PAT system is the perfect tool for such inventions. Enough material for many more application notes. Please stay tuned!
by Dr. Matthias Hahn, Dr. Annika Baumann, Margaryta Paramonova, Daniel Wilke
Printed Electrodes can now be tested in the PAT-Cell
Application Note: Graphite against Lithium – A poor Battery
Application Note: NCM against Lithium – Too much Lithium?
Testing with a finger-shaped reference electrode and EL-Software
PAT Battery Tester
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Overall renovation of the Rascov village Community Centre (left bank)
Sector: Social
Implemented by: Overall renovation of the Rascov village
Budget: 223,360 EUR
Duration: January 2016 – February 2017
Short description: To improve conditions for socio-cultural activities in the community while promoting cross-river cooperation through joint cultural events
Beneficiaries: 2,097 (village population: 1,085 women and 795 men)
Results: At the stage of project approval Rascov Community Centre was not operational due to multiple technical problems. Based on open competition the project was approved for financing and an MOU was signed with the local partners. The required technical expertise and relevant technical estimates were performed allowing a smooth implementation process for the project. A construction company has been selected through an open competition to run the works. The roof and façade were renovated, and all external networks were completed, as well as the majority of internal works like the replacement of the floor, replacement of doors and windows, replacement of electrical, water supply, sewerage and heating systems. In addition, the chairs from the grand concert hall have been replaced. Final interior works have been finished.
Achievements to be emphasized:
-Over 2,000 people from both banks, especially from Rascov and neighbour villages benefit from a modern Community Centre with a total capacity of 600 places;
-Over 20 temporary and 2 permanent jobs were created;
-Due to improved conditions the Community Centre is now used as a platform for joint activities that aim to strengthen cross-river cooperation and increase confidence among them;
-The reconstruction of the Community Centre makes the community more attractive from the social, economic, touristic points of view.
Development of creative and professio...
Renovation of the Community centre in...
Renovation of the centre for victims ...
Reconstruction of the village sewer p...
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How Covid-19 is changing the European Union
European Parliament in session during the coronavirus pandemic
By Peter Van Kemseke
The Covid-19 pandemic took the European Union on a rollercoaster ride.
When a first mini-wave of infections hit the EU on 24 January, the Union entered a period of self-delusion.
During the last weekend of February, when infections rose dramatically in Italy, self-delusion gave way to selfish improvisation.
With European solidarity in pieces and markets reacting nervously, leaders finally stepped in on 10 March. Economies were put on life support, while 'green lanes' kept the Single Market going.
From mid-May onwards, a fourth phase kicked in: the EU started to rebuild itself for the future.
On 18 May, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Emmanuel Macron paved the way for the European Commission's Next Generation EU proposal and ultimately for the European Council agreement of 23 July.
These were the six months that changed the European Union.
The Covid-19 pandemic was a stress test for the EU and its member states.
Firstly, Covid-19 exposed the limits of the EU's capacity, both in its short-term emergency response and its longer-term foresight.
Each health crisis over the past few years has led to better response tools.
This crisis is no exception. But given the huge cross-border impact on the Schengen area, more should be done to prevent a repetition of the chaotic border management experience that we saw during this crisis.
Strengthening the EU's foresight capacity is equally pressing.
The EU now has a commission vice-president in charge of foresight, the External Action Service has a policy planning unit, and national foreign ministries increasingly invest in foresight.
It is time to bring all these pieces together and make sure they are not sidelined when it comes to decision-making.
Secondly, Covid-19 revealed once again how dependent the EU is on others, for everything from Chinese face-masks and Indian pharmaceutical products to US-based videoconferencing tools or contact tracing software.
Time to give 'European sovereignty' a boost.
This, however, should be done smartly. One example: screening foreign investments. Smart means 'coordinated', which, given the 14 different screening mechanisms in place, is not currently the case.
Smart also means: 'protection without protectionism'. After all, we also need the millions of jobs that these foreign investments create - 16 million in 2017 alone.
Thirdly, against the battle of Chinese and US narratives that characterised the previous months, the EU should not shy away from promoting its own model.
When walking a tightrope between health and wealth, European leaders, in general, demonstrated the importance of saving lives and protecting fundamental rights.
The virus should not infect Europe's democracies. A strong attachment to privacy rights, for instance, sets Europe apart from other, non-European countries.
During the crisis, the EU also demonstrated an international compassionate leadership role, for instance by hosting a major donor conference and by setting up a humanitarian air bridge.
Crucially important, especially when - for the first time since World War II - nobody was expecting the US to lead.
Fourth, the economy. The bond-buying actions of the European Central Bank - almost seven times the efforts made in the early 2010s to save the Euro - were crucial to keep the European economy alive.
This addiction to 'cheap money' is not sustainable. With the establishment of a common debt instrument, supported by new European sources of income, the EU further extended its economic toolbox.
This should be complemented by a quick return to the state aid rules to avoid a growing 'recovery gap' between member states, by the reanimation of the stability and growth pact (seven out of 19 eurozone members are expected to have a debt level above 100 percent) and by sufficient coordination on which strategic sectors to invest in, with innovation, digital and green energy obviously topping the list.
Finally, the environment.
Covid-19 was to a large extent an environmental crisis. In Covid times, we focused on the cavalry scout. Now it's time to focus with even more intensity on the cavalry that is already here: climate change.
The European Green Deal should therefore be resolutely rolled out.
All these priorities are - to a varying extent - reflected in the 23 July European Council agreement. An agreement that is, of course, not perfect. But it's time to move on.
In the coming months - perhaps even weeks - there will be no shortage of crises.
The threat of illegal migration is still present. Armed conflict in Europe's neighbourhood might further increase. Inequality is rising, also within the EU. Populism will again raise its head, exploiting the socio-economic difficulties caused by the pandemic. And the next deadly virus is just biding its time.
Only when the right lessons are learned, will a reinvented EU be able to prepare for what's coming, and take on the global leadership role that, in a G-zero world, is not a luxury but a necessity.
Peter Van Kemseke holds a PhD in the history of international relations. As a Belgian diplomat he served at NATO, the United Nations in New York and the EU. He was deputy head of cabinet of European Council president Herman Van Rompuy and worked for European Commission vice-president Maroš Šefčovič. His book - How Covid-19 is Changing the European Union - was published in August 2020 by Boeklyn International.
EU mishandling corona-travel, Belgian expert says
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EU secures 300m of potential vaccines, as Covid-19 cases rise
Swine fever outbreak threatens EU farmers
EU warning after Hungary unilaterally shuts borders
The EU ought to better use regional data on coronavirus travel, a Belgian expert has said, amid confusing national rules.
When airlines ignore refund claims, reject them or are only willing to offer vouchers or rebooking, they act against EU regulations. "In each of these cases airlines use their customers as lenders," warns one legal expert.
The Stockholm-based European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control is recommending EU states imposes new restrictions to stem the transmission of Covid-19.
The European Commission has secured at least 300 million doses of AstraZeneca's potential Covid-19 vaccine, as member states seem to be facing the much-feared second wave of the pandemic.
African Swine Fever, a highly contagious disease estimated to have claimed a quarter of the world's pig population last year, has quietly reached worrying new levels in Europe.
The European Commission warned closing borders was not an "efficient" measure to fight the coronavirus pandemic, after Hungary decided unilaterally to shut down its borders to all foreigners. Meanwhile, neighbouring countries are considering different approaches.
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Harris wins Vice Presidential Debate | 129 comments (129 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
For Harris it was about introducing herself to a public who largely didn't know her and present herself as sympathetic and likeable. It really wasn't about winning an argument, and she used her time to present her agenda rather than respond much to his.
Yes, it was very frustrating to watch as she passed on a whole range of open goals. The format didn't allow an open debate as even the moderator wasn't allowed to ask follow-up question or insist that her questions be answered.
Pence is a master at not answering the question and defending the indefensible, and even had the chutzpah to say (twice) that she was entitled to her own opinions but not to her own facts. This from a regime which invented "alternative facts" to allow themselves live in an alternate reality.
But I don't think you were the target audience for her: it was the low information, independent, uncommitted and swing voters she was trying to woo - basically by demonstrating she was a dignified and and caring person.
You may have missed out on an opportunity to see Pence lambasted, but you will have to bottle your frustration and vent it at the ballot box instead. All she had to do was not interfere with the current trajectory of the race.
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Thu Oct 8th, 2020 at 03:20:18 PM EST
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Dan Mills
Brandon Ballengee
Lorrie Fredette
John Sabraw, Pam Longobardi, and Brandon Donahue
Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter, Lorrie Fredette, and Karen Shaw
Yeon Jin Kim
Brandon Donahue and Michele Banks
Pam Longobardi
Baxter Stults
To Which We Belong
Cara McKinley
Galactic Substance
Eric Hines
Finish Him!
Lila Shull
Call to Supper
Holly Mailey Kelly
Two Lines
Mengmeng Shang
Rachel Sevier
Contingent Frames
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AIR Biennial 2016
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Caitlin Keogh, Dominic Terlizzi, and Aliza Nisenbaum
The presence of acclaimed artists—who have lived and worked in major cultural centers across the country—enhances the educational opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the University of Tennessee School of Art. With daily contact over the course of a full semester, resident artists develop a unique relationship with the student body which complements the creative stimulation offered by guest lecturers and the School of Art's faculty. Representing diverse ethnic, cultural, educational, and professional backgrounds, these resident artists introduce another layer of candor and a fresh artistic standard for the students who, though early in their formal art studies, are beginning to develop their own perceptions, skills, and theories in connection with the making of art.
Begun in 1947 by C. Kermit Ewing, founder of The University of Tennessee School of Art, the annual student exhibition has become one of the oldest competitions in the country and one of the highlights of the Ewing Gallery's exhibition season. The selection of a student art exhibition is a challenging but meaningful task, and we are grateful for this year's jurors: Pete Schulte and Amy Pleasant, Fine Arts, Bob Newman, Graphic Design, and Nathan Rees, Art History.
Group 1: Kelsey Stephenson, Katherine Farley, and Tatiana Potts
Group 2: Martin Lang, Natalie Petrosky, Peter Cotroneo, and AJ Masterson
Group 3: Keely Snook, Ed Miller, BJ Alumbaugh, and Jade Hoyer
Initiated by the Ewing's Director Sam Yates 26 years ago, this exhibition recognizes outstanding students graduating from The University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Art, College of Arts and Sciences; a Bachelor of Architecture or Bachelor of Science, Interior Design, a Master of Architecture, and a Master of Landscape Design from the College of Architecture and Design.
Selected by a School of Art Faculty Scholarship committee, eight art students from various art disciplines were chosen from the qualifying applicants for this year's exhibition. These students are Youn Lee, Brandon McBath, Ashley Layendecker, Mark Bender, Anna Weible, Santiago Ortiz-Piazuelo, Alex Rudd, and Alex Raykowitz.
The College of Architecture and Design participants were selected by the faculty-at-large, and by outside review teams. The students are: Alexis Porten, Maddie Mitchell, Tatum Rumsey, Adam Buchanan, Aaron Shugart-Brown, Trevor Mayes, Geneva Frank, David Berry, and Rebecca Gillolgy.
ENCORE is an exhibition of the work of 11 graduates from the University of Tennessee School of Art living and working in Nashville, TN. Exhibiting artists are: Jodi Hays, Rob Matthews, Sterling Goller-Brown, Brandon Donahue, Briena Harmening, Jonathan Lisenby, Mary Addison Hackett, David King, Lakesha Moore, Lain York, and Terry Thacker.
Sarah Emerson: The Unbearable Flatness of Being
Atlanta-based artist Sarah Emerson creates paintings and installations that present viewers with highly stylized versions of nature that combine geometric patterns and mythic archetypes to examine contemporary landscape.
Liam Young is a speculative architect who, in his own words, “operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures”. With his London-based design think tank, Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today, he explores the future implications of emerging urban developments. Named by Blueprint magazine as one of 25 people who will change architecture and design, Young uses fiction and film to discuss probable futures.
The Lure of Maine
November 7 - December 11, 2016
Walter Hollis (Holly) Stevens arrived at UT in the fall of 1957. He was soon introduced to the work of his new Art Department colleague, Carl Sublett who was having a solo exhibition in UT’s Audigier Gallery. Sublett had arrived at UT only 2 years earlier at the request of the department’s founder Kermit Ewing to assist him with painting classes. From the newly formed friendship between Sublett and Stevens, sprang a strong professional bond that they shared for the remainder of their lives.
They enjoyed plein air painting and often traveled together to locations around Knoxville. In their own studio practice, they shared a workaholic attitude towards art production. As artists, they shared an intense studio commitment to painting and drawing.
They both, also, spent summers in Maine. Sublett’s wife Helen was a native of Maine. Her maternal grandparents were farmers on Deer Isle and her paternal grandparents were lobster fishermen in Port Clyde. Helen was born in Port Clyde and inherited her family’s home there. Carl and Helen spent every summer there. Steven’s family had purchased an old farmstead on Deer Isle in 1958. This also became a summer retreat for the Walter and his family. Both of the artists looked forward to visiting their summer homes where they were invigorated and inspired by Maine’s sensory filled environment.
Deer Isle is located on the eastern tip of Penobscot Bay while Port Clyde is on the bay’s western tip. Although across the bay from each other, a 2-hour drive by car separates the two towns. Therefore, Sublett and Stevens spent more time together in Knoxville than in Maine. However, they looked forward to sharing their summer work with each other on their return to Knoxville. They both continued the annual routine of spending the academic year in Knoxville and the summer in Maine until Stevens’ death on Deer Isle in 1980 and until Sublet’s retirement in 1982. After retirement, Sublett continued this annual travel routine until he and Helen permanently relocated to Maine in 2001. Sublett continued to paint there until his death in 2008.
The View Out His Window [and in his mind's eye]: Jeffery Becton
Jeffery Becton is a photographer and image-maker who lives on Deer Isle, a rocky and forested island off the coast of Maine. Becton makes work, in part, about his surroundings. The extraordinary sweeping coastal views that are such a part of daily life when one lives by the sea are often incorporated into his images. Equally critical is internal life, both the space inside the home (and the comfort and protection it provides from northern New England’s inclement weather), and the introspective and contemplative space that enlivens one’s imagination, which is no doubt encouraged in this stunning and remote location.
January 9 - February 6, 2014
Michael Berryhill, Jaya Howey, EJ Houser, and Patricia Treib.
Representing diverse ethnic, cultural, educational, and professional backgrounds, these resident artists introduce another layer of candor and a fresh artistic standard for the students who, though early in their formal art studies, are beginning to develop their own perceptions, skills, and theories in connection with the making of art. Although the resident artists present lectures during their stays, it is access to their works of art that is highly anticipated and valued by both the students and the faculty. Therefore, the Ewing Gallery has sponsored group exhibitions of these artists since the inception of the Artist-in-Residence Program in 1982.
Begun in 1947 by C. Kermit Ewing, founder of The University of Tennessee School of Art, the annual student exhibition has become one of the oldest competitions in the country and one of the highlights of the Ewing Gallery's exhibition season.
The selection of a student art exhibition is a challenging but meaningful task, and we are grateful for this year's jurors Dr. Angela Ho, Art History; Pamela Jorden and John Pearson, Fine Arts; and Michael Hendrix, Graphic Design.
Jonathan Lisenby, April Bachtel, Victoria Buck, Cierra Reppart, Jen Scheuer, Andrew Merriss, Daniel Ogletree, and Hannah Skoonberg
Selected by a School of Art Faculty Scholarship committee, seven art students from various art disciplines were chosen from the qualifying applicants for this year's exhibition. These students are Lauren Beale, Lauren Hulse, Richard Ensor, Josie Henry, Paige Burchell, Marta Lee, and Hannah Barker.
The College of Architecture and Design participants were selected by the faculty-at-large, and by outside review teams. Exhibitors were: Amanda Gann, Daniel Zegel, Mallory Barga, Jenny Budde, Jennifer Stewart, Claire Kistler, and Leah Baker.
think / make / think
August 21 - September 21, 2014
Exhibition featuring the work of current professors in the University of Tennessee School of Art.
Exhibiting faculty are: Joshua Bienko, Emily Bivens, Sally Brogden, Jason S. Brown, Paul Harrill, Paul Lee, Sarah Lowe, Beauvais Lyons, Frank Martin, Althea Murphy-Price, John Powers, Deborah Shmerler, Jered Sprecher, Cary Staples, Claire Stigliani, David Wilson, Karla Wozniak, Koichi Yamamoto, and Sam Yates.
Promiscuous Surfaces: Perry Kulper Drawn Out
Perry Kulper is an architect and associate professor of architecture at the University of Michigan. Prior to his arrival at the University of Michigan he was a SCI-Arc faculty member for 16 years as well as in visiting positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Arizona State University. Subsequent to his studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (BS Arch) and Columbia University (M Arch) he worked in the offices of Eisenman/ Robertson, Robert A.M. Stern and Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown before moving to Los Angeles. His interests include the roles of representation and methodologies in the production of architecture and in broadening the conceptual range by which architecture contributes to our cultural imagination.
Color Refined
Color Refined features the abstract works of Beatrice Riese, Siri Berg, Gabriele Evertz, Rella Stuart-Hunt, and Rachel Beach. Born outside of the United States, each woman emigrated here for various reasons – love, education, and to escape political turmoil. The women all chose New York as their home, and their mature art careers developed and flourished in the city. Color Refined focuses on each artist's utilization and exploration of color and color theory as the main feature of her abstract work. This exhibition also celebrates the creative accomplishments of immigrants who enrich and contribute to American culture.
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EXPRESS INFORMER > News & Politics > Head of the Irish Catholic Church apologises to survivors of brutal homes for mothers
Head of the Irish Catholic Church apologises to survivors of brutal homes for mothers
January 13, 2021 Express Informer
Head of the Irish Catholic Church apologises to survivors of brutal homes for mothers and babies where 9,000 children died during decades of horror through the 20th Century
Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin apologised to survivors of the homes
Recognised the church was part of a culture of stigmatisation & judgement
He said rights of survivors to access personal information should be respected
By Sophie Tanno For Mailonline
Published: 01:43 GMT, 13 January 2021 | Updated: 01:51 GMT, 13 January 2021
The head of the Catholic church in Ireland has apologised to the survivors of the mother and baby homes.
Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin said the church was clearly part of a culture in which people were frequently stigmatised, judged and rejected.
He added: ‘For that, and for the long-lasting hurt and emotional distress that has resulted, I unreservedly apologise to the survivors and to all those who are personally impacted by the realities it uncovers.’
Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin said the church was clearly part of a culture in which people were frequently stigmatised, judged and rejected. File image of the Archbishop above
Ireland’s senior cleric said the church should acknowledge sustaining what the commission of investigation report described as a harsh, cold and uncaring atmosphere.
He said: ‘The commission’s report helps to further open to the light what was for many years a hidden part of our shared history and it exposes the culture of isolation, secrecy and social ostracising which faced ‘unmarried mothers’ and their children in this country. ‘
He said witnesses had given courageous testimony.
‘We must identify, accept and respond to the broader issues which the report raises about our past, present and future.
‘Above all we must continue to find ways of reaching out to those whose personal testimonies are central to this report.
‘They have shown determination in bringing to light this dark chapter in the life of church and society.
A mother and daughter pay their respects today at a memorial for the mothers and daughters of Tuam, Co. Galway
‘We owe it to them to take time to study and reflect on the findings and recommendations of the report, and commit to doing what we can to help and support them.’
He said the rights of all survivors to access personal information about themselves should be fully respected and again urged the State to ensure that any remaining obstacles to information and tracing should be overcome.
‘The commission believes that there may be people with further information about burial places who have not come forward. I appeal to anyone who can help to do so,’ he said.
‘All burial grounds should be identified and appropriately marked so that the deceased and their families will be recognised and never be forgotten.’
He said this report will stir many emotions as it further uncovers disturbing and painful truths about the past.
‘I commend those who have fought to have this story told and I thank those who have already been supporting survivors through various organisations and providing a platform for their voices to be heard,’ he said.
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The Church’s “Family Tree” website is command central for your family history. It’s the site you use to submit your family names for temple work. And, it’s much more…as you’ll see below.
The vision of Family Tree is huge: to build and preserve the family tree of mankind.
Basically, Family Tree is the online repository for your family history. It lets you:
Submit names for temple work — so you can perform the sacred temple ordinances for your family.
Include Vital Information, Life Sketches, Photos, Documents, Stories, and Notes — for every person in your family line.
Navigate easily — you can zoom in or out, and expand or retract family lines.
Edit incorrect information — easily (once you figure out how to do it).
Link to and upload Source documents — to show where the information was found, and that it’s accurate.
Communicate and collaborate with others — so you can share information and compare research with others who are working on your line.
Be notified of changes — so you’ll know when someone has changed information on ancestors you’ve placed in your Watch List.
Store your information forever — safely, deep in the Church’s underground Granite Mountain Record Vaults.
Sounds amazing doesn’t it. And it is. Family Tree is open to everyone (but only Church members can see the temple ordinance data).
Here are two brief videos that give you an introduction and overview of Family Tree:
Video: Getting Started With Family Tree
Video: Connecting Your Family On Family Tree
Here’s the link to Family Tree websites:
Website: Family Tree
Website: Family Tree Practice (lets you practice using Family Tree without goofing anything up)
And, here’s the link to the Family Tree Reference Guide (168 pages):
Guide: Family Tree Reference Guide
Below, is a quick look at how Family Tree works…
In the Tree View, you can:
Easily see several generations of your ancestors at one time and identify the places where more research is needed.
At a glance, see who’s temple work is not completed.
Easily navigate your ancestral lines.
On the Summary Card, you can:
See the person’s portrait photo if one has been uploaded.
See the number of sources, discussions, photos, and stories attached to this person.
See the person’s name and basic events.
See the ID number (beneath the name) which identifies each person in the system.
To display this person in the main position on Family Tree, click Tree.
To display the person’s details page, click Person.
To display the person’s sources, click Sources.
To display the person’s discussions, click Discussions.
To display the person’s photos, click Photos.
To display the person’s stories, click Stories.
To watch the person, click Watch. To unwatch the person, click Unwatch.
On a person’s Details Page, you can:
See, add, edit, and delete the person’s name, gender, events, and other details.
See the ID number (formerly called the person identifier). This number identifies each person in the system. It appears directly beneath the name.
See the person’s family members.
Click the name of any person in the family to display his or her summary card.
Add new spouses, children, parents, and siblings.
See, edit, and delete information about couple and parent-child relationships.
See, attach, detach, and edit sources about the person.
Search for the person in the historical records on FamilySearch.org.
Participate in discussions.
Watch the person so that you can receive notifications when information about him or her changes.
See a history of the changes that were made to the person’s information.
See how many discussions have been added and when the last activity occurred.
Return to one of the last 50 people whose information you viewed previously.
See and merge duplicate records.
Print a pedigree chart and family group record.
Delete the person from Family Tree.
Have questions, or need help with Family Tree? You can…
Ask one of your ward Family History Consultants, or
Call Family Tree Support at 1-866-406-1830
So, now that you’ve got a quick overview of what Family Tree is and does, let’s get some temple work done!
Step 5b. Start Connecting Your Family
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FAREWELL to the NFL Dwayne Haskins QB Ohio State
By PCS,
April 26, 2019 in The Stadium
Darrell Green Fan
21 minutes ago, Koolblue13 said:
Her played one full season is college and this is his first full season as a pro. I'm glad Rivera and Turner are more patient than this fan base. He's got no TE, an inconsistent Oline and 1 WR worth a **** and a brand new offense. It's a long season and it's not even over the first Quarter.
This is like arguing with someone who refuses to wear a mask. We all get this, what you need to understand is we can't keep blaming his back foot/all arm/ flick of the wrist delivery which results in inaccurate passes and all of his other problems on inexperience and a bad OL. When he had time and open receivers he sill missed them or threw a pass that made them reach and eliminated YAC often. He misses them in practice too, maybe he'll turn it on on game day was the hope. He's in a brand new offense, well so is every rookie QB and many have still managed to play well in a new offense with weak supporting casts.
Again I understand the need for patience, what you need to understand is all of the problems are very very concerning and it is certainly understandable that fans will react to what they see on the field. At some point we need to stop making excuses for him and that time is getting near.
Edited September 29, 2020 by Darrell Green Fan
1 hour ago, KDawg said:
Gruden really shouldn’t be blamed for Haskins. Ownership drafted a project QB in the first round for a coach who was on borrowed time. If ownership had replaced Gruden prior to that, Haskins may have had a better chance to be supported from day one. But a coach that has to win now to survive isn’t going to set that aside to let the raw rookie get some serious TLC.
But that’s the way the team was being run.
That was the chief reason I didn’t want to draft a QB last year. I was all but sure that 2019 was going to be Gruden’s last year because it really looked like he lost the team by the end of 2018. No one believed. No one was buying in. Not only would no player run through a wall for Gruden, they could hardly be bothered to walk through open doors.
On another note, Sheehan played a segment of Rivera with Finlay, I was sort of just half listening but from what i heard Rivera doubled down on at least some of what he said yesterday during at least part of that interview.
Edited September 29, 2020 by Skinsinparadise
skinbuck
The Camp Fodder
4 minutes ago, Darrell Green Fan said:
This is like arguing with someone who refuses to wear a mask. We all get this, what you need to understand is we can't keep blaming his back foot/all arm/ flick of the wrist delivery which results in inaccurate passes and all of his other problems on inexperience and a bad OL. When he had time he still missed open receivers. He misses them in practice too, maybe he'll turn it on on game day was the hope. He's in a brand new offense, well so is every rookie QB and many have still managed to play well in a new offense with weak supporting casts.
Again I understand the need for patience, what you need to understand is all of the problems are very very concerning and at some point we need to stop making excuses for them.
It’s simply the realization that diff players may develop at diff pace. The other extreme is someone like Trubisky who’s been given 3 years to prove himself which is ridiculous as well
just saying: as evidenced even by his climb last year, perhaps it just takes a bit longer for things to click with him than Minshew, Herbert and Burrow..and that’s ok, might not be a negative in the big scheme. Everyone has their journey, let’s hold judgement for another few games
4 minutes ago, Skinsinparadise said:
For me personally, I want a top 12 QB. I don't care if Haskins ends up like the 18th best Qb in the league. I am listening to Sheehan right now who has claimed that he's a Haskins guy yet he doesn't seem to even believe that he ever ends up a top 10 Qb but thinks his ceiling is around middle of the pack. For me that's yawn. But for him, it moves him. Neither one of us is right or wrong but just coming at it from a different perspective.
See, all I want is another SB. To build that I want to build a foundation and some stability. That means in part not throwing our hands up at every QB simply because they aren't the second coming. If we can find a Joe Flacco and find out that for 1 or 2 games a year he's money and the rest of the time he leans on a defense and a running game and big plays by his WRs, then so what. Do you think Baltimore fans are mad at Joe because he wasn't a better all around QB than Ryan? Who has the ring and who's the biggest choke artist in NFL history?
That was my whole problem with the Campbell argument. He led them to a 5-3 record. This drops to 5-6. Sean Taylor dies and we lose to Buffalo to drop to 5-7. Then we play the Bears, Campbell goes down but we win the game and rise to 6-7. Then we win our final 3 games and everybody calls it because of the Collins insert at QB. Maybe he had something to do with it, but our offense had been moving the ball in the 4 game losing streak and I've always thought our wins were much more about the team rallying around Taylor's death.
But the record has always been that Campbell wasn't an elite QB so we didn't want him. We saw it again in 2008 when we started 6-2 but couldn't do anything after that and finished 8-8. I really wish we had kept Campbell in 2010 under Shanny instead of the McNabb / Grossman / Beck experiments. He was a good not great QB who could lead a team but not take over a game. We saw the turmoil we've had since then. The only QB we've had better than him for a long period of time is Cousins (who is a better QB).
But the perfect is the enemy of the good (what I always tell my wife). And we're unwilling to develop guys and so its a rotation. Not just now but under Snyder's tenure. Campbell, RG3 and Cousins are the only QBs who've really gotten a shot to grow in this era. And Cousins was either by luck of the draw or Shanny's dying wish to play him those last three games come hell or high water and then Gruden just refusing to respect RG3 at that press conference.
I just want a competent QB so we can focus on other positions. Maybe he'll become a top tier guy, maybe he'll max out at a Stafford level, maybe at a Fitzpatrick level, maybe at a Flacco, maybe Goff, maybe Carr, etc. But these guys have a chance to win games and the stability at QB allows (allowed) franchises to build teams around them. We built a team around an old mediocre armless Brunell, but we could have had that same thing around Campbell under Gibbs (and Williams).
But I'm getting too mad at how this fan base likes shiney toys so I'm going to stop now.
22 minutes ago, skinbuck said:
I get this, my post was more about the comment about our fans. IMO the fans have every reason to have deep concerns given the evidence. Again it's not just the games, virtually every report has said he has had the same issues in practice too.
12 minutes ago, Thinking Skins said:
I think at this point Dwayne Haskins getting to the level of even a David Cars is perhaps a reach. None of the QBs you listed have all the issues we are still seeing with Dwayne in their 2nd year. Sometimes if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck.....
JSSkinz
I heard a small piece of JP Finlays one v one interview he does weekly with Ron and Ron was talking about the year Carolina won the division with 7 wins and how he has to be aware of the current records in the division and our ability to cease opportunity.
Rons quote on Haskins was "There are some things that truly concern me and growth being the biggest one"
"There’s a frustration to it," Rivera said Monday on the Washington Football Talk podcast. "Right now, I’m at the position where we have to see the growth. If we never play him, he never grows, but there is a point where you say, ‘OK, maybe taking a step back and watching is the best thing for you now.’ We will see."
Edited September 29, 2020 by JSSkinz
TMK9973
I have a honest question. I dont have a opinon yet (Although my Gut says give Haskins more time). We all know Manning and Akiman started terribile then became great. But that was a different NFL.
Has there been any QB in the last - say 15 years - That was bad their 1st 16 games and became great?
There are lot of QB's that started GREAT and ended up Avg or bad.
A few that started off bad that became ok.
But any that started off poor and then became a great QB?
Hell -Any QB that started off bad but then became good enough to win a SB? (Flacco maybe?)
theTruthTeller
5 minutes ago, TMK9973 said:
Trent Dilfer is your man
Warhead36
Drew Brees is the only one that really comes to mind. He was pretty bad his first couple years, so bad that the Chargers drafted Phillip Rivers. Of course right after that he took off and is now a HOF-er.
But in general your premise is correct. Guys who suck early tend to always suck. People point to Manning and all his picks but if you actually watched him, he looked the part of a franchise QB and it just took him a year to get in sync with NFL speed. He also threw for a ton of yards and TDs that year(for a rookie relative to the league in 1998).
CTskin
12 hours ago, BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93 said:
first off, I’ve been critical of Dwayne pretty much since he’s been here because he’s played so poorly. He wasn’t good in the Philly game. That win was courtesy of the defense. I was excited when they drafted him and even tried to look past the fact that Snyder overruled everyone else to pick him.
Please point out who is disregarding the reality of his situation. The point is that he isn’t the only young QB in a bad spot. He was a 1st round QB. That comes with expectations. If he can’t be held to at least Herbert’s standard (and iirc, Herbert was not a popular prospect in the lead up to the draft and in fact, Haskins was held in higher regard the year before), then that alone tells you that picking Dwayne was a mistake. Herbert came from freaking Oregon.
Last point: do you think we have to ignore all his negative statistics because his situation is bad? In that case, how are we supposed to evaluate his development as fans? All we get to see are the games. Ron Rivera came out and essentially said the excuses can only go but so far.
I go back to my main point... this offense has below avg talent across the board other than mcclaurin. Outside of the very best qbs in the league, no one is going to look good here. Everyone’s throwing their arms up clamoring for a change, for what, Kyle Allen. Did you see him last year, his only decent games were when he dumped the ball off to cmc 10+ times. And thats exactly what I want, for turner to start incorporating that in this offense, something that I believe we all thought we’d see. Get Gibson and mckissic out there in the passing game. I keep saying it, we need creativity, this vanilla preseason offense is doing everyone a disservice.
the analogy I’d use for the current situation would be if I had to run the books on a company, but I wasn’t able to use software, just a calculator and a notepad. I could do it, but it’s take a lot more time, I’d have to refer to text, it would be quite a bit more difficult and time consuming. That’s the hand Haskins has been dealt here. The question is, can he do it, who knows, but giving up now would be the wrong thing to do. Look at tannehill, Goff, josh Allen, they had terrible starts to their career and now they’re all statted out in the top 10... They either changed teams or had an offense evolve to fit their strengths, and I’m hoping we see that here.
Edited September 29, 2020 by CTskin
19 minutes ago, TMK9973 said:
Matt Hasselbeck
David Carr
Kyle Orton
15 minutes ago, theTruthTeller said:
He was drafted 26 years ago! That is DEF outside the 15 year window
10 minutes ago, Warhead36 said:
19 years ago. He is one i didnt think of. But still looking for last 10 - 15 years.,
1 minute ago, TMK9973 said:
Josh Allen, Ryan tannehill, Jared Goff are all prime examples
8 minutes ago, Thinking Skins said:
Some of those are more then 15 years ago.
Some are NOT great or even good (Kirk Cousin is Avg at best. I liked him but he has not gone to a super bowl, has not been a great QB).
David Carr is a good one.
Alex Smith i'll give you.
The rest were drafted more then 15 years ago or not QB i would consider great.
Edited September 29, 2020 by TMK9973
FootballZombie
But in general your premise is correct. Guys who suck early tend to always suck.
No way is that true. QB Growth is all over the place in the NFL. Players have started out strong only to crash and burn while others were total bums who grew into successful QBs.
Every long tenured QB has seen significant growth in their play from when they begun. It is what makes them long tenured QBs. For recent examples, I think you are already seeing that with Josh Allen. With Tannihill/Goff as well. All three were absolutely terrible in their rookie campaigns.
Of the ones that do start out hot, many fall back down to earth, see Kyle Allen, RG3 for recent examples. Just because you start out hot, does not mean you stay there.
Just now, CTskin said:
Those are pretty good examples. Thanks. And Yes @Thinking Skins i know they were in your list as well. But your list had many others that didnt mean the critiea.
However -Even of those 3 only 1 has gone to a Super Bowl.
Just now, TMK9973 said:
The rest were drafted more then 15 years ago are not QB is would consider great.
This is the discussion I was having with SIP. Your great and my great may differ. I was looking at QBs that led teams to at least the playoffs or were legit starters in this league. T15 years ago is based on your wording, you didn't say when drafted just questioned over a time period. I'll admit I did a search and looked over the last 20 years though.
1 minute ago, Thinking Skins said:
Fair enough. But i meant whose rookie year was 15 years ago or less. The NFL, and College, has changed so much in that time.
DJHJR86
Josh Allen is a dual threat quarterback, so his shoddy passing stats were helped by his ability to run. Jared Goff excelled in his second season with a different head coach. Drew Brees became great after a change of scenery, same with Tannehill. Cousins first start and his other starts in 2014 showed flashes of someone who could be a potential top 15 quarterback. Hasselbeck, Smith, Carr, and Orton were never "great".
KDawg
Josh Allen - not comparable. Reads/throwing started off poorly, but had support from everyone as he’s a charismatic, likable guy and could run.
Jared Goff - Took off as soon as his coaching was adequate.
Drew Brees - change of scenery.
Ryan Tannehill - not as bad as many thought. Poor surrounding talent, but had moments. Turned it around with a change of scenery.
Kirk Cousins - wouldn’t say he was bad. And I’m not entirely sure he’s great (he’s not)
Matt Hasselbeck - he was a backup behind Favre.
Drew Brees - you don’t get to list him twice
David Carr - Uh.
Kyle Orton - Uh.
Alex Smith - change of scenery.
By the way, the current most apt comparison to Haskins would be Mitchell Trubisky. Both had only experienced one year as a starter in college, and both were touted by many as the second best quarterback in their respective drafts. They also had new head coaches after their rookie seasons.
1 minute ago, KDawg said:
I want to point out something on this note. Goff took off with SMV as head coach. And Cousins took off with SMV as offensive coordinator. Lets remember though that 2014 was SMV's first year as an offensive coordinator and it was also a year when we saw a regression from Cousins. People (many on this board) were saying he was nothing special and not a starting QB. And part of that was probably SMV growing as an OC and learning Kirk's style (as well as other QBs) and his own offensive philosophy.
Why do I bring that up? because we have a similar situation with Scott Turner and Haskins. Turner isn't some QB Whisperer (maybe Zamp is though), and he's probably learning on the job. I really wonder how much contact he's having with his dad and if Haskins is talking to Norv. So for all we know Cousins took off when coaching was adequate and Haskins may also take off as soon as coaching is adequate.
It sounds like all of this growth talk might not matter. Rivera woke up Monday, saw the division standings, had flashbacks to Carolina 2014, and the Haskins hot-seat all of a sudden got sizzling hot. Margin for error is minimal now. He could still come through it, but the odds are now stacked considerably worse for him IMO.
One potential acenario: He gets benched 1-3 games from now, Dallas goes on a mid-season tear like they’ve done the past 2-3 years, defense and the rest of the team craps the bed and he gets a second chance in the last 4 games..
Edited September 29, 2020 by skinbuck
7 minutes ago, DJHJR86 said:
Absolutely. Mitch was a project and got 2+ seasons and Haskins deserves that as well.
I can’t wait to see this board next week after we get torched by the ravens... who after last nights game need to make an example out of their next opponent. Lucky us.
Dec 28 TK changed the title to FAREWELL to the NFL Dwayne Haskins QB Ohio State
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Share this Story: Locked-down Indian economy in its worst quarter since mid-1990s
Locked-down Indian economy in its worst quarter since mid-1990s
Indradip Ghosh
BENGALURU — The Indian economy is likely to suffer its worst quarter since the mid-1990s, hit by the ongoing lockdown imposed to stem the spread of coronavirus, according to a Reuters poll, which predicted a mild and gradual recovery.
Over 2.6 million people https://tmsnrt.rs/3aIRuz7 have been infected by the coronavirus worldwide and more than 180,000 have died. Business and household lockdowns have disrupted supply chains globally, bringing growth to a halt.
Locked-down Indian economy in its worst quarter since mid-1990s Back to video
The April 17-22 Reuters poll predicted the economy expanded at an annual pace of 3.0% last quarter but will shrink 5.2% in the three months ending in June, far weaker than expectations in a poll published last month for 4.0% and 2.0% growth, respectively.
The predicted contraction would be the first – under any gross domestic product calculation, which has changed a few times – since the mid-1990s, when official reporting for quarterly data began.
“The extended lockdown until early May adds further downside risk to our view of a 5% year-on-year GDP fall in the current quarter, the worst in the last few decades,” said Prakash Sakpal, Asia economist at ING.
“We don’t consider economic stimulus as strong enough to position the economy for a speedy recovery once the pandemic ends,” he said.
The Indian government announced a spending package of 1.7 trillion rupees in March to cushion the economy from the initial lockdown, which has been extended until May 3.
In an emergency meeting last week, the Reserve Bank of India cut its deposit rate again, after reducing it on March 27 and lowering the main policy rate by 75 basis points. It also announced another round of targeted long-term repo operations to ease liquidity.
But even with those measures, 40% of economists, or 13 of 32 – who provided quarterly figures – predicted an outright recession this year. Only one had expected a recession last month.
In the worst case, a smaller sample of respondents predicted, the economy would contract 9.3% in the current quarter. That compares with 0.5% growth in the previous poll’s worst-case forecast in late March, underscoring how rapidly the outlook has deteriorated.
The latest poll’s consensus view still shows the economy recovering again slowly in the July-September quarter, growing 0.8%, then 4.2% in October-December and 6.0% in the final quarter of the fiscal year, in early 2021.
But that compares with considerably more optimistic near-term forecasts of 3.3%, 5.0% and 5.6%, respectively, in the previous poll.
“A rebound in economic activity following the disruption is expected, but the low starting point of growth implies a gradual recovery,” said Upasana Chachra, chief India economist at Morgan Stanley.
“Indeed, before disruptions related to COVID-19, growth was slowing, with domestic issues of risk aversion in financial sector … (and) those concerns will likely stay after the COVID-19 disruptions have passed unless the policy response is much larger than expected,” she said.
The unemployment rate has tripled to 23.8% since the lockdown started on March 25, according to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, a Mumbai-based research firm.
The Indian economy was now forecast to expand 1.5% in the fiscal year ending on March 31, 2021 – the weakest since 1991 and significantly lower than 3.6% predicted in late March. It probably grew 4.6% in the fiscal year that just ended.
Under a worst-case scenario, the median showed the economy shrinking 1.0% this fiscal year. That would be the first officially reported economic contraction for a 12-month period since GDP was reported to have contracted for calendar year 1979.
“Unless fiscal policy is also loosened aggressively alongside monetary policy, there is a big risk the drastic economic slowdown currently underway morphs into an annual contraction in output and that the recovery is hampered,” said Shilan Shah, senior India economist at Capital Economics.
All 37 economists who answered a separate question unanimously said the RBI would follow up with more easing, including lowering the repo and reverse repo rates and expanding the new long-term loans program.
The RBI was expected to cut its repo rate by another 40 basis points to 4.00% by the end of this quarter. Already lowered twice over the past month by a cumulative 115 basis points, the reverse repo rate was forecast to be trimmed by another 25 points by end-June to 3.50%.
(For other Reuters polls on major economies after coronavirus outbreak:)
(Polling by Shaloo Shrivastava, Khushboo Mittal and Richa Rebello; editing by Larry King Editing by Ross Finley)
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Share this Story: New Zealand PM Ardern postpones general election until Oct 17
New Zealand PM Ardern postpones general election until Oct 17
WELLINGTON — New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that the general election would be postponed by four weeks until Oct. 17, as the country tackles a new outbreak of the coronavirus.
“Ultimately, the 17th of October … provides sufficient time for parties to plan around the range of circumstances we will be campaigning under,’ Ardern said in a news conference.
New Zealand PM Ardern postpones general election until Oct 17 Back to video
The election had been scheduled to be held on Sept. 19. (Reporting by Praveen Menon; Editing by Daniel Wallis)
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Celebration, Delta News, Edo News
OKOWA EXTOLS OBASEKI AT 63
Gov. Okowa (l) and Gov. Obaseki
Delta State Governor Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has congratulated his Edo counterpart, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on his 63rd birth anniversary.
The governor, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Olisa Ifeajika, in Asaba, said Obaseki deserved to be celebrated for providing purposeful, courageous, and result-oriented leadership for Edo people in nearly four years.
He lauded Obaseki’s ingenuity and untiring spirit which he had brought to bear in stimulating the industrialization of his state, and making life easier for the people through investments, including the Azura-Edo Independent Power Project (IPP), a 450MW Open Cycle Gas Turbine power station.
Okowa eulogised the Edo chief executive for his patriotic and unrelenting service to his state and the nation and prayed to God to grant him long life, good health, and wisdom as he continued to serve Edo people and Nigeria.
He said, “It is heart-warming to note that you have through dint of hard work, discipline and vision to industrialise Edo, won the admiration and respect of your people and the nation at large.
“Your focus and commitment to reforms in governance and your ability to attract investors into your state are remarkable and worthy of commendation.
“No doubt, the people of Edo will in September, reciprocate your giant strides in the last four years by returning you and your amiable deputy for another term in office to guarantee a brighter future ahead of them.
“On behalf of my family, the government and people of Delta, I heartily rejoice with my brother governor, a reputable politician, outstanding professional, seasoned administrator, Mr. Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki, on his 63rd birth anniversary.
“It is our prayer that God will continue to protect you and grant you good health to render more services to mankind.”
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A Gal For All Seasons
I Used To Think I Was Alone…United In 365 Day Sports Love
About Gal For All Seasons
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Break It Down Again
October 4, 2016 New York Jets, NFL, Seattle SeahawksJimmy Graham, MetLife Stadium, New York Jets, NFL, NFL 2016, Richard Sherman, Russell Wilson, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Seattle Seahawks, Super Bowl 48Coop Leave a comment
I think I might take Russell Wilson for granted.
There. I said it.
It’s not because he’s positioning himself to be an elite QB. It’s not because he won a Super Bowl title in his very second year of playing professional football.
It’s because since I follow him so closely, it’s not a “rare treat” to see him in person as much as, say, someone who follows the local teams here in New York.
Prior to last Sunday’s game against the New York Jets, many Jets and local pundits were pooh-poohing Wilson’s not only effectiveness, but that of the Legion of Boom and much-glowed about defense of Seattle was not all *that*.
I thought they were all crazy. I mean, roll my eyes kind of crazy. Certainly if you watched this team as closely as Ed and I do, you’d see there is nothing overrated about Wilson or Richard Sherman or Doug Baldwin or Jimmy Graham…and that Seattle gets help even from role players, like Tanner McEvoy.
Plus…Did they seriously believe the Jets were a superior team? The last time I seriously followed the Jets, Rex Ryan was the head coach, Mark Sanchez was the starting QB, Tim Tebow was the BACKUP, and I literally turned into a Seattle fan at CenturyLink as we saw them play there.
Lastly, this was the first time back at MetLife Stadium since, well, Super Bowl XLVIII. So there’s that.
Why am I going through all this back story? Basically because prior to the Seahawks visiting New York for the first time since winning SB48, a few notable “hot takes” said in not so many words that the Seahawks were overrated and especially that quarterback of theirs. Seeing only his weekly highlights, of course, focus on his amazing footwork and his running game…stuff that quarterbacks aren’t supposed to rely on.
Russell Wilson isn’t in the conversation as best QB in NFL. He’s very good… not great. Nice 2nd-tier guy https://t.co/V1AGzxtJJ5 pic.twitter.com/6ocUiTOtFL
— Manish Mehta (@MMehtaNYDN) October 1, 2016
According to Mehta, prior to week four, “Wilson isn’t nearly as awesome as his Puget Sound loyalists believe, so it’s ludicrous to think that he’ll be able to hobble into MetLife Stadium on a gimpy left knee and right ankle on Sunday and have his way with the Jets.”
There is also this “narrative” that the Hawks don’t seem to do well not just on the road…but on the east coast or “10 am PST” start times. (And touching on Russell’s leg and knee issues, which were legit concerns going into the week…yet when no backup QB was called to replace him…I knew we were in biz and we’d be seeing him on Sunday).
Pete Prisco felt the wrath of 12s with his lazy journalism on these narratives prior to week four.
“This is a long trip for the Seahawks, and Russell Wilson is battling a knee injury. How healthy will he be against a good Jets front? The interesting battle will be to see if Jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick can battle back against a good Seattle defense. I think he does. Jets take it,” Prisco wrote.
I’m sure you’ve figured out by now that the so-called “experts” in New York and Seattle haters were wrong, dead wrong.
Hawks won 27-17. I was surprised it was that close, but considering the Jets gave up towards the end (even after scoring an accidental touchdown at one point!), maybe they just took it easy? Why blow them out when they have a week off? (And you know, not kill our ELITE QB AMIRITE?!)
During the game, we had a lot of fun. New York fans are known as being tough as nails. But you don’t fuck with a 12.
That poor bastard from the NY Daily News is getting eaten alive. LOL Bless his heart… #DontMessWithRuss
— DaynaOG (@DaynaOG) October 2, 2016
@MaryL1973 nah. You never bet against the Seahawks. That was your first mistake
— The Coop (@Coopz22) October 2, 2016
BTW whoever wrote or said that Russell Wilson was “overrated” or “hurt” or “not that good” needs to go sit on a drum stick and fucking SPIN
You’d think after 48, the legend of Russell Wilson might have grown. Yet, people are looking at him in the Northeast like they’ve finally SAW him. Now, watch out.
Let’s recap what an awesome display we’ve seen, not just on Sunday, but going into the Bye week in week five.
Russell Wilson now has 25 games with 2+ pass TDs & 0 INTs, the most in NFL history in a player’s 1st 5 seasons to begin a career pic.twitter.com/eA4V05YlJw
— Randall Liu (@RLiuNFL) October 2, 2016
Some words from a friend…
@Coopz22: Finally seeing Wilson in person was a treat. He’s a goddamn maestro back there. Perfect poise, calm feet, pinpoint accuracy. Damn.
— Jerry Beach (@JerryBeach73) October 3, 2016
In case you didn’t get it the first time…DangeRuss got the last laugh.
Wk 4 NFL #ShouldersOfGreatness: @DangeRussWilson making it look easy with 23 completions & 309 pass yds and 3 TDs #GoHawks pic.twitter.com/PGsCZiOdV9
— Head & Shoulders (@Headshoulders) October 3, 2016
I can’t say it’s anything surprising to Seahawks fans. We know what we have in Russell. It was also refreshing to see Jimmy Graham being utilized to his fullest potential. Also…12s travel well. I’m fortunate I live so close. We were well-represented. SEA! HAWKS!
What I wasn’t expecting was the defeatist attitude coming from Gang Green. It was shocking since I know so many Jets fans, and they are die hard to say the least.
@Coopz22 @Studi_Metsimus good to see u both. Congrats on the win, when it was one score lead (we knew the jets weren’t winning… Lgm-wooo
— Alan (@AlanLern) October 3, 2016
I can’t believe what a sad state of affairs it’s been since I crossed enemy lines. Michael Bennett even said something to the effect that 12s would have never left when the Jets fans were leaving in droves. I remember at one point thinking the Jets were still in the game (and I was more positive about going into the game than my copilot on the NJ Transit). There’s no way I would have left if the shoe were on the other foot.
Play to the crowd with your big hit sound
And they won’t simmer won’t simmer, won’t simmer down
Play to the crowd
Play yeah yeah
It’s in the way you’re always hiding from the light
Fast off to heaven just like Moses on a motorbike
No revolution maybe someone somewhere else
Could show you something new to help you
With the ups and downs
I want to break it down
In fear of jinxing things, I’ve been to four Seahawks games in person. They’ve won all four. I’m very fortunate, but I do know once the odds are raised, I have a better chance of seeing them lose. I realize how fortunate I am to root for this team. Thank you all for accepting me into the fold.
(Good 12s Twitter follows include: @DaynaOG, @DKSB17, @hipeegrl…also @Studi_metsimus if you can get over the geeky baseball stuff he posts).
Yet, going out on a high note on such a big stage has made people not only shut up, but now realize, hey! The Pacific Northwest has got a machine here, and they show no intentions of slowing down.
Is it Week Six yet?!
December 31, 2012 MLB, New York Jets, New York Mets, New York Rangers, NFL, NHLMets 1986, New York Jets, New York Mets, New York Rangers, NY Rangers, NYJ, NYJ 2012, NYM, NYR, NYR Playoffs, Rangers 1993-94, Why We FightCoop View all 2 comments
I have what we deem as a “Christmas birthday.” While everyone on planet Earth (okay, maybe just **here**) is prepping for the holidays and transition into the New Year, a day celebrating me is thrown in the mix there.
Being a sports fan, it’s never been out of the realm of possibility to get a sports-related gift to celebrate. This year, the big “get” was the Mets 50th Anniversary DVD collection, which was kind of a family gift (my husband has had his eye on this sucker for a WHILE now).
I was super excited to see that in the collection, one of my favorite Mets videos, An Amazin’ Era (a chronicle of the first 25 seasons of the Mets), was available on the DVD set. Super excited probably doesn’t get it – super-duper is more like it. Of course, the DVD was extended to include the 1986 championship and the NL East run in 1988…something that was a “To Be Continued…” part of the original VHS. And yes, I still have that thing somewhere.
I often take for granted that the Mets won a championship in my lifetime. Sometimes though I imagine what life might be like if I didn’t have that year. If watching the 1969 highlights is all we’d have for going all the way…but so many close calls, like the 1973, 1988 and even the late 90s.
Then the night my husband and I watched the video, he fell asleep, and I was there in insomnia land. Not only did I get to relive the Mets championship years, I got to see a retrospective on the New York Rangers 1993-94 Stanley Cup run.
I guess I’m a little more than fortunate when it comes to my teams. Some fan bases have never seen a championship in their lifetime. I’ve seen one for each of my teams.
I said last year that the team closest to a championship would have been the Rangers. It’s only cruel and unusual punishment that they have not been able to drop the puck this year.
The Mets seem to be making some moves to ensure that in the future, championships will be dancing in our heads.
I suppose it is only fitting that when I look at the last time the Mets had “relevance,” it was 2006…life would be so much different if they were able to make it the World Series, let alone win it. Yet, 2006 was a long time ago.
The same could be said for my third team, the Jets. Two years in a row, they did not make it to the playoffs despite high expectations. The two years PRIOR to that though, they made it as far as they could go without going the furthest, if that makes sense.
I’m trying to take the football victories where I can. I can be happy for my friends and family who root for different teams. My husband is a big Seahawks fan. We even went to see them play the Jets in Seattle in November. He was in Hawks Heaven…I’m typically found in Jets hell.
Today, though, I heard that while Mike Tannenbaum was let go, Rex Ryan is staying on I really don’t know how to feel about it. I know the buck stops there, but ultimately, how many times can changing the coaching staff really help?
My thought was…I was brought back so many good memories of having my teams winning in my lifetime. This is a gift I not only cherish but also do not take for granted.
Yet, I don’t have the warm fuzzies with the Jets, except maybe the time from 2009 and 2010. Some other years there, but I guess deep down I knew it just wasn’t their year. I had such high expectations only to be dashed at the last moment. I would then have higher hopes for the future, only to get pooped on later.
My point is wondering why I stick around. Sometimes, especially after seasons like this, make me wonder why I just don’t go root for another team. I wonder if things will ever change. I doubt they will. Yet, I don’t want to be that fan who gave up when it was so close.
I could only imagine what it was like for people like my dad, who stuck around with the Rangers though they didn’t win till he was a long-time fan and was even lecturing me on the prospect of the Rangers not making it past game six in the 1994 Eastern Conference final versus the Devils. It became evident, watching the highlights, that the blueshirts were “going for it all” that year. They wouldn’t have had a better chance after that season.
The Mets started to fall apart after 1986. I sometimes wonder why I stick around with such inept management and even more inept finances. Then I think there’s no way they can be that bad forever, right?
But I have the championships from those teams.
Then there’s the Jets. There are certainly bigger Gang Green fans than I am, but we explain it all away when love a team, we make excuses but the reality is…we all want the same thing.
To survive the war together.
So when people ask me why I am a sports fan, it’s the prospect of winning it all…that’s one thing. It’s the surviving of it together. It’s the experience of it together.
I named my first Mets blog “My Summer Family,” after a line in the movie Fever Pitch, which is what Jimmy Fallon’s character says about his Red Sox family. He later said that he wanted to be involved with something bigger than himself. It’s why I’ve stuck around with the Mets, the Rangers and the Jets. To experience that feeling again. I’ve been fortunate to experience it with two of my teams.
I guess I have to believe there is some payoff at the end. That during the wars, and the battles, we stick around for the love of the team.
The love of the team though trumps most of the wars and battles forged though. It’s part of our life, it’s part of our culture.
It’s part of who we are.
Have a Little Faith…or Fear…There’s Mets Magic Tonight!
December 19, 2012 MLB, New York Jets, New York Mets, NFLFaith and Fear in Flushing, Gal For All Seasons Podcast, Greg Prince, Jason Fry, Podcast, There It Is Jake, WHOOMP THERE IT ISCoop Leave a comment
Mets’ Poet Laureate…and Greg Prince 😉 (kidding, they’re one and the same)
Looking for a break from the holiday hubbub? Wanna dine your guts on some Mets talk? Or do you just want to hear the WHOOMP! There it is, Jake football spot at the beginning of the show?
Please join me for the long-awaited and anticipated Gal For All Seasons podcast debut of Mets author, bloggerati and friends Greg Prince and Jason Fry — founders of Faith and Fear in Flushing — as we talk Happy Recaps, books, Mets minutiae, and of course, the lasting impression of R.A. Dickey and what his trade will mean for the future of the franchise.
It’s very rare that we are gifted with such Mets minds in one night…so join us at 7 pm ET on NDB Media Sports…log into the CHAT ROOM!!!!
The Passion of the Tebow
December 19, 2012 New York Jets, NFLAaron Heilman, Greg McElroy, Jets 2012, Mark Sanchez, New York Jets, New York Mets, NYJ, NYJ 2012, NYM, Tim TebowCoop View all 3 comments
You all know me.
I am not a Tim Tebow aficionado. I probably make more excuses for Mark Travis John Sanchez than his own mother (or worse, his coach Rex Ryan). Yet, I’m pretty much done with him too.
But I have to say, I feel bad for Tebow. He did not deserve to be a part of this green shit show this year, at all.
He has served as a pawn in a clueless management that seeks to win headlines over actual games.
He has served as an icon for a hype-driven market.
But most of all, it’s one that has been completely unfair to him.
Mark Sanchez clearly cannot handle whatever it is he can’t handle (the voices in his head telling him he sucks, or the “death threats” he received on Twitter after Monday night’s loss).
Tebow did not deserve what he’s gotten from the Jets, which is a big gigantic ZERO. Nothin’. A turd, if you will. A big fat smelly turd.
Do I like Tebow? Look, I’ll be the first to say he’s all hype and a self-promoting media marketing machine. Does that mean I think he’s a bad person? Quite the contrary. I don’t believe he’s a bad guy at all. And he’s certainly not the bad guy in this story.
What did he do to deserve the treatment that he’s gotten from the Jets? I certainly think at age 25 it’s unfair to pigeonhole him as “finished,” as the Washington Post said today.
First, John Elway made his role obsolete by “going for it” with Peyton “I-Look-Like-A-Milwaukee-Racing-Sausage” Manning when Manning’s job was obsolete in Indianapolis. This was AFTER Tebow had given the Denver Broncos the chutzpah to make it in the playoffs last year.
Second, what the frigg was Mike Tannenbaum thinking? Whatever warts and all Rex Ryan has as head coach, clearly he is Mark Sanchez’s number one supporter. I’m sure it was with a heavy heart he decided to go with Greg McElroy in this week’s game, rather than Sanchez or Tebow for that matter.
Which leads me to this. I’m not a Tebow fan, but I was of the frame of mind that if he was capable, he should certainly be in there, at least when Sanchez was floundering. Which is entirely possible, as we’ve seen. Talk about mixed messages. First, Sanchez was given an extension, THEN Tebow was traded to the Jets. What the hell were they thinking? I don’t even know if THEY know what they were thinking!
All at the expense of a man’s career. Beautiful.
Look. You all know I am a Mets fan, right? (If not, whose blog have YOU been reading??) It reminds me of the situation with Aaron Heilman (before you laugh, I happen to have some Stockholm Syndrome going on with him, deal with it). Remember he was a starter? Typical Mets story when they rush a prospect, only to see him fail, then not know what to do with him. They brought him back for a start, and he rewards them with a shutout one-hitter. How do they pay him back? By putting him in the bullpen, a role he was NOT suited for, with the carrot dangle of “If you do well, you’ll be a starter again.” Well, guess what? He becomes too valuable in the ‘pen, which didn’t say much because the Mets notoriously NEVER have a good bullpen. Then what happens? Heilman ends up blowing some significant games, and cannot gain the confidence coming into a game.
Sure, I can call him a pussy, but the moral of the story is, just another one biting the dust of Mets mismanagement when they don’t know what the hell to do with a player.
I can adapt that story to the Jets. Why ruin a team when you can ruin the career of a decent guy who is talented and can succeed and do so much more?
Look no further than Tim Tebow.
As I’ve said, I am no Tebow fan, but he does not deserve this smear of his young uprising profession this soon in his career. Shame on the Jets for making him a pawn in this situation.
November 27, 2012 New York Jets, NFLFireman Ed, New York Jets, NYJ, NYJ 2012, scapegoatCoop One comment
There are several reasons why I love being a sports fan. Some of them have to do with the characters who have kept me a fan for such a long time.
The New York Rangers had Chief, now they have Homeboy Larry and the rest of the crew in the 400s. The Mets have had so many characters in their fan base, it’s ridiculous. Cow-Bell Man, Tie Guy, Pin Man, several others. Hell, even Mr. Met is awesome.
Of course, the Jets have Fireman Ed, or “had” because he has retired his fireman’s helmet and will no longer do the J-E-T-S chant at home games. While he’ll still attend “incognito” (I used to know his crew back in the day, so it’s possible I’ll know who he is without the helmet), you won’t have Ed Anzalone to kick around anymore.
To the Jets fans who screamed him off to the point where he did not want to do it anymore, I say – YOU ALL GET WHAT YOU DESERVE.
This shitty team we have. YOU DESERVE IT.
The “little brother” moniker. YOU DESERVE IT.
All the jokes made at the expense of the Jets. YOU DESERVE IT.
Notice I didn’t say that **I** deserve it. I consider myself a mild-mannered Jets fan, if there is such a thing. I will cop to being a loudmouth at times, usually at Rangers and Mets games especially. Jets fans are funny, and I found that I identified with them more than others. Probably because a lot of the roots are from Shea Stadium, a place that I grew up.
What I noticed about Mets fans is that they were working class, they had hearts of gold. Like firefighters. And guys like Fireman Ed.
Being a Jets fan is more than I can bear sometimes. I’ve always kind of liked the culture of being a Jets fan. We have a reputation of being rowdy, uncouth, loudmouths but most of all, we are nothing else but loyal. The amount of infighting though has given me pause. Hell it’s even given Jet Fan #1 Fireman Ed pause.
Being visible gives way to getting a lot of flak. Fireman Ed gets a lot of flak. With great visibility comes the necessity of a thicker skin. And I dunno, I guess he gets it from everyone, fans and non-fans alike. And those on the outside, who consider him a “mascot” or a “shill” or even “how difficult is it to get a cheer down during games,” I had the following from my friend @Swirlywand on Twitter describe what it was like without him.
I never considered Fireman Ed a mascot… and honestly, the year he missed after surgery was a massive fail bc NO ONE COULD GET CHEER RIGHT
— Staci M.(@swirlywand) November 26, 2012
It’s not that hard to know when to do J-E-T-S! JETS! JETS! JETS cheer but in reality, it was .. Without someone starting
I’ve given my dad lots of shit for making me the sports fan I am today. Though in some ways, I’d be a totally different person (and possibly, way more boring) than I am now. Yet, a Mets fan is one thing (they were at least moderately successful when I was younger). The Rangers another (they have a lot of history, though not exactly one of winning, I have seen a championship in my lifetime which is more than other generations can say).
The Jets? I still cannot believe I fell for it a long time ago.
I have to laugh though. A guy who wears a maligned quarterback’s number to a game, that he PAYS TO GO TO gets abuse from his OWN FAN BASE.
Let me tell you something. I went to Seattle a few weeks back to see the Jets get their asses kicked by the Seahawks. I knew there was a possibility they’d lose (more like a HIGH probability), but Seahawks fans were nice. They bought me drinks. They talked about the game. I felt more at home at a road stadium than I do at MetLife Stadium.
Say what you want about Fireman Ed, that he’s a pussy somehow, that if he can’t take the heat, etc etc. This guy was the heart and soul of a fan base that deserves SO much more from the front office, from the team, from the fucking owner.
I know the Jets are really bad. Like major suckitude this year. But the amount of infighting going on within the fan base is just wrong.
Fuck you all if you need to pick on a figure head of the team. You want a better team? Root for another one. I don’t know what to tell you. All I can say is I am ashamed of some Jets fans right now. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Smells Like Green Spirit
November 14, 2012 New York Jets, NFLCenturyLink Stadium, Mark Sanchez, Marshawn Lynch, New York Jets, NYJ, NYJ 2012, Russell Wilson, Seattle SeahawksCoop View all 5 comments
My husband and I get around. We are sports fans and we LOVE to travel, therefore, we are traveling SPORTS FANS.
In the middle of all this comes the advent of social media, and we have friends in most of the states we visit.
Two baseball seasons ago, we visited Arlington, Texas, and we met some Mets fans from the San Antonio area. When I told them we wanted to make it to a San Antonio Missions game simply to meet Ballapeño, their pepper-inspired mascot, they made it a point to mail us a stuffed critter replica.
Since then, Ballapeño Pepe Sanchez Gomez has taken a life of his own.
You won’t meet a bigger Jets fan than him. He’s not only green but their quarterback is a Sanchez, a fellow Mexican-American.
Speaking of being a Jets fan, I often say that out of all the sports, I like football the least. It doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy a game every now and then. It’s just that I prefer baseball and hockey, and well, with hockey not being played any time soon…football is going to have to suffice. Of course, the New York Rangers were my closest team winning a championship anytime in the near future. But my football Jets…uh…yeah. The furthest thing from it. And it doesn’t seem like they’re interested in winning anything, let alone a stupid game, at all. Just to, you know, torture me.
My husband, though, is a rare one. He’s a Bronx boy who roots for the Mets, and his other two teams – basketball and football – have nothing to do with one another and have to do with serendipitous circumstances. He happened to like John Stockton and Karl Malone, and roots for the Utah Jazz today as a result. (True story, is that I also used to root for the Jazz, since they were the only team to play the Bulls it seemed when I really wanted Chicago to lose).
He happened to catch a playoff game in 1983 featuring the Seattle Seahawks. It turns out it was their first. He’s rooted for them ever since.
He also celebrated a milestone birthday this year. Coupled with the Jets visiting Seattle to face his Seahawks this year, which like never ever happens, his birthday and me completing the marathon a week before (which did not go down, obviously), we figured a quick getaway to Seattle was in order.
I told Gal for All Seasons podcast regular “WHOOMP!” ThereItIs Jake that I wouldn’t mind if the Jets lost the game we were going to — I mean, a team HAS to lose right? (no one told that to San Francisco this weekend though) — but that the Jets would probably win just to fuck with me.
Well they didn’t, and even the TD they scored was completely by accident. In fact, good friend Wooooo was nice enough to send this picture to remind me of how annoying this game was for a visiting Jets fan.
When I was in high school, a music movement called “grunge” infiltrated our vocabulary and our ears. This movement was based in the Pacific Northwest region, and most importantly, Seattle. Being a huge music fan, I always made it a point to want to travel to Seattle, I just never had a reason to go. I guess that it’s unfortunate that there will be a few states in the Union that I’ll never visit, simply because there is no baseball or the Mets won’t be visiting that year.
I’m weird.
But Seattle has baseball…so that I haven’t made it to Safeco Field at least just once yet surprises even me. But I had no reason not to go this time.
I had never followed my football team on the road. I had never been to Seattle. My husband will only turn 40 once. Therefore, it was on.
On Friday, our first full day in the caffeinated city (where I had a hard time finding a place that was non-Starbucks), we decided to do stadium tours of both Safeco and CenturyLink. On the light rail over to the stadiums area (they are little spitting distance from one another), we met some other Jets fans in from out of town. Though they lived on the west coast now (California), they were from Long Island. And up to see the Jets play.
On the CenturyLink tour, we met another couple from New York where the wife was a Jets fan and the husband was a Seahawks fan.
I thought…it was nice to see others traveling to see their teams play. No matter what side of the fence they were on.
But people were still surprised we traveled that far. Especially with the chance of one of our teams losing. Here’s my thoughts on that: one will have to lose. I travel all over to see my teams play, and there’s a 50/50 chance they may lose. I make my peace with it before I travel. There’s more to it than just my team winning at that point. It’s not like the Jets are going to the playoffs or anything that this game was a must-win.
So I got a drink out of it. A few, actually.
Jets fans are known to be a little bit on the uncouth side, a tad rowdy, and lots of fun. I know there’s also a bit of a reputation of us being douchebags (it’s true, but let’s be fair – ALL fan bases have them), so I was curious to see how we’d be on the road.
One of the things I noticed first off, though the stadiums are in an industrial and underdeveloped area of what is known as “SoDo” in Seattle (technically borders the area), there is not a lot of parking available. I remember reading a few years ago that Seattle is the worst state for traffic in the 50…I didn’t drive, but I can attest that it didn’t look pretty to drive around in some areas. Kind of reminded me of Boston, essentially one highway in and out of the city. Anyway, the next time New York fans complain about how expensive it is to park for baseball games will get smacked upside the head by me. Parking — not even in PRIME LOTS — can cost upwards of $40-50 for events. Talk about price gauging, hubby noticed that any other days (since we were there two days before the game), it’s like EIGHT BUCKS. Plus, much of the prime location parking lots are covered. Therefore, that means not lots of tailgating.
Part of the charm of going to a football game is the tailgating. In fact, when the city talked about moving the Jets to the West Side Stadium (that was never built) a few years ago, I was dead set against it. The traffic for game days would be abominable but also, where would we tailgate? It would be a travesty, really, because even if the team loses, the tailgates really are a lot of fun. Losing that is like losing the green in our team colors.
But on game days, they do make accommodations for tailgating…they actually OPEN Safeco Field on the Center Field side to the Left Field concourse and have concessions open and sell beer for “happy hour prices.” The admission is free, but of course you pay for food. Keep in mind this is also west coast time. By the time this game started, many of the east coast games had finished or were finishing. There were TVs on the games around the horn. It was a great atmosphere. We were disappointed we were not aware of this soiree, as we would have LOVED to show up earlier to experience some of the charm.
Jets fans were there. We were politely heckled, but mostly, everyone kept their cool. I can’t say it would be like that in New York/East Rutherford. I remember seeing the Jets play the Vikings in 2002, I think, and some dude wore Helga braids and Viking horns. I thought he was cool, but the rowdy drunk Jets fans heckled him mercilessly, to the point where I thought the dude was going to punch someone.
For the most part, the fans were very chill here. On both sides. I introduced myself to other Jets fans, and got some pics as evidenced above. It was like we survived a war or something, traveling to follow our teams even though there was a good chance they’d lose.
Of course, they did. Which leads me to Mark Sanchez. I have made no bones that I am a Sanchez chick. He’s my guy, and I don’t get why the blame gets solely put on him. Yes, there was that funny pic of the interception which in essence changed the game dynamic. Yes, they scored on defense, and it was a complete accident.
He’s kind of like the David Wright of the Jets, if you think about it. The kid with talent who is completely misused, but is a complimentary player, not necessarily the “star QB.” That’s the difference between a Sanchez and say, a Tom Brady. Brady can carry a team, even with shitty defense. He’s that talented. Sanchez is talented, but if you remember two years in a row, he helped bring the team the conference championship game two years in a row. To paraphrase President Obama, he didn’t build that. He didn’t do it on his own. As quickly as the Jets rose to stardom, ownership was just as quick in dismantling it by letting key players leave and injuries.
Being a Mets fan, I guess I am a little sensitive to dismantling after a successful run with no reason or rhyme
Once the game was started, we sat in a section called the Hawks’ Nest. This was in the end zone, and I guess I was expecting a bit of a louder more rowdy crowd. You see, CenturyLink is called the “loudest stadium,” and holy shit, when the “12th Man Flag” was raised prior to kickoff, it was deafening. I don’t know if the blowout was the reason or just maybe I got used to it. But while passionate, the fans were also very laidback. There were two Jets fans sitting in front of us — we were dining our guts, meanwhile Seahawks fans were talking us down from the ledge. It was pretty comical.
The first pic of the Hawks Nest is from our tour. On game day, our weather karma ran out and it misted most of the first half, to rain-rain-rain the second half. When we left, we walked in the rain to Chinatown, the next neighborhood over. It didn’t let up, even as we left that evening.
Another thing I learned on the tour was that being that CenturyLink is considered the loudest stadium, and trust me, it was, some players complain about playing there.
As I got on the elevator with some other fans (Jets fans also took the tour), I was like, “I’m sorry, but aren’t these guys professionals? ‘WAH! It’s too loud! WAH!’ What a bunch of pussies.” That got a good laugh. But it’s true! Don’t go into pro sports if you can’t take a few loud fans. /RANT
So there’s not much else to tell. The Jets lost, and looked awful in the process. The Seahawks won, and the Jets fans around me all talked about how their defense was sick. Which is funny – wasn’t that supposed to be the Jets’ MO?
We had hoped that after the game there would still be tailgates open, but I guess like most stadiums, they close down concessions after a certain time. Most importantly, stop serving beer. So we hung out in Chinatown for a few hours, had some food, had some beer, and then went home.
Experiencing a road football game was something different for me. I’ve only gone to see my baseball team on the road, and even have gone to games for the hell of it, even if my team wasn’t there. It never occurred to me to go to a football game. Hell, even my hockey team I didn’t follow around all that often. Just across the river to Jersey.
In any event, I’d definitely do a trip like this again. I’ve heard great things about M&T Bank Stadium, where the Baltimore Ravens play, and I’ve wanted to check out Heinz Field.
All I can say is CenturyLink was a great place to watch a game – very spirited, fun stuff to do pregame. Doubt I’ll be going back to Seattle anytime soon though.
I was disappointed though in the coffee and the music. I didn’t find a good cup of coffee nor did I see any places to review local bands. However, I was one of those late bloomers who didn’t appreciate Nirvana till it was too late, but I still love me some Pearl Jam. We were also greeted by the voice of Jerry Cantrell from Alice in Chains at SeaTac Airport.
I came as I was, but forgot my flannels at home.
Autumn In New York
September 26, 2012 MLB, New York Jets, New York Mets, New York Rangers, NFL, NHLJets football, Mets, Mets 2012, New York Giants, New York Jets, New York Mets, New York Rangers, New York Yankees, NY Rangers, NYJ, NYJ 2012, NYM, NYM 2012, NYR, NYR 2012-13Coop Leave a comment
Like many business people in New York City, I work for myself and I’m able to make my own hours. In that vain I’m able to attend to real life issues such as declaring whether the Whole Foods Market salad bar is better than Westside Market’s, or to make my Trader Joe’s shopping list (which being able to go in the afternoon rather than after traditional working hours is a godsend, since everyone and their uncle goes after work).
And like many people in New York, I’m often running errands boasting my team colors. Today, I was bumming around in my New York Rangers shirsey, bearing the number and name of one Bradley Glenn Richards.
So it’s autumn in New York. It’s not just a one sport town, but a multiple sport town. There is not one but several phenomena occurring this time of year. Typically, you can count on Yankee fans getting ready for the postseason, and Mets fans get ready to root for whomever plays against them.
Football season is a few weeks old. Jets fans typically change their mind on the team more than the weather.
Yet there’s a gaping hole this fall, and it’s not the fact that I left the Giants out of the equation (come on, no one fucking talks about them until the playoffs)…and that’s hockey.
I’m a Mets and Jets fan, yet when I wear their attire, not much gets said to me when I’m walking down the street (unless I’m with my husband, and we get the “Hey, going to the game today?” comments). I would gather that Yankee and/or Giants fans might feel the same when they sport their team colors.
Today, as I’m walking in Trader Joe’s, not one, not two, but THREE people (each from different walks of life — one an employee, one guy who looked like he just came in from the gym and someone who was probably working in an office setting still in their business casual clothes) made a comment about the team. Whether it was, “Man, what do you think about the lockout?” Or “We got Nash, and now we’re not playing?” Or “Brad Richards, huh?” (I get that a lot, but sue me, I was excited to have him on the team last year).
Come to now with the threat of no hockey this seasons I would be willing to argue that the true heart of a New York sports fan lies in their hockey allegiance.
That’s not to say that I don’t think there are super passionate Yankees, Mets, Giants, Jets, hell even Knicks and Brooklyn Nets fans. They certainly exist. Hockey fans are from a different cloth. There’s a deep rooted passion, and it’s almost as if being in a room with 18,000 like minded people, indoors mostly, makes it seem like we’ve survived a war. Perhaps we’ve survived several different battles, each game a mini battle in and of itself.
The battles these days aren’t being drawn out in the ice, but rather in board rooms, with Gary Butthead, the owners and players. Someone pointed out to me that it’s probably not the best sign that players are going back to their homeland (Russia, Sweden, Czech Republic) to play in those leagues. It dictates that they expect this to be drawn out for a long time.
Do I need to break out the world’s smallest violin, again, for the millionaires who are arguing over pennies while the diamonds are being passed over. Diamonds in the form of long-term relationships with the fans who support and buy into the product.
What’s most nauseating being here in New York is that I know it’s not James Dolan’s fault. He’s a money guy, sure, but he knows that the only way he’s gonna MAKE money is if his team gets out there and plays and his fans are happy. Fans are not happy.
But what’s more. I am a Mets, Jets and Rangers fans. These three teams have brought me more sorrow than joy, but there are glimpses of hope as to why I stick around long term even though they are destined to break my heart more often than not. Two years ago, and two years in a row, the Jets made the conference championships. The Mets…well…let’s not go there. But let’s just say that I do remember ’86 and think that sometimes those feelings are what keep me around.
The Rangers though. For a fan with the teams I have, this is the closest I’ve had to a championship for a long time and a team I looked forward to the last few months to watch. A team that could take me away from the drama of Rex Ryan land and the Wilpon Follies. As someone else pointed out to me, we get Rick Nash, and pieces are falling into place, and now these people are just agreeing to disagree and getting absolutely nowhere.
Today would have marked the first preseason game for 2012-13 season. Yet the only thing we are marking is time.
It’s autumn in New York. And before we know it, it will be winter in New York.
As the seasons change, one constant may not be there. And that’s not a pleasant thought.
Soooooo Not Ready
September 9, 2012 New York Jets, NFLNew York Jets, NFL, NFL 2012, NFL Week 1, NYJ, NYJ 2012Coop One comment
Every year it’s the “ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL???” question that’s thrown around.
And I am SO not ready.
But I’m getting there.
Hubby and I were planning to go to the Mets game all along, on Gameday one for the NFL (though technically it DID start last Wednesday).
I had planned on writing this prior to going to the game today, but wasn’t in the mood to start up the computer (it was the Sunday morning after doing a 15 mile training run). This is how lazy I am getting.
So we go to the baseball game. But for good measure, I wore my Jets shirt. You know, to be a good football fan. Maybe THAT would get me in the mood to deal with things.
But then I managed to get bits and pieces of the game throughout the baseball game. Funny, the stadium was practically empty, and the only time the crowd got roused up was when they posted updates on the Jets game.
Then when it was over, I was happy. The Mets outcome was almost secondary.
My husband is a Seahawks fan. We decided to head to a local bar to watch the game.
Our first stop was a local British pub that is a Mets-friendly bar, and the bartender told us that every Sunday the NHL package shows all games. Till we realized that it was a Panthers bar. Moving right along, we find another bar that has only ONE television on the Seahawks/Cardinals game.
That about did it.
So if I wasn’t ready for football yet, I am now. All in all, the sports day could have been better for me. The Mets could have won, and my husband could have gone home happy instead of disappointed that the Seahawks couldn’t win.
But it was good to see that I could turn it on in a flash. I mean, it’s one game a week. I can handle that. I think.
The Holy Sheepshit and Balls Videocast: Tim Tebow Is a Jet (And Others)
March 26, 2012 MLB, New York Jets, New York Mets, NFL1969 Mets, Holy Sheepshit and Balls Videocast, Kiners Korner, Kult of Mets Personalities Podcast, Mark Sanchez, New York Jets, Nolan Ryan, Tim Tebow, YouTubeCoop Leave a comment
Hellloooooo everyone, and thank you for your patience. I’d blown off my first v-log for over a week, and I have two parts to the Holy Sheepshit and Balls video of the week.
Topics: My Nolan Ryan interview with the lovely folks at KinersKorner.com (The Kult of Mets Personalities podcast) was a Holy Sheepshit and Balls moment for me. Please go the interview and listen for yourself!
Tim Tebow is a Jet. I try to wrap my head around it. And I can’t. But I applaud Mark Sanchez for taking the high road for a guy who can potentially take his job.
Watch and pass around…and enjoy! (And here’s the link from YouTube)
Dubya Te(bow) Eff? Jay! Ee! Tee! Ess!
March 21, 2012 New York Jets, NFLCoop Leave a comment
So, did I miss any news while I was out jogging today?
If I could wrap my head around WHY it happened, or WHY it is necessary, than maybe I could be supportive of it. But…
Yeah, I don’t get it.
Earlier today, SNY’s Jets Blog did a very good recap of the pros and cons of bringing Tebow to the Jets. It was very well done, but I can’t even say that I agreed with some of “pros.”
Tebow, a first-string QB who probably shouldn’t be, on a new team with another first-string QB?
Um. Yeah. Okay.
The Jets are enough of a media circus by themselves. Do they really need the distraction of Tebow?
Look, I hear Tim Tebow is a really lovely guy. Nice guy. We all know that he’s a spiritual dude. He’s worshiped in the Bible Belt. I don’t think he’ll last six seconds in the New York media.
A few months ago, my friend Jon Presser from Rant Sports Jets blog discussed Mark Sanchez on my podcast, and we both agreed that warts and all, Sanchez is our guy. Sanchez, to me, had enough panache, charisma and balls to bring a title to the Jets, or at the very least be a big part of it. I’ve been a Jets fan for a long time, but in my lifetime, I’m not entirely sure I could say that about anyone on the team in the past.
A few days ago, there was rumor that Peyton Manning would come to the Jets. Manning, a living legend in Indianapolis and a likable dude somewhat, did not make a ton of sense to come to New York when he was up for grabs. I mean, remember bringing Brett Favre here in 2008? That totally backfired, right? And Favre was a success, just as Manning was, prior to coming here. Then the Jets gave Sanchez a new deal, and the point seemed moot.
I even told my cousin, a die hard Broncos fan, that I didn’t agree that Manning was a good fit there either. My cousin, I should also mention, is a Tebow guy. Now we have pissed off Broncos fans and REALLY pissed off Jets fans.
(Jon did a very good job, prior to the deal by the way, on why Tebow wouldn’t be a good fit on the Jets. Basically, make everything present-tense and I could have written it myself.)
People can say what they want about Tebow. The good stuff, the bad stuff, the polarizing personality, the overratedness, at the end of the day, he doesn’t make the team ANY better. They are nowhere near closer to winning a championship without him than with him, if that makes any sense.
And that’s why I want nothing to do with having on the team. But I can’t do much about it. In a few days, we’ll be seeing a press conference, and I’ll just have to sit and smack my head repeatedly about yet the next dumb move the Jets are going to make.
My Twitter buddy Swirlywand had this to say on the Gal for all Seasons Facebook page:
“Picture it…Opening Sunday…Mark throws 3 incomplete passes and Tebow Maniacs are going to be Tebowing in the stands and chanting Tebow’s name. I’m trying to be supportive (because) this is MY TEAM DARN IT….but I am sure it’s going to split the locker room as much as it’s splitting fans.”
That’s about it in a nutshell for me. WTF, J-E-T-S? Unless they are going to say PSYCH in a few days and trade him for somebody else…this makes ZERO logistical sense.
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Home » Esports » VALORANT » Valorant’s Deathmatch Mode Will Soon Be Available
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Valorant, the most-anticipated competitive beta title this year, was released on 2nd June and has been getting a lot of attention in the gaming and eSports worlds. Riot Games has put the deathmatch mode on hold for a long while and have finally decided to launch it.
Valorant‘s Deathmatch mode will be quite different than a standard unranked match or a competitive one. Deathmatch mode will have 10 players in total, the same number of players as a standard Valorant match has, but there will be no teams. Valorant’s Deathmatch mode will not have any abilities or the spike to be planted or defused. These rules are similar to the deathmatch rules in other games like CSGO, but all the players will have a limited amount of money each time they spawn after getting killed or joining a match.
All Valorant fans have been asking for and anticipating the deathmatch mode since it was in Closed Beta several months ago. Players have been playing a Spike Rush or two to warm up before a competitive match but will now finally have deathmatch mode to warm up their aim.
The deathmatch mode will be a quicker way to jump in for practice against real opponents and will have no penalty when left before finishing unlike the standard Valorant match or a Spike Rush.
Valorant’s Deathmatch mode will be live on 5th August, a day after the release of Act 2. Riot Games will begin beta testing the mode and will soon release it at a final stage.
Riot Games has been very keen on releasing updates for skins such as the Glitchpop pack and other cosmetic items but not the well-deserved and demanded game mode of deathmatch. I’m hoping we’ll see more gameplay-related updates in the future.
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Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam leader, leads 'Death to America' chant in Iran
November 2018 in Second Amendment/Politics #1
I wish he would stay in Iran.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/farrakhan-chants-death-to-america-in-iran
November 2018 #2
The phrase "pop a cap in his ass" comes to mind.
The phrase "busta a cap in his ass" comes to mind.
FIFY
rberglof Senior Member Posts: 2,684 Senior Member
Guys a dirt bag!
To me it's treason. Plain and simple.
Trying to be surprised over this.
Failing.
Aaannnddd...it's political speech and as an American citizen, he is squarely within his First Amendment rights to say whatever he wants.....While I find his speech....and him, as a human being, completely reprehensible..and quite honestly wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire...it's his opinion and he's free to speak it aloud.
The real irony is the number of good people who have died to ensure this piece of feces the right to run his mouth...
"Collaborating with an enemy"...
Saying you hate your country isn't treason in the strictest, prosecutable sense of the word...Disloyal? Yep Reprehensible? Also yep...
I would not, however, shed a tear if something " unfortunate" were to happen to this guy
November 2018 #10
People on all sides have been trying to get a race war going here for years . Lately it is looking like the chances of that happening are good . When average people are saying " I am mad as hell & not going to take it any more " things will get interesting . People have the right to say anything ..... but there should be a price for what they do say . As soon as people are hurt they should arrest the ones that got the stupid ones all wound up to take actions . Or isn't inciting violence a crime any more ?
November 2018 edited November 2018 #11
Treason charges? didn't happened when "Hanoi Jane" posed with the North Vietnamese troops and AAA, doubt it'll happen now.
Farrakhan is a showman and has a public to satisfy with his flaming retorhic, that he knows will put him in the press spotlight, always looking for such situations to get rating.
I'd rather see him staying in Iran, "putting his money where his mouth is" and moving to Iran, pretty much like aaaall those Hollyweird characters that, as they previously claimed, moved to Canada or Europe, or to the remote forests to start "La Resistance" when "fascist" Trump won the presidency.....oh, wait....
Sorry, not fluent in the Ebonics language.....
Shouting " Death to America" in that part of the world is mindless babble...they teach it in schools, so it's hardly inflammatory...
This guy has been screaming about killing white people and killing Jews for decades with complete impunity....in his own country...if threats were a crime this rectal sphincter would have been in prison long ago.
Unfortu,lately the Sedition Act of 1918 is no longer law...then Louis would actually be in jail for his speech..
In 1918 under the Sedition Act he would have been in deep doo doo in the U.S..
sgtrock21 Senior Member Posts: 1,933 Senior Member
Antonio said:
Exactly! There should be a law that says your passport gets revoked. NOW!!!
Farrakhan is stuck in the 1960's, and the 1960's want their village idiot back. He's spewed that crap for what seems forever. His mosque must be doing pretty good to pay him enough to front a trip to Iran. As long as the people following him buy the hate crap he's selling then he will be around.
tennmike said:
Farrakhan is stuck in the 1960's, and the 1960's want their village idiot back. He's spewed that crap for what seems forever....
The little I've heard this "gentleman" talk, that's EXACTLY the impression that I had; like an "oldies" pop band stuck in playing its '80s "One hit wonder" 30+ years later.
Wouldn't the revoking of his passport be somewhat like partly depriving him from his citizenship, thus making him a stateless person? If so, although deserved, seems pretty much like the practices of the worst banana republic commie dictatorships against their political enemies.
You're right about the revoking of his passport. Until he does something that rises to the level of doing that, it's best to just let him be. No use giving him MORE ammunition to spew MORE hate in a different direction about something new. He's 85 years old, and I don't see him spewing that hate speech much longer. His hatred has pretty much consumed him. Letting him make an ass of himself overseas like this may open a few eyes and turn some away from that hate filled path he's been preaching.
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Add Emojis to In-Game Chat
RubyRed replied to Troo's topic in General Discussion
Honestly I'm not keen on emoji but this isn't a bad suggestion, because to add emoji you would need to extend Unicode support into the chat which would open the full international character set as well (selfishly I would love to see this for character names too, but there's a whole can of worms there). That said, I would not want to be the one to try and implement it... all of the text in the game is based on CP-1252 encoding using simple C strings, which would be a nightmare to upgrade. You could hack in a subsection of emoji using a special chat code and custom graphics, which would be easier but would still require a lot of custom ui work... I'm gonna guess we won't see anything like this any time soon.
issue 27 [Beta] Patch Notes for November 27th, 2020
RubyRed replied to Jimmy's topic in Beta Patch Notes
I don't suppose this could be made an option? I actually think it's easier to use the way it is currently, especially if you only have a few zones unlocked...
i27 page 1
That is Why You Fail
RubyRed replied to Gavric's topic in Suggestions & Feedback
No, it's really not. Constructive criticism is one thing, but when you lead in with judgments like "X is terrible/bad/a mess" you set a certain tone for your post that can be inferred. TBH, I'm impressed that Piecemeal responded so civilly to your post after you basically trashed what was likely hundreds of hours of difficult work. You do actually have a lot of valuable feedback in your post, and not entirely new. You might want to check the feedback on the beta forums, especially on the story arc, since a lot of it was already said. It would have upset fewer people if you stuck to the feedback and avoided the judgmental parts. That's entirely up to you how you wish to engage, though.
A Powers "API" of sorts (Gift to the community developers)
RubyRed replied to RubyRed's topic in Tools, Utilities & Downloads
I'll make a note to look at it. As is, it pulls only things that are discovered through primary/secondary, epic, pool, prestige, and incarnate powers. Temps are a bit wacky because there's a lot of non-player stuff in there.
Updated with i27 page 1 data on the live version of the data set. Additionally: Attribute mod flags that change based on the attribute should be accurately reported now. Global chance mods now accurately report their % chance. Strengths disallowed added to output. Some chain fields that were missed from i26p5 have been added.
Issue 27: Second Chances, Page 1 - Out Now!
RubyRed replied to Jimmy's topic in Announcements
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. I was totally not expecting this to drop on live so fast! Thanks for all the hard work.
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Been a while since I did much with this. I made several new updates today: Added Sonic Manipulation to Blasters and Energy Melee to Scrappers (i27 stuff) Made the issue-selection more granular, you can now choose any range from i24 to i27. Realized I had missed Spines on Brute, so that's been added. There wasn't any logic to validate the suggestions, so you'd sometimes get silly suggestions like Shield Defense + Titan Weapons. That's been fixed. Nice little badge added next to power sets for anything post-i24. If you're having any issues using the page, make sure to empty browser cache and try again before reporting as a bug. Thanks!
PiggViewer with dll problems.
RubyRed replied to captainstar's topic in Tools, Utilities & Downloads
Yeah, sorry, that's all I got. 😞
So Dark Melee......
RubyRed replied to Gobbledegook's topic in Suggestions & Feedback
Could be, but other than Vile's example with Faultline, I haven't seen people asking for transparency specifying what that means except in broad strokes. So, yes, I responded to vagueness with vagueness.
I apologize. For some reason thought you posted it both times but the first time was someone else, you're right. This is probably the best kind of feedback -- specific example of what you're looking for. Just calling for transparency can mean too many things to different people.
I think if your standard is going to be "devs must crosspost every conversation everywhere" you're just going to encourage them to participate in discussion less, not more. You're setting the bar for "transparency" incredibly high. You keep posting that screenshot but honestly that conversation is minutiae that isn't really relevant for general feedback regarding patch updates.
That's getting incredibly tinfoil hat with regards to Discord. There's nothing about Discord's TOU that makes it inherently unsuitable as a place for gathering feedback. (No problems at all? Maybe not, but they'd be extremely corner case.) If you personally don't want to use Discord for whatever reason, that's fine. You have the option of sticking to the forums, and your feedback isn't somehow lessened because of it. Most games that have an active audience specifically use multiple channels -- forums, Reddit, social media, Discord, you name it -- for precisely the reason that most people will gravitate toward one or the other, and a few players will straddle multiple. You want to give people the least friction for giving feedback and to have the most possible chances to see sentiment on the game. Funnelling everyone to a single channel actually reduces engagement. It's pretty evident even in this small community, as you can see the chatter and tone on Homecoming's Discord tends to be different from what's being discussed on the forums. That said, there tend to be "official" channels - like the HC forums and discord - where the devs are most likely to respond, just so people don't have to go hunting things down. As Bopper was trying to say, multiple channels give you choice. It's not like one or the other is getting preferential treatment.
I'm always skeptical when people say they want "transparency." More often than not, what they want is the devs to give some sort of detailed proof of every change so that they can give "feedback" in the form of dissecting any decision to an absurd degree and browbeat the devs into changing their mind. This is precisely why most feedback processes like this tend to be one-way... no human being wants to spend the equivalent of defending a college thesis on a video game, especially not to a group of multiple players that have an agenda and an order of magnitude more time to write up lengthy forum posts.
Rather than trying to install the files individually, you'll probably have better luck downloading the correct installer packages. MS Visual C++ 2010 Redist (x86): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555 MS Visual C++ 2010 Redist (x64): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13523 DirectX 9 web installer: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35 Those might fix the problem, but also a lot of the old Pigg Viewer tools haven't been maintained in so many years they refuse to work no matter what you do.
Focused Feedback: The Graveyard Shift (Hero Story Arc, Level 20-29)
RubyRed replied to Jimmy's topic in Homecoming Beta
I ran through this arc again this morning, this time using a level 50 scrapper with set IOs and a couple accolades. Crash the Unholy Masquerave Mob density is much better, but still really high. I think at-level characters and solo players are gonna have a bad time with this mission still. As a level 50 exemp'd I still had to chug quite a few insps to keep up. Investigate Pathogen's Warehouse Still really weird that the glowie can only be clicked on the bottom and sides, the big glass part isn't clickable which is the natural place to try. Maybe this object is bug and you should use something else? Ambushes after killing Pathogen are much more reasonable, thank you. The objectives at the end though are still confusing. Marker was pointing into the middle of a random fire. I couldn't find the glowie for the corrupt the data stream objective at all. I think I saw the one for the sprinkler but couldn't click it since I hadn't clicked the first one. It's still way too easy to fail this due to confusion and low time limit. Fire just does insane amounts of damage, and it's almost impossible to avoid in a lot of places. I had to chug green insps to look around the map. I've done maps with fire in other story arcs recently, and I don't recall them doing anywhere near as much as damage as these. ^ Agree with this. The ability to offset the debuff is nice but even killing through quickly with a scrapper they were wearing off way too fast. Defeat 40 vahz in Perez Park Is this the punishment for failing the previous mission? Because it definitely feels like punishment. Failing a mission should have a consequence, no problem there, but that consequence should still be interesting/fun to play. It feels like you're actively trying to bore the player into quitting the story arc. I assume that retaining the Viral Cocktail is already a hefty punishment for failure here (I had to rest after every single fight in the Cortex Hideout with that going). Overall failing the investigate mission feels really easy to do and makes the rest of the arc unenjoyable at that point. Infiltrate Cortex's Hideout For some reason Cortex's room doesn't render on the minimap, you're just walking in blanks space between two elevators. Also parts of the first rooms you enter. Once again, on +0/x0... absolutely insane amount of ambushes fighting Cortex. With the debuff going, I had to chug fifteen inspirations, and still ended up running away for part of it. This is just not tuned well for a story arc that should be doable at level 20 by 1 or more people. ^ Yeah I ran into this as well, I ran through the map 3 times and couldn't find her. Decided I was either crazy or it was a bug. Final Thoughts Changes from the first iteration are welcome, but a couple of missions called out above are still tuned really high. This doesn't feel like it was made as a story arc for level 20 characters, it feels like a task force in some parts. While there are fewer bugs overall, I would recommend pulling this from the release candidate. Unlike the new redside arc, it's just not ready for prime time. There's too many balance/gameplay issues that still need to be resolved.
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By robilaz Posted on July 21, 2020 July 21, 2020
Discover This: Panic Attack!
Make the mistake of Googling “Panic Attack! On The Train” and you’ll join us in being put off going within 100 yards of any public transport service again for the rest of your life. However, listening to Norwegian band Panic Attack!‘s latest track On The Train is a far more pleasurable experience.
The Stavanger-based band have honed a “speed-crush” or “bipolar thrash punk” sound that offers a message of hope for anyone going through difficult times, struggling with depression, mental health issues and substance abuse. While Panic Attack!’s music undoubtedly deals with dark subjects, it offers an underlying message of hope and belief that we can get ourselves to a better place. Plus, there’s the fact that it’s unrelentingly fast, hugely enjoyable hardcore punk.
They sent us latest track On The Train, which comes from a compilation of fellow awesome Norwegian punk bands. The track kicks off with lively punky guitars and fast-paced drums, which feed into a lively opening verse led by vocals “What is happening, I just don’t know, Getting a mohawk, Moving to Idaho, Starting to slip, I’m losing my shit.” The opening guitars and drums return for a heavy chorus, then fun shouty vocals “Gimme gimme gimme, All that you’ve got” give way to a fun guitar solo over lively guitars and drums.
That flows straight into a chorus, which is answered by another guitar solo. Then lively vocals feed into a last smash of the heavy chorus to bring the track to a big ending.
The track follows on from Panic Attack!’s 2017 debut EP Holding On. From it, the opening track Tweeker sums up exactly the message that the band portray, beginning with the lone vocals “I get so low I can’t think, Depression comes I wanna die, Better tweak it than be me, It’s either meth or suicide.” Big punky chords jump in then continue under a repeat of the previous vocals, which continue in a prolonged opening verse.
Also on the EP is title track Holding On, which opens up with fun chunky punky chords that continue under gruff shouted vocals. They eventually give way to a cool little guitar solo that drops into the return of vocals “Don’t get mad at me for not holding on, You never would have held on this long, Giving you pills, They don’t work anymore, Give me more, Give me more.”
A fun stabbing guitar takes over then a big drum roll takes us into a fun solo over lively chords, which feeds into a heavy ending. Check it out in the video:
While the EP’s closing track Spot Burner opens up with a cool guitar riff that continues under “I don’t know who it is, It’s like me, Looks like me, Talks like me, It’s not me, But I don’t know who it is.” A chorus gives way to a heavy instrumental section, which feeds into another chorus and a lively punky outro.
We had a chat with frontman Dave Pickett (who’s obviously not Norwegian) to find out more about the band. Read on below…
GR: Who are Panic Attack!?
DP: “I grew up in the South Bay and Long Beach parts of Los Angeles, California and ultimately moved to Stavanger, Norway. I was doing stand up comedy at the time but I was unhappy with it because music is my first love.
“After meeting Ed Feed, our guitarist, I quit stand up comedy and started working on this band. I had met a lot of bands in town doing MC and intro work, that‘s where I met Donny Brilliant our second guitar player and we clicked right away. Then Ed brought in the beast, Per Oskar Storholm on bass guitar. Finally, during an intermission of a Monster Magnet show, the rock’n’roll gods gifted us with Jacob Yttredal as our drummer and we were all set and ready to rock.”
GR: You just released On The Train. What should people be expecting from the song?
DP: “The song On the Train was inspired by taking LSD and getting on a train to see an Arthur Brown concert. This was an alternate version of On the Train for the Pønk i Norge 2020 compilation featuring Norwegian punk bands.”
GR: How would you describe the Panic Attack!’s sound to people that haven’t listened to you yet?
DP: “Panic Attack!‘s sound can be described as “speed-crush“ like a fast car chase with an impending crash. People who like OFF!, Motorhead, Circle Jerks, Suicidal Tendencies, Black Flag, Rollins Band, Poison Idea, and Slayer will probably like us the most, but we seem to appeal to a broader base than we expected.”
GR: What influences you to write music? Any key themes or topics that you write about?
DP: “Panic Attack!‘s music is played in the key of misery and it‘s for people who live on the edge of life and death. The lyrics of the songs represent lives of bi-polar depression, ADD, ADHD, confusion, anger, hard drug abuse, alcoholism, suicidal ideation/attempts and self-destruction.
“Misery is a condition that many of us have in common, and that is the band‘s zone musically but amongst the darkness there’s an underlying message of hope and belief that we can get ourselves to a better place.”
GR: Which bands/musicians are/have been your strongest musical influences?
DP: “The members of Panic Attack! have backgrounds in punk rock, black-metal, jazz and stand up- comedy. They have other bands that they play in and projects that they are associated with – Gehenna, Hold Fast, Throne of Katarsis, Vicereine, Toxic Death, Ljå, Sleepyard, the Konsortium, Doomkirke, Helldiver, Jagged Vision, Cvinger, Bad Slags, We Who Burn Bonfires, The Chairs, and Acid Lipstick.”
GR: We’ve featured several great Norwegian bands on the site. What are your thoughts on the punk/rock/metal scene in the country?
DP: “I have been living in Stavanger, Norway for ten years and it is an amazing town to be in if you like music or if you are in a band. I am completely surrounded by talented musicians and awesome bands. There are so many music related things going on in Stavanger and all over Norway that I am really happy about living here.
“Oslo, Bergen, and Trondheim are also packed full of awesome bands, Turbonegro, Kvelertak, NAG, The Good The Bad and The Zugly, Purified In Blood, Gehenna, Doomkirke, The Dogs, Mayhem, they are all influences on us and there‘s too many to name.
“Norway is a fantastic place to record an album and the music scene here is alive and kicking. I am looking forward to being here in Norway, making music until the day I die. When they bury me, I hope one of these bands I mentioned is playing at my funeral. We have replacements in place for all of Panic Attack!‘s members so that no matter what happens to us this band will live on.”
GR: What have you got coming up in 2020? New music, new gigs, recording etc…?
DP: “The last four years have been a steady process of finishing a 13 track LP titled Don‘t Stop that we are releasing a song at a time throughout the rest of this year. We are scheduled to have a new music video released with our track titled Meh on 10 September.
“Concerts this year are currently at a stand still so I don‘t know what that means for us playing live but we do have 13 new tracks and a music video to release this year. The last show we played was opening for Turbonegro, one of our biggest influences.”
GR: Anything else you’d like people to know about Panic Attack!?
DP: “On 10 September 2016 – World Suicide Prevention Day – we released a four song demo called Holding On. We hosted our first Suicide Fest show in 2016 where we play with other bands and give the proceeds to our local youth group, Mental Helse Ungdom Stavanger Region, that helps at-risk teens and troubled kids to find some normality and consistency away from drugs and drama.
“We‘ve had a show every year and 2020 was scheduled to be our fifth annual Suicide Fest. Due to the Corona outbreak, I‘m not sure if it will happen but I am actively trying to organise an event that meets our local public health and safety standards.”
You can follow Panic Attack! on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp. And if this has given you a taste for Norwegian music, check out their hometown playlist on Spotify.
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The Charlatans – 02 Academy, Glasgow, UK (4th December 2017)
Laura Varney· December 7, 2017
The Charlatans make you forget nothing and remember everything. Glasgow was the city, Monday was the night and as the band burst onto stage, it was clear the crowd were in for a real treat.
For a group that has clocked up nearly three decades of music, they do not fail to surprise. From the opening new tune Not Forgotten, every instrument was clear and easy to differentiate. It could be argued that after long listens trying to get into the new album Different Days, the latest songs actually come alive on stage and are now modern-day Charlatans classics.
With the Glaswegian crowd in full vocal throttle, pint glasses and arms in the air, you could tell the musicians were clearly enjoying the rip-roaring reception with Burgess dancing to the crowd, taking photos and beckoning to those high up on the balconies.
And the hits just kept coming. From the catchy Just When Your Thinking Things Over and old favourite Weirdo to the rip-roaring North Country Boy and upbeat Telling Stories, the atmosphere was electric and the band never sounded so good.
For die-hard Charlatans fans, there was a surprise in store in the form of a special rendition of Overising. And what a pure delight for the faithful crowd. An obscure choice to please the audience, the hit was released in 1991 and a joy to the ears. Although the song only appeared on the greatest hits complication Melting Pot and never on any studio album, you could tell it was a well-loved and well-played number in homes and indie discos, the length and breadth of the country. But the new songs including Plastic Machinery and Different Days brought a whole new dimension to their performance. In fact, old music meets new was the highlight of this gig. The tunes from the new offering were very well received and the old classics were stomping.
Could it be that the group have the best rhythm section in indie? One thing is for sure, Tim with his blond mop top and swagger will always be an enigmatic performer.
With a 25-year-old plus history, the show was as tight as ever and the perfect tonic to a school night and the start of the working week. Indeed, during the set, it was Tim who revealed: “Monday night is the new Saturday night.”
All in all, a tiptop, sparkling performance from a well-loved band – ultimately proving they’re still as relevant now as they were then.
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Egypt Takes Delivery of Second Mistral Warship
NANTES, France, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Egypt took delivery of a second French Mistral helicopter carrier on Friday, part of a $1 billion deal signed last year. Egypt took over...
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Geisel Welcomes Class of ’23
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Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine marked the beginning of a new academic year by welcoming 92 first-year medical students to campus for orientation, where the Class of 2023 spent a few days getting to know each other, Dartmouth, and the Upper Valley community.
Hassanpour Receives Prestigious Early Career Professor Award
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Saeed Hassanpour, PhD, an assistant professor of biomedical data science and of epidemiology at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, and of computer science at Dartmouth College, has received the 2019 Agilent Early Career Professor Award.
Marnie Halpern Named Chair of the Dept. of Molecular and Systems Biology
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Marnie E. Halpern, PhD, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science and adjunct professor of biology and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, has been named the Chair of the Department of Molecular and Systems Biology at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine.
Biomedical Grant Writers’ Retreat
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The Biomedical Libraries and Grant GPS will host a retreat for writers of NIH R01 and R21 grants September 12 and 13 at the Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library. The application process is competitive and open from July 8 through August 9. To learn more and apply visit https://dartgo.org/BiomedGrantRetreat.
Kellogg Connector Bridge Closure
As a part of the Dana construction project there is new work to be done at the connector between the Kellogg bridge and Remsen. The scope includes demolishing a portion of the existing bridge enclosure, and rebuilding a slightly larger area. This will require the connector and bridge between Remsen and Kellogg to be closed from July 1, 2019, through June 30th, 2020.
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On June 12, the Dartmouth College Library is transitioning to a new catalog system. We do not expect this change to substantially affect our users, though you will notice that the interface to search for books looks different. However, once the migration is complete any bookmarked links to your library account, the library catalog search, or specific journal or book records will no longer work and will need to be updated. DartDoc, Borrow Direct, and links directly into databases are not affected. By the end of the week of the June 12, a new catalog search box should be visible on the Biomedical Libraries website that you can use to search for items and update your bookmarked links.
DHMC Loop Road Construction and Parking Update
As an update to the Loop Road construction project, there is a slight delay in starting phase 3 of the project, which means that the traffic pattern will continue in phase 2 until 5 pm on Tuesday, June 11. That means that the Lot 9 shuttle service will not change until that time as well. As of Wednesday, June 12, the Lot 9 shuttle service will only pick-up and drop-off at the North Tower shuttle stop.
Geisel Graduates Celebrate the Next Phase of their Careers
On June 1, an excited group of 100 graduating medical students gathered for a final rite of passage—receiving their MD degrees and celebrating their accomplishments with family and friends at Geisel School of Medicine’s annual Class Day ceremony.
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Lawyering-up medicine
Untangling forgotten tracheal transplants of Heike and Thorsten Walles, who set a lawyer upon me
This is the story of three tracheal transplants, performed by the husband and wife team Thorsten Walles and Heike Mertsching (now Walles), former collaborators of Paolo Macchiarini. My investigation quickly led to the Walles couple setting their lawyer on me, demanding almost €3000 immediately and up to €100,000 later. Update: 2 weeks later, they had a Bavarian court sentence me behind my back to a €250,000 fine or 6 months prison term, read here. All because of a single short paragraph from this Macchiarini story, which mentioned their earlier activities. None of their current or former employers nor their lawyer chose to share any specific information about the 3 tracheal transplants, and the fate of these 3 patients.
Macchiarini and the Walleses started their tracheal transplant activities at the Hannover Medical School (MHH), under the regenerative medicine enthusiast Axel Haverich. Together, the team implanted in 2003 a tracheal patch into a cancer patient using a piece of pig intestine, and moved their separate ways soon afterwards. Macchiarini went in 2004 to Barcelona, where he had his famous trachea transplant breakthrough in 2008 (see my report here). The Walles couple went in the same year to Stuttgart in southern Germany. The thorax surgeon Thorsten to the Robert Bosch Hospital, Clinic Schillerhöhe, the regenerative medicine-specialising biologist Heike (back then carrying the name of her previous husband, Mertsching) became professor at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (Fraunhofer IGB). There, the husband and wife team transplanted between 2007 and 2009 two more patients with tracheal replacements made from pig intestine. The clinical success and the actual performance of these transplants is unclear, it is also not helpful that authors chose to omit certain key aspects when the two cases were eventually published.
The bill I received from Walles’ lawyer , with threat of up to €100,000 more to come
Heike Walles developed at her Fraunhofer Institute a technology to grow any kind of tissues and even organs in her high-tech safety bioreactors: skin, liver, intestine, bone and of course the trachea, all according to this scientist and her husband, with its own bioreactor-grown vasculature. This is how the technology works, according to Thorsten Walles as posted on ResearchGate:
“We developed a bioartificial tissue (TraVaSc-TERM ®) for the surgical reconstruction of extensive tracheo-bronchial defects including circumferent airway replacement. The tissue is generated from a xenogene biological scaffold [pig intestine, -LS] that is decellularized, preserving the structure of the vascular network. For transplant generation, these vascular structures are reseeded with autologous endothelial precursor cells of the recipient. Two more autologous cell types are needed to generate a functional airway substitute. Our approach results in a vascularized autologous transplant tissue that can be connected to the recipient’s blood supply at time of implantation to guarantee transplant survival. Tissue generation takes about five weeks. The TraVaSc-TERM ® was applied successfully in three patients between 2006 and 2009 [actually, it seems one patient was counted as two, -LS]. As a result of the ATMP-legislation in Europe the TraVaSc-TERM ®-generation process had to be transferred from an F&E environment into GMP. This task was finished in 2015 and we wait for regulatory approval”.
After her 3 allegedly successful tracheal transplants, Heike Walles became a member of the German Ethics Council (Ethikrat) In June 2010 and served the nation by safeguarding patient protection and medical ethics in Germany until September 2012. Mightily impressed by her research achievements, the federal state of Bavaria dumped in 2014 €10 Million over Heike Walles and invited her to head the new translational centre for “Regenerative Therapies for Oncology and Musculoskeletal Diseases” in Würzburg. The new director remained affiliated with her Fraunhofer institute, but additionally became in August 2009 professor at the University Clinic Würzburg. Her husband Thorsten received a professorship at the same place in January 2012. There, the couple began to collaborate with the technology giant Siemens and are apparently almost ready to churn out tissues and organs to save hundreds of patients, based on their previous success stories. As Walles’ co-worker Jan Hansmann from Fraunhofer declared in Siemens-magazine article from September 2016:
“Hansmann describes one of the major successes of tissue engineering in Würzburg: “Working with the University Hospital and the Robert Bosch Hospital, we recently produced a complete section of a human windpipe in the bioreactor and successfully implanted it into a very seriously ill patient as part of a ‘compassionate use’ program.” In fact, no other research group in the world has to date produced such a complex biological implant”.
The case of that and other two tracheal transplants was very tangled. At points, my perception was that the publicly owned German research institutions deliberately wanted me to follow false leads I picked up on internet, in order to discredit my reporting. Indeed, the fact that the Walleses used their official University Clinic Würzburg affiliations in the lawyer’s letter suggests an involvement of their employer, who received (but never really answered) my questions 2 weeks before my previous article appeared. That would be indeed an interesting new way for a German university to react to a blogger’s inquiry.
The current Walles employers, University of Würzburg and the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (Fraunhofer IGB) chose not to share any useful information with me. Würzburg categorically denied their University Clinic’s involvement in the operation described by Hansmann above, Siemens magazine refused to explain and Hansmann never replied to my email. Thorsten Walles’ former boss, head of thorax surgery at Schillerhöhe Clinic in Stuttgart, Godehard Friedel, who co-developed the technology, forwarded my email to his PR spokesperson, who refused to share any information citing protection of patient privacy. Thus, no thanks at all go to them. In the end however, I think I could reconstruct the three trachea transplants made by the Walles couple quite truthfully.
It got that bad that the press relations offices of the Fraunhofer IGB, whose job it is to promote the institute’s research and publications, repeatedly refused to name me the papers where Walles’ three trachea transplant patients had been described. I found those anyway, and I also found out that some very important aspects have been omitted from the publications. Small issues like the suspected failure of the transplants, or these patients being long dead at the time when the papers were published.
The same Fraunhofer PR officer Claudia Vorbeck who denied me any information whatsoever, also by insisting that the federally-sponsored public research institution is exempt from Freedom of Information inquiries, authored in 2009 a press release hailing one of these Walles trachea transplants (see 3rd patient below). All I was made understand was that the Fraunhofer Institute takes enormous pride in the research of their professor Heike Walles:
“Prof. Walles develops and uses methods of tissue engineering to produce the most diverse, complex human tissues that are used for risk assessment in chemical and pharmaceutical research as well as in regenerative medicine. Prof. Walles and her team use biological carrier materials for the production of these human tissues. In the course of her research at the Fraunhofer IGB, Prof. Walles has developed a biological matrix consisting of a decellularized pig intestine as a scaffolding structure for a potential trachea implant”.
Vorbeck then added:
“The research work of Prof. Walles for the development and production of trachea grafts on a biological matrix was carried out at the Fraunhofer Institute IGB according to the requirements of the German medicinal product (https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/amg_1976/). The authorities responsible in this context were always involved in accordance with legal requirements. These authorities also have all the necessary documents on good scientific practice, such as ethics or animal welfare applications”.
The University of Würzburg refuse to comment on anything which happened before Walleses became their professors. At least I managed to get this out, after some yanking:
“The professors Walles declare that the cooperation with Mr. P. Macchiarini ended already in early 2005. The last common publications stems from the year 2006“.
From H. Walles presentation to German Ethics Councilpresentation to German Ethics Council, October 2010
The first patient, or Macchiarini-led kick-off in Hannover
I reported previously about this Macchiarini operation in my article about his patients. As the local newspaper, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) reported on September 6th 2003, Macchiarini and the Walles couple transplanted the cancer patient Ernst Fromhage with a tracheal patch of decellurised pig intestine seeded with patient’s own muscle cells. The intervention was published as MacChiarini (sic!) et al 2004 and the method as Walles et al, 2004. Macchiarini is corresponding author on both publications and thus the principal investigator. Traditionally, this kind of authorship in biomedicine implies being chiefly responsible for the development and application of that technology. However, Thorsten Walles claimed the credit in a 2009 interview for himself and his wife, kind of:
„In 2003, I specialized in thoracic surgery for my surgical training. Here, I first met patients with tracheal injuries that could not be treated anymore. I was able to convince my then-boss Paolo Macchiarini of the concept of treating such injuries with bioartificial tissues. Together we modified the procedures for the production of human bioartificial tissues for trachea transplants, originally developed by Prof. Mertsching and myself. Already in 2004 we were able to successfully treat the first patient”.
Not everyone was impressed. The famous late thorax surgery specialist Hermes Grillo took an issue with this method (Grillo, 2005):
“One must also question placement of a free graft of any tissue over an area that is still contaminated, even if not grossly infected, by the bacteria that necessarily are present in such a situation, despite all cleanup treatment before repair. More to the point, however, is the fact that defects of this sort have long been closed by vascularized pedicled autogenous tissues (omentum, pericardium, intercostal muscle, and other muscle flaps). Addition of an engineered tissue graft seems superfluous”.
Yet according to Walles, the 2003 operation on the patient Fromhage in Hannover was a success for regenerative medicine:
“The implant healed easily into the airway and there were no problems. The patient lived for 16 months a self-determined life. Unfortunately, his cancer caught up with him and he died”.
Now it makes sense why back in spring 2016 the Hannover hospital refused to share with me any information about the fate of that patient, claiming that his medical records were not available.
The second patient and his half-story
Of the second patient, a 63-year old man, we do not know the name, and we do not know exactly what kind of transplant he received. This is what the 2013 book by the German journalist Bernhard Albrecht, “Patient of My Life” in its chapter “Breathing” (see Google-Books version), tells us about Walles’ tracheal transplants:
“Twice they operated patients whose windpipes were corroded by cancer. Both did not live long after the operation. The first patient [Fromhage, operated together with Macchiarini in 2003, -LS] died on his main disease, but the second one began to question all their efforts. The artificial trachea rotted namely inside his body. The fault lied with the absence of own blood supply in the artificial tissue”.
As Walles lawyer made clear, the artificial material was not plastic, where “the blood supply does not function”, but based on a biological scaffold. But the lawyer did not specify how the capillary blood supply inside dead decellurised scaffold is supposed to succeed. Macchiarini and his partners in Spain, Italy and UK transplanted many patients with such, using decellurised donor tracheas. It seems all these transplants either rotted and collapsed or were overgrown with scar tissue, unless you trust those authors’ own claims of vascularisation and full regeneration. It would be nice to know more about Walles’ pig intestine transplant and how it fared inside that 63-year old man’s throat, but alas, this is none of public’s business apparently. There was however this very informative interview from 2009 with Thorsten Walles with the German magazine The Stem Cell (Die Stammzelle):
“Dr. Walles: The technology was ready for operation from 2007 onwards. In the same year a patient with a combined injury from the trachea and esophagus was arrived to us from another clinic. The 63-year-old has been unable to eat, drink or speak for three years. He therefore had a tracheostomy and took his food through a stomach probe, which was introduced through his nose. In the 3 years, a total of 14 surgeries were performed by the various clinics on the patient in order to close the defect. Unfortunately, all unsuccessful. A surgeon who treated this patient had heard of our new procedure and referred the patient to us.
The stem cell: And you implanted a piece of the air tube?
Dr. Walles: Not immediatedly. Due to the large defect, it was necessary to use an implant with its own vascular supply. We had never done this before in a human being and we were honestly afraid to use these new implants in the chest and risk that they would fail and cause serious complications.
The stem cell: So what did they do then?
Dr. Walles: We grew a bioartificial tissue as we needed it for the repair of the airway defect and implanted it into the left upper arm of the patient.
The stem cell: Why exactly there?
Dr. Walles: The blood vessels in the upper arm are easy to reach and do not require any major surgery. We have connected the graft to the upper arm vessels with two microsurgical vascular anastomoses. After one week we removed the transplant again and it was examined by the researchers in the Fraunhofer IGB.
The stem cell: Why?
Dr. Walles: We wanted to make sure that the artificially produced vessels work in the implant and that the transplant does not die. We have therefore clinically checked whether our implant has the function we expect at all. We also wanted to ascertain whether there were any side effects, such as, for example, inflammatory reactions occurring after rejection. We had prepared a second implant for the reconstruction of the airway and esophageal end defect, which would be ready for use 1 week after explantation of the arm implant. So we had 1 week to prove how well our technology works in humans. For this the researchers at the Fraunhofer IGB had to do night shifts. The studies showed that the transplant was fully functional even after one week. The results have now been published in the scientific journal Transplantation”.
The paper appeared as Mertsching et al 2009, but it never mentions that the one-week in-arm experiment was followed up by the actual trachea transplant into the throat. Surely that bit would have been most interesting for the worldwide community of thorax surgeons and stem cell researchers? According to Heike Walles presentation to the German Ethics Council, the transplant was “fully functional over a short period of time”.
When the Mertsching et al 2009 paper was published and when Thorsten Walles gave that interview to “The Stem Cell”, the patient had been dead for almost 2 years already. This was indirectly suggested by Heike Walles’ Ethics Council presentation, confirmed by the 2013 dissertation of her PhD student Iris Dally (page 126), as well as by a press release of the state of Baden-Württemberg from October 2008 which quoted Thorsten Walles:
“Walles does not want to rush: “We want to approach the clinical application of this method slowly.” Despite all the initial successes, transplantations are still an experimental and risky intervention. There will always be setbacks. The last patient implanted with a piece of bioartificial tissue died a few weeks after surgery as a result of unexpected complications”.
Whatever their reasons to be modest, the ground-breaking tracheal replacement operation and the ensuing unexpected demise of the patient were omitted in the Mertsching et al 2009 article. What lead to his death? In his available interviews, Thorsten Walles never mentioned anything about cancer (but the Albrecht book did, see above), only a physical injury to the trachea and oesophagus, and everyone involved refused to divulge any information. It is not clear therefore why the patient died so soon after a piece of pig intestine was inserted into his chest as his new breathing tube.
The 3rd patient and another puzzle around the transplant
The interview in The Stem Cell is from August 2009, yet Walles barely mentions his 3rd patient, the Indian Pavninder Singh, whom he and his wife transplanted just half a year before with a “regenerated” piece of pig intestine. Not a single word. Instead, Walles speaks of new European regulations and changes in German medicinal product regulations, which stopped his big plans:
“In July 2009, we received funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (FKZ 0315575) to fund a clinical trial for the treatment of patients with tracheal and esophageal defects with our bioartificial transplants. First, we must provide the regulatory authorities with the information they need in order to get a manufacturer’s license at the end. Our aim is to obtain a European approval for our bioartificial tissue implants within the framework of the study”.
The trial obviously never happened, lacking approval from authorities. The Walles methodology suffered a major setback when the new German medicinal produce legislation (Arzneimittelgesetz) became officially binding on July 17th 2009, less than three months after Walleses performed the third (and apparently last) trachea transplant. According to Albrecht book, the investigations by the authorities into suspected breach of regulations were therefore aborted.
Singh originally came to Germany illegally, but integrated quickly, married a German wife and learned German language. On December 9th 2008, the young man in his twenties attempted suicide by swallowing oven cleaner fluid. Singh survived, but his oesophagus and trachea were damaged irreparably. He had to be saved by tracheostomy, a permanent hole in his throat. Because of his oesophagal fistula, the patient had to keep an erect posture at all times to avoid stomach acid flowing into his airways and lungs. In April 27th 2009, Singh received a tracheal transplant from the Walles couple, fashioned from pig intestine. This is how the University of Würzburg described the breakthrough achievements of their new professors:
“Thorsten Walles and his colleagues carried out the successful transplantation of the replacement trachea at the Schillerhöhe Lung Clinic in Gerlingen near Stuttgart in April 2009. The artificial organ was accepted by the body without rejection and adequately supplied with blood. Unfortunately, after this encouraging world premiere, the further development and dissemination of the procedure has been stalled due to European changes in the drug legislation”.
Now however, the PR person of the University of Würzburg, Esther Knemeyer Pereira replied to my inquiry that all three tracheal transplant operations by Walles took place before 2009, and had nothing to do with the university or its clinic. At the same time, the Würzburg professors Walles operated until 2014 a personal website “Bioartificial organs”, where patients were invited to contact Thorsten Walles at Clinic Schillerhöhe about “bioartificial implants for reconstructive thoracic surgery” (screenshots of the website here). This might explain why my inquiry if further tracheal transplants are intended in Würzburg went unanswered. Meanwhile, a legal action against me was being prepared.
What Walles or their academic employers never ever mentioned: Singh’s operation brought him very little relief, in fact it may have made matters worse. Shortly after the transplant was in place, other doctors re-opened the tracheostomy, the hole in the throat remained until Singh’s suicide death in December 2011. This information is only available in the Albrecht book (“the hole in his throat was his misery”), because the author met the patient personally in November 2011, shortly before Singh’s accomplished suicide:
“Why does he need the hole [tracheostomy, -LS] still? Dr. Walles initially closed it, told Singh. But then he had always been chocking, food and saliva entered the windpipe. The oven cleaner had also corroded the epiglottis in his throat. Due to heavy scarring, it did not close properly when swallowing.”
We do not know for sure if the transplant integrated as announced, but given the tracheostomy, it was unlikely to be of any use to this patient even if it did. Heike Walles declared to the Ethics Council in 2010 that the patient Singh “has no problems whatsoever”. Also her lawyer now sternly told me:
“The patient described in the book by Mr Albrecht lived self-determined life over a long period of time after the operation”.
No mention of tracheostomy, again, but the lawyer did declare that all information in the Albrecht book was correct. Thorsten Walles himself spoke in a 2014 interview (which was recently removed from the BioRegio-Stern website, backup copy here):
“We have used a method for the treatment which we have been researching on since 2000 and where we already had initial successes in the application. Since the patient wanted the treatment and we also had the impression that he can make it, we grew a trachea from the cells of his body and implanted it successfully. Unfortunately, however, this has not improved his private situation and a few years later he then took his own life”.
Asked about Singh’s suicide despite the miracle cure which allegedly restored his health, Walles elaborated:
“In the first moment, this pulled the ground from under our feet. We asked ourselves why we carried out this elaborate treatment in the first place. This experience prevented us so far from publishing our scientific results of the applied technology, because we were questioning the rationale of the treatment in this case”.
The next year however, a paper was published which described a patient case perfectly fitting that of Singh. With one exception: the patient in Steinke et al, Tissue Engineering Part A, 2015, is seemingly alive and well. Where Singh killed himself 2.5 years after the operation, his published doppelgänger was examined just after the same period and was found that he “could eat and drink normally and was also able to play soccer”. No tracheostomy was mentioned, instead:
“The early postoperative course was uneventful and the transplanted airway tissue was integrated into the host. 2.5 years after transplantation, a bronchoscopy confirmed the scar-free reconstruction of the former airway defect. Histological work-up documented respiratory airway mucosa lining the bronchial reconstruction, making it indistinguishable from native airway mucosa. After transplantation, our bioartificial airway tissue provided perfect airway healing.”
Was it indeed a biopsy as the authors report, or possibly an autopsy of a suicide victim? I tried to find out from the paper’s authors if the patient was indeed Singh. Walles’ PhD student Dally (who herself declared Singh as dead in her dissertation), threw down the phone on me, the corresponding author Maria Steinke, Chair of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine in Würzburg, did the same after telling me she is not entitled to comment. The Fraunhofer PR person Vorbeck declared to me that the responsibility for the content and correctness of the two discussed Walles publications featuring Fraunhofer affiliation lied predominantly with the clinicians who treated these patients. But not with Fraunhofer or their own scientist Heike Walles, who according to Vorbeck never performed any “human experimenting”.
Ehrung für Prof. Dr. Heike Walles: Aufnahme in die Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften: https://t.co/XyMnNYPYWc #acatech #tzkme
— Fraunhofer IGB (@FraunhoferIGB) November 3, 2016
Update 4.01.2017. A 2015 published book authored by Thorsten Walles, “What’s new in the surgery?” clearly suggests that the Steinke et al, 2015 publication describes the Indian patient Singh. Only that in that book, he is still alive and doing well. Quote, note the absence of any mention of tracheostomy and the present tense despite patient’s death years ago:
“…in total 3 patients were treated. From the last one, a 2.5 year follow-up biopsy of the tissue graft was performed and analysed histologically [14] . Bronchoscopically and clinically there is a full regeneration of the tracheobronchal defect. The patient is resilient and needs no post-operative care in terms of lung medicine or thoracic surgery”.
In that Steinke et al, 2015 publication, the authors state that they did not replace a segment of trachea, but introduced a large pig-intestine-made patch of “membranous part of the trachea”. This is strange, all other sources (like this Spiegel magazine article from 2011, or even Fraunhofer own press release) clearly suggest a replacement of the tracheal tube, not a patch. What did the second patient receive then, the one who died so soon after the operation? The corresponding Mertsching et al 2009 paper clearly showed a tubular piece of pig intestine. Yet all information is kept secret by the Fraunhofer Institute, the Clinic Schillerhöhe and the University of Würzburg. Also the Walles lawyer does not speak of that unlucky 63-year old man at all.
Clinical trial cancelled?
A scheduled clinical trial with 5 patients, funded since July 2009 by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, and to be carried out at Clinic Schillerhöhe (see 2013 Dally dissertation, page 139) was apparently not approved and never performed (Heike Walles spoke of 15 patients in her Ethics Council presentation in 2010). A tragedy, certainly for the Fraunhofer Institute and their clinic partners, maybe less so for the patients.
After the hype, these alleged successes became almost forgotten. In 2010, Thorsten Walles received a Von-Langenbeck-Award of the German Surgery Society (DGCH). The press release mentions only the first patient from Hannover, the merits are shared with Heike Walles. Paolo Macchiarini, the corresponding author of that publication, is someone whom the Walleses seem to be most reluctant to be associated with, as also the lawyer’s letter made clear.
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Klaas van Dijk
This posting reminded me to http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10336-013-1026-4 This paper reports a failed experiment in The Netherlands with free-living Black-tailed Godwits with abdominally implanted satellite transmitters. Theunis Pierma, the corresponding author of this paper and the leader of this research, can be viewed in a newsitem about this topic at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lglcU8At3w There are also other newsitems from that time about this issue in which Theunis Piersma reveals that they had made a horrible mistake,
I was wondering if you are aware if Thorsten Walles and Heike Mertsching have published papers about the issues you report and/or if they are preparing papers about these issues.
The Guardian has an article on the trachea topic today. Apparently UCL is initiating an investigation into the synthetic transplants. Lets hope is not a cover up investigation like the Karolinska did. Swedish newspapers has presented evidence for even more people involved in the scandal, some also involved in the nobel prize.
The Guardian piece is carefully worded to capture the tone of arse-covering that’s going on. Apparently all the corner-cutting and the circumvention of regulations can be blamed on Macchiarini, for creating a false “sense of urgency”.
Martin Birchall, a UCL professor of laryngology who coordinated the surgery, said that on the back of positive reports from Karolinska, the team were given approval to perform a synthetic trachea transplant under compassionate use rules.
“I was misled by those fabricated ‘positive reports’!”
In a 2008 letter the HTA said it would not stand in the way of what “could in this particular case be life-saving therapy” […]
Birchall told the Guardian that […] he would not have carried out the work without HTA approval.
“The Human Tissue Authority didn’t intervene to stop me, that’s the same as giving their approval and taking the responsibility!”
HTA never gave Birchall that approval, quite the opposite, they forbade him to even store the cells. I wish Hanna Devlin checked. Here is the letter, again https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By2HqPi4t2RbUG5TYkp1TGtsTjVFNVhsMEZDZDdKSFBSZmNz
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/dec/12/leading-uk-university-launches-inquiry-into-links-with-work-of-controversial-surgeon-paolo-macchiarini
https://forbetterscience.wordpress.com/2016/11/02/claudias-trachea/
The “Related Content” section at the foot of the Guardian piece includes links to their cheer-leading 2011 report — credited to the Press Association — of the Beyene operation:
Cancer patient receives first synthetic organ transplant
(“The patient is said to be doing well”)
and to an even more pumped-up, preposterous 2008 report of the Castillo operation.
Transplant first a giant leap for surgery.
That 2008 puffery was signed by their Science Editor, Sarah Boseley, so there was really no excuse for the uncritical stenography of Birchall’s and Macchiarini’s bullsh1t.
Yes, the letter from the HTA is clearly not giving Birchall their imprimatur of approval; it criticises him for presenting the Authority with a fait accompli, and for ignoring earlier requests that he take the steps that would make his activities legitimate.
actually, no. HTA was solely asked for permission to store cells, which they denied. Noone asked them to grow and differentiate cells and seed them on the tracheal carcass. This was done completely behind HTA’s back, unlike presented by Hannah Devlin in Guardian.
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ManilaBoy45
What used to be one of the strongest air defense organization in the Asia-Pacific region back in the 60's and 70's is now at it's lowest point in terms of it's capability to protect and defend the nation with it's obsolete and aging air assets...
http://www.paf.mil.ph/aircraft_gallery.html
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Re: Philippines Air Force
Still, retiring the F-5s to free up funds to keep the transports, observation/attack planes and helicopters flying was a wise decision. Aging is a worry of course, but obsolete... that's relative.
What do you think is the reason to keep flying the S211, what's on the drawing board, fighter jets?
Interests: Su-15, Su-27, Tu-22, Tornado, RNLAF
Niels Hillebrand
The PAF has no choice but to keep using the S-211's for now until a replacement arrives which will most likely be the T-50's or the M-346 and will happen in the next few years as a final decision on a 6 LIFT aircrafts contract signing deal is imminent in weeks to come...
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shawn a
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Hi ManilaBoy45,
So, which do you prefer, the T-50, or the M-346? And why?
And why did I just see an ad for something called the Alenia Aermacchi T-100 in AW&ST? (Looks just like an M-346 to me) Did they rename it? And just how much did Alenia use (borrow-steal) of Yak's -130 design in the "Master"?
It's not really borrow-steal, the design was a joint venture between Aermacchi and Yakovlev. AEM-130. I don't think the cash-strapped Yakovlev design bureau could have beaten MiG-AT, with French and TsAGI help (plus proven L-39 like design) without Aermacchi.
Furthermore Yakovlev can't export it outside CIS countries without Alenia's approval, as Aermacchi retained the world-wide rights.
I'm not really sure how the L-15 came about, definitely Yakovlev involvement, but not sure if it was with consent of the Italians.
But all that is going bit off-topic.
Quote from: shawn a on November 04, 2011, 04:14:54 AM
Hi there, to be honest with you I prefer the T-50 over the M-346...
http://philippineairspace.blogspot.com/2011/11/ta-50-for-paf.html
I agree, T-50 with all or half of the fleet fully capable A-50 combat jets would be a good solution for the Philippines. I think the M-346 with its integrated electronic training datalinked simulation system is more aimed at customers needing a capable training platform for advanced jet pilot training with bigger fleets and more pilots to train for more advanced aircraft. While the Koreans now offer the T-50 as light fighter/attack already, for the M-346 this track hasn't been explored further than the drawing board afaik and there's no need to go there for the Italians themselves. (unless, we're talking AMX replacement? but then, the Italian defense will face serious spending cuts in the next few years). If I'm not mistaken, the A-50 already getting his radar, while for the M-346 more attention is given to simulate having radar.
If there's ever going to be another fighter for the PAF, I'd guess second-hand F-16s, then the transition from T-50 to F-16 should be seamless, which is another pro.
lucciano85m
Philippines want to procure 12 F-16 fighter jets from the US
http://www.xairforces.net/newsd.asp?newsid=771&newst=3
The Philippines would like to procure a squadron of F-16 fighter jets from the U.S. Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said Wednesday. He and the country's defense chief will meet their U.S. counterparts in Washington next year to discuss the requests.
The US has recently announced that it is willing to help the PAF in acquiring a squadron of F-16 fighter jets, the deal could be finalized as early as April when President Aquino meets with his US counterpart President Obama during an official state visit...
http://defense-studies.blogspot.com/2011/12/us-willing-to-help-philippines-get-f-16.html
« Last Edit: January 21, 2012, 04:54:42 AM by ManilaBoy45 »
An additional C-130H aircraft will be procured in 2012 besides the 2 additional refurbished aircrafts that will be arriving in March ...
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/manila-looks-abroad-for-used-c-130h-366875/
The PAF is racing againts time to bolster it territorial defense capability , also the 1st 4 units of 8 brand new W-3 Sokols from Poland will arrive this month based on this Aviation Week article dated 02/06/12 ...
The PAF recently took delivery of 4 brand new W-3A sokol helicopters from Poland as part of the 2010 contract worth $ 64 Million for the acquisition of 8 CUH , the remaining 4 units will be deliver in the 2nd half of 2012 ... Photos below as the 1st 4 units were loaded aboard an Antonov aircraft on Feb. 12 and also being inspected upon arrival at Clark Field ...
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/philippine-air-force-receives-four-w-3a-sokols-368609/
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Emma Watson urges UN to back feminism – trolls threaten to leak her 'nude selfies'
At the weekend, actress Emma Watson gave a well-argued and reasoned speech to the UN calling for better relations between the sexes. And lo, internet trolls appear to have set up a website threatening to release nude photographs of the Harry Potter star. The site, www.emmayouarenext.com, features a 4chan logo, a badly …
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 19:21 GMT NoneSuch
"The website, www.emmayouarenext.com, features a 4chan logo, a badly rendered snap of Watson apparently crying, and a countdown clock with about three and a half days left to run."
I'm sure a few female FBI agents can be found to round up the organizers of this site before time runs out. Go get em.
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 20:42 GMT Anonymous Coward
Celebrities appear to be fair game to some, put yourself out there expect adulation, demand adulation them make a stupid comment and not expect fall out from it? Liike with Balotellis comment on Twitter about the MUFC score line, it's no surprise that he was then targeted for his comment. Expect the rough with the smooth.
Now of course the comments made at him have been deemed racist, but if he had not been such an arse in the first place this would never have been issue. It's all down to actions and consequences.
Celebs expect everyone to love them and when they don't they demand press censorship.
While I don't condone what Emma Watson has been threatened with, it's downright wrong and probably a load of tosh anyway, it she did have pictures she would rather no one saw, then don't take them in the first place.
Everyone knows privacy has gone down the toilet in this day and age, go topless expect someone to take a picture, get a blow job from a prostitute and get caught then expect the press. Don't go on a censorship crusade simply because you don't like the consequences of your actions.
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 23:00 GMT Triggerfish
@ anon
So you would have no trouble about a bunch of people now tracking you down, releasing your address, pics of your kids etc etc now, since you have put a comment on the public web?
Wednesday 24th September 2014 07:46 GMT h4rm0ny
>>"Celebs expect everyone to love them and when they don't they demand press censorship."
The endless stupid rationale of the troll - you're allowed to treat those who have achieved some fame as less than other people, because your callous actions are balanced by the fact that other people like them. Because as we all know, Karma isn't just a spiritual belief, it's a recognized scientific principle and you are its divinely appointed agent.
Or perhaps you're just rationalizing what you'd like to do anyway. I wonder which is most likely.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 09:30 GMT IsJustabloke
RE Celebrities appear to be fair game to some, put yourself out there expect adulation
Could you be anymore ignorant?
Wednesday 24th September 2014 11:22 GMT Indolent Wretch
>> it she did have pictures she would rather no one saw, then don't take them in the first place.
>> if she did have a phone she would rather no one stole, then she shouldn't have bought it
>> if she did have a bank account she rather nobody stole from, then she shouldn't keep money in it
>> If she has a vagina and she doesn't want to be raped, then she should stay behind locked doors
I've seen plenty of MRAs using the argument "well she'll pose for a sexy magazine cover to increase her fame so what's wrong with this", over and over and over, in reference to celebrity after celebrity.
Maybe people should realize this is not about privacy, that's a complete red herring.
This is about CONSENT.
This is almost only about CONSENT.
Publishing stolen nude pictures of people is a sexual act.
They have words for sexual actions that take place without consent.
"sexual assault" and "rape" are ones that come to mind.
Lecturing someone like Watson about how if she doesn't want X she shouldn't do Y is just another voice in the chorus of "well she was wearing a mini skirt was does she expect".
It's wrong. Stop it.
@Indolent Wretch
I think that may be the best comment on the topic here. Thank you.
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 20:55 GMT LaeMing
Why do they have to be female agents? I am pretty confident the majority of males in the world find this behaviour reprehensible too!
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 23:01 GMT Zoopy
Showing nude pics of her is sleazy.
But there are plenty of missing and exploited children who need to be looked for; women forced into sex trafficking; drug dealers peddling to kids; heck even drunk drivers who are still on the road.
The FBI has no business pursuing silly crap like someone exposing Emma Watson's personal photos, when somewhere a child is working forced prostitution on American streets.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 07:03 GMT Resound
And presumably they shouldn't be working on any other crimes either? Just that one worst one. The whole "As long as there are starving disabled baby seals being trafficked for sex in Syria by paedophile dictators your problems are trival" schtick is the laziest rebuttal ever. I tend to assume anyone trotting it out has nothing more relevant to offer.
>>"The FBI has no business pursuing silly crap like someone exposing Emma Watson's personal photos,"
I trust you'll remember that reasoning next time you want the police or courts to spare some times for crimes committed against you. They shouldn't pursue it because there are other crimes elsewhere in the world.
Btw, high profile targetting like this sets an example to the whole society. One reason it was good to pursue all those expenses claims scandals with MPs wasn't because of the sums involved (as a percentage of the annual cost of Westminster it's next to nothing), but because it's important that justice is not only done, but seen to be done. When society is seen to tolerate such behaviour, you get more of it and if Emma Watson can't hope to get justice done for sexual harassment, what chance do the rest of us have?
Wednesday 24th September 2014 13:26 GMT Tom 13
Re: high profile targetting like this sets an example to the whole society.
Yes it does. And for at least the last 50 years your side has used partisan reasons for ignoring certain high profile targets and but not others. You're chickens are coming home to roost.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 08:28 GMT DF118
@Zoopy
Ah, the fallacy of relative privation. Sorry, doesn't wash. The mere fact of the high profile nature of this case means it is equally if not more important to deal with than the examples you mention, pour encourager les autres.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 08:49 GMT Danny 14
Re: @anon
What about if she had no naked selfies and someone has taken the time to do a decent photoshop job with a reasonable lookie likey? Is that ok to publish then? How about if someone decided to stalk you or your missus and do the same, is that ok then?
Just because she is a celeb and has an opinion (and is willing to get off her butt and do something about it) doesn't mean you can go about threatening or extorting her. Im sure no actor/actress deserves this (even Adam Sandler).
UK might be different, but here in the States, SCOTUS says that's fair game:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell
You're right when a crime happens to you for instance, you should go to cops, they should rate it according to criteria, tell you exactly where you are in the queue and let you know that when no other crime in the country is worse than yours they'll get right on it. Until something worse comes up and then they'll stop.
That's such a brilliant idea I wonder why nobody else has every thought of it.
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 23:52 GMT Fibbles
The website emmayouarenext.com was allegedly created by the viral advertising firm Rantic Marketing.
http://imgur.com/NhFVA2X
Wednesday 24th September 2014 02:39 GMT Daniel Johnson
Re: False Flag
Companies like this put up press releases on their own fake news sites, and then rely on "real" news outlets, such as Sky News (and The Register) to regurgitate it, without doing any fact checking.
It's interesting to see the drop in traffic on the various gaming news sites such as Kotaku, since their behind-the-scenes collusion and contempt for their audience was exposed.
Lately, the Register seems to have been running more and more of these "Social Justice" stories. Perhaps they've been inflitrated by a SJW, too?
Wednesday 24th September 2014 04:03 GMT Curtis
the site that it now forwards to...
Wednesday 24th September 2014 08:55 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Rantic Marketing
Oh, that is scummy if I read that correctly.
So, they post lots of fake threats pointing at a specific website, then delete the website and redirect it to a holding page full of ads while everybody's still reading about it?
Cold corporate bloodsucking.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 12:20 GMT Graham Dawson
@Fibbles Re: False Flag
And no correction from the Reg either despite the fact that the site is now forwarded to rantic media's own site.
Come on Reg, I always thought the redtop image was a bit of clever satire.
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 19:22 GMT PCS
Looking at the site the children have moved it forward. Now sitting at 41 minutes.
Seriously, have they nothing better to do with their communal brain cell? Acting like pubescent twats doesn't do them any favours and pissing off a lot of people really isn't a Good Idea (tm)
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 20:44 GMT Vociferous
"have they nothing better to do with their communal brain cell?"
I take it you don't have much experience with Anonymous?
This is what "for the lulz" always meant.
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 22:12 GMT Oninoshiko
"Acting like pubescent twats..."
How else do you expect pubescent twats to act?
Wednesday 24th September 2014 10:07 GMT phuzz
"How else do you expect pubescent twats to act?"
The worst of it is, some of them are (allegedly) adults, who still act as if they were six years old. "urrgh, girls are horrid!"
The /b/ tools cry about their right to free speech if any moderation is undertaken but when someone else exercises their right to free speech they believe that person deserves to be punished?
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 23:40 GMT Craigness
She wasn't moderated, got worldwide media coverage and more than a million views on Youtube. But what she said was sexist, completely ignoring men's issues whilst claiming to be for equality. People need to expect some comeback for that, but not this.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 06:20 GMT SuccessCase
"But what she said was sexist, completely ignoring men's issues whilst claiming to be for equality."
You clearly didn't read what she wrote. It think she completely breaks the mould and wrote the fairest, most well reasoned most even handed argument on sexism I have ever read. The girl is not a fool, and as one of our more intelligent and well mannered celebrities and we can be proud of her; this girl was picked out for fame from an age when she can hardly fairly be called a publicity seeker and unlike most child stars has not gone off the rails or become a giant egotist. After the Harry Potter films, instead of pursuing nothing but acting and modelling contracts, she completed her studies. This girl has her head screwed on right and gives me more than a little hope it isn't all downhill when it comes to the next generation.
Like the next man I get annoyed by unreasonable feminist argument. On occasion very annoyed. Ironically the comment reaction to Emma Watsons piece yesterday in the Telegraph (read what she said and then read the comments) is actually leading me, reluctantly, to conclude feminists have a point about misogyny. Read what Emma Watson wrote and you will see it's hardly right to even call her a feminist. She accepts the word only insofar as it can be made a subset of being a meritocrat even handed and fair minded and non of us should have a problem with any of that - and she speaks up strongly for men's issues (being denied access to children etc). It's clear there are many men who wade in with abuse before they have read a single word someone has written. I find it all rather depressing.
Even if what you say is true
Read what Emma Watson wrote and you will see it's hardly right to even call her a feminist. She accepts the word only insofar as it can be made a subset of being a meritocrat even handed and fair minded and non of us should have a problem with any of that - and she speaks up strongly for men's issues (being denied access to children etc)
it is undone by her use of the term "feminist/feminism". If what she seeks is a meritocracy, let her say so clearly. Confusing a meritocracy with feminism is not helpful because feminism as practiced is quite the opposite of a meritocracy. One does not try conflate the Jewish Defense league with Neo Nazis. Similar tactics should not be used elsewhere simply because the other is not Neo Nazi.
Yes but what she said was well thought out, clearly meant a great deal to her, based at least in part on personal experience, it struck a chord with a lot of people, it was gentle and simple, it hurt nobody and was intended to bring attention to a part of our society that desperately needs improvement, a result for which she knew her fame would help.
Whereas what you said shows you to be a complete dickwad.
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 19:32 GMT Wyrdness
I can only imagine that these trolls are blessed with the similar good looks and intelligence as other, recently convicted, internet trolls such as John Nimmo and Isabella Sorley.
http://www.itv.com/news/topic/caroline-criado-perez/
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 21:28 GMT nsld
Equality in action
"I can only imagine that these trolls are blessed with the similar good looks and intelligence as other, recently convicted, internet trolls such as John Nimmo and Isabella Sorley.
Always nice to see equality in action with 50% of the people convicted of sending malicious communications to the feminist campaigner being women.
In fact this goes to the heart of the demands for equality when you have an equal gender distribution in the dock.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 02:45 GMT dan1980
I fail to see how commenting derisively on these people's looks helps. Some others feel the need to label all hackers/crackers as socially-inept teenagers lurking in their parents' basements and, again, that achieves nothing.
The fact is that the people who break into systems come in all sorts. Of course, the vast majority have an IT background but there are unemployed parents, school-aged kids, college students, well-paid professionals, and everything in between.
We gain nothing from throwing around outdated stereotypes.
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 19:41 GMT Buzzword
But will it make a difference?
It was a great speech, full of well-intentioned ideals, but what practical difference will it make? For example she asks men to sign a pledge that they'll be nice to girls. But let's face it, the kind of men who aren't going to be nice to girls simply aren't going to sign it.
It's analogous to the problem of reducing CO₂ emissions: one person acting alone will make virtually no difference to the global impact; and those who are emitting the most are the least likely to change their behaviour.
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 19:46 GMT Yet Another Anonymous coward
Re: But will it make a difference?
Why do they always choose actors for this sort of campaign, their job is to stand up and tell made-up stories convincingly.
"Why do they always choose actors for this sort of campaign, their job is to stand up and tell made-up stories convincingly."
Yes, that's why they're ideal for this sort of thing.
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 20:07 GMT TeaLeaf
The point is that if no one makes a move, then the retards think everyone agrees with them. Once people start standing up and saying 'this is wrong' then at least some of the retards will have enough sense to either to rethink their position or shut up to stop drawing attention to themselves as being society outcasts.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 12:37 GMT Buzzword
@TeaLeaf,
Thank you for addressing my concerns directly. I accept that her actions will indeed make a difference. Though for what it's worth, I suspect the nasty men will just ignore her precisely because she's a woman; the same message coming from a man might have a greater impact on its intended audience.
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 20:15 GMT h3
Saville would have probably signed it.
@h3; "Saville [sic] would have probably signed it."
Or maybe not; the guy cultivated quite a strange public persona (though perhaps the rationale for a lot of it is more obvious in hindsight).
At an rate, the reason I replied was that I can easily see mention of Jimmy Savile in certain contexts becoming a Godwin for certain types of discussion- like this one- if it isn't already.
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 20:15 GMT JDX
Well I for one don't think I'm sexist, but I'd never heard of HeForShe or really considered that most of the people standing up for women are... women. I don't really buy into feminism but that point, urging men to be equally invested in fighting for women, was worth hearing.
Part of this is leadership and commitment - someone speaking out where they could have easily stayed silent and enjoy their good life instead of setting themselves up as targets for the stupid, disenchanted and plain evil. If I were her parent I'd be seriously proud that she sees more than just her own life and is putting her profile behind something worthwhile, nerve racking as the first speech always is.
I agree with her. I personally think the spectrum of equality is wider than just gender (race is another one) but it is an excellent place to start.
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 20:48 GMT John Sanders
I suggest she goes on tour to middle east countries and tries her discourse there where it may make a difference.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 07:44 GMT JDX
Re: I suggest she goes ... to middle east countries ... where it may make a difference.
So you're claiming sexism no longer exists in the western world?
Regardless, if she enthuses western MEN to then go and fight for women in those countries where only men have power, that could still have a large impact in the East.
"...no difference to the global impact..."
Impact on what globally? Her speech is one thing, the apparent outing of her pictures is another.
This article is completely regressive, what the fuck happened?
I hate to state the obvious here, but what does this article do for women when it so blindly targets men? No one knows the identity of these low moral trolls, yet the article associates what Emma said to these trolls, implying they are men. These trolls, regardless of sex, are mean people. After reading this article, apparently all mean people on the internet are sexists men. Go team!!
This article...wow. What a bra burner!
Wednesday 24th September 2014 01:57 GMT veti
@MyBackDoor: Where does the article "target men", blindly or otherwise? I see nothing in it that prejudges or assumes the sex of anyone involved, except Ms Watson. It doesn't even use any gender-specific pronouns or insults.
And it in no way assumes or implies that "mean people" equates to "sexists [sic] men". It's your imagination that's interpolated that into the article. Which, I submit, says more about you than anyone else concerned.
veti. WTF? The article is OPENED with the sexes. Did you really not read the first sentence? Won't even paste it, just scroll up and read the opening sentence.
But veti, thank you for not reading the whole article! This helps.
Let's assume that at least the opening sentence isn't there. Can you tell me how Emma's speech for feminism and these hate monger trolls wound up in the same article? Be careful, because if it is not implied that the trolls are male to make the correlation to feminism, then one way or another you will have to directly relate feminism to..........trolls. Good luck!
Strangely enough I look forward to your answer (but read the whole article).
Wednesday 24th September 2014 04:55 GMT Eguro
Well.. I'm not Veti, but the opening sentence of the article on my browser is:
"At the weekend, actress Emma Watson gave a well-argued and reasoned speech to the UN calling for better relations between the sexes."
The gender of one person is identified - Emma Watson.
Did you see the word "sexes" and think; "Well that implies something, I guess"?
The inclusion of 4chan trolls and taking that angle is probably in order for this article to actually be suitable for ElReg - aka; Emma Watson talking about feminism isn't tech news. Emma Watson being targetted by internet trolls because of her talking about feminism is.. sorta.
There's no need for anyone here in the comments to explain why internet trolls relate to feminism, because if you read the article then it's nicely explained why it relates. Internet trolls are making a fuss over a feminist speech - tada, link established.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 07:09 GMT P. Lee
There is an unfortunate similarity of spelling between "feminist" (one who fights for women's rights, which may indeed by trampled upon) and "feminism" which is the philosophy of promoting women, presumably over non-women. The first is a practical response to a problem, the latter an ugly conflict generator, where success is often seen as making women as unpleasant as their male counterparts.
Every opportunity in the media to push the truth of Darwinism is taken, indoctrinating the young with a worldview that extends like a ladder into Nietzschean philosophy. As long as we indoctrinate our young in Darwinism (survival of the strong by out-competing the weak), the weak (physically, financially) will suffer and we will encourage solidarity between those already in power as they fend off those who threaten their dominance. Place on people the expectation that they will act like animals and they will. Crying foul because biological darwinism and social darwinism are not the same thing (cells vs thoughts) is a non-starter if you are a materialist. In any case, it doesn't have to be logical, it just needs to be pervasive in people's thinking.
Of course you don't have to go from Darwin to Nietzsche, but that is the logical progression - fight for survival -> fight for power to ensure your future survival. You don't need to read Nietzsche to make that connection. As long as people are seen as competition (as they are generally portrayed in the soaps and "reality tv" which try to saturate our living rooms) then we foster the opposite of the social good in the name of entertainment.
It is all very well to insist that people do unto others as they would like done to them, but it helps if you have some philosophical justification which fits with their worldview. Self-regulation is better than imposed law. See how much better it was well after the abolition of slavery in the Northern US as compared to the South.
>>"and "feminism" which is the philosophy of promoting women, presumably over non-women"
That is not what 'feminism' means. You've just made up your own definition for the sake of argument. Nor has what you just wrote ever been the popular definition of feminism. It is, however, a recurrent misrepresentation by those who have read little of the writings of popular feminists or feminist theory.
Here's the opening definition from Wikipedia: "Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, cultural, and social rights for women.[1][2] This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. A feminist advocates or supports the rights and equality of women"
Though I anticipate a No True Scots... ah, No True Feminist style of rebuttal that says there are some women who have this attitude and that they (despite being a small minority) are the real feminists and therefore you're correct. Presumably bolstered by some reasoning that the meaning of all words in the English language exactly adheres to your supposed etymological interpretation of them. Because as we all know, all words are exactly in line in meaning with a particular latin root of themselves.
Read some actual feminist writing before pronouncing on what "feminism" actually is.
Education is the first step. Then we educate our children who educate their children etc. I remember the 70s when it was fine to smoke, booze and leave the kids at the local labour club whilst bingo was on. Most adults these days cringe when they see kids in pubs after certain hours - it isn't socially acceptable any more. My dad remembers times when women at work would be secretaries or receptionists - certainly not bosses or line managers, this has changed and again is socially unacceptable to think otherwise.
The same can be said for sexism hopefully this will also become a thing of the past. In some respects even 4chan are accepting the backlash is wrong (or at least not lulworthy)
Wednesday 24th September 2014 06:33 GMT Fluffy Bunny
""It was a great speech, full of well-intentioned ideals, but what practical difference will it make?"
Reminds me of that famous Gillard speech. Widely praised, but completely false from opening sentence to close.
For example [Emma] asks men to sign a pledge that they'll be nice to girls. But let's face it, the kind of men who aren't going to be nice to girls simply aren't going to sign it."
Actually, they will sign it and be nasty to girls anyway. These people, by and large, don't see anything wrong with what they do.
If it gets people talking about it, it will help.
If it gets a bunch of men talking about, even if they thought like this anyway, it will help.
If some people ask other people whether they have signed up and talk about the reasons why, it will help.
If one person going down that sexist, MRA path to misogyny stops for 1 second, thinks hey I really admire that <male celebrity> why is he going on about how good that sexist bitch is... Maybe I'll just read what he says...
If it makes a small difference and all it took was a speech, then surely that's a good thing.
Just because one person acting alone can't make a difference it doesn't mean they shouldn't act.
Especially so when it's one person calling for OTHERS to act.
No, the kind of men who aren't going to be nice to girls will sign it, smile about it, and then treat them like crap anyway. You won't find them because in public they say all the right things to keep people like you happy. You in turn will laud them, and even if their sins are exposed say it was only about sex because their political positions were more important even when someone can document that it went beyond sex with mutual consent (e.g. Clinton, Lewinsky, Tripp).
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 20:00 GMT JP19
The trolls' actions merely prove Watson's point.
Hardly, the religious loons in some of these united nations who keep their women in meat lockers would like to see her flogged or beheaded. I hope they are supposed to be the target of this campaign.
The flowery drivel in her speech was more likely to make westerners barf than have any effect on those that regard women as possessions.
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 20:25 GMT JEDIDIAH
Re: The trolls' actions merely prove Watson's point.
This is the Internet. Trolls are a part of the landscape. It doesn't matter who you are or what you are talking about. This particular set of trolls trolling a particular person DEMONSTRATES NOTHING about your pet agenda.
If you troll people, they will respond. Your idea of trolling might not be the same as theirs.
It can be needlepoint. It doesn't have to be anything remotely controversial.
"DEMONSTRATES NOTHING about your pet agenda"
My post title is a quote from the article so not my agenda - sorry about the lack of quotation marks.
TROLL ALL THE THINGS!!!!
[url]https://imgflip.com/i/ce9kd[/url]
((How do you insert a url?))
Wednesday 24th September 2014 00:54 GMT ratfox
With old-fashioned HTML code, like this:
< a href="http://google.com">link</ a>
(This one is not made into a link because the tags contain spaces)
Italics and bold are also possible. You might have to have a silver badge though. Not sure if bronze is enough.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 09:16 GMT AbelSoul
Re: @John
You might have to have a silver badge though. Not sure if bronze is enough.
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 20:27 GMT Tapeador
That depends on how you think moral revolutions happen: whether via the propagation of norms, or what. I think the people of whom you speak imagine that what they do is morally acceptable - and that others think so too. If they believe others do not think it acceptable, then it seems to me less likely such activity can thrive.
So many downvotes and so much angst about Emma's tits being put on the internet. I'm sure this woman www.liveleak.com/view?i=176_1364022789 would be proud of you.
If only the people with the stones had defined her by what she was instead of what she was not and had not miss-perceived the spectrum of her gender.
p.s. The vid is NSFW - Not Suitable For the World.
As someone who frequents sites like 4chan on occasion, I just want to put it out there that many of the boards other than /b/ have some good intellectual conversation and advice on anything you ask. It's not full of muppets who make news stories like this. My two cents.
Re: Rude
8chan is the future now that 4chan has gone SJW.
Funny you should mention 8chan, because this whole Emma Watson selfie "threat" has been allegedly engineered by 8chan to attract disaffected 4chan users.
Anonymous, because, well, Anonymous.
How the hell do you frequent a site on occasion?
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 20:35 GMT The Axe
No ugly feminists
So why do women flaunt their beauty to get good acting jobs or use their feminine charms to get promotion, yet when men react to such actions they claim that men are misogynists.
Also, why do most feminists seem to be ugly? Is it because they are upset that they can't use their beauty or feminine charms and so are actually fighting against their fellow female than attacking men.
Re: No ugly feminists
Careful, that kind of talk will get you labelled as the very kind of closed minded male these folks are against
Its interesting that the real feminist campaigners of the earlier years like the 50s/60s&70s mostly have nothing to do with the current ideal of feminism, which appears to be simply about beating men over the head till they submit to women & nothing to do with equality/fairness
I'd say that it was more the case that earlier feminists felt they had to behave like men (and even give themselves male noms de plume, e.g. George Eliot) in order to be taken seriously, but they've now reached the stage of realising that some things men do really do need to be stopped or brought under control, such as most domestic violence, wars, patriarchal religion and large scale economic gambling, and they are now daring to say so.
"[...] but they've now reached the stage of realising that some things men do really do need to be stopped or brought under control, such as most domestic violence, wars, patriarchal religion [...]"
The Christian churches in many countries tend to have congregations that are predominantly women. There are many women in prominent positions who vehemently oppose any attempts to change their Church's dogma to promote the principles of equality. Even those that are enshrined in their countries' civil laws.
Credit default swaps were created by a woman (Blythe Masters), Hillary Clinton is in favour of bombing everything, and DV is NOT mostly men. However, feminists definitely are interested in only the male side of it, which is why the female half is ignored, or even considered empowering. Did you know the highest incidence of DV is in lesbian relationships? It's lowest among gay men.
The Brontes didn't need noms de plume, nor did Beatrix Potter. One paranoid authoress is not evidence of a conspiracy.
The Brontes did use noms de plume. Anne Bronte published as 'Acton Bell', Charlotte as 'Currer Bell', Emily as 'Ellis Bell'. Beatrix Potter was some generations later, and even then her attempts to publish about scientific subjects were rejected - the only things she was able to get into print were nursery-level children's stories.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 09:02 GMT Vladimir Plouzhnikov
"Did you know the highest incidence of DV is in lesbian relationships?"
Wow, seriously I didn't know that! So, the lesbians are the heaviest users of Digital Video? Who would have thought that - learn something new every day...
>> The Brontes didn't need noms de plume
I live and learn.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 07:59 GMT MyffyW
Feminism is not about berating men for their failings. It's not about stoking up a war between the sexes. It's not a cover because I don't happen to look like Kylie. It's not even about burning ones foundation garments.
Feminism is about equality, that's it. So simple, yet so very revolutionary.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 10:16 GMT sabroni
Re: Feminism is about equality, that's it.
Typical fucking SJW bullshit!
I myself prefer social injustice! (As long as I'm not subjected it, obv....)
>>"So why do women flaunt their beauty"
Quite right - women are to blame for men finding them attractive and must take responsibility for it. More veils are needed so that women can be more modest, clearly.
Women must take responsibility for their clothing choices just like men have too & yet it seems that when a woman wears a top that shows off a lot of cleavage or a skirt that is far too short in places where its clearly inappropiate, such as say an office (after all its an office, not a dating arena) nothing gets said to them.
Should a man try to wear 3/4 length trousers or shorts in scorching heat they are taken aside and told to go home & change into full length trousers
Equality & fairness eh?? Looks like it
Seriously. That's what you've got.
Start with a word designed to suggest negativity. "FLAUNT"
Because the 9 year old Emma Thompson FLAUNTED her beauty to get her acting gig.
I think you'll find. That if you look really carefully. And rank things according to what you think is fapworthy once the curtains get drawn. That most people are ugly.
If there is a hint of truth to what you've said, think about it, a world in which men judge and treat women based on their looks, and the group that end up trying to fight that aren't as good looking as the group that accept it. Is that really too hard for you to work out?
>>"If there is a hint of truth to what you've said, think about it, a world in which men judge and treat women based on their looks, and the group that end up trying to fight that aren't as good looking as the group that accept it. Is that really too hard for you to work out?"
Possibly, but the real reason for the "ugly feminist" attack is pretty much always just an attempt to dismiss feminist arguments on the supposition that their only motivation is that of a bitter loser vengeful because a man doesn't want her. It's a peculiarly sexist attack which supposes a woman's beliefs are determined by male desire. And like all ad hominems, is a way of avoiding an argument in favour or discrediting its proponent.
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 20:45 GMT BillsBacker
Not a liar..
I for one would enjoy the pics, but I would look at them only if she were sending them to me (no chance of that), so I guess I'll just keep admiring her acting and social initiatives.
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 20:48 GMT bitten
Nice?
She earned fortune and fame representing a not so nice-friendly person, and now she proposes everyone should to be nice? Come on Hermione, cool down, you signed that 'be nice' paper, did you?
Re: Nice?
You do realise there's a difference between acting and real life.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 03:37 GMT bitten
Oh mine, there is even a difference between what I say and what I do.
As for Hermione, I mostly read her as Herman and Harry Potter was Harriette, just to check the equalities (it sometimes helps with some authors)
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 21:01 GMT skeptical i
Why, oh why, in this the twenty-first century common era ...
when we have put people in a space station (and brought them back -- alive), we're still hung up on pee-pees? Brown eyes, blue eyes; white skin, brown skin; left-handed, right-handed; vagina, penis -- honestly, who cares?
Re: Why, oh why, in this the twenty-first century common era ...
LEFT HANDED?!
Good God man, you're clearly insane. You'll be calling for Ginger Equality next!
Left handed equality... Bah!
Not really funny even as a joke
Left handed & Ginger people seem to be the only folks without any protection, make no mistake its just as bad as racism based on skin colour!
Wednesday 24th September 2014 01:05 GMT Jamie Jones
I'm left-handed, and whilst it's true many things favour right-handed use, I've never once thought of myself as belonging to a persecuted minority!
FFS That's what people mean when they say 'PC gone mad'... It's seems just about everyone is a victim these days!
P.s. Any downvoters are intolerant handist scum, who should be jailed forthwith!
Wednesday 24th September 2014 08:51 GMT Charlie Clark
Why, oh why,…
Equating technological progress with civilisation is at best naive, at worst stupid: it has also given us atomic bombs, nerve gas and a heap of other things the world would definitely be much better without.
The Irony
The irony is most of these idiots are probably also squealing about infringements from getting spied on by the NSA and then think nothing about doing stuff like this and doxxing people.
I think 4chan would be daft to try it, even if the photos do exist and they do have them. Emma Watson's UN gig means that she'll have access to a lot of well connected and motivated lawyer mates.
Secondly, Ms. Watson doesn't seem to me to be the type to hide, sobbing, behind a publicist if photos are published. It would definitely be lighting the blue touchpaper; and I don't think seven proxies would be enough, somehow.
Yeah, 'cuz 4chan's droids are so scared of lawyers...
I'm willing to bet there's a substantial number of 4channers who firmly believe themselves to be so 'leet that no lawyer will ever be able to trace them, and have just the right amount of testosterone to convince themselves that they'd be striking a courageous blow for freedom by doing this.
If they have the pics.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 09:03 GMT LucreLout
"I think 4chan would be daft to try it, even if the photos do exist and they do have them. Emma Watson's UN gig means that she'll have access to a lot of well connected and motivated lawyer mates."
Go ask the ladies on one of the TOR based "dark web" revenge image sites how well legal avenues are working out for them. Lawyers aren't nearly so powerful as they like to think they are. Fundamentally, if you are willing to ignore the legal systems of several jurisdictions, why would you care what a lawyer thinks?
Please don't misunderstand my post as siding with those clowns. I don't, which is why I've not named any of the sites I was thinking of. They are, frankly, a disgrace. That said, I have a lot more sympathy with people whose spiteful exes are handing out candid photos like candy, than I do if some fame hungry starlet attracts the wrong kind of fame.
Oh come on, this is so fucking fake. The whole thing is being run by a "viral" "marketing" company. http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/835/188/ddf.png
Another false flag attack on #gamergate?
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 23:52 GMT petrosy
...ism
Feminism is just like chauvinism ..... why should we tolerate either?
Equality now there is something I can stand behind.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 08:52 GMT Tom 7
Re: ...ism
And that is what feminism is about: Equality.
Mind you it wont be long before some are calling out equality as a way of suppressing men...
No that is what feminism SHOULD be about, unfortunately the 'leaders' of such groups push for equality through 'positive' discrimination same way the races do...
I myself am not racist, and skin colour/religion/sex makes no difference to me when choosing an employee or in most other situations.. But I won't positively discriminate, I choose the best person for the job...
male/female? don't care really...
If it was me I'd make all male/female separated facilities illegal and enforce coed facilities...
I find 'women only' facilities/events sexist as much as I would male only...
really wonder what would happen if a local pool held a 'male only' swim session.... there would be uproar!
What a naive point of view.
If something is out of balance you address it. In a society where discrimination happens you try and push back the other way. Hopefully, eventually, the need for positive discrimination goes away.
How fucking tricky is that to understand?
>>"really wonder what would happen if a local pool held a 'male only' swim session.... there would be uproar"
I highly doubt that. It would probably just raise the odd eyebrow because some would assume it was a Gay event. Fact of the matter is that there is little demand for a "male only" swimming session because few men feel sufficiently uncomfortable being stared at by women that they'd require it. But for some women of muslim background, it's the only way they'll feel comfortable to swim. Most such women would probably be happy for there to be a male-only session because then people such as yourself would have less justification for criticising them for wanting a private female only session.
TL;DR: There wouldn't be a big "uproar" and there's no devastating double-standard for you to exploit here. If you think otherwise, feel free to try and organize a men only session and see if the response is outrage or apathy.
>> unfortunately the 'leaders' of such groups push for equality through 'positive' discrimination same way the races do...
Wednesday 24th September 2014 00:18 GMT Tom Maddox
Came for the privileged white males complaining about how oppressive feminism is, leaving . . . unsurprised.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 09:10 GMT Craigness
Re: Yay
If you never listen you'll never learn. #womenagainstfeminism
Wednesday 24th September 2014 01:21 GMT Infernoz
"Positive" decrimination and feminist conditioned men are oppressing men.
This nonsense ironically hurts women as badly as men, as documented in the book
"The Myth of Male Power" by Dr Warren Farrell, so the trolls attack is half justified.
Stupid Emma Watson is not helping because the solution is not more feminism and distractions like acceptance of a variance of attributes for males and females, rather it is to stop denying that men and women are different, so think and behave in the different ways, even if there is some overlap.
Too many men have been at least partially conditioned by abuse of feminism by fanatic feminist women has made it socially and legally destructive.
I'm pissed off hearing 'empowered' (spoilt) women saying the problem is 'immature' men when we should be trying to meet at the overlap, and accept and appreciate our complementary differences.
Us men should stop suffering in silence, speak up and expect to be treated as equals; that include learning to spot and no longer accepting abusive manipulation by spoilt women, so that they grow up and become better people. This needs to get political too, to roll back the destructive excesses of feminism e.g. for unfair paternity and maintenance rulings.
As for the UN; no frigging way do I have any respect or trust that gang of Socialist power usurpers.
Re: "Positive" decrimination and feminist conditioned men are oppressing men.
I see you have used the 'slaps forehead' icon.
Could you just do that again please? A few more times?
There we go - I think we got that last brain cell.
I don't believe you have read what Emma Watson wrote at all. You write multiple paragraphs about what's wrong with doctrines of women being superior, of 'denying that men and women are different', etc. And yet her speech is all about men and women being treated with equal courtesy and respect and coming together. Find anything in her speech which supports your rant, please! You've just used this as an opportunity for your own axe-grinding.
As to "recognizing that men and women are different", you clearly haven't thought through what the meaning of "equal opportunity" actually is.
Even if there are different tendencies between men and women (and the fact that gender ratios in science differ markedly between nations and cultures despite the same genetics indicates there's a long way to go before we've eliminated cultural bias), those tendencies were have to be staggeringly high to make it more efficient to discriminate on gender than individual assessment. Like on the order of 50% average difference in ability level.
It takes only a basic grasp of statistics to realise that a slight difference in average ability in an area does not support discrimination on an individual level. That is why I know you are arguing from a political / personal viewpoint, rather than on a scientific basis. And that you suppose these "differences" are primarily inherent rather than cultural / sociological is shot down rather badly by the fact that, e.g., the sexes are far more equally represented in computer programming in say India, than they are in the USA. And many similar examples.
@h4rm0ny why focus on areas where women are under-represented? Doing so will only lead to a sexist outcome, which is what we've got.
Equality of opportunity is where there are no quotas for women MPs, CEOs etc but everyone is allowed to try. Unfortunately we do have those quotas, but we don't have anything for male teachers and social workers because such quotas would not benefit women. And there is nothing to get equal representation of women fixing power lines at night in December in a snowstorm because those quotas would not give women safe, well-paid, high-profile jobs. There is nothing to enforce equal disposable income between the sexes (where women spend more than men), or to correlate benefits paid to each sex (women get more) with taxes paid by each sex (men pay more). There is nothing done to address the difference in hours worked by each sex (because that would benefit men, who put in longer hours and miss out on family time) but there are efforts to fix the difference in pay which those shorter hours lead to (because that would benefit women, who work less than men). Nobody will address what you might call the obvious sexism in university admissions (more women than men) because "we" as a society only want equality when it puts women above men. If you want equality of opportunity you are an MRA, not a feminist. Try for yourself and see what responses you get when you talk to feminists about equality rather than special privileges for women!
>>"If you want equality of opportunity you are an MRA, not a feminist. Try for yourself and see what responses you get when you talk to feminists about equality rather than special privileges for women!"
I've been a feminist since I was at school - which is quite some time ago, and I'm fairly well-read in feminist theory. I've been an active feminist on many an occasion. What you say is not true. We, on the overwhelming whole, believe in equality, not female privilege. Nearly all popular feminist writers have this position and it matches the popular definitions of feminism (and I have linked to sources elsewhere showing this). I don't need to "talk to feminists", I am one and have been active in actions that can be legitimately called feminist (and those actions had plenty of men in them also). Quite simply, stop assuming authority and pronouncing on what feminism is. You wont find anything close to a majority of feminists agreeing with your description of us which, by definition, makes you wrong.
It won't work.
He's never looked.
He probably never will look.
He's never read a single thing actually written by a feminist that wasn't first misrepresented by another MRA posting in a board about "bitches and what we need to do to fix them".
Probably a political campaign. It's hosted on the same server as a viral marketing comany called Rantic. Instead of pictures of the actress, visitors will probably be treated to a lecture about "the patriarchy" instead.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 05:31 GMT Winkypop
It's easy guys
Just don't be a dick.
Re: It's easy guys
Well said @Winkypop
Sometimes the simplest of phrases carry the greatest of meaning.
Feminism is easy: don't expect anything of women, make men a utility gender, ignore men's issues, use a sexually discriminatory term of abuse.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 07:50 GMT Richard Scratcher
Imagi Obscuro!
Wednesday 24th September 2014 08:11 GMT smithy46
Preserving modesty
What I don't understand is why anyone would care about naked pictures of themselves being released. Sure a few people might get some jollies from them but other than that I don't really see what the harm is. I wasn't aware we still had such a backward culture that believes someone seeing you naked violates you in some way or shames you. It's your body. That's what it looks like it. Get over it.
Re: Preserving modesty
Just because something doesn't bother you, doesn't mean it doesn't distress other people. And this is something that is shared by most of the human race. That you claim to be different to the majority of people (who would be distressed if private activity was shared and pawed over by the whole world), doesn't mean you should dismiss everyone else's feelings.
I think that ANY release of photos that were not intended for public consumption is a violation, whether its clothed or not, makes no difference IMHO, it is the release itself that is the violation...
The problem with modern society is that people hide their bodies.... if your from a society where people don't hide their bodies so much, then nude photos of celebs loose their shock appeal...
Hell in the US of A there was a massive uproar over a nipple... in the UK we (i hope) would have just had a very big laugh...
People might start saying 'think of the children' but if a child can't see a boobie without giggling then that is a bad sign...
I have no problem with my children seeing nudity, I have more of a problem with them seeing too much violence.. and I have no worries about them seeing sexual content, my son sees a couple kiss on tv and he hides his eyes!
"I wasn't aware we still had such a backward culture that believes someone seeing you naked violates you in some way or shames you."
It is interesting that any threat to blackmail someone with their naked pictures is actually using the weapon of our societies' attitudes. It is society who does the damage to the victim by making them feel it was wrong to ever want to see their own body from an independent perspective.
Blackmail, or humiliation, only works if a society's mores encourage a particular censure of an individual.
President Sukarno of Indonesia was set up by the KGB covertly filming him in a Russian hotel room with some women. He spiked their subsequent blackmail attempt by ordering several copies of the film for distribution in Indonesian cinemas. By Indonesian mores the images would show him as a man to be respected.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 09:16 GMT Stretch
This has been orchestrated by a sock puppeting advertising agency. Nothing to do with 4chan at all, just using their name.
Best thing to do with a photo leak threat is to release your own professional photos, much better than having crap selfie photos released...
That is what I would do anyway... if anyone would want to see me naked that is...
Wednesday 24th September 2014 09:29 GMT teebie
Churnalism
So there was never any evidence the site was set up in response to Emma watson's speech, and it turns out the site wasn't set up by the 4chan "community", but was part of a bizarre pro-censorship pseudo-feminist(*) campaign by Rantic. But The Register happily repeated their guff anyway.
May I suggest hiring some less credulous writers?
(*) If your feminist campaign's means are to lead people to believe that the result of giving a pro-feminist speech is a nude photo backlash then you aren't very good at promoting feminism.
If your feminist campaign's means lead Emma Watson to believe that nude photos of her will be released as part of an agnry internet campaign of harassment then you don't seem to be particularly keen on treating women well.
Re: Churnalism
In what bizarre reality do you equate the clear wrong of publishing stolen intimate pictures of people without their consent with "pro-censorship"?
The emmayouarenext site redirects to a site calling for 4chan to be shut down, i.e. censored.
I'll admit it is a pretty bizarre reality, but it's the reality we live in.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 10:14 GMT Crisp
See title.
The problem with this story is that it turns out that the threats were fake created by a rather bizarre feminist pro censorship group.
The second problem is a genral context and environment where it is taken as a 'fact' that women on the internet receive a disproportionate amount of abuse when the only study done on the subject is that the opposite is true with women treated better and abused less than men. http://demos.co.uk/press_releases/demosmalecelebritiesreceivemoreabuseontwitterthanwomen
Along similar lines the story of threats against Anita Sarkeesian is looking shaky to say the least.
It matters when journalists propgate false and misleading views of the world because actions are taken based on false information real problems are ignored or solutions implemented that do not address the nature of the problem. Stories that confirm our assumptions and prejudices need just as much checking, perhaps more than those that do not.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 12:00 GMT John Deeb
Emma: "Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. .... start defining ourselves by what we are — we can all be freer and this is what HeForShe is about. It's about freedom."
But this implies they also should be free, men and women, to be very insensitive and defining themselves as a troll, by haunting celebrities on soapboxes? Her rhetoric goes nowhere. Since the dawn of time the person on the stage has been subject to praise and rotten tomatoes in all shapes and forms. The whole world wide web is a stage nowadays and we are merely surfers, icons, avatars and tweets. This whole thing seems up-side-down logic: the limelight is so harsh, please dim the audience!? Keanu Reeves has more right to complain with the female stalkers in his house lately.
www.emmayouarenext.com currently goes to a page saying "shut down 4chan"
The page was created by some organisation called rantic, which pretended to be 4chan trolls. They seem to want 4chan to be closed.
All very strange and very pointless.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 14:20 GMT Connor
Why is it always men in the firing line? Of the people that I know that looked at the pictures, at least half were women. When the Tulisa sex tape came out, it was only women that had seen it from amongst my peers, they were all laughing and joking about it. I don't like this attitude; it is women taking the photos (or posing for them), storing the photos on their phones, insouciantly storing them on various online services and yet it is the purely the fault of men for viewing them. Apparently men need re-education for having the desiring to view pictures of women, however the women drooling over half naked pictures of Alexandar Skarsgaard and demanding more are merely exhibiting a natural inclination and need no re-education.
Wednesday 24th September 2014 23:43 GMT AsherGoldbergstein
Do your research before parroting what every other site is reporting Ian, it only makes the site look bad. Your job is to report the news, not produce an opinion piece of you foaming at the mouth.
how much does this manufactured fake attack do for generating sympathy and/or support for Ms. Watson and her causes?
Methinks "marketing" in this case turned out to be very beneficial. It adds to credibility have some howling around when you're elling about wolves. And the sympathy of "poor girl under attack" makes deflection of criticism even easier.
Monday 29th September 2014 16:22 GMT masculinitybelongstomen
Mature masculinity belongs to men. Masculine women who reject femininity are immature.
Feminism: cowards unable to fight their own battles, so obviously misguided in nature.
Using their sex appeal to persuade the masses, selling it online to promote their name, playing the victim to fulfill the agenda.
Lets continue to piss of the rest of the world and promote world war 3 all in the name of... women's rights?
Sounds like a good agenda, get every man on earth to want to die for your cause, be left with 20% of a male population... EXACTLY WHAT feminism and feminists keeps saying they WANT PUBLICLY.
How stupid are people? pretty freaking stupid. Baaaaad sheople. Baaaaad.
Wednesday 5th November 2014 10:11 GMT Mooseman
Re: Mature masculinity belongs to men. Masculine women who reject femininity are immature.
Uh....feminists are openly campaigning for an 80% cull of the male population and are demanding WW3 to achieve this ?
Whatever you are on...can I have some?
I'm frankly astonished at the caveman attitudes displayed in this thread - feminism is about equality of treatment of both men and women, for example equal pay for doing the same job no matter if it's working in IT or engineering.
I'm not in favour of positive discrimination or "quotas", I don't believe they do anyone any favours, but I am in favour of an equal opportunity for both sexes to do the job in question, whatever it may be.
Thursday 2nd October 2014 12:58 GMT Anonymous Coward
Emma Watson nude photos? why take them if they are so embarressing
There seems to be a thing at the moment with people taking photographs of themselves that they are embaressed about, so why do they take them?. I personally have never felt the need, nor can understand why anyone would but then again I would not like to be in TV or any other form of publicity
From what I have seen of the various industries that make millions from pandering to the "public need to know" then the cost would be far to high. That so many "stars" have commit suicide or need to abuse drugs suggests that the environment in which they "work" is bad for you, unless of course you were already sick to begin with.
So when one of these "stars" says anything then I am going to apply a fairly large mountain of salt, it doesnt matter if they are even close to the truth because the source is IMHO tainted and is alien to me.
As to Miss Watson, I had to endure the Harry Potter films due to my children having read the books and it was very clear from first glance that this actor is tainted. The way she moves and her facial expressions speak of her inner hatred, you could already see the too often expressed snarl being etched into her face and this was in the very first film when she was school age. If she took embaressing photographs of herself are we suprised or even care? I don't, she is after all just being herself, if anyone is surpised by her actions then they really are immature.
In the western world here has been an over swing on the sexual bias scales, it doesnt matter because the scales will never be balanced. As ever the same people who will use anything to gain power and publicity are trying to push it further but don't worry the harder they push the further it swings back on the next cycle.
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HomeIf Amsterdam purges prostitutes and pot shops from city center, will Jewish sites suffer?
If Amsterdam purges prostitutes and pot shops from city center, will Jewish sites suffer?
Orit ArfaSeptember 30, 2020 AmsterdamImage by Orit Arfa
Image by Orit Arfa
Will the pandemic lockdown inspire Amsterdam to purge the sex and drugs from its historic core and focus more on its Jewish cultural heritage? Some natives hope so — but not necessarily the Jewish community.
Like most of its European neighbors, Holland closed its borders during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic along with its schools, restaurants, museums, and its notorious tourist magnets: weed shops and brothels.
As soon the country re-opened in mid-June, thousands of tourists from surrounding countries poured into the compact city center. Already in July, hotel occupancy spiked up from 10% of capacity to 50%. But for some locals, the post-lockdown period is not attracting the tourists they had hoped for.
“Keep Your Distance” sign in Amsterdam
“The lockdown was great because there were no more tourists…there was zero tourism,” said Bernadette de Wit, a blogger and journalist who lives in the Red Light District, historically known as De Wallen. She witnessed Amsterdam tourism surge to a whopping 19 million visitors per year in 2019. “So for the first time after 10 years, we could enjoy our neighborhood again,” she said.
Locals described meeting their neighbors for the first time, and leaving their canal-lined homes without running into masses of often dazed or drunk foreigners.
De Wit is a member of an NGO called “Stop the Madness” which has been lobbying city officials to relocate De Wallen to an “erotic center” in the city’s outskirts. The NGO has succeeded in getting the city to purge references to the Red Light District from city signage so that what’s highlighted are magnets for “civilized tourists,” including the Jewish Cultural Quarter, a package of Jewish-themed museums financed by public and private funds.
Sitting at a cafe along a canal, the smell of weed creeping to the table from pot smokers nearby, de Witt pointed out that tourism is back, almost to pre-pandemic levels.
“Overtourism, I call it,” de Wit said
Amsterdam’s Spinoza Monument in the historic Jewish quarter
Amsterdampartners, a non-profit in the public-private sector that offers city guidance to visitors and the media, discourages journalists from promoting the Red Light District, since foreigners frequenting the sex and drug establishments, particularly young British tourists, draw complaints about noise, litter, and misbehavior.
“We know from experience that, unfortunately, this quarter is often used as a mere backdrop for their ‘fun party weekend,’ and the people often erroneously believe that in Amsterdam ‘anything is allowed,’” said Marieken Penders, the organization’s international press officer. She proudly directed this reporter to the Jewish Cultural Quarter, which has seen a ticket sales downturn of 70% in recent months.
During Amsterdam’s Golden Age from the late 16th to 17th century, when city leaders founded the world’s first multinational known as the Dutch East India Company, former Marranos from Portugal found a home along the canals of the historic Jewish quarter. They practiced their religion freely, giving Amsterdam a reputation as Europe’s most tolerant, liberal city.
Its iconic symbol is the majestic and active Portuguese Synagogue, a centerpiece of the Jewish Cultural Quarter along with the Jewish Historical Museum and a national Holocaust museum currently being renovated.
But according to Esther Voet, editor of the weekly Jewish newspaper, Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad, the city, in seeking to discourage tourism, is keeping visitors away from Jewish sites as well.
“We are dealing right now with a very left-wing town council, and they are, anyway — whether there is a corona lockdown or not — trying to diminish the tourists here in Amsterdam,” she said in a telephone interview. New housing regulations and increased parking fees make the city center less inhabitable for low-budget tourists and residents.
Voet lives about a mile away from the Red Light District near the Anne Frank House, which attests to the tragedy that befell the pre-WW2 population. Close to 80,000 Jews lived in Amsterdam before the Nazis deported and murdered some 80%. Voet would often see Israeli and kippah-clad tourists waiting in line for the House up until the lockdown. It’s now fully booked for weeks to come, but that’s because all museums must abide by coronavirus-based quotas.
“My neighborhood is pretty popular with Israelis, and now I seldom hear the language,” Voet said.
Although, judging by some signage, not all Jews come for the cultural heritage. Coffee shops and strip clubs advertise in Hebrew. “Seeds here” and “Live sex onstage” can be spotted in the Biblical language.
Brothel across from the Old Church in the Red Light District
Amsterdam prostitution dates back to the 14th century, just like its oldest standing church, the Old Church, the patron church of sailors — who also patronized the prostitutes.
The church, ironcally or appropriately, is located directly across from the Prostitution Information Center. But de Wit believes today’s sex workers are a far cry from the harbor city’s historic prostitutes who worked in discretion in closed brothels. Today’s sex workers consist mostly of women from poor Eastern European and Latin American countries who parade their lingerie in windows not shielded even from children. About 40% of the European prostitutes fled during the lockdown, but most are returning.
Numbering about 25,000, the Amsterdam Jewish community is largely disconnected from the Red Light District debate, said Voet. Most have moved southwards, away from the center, and the dilapidated tenements of the Renaissance-period Jewish quarter have been demolished to make way for Amsterdam’s City Hall. But for private individuals, as opposed to state-funded museums, like the Jewish Cultural Quarter, the lack of tourism is troubling.
“The Jewish community wants tourists, especially Jewish tourists,” Voet said. “For example, all the businesses—the food business and Jewish restaurants—really hate the fact that we don’t have tourists right now.”
In the tradition of the city’s tolerance, she believes the Red Light District should remain given its traditional place in Amsterdam and the tourists it brings, johns and Jews alike. What annoys her most about the current crop of tourists is that some flout social distancing guidelines.
“If people are going to live there because it’s a very beautiful area and start complaining about the prostitutes, then live somewhere else,” Voet said.
De Wit, on the other hand, had hoped the pandemic would reset Amsterdam’s tourism landscape, but City Hall, she said, is stalling. In the meantime, she’ll do her part.
“If I walk through my neighborhood and see an elderly Italian couple with a tour book in their hand and they ask about the Jewish Historical Museum or the Hermitage, I’ll happily take them there. I’m so service oriented,” she said. “But if tourists form the wrong type of tourism, from overtourism, ask me about the coffee shops—’I want to smoke a joint’—or they ask for the window prostitution, then I send them the wrong direction.”
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Daniel J. Harrington writes: “Several factors point to Alexandria in Egypt as the place of composition: the use of Greek, the philosophical concepts, the focus on the exodus, the polemic against Egyptian animal-worship, and so on. A date in the first century B.C.E. seems most likely, though any time from the second century B.C.E. to the first century C.E. is possible. Efforts to link it with a specific crisis in the history of the Jewish community at Alexandria such as the threat posed by the cult of the Roman emperor Caligula (37-41 C.E.; see 14:17) have not won much support.” (Invitation to the Apocrypha, pp. 55-56)
David A. deSilva writes: “There is wider debate concerning the date of Wisdom, which has been placed anywhere between 220 B.C.E. and 100 C.E. The terminus a quo is set by the author’s use of the Greek translation of Isaiah, Job, and Proverbs, the first of which was probably available by 200 B.C.E. (Reider 1957: 14; Holmes 1913: 520). Theterminus ad quem is set by the evident use of the work by several New Testament authors (Holmes 1913: 521; Reider 1957: 14). A date within the early period of Roman domination of Egypt, especially the early Roman Principate (or Empire), seems most likely. First, the description of the development of the ruler cult in 14:16-20 best describes not the cult of the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt, a cult that was organised and promoted from the center, but the spontaneous, decentralized development of the imperial cult under Augustus, who was also Egypt’s first ‘remote’ ruler since Alexander (Holmes 1913: 521; Oesterley 1935: 207; Winston 1979: 21-22; Collins 2000: 195). Second, the author uses some thirty-five terms or phrases unattested in secular Greek before the first century C.E. (Winston 1979: 22-23 and n. 33). Further, Gilbert (1984: 312; 1973: 172) has detected a critique of the pax romanain 14:22, ‘through living in great strife due to ignorance, they call such great evils peace’ (cf. Tacitus Agricola 30), and considers the author’s address in 6:1-2 to the ‘judges of the ends of the earth’ who ‘rule over multitudes, and boast of many nations’ to fit the Roman imperial period better than its predecessors.” (Introducing the Apocrypha, pp. 132-133)
J. Alberto Soggin writes: “At least in the view of those who attributed the work to Solomon (who certainly did not write in Greek), the original language of Wisdom would seem to have been the Hebrew of the classical period. On the other hand, traditions handed down by the Muratorian canon and by Origen, Jerome and Augustine among the church fathers, contrast with the theory of an original Hebrew text. Jerome in particular insisted on the Hellenistic character of the work, especially as regards the book’s oratory. In passing, we might point out that this is probably the first case of the application to a biblical book of the method of the history of literary genres. Practically all scholars, even in conservative circles, agree that the book should not be attributed to Solomon, while a linguistic examination of the work also rules out with a reasonable margin of certainty that its original language might have been Hebrew or Aramaic. There are too many technical terms and expressions typical of the world of Hellenistic philosophy for one to be able to conjecture that Wisdom was originally written in a Semitic language. It might be conceded that in ch. 1 we still have the relics of a translation of some kind, but the treatment has been so free that the final result is very far removed from the archetype.” (Introduction to the Old Testament, pp. 444-445)
Addison G. Wright writes: “Many scholars have proposed that Wis is the work of more than one author, and they distinguish two independent sections (1:1-11:1; 11:2-19:22 or 1-5; 6-19); some point out even three or four sections. Arguments in favor of composite authorship follow: the difference in style and tone between the first and last parts of the book; the absence of references in chs 11-19 to wisdom (save for 14:2, 5) and immortality; a number of striking linguistic differences, especially in the use of particles and in the choice of words (see Holmes, op. cit., 522-23). However, the majority of critics since Grimm defends the unity of authorship, finding that the factors mentioned are far outweighed by the homogeneity of vocabulary and of outlook throughout, as well as by the mutual cohesion of the parts. The differences between the sections are accounted for by postulating that some interval of time elapsed between their composition, the artistically and theologically inferior chs. 11-19 perhaps being written in the author’s old age (P. W. Skehan, Traditio 3 [1945] 5).” (The Jerome Biblical Commentary, p. 557)
James M. Reese writes: “As a unified whole the Wisdom of Solomon belongs to the literary genre of protreptic, a genre of rhetorical exhortation in Greek philosophy. The sprawling genre of protreptic met the author’s needs, namely, to justify God’s actions toward the Israelites, to encourage Jewish readers to love their revealed tradition, to display encyclopedic knowledge capable of impressing sophisticated readers, and to portray biblical morals as superior to Hellenistic. The case is argued with great skill by a creative use of figurative language and literary allusions. The author’s skill at coining new compound words compares favorably with that of the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus.” (Harper’s Bible Commentary, p. 820)
James King West writes: “Among the characteristics of Wisdom, two are of particular interest. First, the afterlife is described in terms of the Hellenistic dualism which debases matter in contrast to the immortality of the soul, rather than the Judaic concept of the resurrection of the body (cf. the remarkably beautiful passage in 3:1-9, also such vss. as 8:13). Second, the personification of wisdom, introduced, for eaxmple, in Proverbs 1-9, is here carried much farther than in any parallel Judaic literature. In Proverbs the personification is symbolic, but in this book wisdom is described in terms intended to be taken quite seriously as: ‘a kindly spirit’ (1:6); ‘radiant and unfading’ (6:12); ‘the fashioner of all things,’ whose twenty-one attributes include intelligence, holiness, mobility, omnipotence, interpenetration, and the like (7:22); ‘breath of the power of God, and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty’ (7:25); ‘spotless mirror of the working of God, and an image of his goodness’ (7:26; cf. 10:1, 5, 6, 9; 11:1; 12:1). These descriptions of wisdom, especially the crucial passage in 7:22-8:21, reflect the increasing emphasis on the transcendence of God characteristic of later Judaism, combined with an unmistakable influence from Hellenism. How far the author intended his definition of Wisdom as an intermediary between God and the world is impossible to say. Viewing his words from the perspective of Greek thought, it would probably be easy to read too much into them. Whether consciously or not, he nevertheless spoke a language that during the next two centuries and later was to play a profound role in religious development.” (Introduction to the Old Testament, pp. 464-465)
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Male stripper goes to nursing home, elderly resident’s son goes to court
by: Matt Adams - Web Producer
Posted: Apr 11, 2014 / 08:19 AM EDT / Updated: Apr 11, 2014 / 08:21 AM EDT
By Steve Almasy
(CNN) — Somebody at a New York nursing home apparently thought it would be a great idea to bring in a young hard body for the elderly residents to watch dance.
In other words, a male stripper.
But after a man found a picture in his 86-year-old mother’s belongings of a man wearing only “tighty whiteys” hovering very much in his mom’s personal space, the lawyers got involved.
Bernice Youngblood, the wheelchair-bound resident whose son, Franklin, is suing the home on her behalf, told CNN affiliate WCBS, “I felt terrible. I was shaken and going on.”
WCBS reported that the East Neck Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in West Babylon said all 16 people on a panel of residents approved the show.
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“There is nothing inappropriate about it,” the facility’s attorney, Howard Fensterman, told reporters on Tuesday.
Fensterman, according to the WCBS report, said that Bernice Youngblood enjoyed the event and was chaperoned by her son’s live-in girlfriend, who the nursing home said appears in the photo.
The family said the woman in the photo is a nursing-home staff member.
According to a lawsuit filed last month, Bernice Youngblood, who the suit says has partial dementia, was “confused and bewildered” when the stripper approached her and directed her to “place her hands about and upon his body, including his genital area.”
The suit contends the home has hired male strippers on other occasions for the “perverse pleasure of the defendant’s staff.”
Franklin Youngblood said his mother was forced to tip the stripper with her own money, which is supposed to be locked away at the nurses’ station.
“There’s too much sex and craziness that’s going on. Now they’re bringing it to the nursing home, and it don’t belong here,” he told WCBS.
The suit is asking for a financial judgment of unspecified amounts from a jury at trial. It is unclear from the legal documents when the stripping incident occurred.
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Preclinical and Patient Studies of Affective Disorders in Serbia
Radulovic, Jelena
Northwestern University at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
Search 33 grants from Jelena Radulovic
Search grants from Northwestern University at Chicago
Biogenic Gas Nanostructures As Molecular Imaging Reporters For Ultrasound
The Effect of Neonatal Anemia and Its Treatments on Brain Development
Unbiased discovery of mechanisms regulating circRNA
Role of chemokine Receptor CXCR7 in prostate cancer progression
High-throughput screening and stem cell modeling of causal eQTL variants
Characterization of PDGFR dimer-specific dynamics in the craniofacial mesenchyme
Rooted in recent wars, displacement, and socio-economic instability, Serbia has established a 13.5% increase in the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depression, making them the second largest public health problem in this LMIC country. In parallel, the health system has deteriorated, facing multiple challenges in areas of basic and clinical research. Most recently, a health care reform has started to address these problems at different levels. This proposal aims to join this initiatie by developing a collaborative program between Northwestern University (USA) and Vinca Institute (Serbia) in basic and translational research relevant for major affective disorders. The short-term goal of this collaboration is to initiate the discovery of molecular endophenotypes of PTSD by focusing on a newly proposed interaction between the glutamatergic and glucocorticoid (GC) systems. Our central hypothesis posits that the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDAR) subunit NR2A essentially contributes to PTSD- and depression-like behavior by regulating the nongenomic and genomic actions of GR. We will test this hypothesis by three specific aims designed to: (1) Establish the role of NR2A deficiency in fear regulation, depression, and GR signaling, (2) Determine whether the behavioral effects of NR2A deficiency can be rescued by nongenomic or genomic GR, and (3) Initiate collection of blood samples from PTSD patients to validate the preclinical findings. After completing the study, we expect to have determined that membrane- impermeant GC will rescue the glutamatergic deficits underlying PTSD-like behavior without exacerbating depression-like behavior. The resources will be used for building capacity for PTSD research in Serbia by training LMIC personnel, acquiring research equipment, and generating pilot data for a large-scale proposal aiming to identify novel treatment, diagnostic, and prognostic molecular targets of PTSD. The long-term goal is to develop a strong translational program in Serbia in the area of major affective disorders and initiate cross-cultural studies between the collaborating institutions. The research is primarily designed to establish the use of blood molecular phenotypes for the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of patients suffering from major emotional disorders.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has recorded a steep increase in Serbia in the past decade due to recent wars, displacement, and socio-economic instability. Similarly, the prevalence of PTSD is expected to rise significantly in the USA given the injuries in recent wars. We propose to build the capacity at the Vinca Institute (Serbia) for studies of PTSD, develop a strong cross-cultural program in basic and translational research with a laboratory at Northwestern University (USA), and thus accelerate the discovery of novel therapeutic, diagnostic, and prognostic targets for PTSD.
Exploratory/Developmental Grants (R21)
1R21MH098793-01A1
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1-BDCN-N (55))
Meinecke, Douglas L
Northwestern University at Chicago
R21 MH Preclinical and Patient Studies of Affective Disorders in Serbia
Radulovic, Jelena / Northwestern University at Chicago $110,647
Adzic, Miroslav; Brkic, Zeljka; Mitic, Milos et al. (2018) Therapeutic Strategies for Treatment of Inflammation-related Depression. Curr Neuropharmacol 16:176-209
Lukic, Iva; Mitic, Milos; Soldatovic, Ivan et al. (2015) Accumulation of cytoplasmic glucocorticoid receptor is related to elevation of FKBP5 in lymphocytes of depressed patients. J Mol Neurosci 55:951-8
Jovicic, Milica J; Lukic, Iva; Radojcic, Marija et al. (2015) Modulation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase signaling and specific glucocorticoid receptor phosphorylation in the treatment of major depression. Med Hypotheses 85:291-4
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COUNTERFEITING BULLION AND THAT ISIS GOLD
As you can tell, I've been on a "money" theme this week, because believe it or not that's what the bulk of articles that people sent me were about. There is definitely "something in the aether" with this. It is, as they say, "trending." When I scheduled this week's blogs, however, due to one thing or another, I wasn't able to compose or schedule today's blog until Wednesday (Mar 6), but in a way, I'm glad I didn't, as Ms. C.M. spotted a story that once again goes directly to this week's "theme in the aether": gold, and counterfeiting. But first, there's another strange story that also emerged in the articles, and it concerns an alleged "deal" the USA made with ISIS, a kind of "we're making you an offer you can't refuse":
US Army Takes 50 Tons Of Gold From Syria In Alleged Deal With ISIS
The essence of the "deal" is just about as simple, and Mafia-like, as it gets:
As the remaining pockets of ISIS fighters faced imminent defeat in northeast Syria, the United States allegedly gave them an offer they couldn’t refuse: give us your massive caches of gold - or die.
According to reports by Syrian state news agency SANA, U.S. forces struck a deal with ISIS whereby the terrorist group would give up 50 tons of gold across eastern Syria’s Deir el-Zour province in exchange for safe passage.
The precious metal, worth about $2.13 billion, was plundered by the self-designated “caliphate” as its reign of terror spread across Syria and Iraq between 2015 and 2017.
The more things change... It's an old part of "the playbook": rather than staring down the muzzle of a Venetian bombard, ISIS was staring at fuel air bombs and helicopters; different technology, same playbook. It's called "the protection racket."
But needless to say, I have to wonder if that's the whole story, and herewith a bit of high octane speculation based on my speculation from Tuesday's blog earlier this week (Mining, Mergers, Monopoly, and "Perfecting the Capital" part two). Without reprising my whole high octane speculation from that day, I did hypothesize that eventually bullion might be implanted with a kind of "nano-tagget" much like explosives are, which would allow said bullion to be monitored and tracked from the point of origin (the mine) to the point of sale (the banks). What I did not mention was a rather obvious implication of that idea, namely, that if one were to do something like that, then one would have to gather up all the gold running loose out there in order to make such a step effective. In that respect, I do find it odd that in recent years we've seen a spate of countries buying up gold and attempting to repatriate any reserves held by foreign banks. I am not disputing the conventional reasons being advanced for this activity, but with the advances in technology, I have to wonder if something like my "nano-tagget" scenario might be in play in advance of some sort of "reset" scenario.
But then Ms. C.M. spotted this story, which made me sit up and think that maybe my wild idea was not so wild after all:
The Arms Race Between Gold Counterfeiters and Bullion Testers Is Heating Up
Now, the article makes clear what we all know from basic high school chemistry (or at least, what used to be basic high school chemistry before the Great Dumbing Down Era intervened to focus everyone on how they've been victimized): gold has unique signatures that cannot be "faked" and relatively simple tests will reveal it.
So where's the high octane speculation here? Well, join me as we walk right off the end of the twig on this one. Suppose for a moment, just suppose for the sake of argument, that alchemy was real, that there was some secret process of producing gold from "base metals". I would be, I aver, a closely held secret. Indeed, alchemical texts seem to allude not only to the reality of the idea, but also to guard that "secret" (if any) rather closely and carefully. Some of them allude to the production occurring in "putrefying dung", a strange reference that anyone familiar with alchemical texts will have encountered repeatedly. When I first did some years ago, the idea seemed laughable, and the whole thing was usually explained by scholars of such texts as being a sort of "code" for something else. There was, of course, little if any agreement on what that "something else" might be. Then a story appeared about a little bacterium that goes around eating things, and - well, there's no delicate way of putting this - pooping out gold. And not just any poop either, this is pure 24 karat poop. (See A bacteria that poops gold? Yep, that exists, and it’s in an art exhibit. (video))
It does not take much imagination to realize that someone, somewhere, will be thinking in terms of "economies of scale" and having gigantic farms of said bacterium gobbling up all sorts of toxic metals and golding out commercially useful quantities of poop... er... pooping out commercially useful quantities of gold. Someone will try to figure out some way to scale up the process. And most likely, if they are successful, they will try to keep the whole thing secret. And if one extends the speculation a bit, it's fairly easy to figure out the types of people that would do that: people with access to a lot of money, and able to conduct the research to do so: people at the pinnacle of deep states and covert infrastructures. And of course the catch with the little gold-pooper is that it is actually breaking down the gold in gold chloride, so the gold is there to begin with. But... with a little genetically engineered modification, who knows? Call it alchemico-genetic engineering.
And how would they introduce said gold into the "stream"? Well, one way might be by buying up lots of gold mines, and sneaking their own bacterio-alchemical product into the mix.
... yea, I know... It's a crazy idea...
44 thoughts on “COUNTERFEITING BULLION AND THAT ISIS GOLD”
Sasha Toltec
Remember this guy Mark Sullivan on Shark Tank TV?
He has over 1000 patents? And this one is for renewable energy and gold:
https://bastianpr.com/portfolio-posts/mark-sullivan-inventor-shark-tank/
Syncromyst
Here maybe a tip off that something’s up with the gold supply:
The Sun posts a history lesson article that tells of Mansa Musa, king of Mali in the 14th century who had so much gold he crippled other countries economies by simply gifting them with gold.
“Mansa Musa generously gifted gold in Cairo during his three-month stay, consequently causing the price of gold to plummet for ten whole years, crippling Egypt’s economy.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8603268/mansa-musa-richest-man-ever-crippled-economies/
To me, the article seems so out of place the story of gifted gold sounds like a warning.
There appears to be no shortage of anything on this planet. Wars appear to be in part an attempt to maintain artificial scarcity of many resources to control their price; and the pace and direction of development of humankind. A lot of goldmines were shut down by governments to drive up the price of gold. There are huge deposits all over the world that are not mined because it would destroy the value of gold and thus the power and influence of those who use it in part for power and influence. That article might well be a threat and reminder to those looking to undermine those who currently hold most of the power and influence over our destiny.
“a threat and reminder”, I like that, Roger!
I second Syncromyst,
I like too Roger.
From my perspective:
There’s a number of resource control agendas that depend upon believing in “scarcity” to enforce their austerity/poverty status quo platforms.
Scott Bennet Shell game – USB funds/launders for ISIS .
so it will be mandatory anti-biotics along with the tainted vaccines?
is that why FDR stole people’s private gold around the same time that sewerage infrastructure was being installed by the work for the dole crews?
and how much gold does ET need anyway for his getaway car?
you cannot polish a turd, but you can Xray a tungsten laden gold bar – if they let you, which they won’t.
New episode in the ongoing Middle East gold story.: the Syrians say the gold is theirs. The question remains, assuming that ISIS/US “rebels” did find “caches” of 50 tons, where did so much bullion come from? Official holdings? Oil and other trafficking via Turkey and others? Or, as Joseph suggests, is the term “gold” code for something else? Or is both metal and “something else” involved?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-08/syria-accuses-us-stealing-over-40-tons-its-gold
One prefers poverty, rather than slavery to golden metal.
Those, who desire gold, have a snake in their head.
Fishing in an empty pond is amazing.
The Ultimate Alchemy! Who created man? = Who created the creator of man? The consciousness of man conceives a God that creates man. The consciousness of God creates men with the ability for a consciousness to conceive God. The least are the greatest and the greatest are the least balances the infinite and the finite into a two sided coin. Carry the knowledge of this coin with you always before taking a ride on the ferry across the River of Styx.
As far as alchemy goes. I predict it will eventually be discovered that any element can be eventually turned into any other element. I also predict that deep under ground under enormous pressure and heat every element on Earth is made when underground electric discharges take place. These electric discharges when large enough may be responsible for some of the deepest Earthquakes. Transmutation of elements through pressurized plasma fusion is probably done in a much wider spectrum of elements in the Earth than in stars. Mother Earth probably births some of her own precious metals from base metals and not all come from outer space. The Big Bang is a farce, the Universe is a perpetual motion machine.
zendogbreath
where might one find quantities of AuCl naturally? i’m betting seawater has lots o chloride. betting too that gold gets geologically (another way of saying electromagnetically) generated and deposited at odd points where magma spills up and out. so might ocean floor cracks in tectonic plates get a lot of hot metal rich magma interacting radically and alot with sea water making lots o AuCl? wonder who could get to that in an industrial capacity.
The bacteria in question is an attempt to replace cyanide leaching of ores. But flooding old mines with only low grade ores left in them with a dilute gold leaching agent and then pumping the solution with a solar powered water pump through a large pool filled with these genetically altered gold collecting and tollerent bacteria could potentially turn these old mine shafts into gold farms. Be interesting how much gold could be harvested from such pools or tanks of bacteria each year at very low cost to the gold farmers.
Organic acids have been discovered that leach gold. Wonder if these would be easier on the lab tweaked and created gold solution eating bacteria. One bacteria to produce the leach solution; another to eat and concentrate the solution. Farming and mining become one.
Without getting into the alchemy debate, there are many ways this bacterium could be used to ‘mine’ sizable quantities of gold:
(1) Think of all the frakking going on. Inject your chemical-c0cktail with a certain bacterium. Give the bacterium some time to work underground, and then pump the whole ‘stream’ up. Develop a way to separate out the gold, and voila!
(2) The ocean has been proven to have gold (and other precious metals) dissolved within it. Huge amounts, although incredibly diluted. The problem has been to find a commercially-viable way to separate-out the gold. If you had a freighter-sized ‘pond’ and this bacteria, could you simply fill, inject, wait, kill the bacteria, and vacuum-up the gold particles? Flush and repeat…
(3) Remember the Glomar Explorer days? While Project Azorian was a CIA project to recover sunken Soviet submarine K-129, there was a scientific ‘cover’ of nodules of precious metals precipitating-out on the sea floor. Find a way to recover these ‘biologically’ rather than scraping the seafloor, and it might be commercially-viable…
(I am throwing these out here, as they may already be ‘privately’ in use. Whether these are environmentally-sound practices is another matter…)
The Red Tide bacteria may preferentially take up gold until it dies. Wonder if there is a way to preferentially filter out tons of cyanobacteria to smelt.
Sigh. Modded. Test: quantities
Tit in ‘quantities’ okay. Test: frakking
Yep, c0ck in ‘chemical-c0cktail’ was what caused the auto-modding. I feel so much safer now. Reposting the (corrected) modded comment above…
Autonomous technologies.
Don’t you just love them.
Where humans remain valuable, at least temporarily, is in training their replacements.
Today, workers are hardly aware of the way digital surveillance technologies are used to teach their jobs to algorithms.
One begins to wonder; whose training whom?
Thanks for cluing “us” in.
t1t for tat.
‘Frakking’ okay. Test: cocktail
(1) Think of all the frakking going on. Inject your chemical-cocktail with a certain bacterium. Give the bacterium some time to work underground, and then pump the whole ‘stream’ up. Develop a way to separate out the gold, and voila!
Nidster -
Regarding the speculation, or question, what if “for the sake of argument, that alchemy was real?” What if there was some secret process of producing gold from “base metals”? Please consider this excerpt from an article that appeared in a popular science magazine in March 1948,
“US Alchemists make gold”: At Oak Ridge, Tenn., the Atomic Energy Commission has gone into the business of manufacturing synthetic gold. For therapy and for “tagging” chemicals used in research, Oak Ridge’s alchemists or “radiochemists,” as they call themselves, produce scores of artificially radioactive elements like radiogold. But they are by no means limited to “freak” products that have no counterpart in nature. Just as easily, they can manufacture gold of normal behavior, perfectly acceptable to the U. S. Treasury!”
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/us-alchemists-make-gold/
Alchemy has been partice for centuries there has to be something to it. The supreme con is to con the public that all is fake when in fact it really works.
You ‘got it’ right!
youngun was probin me over what’s annoying about alex jones. answered that jones is a psyop about psyops. he talks credibly about the incredible and incredibly about the credible.
The Golden Goose is really the Golden Bacteria
Uh, maybe that’s the reason there is a war on beef…
In short I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
General Smedley Butler[the highest rank and most decorated Marine at the time of his death].
Hi Yo, Silver! Away!
The Yellow Brick Road was made for Dorothy’s silver slippers. She defeats the Wicked Witch of the West; clicks her heels, and is home sweet home.
The book was an allegory on gold/fiat versus silver/certificates. Private money/public money.
The international banksters = The Wizard of Oz.
https://ellenbrown.com/2007/09/11/whats-the-wizard-of-oz-got-do-with-money-reform/
The above post goes is blank Web of Debt Blog
now type “wizard of oz” in the blog’s search engine.
Looks like those ancient text on gold weren’t sh*ting;
or, were they?
“Suppose for a moment, just suppose for the sake of argument, that alchemy was real, that there was some secret process of producing gold from “base metals”. I would be, I aver, a closely held secret. Indeed, alchemical texts seem to allude not only to the reality of the idea, but also to guard that “secret” (if any) rather closely and carefully.”
No, actually the “secret” was published in a link in a comment on this website years ago.
“Some of them allude to the production occurring in “putrefying dung”, a strange reference that anyone familiar with alchemical texts will have encountered repeatedly. When I first did some years ago, the idea seemed laughable, and the whole thing was usually explained by scholars of such texts as being a sort of “code” for something else.”
It’s no huge secret that biological processes often include transmutations. See Kervan. The transmutations don’t usually involve gold, or even metals, and they’re ignored by school chemistry, physics, and biology.
So no need to make fake gold, real stuff can be made, but right for the sake of “market stability” (which is code for maintaining the wealth of the already very wealthy) a source has to be faked–whether that’s a mine in Indonesia or “loot” in Syria doesn’t really matter.
Yes Olivia I remember those references too!
i wanna say it was lost who posted them.
seems a similar market made for diamonds by rhodes et al. control all supply and demand will always outpace it.
chicken eggs come to mind. sure chickens like to have good sources of calcium around. makes egg shells stronger. just the same it’s spooky how little calcium supplementation is needed to make all that egg shell. have heard birds and their egg laying related to cold fusion decades ago.
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Countries are faking Gold as well.
Posted: Oct 30, 2017 Royal Canadian Mint-stamped gold wafer appears to be fake : https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/fake-gold-wafer-rbc-canadian-mint-1.4368801
Royal Mint.. ergo owned by Rothschilds since the Napoleanic war.. It was a stamped Mint bar. I wonder what their testing apparatus are comprised of ..
–> possibly related.. Posted: Feb 11, 2016 Canada sells off most of its gold reserves : https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/gold-canada-reserves-1.3443700
Lots of problems in Canada too at the moment..
“And how would they introduce said gold into the “stream”? Well, one way might be by buying up lots of gold mines, and sneaking their own bacterio-alchemical product into the mix.”
Just for context : https://jafrikayiti.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/10452936_1015
Even MSM had to take notice of this bizarre evenement…
Role of Hillary Clinton’s brother in Haiti gold mine raises eyebrows
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/role-of-hillary-clintons-brother-in-haiti-gold-mine-raises-eyebrows/2015/03/20/c8b6e3bc-cc05-11e4-a2a7-9517a3a70506_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0019a0d18c77
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Recently-Leaked-Documents-by-Georgianne-Nienabe-Clinton-Bill_Clinton-Cash_Clinton-Foundation_Donors-160823-957.html
But this thread is about Gold..not about the Clinton’s and Haiti… I’m just showing how they had the means at disposal…
(but seriously.. this is the guy they put in charge?? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/01/aftershocks-letter-from-haiti-jon-lee-anderson )
“people with access to a lot of money”
(sorry.. I just keep coming back….)
“Giustra teams with Clinton, Slim on Haiti fund”
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/giustra-teams-with-clinton-slim-on-haiti-fund/article1314402/
Katie B
What if you fed these bacterium to a larger, genetically-modified animal? Maybe a goose?
guitardave
LOL, good one, Katie!….maybe the ‘ole Grimm bros. were on to something, eh..?
You never know, guitardave?!
WalkingDead
The empire is bankrupt in many ways, financially, spiritually, morally, educationally, etc. As a result, they have to acquire currency any way they can and justify it accordingly. Apparently, the drug running and war racket aren’t paying off all that well, so outright robbery will have to make up some of the difference.
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Empires have been plundering each other since empires were invented. It’s what they’re for.
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Billseye: Is Rex Ryan Buffalo’s White Knight?
September 14, 2015 Patrick R. Diggins 1 Comment
Since 2001, the Buffalo Bills have a long history of being the New England Patriots’ two additional Bi-weeks in the AFC East. Occasionally the Bills give The Patriots a challenge and on five separate occasions have actually beaten the Super Bowl Champions during the Tom Brady era. The Bills were even seen celebrating as though they had won the Super Bowl last year when they were able to defeat the Patriots practice squad during the meaningless season finale of 2014. Yes, its typically a safe bet that the Buffalo Bills will always struggle to compete with New England’s gridiron gang.
Last season head coach of the New York Jet’s, Rex Ryan, was finally driven out of Gotham in favor of Todd Bowles. Ryan had been a fixture in New York for six years with his brash and often boisterous demeanor winning over the Jet’s fan base and the players alike. Rex initially excited many Jet’s fans with his cocky attitude because after the long forgotten Super Bowl winning year of “Broadway” Joe Namath, the Jets never really had anything to ever get excited about. Immediately taking aim at the king pins of the AFC East, Rex was quick to point out that “I am not here to kiss anybody’s rings” when discussing Bill Belichick and the dominant New England Patriots.
Initially, Ryan had quite a bit of success with the New York Jets. Led by an all star defense with the likes of linebacker Bart Scott, center Nick Mangold and superstar cornerback, Darrelle Revis and an offense led by rookie sensation Mark Sanchez, the Jets defeated the Patriots in their first meeting 16-9. What was most impressive by that victory is that the Patriots did not even score a touchdown.
The New York Jets made it all the way to the 2009 AFC Championship that year losing to the Peyton Manning led Indianapolis Colts. In 2010 The New York Jets continued their winning ways splitting wins with Patriots during the season and in the playoffs defeating both Peyton Manning and Tom Brady on their home turf to once again make it to the AFC Championship. Although the Jets once again looked poised to make a run at the Super Bowl, the Pittsburgh Steelers promptly put a stop to those plans. With two straight AFC championship appearances, it looked as those New York had finally had its hero that could end the reign of the New England Patriot dominance of the AFC East.
For the New York Jets and Rex Ryan this story would of course not have a happy ending. After 2010, the Jets were never able to make it back to playoff contention and amidst injuries, Butt Fumbles and Quarterback controversies became the joke of the NFL. Meanwhile, their lowly brethren in Buffalo were slowly stock piling defensive pieces like Defensive end Mario Williams and Defensive tackle Kyle Williams. After drafting promising rookie wide receiver Sammy Watkins in 2014, the Bills were a decent quarterback and coach combo away from being a legitimate threat to the AFC east.
In a perfect storm of convenience, Rex Ryan found himself in need of a team just as Buffalo head coach Doug Marrone vacated his position. At first it was widely believed that Rex was holding out for the Atlanta Falcons head coaching job, but the defensive guru swerved us all and ended up as head coach for the offensively impotent Buffalo Bills.
With the offensive additions of the always disgruntled wide receiver Percy Harvin and star running back LeSean McCoy, the once languishing Buffalo Bills have begun to look like a formidable opponent for the first time in many years. What about a quarterback? Currently Buffalo boasts three; five year NFL journeyman, Tyrod Taylor, 2013 first round draft pick, EJ Manuel and one time Tom Brady back up, Matt Cassel. Let’s be clear, none of these men are in the same category as a Tom Brady, Peyton Manning or Aaron Rodgers but it would be foolish to dismiss the victory Buffalo scored on Sunday by decimating early Super Bowl favorite, Indianapolis Colts, 27 – 14.
With the help of possibly the best defense in the NFL, Tyrod Taylor proved capable during his Buffalo debut under center. With the impressive showing Rex Ryan’s defense displayed it is quite possible he may finally have the Patriots number come this Sunday. Is a stellar defense, a coach with proven past success and and a serviceable quarterback enough to stop the reigning, defending Super Bowl champions? Nobody can say for certain , but let’s just say it is not 2009 anymore.
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There were so many upsets in this past mid-term election, that it’s hard to keep up with them all.
This story, the story of Lucy McBath stands taller than any of the others in my opinion. Never in a thousand years would I have thought Georgia’s 6th District would go blue. The racial makeup of the county in 2010 62.2% White, 25.0% Black, 0.3% Native American, 4.5% Asian, 0.0% Pacific Islander, 5.3% from other races, and 2.7% from two or more races. 14.3% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are several reasons why I marvel at her success by winning this Congressional seat in “red” state Georgia during last year’s mid-term.
First, if you don’t know her story behind why she chose to get into politics in the first place, you should know it because it’s so profound it gives you goose bumps. Her son was brutally murdered at a gas station, while with some of friends, by a white man who said their music was too loud. The shooter used Florida’s stand-your-ground law as his defense. He was not found guilty of murder in his first trial. In an October 2014 retrial, the shooter was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Second, to choose to run in the 6th Congressional District of Georgia was about a gutsy as anything a black person could think of. The 6th District, is an affluent suburb North of Atlanta in Cobb County, mainly white. My old district when I lived in Cobb County Georgia. It’s Newt Gingrich’s old district, Tom Price’s old district, the disgraced Health and Human Services Director appointed by trump. It was always held by a white male until Karen Handel in 2017.
The story of Karen Handel is unflattering to put it mildly. While I was living in Georgia, I followed her and her politics very closely. Briefly, Karen Christine Handel Walker; businesswoman, politician, and member of the United States House of Representatives for Georgia’s 6th congressional district. In 2017, she became the first Republican woman from Georgia elected to Congress after defeating Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff in a special election to fill Tom Price‘s vacancy in Georgia’s 6th congressional district; this special election remains the most expensive congressional race in American history. In the recent 2018 election, Handel lost the election to a full term to Democrat Lucy McBath.
Handel previously served as Secretary of State of Georgia. A member of the Republican Party, Handel worked in business before entering politics. First elected in 2003, she chaired the Fulton County Board of Commissioners until 2006, and then was elected and served as Georgia’s Secretary of State from 2007 to 2010.
In 2011, Handel was appointed Senior Vice President of public policy at Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a charity in the cause of fighting breast cancer, and left on February 7, 2012, following the foundation’s controversial decision to eliminate and then later restore funding for Planned Parenthood, an organization to which she was opposed. Handel sought a second term in the 2018 midterm elections but was defeated by Democratic challenger Lucy McBath.
Finally, to beat Karen Handel after Handel trounced John Ossoff in the special election this year for Tom Price’s old seat, is nothing short of miraculous to me. John Ossoff was a great candidate and ran a great campaign, but even he couldn’t unseat Karen Handel. Never in a million years would I have thought that district would go blue, not to mention going blue with the seat being won by a black woman. The districts demographics haven’t changed believe it or not. It’s still predominantly white and Republican. What has changed is obviously the number of forward-thinking white voters who decided – in this year of the women – to look beyond their past political biases and cast their ballots for the (best) candidate. This is very encouraging to say the least.
My only regret is that voted in the district for thirty years and never, nor did I think I would ever have, the opportunity to vote for a man or women of color with the hope of them winning. It took courage – inspired in part by the tragic death of her son I am sure – for her to run and answer her calling to do something to try and help make a difference in our society’s woes.
Now a newly appointed member to House of Representatives 116th Congress Rules Committee by the Honorable Nancy Pelosi and twice elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. How awesome.
My new hero, Lucy McBath.
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Al Moukatel known as Flow Killa/F Killa grew up in the streets of Shoubra, Egypt. His first debut was in 2006, he set up his first band, Egyskillz, with Mak-D, and released six tracks which they performed on the stage for the first time at MC.Amin’s concert in El-Mansoura. He split from the project and started his own solo conquest for the title of rap king. The one thing I admired the most about Killa is what he talks about in his raps, him talking about the issues facing Egyptian society such as poverty, politics, social issues including women’s rights, and the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood Party. His motivational song “Shebh Mosta7el”, featuring Yazz, is the best example of his brilliance in merging effective lyrics with the smooth flow to convey big messages. His authenticity about the issues going on in his community really made him who he is today. He believes in the possibility of the impossible, he says he will continue his rap career until he achieves his dream, and until the rap reaches its peak in Egypt. Something that I really didn’t like of his work was in multiple of his music videos he did not have a wide variety of colored girls, it was no type of diversity. In his raps he talks about women’s rights but in his videos he doesn’t really acknowledged all genres of women. Another critique I had for Mr.killa is that He worked with almost all the prominent rappers, groups, and pioneers in Egypt like: MC.Amin, Arabian Knightz, Asfalt, Mr.Kordy, El Zero, EgyRap School, and from the Arab Nation: La Gale, Torabyeh, Murder Eyes, Shadia Mansour, Dam, Don Bigg and Meryem Saci. Some of the artist he worked with downgrade women in their music, I wont say names but i do believe killa should influence or give advice to the people around him to uplift women in their music.
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Portrait of Wilfred Parsons and Dorothy Parsons Howland
This property was first settled by Timothy Clark and owned successively by his son Timothy Clark, II and his grandson Timothy Clark, III.
Timothy Clark was born in 1720 (son of Noah and Eunice Dickenson Clark[)] and was the first settler on this place. He married 1747 Freedom Edwards, daughter of Benjamin Edwards, Jr. Timothy Clark kept a public house or tavern. In Jonathon Judd’s diary he was called Landlord Clark and it also was mentioned that court proceedings were sometimes held at his house.
Timothy and Freedom Clark had eight children born between 1748 and 1769. They were: Freedom who married Enos Pomeroy; Dorcas who married 1772 Martin Burt; Timothy, Jr. who married 1778 Lovina Parks; Saul died 1777, age 23; Justin married 1780 to Catherine Wright; Suzannah married 1779 Pliny Sheldon; Noah married 1783 Eunice Strong; Zenas married 1792 Priscilla Gates.
Mrs. Timothy Clark (Freedom) died 1781 and Timothy married (2) 1782 Priscilla Bunday. Timothy died in 1895 and his son Timothy Clark, Jr. became owner of the homestead. Timothy, Jr. and his wife Lovina had three children, Sophina; Timothy, and Saul. Sophia married 102 Eliphalet Hatch, Timothy died young, and Saul became a minister and had pastorates in East Haven, Conneticut, (sic) Chester Massachusetts and other places. Mrs. Lovina P. Clark died and Timothy Clark, Jr. married (2) 1793 Sarah Judd (daughter of Rev. Jonathon Judd). Timothy and Sarah had one child, Timothy born 1794 and married 1817 Phoebe Lyman. They did not stay at the home place but moved to a house on East Street. Timothy Clark, Jr. husband of Sarah (Judd) Clark died in 1823. This property then came to Timothy Clark, III, who sold it to Seth Bartlett in 1827.
Seth Bartlett born 1787 in Westhampton married Mary Ann Wheeler of Northampton in 1815. They had three children–Charles who died at sea in 1834, age 17; Thomas born in 1819, married Lucinda Graves in 1840; Milton died in the Civil War. Seth Bartlett’s first wife Mary Ann died 1847 and he married (2) Widow Temperance Hubbard. She had a daughter, Almanza, by her first husband, David E. Hubbard.
The house built here by Timothy Clark, Sr. burned January 3, 1838.
Seth Bartlett, a mason, built the present brick house. He died about 1871 and the ownership of this property passed to Jarius Clark who married Almanza Hubbard, Seth’s step-daughter. Jarius Clark was high sheriff of Hampshire County for many years and was a great grandson of Timothy Clark 1st. His parents were Strong and Roena (Searle) Clark. Jarius and Almanza Clark had three children but only one, Gertrude, born 1875 lived to grow up. She married James Rayner.
In 1875 Isaac Parson[s] bought this property from Jarius Clark (Isaac was the grandson of the Isaac Parsons who settled in 1775 on the third square mile in the west part of Southampton.) Isaac Parsons (son of Theodore and Sophia ‘Kingsley’ Parsons) born 1823, married 1850 Rachel C. Edwards, daughter of Luther and Rachel (Searle) Edwards. Isaac Parsons was at one time representative at the General Court of Boston. By 1875, Isaac and Rachel Parsons had had eight children of whom three had died. The five living children were: Catherine who married Frederick Judd in 1889; Edwards K. who married Fanny Knox in 1885; Henry L. who married Emma C. Phillips in 1892; Ellen who died in 1881, age 12; and Wilfred A. who married Martina Way in 1898.
After buying this farm of Jarius Clark, Isaac Parsons bought much additional land and farmed and lumbered extensively. His eldest son Edward K., left the farm between 1881 and 1885 and engaged exclusively in the lumber business. Henry L. Parsons stayed on this farm. Wilfred, after working three years at the Massachusetts Experiment Station in Amherst, came back to the farm when Isaac died in 1894. Henry and Wilfred operated the business together until 1901 when Wilfred bought the adjoining farm of George Lyon. Henry continued to farm here until 1930. Henry and his wife Emma (Phillips) Parsons had two children: Rachel who married Alfred Hooker in 1916 and moved to Westfield and Phillips Henry who married, 1924, Alice Evelyn Coe (daughter of Edwin J. and Etta ‘Gibbons’ Coe). Mrs. Henry Parsons (Emma) died July, 1909 and Henry married (2) in 1918 Mrs. Pearl (Kingsley) Scott. She had three children by her first husband, Enid, Carl, and Hugh.
Phillips Henry Parsons bought several acres of land from his father’s farm about the time of his marriage in 1924 and built a house facing High Street. He and his wife, Alice Evelyn (Coe) Parsons have two children;’ Phyllis, now a teacher-supervisor in Denver, Colorado, and David Henry who lives at home and works at the Searle Farm.
Stanley Popielarz, Sr. and Catherine Krystan Popielarz bought this property from Henry L. Parsons in May 1930. They had two boys Stanley and Joseph who married in the early 1940’s. Stanley, Jr. married Anastasia Kostek and they have one son, Stanley, now a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Joseph married Muriel Fowles and they have three daughters: Carol, Mary Ann, and Linda. Joseph went in the Armed services in World War II and Stanley operated the farm with his parents until the end of the war. When Joseph returned from the army, he took over the farm. Stanley attended a school for barbers and later opened a shop of his own in an ell of the house.
In 1963, the barns with the farm machinery and cattle burned to ground. The barns were not rebuilt, and the farm lands are now rented to neighbors.
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Ex-Met Detective John Wedger provides final nail in Hampstead SRA hoax coffin
Over the past year and a half, we’ve noticed that a former Metropolitan police officer, Jonathan Wedger, has been peddling tales of “police corruption at the highest levels” to almost anyone who’ll listen.
Mr Wedger has been quoted extensively in the tabloids, as well as by Brian Gerrish of UK Column, making claims that the Met deliberately covers up the sexual abuse of children. He has also stated that he now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the bullying he received when he attempted to bring this situation to the attention of his senior officers. Following some time on sick leave, he has now been dismissed from the force and is attempting to sue for psychiatric injury. We have our own opinions of his allegations, which we will share at a later time. However, today we’d like to talk about ex-DC Wedger’s contribution to closing the police investigation into the Hampstead SRA hoax.
We can now reveal that in September 2014 ex-DC Wedger played a small but critical role in ensuring that the police were aware that the claims made by Ella Draper and Abraham Christie were in fact a complete—and intentional—hoax.
Who let the cat out of the bag?
Long-time readers might recall that Abraham and Ella wrote to a well-known and influential troofer on 11 September 2014. The email, addressed to Brian Gerrish of the UK Column, was a laundry list, setting out all the salacious details which Gerrish would be able to publicise if he backed the hoax. It was meant to tempt him into joining in, but in fact it had the opposite effect.
This tweet from Drifloud on 8 March 2016 contains the email, and indicates that it was sent only to Gerrish:
Keep in mind that this email was sent while the Hampstead case was still under active investigation by the Child Abuse Investigation Team (CAIT).
In a YouTube comment in early 2016, Abraham and Ella complained bitterly that this email had been sent, via a circuitous route, to DC Steve Martin, who was then working on the Hampstead investigation.
Here’s what Abrella said:
On or around the 16th of September 2014 Steve Martin received an email that had “found it’s (sic) way to S.O.E.C.A. (Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse) via D.P.S. (Directorate of Professional Standards)” The sender explains that having read the contents of said email it appeared “IDENTICAL to a current investigation of yours 2419891/14 concerning allegations of sexual and ritual abuse at Christchurch Primary School.”
“The email appears to be one in (sic) the same sent by the MOTHER TO THE INFORMANT and the contents appear on your CRIS.”
BRIAN GERRISH of UK Column was the ONLY person to have received that email/file from the mother on the 11th of September 2014 .
But ,but Brian couldn’t be the informant , he sent the email to Bill Maloney on 15-09-14 who sent it to Nathan ‘NumNuts’ Wedger who sent it to P.C. Paul Armstrong, who in turn sent it to Anna Bewley at D.P.S. H.Q. saying that he’d received a disturbing email which includes serious allegations of wrongdoing by MPS officers … Then via two internal D.P.S. emails from Anne and PC Craig Langley the email “found it’s (sic) way” to DC Victoria BARNES SC&036 -SOECA LIT
29th Floor (East Block), Empress State Building, and thence back to Steve Martin , who had the original email from the original INFORMANT, which as Vicky noted was already in Steve’s CRIS report.
Q. Name original informant, AAND (sic) subsequent informants used to distract from original informant.
For a bonus prize explain why Brian never said a word about the case till MSM’s attempted hatchet job on the Whistleblowers, ella & abe and WHY BILL MALONEY HAS SAID F-CK ALL. nemesis )+( nerd
Shortly after posting the above comment, Abrella wrote on the same YouTube comments thread,
Bill Maloney in an interview with Lou Collins .(connected to Danielle la Verite)speaks out about the tattoo on Leon Brittan’s pubenda (sic!) that a victim (Andrew) of Leon Brittan described and drew during an interview with a newspaer (sic) almost 2 years ago , so when Maloney and Gerrish received Ella’s email describing the Tattoos and distinguishing marks on the cult members (sic) pubenda (even more sic) they were well aware of this corroborating the testimony of Leon Brittan’s victim. Why then have neither of them said anything apart from the few times that Gerrish mentions the case on UK Column when the MSM had attempted a hatchet job on Abe and Ella, and he had to say something ? Now it’s clear why the info re Tattoos was buried buy (sic) Maloney, Gerrish AND the police and exposes Maloney and Gerrish as Shills ! Quite apart from the fact that Maloney passed the email onto a Nathan “NUMNUTS” (sic) Wedger a known police informant ; and the email eventually “found it’s (sic) way” to investigating/cover up Freemason, DS Steve Martin. mmmmmm…
Abe and Ella were aware of the path which the Gerrish email took, since they were now in possession of Ella’s court bundle, turned over to her by her solicitors when she sacked them in December 2014. But why were they so angry that Nathan “Numnuts” Wedger had sent it to the police?
Who is Nathan ‘Numnuts’ Wedger?
Despite our best efforts, we were unable to determine the identity of Nathan “Numnuts” Wedger, the “known police informant” who bridged the gap between Bill Maloney and PC Paul Armstrong.
However, when a recent interview between Lou Collins (yes, she’s back!) and ex-DC Jonathan Wedger came to our attention, we wondered: how common a surname is “Wedger”? And could this former cop have had anything to do with unveiling the true purpose of the Hampstead SRA hoax?
As it turned out, Wedger is not a very common surname, and the only “Nathan” we found would have been a young teenager in 2014, so unlikely to have been involved in this case.
However, we did discover that someone else named Nathan Wedger has a mostly unused Pinterest account: He has only one follower, whom he follows back: And looking at his account URL reveals something even more interesting: So we knew that someone named “Nathan Wedger”, with a friend named Tasha Leach, uses the online tag “numnut2009”.
After a bit of digging through public records, we discovered that Ms Leach’s maiden name was “Wedger”, and she has a twin brother: Jonathan.
It was at this point that the obvious struck us between the eyes: remove the letters “Jo-” from “Jonathan”, and you have….
In our searches we found a few confirmatory details: Jonathan and Natasha Wedger were born in 1970 in London. In his interviews, ex-DC John Wedger has stated that he is 47 years old.
And on a site called Healer Practitioner Association International, we found a “Jon Wedger” using the email address <numnut2009@hotmail.co.uk>:
Jon Wedger, “healer practitioner”, gives his address as Hemel Hempstead; ex-DC John Wedger mentions that he lives in Hemel Hempstead as well.
Now we only needed to confirm the connection between Jonathan Wedger and Bill Maloney.
As it turns out, Mr Wedger mentions Bill several times in his interview with Lou Collins. In fact, at one point in the second part of the interview, he mentions that he and Bill are good friends, and says he’s known him at least eight years.
Ex-DC Wedger cracks the case
Suddenly, the chain between Brian Gerrish and DC Steve Martin becomes crystal clear.
On 9 September, the CAIT team receives the content of an email from “the informant”—Abraham’s brother-in-law Jean-Clement Yaohirou—which is logged in the CRIS report:
The content of this email is virtually identical to the email which Abe and Ella would send to Gerrish on 11 September, the same day the children were taken into protective custody. In fact, the children were taken into custody shortly after 7 p.m., and the email was sent to Gerrish at about 10 p.m.
This was also three days after Gerrish had sent one of his colleagues, Finn Hagan, to check out the children’s stories. It’s difficult to say whether Gerrish remained unconvinced by Finn’s account of the visit, or Abe was sending the email in an attempt to stir up interest in the story before word got out that he and Ella had coached and abused the children.
On 15 September, Gerrish forwards the email to his friend Bill Maloney, perhaps wishing for a second opinion as to whether he should get behind Abe and Ella.
Maloney, also concerned, sends the email to his trusted friend at the Met, DC Jonathan Wedger. Surely he’ll know how to deal with something like this? Ex-DC Wedger has stated that he began “whistle-blowing” in 2014, and was put on sick leave, which explains why Maloney sent the email to his personal email address, “Nathan Wedger” at <numnut2009@hotmail.co.uk>. Abe would later notice this detail and add it to his angry comment, possibly in an attempt to humiliate “Nathan Wedger”, who he blamed for alerting police to the hoax.
Ex-DC Wedger, realising that this email contains very serious allegations which ought to be investigated, forwards it to another officer, PC Paul Armstrong, who in turn sends it to Anna Bewley, who works in the Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) at the Met.
From there, the email proceeds to DC Victoria Barnes at the Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse (SOECA) unit.
DC Barnes recognises the details contained in the Gerrish email as identical to those in a case currently under investigation by the CAIT, and so she forwards it to DC Steve Martin on 18 September 2014. This is recorded in the CRIS:
At this point, DC Martin has received one email from the original informant—Jean-Clement Yaohirou—forwarding an email J-C received from Abe and Ella.
And now, nine days later, he receives a second, identical email, originating not with Jean-Clement or even with Ella, but with two known conspiracy theorists, Brian Gerrish and Bill Maloney. And he can see from the email address that it had been sent to Gerrish by none other than “hempstarsdynamics”…that is to say, Abraham Christie. (Oh, and did we mention that DC Martin already knows Abraham from a previous encounter, when Abe assaulted his own son?)
Abe and Ella were clearly attempting to hawk the children’s story round to Gerrish while the police investigation was in progress. Anyone who has ever been involved in a criminal investigation will be well aware of the police warning not to discuss the case with anyone else, lest the evidence be contaminated, and the case destroyed in court. Yet Ella and Abe were not just discussing the case, they were sending details of it to Gerrish, in a kind of “troofer news release”.
If you were DC Martin, do you think you might have smelt a rat at this point?
If Ella and Abe had all this information about the alleged cult, why had they not immediately reported it to the police? Why would they have sent this information to Gerrish instead? And why did they send it to Gerrish within hours of the children being taken into police custody? If their aim was to shut down a cult, why would they interfere in the investigation in this way?
Could it have been because they were in the process of attempting to engineer a gigantic publicity stunt?
While the bulk of the police investigation had already taken place by the time the Gerrish email reached DC Martin’s desk, the email would have provided the proverbial icing on the cake. It would have demonstrated conclusively that this case, as Ella would later admit, had never been meant to reach the police and CPS. It was a hoax through and through.
And sure enough, in the closing pages of the CRIS report, we find this notation:
By the end of the police investigation, the Gerrish email had made one thing very clear: the police were onto Abraham. They understood that this wasn’t about “saving children”, but about attracting attention from the conspiracy community.
And for this final nail in the Hampstead SRA investigation’s coffin, we can thank ex-DC Jonathan Wedger.
We can now give him full credit: whether intentionally or not, he helped to demonstrate the real nature of the Hampstead SRA hoax, and bring the investigation to its rightful conclusion.
02/01/2018 in Investigating the hoax. Tags: Abraham Christie, Bill Maloney, Brian Gerrish, criminal charges, Ella Draper, Jean-Clement Yaohirou, Jonathan Wedger, police investigation
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The Sole of Justice says:
Judging by that last notation about Abraham, that he was circulating interviews of the children and might continue, it’s clear that the police understood the meaning of the Gerrish email.
What I don’t understand is why they didn’t pick Abe up on this basis, even if they couldn’t arrest him for child abuse since he’d made the kids say he only hit them when they were not on British soil? Surely circulating videos of the children would have been illegal too?
Old Rat Watcher says:
Something about the CRIS that hadn’t really hit home for me before: the “Inft” or “informant” was Jean-Clement. Any information given to police seems to have come from him, not from Ella. Of course this makes sense, as she has said they never expected the case to go to the CPS, but this makes it brutally clear. The children’s mother didn’t go to police to report their alleged abuse. That was left to her boyfriend’s brother-in-law. Pretty effed up if you ask me.
Good reporting EC.
It seems to me that ex DC Wedger did the right thing by forwarding the email to the police, as would be expected from someone with his experience. As you said, he might not have intended it, but he showed Abe up good and proper.
I listened to the Wedger/Collins interview. Note to Lou Collins. Learn to say ‘Haut de la Garenne’ properly. That’s what a real journalist would do.
Thanks, Fnord! I wonder how Lou will like knowing that her friend was the one who showed Abe and Ella for what they are?
And may I add some more advice to Lou? Stop snuffling and snorting like an old steam engine while your interviewee is talking. Also, an interview is not a good time to decide to rearrange your pots and pans. #ProTip
Yes, re-reading the CRIS after all this time is enlightening. Details that might have seemed inconsequential in the past really leap out at one.
That’s a good point, and I don’t know the answer.
Clearly, if they knew he was going to circulate the children’s videos, they ought to have acted at that time, whether by arresting him or by placing some sort of restraining order on him. We don’t know that that didn’t happen though, since the only material we have available to us has been put online by Abe, Ella, or Sabine. Anything which doesn’t fit their controlled narrative has simply been withheld.
It all seems to move so slowly and I think they’d have picked Abe up eventually if he’d hung about. He knew that and that’s one of the reasons he sodded off to Spain or Russia or wherever he is. Personally I think he’s on that island with Patrick Cullinane, making plans to overthrow the New World Order, whilst listening to Elvis, still crooning from his zimmer frame.
Laughing at Abrella calling Wedger a ‘police informant’. What do they expect an experienced copper to do with info like that? He’s bound to pass it on isn’t he? Anyway, there’ll be no love lost between someone like Abe (thirty plus previous convictions) and Wedger who was a seasoned Police Officer.
I don’t think that Abe realised Wedger was a copper. Maloney sent the email to ex-DC Wedger’s “civilian” email address, as they were friends and he wouldn’t have used his work address. So all Abe would have seen was the “numnuts2009” address, and the name “Nathan”, which Mr Wedger seemed to use online, probably to avoid recognition as a police officer.
I think Abe called him “a known police informant” because as a lifelong criminal himself, that was one of the worst things he could call someone. He added the “numnuts” thing as a nasty jibe, I think.
“It all seems to move so slowly and I think they’d have picked Abe up eventually if he’d hung about. He knew that and that’s one of the reasons he sodded off to Spain or Russia or wherever he is.”
Yes, I remember that Abe buggered off right away quick after the kids were taken into care. I remember people on the Icke Forums talking about how he’d basically abandoned Ella. I think he came back early in 2015 when it looked like the cops weren’t going to do anything.
‘If Ella and Abe had all this information about the alleged cult, why had they not immediately reported it to the police? Why would they have sent this information to Gerrish instead? And why did they send it to Gerrish within hours of the children being taken into police custody? If their aim was to shut down a cult, why would they interfere in the investigation in this way?’
Because they’re troofers and paranoid?
From what I’ve read they didn’t intend to take the matter to the police in the first place. Once the police got hold of it they knew they were in trouble. They were panicking and looking for backup from the Conspiracy community who, unlike the Police, would swallow the hoax all the way.
They were interfering with the police investigation on other occasions too – like when they took the kids for a taxi ride round to identify houses the night BEFORE the police intended to do it. Not that they were coaching the kids in what to say or do or anything. (That’s sarcasm) As I recall the taxi driver was so disturbed at Abe’s behaviour towards the girl that he called the police and reported him.
Yes, that’s right. And I think you’re absolutely right about why they sent the Gerrish email in the first place: they knew they were in deep trouble, the kids would probably retract as soon as they were out of Abe’s clutches, and they wanted to call in the conspiracy community to put up a stink and act as a diversion.
I get it! Thank you for clarification.
He called him a known police informant, in my opinion, because the oft convicted Abraham Christie couldn’t conceive of someone informing the police of something and being an informant as anything other than how he views it as a criminal.
Providing information to police as a concenrned citizen vs dirty secret grass.
Victim/witness/informant is just how things are recorded on the CRIS records. I have just loooked up a few FOI responses from the MPS.
I have called 999 on occasion so I am sure I will be recorded as an informant. It bothers me not.
Of course, Abraham isn’t exactly blessed in the brains department.
I think the police may have known that Abraham was circulating the videos, because he was, and one of the parents went to the police themselves when they found out. That is according to Abraham at least. This means that right at the very beginning he was sending the videos out to people who were not part of the police investigation.
I believe that Abrella might counter that the authorities never intended the case to be prosecuted, but that they did. Why they were looking up conspiracists in Morocco is odd though, right.
They failed to convince the court it was true on the lower civil standard mind. And they cared so much that Abraham turned up outside the court, cunningly disguised in an ill fitting suit, in an area well covered by CCTV, frequented by police, making a spectacle, with banners, probably even used his oyster to get there. Apparently, actually going inside and giving evidence scared the little man witless though.
https://maps.met.police.uk/globalassets/foi-media/policies/covert-human-intelligence-sources—policy
I had forgotten all about the taxi driver being disturbed at Abe’s behaviour towards the girl that night and reporting him for it.
This post was some good detective work, EC.
Costa can only dream about such excellent dot-joining, as hers is so poor, it’s laughable.
Thanks, Jake. I do wonder how many of those currently pushing Mr Wedger (Costa included) are aware of his role in the Hampstead hoax?
Yes, a bit like Georgie Porgy—running away at first sign of danger.
They wouldn’t be pushing him if they did. Cassie Crowhurst was championing him in her videos too.
Yes, I expect he’s just modest and didn’t want to take credit for upsetting the Hampstead hoax applecart, LOL. 😀
Frickin’ BRILLIANT!
Totally excellent work – you and your team are Champions 🙂
This is what I do, when postings here make me happy & excited…I post back a music video that makes me happy & excited. Like this one! 🙂
Thanks so much, Justin! 😀
Great choice! 🙂
Here’s a vaguely related post-script…
Early in 2015, I believe, I went to the Exaro site and posted a long comment in which I stated flatly that some “retired” and some currently serving Met officers must be conspiranoid True Believers totally sucked in by the likes of David Icke etc. Of course, I had no idea WHO those persons might be…but I felt so certain that this was the case. And that it had to be stated publicly. And that no one else was saying it! So I did.
I was hanging out on another blog’s comments at that time. I sent that person an email, telling him that I’d gone to the Lion’s Den and yelled: BOO!! (metaphorically), just to see what might come scurrying out. And I did learn some things from that, though not directly.
Well, you were right on the money, Justin. It certainly seems that in some respects, Mr Wedger has swallowed the conspiranoid line. I am not wholly unsympathetic to him, as he seems to have gone through a great deal in his career which would cause severe psychological stress in almost anyone. But he seems to add one plus one and come up with 42 in some cases. More on this to follow!
There were/are others. I had no idea about this one until you started talking about him.
You know that I’m patient enough to wait weeks, months, even years for the right time & place to “speak out”.
Am I alone in thinking using words like “Main action” denote a sort of flippant attitude that demonstrates a lack of seriousness in the supposed subject of murdered children?
No, you’re not alone. Abe and Ella treated this as if they were producing a particularly bad television show. Which they were, in a way.
Bill Maloney was with Jon Wedger at the Whiteflower’s meeting at Parliament in January 2015.
I know as I saw them together there.
Lou Collins confirmed the pair were “mates” the other day on one of her posts where she was complaining that none of her real friends were sharing her video/s of Jon Wedger.
I haven’t listened to the latest video, but I did listen to the one Gerrish did in July 2016 so I don’t know if it’s any different or has added contents.
Is Mr. Wedger “dodgy” as Baloney sure is?
That’s a hard question to answer, worth a post of its own. The short version, I suppose, is that while Mr Wedger did some exemplary work in a tough job, some of the statements he’s made left us scratching our heads. It seems as though perhaps he’s spent a bit too much time in the company of troofers, and some of it has rubbed off on him.
Nice work, EC.
Interesting about Wedger’s involvement in Hampstead. Kristie Sue will love that! That’s how she latched on to Cassie – it was her video about Wedger that started the whole Cassie phenomenon:
(Thanks to Jake Blake for jogging my memory on this video in his comment higher up the page.)
It’s also on YT, btw:
What an idiot…
Deluded newbie obviously…
Fascinating finds, Jake.
What a deranged personage 😮
Thanks for sharing. Will add those to the Random Twats & Psychos collection.
Drifloud’s appalling grammar is making me sic.
Nice reveals, EC! And superbly analysed.
Oh dear, only 3 years late to the party.
Why should/would the father make videos??
And Ella has long forgotten about all her children imo.
Dammit, EC – you’ve pipped Kristie Sue to that oh so coveted award again!
I’d love to see Kristie Sue’s explanation as to why Abe & Ella blatantly scuppered the police investigation by leaking the details to an alt news channel. I doubt we’ll get one, though.
Just finished reading this and seriously, EC, you’ve surpassed yourself with this one. This will go down as a classic ‘boom’ moment, I reckon. What a promising start to the new year!
That’s a sobering thought, EC. God knows what else could be out there that could potentially blow the lid on this blatant hoax (again).
Actually, Elvis is on that island with them, so listening to him is easier than you might think. Personally, I reckon he’s behind the whole thing, uh-huh.
Oh, how interesting! I don’t think I knew about him doing a bunk without Ella (or I’d forgotten about it – hedgehogs have notoriously short memories). The plot, as they say, thickens!
Reame Ember-Sandlings says:
And did Abe also kiss the girls and make them cry? The truth is out there.
Bill McLooney says:
@Fnord
Baloney always had trouble pronouncing that too, to hilarious effect.
Farmer Giles says:
So, Baloney always said he was working closely with the Met. Could this be what he meant?
Danielle and Lou had an insy-winsy fallout over Hampstead in March 2015 and it precipitated Danielle’s gradual isolation from the troofer community. She was then trolled heavily over her refusal to believe the hype and over her character assassination of Ella. Christ, when even someone who believes that Cliff Richard fertilises his vineyards with the bodies of murdered babies calls bullshit, alarm bells should ring!
The Vintage Meme Revival Club says:
You’ll never know how close this blog came to being called Scamden Research 😀
Blimey, at 3:08 Danielle echoes what EC says about not wanting to discuss the case in case it scuppered any court proceedings.
And at 4:49 she says that the children’s anonymity should have been protected for their own safety.
And at 5:18 she describes Abe as “shifty as fuck” 😀
I hate to say it (seeing as she has so much else to answer to) but in this instance fair play to her!
The greasy one will be gutted too, as he’s only just latched on to the Wedger thing and has been promoting it on his blog that no one reads 😀
Sorry, GoS, I posted mine below before I saw yours. Seems Spiny’s mind-reading skills have rubbed off on you!
Great Minds think alike and they gather here to present the truth,
Last I checked, Angela was the accuser of the people.
Angie's Playlist says:
I always have sympathy for policeman as they can often see the most terrible things involving humans and can be severely affected by it.
So hated their attacks on Cliff Richard. Never a fan of his music but he strikes me as a genuine and extremely nice person who is very sincere in his Christian beliefs.
But as usual when someone won’t reveal their personal life (why should they?) some people assume the worst.
Given Abe’s 30 plus convictions why hasn’t he been deported as an undesirable alien? Morocco isn’t part of the EU so why has he been able to remain so long in the UK breaking the law?
Mind you I’ve been to Morocco numerous times and have always liked the people so it would be a shame they were saddled with him as well. Then again they have Hope Girl, another scam artist.
EC has won many awards as you & I have shown. I hear he’s up for the much coveted Koala Gold Badge but don’t tell anyone as it’s a surprise.
The silly woman can’t even get the basic facts right- ones that those on opposite sides don’t dispute, so this new revelation with the ex-copper will probably throw her for six.
What a strange life she is leading. Living in a US state and absolutely obsessed with an imaginary hoax in the UK.
Out of curiosity, did you ever meet him?
So Abe was an immigrant to the UK? I must admit I didn’t know that.
But since he was “invited” in by the real Met to attend an interview re the disastrous “Nick” allegations I think Mr Maloney is now following a new interest. Something safe like lawn bowls or similar.
And as for the charming Mr Fay, there is no love lost between those two. Always sad to see such close friend fall out.
Angie should just cut to the chase and accompany every post with “please send me a fiver”.
Sorry if we’ve already had these but this is Lou Collins’ interview with Wedger (it’s in two parts):
Terri Stewart – the British Government is NOT accountable to people in Indiana or other parts of America. You put a stop to this when you dumped our tea in the dock in Boston. Sod off and sort America’s problems out.
This. What does she do all day? She’s a mother and a wife…. how much time does she actually spend on being those things? To be honest, I feel sorry for her family – can you imagine what it must be like to live with an obsessive. Moreover, a person whose obsessions are the vilest, sickest, weirdest things that human beings can do, pretty much. And bad enough it they’re true (best left to the professionals imo), but what a total waste of time, that could be spent hanging out with your kids and partner, rather than discussing sodomy and satanism with your fake friends on the internet. Weird doesn’t really cover it.
Unless you want a one world Government of course in which case ‘we the people’ will be everyone.
hahahahahahahahahahahahha
He’s British, more’s the pity. I think the above post refers to Morocco letting him lounge about there.
Difficult to hate Cassie but boy, is she one of the most annoying you tubers to date. Imagine living with her !.
Yes, thanks! We’re planning to discuss those on tomorrow’s blog.
Gerrish really has had a charisma bypass. Always have to give thanks to those with stronger stomachs who can sit through the mind-numbing boring presentations.
Now Mad Moo- she’s like a performance artist with a stunning climax.
What a brilliant post to start the new year with, well done indeed EC. Great piece of detective work that you have done here, the Met could do with your skills.
Thanks, AP! Glad you like it. 🙂
A classic video there featuring ole Wiggy. I must make a point of going back and re-watching the old videos made by friends of Hoaxtead Research.
Their attacks on Cliff Richard are still ongoing. The truthers believe that he was a visitor at the Elm Guest House and is nick-named Kitty. Yet another made up story that the fruitloops all fell for.
I agree with JS in that what you have done here is fantastic EC. An excellent piece of detective work showing us how you got to where you did. How the troofers must wish they had your intelligence.
Yes that’s a good point GOS. I was just saying to a friend recently about how at times i may slag the police off but whenever there is trouble or people need help then the police are there for them. If a bomb goes off everybody runs from the scene but the police have to be brave enough to run towards the scene without knowing what dangers they may encounter there.
Thanks, WW. 🙂
I certainly do like it EC 🙂 You never fail to impress me with your detective skills and your writing.
Thanks for that. I hadn’t heard that one, I had only heard the Gerrish interview.
He said something interesting about spotting a child who is lying and knowing when a mother has made a child say things about their dad.
Wonderful delving and reportage EC and team.
There is an immense chasm between the balanced,objective analysis witnessed here and the imagined output of peddlers of perversion who unconscionably use children as human shields to play out their vile,loathsome and entirely inept charades.
A wee spoon based tunette to celebrate wolf moon and the inevitable turning of the screws.Productive and resonant howlings one and all. 🙂
Yes, Abe is a UK citizen. He took the kids to Morocco to bully them into saying what they did. At one point in the police interview the little girl is asked where they were when Abe hit them. She is very careful to say “only Morocco”; this is because Abe drilled it into them that they must not say he ever hit them while they were in England. He was well aware he’d be up on charges if that came out.
It makes me happy to see Dave Grohl – and even more so, Pat Smear – prospering 🙂
Because I remember all the way back to The Germs and even farther. In a way Pat represents for me a redemption for all the failed gutter-punks who crashed & burned along the way, like Darby. I doubt he sees himself that way, but…
Yes, EC. I couldn’t agree with you more on that description of Wedger. Well said.
Excellent choice, Mik and a happy new year to you. May your gifs run-a-plenty this year. 🙂
I’ve met him twice, briefly for promotions. Very friendly and not all ‘starry’- will chat to anyone.
My mistake. He’s quite dark so I always assumed he was Moroccan seeing he had connections there. But the name of course isn’t Arabic.
David Howard needs to read your post, EC.
He’s left this comment under the Wedger interview..
Oh yes, thanks Jake. I meant to post that earlier 🙂
What threw me was “Why has he been able to remain so long in the UK?”
Yes, I’m quite certain that when they are arrested and brought to trial (I know, I’m an optimist) we will discover all sorts of fascinating details they “neglected” to share with their drooling public.
She also claimed that ‘Carrie’ was Cliff’s cryptic murder confession, blissfully unaware that he didn’t write it.
Slain Crater says:
Someone forgot to lock Kane’s cage again.
How’s this for projecting your own sick fantasies onto others? Seriously, how sick and perverted must Kane be to interpret an innocent photo in this way?
Thanks, Spiny & Jake! I’m going to add in the details to the FAQ at some point today. 🙂
HAHAHA!! Love it, thanks Spiny!
Oh dear. Wonder if he said Trump called him a “helluva man, just a helluva man”?
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/09/09/david-howards-polygraph-fixation-a-brief-history/
Great choice, Mik! We’re rocking in the office today. 😀
Indeed and the confused look on the office cat’s face is priceless!
14:29 – “Then [age] 7 to 12, which is, like, the spirit of homosexuality that reigns over the UK and over Hollywood and over New York…”
No homophobia there, then.
Some thoughts for Angie:
Heterosexuality is cursed: Genesis 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
In the ten commandments, God condemns heterosexual lust. Gay lust is not listed in the ten commandments as a sin. This shows God’s disapproval of heterosexuality.
Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife.
Heterosexual acts are unclean:
Leviticus 15:18 The woman also with whom man shall lie [with] seed of copulation, they shall [both] bathe [themselves] in water, and be unclean until the even.
Clearly God recognizes the inherent filthiness of heterosexual relationships.
Leviticus 20:18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
Heterosexual relationships during a woman’s period are so disgusting that even God indicates those who have sex then are to be cut off from His people.
Want more evidence? Check this out: http://www.createdgay.com/satire.html
Kudos to anyone who managed to carry on listening to this after Angie started condoning child rape for anyone who repents.
She finally gets round to whining about us at 28:32 😀
She’s once again denying that smoking causes cancer. Good luck with that, Ange.
She thinks she’s a shadow of her former MK Ultra Kitten-self and complaining her weight gain may be down to remote targeting and no-consent childhood medical experiences catching up with her.
“The fear of losing my looks” 😂
No, Debs – this family needs you to leave them the fuck alone, you interfering old witch.
That train done left the station, Angie.
Once again proving the theory of survival of the fittest.
This was the vid wherein he says nothing but: “fuckity-fuck-fuck-fuck!” – yes?
Update from Dr. Mahmoudieh:
She’s just annoyed that we don’t bother with her any longer. She has nothing of interest to say, and now that her protegé Rupert is out of the picture, why would we mention her?
49:34 – “I’ve fallen out with one of my best cyber-friends, on quite a profound level.”
Ooh, do tell, Angie! 🙂
This kind of BS feigned concern really burns my butt 😦
She knows nothing about, and wouldn’t give two sh*ts about, all the Pretty Boys who never made it adulthood for so many tragic reasons. The Glasgow train-spotter boys, the kiddies from The Cup in L.A., some of whom ended up in trash bags by the highways of California, the boys from Vancouver and Houston and Chicago and on & on. Sick old bitch.
THE OUTLAW 🤠 (@outlawjimmycom) says:
Reads pretty much like a slam dunk from where I am sitting.
Well done EC and the team, and may Hoaxtead Research go from strength to strength in 2018.
Many thanks, Jimmy! 🙂
Happy New Year, Jimmy. 😀
58:21 – “I declare and decree that we will have a breakthrough by then and the investigation will be re-opened, the alleged paedophiles described in intimate details will be arrested, three years later, will have their computers and phones and so on forensically examined, will have their identifying body marks – piercings, tattoos, scars and so on – either verified or not. Steve Martin, Rupert spoke highly of you and said that you just did what you did to get along in your career… And I just appeal to you and everybody else that’s been involved with that case to do the right thing.”
Good luck with that, Angela.
That’s it, Debs – you tell ’em 😂
Another day, another new spelling of ‘Hoaxtead’ 🙂
Good to hear things are swinging up at HQ.
Self inflicted stress addict Sabine”madame crocodile”McNeill would be well advised to take a leaf out of your book and learn to loosen up a little too,what with that extensive brood of chickens heading back to roost in 2018 and eveything.The shifty cow might even learn a few new moves.
Yeah, Moo’s stolen her limelight somewhat. LOL
Yay, it’s Jimmy!
Thanks for stopping by, mate. And happy new year to you. Keep up the good work in 2018.
By the way, I don’t know if you’ve heard but our mutual fiend Malcolm Paedogilvy thinks you’re me. Flattering for me but not so much for you.
Come join us, Mik. It’s really swinging in here. And I’ll tell you what, mate – Liza sure has got some moves…
It is quite understandable that having no real friends or family left to fall out with and Mr God flatly refusing to take her calls,the next best thing for a self absorbed nobody and terminal liar is to start creating imaginary friends to thoroughly piss off.
Angela may well be utterly devoid of worthwhile human qualities,but to be fair,she provides an excellent example of precisely how not to live existence on a planet where other beings also happen to exist.
Too much Vodka – according to Kristie Sue.
Too much lounging on the sofa – according to Rupert.
Remote targeting, wtf! She’s having a Giraffe.
As for no-consent childhood medical experiences. How could she consent, even if that is true, which I simply do not believe? She would have been a child, she wouldn’t be in a position to consent.
As for MK Ultra!!
Pleeeeaaaase, pull the other one, it’s got bells on.
What a load of old tosh.
Nothing changes there.
Good to see you back, Mik. You’ve been sorely missed 🙂
Blame Rev Bruce – he’s the one who brought in that giant vat of homebrew. Those vicars sure know how to put it away!
“Yes, am a nasty, horrible person”
A rare moment of self-awareness from the Mooster. Nice 🙂
Thankyou Liza.Glad to be back at base camp after travelling about all over the place.I know he now gets long downtime just ordering elves about and stuff and probably receives decent mileage allowance but I have much admiration and respect for Santa still doing winter excursions at his ripe old age.
Far too many to mention but certain grifters,by comparison need to have a long hard look at themselves and then hang their heads in shame.
You all ready for your daily dose of Moo?
Indeed Spiny,all she needs to do now is acknowledge she has got everything ARSE ABOUT TIT and slide back under the STONE from whence she came and HUMANITY wil be a FAR,FAR better PLACE.
I can assure you that it could be a lot worse Norman.
Assorted online nutters have ‘outed’ me over the years, as being everyone from a female mainstream media journalist, the real author of Justice Paulfrey’s report into the Hampstead case, the Llandudno killer Howard Hughes through to one of the murderers of toddler James Bulger with a new identity.
You are dealing with the kind of people who when alone, take off their socks, and make hand puppets out of them just so they have somebody else to lie too.
I have long given up trying to figure out what goes on in the minds of people like Ogilvy …. Along that road lies madness.
Happy New Year to you too.
6:04 – Have I misunderstood or does Moo not get the difference between fraternity and paternity? She’s based an entire rant about the Masons on the notion that they’re supposed to have a fatherly outlook on life, based on her thinking they’re a ‘paternity’ instead of a fraternity!
Again….hahahahahahahahahahahahah
Well effin hell Dave – we all now know who needs to take a lie detector test don’t we!
Why does this demented pervert keep asking to see an innocent man’s “willy”?
7:23 – “People like me, who are talking reason and sense.”
Shit, there goes that self-awareness. Oh well, it was good while it lasted.
Jake should really try focusing his attention on tieing up his shoelaces and negotiating his way out of his arse before blithely accusing outer gas giants of making his life shit.
Astral Plane says:
The really funny thing is that without Abe publicising this detail we never would have known.
Another borderline death threat for the collection
7:44 – “So ignore me and take what’s coming, because, I tell yer, there is a consciousness out there that would like to crucify paedophiles and chop their heads off and chop their bits off and all kinds of horrific things.”
This really did me head in. I had to get a cuppa and sit down. Is she real?
Angie. It’s not ‘work’. It’s pratting about on the internet. Work involves effort, hopefully, is useful.
I hope Deborah tells the police this when they pick her up. Tick tock as they say…..
I’m still confused about why she thinks the Red Cross is a Christian organisation and that was about three videos ago.
She then goes on to threaten them with “consequences” and says they’ll “feel the wrath” (which she can’t pronouce, btw).
Check out this crap:
https://archive.is/mtm93
I hope Jake never focuses on Uranus.
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just another hit piece in my opinion
Well that’s just, like, your opinion, man.
Ian Leapingwell says:
I am interested to know your opinion about DC Jon Wedger, his work investigating and exposing child abuse throughout the UK and his allegations that his bosses repeatedly shut down his investigations and threatened him with dire consequences if he continued.
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Managing shadow cloud in the new reality.
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All too often in information technology, rules are broken. Such an attitude often gives rise to 'shadow IT,' which is the use of infrastructure, services and applications outside the boundaries of an organization's corporate IT policies. Shadow IT that targets cloud-based technology creates what is known as a 'shadow cloud.'
When it comes to security, if ever there was an excuse to 'ask for forgiveness rather than permission,' the pandemic without question tops the list. In a business where security isn't already fully embedded, it seemed inevitable that decisions would be made without their input or knowledge. Too much has happened, too quickly — businesses have had to roll out new cloud applications and services at an astonishing rate to enable remote working, support customers and facilitate the digitization of their existing services.
As security teams begin to re-evaluate their organization's rushed through cloud solutions, they'll find a lot of it hiding in the shadows.
Typically, one person or team can decide to employ shadow cloud solutions. But during COVID-19, it may have been the business itself who understandably took an 'act now, ask questions later' approach, with an unstated message that they will approve what is needed to function and review it all retroactively.
A common characteristic of a true shadow cloud is that it lacks the security and monitoring processes that, if properly operated, the legitimate IT function would employ. This solution will usually result in an increased risk of exposure to corporate data, personally identifiable information (PII), and intellectual property (IP).
Many organizations will likely have authorized the use of cloud-based solutions such as Dropbox, Google Drive, AWS, and Azure to allow for remote collaboration and continued productivity. But it's now imperative that the use of these services be governed and monitored by corporate IT and risk professionals who understand the entirety of the implications.
Consequences of cloud shadow IT
Seldom governed by a competent security team, let alone benefit from periodic security reviews or even antivirus software — shadow cloud deployments can result in serious risks.
Even before COVID-19, many clients raised concerns over data discovered in their cloud environments placed there by employees or contractors in violation of company policies. Unfortunately, sometimes, they were not the first to find that data, and a breach followed. Today, as security teams use the momentary calm to begin to investigate their organization's security deficit, stories of incidents are on the rise.
To companies or its regulators looking at those incidents, it makes little difference why data was exposed. Penalties are just as severe in nearly all cases when shadow IT or shadow cloud is at the root of a data breach.
The misty boundaries of cloud technology
When a database server is setup on an internal network, it's typically behind a firewall managed by IT staff. It can only communicate with systems on that internal network unless it's specifically configured to communicate with internet systems.
However, when a cloud service provider is implemented, it can communicate with the entire internet unless a cloud-based firewall solution is deployed. Without this firewall, any service installed on this system can potentially communicate with any other computer connected to the internet, typically with only a single password to secure it — leaving any misconfiguration open to exploitation.
Many complex shadow cloud applications (e.g. Applications with a remotely accessible interface and a database) are deployed or created by the end-user or a developer. One person or even a small team rarely have all the skill sets necessary to manage risk completely:
Platform expert
Application developer/configuration expert
Firewall/networking expert
Risk and compliance expert
Employees not trained in IT security may not realize the severity of these risks. That's one reason why new IT assets need to go through the proper change management and risk review process defined by the organization.
Managing shadow cloud today
Security teams have a unique opportunity to change their image. Rather than being seen as blockers to progress and productivity — it's time to be enablers. COVID-19 showed us how businesses could quickly respond when needed, so how can we streamline the security-by-design processes to match that pace? How do we balance the enforcement of critical ground rules for shadow cloud infrastructure with business requirements and deadlines? Here are six tips for helping you manage shadow cloud today.
Just (don't) do it. Some organizations have taken strong measures to contain circumventions of security policy. One organization who had suffered a breach due to a missing network firewall very quickly declared across their global network — there will be no networks without firewalls. Leadership who failed to heed the memo would soon find themselves looking for a new job. Companies are moving closer to this mindset when dealing with shadow cloud. The first rule of shadow cloud is that there should be no shadow cloud.
Policy is key. In some organizations, there are no policy statements that address shadow cloud deployment. Be sure to adjust your policy to adapt to the prevalence of cloud-based applications — that means, update or address data handling and authorized application provisions by referring employees to a controlled approval process.
Access control. Consider blocking access to unauthorized cloud-based applications. If cloud-based file sharing is authorized, settle on one platform and govern its use. Utilize whitelisting to allow access to approved platforms or sites, and block all others unless approval is received. Monitor network traffic for access to new sites and include them in the blacklist.
Out of the shadows. Offer stakeholders a path for approval. It's essential to understand why users may want to 'go rogue'. If users have difficulty managing their work, collaborating or providing services to their clients because of old architecture, then working on a cloud deployment can be a smart solution. But beware, failure to handle these requests quickly and effectively is a great way of sending them back into the shadows. The most sensitive data can be stored on an AWS server if done correctly, though it may be more expensive than they would like. This path should include architecture review, configuration and security review, and lifecycle management.
No funding equals no fun. Some cloud services are free or carry minimal costs assumed by employees. But some projects can cost thousands per year. One way to discourage the use of shadow cloud services is to carefully manage the expense reports and invoices payable to these cloud services. While this may not affect the use of free applications like DropBox or OneDrive, shadow cloud deployments that house large or enterprise-wide projects will seek legitimacy and funding.
Don't skimp. If a company decides to use the cloud, it's best to start from day one. It's expensive, but it's MUCH more costly to retrofit to a secure configuration than to develop, build and test it under leading practices. The second application should be much cheaper than the first — new projects benefit from the first application's pains. At the same time, look to streamline the vetting and design process. Can parts of the testing and approval process be automated? Is there a way to make requests more easily? What software can be whitelisted once reviewed, so business teams looking for a new collaboration tool are pleasantly surprised by the proactive approach of the security team?
While shadow cloud use should be discouraged, its use during the pandemic is a strong testimony to what cloud solutions can offer and its benefits. When organizations can support cloud technology oversight and governance, stakeholders lose legitimate high ground for deploying shadow cloud solutions.
Organizations that are ready for the future, whether they adopt cloud technology as a primary platform or ban it altogether, should do so while treating stakeholders as partners — bringing IT solutions out of the shadows.
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By HeritageRail NewsOctober 6, 2019HeritageRail Alliance Business
By Aaron Isaacs, HRA editor
Hosted by the West Coast Railway Association, the Fall Heritage Rail Alliance conference returned to Squamish, BC. HRA predecessor ARM had met there in 1999 and 2009. Much has changed since our last visit. The roundhouse/event center was under construction in 2009. Now finished, it’s the biggest venue between Vancouver and the Whistler ski resort farther north, hosting every kind of event.
The roundhouse, seen from the Mac Norris Station.
Inside the roundhouse, with Pacific Great Eastern 2-6-2T&T #2 and Royal Hudson #2860.
Royal Hudson #2860 inside the roundhouse/convention center.
CP wood business car British Columbia.
Over 400 Australians were departing when we arrived. Equipment moves in and out as the space requires. It seems that rolling stock makes good room dividers, so multiple functions can take place at once. Unlike previous conferences, all the seminars, receptions, meals and meetings were held at the museum, rather than in a hotel.
A recently restored PGE troop sleeper.
The roundhouse has created a major new revenue stream, although it did so at a cost. Construction ran well over budget and the museum is digging out from several million dollars of debt. They expect to retire it in five years.
The Mini-Rail circles the museum grounds.
After Canadian National leased BC Rail in 2004, the Squamish shop complex across the street from the museum became surplus and WCRA leased the biggest building. They subleased portions to pay the rent and began using the rest, equipped with multiple overhead cranes, to increase the number of pieces being restored. The old wood car shop, moved onto the museum property years ago, became equipment storage.
We could have walked there from the museum, but much better to be delivered to the newly purchased shop by ex-BC Rail RDC.
This year, thanks to a major government grant, WCRA has purchased the shop building. The tenants are gone, although some space has been reserved to lease out. Active restorations inside the building include Canadian Pacific Baldwin diesel #8000 and BC Electric steeple cab loco #960.
Ex-Oregon Electric, ex-BC Electric steeple cab 960 is looking much better, thank you, as its restoration continues.
There was a nice moment when Robbie Robinson and Peter Murphy of Montreal’s Exporail informed the CP #8000 crew that the locomotive’s brake handles had turned up in the recently acquired CP archives and would they like to have them.
CP Baldwin 8000 was part of a group that dieselized Vancouver Island.
A real rarity is this ex-Interstate Public Service interurban sleeping car, one of three that ran between Indianapolis and Louisville from the 20’s until 1932, when they were purchased by the Pacific Great Eastern. The interior is intact.
The other big change, unexpected and unwelcome, was the sudden death of Don Evans. Taking nothing away from a capable and dedicated staff and membership, Evans was the museum’s guiding force. An organizational development consultant, he steered WCRA’s business plan, which was always based on achieving financial self sufficiency. As General Manager Gordon Bell said in a seminar, “gate receipts are the least of the revenue stream.” Evans was an excellent fund raiser, but the museum has gone beyond government grants to create a series of income streams that often have nothing to do with railway preservation. In fact, the conference theme was “The business of railway preservation”.
The event center is the biggest revenue generator. Beyond that, the museum has come up with some innovative ways to raise money, as described by Gordon and Craig McDowell at the seminar entitled “Thinking outside the box”. For example, they hung a movie screen on an exterior roundhouse wall facing the parking lot and show drive-in movies for $10 a car.
The drive-in movie screen on the roundhouse wall.
Inside a restored CP bunk car they’ve created an “escape room”, for which they charge admission. Once you’re inside, you have to figure out how to escape from it, and it can be configured for different levels of difficulty.
Fraser Valley Heritage Rail Society
The Fraser valley’s campus, with carbarn at left, replica Cloverdale depot at right, and pollinator garden in the middle.
For a pre-conference trip we bussed to Cloverdale, east of Vancouver to visit the Fraser Valley Heritage Rail Society. We were greeted in style by docents in period costume and led into the grounds by bagpipers.
Passengers depart from a replica of the original Cloverdale interurban depot. Between the depot and carbarn is a large pollinator garden presided over by the “Queen Bee”, a volunteer who dressed in yellow and black for the occasion and showed us around.They’ve acquired four big wood BC Electric interurbans, and restored two of them to operation. They operate on home rails. The interurban is now the Southern Railway of British Columbia and museum cars run on the three miles from Cloverdale to Sullivan. Next year they hope to extend another two miles to Newton. The cars are powered by generators on trailers.
Restored and operating are cars 1225 and 1304. After BCER quit in 1958, 1225 was saved by Orange Empire Railway Museum. It returned to Canada in 2005.
We rode first on car 1225.
Car 1304 is also named Connaught. It was built in 1911 at the company’s New Westminster shops as a coach. 15 months later it was transformed into a luxurious private car for the visit of Queen Victoria’s son Arthur, the Duke of Connaught, for whom it was named. Afterward it was restored to its original configuration. The car burned down to the frame in 1945. The shop crews rebuilt it as a wood bodied car with arch windows. It was acquired by Seashore Trolley Museum in 1956 and then by Fraser Valley in 2009. It was cosmetically restored in 2018 and this year ran under its own power for the first time.
The whole site is new as of 2013 when the Society moved from a smaller property in Surrey that had no rail access. The carbarn can accommodate all four cars. Inside car the barn was 1207, the next restoration, up on blocks with the trucks removed. Well done displays line the walls.
The Society is only permitted onto the freight railroad on weekends, when freights don’t run. We visited on a weekday, so operation was restricted to a half-mile spur built along the main line by the Society.
The Society is a fairly young organization and has accomplished a lot in a short time. It was formed in 2001. The first carbarn in Sullivan opened in 2003. Car 1225 was restored there and work began on 1304.
Not content to be a static display museum, the Society purchased land in Cloverdale. The Cloverdale station replica was built in 2012. The new carbarn opened in 2013, along with operations on former BC Electric rails.
In 2016, car 1207 joined the fleet. It had run on the False Creek Trolley in Vancouver until the transit agency which owned the line shut it down. The car is currently being restored.
Car 1207 inside the carbarn. Note the history displays along the walls.
2018 saw the arrival of the other False Creek car, #1231, also under restoration.
Car 1231 under restoration.
Fraser Valley now has four of the seven surviving BCER interurbans.
This futuristic speeder came from Vancouver’s Skytrain.
Vancouver Trip
On Saturday we traveled to Vancouver, toured the Rocky Mountaineer consist and visited West Coast Railway Association’s Locomotive 374 Pavilion.
CP 374 inside its pavilion.
This museum outpost is attached to the former Canadian Pacific Drake Street Roundhouse, now a community center and marooned far away from active rails and surrounded by high rise development.
The 374 pavilion is attached to the roundhouse. The turntable, at left, is intact.
The Drake Street Roundhouse was surrounded by freight yards before redevelopment removed them. The roundhouse survives, surrounded by high rises.
Inside is CP 4-4-0 #374 (CP Montreal Shop 1883), the first engine to arrive in Vancouver. It occupies a couple hundred feet of track, can be rolled outdoors and hooked up to air for whistle blowing.
The Pavilion occupies the city-owned building rent free and functions as a visitor center, as well as an advertisement for the museum in Squamish. It is staffed by about 25 volunteers and open daily. Near the cruise ship terminal, it sees lots of visitors and generates modest revenue for the museum through the sale of merchandise.
On Saturday we returned to the museum and took a hour round trip that ventured onto the former BC Rail main line to the Squamish waterfront. Trailing the consist was former CP heavyweight business car Alberta, restored several years ago after being rescued from exile as a Chinese restaurant in downtown Vancouver.
Aboard the Alberta.
That evening the conference ended with the traditional banquet and awards presentations.
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IGR’s Working Paper Series seeks to connect scholarship in social justice and dialogue-based education programs. The papers emphasize leading research and practice innovations conducted by leaders in the field of intergroup dialogue. All papers in the series are subject to rigorous peer review by IGR faculty and staff.
#1. Breaking Ground Through Intergroup Education: The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR), 1988-2016
By Kelly Maxwell & Monita Thompson
This paper traces the history of the University of Michigan’s Program on Intergroup Relations, from its inception in 1988 through 2016. It discusses the national and local factors that led to the initiation of this program and the development of its unique form of social justice education – peer-facilitated, academically credited intergroup dialogues. As the Program has grown over time it has extended its core agenda in other educational projects such as CommmonGround, residence hall advisor training, outreach and partnership efforts with other academic and student life units, the Intergroup Dialogue National Institute that disseminates the Program’s vision and practices to other colleges and universities, and various research projects.
#2. ‘There is nothing interesting about us’: Racial Identity and the Balance of Shared/Peer Teaching in Intergroup Dialogues
By Chaddrick Gallaway
This research paper examines some of the ways in which voice and power are shared in interracial dialogues. White students often report at the outset that they feel they have little to offer: they often are unaware of the meaning and impacts of their racial identity and are cautious about making racial mistakes or giving offense to students of color. This stance can result in uneven vulnerability and transparency in participation by different racial groups. Thus, students of color often report carrying both the opportunity and the burden of educating their white peers. Gallaway examines these dynamics and provides a number of useful suggestions for facilitators dealing with these issues.
#3. Balancing Asymmetrical Social Power Dynamics in Intergroup Dialogues
By Roger Fisher & Taryn Petryk
This paper explores the concept of ‘multipartiality’ in dialogic facilitation. The authors argue that facilitators need to think about and adopt varied techniques to balance power among participants as they deal with the issues of dominant narratives and power asymmetry. “Neutral’ facilitation fails to challenge the power that socially privileged groups bring to these settings, and facilitator ‘advocacy’ of lower power groups’ positions typically alienates others. Facilitator (and hopefully participant) skills of inquiry, counter-narrative generation, and empathy are described as techniques to effectively manage group dynamics and imbalances in social power and privilege.
#4. CommonGround: A model for inclusive leadership in social justice education
By Laxmi Shastry, Tyra Bandt & Danny Alvarez
CommonGround (CG) is part of The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR)’s social justice education program at the University of Michigan. CG offers interactive workshops that are facilitated and coordinated by trained U-M undergraduate and graduate students to help promote social identity development and enhance group dynamics while building a community of social justice educators on campus. This paper focuses on the team that runs the CG program, its unique inclusive leadership structure, and how other programs can adopt and replicate this structure. It also highlights how the program model promotes student-centered leadership and embeds social justice into the program’s structures and operations. Two sample workshop agendas are provided as examples of CG’s curriculum.
#5. Student leaders of color negotiating their racial identities in a historically white student organization
By Laura Sanchez-Parkinson
People of color in historically white organizations continuously negotiate their racial identities. This negotiation may result in the form of assimilating and adapting to or actively challenging mainstream norms. In this study, thirteen student leaders of color were interviewed regarding their experiences in a historically white student organization. The results suggest that students of color undertake various behavioral strategies in order to operate effectively in the organization. Four behavioral strategies are described and analyzed: 1) Oppressed Oppressor, 2) Subservience, 3) Warrior, and 4) Cultural Split. A variety of practical applications for white students and higher education staff and faculty are recommended in the effort to create more inclusive and welcoming organizations.
#6. White student comfort and conflict in racial dialogues
By Mark Chesler, Kelly Maxwell, Swathi Shanmugasundaram, Vidhya Aravind, Alexander Kime, Theresa Ross, Charles Ruiz & Ashley Tijung
This research paper compares the experiences of white students participating in two types of racial dialogues: white racial identity (intragroup) dialogues and interracial (intergroup) dialogues containing white students and students of color. Issues of white students’ relative comfort and conflict take center stage, as they report experiencing both the positive and negative effects of cognitive/emotional dissonance and conflict in the dialogic learning process. Fear of offending others and the safety to take risks in self-disclosure, as well as a frustrated desire to learn about ‘others’, were more often reported by students in the white-only dialogues, while white students in the interracial dialogues more often reported tension/discomfort and cognitive/emotional learning about the lives of others. Both types of dialogues increased students’ learning about personal/structural white privilege and racism as a white problem.
#7. IGR at UPMU: Absorption, Resistance and Breaking from Neoliberal Diversity Policy
By Stephanie Hicks
Research on Intergroup Dialogue (IGD) has typically focused on its effectiveness as an intervention in higher education classrooms designed to increase students’ awareness of social diversity and encourage their positive interaction with students from different social identity groups (race/ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, religion, gender, citizenship/national origin). This qualitative case study identifies and contextualizes the theoretical underpinnings of a dialogue-based diversity and social justice curriculum initiative based on IGD theory and pedagogy at UPMU, a large, public, urban research university in the Midwest. Specifically, this study asked, What theories and values underlie the Dialogue Initiative (DI) process at UPMU?
#8. What is Incilivity in the Academic Environment? And What Can We Do About it? With particular attention to race and gender equity concerns*
By Mark Chesler
Current media draw attention to increasing levels of incivility in our national culture and as well in our colleges and universities. Examining claims and counter-claims of academic incivility requires not just a focus on individual actions or interactions, but on patterns of behavior that take on greater meaning via their repetition and institutionalization. While incivility may occur in all social and academic interactions, also like all such interactions incivility is neither race nor gender-neutral. Nor, despite a primary focus on student incivility to other students and to faculty members, is this all we need to attend to faculty incivility toward students and to other faculty members also matters. In discussing these interactions I draw attention to the role that social power, explicitly race and gender power/privilege, plays in academic incivilities and in responses to them. I also suggest some ways in which incivility in the classroom may be addressed - reactively and proactively.
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New York Legislators Say They Want Alternatives to Costly Youth Prisons
By Steven Yoder
State and local governments are limping into a second year facing off with budgets decimated by the coronavirus. In New York state, some lawmakers are eyeing one item freighted with financial and moral burdens: the sky-high cost of youth prisons.
In November, The Imprint reported on the escalating expenses at state-operated detention facilities that have reached an annual average of nearly $900,000 per youth.
Now, informed of those costs, some legislators say they’re angry about the price tag and want to redirect that money to approaches that deliver better results.
“It’s absolutely outrageous that we’re spending so much money to keep young men and women incarcerated when we can use that money to provide services,” state Sen. Luis Sepúlveda (D) told The Imprint. Sepúlveda, who chairs the Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee, added: “We really have to start thinking about alternatives to incarceration.”
State Assembly member Michaelle Solages, a Nassau County Democrat, called it “just unbelievable and unfair — those are the words I’m going to say in public — but it’s just disheartening that we’re not really investing in these young people in a proper way.”
The $900 billion coronavirus aid package passed late last month includes no dedicated money for state or local governments, creating dire prospects of gutted social service programs and laid-off public servants. In New York, that frightful fiscal reality will be confronted by a new super-majority of Democrats — inspiring youth justice advocates who say the climate in Albany may now be more amenable to shutting down costly youth prisons.
Meanwhile, economic times could not be tougher for New York’s county governments. Take Erie County, home to Buffalo in the state’s northwest corner. There, county leaders cut the 2021 budget by more than 5% and slashed 246 county jobs.
But there’s at least one high-end line item the county executive doesn’t control: the sky-high outlay for state-run youth prisons, which runs between $531 and $638 a day for each young person in detention. With 32 Erie County youth in these lockups at the end of 2019, according to state figures, that works out to close to $20,000 a day that the county owed the state.
Counties are responsible for about a quarter of the cost of these facilities, which serve youth given longer sentences. The burgeoning costs are mostly attributed to low occupancy rates, amid dramatic drops in youth crime over decades.
The portion counties have contributed to the cost of juvenile lockups was burdensome well before the coronavirus pandemic decimated local budgets. In Wyoming County, next-door to Erie, social services Commissioner Kimberley Barber noted in her 2020 budget narrative that the county had two youth in “limited-secure” facilities — part of the network of state youth prisons. But even the cost for just two youth, she wrote, “will be a huge impact on our budget.”
Barber didn’t respond to requests for comment, and her budget narrative doesn’t specify the cost. At the most recent state rates, the county would have been charged a combined total of between $1,062 and $1,276 a day for those two young people.
In Onondaga County, the latest state figures at the end of 2019 showed 14 kids in state lockups, or more than $8,000 a day. Cayuga County had one youth in a lockup at the end of 2019 at a cost of $638 a day.
But eliminating the 10 remaining youth prisons and replacing them with housing for serious and violent offenders in local communities would require a change in state law, and state and county leaders willing to create alternatives — both issues with many potential obstacles.
Under current state law known as Raise the Age, 16- and 17-year-olds sentenced to more than a year must be held in state-run secure facilities. And juvenile justice reforms of the past have met pushback from local governments concerned about assuming new financial burdens and the difficulty of establishing new secure detention centers.
Paul Kubala, Erie County’s deputy commissioner for youth services, for example, said in an interview “the system is good the way it is right now.”
Kubala added that if youth who had committed more serious crimes and received sentences of more than a year were kept in the county, local detention facilities might run out of space.
Source: Office of Children and Family Services. Image by Christine Ongjoco
Gladys Carrión, commissioner of the state’s Office of Children and Family Services from 2007 to 2014, said she heard similar concerns during her tenure, that included an array of juvenile justice reforms and closure of two of New York’s 12 youth prisons. Some local leaders objected to the idea of the most serious juvenile offenders living in their communities, and preferred having the option of sending them to far flung regions.
Carrión said in light of such opposition, she is skeptical that current legislators have the political will to shutter more detention facilities.
But now, with the state’s budget in deep crisis and a new Democratic supermajority in both legislative chambers, some political observers say the climate for considering the shuttering of youth prisons may be more favorable.
Signs can already be found in New York’s adult system. On Dec. 21, the state’s corrections department announced cost-saving measures that involved the closure of three adult prisons by March 30.
Legislators interviewed for this story said they’re determined to take action on youth lockups as well.
Newly elected Assembly member Phara Souffrant Forest (D), a nurse and tenant rights activist, is among the lawmakers saying the state must create alternatives to the costly juvenile prison model, and she said she is committed to prioritizing the issue in the next session of the Legislature. Souffrant Forrest wants to see any money saved put back into services and support.
“We need to be thinking about reinvesting in our communities,” she said. “So it’s not just shutting down juvenile detention centers but then reinvesting that money to make sure we don’t need juvenile facilities.”
Assembly member Solages, a third-term legislator, said Raise the Age did not go far enough because, among other provisions, it continued the requirement that teens sentenced to longer terms be housed in state-run youth prisons. “Now,” she added, “I think we as a society realize that this is not working — financially morally, or ethically.”
The Imprint reached out to 25 other state legislators, including eight newly elected Democrats, who either declined to comment or didn’t respond to requests for comment for this article.
New York Assemblymember Michaelle Solages (D): “It’s not just shutting down juvenile detention centers but then reinvesting that money to make sure we don’t need juvenile facilities.” Photo: Facebook
Attorney Kate Rubin, a director at the legal defense and advocacy organization Youth Represent, takes inspiration from the 2012 Close to Home state law that resulted in most New York City juvenile offenders being housed locally. Rubin said that law shows it’s possible to place kids who have committed even the most serious offenses in smaller, community-based settings, while keeping the public safe.
A 2019, pre-pandemic report from the Columbia University Justice Lab noted that after Close to Home passed, juvenile arrest rates continued declining as New York City created more home-like programs. The programs were closely supervised, but offered intensive services that relied on physical restraints only as a last resort.
Still, bringing kids home to upstate counties from state facilities would require funding for “a thick array of services” and family therapy, Rubin said. There are thousands of such offerings in New York City, but they can be scant in other parts of the state.
Local courts would also have to make a “cultural change,” she added, with prosecutors and judges willing to consider alternatives to locking kids up.
Though he supports the current system, Deputy Commissioner Kubala said Erie County recognizes that keeping kids out of detention is ultimately better for them, and for the taxpayers.
Since January 2019, his county has diverted more than a thousand youth charged with offenses to alternative programs. “That’s a big savings right there,” he said. “If we can get those kids home with services that is obviously a lot more cost effective.”
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Chicago condo owners act to prevent forced condo deconversion
October 22, 2019 deborahgoonan Condo termination / Conversion / Deconversion / Eminent Domain, Private Property Rights Comments Off on Chicago condo owners act to prevent forced condo deconversion
According to local reports, the residential tower at 21 E. Chestnut was constructed as apartments in 1962, and converted to condominiums in 1979. Four decades later, the process has come full circle, with a pending deconversion to apartments.
Earlier this month, 92% of owners in the 163-unit condominium building at 21 E. Chestnut St. voted in favor of a $44 million buyout by Strategic Properties of North America. The investor plans to change the building back to rental apartments, under the ownership and management of a single entity.
Prior to the sale, Strategic Properties owned 40% of units at 21 E. Chestnut. According to local reports, more than half of the units in the building were already owned by investors and inhabited by renters.
The vote on the sale of 21 E. Chestnut came just a few days before Chicago’s new deconversion ordinance kicked in.
Illinois law requires owners representing a 75% voting interest to vote in favor of selling their condominium community to a developer or investor. As of October 16 in the city of Chicago, condo owners must reach a higher 85% threshold to approve the sale of their condo building.
The intent of Chicago’s ordinance is to make it more difficult for investors to force owner-occupants to sell their units against their will.
But, as the sale at 21 E. Chestnut illustrates, although it might take a bit longer for investors to accumulate an 85% voting majority, the higher threshold won’t necessarily prevent the forced sale of condo units.
At 21 E. Chestnut, 8% of owners will be forced to sell their homes, to satisfy the desires of the other 92%. Proving that when you own a condo, your property rights are severely limited.
A forced condo termination and deconversion is a very real risk for condo owners, especially in Chicago’s hot rental market.
And if condo owners want to avoid being forced out of their homes, they must take action before investors start buying up condo units in bulk.
Condo owners vote on amendments to prevent hostile takeover and forced condo deconversion.
Unit owners of Lake Point Tower Condominium don’t like the current deconversion trend in Chicago. They fear they, too, could be forced out of their homes.
Lake Point Tower is a 51-year-old residential building that’s ripe for renovation and redevelopment. Its lakefront location is particularly enticing to apartment investors.
So when Lake Point owners noticed an increase in condo sales to non-residents, they knew they had to act fast to prevent their community from eventual takeover by investors.
Like many residential towers in the city, the Lake Point Tower building began as apartments in 1968. By 1988, all 875 units were converted to condominiums. Over the years, some of the units have been combined. Today, Lake Point Tower has 758 residential units.
The majority of residents in the building own their condos. They love where they live, and have no interest in moving or cashing out their equity.
That’s why owners recently voted to approve two amendments to their bylaws, designed to fend off purchases by investors.
The Chicago Tribune reports that on August 22, owners voted to approve a 25% cap on the number of units that can be rented at any given time.
Then on September 26, owners voted in favor of limiting ownership by any person or group to 2% of the condominium corporation.
New rental restrictions unattractive to apartment investors
Lake Point’s new restrictions address the risk of forced deconversion on two fronts: rental restrictions and ownership restrictions.
Rental restrictions have pros and cons. On the plus side, investors may be far less interested in buying condo units that they cannot rent.
But a 25% rental cap in the building may also limit owners from renting their condos when their life circumstances change.
For example, a job offer in a new city, a 2-year contract job, or a military deployment might force an owner to leave their unit vacant until they can return or sell the property.
It’s true that, without rental income, an investor will have to cover the full carrying cost of each unit, while gradually accumulating additional units in the condominium.
That could be a significant deterrent to some investors. But a bulk investor with deep pockets and a bit of patience still might be willing to hold onto empty condo units until it owns enough of them to gain seats on the condo board.
But owner participation in many condo associations is low. Even a 25% interest in the condo association can influence who gets elected to the board, and lead to further amendments to the condominium documents to relax or undo rental restrictions.
Ownership restrictions key to preventing a hostile takeover
Lake Point Tower owners were wise enough to realize that they needed a way to prevent one or a few people or corporate investment entities from owning a high percentage of condo units.
After all, each condo purchase is effectively a purchase of additional shares in the condo corporation.
Despite the fact that most condominium associations are registered as non-profit organizations, investors often exploit the for-profit corporate structure of voting rights in condominium associations.
Buy more shares in the corporation (condos in this case), gain more voting power. The greater the voting power, the greater an investor’s access to the assets and profit potential of a corporation.
That’s why history reveals the current cycle of apartment to condominium to apartment conversions in the U.S. over the past 50 years. Most condo documents are designed to benefit a few wealthy real estate industry stakeholders at the expense of homeowners and small-time real estate investors.
That’s why Lake Point Tower condo association’s new ownership restriction is pure genius.
By limiting any one owner’s share of the association to 2% of all condo units, voting power remains more evenly distributed among many owners.
For that reason, Lake Point Tower is less likely to experience a hostile corporate takeover of its community. ♦
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The Green River Formation is an Eocene geologic formation that records the sedimentation in a group of intermountain lakes in three basins along the present-day Green River in Colorado,
Wyoming, and Utah. The sediments are deposited in very fine layers, a dark layer during the growing season and a light-hue inorganic layer in the dry season. Each pair of layers is called a
varve and represents one year. The sediments of the Green River Formation present a continuous record of six million years. The mean thickness of a varve here is 0.18 mm, with a minimum
thickness of 0.014 mm and maximum of 9.8 mm.
The sedimentary layers were formed in a large area named for the Green River, a tributary of the Colorado River. The three separate basins lie around the Uinta Mountains of northeastern
an area in northwestern Colorado east of the Uintas
a larger area in the southwest corner of Wyoming just north of the Uintas known as Lake Gosiute
the largest area, in northeastern
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The limestone matrix is so fine-grained that fossils include rare soft parts of complete insects and fallen leaves in spectacular detail. More than twenty-two orders of insects are
represented in the Green River collection at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., alone.
The lagerstätten formed in anoxic conditions in the fine carbonate muds that formed in the lakebeds. Lack of oxygen slowed bacterial decomposition and kept scavengers away, so leaves of
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Chicago removes Columbus statues
City crews inspect the straps that are around the Christopher Columbus statue in Grant Park as they begin to remove it, Friday, July 24, 2020, in Chicago. The statue of Christopher Columbus that drew chaotic protests in Chicago was taken down early Friday amid a plan by President Donald Trump to dispatch federal agents to the city. (Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Mayor’s office: ‘This step is about an effort to protect public safety and to preserve a safe space for an inclusive and democratic public dialogue about our city's symbols’
CHICAGO (AP) — Two statues of Christopher Columbus that stood in Chicago parks were taken down early Friday at the direction of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a week after protesters trying to topple one of the monuments to the Italian explorer clashed with police.
Crews used a large crane to remove the statue in downtown Chicago's Grant Park from its pedestal. A small crowd cheered and passing cars honked as the statue came down about 3 a.m. The second statue was removed about 5:30 a.m. Friday from Arrigo Park in Chicago's Little Italy neighborhood.
In a statement issued after the statues were taken down, the Democratic mayor's office said they were being "temporarily removed ... until further notice." It said the removals were "in response to demonstrations that became unsafe for both protesters and police, as well as efforts by individuals to independently pull the Grant Park statue down in an extremely dangerous manner."
"This step is about an effort to protect public safety and to preserve a safe space for an inclusive and democratic public dialogue about our city's symbols," the mayor's office said in the statement, which said the statues were removed following "consultation with various stakeholders."
Plans to remove the Grant Park statue were first reported Thursday night by the Chicago Tribune and the removal followed hours of vocal confrontations between opponents and supporters of the statue. On July 17, protesters had clashed with police, who used batons to beat people and made arrests after they say protesters targeted them with fireworks, rocks and other items.
"This statue coming down is because of the effort of Black and Indigenous activists who know the true history of Columbus and what he represents," Stefan Cuevas-Caizaguano, a resident watching the removal, told the Chicago Sun-Times.
Both the Grant Park and Arrigo Park statues were vandalized last month. Statues of Columbus have also been toppled or vandalized in other U.S. cities as protesters have called for the removal of statues of Columbus, saying that he is responsible for the genocide and exploitation of native peoples in the Americas.
Pasquale Gianni of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans said the mayor had told him before their removal that both statues would be moved and temporarily housed elsewhere for public safety reasons.
"The Italian American community feels betrayed. The Mayor's Office is giving into a vocal and destructive minority. This is not how the Democratic process is supposed to work," he told WLS-TV.
Lightfoot and the city planned to announce a process "to assess each of the monuments, memorials, and murals across Chicago's communities, and develop a framework for creating a public dialogue to determine how we elevate our city's history and diversity," the mayor's office added in its statement.
The removals come amid a plan by President Donald Trump to dispatch federal law enforcement agents to the city to respond to gun violence, prompting worries that the surge will inhibit residents' ability to hold demonstrations. A collection of activist groups had filed suit Thursday, seeking to block federal agents to combat violent crime from interfering in or policing protests.
State officials in Oregon had sued for similar requests following the arrival of federal law enforcement due to nearly two months of protests in Portland since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that 90% of the pipes of state-owned Gazprom's southern venture, the TurkStream pipeline, have been laid, preparing the way for the transit of natural gas into Europe.
"The Serbian section of the gas pipe from the Bulgarian border to the Hungarian border is almost ready: 90% of the pipes have been laid and 85% of them are ready; they are already in the trenches," Putin said during a joint news conference with visiting Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic in Moscow on Wednesday, according to a press release by the Russian President's Office.
Gazprom's plan is to build a string of the TurkStream pipeline for transit of natural gas from Russia to Europe via Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary. Serbia intends to have its 403 km section of the pipeline completed by December 18.
In Bulgaria, a consortium of Saudi-based Arkad Engineering and Construction Company and its Italy-based company Arkad ABB started the construction of the country's 474 km section of the transit gas pipeline in October, after Bulgaria's Supreme Administrative Court closed the case against the decision by the country's anti-trust regulator to reinstate Arkad as winner in the tender for the project.
"Bulgaria is deliberately delaying the implementation of the project on its territory. This is strange and disappointing. I would like to say that straight out, publicly," Putin said during the news conference.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov responded to Putin's remark on Wednesday, saying that the country is not delaying the project and fulfils all the European Union's requirements, which non-member states like Russia, Turkey and Serbia do not have to.
"Bulgaria is the gas hub. I do not believe that Serbia will build their part of the pipeline much faster," Borisov said.
The offshore section of the TurkStream pipeline stretching 930 km across the Black Sea from Russia to Turkey consists of two parallel strings with annual throughput capacity of 15.75 billion cubic metres of gas each. One string is intended for consumers in Turkey, while the second will carry gas to customers in Europe through Bulgaria and Serbia.
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Law and Media Round Up – 19 November 2012
November 19, 2012 / INFORRM / 1 Comment
Lord McAlpine’s settlement with the BBC for £185,000 plus costs, and the threat of legal action against tweeters who published his name following Newsnight’s false allegations has been the top media law story of the week. A transcript of McAlpine’s interview with BBC World at One is available here; his solicitor’s interview with the programme can be listened to here.
His solicitor, Andrew Reid, of RMPI, said:
“Very sadly we’re going to have to take action against a lot of people“ … “It’s a very long list and there are other broadcasters on it .. and we will be getting to them, but hopefully they will come to us“.
The Guardian’s Reader’s Editor, Chris Elliott, has written about the newspaper’s decision to publish McAlpine’s name, rather than use an anonymised initial, in its report on the Newsnight allegations. Elliott says:
“It was decided to go ahead after putting the story to Newsnight, and telling Lord McAlpine through a friend – he was not contactable directly – that they intended to publish a story that would exonerate him. He did not respond that night“.
In a breach of contract case, which included consideration of the claimant’s rights of freedom of expression and belief, Smith v Trafford Housing Trust [2012] EWHC 3221 (Ch), Mr Justice Briggs ruled that Trafford Housing Trust had wrongly found Smith guilty of gross misconduct, before demoting him and reducing his salary by 40 per cent, following his Facebook comments about gay marriage. The BBC reported here.
International Day to End Impunity is on Friday 23 November 2012. According to IFEX, the free expression network,
“it marks the anniversary of the 2009 Ampatuan massacre in the Philippines, when 32 journalists and media workers were murdered. The goal of the Day is to achieve justice for those persecuted for exercising their right to freedom of expression by drawing global attention to the issue of impunity”.
A “culture of impunity” review of 2011 can be found here.
The Principal of St Mary’s University College in Twickenham, south-west London, has abandoned legal action against the editor of Independent Catholic News (ICN) who said she was not prepared to name the author of a letter which had appeared on her website. The Tablet reports here; PA Media Lawyer here.
Out-law.com reports that Google’s latest Transparency Report shows the search giant
“had complied with 64% of the 1,425 requests the UK had made between January and June this year for information about Google users. The requests related to 1,732 individual users or accounts“.
Defamation claims account for 39% of the country content removal requests since July 2010, Google said.
Last Friday the Daily Mail ran a twelve page “special investigation” on Sir David Bell, an assessor on the Leveson Inquiry and chair of Common Purpose, which prompted stories in the Sun and the Daily Telegraph. Roy Greenslade commented here; Michael White here; The Week reported here. The Week also has a useful round up of the reaction on Twitter and news sites here. The New Statesman published a humorous take on the Mail’s claims of a “quasi-masonic nexus” here.
The Sun was criticised for its presentation of a poll on the public’s attitude towards media regulation by Hacked Off (reported in Independent here). Separately, the Zelo Street blog took issue with a ‘Free Press Poll’ by Survation, commissioned by the Free Speech Network [pdf] (and reported by the Independent here).
Tweet of the week from @helenlewis, who wonders if there is a coded message in this headline on the Guardian website.
Statements in Open Court and Apologies
The BBC has issued
“an unreserved apology for a Newsnight report which led to Lord McAlpine being wrongly implicated in the alleged sexual abuse of children at north Wales care homes“.
As noted above, McAlpine will receive a payment of £185,000 plus costs in settlement, with the terms of the agreement to be announced in court.
Peter Cruddas, former co-treasurer of the Conservative Party, has accepted a substantial donation to charity in settlement of a libel action over the Independent’s claim that he was willing to accept an illegal donation to party funds, which referenced allegations published in the Sunday Times. PA Media Lawyer reported:
“The Independent said it completely accepted, in line with the conclusions of Scotland Yard, that there was no evidence of any criminal conduct on the part of Mr Cruddas, either directly or by implication, and also acknowledged that at no time was he under formal investigation by the Metropolitan Police“.
Lois Cole-Wilson, counsel for Independent Print Ltd, said the newspaper wished “to express their very great regret that they gave publicity to these highly damaging allegations, and wish to express their sincere apologies both to Mr Cruddas and to his family for having made them“. Cruddas has launched a separate legal claim against the Sunday Times.
Journalism and regulation
There have been no new adjudicated PCC complaints since 1 November. Resolved complaints include: Dr Julia Birchard v Daily Mail, Clause 1, 15/11/2012; Mr Derek Dick v The Scotsman, Clause 1, 13/11/2012; A man v the Spectator, Clause 1, 12/11/2012.
The latter complaints concerns a columnist’s claim that a “BTEC in how to claim the dole” existed. The complainant countered that
“one optional task, in one optional section, in one optional module of a Certificate of Personal Effectiveness involved assessing which benefits the student would be entitled to if unemployed, and then discussing how they would feel it they were in that situation, or producing an information sheet to help others in that situation“.
According to the PCC:
The complaint was resolved when the magazine published a further article in which the columnist acknowledged that his previous claim was a “straightforward exaggeration” and explained the basis of his comment, clarifying that this element of the qualification was a non-mandatory option from a wide choice of tasks.
Although this resolved complaint does not name the columnist, Spectator columnist Toby Young made the same claim on 22 September 2012, and ‘put the record straight’ at length here. Fullfact unpicked Young’s claim at this link which it said followed “years of coverage in the Mail and from the Prime Minister earlier this year“.
The PCC also released new guidance on “privacy and the public domain” following the publication of the Prince Harry Las Vegas photographs in August, although the Commission did not specifically investigate this case. It important, said Charlotte Dewar, Head of Complaints and Pre-publication services, that editors understand that “caution needs to be used whenever they are considering publishing potentially intrusive material, even if it has previously been published elsewhere – and particularly if the previous publication has occurred without the individual’s consent“. The Guidance is available here.
Finally, a radio adaptation of the National Theatre of Scotland and London Review of Books production ‘Enquirer’ aired on Radio 4 last week; it will be available on iPlayer for four more days.
Video: Lara Fielden talks about media regulation to UCL’s Constitution Unit
Slides: Professor Lorna Woods spoke at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on14 November on ‘Freedom of expression and the internet’. Slides available here
Radio: BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze discusses ‘The Moral Code of Social Media’. Contributors include Jamie Bartlett, David Allen Green, Vicky Beeching and John Rentoul
Paul Bernal, lecturer at University of East Anglia, has put together a layman’s guide on Twitter and defamation, following news that Lord McAlpine would pursue legal action against tweeters
Professor Lilian Edwards, Strathclyde University, has advertised a PhD studentship which will look at the copyright and other legal implications of data mining.
On 12 November 2012 Tugendhat J heard applications in the case of O’Dwyer v ITV. Judgment was reserved.
The trial in the case of Mengi v Hermitage continued before Bean J. The court did not sit on 14 and 15 November 2012.
On 12 to 16 November 2012 HHJ Moloney QC heard the trial in the case of Gatt v Barclays Bank. Judgment was reserved.
David Walliams and his wife Lara Stone, were unsuccessful in their attempt to include a freelance photographer as a named defendant in an anti-harassment injunction application they brought against unknown people in 2010 (Stone & Anor v WXY (Person Or Persons Unknown) [2012] EWHC 3184 (QB) (12 November 2012, hearing 30 October 2012)). The Independent reports here.
Tugendhat J has held that the meaning attributed to the words complained of in Fox v Boulter are capable of bearing a defamatory meaning. He also gave the defendant permission to amend the particulars of claim to include a claim for an innuendo meaning. Harvey Boulter is being sued by former defence secretary Dr Liam Fox (Fox v Boulter [2012] EWHC 3183 (QB) (13 November 2012, hearing 8 November 2012)).
On 15 November 2012 Tugendhat J heard applications relating to costs in the case of Joseph v Spiller. Judgment was reserved.
19 November 2011, all day, Media and War: challenging the consensus, Goldsmiths University, London.
19 November 2012, The Poetry of Free Expression: Celebrating 40 years of Index on Censorship, Index on Censorship / Poet in the City. King’s Place, London.
19 November 2012, 5:30pm to 7pm. More News is Good News: Democracy & Media in India. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford.
19 November, 7pm, Open Rights Group London: ‘Social media prosecutions after the TwitterJokeTrial’, The Angel, London.
20 November 2012, 5-8 pm, JUSTICE event: Life and Law Online: Defamation, freedom of expression and the web. Hunton & Williams, 30 St Mary Axe, London EC3A 8EP.
22 November 2012, 18:30, What are we going to do about journalism? The role of higher education in the ‘crisis’ – Michael Bromley, City University London.
23 November, International Day to End Impunity, global.
25 November 2012, 2.30pm to 6pm, John Smith Memorial Mace 2012: Media Regulation Debate (Parliament Week), The English Speaking Union. London
26 November, 6pm, Law Society Public Debate Series: Leveson Report, Law Society, London.
28 November, 1pm, ‘There Is No Such Thing As A Free Press … And We Need One More Than Ever’ – Mick Hume, Centre for Media & Culture Research, London South Bank University (details/registration via email)
28 November 2012, 6pm ‘CEL Annual Lecture 2012: Media Freedoms & Media Standards’, Baroness Onora O’Neill, London.
29 November 2012, all day, IBC Legal: 6th annual Social Media and the Law, London.
29 November 2012, 6pm, Reporting 21st Century conflict – a panel discussion and book launch, City University London.
29 November 2012, 7pm, The Future of Journalism panel, University of Huddersfield.
Know of any media law events happening in the autumn/winter? Please let Inforrm know: inforrmeditorial@gmail.com.
Media Law in Other Jurisdictions
On 12 November 2012 judgment was given in Trkulja v Google Inc LLC (1) Google Australia Pty Ltd (2) [2012] VSC 533 with $AUD200,000 damages awarded. On Inforrm, Polly Wilkins provided some context with a comment on the earlier case of Trkulja v Yahoo! Inc LLC & Anor ([2012] VSC 88): after the jury had made findings on liability, Kaye J awarded damages of Aus$225,000 against the search engine Yahoo!.
A law student based in Salzberg is campaigning to get Facebook to change the ways it controls personal data and is seeking funds for a multi-year legal battle. ArsTechnica reports that: over the last year,
“[Max] Schrems has encouraged tens of thousands of Facebook users worldwide to request copies of whatever data Facebook holds on each of them, as he has done“.
The Times of India reports: A trial court has
“issued summons against senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh in a criminal defamation case lodged by BJP President Nitin Gadkari after it found ‘prima facie’ evidence to proceed against the politician“.
The Steptoe Cyberblog has an interesting legal debate on hacking, which asks: “Can the victims of hacking take more action to protect themselves? Can they hack back and mete out their own justice?” Debaters include Stewart Baker, Orin Kerr, and Eugene Volokh.
Next week in the courts
The trial in Mengi v Hermitage will continue before Bean J.
On Tuesday 2o November 2012 Tugendhat J will give judgment in the case of Abbey v Evening Standard, heard 30 and 31 October and 1 November 2012.
Next week in Parliament
Tuesday 20 November, 3.15pm, House of Lords Communications select committee. Subject: Media Convergence, Witness(es): (at 3.30pm) Ms Jane Turton, Director of Business Development & Business Affairs, and Deputy Chief Executive, All 3 Media; Mr Wil Stephens, Founder, Cube Interactive, and Pact Council Member; and (at 4.30pm) Mr Hugo Lindsay, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Virgin Media.
Location: Committee Room 2, Palace of Westminster
Wednesday 21 November, 3pm, Legislation – Justice and Security Bill [HL] – Report stage (Day 2) – Lord Wallace of Tankerness, Main Chamber, House of Lords
The following reserved judgments after public hearings remain outstanding:
Miller v Associated Newspapers heard 21 to 25 May 2012 (Sharp J)
Iqbal v Mansoor, heard 31 October 2012 (Rix, Etherton and Lewison LJJ)
Coulson v NGN heard 8 November 2012 (Laws, Sullivan and McCombe LJJ)
O’Dwyer v ITV, heard 12 November 2012 (Tugendhat J)
Joseph v Spiller (c0sts), heard 15 November 2012 (Tugendhat J)
Also on Inforrm last week
The Leveson Inquiry and the BBC – Brian Cathcart
Case Law: Joseph v Spiller, Are Nominal Damages Appropriate When the Court is Deceived? – Hugh Tomlinson QC
Journalisted weekly, week ending 11 November 2012, Obama, Dorries and Entwistle
The Free Speech Network: Corporate Media Close Ranks – Justin Schlosberg
Case Law, Strasbourg: Peta Deutschland v Germany, the only people really not allowed to mention the Holocaust – Rosalind English
Who is talking about statutory CONTROL of the Press – Mike Jempson
Lord McAlpine and libel reform – Gavin Phillipson
Libel damages and Lord McAlpine: did the BBC pay too much?
Opinion: Twitter, Twit… Writ? – Dominic Crossley
Case Law, Strasbourg: Szima v Hungary, Trade Union Freedom of Expression – Dirk Voorhoof
Leveson: “Disturbing Questions” and the Daily Mail’s Desperation
Case Law, Australia: Trkulja v Yahoo! – damages awarded against search engine operator – Polly Wilkins
The real fifth column: News International – Brian Cathcart
This week’s Round Up was compiled for Inforrm by Judith Townend, a freelance journalist and PhD researcher examining legal restraints on the media, who runs the Meeja Law blog. She is @jtownend on Twitter. Please send suggestions, tips and event listings for inclusion in future round ups to jt.townend@gmail.com.
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Law and Media Round Up – 19 November 2012: Lord McAlpine, Smith v Trafford Housing Trust, Google’s latest Transparency Report | Media law and ethics
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GM Workers Need More Than a Decent Contract
Friday 4 October 2019, by Dianne Feeley
The GM workers out on strike have been hit with concessions for years. They need more than a decent contract — they need a transformational agreement that puts workers’ rights before GM’s profits.
On the picket lines at the Detroit-Hamtramck General Motors plant, people drop by to bring doughnuts, coffee, and pizzas. Bernie Sanders’s supporters swelled the mid-morning picketing earlier this week, joining strikers from GM plants as far away as Toledo and Flint to meet up with Sanders. Alongside Ford and Chrysler workers were contingents from Wayne State University and the Metro Detroit DSA.
In brief remarks, Sanders thanked strikers for standing up to a corporation that pays its CEO $22 million but which immediately dropped workers’ health care benefits when they walked out. (After being shamed by Sanders and others, GM backtracked Thursday and reinstated workers’ health insurance.) [1]
The strike is nearing the end of its second week, with GM and the nearly fifty thousand workers — sprawled across several states and represented by the United Automobile Workers (UAW) — still very much at odds. The fundamental conflict: GM’s unceasing drive to shave labor costs and strikers’ insistence that past concessions be reversed. [2]
Workers find the company’s initial offer of 2 percent wage increases in two of the four years of the proposed contract insulting. And they’re even more incensed by GM’s various schemes to slice up the workforce into different tiers. Long-term temporary workers, for instance, perform the same jobs but have no protection. One Ford worker, Eric Truss, printed and distributed T-shirts with the message “Temps lives matter.”
The UAW, a product of the mass strikes of the 1930s, was organized as an industrial union with autoworkers of all types who basically made the same wage. [3] But in 2007, following years of concessions, the union negotiators accepted another giveback: tiered wages and benefits. The logic was that the concessions would provide workers a modicum of stability. The actual upshot: UAW members are no longer all in the same boat.
For production workers hired before 2007, the hourly wage is $31, including benefits like health care (with a 3 percent contribution). Those hired after 2007 are on a lower tier, where they will never reach the same wages and benefits as the so-called traditional worker. During the last contract negotiations, workers rejected the first deal because it failed to eliminate the two-tier system. The second version, which barely passed, built an eight-year bridge to bring the top two-tier wage to $28. (GM refers to these workers as “in progression.”)
From the company’s point of view, the way to bring down labor costs is to keep cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) off the negotiating table and continue carving up the workforce into tiers. In addition to the second-tier workers, GM likes using temporary workers because they are paid $15 to $19 an hour; never gain seniority, benefits, or job protection; are forced to work overtime; and receive three unpaid vacation days a year. The company would like to expand their temp pool — doubling or tripling the 7 percent it is now — so they have maximum flexibility to select their workforce.
The temporary workers — of which there are about four thousand — hope to be made permanent this time around. If not, many will be unwilling to spend the next four years in limbo. GM management must believe that even in this low-unemployment economy, there are others willing to hire in as temps.
But using temps is only one of GM’s tools. It is perfectly willing to outsource more of its work inside the plant. In some local contract agreements, jobs have already been given to third-party companies that pay workers significantly less than even “in progression” workers. At GM’s Michigan and Ohio plants, the 850 janitors employed by Aramark make $11 to $15 an hour and have bare-bones health care benefits. Although they are still UAW members, they have much less leverage than when they were in the larger bargaining unit and made only pennies less than production workers.
Another GM tactic is negotiating lower-tiered wages and benefits at certain plants. GM’s offer just before the strike included reopening its Lordstown, Ohio plant — or a section of it — to battery production. The wages and benefits, however, would be similar to nonunionized auto parts suppliers.
On the other end of the spectrum, skilled trades workers — who make about $5 an hour more than production workers and were always a small proportion of the total workforce — have seen their jobs decimated by GM’s efforts to merge classifications into jack-of-all-trades work. While most factory jobs can be dangerous, these workers are most likely to be seriously injured or die as they repair faulty equipment.
UAW’s negotiating strategy hasn’t inspired confidence that any of this will change. For now, negotiators are attempting to hammer out a deal that stays within GM’s budget — a fundamentally conservative approach that risks producing a tentative agreement strikers do not want and may vote down.
Meanwhile, a group of autoworkers and community activists in Oshawa, Ontario, the site of the fifth North American GM plant slated to close, has developed a different approach. They’re proposing keeping the historic plant open by retooling it to produce battery-electric vehicles. The plan, put forward by Green Jobs Oshawa, would maintain the current level of employment and manufacture vehicles that significantly reduce CO2 emissions.
Unfortunately, Unifor, the union that represents Canadian workers, seems uninterested. The assembly plant currently employs 2,200 workers and is tied to roughly ten thousand supplier jobs; the union appears willing to accept GM’s offer of three hundred stamping and parts jobs.
That would be a fatal case of shortsightedness. In the absence of bold pro-worker plans, corporations will continue to whittle down labor costs and intensify the workday. As one former labor negotiator for Fiat Chrysler recently remarked, GM will at some point call a halt to the negotiations and settle: “The UAW will win the battle,” he predicted. “But they’ll lose the war because GM will cut costs in different ways, and it may mean re-sourcing production over time and using less labor in the process.” [4]
Jacobin
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[1] https://eu.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2019/09/26/gm-strike-update-health-care/3774495002/.
[2] https://jacobinmag.com/2019/09/strike-united-auto-workers-general-motors.
[3] https://jacobinmag.com/2017/10/flint-sit-down-strike-anniversary-autoworkers
[4] https://eu.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2019/09/25/gm-uaw-strike-update-why-so-long-bernie-sanders/2434259001/.
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In his three-hour Archive interview, Tom Freston discusses his early years and education, and his first professional job in advertising, which he left after two years. He recalls traveling through Europe and Asia before starting a lucrative clothing export business in Afghanistan and India, and returning to the United States to get into the music industry. He talks about being offered a job at the newly formed Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment Company, where he was made head of marketing for the proposed new music cable channel, MTV. Freston details the creation of MTV and its branding, the business of selling the channel to cable systems, and the eventual growth of MTV into a cable powerhouse. He recounts some of the hits spawned by the network, including The Real World, The Osbournes, Beavis and Butt-Head, and Total Request Live. He also chronicles his rise to CEO of MTV Networks (1987-2004), a company which included Nickelodeon and VH1, and what eventually became known as Comedy Central. He describes Viacom's acquisition of the network, his rise to Co-President of Viacom (2004-2006), and his current work as a consultant for the launch of OWN. Stephen J. Abramson conducted the interview in Beverly Hills, CA on April 6, 2011.
"We had come up with a logo for $1000, the MTV logo that you see today with an offbeat, downtown company called Manhattan Design… We made up 10 or 12 versions of it and said it's going to be a container. We're going to fill it and change it; it's going to have whiskers on it and there's going to be eels in it and it's going to look like nothing they've ever seen before. We took it to Benton & Bowles, to Ogilvy & Mather, and I can remember the creative director saying, 'you can't use this; it breaks every rule of corporate identity. You need a logo that's consistent.' We fired the agency. It became one of the most iconic logos in the history of not just television logos, but of anything."
Tom Freston on the launch of MTV and the MTV logo
Tom Freston on utilizing content in the public domain - man on the moon
Tom Freston on "I Want My MTV" and how the channel led people to subscribe to cable
Tom Freston on life after being fired and trying to live an interesting life
Tom Freston on naming MTV
On his childhood and early influences; on his love of music; on his plans to travel after business school at NYU; on his first job in advertising at Benton & Bowles; on traveling the world, starting a business, and living in India; on returning to the U.S.
On "What Color is Your Parachute?" and getting into the cable business; on "The Music Channel" - what would become MTV; on the work environment at MTV
On the original MTV VJs; on MTV's original marketing budget and campaign; on the 1983 "I Want My MTV!" campaign; on the timing of MTV's launch
On the state of cable in the 1980s; on MTV's target demographic and how it raised record sales; on The Buggles; on the launch of MTV and the MTV logo; on early artists to appear on MTV and the art of music videos
On hiring the original 5 MTV VJs; on resistance from the South; on building connections with viewers; on the growth of MTV and the birth of VH1
On playing videos on MTV; on Michael Jackson's impact on music videos; on his promotions at MTV; on Live Aid
On The MTV Video Music Awards; on Viacom taking over MTV; on Nickelodeon; on his management style
On his mentors and what would become Comedy Central; on taking MTV international and beginning to change the U.S. format; on MTV original programming
On Standards & Practices at MTV; on the 1992 election; on Beavis and Butt-Head
On Jackass; On the MTV Movie Awards; On show failures at MTV; on the 1996 creation of MTV Films; on TRL
On Spring Break; on Viacom acquiring CBS in 1999; On 9/11; on reality programming on MTV
On how audiences have changed over the years; on VH1; on branding and digital channels; on branding VH1; on Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite and TV Land
On Comedy Central - The Daily Show and South Park; on becoming co-VP of Viacom with Les Moonves; on getting fired by Sumner Redstone
On travelling to Burma after getting fired; on running OWN; on what he contributed to the cable industry; on television shows he watches; on advice to aspiring executives and how he'd like to be remembered
Tom Freston on creating Beavis and Butt-Head
Tom Freston on VH1's Behind the Music
Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The
Tom Freston on starting The Daily Show
Double Dare (1986-88)
Tom Freston on the first game show for kids, Double Dare
Tom Freston on creating original animation programs for Nickelodeon: Rugrats, Ren and Stimpy, and Doug
Headbangers Ball
Tom Freston on the MTV show Headbangers Ball
Tom Freston on the MTV show Jackass
Tom Freston on Live Aid
MTV Movie Awards, The
Tom Freston on the MTV Movie Awards
Tom Freston on starting MTV News
Tom Freston on MTV News covering the 1992 election (Clinton) and the "Choose or Lose" campaign - building upon "Rock the Vote"
Tom Freston on the MTV show MTV Unplugged
Tom Freston on The MTV Video Music Awards
Osbournes, The
Tom Freston on the creation of The Osbournes and how reality programming on MTV affected television
Real World, The
Tom Freston on creating the MTV "soap opera" The Real World
Tom Freston on starting MTV original programming
Ren & Stimpy Show, The
Tom Freston on Saturday Night Live spoofing Behind the Music
Tom Freston on starting South Park
Tom Freston on Total Request Live
Tom Freston on the relationship between Total Request Live, boy bands and pop princesses
Week in Rock, The
Tom Freston on the MTV show Yo! MTV Raps
You Can't Do That on Television
Tom Freston on the green slime of You Can't Do That on Television
Tom Freston on how 9/11 affected MTV
Censorship / Standards & Practices
Tom Freston on MTV's Standards & Practices
Criticism of TV
Tom Freston on criticism that MTV had no black artist in the early days
Tom Freston on the Carter administration's clothing embargo that crippled Freston's foreign business
Media Consolidation
Tom Freston on Viacom taking over MTV
Memorable Moments on Television
Tom Freston on digital channels and branding
Television Executive
Tom Freston on his promotions at MTV - all the way up to President
Tom Freston on being one of 2 President of MTV Networks for a year
Tom Freston on Sumner Redstone hiring Frank Biondi and making Freston CEO of MTV Networks
Tom Freston on his management style
Tom Freston on running Paramount and CBS with Les Moonves; on the split of Viacom and becoming CEO of a public company; on getting fired by Redstone
Tom Freston on advice to aspiring television executives
Music Shows & Variety Shows/Specials
Tom Freston on the creation of MTV
Tom Freston on how reality TV played into MTV
Tom Freston on mentors Robert W. Pittman and Frank Biondi
Tom Freston on getting a call from David Geffen (Geffen Records), wanting to make a Beavis and Butt-Head movie - the start of MTV Films
Tom Freston on criticism that MTV had no black artist in the early days - and Michael Jackson turning the tide
Tom Freston on Michael Jackson's impact on music videos; on "Thriller"
Tom Freston on getting Mick Jagger to deliver the MTV tag line "I Want My MTV"
Tom Freston on Mel Karmazin becoming his boss when Viacom bought CBS
Tom Freston on Michael Jackson's impact on music videos
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Tom Freston on Kurt Loder, host of MTV News
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Oil tumbles as new virus strain revives demand fears
by Reuters | Dec 21, 2020 | Business, Economy, Europe, Middle East, UK, US
By Devika Krishna Kumar
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices tumbled nearly 3% on Monday as a fast-spreading new coronavirus strain that has shut down much of Britain and led to tighter restrictions in Europe sparked worries about a slower recovery in fuel demand.
Brent crude settled down $1.35, or 2.6%, at $50.91 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude for delivery in January ended the session $1.36, or 2.8%, lower at $47.74 ahead of expiry.
The more active February WTI contract fell $1.27, or 2.6%, to settle at $47.97 a barrel.
Both contracts had lost as much as $3 earlier in the session, their biggest daily drop in six months.
The strength in the U.S. dollar also weighed on oil markets. A strong greenback makes dollar-denominated commodities like crude oil more expensive to holders of other currencies.
“Reports of a new strain of the coronavirus have weighed on risk sentiment and oil. New mobility restrictions across Europe are also not helping as European oil demand will suffer,” said UBS oil analyst Giovanni Staunovo.
“Investors need to be mindful that the road to higher oil demand and prices will remain bumpy.”
Brent climbed above $50 last week for the first time since March, buoyed by optimism stemming from COVID-19 vaccines.
But a new COVID-19 strain, said to be up to 70% more transmissible than the original, has renewed fears about the virus, which has killed about 1.7 million people worldwide.
More countries closed their borders to Britain on Monday, causing travel chaos and raising the prospect of UK food shortages.
“The new strain of the coronavirus in the UK has shown us that the vaccine optimism holding Brent above $50 per barrel could be deflated in a fleeting moment,” said Rystad Energy analyst Louise Dickson.
The new virus strain has already been detected in other countries, including Australia, the Netherlands and Italy.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said the new strain had an impact on oil prices, adding that recovery of global oil markets was happening more slowly than previously expected and could take two to three years.
“Travel restrictions over the next several weeks will complicate OPEC+ plans to gradually raise output,” said Edward Moya, senior market analyst at OANDA in New York.
“The monthly meetings will be very tense and keep oil prices volatile until the virus spread is under control across both Europe and the U.S.”
The negative sentiment largely overshadowed the rollout of a new vaccine in the United States, a deal among U.S. congressional leaders for a $900 billion coronavirus aid package and European regulatory approval on Monday for the use of the COVID-19 vaccine jointly developed by U.S. company Pfizer Inc and its German partner, BioNTech.
The approval by Europe’s medicines regulator puts the region on course to start inoculations within a week.
(Reporting by Devika Krishna Kumar in New York and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin in London; Additional reporting by Yuka Obayashi in Tokyo; Editing by Steve Orlofsky, Matthew Lewis and Peter Cooney)
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La Strada Tickets at the Other Palace, London
La Strada is a brand new musical based on the subject and script work by Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli.
La Strada is a new musical performing at The Other Palace (formerly St James Theatre).
La Strada (The Road) is one of the true masterpieces of modern cinema by Federico Fellini, that has won the Academy award in 1957 for the movie starring Anthony Quinn. This visually stunning new stage adaptation directed by Olivier Award nominee Sally Cookson (Jane Eyre National Theatre, Hetty Feather West End), boasts a beautiful score by Benji Bower, with songs performed live on stage by a multi-talented cast.
The story of wide-eyed Gelsomina, who is sold by her penniless mother to Zampano, a travelling sideshow strongman, unfolds as they journey through the Italian countryside performing for their keep. Their perilous road trip leads them to a ragtag travelling circus where they meet Il Matto the tightrope walker who rekindles Gelsomina’s spirit with a new found confidence.
In this much-anticipated new stage production, Fellini’s profoundly impassioned and deeply involving story is sure to stimulate the senses, fire emotions and stir the soul.
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HK Bellawings Jet Limited of Hong Kong Firms Up Order for Four More Bombardier Global 7500 Business Jets
Fleet operator continues to confirm orders after signing letter of intent for multiple Global 6500 andGlobal 7500 aircraft in May 2018
HK Bellawings Jet Limited will become operator managing China’s largest fleet of Global 6500 andGlobal 7500 aircraft
Flagship Global 7500 business jet making its airshow debut at ABACE
Long-range, large-cabin Global 5500 andGlobal 6500 aircraft on track to enter service this year
Bombardier is pleased to announce that Hong Kong aircraft management company HK Bellawings Jet Limited firmed up an order for four Global 7500 business jets. This news comes as the flagship Global 7500 aircraft arrives at the Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (ABACE), its first airshow since entering service.
“We are proud to announce this firm order as the Global 7500 aircraft makes its public debut at ABACE, one of the world’s most important aerospace exhibitions,” said Khader Mattar, Vice President of Sales for the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and China, Bombardier Business Aircraft. “Our flagship jet has been causing a sensation since entering service less than four months ago, and this order underscores that this aircraft, with its unparalleled range and four true living spaces, is ideal for the Greater China region.”
HK Bellawings first announced their intent to purchase up to 18 Global 6500 and Global 7500 aircraft, for a potential value of $1.14 billion US, in May 2018 at the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva. Hours earlier, Bombardier had stunned the industry by launching two new long-range, large-cabin business jets, the Global 5500 andGlobal 6500 aircraft.
In September 2018, HK Bellawings firmed up its order of four Global 6500 and two Global 7500 business jets, for an approximate value of $370 million US, based on current list prices for typically equipped aircraft. Today, HK Bellawings and Bombardier are pleased to confirm that four more Global 7500 aircraft are now part of that firm purchase, bringing the total of firm aircraft orders to 10. This latest announcement represents a value of approximately $291 million US, based on current list prices.
“We are thrilled to offer our customers access to the unparalleled Global 7500 aircraft as part of our unmatched fleet,” said HK Bellawings President Mr. YJ Zhang. “The Global 6500 and Global 7500 aircraft align with HK Bellawings’ rapid development to be a one-stop business aviation solution. As the operator that will manage one of the world’s largest fleet of Global 6500 and Global 7500 aircraft, HK Bellawings Jet will further expand our business scope and continuously pursue higher goals.”
The Global 7500 aircraft’s range of 7,700 nautical miles is the longest in business aviation. This business jet can connect the cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong non-stop to the cities of New York, London or Milan, and also fly nonstop from Singapore to Vancouver.*
Established in 2014, HK Bellawings Jet Limited is a distinguished business jet management company dedicated to providing a diverse array of professional, highly efficient and comprehensive business aviation services and solutions, which include business jet management, aircraft maintenance, travel concierge service, aircraft acquisition service, and business aviation consultancy. They operate a fleet of Challenger and Global business aircraft.
With over 68,000 employees across four business segments, Bombardier is a global leader in the transportation industry, creating innovative and game-changing planes and trains. Our products and services provide world-class transportation experiences that set new standards in passenger comfort, energy efficiency, reliability and safety.
Headquartered in Montréal, Canada, Bombardier has production and engineering sites in 28 countries across the segments of Transportation, Business Aircraft, Commercial Aircraft and Aerostructures and Engineering Services. Bombardier shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (BBD). In the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018, Bombardier posted revenues of $16.2 billion. News and information are available at bombardier.com or follow us on Twitter @Bombardier.
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12 Golden Advices On Anger And Being Argumentative
Cii Radio| Maulana Khalid Dhorat| 26 May 2016| 19 Sha’baan 1437
To control our emotions when being provoked or being incited is very difficult. It’s a time when one loses control of one’s senses and the “brakes” of one’s common sense, calmness and composure is suddenly let loose. At the same time, how many times have we responded much too sensitively, although we were not the clear target of anyone’s malice?
Sayyadina ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab said that he regretted his speech at some times, but never his silence. On safeguarding one’s speech, Hasan al-Basri remarked: “He that did not safeguard his tongue did not understand his religion.”
How many hearts have been lost in an effort to win arguments or to prove a point? And yet, as human beings it is natural and even our right to disagree, and to think critically. One of the most difficult challenges of character for Muslims of every background is being able to practice hilm (forbearance) during times of anger and disagreement. It’s even more difficult to emerge from a disagreement with a stronger bond and an attachment for the opposite party. This means that we are unable to disagree with a dignified and generous spirit, and to think critically without being argumentative, stubborn, and condescending. It is because we as a community fall into this so much, and on so many levels, that I found this issue to be a relevant reminder to myself and others.
The activist argues about strategy, the student argues about fiqh and other branches of knowledge, the community leader argues about reconciliation, the politicians argue about priorities, the businessmen argue about economics and the Imam about those who disagree with his style or approach. Whether it be with our family, friends, community members or Islamophobes – we often find ourselves in situations where anger and argumentation can creep in, sour the mood, and sully the spirit.
Below is a collection of Islamic guidelines to remind us about the dangers of anger and argumentation from getting the better of us. May Allah help us to remember that when we deal with people, our transactions are actually with Allah, and not His creation. As such, may awareness of His presence (ihsan) bring goodness from our speech and characters during times of difficulty as well as ease – Ameen.
1. Know how to respond to the foolish and those with ulterior motives:
“And when the foolish address them (with bad words) they reply back with ‘Salamaa’ (peaceful words of gentleness).” (Qur’an, 25:63)
2. Don’t be in the company of those known to provoke others:
“If they pass by some vain speech or play, they pass by it with dignity.” (Qur’an, 25:72)
3. Watch your words. Watch the tone of your voice. Watch your emotions and body language:
“And be moderate in your pace and lower your voice; indeed, the most disagreeable of sounds is the voice of donkeys… But of the people is he who disputes about Allah without knowledge or guidance or an enlightening Book.” (Qur’an, 31:19-20)
4. If it’s going nowhere, walk away. You don’t have to prove your point, Allah knows what’s in your heart:
The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (peace be upon him) said: “He who gave up disputing while he is right, a palace of high rank in Paradise will be built for him. He who gave up disputing while he is a fabricator, a palace in the center of Paradise will be built for him.” (al-Tirmidhi)
“There are no people who went astray after having been guided except for indulging in disputation.” (al-Tirmidhi)
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ repeated three times, “Those who search deeply for confusing questions have perished.” (Muslim)
5. Don’t become known for disputing:
Bilal ibn Sa’d (radiAllahu `anhu) said, “If you see a disputing, arrogant, and bigoted person, bear in mind that they are utterly lost.”
Luqman (‘Alayhi assalam) said to his son, “O son! Do not dispute with the knowledgeable lest they detest you.”
6. Never dispute to showcase your knowledge:
Umar (ra) said, “Do not learn knowledge for three things and do not leave it for three things. Do not learn it to dispute over it, to show off with it, or to boast about it. Do not leave seeking it out of shyness, dislike for it, or contending with ignorance in its stead.”
It was narrated that Imam Abu Hanifa said to Dawud al-Taa’i, “Why do you prefer seclusion?” Dawud replied, “To struggle against myself to leave disputing.” Abu Hanifah said, “Attend meetings, listen to what is said, and remain silent.” Dawud said, “I have done so, but I have found nothing heavier than this.”
Ibn Qutaybah said that his disputant said to him, “What is the matter with you?” He replied to him, “I will not dispute with you.” The disputant then said, “Thus you have come to know that I am right.” Ibn Qutaybah responded, “No, but I respect myself more than that.” At this the disputant retracted and said, “And I will not claim a thing that is not my right.”
7. Seek to clarify, not to abuse:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “The one initiating abuse incurs the sin of abusing as long as the other did not return it.” (Muslim)
“The believer does not curse.” (al-Tirmidhi)
“The believer does not defame, abuse, disparage, nor vilify.” (al-Tirmidhi)
“Do not invoke Allah’s curse, His anger, or Hellfire.” (al-Tirmidhi)
“Men accustomed to cursing will not be intercessors or witnesses on the Day of Resurrection.” (Muslim)
8.Avoid getting angry, rather than controlling oneself when angry:
Abdullah ibn ‘Amr (ra) narrated, “I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about what saves me from Allah’s wrath, and he said, “Do not become angry.” (al-Tabarani and Ibn Abdul Barr)
9. Never lose your cool when disputing. This is a sign of weakness:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “He who is victorious over his passion at the time of anger is the strongest among you. He who forgives having the power to release (his anger and take revenge) is the most patient among you.” (a-Baihaqi in Shu’ab al-Imaan)
Abu Hurairah (ra) narrated, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘The strong person is not he who has physical strength but the person is strong if he can control his anger.” (al-Bukhari and Muslim)
10. Never make a decision or make a promise when angry:
Umar ibn Abdul Aziz wrote to one of his governors and said, “Do not punish at the time of anger. If you are angry with any man, keep him in detention. When your anger is appeased punish him in proportion to his crime.”
‘Ali ibn Zaid mentioned, “A man of the Quraysh spoke harshly to the Caliph `Umar Ibn ‘Abdul ‘Aziz who remained silent for a long time and then said, “You wish that the devil rouses in me the pride of the Caliphate and I treat you so rudely that you can take revenge tomorrow (in the Afterlife) on me.”
Ibn ‘Abbas (ra) narrated, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “And when you get angry, keep silent.” (Ahmad, Ibn Abi Dunya, al-Tabarani, and al-Bayhaqi)
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Anger is a burning coal. It burns in the heart.” (al-Tirmidhi and al-Bayhaqi)
11. How to deal with one’s anger:
“When anyone of you gets angry, let him perform ablution because anger arises from fire.” (Abu Dawud)
“Nobody swallows a more bitter pill than that of anger—seeking the satisfaction of Allah.” (Ibn Majah)
`Umar (ra) said, “He who fears Allah cannot give an outlet to his anger (by sinning). He who fears Allah cannot do what he likes.”
12. Don’t have a tit-for-tat attitude. Be the better person:
A nomad said to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ “Advise me.” And he ﷺ said, “If a man defamed you with what he knows about you, do not defame him with what you know about him. For the sin is against him.” The nomad said, “I never abused any person after that.”
Lastly, remember that you will not be punished for your anger, but you will punished by it
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Escape from the planet of the Dravids
By AlternativeDave | September 9, 2016
Categories: adventure, flash, game, pointandclick
Comments (11) | Views (26,705)
Escape from the Planet of the Dravids is a charming and well thought out point-and click-adventure brought to you by the talented developers at Kitfox studios. It has an awfully long name to keep typing out though so I'll just refer to it as Dravids from now on, I'm sure you'll understand. The action begins with a familiar premise when our reptilian protagonist crash lands his (or maybe her) space ship on an alien planet, leaving them with the sole task of finding their way home. To do that they'll need to send word back to, erm, wherever they flew in from - how difficult can that be?
The game begins gently enough, your battered ship and the nearby forest both hold an array of useful items and a tall tower in the distance provides a promising lead to contacting home, however after a quick rest and a short cut-scene the action really begins to hot up. We meet the planet's native species (Dravids, presumably) and confrontations with them require increasingly novel ways of escape. Furthermore a world which consists of just a few frames of landscape grows exponentially as the game goes on - so if you get stuck don't be fooled into thinking you've explored absolutely everywhere.
The puzzles in the game can be described as tricky at best but that isn't laziness on the creator's part, it's just that they all make sense. There are no odd combinations of items that need to be used in some obscure place, nor is it a hidden-object game where you need to find a tool the size of a pixel hidden behind an Elephant-Sheep (or 'Eleep' as they are called on this planet). In a world of hieroglyphs Kitfox have managed to make all aspects of the game logical and understandable.
The animation is very pretty indeed and is totally in sync with the pace of the game play, however I'm afraid the same can't be said for the music. I don't want to be too hard on the developers who have created a fantastic game on limited resources but it really does stop you immersing yourself in the Dravid's world. it's clunky and very stop-start, imagine the music coming from a Game Boy - it's not as good as that. I recommend playing this game on mute.
All in all though this is a thoroughly enjoyable game. Kitfox predominantly deal in art and comics, but I hope another point and click game isn't too far from their minds.
Play Escape from the planet of the Dravids
Roberto Foglia • September 9, 2016 2:39 PM
Very nice but a little too short
Vinca • September 9, 2016 8:18 PM
Huh; took me a bit to figure out some puzzles (and that some items could be combined); would've liked a bit more obvious markings for when you could change scene - there were a couple areas I didn't even realize I could get to at first. I wouldn't call it particularly short, myself.
I think I missed a couple clues for the
colored stones puzzle. I eventually just solved through guessing for the red and orange stones.
Also what was that one guy's problem? He harasses you all game, and tries to stop you from leaving, but it never really says why. If he dislikes you so much wouldn't he want you off his planet?
kktkkr • September 10, 2016 4:11 AM replied to Vinca
I had to check the maker's walkthrough for that color code. Yes, it is possible to permanently miss a clue.
The colors of the stones match the colors of the symbols as they appear. (Some of the symbols are desaturated, but there's enough clues to keep things unambiguous.)
Sun symbol: on a jar which can be found in Dravid Chief's house.
Rainbows: off a cliffside on a box, hidden once the box has been opened.
M (or is it a 3?): in Dravid Chief's house, on the drape with red circles.
Squiggle with corners: in the village background, on a building with a different roof.
ID: painted on/embedded in a magical tree beside other symbols.
Green, Yellow, Red, Blue, Orange.
barbara • September 11, 2016 1:48 PM
If anything, I thought it was a bit too long.
There were several hotspots that would have benefited from some visual clue. I don't think it enhanced the game to have to slowly wave the cursor around every scene to be sure of finding all the exit points.
I liked the puzzles involving the strange letters.
Dreamwave • September 11, 2016 7:22 PM
As someone who is colourblind, a little note on that in the review would be nice. Fun game though, and the visuals are really comfortable to the eyes.
Catherine Munson • September 11, 2016 7:55 PM
Enjoyed this for its sense of humor. I actually liked the minimalist music. I felt that some of the clues were a bit clunky, however I am not at 100% today, so it may be me.
Paul • September 13, 2016 3:26 PM
walkthrough anyone?
Vinca • September 15, 2016 8:37 PM
Okay, let's try a walkthrough, why not?
Okay, this got longer than I was expecting, I think I might split this into two parts. To be continued! (hopefully)
Walkthrough, part 1
Begin by clicking through the opening cutscene - oh no, your weird car-with-wings-shaped spaceship is gonna crash! Luckily you espace, but are now stranded on this planet. What to do?
Head to the right and into the cave. Pick up the large rock, and note the nice bed-shaped shelf. Too bad it's too hard to sleep on, even though you're exhausted from escaping your fiery death.
Outside the cave, just to the left of the cave mouth, a path leads down to the beach. An old com tower in out in the ocean - a possible way to contact help, if you can get there. Pick up the red gem, then head back to the ship.
Examine the smoldering wreck of your ship; pick up an orange gem to the right. The cockpit glass is cracked; use the large rock to break a hole in it. Inside the cockpit, open the middle drawer and take the glove. Note the symbols on the sign hanging in the back, and that the sign had been knocked upside down by the crash.
Back outside the cockpit, look at the cargo hold. It's locked with a 4-symbol code. Good thing we just saw a sign with 4 symbols. Remember the sign is upside down, and enter the code accordingly.
backwards-Z, O, backwards-J, I
Take the machete and the hook from the hold, then head back to the start point.
Head left this time to the start of a forested area. Use the machete to cut the soft bushe; there's nothing else you can do here, yet.
Back to the cave! Use that nice soft thatch you cut to make yourself a comfy bed. Sleep time! But oh no, who could that shadowy figure be that lurks all creepy like while you're sleeping? Eh, probably, just a dream, right? But wait, your machete is gone!
No longer tired, you go in search of your machete. A path has been opened up in the forest. May as well follow it.
Rune tree
Heading down the path leads to a large tree covered with runes, and some new background music. One of the runes on the tree, shaped like a V, seems to be missing. Note the orange rune that looks like ID. Across from the tree is a locked box. The path forks here, with one part going straight and the other heading left.
Small cliff
Go straight. There's some flowers growing in a niche of a small cliff, and some weird reeds with boomerang-like pods. But enough looking at the local plantlife, we have a machete to find!
Go right to get to the waterfall. There's the machete! Pick it up, as well as the blue stone from the river. Note that whatever's in the water here sure makes the flowers grow large.
Go back one scene, and use your newly reaquired machete to cut one of those boomerang things off the plant.
Beehive tree
Go back to the rune tree, and take the left fork of the path this time. Oh no, the shadowy figure from your dream is real! He doesn't seem happy to see you. Use the boomerang to knock the beehive down and scare him off. As he runs away he drops a V-shaped object - pick it up. Also gather some of the honeycomb (yum), and use the glove to pick up the fierce-looking lizard, which apparently can breathe fire. How convenient!
Well, we've got this V-shaped object, and that rune tree had a V-shaped rune missing, let's get these two lovebirds together. Place the V rune ("chevron" the game calls it) on the tree. A branch moves, and now the tree is climbable. So let's climb.
The top of the tree is covered in bucket shaped seed pods. The plants on this planet sure like making pods in odd but useful to stranded travelers shapes. Use the machete to cut the middle pod on the right (for some reason the only pod you can reach), then climb back down.
Go back to the waterfall with the magic plant growth water and get a bucketful.
Use your bucketful of water on the yellow flowers at the bottom of the small cliff. Wow, that water really is like magic. Climb on up.
Fork in the path
The path forks here, but before you continue on grab the yellow stone, and use the machete to cut the vine from the tree on the right. Apparently vine-cutting was the last straw for your poor machete, as is disappears from the inventory now, ne'er to be see again. Alas, poor machete, you served us well.
Take the right fork and arrive at a village. A ladder leans off to the left, may as well take it, not like anyone was using it to get into that building. Note the blue runes on the building in the background; L
Chief's cabin
Click on the door of the large building behind the merchant to enter the chief's cabin. A staff leans on the wall, take it. Also on the wall is a large banner - make note of locations of the red dots, and also that the non-dot spaces are filled with a red, M-shaped rune. A scroll on the bookcase shows some types of plants and their names - note the first rune of each plant's name. The chief seems agitated when we click in closer. Mebbe because you just barged into his cabin and took his staff? Nah, probably not. Note the green kinda sun-shaped rune on the pot behind the chief.
Vinca • September 16, 2016 3:29 AM
Walkthrough Part 2!
Last time we left off in the chief's cabin. Leave there and exit the village though the far side to arrive at
The grey door
A grey door is in a rock wall. It has a control panel next to it which doesn't seem to be working. Ah, well. Continue on to the left.
Shack meadow
A bunch of elephant-sheep-things graze in a meadow outside a shack. Some berry bushes grow in the foreground - collect some berries from the leftmost, as long as you're here. The shack is sadly locked, and its windows boarded tight. Nothing else to do here, so go back to the fork in the path and try the left fork this time.
A meadow with another of those elephant-sheep things, and the mean creepy guy is back! With a staff this time! You can try to fight him with your staff, but you seem evenly matched, so time to try some other tactics.
Throw the berries at him to attract the elephant-sheep to mob him, then attack him with your staff again (by clicking his staff). He runs off.
Now that you have the eleep meadow to yourself, you can continue onward over the horizon.
Cliff edge
This place sure has a lot of cliffs, doesn't it? On a ledge partway down the cliff is a box. Note the yellow arch-shaped rune on the top. A large rock is at the top of the cliff edge. Tie the vine to the rock so you can reach the box, then open it and take the lockpicks. So what is there around here that needs unlocking?
First off there's that box next to the rune tree, back in the forest. Go unlock that, and take the green stone. Note that you now have 5 stones of various colours, and recall that the merchant in the village had a board with 5 rock-sized holes.
Go to the merchant in the village, and use the coloured runes we've seen around to tell you which colour rock to put in which hole in the board.
In order from left to right, they are: green, yellow, red, blue, orange.
The merchant gives you a telescope in return for your lovely coloured rock collection.
What else can we unlock with these lockpicks? How about that shack beyond the village? Go pick the lock and enter the shack.
Shack
Inside the shack is a lot of nice stuff. Given that you were willing to take the chief's staff from right in front of him, I don't think you have any qualms about looting this shack. Take the fishing rod, the hammer from the shelves, and the vase from the table. Take as look at the drawing hanging behind the bed as well, and note the heights of the buildings. Once you exit the shack be sure to use the hammer to take the boards from the window, cause when looting a person's home it pays to be thorough.
Now that we have a fishing rod, let's do some fishing. Go back to beach near the cave you slept in. Use the rod on the hook to combine the two, then use them on the ocean to catch yourself a nice fish. The tower you'd like to get to continues to loom out of the ocean in the distance. Mebbe you could get a closer look? Use the telescope on the tower; note the symbols on the side, and that they seem to continue on towards the left.
Anyway, that's enough fishing and longing gazes. That vase you took from the shack looks kinda familiar, doesn't it? Matches the one the chief was sitting next to.
Go back to the chief's cabin, close up on the chief, and put the vase next to the one on the shelf. Look, the chief is happy now! In reward for returning the vase he give you a red button.
Grey door
Head back to the grey door and use your new red button on the control panel. Huzzah, it's working now! Enter the code from the tapestry in the chief's cabin and pull the lever. We now have an open door.
Inside the door is a rope bridge that's missing some planks. Fortunately you happen to have the boards you took from the shack to replace them. Take doorway in the middle right.
Machinery room
Some machines have some pipes leading into some orange goo (perhaps magma?) Click on the machine to get a close up of a panel with 5 sliders. Where have you seen a set of 5 objects a specific heights before?
Use the heights of the building from the hanging in the shack.
With 5 being at the top and 1 being at the bottom, it's 4-1-3-5-2
The mebbe-magma is gone! Yay!
Pick up the dynamite from next to the machine, and note the order of the flowers growing on the right hand side.
Stone pillars
Go back to the bridge and follow the path off to the right to a room with stone pillars and what looks to be an old AC unit. A pickaxe is at the top of one of the pillars. Use the ladder to climb the pillar and get the pickaxe.
I'm running out of ways to say "cave with stuff in," so let's call this next place the storeroom, eh? Go back to the bridge and head left this time. A table is covered with some spikes - take them. A green cabinet is against the wall; it needs a 5-digit code.
Use the first letter of each of the plants that were growing in the machine room. You got the names from the scroll in the chief's cabin.
sideways-T, upsidedown-Y, upsidedown-J, backwards-Z, kinda a lightening bolt shape
Inside the cabinet is a coat - go through the pockets and take a keycard. A ray of light comes through a hole in the wall. Use your pickaxe to make the hole bigger.
Cliff face
Outside the hole is a small ledge on the edge of yet another cliff. In the distance you can see the tower again. Use the binoculars to get a closer view, and make note of the symbols on the side; also note that they seem to continue around the side out of view. Use the spikes on the hammer to combine them, then use them on the cliff to make handholds for climbing up.
Plateau top
You climb to the top of what seems to be a series of plateaus. There's a gap between you and the next one you want to get to. Set the dynamite at the base of the large rock in the center of the screen, then use the the fire lizard to blow it up. Boom! Instant rock bridge. Head across it to the right.
A bunch of bones lie scatter across this new scene, and a nest that probably belongs to some sort of carnivore sits atop a pillar to the right. Use the fish on the rock near the bones to summon a giant terrifying bird. Time for a bird ride to the tower! Wheee!
Go in the hole in the side of the rock spire. On no, that annoying guy is back again, and this time he brought some sort of angry dog badger thing! Use the honey on the guy to make the dog badger go after him instead, then go past and up the ladder behind him.
Finally, you've reached the tower. But oh, no, it is locked! Use your keycard to unlock the tower door and go inside. Once inside you find a keypad covered in symbols. How to relay to your people where you're at? Enter the symbols you saw on the tower through the telescope. Remember to enter the ones you saw from the cliff face before the ones from the beach. Click the panel to send your SOS, and then click through the final cutscene. Rescue at last!
Thanks for the walkthrough vinca. however about the end
you didn't give the full code at the end,so I had to resort to the video walkthrough. If you gave time, could you post the final code before you beat the game? Thanks.
Dartania • September 18, 2016 5:36 PM
For the final code, it's hard to describe without a picture, but here goes.
On front of the spire(seen from rock wall) N with a dot above to the right, y, open d, collapsed 7 with line above
On back of the spire(seen from beach) J with a line, i with a big dot (or skinny tree with big leaf cluster), big n (or curved A without a bar or an archway), L
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Creative Quest #3: To Box the Wind
July 16, 2018 jeffersonbeavers 2 Comments
“I want to always sleep inside a golden sunrise”
I asked a poet friend recently– semi jokingly and semi seriously– if it was allowable to write a poem after Terrance Hayes, who wrote a poem after Federico García Lorca, when I haven’t studied the poetry of either writer very deeply. Being supportive, my poet friend replied: “It’s poetry; do what you need.”
This advice could apply to any kind of art making, I think. Do what you need. My poet friend went on to say– semi jokingly and semi seriously– that he’s proudly from the “School of Discombobulated Poetics,” a membership that presumably gives him a bit of *ahem* poetic license to mix and match whatever material is around him to create an idea he can call his own. As a practicing junior member of this School, I’m going to go ahead and borrow my poet friend’s idea as the genesis for this blog post.
For the third creative quest in my yearlong artmaking fellowship with the Masumoto family, I decided to try making something I’d never tried before: a sort of multimedia tone poem about the farm. I’ve long enjoyed the cinematic scope of American independent filmmaker Terrence Malick, in particular his films The Tree of Life and To the Wonder. I wanted to see if I could imitate his sweeping visual and non-narrative style, to push myself in both my rudimentary poetic skills and in my rudimentary video editing skills. I wanted to make a short film about the farm that felt like the farm but didn’t need a “story” to inspire this feeling. Here’s the result:
I started out by thinking about basic shot sequences in movies– wide, medium, and close-up. I could never make a movie as grand as Malick, especially considering the equipment it would take to make his signature panoramic wide shots and the gorgeous orchestral music he has composed by professional musicians, to stitch together unrelated images and scenes across time. But I knew that I am a pretty good shooter, due to my experience with photography, so I wanted to practice basics– wide, medium, and close-up. I would stitch the footage together later with some kind of voiceover, maybe some lines from a Masumoto essay, or maybe an original poem I would write.
After spending a morning in early June on the farm, starting at daybreak, I had a little more than an hour’s worth of footage to work with. I spent a lot of time mentally drafting a possible order, sketching a few visual ideas in a notebook, and then finally sitting down to give the shoot a serious edit and put together some kind of visual order. My first cut was nearly 12 minutes long, my rough cut was just over 7 minutes long, and the final version came in at 4:23. I put my faith in the visuals, much as Malick does, to generate some kind of “story” that was outside of a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end. I’m pleased with the result, a snapshot of a morning on the Masumoto farm.
This brings me back to my poet friend, and to Hayes and to Lorca.
Watching my 7 minute rough cut several times, I sketched out key words and phrases and ideas that came to mind. I didn’t want the words to necessarily be synced to the visuals or an “explainer” of the visuals like traditional narration, but I wanted to feel the words were doing their own work, with the visuals side by side.
Perhaps the primary “character” I discovered in the rough cut was the wind. The sound of the wind was always present in every piece, often challenging me to deal with its power and unpredictability in the audio editing. I remembered an article I read once about an experimental sound artist and NPR field producer who “interviewed” the wind for a longform feature story. I thought: What if the ingredient I am looking for to stitch these visuals together is actually in a sound? This idea felt right.
This is the moment I did something very 21st century: I googled “famous poems about wind.” One of the first was “Wind in a Box” by Terrance Hayes, a striking and elegant poem he wrote after Lorca. Which led me, of course, to google “Lorca poems about wind,” leading me to the beautiful, forlorn translation of his “Romance sonambulo.” I heard my poet friend in my ear at this point: Take what you need.
From there, I tried to use my own key words and phrases about the wind with the cadence and line breaks of Hayes, to generate my own poem. Here’s that poem in text form, which I find interesting to look at in comparison to how it works inside the short film.
To Box the Wind
After Terrance Hayes
on your farm. I want to tune your engine
so it sweeps itself onward and outward,
past the sunflowers, past the unblinking horizon.
I want to outlive daybreak, tune myself
to the silt and the grass. I want to become a shadow
along the edge of your orchard, become the wind
humming through the peach trees, become leaves
neatly folded around each glowing piece of fruit.
I want to march tenderly, forcefully
past the hills the ants made, toward your harvest.
I want to ride through your grove, gilded
on all sides, riding a great big Massey Ferguson
to the very end of each row. Bring your farm dogs;
I want them to meet me. I will sit with them
in the middle of the avenue and we will listen to the wind.
I want to catch this morning’s last band of sunlight,
caught in the wind’s hum, before it’s gone;
after the fruit falls, I want to leave it for the earth.
I want to become the old water pump
working through its rust, moving ditch water forward,
sparkling, electrified, holy, pumping straight to its sump.
I want a brand new moment— a quiet moment
in the packing shed, which lives at the farm’s heart.
I want to learn the wind’s intuition here, but not
its fury. I want to hit the switch of your old AM radio
just to see what it’s like to interrupt this beautiful dream. …
… I know, of course, the discarded fruits from your
organic farm are not really discarded. I know they return
to rest in the very ground they sprang from. I want
to mash them. I want to blow them a final kiss.
I want the wind of your farm to become the calm
at the center of my heart. I want your chimes
to chime like a sound in my memory, a memory
of makeshift altars, for the dead and for the living,
a tiny house where time itself speeds and then slows,
moves on. When I leave your land, I want the wind
to fight its way into each poem, each photograph, each song.
How joyous it felt to take what I needed– from Malick, from Hayes, from Lorca, from the Masumoto family farm, from my poet friend, from myself– to make this short film, my own little wind song for summer.
Previously in this blog series:
• Creative Quest #2: Names of Old Friends
• Creative Quest #1: Beauty in the Central Valley
• A Conversation with Nikiko Masumoto
Creative Quest #2: Names of Old Friends
June 3, 2018 jeffersonbeavers Leave a comment
This month marks the five-year anniversary of The Perfect Peach, a collection of recipes and stories from the Masumoto Family Farm. It feels funny to say that a cookbook has deeply touched my life in all aspects. But in the case of The Perfect Peach, this statement is true.
The literary cookbook is co-authored by Mas, Marcy, and Nikiko Masumoto, and it’s filled with dozens of delectable recipes for your summertime haul of Central Valley peaches. The book is also filled with passionate and contemplative stories of what peaches mean to this California farm family. The essays interwoven with the recipes not only provide a “peach primer” for those unfamiliar with the world of the Masumoto Family Farm, but they also offer, to me, a glimpse into what it means to love something so much that it seeps in your bones.
I used to freelance for public radio and various publications, and in my reporting adventures I got to review The Perfect Peach for the former Fresno Life Magazine. The finished story, entitled Peaches as Performance, focused on conversations with Marcy and Nikiko about the creation of the book and about the intersections of food and culture, a subject that deeply resonates for a multi-generational, multi-racial farm family.
I will never forget my conversations with the Masumoto family in Mas and Marcy’s kitchen that day, June 11, 2013. In my mind, it was the moment where I went from being a Masumoto fanboy and admirer to being a Masumoto friend and collaborator. As with any reporting assignment, I walked away that day with a ton of interview material that was left on the cutting room floor, recorded in high-quality audio to my trusty Marantz PMD-661 digital recorder. The FLM review of the book, in fact, didn’t even include my short but profound conversation with Mas, where he talked with me very candidly about the urge to write and the urge to work, in relation to his own health and mortality.
I hope in the future to revisit the recordings again, to pull more snapshots out of the archive and bring them into the present. But for now, and in honor of the fifth anniversary of The Perfect Peach, I am happy to share the following recording of Mas. He reads what I like to think of as an impromptu poem, “Names of Old Friends,” inspired by the names of the peach varieties in his essay of the same name in the book.
I remember when I first read the essay, the variety names felt to me like an incantation, a summoning of the spirits of summer, of the coming harvest. I also think that by hearing the names of the varieties, and by savoring the way they sound in a performance, it makes us acknowledge and think about the rich differences in varieties, so we can start to see that the “peaches” we eat all have their own qualities. I hope you enjoy it:
About a month ago, when I was first sitting down to dig through the archive recordings to revisit the conversations with the Masumotos and recover this gem of a poem by Mas, my wife Tracy pulled the very last baggie of our 2017 Masumoto peaches out of the freezer. She had spent hours last summer preserving the fruits of our volunteering on the Masumoto Family Farm, and we had been rewarded throughout the fall, winter, and spring for Tracy’s work.
She asked me what I wanted her to make from The Perfect Peach, with our last bit of last year’s peaches. I didn’t hesitate to request the peach shortcakes, which feature a hearty and savory biscuit, a light whipped cream, and of course a generous helping of Masumoto peaches in their own very light simple syrup. As Nikiko suggests in the cookbook, Tracy and I didn’t hesitate to eat this incredible treat with both breakfast AND lunch that day!
And why not? The 2018 harvest has just begun. There will be more peaches and more beautiful peach adventures in the next three months.
Quest #1: Beauty in the Central Valley
December 26, 2017 December 26, 2017 jeffersonbeavers 1 Comment
So first, a collage poem, made from ingredients found in my neighborhood:
What is beauty in this Valley?
That’s hard. What kind of beauty?
It could be any beauty you’d like.
The mountains. Say more about why.
You have a property there, so when you go
it’s your quiet place to get away. Or,
you can go for a short drive. Blossom
Trail, mountains, rivers, creeks,
everything between. You don’t know.
You know. Beauty is a nice person,
someone genuine. It means not littering;
that’s a mentality you can’t believe.
Beauty means … beautiful. Everything’s
beautiful! The first step towards beauty
would be to solve the ugliness. Give me
some examples of what you like most.
Dogs are beauties. When they’re fluffy,
it’s beauty. Beauty comes from within
because you can be very pretty and still be
very ugly. Attitude has a lot to do with it.
Personality, character. Is this you?
You’ll be okay. Can we re-do this? Sure.
You think the people are beautiful. You love
the art, the culture. Beauty … is culture.
The Valley is like a mixing pot of all
different types of cultures and people.
Because you see and understand different
backgrounds and holidays and meanings.
Yeah. You like it when you’re shopping
and you see a woman with her children and
the children just run and scatter everywhere.
The woman’s trying to get them all together. You
find that a beautiful thing. You know, family.
Why is that? Maybe because it’s the trust
and love they have in each other. All in all,
it’s one of the most decent places you’ve seen.
And wait! One of the most beautiful aspects
that we have to offer is the food. We have the very
best fruits and vegetables. It’s the food! Absolutely.
You’ve traveled. You’ve traveled many places.
We have the best. There’s your beauty!
This collage poem is inspired by my first “creative quest” for the 2017-18 Masumoto Family Fellowship, a yearlong opportunity I’ve been given to make place-based art and share creative practices in collaboration with the Masumoto family. It was a real joy to work on.
Here’s a collection of portraits I made of the dozen people from my neighborhood whose stories and ideas inspired the collage poem:
In response to my desire to make more time to “wander and wonder” in my everyday life, Nikiko Masumoto set up my first fellowship project as a “creative quest.” She designed it as an opportunity for “courageous spirit” with the tools of creation: 4-5 hours of time (I dedicated about 10 hours, by choice); a simple recording setup (I used my iPhone 8 Plus, iOgrapher case, Røde video mic, and a patch cable); a computer with Internet (I used iMovie and YouTube); some form of transportation (I chose walking); and a generous commitment to allow myself to wander and wonder and create. “You already have all the tools you need for this adventure,” Nikiko said in her instructions. “We designed this especially for you, with no expectations. Think of it more like practice or a free-write; it’s a beginning and a process to explore and create. … We hope you will find both generative space and fun as you complete this quest!”
In addition, Nikiko limited me to collecting up to only 20 photographs and up to only 15 minutes of total video or audio footage. She didn’t want the editing process to bog me down too much, so she set some hard limits in that area. (Although, by Nikiko’s guidelines, the finished product was only supposed to be a prose piece that was 1 minute in length when read aloud and a multimedia piece that was 1 minute in length; those limits actually felt like they’d take me more time to comply with, to cut everything down so far, so this blog post runs long and my accompanying video runs about 3 1/2 minutes.)
So the prompt for my first creative quest, in case you didn’t catch it from the start of the collage poem, was: “Beauty in this Valley is …”
Kind of a huge topic, right? Where would I even start?! But not to worry. Nikiko gave me a meditation exercise, then a free-write exercise, and then a focused free-write exercise (which she called “sifting”). At the end of the sifting, I had a list of words and phrases to keep close by as I completed the quest. The list:
Get inside beauty
Craggy, lined, up close
Get close
One of the things I’ve long struggled with — as a journalist and as a storyteller — is the impulse to stay inside vs. going outside. Since I was a young journalist, I’ve faced the scary uncertainties of reporting in the field. There are so many unknowns, and those unknowns have always heightened my social anxiety. As I’ve gotten older and more experienced as an interviewer, and as I’ve moved more into what I consider storyteller territory, rather than traditional journalism, I’ve surprised myself more and more when I get myself out the door and out into the world. Talking to random strangers is still not easy for me and it probably never will be. But my 100 Days, 100 Portraits project and my long-form Q&A interviews for my communications job at Fresno State — especially including this wide-ranging interview with the poets Peter Everwine and C. G. Hanzlicek after the death of their friend, Philip Levine, that I’m particularly proud of — all serve to remind me that talking to people and asking them to share their stories and ideas is always a good thing to do.
This creative quest could have easily been me driving to a place far away, sitting on a bench and watching and thinking, and then writing poetry or a short essay from what I collected. That approach would have been fine, of course. But after doing Nikiko’s prep exercises, I felt an urgency to do what was already in me: get outside and immerse myself in the beauty of others.
I went for a 2-hour walk around my neighborhood. I carried my multimedia gear openly as I walked the streets and randomly talked to strangers. I only “knew” one person — one neighbor on our street that I don’t know well — and everyone else was truly a stranger. I asked them if they’d help me with a project. I made their portrait. And then I filmed them responding to Nikiko’s prompt.
Here’s the short video I made, linked below. I hope you enjoy the beauty I saw in what these 12 beautiful people had to say:
For reflection, Nikiko asked me to complete three very short focused free-writes. (What I’m “sifting” for with these, I’m sure, will reveal itself to me later!) I’m finishing this post by including the free-writes here, with light edits. They feel, in an odd but wonderful way, like a conversation with Nikiko that I haven’t had yet. Or perhaps, it’s an ongoing conversation with the Masumoto Family that has many beginnings and endings.
What happened in your body when you encountered beauty?
At first, I was hesitant in walking up to people. I probably always will be. But I also felt a rush of excitement in approaching people I wouldn’t normally approach. I punked out several times, most notably with my neighborhood donut shop guy, with the first homeless man I passed, with several people coming out of the Fresno/41 Starbucks, etc. But overall, I did walk up to a dozen people that normally I wouldn’t have, and I asked them about something I wouldn’t normally get the chance to ask. I felt joy in the creativity of the moment. Skepticism about who I was and what my project was about seemed to disappear pretty quickly once the subject learned the topic. And I think that immediate honesty and trust also gave me a jolt of joy and confidence. I could tell immediately that this moment of connection meant something, at least to me. Best descriptor of what happened in my body: transformation.
How did the experience of beauty manifest in you?
This is a question that I didn’t really think about before, during, or right after the quest. Not until just now, more than two weeks later, have I considered it. Reflecting, I think my own confidence established a connection with these strangers. It reminds me that we often don’t have a lot of trust for strangers these days, especially random people on the street that maybe don’t look like us. I think opening myself up to the quest gave me an opening into the world around me. The beauty of many of the stories and ideas the subjects talked about was revealed in those moments and felt very present in my own life, as the stories and ideas were being spoken about in theirs. For me, the collection of beauty statements from others created its own beauty, in the assembling and also in the final video. Beauty, I guess, manifested in me simply as presence.
How did you know you found something beautiful?
To be honest, I feel like I kind of knew that every person would share with me something beautiful, no matter what they said or how it all fit together. Even the ones that seemingly didn’t say much, or the ones who may have seemed shallow or simple at first, really shared something immediate with me. There’s a true beauty in the sharing. A few people, I immediately sensed, in walking up to them, that it was going to be a beautiful encounter, even if difficult. Some, I knew as they were speaking that it was beautiful. For some, I think they were trying really hard to say something profound and meaningful, and in trying to do that they cut themselves off from being fully present; those moments I mostly left on the cutting room floor. The video camera can turn us into actors, you know? But for the most part, there was a moment, a spark, a glimpse, a nugget of beauty in all the footage and in all the encounters. Even the uhhs and umms had beauty, to me, both as humor and as laughter, but also as a reflection of real humanity and uncertainty and presence. In brief: I think I found beauty with every stop, every subject.
I hope you’ve enjoyed the results of my first creative quest with the Masumotos!
A Conversation with Nikiko Masumoto
November 1, 2017 November 1, 2017 jeffersonbeavers Leave a comment
I am happy to announce that I am the inaugural Masumoto Family Fellowship recipient, for 2017-18. To mark the public announcement of the fellowship, I had a great conversation with agrarian artist (and my dear friend) Nikiko Masumoto on Oct. 30, 2017.
Nikiko: What was your first introduction to the Masumotos?
Jefferson: My first introduction to the Masumoto family, I actually remember very clearly. I was still working at The Fresno Bee at the time. It was probably 2001 or 2002, and I saw you and your dad perform out there at UU church. It was you and your dad and Larry Honda. You were taiko drumming and your dad was reading poetry and Larry was playing a trumpet or saxophone… and I went with my friend Carrie Higa, who used to work at The Bee as a copy editor. I don’t know if she knew your dad or was just a fan of his writing like me, but we went together. I had read Mas’s stuff in the paper, but that was really the first time I was taken by your family, watching you and your dad perform. And all I did was go and watch, I didn’t speak to you or anything, but that was my first introduction to your family’s energy and creativity.
My introduction to the farm was through Tracy, my wife. She volunteered at the peach adoption, I think 5 years ago. But even before then, your dad came to one of my graduate writing workshops at Fresno State, maybe around 2006, and he made me and the whole class eat dirt. To taste the flavors. I’ve told you that story before, right? I don’t know if you want me to tell it again. But he came to that grad workshop, and then I was so flattered the next spring, when he came out to see me and my friend Eric Parker read our work at the Rogue Festival. I was so moved because, you know, he’s Mas Masumoto! I’ve been reading him for years, so for your dad to come out and see me and Eric perform was a real honor. That’s how I struck up a friendship with him.
N: Now, I know that you grew up in the Valley, but for everybody else, tell us a bit about where you grew up and, what do you treasure most about this place?
J: I grew up in Dinuba, which is in northeastern Tulare County. Specifically, we grew up in the country kind of out by Monson, which is a little town between Dinuba and Visalia. We grew up on my grandfather’s ranch. I went to Monson-Sultana School, a tiny little K-8 school on Mountain View Way, between Dinuba and Orosi. I think on my website it says something like, “I grew up in the heart of Tulare County raisin vineyards.” Our house was called the “old home place” because that’s where my grandma and grandpa lived years ago, with my mom and my aunts and uncles as kids. So then we rented it years later from my grandpa. We were surrounded by agriculture. We had plums to our west; they were Freedom variety plums, remember those? The speckley ones. The fruit in the back were the heirloom O’Henry variety peaches.
N: No way! O’Henrys!
J: And then we had some Thompson raisin grapes in the back too, and some Gala apples just to the north and east of us. That was our immediate area, and then there were dairies all around, owned by other people. So yeah, I grew up on that ranch and I lived with my parents there through my first four years of college at Fresno State too. So maybe, about 20 years of my life I lived just outside of Dinuba.
N: Do your folks still live out there?
J: No, they do not. Since 2002, they’ve lived in Dinuba now, “in town.” People don’t understand that distinction, in town or not in town.
N: Yeah, totally. We have our “in town” clothes.
J: Exactly, they’ve lived “in town” now, for a while. So, you also asked what I cherish about that place. I started working with the family maybe when I was about 9 or 10. We had a packing shed. My grandfather’s family came to the Dinuba/Reedley area as a migrant. My grandmother was born in the Hanford area. There was a landowner named Malcolm Crawford from Dinuba who my grandpa Joe worked as a ranch hand for. Malcolm died young and I guess on his deathbed, he asked my grandfather to help care for his widow, Ruby Lee, and care for his acreage, and in return he would give my grandfather acreage to start for his own. So by the time my aunts and uncles came up, he was the landowner – my grandfather! He had worked hard and saved. So by the time my generation came up, the family owned a packing shed on the outskirts of Dinuba. I feel like we might have been one of the few Mexican-American packing shed operators in Dinuba and Reedley?
So I started working at age 9 or 10, in the packing shed. We had like 100 people working for us just in the shed. Plus more in the fields.
N: Wow!
J: It was a good-sized operation, totally mechanized. So my first job for the packing shed was putting pads in the boxes. Hundreds of boxes would come and I would put the pad in, close the lid, and send them on to the sealer. Me and my cousin Steven, we would alternate days, so he would work Monday, Wednesday, Friday and I would work Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. So you know, $1 an hour.
N: [chuckles]
J: That’s a big deal. Because, you know, when you are in the 5th grade and you make like $30 a week, every week for the whole summer, you’re a big man on campus.
N: Totally!
J: Yeah, you’re like hey, juice boxes for everybody! Many years later, one summer I helped run the packing shed as the foreman.
So, to circle back to the question about what do you cherish. You know, I think it’s the ground. Like, literally the ground. Somebody said to me once, “You are in the Valley and the Valley is in you.” And I always think about that. I am the ground. Now, I’m very far removed from being a farmer of course, but I grew up around that and that’s what my reality was. Education separated me from that, for better or for worse. But that was my reality for years. I worked every summer in the packing shed, for 7 or 8 years growing up.
“You are in the Valley and the Valley is in you.” That’s why I always have these joyful flashbacks when I’m handling the Pantas [the thin plastic trays used to pack fruit in] on the Masumoto farm.
N: You have all those embodied memories.
J: Absolutely! It’s absolutely tangible. You know, that sound the crinkle of the Pantas makes when you’re stuffing them down, that’s a very physical memory for me.
N: This is a question that brings us more into the contemporary, and it will be interesting to hear if there is resonance with your past. I’m curious, Jefferson, what words do you like to use to describe yourself and your work? Like, creator, artist, journalist, organizer, amplifier, or a totally abstract word? What do you like?
J: I think I have a lot of labels because I have a lot of interests. People are inevitably like that, right? For many years as a profession, I was a newspaper journalist. So I have identified as a journalist, or a former journalist, in some way, and I think there’s still a lot of journalism in the things I do and make now. But one of the labels I’ve used is “multimedia storyteller.”
I think I’m a writer. I do also like to make photos. I do like sound. I’ve been learning more lately about video. I’m a terrible video editor but I’m a pretty good shooter. So, I guess multimedia writer or multimedia storyteller is probably as close as it’s going to get to something succinct.
In my current work at Fresno State, I’m a communication specialist for the Creative Writing Program. This means that I’m telling the stories of the program that I work for. I’m also Development Director for Fresno Filmworks, which means I’m involved in developing relationships and fundraising. “Arts administrator” is another broad term, I guess, because I do event planning and budget and project management. So maybe we’re getting to something like: arts communicator, writer, multimedia storyteller. Somewhere in there?
How do you perceive me?
N: One of the words I wrote down that kind of came to me is: amplifier.
J: I like that.
N: I see a lot of your work as amplifying stories, whether through Fresno State or Filmworks or elsewhere.
J: I appreciate that encouragement. I would also maybe add documenting to the amplifying. You and I have talked about this before. Sometimes, I think just being present is really important. Just pressing record at some of these things, poetry readings and performances, it’s so essential. We’re surrounded by media, and media is in our pockets, but sometimes we don’t think to just record it.
N: What are some of the contexts or conditions that allow your creativity to flourish?
J: For my ideal conditions, I need more quiet. I tend to present myself as very outgoing and type-A, but I think I’m more of a high-functioning introvert. So, I think that I’ve discovered that I need and want a lot more quiet in order to make things. But, I also think that we get caught up in the notion of the “ideal moment” to make something or do something or start a project. I have to say, I’m really tired of that. I feel like I’ve been holding myself back on that for years, and I feel like we have the tools in our pockets to tell stories and to document, so why not just do it. The last year and a half or so, especially since the current political shift in Washington, I’ve just decided to stop waiting. And my work is not perfect. But I feel like, we can’t wait to make things, to make art or words or really anything creative.
My ideal place is a place that’s quiet, where I have time to think. But I also have another mode where, I don’t know what this is going to be, but I feel compelled to make it now, because if I don’t, then I know it’s not going to get made.
N: What are the creative works you are most proud of?
J: The reason that I got my MFA at Fresno State was to write a book, my thesis manuscript. I’m not going to publish that book; it’s not a publishable book. But I was grateful I got 4 years in graduate school to write my book of essays. I’m really proud of that. I think that 4 of the 8 essays were published, and one of them was a Pushcart Prize nominee, and that was great. It was a really formative moment for me, thinking of myself not only as a journalist, but thinking of myself as a writer and creator. So, I’m really proud of that book, even though it only sits on my own shelf.
In terms of public creative output, and I’m not saying this just to flatter you, but the investment and the belief in me that you showed in my photography project, 100 Days, 100 Portraits, still means a lot to me. It has been popping up in my Facebook memories because it’s the anniversary from a couple years ago, and I’m really blown away still, that I performed that as part of your Central Valley Art Bus Tour, and then all 100 photos up in San Francisco at a big-time exhibition with dozens of artists from across the state who I’m still in touch with on Facebook, and all because of your invitation. But that was something I just did for myself at the time, and then it became something else, which is a great lesson, right? Do it for yourself. I’m proud of that. I think most people don’t know that I really enjoy photography. That project really showed me that simple portraits of people and who they are and what they do have value and they have meaning. It had meaning for me in the exploration. That was good enough.
Right now, the project I’m most proud of, I’m actually not “doing it,” but I’m facilitating it. It’s the Fresno Poets Archive Project. We have 80 tapes of the very earliest Fresno Poets’ Association readings from the ’80s and ’90s. I’m facilitating undergraduate interns who are researching, captioning, and in as many cases as possible, reconnecting with the people in those tapes from 25-plus years ago. And they are really stunning documents of literary history in the Valley.
I’ve been taking extensive notes as we go along, in conversations with the students who are working on them and in our research together. I might write a book about the process at some point. There’s 80 tapes and we’re publishing one a month. So, it’ll take about 7 or 8 years to publish them all at this rate! Unless I figure out a way to speed it up somehow. But I’m really proud of that right now because I feel a lot of pride for being a writer from Fresno. But I also feel – similar to some of the stuff you and Brynn Saito are doing with the Yonsei Memory Project – it’s an intergenerational thing. This is where you come from, these are the people who came before you, and these are the amazing things they did. These are people that, to me, were just names in a book before, people I’ve read my whole life. And now I’m hearing them, literally. I’m hearing their voices for the first time, and it’s transformative for me. Transformative. I’m doing it a little for myself, but I think a lot of people are plugging into the recordings. So I’m proud of that.
N: Tell us about what you’ve purchased for yourself with the funding from the Masumoto Fellowship!
J: With the Masumoto money, I completely simplified my audio/video recording set-up. I bought what’s called an iOgrapher. It’s basically a big hunk of plastic that your iPhone clicks into. It has a place to mount it to a tripod, it has a place to mount an external shotgun microphone, it has a place to mount a LED fill light, and it has handles to hold it and use it like a steady-cam if you’re off-tripod.
I went to a training session recently at CMAC TV in downtown Fresno. That’s the Community Media Access Collaborative, where I’m a member. We did a training on iOS production and they had iOgrapher kits with iPads. It’s everything you need in one box, and that made it all feel so easy and inspiring. So, the funding from the fellowship didn’t quite give me enough to buy the whole box, but that turned out fine because I actually kind of wanted certain pieces that didn’t come with the main kit. So basically, I bought about 3/4 of the kit with my first installment of the fellowship funds. This includes the iOgrapher gadget, an external light, a shotgun mic, a couple plugs and cables, and a backup battery charging pack for the whole operation. I’m using my existing iPhone and I can set it up in a minute! All I need is my tripod, screw it on and it’s done. It’s so easy! People have really noticed it in action, too.
N: Anything else you’d like to add?
J: I’m so grateful that the family would think of me for the fellowship. I know you all know a lot of writers and artists, so I’m very flattered, like beyond flattered that you would believe in me that much. I’m honored.
N: We are so happy and can’t wait to see what we make!
On Eating Soyrizo
April 3, 2017 jeffersonbeavers 1 Comment
Oh Trader Joe’s, I owe
you my deepest Pocho
gratitude for your soy
chorizo. “The authenticity
comes from the spices,”
you say, and I believe you.
Who needs meat when
fake meat tastes this good?
After my Caucasian wife
lovingly sautés butter, salt,
onions, and baby bell peppers
together in a skillet,
she adds your protein
delight, and declares
after just three minutes:
She cannot warm the corn
tortillas fast enough.
“You may not be a meat
eater, but that doesn’t
mean you can’t enjoy
the spiciness of authentic
chorizo sausage.” I think
of a bad joke, a play
on words: Soy chorizo
can mean “I am chorizo”
if you speak the language
of the colonizer. You don’t
even have to be fluent
to taste what seems real.
RT @bridger_w: There’s something about living through ten months of a pandemic that can wear you down a little bit 3 hours ago
@notteresa Thanks, but I take zero credit for this beauty 1 day ago
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Artist Jensen Moreno: “Her world is the art class, her class is the art world, and her art is world class.”
Born on January 21, 1984 in Orion Bataan, Jensen Moreno’s art voyage began in the Philippines. She was excellent and honor student from the beginning who was destined to succeed in art locally and internationally. “Her world is the art class, her class is the art world, and her art is world class,” as quoted by Jonathan Bar-On—an Author and Teacher at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Her tertiary and post graduate studies began in University of Sto. Thomas (UST) where she took Bachelor in Fine Arts majoring in Painting and proceeded with Master of Fine Arts. She worked as a freelance visual artist, designer, and art tutor who did commissioned work and even managed her own boutique and art studios. She was an art instructor and facilitator in elementary and high schools who also conducted special programs and workshops for all levels of students. Her last stint as a professor was in Mapua Institute of Technology teaching monochromatic freehand drawing, illustration and so on. Her former mentor and art collector, Dr. Mendez in fact believed in her talent so much that he bought most of her works while still residing in Manila whom she met last 2009.
It is in 2011, she spread her wings further and left for Vietnam. Her Vietnam art journey began when Jensen joined the Vin Space, Trung Khuyen Nhac, and Saigon South International School as a part-time art teacher to kids and adults.
Browsing from her iPhoto…this was taken few years ago. This is when she got really emotional. Looking back at those defining moments that lead her to where she is now and saying, what if? Will her journey still be the same if she didn’t take that chance?.. – caption via Facebook.
Jensen’s first international art-solo-show in Vietnam titled “Twenty-Seven.”
Her successes and activities all bulleted as there are too many—a global Pinay success story. God knows where she will be a few years from now. Truly a multi-gifted artist, designer, and organizer of art.
JENSEN’S ART JOURNEY IN VIETNAM:
She stunned the local Filipino and international community in Saigon by conducting her first international solo exhibit just a month after she arrived. Her exhibition “Twenty-Seven” was held at the Kinh Bac Restaurant and Gallery. The event was a success and was attended by more than a hundred people on opening night—unforeseen for an artist new to Vietnam.
When she joined The American School of Vietnam (TAS) as a faculty member in July of the same year, she showed more of her genius creativity as a designer who makes women’s accessories, clothes. She led two outstanding fashion shows and her Avant Garde Collection of wearable art pieces which is made of recyclable materials impressed the crowd all together.
The multi-faceted Jensen was also involved in theatre and school play productions who directed the set and props design team. As an art teacher, she also trained some of her young students for art competitions and because of her guided teachings: one of her 4th grade students won an over-all championship award out of more than 2000 entries.
Due to “La Vita e la morte” art exhibition of International Artists in Boomerang Bistro Saigon (last July 2012), she was introduced to more charitable work. This helped her fulfill her goals of reaching out to the less fortunate. She even donated some of her paintings for auction and taught art to disadvantage kids who are afflicted with HIV to benefit the SMILE Group Charity.
During that year, Jensen did not stop. She even helped promote Filipino art and culture internationally by organizing an art exhibition for emerging Filipino artists for the celebration of Philippine Independence. The exhibit entitled, “PinoyAko (I’m a Filipino)” was attended by 30 artists who flew to Vietnam last June of 2012 to showcase incomparable works of art done by our own Filipino talents. All art works were shown in different venues and local and international dignitaries attended the affair: Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts, The Equatorial Hotel Saigon, and Intercontinental Hotel Saigon. The exhibition was featured in English Magazines and websites throughout Vietnam.
Summer of 2012, Jensen flew back to the Philippines for the “Figuras 5” painting exhibition where she painted Ms. Philippines World, Ms. Daisy Reyes, on a 6×8 foot canvas.” (The girl in the middle)
Portrait of Councilor Daisy Reyes-Ms. Philippines World, 6×8 ft. oil on canvas. “In a world where beauty is not all it takes” FIGURAS 5 Art Exhibition,Mendez Big&Small Art Gallery – caption via Facebook.
Upon her return to Saigon, she had the privilege to work with Ms. Hoang My Vu, Ms. Vietnam World 2012. Her masterful portrait of the beauty queen was exhibited at the Philippines-Vietnam Music and Art Show for business and friendship at Hard Rock Café in Saigon. Once again, the art event was well attended by local and Filipino dignitaries including her subject, Ms. Vietnam World, Hoang My Vu.
Jensen Moreno finds fulfillment in teaching young minds all she knows about art and to encourage young people to fulfill their creative potential. She also finds equally satisfying producing her own artworks. Oil is her medium of choice and although she focuses on seascapes and abstract paintings but it is in portraiture, she found her niche.
During her second year at TAS, she taught elective art courses for the high school students and was the organizer in their very first art exhibition which was held in downtown Ho Chi Minh City—a painting auction and performance art was also held at the event.
“THIRTY-ONE”, Jensen Moreno’s 2nd international solo show will reveal her newest collection of paintings in Beijing, China on March 21st, Taipei on April 1st, and lastly, Cambodia on July 1st 2015.
JENSEN’S ART JOURNEY IN CHINA
Her passion for teaching and creating art continues in China when she moved on 2013. Her interest in organizing art shows will never stop—as it is in her heart.
She continued were she taught PYP visual art teacher at the Guangdong Country Garden School.
And while in Foshan, Jensen got into film making. She did a little bit of acting and production designing. For the acting part, she learned how to drive a motorbike somewhat precariously. The first short film entitled, “Rumble in the Bronx” was shown as an entry to Swede Fest 2013 in Fresno, California. She then, participated with two more short films, both were Christmas themed.
Jensen also joined forces with the music and art teachers at the school for school music and art show entitled, “The Meeting.”
After her stint in Guangdong, Jensen moved to Beijing to become a visual art teacher for Upper elementary at the Beijing International Bilingual Academy.
Being in a new environment inspires and motivates her to be her best. She became more involved at her church and also recently organized a performance art event with students from different international schools in Beijing.
Congratulations BIBA ARTISTS for winning one of the Honor Awards out of hundreds of entries!!! Way to go my dear students! – caption via Facebook.
After the success of her first one-woman show in Vietnam, “THIRTY-ONE”, Jensen Moreno’s 2nd international solo show will reveal her newest collection of paintings in Beijing, China on March 21st, Taipei on April 1st, and lastly, Cambodia on July 1st
At the moment, Jensen is enjoying her life as an art teacher. She enjoys creating artworks for art competitions, and exhibiting students’ artworks. She looks forward to spending wonderful years in China both in teaching and creating art.
“Her world is the art class, her class is the art world, and her art is world class.” INDEED!
Life in Beijing is brilliant.
Article Source by Jonathan Bar-On, Author and Teacher at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
All images provided by the artist.
February 22, 2015 April 12, 2015 · Posted in Art, Art Feature, Art Journey, Art Profile, Art Show · Tagged Art Instructor, Art Journey, Art Organizer, Art Profile, Art Show, Art Teacher, Artist, Designer, Filipina Artist, Global Pinay, Jensen Moreno, Painter, Philippines ·
13 thoughts on “Artist Jensen Moreno: “Her world is the art class, her class is the art world, and her art is world class.””
joselito capariño says:
world-class Filipino artist.
Jennifer Bichara says:
Hello Joselito,
Yes, she is indeed world-class Filipino artist. She is a very gifted and multi-faceted artist.
Thank you Joselito for stopping by and commenting.
Monching says:
So proud of her! Thank you for giving honor to our country : ) I’m proud to be her batchmate..: )
She is indeed a world class artist. Amazing gift and very humble in sharing her talent to her students.
Wendy Raymundo Gozun says:
JRI Orion Batch 2000 so proud of you Jensen
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Thank you for the pingback. 🙂
Far from reclusively staying within the confines of her studio, here is an artist whose studio is the world. She contributes to youth, the less fortunate, a variety of artforms, and emerses herself in the communities of the countries she involves herself in. This is the enterprising, yet kind, yet individually-unique, yet socially-connected energy known worldwide as the spirit of the Philippines.
Thank you so much that was a well written comment. She is indeed a true artist that makes her world her art studio. Yet, humble enough to help those who are need as what we call here a Pinay that shines bright.
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Oh thank you for this Miss Jennifer. I’m so inspired, I know I’m still a student taking Fine Arts and my major is painting too and reading this makes me want to paint more and do my best in school. Maybe someday I can show my artworks to the world too!
Your welcome Christy..keep on painting..who knows..never stop dreaming!
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Madonna, What Are You Doing.
Last night, in the big finish of a performance at the annual Straight White People Give Each Other Awards for Doing Black Music About Gay Rights Better Than You Convention, Madonna shuffled weirdly out on stage with a bejeweled cane like a Country Western Barbie Yaga. She belted her way gamely through a few choruses of "Open Your Heart to Me," then joined the lovely Mary Lambert for the last few lines of "Same Love." Is that who Madonna is now? An awkward novelty cameo at the end of a Macklemore song? How strange. How sad. Madonna is vamping for attention on someone else's coattails.
I have affection for Madonna, and I think that a lot of criticism aimed at her is misdirected. I do not care about Madonna's wiry hands. I am not offended by clothing that is "too young." I appreciate the way that Madonna refuses to become invisible in her middle age, as women are so aggressively encouraged to do. I appreciate the fact that Madonna is at least attempting to stay connected to youth culture (because why not?). I appreciate that Madonna refuses to conform to ageist expectations for the way older women "should" dress and speak and conduct themselves.
Implicit in all of those positives, however, is the constrictive pressure on women to cling to youth artificially, to not "let" themselves get old. What part of Madonna's current persona is choice and what part is cultural coercion?
And, more importantly, what the fuck does Madonna mean now? How can you hope to keep up with the future if you're clinging to the past?
To me, the meaning of the Madonna of my youth always vastly trumped her (in my opinion) rather average voice. She was a provocateur who made womanhood feel powerful and disemboweled her critics with a haughty absence of fucks. She moved culture forward on purpose.
The Madonna I saw at the Grammys last night sang a song about equality while wearing a gold grill and carrying a pimp cane just a week after she famously called her child the n-word and wasn't sorry. It meant fucking nothing. If anything, it moved in reverse. It was the dinner-table obtuseness of your worst uncle. It shit on intellectual curiosity. It stank of not getting it.
It made you realize: Oh. Madonna is finite.
At a certain point, with age, we lose our grip on which ideas are cyclical and which ideas are perpetual and which ideas have died out. Madonna is just mimicking modes of edginess that worked for her in the past—that were new and important in the past—but what was once progressive nearly always becomes regressive. Because we learn so much all the time. The racial exploitation of Sex-era Madonna was provocative once; now it's just exploitation. So when do we cut our idols loose? When does the Queen of Reinvention run out of raw materials and turn into the, um, Lesser Duchess of Recycling? When does the awkwardness of New Madonna obliterate our teen-feelings for Madonna of Old? When do we ourselves realize that we're falling behind?
There's no shame in obsolescence, really—it happens to everyone. I get the same sinking feeling every time a comedian I idolize rails against "political correctness," or a gay icon throws around "trannies." Oh. It's happening. You are getting old. You don't get it anymore. You don't know it, but you have become the bearer of old ideas. And I know I'll be there eventually too. I am way more terrified of that not-getting-it than I am of crow's feet and saggy neck-skin.
When we talk about "old" Madonna, we're almost always talking about the wrong thing: It's not that she's forgotten how to be young, it's that she's forgotten how to be new. But obsolescence is not terminal. It simply requires a willingness to listen, weather discomfort, be embarrassed, make some room, and own your mistakes. That's what "call-out culture"—for all of its flaws—is all about.
There's still time for Madonna to mean something again, if she feels like it. It's just probably not the meaning she envisions.
La.M.
Straight White People Give Each Other Awards for Doing Black Music About Gay Rights Better Than You Convention
It's time for a Change.org petition ladies.
The SWPGEOAFDBMAGRBTY Awards.
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Filed Reports
Dispatches University
By Tami Jackson Dispatches April 13, 2017
Unmasking The Human Rights Campaign: The Enemy Masquerading as an Angel of Light
And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
— 2 Corinthians 11:14
The United States was founded by people of faith, people who espoused a biblical worldview. That worldview, bolstered by a conscience that yearns for justice, compelled the writing of the Declaration of Independence:
The Declaration defined the nature and source of human rights; the United States Constitution detailed those rights, protecting them from government transgress.
The Founders secured the very impetus for the colonies in America with the First Amendment to the Constitution:
Notice no reference to a wall of “separation of church and state?” Early settlers desired to live out their faith, to worship according to personal understanding of the scriptures, not by compulsion of a state run and controlled church akin to the Church of England. Government was seen as a necessary evil to provide for national defense and some infrastructure; the U.S. Constitution was clearly written to free the citizen and robustly constrain government.
Our history as an independent people, individually responsible for our own actions and consequences, but keenly aware of rights and justice infuses our national DNA. Rights and justice are not, in and of themselves, evil.
The key is WHO is the author of the rights?
The Founders believed the Bible and that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel created men (ie. all men and all women) in His image. Life was precious, sacred, because the Lord God was its author.
But not all rights are true rights or even good. The idea of “human rights” sounds aspirational, lofty.
The Apostle Paul warned early followers of Jesus and the church at Corinth:
Masquerading as an angel of light, gay rights activist Stephen Robert “Steve” Endean founded the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) in 1980. The mission of the organization:
The Human Rights Campaign and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation together serve as America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve LGBTQ equality. By inspiring and engaging individuals and communities, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBTQ people and realize a world that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.
The Human Rights Campaign envisions a world where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people are ensured equality and embraced as full members of society at home, at work and in every community.
Ah ha! The crux of the matter is not “human rights” but rather “LGBTQ (lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer) rights.” Why the disguise (aka masquerade)?
Steve Endean knew full well that the average American in 1980 would not wholly endorse “alternative lifestyles.” Had he named the organization “Queer Rights Campaign” or “Lesbian Rights Campaign” Endean would have offended millions of families. But “Human Rights Campaign” sounded righteous and compassionate.
That is until we compare the mission statement with the foundation of America, a biblical worldview which undergirds our founding documents. What does the Bible have to say about those lifestyles?
Earlier in 1 Corinthians:
Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men[a] 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. — 1 Corinthians 6:9-10
And in Romans 1:
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Now, having unmasked the true intent and nature of the “Human Rights Campaign,” it should come as no surprise that Endean’s unholy organization seeks to vilify those proclaiming truth and businesses not cowering to the HRC mandates. Since 2002, “HRC’s Corporate Equality Index report, released each fall, provides an in-depth analysis and rating of large U.S. employers and their policies and practices pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees. Businesses rated 100 percent are recognized in our ‘Best Places to Work’ list. All consumer-oriented businesses are included in our ‘Buying for Equality’ guide.” [see below]
Businesses in America are rated according to their accommodation and celebration of “alternative” (aka sinful) lifestyles. HRC President Chad Griffin writes:
In this 15th edition of the Corporate Equality Index we have seen the largest increase in top-rated businesses in the history of our
survey with 517 employers earning perfect 100 percent scores. In addition, this year saw the CEI’s largest jump ever in businesses offering transgender-inclusive healthcare coverage — from 511 last year to 647 this year.
While there is much to do and many key civil rights fights ahead, thanks to these private sector leaders, the march towards greater
equality is not slowing down. The LGBTQ community and the 887 businesses in the CEI will keep moving forward every day.
The HRC employs a carrot and stick tactic: CEI as carrot praises those businesses which affirm the LGBTQ agenda; HRC’s “The Export of Hate” as stick castigates any individuals or organizations who decry the same perverse agenda. Written at “The Export of Hate” site:
These individuals are spreading venomous rhetoric, outrageous theories and discredited science.
While this vicious brand of bigotry is currently finding little traction in the United States, public opinion in many other nations makes their words and work much more dangerous. In fact, their actions pose a fundamental threat to the safety of LGBT people around the world, and that threat is growing.
“The Export of Hate” lists familiar names of godly people and God-honoring organizations: attorney and pastor Scott Lively; ADF Chief Counsel Benjamin Bull; ACLJ Director of International Operations Jordan Sekulow; BarbWire contributors Peter LaBarbera and Robert Oscar Lopez; and many more. [See below]
The Bible instructs us to be wise as serpents, harmless as doves. Comparing the Bible and its principles and commands to the Human Rights Campaign mission, Corporate Equality Index, and HRC’s Export of Hate report reveals an unavoidable conclusion. The HRC is an unbiblical and evil entity.
The prophet Isaiah wrote:
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! — Isaiah 5:20
There could be no more stark picture of that verse than the Human Rights Campaign, and believers in America must hold fast to biblical truth and wisdom and unmask ungodly evildoers “masquerading as angels of light.”
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Sacrifice, Part 3
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Colin fussed with the keys before finding one that worked, commenting on how they were all using skeleton keys when he left. The door opened to a fairly modest entrance, strangely small for the size of the house. It smelled old and a bit damp.
“Seems a bit small for such a big place,” she commented.
“This is part of the original house, before they expanded it,” he said, trying to ignore a familiar, awkward presence. “Some of the old house was changed around, just not the entrance or halls. When I was growing up, the decor was very much a rustic, old style. Most of the furniture and wood is original.”
“It looks in decent shape,” Macy commented, looking over the walls and windows as they passed through the halls. “Are these paintings all originals?”
“Yeah,” he said leading the way down the hall, “and only a few have needed restoration work.”
“And these are family portraits, then?” she asked, slightly awed by the stern folk, depicted in rigid, firm stances. They were like something out of an early Victorian museum.
“Pretty much,” he said, hardly looking at them. “The odd one is some family friend or something. They were a tight knit clan from all the history I was ever told. And here is the staircase.”
The oak stairs were in perfect shape, other than a bit of dust, and curved up to meet a landing that branched off into the upper floors. The wood was not ornate or decorative. It was a simple, sturdy construction meant to last; similar to the rest of the house.
“So far, it doesn’t look like Cyril took anything from the place,” Colin said, finding it better to talk than address the growing presence stirring around him.
“I can’t wait for a proper tour,” Macy said, starting to forget her earlier concerns and enjoy the moment.
“Cyril probably lived in the master suite while he was here, so that is where we are headed,” Colin explained as they moved through another dusty hall. “It should be set up for modern living, or close.”
The master suite was large without being expansive. It had a full bathroom, sitting room and study. It was all right out of a history book. Of all the things in the room, only the bed struck Macy as being over the top. It was high and deep, with immense oak posts supporting a velvet canopy.
Colin pulled gently on a cord that hung down from the high ceiling and the lights came on. Macy gave him a looked of awe and surprise. “That is so weird,” she said, “and cool at the same time. What the heck?”
Colin laughed at that. He had taken the strange light switches for granted as a kid; in fact, normal wall switches took him a while to get used to. “They used to have these connected to a bell downstairs for the servants. They never got rid of them, so now they turn the lights on and off.”
Macy gave the cord a short tug and the lights went off. She laughed, too. It was all so strange and wonderful; and it helped her connect with Colin’s unusual past. She felt closer to him than ever.
The room had fresh bedding and was otherwise set to live in. Colin took Macy on a tour of the building, checking the state of things as they went. The house had changed very little since he left so many years ago. The odds and ends repairs that Cyril had made really took care of the worst issues; the rest was all a matter of details. The rooms were in order, drop cloths protected anything worth protecting, and the worst cleaning needed was some dusting. The returning memories helped Colin manage the increasing pressure from the presence in the building. It took them nearly two hours to see everything except the cellars, by which time he had a headache from focussing on the tour and denying the presence.
“We don’t have to see the cellar,” Macy said, noticing his changed temperament, assuming fatigue or emotional strain. “We can just rest a bit, if you want.”
“Actually,” Colin said, “how about I show you the old stable house?” They had seen the building from the windows facing the back of the property. Macy agreed, thinking the fresh air would be a good change.
The presence in the house had less strength when Colin was out. He found a bit of clarity and release as they crossed the yard to the stables. He found the key for that lock and opened it up. There wasn’t much to see. The family only kept a couple of horses when he was kid, and they were older animals kept mostly for the nostalgia of it. Faint traces of manure and damp wood lingered. The wall was littered with traps, chains, tackle and harness, tools and supplies. Most hung on nails or hooks. Not much to see, but the distance from the house was a relaxing change for Colin.
“How about a walk around the grounds?” he asked her. The weather was pleasant enough and they toured the remnants of the garden. It had completely grown over and gone wild. Some failing fruit trees had suffered greatly from strangling ivy. They walked through the path into the forest beyond the garden. The stones were covered in moss and forest litter, but the path remained clear enough to pass comfortably. The pair of stone bridges over the creek stood strong as ever, adding a pinch of civilization to the forest. They walked in silence; Macy trying to give Colin some space to deal with whatever was ailing him.
For Colin, the ground past the last foot bridge was safe ground from the nagging pressure within the house. His mind was completely clear after they crossed it. He recalled, as a youth, that it was so. He was not sure if the presence had become stronger, somehow, or he was simply not used to it after the long absence. The respite would be short lived, he knew, though it was welcome.
He looked at Macy like he had not seen her before. She was not an ugly girl, to be sure, though modelling would never be an option. She was slim and kept good care of herself. Her personality was generally pleasant, though she was a bit needy and tended to nag. She was from a working class family with no major red flags for him. In all, not a bad girl; but not one he really cared to marry. He regretted her part in the events to come.
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Staff editorial: To weather the pandemic, the community must come together
by Mae Hunt, Evey Weisblat, Sophie Krichevsky, and Elizabeth Stanley
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced on Tuesday that a statewide curfew would take effect Thursday, and extend for the next three weeks. This new COVID-19 policy comes after cases in Ohio have tripled in the last few weeks and a warning from DeWine last week that colleges and universities in the state may need to cancel in-person operations this spring if cases in Ohio continue to increase exponentially.
Although we appreciate the governor’s efforts to curb the spread of the virus, we believe these policies alone are not enough. COVID-19 policy is more crucial than individual behavior, but when the policy falls short we must turn to each other for guidance. It is up to members of individual communities — including students and faculty on university campuses — to do their part in ensuring public safety.
Up until now, the number of positive cases on Kenyon’s campus has been very low, and that is no doubt due — at least in part — to our community’s commitment to keeping each other safe. But maintaining public health during a pandemic is about more than social distancing and wearing a face covering. It is also about protecting each other’s mental health by trying extra hard to do the things we have always done: being kind to one another and giving each other the benefit of the doubt whenever possible.
Because of the exceptional circumstances posed by the virus, COVID-19 has isolated many of us from our friends, leaving us lonely and without our usual support structures in a time when we need it most. As much as the world feels like a lonely place right now, we shouldn’t let COVID-19 deter us from coming together as a community. This can be accomplished through even the smallest acts of compassion, like calling your first-year roommate or sincerely asking your professors how they are doing.
A supportive community is also an effective deterrent to those tempted to break COVID-19 rules. One of the most difficult aspects of living through a pandemic is that we are expected to remain physically distant from our friends and socialize in person less frequently. This is even more difficult in a close-knit community like Kenyon’s. However, if we are proactive about offering each other the support we need, students will feel less tempted to break protocol by attending unsafe gatherings.
Kenyon is unique among its peer, liberal arts institutions in that its remote location fosters a tight-knit sense of community. If there is one community strong enough to weather the storm that is COVID-19, it is Kenyon’s. If the community is going to get through this difficult time — both the last week of the in-person semester and the pandemic as a whole — it will be by working together to support one another.
The staff editorial is written weekly by editors-in-chief Mae Hunt ’21 and Evey Weisblat ’21, managing editor Sophie Krichevsky ’21 and executive director Elizabeth Stanley ’21. You can contact them at hunt1@kenyon.edu, weisblat1@kenyon.edu, krichevsky1@kenyon.edu and stanley2@kenyon.edu, respectively.
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LEGB? Meet ICPO, Python’s search strategy for attributes
When it comes to variables, Python has a well-known search strategy, known by the acronym “LEGB.” Whenever you mention a variable — and by “variable,” I mean a name that could be referencing data, a function, or a class — Python tries to find it in four different places: The local (function) scope, the enclosing function’s scope, the global scope, and finally in the “builtins” namespace.
Variable scoping seems both boring and annoying, but it actually explains a lot about Python’s design. It’s really worth learning about, and won’t take much of your time. Indeed, I have a free e-mail course on the subject; you’re welcome to subscribe.
But what about attributes? How does Python search for those?
(Quick aside: If you’re wondering what “attributes” are, then consider that when you say “a.b” in Python, the “a” is a variable and the “b” is the attribute “b” on “a”, not a variable. As a general rule, anything with a dot before its name is an attribute. And yes, there are exceptions to this rule, but it’s a good generalization.)
From my experience, this question seems like an odd one to many Python developers, including those who have been using the language for a while. What does it mean to “search for attributes”? Aren’t attributes attached to an object, in a (sort of) private dictionary?
The answer, of course, is both “yes” and “no.” Attributes do belong to a single object. But in many cases, when Python cannot find an attribute on one object, it’ll look on another object to find it.
Indeed, this search for attributes sits at the heart of the Python language, and explains many of the things that we’ve come to expect, such as method calls.
I’ll start from the end: Just as the acronym LEGB (local, enclosing, global, builtins) makes it easy (or easier) for us to understand and follow Python variable lookups, I use the acronym ICPO (instance, class, parent, object) to understand where Python searches for attributes. Keeping this search path in mind will help you to both read and write Python more easily.
I’ll expand the acronym here, and then go through a bunch of examples, so that you can understand it better:
Instance: When we ask for a.b, Python first checks: Does the object “a” have an attribute “b”? If so, then “b” is retrieved from “a”, and the search ends.
Class: If Python doesn’t find “b” on object “a”, then it looks for type(a).b. That is, it looks for an attribute “b” on a’s class. If it finds the attribute here, then it returns the value, and the search ends.
Parents: If Python doesn’t find “b” on type(a), then it looks on the parents of type(a):
If the class inherits directly from “object”, then there aren’t really any parents from which to inherit, and this phase is skipped.
If the class inherits from one class, then we check there — and on its parents, and its parents, etc.
If the class inherits from multiple classes, then we follow the MRO (method resolution order) of the class.
Object: All classes in Python inherit, directly or indirectly, from “object”, the top of our class hierarchy. As a result, searching for an attribute, if not first found elsewhere always concludes on “object”. If we cannot find an attribute on “object”, and it wasn’t found elsewhere previously, then Python raises an AttributeError exception.
I is for “instance”
Let’s start with some simple code to understand what I mean by all of this:
class Foo():
def __init__(self, x):
self.x = x
f = Foo(10)
print(f.x)
In the above code, we define a class, Foo, with a single method, __init__. (We’ll return to methods in a little bit.) When we create a new instance of Foo, aka “f”, we create a new attribute on “self”, the instance.
Take note of this: Whenever we add or update an attribute on “self”, we’re doing so on the instance. In this case, it’s an instance of Foo, not the Foo class. Just as there’s a difference between an auto factory and an individual car, so too is there is a difference between the class Foo and f — and in a method, “self” points to the individual instance.
Thus, when we ask (on the final line) to see the value of “f.x”, Python goes through its ICPO search path, first asking: Is “x” an attribute on the instance, which we call “f”? Happily, the answer is “yes,” the search ends, and we get our answer of 10 returned to us.
C is for “class”
The above is probably how most people think of attributes, and attribute lookups, in Python. But things are a bit more complex than that. Let’s make our class a tiny bit more interesting:
def x2(self):
return self.x * 2
print(f.x2())
Once again, we’ve defined a class Foo. And once again, the __init__ method will define an attribute named “x” on our new instance.
But this time around, we’re not asking for “f.x”. Rather, we’re going to execute the method “f.x2”. So Python starts off asking if the object “f” has an attribute named “x2”.
Except that the answer is “no,” because methods are class attributes. “x2” doesn’t exist on “f”; “x2” was defined on the class “Foo”. And thus, when Python cannot find “x2” on “f”, it goes to the next stop on its search, namely on f’s class — Foo.
Does Foo have an attribute “x2”? It does, a method object. That object is returned, and then the parentheses tell Python to execute it. When the method is executed, it does Python’s magic switcheroo, turning “f.x2()” into “Foo.x2(f)”, thus passing an argument to the “self” parameter. And the method runs!
What happens if I define a new attribute on “f” whose value is “x2”? By the ICPO rule, that attribute would have priority, and would effectively make calling the method impossible via the instance.
NOTE: This is not something you would normally want to do.
Let’s throw caution and sanity to the wind, and try it:
f.x2 = lambda: 'Not the x2 you expected'
When we run the above code, Python first checks on “f”, to see if it has an attribute “x2”. And the answer is “yes.” It stops searching, and returns the function that we defined with “lambda”. The function is then executed via the parentheses, and returns a string value.
Note that this hijacked version of “x2” is only available on “f”. If we were to define another, separate instance of “Foo”, on which we didn’t define an “x2” attribute, the ICPO rule would fail to find “x2” on the instance, which means it would then search on Foo (i.e., the class). Sure enough, there’s an “x2” attribute on the class “Foo”, which would be returned.
P is for “parent”
What happens, though, if the attribute isn’t found either on the instance or on the class? Let’s look at an example:
class Bar(Foo):
b = Bar(10)
print(b.x2())
When we create b, our new instance of Bar, Python looks for __init__ on it. But there is no attribute “__init__” defined on b. So it looks on b’s class, Bar. The attribute isn’t there, either. Python then falls back to its third ICPO possibility, the parent. Bar only inherits from a single class, Foo. Sure enough, Foo.__init__ does exist — so that method attribute is retrieved, and then executes.
In other words: The ICPO rule describes how inheritance functions in Python. If we don’t find a method in a class, we look in its parent class. But inheritance works on all attributes, not just methods; it’ll work for data, as well. That’s why, if you create a class attribute, it’s available via the instances:
y = 100
f = Foo()
print(Foo.y)
print(f.y)
When we run the above code, we see “100” printed twice: The first time, because Python asks if “y” is an attribute on Foo, and the answer is “yes.”
Wait a second: Isn’t “Foo” a class? Why is it getting searched first?
Because in Python, classes are indeed special. But they’re also objects like everything else in the language. So yes, “f” is an instance of “Foo”. But “Foo” is an instance of “type”. If we ask for “Foo.y” and the attribute “y” doesn’t exist, then the ICPO rule tells Python to look at type(Foo), which is “type”. Fortunately, in this case, that doesn’t happen, and we get the value “100” back.
Then, we ask for “f.y”; this also returns “100” — because by the ICPO rule, Python looks on the instance “f”, fails to find attribute “y”, and then goes to the class “Foo”, where it finds the (class) attribute “y”.
As always with ICPO, the first match that Python finds wins. This means that if a subclass and a parent class both have a method of the same name, the subclass’s method will execute:
return self.x * 22
print(b.x2()) # prints 220
In the above example, we invoke “b.x2()”:
Python looks for “b.x2”, and doesn’t find it.
Python looks for “Bar.x2”, finds it, and executes it.
Python does not continue searching, and thus “Foo.x2” is not executed. Which is precisely what we want, but is (in my experience) surprising to many newcomers to Python.
Find, but what about multiple inheritance? In such a case, the “P” stands for parents (plural) and not parent (singular). Python will search through each parent class, one at a time, according to the MRO (method resolution order). For example:
class A():
class B():
def __init__(self, y):
self.y = y
def y2(self):
return self.y * 2
class C(A, B):
In the above code, class C inherits from both A and B. If we ask for its MRO, we’ll find that it first looks on itself (as usual), then A, then B, and then (finally) object. This means that if we say:
c = C(10)
print(vars(c))
The above will show that c has a single attribute, “x”, whose value is 10. That’s because when we created “c”, Python looked for c.__init__. It kept following the ICPO rule until it found the first parent class, A, where __init__ was defined. That method ran, but B’s __init__ didn’t. This means that “c” doesn’t have the “y” attribute. And thus, if we write:
print(c.y2())
We’ll get an error — not an indication that the method is missing, because the “y2” method is indeed found, by searching “c”, then the class “C”, then its parent “A”, and then finally its parent “B”. And indeed, we find the “y2” method there!
So what’s the problem? The “y2” method expects the object (self, aka our instance “c”) to have an attribute “y”. But because only A.__init__ ran, and not B.__init__, there is no “y” attribute, and we get an error.
The error is obviously not something we want, but it is the natural result of the ICPO rule.
O is for “object”
The final location in which Python looks for an attribute is “object,” the top of our object hierarchy. In Python 2, you had to explicitly inherit from “object” to avoid having an old-style class, which worked just like modern classes… until it didn’t. Nowadays, we don’t have to worry about this; all classes automatically inherit from “object”, whether you state this expressly or not.
“object” doesn’t actually have a lot defined on it. There are some methods that are used as defaults, such as “__init__” (which does nothing, and fires if you don’t provide an “__init__” method on your class) and “__str__” (which ensures that all objects can be cast into strings). In many cases, you’ll want to implement — and thus override — these default methods, so that your objects can be initialized appropriately, as well as be cast as strings in the right way.
You’ve read pretty far down in a long blog post — so I hope that you care! But if you got to this point and aren’t yet convinced of the importance of this rule, consider:
Every time you invoke a method, Python uses the ICPO rule to find it. In other words: Inheritance in Python is a directly outgrowth of the ICPO rule.
The fact that everything in Python, including classes, are objects, means that everything follows the same rules. The ICPO rule applies to your instances and classes, but also to built-in instances and classes. Python is nothing if not consistent, and your objects fit into this consistent hierarchy.
It’s common for people coming from other languages to talk about “instance variables” and “class variables.” Abandoning those terms in favor of “attributes,” along with the ICPO rule, will help you to understand how Python works, and why it is (or isn’t) finding the data you asked for.
At the end of the day, the entire object system in Python boils down to a few rules and systems. An important part of this system is the ICPO rule. Once you’ve internalized it, many things that previously seemed odd about Python will (I believe) be more straightforward and consistent.
So, let me know: Does this make things easier to understand? What does this not explain? Leave a comment here, and I’ll try to respond and/or update the article!
han says:
Thanks for the brilliant article showing the link between inheritance and ICPO.
I am confused about your use of the word “type” at 2 places.
First you mention “Class: If Python doesn’t find “b” on object “a”, then it looks for type(a).b. That is, it looks for an attribute “b” on a’s class.”
This makes me think type() is a function that returns the class of an instance.
Later you say ” “f” is an instance of “Foo”. But “Foo” is an instance of “type”” I translate this to mean,: f is an instance of a class Foo, but class Foo is an instance of type.
So what exactly is type vs class in python? 1st point says it returns a class, 2nd point says class is an instance of type
reuven says:
Let’s start with strings. We can say that ‘abcd’ is an instance of “str”. We can also create new strings by invoking “str” as a function.
In the same way, we can say that all classes are instances of type. This would imply that we can create new types by invoking “type” as a function. And you know what? You can, and this actually works! It’s not the best way to create a class, but you can invoke type with a class name and a dict of attributes, and it’ll actually work.
But as you wrote, it’s also true that we can call the “type” function on an object (e.g., type(‘abcd’) ) to find the object’s type. And … that’s also true! If you call “type” with a single argument, it’ll return the type/class of the object it was passed.
I hope that this helps you to understand better!
Hez says:
Lambda function example is wrong…
x2 lambda defined out side of class.
The whole point of the example is that you can define a redefine a method outside of the class.
Mr Bean says:
There is a typo in the second class example: `x2 = lambda…` instead of `f.x2 = lambda…`.
Nice and comprehensive explanation, though!
Thanks; fixed!
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Intergovernmental Advisory Committee
Purpose: The Intergovernmental Advisory Committee is an advisory body to the Village Board created in July of 1998. Specifically, to allow and provide for: (i) the funding of the acquisition of the Property by the Village and the immediate sale thereof to the Library and lease of a portion thereof to the Lake Bluff History Museum; and (ii) the improvement and ongoing maintenance of the Property, including improvements necessary to bring the Property into compliance with federal and state statutes requiring accommodation of disabled people in public facilities.
Term: 3 years
Meetings: The Intergovernmental Advisory Committee holds four meetings per year and meets quarterly. At the first meeting the members appoint a Chairperson from among their membership, who serves a one year term, and may serve as Chairperson for more than one one-year term.
Duties: The Intergovernmental Advisory Committee contributes to Acknowledgments of contributions made to, or as a result of, the fundraising efforts. The Intergovernmental Advisory Committee delivers a written report outlining the activities and recommendations for the previous calendar year to the Board of Trustees of the Library, with a copy to the Village and the Lake Bluff History Museum.
Eric Bailey, Chairman (Term expires 4/30/2020)
Bettina O'Connell, Village representative (Term expires 4/30/2020)
Cathy McKechney, Museum representative (Term expires 4/30/2020)
Kate Jackson, Library Representative (Term expires 4/30/2020)
Carole Stroh, Library Representative (Term expires 4/30/2020)
Staff Contact: Bettina O'Connell, Finance Director (847) 283-6890
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Cara Delevingne: Modelling made me hate myself
CARA Delevingne says her modelling career made her "hate" herself and her body.
The 23-year-old star, who has recently turned to acting, says she is "not doing fashion work any more" and admits modelling made her "feel a bit hollow".
She said: "It didn't make me grow at all as a human being. And I kind of forgot how young I was. I felt so old.
"I was, like, fight and flight for months. Just constantly on edge. It is a mental thing as well because if you hate yourself and your body and the way you look, it just gets worse and worse."
The 'Paper Towns' star also revealed that the stress of the catwalk world led to her developing psoriasis, a skin infection that had to be covered using foundation at every runway show she worked.
Cara told The Times newspaper: "People would put on gloves and not want to touch me because they thought it was, like, leprosy or something."
The glamorous Brit admitted she felt "sick" when asked to get into sexually suggestive poses in photoshoots when she was just a teenager.
She said: "I am a bit of a feminist and it makes me feel sick. It's horrible and it's disgusting. You start when you are really young and you do, you get subjected to ... not great stuff."
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When Weather Shifts Landmine Danger
Recent weather incidents highlight the danger caused by displaced antipersonnel mines
In early August 2010, North Korean landmines drifted along streams between North and South Korea due to heavy rain-fall, causing the death of one man and injuring another after they picked up a mine on their way back from fishing. In mid-August, in Pakistan in the region of DI Khan devastated by floods, dislodged mines and unexploded ordnance injured five civilians in three separate incidents, according to ICBL member Sustainable Peace and Development Organization.
"Some argue that fencing and marking mined areas is generally sufficient to protect civilian lives, but fencing and marking are at best only temporary measures. These recent tragic incidents show once again that the only real way to fully ensure safety is by completing clearance of all mined areas as soon as possible, no matter how remote," explains Sylvie Brigot, Executive Director of the ICBL. "Landmines can and do move as weather conditions change, for example due to heavy rain, hurricanes or earthquakes. Areas previously considered clear and safe can become mine-contaminated, threatening displaced or returning populations."
Over the last decade several natural disasters have lead to landmines being displaced and threatening civilian lives. In November 1998, when Hurricane Mitch devastated Central America, the consequent floods in Nicaragua unearthed and scattered landmines.* Severe flooding in Mozambique in 2000 and 2001 washed away minefield marking. In Jordan, mines have been known to drift due to sporadic floods, along streams at the borders. The 2005 earthquake in Pakistan triggered landslides near the Line of Control in the disputed Kashmir region, raising major concerns over the potential threat posed by shifting mines.
After natural disasters, as emergency services are strained and populations have to deal with deaths, diseases and lack of food and shelter, they also face the additional hardship of trying to avoid mines and providing care for mine victims. For clearance teams, tracking the location of displaced mines also becomes a formidable challenge: operational plans and data on known mined areas becomes obsolete, setting back clearance plans several months, if not longer as new surveys will be necessary.
In such situations, non-governmental organizations, mine action operators and sometimes governments conduct risk education sessions to teach local populations how to avoid the danger posed by victim-activated weapons. This constitutes an essential emergency step, but it is surely not a guarantee that all casualties will be avoided.
* Nicaragua celebrated completion of its mine clearance activities in June 2010, and Central America thus became the world's first mine-free region.
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Residents Of Santa Clarita Finding Blue Lights In Traffic Anything But Special
Filed Under:Blue Light, Red Light, Santa Clarita, traffic
SANTA CLARITA (CBSLA.com) — Drivers were already seeing red over red light cameras in Santa Clarita.
Now officials have installed blue lights at seven intersections — the blue light allows law enforcement a better way of deciding if a motorist has run a red.
CBS2’s Jennifer Kastner reports about the new color schematic.
Green, yellow, red … and now blue.
Santa Clarita is literally shining a new light on its problems with bad drivers, she reported.
New blue light enforcers have been installed around the city. Officials said they were installed at places that have high numbers of light runners.
When you’re driving along and roll up to a light, it turns red and you stop. What you don’t see, on the opposite side of that light, is a little blue light. The only people who can see the blue light are people traveling in the opposite direction — like police officers.
An officer can now easily tell who’s illegally blowing through lights and then pull them over.
While the city is thrilled with the new light and technology, Kastner spoke to several drivers who were not exactly on board.
“I don’t know if it’s really necessary,” said one man.
“There’s a controversy of whether it’s just another way to make revenue or it’s to keep people safe,” said Laura Russell
“I’m sure that we’re gonna see more invasive and even more colorful ways — blue ,red, orange — of raising funds,” said Dan Durchslag.
One motorist thinks it will help keep people safe. “And if it’s going to help keep us safe, then I support it,” another man said.
The city formerly used red-light cameras to catch violators. They did away with them last year citing legal issues.
If you’re wondering if the blue lights will be distracting, the city insists they are so small and placed at a certain angle that drivers shouldn’t be distracted.
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Helicopter Above Perseverance on Mars
Illustration depicts Mars Helicopter Ingenuity during a test flight on Mars. Ingenuity was taken to the Red Planet strapped to the belly of the Perseverance rover (seen in the background).
Ingenuity, a technology experiment, will be the first aircraft to attempt controlled flight on another planet. It will arrive on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, attached to the belly of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. Ingenuity is expected to attempt its first flight test in spring 2021.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory built and will manage operations of Perseverance and Ingenuity for the agency. Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages JPL for NASA.
For more information about Ingenuity, go to: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter
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This 3D, or stereo anaglyph, view shows the upcoming science destination for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, a region dubbed "Glenelg," where three different types of material seen from orbit come tog...
'Glenelg' in 3D
In February 2021, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (shown in an artist's concept) will be the agency's two newest explorers on Mars. Both were named by stude...
Portrait of Perseverance and Ingenuity (Artist's Concept)
This stereo image from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows a rock outcrop called "Hottah," cited as evidence for vigorous flow of water in a long-ago Martian stream. The ...
Martian Streambed Evidence Rock in 3-D
This artist concept shows the Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, which will travel with NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020, to demonstrate the ...
Mars Helicopter (Artist's Concept)
Scientists with NASA's Mars 2020 mission and the European-Russian ExoMars mission traveled to the Australian Outback to hone their research techniques before their missions launch to the Red Planet...
Clues for Mars in the Australian Outback
Engineers and technicians at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, install the remote sensing mast on the Mars 2020 rover.
Mars 2020 Mast Goes On
The Mars InSight Roadshow van at San Francisco's Exploratorium in April 2018. The Roadshow van will stop at different California venues to share public exhibits and lectures about NASA's InSight mi...
Mars InSight Roadshow Van
In this illustration of a Mars sample return mission concept, a lander carrying a fetch rover touches down on the surface of Mars.
Mars Sample Return Lander Touchdown (Artist's Concept)
As a professional dancer in New York City, NASA-JPL engineer Heather Bottom never forgot her passion for space. Now in Act II of her career, Heather is preparing to send NASA’s Perseverance Mars ro...
From Rockettes to Rockets
This dust and radiation sensor is part of the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer suite and is mounted on the deck of the Perseverance rover.
MEDA's Radiation and Dust Sensor
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on board launches from Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, July 30, 2020, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Flor...
Roaring Perseverance Launch
Bill Allen in JPL's Mars Yard in early 2020.
Bill Allen in JPL's Mars Yard
This image of the rocket-powered descent stage sitting on to of NASA's Perseverance rover was taken in a clean room at Kennedy Space Center on April 29, 2020.
Perseverance Rover Gets in Launch Shape
This stereoscopic anaglyph image was created from a left and right stereo pair of images of the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, Curiosity. The image was taken May 26, 2011, in Spacecraf...
Mars Science Laboratory Mission's Curiosity Rover (Stereo)
The linearity of the volcanic vent shown in this HiRISE image, in conjunction with evidence of lava flow from the vent, suggests control by combined volcano-tectonic processes.
Fissure near Cerberus Fossae with Tectonic Morphologies
Anniversary artwork of NASA Viking 1 and Viking 2 Landers and Orbiters. Infographic text: The Spirit of 76. Mars Viking. A True Pioneer. #viking40
Viking 40 Year Anniversary Artwork: Spirit of 76 Bicentennial
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover imaged these drifting clouds on May 7, 2019, the 2,400th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, using its Navigation Cameras (Navcams).
Curiosity Sees More Clouds Over Gale Crater
In February 2020, NASA’s Perseverance Rover began its long journey to Mars by first traveling across the United States.
Getting Perseverance to the Launch Pad
The nose cone containing the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover sits atop a motorized payload transporter at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July 7, 2020.
Perseverance on the Move
NASA Associate Administrator for Science Thomas Zurbuchen addressed the Opportunity rover team inside Mission Control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, a few hours before...
Addressing the Opportunity Team
NASA’s Perseverance rover deploys a supersonic parachute from its aeroshell as it slows down before landing, in this artist’s illustration. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and ex...
Perseverance Deploys its Parachute (Illustration)
NASA's Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, arrives at Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. Its mission: to demonstrate the first powered flight on another planet. Taking to the Martian skies in Spring 2021.
Mars Helicopter – Arriving at the Red Planet, February 2021
SuperCam's mast unit before being installed atop the Perseverance rover's remote sensing mast.
SuperCam Mast Unit
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory participate in a training exercise in February 2020. They reviewed images and data sent by a field team in the Nevada desert, discussing where to send...
Scientists Training for Mars Rover Operations
Women working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory pose for a photo in mission control in honor of Women in Science Day.
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The Maine Association of School Libraries (MASL) provides connections for creating and advancing effective school library programs through professional development, advocacy, and community-building.
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Join us on September 17th at 7pm for a discussion of why Black Books Matter in Maine’s upcoming school year and beyond.
This free webinar sponsored by the Maine Association of School Libraries and the Maine Humanities Council features Marcia Minter, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Indigo Arts Alliance, Dr. Andrea Breau, Project Coordinator of the Diverse BookFinder, and Kirsten Cappy Executive Director of I’m Your Neighbor Books as they discuss the importance of diversifying representation in children’s literature and the robust resources each of their organizations have developed that can support us in our work.
In honor of Maine’s own Ashley Bryan, Indigo Arts Alliance launched the inaugural Beautiful Blackbird Children’s Book Festival this summer. The online resources shine a spotlight on the Black artists and writers who create children’s books featuring characters from across the African Diaspora.
This inaugural event presented in partnership with I’m Your Neighbor Books, Diverse Book Finder, and the Maine Association of School Libraries honors the roots, identity and resiliency of Black people worldwide.
Unable to engage with readers in person this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Beautiful Blackbird Children’s Book Festival created a series of read alouds, creator interviews, book-themed crafts, and even a dance instructional all for online video consumption.
Educators can continue this exciting work by sharing the videos* and educator resources and by advocating for diverse representation of collections and curriculum in our schools.
This free webinar will be recorded and made available to MASL members. One and half contact hours will be awarded.
AND thanks to a donation through I'm Your Neighbor Books, the first 150 registrants will receive a copy of Wherever I Go by Mary Wagley Copp and Munir Mohammed for their school or classroom libraries. PLUS, Print: A Bookstore will give 20% off BBF Festival books plus include a free tote bag for registrants that use the code "MASL" at check-out.
*Some read aloud video content will be removed on 12/31/20 when the publishers’ permissions expire.
Marcia Minter, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Indigo Arts Alliance, is a seasoned creative professional, dedicated arts advocate and community leader deeply committed to social and cultural activism. Her work on numerous boards represents the interest of underrepresented voices, talents and citizen constituents. She has spent her professional career as an Executive Creative Director for some of the world’s most iconic brands. Most recently, completing a 16 year tenure as Vice-President Creative Director at L.L.Bean. Her curatorial work focuses on photography, symposiums on the intersection of art and social practice, exhibition planning and implementation. Currently she serves on the Maine Arts Commission, the Board of Directors for Maine Media Workshops and College, Portland Ovations and is a Trustee of the Portland Museum of Art. In 2019 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Maine College of Art.
Dr. Andrea Breau, Project Coordinator of the Diverse BookFinder, is a feminist youth studies scholar whose work focuses on how white and Muslim immigrant youth in predominantly white spaces narrate their racial-ethnic identities through gender, sexuality and religion. As a white parent raising a mixed race child in her own hometown in Maine, Andrea’s interest in books that give young children access to the literature, art, and language they need to imagine a better world into being -- and create their own stories within it -- is as profoundly personal as it is political. Andrea earned her BA from Colby College, and her MA and PhD from The Ohio State University -- where she taught for the better half of a decade -- all in the field of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Kirsten Cappy is the Executive Director of I'm Your Neighbor Books, a nonprofit that uses children's books set in New Arrival and New American communities to open conversations about immigration, welcoming, and belonging. The project's Welcoming Library, is a touring collection of immigration-themed picture books and education materials available to schools in Maine and other states. Kirsten is also the founder of Curious City, a company that creates and offers free programming guides, classroom activities, and book giveaways for a full spectrum of children's books. In both roles, Kirsten served as a collaborator with Indigo Arts Alliance and Diverse BookFinder on the Beautiful Blackbird Children's Book Festival.
NEW MASL Mailing Address:
Maine Association of School Libraries (MASL)
c/o Maine State Library
Augusta, ME 04333-0064
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Howe takes plunge into nearly empty CD 2 pool
Mike Mullen September 23, 2015
John Howe hasn’t taken out a personal loan since 1996, according to an answer he gave reporters during a Tuesday morning press conference. That period ...
Session ’14 agenda: The fine print
Mike Mullen February 21, 2014
Discussions about the repeal of new taxes, a bonding bill and a proposed increase to the state minimum wage seem destined to take center stage this spring.
The Capitol Note: GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Honour raised $500,000 in 2013
Mike Mullen January 14, 2014
Honour pointed out that he had collected that total despite his status as a "political outsider."
Dozens of House Republicans endorse Nguyen for Secretary of State
Though the total number of Nguyen's House endorsements is impressive on its face, he failed to win the support of House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt.
The Capitol Note: GOP Sen. Torrey Westrom to run for Congress
Mike Mullen December 5, 2013
DFL U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson finally has a strong Republican challenger in the 1st Congressional District. Today, state Sen. Torrey Westrom, R-Elbow Lake, will make his candidacy official, following months of rumors about Westrom's interest in challenging the Democratic incumbent. Westrom is in his first term in the Senate, and won election to the upper chamber in 2012 following seven terms in the House.
Lawsuit: Shelve online voter registration
Briana Bierschbach November 6, 2013
Republican legislators and conservative groups filed a lawsuit this week aimed at suspending an online voter registration program that they claim was improperly implemented by Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, a DFLer, without legislative approval.
News links: Ritchie’s online registration hit with lawsuit from GOP legislators
Mike Mullen November 5, 2013
If the lawsuit is successful, the registry system launched in launched in late September would be halted until legislative action is taken.
Republican legislators sue to suspend online voter registration
The GOP advocacy groups leading the effort, Minnesota Majority and the Minnesota Voters Alliance, filed a lawsuit in Ramsey County Court on Monday, alleging Ritchie used unilateral power to install a new online voter registration tool after session ended and without bringing it through the proper legislative channels. They are asking the court to suspend the the tool, which was launched at the end of September, until it can be voted on by lawmakers.
Mounting data-privacy lawsuits threaten to swamp governments
Paul Demko September 20, 2013
Blame it on Anne Marie Rasmusson. In 2012, the former St. Paul cop filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court seeking damages for more than 400 instances where law enforcement officials looked up her driver’s license records without justification. That case has resulted in more than $1 million worth of settlements with local governments, including nearly $800,000 from the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Dayton defends MNsure rollout, calls driver’s license data breach ‘outrageous’
Briana Bierschbach September 18, 2013
Gov. Mark Dayton defended the roll out of MNsure, the state’s not-yet operating health insurance exchange program, after a data breach raised concerns about the security of the system, and he said he's looking to change state law next year to deal with an uptick in state employees breaching private driver's license data.
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Foie Inanity Reaches New York
megnut Food September 27, 2006 June 9, 2018
(by Michael Ruhlman, guest blogger)
This morning Bourdain called my cell and said, “Ruhlman, I’ve got upsetting news.”
He wasn’t kidding.
Apparently a New Jersey politician, freshman assemblyman Michael Panter, next week will introduce a bill to ban the SALE of foie gras in and out of state.
Not only would this put out of business or force the relocation of Ariane Daguin’s D’Artagnan–which would be a blow to the entire tri-state area and beyond and the countless restaurants that rely on D’Artagnan for foie-based products–but it would be a dangerous encroachment on the rights of New Yorkers and New York City chefs to eat what they want and cook what they want.
The whole issue of what happens to Daguin and her highly respected company, around whom the fine dining scene has grown during the past two decades she’s been in business, is an important one that should be looked at separately.
But if the rumor is true, the foie brouhaha has reached New York in a serious way. And it’s bad. The foie issue embodies the hypocrisy and corruption of so much of how our government operates. That our public officials continue to spend their time and our dollars on this is ludicrous. If they cared about their state and their country, they would address the catastrophe of how we’re raising agri-hogs. That’s truly inhumane. We’re trashing our land and water, growing crappy food, contaminated chicken, feed lot beef and creating lakes of sewage polluted with e coli that gets on our spinach and kills our kids.
It’s a good rule to live by: don’t shit where you eat. But that’s exactly what we’re doing on a massive scale. So what do you do if you’re a local congressman? You outlaw a product that has little if any environmental impact, a product that few people buy, but that raises your stature and makes you look like a noble protector of all things cute and fuzzy.
Chicago’s been through this. Now Jersey–living up to its cliché. Chicago been a laughingstock among people throughout the country who understand the issues. Its mayor is endorsing a REPEAL of the silly law that bans foie gras sales there. An article in today’s trib describes how the pro-ban factions are struggling, in the face of widespread ridicule, not to lose ground. The city is not enforcing the ban anyway, so it’s largely symbolic. But symbols are important.
And right now, foie gras banning is becoming a symbol of ignorant politicians grandstanding on issues they scarcely understand while the real horrors of our food supply go neglected, and continued silence is bought and paid for by agribusiness lobbying.
I’ve made myself clear on this issue before: more no-nothings in government telling me what I’m allowed to eat, corrupt government ignoring the agricultural catastrophes while taking self-promoting potshots at fundamentally humane businesspeople and farmers makes me mad. If this law happens it promises the beginnings of change in the restaurant scene in New York City for the worse–this, the most diverse and dynamic restaurant city on earth. That in itself is bad. But all that such a bill would portend is truly scary.
If this bill happens we need to use its indulgent foolishness to shine more light on the real problems with our food supply. And they don’t have anything to do with foie gras.
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erin sikorsky says:
If at this point it’s just a rumour and not an actual bill, do some digging and find out who it is that may be offering the legislation (I assume state legislator or senator and not Member of Congress since they’re federal and couldn’t ban sales in just one state).
Get Daguin to set up a meeeting with said legislator to start. Then get folks in the district of the legislator to write some letters/make some phone calls. I’m sure part of the reason this person is considering taking this step is that they’re hearing from people on the other side. I bet Daguin could get a local petition going, or even get customers to sign letters when they’re in the store, etc. Perhaps there’s also a way to get local restaurant owners involved–legislators are often moved by an economic angle.
Also, it may be possible to find a legislator to oppose the bill as well. I definitely would not treat this as a done deal–seems like there’s plenty of time to fight, especially if you can get a combo of local folks and people like Bourdain involved who bring some celebrity (aka press) to the issue.
The democratic process can be surprisingly democratic sometimes if people can take the time to get organized.
It’s Michael Panter, but he’s just the co-sponsor.
It’s Bill A3230
Prohibits forcible feeding of ducks, geese, and other poultry for the production of foie gras; directs State Board of Agriculture and Dept. of Agriculture to establish standards for humane feeding and raising of poultry for such purposes.
Voss, Joan M. as Primary Sponsor
Giblin, Thomas P. as Co-Sponsor
Panter, Michael J. as Co-Sponsor
megnut says:
Bill, that doesn’t seem the like the same bill. The one you link to only prohibits the production of foie gras (which seems like a symbolic gesture by the state, as NJ has no commercial foie gras producers.) The bill Ruhlman mentions would prohibit the sale of foie gras, which would have far-reaching effects, as D’Artagnan (a large purveyor of foie gras, and the firm Ruhlman mentions in his post) is based in Newark, NJ. Either Ruhlman’s got some bad information or there’s another bill out there that’s much more restrictive. He says it’s to be introduced next week, so maybe it’s not online yet.
bourdain says:
The Apocalypse for New York Dining Approaches. THIS is the line which MUST NOT BE CROSSED. It’s Stalingrad. If Ariane goes down we are without hope or leadership or inspiration. She’s as central to NYC chef’s lives as the bagel or pastrami is to NYC diners. D’Artagnan is vital to nearly every fine dining restaurant in New York–and New Jersey is putting all this at peril.
Who said “Apres moi–le deluge?”
Well…after Ariane? And Dartagnan? I shudder to think. The mallification, the great dumbing down will win its biggest and most crushing victory and we all of us who love to eat–and to cook–will suffer.
All due respect, Michael — love your books and articles — Erin has a point. I’m just sitting at a desk in Georgia and it took me 5 minutes to figure this out. Panter is just a co-idiot, let’s ensure we name all the idiots.
Google news has 21 hits for Joan Voss and foie
oops, I see Meg responded to my first comment. Yep, nothing online yet. Though an outright ban would make sense as the next step and Panter does have a lot of bills involving animal protection.
Sorry for snapping at you, Michael.
I’ll admit to admiring the deviousness of this bill. They can claim they’re not banning the sale of foie gras, just the force-feeding of ducks. If you can find some other way to create foie, have at it.
Veron says:
I hope no politician in Virginia would propose a bill like that. We do have animal rights people picketing in front of a french restaurant here in Richmond,VA.
Bux says:
Inane and insane. Politics as usual perhaps, but this does stick in my craw, so to speak. Some years back, I ran into Ariane Daguin at JFK. She was checking in cartons of NYS foie gras for the flight to Paris. I didn’t know her, but knew one of her traveling companions and we were introduced on the plane. The inevitable “coals to Newcastle” witticism followed and she explained that she was doing a dinner in Alsace, of all places, using American products. It was just one more sign of our coming of age as a nation of sophistication dining. Now there’s a movement to take us back to the stone age.
I’m not particularly a libertarian and often support government legislation aimed at protecting humans and animals. I just don’t see the evidence that gavage, or “force feeding” if that sounds nastier, is harmful or stressful to the ducks or that it’s unethical treatment, behind all that emotional anthropomorphic propaganda. I’m starting to sound like a broken record on the subject, but I’m not taking up residence in NJ just to affect this vote. I hope my neighbors, many of whom are connoisseurs of fine dining both in NYC and at home in NJ, will take up the challenge. I hope the potential loss of jobs and loss of income from sales to NY will sway most of the NJ assembly, although Panter’s zeal seems to insulate him from both the realities of money as well as the need to be rational. I respect the former, but not the latter in a politician. Perhaps the voting public gets the elected officials it deserves. The ones I favor seem to get knocked off the ballot in the primaries and I usually get stuck with the guy I didn’t end up voting for in the end. I guess that makes me chopped liver. That’s a cruel and unethical fate.
ruhlman says:
fyi, bourdain is describing, with customary vigor, the ramifications for d’artagnan and what that means, something i didn’t address here but which is an important part of the equation, over at egullet, in (oddly) the General Food forum, http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=93642&st=0
Everyone take a deep breath.
First, a bill introduction is a far cry from bill passage. As you have already discussed, Assemblywoman Voss has introduced A-3230. It was introduced in the June. It has yet to be scheduled for a committee hearing and it does not have a Senate companion.
As all bills do, it will have to clear many hurdles before it becomes a law. There will be ample opportunity for public debate. However, now would be a good time to begin weighing with legislators and staff about the impact this legislation could have on an entire industry.
keith T says:
Yea, I’m sure it took many hurdles to clear before people were being made into soap, buttons, and put into ovens.
I’m only 1/4 threw culinary school and I’ve only recently gotten to try some foie that had been sitting under a heat lamp. I am spending more than a year apart from my wife for this, and when I’m done I don’t want some white guys in suits in air conditioning who eat well done steak and feed their kids happy meals deciding what I can cook.
I don’t want other people who think they know what’s best because they won elections deciding what the next generation can or can’t eat.
What’s next? Capping % alcohol consumption because people die in drunk driving accidents. Oh wait, they did that and people still drive under the influence. There will still be foie gras, you’ll just have to drive to Canda & get it while picking up Cuban cigars.
nick s says:
State legislatures are the fast food of politics. If one was to assemble a list of all the dumb laws proposed by state legislators across the US, it would be grim comedy. A tiny minority (I’m looking at you, Chicago) make it into law.
This isn’t to say that bills like this should be ignored; it’s sad that restaurateurs now need to be in the lobbying business. But I also think that they’re often introduced solely to provoke a response. What nonentity state legislator wouldn’t want the publicity of Bourdain or Keller gunning for him, when it would mean features in the papers or the local TV news?
I was listening to NPR yesterday (while driving, so not sure what program), and a speaker pointed out that when e-coli was found on spinach, people were told not to eat spinach, but when it was found on ground beef not so long ago, the public was instructed simple to cook their food well. It’s all about who has the power and the lobbyists in Washington.
I don’t want to take this off topic, but if I can respond to the e-coli issue, I’d note the difference in the way the consumer handles raw meat and spinach. Most consumers rarely touch the raw meat and when they do, they’re likely to wash their hands immediately. Rarely will people allow raw meat to touch the counter. If that happens, the counter is likely to be scrubbed clean quickly. Few people will immediately wash their hands after unbagging raw produce, be it spinach or other vegetable or fruit. We’ll also put the spinach down on any counter and take care only to wash off the dirt or sand. We don’t expect deadly bacteria to be present. To be more precise, the was instructed not to buy spinach, not just not to eat it because of the cross contamination risk at home. Cooked spinach is probably okay, but the trail of e-coli from contanimated spinach could be a deadly problem. In this case, it was quickly determined that contamination occurred at the source and that vast quatities had been distributed across the country. We’ve not had that wide a trail from contaminated beef, yet. For all that, you make a good point. The FDA responds better to industry concerns than to those of the consumer or small farmer. Everyone should read Michael Pollan’s “The Carnivore’s Dilemma.”
Sam Greenfield says:
Bux wrote: Everyone should read Michael Pollan’s “The Carnivore’s Dilemma.”. I think Bux actually meant, Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Or he was just making a pretty funny joke. 🙂
I’m under the weather and over medicated just enough to make errors of this sort, and not to make funny jokes. Thanks Sam. At any rate, with the spinach contamination, the problems arising from how we raise our food create a dilemma for vegetarians as well as omnivores. Of course, ethical vegetarians have always been concerned about farm labor and how they are treated.
provides some insight into how a couple of NJ legislators are thinking. Assemblywoman Joan Voss, who proposed a bill last month that would “prohibit the force feeding of ducks, geese and other poultry for the production of foie gras,” says “I don’t want to ban anything.” What kind of drugs do you have to be on to distinguish between a prohibition and a ban?
Sorry about that confusing last paragraph. Click on it and you’ll get the AP story story at dailyrecord.com.
As I indicated earlier, there are a lot of hurdles to overcome before the bill could become a law. Here is exhibit A from the Daily record (really an AP story) article Bux linked above:
The chairman of the state Assembly’s Agriculture Committee said, while he “abhors the practice,” there are no farms in New Jersey that produce foie gras.
“So at this time, I don’t think there’s any real pressing need to have the bill move forward,” said Douglas Fisher. “Obviously there are lot of issues that need to be ranked higher.”
If Assemblyman Fisher opposes the measure, he almost certainly will not post it for a vote in committee — so the bill never even clears the first hurdle.
Carl A. Monaco says:
As a big fan of D’Artagnan and a friend of Ariane I find Michael Panter a fool and certainly a man with too much time on his hands. If this is the best he can do as a member of the assembly, maybe the people of his distruct should rethink their support for him. He reminds me a lot of that other fool who was governor, Jim McGreevey.
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The family settled in New Zealand and David started to make furniture influenced by their Pacific travels. A series of chairs were made like outrigger canoes: light flexible structures fastened with string lashings held graceful canoe forms as seats. His Canoe Chair is in the entrance foyer of the New Zealand embassy in Tokyo.
At the 2001 Milan Furniture Fair, Cappellini picked up his Body Raft Lounger for manufacture. This was the start of a change in David’s business model. His role has developed from that of a local designer/maker to an internationally known designer running his own design and manufacturing business with sales all over the world.
In 2004, Trubridge was selected for the Antarctica New Zealand program, which takes two artists to the ice each year. The experience, combined with his relationship with marine life, furthered Trubridge's dedication to live in ways that support a delicate footprint. A firm believer in reuse, his studio was created out of an abandoned joinery shop in a closed meatpacking district. In 2007, Trubridge was honored with the Green Leaf Award for artistic excellence, presented by the Natural World Museum and the United Nations Environment Program.
In 2003 David began to design and manufacture lighting. The Coral Light is now recognized around the world and has created a blueprint for how they approach design. Their New Zealand location has necessitated inventive solutions of distance and freight and they began to develop kit sets of the products to address these issues.
David Trubridge, has an acute concern about transparency and environmental awareness and their lighting is both green and eco-conscious. They use sustainably sourced bamboo and avoid chemical finishes. All the coloured lights use a water-based paint made in New Zealand, and all production occurs in their studio/workshop Hawke's Bay.
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Lizard (Cosmic Gate Remix)
Komodo (Radio Edit)
Save A Soul
I'm in Heaven
Melody (Remixes)
A Call in the Club
Ayala (feat. Barny Scott) [Remixes]
Ayala (Can You Feel) [feat. Barny Scott]
All I Need Is Komodo (Pagano Mix)
All I Need Is Komodo (Radio Edit)
All I Need Is Komodo (Heartmode Mix)
Elisir of Love - Single
All Night (The Remixes) - EP
All Night (Radio Mix) - Single
Come Together (Save a Soul) [Mike Van Dee Remix] - Single
Come Together (Save a Soul) [BK Duke & Bootmasters Remix] - Single
Proximus (Edit Mix) - Single
Joga Bola (The Remixes) - Single
Retrospective Collection
Meganite: From Ibiza to Your Heart
VIP Lounge presented by Mauro Picotto
The Techno Files
Proximus ((Medley With ADIEMUS))
Appears On
Arabian Pleasure (remix) Mario Più
Veracocha
System F
Binary Finary
Jurgen Vries
About Mauro Picotto
Italian DJ/producer Mauro Picotto won substantial acclaim in the late '90s/early 2000s with a number of popular trance songs in Europe. In particular, "Komodo," "Iguana," and "Pulsar" were some of Picotto's biggest hits, not only in Italy but also in other European countries like Germany. In addition, he served as A&R and in-house producer for BXR Records, which featured a number of high-profile artists like Mario Piu. In 2001, he released The Album, which compiled many of his biggest hits. ~ Jason Birchmeier
Turin, Italy
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