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Norman Borlaug’s 1970 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech Warning Us About The Urgent Need For Population Limitation
By Donald A. Collins | 23 April 2020
(Screenshot via PBS)
Ah, today is Earth Day. I note that fact seems very slightly celebrated in the mass media so far, with little context given as to its importance. You can refresh your memory here.
Yesterday, on April 21st WETA TV here in Washington, DC ran the PBS documentary program about miracle wheat innovator Norman Borlaug, “the man who tried to feed the world” with his Green Revolution that began in the 1960’s.
This riveting tv history reminded us that he tried and briefly succeeded in his goal, but at costs that plague us today.
At his brief Nobel Prize award speech in Oslo on December 10, 1970, when in part he gave the world this warning:
It is true that the tide of the battle against hunger has changed for the better during the past three years. But tides have a way of flowing and then ebbing again.
We may be at high tide now, but ebb tide could soon set in if we become complacent and relax our efforts. For we are dealing with two opposing forces, the scientific power of food production and the biologic power of human reproduction.
Man has made amazing progress recently in his potential mastery of these two contending powers. Science, invention, and technology have given him materials and methods for increasing his food supplies substantially and sometimes spectacularly, as I hope to prove tomorrow in my first address as a newly decorated and dedicated Nobel Laureate. Man also has acquired the means to reduce the rate of human reproduction effectively and humanely. He is using his powers for increasing the rate and amount of food production. But he is not yet using adequately his potential for decreasing the rate of human reproduction. The result is that the rate of population increase exceeds the rate of increase in food production in some areas.
There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort. Fighting alone, they may win temporary skirmishes, but united they can win a decisive and lasting victory to provide food and other amenities of a progressive civilization for the benefit of all mankind.
For his work fighting world hunger, Norman Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize — but his methods drew criticism.
Tune in or Stream THE MAN WHO TRIED TO FEED THE WORLD Tue Apr 21 at 8/7c #FeedTheWorldFilmPBS → https://t.co/YJquEns9t6 pic.twitter.com/Z1BZGhCB5O
— American Experience (@AmExperiencePBS) April 16, 2020
You can read his entire speech here.
In 1970, humans worldwide numbered 3.7 billion and over 200 million in the USA, up from 2 billion in the world and 125 million in the USA when I was born in 1931.
In 1970, I was the population program staffer for a rich lady who with her sizable charitable funds urged me seek out and find aggressive family planning grantees! For that reason, I also grew to know the many enemies of population limitation!
Those NGOs I identified for family planning grants knew then that limits had to come, either gently or harshly. One key leader I met who became a close friend and colleague, Dr. Reimert T. Ravenholt, the former the Director of the Office of Population at USAID never doubted the need for population limits as did his strong political advocate and protector, General William Draper Sr. a friend of Ike’s as well as to many other key leaders. Draper who I also got to know and admire very well, died too soon in the mid 1970’s. Bill’s passing lead to Rei being ousted by the usual suspects! Before that however, Rei and I helped start Ipas, IFRP now FHI360, and several other family planning entities. At his memorable 1976 speech at a conference on adolescent fertility at Airlie House, Rei brought along a key chart showing the dangerous trend in population growth.
Rei favored abortion choice and I helped him and others fund abortion clinics throughout the USA and the world. His liberal view of choice no doubt amassed the political pressure that forced him out too early. Not however before we got Battelle Institute’s early, safe menstrual regulation abortion kits funded by starting Ipas in 1971!!! I was Ipas’s first Chair and President until 1985.
The loss of the leadership of heroes like Rei and Bill Draper Sr was severe but many others I worked with were among those who understood the population crisis and continued to believe in tackling the long-term disaster inevitable in their predictions.
Together these NGOs worked hard at promoting access to birth control, an effort attacked by religious groups here and overseas. Some liberals who favored family planning mistakenly thought development and the move of vast numbers of poor farmers to what, thanks in part to Borlaug’s green revolution, became mega cites would solve the over population problem. They could not have been more wrong.
Turns out that Borlaug’s green revolution required vast changes in his miracle wheat’s production. New cultivation machinery and vast new acres of previously unused land plus more water and powerful fertilizers were needed to achieve the increases!
Borlaug’s method for increasing food production dramatically resulted in the creation of big agriculture combines, whose automated farming with big machines cut the need for labor. This drove millions of poor small farmers worldwide into urban slums where the extolling of religious leaders against family planning or at least no urging by them to their poor parishioners to embrace birth control caused 1970 population levels to reach nearly 7 billion by 1994.
All these bad effects were well in effect when my 10 colleagues and I under the leadership of Werner Fornos, President of the Population Institute attended the UN Conference on Population and Environment in Cairo in 1994.
There in Cairo we were faced with opposition to birth control that Dr. Madeline Weld subsequently brilliantly documented in her 2012 paper. Here in part is what she and other authors wrote in an April 2012 paper published by Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics.
It has become an unwritten rule of political correctness that in order to criticize people or their ideology one must share a biological characteristic of the people being criticized. The inherent racism or sexism of this assumption is lost on those who insist upon it. Nevertheless, the rule, in all of its absurdity, persists. Good arguments are routinely dismissed not on their merits, but by the fact that they are waged by someone thought to be racially or sexually disqualified to comment on the issue. (This cannot apply here, for Madeline Weld, President of the Population Institute of Canada, is a woman, and she reproaches the fem-left for its collusion in the crippling of the Programme of Action as set out by the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo 16 years ago.)
Let me interrupt this Weld quote by noting again that in Cairo for that historic 1994 UN conference — 26 years ago — the thrust for no population control attention came of course from the top officials from the Vatican who kept my friend and FHI360 fellow board member, the chief meeting presiding Chair, Dr Fred Sai, occupied for a couple of days over their opposition to family planning and abortion. These articulate Vatican representatives had obtained front row seating as delegates along with the invited large sovereign country delegates so they could easily publicly and in side bar interludes could fully argue their case, a privilege which no other religion got.
But worse and largely unreported was the strong push by the don’t talk about the numbers because development will solve the problem crowd lead by an avid feminist with strong NYC foundation connections, Joan Dunlap, the leader of a vocal group of anti-population limitation women. She had been John D. Rockefeller III’s assistant until his death in 1973. Dunlop’s views on abortion choice and the need to reduce births with family planning, which I gleaned from several personal one on one private meetings, was contrary to mine to say the least.
To resume the Weld Ethics paper quote:
The Cairo conference and its Programme of Action were steeped in the same taboo of the feminist and social justice left that has, for the last several decades, snuffed out any serious public discussion about population growth, which had been so much a part of the early days of the environmental movement. This attitude in fact made them strange bedfellows of the Vatican and other religious interests at the Cairo conference. While not explicitly stated in the Programme of Action, it was implicitly understood that anything remotely resembling demographic targets was racist, anti-woman, anti-poor, and flirting with eugenics.
Putting the Development Cart before the Population Horse
With the ‘P’ sidelined by ICPD’s refusal to countenance population control, the emphasis for a path out of poverty fell on the ‘D.’ It was assumed that development would lead to a reduction in population growth. Poverty would be eradicated ‘through sustained economic growth in the context of sustainable development.’ The Programme of Action implicitly assumed that the Earth would support this sustained economic growth along with the rapid population growth that was inevitably going to occur for some time. Population growth would be slowed through ‘education, especially for girls; gender equity and equality; infant, child, and maternal mortality reduction; universal access to reproductive health services, including family planning and sexual health’ (UNFPA 1995a, Preamble, paragraph 1.12).
The wishful thinking that the indirect effects of development alone can overcome the problems created by rampant population growth is based on the belief in a silver bullet known as demographic transition. The idea is that parents have fewer children when they see that those they have are likely to survive, and, at the same time, with increasing rural to urban migration, they realize that children cost money rather than provide free labour. The trouble with the demographic transition theory is that it is treated like a law of physics when in fact it is only one of many possibilities. A major problem is the slowness at which it kicks in. The lag time between the child mortality rate falling and the desired family size also dropping can be very long indeed. In western and middle sub-Saharan Africa, the desired family size is still 6 children.
I strongly suggest you read this entire powerful indictment document here.
No real surprise that serious diseases as SARS or Ebola, or now Coronavirus begin in such crowded, often poor places. This is exactly what many people concerned with the proliferation of human numbers have been predicting for decades.
Borlaug’s wise advice should continue to challenge us into urgent action to insure birth control supplies and early access for young women to education.
Unfortunately, this urgent call has yet seemingly been unheard by the “sustainable growth” crowd which includes businesses large and small pontificated over with great big salty tears, but no repentance, symbolized on this past Easter Sunday by the lone figure of Pope Paul as he walked through those mostly empty ornate Vatican spaces!
Yes, Folks, we are there at planetary limits of which Global Warming is but a part.
With this Coronavirus crisis the public is fortunate to have such credible voices such Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx stating the need for more tests so we have the data we need to gainsay the extent of the pandemic. Presumably opening our world economy fully will take more time than is being forecasted by most political leaders.
The true irony is the fact that we are more than THERE in terms of acceptable human numbers. The world will have 8 billion people by 2025 and the US population is now 329 million plus some 12 million here illegally.
That means we are way beyond any relatively easy fixes such as could have happened had we harkened Dr. Borlaug’s advice at his Nobel speech in 1970.
Humans now number nearly 8 billion with experts predicting 10 billion by 2050. The fragility of so many people is demonstrated dramatically by the never before worldwide phenomenon of the COVID/-19 pandemic. While interrupting all our lives and already punishing so many with painful deaths, Covid-19 will doubtless, before it runs its course, deeply affect the businesses and employment of all of us survivors here in rich USA and likely a higher percentage around the planet.
Yet still there I have not heard of any major world leader recognizing that these dire circumstances are population growth related, as in 1970 Borlaug predicted they surely would be.
Where is the fervent call for all of us to understand that the reduction our human numbers is based on the now urgently irrefutable fact that endless growth on a limited planet is the path to massive suicide for all living creatures and all living things over our entire precious orb! As noted earlier, the widely touted dangers of global warming can be related directly to our human impact on our environment.
“You can’t build peace on empty stomachs.” Norman Borlaug, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize.
Jane Goodall @ Population Matters Conference 2019
Final Warning Limits to Growth
The Threat of Overpopulation
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Working from home due to COVID-19? You likely qualify for a brand new tax deduction of up to $400
Next year’s tax filing season just got a little less complicated for Canadians who found themselves working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
One of the many announcements in Monday’s fiscal update was a work-from-home personal tax deduction of up to $ 400 for employees who have incurred “modest expenses” in 2020 due to remote working.
Here’s how that works, who it will benefit, and what else you need to know before next year’s tax season.
To qualify
To qualify for the $ 400 deduction, you must have been working from home because of COVID-19, said Josée Cabral, a senior tax expert with H&R Block. This means the deduction won’t apply if you were already working from home when the pandemic hit, or if you were working from home for reasons other than the pandemic.
As well, the deduction is up to $ 400, depending on the amount of time you worked from home, she added.
This is the biggest announcement in the fiscal update from a personal tax point of view, said Cabral, noting that more details are expected in the coming weeks about the deduction.
Cabral said the word “reasonable” will be key when claiming work expenses — not only do you have to make sure you’re claiming eligible expenses like internet, you need to consider what percentage of each expense you can claim.
No receipts
Janet Gray, an Ottawa-based certified financial planner with national firm Money Coaches Canada, said the $ 400 deduction will significantly streamline the tax season for both accountants and their clients — it doesn’t require receipts or proof of expenses, nor does it require the T2200 form from your employer.
Gray said it’s important to note that a tax deduction is not the same as a credit: a deduction reduces your taxable income, in this case by up to $ 400, while a credit reduces the actual tax you owe.
This could drop you into a lower tax bracket, she added, which would have an impact on your tax rate.
Brian Quinlan, partner at Campbell Lawless LLP, said the deduction is likely meant to make the tax process easier for anyone with minimal work-from-home costs, as well as for the government.
Those with higher costs will need to make sure their employer completes a T2200 form, he said, which does require receipts or other proof of expenses.
Prepare to pay
Quinlan cautioned that anyone who has received a COVID-19 benefit this year, be it the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) or one of the three temporary benefits, needs to prepare for a bigger tax bill than usual. CERB wasn’t taxed at the source, so you’ll owe tax on that, and the emergency benefits are only taxed 10 per cent at the source, so if your tax rate is higher than 10 per cent, you’ll still owe more on those benefits as well.
If you received the Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB) and your total income (minus the CRB) is more than $ 38,000, you’ll have to pay 50 cents of each CRB dollar back for every dollar of income over that limit.
Monday’s update also included an almost 20-per-cent bump to the Canada Child Benefit, which will provide up to $ 1,200 for every child younger than six, beginning next year. It also announced an expansion to the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive for buyers in Toronto, Vancouver and Victoria. As well, the government plans to offer grants of up to $ 5,000 for homeowners making energy-efficient improvements to their homes, with eligibility retroactive to Dec. 1, 2020.
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World’s first SD855 smartphone benchmarks kill the competition
When Qualcomm announced the new Snapdragon 855 last month, they promised that the new 7nm chip would be significantly more powerful than the Snapdragon 845 and would also give Huawei’s Kirin 980 and Apple A12 a run for their money. While it’s easy to get excited about claims like that, we’ve been waiting for some real-world numbers to back them up. Thanks to today’s unveiling of the Lenovo Z5 Pro GT which is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 SoC, we can now get a better look at howmuch more powerful Qualcomm’s new chip actually is. During the Z Pro GT’s unveiling, Lenovo shared some numbers, revealing that the phone managed to score a mind-boggling 368,480 points onAntutu. When compared to the Antutu benchmark numbers of the iPhone XS, the Lenovo Z Pro GT has a 3-5% performance advantage. But that gap grows to 20% when matched up against devices running the Kirin 980 and there’s an astounding 25% gap when you look at devices running the Snapdragon 845. To be fair, the Lenovo Z5 Pro GT’s Antutu benchmark numbers area little skewed since the benchmarked device was equipped with 12GB of RAM. By removing the RAM “advantage” that the phone has over its competitors, Antutubelieves that the phone would still manage a score in the 360,000 point range. Even with this drop, the Lenovo Z5 Pro GT is still the most powerful smartphone to be benchmarked by Antutu and should give us a good baseline for how other Android smartphones running the Snapdragon 855 should perform. For those who don’t know, a leaked Antutu benchmark score for the upcoming Samsung GalaxyS10 surfaced recently with a score of 343,051. Since the device isn’t expected to make its debut for at least two more months, those scores couldeasily reach 360,000 as the software is finalized and performance optimizationsare made. While few of you will likely be buying the new Lenovo Z5 ProGT, the performance numbers we’re seeing from the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 lookpromising. The new chipset will deliver incredibly powerful smartphones in 2019 and the new 7nm manufacturing process will also give those devices improved battery life. What’s your take on the performance of the new Snapdragon 855? Do you think it’ll be worth upgrading from a high-end 2018 smartphone to one running a SD855 in 2019? Share your thoughts in the comments.
source: https://phandroid.com/2018/12/18/worlds-first-sd855-smartphone-benchmarks-kill-the-competition/
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Book: Speak No Evil, by Martyn Waites (U.S. 2010)
Bad Vince. You know not to jump into a series in the middle. But sometimes these things can’t be helped. And the praise Martyn Waites has received made the leap worth the risk.
In the fourth novel about Joe Donovan, the journalist turned private eye lands an assignment that draws on his former profession. He’s asked to collaborate on a book with Anne Marie Smeaton, who decades earlier killed a child when she was but a child herself. Anne Marie has a son of her own now and is trying to make something of her life. But stirring up the past is awakening impulses that she can’t control, leading her to fear the worst when a teenager is murdered on her housing estate and she wakes up with blood on her hands and no memory of where it came from.
Speak No Evil, need it be said, is a dark book. It’s also an ambitious one, with multiple plotlines and a host of viewpoint characters. (Several of them are adolescents, whose rage, awkwardness and curiosity Waites depicts with unstinting honesty.) No doubt I’d have gotten more out of the book had I read the previous novels about Donovan and his compatriots at the Albion agency. Donovan’s young son has disappeared, his relationship with the rest of his family is strained, and there’s fallout from his previous cases to deal with. But Waites weaves the material in smartly so that newcomers can keep up. The greater measure of his skill is the compassion he engenders for Anne Marie, a woman who has been denied such mercy anywhere she goes. Speak No Evil is strong stuff that goes down smooth.
DVD: New York Confidential (1955)
Miscellaneous: Kodachrome and Kon
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Book: Beast of Burden, by Ray Banks (2009, U.S. 2011)
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Book: The Cold Kiss, by John Rector (2010)
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Cocktail of the Week: The French 75
I’ve told this story before. I’m telling it again. It’s not like you’re paying for this.
Scene: Prescription Cocktail Club, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, July 2011
Dramatis Personae: Vince, a dashing American abroad
Rosemarie, his lovely wife
Sullivan, a far more dashing French bartender
Vince: Didn’t you want to have a glass of champagne or a champagne cocktail? This would be the place.
Rosemarie: I want to order a French 75. But do they call it that here? Maybe it’s just a 75.
Me: Huh. I never thought of that.
Sullivan: What else can I get you?
Rosemarie: Could you recommend a champagne cocktail?
Sullivan: Of course. A French 75?
Rosemarie: That would be perfect.
The French 75’s name is derived from the Canon de 75 modèle 1897 (or M1897) 75-mm light field artillery gun. A lethal piece of weaponry that could, with the right personnel, briefly fire up to 30 rounds per minute, it was used by the French army and the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. Called the “Soixante Quinze” (“75”) en Français, the gun loaned its name to the cocktail because that’s how hard the drink hits you.
This much we know is true. The rest is what that French call une zone grise.
Histoire. We know that Harry’s New York Bar, Paris put the French 75 on the map, and that the Stork Club in New York made its name Stateside. But where did the drink come from before Harry’s? In Classic Cocktails, legendary London bartender Salvatore Calabrese says that Harry MacElhone took the “75 Cocktail” made with gin and lemon served at Henry’s Bar, Paris and augmented it with champagne. Other experts note that the 1919 edition of Harry’s ABC of Mixing Cocktails credits an English bartender with the recipe. Insert Gallic shrug here.
Ingrédients. The champagne’s not the question. It’s the other spirit. The early recipes all say gin. But along comes David Embury’s The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks first insisting on cognac, then uncorking this whopper: “Gin is sometimes used in place of cognac in this drink, but then, of course, it no longer should be called French.” The estimable Gary ‘Gaz’ Regan ventures that no one had heard of a brandy version until Embury suggested one, leading to great confusion in the land. Patrick Gavin Duffy’s Official Mixer’s Manual achieves détente by offering a range of options. A French 75 is made with gin, a French 95 with bourbon (and orange juice, according to Dale DeGroff), a French 125 with brandy. I say stick with the original: gin, lemon juice, sugar, champers.
Verrerie. You’d think glassware would be the easy part, but no, that’s got to be a bone of contention, too. Many recipes call for the French 75 to be served in a Collins glass with ice. Some, God help us, even call for straws. Maybe it’s how I was raised, but I refuse to drink champagne with a straw. I’ve also seen the drink poured into a standard cocktail coupe. My rule is simple: if there’s bubbly involved, it goes in a flute. More beverages should be drunk from flutes. Perhaps this choice might result in less champagne, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. You want the gin’s presence to be felt, after all.
½ oz. simple syrup
several ozs. champagne
Combine the first three ingredients. Shake. Pour into a champagne flute. Top with champagne. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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PHD #203: Burning Locker of Fire
IC Timeline » Roleplay Logs » Season 2: The Widening Gyre » PHD #203: Burning Locker of Fire
Burning Locker of Fire
Summary: A vandal strikes the Enlisted Berthings, namely, Sofia's locker.
Date: 17 Sept 2041 AE
Related Logs: Cylon Lovers stuff
Enlisted Berths
Rows and rows of bunks run along the outside and center of this room which is quite a bit larger than the Officers' Berths. With multiple hatch entrances to different sections of this area, the complex has spaces for armored doors similar to the ones on the Hangar Deck that can lower in case of fire or depressurization. Tables are set up along the spaces between the bunks and lockers divide each over-under sleeping area. Each bunk is a standard military size and has a deep blue curtain to seal in some privacy for the occupant.
Leave the fancy brass to the high and mighty officers. The enlisted men and women of Cerberus are the ones who really make this great ship hum, and tonight they finally have an opportunity to kick back and enjoy the fruits of their labors. With the help of crewmen from the escort carrier Areion — who didn't volunteer but instead were voluntold — repairs to the battlestar are, for once, ahead of schedule. No surprise, then, that Captain Gabrieli gave his damage control crews the benefit of a one-night furlough: the functional equivalent of unleashing a wrecking ball on the unfortunate enlisted berths.
By now, the party's cleared up: oh-dark-hundred in the morning and only a few souls are stirring. A drunk petty officer is passed out two feet from his bunk, having fallen asleep en route; a pair of lovebirds are necking rather loudly on one of the room's larger tables. Plastic cups are strewn around the floor, some still filled with moonshine left over from Monday's meet-and-greet, and a trail of vomit leads from a ring of six upturned chairs into the head to aft.
And for one night only, a blind eye shall be turned.
Woo! Repairs ahead of schedule. Sofia yawns, chilling out on her bunker. She didn't party much after her run in with her first ever hangover. She winces at the lovebirds and the trail oof barf. Ew. She just kind of curls up and tries to pull her blanket over her head so the smell doesn't waft over.
At first, all that's audible is the squelching of lips and tongues pressing together with abandon — but even as Sofia moves to draw the blanket over her head, she hears something that most definitely did not come from the crewmen sharing a very public tryst. It's a rattle — like the sound of ball bearings clicking and clacking in a busted pair of rollerblades, perhaps, or the sound of a locked door being pulled and pulled again.
Crewmen need love too. Unhf. Hey wait. Sofia pauses at that noise. She furrows her brows, trying desperately to ignore the noise and tempation to throw a shoe at the lovebirds. "The hey?" She leans over to go see if she can find out where the rattling is coming from. "Making out is bad enough…" But this is either out and out frakkin' or - something. Maybe someone REALLY likes doors?
There weren't any roller derby girls at the party, last time Sofia checked, so by simple process of elimination, the noise must be coming from somebody trying to bust up a door. A second later, her bleary eyes confirm her hypothesis: there's a figure crouched in front of a row of lockers, a figure that's so busy cracking the combination to one in particular that it doesn't notice the soft swish of a curtain sliding open. And that locker? It belongs, of course, to to one Sofia Wolfe.
Right. Though, Fiona might be able to give one a run for their cubits. Regardless- Sofia rubs her eyes and blinks. Um. Maybe they're drunk and confused? "Um. Pardon me?" She asks the figure, curious, cautious. She's willing to give them the benefit of the doubt - at least half the room is so drunk finding one's pants is a Sisyphean exercise. She sits up and lets her legs dangle a moment.
Sofia earns no response: the safe having been cracked, the figure's withdrawing a can of spray paint from its large and bulky sweater, priming the bottle by shaking it up and down without regard for the other occupants of this particular collection of bunks. One flick, two flicks, three flicks — and then the figure is letting loose, paintaing angry red letters onto the neat and well-organized interior.
What the! "Hey!" Now it's serious. She pouts. Sofia spent ages cleaning and organizing. "What the frak are you doing!" That's HER stuff and - there's rage, surprise and - general wtfery. She looks startled.
Sofia's belongings will suffer one final indignity before the night is out. Even as the woman's voice rings out, the vandal has covered all four of her precious books in bright red paint, and now he — or she — ditches the bottle in favor of a —
Holy shit. That's really a lighter. And any engineer worth her salt will know what happens when mist from a spray can meets an open flame…
Two choices, Sofia. Douse that fire or go after the sweater-clad figure now sprinting for the hatch.
Oh. Oh FRAK. Sofia screams, almost reflexively. Fire. Fire bad. Fire bad for raesons Sofia /really can't remember/ but there's some deeply buried fear and loathing and oh gods. She hesitates. There's a temptation to beat the hell out of the sweater clad figure if she can catch them. But then there's a load of books on fire. Choices, choices. Well, the hatch - yeah, time to douse that fire. Sofia's gonna try to put it out. For the sake of the others. "Stop that person! He's setting fires!" As if any of the drunks would be any use but it's worth a shot?
"What?" The dreamy-eyed guy looks up from the flushed face of his lover, palms pressing down against the table to avoid putting too much weight on the poor woman beneath him — and then, suddenly, he's bolting up toward the nearest fire extinguisher, staggering forward as he tries to get his balance. He needn't have bothered. A half-second later, the shipboard klaxons sound that most terrifying of alarms, and a second after that, the man's partner has gotten on the nearest intercom to raise the call:
"Fire! Fire in the enlisted berths!"
And the vandal, of course, doesn't stick around to see it.
"Someone set my locker on fire-" Sofia jerks her head towards the hatch. She looks annoyed that the vandal got away, but such is life. She moves to grab the extinguisher and start putting out the fire. Her /stuff/. There's words, and angers and fears and frustrations. What kind of stupid prank is this? There's a lot churning and it feels like she swallowed a stone. Gods. It takes several moments for her to put it out, several puffs of carbon dioxide ensuing. Brains are funny. Things seem to slow down when one is in a panic. Is it so one doesn't screw up at a vital moment? Who knows? A cruel twist of the knife so that moment when one realizes they screwed themselves over /really/ sinks in? Either way.
Thankfully for Sofia — and the majority of her stuff — the first emergency team to arrive is made up of those enlisted folk who did the responsible thing and avoided this golden opportunity to get beautifully shitfaced. With the help of their extinguishers, the blaze is put out with relative ease: no kitchen fire, this little thing. Her clothes are saved — but alas, the books are beyond repair, having been painted over, burned, and then doused in so many streams of chemicals.
And the locker itself? Scorched, sure, but otherwise undamaged — save for the words 'CYLON LOVER' painted in massive capital letters over the mirror on the door.
"Arson," a grim-faced deckhand declares, setting her fire extinguisher down in disbelief.
"Gods," her buddy whispers, turning to skewer Sofia with his cool grey eyes. "What the frak did you do?"
Phew. Sofia takes a deep breath. She looks sad, realizing her books are gone. Books from Aquaria. Never again. Her eyes are wide, horrified. There's water gathering dangerously in them. She bites her lower lip hard. If only the place wasn't full of drunks. "Who would do this…" Who did she anger? She grits her teeth a little. She swallows hard. "N-nothing. I am friends with the deck crew, if it's Coll they think of. But … would someone /really/ believe a random - Agh. No." She shakes her head. "Nothing. I haven't done /anything/," She curls her fingers hard into her palms.
So there show up two very non-MP looking Marines. Why don't they look like MPs? Well, they're both dressed in their black BDUs, weapons slung on their back. And the leader, Corporal Lucius Decumius, has his mouth hanging open as he enters the room, nose twitching at the smell of burning. "Frak. This is… frakked." His companion, one of the other guys who came up from 3/4 Marines Recon with him, is just as exasperated looking.
Silence reigns for a few seconds as the DC crew unwinds, the adrenaline rush fading; then, as the MPs arrive — or not-MPs, as the case may be — they do what all enlisted folk do when confronted with events beyond their control.
"Yeah," the female deckie murmurs at length. It's an answer to Sofia and Decumius both: noncommittal in every way. "Don't get paid for this bullshit. Pryce, incident report is yours."
"Uh-huh." The large man's eyes don't leave the words on Sofia's locker as he backs away slowly. For this just might be the buzzkill to end all buzzkills.
"Yeah, and thanks for the help while the guy ran out," Sofia replies, mood considerably soured. She huffs softly. She rubs the back of her head. She shakes her head. Her books. She almost wants to cry. She does want to cry. She looks to the Marines. "Well." Well. What?
"Anyone who was in here isn't going anywhere." Decumius comes to his senses rather quickly, a frown pursing his lips. "I'm taking statements from every single one of you. And until we determine exactly what happened, nobody touches /anything/." He looks from person to person, pausing to give a sympathetic look to Sofia quickly before he booms to them all, "Understood?"
Sofia sighs and looks to Decumius. There's a lot of mingled emotions. She shakes her head. "If only I wasn't the only one not making out or sober," Sigh. She just puts her face in her palms. "Understood." She looks back to her locker.
"Sorry, you're gonna have to explain this to me, Wolfe. I was asleep until my shift, which started half an hour ago. Then I came here. Who was drunk, and what was happening? I need the whole story." Decumius looks around, quickly, taking his helmet off. He motions over to a corner of the room, as far from the burnt items as he can get. Not far, given the circumstances, but anyways. And he moves there. "Please, sit down. Breathe. And tell me the whole story, please."
By the door, Lance Corporal Koersen is busy talking to the other folks who were present. He's got a sour look on his face and a notepad in his hand that he's busy scribbling in.
"Um. Watch out for that vomit trail," Sofia points. There's trail of vomit from a ring of upturned chairs into the head to aft. She sighs and moves over. "Sorry. I'm-" Not in a good mood. "I guess I can't blame people for sitting even after I yelled. I - okay. So everyone'd been partying since we had a night off I guess. Anyway, I start pulling my curtain and blanket because frankly I don't wanna hear people making out or going farther," She explains. "I mean, if you wanna do that - whatev." Shrug. Drunk is drunk, "So I hear this rattling and something like a door being forced open. I poke my head out and someone is trying to open my locker. Guess they got it eventually because then they start spraypainting things." Sigh. "Make sense so far?"
Decumius has his own notepad out and is writing down some obviously key points, looking down at the paper and then back up to Sofia periodically. He nods at the crewman. "Yep. Please, go on."
Sigh. Sofia nods, "Well, I yelled at them. Didn't stop. Then they pulled a lighter - I can't tell if it was a boy or a girl, but they had on a sweater." Frown. "No one was able to stop them I guess." Or too *ahem* busy. "I screamed. But I guess that seemed like something someone drunk might do?" A shrug. "Anyway, I noticed the lighter and they torched my books. I had a choice of either grabbing the guy or putting the fire out, so I put the fire out. I dunno if it was right, but frakkin' drunk or making out or not, no one deserved to burn alive if it spread," Sofia bites her lower lip.
Decumius nods at the doubt that Sofia expresses, putting a hand on her shoulder. He's trying to be comforting, it seems. "Yes. That was the right thing to do. Fire in a confined space is priority. Especially on a ship, and especially in a berth. So, this guy ran out as you were putting the fire out? Did you catch any other glance at him?"
Sofia smiles faintly at the hand on her shoulder. "I appreciate the sympathy," She remarks quietly. "Just-" Her rep's probably toast, with the letters 'CYLON LOVER' spraypainted neatly on her locker. "Those books were from home and now everyone's looking at me funny…" Then a headshake. "No. I tried. I even called for help but again-" Load of drunks and the two lovebirds. Yeah. She seems relieved that she choose wisely in terms of fire vs. tackling dude. "Yeah, they bolted once the fire was going. Guess they heard me yelling and didn't want to stick around, you know?" She shrugs. "Oh well." What's done is done. Now there's sadness and fear.
"Alright. Well, for now, if that's all you can remember, here's what I want you to do. We're cordoning off this room, it's now a crime scene. Grab your blanket and whatever sleeping kit you need, as long as it's not in the locker, and you can head up to the security office. I'll radio ahead and have the duty officer prep for you a room. Probably in the guest rooms." Decumius says, his fingers and pen jotting down a final few things before the pad gets tucked away in a pocket. He looks dour.
Lance Corporal Koersen, meanwhile, is still taking witness statements. Upon overhearing Decumius, though, he begins to order the same - everyone woken, and sent up to berthings. He approaches Decumius and leans in to whisper something to him.
Decumius nods and whispers back.
Koersen moves to tell the other folks where their new berths are. These happen to be seperate from where Sofia will be sleeping.
Sads. "Not even any of my clothes? Alright," Sofia nods, accepting. It's not easy to find clothes … tailored to her, but she seems to accept it. "Thank you," She murmurs. "I'm really sorry…" She seems gloomy, but what can be done. "I wish I could tell you more, I was just about to go to sleep." Good thing she hadn't, one supposes. She takes a deep breath, gathering her pillow, blanket and sleeping kit. She looks to the Decu, though there is some curiousity and worry. "Well… might be kinda cool to get a room," Look on the bright side.
"Sorry. You'll get your stuff back when we've done thorough investigation. I'll make sure the duty officer knows you need a fresh shower and toiletry kit up there. You'll be comfortable, don't worry." Says Decumius, reassuringly. He gets up, and nods at Lance Corporal Koersen.
Koersen calls up the duty officer over a small handheld wireless set, and informs him of the details.
Decumius glances at Sofia. "Off you go now. Don't take it to heart, it's probably random, drunken violence."
"…" Sofia looks worried about leaving her worldly possessions behind. "Yeah, sure," She doesn't seem to believe that last line. She doesn't fuss though, a friendship with some of the MPs keeping her a meek sort. She pauses. She shuffles her blanket a little. There's a sketchbook nestled within the blankets. Kid sleeps with a sketchbook? Odd Snipe is odd. "Thanks."
Decumius smiles genuinely at Sofia, waiting for her and the others to vacate the room.
Sofia just sort of half smiles weakly back. It's not really anyone's fault, she's just really rattled by what happened. Even a little fearful. She will step out then, clinging to what she's allowed to take.
Decumius puts his head in his hands for a moment, before composing himself. He locks the hatch door. "Frak me. This is gay."
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Notch signaling is an evolutionary conserved cell-cell communication pathway
Notch signaling is an evolutionary conserved cell-cell communication pathway. precursor cell specificationGreenwald, 1998(Zebrafish)Notch 1, 2 Delta A, B, C, D Jagged 1, 2Somitogenesis, artery and vein specificationLawson MUT056399 et al., 2001; Venzin and Oates, 2019(chicken)Notch 1, 2 Delta-like 1, 4 Jagged/Serrate 1, 2Inner ear developmentNeves et al., 2013(house mouse)Notch 1, 2, 3, 4 Delta 1, 3, 4 Jagged 1, 2Inner ear development, vascular easy muscle cell developmentBray, 2016; Sj?qvist and Andersson, 2019is treated as a continuous variable that obeys an ODE of the form: represents any biochemical process that regulates the production of is the basal transcription rate in absence of NICD, is a threshold concentration of NICD, is a fold-change and is a coefficient that regulates how steeply MUT056399 transcription changes as a function of NICD. At low NICD (NICD?can represents a receptor or ligand that binds to another ligand/receptor and degrades after NICD release. This is often modeled with a chemical reaction term, thus Degr = + represents the concentration (or copy number) of a ligand or receptor that binds to is the ligand-receptor binding rate constant. Therefore, a network of interacting biochemical species or genes, such as the intracellular signaling network sketched in Physique 2B, can be described by a collection of variables (ODEs of the form of Eq. 1. In such system of equations, the production term for (due to interactions with all other species in the network. It is worth mentioning that biochemical and gene regulatory networks are sometimes modeled with Boolean, rather than continuous, factors. A Boolean adjustable can only believe two expresses = 0, 1 matching to a dynamic or inactive chemical substance types/gene, respectively. At any moment, the state of the variable (factors connected together regarding to a pre-defined guideline, such as flexible springs (Du et al., 2015). As a result, the motion of the connected membrane factors defines the quantity occupied with a cell. In the framework of Notch signaling, off-lattice model have to include ligand-receptor binding between neighbours further. Stopka et al. (2019) lately created an off-lattice, multicell style of Notch signaling where membrane factors of neighboring cells talk about adhesion junctions (modeled as flexible springs). Therefore, the amount of distributed junctions between neighbours modulates the quantity of signaling between cells (Stopka et al., 2019). In both agent-based and away lattice models, the signaling dynamics within each cell could be described by a couple of ODEs still. One essential difference is certainly that static lattice versions assume set cell volumes; as a result, molecule focus and duplicate amount are comparative descriptions. Conversely, Agent-based and off-lattice models allow changes in cell volume, thus requiring adjustment of molecular concentrations. Spatiotemporal Patterning Guided by Notch Signaling In this section, we review experimental systems that exemplify two well-known patterning mechanisms enabled by Notch signaling: lateral inhibition and lateral induction. While lateral inhibition promotes opposite cell fates via biochemical unfavorable feedbacks between the Notch receptor and Delta ligands, lateral induction promotes comparable cell fates by positive feedback between Notch and Jagged ligands. Moreover, we MUT056399 review mathematical models that elucidate these patterning mechanisms on idealized, ordered lattices. Experiments and theoretical models help decoding the emergent outcomes of interactions between lateral inhibition and lateral induction mechanisms; specifically, we examine three biological processes that exhibit various degrees of patterning: angiogenesis, inner ear development and epithelial-mesenchymal transition in cancer metastasis. Lastly, we discuss temporal oscillations of Notch observed during somitogenesis as an example of spatiotemporal patterning. Biochemical Mechanisms of Lateral Inhibition and Lateral Induction Historically, Notch MUT056399 signaling has been first characterized in as a mechanism that induces opposite cell fates among nearest neighbors (Heitzler and Simpson, 1991; Celis and de Garcia-Bellido, 1994; Celis and de Bray, 1997; Huppert et al., 1997; Simpson, 1997; Buceta et al., 2007). The establishment of divergent phenotypes among two neighboring cells, or lateral inhibition, relies on binding of the Notch receptor to ligands of the Delta-like family (Delta in Drosophila; Dll1, Dll3 and Dll4 in mammals C see Table 1) presented at the cell surface of a neighboring cell Rabbit Polyclonal to mGluR2/3 (Bray, 2006; Andersson et al., 2011). Upon engaging of Delta with the transmembrane Notch receptor, the intracellular domain name of Notch (NICD) is usually cleaved by enzymes and translocates to the cell nucleus. Here, NICD activates Hey/Hes1, which in turn inhibits Delta (Shimojo et al., 2011; Bray, 2016; Sj?qvist and Andersson, 2019; Physique 3A). This unfavorable feedback amplifies.
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Supplementary MaterialsSupplementary Numbers. cancerous cells and peripheral plasma of ICC individuals than in regular regulates (p<0.05). Furthermore, hsa-miR-27a-3p was discovered to be considerably upregulated in the tumor cells and peripheral plasma of ICC individuals (p<0.05). In comparison to regular controls, the manifestation of Benefits1 mRNA was considerably downregulated in ICC individual cancer cells (p<0.05) however, not in peripheral plasma (p>0.05). Furthermore, ROC evaluation exposed that RP11-328K4.1, hsa-miR-27a-3p, and Benefits1 had significant diagnostic worth in ICC. We figured the upregulation of lncRNA RP11-328K4.1, which can become a miRNA sponge, exerts an antitumor impact in ICC through the elimination of the inhibition of Rabbit Polyclonal to GTPBP2 Benefits1 mRNA manifestation by oncogenic miRNA hsa-miR-27a. and and and promotes proliferation, migration, and invasion of CRC cells by activating the Wnt/-catenin pathway via focusing on the downstream gene RXR. Consequently, miR-27a-3p is known as to be always a prognostic biomarker and/or a potential restorative focus on for CRC individuals. Li L et al. [43] verified that miR-27a-3p was upregulated in nasopharyngeal carcinoma also. Mechanistic research show that miR-27a-3p promotes the proliferation, migration, and invasion of nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells by straight inhibiting the 3 untranslated area (3-UTR) of Mapk103. Wang WS et al. [44] verified that the manifestation of miR-27a-3p was considerably improved in the peripheral bloodstream of individuals with pancreatic tumor which its manifestation level can efficiently distinguish between pancreatic tumor, harmless pancreatic disease, and healthful topics. Our bioinformatic evaluation and experimental validation of miR-27a-3p in ICC are in keeping with the above outcomes, confirming the high manifestation of miR-27a-3p in the tumor cells and peripheral bloodstream of ICC individuals, recommending that miR-27a-3p might turn into a potential prognostic and prognostic biomarker and restorative focus on for ICC individuals. The system and design of miR-27a-3p manifestation to advertise carcinogenesis in the above-described tumors act like the findings with this research on ICC; all the observed effects rely on the actions of miR-27a-3p on downstream mRNA to trigger corresponding pathway adjustments. Subsequently, these data support the medical character of our method of learning the pathogenesis of ICC by creating ceRNETs. Nevertheless, Zhao N et al. [45] recommended how the manifestation miR-27a-3p can be downregulated in tumor cell and cells lines of HCC, which is connected with early metastasis of HCC significantly. Mechanistic research have shown how the elevated manifestation of miR-27a-3p can inhibit metastasis and angiogenesis by straight focusing on a vasculogenic mimicry-associated cadherin (VE-cadherin), performing like a tumor suppressor gene thereby. That is inconsistent using the manifestation trend and part of miR-27a-3p in other styles of tumors and our results in ICC, indicating the universality of tumor heterogeneity and various systems of pathogenesis and natural behavior in various malignancies. The inconsistent manifestation level and part of miR-27a-3p in HCC and ICC tumor F1063-0967 cells make it useful in medical practice of hepatic medical procedures. It is because the early medical manifestations, tumor markers and imaging symptoms between ICC and HCC aren’t specific, leading to great problems in differentiating between HCC and ICC during analysis, which includes been problematic for hepatic cosmetic surgeons for a long period. The comparison from the above outcomes F1063-0967 shows that, through additional basic tests and medical validation, miR-27a-3p is a potentially handy biomarker for the first differentiation of ICC and HCC during analysis in the foreseeable future. At present, there’s a relative insufficient studies about the partnership between cancer and PROS1. A lot of the scholarly F1063-0967 research had been limited by the experimental study level, missing validation of its clinical prognostic and diagnostic capacities. Che Mat M et al. [46] demonstrated that the manifestation of Benefits1 was considerably improved in pleomorphic glioblastoma which silencing the manifestation of Benefits1 could efficiently decrease the activity of pleomorphic malignant glioblastoma cells, inhibiting their proliferation, migration, and invasion and inducing apoptosis. The same phenomenon was within castrated prostate cancer cells also. Saraon P et al. [47] demonstrated how the addition from the purified human being Benefits1 gene considerably improved the migration capability of the cells, which can be inconsistent with this findings. Inside our research, we display that Benefits1 mRNA can be reduced in tumor cells and peripheral plasma of ICC individuals considerably, that might are likely involved like a tumor suppressor gene in ICC. The Benefits1 gene encodes a supplement K-dependent plasma proteins, proteins S (PS), which can be an important anticoagulant and a multifunctional proteins. Too little PS could cause anticoagulant system disorder, resulting in the formation.
Supplementary MaterialsAdditional document 1: Physique S1
Supplementary MaterialsAdditional document 1: Physique S1. used to make statistical comparisons). 12935_2019_873_MOESM1_ESM.pdf (141K) GUID:?8DC89154-3D16-45AD-BFFB-BB77565A1EDB Data Availability StatementNot applicable. Abstract Background Lymphoma is one of the most common hematologic malignancy. Drug resistance is the main obstacle confronted in lymphoma treatment. Malignancy stem cells are considered as the source of tumor recurrence, metastasis and drug resistance. The -Asarone, a low-toxicity compound from the traditional medical plant em Acorus calamus /em , has been shown to act as an anti-cancer reagent in various cancer types. However, the anti-cancer activities of -Asarone in lymphoma have not been shown. Methods Cell counting assay was used to evaluate Raji cell proliferation. CCK8 assay was used to evaluate the cell viability. Annexin-V/PI staining and circulation cytometry analysis were used to evaluate apoptosis. ALDEFLUOR assay was used to evaluate the stem-like people. Luciferase reporter assay was utilized to examine the activation of NF-B signaling. Traditional western blot and polymerase string reaction (PCR) had been used to look for the appearance of interested genes. Outcomes We demonstrated that -Asarone inhibited proliferation and induced apoptosis in Raji lymphoma cells within a dose-dependent way. Additionally, -Asarone functioned being a sensitizer of doxorubicin and led to synergistic results on inhibition of proliferation and induction of apoptosis when coupled with doxorubicin treatment. Oddly enough, that -Asarone was discovered by us also decreased the stem-like people of Raji lymphoma cells within a dose-dependent way, and suppressed the appearance of c-Myc and Bmi1. Significantly, -Asarone abolished doxorubicin-induced enrichment from the stem-like people. In the system study, we uncovered that -Asarone suppressed not merely basal NF-B activity but also Tumor necrosis aspect (TNF-) induced NF-B activity. Furthermore, preventing NF-B signaling inactivation was crucial for -Asarone induced inhibition and apoptosis of proliferation, however, not for the result on -Asarone decreased stem-like people. Actually, -Asarone suppressed stem-like people by destabilizing Bmi1 with a proteasome-mediated system. Conclusions Our data recommended the use of -Asarone to lessen the toxic?effect of doxorubicin and increase the level of sensitivity of doxorubicin in clinical treatment. More importantly, our data exposed a novel part of -Asarone which could be used to remove stem-like populace in lymphoma, implying that -Asarone might reduce relapse and drug resistance. Famprofazone Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12935-019-0873-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. strong class=”kwd-title” Keywords: -Asarone, Lymphoma, Natural compounds, Bmi1, Malignancy stem cell, NF-B, Synergistic cytotoxic effects, Doxorubicin Background Lymphoma is one of the most common hematologic malignancy. Treatment for lymphoma may involve one or more of the following strategies: chemotherapy, radiation therapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy. Doxorubicin is definitely a popular and effective chemotherapy drug in the first-line chemotherapy regimens. However, the use of doxorubicin is bound due to adverse medicine and effects resistance [1]. Thus, the introduction Famprofazone of novel anti-cancer PRKD3 medicines with few harmful effects and the sensitizing effect is one of the main focuses in lymphoma study. Malignancy stem cells are a small populace of cells within the tumor with the abilities for self-renewal, differentiation, and tumorigenicity [2]. The existing of malignancy stem cells are thought to be the major obstacle for malignancy treatment because of the Famprofazone substantial chemo- and radio-resistance. Malignancy stem cells are considered as the source of tumor recurrence and metastasis [2]. Thus, the development of drug targeting malignancy stem cells becomes essential in treating cancer and avoiding Famprofazone tumor relapse. Natural products are usually the sources for developing novel drug with high effectiveness and few side effects for treating diseases. Currently, a significant number of medicines with different mechanisms that are used to treat cancer preclinically are derived from natural products. For example, bitter melon draw out displayed anti-cancer activities Famprofazone in multiple cancers by reducing the infiltrating regulatory T cells and Th17 cells in the tumor [3], enhancing natural.
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national | anti-war / imperialism | news report Monday September 23, 2019 22:28 by ShannonWatch
This blog entry from 16th Sept on the ShannonWatch.org website is reproduced here because while it might seem old news one week late, it will in fact be news to a lot of people since the mainstream just don't cover this, certainly not from the side of peace perspective.
The following was written by Veteran for Peace activist Tarak Kauff who is currently being refused permission to leave Ireland. He is accused of minor offenses linked to the attempt he and Ken MAyers made to inspect a US contracted military plane at Shannon Airport.
Veteran for Peace activists: Former U.S. Marine Major Ken Mayers and former U.S. Army paratrooper Tarak Kauff
For the past 5 1/2 months, my veteran buddy, former U.S. Marine Major Ken Mayers and myself, a former U.S. Army paratrooper, have been meeting and talking with people about Irish neutrality. Actually, most often, people stop us to talk because they see we're veterans. Some of them have read about us being arrested for exposing U.S. military troops and weapons violation of Irish neutrality at Shannon Airport, or they have seen us on RTE TV. Almost without exception, we find, the Irish people believe in and want Irish neutrality. One poll reported that 82% of the people desire a neutral Ireland. Few perhaps, realize how important that is to the world at large.
I have bad news. Irish neutrality, if not dead, is perilously close to it.
U.S. VP Mike Pence, not a man I would buy a used car from, came here and you might say gave the last rites, or you could also say, put a nail in the coffin of any pretense of Irish neutrality. In Tuesday's Irish Times, Simon Carswell wrote,"Mr. Pence expressed his appreciation for 'the security partnership' between the U.S. and Ireland, particularly the use of Shannon, which has become 'such an important hub for US forces deploying overseas' and for the 'close coordination' between the two countries in 'US military operations around the world'. He thanked the people of Shannon for 'how they welcome our troops here at all times of the day and night and give them a warm Irish welcome either on their way into the fight or on their way home.' "It is not a small matter, said Mr. Pence."
Irish politicians who have sold out to U.S. imperialism, hypocritically talk about Irish neutrality as if it were still a reality. Pence, Trump's batman, in this rare case, was speaking the truth. Irish neutrality for all intents and purposes, is gone. "Such an important hub for US forces deploying overseas," does not sound like neutrality. "Close coordination . . . in US military operations around the world," does not sound like neutrality. Next, Irish sons and daughters will be fighting and dying in America's never ending wars.
There are 4,892,415 people living in Ireland. Eighty-two percent of that is a little over four million people.
Either the people will exert their will on this critical issue of Irish neutrality or start wearing black armbands, but I think four million people ought to be able to demand that Irish neutrality live.
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Video on What's the story with Irish neutrality?
by T Tue Sep 24, 2019 22:27
Back in March Luke Ming Flanagan did a good video on calling out our politicians on neutrality.
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India’s heavylift rocket successfully launches GSAT-19
India today scripted history as it successfully launched its heaviest rocket GSLV MkIII-D1 carrying communication satellite GSAT-19.
The 43.43 metre tall rocket lifted off at 5.28 pm from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here and launched the 3,136 kg GSAT-19, the heaviest satellite to be launched from the country yet, into orbit about 16 minutes later.
A jubilant Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman A S Kiran Kumar said it “is a historic day” and the the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark-III (MkIII D-1) has successfully demonstrated its capabilities with the injection of GSAT-19 into the desired orbit.
“It is a great success in the first maiden attempt and GSLV MkIII has successfully put in orbit GSAT-19 which is a next generation satellite,” Kumar said.
“I wish to congratulate the entire team which has relentlessly worked each day for today’s launch from 2002,” he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the successful launch, saying it took India closer to next generation satellite capability.
Kiran Kumar said Modi called him and congratulated each member of the ISRO team for the successful mission.
GSAT-19, which will augment India’s communication resources, was released into the intended Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO).
Today’s GSLV mission is significant for India as ISRO had been depending on foreign launchers for orbiting communication satellites weighing more than 2,300 kgs. The GSLV MkIII-D1 is capable of lifting payloads or satellites weighing upto 4,000 kgs into the GTO and 10,000kgs into the Low Earth Orbit.
It was a textbook launch as every stage of the three-stage GSLV MkIII with indegeneous cryogenic engine performed well.
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The Game 3
By: Pam Atchley and Mark Murray
Firil 15, 1018 - Naia 20, 1018
This entry is part of 4 in the series The Game
“You paint a fair picture of yourself, Delex,” Nusa said to me, a lowly prisoner in the Dargon jail. “You work as a prostitute for Eliza Tillipanary at the Lucky Lady. You have women pay you to do disgusting things and you take pleasure in it. You are charged with murdering a man and with attempted rape. The picture that others have painted is a far different one than yours.”
“Will you not try to find the truth?” I asked. “Otherwise, why are you here?”
“I came here only because … well, let me fill in parts of your story that you do not know …”
There was a thundering sound, and Nusa Abarris started from her bed, heart beating almost as loudly as the noise that had awakened her. Again it sounded, and she realized that someone was almost beating the door down. She could tell that it was still early, for the single window that she had left open still let in the darkness of night rather than light of day.
“I’m coming,” she called, standing up and straightening her tunic before going to the door. She was a tall woman, still shapely despite her age, and a member of the Town Guard.
When she opened the door, a young man was standing outside, hand raised to knock again. He looked disheveled and shock and fear were clearly writ upon his face. He was good looking, with big blue eyes and blonde hair.
“You!” Disgust dripped from her voice. It was her younger brother, Masian. There was a striking similarity between them. Yet she was not the prettier of the two, for where his hair was golden, hers was just the color of straw; where his eyes were the brightest of blues, hers were but pale and watery. They had become estranged about three years past when he had decided to go to work at the Lucky Lady, a hostelry that was well known for its people of pleasure, or, in more stringent terms, prostitutes.
The night Masian had told her of his decision had been a nightmare for her, a devout Stevenic. Of all the professions open to him, he had chosen one which she could never accept. That was the night she had disowned him, when she had told him outright that she had no brother. For her, it had been more bitter than when their mother had died, leaving the young boy to her guardianship. Masian had been more son than brother to her.
She made as if to shut the door, but he was too quick for her. He stepped inside, crowding her, and she instinctively stepped back inside the large, single room that was her home. “Masian, get away from me. I can and I will hurt you.”
“Nusa, please. Listen to me. I need your help.” There was a quaver in his voice, and it tugged at her heart.
She had to quash the old instinct of running to his aid. He was a grown man and he had made his choice. “I cannot help you,” she said harshly. “Begone!”
“I won’t go. Nusa, you’re my sister, and nothing can ever change that. I need your help now, so don’t send me away. Besides, it isn’t even for me!”
That stopped Nusa, and she swallowed the angry words unsaid.
Her silence was enough for Masian, and he poured out his story. “My friend Delex — they’re saying he killed a man, and he would never do that. You have to help, Nusa, please. He’s such a good man, so kind. He’s always helpful. Please, Nusa.”
“Masian …” She knew when he said “friend” whom he meant; she was sure it was that bald-headed man who always accompanied Masian when she happened to run into them on the streets that she patrolled. The friend was another of those wretched men of the night. There was no way that she would ever lift a finger to help one like that.
“No,” Masian shook his head. “I won’t let you say no. You always told me to help other people, to do the right thing. Well, you’re not doing the right thing here. Delex is innocent, and you won’t even listen to me just because you don’t approve of my job. Is that what the good Stevene would have wanted?”
His question hung in the sudden silence between them, and Nusa was forced to ponder it. She had always hated his job, still hated it, but …
“You’re assuming that Delex did it just because you disapprove of what he does for a living.” Masian threw another verbal bolt at her.
Was he right? Was she assuming that the man, whoever he was, was guilty simply because he did something that was sinful for a living?
Masian continued his assault. “Nusa, you can’t punish sins; only God can. Besides, remember that the Stevene said, ‘Judge a man not, for God is the final justiciar’.”
Nusa turned away, her mind in turmoil. She didn’t know what to do. Masian was silent, as if he sensed that he was about to get his way. She knew that she had to listen to his story, even though her every instinct screamed at her to avoid it; yet a tiny voice within her spoke of justice at all costs, of doing the right thing for its own sake, and she listened to that voice that was both so small and so strong.
“Tell me what happened.”
It was apparent that Masian had been waiting for just that invitation, for the words spilled out of him like a raging river. The story was quite simple. Her guess had been right: the friend was the bald man she had seen with Masian. Apparently, a client had sent a runner requesting his presence in her own home, and the man, Delexand, had gone. It turned out to be the house of the wrong woman. Here, the story got convoluted, but Nusa let Masian talk without interruption. At the house, the client’s male assistant had been murdered and the client had been molested. The client had been scratched in various places upon her body and her clothes had been torn. Two guards had arrested Delex and taken him away.
“How do you know he’s innocent?” Nusa raised a hand to stop Masian when he opened his mouth, and she continued, “She was his client. What if she changed her mind? What if he really did molest her? What if he really did kill the young man? How do you know he’s innocent?” she repeated.
“How do I know he’s innocent?” Masian parrotted back to her in an astonished voice. “Nusa, if someone told you I’d killed a man, would you believe him?”
Nusa didn’t answer, and Masian didn’t bother to wait for a response. “That’s how I know. I know him, Nusa, and he didn’t kill anyone. And I’m pretty sure he didn’t molest that woman either.”
Nusa nodded, and began to pace, thinking about what Masian had told her. The story had more holes than a torn blanket in an old orphanage. She asked slowly, “You said that a runner came to invite him to a client’s house.”
Masian nodded.
“Straight, then why did he go to someone else’s house?”
Masian frowned. “I don’t know, Oosa.”
The old nickname had slipped out, and Nusa felt her eyes tear. He had called her Oosa when he was younger and still learning to speak. He had been so cute and innocent then. She turned away, swallowing, and opened her eyes wide to prevent the tears from falling out, hoping he wouldn’t notice.
He didn’t. “Straight. If Grana Baugar’s runner came, then how come he was at Jande Tes’ house?” Grana Baugar was the client, and Jande Tes was the woman who had been molested and in whose house the murder had been committed.
Nusa composed herself and turned back to face him. “We have to go to see him. When was he taken away? Do you know where he is now?”
Masian nodded. “The runner came last night. Apparently he was taken away to the guardhouse around the first bell of night. I didn’t find out until this morning because …” His voice trailed away and he glanced at her before continuing, “Eliza told me.”
Nusa ignored the implication and said briskly, “We’ll go to the guardhouse now.” As if the good God and the Stevene were agreeing with her, she heard the first bell of the day.
Nusa and Masian entered the guardhouse where a page sat on a small stool. She was a little girl and was just waking from a nap. When she saw Nusa, she slid off the stool and smiled widely, revealing a gap between her front teeth.
“Hi Nusa,” she said in a high-pitched voice.
“Hello, Enid. Are any of the sergeants in?” Nusa asked.
“I dunno. I fell asleep,” the little girl said sheepily.
Nusa smiled, told Masian to wait for her, and went inside. On one side of the corridor was the stairwell that led upstairs to more offices, and the justiciar’s hall above, and downstairs to the dungeons. She went up to where the offices were: the captain’s at the far end, one room for the lieutenants, and a few for the sergeants. It was far too early in the day for either Captain Koren or Lietenant Darklen to be in, but some of the sergeants were present.
She poked her head into one of the big, roomy, shared offices. “Caisy, have you been here all night?” Although Caisy had been promoted to lieutenant, he’d continued to use the desk he’d had as a sergeant.
The man she addressed looked up from the ledger he’d been painstakingly studying. “Yes. You need something?”
Nusa entered and approached his desk. “It seems they brought in a man named Delexand on suspicion of killing somebody and attempted rape.”
Caisy nodded. “Yes. This guy works at the Lucky Lady.” He smiled. “Garay and Tarb were patrolling the streets there, and it seems the lady’s runner came out screaming something. When they went in, they found him with the body in his arms.”
Nusa frowned. “Are they here? I’d like to talk to them.”
“They went off duty about ha’bell ago. Any particular reason you’re interested?” Caisy’s voice took on an inquiring tone, but she knew he wanted an answer. He was her immediate supervisor, after all.
She shrugged. “The man’s best friend came to see me, convinced that the guy is innocent. I agreed to talk to him, that’s all.”
A quizzical look appeared on Caisy’s face. The two of them were not close friends, but Nusa got along with him well. He was scrupulously fair and had an acerbic wit that appeared at strange opportunities. Nusa liked him, for he was a kind man, although he kept that trait well hidden. Now he merely said in a dismissing tone of voice, “The guy is in a cell downstairs.”
Nusa nodded and exited the room thoughtfully. She knew that Caisy would now keep an eye on this case, for he had been intrigued by her interest. It occurred to her that this case would be the focus of gossip and laughter in the guardhouse; for some reason, most people seemed to wink and smile when the topic of pleasure houses came up. For Nusa herself, while she disapproved of such houses, the thought of their inmates and their lifestyle had a much more personal and negative impact.
She reached the cell where the prisoner had been confined. It was a small room, bare of anything save a chamber pot in one corner. The corridor outside the cell had a narrow window high up that did duty as a skylight; occasionally the feet of passersby could be seen through it. This early in the morning, the rosy light of day crept through.
Through the cell door, the man sat on the floor, leaning against a wall with his feet outstretched, hands loosely clasped in his lap, and his eyes closed. He had removed his tunic, which lay neatly folded beside him; the reason was obvious from the bloody tear on top that she could see from outside the cell. His chest and upper arms were muscled without being overly so, and his trim hips were hidden beneath a pair of clean and shiny breeches. His bald pate accentuated his facial features: a narrow face with a pointed chin, a well-defined nose, and ears that lay flat against the side of his head. He looked to be a few years her junior.
He must have sensed her presence, for he opened his eyes. In the dim light, she could not make out their color. He said nothing but continued to watch her with an unnerving intensity.
For a moment, Nusa wondered what she was doing. She disapproved of pleasure houses for had not the Stevene said of physical pleasure, ‘Let that which is special to the marriage bed remain within’? And this man was not only a sinner but he was also a friend of Masian’s, probably encouraging him to remain within the profession. She would listen to him, but her promise was only to hear this man’s story, not to help him.
“You are Delexand,” she said.
“I am Nusa Abarris.”
His eyes widened at that and he rose and approached the bars that separated them. She saw that his eyes were brown, and his skin seemed to glow like copper in the golden light of the morning.
“Why are you here?” His voice was soft and deep, its pitch inquiring without any other overtones, while the expression on his face was neutral.
Nusa supposed rather bitterly that, given his profession, he must know how to act well. “Masian came to see me.”
He laughed softly, but it seemed to Nusa that it was humorless. “That, I realized the moment you introduced yourself. So, you have come to pass your own judgment on me before ever I get to the justice hall, happy to see one more sinner hung for his sins.”
“I am here to listen to your story.”
“Oho, are you now? Tell me the truth, Nusa. Are you willing to even face the possibility that I might be innocent? That my choice of professions does not automatically make me a killer?” He paused and looked at her.
She was frowning and had taken a step back as he spoke. Seeing her move, he nodded with a sarcastic smile and continued his tirade.
“I thought not. Tell me, Nusa, why *are* you here? You disapprove of my and Masian’s profession. You ignore him and snub him when you see him in church. If that is any indication of your affection for him, I do not see any reason for your presence here.” His voice had grown bitterer as he spoke.
Nusa felt the words come boiling up from within her as he spoke, the feelings his statements evoked too hot and angry for control. “And what do you know of affection, you who works as a man of the night, you who corrupts men and women without a thought for the moral questions behind your actions? You have no right to question me. I may disapprove of your profession, but I will not allow my own feelings to obscure what is right and what is wrong. If you really killed that young man, Delex, I will make sure that your trial takes you speedily to the noose. And if you did not, then I will be your advocate.” Her breath was coming harshly by the time she finished speaking, and then silence descended.
He did not reply, but stared at her with an intensity that she would have found unnerving had she not been so very angry. Finally he gave a curt nod. “So be it,” he said and his next words were measured and spaced out evenly. “I did not kill that young man.”
“Tell me what happened,” Nusa ordered.
“And I’ve given you all I know,” I said. “Will you help me?”
“It doesn’t sound right,” Nusa said. “Why did you go to her house? You’ve never done that before. Why did the man die in your arms with blood all over you and not her?”
My hopes crashed to the floor and despair hit me in the gut. I felt the noose around my neck. It was not long now, I knew.
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Ever hopeful
The China View news agency tells us that the
“Lebanese Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) urged UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to support Lebanon and put an end to Syrian interference”,
as reported in one of the local newspapers.
Syria, according to this appeal, continues to attack Lebanese troops, invade parts of Lebanese territory, arm Palestinian terrorists for carrying out proxy attacks and carry out smuggling (presumably of arms).
The letter went to GenSec Kofi Annan (father of Kojo), the Security Council, the Interanational Socialist Party, the European Union and other international human rights organizations.
Naturally enough, Syria is denying all accusations, though it has issued an arrest warrant, which, as the Lebanese appeal points out, violates international law, against the leader of the party, Walid Jumblatt.
The warrant was relayed to Beirut via Interpol and is demanding Mr Jumblatt’s extradition to face a military court in Syria on charges of “slander and inciting hatred against Damascus”.
What is so touching about this story is the faith Lebanese politicians seem to place in the tranzis. Their assumption that organizations that have shown themselves ready to negotiate with and fawn on terrorist organizations and dictatorships will lift a finger to defend Lebanon’s freedom and sovereignty.
Possibly, the PSP does not actually believe this but is trying to use every method to bring the situation to the world’s attention. The problems between Syria and Lebanon seem to be relegated below the ever growing Palestinian ones. Even so, the ploy has been less than totally successful. If it were not for the Chinese news agency …
To prove that the situation in Lebanon is volatile, we had (some) news of an attack with Katyusha rockets on northern Israel by Hesbollah and Palestinian Jihad groups. The subsequent “skirmishes” seem to have been resolved by UN negotiators.
(In Lebanon they seemed to behave better than in East Timor where all “non-essential” UN staff has been ordered to leave after renewed fighting had broken out. The Australians have remained and will soon be reinforced by other troops. One wonders who those “non-essential” staff was and why they were there.)
Meanwhile, our own Prime Minister has been sounding off about UN reform, a subject that has become the great political filler. As it happens, my colleague managed to find the only interesting story that came out of the Bush-Blair summit. I have been left to pick up a few remaining pieces, the most interesting of which is Blair’s speech at Georgetown University.
The speech seems to have been vintage Blair with lots of feel-good factors thrown in, a little bit of statesmanship – we cannot pull out of Iraq immediately, we know we have made mistakes but the world must unite in helping Iraq to build up its democracy – and a few rather tame ideas for supposed reform.
Blair, as we know, has always been rather enamoured of transnational organizations interfering a good deal more than they do, already. The long, painful and, ultimately, disastrous trek through the UN before the war in Iraq had been his idea with President Bush going along somewhat reluctantly.
So, having Blair pontificating about the need to reform the UN and other transnational organizations is not particularly surprising. Some newspapers round the world have suggested that he saw the speech as an interview for his next job, SecGen of the United Nations. (Well, Cherie should love that – all those freebies.)
But what did he actually suggest? Expanding the Security Council to include India, Japan, Germany, a Latin American and an African country is not a spectacularly good idea if you want the organization to work. Those of us who think that the UN has had it and the sooner it dies the better, would find the expansion of the Security Council extremely helpful: the bigger it is the more likely is it to get bogged down on every decision. But one must assume that Prime Minister Blair does not actually intend that.
The speech also suggested that the SecGen should be given greater powers over his personnel so that the UN can be made into an effective organization that reacted rapidly to world problems.
For the world, as Mr Blair presciently pointed out, has changed since the days the UN was set up. In fact, it has changed since most of the transnational organizations were set up and they should all be reformed. (One wonders if he feels that the EU belongs to a different era as well.)
The IMF and the World Bank, possibly, should be merged and even if they are not, “there is a powerful case for reform”.
“He also suggested that an international uranium bank held by the International Atomic Energy Agency should supply fuel to all countries with a nuclear energy program.”
In other words, there was very little new in his speech, even though it seems to have caught the journalists’ attention all over the world. As the Times put it in its editorial:
“The Prime Minister’s larger theme, one that has come to define him as a politician, is that the world must urgently get to grips with the consequences of interdependence (globalisation is not a word Labour politicians care much to use). When turmoil can spread like wildfire and even the powerful United States can be affected “at breakneck speed and fundamentally” by events beyond its shores, politicians need to understand that “the rule book of international politics has been torn up” and “traditional views of national interest” are perilously out of date.
“Intervention, far beyond our borders” will often be required. For such necessary activism to be acceptable, ways must be found to involve “the international community” in joint strategies to tackle global problems and promote democracy. This means much more than military action, and includes supporting a greater flow of information and education initiatives.”
Does this speech really matter? Well, yes and no. It could be that Mr Blair is looking for another job, not being all that interested in sitting at home and writing his memoirs whenever he or the electorate finally decides that he must go. And, of course, he has always mouthed platitudes about the need for international co-operation and well-meaning interventionism led by transnational bodies.
Other reactions, like the ones in Indian newspapers limited themselves to concentrating on what matters to them – a seat on the Security Council (though why any self-respecting country should want one, I cannot even imagine).
Then there is the Chinese reaction. China is vehemently opposed to Japan acquiring a seat on the Security Council and is equally vehemently opposed to a US-Japanese sponsored suggestion of a reform in payments into the UN kitty. At present China and Russia, both rather large and with permanent seats on the Security Council pay considerably less than Japan does, a state of affairs, they would obviously like to continue.
It was, therefore, interesting to read an article in the Chinese business newspaper, published in Hong Kong, the Standard, which managed to attack Blair without mentioning the real problem: his support for Japan acquiring a permanent seat on that Council.
According to Toby Harnden and Patrick Hennessy (familiar and unChinese names) Blair had been forced by the White House to water down his speech. Their evidence for this is somewhat tenuous and seems to consist of whispers from various officials who had briefed journalists in one way while the speech went differently.
There seems little of any importance that he might have said if Karl Rove or whoever had not locked him up and threatened to make him listen to endless repeats of David Cameron on Desert Island Discs if he did not do as he was told. Can’t blame the man for giving in.
“He also backed away from a planned demand for a major change in the running of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Blair had intended to spell out a plan for Europe and the United States to give up their exclusive rights to install their own nationals as heads of the bank and the IMF respectively. This would help persuade smaller nations to give up their effective right to choose the United Nations secretary general, in favor of a move to install a leading international figure. Instead, Blair's speech glossed over the issues, merely citing a "powerful case for reform."
Another planned section was intended to take a tough line on global warming and the Kyoto Treaty, which Washington still has not signed. In the event, Blair merely claimed: "We must act on climate change," but did not go into detail. At this point, as a mobile phone rang in the audience, he even made a joke about American interference. "I hope that's not the White House telling me they don't agree with that," he said. "They act very quickly, these guys."”
It seems Blair still knows how to play his audience. Or his speech writers do. But, as it happens, none of that is sinister. He has been known to go “soft” on Kyoto before. In any case, anyone who is not obsessed with the idea of Al Gore becoming President would have realized that the Kyoto signatories have not reduced their emission and there are serious and growing scientific doubts being cast on that agreement and the whole notion that global warming is getting worse or being caused necessarily by human behaviour.
As for China, it did not sign up to Kyoto and has no intention of doing so or of closing down any of its newly opened coal stations. No doubt Al Gore will add a few thousand more air miles and fly his private plane to Beijing to remind them of their duty. Or maybe not.
The really frustrating part of all this burbling, whether by politicians or journalists, is that all of it represents a lost opportunity. The world has changed and is changing very rapidly and some decisions need to be taken as to how we shall deal with those changes. Every speech, every article, every paper that prattles on about reform of existing transnational organizations avoids those hard discussions and decisions.
Somehow it does not surprise me that Tony Blair should make one of those speeches of avoidance.
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All we need are the white flags
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It may be pedantic, but…
We are the bosses now
Talking about them… talking about themselves
The joys of VAT
Political schizophrenia?
More reflections
To our eternal shame
A temporary setback
Transparency no, invisibility yes
Negotiating with the Bear
The ultimate in fatuity?
Boring us all to death
The best laid schemes…
D for agoras
A one-way street?
Going after the real enemy
Not big enough for both of them
The pace quickens
Baroness Nicholson is displeased
Credit where it is due
Another EU success
The engineer of human souls
Can he deliver?
A vote for serfdom?
The march of the EuroArmy
A reason to support the EU?
The EuroNavy cometh… slowly
You wonder what they use for brains
Week-end rumination
The £15 million heist
Of rumours dark and devious
Guns but no butter
The UN hits out at the US
Detached from reality
In the "difficult" file
Flying into stormy weather
Wanted: set of British values
They can also see it
Fishing in muddy waters
We're shocked!
Getting the point
A matter of geography
Quelle surprise!
Cui bono?
The reluctant empire
Could we not all play that game?
Towards a European Health Service
Not long now
Why does he (try to) deceive us?
They get what they deserve
Tight security as Ken meets Hugo
Dereliction of duty
It's still there
The stench of hypocrisy
Have they thought this through?
Boy, when things go wrong ....
March of the jobsworths
The emasculation of common sense
Bi-regional strategic interests (whatever they may...
Gesture politics
Conspiracy redoubled
One hell of a climbdown
How not to learn from elections
Spy in the (Euro) sky
Human rights are safe in their hands
That famous European diplomacy
A citizen's agenda?
Whither regionalisation?
Grist to the mill
Whoopee!
Another try-on?
Our favourite Latin American dictators
Is it any wonder?
One of our excuses is missing
Death of a sage
A conspiracy of silence
A personal tale
Oh, whoops!
Success with the Poles?
A hidden victory
A matter of nearly complete ignorance
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Uni of vs Hallam Dartsity match abandoned after violence breaks out in the crowd
Ben Warner
The annual Dartsity event at the Octagon had to be abandoned due to crowd trouble, bringing a conclusion to the 2017 Varsity proceedings.
Dartsity is a showpiece event held between the University and Sheffield Hallam, but this year’s event was unable to finish thanks to disturbances from both sets of fans at the Octagon.
Trouble began to unfold during the sixth and final match of the evening, as Uni of captain Adam Warner was celebrating the unassailable 4-1 lead for the hosts when Hallam fans allegedly threw beer over him.
Warner, who had come from behind to win his match by three sets to one, then became involved with the scuffle in the crowd.
The event descended into chaos as a minority of fans from both sides threw punches at each other, as well as chairs and beer, soaking other spectators as well as those involved.
Security tried their best to deal with the perpetrators, but made it clear they wanted the event to be abandoned, which it was following the suspension of play in the final match.
Fighting continued as fans left the Octagon, and police soon arrived to help restore some order to the night.
The crowd for this year’s event is more than double the 400 which watched 2016’s edition, presenting new challenges for those involved in the organisation of the event.
Head of University of Sheffield Darts, Ed McCosh, released a statement thanking those who took part in and helped organise the event from both universities, as well as all the staff and security who worked on the night, particularly the cleaning staff who “went above and beyond the call of duty”. McCosh went on to condemn the “disgraceful behaviour” and apologise for those who were unable to play as a result. McCosh also stated additional fundraising efforts would be made for the charities involved “by way of an apology”.
Some of those who attended Dartsity 2017 suggested that the security team was understaffed for the size of the crowd, making it difficult to control the trouble which ensued.
Despite the trouble, the University claimed the trophy for the year, thanks to the lead they had gained in the first five matches of the night.
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Yes, there was far too few security for the number of attendees for an event where alcohol was involved.
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Chris Lamb & The Universals were a 7-piece Showband fronted by trumpeter Chris Lamb, playing US bases and Irish clubs around Kilburn from 1963 to 1968.
Although they were basically known as an Irish Showband, the only true Irish members in the band were bandleader Chris Lamb and the saxophonist Mort O'Sullivan from County Cork. Trombone player Brian O'Shea aka "Brian Keith" and drummer Albert Rossi were both from Scotland, the rest of the band all from England except an American female vocalist, Edie Andrews who had worked for Alan Williams at the Blue Angel, Liverpool.
They were supporting American singer Jim Reeves on his tour of American military bases in Britain and Ireland in May and June 1963. Reeves was permitted to perform in Ireland by the Irish Federation of Musicians on the condition that he share the bill with Irish show bands, becoming popular by 1963. The British Federation of Musicians would not permit him to perform there because no agreement existed for British show bands to travel to America in exchange for his band, the Blue Boys, playing in Great Britain.
However, Jim Reeves compromised by doing a tour of the American bases from June 10 to June 15, which was allowed because it was then considered that he wasn't performing on British soil and he appeared on British radio and TV programs. The Universals’ guitarist Peter Jay used to sing Jim Reeves songs to close the shows.
During 1964/5, they played many times at the Hammersmith Oden for Top Rank.
The only known record by Chris Lamb & The Universals is “Mysterious Land” / “If You Ask Me” on Decca records released in June 1965. However they also covered some Beatles songs with Edie Andrews singing lead on. Andrews eventually went back to the States at the end of the year. The Universals backed Scottish singer Gidian on his third single “Feeling” / “Dont Be Sentimental” released on Columbia records in October 1966.
At this time, the band featured new musicians: Carlo Little on drums, Paul Raymond on keyboards and Bill Parkinson on guitar. They toured the south of England and backed several stars like Stevie Wonder between November 1965 and June 1966. They played everything from the top 20 to themes like “Laurence of Arabia” or “Tijuana Brass”, and of course an array of Irish music.
By July 1966, Carlo Little rolled his mates of The Universals into Screaming Lord Sutch’s Savages. This crew spent half their time backing Sutch, but also worked as The Circles, recording on their own with Chris Blackwell (Island records). As The Savages, they played at the Olympia in Paris, and recorded such gems as Saturday Club with Brian Matthews.
By 1967, The Universals signed to Page One then evolved into Plastic Penny.
Many of the personnel went on to greater things. Carlo Little joined The Flowerpotmen; Bill Parkinson worked for Tom Jones; Grabham formed Cochise and then joined Procol Harum; Tony Murray joined The Troggs; Paul Raymond was with Chicken Shack and then Savoy Brown; Nigel Olsson was with the Spencer Davis Group and later became the drummer in Elton John's backing group and Brian Keith headed Congregation...
Chris Lamb led a number of bands until his decease some years ago. His brother Robert 'Bobby' Lambe is an internationally renowned composer/arranger, who as a trombone player worked with Frank Sinatra, Woody Herman and many other top names and spent most of his musical career in the US.
Bill Parkinson After I left P.J.Proby I auditioned with 30 other guitarists and got the with job with top Irish show band Chris Lamb and The Universals, this was a very good tight band with excellent musicians, On drums was Carlo Little, ex Rolling Stones, on vocals and Trombone was Brian Keith lead singer with Plastic Penny, on keyboards was Paul Raymond who played with many bands and on Bass, John Lawson. The sax player was Mort Sullivan, the leader Chris Lamb played trumpet, We played everything from the top 20 to themes like Laurence of Arabia and Tijuana Brass, and of course an array of Irish music. We backed several stars like Stevie Wonder and played on several records… One day Carlo Little asked me and a couple of the other musicians if we would join the Savages and back Screaming Lord Sutch.
Mick Grabham about “Everything I Am”: “Our only hit! No I didn't play on that actually. I was living in Sunderland at the time and the rest of the Plastic Penny was formed out of a group that was a showband called Chris Lamb and the Universals. Three or four of them had made a record apart from the rest of the group, which was produced by Larry Page of Troggs tape fame, and they were playing as Chris Lamb and the Universals in this night club in Sunderland. They were looking for a guitarist and they saw this friend of mine with frizzy hair and asked him if he was a guitarist – they didn't want to get a face from London into the band. He said 'No I'm not, but I know somebody who is'. At the time, this guy was sharing up [sic] house with me, so he brought them back and they asked me if I wanted to go down to London and give it a try. They said that they needed a drummer and like Nigel Olsson was a real good friend of mine, so I got him to come down as well and we both ended up getting the job. When I think of it now, somebody coming up to me in Sunderland, saying 'do you want to come down and join this band', it's mad!”
Mysterious Land / If You Ask Me (Decca F 12176) 11/06/1965 as Chris Lamb & The Universals
Take Your Time/Don't You Love Me No More (Island WI 279) 07/1966 as The Circles
Feeling / Dont Be Sentimental (Columbia DB 8041) 10/1966 as Gidian & The Universals
I Can't Find You/Hey You (Page One POF 032) 07/1967 as The Universals
Green Veined Orchid/While The Cat's Away (Page One POF 049) 11/1967 as The Universals
Various Line-ups of Chris Lamb & The Universals
Chris Lamb & The Universals Allstars #1 (April 1963 - Late 1964)
Chris Lamb (Trumpet)
Mort Sullivan (Tenor Sax)
Brian Keith (Vocals/Trombone)
Peter Jay (Lead Guitar)
Alan McCiver (Bass)
?? (Keyboards)
Albert Rossi (Drums)
Judy Ward (Lead Vocals)
Chris Lamb & The Universals #2 (Late 1964 - June 1965)
Foggy Little (Lead Guitar)
Peter Jay (Rhythm Guitar)
P.J. Kelly (Keyboards)
Dave ?? (Drums)
Chris Lamb & The Universals #3 (June - November 1965)
Dave ?? then Carlo Little (Drums)
Edie Andrews (Vocals)
Chris Lamb & The Universals #4 (November 1965 - July 1966)
Bill Parkinson (Lead Guitar)
Ged Peck (Lead Guitar)
John Lawson (Bass)
Paul Raymond (Keyboards)
Carlo Little (Drums)
Chris Lamb & The Universals #5 / The Circles (July 1966 - September 1966)
Tony Dangerfield (Bass)
Chris Lamb & The Universals #6 (Late 1966 - December 1967)
Tony Murray (Bass)
Eddie Thorpe (Drums)
Terry Parsons (Drums)
Chris Lamb & The Universals #7 (December 1967)
Mick Grabham (Lead Guitar)
Nigel Olsson (Drums)
lesley 17 October 2013 at 07:31
Eddie Thorpe was the drummer in 1966-67. Also in the group were Dick Errington John Lawson and Peter Jay. Eddie went on to play with Simon Raverne( Buddy Britten ) in Jersey and various places abroad
My granda was an amazing man i love him so much r.i.p chris lamb xxx my angel ♡♡♡
My mom was the singer Edie Andrews she had a beautiful voice loves always terry
Albert Rossi 4 July 2016 at 02:57
Yes, he certainly was Eileen. I loved playing with his band and have many fond memories of it.I was very sorry to hear of his passing.
Don't know if your still alive but I'd love to hear stories about my grandad if you have great stories to tell xxx
I was sound man at The State in Kilburn in the day .Chris had a residency there. I would play Green onions as intro and the band one by one joined in seamlessly I then stopped the record they continued and that was the start of a great night of music.He dressed so well and wore a beautiful camel hair overcoat.A lovely kind man with excellent manners a credit to Ireland.also,Leon Wells managed the ballroom in my day.
macca 3 September 2015 at 05:57
Trying to track down the wherabouts of John (Johnny) Lawson. Can anyone help please? Very early days he played bass in a Shadows-like group, called I seem to remember The Strangers. They played a few times at the Gaumont State Dance hall in Kilburn North London. I'm in a Facebook, group "Kilburn in 50's and 60's and Johns name has cropped up a few times together with a good mate of his Johnny Souster. They both lived in Brondesbury Villas, Kilburn and John L's s mum worked at a Grocers shop in Salusbury Rd between the Presbyterian Church and Grays the Chemist. Any help or steer in the right direction will be very much appreciated. Thanks .Ian.
Not sure but I think he lives in Hastings
Albert Rossi 16 February 2016 at 11:34
I played with the Universal Allstars from 1963 to 1964 and they were some of the best years I had in my long 62 year musical career. The band was great and a lot of fun to be with. We were a wild bunch and could drink most guys under table but one thing for sure, it never affected our ability to play and entertain. I would say that Chris had a discipline that made you always want to give your best and we certainly did. We backed Jim Reeves in July 1964 and our singer/guitarist Peter Jay was so good at singing Reeve's songs that Reeves manager asked him to stay behind after his show to listen to Peter. Sadly nothing ever came about it as Reeves died in a plane crash less than a month later. R.I.P. Chris I have happy memories of you that I will always carry with me. Albert Rossi
dennis lynch 19 October 2016 at 14:45
hi I am Dennis lynch younger brother of Pete lynch (jay] Pete has mentioned you Many times over the years great band great times he lives in the USA now 30 years or more he played with john Lawson and they won new faces talent show in 1975 as lynch & Lawson they went USA and made a few records he is 75 now but still does a few gigs now Ann then all the best den
Albert Rossi 14 June 2017 at 09:11
Hello Dennis, thanks for your reply. What a shame I just saw it now. I would love to contact Peter so can you let me have some contact details for him?
Hi Albert - I discovered a number of years ago that I am related to Chris Lamb and would love to learn more about him. Are you on Facebook or Whatsapp so I can contact you? Kind Regards Karen Boyle
dennis lynch 10 February 2018 at 05:51
hi Albert this is Dennis peter jay's brother his phone in america is 001 435 635 9533 I'm sure he'd like a chat all the best dennis
Hi Karen I'm Chris Lambe pride and joy I'm on Facebook Eileen Lambe ivanova I'd be more than happy to speak to you xxx hi Albert delighted I'm noticing people really do notice on this what other people write up your more than welcome to add me to love hearing stories of Chris Lambe especially the funny ones xxx
OSCAROWSKI 4 April 2016 at 05:10
Hi there, could anyone shed some more info on this release please. I believe the record company is not the correct one as they have linked it to the US Destination label, but seems to exist in one shape or the other... any info, please send me a mail to oscar dot richt @ gmail dot com. Many thanks in advance, Oscar
this release: https://www.discogs.com/Gidian-With-Chris-Lambe-And-Universals-Feeling-Dont-Be-Sentimental/release/5657206
Is that peter jay of the jaywakers
dennis lynch 13 August 2018 at 06:10
no this peter jay was a singer and guitarist with Chris lamb and many other bands in the 60's & 70's who went the win "new faces" in 1974 with base guitarist john Lawson as lynch & Lawson peter also recorded for the great Joe meek in the early 60's as peter jay and the blue men Dennis lynch Pete's brother
Knew Peter when he played with The Universals and with John Lawson
dennis lynch 21 July 2019 at 13:36
hi unknown would like to know who you are don't where john is now but my brother pete in the US still singing !! did you work with pete ? dennis
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Vietnamese enterprises build unique regional products to attract tourists
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The Hanoitimes - From now to the end of the year, the number of domestic travelers is expected to reach about 70-80% of that in the same period last year.
To revive the tourism industry in the post Covid-19 period, many local tour operators, hotels and transportation providers are joining hands to offer promotions, building new and unique products to attract tourists.
Many tourism enterprises are jointly building new and unique products to attract tourists. Photo: Tony Bac
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Many tour operators have created and deployed new packages. Flamingo Redtours has launched four domestic tours with discounts of up to 30-50%. The tour operator has cooperated with other travel businesses, airlines, 4-star hotels and transportation providers to build the packages with high quality accommodation and competitive prices, according to CEO of the company Nguyen Cong Hoan.
Meanwhile, Vietravel Hanoi branch is deploying its products “Vietnam – Say Hello to a New Day” with a 50% discount, Deputy Director Nguyen Van Bay told Kinh the & Do thi.
From the beginning of May, Hanoitourist Travel Company has also introduced tours with reasonable prices of VND4-5 million (US$172-US$215) per visitor to central provinces.
To stimulate demand post Covid-19, Hanoi has cooperated with a number of provinces and cities such as Nghe An, Quang Binh, and Lai Chau to implement stimulus programs, according to Deputy Director of Hanoi’s Tourism of Department Tran Trung Hieu.
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Compared to previous years, the number of foreign visitors to Vietnam in 2020 is poised to plunge due to the health crisis, according to Deputy General Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) Ha Van Sieu. However, many localities and businesses have launched a number of programs including the exemption and reduction of entrance tickets and transportation costs to stimulate travel.
Some places of interests have even been overcrowded, Sieu added. “This is a motivation for tourism companies to build and introduce stimulus products in post-Covid-19 tourism,” he told Kinh te & Do thi.
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After two months of the reopening of destinations, tourism activities have revived, the number of tourists has increased again. According to the VNAT, in May and June, occupancy rates for accommodation rooms increased by 50-60% in week days and 80-90% on weekends. The number of domestic tourists in June reached 7 million, an increase of 2.3 times compared to May.
With the revival, the tourism industry aims that from now to the end of the year, the number of domestic tourists will reach about 70-80% of that in the same period last year. However, to achieve this goal, it requires local businesses and localities to offer tour packages which are not only "unique" but also at reasonable costs.
Besides new products being put into service, including a night tour at the Hoa Lo Prison and the Imperial Citadel of Thanh Long - Hanoi, Hanoitourist is working on experience tours from Hoa Lu ancient capital (Ninh Binh) to Hanoi. It will thereby help visitors better understand the process of moving the country's capital taking place a millennium ago, towards the celebration of the 1010th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi, according to Director of Hanoitourist Phung Quang Thang.
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