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Alleged Budet Problems Among U.S. States And Municipalities So Totally Exaggerated, Says Report
You can count the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on Team Lebenthal.
The operating deficits most states are forecasting for fiscal 2012 are the result of the post-recessionary weak economy and have been erroneously conflated with longer-term issues such as debt, pension obligations and retiree health costs, Iris J. Lav, senior adviser at the Washington research group, and Elizabeth McNichol, a senior fellow, said in the report today.
“Overheated claims about state and local budget problems not only are inaccurate, but also could lead policy makers to take unwise steps such as allowing states to declare bankruptcy or forcing them to change the way they report their pension liabilities as a condition for issuing tax-exempt bonds,” Lav said in a press release accompanying the report’s release.
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National Guard Troops Being Vetted As They Arrive To Guard US CapitolOfficials say they're worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, prompting the vetting of all 25,000 National Guard troops coming into Washington for the event.
Senate Antagonist Cruz Makes Nice With Campaign Fundraisers
Filed Under:campaign fundraisers, peace offering, Republicans, Sen. Ted Cruz, Senator John Cornyn, Senator Ted Cruz, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) speaks to the media. (credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
CHICAGO (AP) — Longtime Senate troublemaker Ted Cruz is trying to make nice with some of his establishment colleagues, with peace offerings where it counts most: their campaign war chests.
Invitations sent to top Republicans and donors on Wednesday said Cruz is teaming up with fellow Texan and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn to host fundraisers in Houston and Dallas next month. The gatherings will benefit a coalition that’s more traditional than the tea party-backed lawmakers who are usually Cruz’s closest allies.
Sens. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina and Chuck Grassley of Iowa are set to attend the events, both on Oct. 6. Sens. Rob Portman of Ohio and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania will also benefit, though they aren’t scheduled to attend.
Ayotte, in particular, has been an outspoken Cruz critic, questioning the partial government shutdown Cruz helped spark in 2013 and criticizing him during a flap over funding for Planned Parenthood that nearly caused another shutdown two years later.
The invitations ask attendees for donations of between $1,000 and $10,000.
Cruz has refused to endorse Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump after a bitter presidential primary campaign. But the fundraisers suggest he’s willing to help Republicans beyond his conservative activist base stay in the Senate — despite railing against establishment leaders in both parties.
David Polyansky, Cruz’s chief of staff, said Cruz will allow fellow Senate Republicans to tap an extensive data network Cruz built while running for president as part of a “50-state campaign.” That means potential contact with both traditional conservatives and a robust grassroots network that made Cruz a tea party hero.
Cruz plans to travel Texas in coming weeks and encourage Republican turnout in down-ballot races. He’s also likely to make visits nationally to help Republican senators in tight races, as he did for some GOP candidates in 2014.
Polyansky said Cruz has consistently promised to help maintain the Republicans’ majority in the Senate, which could be in jeopardy, especially if Hillary Clinton defeats Trump at the top of the November ticket.
“Many in Washington want to focus on personalities and areas of past disagreement, but that’s not what this is about. It’s about him following through on his sincere desire and firm commitment to help his fellow Republican senators earn re-election,” Polyansky said in a phone interview Wednesday. “This goes well beyond happenings in Washington. This is about maintaining a Republican Senate majority.”
Earlier this week, Cruz made a $100,000 donation to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, amid questions in a few GOP circles about whether he really was doing enough to help his colleagues.
That Cornyn and Cruz are holding joint fundraisers is a bit of a surprise. Last week, Cornyn told CNN he was “not going to get involved in any primary races, particularly with my colleagues in the Senate.”
Cruz refused to endorse Cornyn’s 2014 election bid until after Cornyn had safely won that year’s Republican primary.
Cruz was the most popular politician in Texas even before he won 10 states during the presidential primary. But he was widely ridiculed for his Republican National Convention speech in Cleveland, when he refused to endorse Trump.
Polls since have suggested that Cruz’s approval ratings have slipped back in his home state, where he is up for re-election in 2018 and could face a challenger in the Republican primary.
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Top 10 Operating System of the year 2015
On: 20 December, 2015
Tagged: an operating system, computer operating system, computer operating systems, here we are taking a look at the 10 best operating systems ever created in 2015. we follow our own independent world of words in here. so lets go on!... lets give your our top 10 operating system, latest os, latest windows operating system, linux os, microsoft operating systems, operating systems, operating systems for pc, os for pc, pc operating systems, windows operating systems, windows os
Here we are taking a look at the 10 best operating systems ever created in 2015. We follow our own independent world of words in here. So, let’s go on!… Let’s give your our Top 10 Operating System of the year 2015!
Top 10 Operating System from A to Z
1. MorphOS
MorphOS Desktop shot
Verdict: Available for most of PowerPC Macs, including the Pegasos and some Acube/A-EON motherboards. Makes obsolete Macs in Apples mind working twice as fast as any PowerPC or Intel OSX version. A really small OS which is under 200MB in size. MorphOS also requires only few MHz to work. The software catalogue is also big, especially when you add all of the great AmigaOS 68k software that works instantly. Even though MorphOS is way smaller in population than the other OS’s on this list, it is a operating system that protects your privacy. There is no automatic updates of anykind. There is no one updating the OS without you knowing it. MorphOS deserves the first place of top 10 operating systems of the year 2015 without no doubt.
2. AmigaOS 4
AmigaOS 4 shot
Verdict: Available for Acube/Aeon, Pegasos and Amiga PowerPC motherboards. This OS have the very same verdicts as MorphOS, but fails a little for not supporting some of todays mainstream machines. This makes AmigaOS 4 harder to get. Other than that, AmigaOS 4 is as fast as MorphOS in usage. Your privacy is on your HD as with MorphOS. You have access to AmiStore and AmiUpdate for updating your software, but there is nothing that gets updated without your approval. This operating system also have AmigaOS 68k compatibility.
3. Windows XP
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Verdict: One of Microsofts longest living operating systems, seems to stay even in 2015. Reason for it to be on the third is that you can use the very latest browsers, games and nice programs for it. You will be able to do your work, while you can play lots of games. The OS isn’t updated by Microsoft anymore, so this OS is actually safe from Microsoft force update mania.
4. FreeBSD
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Verdict: FreeBSD is one of the top Unix-based operating systems. It is totally accessible to root user so, the user can access and change the files anytime. It is well documented and follows many standards with extensible frameworks. Its taken over Linux because Linux seems to go towards an uncertain road with Microsoft and others trying to take control of it.
5. Haiku
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Verdict: Amazing how this team have brought BeOS back to life thru Haiku. These souls deserves all the respect, but the apps catalogue for it is not so big.
6. AmigaOS 68k
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Verdict: AmigaOS 3.1 is still sold on floppies for Amiga. This time it is Cloanto. AmigaOS for 68k Amiga machines is living stronger than ever. With even more hardware released for classic Amiga machines, AmigaOS for 68k is even more demanding. It has all of the strengths as MorphOS and AmigaOS 4. Although it is sort of only available for the classic Amiga line. You can install it on any operating system with UAE on it also. Making this OS one of its kind. The only downsides is the lack of decent browsers for the platform. But beside that, this OS is certainly to keep your files where they should be without others deleting stuff without asking.. hint hint Microsoft!…
7. Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu Linux shot
Verdict: There are things going on under the hood of Linux. However, Ubuntu Linux makes Linux useable for you and me. It is graphicly attempting and it makes Linux actually starting to get fun for everyone. The good thing about Linux is that you sort of have full control, but then you need to know every inch of the operating system also. The downsides of it is the presents of Microsoft and other big companies trying to get the control over the OS. Linux seems to become less secure than before because of this.
Verdict: Way slower than MorphOS, AmigaOS 4, Haiku and Windows 7. However it is still one of the most useable operating systems still. But one big thing puts OSX further down on the list. just putting this Since El Capitan came out, MacOS have moved down on our Top 10 list. OSX itself is a nice operating system, but Apple’s control addiction have moved over from iOS to OSX also. Now Apple can control your Mac withour approval with a user that you as a home user doesn’t have access to.
9. Windows 7
Windows 7 shot
Verdict: Moved from 3rd to 9th place, because of Microsoft trying to force Windows 7 and Windows 8 users to install Windows 10 on their systems. This is a fantastic OS, but Microsoft makes sure that even one of their best products should be abandoned.
10. Windows 10
Windows 10 shot
Verdict: Microsoft have made it clear that people shouldn’t be able to use any CPU or power management tools. So they go into your computer and removes software that they think that you shouldn’t have. But the user doesn’t know that it is a Windows Update that does this job. In the end you get a summary where it says that programs have been removed. This is very illegal and Microsoft should be sued for doing this, but no one is doing anything about it. Also. Windows 10 is not that good neither. Its better than Windows 8.1, but it lacks the speed of Windows 7.
Conclusion: Our Top 10 list have been made from how these operating systems usage is and feels. With Microsoft and Apple serving two operating systems that dominates the computing world. It is quite scary to see how much they take of your privacy for each release. With all the NSA news, Distrita would think that privacy should be protected. Instead Microsoft deletes and updates their newest operating systems as it fits them. Apple have added a user to OSX El Capitan which is higher than the super administrator user.
MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 is on Distrita top, because they deliver and dont demand things of their users. People can decide what they want to do. Even the design can be edited a lot without knowing the technical specs of the operating system. They might not have Microsoft, Apple or Adobe to support them. There are tons of other well written software that is doing the same things or even better. Browsing the net with these is not optimal, but this Top 10 focuses on the total operating system usage. With privacy gone for Windows and OSX. These beasts are more dangerous than ever before.
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Divorce Coaching
High Conflict Divorce
Pre-Legal Advice From a Divorce Coach
By Colleen Honquest
Many people use divorce coaches to minimize talking to their lawyers. It’s a chance to vent about what a jerk your ex is to a professional who isn’t going to bill you as much.
Some people use their divorce coaches to take lawyers almost completely out of the equation. Divorce Coaches often have lived experience of their own with divorce. Their personal experience can be invaluable when it comes to structuring a Joint Parenting Agreement or when understanding the importance of the need for clarity and detailed information required in your Marital Settlement Agreement. Mostly, though, divorce coaches are used in conjunction with attorneys.
“I love them, and if I had my way, I’d never work without them,” says Brigitte Bell, a Chicago divorce attorney. “They help manage the clients and support them by bringing a different set of skills to the divorce process than we do.”
Randall Cooper, co-founder of CDC College for Divorce Coaching in Tampa, Florida, which provides training and certification to divorce coaches, says the average cost of a divorce coach is $100 to $150 per hour, versus $300-$500 per hour for an attorney. The cost of either often depends on geography.
A Divorce Coach in San Diego, charges $150 for a 90-minute coaching session and $385 for a 2.5-hour session. Someone with a really complicated divorce may spend as much as $750 for a five-hour session.
Just don’t mistake a divorce coach’s advice for legal advice. “It’s not,” says Cooper. “That’s the realm of the attorney.”
Hand-holding by a Divorce Coach
While some people lean on friends and family for support, that can come with its own emotional baggage. Many divorced individuals, says Dave Hilton, a Dallas-based financial conflict coach, have “family members pushing them extremely hard to take their ex for all they are worth or hurt them in another way.”
Cooper says his job is to be his client’s “thinking partner.” Divorce is a long process, and the coach goes along for the ride – not as legal counsel or therapist, but as a guide. “It’s all about creating a safe, supportive, nonjudgmental and patient environment,” says Cooper. Often in a divorce, individuals tend to isolate and think catastrophically because of all of the stress that they are experiencing. A Divorce Coach can help you base your decisions on fact instead of fear.
And the objectivity of a paid coach can be useful, says Beth Ashby, 46, a former nurse in West Lafayette, Indiana, who is getting her divorce coach certificate from CDC. “A divorce coach can really help someone define and refine their goals and let you pare down and peel the onion layers and get to what really matters,” she says.
You may have your emotions in order but not your paperwork, so there are free and low-cost services available, such as legal aid societies and software programs like DivorceWriter.com and RocketLawyer.com. But if that’s still too difficult, a coach is one level up in help (and cost).
Chris Furney, a project manager at a consumer products company in Atlanta, and his wife Anna ended their marriage in 2010 using Divorce Innovations, which specializes in divorce without lawyers. Two coaches helped the couple with everything from navigating their taxes to working out child-support issues, which was very helpful, says Furney, who admits to not initially understanding the nuts and bolts of the process.
Furney says he spent about $3,000 on his attorneys and $7,000 at Divorce Innovations, which shows that divorce coach costs can add up. But he estimates he might have spent three times that if he had only gone with lawyers, and would have lost plenty from the financial mistakes he would have made on his own. Using a Divorce Coach can save you an average of 10-20 hours of time per month (at approximately $300-$500/hour) that you may have had to spend with a lawyer. This alone could save you over $3,000 to $5,000 per month.
Colleen Honquest, Divorce Mediator and Certified Divorce Coach
Founder, DivorceMD, LLC.
Source: Williams, Geoff. “YOUR MONEY-What Can a Divorce Coach Do for You?” Reuters. Thomson Reuters, 19 Sept. 2012. Web. 05 Jan. 2016.
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Forget Formula Samples; Hospitals Give Out Breastfeeding Support Bags
It may be the end of World Breastfeeding Week, but the entire month of August is dedicated to breastmilk. Just in time, 200 hospitals of the 7,569 nationwide have ditched the formula freebies in favor of Healthy Baby Bounty Bags. And there’s not a drop of imitation breastmilk in them.
Because you know what? Getting a formula sample after you’ve given birth is like being given a Big Mac after your annual physical. Sure, it’s “food“, but it’s not the same, not as healthy.
These goodie bags contain samples from companies that make products that actually support breastfeeding. Sure, they’re companies giving breast swag to get noticed, but this is for good reason; to encourage breastfeeding while ditching the formula.
Best part about the new mom swag? The bags are green. Not only are they reusable as a breastmilk cooler, they’re made of recycled materials. Righteous. So what kind of goodies can these mamas expect?
From the press release:
This is just a baby step. We have a long way to go before breastfeeding has the same promotional support in the maternity ward that formula has today. With more involvement from companies that support breastfeeding mothers, we hope that number will continue to grow.
The cool, handy bags
Samples of nursing pads, breastmilk storage bags, lactation tea, and other goodies.
Info and coupons from companies such as Lansinoh, Bravado! Designs, Ergo, BebeAuLait, and My Brest Friend.
But breastfeeding is designed to be easy. Ideally, you don’t need anything but an open baby mouth.
What do you think, folks? It this a positive move, a step in the right diretion for proper infant health? Or is it just more “stuff” for something that seemingly needs very little for success?
Image: via the press release.
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Odum says
What a great idea.
I’ve always been supportive of my wife Andrea for breastfeeding both our children for more than a year each.
I can’t believe that there is such and outrage by some about breastfeeding in public. I don’t know whether to laugh at the stupidity or get really, really mad at the stupidity.
I think for right now it is a definite step in the right direction. Obviously, if everything was just “normal” and hospitals weren’t trying to woo business why would their be goody bags, but you know if they are going to exist they might as well have Bravado and nursing pads in them!
Claire Winstone, Ph.D. says
Gift certificates for lactation consultants would be more helpful than some of the present contents, I think, or even just a list of breastfeeding consultants’ contact information and ditto for La Leche League. I meet a lot of moms who didn’t breastfeeding because they had some trouble after leaving the hospital and didn’t know where to get help. All new moms should really have home visits from a public health nurse or breastfeeding consultant to ensure that mother and baby are settling in and getting things to work.
Cate Nelson says
Dr. Winstone,
I appreciate that thought. Of course, I’m kind of with you here, too. I don’t believe in getting more “stuff”, even if those freebies (or some of them) are useful.
I do think that this is a great substitution to those big plastic bags filled with formula junk. I even hated that my OB office for my second pregnancy gave me a similar bag, chock full of prenatal vitamins. Whereas my midwives had previously given my a booklet of their thoughts on everything from optimal health to circumcision to sciatic problems. That was much more accessible and comprehensive than, “Here, just take a few pills.”
I agree: what would be really helpful would be if LLL or similar groups would put together a booklet/sheets of troubleshooting data like they have on their Web sites. Paired with that should be local consultants and group meeting times.
But as a substitute for what is currently given, this is a good change!
I resent comparing baby formula to a Big Mac. As a mother who desperately wanted to breastfeed, but needed to supplement with formula, It took me months to not feel like l was harming my baby. Nursing is the ideal, but not for everyone and we shouldn’t be made to feel like child abusers when it doesn’t work out for us.
Kathy should look at this in a different light. One lactation consultant gave me the idea and it really works. If you did not have diabetes, no one would EVER think of giving you free samples of insulin. It would actually be risky to take it. If you had type I diabetes, you would not feel any regrets about taking insulin — and your doctor would be empathetic while your doctor told you how to manage and compensate for your health risks. Ditto for type II diabetes. In theory, one should be able to manage through diet and exercise but it is NEVER that simple. Your doctor should be empathetic to the challenges, help you figure out how to compensate for the health risks and you would use insulin if needed if you cannot control the diabetes. In this case, neither the efforts Kathy went through to try to breastfeed would be minimized. I’m sure she worked harder than any mother who had an easy time breastfeeding. I would have made sure she valued what she did try to do. And Kathy should have been counseled through compensatory mechanisms for the fact that she could not resolve those problems. While the health risks are real and well documented these do need to be balanced against other health risks. Just as in any health condition, we can take steps to manage and minimize and balance risks in ways that enable mothers to feel competent and confident.
As for the bags, great that they’re green. I am generally against promotional samples because they cost the consumer more money. If you continue to use the product you are paying for the promotional samples. Formula feeding mothers pay an extra $700 per year for the promotional samples given out in hospitals that are often wasted. I’ve even seen parents who gave their baby a sample from the hospital that was expired by a year. It was horrible — clumps of congealed gunk. All because of the huge excess of samples given to the hospitals to the point that they can’t find storage space for it and are wasting the time of nurses to manage the products.
Lauralee says
I think it is a welcome change. Bravo!
karen b says
Love to get one of these as I will be delivering in three wks but nowhere in my entire state has them. 🙁
Kathy, thanks for saying what I was thinking. I’m a mom whose grief over not being able to breastfeed nearly drove me into postpartum depression. I felt like I couldn’t possibly be a good mother to my son when I couldn’t even give him what every animal can give her young, when all I could offer him was second-best.
I think the easy venom towards formula can turn into easy cruelty towards moms who must formula-feed or supplement. I know no one means it that way, but that’s how it feels.
Susan, I like your metaphor — when I was pregnant I was an insulin-dependent gestational diabetic — I absolutely hated being diabetic, but I sure was grateful that insulin existed. Similarly, I absolutely hate that I can’t breastfeed, but thank god that formula exists (though I’d be even happier if we had some social structure for wet nursing — but that’s another subject).
Rachel and Kathy,
I often say this in my breastfeeding blogs, but didn’t think to write it here. I supplemented with my older son, and not because I couldn’t breastfeed, but because I couldn’t pump enough for when I was at work or pump enough in my stressful work environment. Luckily, my shifts were evening shifts, so he was still getting breastmilk more than he would if it were during the day.
I’m doing better this time around.
What lactivists like myself are fighting is the idea that breastmilk can be easily substituted with formula. They’re not the same. It’s not like swapping out broccoli for kale as a side dish. Formula is lacking compared to breastmilk. The formula manufacturers have people believing otherwise, and frankly MOST people supplement for reasons like mine (or less), not for the rare case of not being able to breastfeed.
Luckily, for those who are interested, there is breastmilk donation. Rachel, this is like the modern-day wet nursing. You can even find a donor nearby to avoid shipping costs:
http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/12/donating-breastmilk/
I wish we will have the same in our country soon!
I have to agree wih Kathy. I would have loved to enjoy breastfeeding my first child, but nature would not allow it. Having a happy, FED baby was more important to me than winning a losing battle. No lactation consultant, visiting nurse, or anyone else for that matter could force this “natural” thing to happen for me. My son is a handsome, happy, intelligent 16 year-old who never suffered one minute because he wasn’t breast fed.
I live in England and because of the NHS we have a real drive (admittedly it’s driven by goverment targets) to encourage breastfeeding but it’s unfortunate the in the end both mothers the do and don’t breastfeed end up feeling persecuted.
The problem is encouraging the ideal while ensuring no one feels singled out.
For me formula is like vitamins, it’s useful and an important development in order to support those who need it. However no one can claim that if we have multivitamins we should all just use them rather then eating fruit and veg. So in the same way that saying people should eat veg because it’s good for them, isn’t intended as a shot at those people who for whatever reason take vitamins (because they can’t consume enough of the things they need from food) encouraging breastfeeding is not intended to isolate the women who can’t.
Would anyone be able to tell me how to get some of these reusable bags, and some of the contents in them. I work for Public Health and we are trying to do a breastfeeding promotion through our WIC program and were thinking of handing out bags with useful items for our breastfeeding moms.
I myself breastfeed but I do go to work with in the month or so of delivering and i think if you want to do both you should get some formula from hospital why not
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20 women doing fascinating work in AI, machine learning and data science – Siliconrepublic.com
By admin On Mar 9, 2020
Gender balance in AI conference line-ups has been noticeably poor. But women in AI exist and their work is multifaceted and extraordinary.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the hot ticket in tech at the moment. Unfortunately, too many events and conferences delving into the subject, and its related disciplines of machine learning (ML) and data science, feature few women – if at all – among their speakers.
To prove it doesn’t have to be like this, and as a follow-on from International Women’s Day, we at Silicon Republic have found 20 terrific women in AI, ML and data science who we think should be turning up in speaker line-ups across the country (and around the world).
Alessandra Sala
Alessandra Sala is head of analytics research at Nokia Bell Labs and technology advisory board member at CeADAR, Ireland’s Centre for Applied AI. She’s also the chief ambassador of Women in AI Ireland.
Women in AI is a non-profit working towards gender-inclusive AI for the benefit of global society. The group’s most recent Dublin meet-up took place at Trinity Business School and posed challenging questions around ethically driven AI design.
1st Nokia Bell Labs AI Conference … creative time on the go 😊 @BellLabs pic.twitter.com/6ls6aKH0Z3
— Alessandra Sala (@Ale_xsandra) June 13, 2018
An active, visible and well-connected member of Ireland’s AI community, Sala’s research at Nokia Bell Labs focuses on distributed algorithms and complexity analysis with an emphasis on graph algorithms and privacy issues in large-scale networks.
Gillian Armstrong is a proven dab hand at tech events, having co-organised AI Con in Belfast in late 2019 as well as ServerlessDays Belfast at the beginning of this year.
All set for #BFSServerless today, unicorn t-shirt and all! Even roped @MrVirtualGill into volunteering!#ServerlessDays pic.twitter.com/n0CKNKLzFa
— Gillian Armstrong (@virtualgill) January 24, 2020
A solutions architect with Liberty IT where she is helping to bring machine learning and serverless systems to the world of enterprise, Armstrong was recently named a global AWS Machine Learning Hero.
She is most excited by applied AI and exploring how software engineers and data scientists can work closer together with the right tools. She’s also passionate about ethical AI and human-centred design, and eagerly shares what she learns with others online and off.
Sarah Jarvis
Head of data science at Prowler, Sarah Jarvis was named among Re-Work’s 30 influential women advancing AI last year. She spoke last summer at CogX, the festival of AI and emerging technology, about building “a principled decision-based AI system” at the Cambridge-based company.
Prowler is building a platform that allows for complex decision-making in environments such as smart cities, logistics businesses and interconnected financial systems. Jarvis believes the future of tech-enabled decision-making will have to be instantaneous but also scalable and transmittable. She also believes there needs to be trust and, for that to happen, those who build AI need to be able to explain the how and why behind their tech’s decisions.
Jennifer Cruise
Head of data science at the Aon Centre for Innovation and Analytics in Dublin, Jennifer Cruise believes she’s in the “most exciting” industry for delving into data, and it’s true that insurance has deep roots in the history of analytics.
Jennifer Cruise, head of data science at ACIA. Image: Luke Maxwell/Siliconrepublic.com
Cruise has a solid academic background in maths, including a master’s degree in the subject, but she believes this kind of work requires a fusion of creative thinking with logic, data science and machine learning.
She has previously spoken at events on the challenges that businesses face relating to data, including how to deal with the abundance of information that is now available and, of course, the key issues of skills and resources.
Abeba Birhane
Abeba Birhane is a cognitive science PhD candidate at University College Dublin (UCD) and Lero, the Irish software research centre. Her interdisciplinary research intersects embodied cognitive science, dialogism, complexity science, critical data studies and philosophy of technology.
A thoughtful contributor on topics of AI, ethics and data science, Birhane explores the dynamic and reciprocal relationships between people – both as individuals and as a society – and the ubiquitous digital technology we encounter daily as well as newer, emerging technologies.
Image: Abeba Birhane
Birhane teaches subjects such as critical thinking and ethics and, last year, she was on stage at Code Mesh LDN and other events, urging audiences to embrace uncertainty.
Niamh Donnelly
Niamh Donnelly was awarded a master’s in computer science from UCD followed by an AI Award for a student project in 2018. She then joined Akara Robotics just as the company was spinning out from a robotics research team at Trinity College Dublin.
At Akara, Donnelly leads the development of the AI behind Stevie, a social robot and recent Time magazine cover star. She’s working to improve Stevie’s ability to communicate and interact with people autonomously in social settings and she brings this research to the field, observing Stevie in nursing homes surrounded by people and even calling games of bingo.
Rozenn Dahyot
Prof Rozenn Dahyot is a Trinity statistics professor whose research dives into deep learning and computer vision. She’s a principal investigator with the AIMapIT project at the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded Adapt research centre, leading research on data analysis and visualisation.
AIMapIT’s AI system can support the discovery, detection and GPS mapping of stationary objects such as traffic lights, antennas, road signs or even individual trees. This technology could be used by utility companies to conduct a fully automated inventory of their assets, or it could aid autonomous vehicles in navigating ever-changing cityscapes.
Dahyot is also president of the Irish Pattern Recognition and Classification Society, which runs the Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference, and is leading the organisation of the 29th European Signal Processing Conference in Dublin next year.
Keelin Murphy
Dr Keelin Murphy previously led the Delphi project to develop a smart brain monitoring system at Infant, the Irish Centre for Maternal and Child Health.
Delphi set out to use AI to help detect the severity of brain damage in infants as soon as possible, enabling early intervention and appropriate tailored therapies. As a research fellow on the project, Murphy could apply her expertise from her PhD thesis on automated medical image analysis.
From left: Infant director and professor of neonatal physiology at UCC, Geraldine Boylan, with Delphi project research fellow Dr Keelin Murphy. Image: Clare Keogh
She now works as a postdoctoral researcher for Radboud University Medical Centre, bringing her knowledge on applying machine and deep learning to the analysis of medical images to focus on chest X-rays.
Alison O’Shea
PhD student Alison O’Shea was instrumental in Infant winning Best Application of AI in an Academic Research Body at both the 2018 and 2019 AI Awards. Primarily trained as an electrical engineer, she develops deep-learning algorithms for physiological signal processing, and her project at the Cork research centre focuses on the detection of seizure events in neonatal EEG signals.
Alison O’Shea. Image: UCC
While completing her PhD in University College Cork (UCC), O’Shea works as a machine learning engineer at Qualcomm and, in 2018, she was recognised by Google as one of 20 Women Techmaker Scholars in the EMEA region. A publication arising from her PhD research was named as best publication of 2019 in the UCC School of Engineering.
Susan Leavy
Multi-disciplinarian Dr Susan Leavy holds an MPhil in gender and women’s studies, an MSc in AI, and a BA in philosophy and English literature. She also earned a PhD in computer science for her work detecting gender bias in political media coverage using ML and natural language processing (NLP). She then worked internationally in the investment banking sector, managing the design and development of large-scale trading platforms.
Dr Susan Leavy it’s important to design research and technology with users in mind. This should incorporate diversity and inclusion. Concepts of fairness have to be built into algorithms. #IWD2020 #equality pic.twitter.com/bYw1jWq4UE
— UCD Equality Diversity & Inclusion (@UCD_EDI) March 5, 2020
Now assistant professor at the School of Information and Communication in UCD, her research interests concern AI and digital policy, developing interdisciplinary frameworks for the governance and regulation of machine learning algorithms. Her postdoctoral research with Insight, the SFI-funded research centre for data analytics, and the UCD School of English, Drama and Film explored the use of AI and text mining for cultural analytics.
With more than two decades’ experience in academia, pharma, regulation and clinical research, Nicole Baker recently turned her focus to developing AI solutions for clinical safety. She participated in Enterprise Ireland’s 2019 New Frontiers Entrepreneur Development Programme and from this came Biologit, an early-stage technology start-up.
Nicole Baker. Image: Trinity College Dublin
Biologit’s aim is to help keep patients safe by simplifying the detection of adverse events from drug development to post-market, and to provide those developing and dispensing medicines with accurate information about safety, efficacy and the quality of medicinal products. Its first product is a cloud-based tool using NLP to monitor adverse events in medical literature faster and with greater accuracy.
Georgiana Ifrim
Dr Georgiana Ifrim is actively shaping the next generation of machine learning talent coming out of Ireland as co-lead of ML Labs, the SFI centre for research training in machine learning, which has been designed to address the urgent industry demand for ML skills.
Had fun talking about @ml_labs_irl with @heerme at @UCDGS event yesterday. Still time to apply for our next cohort starting in September 2020. @scienceirel @UCDCompSci #believeinscience #PhD #MachineLearning https://t.co/0EKwEntXpM pic.twitter.com/4CerzvFavm
— Brian Mac Namee (@BrianMacNamee) February 20, 2020
Ifrim is also an assistant professor at UCD and researcher at SFI’s Insight and VistaMilk research centres. Her research focuses on developing scalable predictive models for ML and data mining applications, and she has developed new methods for sequence learning, time series classification, text mining and real-time prediction for news and social streams.
Claire Gormley
Dr Claire Gormley is also co-director of a new SFI centre for research training, this one focusing on the foundations of data science. Like her UCD colleague Ifrim, she is a funded investigator at the Insight and VistaMilk research centres. Statistical methods developed through her research have been applied in a wide range of fields, from social science and genetics to metabolomics and orthopaedics.
Claire Gormley. Image: UCD
Much of this work is computationally intensive and involves working with big data sets, and one of the biggest challenges Gormley identifies is separating the good from the bad when it comes to a world of data. “Lots of good data is the holy grail, but lots of bad data is very dangerous,” she says.
Claudia Orellana-Rodriguez
Salvadoran Claudia Orellana-Rodriguez is the lead research engineer at RecSys Labs, a project at the Insight centre seeking to build an online recommendations engine that is explainable, transparent and, most importantly, preserves user privacy.
She is also co-founder and CEO of Libre AI, a company leveraging AI and ML for clients in the commercial, public and social sectors; and co-organiser of the Dublin chapter of Women in Machine Learning and Data Science (WiMLDS).
The Joy of Neural Painting by @vedax. The results can be seen in the #residual collection at @cuevagallery 🙂 https://t.co/rpEqEHDuIR
— Claudia Orellana-Rodriguez (@ClaOr9) September 18, 2019
Orellana-Rodriguez is committed to investigating AI as both a tool and medium for creativity and she shows her appreciation for the creative side of AI as co-founder of Cueva, an online gallery dedicated to AI art.
Shana Chu
Shana Chu is CEO and founder of Styl.Wrap, an Enterprise Ireland-backed start-up with a data-driven solution for one of online retail’s most wasteful challenges.
We were at the @Entirl start up showcase yesterday. #startups #globalambition #fashiontech #retailtechhttps://t.co/VMSksqAprF pic.twitter.com/3r94aQruEF
— STYL.wrap (@stylwrap) February 26, 2020
According to Chu, 41pc of online shoppers buy multiple sizes of garments in order to check the fit at home. With her own experience as an online shopper and a garment technologist, Chu devised a solution that uses machine learning and an AI algorithm to analyse shoppers’ buying history and fabric specifications in order to better predict the fit. The result is a sizing recommendations engine that can reduce the cost and carbon footprint of shipping multiple sizes to try, and tackle the issue of overproduction in the fashion industry.
Sita Karki
Dr Sita Karki works as an Earth observation computational scientist at both the Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC) and NUI Galway. She uses satellite images to study the past and present condition of the environment, writing programmes to process these big data sets.
Karki is interested in studying natural hazards using remote sensing techniques and has developed early warning systems for both rainfall-induced landslides and harmful algal blooms.
Currently, she is working on two projects using data from the Copernicus satellite and remote sensing of water. The Macro-MAN project is a follow-on from the Sea-MAT project studying macroalgal blooms in transitional and coastal Irish waters, while Infer is a three-year project developing algorithms to support the monitoring of water quality of Irish surface waters.
Medb Corcoran
Medb Corcoran drives the artificial intelligence R&D work of Accenture Labs in Ireland, finding ways to address critical business problems by applying leading-edge AI techniques, including ML, NLP, knowledge representation and reasoning. Prior to this role, she worked at Accenture’s Dublin RD&I centre, The Dock, overseeing teams prototyping and piloting advanced analytics and AI projects across various industries and sectors.
Medb Corcoran. Image: Ruth Medjber/ruthlessimagery.com
Corcoran’s own background is in mathematics, finance, data science and AI, and she now has a hand in guiding third-level education in data science. She was invited to be part of an industry working group designing the first MSc in artificial intelligence in Ireland.
Patricia Scanlon
Soapbox Labs was founded in 2013 by Dr Patricia Scanlon, who was inspired to improve speech recognition for children from observing her young daughter interact with voice-led technology.
Turning entrepreneur after a 20-year career with IBM and Bell Labs, Scanlon put her research and expertise on speech recognition to work to develop an AI-driven, child-specific solution. By 2018, she was recognised by Forbes as one of the world’s top women in tech.
Soapbox Labs uses deep neural net-based speech-recognition technology to assess children’s speech in real-world noise environments. It’s built to integrate easily into third-party apps and web services, enabling a huge range of applications, from childhood literacy and language learning through to voice control in gaming.
Suzanne Little
Dr Suzanne Little is an associate professor at Dublin City University’s School of Computing and a researcher in multimedia semantics and video analysis at the Insight base there.
She teaches data management and visualisation all the while continuing her research on a number of industry, national and European projects. One such project is the Smart Stadium set-up at Croke Park, in partnership with Intel and Microsoft.
Little sees the smart instrumented stadium as “a microcosm of a smart city” and, with Croke Park, her research team identified scenarios they could monitor through sensoring and technology, and are now looking at how AI can be used to act on this data.
Ivana Dusparic
Dr Ivana Dusparic is an assistant professor in future cities and the internet of things at Trinity College Dublin and a funded investigator at Connect, the SFI research centre for future networks and communications.
Her research explores the use of AI for the autonomous optimisation of large-scale urban infrastructures, especially intelligent transport systems. For example, she has studied how to use machine learning on linked systems such as traffic lights to help keep transport and pedestrians flowing efficiently.
Delighted to host the first cohort of PhD students in SFI CRT in Artificial Intelligence for a week long training in @tcd_scss. What a great group to work with! @crt_ai @TCDdeanresearch @scienceirel #believeinscience https://t.co/68HTk42ld6
— Ivana Dusparic (@ivanadusparic) December 9, 2019
Dusparic understands that machine learning requires more than just software and that insights from psychology, education and ethics have an important role to play too.
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S.No Book Title Book Author Please describe the book and why you think it would be a good choice for the EASA Community. (3-5 sentences) Online Link if any
1 Ganga to Mekong- A Cultural Voyage through Textiles Hema Devare The book deals with the cultural connection between India and South-east Asia and the role played by Indian Textiles as mobile cultural vehicles in cementing this connection. http://www.amazon.in/Ganga-Mekong-Cultural-Through-Textiles/dp/9350981084
2 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce It's James Joyce. It's understandable. The theme of the book weaves the intellectual arousal of the main character undergoing a serious of religious renewals. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4217
3 The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery It is a very interesting novel, translated from the French, about an older woman who is a concierge, not rich, but extremely interested in art and music and reading; and a rich young girl who lives in the same building. They share the same views about life and things in general.
4 Karachi Halwa Prabhu Dayal Karachi Halwa is witty but insightful portrayal of Zia ul Haq's rule in Pakistan. Ambassador Prabhu Dayal shares his recollections of that period and keeps you laughing throughout his account of the bumpy ride of Pakistan's domestic politics and his relationship with India. It would be of interest to EASA members because of its content and hilarious anecdotes. www.zorbabooks.com
5 Diplomatic Baggage the adventures of a trailing spouse Brigid Keenan Describes our life in the Foreign Service with a great deal of humor! The author also has a chapter on her spouse 's posting in India
6 Accidental Apprentice Mr. Vikas Swarup As the book is written by our own service officer
7 Farthest Fields Raghu Karnad Story about India's involvement in the second World War. It's a beautifully written account of that period and we'll worth a read.
8 Jinnah often came to our house Kiran Doshi Story of India and families in Bombay in the run up to independence written in excellent literary style
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Demolished: 1970
Location: Warwick (Southern Line)
In 1921 an elevated coal stage was erected on the south-eastern side of the Condamine River Bridge. It was a coal stage and storage bunker.
PB15 444 was one of the locos regularly on ‘stage duties’. It would gingerly push a rake of loaded coal hoppers from one end of Warwick Yard to the other to gain sufficient speed to get up the stage.
One of the tracks went in a straight line to the stage. Too little speed, try again, too much, and over the end went the hoppers.
Warwick Coal stage looking back towards the station.
BB18 1/4 1081 passing alongside the Warwick Coal stage.
PB15 444 was one of the regulars on ‘coal stage duty’.
Although it was demolished in 1970, evidence of where this coal stage was built can still be seen.
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The investigation of the crimes was transferred to the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) since such crimes are not the jurisdiction of NABU.
On April 15, NABU opened criminal proceedings on possible treason and other crimes by officials of the State Bureau of Investigation. This was reported by the press service of NABU.
NABU detectives have included into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations the information on the facts of possible commission of criminal offenses under Art. 111 (High treason), Part 3, Art. 109 (Actions aimed at forcibly changing or overthrowing the constitutional system or seizing state power), Part 2 of Art. 364 (abuse of power or official position), Part 2 of Art. 256 (Assistance to members of criminal organizations and concealing their criminal activities), Part 3 of Art. 382 (Failure of judgment) of the Criminal Code.
The investigation began in accordance with the decision of the Solomensky District Court of Kyiv, and on April 1, the proceedings were sent to the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office to determine the jurisdiction. The NABU noted that all of these crimes, with the exception of Art. 364, do not belong to the jurisdiction of the bureau.
The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office identified that the Security Service of Ukraine could investigate possible crimes. Details of the production and names of suspects in the NABU were not reported. However, earlier, the Solomensky District Court of Kyiv ordered the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) to open a case against the Director of the State Bureau of Investigation, Roman Truba, on the fact of possible illegal actions, in particular, on suspicion of treason.
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More than 28,000 people in Malaysia have had to evacuate due to serious floods.
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Flooding hits the country's east coast during the rainy season annually and often results in mass evacuations, but people in some areas said this year's are the worst in decades.
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The worst-hit state is Pahang, where over 21,000 have been evacuated in recent days, according to the social welfare department.
Four deaths have so far been reported in the states of Pahang and Johor.
This year's floods come against the backdrop of a worsening coronavirus outbreak in Malaysia, with some fearful they could be exposed to COVID-19 in crowded relief centres.
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CPTPP tariff cuts may not reduce auto prices
The prices of imported automobiles in the Vietnamese market may not reduce as much as expected after the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) came into effect on Monday, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
A display at Vietnam AutoExpo 2018. While the implementation of the CPTPP will reduce tariffs on imported cars, customers are not likely to see big price drops. — VNA/VNS Photo
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Of 11 members of the CPTPP, which abolishes import tariffs on many products for its member countries, Viet Nam imports cars from Japan and Canada.
As cars are categorised as a sensitive product, their import is still regulated strictly and must follow the set roadmap. Cars imported from Japan are mostly made by Lexus and Subaru, and include some Toyota models such as the Land Cruiser and Prado.
According to an official from the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Multilateral Trade Policy Department who was quoted anonymously by vneconomy.vn, in addition to import taxes, vehicles are subject to a special consumption tax and other fees.
“If the import tax is reduced but the special consumption tax and other fees are increased, automobile prices will not decrease as expected,” he said.
He said this was a matter of balancing infrastructure and the number of vehicles, not a trade defence issue. The structure of automakers and importers also has a big impact, meaning the import tax would be never the only factor in determining car prices.
Under the CPTPP, Viet Nam has pledged to reduce tariff barriers for cars from Japan and Canada in the seventh year from the date the agreement was signed. Imported cars from these two countries, if they meet origin standards, will be taxed at zero per cent following the annual reduction schedule.
The country will abolish import duties in the 13th year for new cars of all types. Cars with engine displacement capacity of 3,000cc or more will have a tax cut schedule in the 10th year.
It will also apply tariff quotas on old cars with an initial volume of 66 units. This volume will be gradually increased to 150 units from the 16th year. At the same time, the tax rate in quotas will drop to zero per cent in the 16th year, while the non-quota taxes will follow the import tax rate.
Auto imports down
Viet Nam imported more than 81,600 cars at a value of US$1.8 billion in 2018, down 16.1 per cent in volume and 19.8 per cent in value compared with the previous year, according to a report from the General Department of Customs.
The decrease was due to several barriers from the Government’s Decree 116, which stipulates the conditions for production, assembly, import and business of automobile warranty and maintenance services, including requirements for Vehicle Type Approval (VTA) certificates, road tests and inspections of every batch of imported vehicles.
The volume of cars with nine seats or fewer was highest with over 53,980 units, worth more than $1 billion. This was followed by trucks with nearly 24,190 units worth $501 million.
Thailand was the largest source of the imports with 55,360 units, earning nearly $1.1 billion. Indonesia was next with 17,150 cars worth $269 million.
Viet Nam spent over $3.5 billion to import components and auto parts of all kinds.
2018 car sales up
According to the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, total sales of the Vietnamese market increased by 5.8 per cent year-on-year in 2018 to 288,683 units. On average, each day Vietnamese people bought about 790 cars.
Passenger car sales reached 196,949 units, up 27.7 per cent. Commercial vehicles were next at 84,598 units, down 19.2 per cent. Finally, special-purpose vehicles saw 7,136 units sold, a decrease of 48.5 per cent.
Locally assembled cars had overwhelming had a majority of the market share, reaching 215,704 units, up 10.6 per cent. Meanwhile, imported cars are only one-third of the total revenue of VND73 trillion ($3.14 billion), down 6.2 per cent over the same period last year. — VNS
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M. Earl Miller
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Earl Miller has been involved with skiing for 35 years. He has trained many ski instructors and has taught thousands of students. Earl enjoyed helping junior racers and coached the Weber State Ski Team from 1964 to 1975.
PSIA was conceived in 1958 by such skiing notables as Kerr Sparks, Paul Valar, Jimmy Johnston, Junior Bounous, Ed Heath, Dr. Chuck Hibbard, and Earl Miller. Certification procedures, recruiting and training instructors, and related problems of the ski industry were many of the considerations during that meeting. The American Teaching Method was taking shape as PSIA was incorporated in 1961, and Earl influenced its development.
Earl served on the Board of Directors for PSIA-Intermountain and was an examiner for the verification of instructors. Earl was the Ski School Director at Snow Basin for 35 years. He has received many awards through the years:
1965-1966 The Don Reddish Award for outstanding activity in focusing the interest of youth in skiing in the Intermountain Division of the USSA
1972-1973 Ski School Director of the Year, ISIA
1977-1978 Lifetime membership in PSIA-I
1981-1982 Utah Handicapped Ski Association Certificate of Appreciation for interest and dedication in serving handicapped skiers of Utah
1984 Bonneville International Corporation and KSL TV Lowell Thomas Award in recognition of his outstanding service in pioneering, enhancing, and promoting the ski industry of Utah.
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The Poem “Alone” by Edgar Allan Poe , is perceived to be about the childhood past of Poe. With his writing styles of mystery and macabre, this poem ties into with that by reflecting on his dark, lonely, deceptive and indifferent childhood. As the poem tends to unfold the author shows signs of sadness, he’s comparing his life to others from his childhood because he didn’t have the luxury they had growing up. Being an orphan or a foster kid can take a huge toll on one’s mind, he was deeply impacted by the cruel,loneliness growing up, being positive and happy was a huge obstacle to overcome. In the beginning of the poem he refers to that his childhood was very different from the normal,which was true in many cases.
At an early age the way he viewed life wasn’t normal, his emotions were different from every sense emotional,physical, and mental. As Edgar Allan Poe states in the poem “ I have not seen as others saw” what he means byt his si that his point of view of life and how things are perceived are at a different value to thoses who he grew up around. Also he states “I could not bring my passions from a common spring” which can be interpreted as a metaphor for the way he feels or where his feelings came from. A “common spring” is referred to everyone that wasn’t him and how their feelings and desires all generated from one common place whereas Poes came from somewhere totally different. Edgars upbringing was no cherry ride, through his childhood eyes he saw that every child around him got ecstatic about the same thing , like leaving a “kid in a candy store” whereas Poes “candy” was driven opposite.
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As a child you have no cares in the world ,the greatest thing they have is their expandable imagenation. Since he describes a part of his childhood as “stormy” his misery,unhappiness was graver. The things that would excite a child has a different reaction towards him. “Then-in my childhood-in the dawn, Of a most stormy life-was drawn, From ev’ry depth of good and ill, The Mystery binds me still”. (Edgar Allen Poe “Alone”) That part in the poem is quite unique because it gives the sense of feel towards a sense of change in pace, as it starts with the word then. Even though he’s writing this poem as a flashback of his childhood,it feels like a bit of of a mystery is starting to storm. He says “the dawn-,Of a most stormy night” is used as a metaphor , yet dawn is portrayed as starting over ,a new day, since childhood adolescence is part of the start of life. While thinking back on his childhood he realizes that most bad things in his life started in his childhood instead of a beautiful start to his childhood his started as a “storm”. He subsequently says that his childhood lead to the ups and downs and way downs of his adult life and the day of the “storm” was just the tip of the iceberg.
Towards the end of the stanza he used the word bind which is used as being manipulated,tied up or enchained. The way Poe uses the word mystery ties it all together because the speaker says “its comes from every depth good and ill” his childhood started off on a ruff patch and the mystery still has a hold of him and through his experiences good and bad. For example the good referring to the loving relationship he had with his adopted mother and the ill as his dismantled childhood from adoption,and the death of his birth parents. As Poe looks back on his childhood,he knows what the reader doesn’t know thats where mystery plays its role. When broken down it gives the feel of Poe having a sixth sense in a way which explains why he felt, seen, and experienced things out of the ordinary as a kid,maybe there was more to it than just being different.
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A blog about Poetry, God, and Detroit (in no particular order)
The Spirit of Detroit and Christian Hope
Posted on 8 March 2014 by eebelz Standard 1
Statue informally known as the “Spirit of Detroit,” by Marshall Fredericks. The sculpture sits outside the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center at Woodward and Jefferson Aves. Photo by the author.
The Detroit city motto has become better known in recent years, thanks to the proliferation of books—about the city’s history, and, yes, about the ruins, by authors who live in the Metro Area and love the city—and of merchandise such as bookbags, t-shirts, postcards, and other items you might find at City Bird, the Detroit Merchantile Company, Pure Detroit, various Eastern Market vendors, pop-ups, or other local boutiques. Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus—We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes. These words were penned by Father Gabriel Richard, a Catholic priest and a major figure in Detroit and Michigan history, after fire destroyed the city in 1805.
What does it mean to “hope for better things”? Is it the same kind of hope as when children hope for a snow day, or when you hope your favorite team will win the game?
I think the fact that it was written by a priest in the context of city-wide disaster suggests that Fr. Richard was thinking more along the lines of Christian hope, which I would define as the confidence we have in virtue of our trust in God, whom we know to be trustworthy. That’s a very different kind of hope.
Which is well and good and quite encouraging, really, for Christians, and perhaps for other religious theists. But in today’s pluralistic context, even in a predominately Christian city like Detroit, I think it’s important to find where a similar kind of hope is accessible to all.
Confidence from trusting in that which is trustworthy—where can we find that today? Not in City Hall, not in Kevyn Orr or Gov. Rick Snyder, not in Dan Gilbert or the Ilich family; not in the economy, certainly not in the strength of the U.S. Dollar. Not even in the ideal of democracy, which is so clearly broken. I would suggest we find that secular version of confident hope in the people of Detroit: in its people of good will, whose civic identity and spirit, I think, is characterized by strength, loyalty, pride, and resilience. “Detroit hustles harder,” as they say.
The religious meaning of hope is, I think, primary; but it’s important even for those of us who consciously place our trust in God to also discriminate among those objectives vying for our hope in the world around us. We’re fooling ourselves if we think we place our trust in God, and also place it in an earthly savior, such as a corporate benefactor or a politician. We’re fooling ourselves if we think we “seek first the kingdom of God and its righteousness” but also chase after economic security before all else. But for people of faith, hoping in God is always done in community, as community. Jews, Christians, and Muslims are people of covenant. We believe God calls peoples into covenant with Godself, and so we simply cannot fully trust in God without each other. To trust in the human spirit—in this case, the spirit of Detroit—requires civic engagement, concern for one’s neighbor, and holding virtues like charity, commitment, and forgiveness above the shiny distraction of money. It requires creativity, sharing, peacemaking, and hard work—but not just the individualistic hard work of earning one’s own living. It is entirely congruent, I think, with trust in God, because God’s dwelling is among the people. (If you don’t believe me, go read James Cone or Jim Perkinson, or any of the Liberation Theologians.) If we are to trust in one another, though, we must work, as a people, to be trustworthy—to be worthy of this confident hope. Thankfully, we bear this task together.What kind of city do we want to build? What Detroit do we want to be?
Official city seal, also at city hall (visible on the upper left in the image above). Photo by the author.
The LORD brings the will of the nations to naught;
he thwarts the designs of the peoples.
But the LORD’S will stands fast for ever,
and the designs of his heart from age to age.
Happy is the nation whose God is the LORD!
happy the people he has chosen to be his own!
The LORD looks down from heaven,
and beholds all the people in the world.
From where he sits enthroned he turns his gaze
on all who dwell on the earth.
He fashions all the hearts of them
and understands all their works.
There is no king that can be saved by a mighty army;
a strong man is not delivered by his great strength.
The horse is a vain hope for deliverance;
for all its strength it cannot save.
Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon those who fear him,
on those who wait upon his love,
To pluck their lives from death,
and to feed them in time of famine.
Our soul waits for the LORD;
he is our help and our shield.
Indeed, our heart rejoices in him,
for in his holy Name we put our trust.
Let your loving-kindness, O LORD, be upon us,
as we have put our trust in you.
(Psalm 33:10-22, BCP)
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Dear Prime Minister, Egypt’s Government Must Act Now
Egyptian Streets
Source: REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
In a televised briefing yesterday, you announced that the government had done ‘its best to delay the highly contagious virus outbreak’. During the same briefing, you announced that ‘strict measures’ would be introduced following the end of Ramadan, with ‘penalties’ for those violating procedures.
As you may know, Egypt’s isolation hospitals have already reached maximum capacity, per the Ministry of Health. The number of infections in Egypt continues to rise, reaching new highs every day. The number of deaths also continues to rise at a rate that is much higher than expected when compared to the number of recorded infections.
Yet, you would like to wait another 15 days, which is when Ramadan ends, to implement ‘strict’ measures?
If the Egyptian government has done its best to ‘delay’ the spread of COVID-19, why are these strict measures not already in place?
Why is the curfew – which at the start of the outbreak commenced at 7PM but now commences at 9PM despite an increase in infections – being violated by hundreds and thousands across Egypt, including businesses, without repercussions and penalties? What happened to the government’s enforcement of the restrictions?
It would be shortsighted to not recognise that the Egyptian government had, in the first few weeks in March and April, done a commendable job to contain the spread of the virus. Isolation hospitals were quickly set up, health procedures were implemented in coordination with the World Health Organization, and a nation-wide awareness campaign was launched. In fact, even the curfew – despite being limited – seemed to have been effective in a number of hot spots in Egypt.
So what happened? Why has the Egyptian government stopped enforcing its measures? Why are stricter measures not implemented sooner?
You argued in your briefing that the ‘full lock-down’ implemented by some countries across the world had taken a heavy toll on those countries’ economies. You argued that there have been calls for ‘stricter’ measures, but that there must be a balance between health and economy.
Egypt, though, is not like the many other countries which are often used as a reference point. As noted, the country has recorded ‘just’ 8,000 positive cases of COVID-19 cases, yet its isolation hospitals are at maximum capacity. What will happen, in the coming weeks, when the number of recorded infections reaches the tens of thousands? What will happen if the number of cases in Egypt reaches 100,000?
Collapse of Egypt’s health system. Without a functioning health system, Egypt’s entire economy is at risk. There will be no ‘economy’ to care about when people cannot bury their loved ones, when everyday Egyptians cannot seek medical assistance, when chaos ensues on Egypt’s streets due to the frustrations suffered by Egyptians who live in poverty or are barely getting by each day.
How will consumer spending and confidence continue – at any level – when businesses are forced to shut down not just for a two-week lock down or to abide by stricter curfew hours, but for months due to the wide spread of the virus?
How will industrial and energy projects in Egypt continue when the labour force is severely impacted by the virus and when foreign investors shy away from a country plagued by COVID-19?
How will Egypt attract visitors to the inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum in 2021, to its beautiful antiquities and historical sites, to its beach resorts and natural gems, if the virus is not contained?
Billionaires and millionaires have advised the Egyptian government – both in private and public forums – that the ‘country must open up’ and must ‘maintain a balance’ to ‘protect the economy’. Yet, these individuals represent less than one percent of Egypt’s population. They are also the individuals who can escape a collapse of Egypt’s health system by simply flying overseas on a private jet to ‘safer’ countries.
While a full lock-down and long curfew hours have impacted the economies of countries, the short term impact pales in comparison with the long term impact of not appropriately containing the virus. Countries like India and Jordan – both with vastly different economies but with socio-economics that are not too different from Egypt – managed to implement a full lock-down ‘at the expense of the economy’, avoiding a surge of COVID-19 cases. While India, with 1.3 billion people, is still struggling, analysts say that its lock-down avoided a far greater catastrophe.
Vietnam is another great example of a country which acted early and efficiently, despite the fact that a large portion of its population relies on daily wages. The country ordered all schools to shut down for three months and businesses to shut down for four weeks and banned people from leaving their homes for non-essential reasons. As a result of this, Vietnam has recorded less than 300 COVID-19 cases and zero deaths, with no new COVID-19 cases in the community for more than two weeks. Businesses and schools have now resumed operations and the economy is back on track.
Countries that implemented strict measures – including lock-downs – have ‘flattened the curve’ and have already started planning for a post-coronavirus reality. Egypt has not even reached its peak, yet its nationwide curfew is only nine hours long and is being ignored by people across the country.
Egypt is in the danger zone and the economy will not survive if stronger measures are not implemented and enforced.
Admittedly, Prime Minister, you are correct in saying that ‘it’s not about the curfew hours, but more about behaviour [of people]’. But, in a country of 100 million with a significant portion of its population struggling to make a livelihood, simply abandoning ship and blaming people’s behaviour is not enough – particularly when the government is not enforcing its existing measures and, in the past weeks, has relaxed the restrictions.
COVID-19 will not sit idly by and wait two weeks for the Egyptian government to introduce and enforce ‘strict’ measures at the end of Ramadan.
It will be difficult. Egyptians will struggle, particularly those who rely on the daily wage. However, Egyptian people are kind, charitable and hospitable. During times of need, they will rise up to support those around them. So, if the government wanted to really do its best, the time to act is now.
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Physiology of Class III PI 3-kinase Signaling 2
Backer, Jonathan M. (PI)
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Autophagy is a cellular response to nutrient stress, in which the formation of a double-walled membrane structure sequesters cytosolic components and organelles and delivers them to the lysosome for degradation. This liberates nutrients for use in new biosynthetic activity. Autophagy is critical for perinatal survival in mice, plays a role in normal tissue maintenance in neurons, hepatocytes, and pancreatic beta cells, and contributes to innate immune responses to pathogens. Its activation under pathological conditions leads to disease states such as muscle wasting, and decreases in autophagic activity may contribute to neurological decline in aging and in neurodegenerative disease. Thus, pharmacological modulation of autophagy may have significant clinical benefit. One approach to modulating autophagy would be through the Class III PI 3-kinase, hVps34, which is required for autophagy in yeast, flies and mammalian cells. hVps34 exists in multi-protein complexes containing components specific for autophagy (Atg14L) or vesicular trafficking (UVRAG), as well as components that function in both these pathways (hVps15, beclin-1). The mechanisms that regulate hVps34 activity, its recruitment to these complexes, and their subcellular localization, are not well understood. This proposal addresses these questions through a focused analysis of hVps34 regulation in mammalian cells and in zebrafish. Aim 1 uses a chemical genetic approach to examine the regulation of hVps34 by the hVps15 protein kinase. It is based on our exciting data showing that the binding of hVps15 to hVps34, previously thought to require hVps15 activity, is in fact kinase independent and only requires hVps15 binding to ATP. Using hVps15 mutants that are able to utilize ATP analogues, we will define kinase dependent and independent signaling by hVps15, and identify hVps15 substrates. Aim 2 examines the dynamics of hVps34 complex formation, both at the whole cell level and, using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP), on the autophagosomal membrane. We will determine whether nutrient starvation regulates subunit exchange between hVps34 complexes, and ask whether hVps34-associated proteins are recruited in tandem, or individually, to autophagosomal membranes. Aim 3 uses fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy, a method able to define the stoichiometry of cytosolic hVps34 complexes in living cells, to measure the regulation of complex formation by nutrients. Finally, Aim 4 uses novel mutants that selectively disrupt hVps34 binding to calmodulin and hVps15 binding to Rab5 and Rab7, block hVps34 degradation, and abolish hVps34 lipid kinase activity while preserving its protein kinase activity. These mutants will be used in a knockdown/rescue approach in cultured cells and in zebrafish, to define mechanisms that regulate hVps34 signaling in vivo. Taken together, these studies will provide important new information on how hVps34 is regulated by nutrient stress, and how it is targeted to autophagosomal membranes. Given that hVps34 is one of the key kinases involved in autophagy, a better understanding of its regulation will lead to new insights into this critical cellular process.
PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Normal tissues respond to changes in nutrient availability by activating a process known as autophagy, in which cellular contents are degraded to small molecules (amino acids, sugars and fats) that can be used to support continued cell survival. A growing body of data suggests that abnormal regulation of autophagy can lead to human disease, ranging from muscle wasting to neurodegeneration and aging. This proposal studies the regulation hVps34, a key enzyme that is required for autophagy, with the hope that a better understanding of the mechanisms to drive autophagy can be exploited for the development of new pharmaceuticals for the treatment of degenerative diseases.
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Singh promises clean drinking water for all First Nations communities
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Sarah Turnbull CTVNews.ca Producer
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Published Saturday, October 5, 2019 8:04AM EDT Last Updated Saturday, October 5, 2019 9:43PM EDT
OTTAWA – NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said if elected, his party would do whatever it takes to ensure clean drinking water for First Nations communities facing countless long-term water advisories.
Speaking to reporters in Grassy Narrows First Nations alongside Chief Rudy Turtle, Singh said as prime minister he would prioritize a "$19 million treatment centre" requested by the community to help those impacted by mercury poisoning.
He then went a step further, promising clean drinking water for all First Nations.
"We would ensure the treatment centre is built, fully funded, and ensure that we’re taking steps not to just clean the water and treat the mercury poisoning that’s affecting people now, but also a commitment to find enough money to ensure there’s no more water advisories and drinking water issues in any Indigenous community across Canada."
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Singh added that the Liberals have failed to uphold their promises to improve drinking water "by choice."
"When Mr. Trudeau can find the money to buy a pipeline, he can find the money to give corporations billions of dollars in tax cuts, the fact is, they could find the money and they’re not doing it."
Since the Liberals were elected in 2015, 87 long-term water advisories in Indigenous communities have been lifted. Another 56 remain, and the Liberals have promised to eliminate all long-term boil water advisories by 2021.
When pressed by reporters how his party would drum up the funds to pay for a policy pledge at the scale he’s promising, Singh was light on details.
"It’s a firm commitment for justice; this is a firm commitment to remedy an injustice. Why is it that in Indigenous communities it’s ok to have drinking water that’s not clean?” said Singh.
“We’ve got the technology, we’ve got the money. What we’ve lacked – what Mr. Trudeau has lacked, what Mr. Harper has lacked – is making it a priority. If we make it a priority we can get it done."
Following a 2015 campaign promise, the Liberals have long been in consultations to improve water contamination in Indigenous communities, including the Grassy Narrows region, but hadn’t settled on a firm path forward before Parliament dissolved in June.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer in 2017 released a report analyzing federal spending on water and wastewater infrastructure for First Nations communities. It projected that the government would need to allocate an additional $1.8 billion to resolve contamination on reserves under the mandate of the Ministry of Indigenous and Northern Affairs.
The Liberals promised to dish over $739 million in their 2019 budget to eliminate drinking water advisories over two years.
Turtle, the NDP candidate for the Kenora, Ont. riding, said he largely got into politics because Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau broke his promise to his community and has only pledged half of money needed to build the facility.
Half a century ago, a pulp and paper mill in the area pumped approximately 10 tons of mercury into the Grassy Narrows First Nation’s water supply. The mercury contamination ruined the community’s once-vibrant fishery, which was the primary source of food for residents. This had a devastating impact on both residents’ health and their economy.
Turtle said it’s been frustrating to see progress stalled on improving the situation.
“Quite often they will just be quoting regulations and procedures and things that are normally done -- well, this is not a normal situation. It's been 50 years,” he said.
Singh said the Liberals’ actions showed "simply a lack of courage, a lack of priority (by) not putting the money up to do deal with the problem. I'm prepared to do that.”
Liberal candidate and Indigenous Services Minister Seamus O’Regan told CTV News that his party remains dedicated to the health needs of Grassy Narrows.
"The community asked for a mercury treatment facility and we’ve committed to building one. They also asked for upgrades to the existing nursing station and we’ve made significant progress on this to ensure there is access to enhanced care in this community," he wrote.
He opposed Singh’s argument that money has been a barrier to action.
"To be clear, funding is not an obstacle in these discussions. Funding will reflect the agreed upon final design that best meets the needs of community members."
'WHY AREN'T WE IMPORTANT?': RESIDENT
The need for a mercury treatment facility is critical as an estimated 90 per cent of people in Grassy Narrows First Nation suffer from the toxic effects of mercury poisoning, which include speech impairment, hearing loss and mental illness.
Longtime resident Chrissy Isaacs said that despite the tap water being contaminated, residents like her have no choice but to use it for everything except for drinking.
“What's frustrating is that, you know, these politicians always come and say you know, ‘This is what we're going to do for Grassy’ and then nothing gets done,” she said.
“Why aren't we important?”
The 39-year-old said she has been surrounded by mercury poisoning her whole life and has grown numb to political promises.
Singh has vowed to be a champion for Indigenous Canadians in a way that he said Trudeau hasn’t. He’s hoping those frustrated with the Liberal government -- many of whom voted for Trudeau in 2015 -- will give him their vote instead in 2019.
The announcement comes after news broke on Friday that the federal government would be appealing the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling which would require the government to compensate First Nations children who were separated from their families and subjected to an underfunded child-welfare system.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh makes an offering of tobacco at the monument to the local victims of residential schools on the Grassy Narrows First Nation in northwestern Ontario on Saturday, October 5, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh greets a supporter as he arrives for a rally in Saskatoon on Friday, October 4, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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Proper 7, Year B - 375th Anniversary of Old Donation Church
Katharine Jefferts Schori
A couple of weeks ago, I watched an inattentive taxi driver hit a bicyclist a block away as I was running down the sidewalk. He got scraped up, but he didn’t seem to be severely injured. I hung around until the cops and the EMTs came to check him out. But it led me to reflect on the dangers we meet just in daily living – whether it’s going to work, doing errands, or taking a stroll. I’ve had a few interesting experiences out running over the years. I’ve tripped and fallen, run into a post, been grabbed by a mentally ill person, and seen plenty of other people in trouble. I’ve heard kids scream abuses at each other waiting for their school to open – the same kind of behavior the whole world can see in a YouTube video about the bullying of a bus monitor.[1] I see people sleeping on park benches or the ground all the time. I’ve also seen some pretty amazing sunrises, drenching rain and blinding windstorms, as well as the occasional new snowfall. In spite of the hazards, most of us still keep on going out there.
Sometimes the challenges are a lot harder. I have a friend who just had a beloved uncle die. This is the third or fourth close relative she’s lost in recent months, along with several other friends, some quite young. Her losses are painful and hard, because she’s been so close to all these people. The only way to avoid that kind of pain is to distance yourself, and that brings its own kind of suffering.
We can stay engaged in life, or we can get so fearful that we go home and hide under the covers. Most of us are afraid of something – we quake in our boots at the thought of speaking up about some injustice, or confronting an abusive co-worker, or challenging a racist joke. Many people are fearful about the economy, or worried about their health or their children. Our kids are afraid of the bullies at school, not fitting in, or how they’re going to survive all the demands we put on them. The society around us seems to be especially vulnerable right now – politicians and media personalities can generate fear pretty easily, especially when many Americans are afraid of strangers, including the ones in their own neighborhoods. Fear is preventing Congress from working collaboratively, fear is driving all the vitriol about immigration, and fear keeps many from discovering that Muslims share many of the same values as Jews and Christians. Fear is also keeping us from facing the ultimate emptiness of systems built on ever-increasing consumption.
What kind of fear do you wrestle with?
Both the stories we just heard are about dealing with fear.
David has a healthy sense of his own ability – and perhaps his vulnerability. After all, he’s dealt with lions and bears – this giant of a man named Goliath shouldn’t be any more intimidating. Saul is a bit more worried, and pushes David to wear the king’s own armor, but after David tries it on and discovers how unfamiliar and unwieldy all of it is, he takes it off. He knows his own strength – the gifts God has given him – and he makes the decision to meet Goliath just as he is. He meets a highly insulting opponent, but David doesn’t seem to be afraid of the words and curses. Goliath says, ‘hubba, hubba, come on, I’m going to feed you to the birds!’ And David responds by saying, ‘I can see all your weapon systems. I simply come in the name of God – and God’s justice will prevail.’ It does – and “how the mighty are fallen.”
Jesus and his friends are trying to get to the other side of the lake, but in the midst of that dark and stormy night they’re wrestling with their own storm of fear. Jesus is asleep, at rest on the bosom of the deep. His friends are terrified, and they wake him up and accuse him of not caring about mortal danger. What does Jesus do? He invokes peace, even to the natural world that’s terrified his friends. His usual modus operandi is about bringing peace, even if there’s fear and suffering on the way – for his goal and destination is a world of peace.
Even in the story of David and Goliath, that’s the aim – to find peace by getting beyond the bully’s ability to intimidate, threaten, and dominate.
You’ve got an example in your history here – with the famous (or infamous) Grace Sherwood.[2] Her trial and dunking as a witch was this community’s attempt to make life more peaceful by piling a load of fault and anxiety on one person, who seems to have had quite an ability to use her own resources to resist. She sued several people who slandered her, and won. When somebody finally did manage to get a judgment against her, she seems to have had enough standing in the community to avoid death, and she evidently didn’t stay in jail forever. There were at least some people in the community who saw the image of God in her, and eventually God’s peace prevailed.
The things and the people we are most afraid of are seldom worth the effort. God has given us resources in abundance to respond to the fears that consume us. There’s something very pointed in the beginning of the gospel story – when Jesus says, “let’s go across,” it says that he leaves with his friends “just as he was.” Like David, he doesn’t put on somebody else’s armor. He goes with what he is. Like his charge to the folks he sends out two by two,[3] he travels light. He has all he needs – today we might say he had all his wits about him and peace in his heart. His ability to sleep through the storm wasn’t a matter of avoiding reality, it was knowledge of his belovedness in God’s eyes and trust that he and his friends would be able to respond to whatever confronted them.
David does something similar. When Saul questions David’s capacity, saying ‘you’re just a boy, and this guy has been in the boxing ring for years,’ David responds by talking about the lions and bears he’s been dealing with for years. There’s an echo of it in the Wizard of Oz (and this story of David is its source), when Dorothy, the Tin Man, and Scarecrow deal with their fear in the forest by chanting, “lions and tigers and bears, oh my,” believing that together they will be able to deal with whatever comes.
We can survive the storm in the night. We can engage the bullies and tyrants and deceivers. We can do it when we remember that we are well loved, and that whatever happens, the creator and source of new life is already at work, helping new life emerge again. We can do it when we remember that we never go alone – we, too, have a company of friends, even if some of them fall asleep at inopportune times. Jesus sleeps in this gospel scene, and his friends sleep in the garden of Gethsemane. Have you slept in exhaustion or in confidence?
Old Donation has a very long history – times of fear, sleeping of both kinds, and of discovering new life. You are still finding life here – and you’re still spreading new life to the community around you. I would pray, however, that you choose dunking in the cause of new life (baptism), or the kind of drenching that comes from braving storms at sea, rather than throwing neighbors into the drink to see if they drown. Make new and lively Christians here, help them discover what God has given them, and then go with them just as you are, to damp down the fear each one of us will undoubtedly find.
God is with us, we never go alone, the storm doesn’t last forever, and there will be peace at the last.
[1] http://http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/23/nyregion/for-bullied-bus-monitor-funds-raised-to-take-hurt-away.html
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Sherwood The parish history of Old Dominion Church says that the church’s vestry was the jury that convicted her.
[3] Mark 6:7-13; Luke 10:1-11
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Quincy Reorganizing Synod, Morning Prayer
Presiding Bishop's Easter message for 2009
Not just academic
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Sermon at Opening Eucharist of House of Bishops Meeting
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Sermon for the West Tennessee Convention, Lift Every Voice
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Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Barbara Harris' Episcopate
Sermon for Ash Wednesday in San Jose, Costa Rica
Varied understandings
Sermon at the Annual Council for the Diocese of Southern Virginia
Sermon for Day One, Epiphany 5B
Sermon at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Fort Worth
Fort Worth Organizing Convention
Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori (TEC) and Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson (ELCA) issue letter to Israeli Ambassador Meridor
Chance to engage
Baptismal Waters
25th anniversary of Leo Frade's consecration
Sermon at Holy Trinity in West Palm Beach, Florida
Presiding Bishop's statement on Inauguration Day
Sermon at St. Andrewâs Cathedral, Jackson, MS
Moving toward convention
The Presiding Bishop Calls for Immediate Ceasefire
Sermon at Bolling Air Force Base, Washington DC
National Press Club Address - Religion in the Public Square
St. Paul's, Alexandria 200th anniversary dinner
Shine as a Light in the World to the Glory of God
Church of the Redeemer, Cincinnati, Ohio
Presiding Bishop's Christmas Message 2008
Sermon at St. John's Procathedral in the Diocese of Los Angeles
Peace and Justice through the Empowerment of Women
Los Angeles Diocesan Convention, Faith & Our Future
A remarkable gift
300 Year Anniversary of St. Andrew Episcopal Church, Staten Island
Giving Thanks at Episcopal High School in Houston, TX
Sermon for Haiti
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Sermon for Clergy Gathering in Diocese of Southwest Florida
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Sermon for All Saints at Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh, PA
Many mission venues
Sermon at Christ Episcopal Church in Pontre Vedra Beach, Florida
Sermon at West Missouri's Diocesan Convention
Closing Eucharist Sermon at All Saints Episcopal Church, Brussels, Belgium
Sermon for the 125th Anniversary of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Hailey, Idaho
Consecration of the New Bishop of Idaho
Address at Bexley Hall and Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Bexley, Ohio
Sermon at Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland, Ohio
Sermon at Washington National Cathedral
Service of Repentance, St. Thomas, Philadelphia
Sabbath summer
The Hobart Lecture
Sermon at All Saints' Episcopal Church in Littleton, New Hampshire
The Presiding Bishop's Address at the Church of Sweden Synod Opening
Invitation to Confession at the Church of Sweden's Synod Opening
Holy Cross Day in the Diocese of Georgia
Of a Saint I
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Presiding Bishop's Sermon at St. Martin in the Field
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BBC Radio 3, Evensong at Salisbury Cathedral
Morning Eucharist at Salisbury Cathedral
Sermon at the Closing Eucharist of Transfiguring Episcope
Opening Eucharist, Episcopal Youth Event
Episcopal Youth Event Opening, Sown in the Heart of Christ
Praying in word and deed
Team Ministry Ordination in Westernport, Maryland
Presiding Bishop's Sermon at St. Johnâs Cathedral in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Presiding Bishop's Sermon at the Episcopal Asiamerica Ministries Commissioning Eucharist
Presiding Bishop's Sermon at St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong
Presiding Bishop's Sermon at St. Peterâs Memorial, Geneva, NY
Consecration of Prince Grenville Singh, Eastman Theater, Rochester, NY
No longer strangers
For the whole world
Healing Our Planet Earth: Stewardship of the Earth
Presiding Bishop's Sermon at St. James by-the-Sea, San Diego, CA
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Feast of the Annunciation at St. Mary the Virgin, New York City
Targeting U.S. poverty
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Presiding Bishop's Lenten message
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Pondering the Great Commission
UBE Eucharist – Telling Our Story
400th Anniversary Celebration at Jamestown, Virginia
Presiding Bishop's testimony to Senate on global warming
Diverse mission fields
Presiding Bishop's sermon at Executive Council meeting in Portland, Oregon
The Opening Eucharist for the Anglican Delegation to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women 2007
A Season of Fasting: Reflections on the Primates' Meeting
Jefferts Schori calls for marking of ONE Sunday near beginning of Lent
Absalom Jones Day with the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas
Presiding Bishop preaches in Cuba
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Evangelistic listening
Sermon on Epiphany 1, Year C (BCP)
Shalom, my friends
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equal recognition
Improving legal gender recognition in Scotland
Support the draft bill
Why reform the GRA?
Go and meet your MSP to speak up for trans equality!
**GRA reform halted due to coronavirus crisis**
Have your say: the last two years and trans rights
The UK Parliament Women & Equalities Select Committee (with MPs from all political parties) has launched an inquiry into whether the UK Government went far enough in its proposed reforms to the Gender Recognition Act.
Click here to open the call for submissions to the inquiry in a new window/tab.
We all know that it didn’t. We also know that people are feeling tired, burnt out, and generally sick of making the case about why changing our birth certificates more simply will make our lives a little easier, whilst having no impact on the lives of others.
Even so, this is a chance for trans people to have our say. To tell a group of MPs about what the last few years of political “debate”, media spotlight and endless consultation and disappointment has felt like. To talk about our hopes and fears for trans equality and rights. We will definitely be responding, and we are asking as many trans people who have the energy if they can do the same.
Allies – we’d love for you to help us out and tell this inquiry just what you have made of the ever worsening “conversation” about our lives, and your wish to see us included in services and society.
If you’d like a more detailed dive into how to respond, you can check out the guidance from Mermaids.
But whether you’ve got time to write two paragraphs or two pages, it all counts. What we think would have the biggest impact on the committee is sharing your personal experiences of living your life as a trans person – the positives and the negatives – and letting them know how these last few years have changed things. (The Committee may publish your response, so don’t share anything that you’d not want to see publicly online).
After you’ve responded, please encourage all your friends to also have their say.
(P.S. Remember though – the Scottish Government is still committed to reforming the Gender Recognition Act – even though the process was disappointingly but understandably paused due to coronavirus. This inquiry is about the UK Government.)
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Guild to meet at Windsor Castle for ‘complex thinking time’
Eleanor Radford
Thu 9th May 2013, 23.16
Twenty-nine “key people” from FE have been invited to eat, drink, sleep and “think” in secret at Windsor Castle about the sector’s new professional body.
A spokesperson for the proposed FE Guild — which will set professional standards across the sector — said it had hired St George’s House, a retreat within the castle, for 26 hours from May 13 to allow delegates to “commit their time to confidential thinking” and to “help drive forward” the body due to launch in August.
She said the delegates — including Skills Minister Matthew Hancock — had been asked along to ensure the guild was committed to being “sector-owned and led” and “fully fit for purpose”. But while the guild confirmed 27 delegates would attend, a spokesperson for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) said the meeting was “not in the ministers diary”.
The new body — yet to be officially named — would foot the £8,265 bill, equal to £285 per person, to include lunch, a three-course dinner, drinks and accommodation, the guild spokesperson said.
It represents fair value for delegates who we are asking to commit to 26 hours of their time to complex, in-depth and detailed confidential thinking on behalf of the sector.”
But one FE leader, who did not wish to be named, told FE Week: “I question the wisdom of spending money on high profile external venues when funding is so tight, redundancies are rife and any number of boardrooms could have been used at little cost.”
The guild spokesperson defended the move saying: “While this is, of course, more than we spend on routine events, it is appropriate for a strategic sector-wide meeting that will shape the guild over the next decade and represents fair value for delegates who we are asking to commit to 26 hours of their time to complex, in-depth and detailed confidential thinking on behalf of the sector.”
Over the two days, delegates would consider the body’s priorities, and strategic and operational relationships with employers, and would agree on what was meant by “collective leadership”. Represented bodies would be invited to commit to the new organisation.
The spokesperson added: “The venue was chosen because of its values of openness, honesty, trust and respect.
“People from all areas of society, holding diverse views, opinions and beliefs attend St George’s to debate freely. It is important to all of us in the learning and skills sector that this is the spirit in which we, too, can shape our own future at this strategically crucial time.”
Described on its website as a “safe haven, an environment receptive to new ideas, to taking risks, to living at the intellectual edge,” the venue also gives delegates the chance to pray three times over their stay.
In a leaflet advertising the venue it says: “The offering of prayer in the chapel finds a practical expression in consultations, where the house offers space for nurturing wisdom.”
FE Week reported last month that BIS had confirmed funding, excluding VAT, of £18.8m for August to April next year and the same figure again for 2014-15 to develop the guild.
David Hughes, independent chair of the guild’s development steering group and chief executive of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, said at that time the group would now be able to recruit a chief executive before its launch.
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Jayne Stigger
29 ‘key people’ banqueting and pontificating on our behalf, with not a student voice amomngst them? Is this really how the Guild wants to be viewed? The new FE guild should consider the impact of this rather profligate behaviour and how it will engender support of FE staff; support it needs to reach its objectives? An FE Guild which is not fully inclusive cannot meet our needs or be truly representative of all FE. I am saddened to see a return to this form of leadership. I would strongly question the wisdom of such ‘leadership’ and decisions in such financially difficult times. Does the Guild have ‘added value’?
Krissy Charles-Jones
As well as student voices the guild needs the voices of small businesses and sub contractors. I would like to see the new guild have the authority to act when subcontractors face difficulties because their prime has acted negligently. Something that is increasingly happening, effecting thousands of learners and small businesses in the sector. The guild needs to bring real value to the sector and not just be another money draining quango!
John Germain
The funny thing about so-called ‘student voice’ is that their voice so often sounds like that of sector management. Be interesting to share people’s experience of the ‘student voice’, including the methodologies used for gathering and interpreting this voice. An MA dissertation for someone. But hey why not small businesses and sub-contractors and sub-sub contractors and corner shop owners and self-appointed community leaders and HR directors of medium sized widget makers – in fact anyone and everyone except the teachers who do the business day and day out. This is all such a pile of bollocks. In many colleges, staff representatives are starting redundancy talks whilst cuts and course closures are becoming commonplace. FE is in a state of crisis and a bunch of 29 persons unknown go for a f***ing jolly in a royal palace – aspirational or what …
Ian Woodall
Sorry, but thats probably better value than you would get by hosting the same thing in a Novotel. I want to know how the minister got such a good deal out of Her Majesty! But to be serious the outcome of the event will be more important than the flim flam about the cost and setting. What will this Guild do? what will it stand for? What are its goals? etc. I do hope that the government does not go for policy development by “supper club” and holds full consultation on the conclusions of this event.
Roger Birks
It would be helpful to have the details of the 29 ‘key people’ invited to see how well all areas within FE are represented.
Greg Wood
And the roundabout goes on… if you have been in FE long enough you will have experienced all of the ‘Improvement’ initiatives… all of sudden it is new, and fresh, and committed to this ideal, that goal etc. What we really need at this time is stability, something that will last the tests of government policy changes , minister’s whims and fancies, and whatever is blowing in the wind.
Surely the great and the good can come up with a lasting model that includes the relevant stakeholders, takes into account users views, and uses the professionals within the sector to drive up standards where needed and acknowledge quality where it exits.
Just a final point on ‘value for money’. did anyone notice the proposed location for the new Guild , yes, London. Apparently there would have been a £60,000 saving if they had located to Coventry, but in the scheme of 18m it was not considered a deal breaker- Makes you wonder what the cash strapped sector would do with 60k – So much for HS2 initiative and bringing investment and jobs away from the South.
I wonder who the 29 key people are and I wonder how many are members of common purpose. I suspect FE Week will delete this comment as they don’t seem to like comments that question things going on in the FE sector.
Perhaps the great and good should start listening to those who actually generate revenue for colleges by teaching students.
LeeMarkDavies
There truly is nothing new under the sun. LLUK was born out of a confidential meeting of the great and good held at ….. St George’s House. When it was clear that LLUK was straying from its original brief it was ‘re-purposed’ at a confidential meeting of the great and good held at ….. St George’s House. When the QIA came into being it was via a confidential meeting of the great and good held at ….. St George’s House. Need I go on?
The “employer-led quality improvement body previously known as the FE Guild” (that’s the ELQIBPKFEG for initialism fanatics) could have broken the mould. It could have utilised 21stC technology and had its meeting in a public place (I understand many colleges have such places) with sector-wide participation through the web. It could hit the ground running as an engaged, teacher and learner focussed organisation. It could have demonstrated it was going to be different to all that has gone before. It could have shown that it had inspirational leadership, prepared to take risks and look to be fully inclusive from day one. It could have demonstrated, from the off, that it wasn’t a bunch of organisational egos trading vested interests behind closed doors but was, instead, a transparent bunch of visionaries prepared to set aside old grudges and wounds for the sake of teachers and learners. It could have done all these things and more, but instead reverted to type.
When there was the postulating and public positioning from the ELQIBPKFEG’s constituent bodies over its name, I wrote a blog post (http://leemarkdavies.com/fe-guild-or-whats-in-a-name/). The essence of this being that the struggle to name the organisation was a mask for a deeper concern: the inability of the constituent bodies to set aside their vested interests. No doubt a concordat will emerge from St George’s House. Who knows, maybe there will also be a new name. Please forgive me if I give it less than two years for the ELQIBPKFEG to go the way of all the others, with an organisational culture influenced by the interests of the constituent bodies and in need of review and reformation. I hope to be proved wrong.
It could have but it hasn’t. So yet again FE (all of FE, not just colleges) are to be lumbered with another set of initials whose vision is convergent upon its own needs rather than divergent upon the needs of the sector it purports to represent. This isn’t just reverting to type, it is an antedeluvian attitude that will hinder us and our learners whilst sitting remote but pretty on their top table. I give it a year. Lindsay is absolutely spot on with her observation that this Guild appears more concerned with appearance and window-dresssing than with action. In our 20th year, have the Great and the Good learned nothing?
lindsay mccurdy
Would the 29 people come forward so that we can see if the Guild is reaching out to all in the sector , will it be the same old faces all talking from the same hymn sheet who if we are being honest have made a complete mess of it to date, we have many areas that need to be addressed and it is time we dealt with then, stop sidestepping and ignoring and going round and round in circles Put the taxpayers money which you have been given to good use for the improvement of the sector and the unemployed. The Press realise from the guild would seem to be all about the venue and not the purpose of the meeting and what the outcome of this confidential thinking will be, The guild had a great chance to be seen as a positive for the sector and to involve people who are not normally give a chance to be heard but it has already started to go in the opposite direction. What a opportunity missed
My friend cites Yeats whenever we discuss this kind of thing: ‘The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity’. I prefer Jimi Hendrix’s ‘castles made of sand fall in the sea’.
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About Jericho
The Special Teams Ace
Rookie QB or Veteran QB for 2021???
Jericho replied to Renegade7's topic in The Stadium
Watson would be very interesting. He's a guy that I would spend good assets for. Instead of vastly overpaying for Stafford (based on speculated deals), I'd re-direct those assets and then some towards Watson. I still don't think Houston deals him, but that's someone worth trading a first rounder for (in fact more than one). Stafford, IMO, isn't even worth one first rounder. Given this team needs a QB, I get the incentive to do something now. The team probably will. But this might be the rare situation where there's a pretty good move to actually make rather than overpay for the "best available
Pay the Man!!
Jericho replied to gooseneck's topic in The Stadium
Heinecke played well. Wouldn't mind bring him back, but it's also one game so I wouldn't think he's the solution necessarily. But what exactly is Heinecke's status? I'd imagine he'd still be a restricted free agent at best as I didn't think he accrued enough service time to be unrestricted. But I really don't know that much about his prior NFL "history" (which appears to be mainly bench riding). EDIT - Actually it looks like he may have accrued a few years with Minnesota prior to his one year in Carolina (and a few stops in between and since). Still not a ton of actie roster time,
Redskins receiving corp is beginning to shape up
Jericho replied to Burgold's topic in The Stadium
Man these options suck. Hilton looked absolutely washed for half the season until coming alive lately. But you're basically trying to squeeze 1-2 seasons out of him. Robinson will be a third contract guy, so I'd pass. Good player, but his last free agency was the right time to strike (instead Washington landed Richardson). Godwin will probably be tagged or re-signed, making it moot. Watkins is always hurt and may just retire. If you can't put up numbers with Mahomes, do you really want that? That might make Corey Davis the "best" option. Maybe Samuel? But it's scraping the barrel for something
Will Julio Jones be available via trade?
Jericho replied to seantaylor=god's topic in The Stadium
Having flashbacks to posters wanting to go after AJ Green last offseason.
Half those guys their existing teams gave up on them: Allen (was traded for little by Carolina), Brissett (traded by New England for not much), and Rypien (cut twice by Drnver). Byron Allen? Not sure who you are talking about, but I'm guess Brandon Allen. The guy that was cut multiple times by multiple teams and freely available to any team half way through this season? Neither Beathard or Nick Mullins have proven anything over any sustained period. Rudolph was terrible filling in for Big Ben last year. Pretty comfortable saying there are zero starters in there. Just because one guy looked bri
This is nice summary:
Option a doesn't sound like a serious investment. That's a Mike Glennon type contract. Or more recently Jacoby Brissett. $15 million buys you guys no one want wants as a starter and probably should be a back-up. Which, is probably an improvement over the current roster, but if that's the major "splash" at the position, likely still leaves you with one of the worst QB rooms in football. Option b depends on who is really available and cost. Stafford might be the one guy that's plausible here, if the Lions make him available. Matt Ryan could be too, but he's several years older and th
I think it's largely home based fan delusion. Alex has had a nice career. But he's always been limited as a player and the fact he's won two playoff games total as a QB helps reinforce his mediocrity. No matter how good the rest of the team is (and Alex has played on some pretty strong SF and KC teams), one also has to acknowledge the obvious limitations. Try to make the playoffs with Alex Smith might be possible, but winning the Super Bowl is like trying to draw to an inside straight. Sure, it could happen, but it's a very poor bet. One also has to be cognizant that the Alex Smith in his prim
2021 Comprehensive Draft Thread
Jericho replied to zskins's topic in The Stadium
I agree that you likely don't get Stafford for a 3rd. But that's what he's wroth, IMO. You shouldn't overpay because someone else will overpay more. That's bad logic. As for Sam Darnold, not sure who want to give up a third rounder for a guy that's hitting the last year of his rookie contract (unless you pick up the option) and hasn't been able to be a bona fide starter. If someone is, more power to them. But I'd again say don't overpay because someone else can or will.
Not sure I understand the concept that Detroit "has never invested in their run game". Since picking Stafford in 2009, Detroit has drafted Jahvid Best in the first round, Ameer Abdullah in the second round, Mikel Leshoure in the second round, Kerryon Johnson in the second round, and D'Andre Swift in the second round. Yes, none of them became difference makers, but that's four seconds and a first rounder at one position. That's more high picks than Washington has spent at the position in the last 50 years. And that's just since Stafford has been on the team. Detroit also drafted thr
Kendall Fuller and a 3rd for whoever Kansas City's starting QB is. I think they'll like that kind of deal
There's some truth to this. But we also act like there's been some massive advance in modern medicine in the last ten years that affects everyone the same. Which there hasn't been. Remember, Eli Manning was effectively done as a difference maker by 36 (that's when the Giants were benching him). Carson Palmer's last really good year was at 36. A guy like Matt Schaub was done as a starter at 32. Joe Flacco was done as a starter at 33/34. And yeah, I agree that not all QBs are the same and I'm sure many would argue Stafford is better than some or all of the QBs I just mentioned. I don't necessari
Chase Young and Brandon Scherff named to ProBowl 2020!
I'm guessing it was RG3? Hope Young's career goes better than that
Stafford's a pretty decent QB, but the most I'd give up for him is a third rounder. Too often teams pay for past performance and Stafford has something of an injury history, even if he doesn't always miss games. The age thing shouldn't be written off either. Brunell, McNabb, and Alex Smith were all the same basic age as Stafford will be next year, and frankly 2 of those 3 were washed up by the time they got to Washington. Players aging like Brady is pretty rare and none of them have Stafford's injury history. He always seems a bit banged up with something. I admire his ability to often tough i
Stafford's not bad, but likely expensive. I fully expect if Washington somehow trades for him, he gets injured within three games and goes out for the year. He'll be 33 next year and QBs don't tend to get healthier as they age. Stafford always seems banged up with something, even though he often guts through it. Eventually that's going to catch up with him. And possibly all at once.
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ZPMC Qidong Marine Engineering completes sea trials of 3500 m3/h cutter suction dredger
On November 6, self-propelled 3500 m3/h cutter suction dredger “Shang Shi 19” built by Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company Limited (ZPMC) for Changjiang Waterway Bureau conducted sea trials from ZPMC Qidong Marine Engineering conducted sea trials.
It is 132.1 meters in length overall, 25.9 meters in width and 7.8 meters in depth with a maximum dredging depth of 28 meters and a minimum dredging depth of 5 meters at a speed of 12 knots. The dredging capacity is not less than 3500 m3/h. Besides, it is a self-propelled cutter suction dredger for breaking up clay, compacted soils, strong weathered rock and moderately weathering rock.
COSCO (Nantong) Shipyard undertakes conversion of wind turbine installation vessel
The signing ceremony for the conversion contract of wind turbine installation vessel “Tie Jian Qian 01” was held between COSCO (Nantong) Shipyard and CRCC Harbour & Channel Engineering Bureau Group on November 3.
It is originally a non-self-propelled semi-submersible deck barge with auxiliary propulsion. Besides, it is 78.6m in length, 40m in width and 6m in depth with a design draft of 4.8m and a maximum sinking depth of 25.5m. With two cranes and a working platform as planned, this ship will be converted in a proper way for wind turbine installation at the offshore construction site. After conversion, it will be a semi-submersible vessel capable of lifting wind turbines in offshore navigation areas.
New Dayang Shipbuilding delivered the first Crown 63,500 DWT bulk carrier
On October 29, the naming and signing ceremony of 63500 DWT bulk carrier “CL ZHUANGHE” built by New Dayang Shipbuilding for China Development Bank Financial Leasing Co., LTD was held. It is the thirteenth unit delivered by New Dayang Shipbuilding, but also the first bulk carrier in accordance with HCSR.
This series vessel enjoys a sound reputation and appeal in the international market as one of the highly competitive products of New Dayang Shipbuilding. It is 199.99m in length, 32.26m in width, 18.50m in depth with the design draft of 11.30m at a speed of 14.2 knots. This new-generation vessel complies with the EEDI Phase III requirement and obtains “Green Passport”.
Petredec orders up to six VLGCs at Jiangnan Shipyard
Singapore-headquartered gas trading and transport company Petredec Holdings has entered into shipbuilding contracts with China’s Jiangnan Shipyard for the construction of up to six 93,000 cum LPG carriers with dual fuel LPG propulsion.
The three firm vessels will be delivered in January, March and May 2023 and the optional vessels within the second and third quarter of 2023.
This latest order follows Jiangnan Shipyard delivering four 84,000 cum VLGCs to Petredec earlier this year.
Petredec is currently the second largest VLGC owner in the world with a fleet of 21 VLGCs.
DSIC named 115,000 DWT crude /product oil tanker
The naming ceremony for the 115,000 DWT crude /product tanker “Maersk Sara” built by Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC) for Maersk Tankers was held on October 26.
This series of ships is an environmentally-friendly and energy-saving product oil tanker tailored for Maersk Group built by DSIC. Besides, it is a double-bottom and double-hull vessel with 250 meters in length overall, 44 meters in width and 21.9 meters in depth with a structural draft of 15.35 meters. And it is classified into LR under the Singapore flag with a deadweight tonnage of 115,000 tonnes at a design speed of 14.5 knots.
OOCL orders seven 23,000 TEU boxships at COSCO yards
Hong Kong’s Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) has entered into shipbuilding contracts with two COSCO yards for the construction of seven 23,000 TEU mega containerships.
Three of the vessels will be built at Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering (NACKS) and the other four at Dalian COSCO KHI Ship Engineering (DACKS). The total price of the seven ships is around $1.1bn and delivery is scheduled for 2024.
The order adds to the company’s order of a total of five 23,000 teu boxships at the two yards in March this year.
OOCL said the new orders are part of the group’s long-term strategic development and growth plan to build and deploy mega-sized vessels that bring optimal fleet structure and capacity as well as the economy of scale to the group.
OOCL was taken over by COSCO in 2018 and planned to grow its fleet by nearly 50% to ensure it crosses the 1m TEU mark. The company’s current fleet hovers at around 700,000 TEU.
Jiangnan Shipyard delivers the world’s largest dual-fuel containership
On October 27, the naming and delivery ceremony of 23000 TEU dual-fuel containership “CMA CGM Champs Elysees” built by Jiangnan Shipyard (Group) Co., Ltd. was held for French shipowner CMA CGM.
It is reported that this behemoth is 399.9 meters in length overall and 61.3 meters in width with a capacity of 23000 TEU. It is the largest dual-fuel boxship in the world, carrying 2200 FEU containers. Besides, it can meet the strictest emission standards with a 20% reduction in carbon emission, an 85% reduction in nitrogen oxide emission and a 99% reduction in sulfur emission and also greatly reduce the environmental pollution over traditional fuel ones.
Sovcomflot seals deal for Arctic LNG carriers
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The vessels have been ordered at South Korea’s DSME, and are scheduled for delivery in 2023.
The vessels will fly the Russian flag and have Russian crews, and have been designed using SCF’s experience of safely operating the world’s first icebreaking LNG carrier, Christophe de Margerie, at the Yamal LNG project.
SCF currently has 15 gas carriers in operation, with a further 19 under construction.
The launching of 113,000 DWT crude oil tanker
On October 22, 113,000 DWT Aframax crude oil tanker built by COSCO SHIPPING Heavy Industry (Zhoushan) Co., Ltd. for British shipowner Union Maritime Limited was launched successfully on schedule.
It is 250m in length overall, 44m in width and 21.3m in depth with the scantling draft of 15m at the service speed of 14.3 knots. It is classified into LR. Now, this vessel has entered into the outfitting stage as it was launched smoothly.
Three ships were delivered in five consecutive days in this delivery boom
From October 15 to 19, three next-generation green bulk carriers were delivered by Nantong Xiangyu Shipbuilding and Offshore Engineering Co., Ltd. and one more vessel will be delivered at the end of October.
These 63,500 DWT “Dolphin” bulkers are the competitive products of Xiangyu Shipbuilding and Offshore Engineering. It is 199.9 meters in length overall, 32.26 meters in width and 18.9 meters in depth with the scantling draft of 13.5 meters at the design speed of 13.5 knots. Besides, it features increased deadweight, Grain and Bale capacity and reduced overall fuel consumption over traditional bulkers, meeting the strictest requirements of Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) Phase three. Thus, this type of vessel is safer and high-efficient for shipowners and a more competitive and cost-effective one in the existing shipping market.
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‘How can you take money from a corporation. . .doing that kind of thing to perfectly good and totally innocent people?’ Catholic leader rips Chiquita; Cincinnati banana giant responds to Enquirer probe
Posted byVictor Vaughn December 13, 2011 December 14, 2011 Posted inCapitalism & Bourgeois Liberalism, Capitalist Exploitation, Capitalist Repression, Colombia, Food & Drink, Imperialism & Colonialism, Internationalism, Latin America, Latin American Liberation, National Liberation, Reactionary Watch, U.S. Imperialism
Chiquita SECRETS Revealed
MIKE GALLAGHER & CAMERON McWHIRTER
Cincinnati Enquirer 3-May-1998
In response to revelations about Chiquita Brands International’s overseas business practices in Sunday’s Enquirer, a prominent Catholic bishop has called on Catholic institutions not to accept donations from Carl H. Lindner Jr. or Chiquita.
Chiquita, meanwhile, issued a statement Sunday defending itself “as a good corporate citizen notwithstanding the unfair and inaccurate assertions of the Enquirer.”
But Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, an auxiliary bishop of Detroit, said the Enquirer’s findings reflect what he saw firsthand on Chiquita farms he visited in Honduras last year. A member of the U.S. Catholic Conference’s Social Justice Committee, Bishop Gumbleton is an internationally known spokesman and investigator for the Catholic Church on human rights and social justice issues. The Catholic Conference is the social policy arm of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.
On Sunday, Bishop Gumbleton called for Catholic leaders to reject donations from Chiquita and Mr. Lindner, the company’s chairman and chief executive officer. He said such gifts involved “blood money earned off the backs of the poor peasants of Central America.”
The bishop made his comments after reading the Sunday Chiquita stories on the Enquirer Web site.
In the 18-page special section Sunday, the Enquirer described the findings of a yearlong investigation into the Cincinnati-based banana giant. Among those findings:
Chiquita secretly controls dozens of supposedly independent banana companies in Latin America. It uses elaborate business structures to hide its control, avoiding restrictions on land ownership and national security laws. The structures also are aimed at limiting unions on the farms.
Chiquita’s subsidiaries engage in pesticide practices that endanger the health of banana workers and nearby residents, despite an agreement with an environmental group to adhere to certain safety standards. Those practices include aerial pesticide spraying while workers are still in the fields.
Security guards of Chiquita subsidiaries and their joint-venture partners have used brute force to enforce their authority on plantations. The violence by these guards has resulted in the death and wounding of unarmed peasants, including children.
Chiquita is “an evil institution for exploiting the poor,” Bishop Gumbleton said. “I saw (people) living in a dismal situation. What I would ask the Catholic leaders of Cincinnati and elsewhere is ‘How can you take money from a corporation or . . . (a chairman) of a corporation who is doing that kind of thing to perfectly good and totally innocent people and depriving them of a chance to get a decent livelihood?’ ”
In October, Mr. Lindner and his family donated $1.5 million to the Archdiocese of Cincinnati to provide computers for inner-city Catholic schools.
Efforts to reach Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk and archdiocese spokesman Dan Andriacco were unsuccessful Sunday.
Telephone calls to Mr. Lindner and Steven Warshaw, president and chief operating officer of Chiquita Brands International Inc., were not returned. Robert Olson, Chiquita’s general counsel, spoke with an Enquirer reporter but would not say whether the company would issue a statement in response to Bishop Gumbleton’s comments.
Bishop Gumbleton said the 2,000-mile distance that separates Chiquita’s banana farms and its Cincinnati headquarters is no excuse for allowing the problems in Latin America to continue. “It doesn’t take a big effort for Carl Lindner to go down there and just find out what’s going on at his plantations.
“I don’t believe that a person like Carl Lindner is the only corporate leader in this country doing this kind of thing,” he said. “But the evidence uncovered by (the Enquirer), and what I have personally observed, makes it clear that he and his company must make changes to protect the very lives of the people who made them so wealthy.”
Chiquita Brands statement
On Sunday, May 3, the Cincinnati Enquirer published a sensational and highly inaccurate story impugning the reputation and business practices of Chiquita Brands International. Chiquita is known globally as a leading international producer of wholesome and healthy foods and as a good corporate citizen – investing in local communities, building schools and improving the quality of life for tens of thousands. We are proud of the success we have had in providing benefits and wages in Latin America that far exceed those available from other jobs and protecting the environment in a manner that has earned praise from the most prominent independent environmental organizations.
Chiquita is proud of its work and denies the false implications of the Enquirer’s article.
The information contained in the Enquirer’s story was selectively edited, incomplete and presented out of context and portrays a false and highly inaccurate image of Chiquita. Chiquita and other independent sources made extraordinary efforts to provide facts and documents which demonstrate the true record. Unfortunately, the Enquirer ignored the hundreds of pages of documents detailing the facts regarding Chiquita’s sound business practices. Instead, the Enquirer has affiliated itself and worked in concert with persons having financial, political and economic motives to damage Chiquita.
Chiquita adheres to the highest standards of product quality and social responsibility, applying world-class standards regarding associate relations, product quality and environmental controls. Chiquita will continue to meet its obligations as a good corporate citizen notwithstanding the unfair and inaccurate assertions of the Enquirer.
On the Web The complete text of the Enquirer’s investigation into Chiquita Brands International Inc. can be accessed at the Enquirer’s Web site: enquirer.com – chiquita (Not available as of 10jul98)
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Not exactly fully-developed, but interesting nonetheless – this is an animation about an apocalyptic world that is more suitable for teenagers than kids.
REVIEW #445
Dir. Shane Acker
2009 | USA | Animation/Action/Adventure | 79 mins | 1.85:1 | English
PG (passed clean) for violence and scary images
Cast: Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, John C. Reilly
Plot: A rag doll that awakens in a post-apocalyptic future holds the key to humanity’s salvation.
Awards: –
Distributor: Universal
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Subject Matter: Moderate (slightly dark for kids)
Narrative Style: Straightforward
Pace: Normal
Audience Type: Slightly Mainstream
Viewed: In Theatres
First Published: 14 Sep 2009
Spoilers: No
With Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov serving as producers and backing the feature, it is hard to dismiss 9 as another in a long line of mediocre animated offerings by Hollywood (Pixar excluded).
Based on an Oscar-nominated short of the same name and by the same director, 9 is in a way a breath of fresh air, even though for most parts, it dwells on genre clichés.
Directed by Shane Acker, this animated feature runs for a paltry 80 minutes. As a result, the narrative is not developed to its fullest potential. In general, the story is well-told; in fact, it is quite commendable that the filmmakers are able to clearly shape out the structure of the narrative and offer an un-rushed feel to its execution with just slightly more than an hour of screen time.
When the end credits appear, however, most viewers might find themselves a little short-changed. We are left wanting for more, not because the film is so brilliant that we cannot get enough of, but rather we would like to see more of it just to get a more comprehensive picture of the story and its characters.
That being said, I do hope that there will not be a sequel to 9, because despite its flaws, the ‘essence’ of the story is already told in the film.
Set in a post-apocalyptic world much like Terminator Salvation (2009), 9 centers on a group of nine ‘rag dolls’ with human-like consciences (perhaps the last remnants of intelligent civilization on Earth).
“We had such potential. Such promise. But we squandered our gifts, our intelligence. Our blind pursuit of technology only sped us quicker to our doom. Our world is ending. But life must go on.”
They struggle to survive amid a hide-and-seek battle with the Machines. But when one of their own is captured, they set out to rescue him along with the internal disputes which follow a team with an uncooperative leader.
The animation is quite laudable. What is most striking about the animation is its rendering of the film’s setting. The bleak, almost lifeless world of perpetual gloom is, to a large extent, photo-realistic and creates a mood of desperation and lost hope.
The desolateness of the environment is further emphasized by the size of the film’s characters – they are no more than half a meter tall. In spite of this, and because of their resourcefulness and bravery, their many David versus Goliath encounters with the Machines do not always end up a lost cause.
The climax of Acker’s film is more of a revelationary nature. It tries to explain the origin of the ‘rag dolls’ and provides some needed background information which preludes the film’s story.
9 is by no means a kid’s film; there are scenes of violence (including a close-up of a severed human hand), jump scenes, and quite a tense atmosphere. This is aimed at teenagers and especially adults who want to experience a decent animated feature without being insulted by material geared towards people who put on size-six shoes.
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Challenges for the development-security nexus in EU foreign policy
Posted by Maria Brozou
The development-security nexus has become a central concept for the European Union (EU) and other international actors. Key EU documents recognise the importance of the link between these two main domains of EU external affairs. This is part of a wider framework of the so-called triple nexus between humanitarian aid, development and security, which the European Commission aims to enhance to better respond to protracted crises.
Against this backdrop, the EU would need to focus on human security for a fully integrated approach that is meaningfully tied to development. This is not a new insight, but the EU seems to have forgotten about it in its planning for the next long-term budget, the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), and in particular the new Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI).
Even though the importance of the link between development and security is broadly accepted, the nexus is arguably one of the most controversial issues when it comes to budget allocations and in operational terms. Policymakers for instance disagree on whether development resources can be used for security-related objectives in developing countries or whether aid should be spent exclusively on poverty reduction.
For some stakeholders and policymakers, purely security-related actions belong to the sphere of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) – according to them, it is not because an action may have a positive impact on development that it has to be financed with development resources. A clear distinction between security and development could avoid misplacement of development resources. Other decision makers are in favour of a strong component of security in developing countries, embedded in development.
The European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO) and other EU stakeholders often present the consolidated idea that development is not possible without security. Yet, the difference between ‘security-relevant’ and ‘security target’ should be underlined. Security-relevant means that development activities are implemented in a conflict-affected area, where security arrangements and a conflict-sensitive approach are necessary (working in conflict). Security target refers to scenarios where peace and security are the direct target of the activity (working on conflict). Clearly, many development measures are security-relevant, from education to governance, but it does not mean that the work is directly intended to influence security dynamics.
Notably, the existing legal framework excludes the use of EU budgetary resources to finance assistance to the armed forces of partner countries. The Capacity Building in Support of Security and Development (CBSD) policy has tried to address this funding gap and enable the financing of training, equipment and infrastructure to military actors. CBSD has been criticised by different organisations because they think it contributes to the securitisation of EU development policy. In fact, the use of the Instrument Contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP) for funding CBSD activities sets a precedent for using development instruments within the EU’s budget for financing assistance to military actors.
In the new MFF, the same debate will take place for the NDICI and the European Peace Facility (EPF), the extra-budgetary fund that can finance security means, including weapons. In several declarations, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell hinted at the idea that if the EU wants to play a global role, it should use hard power (like military force) and not only soft power. Yet, analysts suggest that providing security sector assistance in fragile contexts often does not contribute to stability in the long term. For instance, a country like Mali could theoretically be eligible for these funds (it already received training, vehicles and equipment), but the coup d’état in August this year clearly showed its instability and bad governance.
The uncertainties surrounding the Mali case illustrate the importance of the EU’s plans to regulate and monitor the EPF, which still haven’t adequately taken shape. As the EU does not only work with partner countries who are ‘champions of democracy’, in contexts where the legitimacy of security actors is questioned, there is a risk that the EU finds itself as an (indirect) actor in the national politics of third countries.
This is another reason why a focus on broader human security is key for the new EPF. A focus on state security might achieve stability from the EU’s perspective, but might have a negative impact locally. For instance, it could lead to less democratic space for local populations or empower some political actors over others. Human security should also be combined with significant consultation and work with local populations and civil society organisations.
State security is evidently a key component of human security. Yet, the EU has limited resources and it should consider how to invest in the long run. Currently, peacebuilding and conflict prevention remain underfinanced. Priority should be given to conflict prevention and civilian means (like mediation and peacebuilding) without looking for shortcuts providing lethal weapons to countries that do not have solid, transparent and accountable institutions.
Furthermore, based on a long list of lessons learned, CBSD and other similar tools are often counterproductive and have unintentional effects. Another example from the Sahel shows how a significant part of the armed vehicles shipped by the EU to the G5 Sahel countries has fallen into the hands of irregular groups in only a few months’ time. Things like this can negatively affect the EU’s global role and reputation. In fine-tuning the new instruments, from the NDICI to the EPF, the EU should reconsider its priorities and try to adopt a local-driven perspective on sustainable development and long-term peace.
Author: Bernardo Venturi, IAI
The author is grateful for the feedback and support provided by Lidet Tadesse Shiferaw, ECDPM and Mark Furness, DIE and Nina Thijssen, ECDPM.
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Whisper on the Wind by Maureen Lang is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 27 customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here.
In Brussels at the height of WWI, a small, underground newspaper is the only thing offering the occupied city hope—and real news of the war. The paper may be a small whisper amid the shouts of the German army, but Edward Kirkland will do anything to keep it in print. Meanwhile, Isa Lassone, a Belgian-American socialite whose parents whisked her to safety at the start of the war, sneaks back into the country to rescue those dearest to her: Edward and his mother. But Edward refuses to go, and soon Isa is drawn into his secret life printing the newspaper . . . And into his heart.
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You would never expect the paths of Brady Darby and Thomas Carey to cross. The teenage Brady is an outsider from the wrong side of the tracks who’s trying to find his place in life while still somehow protecting his little brother from their negligent mother. Thomas is a preacher without a flock, as he and his devoted wife, Grace, are forced to move towns once again after allowing membership at yet another church to dwindle under their watch. At every turn, Brady’s decisions seem to backfire, even when he tries change by participating in the high school musical. At the same time, Thomas and Grace are immediately rejected by their latest congregation for refusing to give in to politics, and their only child seems to reject them and their lifestyle. Several years later, the worlds of Brady and Thomas collide at a juvenile halfway house. They act as life forces for each other even as their individual worlds sink deeper into misery. Christian fiction author Jenkins covers much ground in this weighty book, and while heroes are made out of those who come to God, Jenkins avoids preachiness and, instead, lets goodness shine. Expect demand as Jenkins’ following grows with every outing.
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After the Leaves Fall Free Today from Amazon Kindle Store
February 7, 2011 by Michael Gallagher
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In her promising debut novel, Baart writes compellingly about a young girl’s struggle with loss, love, identity and faith. Julia Bakker knows what loss is. Her mother abandoned her, her beloved father died, and her childhood love has gone to college and found another. As a teen, she lives with her saintly grandmother, who urges her to go to church camp, but Julia finds only quick answers and thrilling conversions there. Disillusioned, Julia decides it is up to her, not anyone else-even some impossible, far-flung God-to reinvent herself. The truth was, I didn’t know who I was, and I was afraid of being defined by who I wasn’t. By what I didn’t have…. By remembering with predictable, cyclic accuracy all I had lost. After chronicling her early years, the story follows Julia as she enrolls in college to study engineering and become someone who is too smart to attach, too independent to want to, and so secure as to be untouchable. Soon, Julia is repeating her mother’s mistakes. The love of her rock-solid Christian grandmother and a newfound (and not completely well-explained) reliance on God help fortify her for the difficult path ahead. Sparkling prose makes this new novel a welcome addition to inspirational fiction.
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Heart of Stone by Jill Marie Landis is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 26 customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here.
Landis, inspirational fiction author of more than 20 novels, offers readers who value gentle love stories this first title in the Irish Angels series. Laura Foster (aka Lovie Lane), wealthy widowed owner of a refined boardinghouse in Glory, Tex., is running from her tainted past and ruined childhood in a tale set in the 1870s. Laura does everything in her power to overcome the odds and create a life free of shame and abuse. Partly succeeding, she is thrown off-kilter when handsome Rev. Brand McCormick, a widower, takes a romantic interest in her. Laura knows with dead certainty that Brand would never come calling if he knew the truth of her past, so she rebuffs his attention at every turn. But the good reverend just won’t be put off. Both characters have much to reveal that will test their love, faith, and loyalty to one another. Landis’s writing is crisp and neatly presented; however, much of the story is too formulaic for discerning genre readers.
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Natalie Sinclair is working to eradicate the diseases decimating whole villages in the Republic of Dhambizao when she meets Dr. Chad Talcott, a surgeon on sabbatical from a lucrative medical practice now volunteering at a small clinic. Meanwhile, things are unraveling in Dhambizao. Joseph Komboli returns to his village to discover rebel soldiers abducting his family and friends. Those that were too old or weak to work lay motionless in the African soil. When Chad and Natalie decide to help Joseph expose this modern-day slave trade—and a high-ranking political figure involved in it—disaster nips at their heels. Where is God in the chaos? Will Chad, Natalie, and Joseph win their race against time? Romance and adventure drive this Blood Ransom Ebook, by Lisa Harris, a powerful thriller about the modern-day slave trade and those who dare to challenge it.
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A Time to Love (Quilts of Lancaster County Series #1) by Barbara Cameron is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here.
War correspondent Jennie King thinks she’s just a temporary guest in her grandmother’s Amish community while she recuperates from the devastating injuries sustained in a car bomb attack that changed her world. But when she meets Matthew Bontrager, the man she had a crush on as a teenager, she wonders if God has a new plan for her. Jennie has emotional and physical scars and though she feels she has come home to this man and this place, she’s not sure she can bridge the difference between their worlds.
Listen Free Today from Amazon Kindle Store
January 30, 2011 by Michael Gallagher
Listen by Rene Gutteridge is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 32 customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here.
Clever novelist Gutteridge (the Storm series) has consistently upped the ante of Christian storytelling by offering her readers intelligent and entertaining texts. Her newest work delves into the deepest recesses of the human heart via the spoken word. The small town of Marlo, where nothing newsworthy ever happens, is blindsided when a mysterious Website begins posting the private conversations of its citizens. Intrigue and suspicion mount quickly and everyone is suspect and suspicious. When one of Marlo’s police officers dies, newspaperman Damien Underwood commits himself to pursuing the site’s creator. Damien’s search hits close to home as he attempts to protect his wife Kay and two teens, Jenna and Hunter, from the escalating mistrust, lies, and deceit. Swirling acts of violence and voices of condemnation serve to heighten an already tense and fragile citizenry. Gutteridge’s skillful handling of the power of words will have every reader quietly introspective.
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Julia DeSmit can’t wait for her life to begin. After her mother leaves when Julia is nine years old, she’s raised by an unassuming, gentle father and a saintly, matriarchal grandmother until her father dies just as Julia is becoming a young adult.
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The Apostle Peter punches Jesus in the face, then chases him out of a coffee shop. And that’s just chapter 0. In this quirky tale the publisher describes as not-quite-true, former missionary and comic book store clerk Mikalatos disguises his critique of Christian life in an action-based quest to find the real Jesus. It’s A Christmas Carol meets Oz, but instead of ghosts and tin men, it’s a talking donkey, a motorcycle rider, and Mikalatos himself. The cast of characters drags the reader through the streets of Seattle and ancient Judea to introduce a host of fake Jesuses: Magic 8 Ball Jesus, Harley Jesus, even Liberal Social Services Jesus. They’re constructs of the human mind. People invent a Jesus for one specific reason and then discard him when they don’t need him anymore, says one of the Jesuses (the one with an expensive suit). Peter teaches Mikalatos that he must quiet falsehoods and mold a deeper relationship with the living, historical Jesus. Mixing questions of suffering and free will with a nexus of weirdness, Mikalatos throws Christian fiction into the world of Comic-Con and Star Wars. His silly quest is startling, contemporary, meaningful, and occasionally exhausting when the reader is puzzled. It begs for a comic book counterpart.
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Cromartie Believes Colts Cut Him for Kneeling
By lollygagger8,
lollygagger8 3,282
lollygagger8
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2856298-br-untold-stories-antonio-cromartie-believes-colts-cut-him-for-kneeling
Former NFL cornerback Antonio Cromartie told Bleacher Report's Master Tesfatsion that he believes the Indianapolis Colts cut him during his final season in the league because he chose to protest social injustice and police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem.
"It ain't have nothing to do with my age, it ain't have nothing to do with my style of play," he said. "It was because I took a knee."
Cromartie revealed former Colts head coach Chuck Pagano asked the team not to take a knee during the 2016 campaign and said "when we go out on the football field, it's about football."
The cornerback took offense to that because the Colts made such a point of stressing how there were things more important than football when the head coach was diagnosed with leukemia during the 2012 season.
Cromartie said his best friend and former New York Jets teammate Joe McKnight was killed by a white man who had been angered by McKnight's driving in what was deemed a manslaughter. The 35-year-old Cromartie added that he was worried about his sons being in a similar situation.
The trend of NFL players kneeling during the national anthem started with Colin Kaepernick in the 2016 preseason. He told NFL Media after the game, "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color."
Cromartie first knelt during the anthem in Week 3 against the then-San Diego Chargers, and he told Tesfatsion that team executives told him to get up. They also asked him not to kneel during a Week 4 game in London, and he was benched at halftime after he did.
Despite being released after those four games, the cornerback said he doesn't regret his decision to kneel and that he was happy to provide a voice for those who did not have the same type of platform.
Cromartie played for the Chargers, New York Jets, Arizona Cardinals and Colts from 2006 through 2016 and was a four-time Pro Bowler.
Either way (if it was because of kneeling/or because he was trash and got benched) I'm proud of Pagano for keeping it about football, not personal beliefs.
Derakynn 110
Derakynn
There was a pretty good amount of drama here when this was happening... I maintain my stance that he was playing badly so he was cut. IIRC he was also only brought in when the secondary was dealing with injuries.
i think most people would be fired if they protested at work in front of customers after being told not to
bluebombers87 560
bluebombers87
Maybe it was for his misuse of the English language?
Maybe it was because he don't have a clue on what birth control is?
meh, who cares. Both are long gone
John Waylon 1,625
John Waylon
What a garbage human being. He played like uncontrolled swamp * on a humid day.
The worst part though was
Cromartie said he turned to some of the other players in the room and responded, “So when it’s about leukemia and your cancer, it’s cool [to take a knee]. But when it’s about police brutality and social injustice, it’s not cool.”
No one ever knelt during the anthem for Pagano you jabroni.
I hope this guy walks out his door and gets hit by falling space junk.
9 minutes ago, John Waylon said:
hit by falling space junk.
A big ol' pile of space doo doo ? lol
colts8718 125
colts8718
He must need more money
2016, thank God we have the internet to keep up with current affairs.
Peterk2011 419
Peterk2011
I'm just happy the league put behind the kneeling thing. It brough the worst out of many people regardless of which side they took of the story. Just sad.
Introspect 195
Introspect
Not buying it
Shafty138 1,319
Shafty138
I call bull. He didn't turn and say that to teammates. If he did, guarantee they were end of roster guys he felt he had more clout than. Watched his show for a bit.... He's not dumb, just completely entitled and unaware of the world around him
MPStack 3,234
MPStack
3 hours ago, colts8718 said:
14 kids to many!
2 hours ago, MPStack said:
Salute to Cromartie for having the courage to do what he felt was right despite the potential consequences and pressure from Irsay and Pagano. At the end of the day...he can look himself in the mirror see a man who held true to his convictions and that’s all that really matters when all is said and done. Life goes on.
3 hours ago, Coltsman1788 said:
Courage? By going public 3 years later?
Whatever.... Antonio Cromartie is a case study in a recklessly irresponsible lack of self control.
https://blackamericaweb.com/2017/10/24/antonio-cromartie-seeks-reduction-in-child-support-payments/
4 hours ago, pacolts56 said:
No...courage to kneel when he did. When you are true to your convictions despite what others say or the pressures they try to place upon you it takes some level of courage. That’s all I’m recognizing him for with my comment. If that’s how that man truly felt then he did the right thing taking a knee. Whether or not it was the reason for his being cut is up for debate. His play wasn’t great while with us so I doubt he’ll get much traction on that. I still respect that he stayed true to his convictions at that point in his life.
As far as the child support payment article that is not germane to the issue at hand. There are also lots of veterans who this nation revere who come home and do some pretty bad things to their wives or make other poor decisions as well. Some due to PTSD, etc. Doesn’t take away from their service to their country. In either case, that’s not relevant to the point of the thread in my opinion.
Mitch Connors 301
Mitch Connors
This is textbook courage.
How many people were on the Colts sidelines - 100?
How many people took a knee - 1?
Just because you dont support his cause doesn't mean it doesn't take courage to do what he did.
He couldn't play worth a crap. He was bad and shouldn't have been on the team at all. He never got signed by another team.
He was an irresponsible person who fathered at least 14 kids with several different women. A deadbeat dad who hasn't paid the child support he owes.
Pretty much a jerk.
DougDew 2,270
DougDew
I don't know why the NFL allows players to use its visibility to promote personal causes. I think the players should use their own money or lobby the public for donations so that the people who care about various causes can spend their own money buying the visibility they want.
Essentially, he's using other people's money to promote something he cares about. Getting something for nothing, in this case, getting visibility because he's an NFL player. CEOs of public companies do this too.
Seems like nothing more than an old fashioned mooch to me, except somebody (else) might be afraid to call it that depending upon the merits of the cause.
1 hour ago, Mitch Connors said:
Kneeling does not take courage.
Running between flying pieces of hot lead and copper takes Courage.
Pulling up the flag after the soldier carrying was dropped and killed on the battlefield of America's freedom at Yorkstown is courage.
Running into a house on fire to save a toddler from a certain death is courage.
Sitting on a seat in a bus full of people who hate you simply because of your skin color knowing you could go to jail is courage.
leading a march of people who were and are still today suffering from racism knowing very well you could be killed or jailed is courage.
Kneeling during the National Anthem being played, during a game where you are paid millions, is not courage, it's disrespectful and insulting. I would think differently if he put his money where his mouth is, but he hasn't. What he was doing was attention seeking. Same thing with Kaepernick, who started his little kneeling crap AFTER he lost his starting spot. Only 2 weeks after that start did he try to say he was doing it for a social cause. No, in both cases, it was players attention seeking, not carrying a badge of courage, that led them to kneel.
Waiting 3 years, AFTER all the persons involved are no longer with the Colts, is further proof this is about attention seeking!
57 minutes ago, csmopar said:
We are all entitled to our opinions and feelings on this matter. Whether or not we agree. I respect your right to feel differently about this than I do. I disagree with you respectfully that those examples that you provided are the only ways that courage can be displayed. Unless you walk in a man’s shoes you can’t speak for what is in his heart.
I’ll just leave you with this...if kneeling during the National Anthem is so insulting and disrespectful then why did a white US veteran suggest that Kap do it as a way of showing respect to the flag and veterans who died for this country. Lost is the fact that some protesting NFL players initially were not standing or coming out for the anthem at all. Trump successfully highjacked the kneeling message and portrayed it as a gesture of disrespect and those who wanted to avoid the deeper underlying issues that gave rise to those players’ feelings of discontent...I.e. police brutality against persons of color, could thus conveniently ignore them under the ruse of a fake patriotism contrary to the freedom, values and principles that that very flag is supposed to represent. America is great because people have the freedom to kneel...in prayer and protest. In this emerging increasingly wicked and Godless secular society...I say that kneeling takes a whole lot of courage.
BigQungus 258
BigQungus
On 10/30/2019 at 10:11 AM, lollygagger8 said:
He does make a point that we paid him a lot of money to be a depth CB that would get cut when everyone got healthy.
Or that was just Grigson being stupid. Either way.
Valpo2004 1,486
Valpo2004
2 hours ago, csmopar said:
Disagree there are different types of courage.
Physical courage on the battlefield is certainly one of those.
But going against the grain takes a lot of courage itself. That's why most people don't do it.
There are people out there who would charge a machine gun nest but wouldn't openly take an unpopular stand that they would otherwise support because they don't have the courage to go against the grain. At the same time just because someone is kneeling doesn't mean that they would charge a machine gun nest. Different types of courage. A person could have one in spades but have little of the other.
Disagree with him speculating that's why we cut him. Honestly I think the fact that he wasn't picked up by another team shows that he was cut for skill as he wasn't the face of the kneeling movement like Kap.
2 hours ago, Valpo2004 said:
Perhaps. And I’m not saying you are wrong, you’re not. My issue isn’t just with the kneeling itself. It’s the falsification of the reason for it when Kaepernick realized he could make a dime off a very unfortunate social issue. He did this for two weeks before it become viral. At which time, he had been benched for crappy play and was mad about it. After it started getting noticed, he claimed it was for the social injustice that is racist profiling within our country. He then was paid MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS, in endorsement deals from the likes of Nike and stuff. Yet he’s not donated a single dime towards the organizations that have been trying to help solve this issue. Nor has he volunteered to help anywhere in these communities. No, he turned a valid social concern into a money nest egg for himself. Profiting off of the pain of others. The. He went even further and tried suing the NFL for even more money. Now, Cromartie is trying to do the same.
Thats not courage, that’s greed
I showed courage today. We had a mandatory staff meeting and I did not go. I had other things to take care of that I thought were more important.
In regard to kaep, I think his mistake was kneeling during a Veterans Day celebration when they had vets from many wars in attendance. Vets who had friends and family come home in a boc draped with the very flag he was protesting. Poor choice. He should have taken that day off and shown some respect.
Of course the Pig socks and Castro shirt were also poor choices. Yes there are some bad police officers, but there are many more good ones.
2 hours ago, Myles said:
Its the overall presentation of the issue and the tactics used that bothers me. The merits of the issue is separate.
I tend to feel preached to when these types of protests occur, telling me how I'm supposed to think. If I wanted to be sermonized and preached to on Sunday, I'd go to church and not an NFL football game.
An analogy: Think of a preacher who says that Jesus is good. Then he tries to use someone else's venue to make the public aware of how good Jesus is. By the current modern logic, if the company denied the preacher the use of their venue, the company would be labeled inherently anti-Jesus. And if mentioning how anti-Jesus the company was didn't work , get all of his followers to boycott the company.
It simple old fashioned entitlement thinking back up by bullying and intimidation.
rock8591 538
Courageous and cowardly at the same time.
With that said, protest (peaceful or not) at a funeral possession like the playing of the national anthem before a game should never be morally acceptable. Notice I didn't say "legally".
DerekDiggler 262
DerekDiggler
He's right.... that is why but not the only reason he got cut . He was warned not to do it . but he did.
Choices have consequences
20 hours ago, Mitch Connors said:
I’m not talking about his decision to kneel.... a lot of players knelt in support of what Kaepernick coincidentally claimed was this noble cause. If you want to call it courage, be my guest.... I can understand the sentiment.
No.... I’m talking about him reviving the whole matter he now claims regarding the reason he was cut.
All on the heels of his ridiculous plea for the courts to reduce his child support 3 years later?
https://overthecap.com/player/antonio-cromartie/966
Given the fact that he’d earned $46m in his NFL career and squandered it to the point of now pleading with the courts for child support relief.... forgive me.... but this looks and smells like desperate manipulation that should actually OFFEND activists opposing police brutality and injustice.
Sorry.... this is the law of sowing and reaping of the mess that Antonio Cromartie created for himself.... and 14 kids get to go along for the ride.
Gee.... how courageous.
16 hours ago, csmopar said:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jerrybarca/2018/02/01/colin-kaepernick-not-stopping-donations-roll-past-1-million/#228d8c691668
Kapernick has donated money even while he's not been on a roster. There are problems to have with him, the socks issue is one. But I don't feel like he's doing this just for himself.
And that Nike deal came way after he started kneeling. Remember he started with sitting on the bench during the anthem and a vet convinced him that kneeling was a way that could show respect and make his point.
On 10/31/2019 at 10:31 AM, csmopar said:
How about providing some clarity here.
The bold summary: kneeling is wrong and shouldn't happen.
The underlined summary: kneeling is not wrong if he supported the kneeling financially.
Why were those soldiers fighting at Yorktown in the first place? Do you think it had anything to do with one side feeling they were being treated unfairly by the other side and they chose to do something about it?
You also referenced Rosa Parks; are you suggesting she chose the correct venue to demonstrate her outrage over racial injustice? Why? Id love for you to explain how/when/where the appropriate locale is to demonstrate peacefully.
You toss around generalized examples of courage to say what? Unless a person does the examples you listed they're not demonstrating courage. Is that your point? Heres a few you left out:
Standing up against injustice whenever it presents itself regardless of personal impact
Refusing to go along with authority simply because you're told to (See Yorktown)
Fighting a battle for someone else that doesn't have the ability to fight it themselves
1 minute ago, Mitch Connors said:
None of those examples did the person "protesting" receive MILLIONS of dollars to do said "protest" . That is my issue with Kaepernick. He profited off the racial profiling some of us in this country have been subjected too.
Not before a football game in which you're an employee making millions.
How about Kaep or any other activist march in the streets of the roughest most oppressed neighborhoods in America? Why not march in front of police stations, or in Washington DC? Why have none of these so called activists ever addressed eliminating domestic criminals such as drug dealers and murderers residing in and spreading terror throughout oppressed neighborhoods? Why? Because it would actually require a little bit of courage to do so.
23 minutes ago, Clem-Dog said:
Some of them actually have.
But you know why you didn't hear or read about it?
Because it wasn't before a football game on national television.
On 10/31/2019 at 3:51 PM, csmopar said:
He definitely lost more money in cut endorsements and potential NFL revenue than he gained in that one Nike endorsement. And he probably didn't know that he would even get that when he started
21 hours ago, BigQungus said:
I wasn’t aware 2nd string QBs had major endorsement contracts.
The dude was on a downswing. He was gonna have a hard time getting picked up by another team. Decides to kneel to draw attention to himself and be able to lament those racist NFL owners as keeping him down.
All the while you have places like Nike just eager to show how woke they are to get money from people who think that by wearing Nike they support all these causes but Nike ends up just making a profit while marginally donating to some causes.
This argument is boring.
Cromartie is a joke.
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By Fear & Loathing,
October 26, 2006 in The Shark Pool (NFL Talk)
HenryMuto 0
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Location:Geneva, OH
Not sure I can ask this question here but I will give it a try since this is where the best of the best hang out when talking about the value of the players in dynasty leagues.
Would you do this trade based on where you rank these players for now and the future ?
This is what I would get
Tony Gonzalez TE, ATL
Ricky Williams RB, MIA
Braylon Edwards WR, NYJ
Maurice Jones-Drew RB, JAC
Marques Colston WR, NOR
2011 Draft, Rnd 1 (My pick back)
This is what he wants from me
Vincent Jackson WR, SDG
Jonathan Stewart RB, CAR
Dez Bryant WR, DAL
2011 Draft, Rnd 1 (His pick back)
It comes down to trying to win the title now and getting Drew and Colston at the expensive of giving up 3 potential superstars.
I have zero chance to win this year with no trade but I might have a great chance to win for the next 5 years without a trade.
I am leaning toward no on this...thoughts by anyone is appreciated.
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EBF 1,210 posts
Brewtown, the other day I posted that you were the worst thing to happen to draft discussion here in a long time--within hours it had 7-8 likes. That should tell you something.
az_prof
I've been a part of this thread almost from the beginning. I've learned a lot. I've made some friends. But...let's please keep the personal attacks to a minimum. It isn't fun. Tell me what you think
Good. It's settled then. I'll continue to disregard your "analysis" and you can ignore mine. I don't think anyone in this thread will miss these exchanges.
ex-ghost 635
ex-ghost
Where does Lynch move on the dynasty scale now?
hostile 2
Was just going to ask this.I drafted him this summer in a start up dynasty with huge rosters, solely on the speculation that this was going to happen b/t this last off-season and next. Thankfully, I hit pay dirt early, and have now been hit with multiple trade offers, but nothing blows any wind up my skirt.I honestly do not know how to value the guy.Pros:1) Young - he's only 242) Above avg talent3) Former Pro Bowler4) Now plays in a horrible division against teams which are all in the bottom half of the league in yds/game in rushing5) Is a "bell cow" type backCons:1) He's a head case2) He's a head case3) He couldnt keep Fred Freakin' Jackson on the bench4) Sea's passing game isnt exactly stretching the field5) Sea's Oline doesnt exactly put opposing defenses on their backs (23rd in the league in ypc)I think he obviously gets a nice bump, but how much?
hook014 1
hook014
Location:Myrtle Beach
Not sure I can ask this question here but I will give it a try since this is where the best of the best hang out when talking about the value of the players in dynasty leagues.Would you do this trade based on where you rank these players for now and the future ?This is what I would getTony Gonzalez TE, ATL Ricky Williams RB, MIA Braylon Edwards WR, NYJ Maurice Jones-Drew RB, JAC Marques Colston WR, NOR 2011 Draft, Rnd 1 (My pick back)This is what he wants from meVincent Jackson WR, SDG Jonathan Stewart RB, CAR Dez Bryant WR, DAL 2011 Draft, Rnd 1 (His pick back)It comes down to trying to win the title now and getting Drew and Colston at the expensive of giving up 3 potential superstars.I have zero chance to win this year with no trade but I might have a great chance to win for the next 5 years without a trade.I am leaning toward no on this...thoughts by anyone is appreciated.
The only way I'd do that deal is if I knew I only had 6 months to live. And then I'd have to think about it......
Fear & Loathing 0
Fear & Loathing
Location:Tybee Island, GA
No doubt Foster was a good find. On the other hand, Steve Slaton and Derrick Ward both averaged well over 6 YPC in yesterday's game for Houston.Pretty much any back can look decent in Houston's system. Even Ron Dayne and Ryan Moats had their moments.
Still trotting out this line, eh? Foster is the real deal.
What part of EBF's statement do you disagree with? Heaven forbid someone has a different opinion than yours. Foster may end up being the man in Houston for years to come, but it is far from a sure thing.As long as Kubiak is in Houston, two things are likely to be the case. Houston will have a good running game, and no RB's job is safe.
Why do you insist on making predictions on this backfield? The opposite of everything you've predicted has come to fruition so far. You're a beaten man on this subject.
Go deep 2
What have i predicted that has been wrong? Plus, even if i have been, does that mean i can no longer comment on the situation? Are you done making predictions on the Giants backfield?
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SSOG
Would you move McCoy for Rice straight up?
As fast as I physically could, and all the while I'd be cursing the limitations of my human reflexes for preventing me from accepting even faster still.
Ahhh, so you play with retaards. THAT explains a LOT!
I don't know why I bother viewing your posts. I put you on ignore for a reason, but curiosity keeps getting the better of me and I keep clicking "view post" to see what nonsense you're going on about this time. Luckily, most of the time you're just doing your best to remind me why I had you on ignore in the first place. It's good to know I'm not ever going to be tempted to take you off ignore any time soon.I'd ask if you had anything to contribute to the discussion, but... well, it honestly doesn't matter, since I won't wind up reading it anyway.
At this point, it's a sure thing. I'm pretty familiar with Koobs, and he's not the kind of coach who's always looking to shuffle the deck chairs. If he winds up shuffling the deck chairs a lot, it's because he's looking for a cornerstone back. Now that he's found one, he's going to be content riding him for the next several years, just like he was content riding Terrell Davis, just like he was content riding Clinton Portis, even like he was content riding Mike Anderson.
I don't know why I bother viewing your posts. I put you on ignore for a reason, but curiosity keeps getting the better of me and I keep clicking "view post" to see what nonsense you're going on about this time. Luckily, most of the time you're just doing your best to remind me why I had you on ignore in the first place. It's good to know I'm not ever going to be tempted to take you off ignore any time soon.
I'd ask if you had anything to contribute to the discussion, but... well, it honestly doesn't matter, since I won't wind up reading it anyway.
What part of EBF's statement do you disagree with? Heaven forbid someone has a different opinion than yours. Foster may end up being the man in Houston for years to come, but it is far from a sure thing.
As long as Kubiak is in Houston, two things are likely to be the case. Houston will have a good running game, and no RB's job is safe.
Of those 3, only Davis had more than two good fantasy seasons for a Kubiak team.
I guess our biggest disagreement comes in is Foster being a sure thing. I dont thing anything in football is a sure thing, especially a undrafted Texans Rb with only a handful of good games under his belt. Of course i wont say that it is a sure thing he is going to be a bust either. I just dont think Foster is an elite talent, so i dont trust his long term value.
Of those 3, only Davis had more than two good fantasy seasons for a Kubiak team.I guess our biggest disagreement comes in is Foster being a sure thing. I dont thing anything in football is a sure thing, especially a undrafted Texans Rb with only a handful of good games under his belt. Of course i wont say that it is a sure thing he is going to be a bust either. I just dont think Foster is an elite talent, so i dont trust his long term value.
Clinton Portis has 6 career top-12 finishes. Had he not been traded, he would have been putting those up for Gary Kubiak. Seeing as Gary Kubiak had absolutely nothing to do with the decision to trade Clinton Portis, I don't know what bearing the fact that Portis got traded has to do with Arian Foster. Even if you think Kubiak had some sway over the Portis trade... great, so what? Are you saying that you're worried Houston might decide to trade away Arian Foster, if they can only get Nnamdi Asomugha or Darrell Revis (and a second round draft pick to boot!) in return?There's no such thing as a sure thing, but that's completely irrelevant when compiling rankings, because you're ranking a player against his peers. Sure, Foster might not be a 100% lock... but none of his peers are 100% locks, either. Not even Chris Johnson or Adrian Peterson. Is Arian Foster's future any more uncertain than most of the other backs in the league? No. In fact, I'd argue that it's significantly less uncertain than most other RBs in the league.Arian Foster isn't an elite talent, but I count 8 elite talents in the league, and three of them are 27 years old. After that, who are you going to rank above Foster? I guess I just don't see the difference between, say, Arian Foster and Rashard Mendenhall at this point.
Clinton Portis has 6 career top-12 finishes. Had he not been traded, he would have been putting those up for Gary Kubiak. Seeing as Gary Kubiak had absolutely nothing to do with the decision to trade Clinton Portis, I don't know what bearing the fact that Portis got traded has to do with Arian Foster. Even if you think Kubiak had some sway over the Portis trade... great, so what? Are you saying that you're worried Houston might decide to trade away Arian Foster, if they can only get Nnamdi Asomugha or Darrell Revis (and a second round draft pick to boot!) in return?
There's no such thing as a sure thing, but that's completely irrelevant when compiling rankings, because you're ranking a player against his peers. Sure, Foster might not be a 100% lock... but none of his peers are 100% locks, either. Not even Chris Johnson or Adrian Peterson. Is Arian Foster's future any more uncertain than most of the other backs in the league? No. In fact, I'd argue that it's significantly less uncertain than most other RBs in the league.
Arian Foster isn't an elite talent, but I count 8 elite talents in the league, and three of them are 27 years old. After that, who are you going to rank above Foster? I guess I just don't see the difference between, say, Arian Foster and Rashard Mendenhall at this point.
Considering im not a big fan of Mendenhalls talent, i dont totally disagree with you here. However, it doesnt matter what i think of a player when it comes to his job security. The Steelers spent a first round pick on Mendenhall and seem to be happy with him. The Texans knew what they had in Foster for a full year, and still spent a 2nd round pick on Tate.
As for your point about Portis, let me ask you this, do you think the Jets or Raiders would give up Revis or Asomugha for Foster under any circumstance?
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corpcow
Location:Pittsburgh, PA
Interests:Wine
There *IS* an important difference between an undrafted RB and an early-mid-round pick, but it's not (always) talent. When a team invests in a player with a (relatively) early pick, and the contract that follows, they're going to be more - shall we say, forgiving - with that player. So, the difference between Arian Foster and Mendenhall is that Mendenhall is less likely to see someone drafted early in front of him (presumably, since they already have more invested in the position) and perhaps have a longer leash if he struggles down the road (see, e.g., Russell, Jamarcus).Yes, this is irrelevant once they sign their next deals, but when we're talking about their long-term certainty today it should at least be considered.
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jeter23
Location:Louisville, KY
What kind of offers are you getting for him?
Sabertooth 5,923
Location:North of You
Brandon Tate is going to skyrocket.
Concept Coop 1,745
Concept Coop
Can you expand on that? I am on the "wait and see" side of the debate. I just don't see special talent when I watch him. I am no scout, and really only watch football because I enjoy it. But again, I don't see him as an elite talent. I think he could keep the Texans job for 4 years, but I could also see Tate or another back, giving him a run for his money, or forcing him into a RBBC.Just wanting to know that you mean by real deal, and why you think that. Thanks.
One offer I got after the trade:2011 1st, 2012 1st, Merriweather for Lynch, 2011 2nd, 2012 2ndPrior to the trade, I got this though I rejected in part because of a bad contract on B.Jax.Kolb + Lynch for Henne + B.Jax In another, I was trying to buy him and the guy would only take my 2012 1st - which should be a low pick (I have a good young team). I offered multiple 2nds, in addition to players, and he didn't bite. I didn't accept the 1st rounder offer in part because future 1sts are valuable in RFA - particularly late ones - and I don't have any 2011 1st rounders. In hindsight, I may regret not taking this deal though.
Last offer I received was Lynch for Housh/Tony Gonzalez/2011 2nd - I honestly have no need for either of those guys.
mcintyre1 3,294
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Location:Minneapolis
I offered Clinton Portis + 2011 1st and 3rd for Lynch, I think that's pretty fair, but I haven't heard back from the owner yet.
valhallan 95
valhallan
Location:Portland, OR
I'll give my perspective as a Lynch owner..Unless that's likely a top 4 pick I wouldn't take it. I've held onto Lynch through this nightmare still believe at 24 he can be a starter for me for a few years. That's not worth a mid to late 1st.
I was just going to say the same thing.
Yeah, I kind of figure that it isn't likely to be accepted, as most Lynch owners have been holding him for a long time with the hope that he will return to previous form, but I figured it can't hurt to send an offer. I'm a fan of Lynch and own him in my other league.
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(With apologies for near re-post from another thread) But I keep coming back to the fact that BUF repeatedly chose to start and play Fred Jackson over a healthy and willing Lynch, and traded Lynch at 24 for very little to keep Fred at 29. And that Forsett has ben doing well averaging over 4 yards behind a similarly weak OL.
I think the sell high now guys are going to end up the happiest about Lynch.
The problem is that Lynch was not willing. He didnt want to be in Buffalo, and he played like it. Had Lynch been a happy player and model citizen, Jackson would have never beat him out and Lynch would still be running for 1000 yards a season...even for a horrible Bills team.
Edited October 6, 2010 by Go deep
(With apologies for near re-post from another thread) But I keep coming back to the fact that BUF repeatedly chose to start and play Fred Jackson over a healthy and willing Lynch, and traded Lynch at 24 for very little to keep Fred at 29. And that Forsett has ben doing well averaging over 4 yards behind a similarly weak OL.I think the sell high now guys are going to end up the happiest about Lynch.
If the Bills had a history of prudent personnel decisions, your argument might give me pause about Lynch. However.. Anyway, it's hard to discount pedigree in running backs. We've seen guys like Thomas Jones and Ced Benson go from buster malcontents to rejuvenated on new teams. Lynch is actually ahead of those guys at 24 years old and having already had two top 15 finishes. Keeping him really isn't a gamble at all.
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Herm23
I can't speak for F&L, but for me it all comes down to the eyeball test. He very much looks the part. There have been PLENTY of running backs who have racked up stats but you KNEW weren't the real deal because they looked average and had nothing special about their game. Names like Matt Forte, Domanick Davis, Rudi Johnson, Mike Anderson, Travis Henry, and many more all piled up stats because they either had a golden opportunity or an offense that allowed it to happen. None of these players looked special, great, or impressive when you watched them.Arian Foster does, at least with certain facets of his game, and therein lies the difference. He has the golden opportunity, the offense allowing him to put up points, but ALSO has the look of a high caliber player. Combining all 3 can make a player become elite, ala Priest Holmes.
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THE UNDERCOVER BROTHA
Location:Houston-Texas
I have Gates/Finley/Hernandez on one of my dynasty teams and wonder which one should i deal.
I like all of them but moreso Gates right now with the way he is playing. Should i wait a week to see how
Aaron will be used now before shipping him off and what kind of value you think i could get for JF/AH.
I also noticed you already did your update on your rankings before the MOSS deal,
Where would you place Hernandez at for dynasty now that he is more involved in the offense.
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Actually, Jackson played better. And if a guy doesn't try because he isn't happy, is that really a player you can count on? What happens when he isn't happy again? I find it hard to believe that his happiness had anything to do with how poorly he played last season. Lynch is an average talent with a below average work ethic. He is a definite sell high.
I view Portis as the pocket lint in this deal, so for me that deal comes down to a 1st and 3rd next year for Lynch.If it was going to be a high first (gets me a shot at Ingram), I'd consider it.
I had offers of VJax+2nd for Rivers+1st (likely late) and of VJax/2nd/Naanee for Brees. Both owners offered the trade because they were thrilled with their depth at the QB position. I wound up doing the VJax/2nd/Nanee for Brees trade.
I'm sorry, anyone that thinks Vincent Jackson is comparable in value to Brees or Rivers is mentally challenged. If these people are influencing YOUR perception of value for players like Vincent Jackson, it's an indictment of how your vociferously delivered nutty judgment on the topic is even nuttier than I thought.Ignore me if you want. I certainly wish I could ignore your bizarre view on VJax.
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Location:Bala Cynwyd, PA
SSOGI have Gates/Finley/Hernandez on one of my dynasty teams and wonder which one should i deal.I like all of them but moreso Gates right now with the way he is playing. Should i wait a week to see howAaron will be used now before shipping him off and what kind of value you think i could get for JF/AH.I also noticed you already did your update on your rankings before the MOSS deal, Where would you place Hernandez at for dynasty now that he is more involved in the offense.
It's an awesome time to sell Hernandez. Ride the aftershock. People who are buying him are imagining only the best case scenario. I would sell ASAP. Waiting for another game (after week 6 due to the bye) is a long wait. If you sell now, chances are you get them to overpay. I doubt if he has 8/100/2 in Week 6 that you will get anymore than you would get right now.I don't know how anyone could sell Gates right now unless the rest of your team is terrible. Foster is the only non-QB who has scored more. I understand the desire to sell Gates before he drops off, but he's performing so insanely well. Ride him into the ground.With Gates/Finley you've got a near perfect combo.
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Location:Parts Unkown
For reference I've received an offer of a 2011 1st round pick for Brandon Tate (likely #8-12 pick).
GreatLakesMike 2
GreatLakesMike
I just traded a mid to late 2011 1st for Tate.
I don't get why you're asking this. That was exactly my point. Denver only trade Portis because they got a HoF CB in return. Houston is unlikely to get a HoF CB in return, so I doubt they're very likely to trade Foster.
Not in my rankings. I was already ranking him on the assumption that Moss was gone after this season. New England sped up the timetable, but nothing's really changed. Tate's at a point in my rankings where the only way he's moving up is through the quality of his play.
I don't know how people can't see special talent when they watch Arian Foster. Maybe not Peterson/CJ3/MJD special, but the kid is a very good talent. I took the wait and see approach with him, but at this point, I've waited, I've seen, and I'm ready to commit. He's the guy in Houston long-term.
Who you deal depends on your leaguemates. All three of those guys have serious hype trains. Deal whoever has the biggest hype train in your league. All it takes is one owner to overpay, so find out who is most eager to overpay, and whom he is most eager to overpay for, and sell.Also, Hernandez isn't going to move much. I'll bump him over Celek (who has the exact same value score as Hernandez), and I'll flirt with bumping him over Winslow (whose score is 4 points higher, and whom I am becoming progressively more and more concerned about), but there's not going to be a lot of movement. As with Tate, I was ranking Hernandez under the assumption that Moss was gone after this season. All Belichick did was speed up the timetable a little bit.
Are you worried about NE bringing in VJAX or another legit #1/2 guy?I just worry that buying now, is buying high.
No. It's a mid to late 1st round pick. My guess is that the prospects left at that point won't be any better than Tate, and I don't have to wait 2 years on Tate to develop. I picked up Tate off the waiver last year in all my leagues where he was a FA. I have one more offer out for him in the only league I don't own him in. The guy has an extra gear and looks like a star IMO. Edited October 6, 2010 by GreatLakesMike
Buckna 1,384
Buckna
I dealt Gates in one league but only because the buyer paid a lot and because my team is in full rebuild mode. If I was staring at this scenario I would try to deal Hernandez while the Randy Moss news is fresh, then be starting Finley at TE & Gates as a flex player for the rest of the year.
I'm going to shop Tate in one of my dynasty leagues to see what I can get for him, because the league gives very minimal rewards for kickoff returns. I'm in another league that gives heavy rewards for kickoff returns (Tate is the #2 WR in that scoring system), and the only way you're going to get him off me in that league is if you pry him out of my cold dead fingers (or if you offer me top-12 WR value).
This made me wonder...does this move actually hurt Tate's value in return yardage leagues, if he does move to WR only duties? Basically, does his fantasy value as a starting WR outweigh his fantasy value as a WR3/returner?I don't play in any return yardage leagues, so I am not sure.
New England has no problem using full-time offensive starters on special teams. Welker has been the full-time punt returner since he first landed in New England, and Welker is far more important to the Pats than Tate is. I'd be surprised if New England cut back on his return duties.Edit: remember, Tate is hardly some run-of-the-mill returner. He holds the NCAA record for career return yards. He's leading the league in kickoff return yards, and he has two scores in four games. He was drafted in large part for his return prowess. Edited October 6, 2010 by SSOG
Not in my rankings. I was already ranking him on the assumption that Moss was gone after this season. New England sped up the timetable, but nothing's really changed. Tate's at a point in my rankings where the only way he's moving up is through the quality of his play.Also, Hernandez isn't going to move much. I'll bump him over Celek (who has the exact same value score as Hernandez), and I'll flirt with bumping him over Winslow (whose score is 4 points higher, and whom I am becoming progressively more and more concerned about), but there's not going to be a lot of movement. As with Tate, I was ranking Hernandez under the assumption that Moss was gone after this season. All Belichick did was speed up the timetable a little bit.
I think the Moss trade might be a little more significant to the dynasty outlook of Tate and Hernandez than what you're suggesting. While you're probably right in noting that Moss was going to be gone after this season anyway, the fact that the Patriots sent him packing RIGHT NOW strikes me as significant. That they let him go for minimal compensation in the middle of a season in which they are expected to be strong playoff contenders says more about their confidence in his replacements than merely letting him walk in the offseason would have. If they had let him walk after the season, it wouldn't have necessarily been an endorsement of the other guys on the roster because the team would've still had time to make a trade, sign some free agents, and/or acquire other receiving options in the draft. Unless they pull off a surprise move in the coming weeks, it seems like they're content to roll with their current receiving options for the duration of the season. That suggests a certain level of confidence in guys like Tate or Hernandez. It's enough of an endorsement for me to bump their value. Tate in particular has gone from a guy who "might get a chance" to being a guy who will "definitely get a chance." That the team is giving him this opportunity seemingly says something about their opinion of his skills, which in turn improves my opinion of of his long term outlook. There's a danger in being too reactionary, but there's also a danger in not being reactionary enough. The various personnel moves and decisions that teams make often say something about the players involved. When the Chargers tendered Malcom Floyd at the same level as Vincent Jackson, it said something about their confidence in Floyd's ability. When the Saints traded Donte Stallworth right before the season to make room in the lineup for Marques Colston, it said something about their confidence in Colston's ability. When the Eagles cut Westbrook and neglected to bring in any serious competition for their RB job, it said something about their confidence in LeSean McCoy's ability. Sometimes teams make mistakes and sometimes the players they "endorse" still end up being crap (Derek Anderson for example), but when teams talk, I try to listen. I think New England's willingness to part with Moss for minimal compensation in the middle of the season says something about their faith in the alternatives. Modest bump for Hernandez and healthy bump for Tate, IMO. Having said that, it's all relative. I know that I was already fairly high on Tate and I know that the same is true for SSOG. The latest endorsement is not as significant for people who already had some faith in Tate. I think I would only move him up about 8-10 spots from where I had him a couple months ago. The FBG staff, on the other hand, has him at WR67 in their rankings. I would recommend moving him up about 30-35 spots from there. He's no longer just another WR prospect with potential. He's a WR prospect with potential who has flashed talent and been given an endorsement by his front office. Edited October 6, 2010 by EBF
I think the Moss trade might be a little more significant to the dynasty outlook of Tate and Hernandez than what you're suggesting. While you're probably right in noting that Moss was going to be gone after this season anyway, the fact that the Patriots sent him packing RIGHT NOW strikes me as significant. That they let him go for minimal compensation in the middle of a season in which they are expected to be strong playoff contenders says more about their confidence in his replacements than merely letting him walk in the offseason would have. If they had let him walk after the season, it wouldn't have necessarily been an endorsement of the other guys on the roster because the team would've still had time to make a trade, sign some free agents, and/or acquire other receiving options in the draft. Unless they pull off a surprise move in the coming weeks, it seems like they're content to roll with their current receiving options for the duration of the season. That suggests a certain level of confidence in guys like Tate or Hernandez. It's enough of an endorsement for me to bump their value. Tate in particular has gone from a guy who "might get a chance" to being a guy who will "definitely get a chance." That the team is giving him this opportunity seemingly says something about their opinion of his skills, which in turn improves my opinion of of his long term outlook. There's a danger in being too reactionary, but there's also a danger in not being reactionary enough. The various personnel moves and decisions that teams make often say something about the players involved. When the Chargers tendered Malcom Floyd at the same level as Vincent Jackson, it said something about their confidence in Floyd's ability. When the Saints traded Donte Stallworth right before the season to make room in the lineup for Marques Colston, it said something about their confidence in Colston's ability. When the Eagles cut Westbrook and neglected to bring in any serious competition for their RB job, it said something about their confidence in LeSean McCoy's ability. Sometimes teams make mistakes and sometimes the players they "endorse" still end up being crap (Derek Anderson for example), but when teams talk, I try to listen. I think New England's willingness to part with Moss for minimal compensation in the middle of the season says something about their faith in the alternatives. Modest bump for Hernandez and healthy bump for Tate, IMO. Having said that, it's all relative. I know that I was already fairly high on Tate and I know that the same is true for SSOG. The latest endorsement is not as significant for people who already had some faith in Tate. I think I would only move him up about 8-10 spots from where I had him a couple months ago. The FBG staff, on the other hand, has him at WR67 in their rankings. I would recommend moving him up about 30-35 spots from there. He's no longer just another WR prospect with potential. He's a WR prospect with potential who has flashed talent and been given an endorsement by his front office.
I'm actually right there with you on all of this, especially the part about "when teams talk, try to listen" (which is why I've cooled just a touch on Sidney Rice since the end of last season- every Vikings move has been screaming "we're worried about our WRs!"). I've just already ranked Ben Tate on the assumption that he'd be in this exact situation within the next year. Obviously being in the situation now has value (which gets back to the "urgency" concept- it gives us more time to evaluate Tate and make decisions regarding the roster spot), and perhaps he deserves a bump of a couple spots (I could see jumping him over Ward, Sims-Walker, and Bowe), but at this point he's gone about as far in the rankings as opportunity alone will take him, and it's time for him to start showing it on the field. I'm going to have a hard time moving him over guys like Eddie Royal and Austin Collie- guys who are already out there lighting things up on the field- until he starts putting up yards and scores against opposing defenses instead of just against opposing special teams.
For what it's worth - I just traded for Lynch (sort of accidentally): Lynch for a 2011 2nd, 2012 2nd, 2013 2nd and Malcom Floyd for Lynch. All of the 2nds are mine, and they should all be pretty late. (I have Rodgers/Ryan, CJ3/Wells/Hillis/Brown/Scott/Lynch, Driver/Finley/Keller/Holmes/Nanee/Maclin/Benn/Chambers/Rice/Cook and one of the top set of IDPs in the league).
I kind of put it out there expecting him not to accept given our previous exchanges, and to be honest I didn't realized I offered 3x 2nd rounders I have always loved Floyd, but it's a non-PPR and RB-premium league (even starting 2) - and I have plenty of other depth there.
(Oh yeah, I also have Hernandez on my taxi squad).
Edited October 7, 2010 by corpcow
In the first league I wasn't actively shopping him, but I still wound up swapping him earlier this year when two owners both approached me with offers commensurate with my ranking of VJax. During the window when he looked likely to get traded this season, I had offers of VJax+2nd for Rivers+1st (likely late) and of VJax/2nd/Naanee for Brees. Both owners offered the trade because they were thrilled with their depth at the QB position. I wound up doing the VJax/2nd/Nanee for Brees trade.
Seriously? I guess it depends on league size and scoring dynamics, but I cannot imagine any scenario - even before the uncertainty with VJ - that VJax and a 2nd is worth Rivers and a first. The second trade is equally troubling - though I guess there's a case to be made, in a PPR with 4 pts per passing TD and a smaller QB starting pool.In any case, I would have done either deal in a heartbeat regardless of my QB situation.
Can you expand on that? I am on the "wait and see" side of the debate. I just don't see special talent when I watch him. I am no scout, and really only watch football because I enjoy it. But again, I don't see him as an elite talent. I think he could keep the Texans job for 4 years, but I could also see Tate or another back, giving him a run for his money, or forcing him into a RBBC.
Just wanting to know that you mean by real deal, and why you think that. Thanks.
Who you deal depends on your leaguemates. All three of those guys have serious hype trains. Deal whoever has the biggest hype train in your league. All it takes is one owner to overpay, so find out who is most eager to overpay, and whom he is most eager to overpay for, and sell.
Also, Hernandez isn't going to move much. I'll bump him over Celek (who has the exact same value score as Hernandez), and I'll flirt with bumping him over Winslow (whose score is 4 points higher, and whom I am becoming progressively more and more concerned about), but there's not going to be a lot of movement. As with Tate, I was ranking Hernandez under the assumption that Moss was gone after this season. All Belichick did was speed up the timetable a little bit.
I was asking it to make a point. Point being is Portis was successful because he was an elite talent. Thats why he put up numbers after he left the Broncos. Which leaves Foster more in the Mike Anderson, Orlandis Gary category than than Terrell Davis, Clinton Portis category.
10 team league. The Brees owner also owned Bradford and Orton. The Rivers owner also owned Donovan McNabb and had just traded for Aaron Rodgers. And remember, this happened back in the window when everyone thought that VJax was going to play this season.I imagine a lot of owners would have made that deal if it was Brandon Marshall instead of Vincent Jackson. I also know that I'm not the only guy on this planet that likes VJax more than Marshall.. I know that the Fitzgerald, Johnson, Johnson, White, and Austin owners wouldn't have traded them for a Rivers or a Brees (I know this because I own Fitz and Austin, and the Brees owner owns White, and the former Rodgers owner owns Andre, and the Calvin owner is insane). So what's so surprising about someone who feels the same way about VJax as I do making that deal for Jackson? I suppose they look like lopsided trades to anyone who's down on VJax, but if you've got him ranked among the top 10 dynasty WRs, that seems like pretty fair value. He was the only potential top-5 WR on the market. If I had Rivers and Rodgers at QB and I was already stacked at RB, I'd be shopping either QB for the best WR I could possibly acquire, and in my opinion, "the best WR I could acquire" was Vincent Jackson. Seems the Rivers owner and Brees owner both agreed.VJax reminds me a lot of Jonathan Stewart. If a Stewart Believer sells JStew, it'll probably for a package that makes every Unbeliever on the planet scratch their head and stare blankly while all the True Believers just nod understandingly. I'm a Stewart Believer in that dynasty league, too, and I've been approached by several Unbelievers who have been shocked by my asking price for him... but I think there are probably a lot of people in this thread who would be asking for the exact same thing if they were in my position.
You seem awfully sure of that. I know two things- first off, the only Denver RBs who ever put up numbers comparable to what Foster is putting up right now are Terrell Davis and Clinton Portis. Mike Anderson also had a huge rookie season, but I personally think Anderson is really underrated by a lot of people- the only things that ever kept Mike Anderson from putting up stud numbers were Terrell Davis, Clinton Portis, and injury. Ain't no shame in being second fiddle to those two backs. I think Anderson was a huge step above the Olandis Garys and Reuben Droughnses of the world. And I think Arian Foster resides above the Mike Anderson line.Second off, speaking of Reuben Droughns... you realize he was the first person to rush for 1000 yards in Cleveland in like 20 years, right? He put up 1200 rushing yards in Denver in 2004... and 1200 rushing yards in Cleveland in 2005. Just sayin'.
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Sup_Yo
Location:Columbus, Ohio
SSOG, where does B. Tate now sit in your rankings post-Moss?
So would anyone with an IQ over room temp?
But just dont call those people stoopid, or ssog will turn you off...
Deal. Going PPG takes away one of Rivers' best assets in a comparison with Roethlisberger - he is durable and doesn't get suspended. But given Ben's 4 game suspension to start out the period of any bet, it seems PPG is necessary. However, IMO these are two reasons (durability, knucklehead factor) why Rivers should be ranked higher than Roethlisberger as a dynasty prospect.I suggest a sig bet to avoid money hassles, but I'll make a money bet if you prefer. Let's go with the 2010 regular season, FBG scoring, partial games count fully (i.e., no dicing up partial games). Missed games obviously do not count.Looking back on the 4 seasons since Rivers became a starter (FBG scoring):2006: Rivers 16.6, Roethlisberger 16.12007: Rivers 15.1, Roethlisberger 21.92008: Rivers 22.3, Roethlisberger 15.22009: Rivers 21.6, Roethlisberger 22.8Overall (2006-2009): Rivers 18.922, Roethlisberger 18.918Pretty close, but trending is better for Rivers.
I'd rather do a cash bet, since I'm now using my sig for advertising purposes. Hopefully Paypal works fine for you. To make it interesting, how about making it a dynamic bet- how about $5 for every difference in PPG, maximum $50? If Rivers outscores Roofles by 3.4 ppg, I owe you $17. If Roofles outscores Rivers by 6.5, you owe me $32.50. If one player outscores the other by 0.05 ppg, one of us is Paypalling the other $0.25. Are these terms acceptable?
Oh yeah, obviously it goes without saying, but I'm saying it anyway. Standard FBGs scoring. We'll use Dodds' YTD PPG stats from the week before wildcard round of the playoffs to determine final winner.
1/4 of the season down, and Rivers is second in the league in fantasy points, averaging ~25 ppg. Long way to go, but I'm feeling pretty good about this bet right now. Edited October 7, 2010 by Just Win Baby
1/4 of the season down, and Rivers is leading the league in fantasy points, averaging 27.7 ppg. Long way to go, but I'm feeling pretty good about this bet right now.
The only reason Rivers leads the league in fantasy points is because Roethlisberger hasn't played a down yet. Now the game really begins in earnest.
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Recently, Deepika Padukone kickstarted the shooting of Pathan. The film reunites her with Shah Rukh Khan, and we will get to see them on the big screen for the fourth time.
Well, according to a report in Mumbai Mirror, Deepika will be shooting for a short span in this schedule and later will join SRK in mid-December. Revealing about her character in the film, a source told the tabloid, “It’s an intriguing world of agents and Deepika will get to do a lot of action too. Though the title is SRK-centric, Deepika plays an edgy character, who joins Pathan on a mission. It’s on the lines of what Katrina Kaif’s Zoya was to Salman Khan’s Tiger in the Tiger franchise.”
Well, Katrina Kaif as Zoya has surely impressed us in the Tiger franchise. It will surely be interesting to see Deepika playing the role of an agent on the big screen.
Pathan also stars John Abraham and it is said that the actor will join the team in January next year.
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Amazon sets mass layoffs at Quidsi products unit after losses
By Jeffrey Dastin
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By Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc plans mass layoffs at its money-losing parenting products subsidiary Quidsi as part of a business restructuring, the company said in a document filed with the state of New Jersey on Wednesday. The e-commerce giant plans to terminate 263 employees in New Jersey this summer, according to a notice filed with the state's Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Quidsi operates Diapers.com and other websites. "We have worked extremely hard for the past seven years to get Quidsi to be profitable, and unfortunately we have not been able to do so," an Amazon spokeswoman said in a statement. "Quidsi has great brand expertise and they will continue to offer selection on Amazon.com; the software development team will focus on building technology for AmazonFresh." The market appeared to welcome Amazon's attention to losses at the subsidiary, unusual for a company that has made investments in logistics and new businesses a priority over profit. Amazon stock briefly hit a record high of $876.44 on Wednesday afternoon, before paring gains to close up 2.1 percent at $874.32. The move underscores a shift in Amazon's focus to groceries and other areas since it closed its $500 million cash acquisition of Quidsi in 2011. At that time, Amazon was fending off Quidsi, popular among mothers, with its own Amazon "Mom" subscription that offered free shipping and other perks on baby items. Amazon was keen to attract more customers to subscriptions of bulk items, which would spur additional purchases and allow Amazon to better adjust inventory. It has heavily pushed its fast-shipping and video-streaming subscription Prime, now estimated to have more than 50 million members in the United States. "It is likely that Prime has grown to the point where members no longer separately shop on Diapers.com or Soap.com, so maintenance of separate product-specific sites makes less sense," Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said. "There isn't the cult-like following that Zappos enjoys," said Baird Equity Research analyst Colin Sebastian. Zappos, the online shoe retailer that Amazon purchased in 2009, continues to operate as a separate website. Amazon is now attempting to crack the more than $600 billion market for groceries, mostly bought at brick-and-mortar stores by U.S. customers. On Tuesday it announced a test phase of AmazonFresh Pickup in which customers order online and then pick up their order at a scheduled time at a store, where the groceries are loaded into their vehicle. The model is already in place at Wal-Mart Stores Inc and other retailers. News of Amazon moving staff to AmazonFresh and winding down Quidsi was reported earlier by Bloomberg. Affected employees at New Jersey-based Quidsi will be able to apply for other positions in Amazon, the company said in its New Jersey filing. (Reporting by Jeffrey Dastin in San Francisco; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and Leslie Adler)
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American Lithium Corp. (LI.V)
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American Lithium Comments on Recent Promotional Activity
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Lithium Corp. (TSXV: LI) (OTCQB: LIACF) (Frankfurt: 5LA1) (“American Lithium” or the “Company”) has been requested by OTC Markets Group Inc. (“OTC Markets”) to comment on recent promotional activity concerning its common shares traded on the OTCQB. On January 12, 2021, OTC Markets sent the Company copies of articles by Promethean Marketing, Inc. (“Promethean”) and Global Profit Systems, LLC (“Global”). Promethean is a third-party marketing and advertising firm which was retained by the Company to provide content distribution and advertising services. While the Company did engage Promethean, it does not have any relationship with Global. The Company was not involved in the preparation of the articles published by Promethean or Global, nor did it have editorial control over the content of the articles, and only became aware of the articles on January 12, 2021, following notification by OTC Markets. The Company does not believe the statements referencing it in the articles were false or misleading. The Company has been advised by OTC Markets that OTC Markets takes the position that aspects of the statements were overly promotional. The Company wishes to caution readers that these statements are speculative in nature. For more complete and specific information regarding the Company, its prospects and the risks associated with those prospects, readers should consult the Company’s website and other reliable sources. The Company does not believe the promotional activities were a factor in the recent increase in trading volume in the Company’s common shares on the OTCQB which occurred on January 12, 2021. Instead, the Company attributes the increase to heightened interest in development-stage lithium projects primarily driven by anticipated demand from the electric vehicle market. After an inquiry of management, none of the Company’s officers, directors, controlling shareholders or third-party service providers have sold or purchased securities of the Company in the past ninety days. In the last twelve months, except for Promethean, the Company has not engaged any parties to provide investor relations, public relations services, marketing or other related services. The Company has not issued any convertible instruments or securities allowing conversion to equity securities at prices constituting a discount to the current market price at the time of issuance. About American Lithium Corp. American Lithium is actively engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development lithium deposits within mining-friendly jurisdictions throughout the Americas. The Company is currently exploring and developing the TLC lithium project located in the highly prospective Esmeralda lithium district in Nevada. TLC is close to infrastructure, 3.5 hours south of the Tesla Gigafactory, and in the same basinal environment as Albemarle’s Silver Peak lithium mine, and several advancing deposits and resources, including Ioneer Ltd.’s (formerly Global Geoscience) Rhyolite Ridge and Cypress Development Corp.’s Clayton Valley Project. For more information, please contact the Company at info@americanlithiumcorp.com or visit our website at www.americanlithiumcorp.com. On behalf of the Board, American Lithium Corp.Michael Kobler, Chief Executive Officer Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Forward-looking statements Statements in this release that are forward-looking information are subject to various risks and uncertainties concerning the specific factors disclosed here. Information provided in this release is necessarily summarized and may not contain all available material information. All such forward-looking information and statements are based on certain assumptions and analyses made by American Lithium management in light of their experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors management believes are appropriate in the circumstances. These statements, however, are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information or statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from these forward-looking statements include those described under the heading “Risks Factors” in American Lithium's most recently filed MD&A. The Company does not intend, and expressly disclaims any obligation to, update or revise the forward-looking information contained in this news release, except as required by law. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information or statements.
American Lithium Submits Plan of Operations to the Bureau of Land Management for the Next Phase of Operations
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 13, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Lithium Corp. (TSXV: LI) (OTCQB: LIACF) (Frankfurt: 5LA1) (“American Lithium” or the “Company”), a leader in acquisition, exploration and development, reports it has submitted its Plan of Operations to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) moving it towards its next phase of development and operations at its flagship Tonopah Lithium Project (TLC) project near Tonopah, Nevada.Drilling during 2019 and 2020 resulted in the discovery of a high-quality lithium deposit that is amenable to leaching with a measured and indicated resource of 5.37 million tonnes lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) and another 1.76 million LCE inferred. As ongoing process and flowsheet engineering continues, it is critical to move towards further understanding of the deposit and to the development of a pilot plant for process stream testing to refine the economics of the project.The Plan of Operations increases the surface disturbance allowance to 168 acres in two phases, 84.5 acres in Phase 1, and 78.5 acres in Phase 2, and includes all necessary descriptions of environmental and reclamation planning for the next phase of operations, which includes: * 95 new drill sites to further characterize the extensive TLC resource * 5 large test pits to provide bulk sampling for metallurgical testing * One 5-acre laydown area intended for the future pilot plant * Biological and cultural surveys that can be used for further permitting without additional costThe American Lithium team prioritized all environmental and cultural work early on to fast-track the project towards this next phase of drilling and testing. The biological survey found no species or habitat protected under the ESA (Endangered Species Act) within the project area expediting company ability to move towards the next phase. Information gained under the proposed new drilling program will lead to a mining plan.Michael Kobler, CEO of American Lithium, states “We are pleased to submit this application for a Plan of Operations to the BLM as we move this project forward. There have been no significant environmental issues, so the project is ready to move forward and produce bulk sampling for our extensive metallurgical testing program and planned pilot plant operation. This exciting development will further advance TLC toward the development of a large-scale, lithium mine in the United States.”The Plan of Operations, along with the associated Biological and Cultural Surveys were produced in conjunction with EM Strategies, Inc. of Reno, Nevada.Stock Option GrantAmerican Lithium also announces that, pursuant to its Stock Option Plan, it has granted stock options to certain consultants to purchase an aggregate of 500,000 common shares of the Company at a price of $1.98 per share for a period of 5 years from the grant date. This stock option grant is subject to acceptance by the TSX Venture Exchange.About the TLC PropertyThe TLC sedimentary lithium discovery is an exploration and development project located 12 kilometres northwest of Tonopah, Nev., and easily accessible by paved highway. Work to date has identified a 5.3-million-tonne measured and indicated lithium carbonate equivalent resource, with an additional 1.7 million tonnes inferred, placing the Company's resource amongst a handful of potential lithium deposits in Western North America capable of development. TLC is near surface, relatively flat-lying and a free-digging lithium sedimentary deposit that the company expects to advance through an early-stage economic study in 2021. Just south of the Crescent Dunes solar energy plant, the project is favourably located for future production given the immediate access to some of the cheapest electricity in Nevada.About American Lithium Corp. American Lithium is actively engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of lithium deposits within mining-friendly jurisdictions throughout the Americas. The Company is currently exploring and developing the TLC project located in the highly prospective Esmeralda lithium district in Nevada. TLC is close to infrastructure, 3.5 hours south of the Tesla Gigafactory, and in the same basinal environment as Albemarle's Silver Peak lithium mine, and several advancing deposits and resources, including Ioneer Ltd.'s (formerly Global Geoscience) Rhyolite Ridge and Cypress Development Corp.'s Clayton Valley project.The technical information within this news release has been reviewed and approved by Bruce Kienlen, P.Geo., a consultant to the Company and a qualified person under National Instrument 43-101.For more information, please contact the Company at info@americanlithiumcorp.com or visit our website at www.americanlithiumcorp.com.On behalf of the Board,American Lithium Corp. Michael Kobler, Chief Executive OfficerNeither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.Forward-looking statements Statements in this release that are forward-looking information are subject to various risks and uncertainties concerning the specific factors disclosed here. Information provided in this release is necessarily summarized and may not contain all available material information. All such forward-looking information and statements are based on certain assumptions and analyses made by American Lithium management in light of their experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors management believes are appropriate in the circumstances. These statements, however, are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information or statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from these forward-looking statements include those described under the heading “Risks Factors” in American Lithium's most recently filed MD&A. The Company does not intend, and expressly disclaims any obligation to, update or revise the forward-looking information contained in this news release, except as required by law. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information or statements.
American Lithium Continues Drilling To Expand Resource And Provide Bulk Sample Materials For Additional Processing Options At Nevada TLC Lithium Project
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Lithium Corp. (TSXV: LI) (OTCQB: LIACF) (Frankfurt: 5LA1) (“American Lithium” or the “Company”), a leading lithium exploration and development operator is pleased to report commencement of the phase III drill campaign to expand the current 5.37 million tonnes (Mt) Lithium Carbonate Equivalent (LCE) at the Company’s wholly owned TLC sedimentary lithium project in Nevada, USA. Further, the program will provide bulk material to continue independent testing and validation of existing work on economical production of lithium by both hydrometallurgical and thermal processing methods. To date, all holes drilled at TLC have intersected significant lithium. A maiden pit constrained resource of 1.107 billion tonnes measured and indicated (“M+I”) plus 362 Mt Inferred was established through the phase I & II drilling program of 2019-2020. This program included 23 RC drill holes and 5 core holes to yield this 5.37 million tonnes LCE M+I and 1.76 million tonnes LCE Inferred at a 400 ppm cut-off grade. Already established as one of North America’s largest confirmed sedimentary resources, this TLC resource is open both to the north and west on existing claims. In July 2020, an additional 52 claims comprising 1,074 (+26%) acres contiguous to the existing TLC property were added to the project due to evidence that the lithium structures continue in these directions.Boart Longyear Company of Glendale, Arizona is contracted to complete six 6” diameter sonic drill holes. Since the ore is close to the surface the holes will be no more than 400 feet in depth. Initially, the drilling will focus north and northwest in the existing resource to upgrade inferred resources into measured & indicated resources. This drilling will test the newly acquired claim block to potentially further expand the resource on the site.A key benefit from the recovered core in this drilling program is the availability of significant bulk samples to validate and optimize the Company’s hydrometallurgical and thermal processing options. American Lithium continues to work on numerous attractive process variations to seek the optimum flow-sheet for planned economic studies early in 2021.Mike Kobler, CEO of American Lithium, notes “This phase III drilling program offers a strong opportunity to extend the size of this lithium deposit. We are most enthusiastic that our particular mineralization may offer more than one advantageous cost effective production opportunity that can be a real game-changer to fulfill the critical and expanding need for domestic lithium production in North America.”Please watch our corporate video at https://www.americanlithiumcorp.com/our-company/ and review our informative short project update videos and related background information at https://www.americanlithiumcorp.com/projects/tlc-nevada/.About The TLC Project The TLC sedimentary lithium discovery that transformed into an exploration and development project is located 12 kilometres northwest of Tonopah, Nevada, with easy access by paved highway. Work to date has identified a 5.3-million-tonne measured and indicated lithium carbonate equivalent resource, with an additional 1.7 million tonnes inferred, placing the Company's resource amongst a handful of lithium deposits in North America capable of development. TLC is near the surface, relatively flat-lying and a free-digging lithium sedimentary deposit that the company expects to advance through an early-stage economic study in 2021. Neighboring the Crescent Dunes solar energy plant, the project is favourably located for future production given the immediate access to some of the cheapest electricity in Nevada and availability of local labor, raw materials and water.About American Lithium Corp. American Lithium is actively engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of lithium deposits within mining-friendly jurisdictions throughout the Americas. The Company is currently exploring and developing the TLC project located in the highly prospective Esmeralda lithium district in Nevada. TLC is close to infrastructure, 3.5 hours south of the Tesla Gigafactory, and in the same basinal environment as Albemarle's Silver Peak lithium mine, and several advancing deposits and resources, including Ioneer Ltd.'s (formerly Global Geoscience) Rhyolite Ridge and Cypress Development Corp.'s Clayton Valley project.The technical information within this news release has been reviewed and approved by Bruce Kienlen, P.Geo., a consultant to the Company and a qualified person under National Instrument 43-101.For more information, please contact the Company at info@americanlithiumcorp.com or visit our website at www.americanlithiumcorp.com.On behalf of the Board,American Lithium Corp. Michael Kobler, Chief Executive OfficerNeither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.Forward-looking statements Statements in this release that are forward-looking information are subject to various risks and uncertainties concerning the specific factors disclosed here. Information provided in this release is necessarily summarized and may not contain all available material information. All such forward-looking information and statements are based on certain assumptions and analyses made by American Lithium management in light of their experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors management believes are appropriate in the circumstances. These statements, however, are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information or statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from these forward-looking statements include those described under the heading “Risks Factors” in American Lithium's most recently filed MD&A. The Company does not intend, and expressly disclaims any obligation to, update or revise the forward-looking information contained in this news release, except as required by law. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information or statements.
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FIP 121: Maintaining culture with growth through scale, with Paul Breloff of Shortlist
November 20, 2019 /0 Comments/in Podcast /by keesler
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This week on the Finding Impact Podcast, we are talking about the challenges of maintaining culture as your social business scales, and tactics for how to adapt and scale your culture, with Paul Breloff of Shortlist. Paul’s company, Shortlist, helps companies build and develop their teams through a new approach to hiring. Particularly, we’ll be talking about Paul’s experience as he grew Shortlist’s team across two continents and to nearly 100 people and lessons he’s learned from the entrepreneurs at companies Shortlist works with.
On this podcast you will learn:
The definition to the word Shwashbuckle. 0:58.
Why he got into “talent;” his background is mostly in non-talent social enterprise and impact investing after advertising and corporate law. For about 14-15 years now, very focused on financial inclusion and initially was part of a team who set up a community development bank in the US which led to Accion Venture Lab. The theme underlying all of this has always been looking at for-profit business models which can expand access to opportunities in different ways. 2:30.
Saw a talent gap in companies and how culture could enable or disable teams in doing things.
Realized that investors comfort zone was talking about fundraising and strategy. The messy reality of building teams and getting the right people on those teams are something that doesn’t get talked about as much, but they often make or break whether these companies work. So Shortlist emerged from those experiences. 6:12.
Shortlist created a platform (now close to 1 million people) that connects skilled professionals to great careers in India and Kenya, using tech tools that automates the collection of data points beyond their CV. 8:08.
How Paul came to define Shortlist’s culture. 10:10.
Culture should come from the co-founders. A key part of defining the culture was setting strong core values, which are: own it, act with intention, find the adventure, be a whole person, and one team.
Core values can adapt! Shortlist added “one team” after realizing the importance of this after a merger with another company and now they make it a major priority. 18:56.
Challenges he faced maintaining culture across multiple continents and what process or activities he put in place to help develop it. Tried to create consistency, and enough opportunities for exchange so people could get to know each other. But distributed teams is probably the future. 21:15.
Things that have worked: 1) Creating global informal places to spark chatter and sharing of personality. E.g. Their global WhatsApp group is quite active, silly, not very professional, but lets people throw emoji’s back and forth. 2) Creating face-to-face opportunities for real time connection, ie. making sure the team travels between India and Kenya. 3) Investing in technology that allows you to stay connected remotely. 4) Monthly remote town halls which get the whole office together to say hello to new employees, goodbye to employees moving on, promotions, etc. 24:30.
Any pushback from Board members or investors about having too much fun? No. “A startup’s most important product is the team, and making sure it works well. I think our stakeholders believe that and want us to invest in that.” 30:45.
Resources (books) that Paul would recommend to others: The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle, Setting the Table by Danny Meyer, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh (Zappos CEO), Primed to Perform by Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor. 32:10.
Resources from this episode:
Shortlist company website
The Meta-Culture of Building Great Teams, blog by Paul Breloff
One Team: A Fifth Shortlist Value Enters the World
The Power of Swashbuckle: How Shortlist Decided What’s Important
Connect with Paul:
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FIP 120: Adapting management and leadership styles for scale, with Glynis Rankin
November 6, 2019 /0 Comments/in Podcast /by Satyajit Suri
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This week on the Finding Impact Podcast, we are talking about how founders of social enterprises can transition from being a product builder to company builder, with Glynis Rankin from Creative Metier. Glynis is the CEO of Creative Metier, a niche consultancy that works with social impact investors and their investees to support social enterprises and small and growing businesses in emerging markets through executive coaching, human capital resources, and organizational strengthening.
How founders shift their leadership and management styles as their social enterprise scales, by looking at issues such as delegation, role of culture and values, coaching styles, etc.
The key difference between leadership and management roles in early stage social enterprises, where the core objectives of the leadership role are to set the strategic vision for the business, manage the interface between the business and the external environment, and inspire others to engage in it. Whereas, the management role is about the day-to-day activities to achieve the strategic business plan and deliver results.
The importance of delegation and coaching as a necessary leadership style so that the founder can pass on responsibility of key business functions and driving the business to others within the organization, while the founder can focus on other key aspects of aligning the culture and values with the business vision and future growth.
About examples of Creative Metier’s programs to support small businesses and social enterprise founders in making the transition to a delegation and coaching style of leadership in line with their business objectives and values.
And finally, Glynis shares excellent resources that are useful to social entrepreneurs and small business founders as they think about shifting their leadership styles and prepare to transition their business for growth and scale. The links for the resources are provided below.
Creative Metier
HBR Article – 5 Things Leaders Do That Stifle Innovation
HBR Article – Creativity and the Role of the Leader
HBR Article – Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?
Connect with Glynis:
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FIP 78: Finding Strengths to Let Managers Shine with Raghu Krishnaswamy
August 1, 2018 /0 Comments/in Podcast /by Andy Narracott
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This is the third part in our second human capital series, with seasoned leader and manager of people, Raghu Krishnaswamy. It’s a real honour to get him on the podcast to share some of his insights about managing teams. Raghu spent over 30 years with Unilever in various roles crossing many aspects of the commercial world – starting as a management trainee and finishing up as VP for Marketing Operations in Africa.
On this episode, you’ll learn:
Unilever’s culture of developing talent was the best thing Raghu’s taken from his career there. He enjoyed the diversity in his job, which took him to many different countries and he learned to develop many different teams in different cultures.
Ragu is Chief Commercial Officer at Off-grid: electric. He does two things: build brand and build people. His view is that to reach scale as an individual, the best thing he can do is build the human capital side of the business.
Raghu starts by looking for people’s motivation. On the one hand he works with the western elites who come to the country wanting to do good, and the other, african entrepreneurs, who are either engaged with the purpose or are just in it for the job.
To do this, he invests time in getting to know the people in this team. He does this by being genuine and authentic, which helps people to open up and be their whole selves. He knows their struggles, the moments of joy, their kids, etc. This helps the manager figure out the right direction within the company for the individual to grow.
To help people open up, be transparent about your failings, and limitations. For Raghu, it’s about his challenges with technology and not staying out late socializing with the team. This builds a strong bond of trust.
With trust, your team will come to you with problems or when they need help. So you’re creating a safe environment which people.
Building a good team needs good casting – which means defining the ingredients well i.e.e the diversity and personalities within a team need to fit. As a manager, you’re trying to put individuals together who compliment each other’s strengths.
To find people’s strengths, you observe. What can they do well? If you help people shine by allowing them to amplify their strengths, you’re creating a happy individual who wants to do their best for the organisation.
There’s no substitute for getting people to do work, and then, observe them on the job to identify their strengths.
When you hire, you hire for the right attitude, and you train them for skills.
Social enterprises must get to grips with the sensitive topic of cultural divide, when people from top class, developed nation universities, who have a burning sense of purpose, get to work alongside young, committed, purpose-driven Africans, or those who simply are working for a job. In Raghu’s experience, initially local team members might not feel confident fully engaging with the newcomers, and vice versa. You need to work on creating a safe environment to form teams that gel.
Raghu counters the idea that high standards need to be relaxed because you’re operating in Africa. Location has nothing to do with excellence. Human excellence can be achieved anywhere.
When problems are complex, solutions are invariably complex as well. There’s often 10 things to be done, and the ‘burden of leadership’ is to choose which of the 10 things to focus on, with consistency, until excellence is achieved.
The danger with introducing technical solutions into social enterprise is that frontline workers cannot be burdened with complexity. Push complexity up.
Off-Grid Electric
Connect with Raghu:
Raghu on LinkedIn
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FIP 77: Company culture and ways to motivate and build cohesion with Julienne Oyler
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Today’s guest is Julianne Oyler of the African Entrepreneur Collective who shares her thoughts on building organizational culture.
On this episode you’ll learn:
Why Julienne thinks that “culture eats strategy”, noting that even for herself it is important to have a fun and exciting work environment to be successful. The way that she interprets this phrase is that an organization can set a good strategy, but it is really good people that are the engine of the work and success.
For the African Entrepreneur Collective – which is based on the idea that the problems on the African continent have solutions that already exist in Africa – its mission translates into organizational values and culture. For example, they focus on hiring local talent, using ideas that come from their staff, and have a commitment to continuous learning and growing. She notes the importance of cultivating values organically and not hierarchically.
Sometimes, however, the organization’s value can clash with the country in which they are working. The African Entrepreneur Collective manages this to some extent through hiring – for example, hiring people that are comfortable in working with non-traditional or non-hierarchical work settings. The hiring process includes a values-based screen, with employees receiving continued reinforcement of culture during performance reviews, meetings, in the office environment via paintings and artefacts, and about every two months the organization roasts a goat to come together as a team and celebrate successes and have fun.
The organization also does “happiness audits”, which is based on the idea that employees are the best predictors of future success of the organization. Every six months, she asks each employee how they feel about their current position, how they feel about the organization, and what is one thing that management can do to make their life happier at the organization. Julienne notes that people tend to be predictive and forward looking when speaking about their roles and are motivated by being a part of something larger than themselves.
For the people on the team who may not naturally fit with some of the values, sometimes they have quiet conversations with people regarding expectations and performance in relation to specific responsibilities and tasks.
They have also started a book club, from which they recommend “Radical Candor” and “Getting Things Done”. Julienne herself looks to Starbucks as an example of a large corporation that has an ongoing commitment to culture from which other organizations may be able to derive inspiration.
African Entrepreneur Collective
African Entreprenuer Collective on Facebook
Connect with Julienne:
Julienne on LinkedIn
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FIP 76: KPIs, Cohesion, and Driving Performance with Gayatri Datar of EarthEnable
Gayatri is co-founder of EarthEnable, a social enterprise with a mission to improve the health of low-income communities by replacing dirt floors with affordable and sanitary floors. She is incredibly passionate about scaling simple technologies that can have a positive impact across the world. Gayatri shares some tips and tricks on KPIs, building team cohesion and driving performance.
On this episode we’ll discuss:
The 5 whys technique – ask ‘why’ until you get to the core of the issue. For example, What are the core issues that are influencing health? For Gayatri, floors continued to come up as a concern, but not at the start of conversations. “What would you want to change?” Roof. Why? Because it leaks. Why? Creates more problems: muddy puddles on floor, bugs, people get sick. Then the discussion surrounding the floor would take place.
Be comfortable with failure! Try things that aren’t fully thought out or planned. Not everything needs to be structured. You can learn so much from this process. Fail early, fail often.
When developing your KPIs, clearly lay out what ‘good’ looks like. Start micro, then go macro.
Gayatri’s team does not have output oriented KPIs, but they used to. She found output oriented KPIs were doing everyone a disservice and causing clashes between her teams. If her sales team were focused on numbers, it could be difficult for her operations team to deliver high quality floors to all of her clients. They would find themselves asking the sales team to lay off sales to deliver better quality. Their incentive structure wasn’t helping the achieve their goals of building high quality floors for their clients.
Everyone should always be working together towards impact. At EarthEnable, all employees are being rewarded on 3 things – number of families they impact, customer satisfaction, and profitability. All employees are optimizing for all 3. The goal is to have everyone working more fluidly across departments.
Start to delegate! Relinquish power where possible.Second stage of growth.
Try not to have KPIs that handcuff you to goals that may shift or change.
Can be easy to choose your first few KPIs, should be tied to your values. Consider using Sub KPIs that monitor the key metrics that are influencing the big 3 KPIs.
If sales positions are purely commission based, your team may not feel safe or secure enough in their job to do it well. Can be a huge distraction. Incentives should be intrinsic in order to motivate employees to grow the company while serving your customers well.
Gayatri’s team has quarterly performance reviews. They strongly believe in structured check-ins.
Make a commitment to be honest with each other about what your team isn’t doing well. It is important to acknowledge when things aren’t going well.
Negative feedback doesn’t feel good, but it is the only feedback that helps you grow. It can make you feel in conflict with who you think you are.
EarthEnable
The Management Center
Connect with Gayatri:
Gayatri Datar – Linkedin
Gayatri Datar – Twitter
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FIP 63: Human Capital Series 3/3 – Creating Company Culture and the Role of Self-Confidence with Ayla Schlosser
April 17, 2018 /1 Comment/in Podcast /by Andy Narracott
Today we hear from Ayla Schlosser, co-founder of Resonate, whose mission is to unlock the leadership potential of women and girls in East Africa. Through storytelling, confidence-building workshops and leadership training, Resonate is aiming to close the confidence gap that impedes opportunity and potential in women. Resonate takes this missed opportunity and turns it into action. As of February 2018, Resonate has worked with over 3000 participants across East Africa and partnered with forty different organizations, including a few big names like Kate Spade, Imbuto Foundation (the flagship organization of Rwanda’s first lady Jeannette Kagame), and the Segal Family Foundation
How Ayla came to create Resonate. Ayla found that there was a huge emphasis on building skills and education for women, but the internal transformation needed to build confidence and put these skills to use was often overlooked.
Ayla was the problem that she was trying to solve. A big part of her growth came from understanding the difference between standing up for an idea vs. yourself.
What about men? Ayla confirms that women struggle disproportionately. This is due to societal roles, history, and a number of institutionalized and systematic inequalities in other spaces.
Ayla tells us stories about women VPs and Founders that she has met at conferences who have struggled with confidence and the feeling “not enough-ness.”
Too much cake? Ayla and her team celebrate their achievements and successes a lot. They have a slack channel dedicated to acknowledging the good work of their team!
Resonate worked backwards into their culture and have been very careful with every hire. A couple years in, they realized that they had a strong culture, but had never codified it. They found times when they felt most proud and uncovered their core values.
Ayla and her team acknowledge that there will be times in the future where they may need to call out times where they didn’t embody their desired culture.
They like to check in on their team on a personal level too. “What are you going to do to take care of yourself this week?” Then be accountable and follow-up! Show that you care about your colleagues beyond the work space. It builds trust.
Have you invested in your onboarding process? Resonate has made this a priority. They encourage their staff to, “keep learning and welcome challenges.” New hires are given an on-boarding project. It is meant to be 1-2 weeks long and gives them a quick iteration of project cycle and feedback process.
Be like the Hummingbird! Ayla shares one of her favourite stories and how it has inspired a recognition award within Resonate.
Ayla talks about the important of transformations within your own team. Their current Director of Operations began as their administrator and is now working with Execs and Phds in the US.
When employees say “I can’t do that or I don’t have the skills”; there is a temptation to bring in the experts. Ayla tells us how she has fought this off. That’s when people get better. When they are given the opportunity to do something that is slightly out of their depth.
Create a network of mentors and advisors – surround yourself with people who know what they are doing.
Grow your people at the same rate as you are growing your organization and you will be way better off. Invest in everyone!
Ayla tells us about an example of her training having an impact at one of the Kate Spade operations in Rwanda.. Employees were given the confidence to speak up and see their own worth. Ayla considered this a huge step forward.
In start ups, we are always sprinting and moving on to the next thing. Pause to acknowledge. Pay attention to how your employees want to be acknowledged. Some like cake and some would be so embarrassed by that. Knowing the difference will build trust and a rapport.
Feedback can have an inherently negative feeling to it. Positive feedback is super important too. Ayla narrows it down to three different types of feedback – goal oriented, appreciative, and constructive.
Lastly, Ayla reminds us that even experts are always doing some things for the first time. If you don’t know something, chances are you can still do it anyway.
How startup leaders can use storytelling to motivate their teams – Village Capital
The Little Hummingbird by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Connect with Ayla:
Ayla on Linkedin
What was your favourite lesson from this episode? Let me know on Twitter by clicking here!
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FIP 62: Human Capital Series 2/3 – Recruiting and Retaining High Performers at more Mature Organizations with Sarah Perrott
April 11, 2018 /0 Comments/in Podcast /by Andy Narracott
This week, Sarah Perrott is my guest for the second episode in our human capital series. We’re talking about recruiting and retaining high performers at more mature organizations. Sarah is the Founder and Managing Director of Cresco Consulting which is a boutique consultancy offering both executive search and development for organisations and individuals. Cresco provides clients with a bespoke service, tailored to their needs founded on the belief that anyone can flourish in the right environment
Some useful advice on how to build a positive team including recruiting, strengthening, building cohesion and building motivation, as well as some tips for the jobseeker.
How Sarah, with over 25 years of experience working with CEO’s and senior leaders of many well-known organizations, went on to start Cresco Consulting.
How Cresco uses psychology and behaviour change theory to match employees to companies. Some of their principles are 1. recruit for attitude and train for skill; 2. align the values of the candidate and the organization; 3. align the personality and approach of the individual to the issues on hand.
What tools to use and what not to use at various stages of your organization including, (a) MBTI Type tool for teams in existence; and (2) trait tools for recruitment like 16pf, and Hogan’s Dark Side tool.
What must an organization do to attract top talent and build a cohesive team? To actively source from a diverse pool of candidates from different avenues to ensure that creativity and innovation are encouraged by eliminating unconscious bias, like how to use a well worded advert in recruitment. Headhunting, social media and networking are other ways.
How to prevent hiring people in your own image, including using interview panels to eliminate unconscious bias.
How to use different tools to improve the cohesion of your team. Using the MBTI Type tool to understand the individual’s preference, tendencies, blindspots and motivation which builds self-awareness.
What tools to use to keep the high performing team motivated? – Sarah’s view is that there should be precise and immediate feedback for improving performance. Nancy Kline’s tools in “Time to think” methodology are recommended. Also tools of appreciation are effective at improving how people work together.
Tips for the job seekers in the audience on how to assess the offer from a potential employer. Sarah emphasises that job seekers should spend time with the organization and the people, then trust your gut.
Cresco Consulting
The 16pf Assessment – personality assessment tool
TypeCoach – uses MBTI personality types to generate key questions to be aware of
Hogan Assessments – personality assessments like the Dark side- testing under pressure
Time to Think – tool to support independent thinking
New Entrepreneurs Foundation – information for new entrepreneurs in the UK
Connect with Sarah:
Sarah on LinkedIn
Sarah on Twitter
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FIP 61: Human Capital Series 1/3 – Building Strong Teams Through Trial and Error with Anastasia Uglova
April 3, 2018 /0 Comments/in Podcast /by Andy Narracott
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This week, Anastasia Uglova is my guest on the Finding Impact Podcast. Anastasia is Co-Founder and Managing Director of MindSky, which is an online platform connecting current university students and graduates in Rwanda with employment opportunities, which exclusively sources students from the Akilah Institute, a tertiary institute for women in Kigali and the only women’s college in Rwanda.
How Anastasia went from working in public policy and communications in Washington DC to spinning off a company from a women’s college and why employees tend to hesitate to hire foreigners for positions in developing countries.
How MindSky built their high-performing team, meeting the four criteria of: 1) founder compatibility, 2) mission fidelity, 3) culture fit, and 4) skill set, and why of these 4 criteria founder compatibility is the most important.
As the founder, what happens if I am the problem with founder / team compatibility? Anastasia tells us that if even you are the problem, it does not really matter. Being the founder is an immutable fact, not a variable, so you have to find staff that can work with you.
Is your start-up having a lot of turn over? For MindSky, in the beginning, Anastasia and her co-founder certainly had to become okay with turnover as part of the process of the changing nature of a start-up, and not necessarily view it as a negative thing.
After founder compatibility, Anastasia tells us that mission fidelity and culture fit are really important – she advises that in the start-up phase, focus on hiring people that are excited about the mission of the company, not looking to build a certain skill set. She also talks about how it is important to hire people for the culture you are trying to build by defining your culture code to ensure you find people that are going to work well together.
Anastasia talks about the importance of really guarding the culture against “bad actors” especially in small teams, where one bad person can really bring down the mean. She warns that people are really attentive about what is being tolerated, which is why culture must be jealously guarded. But she highlights that it isn’t just the “bad actors” that will turn-over, it can include people that just do not gel with the team.
How long do you wait before letting someone go? Anastasia promises that there is no matrix, and founders shouldn’t be afraid to trust their gut when making HR decisions and shouldn’t be afraid to admit that their judgment is important. That said, if it seems like a skill issue, Anastasia cautions against letting people go over current abilities – when there is mission fit and culture fit, you can overcome skills issues with capacity building.
How do you build your team’s skills? First, establish a level of trust so people are receptive to feedback. Also, don’t be afraid to invest in training. At MindSky, they shut down regular business operations for two weeks for internal training to ensure that the entire company operated at the same quality standards.
For Anastasia and MindSky, no skills gap is too small to address and really worth it. Even if it is just teaching someone how to write a professional email, it shows them that you are invested in their personal growth and becomes a virtuous cycle, building loyalty and trust. Anastasia also believes that her employees will only learn what to do when given opportunities to grow and fail. That is why she and her co-founder made MindSky a “failure safe environment” which is critical for employee development, as growth can only happen through failure.
MindSky
Akilah Institute
Connect with Anastasia:
Anastasia on LinkedIn
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FIP 32: Designing an Organisation that People Love to Work For with Jim Taylor
September 13, 2017 /0 Comments/in Podcast /by Andy Narracott
Proximity Designs started in 2004 in Myanmar as a social enterprise focusing on the rural sector. Starting out with smallholder farmers, they first introduced a simple pump that dramatically improve water use and boosted productivity and incomes. They’ve since moved on to launching many products and services that can touch thousands of villages and millions of lives. Currently, their products are available to about 80% of the rural population with customers in over 10,000 villages.
How Proximity Designs have structured their distribution network to reach millions of farmers in their villages.
Jim believes that the management and operational workforce needs to be made up by local staff otherwise you miss out the nuances and parts of the culture that are critical to serving customers.
Where skills are unavailable locally, Proximity Designs judiciously uses international experts to embed in the organisation and train staff, who will then do the training company wide.
They run an in-house training facility, called Proximity School, whose core course is difficult conversations. These are inevitable to any organisation, more so when the culture is about avoidance of confronting problems. The course aims to separate the emotion from the facts.
Proximity Designs teach staff using 10% classroom time, with the rest on the job learning, of which formal and informal feedback via managers is critical.
For example, frontline sales staff are trained in sales methodology, and their managers are trained in coaching. Managers ensure a structured conversation, called a “clear conversation”, on a regular basis, with their staff.
To attract great staff, they offer people the opportunity to find meaning and purpose in their work, and a great work culture that supports individual learning and development.
To keep a finger on the pulse of a large organisation, Jim stays in close contact with manager, plus they use an intranet to encourage discussion across all levels of the organisation.
Culture is paramount. If someone is a high achiever, but does not fit with the values, they’ll prefer to let them go than disrupt the culture.
One of Jim’s roles as CEO is to ensure people are engaged. Jim measures employee engagement to keep a track of the health of the company. It’s an intentional process, not just an email that goes to staff.
Results of employee engagement are published internally, and broken down by different department and location.
Jim talks about having learnt so much about organisations and their shortcomings before starting proximity designs, so recommends learning those failures early on in your career, if you intend to lead an organisation.
A story of failure Jim recounts, was about how the private sector started serving the rural energy sector much more efficiently than they could, so they exited that part of the company to focus their scarce talent and resources on other more important areas, like farm finance and advisory services. It was a difficult decision that paid off.
Proximity Designs
Managing Difficult Conversation – Stanford Business School.
Episode 3 – Scott Roy
Whitten Roy Partnership
Gallup employee engagement
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FIP 31: Tips on Building Trust and Hiring People by Founder-CEO, Grant Brooke
September 6, 2017 /2 Comments/in Podcast /by Andy Narracott
We talk about how to think about a CEO-Founder’s transition from day-to-day firefighting of operations to looking more on the horizon. Grant Brooke moved from fire-fighting day-in, day-out as a new start-up and getting involved in every facet of the business, to building a C-Suite who reports to the Board, to moving into a design-sprint format that looks three months on the horizon and decides what the business should be focusing on then. This episode is packed of useful tips about hiring, understanding teams, culture, building trust and expats.
The founder’s hired key people within their networks, with people they could trust and knew how they work.
A key reason for raising their first round of venture finance was to hire good people.
In order to attract the best people, who might otherwise be working at multinationals, they tried to offer very competitive salaries, create a very free, autonomous atmosphere, and creating a vision around where they were going.
Their hiring strategy early on was to identify someone in their network who they knew were good, then invite them out for a coffee or go out for a drink for a couple of months, then by which time, both parties will know if they want to continue together.
Grant tries to create an intellectually safe environment within the company. As a CEO, ways to do this include publicising your mistakes to encourage others to make mistakes and try new things, and be obvious about learning from your colleagues, encourage meetings to be a collective understanding of what needs to be done and volunteers to take responsibility for actions.
They don’t give directives. Instead, they encourage staff to step up to take on challenges that are facing the company.
Don’t over-promise to employees, such as using gimicky contracts that tie pay increases to individual performance. Instead, have a broad understanding that if the company does well, then everyone will do well.
Because trust can get eroded by simple misunderstandings in communication styles, use any interaction with employees or suppliers to be intentional about building trust in that relationship.
Instead of waiting to see what is ahead on the horizon, Grant tries to define the things that should be three months on the horizon.
Make a kindle library available to encourage employees to self-develop, and ensure everyone knows that’s a key part to progressing up the company.
When hiring expats, think about the learning curve for a skilled expat to fully understand the culture and customer versus up-skilling someone from the local job market who has a much better understanding of the customer and context. It’s often much cheaper the second way.
Hiring non-expats has important implications for the culture of the business too, in particular, in encouraging staff to speak up about how they think the business should be run.
Resources we talk about:
RAID decision framework
Connect with Grant:
Twitter.com/GrantBrooke
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Realities of Bangladesh: Requisites and Prerequisites for Sustainable Development
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1. How conducive is the realities of Bangladesh in fulfilling the commonly known requisites and requirements of sustainable development? Course NRM-102: Program Management for Sustainable Development: Processes and Practice Prepared for: Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan Chairman, Department of Development Studies University of Dhaka Prepared by: Muhammad Aminur Rahman MSS 2nd Semester Natural Resource Management Roll No. 09 Department of Development Studies University of Dhaka Date of Submission: 15.12.2012
2. Introduction: Today, as a concept or idea, sustainable development is probably most discussed and most hotly debated term. The term sustainable development has been popularized through publication of ‘our common future’ a report published by the world commission on environment and development in 1987. In the report ‘our common future’, sustainable development is defined as ‘development which meets the need of the present without compromising the ability of future generation’. This definition was accepted in Rio summit in 1992. In Rio summit, world leaders set out the principles of sustainable development. According to the definition given by Brundtland commission, development should ensure present generation needs which would not hamper the needs of future generation. This definition heavily criticized because of prevalence of hunger all over the world. Today’s world system has failed to ascertain the needs of present generation let the needs of future generation. Inequality in wealth distribution and income, mass poverty, hunger, environmental degradation etc. has heavily criticized the definition of sustainable development. To some, Sustainable development could be which can address the required standard needs of present generation and also responsive with changing situation of the world. However, original broad aspects of sustainable development require convergence between the three pillars i.e. economic development, social equity, and environmental protection. But, at present, sustainable development has lost its origins. Its focus has been concentrated more to environmental affairs than social equity and economic development. As a result, climate change has become the proxy of sustainable development. However, Bangladesh has signed/ratified many international conventions/protocols concerned with different aspects of sustainable development. As a signatory country of world summit, Bangladesh is required to take proper initiative and measure to achieve success for fulfilling the target of sustainable development. In this regard, Bangladesh has adopted a number of policies, legal instruments and guidelines at the national level. For instance Bangladesh has created a climate change fund by 40 million taka in financial year 2012-2013. But the question which has to be checked that, how conducive is the realities of Bangladesh in fulfilling the commonly known requisites and requirements of sustainable development? In this article, the answer will be explored on the basis of requirements of sustainable development. Economic Growth: Bangladesh has shown a substantial success in terms of economic growth. Though there has resource constraints, poor technology and traditional agricultural system, Bangladesh has achieved, on an average, annual economic growth rate about 6 per cent or 6 percent plus over the past 5 years. It is one of the significant achievements of Bangladesh. However, agriculture plays major contribution in this economic growth. Average annual growth of agriculture is about 4.4 per cent per over the last five years and it consistent. Last year, agricultural growth rate was about 4.4 percent (Bangladesh Economic Review: 2011). The share of agriculture sector as GDP contribution is decreasing day by day. In 2011 this sector’s contribution was 18 percent in GDP. Agricultural production still can be improved to higher level. For this, major constraints of agricultural production such as poor soil quality, poor agricultural technology, tenurial system, prices of food grains etc. have to be improved. On the other side, industrial growth of Bangladesh is still sluggish on an average. This sector’s contribution in Bangladesh GDP per capita is about 32 percent. Bangladesh has limited base for
3. industrial development. This sector suffers from low productivity. Productivity could be improved if human capital and technological innovation is prioritized. New investment comes forward due friendly environment for business. Improved transportation, secured power supply could make Bangladesh as lucrative country for investment. For booming this sector, income levels of general people is required to develop. Highly skewed income distribution has to be reduced. In Bangladesh, only about10 percent people own 80 percent of national income. Bangladesh scores in Gini index is 31, which means a pervasive inequality situation here in Bangladesh. However, again, good business environmental has to be improved to attract foreign direct investment. Service sector contribution in Bangladesh economy is about 52 percent (Bangladesh economic review 2011). This sector contribution is consistent over the last few years. Expatriate plays vital role service sector. Small and medium enterprise and non-traditional sector play key role in economic development of Bangladesh (Onnuyan Onnesa quarterly, 2011). So, overall economic development of Bangladesh not pleasant but it could be accelerated if good environment of business we can improved. Social Development: Bangladesh has achieved a significant progress in certain aspects of social development. Bangladesh has shown good performance in reduction of population growth. Population growth rate has reduced to 1.40 percent. Infant mortality rate has reduced to around 45 per thousand and adult literacy rate has increased over 60 percent. Except these sectors, others social indicator is not satisfactory. In 2011, people who live under poverty line were around 32 percent. Hardcore poverty is around 21 percent who cannot intake at least 1805 kilo calorie per day. Around 30 million people still live as hardcore poor (Bangladesh economic review 2011). Furthermore, socio-economic inequality is glaring and increasing. This inequality is increasing due to iniquitous socio-economic order, lack of access to resources for large portion of people, unemployment, and high level of poverty. People’s participation in social, political, and economic processes in Bangladesh is very limited. There is lack proper strategy for effective inclusion of mass people in state affairs and decision making. In terms of empowerment, Bangladesh has achieved notable success in women education. Female enrollment in primary education has reached almost above 90 percent. In secondary education, women participation is almost equal to men participation (Bangladesh economic review 2011). But women participation in decision making is still very limited. Therefore, in terms of social indicator of sustainable development, Bangladesh’s overall achievement is good. Key challenge to Bangladesh is the reduction of inequality in terms of resource distribution. Governance: Good or effective governance is crucial for sustainable development for any country. It very unfortunate for Bangladesh that performance of this regard is very poor. Governance in Bangladesh suffers from transparency and accountability problem. In worldwide governance indicator, Bangladesh’s percentile position is 37.1 in 2011, which denotes to poor transparency and accountability (worldwide governance indicator 2011). Confrontational politics in Bangladesh is pervasive. Elected government and opposition party is very rival position. Bangladesh could be a bad example of democratic failure. We cannot expect a consensus among political parties on basic national interest. Moreover, pervasive corruption is habituated practice
4. here in Bangladesh. Bangladesh’s percentile corruption rank is 16.1 in 2011 (worldwide governance indicator 2011). However, Bangladesh position in terms of political stability/ absence of violence was 7.1 in 2011. In terms of governance effectiveness it was 19.9 in 2011. In terms of regulatory quality it was 22.3 in 2011 and in terms of rule of law it was 28.6 in 2011(worldwide governance indicator 2011). So, all governance indicators show very poor performance of Bangladesh. To improve the situation, bureaucratic procrastination and hurdles have to be eradicated; effective decentralized local government quality has to be made effective, proper coordination between horizontal and vertical authorities have to be ensured, proper trained functionaries should be ensured. In addition, existing legal and regulatory provisions should make effective. To reduce overlapping and pervasive government control on other social sectors, a clear cut delineation of economic and social responsibilities of the government, the private sector, and the others actor within the ruling market economy framework and an appropriate regulatory system to that effect should be stratified. Above all, participatory governance is prerequisite for present’s world situation where world is very closely related. Environment: Bangladesh achieved an impressive increase in Bangladesh over the past decade or so in awareness building within and outside government regarding environmental protection and enhancement. Bangladesh has signed various International Conventions and Protocols concerning environment and adopted policies for environmental conservation, protection, and enhancement. There is a Ministry of Environment in overall charge of the environment sector activities, with the Department of Environment being its operational arm. There are also many research and action oriented organizations outside the government involved in environmental activities. But, environmental degradation continues unabated in Bangladesh. Salinity in coastal area has increased due to shrimp cultivation. Quality of soil has degraded due to mono cultivation of high yielding variety, applying insecticides in land; a lot of traditional species has extinct. Most of the rivers has polluted severely through dumping industrial waste in open air and water source. So, more co ordination among national and local as well as international agencies is required for safe environment and ecology. Globalization: Globalization is the currently dominant defining factor for the global order and participation in the process is now almost universal. Due to globalization, distance among the countries has eliminated. Now, we can imagine a world without border and that is globalized world. Multinational and transnational governance idea has arisen from the concept of globalization. So for sustainable development, Bangladesh needs to be integrated in globalised world. However, Bangladesh’s participation in four major dimensions of globalization is not satisfactory. Bangladesh is merely beneficiary of globalization rather a victim country. Political globalization, economic globalization, communication based globalization, and cultural globalization is defining Bangladesh new destination, where our contribution or protection of national interest and identity seems very blurred. It is impossible to stay alienated from the flow of globalization. So, in order for Bangladesh to take advantage of the relevant opportunities arising from globalization, it must put adequate emphasis on developing/ improving the capability of government functionaries, business executives, and others who would be involved in international interactions, negotiations, and deal making. At the same time, national policies of the country (e.g. those relating to education, training, healthcare, employment creation,
5. promotion of sustainable agriculture, land reform, access to credit, rule of law, women empowerment) and institutions (e.g. participatory democratic evolution, establishment of effective local government, establishment of public-private partnership with social concerns built into the process) need to be adjusted/redesigned/ developed, as appropriate, to empower the people to participate effectively in economic, social, political processes, and environmental processes and benefit equitably there from globalization. Conclusion: The overall situation of Bangladesh in fulfilling the requisite in pursuit of sustainable development is not fine tuning. Progress is extremely limited and capacity building is very low level. For real progress to be achieved, Bangladesh needs to prepare comprehensive plan and key guidelines to organize necessary activities within a definitive but flexible framework. A political commitment, based on a broad consensus across political parties, is an overriding pre-requisite. Also a committed thrust forward is needed to establish effective governance at all levels-central to local-which is key to both the construction of and moving along an appropriate sustainable development pathway for the country. Because of resource constraint country, Bangladesh needs foreign assistance for effective sustainable development. So, Bangladesh is needs to prepare it for attaining the benefits arising from globalization. References 1. http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/sc_chart.asp (last viewed on 12/12.2012). 2. http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/indicators/67106.html (last viewed on 09/12/2012). 3. Bangladesh economic review 2011. Published by ministry of finance. 4. Bangladesh Economy Quarterly 2011, Unnayan Onnesa, Bangladesh. 5. Q K Ahmad, “Bangladesh’s Development Strategy and the Role of External Assistance, German Assistance in Particular”, in Development Cooperation at the Dawn of the Twenty First Century: Bangladesh-German Partnership in Perspective, Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS), Dhaka, 2000. 6. Q K Ahmad, “On Sustainable Development and All That”, Brown Journal of World Affairs, Brown University, USA, May 1996. 7. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Climate Change 2001 (Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability) Summary for Policymakers and Technical Summary of the Working Group II Report , IPCC Secretariat, WMO, Geneva. 8. Q K Ahmed, “Perception on sustainable Development in Bangladesh”. Presented at a roundtable on Bangladesh perspectives toward 2002 world summit on sustainable development, organized by Bangladesh institute of international and strategic studies (BIISS) & Bangladesh Unnayan Parishad (BUP), Dhaka, 4 September 2001. 9. “Sustainable Development: From Brundtland to Rio 2012”. United Nations Headquarters, New York, September 2010. 10. Mohan Munasinghe, “Development, Equity and Sustainability (DES) in the Context of Climate Change”, IPCC Guidance Paper, IPCC Secretariat, Geneva, July 1999.
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Did anyone ever see Blackula (with William Marshall?)? I found it very sad (one of the best performances as "Dracula" I've ever seen. My parents had friend who used to imitate Bela L.
Last night, rewatched Beautiful with Minnie Driver and Hallie Eisenberg (Jesse's sister). I thought it was pretty good (but nothing like smile with Bruce Dern and Agent 99 aka Barbara Feldon.
Agree about Lee's Dracula hairpiece. Noticed he didn't have the same impact, didn't realize it was the hair. I love BLACULA and the sequel SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM, combining my loves of horror & Blacksploitation. If you love Bollywood & horror there's some great combos out there too.
Last night I tuned in TCM to catch 1959's THE GAZEBO. I last saw it when it premiered on TCM and remembered loving it, but had forgotten all the details. I think it was even better this time, I really appreciated Glenn Ford's comic performance-boy was he great! I'm not a Glenn Ford fan, but he was HILARIOUS as the mild mannered writer who resorts to murder in order to save his wife's reputation. The wife is played by Debbie Reynolds who never looked so gorgeous. It was fun seeing her play the straight man, I noticed she emotes a lot through her voice.
Also notable supports were John McGiver playing a wholly unusual role for him-beautifully done and Carl Reiner at his peak, making it look so effortless you barely notice him. The lighting, sets, props & costuming was wonderful.... my only complaint was it should have been in color. A fun film just about anyone would enjoy.
(haha who "gives away" a shower curtain?)
1 hour ago, chaya bat woof woof said:
I found it very sad (
Why sad? I thought a lot of it was very funny.
Spoiler for Blackula: Didn't he commit suicide at the end? Frank Langella made a sexy Dracula and George of the Eternal Tan Hamilton was funny. Didn't care for Coppola's version.
I loved the Gazebo when I first saw it as a child. Still holds up today.
Lori Ann
I spent the afternoon watching "Virginia City" on TCM (for the umpteenth time). My favorite Errol Flynn film!
SansFin
U. S. Citizen
Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
An isolated Scottish inn has as guests one night in winter: a model who is running away from her married boyfriend, a hiker who is truly an escaped convict, a professor who lost his way while going to investigate a meteorite which reportedly landed forty miles away, a dipsomaniac reporter doubling as the professor's driver and a tall caped woman who states that women won the battle of the sexes on Mars and the male population is now dwindling. I must wonder what property there is of space travel that compels women to wear the shortest skirts allowed by law.
One might expect the men in the group to jump at the chance to go to Mars as fresh breeding stock but they all express extreme reluctance. Perhaps it is the woman's dour expression and daunting stance. There is much talk and scenes of people standing horrified by what they see off-screen and more talk before one man agrees to go with her.
I learned that this movie is on a list of one hundred worst movies. I did not find it to be all that bad. The script is not quite so inventive nor interesting as it might be but there are very few overly-dramatic pronouncements. The actors all remembered their lines, hit their marks, did not bump into the furniture and did not stare directly into the camera. I feel that is all that one might reasonably expect of a low-budget British movie of the 1950s. I believe that the special effects were all done in a photographic darkroom on a rainy Sunday afternoon when the director had nothing else to do but it is not truly the worst that I have seen.
Watched for free on: Amazon Prime.
On 10/24/2020 at 8:58 PM, EricJ said:
Dennis Potter has basically made a career out of being the standard snooty British-deconstructionist trying to show England how he can make hamburger out of their optimistic, culturally hallowed sacred-cows, since that's the only way British satirists feel they can establish a personal sense of "identity" over their rigid culture
Not sure what you mean by “optimistic, culturally hallowed sacred cows” but it does seem that, overall, Brit culture is more literate, making some things more likely to be targets of humor than in the US. There also seems to be a tradition of poking fun at their institutions and standing - some of that may be earned and some of it may be “we’re going to mock ourselves before anyone else does”, perhaps? But there doesn’t seem to be a hesitancy in “punching down”, as well, when it comes to what will be ridiculed.
I do think, however, that it’s often easier to tear something down than it is to create something - in the arts and other fields.
Of course, the Alice books contained elements of satire themselves - in characters, situations, and even some of the illustrations. Though most references aren’t recognizable to modern American readers (me included) without the annotations explaining them.
Actually, Charles Dodgson may have been unusually interested in the eldest teen daughter, and too shy to talk proposal
I did notice in Dreamchild that Alice’s older sister was portrayed as being more consistently considerate of Dodgson.
And Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland actually ends with the older sister dreaming/day-dreaming about Wonderland and the tale Alice has just recounted to her.
Also, in the Alice book...(snip)... We're basically seeing a fourth-wall glimpse at how Carroll improvised his picnic stories, and there's not a lot of psychiatry to delve from there.
Yes, there are plenty of clues one can point to in the book to show Carroll incorporated references to the Liddells and times spent with them. Though some argue “Alice” the character is still mostly or purely a Carroll creation.
EricJ
2 hours ago, SansFin said:
I learned that this movie is on a list of one hundred worst movies. I did not find it to be all that bad. The script is not quite so inventive nor interesting as it might be but there are very few overly-dramatic pronouncements.
It has the unusual credit of being one of the few British sci-movies based on a play.
That sort of gives you some indication how much SFX extravaganza we're in for.
On 10/24/2020 at 11:37 AM, LornaHansonForbes said:
Is there any way you can use a largeR SIZED font when you post?
Sorry about that - the text looked huge on my screen, I wasn’t sure if it was the default size or not, so I decreased the font.
Also, I was mortified at how long the post was and it didn’t look so bad with the smaller font. I actually had more to say about Ian Holm but realized I needed to just walk away. That’s why my review ends a bit abruptly.
(Part of what I was going to go on about was that in the ‘98 Alice film, Holm gives an idiosyncratic performance as Through the Looking Glass’s White Knight [a character generally recognized as a stand-in for Carroll himself] - complete with a b&w silent movie-inspired segment in which he dons costume & make-up that reminds one of Buster Keaton).
a while ago, TCM showed the 1933 PARAMOUNT VERSION OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND and (as i RECALL) the UNANIMOUS reaction on the messageboards was pretty much:
(and rightly so. it is a TERRIFYING FILM)
It is. Edna May Oliver was downright homicidal as the Red Queen. I had missed most of Illeana Douglas’ intro on one recording but had another with Robert O’s intro & outro where he was discussitng William Cameron Menzies (who did Art Direction on the film) with a guest. Robert bluntly called the character designs grotesque, as I remember.
I watched seven different Alices and it was interesting to compare them.
On 10/26/2020 at 9:59 AM, LornaHansonForbes said:
Oh my gosh , she looks like Auntie Claus.
I should not be posting so late.
P. S. I’m not fond of vampire shows & movies though I’ve seen my share. (Almost always watched “in spite of” there being vampires rather than “because of”.) But I do love the nightclub part in Blacula with the singing trio in powder blue.
LornaHansonForbes
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8 hours ago, Calamity said:
) But I do love the nightclub part in Blacula with the singing trio in powder blue.
"Look the other way when he comes by youuuuuuuuuu..."
It's the same group that did DON'T ROCK THE BOAT the next year. The HUGHS CORPORATION?
21 hours ago, chaya bat woof woof said:
Did anyone ever see Blacula (with William Marshall?)? I found it very sad (one of the best performances as "Dracula" I've ever seen.
20 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
Spoiler for Blacula: Didn't he commit suicide at the end?
SPOILER: Yes, BLACULA (no K in it btw) does indeed walk into the sun after the reincarnation of his beloved is staked.
I understand anyone who finds BLACULA to be touching or hilarious- because at times, it is both. the themes of police violence, repression, lost love and the enslaving and debasement of Africans by White Europeans are still resonant.
On the other hand....there is that scene where BLACULA ON ROLLERSKATES (apparently) attacks and kills the lady photographer and also the scene where ELISHA COOKE is killed by a weird DIANA ROSS/BADGER/DEMON VAMPIRE creation, THEY NEVER FAIL TO TICKLE THE HELL OUT OF ME EVERY TIME I SEE EITHER.
Most sad though is that WILLIAM MARSHALL is so OBVIOUSLY BETTER than this material, but he never got the chances he should have in other movies or TV. In another world, he could have been another MORGAN FREEMAN (also another early Black Dracula, on THE ELECTRIC COMPANY)
AT 1:07 IS COMEDY GOLD:
(Bet this is what happened on Michael Jackson's honeymoon.)
I watched THE MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (1933) on TCM after fast-forwarding through AN INTERMINABLE INTRODUCTION by a TCM host who interviewed someone who worked on restoring it.
this film and its 1954 remake serve as a great lesson in SCREENWRITING. While I do enjoy the 1933 version, 1954's HOUSE OF WAX fixes many of the issues in the 1933 script- turning two female leads wisely into one, setting the time in the 1900's and not the present day, having the revenge killing of the guy who burned down the wax museum at the beginning and not the end and eliminating some of the strange plot cul-de-sacs and unnecessary characters.
still, the 1933 version MOVES- and has some wonderfully GRIM sets and excellent camera movement- CURTIZ has the villian shot from way down low so as to seem ENORMOUSLY TALL AND DAUNTING.
They were still learning about film scoring in 1933, so sadly MYSTERY does not have incidental music- which it needs- and I miss that wonderfully CREEPY MUSIC that plays in the 1954 version every time we see the killer.
LIONEL ATWILL'S accent is terrible.
4 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Thanks for bringing back a childhood memory. (I guess, ha ha). I still recall seeing the above scene when I was a young child. I had trouble sleeping for a while due to nightmares.
This impacted my younger brother and sister because mom started to put restrictions on what we could watch to avoid sleepless nights. My older brother was very upset and beat me bad when mom tried to restrict what he could view. Of course after a while all was forgotten, but I generally avoided horror films until I was a teen.
38 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Thanks for bringing back a childhood memory. (I guess, ha ha). I still recall seeing the above scene [in MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM, 1933] when I was a young child.
I don't know how old you are, but I am wondering if you are not thinking of the same scene from the 1954 HOUSE OF WAX.
I mainly say this because I am pretty sure the film was thought of as lost sometime between its release and 1969 and not shown on TV the way HOUSE OF WAX was.
1 hour ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
You might be right, and it was over 50 years ago, but I recall that face-melt with Atwill and not the Price film. Does Price's face melt like it does in the 1933 film?
11 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
(Watching “Australian Bushfire Rescue” on Nature right now and it is heart-rending and hopeful at same time.)
I didn’t know that about the vocal group.
The thing about the nightclub scene in Blacula is the song just keeps going...until it occurs to you, “oh, are we going to hear the whole thing?”. I enjoy it though.
On the other hand....the rave scene in the second Matrix movie lasted so long that I figured the filmmakers had to be messing with the audience.
And I hate the song the school kids sing in The Birds. Not only is it un-melodic but it just goes on and on. And on. (I timed it once - it’s about three minutes long!). No wonder the crows were upset.
The animation for Blacula’s title credits is something else too.
Janet0312
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The Monster From Pietras Blancas 1959
You know, it never ceases to amaze me when I come across a really bad movie that I haven't seen before. I thought I'd seen them all!
The monster's outfit reminded me of the gilman's costume from Creature with a big black zipper in the back.
Les Treymayne is our major star here. Boy, he must have been hard up for cash.
Actually, the major star of this picture is the half Jeep/half golf cart that the whole town takes advantage of. "Want to take the Jeep?" Oh, yeah!! I have no clue what type of vehicle this thing is, but it looks like a lot of fun. It's got a Jeep grille, but other than that, I have no clue what this thing was.
All in all a nice little Halloweeny journey into escapism.
A freebie from Amazon Prime and I wonder if Prime is worth it.
Curtis DeHaven
I watched THE MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (1933)
Wow... Thanks for your comments re the Wax Museum films. We're familiar with the 1953 version, but didn't realize it was a remake. Though, I do see it in my library... But, we watched it last night and really enjoyed it - probably more than the 1953 one. Perhaps because it was new to us, dunno... Or because of the newspaper angle - I've been married to a journalist for many years... lol. Thanks again, for the tip!
3 hours ago, Curtis DeHaven said:
If you enjoy the newspaper angle of “WAX MUSEUM”- you might like to check out any one of the TORCHY BLAINE Film series starring Glenda Farrell – who played the dynamite female reporter in “wax museum. “ She pretty much plays the exact same character in a whole series of movies, They show up on TCM from time to time.
EDIT- I just checked the schedule and DOCTOR X (1932) is airing on TCM on FRIDAY. It is very similar to WAX MUSEUM in some ways (although it's even better) and also has a reporter- although a male one this time. also starring ATWILL and WRAY.
Most sad though is that WILLIAM MARSHALL is so OBVIOUSLY BETTER than this material, but he never got the chances he should have in other movies or TV. I
The high point of William Marshall's career will be his stint as Pee-Wee's King Of Cartoons:
(and a memorable Star Trek episode)
On 10/28/2020 at 12:03 AM, EricJ said:
It did for me have the feel of a play. I discounted that feeling because that is true for many movies in which the majority of the scenes are set in a single room.
6 hours ago, Janet0312 said:
This is a coincidence. I selected that movie to watch because Amazon Prime put in the: "Because you watched: Devil Girl from Mars" row on my homepage as a recommendation. I am sorry to say that I became busy as it started to play and so missed all but tiny snippets. I played it a total of three times over the course of the afternoon and never saw more than half a minute here and there. What I did see was neither exciting nor terrible.
16 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
PRICE in HOUSE OF WAX (ABOVE)
LIONEL ATWILL in MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM BELOW:
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Stock market shakes off a slump to reach more record highs
by: STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA, Associated Press
A currency trader walks by the screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), left, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. Asian shares mostly rose Friday on hopes for additional economic stimulus after U.S. Congress confirmed Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Wall Street notched more milestones Friday as the market largely shrugged off another discouraging jobs report amid expectations that the incoming Biden administration will pump more aid into the pandemic-ravaged economy.
The S&P 500 rose 0.5%, its second straight record high, after bouncing back from a midday slump that knocked it down 0.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq composite all closed at new highs.
Technology stocks and companies that rely on consumer spending helped lift the market, outweighing losses in financial, industrial and other sectors. The gains pushed the S&P 500 to its second weekly gain in a row. Treasury yields continued to move higher, fueled by expectations of increased federal borrowing, more stimulus for the economy and the possibility of higher inflation.
The Labor Department said Friday employers cut jobs for the first time since April as the worsening pandemic led more businesses to shut down. But Wall Street remains hopeful that Washington will come through with more badly needed support for American workers and businesses following President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
“There are still close to 4 million people who have been long-term unemployed, which could threaten growth in the next couple of months,” said Megan Horneman, director of portfolio strategy at Verdence Capital Advisors. “The market continues to slowly grind higher because (investors) are expecting additional stimulus when the new administration goes into effect later this month.”
The S&P 500 rose 20.89 points to 3,824.68. The Dow gained 56.84 points, or 0.2%, to 31,097.97. The Nasdaq climbed 134.50 points, or 1%, to 13,201.98.
President Donald Trump acknowledged late Thursday that he’ll be leaving the White House later this month. With Democrats soon in control of the presidency, Senate and House, investors are anticipating Washington will try to deliver even more stimulus for the struggling economy. That’s layering on top of expectations already built up for the economy to get healthier as coronavirus vaccines roll out in 2021.
The much weaker-than-expected report on the jobs market underscored the stakes for the economy, and analysts said it adds more pressure on Congress to act. Employers cut 140,000 more jobs last month than they added, the Labor Department said.
It was the first month of job losses for the economy since April, and it was much a worse reading than the modest growth that economists were expecting to see. Such pressure is rising on economies around the world as the pandemic accelerates.
Treasury yields zigzagged following the release of the jobs report, but they remain on an upward trend. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 1.12%. That’s up from 1.05% late Thursday and 0.90% early this week.
Stocks of smaller companies fell. The Russell 2000 index of small-cap stocks dropped 5.23 points, or 0.2%, to 2,091.66. It ended the week with a 5.9% gain, well ahead of the 1.8% gain for the big stocks in the S&P 500.
Smaller stocks tend to rise and fall more than their bigger rivals with expectations for the economy’s strength. And many investors are expecting Washington to soon try to send bigger cash payments to most Americans, spend more on infrastructure and provide other support for the struggling economy.
Vaccine distribution is ramping up, but will still likely take many months while people continue to struggle with unemployment, said Jack Manley, global market strategist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management.
“That’s why we’re excited about what we might see from a fiscal perspective,” he said. “You’re going to need something to shore up those people.”
The expectations began building shortly after November’s elections, and they accelerated this week after Democrats won two Georgia runoff elections for the Senate. They will give Democrats a majority in the Senate, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris providing a tie-breaking vote amid a 50-50 split with Republicans. Democrats already controlled the House, and Democrat Joe Biden is set to take the presidential oath of office on Jan. 20.
Another encouraging thing for many investors is that Democrats will have only a thin majority in the Senate. In the optimistic case for Wall Street, that could give them enough clout to push through more stimulus for the economy but not enough to raise tax rates sharply and toughen up regulations so much that they significantly damage profits for companies.
Financial stocks gave up some of their big gains from earlier in the week, which were triggered by expectations for a strengthening economy and bigger profits from making loans at higher interest rates. Bank of America fell 1%.
On the other end was Tesla, which climbed 7.8% for the biggest gain in the S&P 500. The auto maker surged more than 740% last year, and they’re climbing more amid hopes that a Democratically run D.C. could encourage the use of more electric vehicles. The jump pushes Tesla’s total market value past Facebook’s, and it’s now the fifth-largest stock in the S&P 500.
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HOGuru Plays – Haunted House Mysteries
By Daniel Weissenberger on April 9, 2017 in Blogs
HOGuru is back with another dispatch from the 12-in-1 Hidden Object Pack – this one concerning a Haunted House, and the Mysteries that lie within it! I don’t remember what it’s called.
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What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?
Nothing relevant to this conversation, that's for sure! Because we're here to talk about (sorry, write and read about, respectively) GC_Danny, who's updating this profile for the first time in thirteen years!
So let's take a gander back at that time and see what's happened! In addition to writing hundreds of video game reviews, Dan produced a book that can be legally purchased by almost anyone! He also wrote two short films, two episodes of television, and two movies! Although, sadly, and through much fault of his own, the movies have yet to be released.
In addition to general game reviewing, he's also dabbled in more long-form work, writing some of the longest and most comprehensive game reviews of all time. Then there's his non-GameCritics blogging, where he's famous as the world's foremost expert on the TV show Criminal Minds, as well as the co-host of a weekly podcast - he's even working on a new videogame/critical experiment, which you can find out more about here!
If all that wasn't enough, just a few months ago he rebranded himself as 'The Hidden Object Guru', hoping to stake another claim of ultimate expertise, this time over a genre of casual games! Will he be successful? Only time will tell, but you're free to join the thrilling ride at his YouTube channel!
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Will Children’s Voices Improve Auto Safety?
August 17, 2015 By Liz E. 1 Comment
Voice-guided navigation is one of those features that I think that every GPS ought to have. Be it an app or a dedicated unit, having your device able to call out directions is way more convenient and safe than having to constantly check the little screen while on the road. It’s almost like having a passenger navigate but without the side conversation and spilt drinks.
However, I have to admit that sometimes the default voices can be pretty terrible, especially on some of the older units. While a lot of units will have multiple options for voice (and GPS apps provide even more flexibility with celebrity voices) the choices are still a little limited and don’t really provide any benefit other than to break the boredom. Well, a Swedish company recently debuted a new app overseas that is designed to help keep children safe.
Called “Slow Down GPS” this GPS app has a database of all schools, daycares and other places where there are commonly a lot of children. Whenever a driver enters those zones, the GPS voice will switch to that of a child, although the directions will remain the same. The idea, the company says, is that it will prompt drivers to slow down and be more conscientious when in those zones.
Here’s a promotional video that the company released with the project, which has been nearly a year in the making:
Currently, the app is only available in Sweden, Finland and Norway although if it works I wouldn’t be surprised to see something similar make its way to other countries.
Personally, I think that it’s a good idea and the idea that most people react unconsciously to a child’s voice is interesting and makes a lot of sense. Of course, for it to work people would have to actually download and use the app so it might not be as helpful as it sounds.
What do you think? Would you want your GPS to make such an audible switch when near school zones and such? Do you think it would work? Share your thoughts with me in the comments!
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Interesting app idea. A few thoughts. I don’t know if the sound, pitch or tone of the voice would make people more careful without some additional wording about what is nearby. Garmin uses a beep/tone in some units when near school zones, but not for day care businesses. I do find that garmin tone a bit annoying and wish it could be turned off. What about people that don’t have children? I think this app would resonate with parents of children. Some other thoughts, I can see companies like google using data about business and school locations to enhance their navigation calculations. What about routing people around and away from schools and day care centers, but only during school hours? I don’t know for sure, but do the navigation companies use this data to calculate route times? So if one is in a school zone with a lowered speed limit, shouldn’t the route time increase based on the time and distance traveled in that zone? Interesting possibilities to use data for safer navigation.
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Akufo-Addo commissions ‘New Douala Barracks’ at Burma Camp
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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, 12th May, 2020, commissioned the ‘New Douala Barracks’ at Burma Camp in Accra, whose construction commenced in 2017, as part of the Barracks Regeneration Project.
It will be recalled that upon his assumption of office, and in the Asempa Budget, President Akufo-Addo announced the institution of the ‘Barracks Regeneration Project’, to address the accommodation challenges of the Armed Forces, and, thereby, ease the discomfort that troops and their families have been confronted with over the years..
Commissioning the New Douala Barracks, the President noted that “over the last three years, we have worked diligently to improve the state of operational readiness of the Armed Forces, by retooling all the Services to enable you to perform your roles more efficiently and effectively.”
One plank of this welfare-enhancement package, he said, is the Barracks Regeneration Project, which has resulted in the completion of the ‘New Douala Barracks’.
“Today, sixty-four (64) families will be the beneficiaries of four (4) new blocks of sixty-four (64) apartments. Each of these apartments has a living room, two (2) bedrooms, a kitchen and standard sanitary facilities,” he said.
President Akufo-Addo continued, “It is gratifying to know that similar, on-going accommodation projects are near completion at the Airborne Force, Six (6) Infantry Battalion in Tamale, and other garrisons. In due course, they will also be commissioned, and I assure you that Government remains committed to dealing with the matters of accommodation of the Armed Forces.”
The President urged the Military High Command to ensure that these accommodation units are well maintained, and appealed further to the new occupants to make sure that these facilities stand the test of time.
Touching on the road network in the Barracks, President Akufo-Addo assured the Chief of Defence Staff, Officers, men and women of the Armed Forces that “the sod will be cut next week for the commencement of construction of phase 2 of Burma Camp Roads. Indeed, the list of all roads in the garrisons have been submitted to the Ministry, and, soon, work will begin on all the roads that are not in good condition. I have to redeem the pledge I made to you about your roads, and I am doing so.”
Expressing his gratitude to the Military for responding to his call to help in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic, he stated that “I am proud of your exceptional diligence and vigilance in ensuring that the protocols and restrictions I outlined were complied with, especially during the three-week partial lockdown of Accra, Kumasi, Tema and Kasoa.”
Describing their efforts in the areas of medical support, logistics chain management, the enforcement of the restrictive measures, and operations on land, sea and air as laudable, the President commended their co-operation with the other security agencies.
“Indeed, the country has also taken notice of the strengthening of relations between you and the citizenry, evidenced in your remarkable contribution towards ridding our cities of filth, disinfecting markets, and providing water and other basic services to the needy and vulnerable,” he added.
With the pandemic affecting the routine training and social activities of the Army, and with the end-of-year WASSA failing to come off, President Akufo-Addo was confident that “sooner rather than later, we will have the opportunity to make up for lost time.”
He reminded the men and women of the Armed Forces to continue to observe the social distancing and enhanced hygiene protocols that he has outlined for the people of Ghana.
“Do not forget to wash your hands regularly with soap under running water, use alcohol-based sanitizers, refrain from shaking hands, cover your mouths and noses when you cough or sneeze, wear your masks at all times in public, eat well and follow a good diet. I do not have to tell you about the importance of exercising,” he said.
He continued, Discipline and self-discipline are easy concepts for you, the men and women in uniform, to appreciate and apply. Lead by example, so that the rest of the country can follow. I have no doubt that we, the Ghanaian people, are up to it, and, that, united, we will be able to emerge from this crisis even stronger than before.”
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Javier Albarracín. (Photo: Kemal Calik)
Javier Albarracín, head of the Halal section of the Alimentaria food fair, wants more Thai halal meals, knows the best European country for halal products and is thinking about the future of the halal fairs.
Àgata Albero Miralbell and Javier Albarracín want to surprise visitors at Expo Halal Alimentaria 2020. Miralbell is responsible for the cooking shows at the fair. Top chefs will then cook traditional meals from South Africa and Thailand on stage in April – all halal, of course.
“We want to show that a halal meal doesn’t always have to be kebab,” the gastronomy expert told HALAL-WELT at the international Alimentaria press conference in Barcelona. Gastronomy could build bridges in a diverse society. Therefore, restaurants with Spanish, Thai or Italian cuisine, for example, could also offer meals that were prepared in accordance with the Muslim food regulations.
Javier Albarracín, head of the halal section of Alimentaria and head of Barcelona Halal Services, is not a Muslim, but he has been involved in global halal business for several years. “Social needs create business opportunities,” said Albarracín in the interview. The proportion of Muslims in the global population would continue to increase. The middle class is also growing in countries like Malaysia, Morocco, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. These people were travelling around the world. Because of these factors the global demand for halal products is increasing.
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“The interest of non-Muslim countries like New Zealand, Brazil and Australia in the global halal market continues to grow,” said the halal expert. “And consumers are – more than ever – digital”. Millennials, born between 1980 and 2000, for example in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Istanbul, London and New York, would pay more attention to healthy, natural and sustainable food than the previous generation. So they would ask how the animals lived, what they ate, how they were treated.
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Halal products, for example, are not always sustainable, but are primarily adapted to the needs of Muslim consumers. But, if more and more halal producers were to focus on global values such as sustainability, respect for animals and the environment, they could also sell their halal products to non-Muslim consumers, especially millennials.
The social acceptance of Muslims in Great Britain is higher than in other European countries, said Albarracín. Therefore, the UK has the best selection of Halal products and there are numerous Halal restaurants. Not only in London but also in cities like Birmingham and Manchester. In addition, there are many Muslim influencers and apps
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Pakistan, Personalities, Politics
Martyred Bibi’s Vision
By Wajid Shamsul Hasan, London
The writer can be reached at: w.hasan@virgin.net
London: My mind, heart and soul refuse to accept that she is no more with us. Every day that I have passed ever since she was cold-bloodedly assassinated on December 27 last year by the cruellest scum on earth it has been an unending painful agony from a wound deep down that refuses to heal. Despite application of strongest will to control–whenever I have to speak and write about her -though my eyes by now should have got dried of tears-a cascade overflows involuntarily.
Those who know me well for decades will vouch that I have exceptionally high pain endurance threshold. That does not help when I think of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto who I used to address in deference and profound affection as “Respected Bibi”. Indeed, she was the only sister I had.
Besides many other things that I learnt from her in my life that made me what I am today, I am computer literate because of her. I will never forget the day in June 1997 when I was rushed to Rawalpindi ‘s Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology from the notorious Adyala Jail in a precarious condition. Bibi sought special permission from the hospital commandant to see me. . Besides three books she brought a laptop-my first ever. And handing it over she caringly remarked: “I am appalled by your health condition. Inshalllah you will soon recover and be a freeman as well. You are a Capricorn and I know what they are made of.” By the luckiest stroke of fate for me Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and I share the same birthday (January 5).
Bibi spent nearly two hours in the hospital and she talked about many things including the then political situation in the country. One of her remarks was rather pertinent. “Soon both will dig their own graves and rest in peace”. Looking retrospectively events later proved her prophetically correct. One of the three books that she gave me was Thucydides’ book on history. “I want you to read it. I hope some day you will write history of Pakistan as you have seen it made”. She also wanted me to write a book about great women that I met during my long career as a journalist.
My computer-ever since then-has become most essential part of my life. As far as she was concerned she was not only workaholic but computer addict as well. She virtually organised, ran and monitored PPP through inter-net. She would get the most classified information from the party workers spread in the nook and corner of Pakistan and who were given access to her email address. She would be informed by her “eyes and ears” who in the party was doing what. Whenever her party people would converge in London , Dubai or elsewhere to meet her-she would just drop a hint or two- to let them know-she knew “what the butler saw”.
I don’t know if there is any other politician in the world who used computer and internet as much as she did. She would draft hundreds of letters and statements in a week to be passed to her office in Islamabad-to be issued in the name of this or that office-bearer, leader or worker-to sustain pressure on the dictator, to rebut promptly any misleading or incorrect news, to campaign and lobby internationally to mobilise pro-democratic forces to come to the aid of people of Pakistan struggling for their inalienable right to elect a government of their choice by their vote.
Even in very personal emails too she used to reiterate her commitment to revert Pakistan to the vision of Quaid-e-Azam and Quaid-e.Awam, to the empowerment of the people as sole arbiter of power and equal citizens– irrespective of their caste, creed or colour. Her vision of Pakistan was that of a nation-state with maximum provincial autonomy to the federating units.
She was profoundly concerned about the growing religious extremism in Pakistan . And she had pledged her life to save Pakistan from falling in the clutches of Taliban. And she-indeed-gave her blood-to nurture strength to it and nourish democracy.
Had General Pervez Musharraf listened to her sane advice following the terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001 in Delhi when she pleaded with him to distance himself from the Jihadi groups, Pakistan today would not have been pushed to such a tragic pass and cornered by the Indian coercive diplomacy despite its genuine innocence vis-à-vis Mumbai terrorist attack-as categorically upheld by the Director General of the Interpol who came on record to declare that India had neither provided any evidence of Pakistan’s complicity in it nor has it given any proof about the sole terrorist held by it of having come from Pakistan. There is lot of weight in the observation of independent analysts that Delhi has been using its recently acquired strategic partnership with Washington for blackmailing Pakistan .
Reproduced below is an email from Bibi from Dubai dated January 2, 2006 in response to my New Year greetings. Its relevance today is because of its contents that show how confident she was that return of democracy in Pakistan was around the corner. Alas Pakistan has today a formidable democracy led by President Asif Ali Zardari as the torch bearer of her glorious legacy but when the country needed her most she is not.
From: MBB [mailto:sazdubai@emirates.net. ae]
To: ‘Wajid Shamsul Hasan’
Subject: RE: greetings from wsh
Dear Wajid Bhai,
Wishing you, Zarina, Zulfikar and Aneela a very happy new year. May God
grant you joy and happiness and may you achieve what you desire.
Thank you for your new year message. It is amazing how yet another year
has passed by. It seems only yesterday that I was filled with happiness
because Asif had joined us for the New Year and we took the children out
for lunch and ate as a family. Time goes by so fast. But by the Grace of
Allah, we have all been able to survive the tests of life. I feel in my
bones that now the time is coming where the people will get their
democratic rights and we can once again begin the journey that can
help us build a constitutional system guaranteeing human dignity and
protecting the weak and the endangered.
I am thinking of contesting the Senate elections but have not yet made
up my mind. The people I talk to within the Party and without are both
divided on whether it is a good move. I still have a little time to
reflect on it.
Meantime our entire top rank of the Party has been wiped out in the
Senate elections. I did ask them to lobby for a system where in so far
as possible each party lost proportionately the same numbers. However,
they felt they had better chances in the general draw and I suppose now
live with the consequences.
I take this opportunity to wish you an early happy birthday. Your spirit
is strong and you are very determined as are all those born on this day.
It is the strength of the heart that gives one the energy to live life
and to pursue ones ideals. Those without ideals are like lost souls who
have no meaning to their lives. You have that energy which gives you the
ability to pursue the goals so important to our party and to our nation.
and I cannot believe you will be sixty five because you look fifty and
write as though you are thirty. Your memory is phenomenal as are the
incidents that you can capture at your finger tips.
I pray that by the will of Allah 2006 marks the end of the period that
began a decade ago in 1996. Our people deserve better, as does our
Nation, than an unelected monster imposing one man rule through the
power of the gun who bends over backwards to lick the boots of his
foreign masters and has no respect for his own people whom he insults
daily with his myopic vision and white elephant projects. Pakistan as a
nation state is endangered by khaki rule that has already disintegrated
our country and threatens to do so again.
I pray for your long life, health, wealth and happiness. I am blessed to
have you by my side as we fight for the democratic rights of our people.
Your support to me personally, to the party through your activities and
advice and to the country through your writings mark you as an
exceptional person. May God bless you and may we enter 2006 on a wave of success that leads to the restoration of constitutionalism, federalism,
democracy, provincial autonomy and peoples rights.
From: Wajid Shamsul Hasan [mailto:w.hasan@virgin.net]
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 5:40 PM
To: MBB
Subject: greetings from wsh
A VERY HAPPY 2006!!
Respected Bibi,
Yet another year has gone by leaving behind a long story of smiles and
sniffles pushing us into 2006. As we look back at the distressing times
spent in exile what invigorate and inspire to keep on striving head high
like Shaheed Bhutto is your presence and the strength of your
Inshallah, I hope to be 65 (on January 5)–though bones are wearing
off-it is your stout perseverance, determination and encouragement in
future that has been keeping the spirit in me strong. I am convinced of
the adage that people grow old by deserting their ideals; no doubt years
wrinkle their skin, it is when they give up enthusiasm and commitment
for the honourable causes that we live by that wrinkles the soul. And
when soul is lost all is lost.
Zarina, Anela and Zulfikaur join me in wishing you, Begum Sahiba, Asif,
Bilawal, Bakhtwar and Aseefa a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2006,
and may Allah, the Most Generous, hold us all in togetherness.
Inshallah, 2006 shall be the year of the change–a change that will be
rewarding for you and the country. People’s long wait shall soon end,
harking you back in their fold, to lead them out of the current
depleting morass-when Pakistan faces yet another break up. Indeed, a
despondent nation-as in 1971– looks to a Bhutto to free them from the
stranglehold of the scavengers.
May Allah give you, long, prosperous and healthy life, strengthen your
dauntless courage, your unwavering commitment and keep you with us
always as the guiding light. Only a person of your vision, foresight and
leadership can get us out of the darkness shrouding our present onto
road to a prosperous future. Ameen.
With fondest regards
Received via e-mail: w.hasan@virgin.net
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Leading Thai petrochemical company expands on Intergraph’s industry-leading solution with integration of laser scan data for plant operations and maintenance
PTT Maintenance and Engineering Company Limited (PTTME), the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services subsidiary of PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited (PTTGC), has implemented a combination of Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise and Leica Geosystems laser scanning solutions for the operations and maintenance of its existing plants.
PTTME had chosen to standardize on SmartPlant Enterprise (including SmartPlant 3D, SmartPlant Layout, SmartPlant Review, SmartPlant Instrumentation, SmartPlant P&ID, SmartPlant Reference Data, Standard Database for SmartPlant Reference Data and SmartSketch®, as well as Intergraph CADWorx® & Analysis products such as CADWorx, CAESAR II®, PV Elite® and Tank™) as its integrated engineering platform for all projects. PTTME also implemented SmartPlant Enterprise for Owner Operators (SPO) to capture and maintain plant information for the various plants that PTTGC owns and operates.
With the addition of a highly versatile Leica Geosystems ScanStation laser scanner and associated software solutions, PTTME will be able to capture current as-built data from PTTGC’s legacy plants. The data will then be integrated into SmartPlant Enterprise environment, enabling PTTME engineers to capture and maintain the geometric dimensional information of existing facilities. This will greatly facilitate the operations and maintenance of PTTGC’s plants, with all engineering information managed through PTTME’s centralized SPO system. With the integration of laser scan data, the EPC firm will also be able to work on the captured as-built 3D model in SmartPlant 3D for any changes to both brownfield and greenfield projects. PTTME will use the SmartPlant Enterprise suite and Leica Geosystems laser scanning solutions enterprise-wide for all engineering projects, with Intergraph’s partner, Neon Infotech Southeast Asia Company Limited (Neon Infotech), continuing to provide dedicated local distributor support.
Intergraph and Leica Geosystems are both part of Hexagon, a leading global provider of design, measurement and visualization technologies. Since becoming part of the samecorporate family, Intergraph and Leica Geosystems have worked even closer to enhance their longtime partnership and to offer more benefits from the integration of laser scanning and 3D design, as well as other SmartPlant Enterprise engineering solutions.
“We have established the comprehensive SmartPlant Enterprise portfolio as our engineering standard and it has delivered enhanced safety, quality and productivity for our engineering projects,” said Somsak Keerativutisate, managing director of PTTME. “We have full confidence in Intergraph technology and we decided to expand our use of SmartPlant Enterprise with the integration of Leica Geosystems laser scanning solutions for our plant operations and maintenance. This will give us an integrated view of our facilities and will enable us to take the next step in making our plant information management processes even more efficient and intelligent.”
“By improving the internal availabilityof high-definition surveying capabilities, PTTME demonstrates a commitment and ability to capture current conditions, as well as dynamic updates to a constantly changing and complex 3D plant environment,” added Juergen Dold, president of Leica Geosystems. “All of this now made possible through the use of our leading 3D scanning solution, the ScanStation C10 with integrated survey, scanning and imaging capabilities.”
Gerhard Sallinger, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine president, said, “PTTME’s decision to integrate Leica Geosystems laser scanning solutions with the Intergraph SmartPlant Enterprise suite for PTTGC plants is testament to the synergy between Hexagon companies, with Intergraph technology working in perfect tandem with fellow Hexagon company’s solutions. This also reinforces Intergraph’s leadership position with owner operators in the industry, with the Leica Geosystems offering further strengthening our integrated portfolio of solutions across the entire plant life cycle.”
SmartPlant Enterprise offers a powerful portfolio of industry-leading, best-in-class design and data management solutions, enabling companies in the process, power and marine industries to capture integrated engineering knowledge at the enterprise level for the competitive advantage in today’s and tomorrow’s market. SmartPlant Enterprise’s integrated suite of solutions enables proven productivity gains, improving engineering efficiency by up to 30 percent. This is why the majority of plants built worldwide are designed using Intergraph solutions.
The ARC Advisory Group, a leading industry analysis firm, ranks Intergraph as the global leading supplier of process engineering tools, engineering design tools and engineering design 3D software, according to its “PET Market Analysis and Forecast through 2015.”
About PTTME
PTT Maintenance and Engineering Company Limited (PTTME) is a subsidiary of PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited (PTTGC), the chemical flagship of PTT Group. PTTGC is Thailand’s largest and Asia’s leading petrochemical and refining company. PTTME provides maintenance and engineering services to PTT Group, as well as other petrochemical, refining, gas separation, exploration and utility clients in Thailand. These services include planning, maintenance, engineering management, design, consulting and project management. PTTME also provides inspection and testing services for equipment used in the operation of large plants. www.pttgcgroup.com, www.ptt-me.com
About Leica Geosystems
With close to 200 years of experience pioneering solutions to measure the world, Leica Geosystems products and services are trusted by professionals worldwide to help them capture, analyze and present spatial information. Leica Geosystems is best known for its broad array of products that capture accurately, model quickly, analyze easily, and visualize and present spatial information. Those who use Leica products every day trust them for their dependability, the value they deliver and the superior customer support. Based in Heerbrugg, Switzerland, Leica Geosystems is a global company with tens of thousands of customers supported by more than 3,500 employees in 28 countries and hundreds of partners located in more than 120 countries around the world. Leica Geosystems is part of the Hexagon Group, Sweden. www.leica-geosystems.com
Intergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial software that enables customers to visualize complex data. Businesses and governments in more than 60 countries rely on Intergraph’s industry-specific software to organize vast amounts of data to make processes and infrastructure better, safer and smarter. The company’s software and services empower customers to build and operate more efficient plants and ships, create intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure and millions of people around the world.
Intergraph operates through two divisions: Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) and Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I). Intergraph PP&M provides enterprise engineering software for the design, construction, operation and data management of plants, ships and offshore facilities. Intergraph SG&I provides geospatially powered solutions, including ERDAS technologies, to the public safety and security, defense and intelligence, government, transportation, photogrammetry, and utilities and communications industries. Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intergraph Corporation responsible for the SG&I U.S. federal and classified business.
Intergraph is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hexagon AB (Nordic exchange: HEXA B). For more information, visit www.intergraph.com and www.hexagon.com.
© 2012 Intergraph Corp. All rights reserved. Intergraph and the Intergraph logo are registered trademarks of Intergraph Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
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The new bible of fashion is no longer Vogue: it’s Instagram
María Tenor | 9 November, 2018
Instagram has radically transformed the way in which trends are created and has replaced printed magazines as the main method within the public is informed about fashion. In this way, a true empire has been erected and the fashion industry has focused on it its main path of development and growth.
Technological development has changed the way people relate to brands, is informed of new trends and keeps up on fashion issues. Considering that 60% of millennials are only reported through mobile, brands have been forced to reinvent their marketing and advertising strategies to adapt them to the digital environment.
In just five years, Instagram has become the giant of the aesthetics industry. Today, for the brands, a good feedback on Instagram is as important as the opinion of the great critics of the industry. Just look at the statistics: more than 90% of the interactions of the signature messages in periods like fashion weeks is seen through Instagram. And like fashion has embraced Instagram, the application has done the same with the industry: within the application, the world of aesthetics is one of the spaces with more presence and engagement.
Considering the panorama, the brands create specific campaigns for Instagram, whose dynamics are similar to a fashion production, programming the type of photography, when it is published, under what title, what labels and what hashtags. A good example of the success of this strategy is Hawkers, which was the first Spanish company to use Instagram ads and today, a few years later, is one of the most promising. Since Instagram is a narrative environment, the brands have oriented their actions to a more visual aspect and with more story. Thus, parties, dinners and events organized by luxury firms have increased, events in which guests accumulate miles of followers and who are not able to resist sharing a photo of the moment.
We do not just talk about brands: as a method of survival, Vogue and other great fashion giants have packed their bags to move to the 2.0 environment. The magazine continues to publish on paper, but it would not be sustained without an online version and a continuously active social media account. Networks in general and in particular Instagram have gone from being a mere complement to websites and fashion blogs and being the main core on which they are described.
“Vogue and other great fashion giants have packed their bags to move to the 2.0 environment.”
The ease with which people can share semiprofessional photos based on filters and viralize their #ootd has been the driving factor of the birth of a new profession: the influencers. The most representative example is Chiara Ferragni (@chiaraferragni), who started with a fashion blog as a hobby and today has a millionaire empire and a consolidated position in the fashion industry. The queen of street style bills seven million a year.
Influencers are the new models to follow. The firms have set their sights on them to dress and transform into models of their own showcase. The key is that these new prototypes follow one of the main strategies of advertising: the sale of a lifestyle, not a simple garment. Sales of a product explode when an influence shares a photograph with that product in an inspirational context, such as a brunch at a restaurant or a party on the beach. It is about exploiting naturalness and eliminating the barrier of explicit advertising: it is not about a product, but an experience, a lifestyle.
Chiara Ferragni, Helena Bordon, Mia Moretti & Cleo Wade | Jeremy Scott’s New York
In this way, hyperconnection comes hand in hand with a new generation that has a completely different conception of the process of buying clothes. It is not about getting a particular item, but also about what it means to have that item, to identify with the style, the principles and the aesthetics of the brand. If the action with the influencer goes well, the garment can be exhausted in a matter of minutes. The risk of the image of the brand in another person does not seem so exorbitant seeing the potential results.
Discovered the gold mine, many firms have decided to almost completely migrate to Instagram and have established their showcase and catalog in the application. Everything would point that the bubble will burst, but the truth is that reality shows a brutal consistency in Instagram as a new fashion space. For brands and giants of the industry there is no longer the possibility of waiting for the Instagram boom to pass: it will have to adapt or die.
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‘But Which One Of Us Drove The Car?’
In the Fall of 1953, Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage, fast friends and mutual admirers from Black Mountain, collaborated on an artwork. Cage had already been studying with DT Suzuki and had been discussing Zen in great depth with Rauschenberg. Which dialogue had led, the summer before at Black Mountain, Rauschenberg to make his White Paintings, and to Cage and others to orchestrate Theater Piece No. 1 and to compose 4’33”. Rauschenberg had already stayed at Cage’s loft while his new Fulton St. studio was being fumigated, where he’d surprised Cage by painting the painting Cage got from Rauschenberg’s 1951 show at Betty Parsons completely black.
Untitled (John Cage, Black Mountain), 1952, photo: Robert Rauschenberg
For the work that came to be known as Automobile Tire Print, Rauschenberg pasted 20 sheets of drawing paper into a scroll, which he laid down on an empty Fulton St one Sunday, and he inked the rear tire while Cage drove his Model A in a straight line along the paper. [Cage drove the Model A to Black Mountain, above. Apparently, Kaprow had a Model A, too.]
Michael Kimmelman is fond of noticing the similarity between the long, lone mark made by moving through space and Barnett Newman’s “zips,” which Rauschenberg would have seen at Parsons’ gallery in 1951 and 1952.
In the catalogue for his 1991 show Rauschenberg in the 50s,, Walter Hopps links Automobile Tire Print in time, medium, and concept to another major collaborative work on paper, Erased de Kooning Drawing. It turns out that for the first decade-plus after their creation, neither work was exhibited publicly, and both were known largely by word of mouth. They were discussed without being seen; as the product–or to use Harold Rosenberg’s influential 1952 term, the “residue”–of process, their physical state was secondary. Which let Hopps and others interpret and present them as precursors of Conceptual Art once such a thing came into existence.
Hopps says that Automobile Tire Print was “maintained as a scroll” which was eventually mounted on fabric for preservation. Since it was first exhibited in the 70s [and yes, I guess I’ll have to start digging into this history now, too], the work has been unfurled to various lengths. [Above, from Hopps’ 1976 show at the Smithsonian] Since Hopps, and definitely since SFMOMA’s acquisition of the piece in 1998, it has been completely unfurled.
The accounts, even the descriptions of the work, vary. Hopps said it’s ink. Rauschenberg said it was “house paint,” like the black paint he was using at the time on his Black Paintings. And that he poured it out on the street in front of Cage’s tire.
In that SFMOMA video, Bob told David Ross that he asked his friend to help execute his idea. Cage “was the printer,” Ross suggested, “the printer and the press,” said the artist. Without entirely contradicting that view, Cage wrote in 1961 in Silence, “I know he put the paint on the tires. And he unrolled the paper on the city street. But which one of us drove the car?”
Perhaps ambiguous authorship is just one more way Automobile Tire Print is like Erased deKooning Drawing, a work in which the central, conceptually transformational contribution of Jasper Johns had been willfully omitted for more than four decades.
Not that these questions of credit and origin give BMW any cover at all on their mindblowing direct marketing campaign “marking the momentous occasion” of the 40th anniversary of the M Motorsports car series.
The company that regularly puts artists in the promotional driver’s seat on its Art Car series completely fails to mention either Rauschenberg or Cage in the video for the M Print project, which is essentially a cover version, or a re-performance, of Automobile Tire Print starring the M6 sports coupe. The resulting prints were then cut into postcard size, and sent to new and prospective owners.
[FWIW, BMW also blanked a living artist, using the donut-spinning M6 (below) to re-enact Greeting Card, Aaron Young’s 2007 Park Avenue Armory motorcycle tire painting project. I’m sure if there were another car-related performance art project ransackable enough, BMW’s agency would have turned that one into postcards, too.]
I guess it’s possible to look at this as a glass half full situation, that the indexical Zen performative aesthetic of Cage & Rauschenberg has, sixty years later, gone mainstream. Or at least turned into a PR stunt to sell $100,000 sports cars.
The only way this ends well is if it spawns a cars-meets-Fluxus fauxreality TV show on the History Channel. John and Bob would surely be delighted.
The BMW M6 Creates Its Own Direct Mail [fastcocreate.com]
BMW M Presents: The Making of an M Print [youtube]
Previously, unexpectedly related: greg.org coverage of John Cage’s VW bus and of
the unexamined making of Erased de Kooning Drawing
Author gregPosted on November 19, 2012 September 21, 2020 Categories art, johns, rauschenberg, et alTags EdeKD
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Nominate for an IMS Award, apply for a Travel Award
https://www.imstat.org/ims-awards/peter-gavin-hall-ims-early-career-prize/
Peter Hall played a significant role throughout his professional career in mentoring young colleagues at work and through professional society activities. The Peter Gavin Hall Early Career Prize recognizes early career (PhD in 2013-2020) research accomplishments and research promise in statistics, broadly construed. Nomination deadline is December 1st.
https://imstat.org/ims-awards/tweedie-new-researcher-award/
The 2021 Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture will be delivered at the 2021 New Researchers Conference, immediately before JSM in Seattle (meeting details to follow). New researchers (PhD in 2016–2020), who are members of IMS, are eligible. Nominations for the award are due December 1.
https://www.imstat.org/honored-ims-fellows/nominations-for-ims-fellow/
Past IMS President Alison Etheridge called for more diversity in Fellows nominations [see Philip Protter’s article in the Oct/Nov 2018 issue for some words of advice]. Candidates for IMS Fellowship shall have demonstrated distinction in research in statistics or probability, by publication of independent work of merit. This qualification may be partly or wholly waived in the case of either a candidate of well-established leadership whose contributions to the field of statistics or probability other than original research shall be judged of equal value; or a candidate of well-established leadership in the application of statistics or probability, whose work has contributed greatly to the utility of and the appreciation of these areas. Candidates for fellowship should be members of IMS when nominated (you can email Elyse Gustafson erg@imstat.org to check this before you start). The nomination deadline is January 31.
Harry C. Carver Award
https://www.imstat.org/ims-awards/harry-c-carver-medal/
Nominations are invited for the Carver Medal, created by the IMS in honor of Harry C. Carver, for exceptional service specifically to the IMS. All nominations must be received by February 1.
…or apply for a Travel Award
Applications are also open for our two travel awards. The IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award funds travel and registration to attend (and possibly present a paper/poster at) an IMS sponsored or co-sponsored meeting. This award is for graduate students (Masters or PhD) in statistics or probability. If you are a New Researcher (awarded your PhD in 2015–20), you should apply for the IMS New Researcher Travel Award to fund travel, and possibly other expenses, to present a paper or a poster at an IMS sponsored or co-sponsored meeting. Applicants must be members of IMS, though joining as you apply is allowed (student membership is free and new graduate membership discounted!). The deadline for both is February 1, 2021. See https://www.imstat.org/ims-awards/ims-hannan-graduate-student-travel-award/ and https://www.imstat.org/ims-awards/ims-new-researcher-travel-award/.
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PCMag India Consumer Electronics Reviews, Ratings & Comparisons Digital Camera Reviews Lenses
Canon RF 50mm F1.2 L USM
byJim Fisher Aug 28, 2020
The RF 50mm F1.2 L USM is a modern take on one of Canon's classic lenses, with stunningly shallow depth of field thanks to its extra-bright f/1.2 design.
US Street Price$2299.00
Very bright aperture
Edge-to-edge clarity
Minimal distortion
Dust and splash protection
Fluorine lens coat
No optical image stabilization
Shows heavy vignette
Clicking control ring not ideal for video
The Canon RF 50mm F1.2 L USM ($2,299) is a seriously good prime lens for photographers with serious budgets. It's an updated take on a lens that is a favorite for many a Canon SLR owner, the EF 50mm f/1.2L USM. This new version is bigger and better optically, and while it's also more expensive, we like it enough to call it our Editors' Choice. If you're buying an EOS R5 and love the idea of a fast 50mm lens, the F1.2 L should be on your short list.
The f/1.2 Tradition
Canon systems have traditionally included an extra-bright 50mm option. Its SLR series has the aforementioned EF 50mm f/1.2L USM, and the 1960s-era Canon 7 rangefinder had both f/0.95 and f/1.2 lenses in the 50mm focal length. The latest iteration, designed for the company's full-frame mirrorless camera system, is the RF 50mm F1.2 L USM.
It's a big lens, about 4.3 by 3.5 inches (HD), and heavy at 2.1 pounds. It supports 77mm front filters, and includes a soft carrying case, a reversible lens hood, and front and rear caps. The rear cap is a little odd—you need to line it up properly before attaching it, and there's only one way to do so. Typically rear caps are designed so they can attach at two or three different points.
The lens includes protection from dust and splashes, as you'd expect from one that bears the Canon L designation. The EOS R5 and R6 bodies are also protected against weather, to Canon's usual high standards. The front and rear elements are coated with fluorine, so if you do get them wet or fingerprinted you can clean them easily—fluorine repels both moisture and grease, so it wipes right off the glass.
Canon EOS R, f/1.2, 1/1,250-second, ISO 100
There are two control rings on the barrel. The larger is the manual focus ring, which offers electronic focus with or without a linear response. The former changes the rate at which focus is adjusted based on how quickly you turn it, while the latter ties focus to the distance the ring travels, which is a big plus for videographers who will want to pull focus during shots.
The 50mm also has a programmable control ring. It clicks with every turn—a big plus for photographers as it allows for small adjustments with the confidence of tactile feedback. It's very easy to add a third-stop of EV compensation using the ring, in contrast to the lenses for the Nikon Z series, which utilize manual focus controls for a similar function. If you do plan on using the lens for video, the ring can be de-clicked at a Canon service center for a fee. It's a shame the company didn't make it a user-changeable feature.
Focus is controlled by the AF/MF switch, on the side of the barrel. Canon doesn't include optical stabilization in this lens, nor does it include sensor-based stabilization in the EOS R. This does limit your ability to use it for handheld video, although the EOS R does offer some digital stabilization for video. Most of Canon's competitors offer cameras with in-body stabilization, and while I wouldn't say the company will never adopt the technology, I wouldn't hold my breath for a future RF camera body with the feature either.
Close focus is available to 15.7 inches (0.4-meter). It's not a macro range by any means—at best the lens magnifies subjects at 1:5.25 life-size. But it's a solid working distance for what should be an all-around lens. Thanks to the bright aperture, you will have no problem blurring out background details when shooting wide open, even if your subject isn't that close to the lens. There is a focus limiter switch, so you can set the lens for distance focus only to speed up acquisition, but I found the autofocus to be quite fast, even when hunting over the entire range.
I tested the RF 50mm with the 45MP EOS R5 and software from Imatest. At f/1.2 and f/1.4, the pair delivers resolution we consider very good for the R5 (3,850 lines), and it climbs into excellent territory at f/2 (4,050 lines). At narrow settings, from f/2.8 through f/8, resolution is outstanding (between 4,400 and 4,700 lines) across the frame. Diffraction starts to detract from resolution at f/8 (4,050 lines), and drags the lens down to the good territory at the minimum f/16 setting (3,300 lines).
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Distortion is also a nonissue. The lens has about 0.5 percent barrel distortion, which is absolutely negligible for all but the most critical reproduction work. You may be turned off by the heavy vignette the lens exhibits, although it can be seen as a benefit for portrait photographers, as it adds a natural frame to further isolate your subject.
If you shoot in JPG format, the camera applies vignette correction by default, but there's still some darkening at the corners when working at f/1.2 and f/1.4. It's a pleasing effect that works well with bokeh, and at narrower f-stops the effect goes away.
Without correction, there's a heavier effect, one that's visible in shots through f/2.8. Adobe Lightroom's Raw profile for the lens compensates for the effect, making corners as bright as the middle of an image, assuming an evenly lit scene. If you use a different Raw processor you can dial in adjustments manually, and Lightroom also allows you to make manual changes if you prefer.
A Phenomenal 50mm Prime
Canon has a long history when it comes to bright 50mm lenses, and the RF 50mm F1.2 L USM is the best attempt its had to date. It has the crisp look you expect from a modern lens, with the latest anti-reflective and protective coatings, exotic lens elements, and protection from the outdoors. If the RF system gains traction with event and portrait photographers, this will be one of the first lenses many buy, and with good reason.
Canon EOS R5, f/1.2, 1/5,000-second, ISO 100
There are, of course, alternatives, just not in RF mount. If the price is too high to stomach, you can certainly use the EF 50mm f/1.2L USM, along with an adapter, and Canon's low-cost EF 50mm F1.8 STM is there for photographers on a budget. There are also very good, affordable third-party options, like the Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG HSM Art or the stabilized Tamron SP 45mm f/1.8 Di VC USD.
Using any of these lenses with an adapter makes for a package as bulky as the RF 50mm on its own. If you're after lower cost, along with a lens sized properly for your camera, our advice is to wait. It's almost certainly just a matter of time before Canon adds a lower-cost 50mm f/1.8 or f/1.4 to the RF system.
For those who don't mind a bigger prime, and have the budget, the RF 50mm F1.2 L USM is the lens to get. Its optics are phenomenal, its fit and finish are excellent, and the look you get at f/1.2 is unmatchable. It is essentially without peer in its focal length, making it our Editors' Choice.
Canon RF 50mm F1.2 L USM Specs
Dimensions 4.3 by 3.5 inches
Mount Canon RF
Focal Length (Wide) 50 mm
Optical Stabilization None
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About Jim Fisher
Senior digital camera analyst for the PCMag consumer electronics reviews team, Jim Fisher is a graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he concentrated on documentary video production. Jim's interest in photography really took off when he borrowed his father's Hasselblad 500C and light meter in 2007.
He honed his writing skills at retailer B&H Photo, where he wrote thousands upon thousands of product descriptions, blog posts, and reviews. Since then he's shot with hundreds of camera models, ranging from pocket point-and-shoots to medium format digital cameras. And he's reviewed almost all of them. When he's not testing cameras and gear for PCMag, he's likely out and about shooting with …
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The Wealth Hiding in Your Neighborhood
From country farmland to big city skyscrapers, absentee billionaires may be hiding wealth in your town — and driving up your cost of living.
Blogging Our Great Divide
by Chuck Collins
The rich are hiding trillions in wealth.
You’ve probably heard about their offshore bank accounts, shell corporations, and fancy trusts. But this wealth isn’t all sitting in the Cayman Islands or Panama. Much of it’s hiding in plain view: maybe even in your town.
America’s big cities are increasingly dotted with luxury skyscrapers and mansions. These multi-million dollar condos are wealth storage lockers, with the ownership often obscured by shell companies.
In Boston, where I live, there’s a luxury building boom. According to a study I just co-authored, out of 1,805 luxury units — with an average price of over $3 million — more than two-thirds are owned by people who don’t live here.
One-third are owned by shell companies and trusts that mask their ownership. And of these units, 40 percent are limited liability companies (LLCs) organized in Delaware.
Criminals around the world set up their shell companies in Delaware, the premiere secrecy jurisdiction in the United States — where you don’t have to disclose who the real owners are. As a result, human traffickers, drug smugglers, and tax evaders all enjoy the anonymous cover of a Delaware company.
Towering Excess
Many of these companies use illicit funds to purchase real estate in North American cities to launder their ill-gotten money.
In New York City, dozens of luxury towers have been connected to global money laundering. In Vancouver, Chinese investors disrupted the city’s housing market so badly that the province of British Columbia established a foreign investor tax and a tax on vacant properties.
With European countries now insisting on more transparency, illicit cash is now cascading into the United States. In fact, the U.S. is now the world’s second-biggest tax haven and secrecy jurisdiction, after Switzerland.
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has increased its scrutiny over real estate markets in Miami, New York, and parts of California, Texas, and Hawaii.
But that just makes the rest of the country more attractive for secret cash — even far from big cities. In a small Vermont town, I met a Russian investor who lives in Dubai. He was buying up thousands of acres of Green Mountain farmland.
Our communities are being fundamentally transformed by land grabs and luxury building booms. These drive up the cost of land in central neighborhoods, with ripple impacts throughout a community. And this worsens the already grotesque inequalities of income, wealth, and opportunity.
Boston’s new luxury towers appear to house few locals
Our communities should defend themselves.
Property ownership should have to pass the “fishing license” or “library card” test. In most communities, to get a library card or a fishing license, you need to prove who you are and where you actually live.
In Boston, they’re pretty strict — you need to show a utility bill with your name on it. Cities should require the same for real estate purchases.
At a national level, bi-partisan legislation from Senators Marco Rubio and Sheldon Whitehouse would require real estate owners to be disclosed when buyers use shell corporations and pay millions in cash. That would be a welcome development.
Better still, cities should tax luxury real estate transactions on properties selling for over $2 million to fund local services. Such a tax in San Francisco generated $44 million last year that’s been used to fund free community college and help the city’s neglected trees.
Communities could discourage high-end vacant properties by taxing buildings that sit empty for more than six months a year. Cities like Vancouver have created incentives to house people, not wealth.
We need to defend our communities for the people who live in them, not just store their wealth there.
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NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia first unveiled its new head-worn display system when it put out a call for an interested company to manufacture and market the device. The NASA Aviation Safety Program developed the technology while researching better equipment for use while navigating the runway, since this is when the majority of plane crashes occur. Since the flight crew’s awareness of their surroundings is a key factor, the research team focused on the best way to produce a clear image of the outside of an aircraft no matter the weather or time of day.
While wearing the glasses, a pilot can see a 3D virtual overlay of the runway and airport in one eye, which updates in real-time and includes markers to highlight nearby objects, runway routes, and traffic in the area. A built-in head tracker follows the pilot’s head movements as they look around the windshield and adjusts the image to their viewpoint. The added voice controls and displayed info about the aircraft itself – including speed, altitude, and direction – allow the pilot to keep their eyes focused on the runway ahead of them instead of down at a cockpit screen.
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Canadian Health Experts Want Us To Use Gloryholes? Hello Vancouver!
July 25, 2020 July 24, 2020 by Devin Randall
Photo by Honey Fangs on Unsplash
Now, British Columbia health experts want us to use gloryholes too?! Anyone for a trip to Vancouver?
According to Daily Hive, the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control has released new guidelines on how to have safe sex during the coronavirus pandemic. One of our biggest takeaways is that British health experts say gloryholes should be utilized more frequently.
“People can, will and should continue to have sex during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said the BC Centre for Disease Control in this updated guidance before adding the emphasis on masturbation, as “you are your safest sex partner.”
The BCCDC then offered advice on how to creatively engage in sex during the pandemic. First and foremost, they suggested that people keep their count of sexual partners as low as possible.
“Having 1, or a few, regular sex partner(s) can help lower the chances of being exposed to COVID-19,” says the BCCDC website.
Health experts agree that you should avoid kissing or sharing saliva while engaging in sex. / Image via Pexels
Next, the BCCDC suggested responsible washing before and after having sex, limiting kissing, and wearing a mask during sex, as “heavy breathing during sex can create more droplets that may transmit COVID-19.”
From there, the guideline advised that people use creative sexual positions to limit face-to-face contact. This included using barriers and gloryholes.
Specifically, the BCCDC said, “Choose sexual positions that limit face-to-face contact. Use barriers, like walls (e.g., glory holes) that allow for sexual contact but prevent close face-to-face contact.”
Photo by Ayo Ogunseinde on Unsplash
This isn’t the first time that health experts have suggested using barriers and gloryholes as a way of having safe sex. In June, New York City’s health department released similar suggestions in an update. Though, the NYC guidelines were more discreet than the British update. Instead of outright suggesting the use of gloryholes, the NYC guidelines stated, “Make it a little kinky. Be creative with sexual positions and physical barriers, like walls, that allow sexual contact while preventing close face to face contact.”
New York’s directive also advised against rimming, kissing, or having sex without a face mask.
So, it appears that health experts in parts of Canada agree, going back to the good ol’ gloryhole is the way to go during COVID-19 times. If you are looking to get it on and have some fun, you should stick to as few partners as possible and get a wall between you two. It’s for the greater good.
Source: Daily Hive
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Taxes in Cities
In: Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics
Brülhart, Marius
Bucovetsky, Sam
Schmidheiny, Kurt
Kurt Schmidheiny
Most cities enjoy some autonomy over how they tax their residents, and that autonomy is typically exercised by multiple municipal governments within a given city. In this chapter, we document patterns of city-level taxation across countries, and we review the literature on a number of salient features affecting local tax setting in an urban context. In OECD countries, urban local governments on average raise some 10% of total tax revenue, and in non-OECD countries, they raise around half that share. We show that most cities are highly fragmented: urban areas with more than 500,000 inhabitants are divided into 74 local jurisdictions on average. The vast majority of these cities are characterized by a central municipality that strongly dominates the remaining jurisdictions in terms of population. These empirical regularities imply that analyses of urban taxation need to take account of three particular features: interdependence among tax-setting authorities (horizontally and vertically), jurisdictional size asymmetries, and the potential for agglomeration economies. We survey the relevant theoretical and empirical literatures, focusing in particular on models of asymmetric tax competition, of taxation and income sorting, and of taxation in the presence of agglomeration rents.
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Cities; Taxes; Tax competition; Fiscal federalism; Agglomeration; Sorting; H71; H73; R28; R51;
H71 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
H73 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Interjurisdictional Differentials and Their Effects
R28 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Government Policy
R51 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Finance in Urban and Rural Economies
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Italy claims €1.4 billion in tax fraud to Kering
Published: 29 January, 2019
The Italian tax authorities have completed a tax audit and claim that Luxury Goods International (LGI), a Swiss subsidiary of French luxury conglomerate Kering, owes €1.4 billion to Italy in back taxes.
Kering contests the assertion and says the audit report will now be reviewed by the Revenue Agency unit in charge of assessing the conclusions of the report which shall then make its final determination. “Kering challenges the outcome of the audit report both on the grounds and the amount. We are confident about the proceedings currently underway and will continue to fully cooperate in complete transparency with the Italian tax authorities in order to defend all its rights”, said the Group in a statement.
At this stage of the proceedings, Kering says it does not have the necessary information to record a specific accounting provision based on a reliable estimate of the tax exposure. The Group confirms that it has implemented a strict monitoring of its tax risks and has adopted a prudent approach in the appreciation of its tax exposures, and notably those related to the transfer pricing policy applied by the Group.
LGI, a Swiss subsidiary of Kering, allegedly conducted business activities in Italy which should have resulted in payment of Italian corporation taxes.
Kering refutes allegations over taxes
Zonta Tannery acquired by Fietta Group
ISA TanTec opens showroom in Italy
Sergio Rossi passes away
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Impact: Citizen Voice in Media
There’s nothing more important to functioning democracies than an informed, engaged public. When citizens have access to trustworthy media that includes diverse perspectives and sources, they are empowered to speak out on the issues that most affect them.
To hold governments accountable, citizens need accurate information about complex issues. In too many places, legal restrictions, threats, and intimidation impede journalists’ work, and journalists themselves lack the skills needed for investigative reporting. Citizens, too, often lack the education and know-how to effectively evaluate and participate in local media.
Internews supports citizen voice in media by providing journalism training and mentorship that helps independent reporters produce in-depth, informative content. Our media partners produce work that engages citizens through education and two-way conversations. Media literacy programs give everyday people tools to combat misinformation.
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In advance of Liberia's historic October election, with the support of Internews, 126 public debates were held in every single district, a first for this post-conflict nation, enabling lower house candidates to reach Liberia’s electorate in person – many for the first time.
The town of Butuo in Nimba County was host to the first-ever debate for candidates wanting to represent the region in Liberia’s third post-conflict presidential and legislative elections. One of the residents, 59-year-old Joseph Dahn was happy to witness this historic event.
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Angel Arias: Marianne de Pierres
This is a more comprehensive version of the review I wrote in Goodreads.
The sequel to Burn Bright, Angel Arias, firmly cements Marianne de Pierres reputation as one of the finest writers of young adult speculative fiction. Continuing where Naif’s adventures ended in the last novel – with her escape from Ixion, Angel Arias is a fast-paced thriller that poses a burning question: what is the relationship between Ixion (the Ripers) and Grave (the Elders)? It’s now up to Naif and her friends to find the answer.
But leaving Ixion has not been easy for Naïf. Not only has she left behind her friend, Suki and her brother, but the Riper, Lenoir, as well. Their blood bond makes the distance between them more than a physical wrench and means that Naif is still connected to the haunting demesne of Ixion and its travails, which makes focussing on her current situation harder than usual. Knowing Ixion is on the cusp of rebellion and that the answer to all the puzzles surrounding the Night Creatures, Ripers, and the disenchanted young refugees who flock to Ixion, lie in her home of Grave, Naïf is unable to remain in limbo on Raskalia’s island sanctuary – especially not when the young people the pirate saved from certain death turn on their saviour and those they believe are plotting against them. And so the scene is set for a breath-taking adventure that sees Naïf putting her life on the line to learn the terrible secret that links Grave and Ixion, her past and her present, her friends and her foe. Finding allies where she least expects it and betrayal where there should be loyalty, Naïf has her courage and wits tested to the limit. But when she learns the truth about the Ripers and the Elders and begins to comprehend the sacrifices that are being made in the name of politics and social experiments, she’s forced to make a terrible and deadly decision.
Breath-taking, with wonderfully drawn scenes and dialogue, Angel Arias is a terrific sequel examining faith, friendship, exploitation and the abuse of hegemony in subtle and thought-provoking ways. Through the character of Naïf, we come to see that this complex world, with its strange creatures, juxtaposition of hedonism and control and dour and passionate humans, is not black and white, but an intricate mix where rights and responsibilities are both personal and highly political: the choice, regardless of age or race, is yours. This tale leaves you wanting more. Bring on the third book! Stat!
Tags: Angel Arias, book review, dystopia, fantasy, Marianne de Pierres
Angel Arias | Marianne de Pierres - Burn Bright - [...] here at Burn Bright, we love it when Dr Karen Brooks reviews the Night Creatures books. Karen’s reviews, as…
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Following the Faint Footsteps of Angels
By:Anna V. Palmer
Date: Tue,21 Aug 2018
Submitter:Anna V. Palmer
How the Archangels can help you this Christmas
Ask an Angel - Can Everyone Communicate with Spirit?
Ask an Angel - Do We on Earth have a Soul Purpose?
Ask and Angel - Does Everyone Have a Guardian Angel?
Following the Faint Footsteps of Angels, Part 4
FOLLOWING THE FAINT FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS Part 3
Ask an Angel...how to live a good life?
December 2017 Oracle Card Reading
WHAT TRUTH IS THERE IN THE MULTITUDE OF STORIES about ghosts, angels (with wings or without) the Watchers, Messengers, Beings of Light from other dimensions and giants too? Did these entities really exist? Do they still? Many mysterious stories persist. If we delve a little deeper, lift the dusty shroud that covers ancient civilisations, we find irrefutable records on clay tables and scrolls - now interpreted - telling of intriguing historical events. History was recorded for us by learned men who lived thousands of years ago.
If we follow the faint footsteps of angels along the sands of time, we come – eventually - to a vast ocean of knowledge, where many strange entities dwell. In opening our minds to the possibility and the ancient records of previously hidden history, we find ourselves diving into an ocean of knowledge.
We have the angel (without wings) who walked alongside Tobias as he travelled across mountainous terrain to meet his intended bride. In the Apocrypha, the angel (Raphael: Healer of the Lord) who was his companion on the long journey, taught Tobias many things about healing. In particular, the Messenger explains to Tobias how to use parts of a fish to heal the eyesight of his grandfather.
In the story of two angels (again without wings) who went to warn Lot of Gomorrah’s and its inhabitants impending doom, we hear how beautiful the men were, and as Thomas Cahill aptly explains to us in his book The Gifts of The Jews, how the male population of Gomorrah feverishly lusted after the visiting men, declining Lot’s daughters offered by the father in lieu of their demands to allow lecherous access to his illustrious visitors.
In addition, the Old Testament recounts how the angel Gabriel, (Luke 1 26:38) visited Mary who had never known a man, telling her she had found favour with the Lord and would bear a child – a Son.
Five thousand years ago, (i.e. 2,000 AD plus 3,000 BC) at a time when Britain was still joined to France, its inhabitants could trek the ancient Ridgeway in the Cotswolds across to Europe to trade their sheep. It was a time, before the Channel flooded through, when the historical Deluge came about. At that time, Archaeologists now affirm, advanced civilisations were already blossoming in many parts of the world, e.g. Sumer, the Indus Valley and Egypt, China and the Americas.
Archaeologists have unearthed ancient libraries, some in Egypt and Arabia. Amongst the numerous clay tablets they found there are writings in Cuneiform text which have now been translated by modern-day experts. They tell of a time long ago, of brothers at war with one another, of the elite, of sky boats, celestial battles, an evil wind, (nuclear weapons?), rockets and cloud-borne chariots, those who from the sky came, of infidelities, genetic engineering and artificial insemination. The elite, (those who from the sky came) considered superior beings, were believed to be god-like emissaries. One of them was the goddess, Inanna. (A statue has been found of her depicting her equipped as an astronaut).
To be continued with part 2 …….
annavpalmer.com
The Phantom Bogle Part 3
The Phantom Bogle
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At $1,800, Would You Side With This Mega-Mileage 1991 BMW 535i?
Photo: Craigslist
The seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Bimmer gives us plenty of shots of its reasonably unblemished driver’s side, but only one of its less-pretty curb face. Let’s see if that, and its high miles, overcome a stick shift and a potentially low price.
Well, I was shocked—shocked, I tell you—by the 55 percent Crack Pipe loss suffered by last Friday’s 2001 Lexus LX470. That big SUV was little more than a Toyota Land Cruiser with good elocution, and those generally command some bank. I’m just glad I didn’t post one of the ones asking half again as much.
Last Friday’s Lexus had, to put it in technical terms, a butt-load of miles. The odd had rolled up to the far side of 270K to be exact. That can scare off a lot of prospective buyers since most of us are of the mind that the more miles a car goes, the fewer miles that will be left. In the case of that LX470 it’s probably a moot point since the cars have a pretty good reputation for racking up road. What happens however, when you come across a car without such bragging rights but with similarly high miles? Further, what if that car, and/or truck is something still worth considering?
Well, you needn’t ponder that as a hypothetical any longer since we have before us today a 1991 BMW 535i with 230,000 miles and a five-speed stick. Now, if you’re like me, when you think of BMW the first thing that pops into mind is a silky smooth and torquey inline six. Yes, the company makes a ton of other configurations, many with more to offer when stepping up to the plate, but it’s the straight six that made the company’s name here in the States.
In the case of this E34 535i that six is a M30B35. That’s a 3430cc, SOHC unit featuring an iron block with an aluminum head. The engineers at BMW were able to coax 208 horsepower out of it with Bosch L-Jetronic fuel injection, and meet U.S. smog rules. Behind that sits a fairly rare but eminently desirable Getrag 260 five-speed.
This one also comes with the aforementioned 230K on the clock. But that’s okay since the seller says he drove it from Idaho to Texas without a hitch. I guess that means he didn’t trailer anything down there since without a hitch there wouldn’t have been any place to hook one up. What? Why are you all groaning?
The ad notes that the car doesn’t burn or leak oil, and that the heater valve has recently been replaced so it probably doesn’t drip coolant either. It’s said to pull like a freight train once you get it about 3,000 revs and to have working sunroof and windows all the way around.
The interior comes across as you might expect, with a seemingly solid dash but some tearing and crazing on the driver’s seat squab. The back seats seem okay and the headliner looks to be still headlining.
Outside things are okay on one side, and less so on the other. That’s reflected in the number of pics the seller provides in his ad for the relatively clean driver’s side, versus the one pic from down the driveway he gives of the scraped up and clear coat denuding passenger side. As it sits, the car has a cool kind of Phantom of the Opera vibe, if you’re into such things. The wheels are aftermarket and look a good bit like Borbets, but there isn’t a close enough shot to confirm that. This car does come from an age when 15-inch wheels and 60-series tires looked just fine.
After reading all that you might think that the car’s modest $1,800 asking price is just fine too. Alternatively, you might add up all the car’s demerits—mileage, scratch city bodywork and that tear in the seat—and think that even that is too much.
What’s your take on this mile-maker 535i and that $1,800 asking? Does that seem a fair deal for the car as it’s presented? Or, are the miles too high for even that low a price?
Dallas, TX Craigslist, or go here if the ad disappears.
H/T to glemon for the hookup!
Help me out with NPOCP. Hit me up at rob@jalopnik.com and send me a fixed-price tip. Remember to include your Kinja handle.
Margin Of Error
1,800$ for a relatively clean car that car run on its own power is never going to be CP.
Fair price, and I’m guessing the seller wants 1,500$
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UK supplied
Original registration number
Extensive documented history on file
Has been part of 2 major car collections
The XK120 Roadster was launched in roadster form at the 1948 London Motor Show as a test bed and show car for the new Jaguar XK engine. It caused such a sensation which persuaded Jaguar founder and design boss William Lyons to put it into production. The "120" in its name referred to its 120 mph top speed (faster with the windscreen removed), which made the Jaguar the world’s fastest standard production car at the time of its launch. To meet demand it was necessary for the mass-production versions, beginning with the 1950 model year, to have pressed-steel bodies, but retained aluminium doors, bonnet and boot lid.
Our Jaguar XK120 OTS
#660901 was supplied new on the 1st December 1951 to HG Sissons and supplied via official Jaguar distributor Ernest W Hatfield of Sheffield, Yorkshire. The Jaguar was commissioned to be built in Silver with Red Hide as the car is presented today together with the car’s original restoration number RRA 188.
The next owner Sir Henry Elwes, acquired the KX120 on the 2nd January 1969 and was the custodian of the Jaguar for some 43 years!
As the ex-Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, he was also knighted in the 2009 Queen’s Birthday Honour’s List and appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order for his services in political and public services. Sir Henry was also a “Gold Badge Holder” of the Jaguar Drivers’ Club which is only issued to a select few who have held membership of the Club for 50 years.
During his ownership he conducted a detailed restoration completed by TT Workshops Ltd of Westbury, Wiltshire who are regarded as one of the UK’s leading restoration companies. This restoration was completed in 1977 wherupon the odometer was zeroed and the Jaguar was subsequently tested yearly covering just over 17,000 miles in 33 years.
The documented restoration includes:
Strip to bare chassis, repaint and underseal;
Engine strip, re-bored, crank re-ground, head restored with new valve seats;
Gearbox re-build with new bearings;
Steering box rebuilt. All new chassis bearings;
New front and rear wings, new sills and shut-face pillars, new boot lid and hood;
Resprayed in cellulose, new carpets and cockpit surround to original specification;
Rewired and Starter and Dynamo rebuilt;
Accompanying the motorcar is a very comprehensive historical chassis file to include:
Original factory body design template;
Original service data report (1951);
Original Lucas electrical diagram;
Manufacturer’s Parts Lists;
Various period road test reports;
Original (green) registration books;
Original MoTs dating back to 1980
Original Road Fund Licence Tax Discs dating back to 1984;
Jaguar Heritage Certificate (No. 38046).
The car was acquired in 2013 by a major collector who then sold it to a dealer in 2016, whereupon in 2017 the car was acquired by the current owner to become part of a large and significant collection and has been preserved in superb condition - albeit unused during this period.
Today the car comes fresh from a service and requires nothing other than a new custodian to enjoy this superb example of the iconic XK120 legend.
Chassis no:660901
Price:£99,995
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Pak bars Dawn journalist from leaving country
JKNT
New Delhi , October 11 ( JKNT) A leading Pakistani journalist who broke the story of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif demanding action from the army against the entrenched militant groups or face isolation last week has been barred from leaving the country.
Cyril Almeidia’s story of confrontation between the civilian leadership and the army in which spy agency ISI chief Lt. Gen Rizwan Akhtar was also present along with army chief Gen. Raheel Sharif , which has been vehemently denied by the PMO and the army, had created a spiral of storm in the strategic community in India, Afghanistan and the USA, with various interpretations .
It was seen as an assertion by Pakistan premier against his army chief , whom he doesn’t like for playing politics against him, as also a plant to befool the world that Pakistan was mulling serious action against the terror groups operating on its soil.
On Monday, Cyril was told that he cannot leave the country as he was booked for Dubai along with his family for holidaying at the Gulf nation .
“ I have seen myself on the exit control list,” the journalist wrote on Twitter .
Pakistani establishment, however, maintains that it was a matter concerning the national security apparatus, particularly after the report had appeared following surgical strikes by the Indian army in Pakistan occupied Kashmir on September 29th when Pakistani army and the militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toiiba suffered a major damage and deaths.
India had conducted strikes to avenge the death of its 19 soldiers in a terrorist attack , believed to have been sponsored by Pakistan and its non-state actors, at army base in Uri , Kashmir, on September 18.
‘Modi flexible’: Sharif envoy expects good U-turn
Dogra ruler remembered at British Parliament
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Seeking Contact With The Divine
the home of Astrologer Joanna Grant.
Natal Astrology – Horary Astrology – tarot
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate when the last of earth left to discover is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river the voice of the hidden waterfall and the children in the apple-tree not known, because not looked for, but heard, half-heard, in the stillness between two waves of the sea.”
― T.S. Eliot
New Moon in Capricorn “Power Games” January 11, 2021
Every lofty position comes with its own expectations and obligations, the loss of personal freedom often being the hidden price that one pays for any position of authority. The temptation that comes with positions of great influence is always that of hubris, both for those who sit at the top, and also for those invisible figures, who move silently in the shadows to manipulate the reins of control.
The Story of Water- Part 9 January 8, 2021
In every place, in every field and every ditch, every hedgerow and hill, beauty burgeons with abandon; every tree aches with fragrant blossom, the air heavy, soporific, incense thick, honey headed and drugged. She wanders soul naked and open, as free as a dream, into the arms of this waiting world that seems heaven sent with love.
The Priestess January 8, 2021
. A face of carved serenity gazes at me, a woman that time has touched, but has not yet ravaged, a woman whose strength has not yet been diminished by grief. Her beauty lies in the calm stillness of her eyes, emanating an aura of peace and power, I am in awe.
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Tap in the picture
Kid throws ping pong paddle at his brother
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Virus bad.
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A man escapes from prison where he has been for 15 years.
He breaks into a house to look for money and guns and finds a young couple in bed. He orders the guy out of bed and ties him to a chair, while tying the girl to the bed he gets on top of her, kisses her neck, then gets up and goes into the bathroom. While he's in there, the husband tells his wife: "Listen, this guy's an escaped convict, look at his clothes! He probably spent lots of time in jail and hasn't seen a woman in years. I saw how he kissed your neck. If he wants sx, don't resist, don't complain, do whatever he tells you. Satisfy him no matter how much he nauseates you. This guy is probably very dangerous. If he gets angry, he'll kll us. Be strong, honey. I love you." To which his wife responds: "He wasn't kissing my neck. He was whispering in my ear. He told me he was gay, thought you were cute, and asked me if we had any vaseline. I told him it was in the bathroom. Be strong honey. I love you too!"
the funniest thing ever
Iron Man is FeMale
Refer to the periodic table of elements with questions.
What do you call a Mexican without a car?
A teacher asked her students to use the word “beans” in a sentence.
"My father grows beans," said one girl. "My mother cooks beans," said a boy. A third student spoke up, "We are all human beans."
A pirate walks into a bar with a paper towel on his head. The bartender says, “What’s with the paper towel?”
The pirate says, "Arrr! I've got a Bounty on me head!"
Wife bad
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I can’t I watch that
How many redittors does it take to change a lightbulb?
1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed. 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently. 7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs. 17 purists who use candles and are offended by light bulb discussions. 6 to argue over whether it's 'lightbulb' or 'light bulb.' Another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid. 22 to tell THOSE 6 to stop being jerks. 2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is 'lamp.' 15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that 'light bulb' is perfectly correct. 49 to post memes and gifs (several are of Michael Jackson eating popcorn). 19 to post that this page is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a light bulb page. 11 to defend the posting to this page saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant here. 24 to discuss the merits of LED/swirly fluorescent light bulbs. 44 to claim LED and fluorescent bulbs will kill you. 12 to post F. 8 to ask what F means. 36 People to post pics of their own light bulbs. 15 People to post "I can't see S$%!" and use their own light bulbs. 6 to report the post or PM an admin because someone said "f÷×$" 4 to say "Didn't we go through this already a short time ago?". 13 to say "Do a search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs." 1 to bring politics into the discussion by adding that (insert politician of choice) isn't the brightest bulb. This usually takes place within the first three comments. 50 more to get into personal attacks over their political views. 5 admins to ban the light bulb posters who took it all too seriously. 1 late arrival to comment on the original post 6 months later and start it all over again.
More intelligent than that overused format
I found my son hanging from a rope in his bedroom.
On the floor was a note saying, "I can't stand the critism anymore." I quickly cut him down, gave him CPR and he started to breathe. As he lay in my arms I saw his eyes slowly open and I said, "That's not how you spell criticism."
When you forget to do null checking
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I haven’t had sex since 1956
A woman asked an Army General when the last time he had made love to a woman. The general replied "1956, ma'am." The woman, in disbelief, said "1956?! That long? Come with me and let me make your night better." The woman and general went back to her apartment and made passionate love for over an hour. Afterwards, the woman cuddled up to the general and said "Well, you sure haven't forgotten anything since 1956…" The general looked at her, confused, and replied "I sure hope not, it's only 2130 now."
Found this gem on r/funny
Dual core technology
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The sky was looking ominous so I asked Siri, “Surely, it’s not going to rain again today?”
She replied, “Yes, it is and don’t call me Shirley!” I guess I left my phone in Airplane mode again…
Adam and Eve’s Nationality
A Brit, a Frenchman and a Russian are viewing a painting of Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden. "Look at their reserve, their calm," muses the Brit. "They must be British." "Nonsense," the Frenchman disagrees. "They're naked, and so beautiful. Clearly, they are French." "No clothes, no shelter," the Russian points out, "they have only an apple to eat, and they're being told this is paradise. They are Russian.
What did one saggy boob say to the other saggy boob?
If we don’t get some support around here, people are gonna think we’re nuts!
Did they? Did they have us in the first half?
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Bring back the first world problems meme
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Coffee Beans are bad parents. Their kids are always grounded.
Pandemic humour
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What do you call friends you like to eat with?
Last night at dinner I thought I saw my father starting to gag.
Turns out it was just another dad choke.
A cute girl at work said she’d only go on a date with me on a day that doesn’t end in ‘Y’
I said "Great! I'll pick you up tomorrow!"
After my wife learned how much I spent on a new sofa, she garnished my wages—and the couch.
Look away!
Still the funniest thing
Simspons writers are a treasure.
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So close yet so far
Did you know you can tell the sex of an ant by floating it in water?
If it floats it's boy ant
I never understood school shooting jokes
I guess they’re aimed at a younger audience….
I was in a job interview today
When the manager handed me his laptop and said, "I want you to try and sell this to me." So I put it under my arm, walked out of the building and went home. Eventually, he called my mobile and said, "Bring it back here right now!" I said, "£100 and it's yours."
[Original] The doctor prescribed a man a standing desk for back pain.
He told the man to stand at least 3 hours a day, which should reduce the symptoms – and to come back in a month. A month passes and the doctor is seeing the man again. He asks if the symptoms have improved. The man says, “No, but I’ve only been standing for one hour a day”. The doctor says he understood.
Please don’t cut trees that are not talking
Who who who who let the dogs out
Awwhahaha
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Adele got me fucked up
Dogs can look up though
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What country never wins or loses
Thailand.( Credit to my brothers who dosent use reddit).
My Anesthesiologist said that if I didn’t want knockout gas he could hit me in the head with a paddle.
He wouldn't do both. It was ether/oar.
Only support the troops who support you.
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My girlfriend really likes to cosplay as gardening tools.
Often, she's a hoe.
When the first poop of the year is the first poop in my new bed since i got it
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The truth about Trump
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Made with Paint
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2 guys having a drink in a skyscraper.
Up on the 57th floor at a bar, 1 says to the other: "Did you know, if you jump out of this window that the air pressure gets so great by the 10th floor you'll get sucked straight back into the window at the 9th." The 2nd guy replies: "No way, that's bullshit." First guy says "I'm telling you it's true…" 2nd guy replies: "OK, Prove it. Jump out, if you make it back up here I'll buy you a drink." First guy: "OK, you got a deal." He opens the window and without hesitation, jumps out. The 2nd guy panics and runs over, but it's to late… The first guy is already plummeting down to the ground. He passes the 50th, 40th, 30th, 20th, floors and would you know it… Just as he predicted, he is sucked into the window on the 9th. He catches the elevator back up to the 57th floor, goes to the bar with a big smug smile on his face and says to the 2nd guy: " Double Whiskey, straight on the rocks." The 2nd guy can't believe his eyes… He buys the drink but is convinced that he has been swindled. He says: "That was a set up… Or a fluke… Do it again… And I'll buy you 2 drinks." The first guy laughs, and replies: "OK, No problem. I'm telling you it's physics, no luck or trickery involved here. Just watch." He walks confidently over to the window (wobbling slightly from alcohol) and jumps out. The 2nd guy is looking with intent, sure he will find out what's going on and how the trick works. The first guy plummets towards the ground again, He passes the 50th, 40th, 30th, 20th, floors and would you know it… he is sucked into the window on the 9th yet again. He catches the elevator back to the 57th floor and walks in, smugger than before. Yells over to the bartender: "2 double whiskeys, on the rocks." The bartender shakes his head in dismissal, but poor the drinks. The guy then stumbles over to the 2nd and says. "Now do you believe me… Go on, give it a go, it's exciting… Tell you what, I'll get you 3 drinks if you do it." The 2nd guy is hesitant… But having watched it been done twice with a very watchful eye.. Figures, he can't argue with science and decides to give it a shot. He tentitevely walks over to the window, sits upon the ledge… The first guys is stood by his side and cheers: "Go on! You can do it!" With that, the 2nd guy jumps. Screaming and terrified as he falls towards the ground at terminal velocity… He is hurling towards the street, He passes the 50th, 40th, 30th, 20th, 10th, 9th, 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th, 4th, floor… The man is screaming, petrified for his life. "OH GOD I'M. GOING TO DIE!! HEEEEELP!!!!!!." He zooms past the 3rd… 2nd… Floor… He is headed face first for the curb… Suddenly the first guy appears from nowhere and catches him… The guy, still terrified but now puzzled and in disbelief. Overjoyed that he was saved… " How…. How did you do that!?" The first guy replies (still tipsy and slurring) … "I owe you 3 drinks." They catch the elevator to the 57th floor and walk into the bar.. The first guy says: "I'll have a double whiskey and this guy will have 3." The 2nd guy is traumatised from the experience he just went through… Shaking in the corner of the bar. The bartender, having seen and heard everything says to the first guy: "You know, you can be a real dick when you're drunk Superman."
Woman no funny
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You can see him doing it
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Punny whistle blower…
Report me
Ayyy but no rent tho
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I’m not an apologetic Canadian…
I'm sorry, I'm just not
What’s the difference between outlaws and in-laws ?
Outlaws are wanted.
George Floyd, autopsy: “He didn’t die from asphyxiation or strangulation.”
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A sub concerning the part of the mind of which one is not fully aware
Two ladies in heaven
1st woman: Hi Wanda! 2nd woman: Ohmigod, Sylvia! How did you die? 1st woman: I froze to death. 2nd woman: How horrible! 1st woman: It wasn't so bad. After I quit shaking from the cold, I began to get warm and sleepy and finally died a peaceful death. What about you? 2nd woman: I had a massive heart attack. I suspected my husband was cheating, so I came home early to catch him. But instead I found him all by himself in the den watching TV. 1st woman: So then what happened? 2nd woman: I was so sure there was another woman in the house that I started running all over the house looking, I ran up into the attic to search and then down into the basement. Then I went through every closet and checked under the beds. I kept this up until I had looked everywhere in the house. Finally I became so exhausted that I just keeled over with a heart attack and died,. 1st woman: Too bad you didn't look in the freezer. We'd both still be alive.
Geology rocks but geography is where it’s at
What do you call the Pillsbury Doughboy’s testicles?
I’m So Glad ItS That OnE
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I shouldn’t be laughing at this.
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THIS WAS EPIC 😂😂😂
Why do stadiums get hot after the game?
Because all the fans left.
How do you get rich in Ancient Greece? Well, step one, become an oracle. Step two:
Oogabooga car good woman bad
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RIP boiling water. You will be mist :(
I’m on the couch playing video games when my dad walks in with a tape measure
About five feet away from me he stops and starts pushing the tape out to me. It gets closer and closer until it eventually smushes against my cheek. I ask him "What are you doing?" "I'm measuring your patience."
devil.summon()
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Never before have I been so offended
Ignorance is bliss.
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A cow-tastrophe
I told my dad I just met someone with one eye named john.
My dad…what was his other eye called?
I thought god was omniscient?
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My grandfather used to tell me “the day a black man becomes president is the day pigs will fly!”
Sure enough, right after Obama took office, swine flu.
Scientists have discovered another deadly pathogen they are calling the Peekaboo virus.
Doctors are sending anyone with peekaboo straight to ICU.
Sarcasm 🤣🤣
Instant karma. Saluting this Judge who threw a drunk driver’s mom in jail for laughing at victim’s family in court
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Gotta Love it.
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From FB
What’s the difference between a great joke and a cute joke?
Boomer is a state or mind.
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A girl goes to a Chruch to confess
Girl : "Forgive me father for I have sinned." Priest : "What have you done my child?" Girl : "I called a man a son of a bitch." Priest : "Why did you call him a son of a bitch?" Girl : "Because he touched my hand." Priest : "Like this?" (as he touches her hand) Girl : "Yes father." Priest : "That's no reason to call a man a son of a bitch." Girl : "Then he touched my breast." Priest : "Like this?" (as he touched her breast) Girl : "Yes father." Priest : "That's no reason to call him a son of a bitch." Girl : "Then he took off my clothes, father." Priest : "Like this?" (as he takes off her clothes) Girl : "Yes father." Priest : "That's no reason to call him a son of a bitch." Girl : "Then he stuck his you know what into my you know where." Priest : "Like this?" (as he stuck his you know what into her you know where) Girl : "YES FATHER, YES FATHER, YES FATHER!!!" (after a few minutes) Priest : "That's no reason to call him a son of a bitch." Girl : "But father, he had AIDS!" Priest : "THAT SON OF A BITCH!!!"
I just realized my countertop is made of marble..
I have been taking it for granite all these years.
I hate this format so much
Only the best quotes
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Is there a doctor in the house?
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Bernie Sanders confronted the head of the NSA and asked him why they are still illegally surveilling Americans.
The guy replied, “Some people just like to watch the world, Bern.”
Name the nation, people hate most.
Anxiety attack every single time
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What washes up on tiny beaches?
Microwaves!
This made me laugh first because they were next to each other
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Khaled Fahmy
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From Tahrir Square
A radio interview from Tahrir Square with Arab Voices RadioTalk Show, February 9, 2011 (at 41:18).
Muslim Brotherhood should get seat at table
Published as an op-ed for the CNN on February 9, 2011 Since the eruption of the Egyptian revolution last month, I have been on Tahrir Square with millions of other Egyptians calling for freedom and dignity. Over these weeks the square has been filled with people from all walks of life: young and old, Muslim and Copt, rural and urban, rich and poor, secularists and observant Muslims. Keeping a conspicuously low profile, the Muslim Brotherhood — the largest and most organized opposition movement in Egypt — has issued no formal slogans or distributed leaflets. Furthermore, the group has repeatedly denied…
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The police, the army and the people in the early days of the revolution
Aired on The Real News on February 8, 2011
Uprising in Egypt!
A phone interview with Amy Good man of Democracy Now! (at 13:56 TRANSCRIPT This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Today marks day 12 of the uprising in Egypt. Egyptian protesters continue to hold Cairo’s Tahrir Square on the 12th day of their uprising against President Hosni Mubarak. A large crowd remains hours after hundreds of thousands turned out for what was called the Day of Departure against the Mubarak regime. Thousands also gathered for parallel rallies in the cities of Alexandria, Mahalla and Giza. The protests in Alexandria are also continuing today. The massive…
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The bloody price of Mubarak’s stability
Op-Ed in the CNN on February 4, 2011 Editor’s note: Khaled Fahmy is the chairman of the history department at the American University in Cairo. Cairo, Egypt (CNN) — The events of Wednesday offer a brutal example of President Hosni Mubarak’s disastrous security-driven policy. For nine days, pro-democracy demonstrators had taken to the streets asking for nothing less than a complete change of the regime. On Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of people congregated on Tahrir Square at the center of the city asking Mubarak to leave and effectively saying that they had had enough of his bankrupt, soulless and dull leadership. Eventually, Mubarak…
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Mubarak’s last crackdown
Aired on Grit TV on February 2, 2011
The Battle of the Camel, February 2, 2011
Interview with The Real News Network on February 2, 2011 Press here to listen to the interview Transcript: PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay. In Cairo today, President Mubarak made his next move. Hundreds if not thousands of thugs suspected to be on the payroll of either the police or the internal security in some form or another attacked peaceful protesters in Tahrir Square and other parts of Cairo. Now joining us from Cairo to describe today’s events and what’s happening now is Khaled Fahmy. He’s professor and chair of the Department…
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When historians read WikiLeaks
Published in Egypt Independent on December 26, 2010 Ever since WikiLeaks began posting some quarter million leaked cables sent by US embassies on 28 November, people around the world have eagerly read about secrets revealed by what the WikiLeaks website calls “the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain.” Given America’s heavy involvement in the Middle East, it was only natural to expect the uncovering of a large number of cables sent by US embassies and consulates in the region. And again, as expected, many of the leaks have revealed details embarrassing to US…
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Siyasa and Sharia: The politics of implementing Islamic law in Modern Egypt
The inaugural Enid Hill lecture in Law and Humanities titled Siyasa and Sharia: The politics of implementing Islamic law in Modern Egypt delivered at AUC on November 1, 2010
The Suez Canal Crisis, 50 Years Later
A radio interview with Scott Simon of NPR on the 50th anniversary of the Suez War, recorded on October 28, 2006. SCOTT SIMON, host: Fifty years ago, while much of the world watched the nationalist uprising in Hungary, another crisis broke out in the Middle East, war over control of the Suez Canal, President GAMAL ABDEL NASSER (Egypt): (Speaking foreign language) SIMON: Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser had called the Suez Canal a symbol of oppression. When Western nations withdrew their offer to finance construction of the Awan Dam, Nasser decided to national the British and French company that operated…
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Photographer Spotlight: Formento & Formento [VIDEO]
By Michael Kurcfeld - August 18, 2014
Many of the photographers who now appear in art-world galleries, fairs, and auctions began in the commercial realm, particularly in fashion, which offers the widest latitude for experiment and originality. Hungry to transcend expressive limits altogether, they export their high-end skills to “fine art” photography, with its distinctly different dialogues and gauges of merit. One New York–based married duo who has made the transition with great success is Formento & Formento, who conjoined their respective skill sets to develop a “third eye” that combines their sensibilities into a signature vision. BJ Formento is a photographer raised in the Philippines who has worked with Richard Avedon, Mary Ellen Mark, and Annie Leibovitz; and Richeille is a London-bred fashion designer and art director, who hired BJ in Miami on her first US job. “The biggest difference with fine art,” says Richeille, “is that it’s not about producing work but having quiet time with yourself, and experimenting, and the work comes out of that.”
Upon meeting Richeille, BJ circled back to his original passion for fine art, documentary and street photography, though with a full arsenal of commercial artifice. Their work has a dramatically lit polish that heightens visual detail and accentuates sensual tones. Says Richeille, “My background is fashion so I’ve always had an eye for pattern and layout. BJ has really put the art into my commerce.”
Their transition was also triggered by the 2008 recession, which made them weigh their options and decide to embark on a cross-country trek in an Airstream, curious to explore flyover America and lured by their shared love for its classic American design of the 1950s. “It was a case of survival really; we got to a point in our career where we weren’t achieving what we wanted to. It was born out of self-discovery.” That prolific journey became their first series, Circumstance, a photographic record of their encounters with women whose lives were overturned by hard times — a morose Zeitgeist made lyrically iconic.
Out of that life-changing experience, their passion for conjuring cinema-inspired “big stories” that offer a vivid sense of place led them to their next project, Japan Diaries (on view at Fahey/Klein Gallery through August 30). Their mission was to unlock some of the arcane mystery of that culture whenever possible. Richeille: “Japan is quite a closed society to the Westerner, and the moment someone tells you you can come in and take pictures, it’s Candyland.” Through canny persuasion they were able to take viewers, for instance, inside ancient Buddhist temples and restricted sentōs (communal bathhouses).
So far in their collaborations, their sole subject has been women, the natural convergence of Richeille’s background (“In advertising, a woman is used to sell everything, and relates to many more people”) and BJ’s unabashed love of the female form. She shepherds and styles them, and he shoots them, and the results are very often hauntingly evocative while embodying the unique spirit of their destinations (series in the works: Cuba and India). The images often embrace surreal setups that blend traditional Japan with postmodern fetish. In many cases, the Formentos invite their models to suggest places and poses that allow them to contribute their own emotional grace notes. They are encouraged to freely envision and represent their own sexuality on-camera, as a way of exploring the erotic beyond the cliché.
The Formentos’ silken Japanese demimonde had two touchstones in particular, says BJ — “[Nobuyoshi] Araki because of his love for the women and bondage and kimonos, and his spontaneity; and [Daido] Moriyama speaks to me very loudly because of my documentary background and my earliest desire for street photography … We try to channel the masters and then put our own twist on it.”
More from the Photographer Spotlight Series:
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MAZACCIO & DROWILAL
SERIES PRODUCER / MICHAEL KURCFELD
Hong Kong Against the Odds
Best of the Worst Year Ever Show
Kiese Laymon: How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
Alex Ross in Wagner's Shadows
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Working towards a greener Wellingborough
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Wellingborough Hustings
November 25, 2019 November 25, 2019 Jonathan HornettLeave a comment
Further to Extinction Rebellion Wellingborough’s coverage of the General Election that is asking candidates to commit to their demands and for environmental statements; they are working with Glamis Hall to organise a hustings event in Wellingborough.
They are doing this to give local people have the opportunity to meet the candidates and to ask them questions about their views and policies on issues that matter to them. They will also make sure that candidates are questioned about the Climate Crisis.
We have four candidates standing this year, representing the Conservatives, Green Party, Labour and the Lib Dems.
The event is called ‘Wellingborough Hustings’ and it takes place on Thursday 5th December at 7:30pm in Glamis Hall, Goldsmith Road, Wellingborough.
Questions for the event are to be submitted before the event, by email to heather@glamishall.org.uk. Please do send your questions, by 2nd December, to make our hustings about the issues that you care about.
General Election 2019 – The Climate Election
I am not standing this time, and I no longer am affiliated with a party. So which candidate will take action on the Climate Crisis?
The candidates for the General Election on Thursday 12 December 2019 in the Wellingborough constituency are:
AUSTIN, Suzanna Marie – Liberal Democrats
BONE, Peter William – Conservative Party
TURNER-HAWES, Marion Eileen – Green Party
WATTS, Andrea Jayne – Labour Party
Extinction Rebellion Wellingborough will be asking all four candidates to commit to their three demands:
1) Tell the truth
The government must tell the truth about the scale of the ecological crisis by declaring a climate emergency, “working with other groups and institutions to communicate the urgent need for change”.
2) Net zero emissions by 2025
The UK must drastically cut its greenhouse gas emissions, hitting net zero by 2025.
3) Citizens’ assembly
The government must create a citizens’ assembly to hear evidence and devise policy to tackle the climate crisis. Citizens’ assemblies bring together ordinary people to investigate, discuss and make recommendations on how to respond, in this case, to the ecological emergency.
Hundreds take to the streets of Northampton at September’s Climate Strike March
Each of the four candidates have also been asked for a brief environmental statement. These can be viewed on their profile pages by clicking their names above.
Wellingborough Eco Group has also been asked for their questions to ask the candidates. These will appear on this page when available.
For more information about this election and voting see Wellingborough Borough Council’s Election Page
Introducing Extinction Rebellion Wellingborough
September 13, 2019 November 11, 2019 Jonathan HornettLeave a comment
Extinction Rebellion Wellingborough is a local community of people committed to non-violent direct action to challenge the systems of injustice that now threaten our existence.
We are facing an unprecedented global emergency. The Government has failed to protect us. To survive, it’s going to take everything we’ve got.
We have three demands:
1/ The Government must tell the truth about the Climate and wider Ecological Emergency and work alongside the media to communicate with citizens
2/ The Government must enact legally binding policy measures to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2025 and reduce consumption of resources to below half of sustainable levels
3/ A national Citizen’s Assembly to oversee the changes, as part of creating a democracy fit for purpose.
We are protesting to persuade all levels of government to take emergency action on the Climate and Ecological crisis. We have entered a period of abrupt climate breakdown, and are in the midst of a mass extinction bigger and faster than the one that killed the dinosaurs. If we continue to ignore the current environmental situation we will experience an unprecedented level of disruption within our lifetimes. We face floods, wildfires, extreme weather, crop failure, mass migration and the breakdown of society.
On Saturday August 17th we rebelled against the Borough Council of Wellingborough. They are one of only a few councils nationwide that have not followed parliament’s lead in declaring a Climate Emergency.
We declared our rebellion on the steps of the council and then proceeded along the roads in a funeral march, before blocking traffic for over an hour.
We received lots of support from local residents and groups who are deeply concerned at the Climate Crisis and dismayed at their council’s lack of action
The time for denial is over. It is time to act.
I no longer am a member of the Green Party. I have chosen to fight the climate crisis with Extinction Rebellion instead. We have set up local group in Wellingborough that I would love you to join. We can be found at xrwellingborough.wordpress.com
Councillors Voting to Destroy Northamptonshire
August 28, 2018 Jonathan HornettLeave a comment
Councillors will this week be voting at Borough, District and County level on proposals for reforming local government in Northamptonshire. The outcome is predictable: the county will be split into two ‘unitary’ authorities. Will their decision ultimately be financially disastrous for residents and businesses across the region?
For whatever cause, austerity, ineptitude or sheer bad luck, Northamptonshire, like many other councils in the country, is failing its people. This is not political failure, though politics is in play, it is an altogether bigger thing where the dynamics of an ever changing population meet an absence of planning foresight and where scarcity of funds combine with a local government generally lacking the ability and agility to respond to rapidly evolving circumstances.
Local government is responsible for delivering the essentials for the wellbeing of their community; responsive and trustworthy emergency services, good health and welfare, high quality education, safe roads with reliable public transport and, above all, positive civic vision and leadership. In the face of the county’s catastrophic financial failure Northamptonshire’s elected representatives are now having to decide how these public services are to be provided in the future.
The Secretary of State imposed strict conditions when he ordered the reorganization of Northamptonshire’s councils. As Councillors prepare to vote it is essential to review those conditions starting with the unjustified instruction to sever the county into two simply because the new authority areas must contain at least 300,000 resident. In fact only eleven of UK’s 55 unitary authorities have a population over 300,000. Though population size probably does matter it need not be the sole deciding factor. Slicing the county into two ignores the precise needs of the differing communities that will find themselves in the care of a new single authority. The councillors will stand up and say no to this split when they vote?
Condition number two is the requirement to reorganise and reform on the basis of a police authority area. But police authority areas are irrelevant to those communities on the county’s fringes. Whether it is access to shops, hospitals, workplaces or schools it is people and places that matter not the jurisdiction of a Chief Constable or Police and Crime Commissioner. Will Councillors agree that today’s bobby’s beats should shape tomorrow’s?
Third is the requirement that the proposal should have solid public support. The recent consultation exercise clearly failed in that respect. Fewer than 1% of all residents responded. To put it differently, just about 2% of Northamptonshire households gave an opinion. Will the councilors claim to have solid public backing for their decision?
More generally, and barely mentioned other than in the context of the potential for increased tax income, is the planned developments that swing through Northamptonshire following an arc stretching from Oxford to Cambridge. This proposed major infrastructure project involves new rail and road links servicing a corridor of interconnected new and expanded villages loosely associated with our existing towns. This is development on a vast scale with tens of thousands of new homes sprawling across virgin countryside. The new authorities are going to have to cope with implementing that ambition but there’s no mention in the proposal of any strategy or tactic to handle the social and community planning needs of such a major undertaking. What will voting councilors have to say on this?
It is current thinking that Town and Parish Councils could deliver more of the truly local services. Expanding this tier of government is at odds with the aim of achieving economies of scale through bringing all services under one organisational umbrella. Is that going to be approved by the elected representatives?
Last but not least is the proposal’s preoccupation with cash. It obsesses about paying for the reforms, about starting with a clean slate or not, and about the financial benefits of reorganisation. What is never mentioned is the quite evident dearth of talent able to drive through reform. Today’s council leadership teams are valued and rewarded as if they were captains of industry. But we have seen that high salaries do not equate to visionary and inspiring leaders. Where in the next few months, whether from the ashes of existing councils or elsewhere, are the leadership teams able to design, manage and deliver a democratic process of change, teams with vision capable of driving through the reforms necessary for building a solid foundation for a sustainable financial future? Will today’s voting councillors know the answer to this fundamental human resources question?
It is said that people get the government they deserve. One thing is for sure; the people of Northamptonshire will soon know what they are going to get. For what the people of Northamptonshire are about to receive, should they be truly thankful?
Written by Harry Mellor originally for the Northamptonshire Green Party
What Future Northants?
July 22, 2018 Jonathan HornettLeave a comment
What ‘Future Northants,’ divided into two with more and more cuts to services! Little has been done by the local councils to consult with local people about their future governance; it seams that local councillors see two unitaries as a done deal. The criteria the government has set has meant that the consultation, that ends today, is a farce and the questionnaire at www.futurenorthants.co.uk forces people to back this madness!
Central Government’s criteria for all new unitary authorities to have a population greater than 300,000 is not a fair requirement. What evidence does the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government have to say that the dozen or so English unitary authorities with over 300,000 population are performing so much better than the 43 others? Northampton alone as a unitary, with a population of 228000, would rank 22/55 and West Northamptonshire without Northampton would still rank 35/55. If size truly mattered, Northamptonshire County Council, population of 745,000 and receiving 70% of our Council Tax, wouldn’t have any financial problems. It’s clearly not size that ensures the success of a Unitary Authority, more likely almost entirely dependent on the change management expertise of a Chief executive and the top management team. I don’t really think change of structures is the issue; cuts in funding and bad management is.
Making a 300,000 figure up is a politically motivated statistic to ensure that all councils in Northamptonshire are governed by the Conservatives; the same party that has caused the crisis that the proposed solution is trying to fix. This figure means that a 2 unitary council solution is the only option that fits the criteria leaving no choices for the people of Northants and thus leaving this consultation a farse. The unitiaries are doomed to failure if they are to be run by the same councillors and party as before. It will not change anything but structures; where better management solutions are required.
Decent services are what we want from our councils, not cuts to valuable essential services. I took part in a protest with a group called ‘Action 34’ on Friday, who have been campaigning for weeks to stop the withdrawal due to funding cuts from Northamptonshire County Council. Around 40 of us in Wellingborough brought the town to a standstill and several police officers turned out too. We were on Look East that evening and on Northampton Radio throughout the day! This was organised by a group of pensioners protesting about cuts to their bus service; why aren’t more people out on the streets standing up against the nasty political choices made by councillors at Northamptonshire County Council. Decent services are what we expect from any current or changed type of council. The good news is that group haven’t finished protesting yet!
I don’t really think we need to change what councils we have; but if change of structure is needed, it would be better to utilise the comparatively strong borough and district councils and just combine those who share so much already. I see no reason why smaller unitary councils can’t be set up; these could be one for Northampton, one for Daventry and South Northants, one for Wellingborough and East Northants, and one for Kettering and Corby. These areas already work closely together, the councils already collaborate and these unitaries would widely share the same demographics. Councils are there to serve us, the people; not greedy politicians. The proposed two unitaries are being set up for political reasons to ensure Conservative dominance continues – we deserve better.
Find out more at https://northamptonshire.communityvoices.org.uk/
Clean Air Bill Launched Today
July 5, 2018 Jonathan HornettLeave a comment
Green Party peer, Jenny Jones, was delighted to launch her new Clean Air Bill today. If it passes through Parliament, it will be great news for us all: it will make clean air a human right in law.
July 5th is the 62nd anniversary of the first Clean Air Act becoming law
Today is also the 62nd anniversary of the Clean Air Act – the Act that helped tackle the smog and smoke suffocating our cities. But air pollution nowadays is different. It’s an invisible killer mainly emitted by fossil fuel-powered transport. This is why we need a new Clean Air Act that’s fit for the 21st century.
The government has been taken to court three times in the last three years because their clean air strategy is so weak it’s illegal. These failed legal battles have cost taxpayers £500,000. We must step up the fight!
Local people and communities around the country would be able to take legal action to defend their right to clean air if the Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill, introduced today, became law. This week’s air pollution episode throughout England and Wales illustrates how widespread the legal actions could become, as people seek to get corporations to change their behaviour and to force councils and government bodies to reduce pollution.
A Citizens Commission would be set up as part of the Clean Air Bill to help parents and others take action. Yesterday, the BBC reported that a 9 year old girl’s fatal asthma attack has been linked to illegally high levels of air pollution. The Attorney General is looking at the case, as this is the first time that an individual death has been attributed to breathing bad air.
Speaking about the bill, Jenny Jones said “Given the premature deaths from air pollution and the complacency of successive governments, I think that making clean air a human right is the quickest way of getting the problem sorted. I think that giving parents and communities the ability to take legal action would focus the minds of the car manufacturers, the civil servants and local authorities. We should all enjoy clean air even when we are working in a busy city or living under an airport flight path. This is detailed legislation that is ready to go, and I would be more than happy for the government to adopt the Bill wholesale.!
The ‘Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill 2018’ would enshrine the right to clean air in UK law across all forms of air pollution: indoor and outdoor; health and the environment; and, for the first time, require joined up thinking on climate change and local air pollution. It proposes a ‘top-down’ approach that would be based on the highest global standards and the best available science
Tabling her Clean Air Bill today has given Jenny hope that we can create a country that we can breathe in. By joining the Green Party or registering you support; you can help Jenny and all Greens to fight this invisible killer – https://register.greenparty.org.uk/
GREAT FIRST FORUM IS JUST THE START!
June 8, 2018 June 8, 2018 Jonathan HornettLeave a comment
We had a great turnout of 40 for our first forum in Wellingborough, so we are not stopping there! A report will be published soon on our blog. If you were there, I trust that you found it as empowering and as energising as I did to have your voice heard!
Glamis Hall have kindly offered to continue hosting our forums, and have suggested the stage them on Mondays to avoid noise from the main hall. I am proposing therefore that our next forum could take place on Monday the 25th June and that we hold them on every last Monday of the month from there.
This does of course come very quickly after our workshop and is only 2 and a half weeks away, but I feel that we need to have another quickly to respond to the proposed ‘New Town Council’ and ‘Two Unitary Councils’ as deadlines to respond are coming up fast! It is vital that the Borough Council of Wellingborugh hears our voices about this and the sale of the Jacksons Lane Car Park so please do continue add your view on our online forum.
Don’t forget to also get your self nominations in to help manage this group, you can Self Nominate here. I hope to announce our group management team at our next forum, so please do get your name in by Wednesday the 20th June to allow for a discussion at the workshop that is taking place on the 21st.
For further details about the workshop and to book a ticket (as spaces are limited) see our Workshop page.
June 1, 2018 Jonathan HornettLeave a comment
If you want to share your opinions about Wellingborough
and Northamptonshire, join us! We are holding our first open forum next week in Wellingborough on the 6th June at 7pm in Glamis Hall. Entry is free, there is car parking and refreshments are available.
The format is going to be a very simple, ‘topic proposed and debated’, topics will include the proposed Town Council, Jackson’s Lane Car Park and Potholes. The purpose is to inform local councilors/councils of the communities views. We will also deciding the format and function of future forums and our organisation.
Community Voices is being set up across Northants as an independent, non-party political, community forum that will constructively enable residents, communities and businesses to fully take part and contribute to the decisions councils are making in Northamptonshire, particularly in reference to the transition to unitary councils.
To gather as many views as possible, we have on-line forums too and these have ‘gone live’ today! Join in at wellingborough.communityvoices.org.uk
Yes Facebook groups are very popular and a great way to share issues; but topics are often lost because of the shear amount of posts and comments are often not constructive or polite. We believe that people (including councillors) want to read about other people’s views and opinions; and want to comment without the risk of being abused. We also feel that people need space, free from commercial or party political propaganda, to truly express themselves.
So to make this happen we have decided on three simple rules when posting on the online forums and speaking at one of our open public forums; the rules are – no rudeness, no party politics and no advertising.
It will be great to see a broad selection of people from the community on Wednesday, hopefully you! If you would like to add an item to the agenda please email admin@communityvoices.org.uk or message us from our Facebook page at facebook.com/communityvoicesforum
Cluck Off – We Say No To The Chicken ‘Factory Farm’ in Rushden.
February 13, 2018 February 13, 2018 Jonathan HornettLeave a comment
We are supporting the campaign to stop the intensive poultry plant being built in Rushden. Bedfordia Farms Ltd plan to build a poultry farm with the capacity for up to 540,000 birds. They have applied to build 10 poultry buildings and associated infrastructure on land north east of the Westwood AD Plant in Bedford Road. The American style chicken farm is a factory farm that will have 22 chickens in a 1 square meter cage – 540,000 chickens will suffer these conditions if the proposed development in Rushden goes ahead.
We believe this hugely unpopular development is bad for the environment and for animal welfare. The campaign has been lead by Roger Barnes, head of the ‘Cluck Off’ protest group, which has been fighting the plans since they were first submitted. The plans have been met with vigorous opposition locally, with Peter Bone MP and Tom Pursglove MP joining protesters this week.
Simon Turner, the Green Party Candidate who is standing on Thursday in Higham Ferrers for East Northamptonshire District Council, said: “We are objecting to the planning application both in terms of it being detrimental to the environment locally, and because it is cruel to animals. This is a factory farm that is terribly bad for animal welfare; and potentially the pollution from bird waste and increase in lorry movements locally is totally unacceptable.”
Objections from local people need to be submitted to East Northamptonshire District Council, Cedar Drive, Thrapston NN14 4LZ. Their Planning Committee is expected to be meeting to consider the application on February 28th at 19:00 in the Council Chamber, there are currently 1265 objections to the Poultry plant.
8th Wellingborough Diggers’ Festival and Fringe Programme
February 13, 2018 Jonathan HornettLeave a comment
Wednesday 21st March – Thursday 29th March 2018
Event: Display about the Diggers
Venue: Wellingborough Museum, 12 Castle Way, Wellingborough, NN8 1XB
Time: 10am – 4:30pm
Fee: Free Entry
Friday 23rd March 2018
Event: Guest Speaker – Andrew Bibby is a freelance writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The Observer, The Independent, The Guardian and other national papers. He has written widely on the countryside and the outdoors. Andrew’s latest book Back Roads Through Middle England, includes a chapter on Wellingborough and The Diggers both past and present. Book signing opportunity.
Fee: £4.00 on the door
Event: Commemorative Event – A short service to remember the Wellingborough Diggers. Please bring with you one item of non perishable goods to this event which will be collected and distributed to the local foodbank. This supports Winstanley’s letter which was found on 4 Surrey Diggers who were arrested in Wellingborough during April 1650.
Venue: Diggers’ Information Board, Prologis Park, Wellingborough West off Sywell Road, Wellingborough. Once on Sywell Road turn off at roundabout for Park Farm South. (depending on which way you approach the area you may approach more than one roundabout) Access is along the footpath near Dunkleys and Dana. The footpath is lined by trees on the right. It is less than a 5 minute walk along the footpath.
Time: 12noon
Event: Live Entertainment
Plumhall – Folk/Americana – Nick Hall (Hall Brothers, Magna Carta). Due to unforeseen circumstances we have just found out (today) that Michelle Plum will be replaced by Bella Gaffney who has appeared with Nick many times including last year’s Beverley Folk Festival. Bella has also appeared at Hebden Bridge Folk Roots. Folk/Americana.
Will Kaufman – recognised as the world’s leading authority on Woody Guthrie. Hard Times and Hard Travelin’ show followed by Q&A.
Mick Panter – Northamptonshire’s local retro blues guitarist.
Venue: The Horseshoe Inn, 36 Sheep Street, Wellingborough, NN8 1BS
Time: Doors 7pm First Act 7:15pm
Fee: £10 or £8 concessions on the door
Please note that if on the Friday evening you purchase both tickets for Friday and Saturday there is a discount. Both tickets will cost £12. Concessions for Saturday evening only, £8 on the door.
Find us on Facebook for Digger news and Festival updates.
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We look forward to welcoming you all next month!
Jacqui (o.b.o. Wellingborough Diggers)
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Variability for Restriction Fragment-length Polymorphisms (RFLPs) and Relationships among Elite Commercial Inbred and Virtual Hybrid Onion Populations
in Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science
Authors: Joseph J. King 1 , James M. Bradeen 1 , and Michael J. Havey 1
1 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Department of Horticulture, 1575 Linden Drive, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
https://doi.org/10.21273/JASHS.123.6.1034
Volume 123: Issue 6
Nuclear RFLPs were used to estimate relationships among 14 elite commercial inbreds of bulb onion (Allium cepa) from Holland, Japan, and the United States. Variability for known alleles at 75 RFLP loci and 194 polymorphic fragments revealed by 69 anonymous cDNA probes and a clone of alliinase were scored to yield genetically characterized and uncharacterized data sets, respectively. The inbred onion populations possessed more than two alleles at 20 of 43 (46%) codominant RFLP loci. Relationships among the inbreds were estimated by cluster analysis of simple-matching (genetically characterized data) and Jaccard (genetically uncharacterized data) coefficients using the unweighted pair group method and agreed with known pedigrees. RFLPs confidently distinguished among elite inbreds within and between specific market classes. RFLP profiles for virtual hybrids were computer-generated by combining gametic arrays among inbreds of the same market class and analyzed as described above. Allelic and genetically uncharacterized RFLPs confidently distinguished among these hybrids, even though heterozygosity for many markers produced a majority of monomorphic fragments. We randomly sampled decreasing numbers of RFLPs from the complete data sets and calculated simple-matching and Jaccard distances, noting the numbers of probes that were unable to distinguish any two inbreds or hybrids. As few as 10 polymorphic probe-enzyme combinations distinguished among all the inbreds and samples of 20 genetically characterized or 10 genetically uncharacterized clones distinguished all the virtual hybrids. This study demonstrated that the previously reported few RFLPs observed among open-pollinated (OP) onion populations were due to the highly heterozygous nature of the OP population.
Volume 123 (1998): Issue 6 (Nov 1998)
Allium cepa ; genetic distance; UPGMA
Article by Joseph J. King
Article by James M. Bradeen
Article by Michael J. Havey
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier looks set to dazzle
Spring 2014 can’t arrive soon enough because on the strength of this first trailer, CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER looks set to dazzle.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER, the sequel to Joe Johnston’s terrific origins story, Captain America: The First Avenger, has the action set entirely in the present day – well, the Marvel sort of present day – in counterpoint to its predecessor’s striking World War II backdrop. And our fantastic hero Steve Rogers (played so completely winningly by Chris Evans) is still dealing with being stranded in our time and coming to terms with the loss of 70 years – to him, the blink of an eye but to everyone else, a whole lifetime.
This is brought starkly home to him in the sequel by the villain he now faces, none other than his oldest friend Bucky Barnes (the previously charming but now super deadly Sebastian Stan), who he saw perish in the Alps but who is now very much alive as the very dangerous Winter Soldier of the title. And to top even that setup, there’s the one and only Robert Redford on hand as the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. telling us,
“You’ve shaped the century. And I need to do it one more time.”
With new cast members, Frank Grillo and the brilliant Anthony Mackie joining the fray as Marvel characters Crossbones and The Falcon respectively, Scarlett Johansson returning to help Rogers out as spirited agent Natasha Romanoff and Samuel L. Jackson back as the ever-so-steely director Fury. I’m going to very happy at the end of March next year when the UK gets the first glimpse of what looks like an absolutely fantastic sequel – courtesy of brothers Anthony & Joe Russo – a week before the film opens in the States.
“Gear up. It’s time.”
It soon will be.
27th October 2013 /by JSHmoviestuff
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Tuesday, July 28, 2020 | History
2 edition of flow visualization technique for use within small cavities found in the catalog.
flow visualization technique for use within small cavities
Kyriaki Manousou
by Kyriaki Manousou
Project - University of Surrey, 1995.
Statement Kyriaki Manousou.
Contributions University of Surrey. Department of Mechnical Engineering.
The flow of fluids can be analyzed by theory, numerical computation, and experiment. Visualization is one of many experimental tools for surveying or measuring the flow of a fluid that is normally invisible due to its transparency. A numerical study is performed on the supersonic flow over an open cavity at Mach number of A newly developed visualization method is employed to visualize the complicated flow structures, which provide an insight into major flow : Jun Liu, Jun Liu, Jinsheng Cai, Dangguo Yang, Junqiang Wu, Xiansheng Wang.
invasive hot-wire technique, only the velocity gradient at a single point can be measured. Another major drawback to most of the flow visualization methods as well as the hot-wire and LDV techniques is the difficulty in acquiring accurate measurements in the near-wall region. For example, in modelling blood flow through arteries, it was. techniques are employed to measure density, pressure, velocity and temperature in gas dynamics. Flow visualization is an important tool in experimental fluid mechanics, which can provide the overall picture of an entire flow field []. Air flow around aerodynamical models is a very complex phenomenon. In optical sense, fluid flow field is aFile Size: KB.
techniques used in flow visualization, specifically tufts (attached to the airfoil) and smoke Within a small interval above the surface, the flow that is different from the pressure in a small cavity under the diaphragm it deflects, and theFile Size: KB. Flow Visualization: Techniques and Examples Flow Flow Flow Flow Caged dye dissolved uniformly in flow. Newly created fluorescent dye is advected by the flow. UV Laser beam uncages dye along a line. Line is imaged using Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF). Figure Schematic illustration of use of caged dye PAF’s for molecular tagging. Figure
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Flow visualization technique for use within small cavities by Kyriaki Manousou Download PDF EPUB FB2
Obtaining high quality flow visualization results is, in many ways, more of an art than a science, and experience plays a key deciding role. The depth and breadth of the material will make this book invaluable to readers of all levels of experience in the : TEE TAI LIM.
Flow visualization can also be used to describe the advancement of the flow front into the cavity during the filling stage.
It consists of the use of a high-speed camera capable of actually recording at high frame rates (in the order of 10 3 –10 4 frames per second) of the flow advancement inside the micro-cavity. Organized into four chapters, this book begins with the principles of flow visualization and image processing.
Subsequent chapters describe the methods of flow visualization, particularly the addition of foreign material to the flowing fluid that might be gaseous or liquid; certain optical methods that are sensitive to changes of the index of refraction; and flow field marking by heat and energy Book Edition: 2.
This is the 2nd edition of the book, Flow Visualization: Techniques and Examples, which was published by Imperial College Press in Many of the chapters have been revised and updated to take into consideration recent changes in a number of flow visualization and measurement techniques, including an updated high quality flow gallery.
Flow visualization evaluates certain properties of a flow field directly accessible to visual perception. Organized into five chapters, this book first presents the methods that create a visible flow pattern that could be investigated by visual inspection, such as simple dye and density-sensitive visualization Flow visualization technique for use within small cavities book 1.
This is the 2nd edition of the book, Flow Visualization: Techniques and Examples, which was published by Imperial College Press in Many of the chapters have been revised and updated to. Flow visualization has been an active research field for several years and various techniques have been proposed to visualize vector fields, streamlines and textures being the most effective and.
For situations like flow in an artery, flow visualization shows the flow pattern quickly and accurately. The flow within the artery is visualized using a proprietary technique similar to the laser sheet light technique. We can show the flow pattern around catheters, valves, stents, balloons and grafts with this technique.
Applying tufts to the walls of a flow simulation,or coating certain border surfaces of interest with someviscous material like oil, visualizes flowbehavior near objects within the flow, for example, flowclose to aircraft wings in a wind tunnel.
Optical techniques. The flow visualization technique involves the use of dye injected at the hypodermic tubes.
In operation, the overshot weir should be raised fully and the undershot weir should be removed. With the overshot weir in the raised position, the channel run full of water enabling flow patternsFile Size: 1MB. Flow Visualization VI Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Flow Visualization, October 5 – 9,Yokohama, Japan Use of a Colored Water Surface Flow Visualization Technique in a Supersonic Wind Tunnel to Investigate Cavity Flow Fields.
Floyd J. Wilcox Jr. Abstract. Most fluids, gaseous or liquid, are transparent media, and their motion remains invisible to the human eye during direct observation. Techniques allowing visualization of the flow, usually referred to as flow visualization, are discussed in this chapter.A great variety of such methods is known that enable one to make fluid flows visible, in the fluid mechanical laboratory, in.
This paper presents an overview of techniques for visualization of fluid flow data. As a starting point, a brief introduction to experimental flow visualization is given.
The rest of the paper concentrates on computer graphics flow visualization. A pipeline model of the flow visualization process is used as a basis for presentation. Hardcover. This specific ISBN edition is currently not available.
Throughout history, flow visualization has been an important tool in fluid dynamics research. It has been used extensively in the fields of engineering, physics, medical science, meteorology, oceanography and sport aerodynamics, to Price Range: $ - $ Video of several flow visualization methods by NASA Langley researcher Don Loving.
Methods include fluorescent oil film and temperature-sensitive. Flow visualization is the study of methods to display dynamic behavior in liquids and gases. The field dates back at least to the mid's, where Leonardo Da Vinci sketched images of fine particles of sand and wood shavings which had been dropped into flowing liquids.
This book is designed to enhance the understanding of basic flow phenomena through over high quality flow visualization photographs, some in colour, and explanations.
The book opens with a summary of flow visualization methods, and then proceeds to present flow phenomena as revealed by various flow visualization techniques.5/5(2). applied the schlieren technique to observe the cavitating flow around axisymmetric bodies.
They found that the existence of a small laminar separated zone affected the physical appearance of cavitation and the conditions for inception. The first small cavities appeared in the turbulent reattachment zone and were swept upstream by the reverse flow.
A synthesis of observations of flow in a three-dimensional lid-driven cavity is presented through the use of flow visualization pictures and velocity and heat flux measurements. The ratio of the cavity depth to width used was and the span to width ratio was Cited by: Laser vapor screen (LVS) flow visualization and pressure sensitive paint (PSP) techniques were applied in a unified approach to wind tunnel testing of slender wing and missile configurations dominated by vortex flows and shock waves at subsonic, transonic, and supersonic speeds.
An introduction to some flow visualization techniques used at MIT. These methods help us understand the fluid dynamics of natural and manmade systems. I made this .provide you with an opportunity to use this technique to study several wind tunnel flows.
In general, flow visualization is an experimental means of examining the flow pattern around a body or over its surface. The flow is "visualized" by introducing dye, smoke or pigment to the flow in the area under investigation. A new chapter has been added that covers flow visualization applications in large wide tunnels for airplane and automobile testing.
Several important examples of applications are included. A second new chapter details the use of infrared (IR) cameras for detecting and observing the boundary layer transition in industrial wind tunnels and flight Cited by:
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Arts » Theater
Several laughs don't stem the mudslide of mediocrity in The Dinner Party.
by Christine Howey
The Dinner Party Cleveland Play House, 8500 Euclid Avenue Through February 1, 216-795-7000
Dinner for two: Cynthia Darlow and David Brummel are the hottest dishes here.
One of Gary Larson's iconic cartoons, captioned "When clowns go bad," pictured two menacing, street-tough circus jesters ready to smash cream pies into the face of an unsuspecting citizen about to come around the corner. Now that's funny. Much less amusing, however, is the moment "When clowns go serious." This happens when comedians or comedy writers suddenly feel the need to take themselves seriously and treat their comic gifts with reckless nonchalance.
In The Dinner Party, now at the Cleveland Play House, the acclaimed comedy writer and playwright Neil Simon, in an attempt to get serious, has clumsily tried to crossbreed a door-slamming French farce with a sentimental paean to marriage -- and both end up in the tank. While there are a number of laughs (how could there not be, with joke-machine Simon at the controls?), the gags all feel too familiar. But more important, Simon has created a completely far-fetched scenario and thrown into it six unbelievable people who behave in remarkably unlikely ways. This tortured context sucks the life from Simon's humor and short-circuits his bathetic forays into the meaning of interpersonal relationships.
Set in a lovely private dining room in an upscale restaurant in Paris (the scenic design by Vicki Smith, featuring a Fragonard-style mural, is delectable), The Dinner Party would have us believe that three divorced couples have shown up to share champagne and Brie with the lawyer who engineered their recent uncouplings. The implausibility of an attorney sponsoring such a volatile get-together is multiplied as the guests arrive one by one, brandishing their characterizations like placards at a political rally. First the men show up, with the Complaining Guy (Claude) meeting the Dumb Guy (Albert) before the Sarcastic Guy (André) makes his appearance. Soon they are joined by the Bitchy Gal (Mariette, Claude's ex) and the Ditzy Gal (Yvonne, who has been married twice to doltish Albert), and finally the Brazen & Horny Gal (Gabrielle, André's former wife). In addition to their cardboard personalities, Simon has Americanized these characters so much that they behave more like Long Islanders than they do French citizens.
The frivolity that is supposed to ensue, as these marital adversaries jostle each other amid their elegant surroundings, is throttled by too many of Simon's well-known pattern jokes (ba-dah-bump) and some distracting acting jobs. Sure, used-car-lot owner Albert is supposed to be a bit of a dim bulb. But the way Steve McCue plays him, if you dressed Albert in overalls, handed him a wrench, and extended his vowels a touch, he'd be a dead ringer for Goober on The Andy Griffith Show. Predictably, Simon makes fun of Albert's rented tux and his inability to talk with his mouth stuffed full of crackers. Albert falls instantly in love with popular novelist Mariette, who is given a teeth-gnashing, ever-grimacing, community-theater turn by Mary Gen Fjelstad. And joining them in their Simonized misery is Kevin Hogan (as wannabe novelist/bookstore owner Claude), who whines constantly and, for the most part, unamusingly.
Fortunately, the other half of the cast acquits itself quite well. David Brummel is a dapper and icily witty André, a polished entrepreneur who can cut anyone down in a heartbeat (commenting to antique-bookseller Claude on a work of literature: "Of course, I should never judge a book by the man who dusts its cover."). Derdriu Ring gives Yvonne a sweet vulnerability, even when faced with undeliverable and indecipherable lines such as "Your eyes would grit your pupils." And as the last and most pivotal guest, Cynthia Darlow brings a fresh edge and an odd dignity to Gabrielle's role as the desperate puppeteer of the evening's events.
The ultimate responsibility for the unevenness of this production must be handed to director Peter Hackett, the Play House's artistic director, who is heading to Dartmouth later this year to be a theater prof. Evidently, Hackett is already spending considerable time developing his classes' syllabi, since the play's pacing feels slack from beginning to end.
During the last third of this 110-minute, intermissionless mélange, Simon clearly intends to set the humor aside (ha!) and concentrate on The Meaning of Relationships. So he has his characters participate in a game, orchestrated by Gabrielle, that is meant to reveal each person's true and glorious nature. Regrettably, the game is forced ("What's the nicest thing your ex ever did?"), the participants' observations are pat (Mariette is living out Claude's authorial dream! He's jealous! Sacre bleu!), and the play awkwardly stumbles to its conclusion amid fake tears and unmotivated reconciliations. Only André gets it right by noting, as he blows this French pop stand, that "Tonight has been an embarrassment to human behavior." If only he had said that earlier, we could all have happily followed him out the door.
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The Texans (1938)
Passed | 92 min | Western
After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a carpetbagger intent on destroying him.
Ivy Preston
Kirk Jordan
May Robson
Chuckawalla
Robert Cummings
Alan Sanford
Cal Tuttle
Robert Barrat
Isaiah Middlebrack
Harvey Stephens
Lt. David Nichols
Francis Ford
Uncle Dud
Singin' Cy
(as Bill Roberts)
James P. Hogan
Bertram Millhauser (screenplay), Paul Sloane (screenplay), William Wister Haines (screenplay), Emerson Hough (story)
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I don't know if this movie was based on a true story, but it is believable, in that it was quite likely that there were mixed loyalties after the Civil War; some wanted to continue the fight, and some that wanted to put it behind them. I've seen plenty of movies where the Confederates are portrayed as bitter sore losers. This is the first time I've seen a movie with the Rebs trying to abide by the new rules, while being persecuted at the same time. Quite believable.
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(I Wish I Was In) Dixie
Words and music by Daniel Decatur Emmett
Sung by Randolph Scott and soldiers, later used as underscoring
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Another gorgeous story from The Dodo.
I make no apologies for featuring so quickly another article from The Dodo.
It’s just so beautiful and another example of the special characteristics of dogs.
Just see for yourself.
Rescue Dog Won’t Let Orphaned Foal Sleep Alone
“The foal knew that the dog was trying to help him.”
BY LILY FEINN
At only 9 days old, a foal named Tye lost his mother. But that same night he gained an unexpected friend — an Australian cattle dog named Zip.
Zip had never shown much interest in his horse siblings. “We raise foals every year, and he would kind of look in the door and just look at them,” Karla Swindle, Zip’s mom, told The Dodo.
But on that fateful night in March, it was as if the 5-year-old rescue dog could tell he was needed.
Facebook/Karla Swindle
Tye’s mother became sick days after giving birth, and despite treatment, quickly went downhill. When things looked their bleakest for the mother and baby, Swindle stayed by their side. As always, Zip tagged along after his owner.
“I spent the night at the barn taking care of the mama horse, hoping that I could pull her through,” Swindle said. “Zip stayed with me in the alley of the barn all night — the foal was laying in the alley, and he just lay there beside the foal.”
“He was whining,” Swindle added. “You could tell that Zip knew something was wrong that night.”
The next morning, Tye lost his mother, but he wasn’t alone.
Zip insisted on keeping the newborn horse company, comforting the little animal with his presence. When Zip was around, Tye was relaxed and happy. “It seemed to me that the foal knew that the dog was trying to help him,” Swindle said, “which is so sweet.”
For six weeks, Zip wouldn’t let Tye out of his sight. Whenever Swindle went to feed the foal, Zip was first in line to greet the little horse. “Every time I would take off to the barn, Zip would run to the stall, and stand in front of the stall and wait for me to get there,” Swindle said. “He would beat me to the barn every time.”
“As soon as I opened the door, he would about knock me down before I could get in there,” she added. “If the foal was laying down, he would go over there and lay his head on him.”
As months passed, Tye quickly put on weight, growing into a healthy young horse — in part, thanks to his adoptive dad.
Now, Tye spends most days out in the pasture with his older sister, who is teaching him the ins and outs of being a horse. And while Zip still accompanies Swindle to the barn, he doesn’t beg to go in the stall with Tye anymore.
“The foal is a little rough now,” Swindle said, “raring up, trying to play, so Zip kind of stays away from him now.”
The proud dad understands that Tye needs to test his independence, and it doesn’t make their relationship any less special.
“You could tell that when the foal needed Zip, Zip was there for him,” Swindle said. “And now Zip knows that the foal is OK, so they kind of went their separate ways.”
But it seems the little horse has opened up room in the older dog’s heart — space that he has since filled with another baby.
“He loves my granddaughter,” Swindle said. “Whenever she comes over here, he goes directly to her. He treats her like he did the foal. He just loves to be around her.”
We have mentioned it time and time before. That dogs are so special. And then one comes across an account of something that is even more special.
All of the photographs are delightful but that third one shows the intimacy that is in the relationship. The caring that is being shown by Zip!
I have said it before and no doubt will say it many times more: Dogs are incredibly wonderful.
Karla Swindle
Lily Feinn
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Jul 12, 2019 at 00:04
Another inspiring story. Love these.
Yes, it’s a most inspiring story isn’t it, Susan! All for the sake of our pets.
I love these kinds of stories. Thank you for sharing it.
My very great pleasure although I’m sorry I was a little late in replying.
😉 I didn’t have a timer going. We do what we can, when we can.
Inspiring story indeed but shed a tear at the beginning of it.
That’s fully understandable!
Bela Johnson says:
Yes they certainly are!
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Home / News / Law & Government / Long Island coalition lobbies lawmakers in Albany
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Long Island coalition lobbies lawmakers in Albany
By: LIBN Staff March 5, 2019 Comments Off on Long Island coalition lobbies lawmakers in Albany
Dozens of Long Island business and civic leaders headed to Albany Tuesday to advocate for more funding and legislation to support the region’s needs.
The Long Island Lobby Coalition, made up of representatives of small business, labor, planning, environmental and transportation advocates, will meet with Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul and the Long Island Senate and Assembly delegations to help secure funding for infrastructure projects, housing, human services, environmental programs and legislation to benefit small business and encourage economic development.
Founded in 2009, the coalition has traveled to the state capitol every year since. Over the years the group’s lobbying efforts have resulted in 10 bills being enacted and garnered funding for infrastructure projects.
This year, the coalition will be pushing for bus funding; pedestrian safety measures; commuter tax benefits; small business savings accounts; internet fairness; food recovery and recycling; offshore wind projects; and affordable housing.
“These diverse issues affect every single Long Islander, that’s why there is such immense support for the Long Island Lobby Coalition,” Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said in a written statement. “Drinking water protection, advancing solar and wind power, supporting our small businesses and also helping those in need are critical issues that Long Islanders can all agree on and issues that will make our island sustainable and affordable.”
Eric Alexander, director of Vision Long Island, said the coalition serves as a “powerful public voice” to bring resources back to Long Island communities.
“In a political climate that is joyfully hostile to collaboration, negotiation and fairness, Long Island community, business, environment and labor organizations are working together to address key local needs,” Alexander said.
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The Ones Below…
The Ones Below (2015) Review
Although it sounds like a good name for a subterranean horror about evil creatures that lurk beneath our feet, The Ones Below is actually a psychological horror that highlights the risky business of living in a terraced Georgian conversion flat in London.
Here the terror beneath is actually
an unhinged couple who move into the flat below Justin (Stephen Campbell Moore) and Kate (Clémence Poésy) shortly before the birth of their first child.
Although it should be an exciting time for the pair, their relationship is already complicated with Justin constantly working long hours, Kate feeling unappreciated and an unfortunate family history that has had a negative impact on Kate’s family and state of mind.
Initially the couple are relieved to find that the long deserted flat beneath them is going to be lived in again. And when they discover that the new neighbours, Jon (David Morrissey) and Theresa (Laura Birn) are also expecting a child, they’re eager to befriend them.
But after their first encounter, it seems that there is something a little odd about Jon and Theresa. He’s strict and cold and she seems afraid of him.
Then, during an unbelievably unlucky evening together, Theresa falls down some stairs and her unborn child is killed as a result.
Blaming Justin and Kate entirely, the bereaved pair make their resentment clear, making the living arrangement torturous.
Eventually they seem to forget and forgive, but soon it becomes obvious that they have evil intentions, attempting to break Kate’s sanity, drive a wedge between her and Justin and ultimately steal their child as repayment for the one they lost.
Here we have all of the elements needed for a creepy home invasion horror where the most precious prize (the baby) is at stake. But we’ve seen it done before numerous times before with films such as The Hand that Rocks the Cradle and The Sitter.
The Ones Below does try to add some intriguing new elements, with the London setting, obsessive compulsive habits of Jon and Theresa and an unnervingly slow but relentless pace towards the inevitable.
Sadly though, it just isn’t enough to keep things interesting and as the film enters its final quarter there are no real surprises.
Another slight let down is the performances by the cast. It’s hard to pin down whether it’s more the script, direction or actors that are to blame, but the characters seem unnatural and just don’t fit together. Even Morrissey seems a little unsure of how exactly he should be playing his part.
Worst of all, Kate and Justin just aren’t likeable, meaning that audience ends up feeling quite undecided about who should end up with the baby.
The look and feel of the film is good, but unexceptional. And the unnerving events that take place just aren’t quite shocking enough to make this filmstand out.
Ultimately The Ones Below ends up being a thoroughly average affair that doesn’t invoke more than a frown or two from those that watch it.
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THE DEAD WILL…
THE DEAD WILL WALK IN US & UK CINEMAS…
Horror News Zombies
Global Cinema Distribution & Starz Anchor Bay have acquired North American & UK theatrical rights to the Ford Brother’s “THE DEAD” distributing throughout cinemas beginning with the US theatrical release summer of 2011.
Anchor Bay Starz UK Managing Director Rod Smith who snapped up all UK rights and will be releasing the film in cinemas in England followed by DVD by Halloween 2011.
All other rights for North America have been purchased by Anchor Bay Starz, who will release the film on DVD later in the year.
Shot on locations across Burkina Faso and Ghana, West Africa on 35mm including many never before committed to celluloid locations, THE DEAD is unlike anything horror audiences have ever experienced. Centered around the journey of an American mercenary, the sole survivor of a plane crash, who has to run the gauntlet across the terrains of Africa, battling against the living dead. Along his journey he finds an ally in a local military man who is desperately searching for his son amongst the chaos. They must band together to make their way through this brand new horrific world of the dead. The film stars Rob Freeman (“Saving Private Ryan”), and African up and coming star Prince David Osei, making his US Theatrical debut.
The making of THE DEAD turned out to be an incredible journey on its own. As producer/director Howard J. Ford revealed:
“We encountered real death on a daily basis and were also held up at gun point several times, encountered real cannibals, arrested, endured dysentery and the lead actor Rob Freeman very nearly died after contracting Malaria in the middle of filming”..
TriCoast Worldwide negotiated all sales for the producers of THE DEAD and are subsequently closing deals in many other territories.
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Is it always my fault?
Denis Donoghue: T.S. Eliot, 25 January 2007
by Craig Raine.
Oxford, 202 pp., £12.99, January 2007, 978 0 19 530993 5Show More
“... In 1929, in his essay on Dante, T.S. Eliot wrote: But the question of what Dante ‘believed’ is always relevant. It would not matter, if the world were divided between those persons who are capable of taking poetry simply for what it is and those who cannot take it at all; if so, there would be no need to talk about this question to the former and no use in talking about it to the latter ...”
Negative Capability
Dan Jacobson, 24 November 1988
T.S. Eliot and Prejudice
by Christopher Ricks.
Faber, 290 pp., £15, November 1988, 0 571 15254 6Show More
“... T.S. Eliot and Prejudice. Keats and Embarrassment. The parallel between the title of Christopher Ricks’s new book and that of his earlier study of Keats is not accidental. In each case he takes a state of mind which is usually held to be disadvantageous, humanly and artistically speaking, and offers a critical re-examination of its presence in the work of his chosen author ...”
The Braver Thing
Christopher Ricks, 1 November 1984
by Peter Ackroyd.
Hamish Hamilton, 400 pp., £12.50, September 1984, 0 241 11349 0Show More
Recollections Mainly of Artists and Writers
by Geoffrey Grigson.
Chatto, 195 pp., £12.50, September 1984, 0 7011 2791 0Show More
“... Peter Ackroyd has written a benign life of T.S. Eliot. Given the malignity visited on Eliot, this is a good deal. Fair-minded, broad-minded and assiduous, here is a thoroughly decent book. It has none of the sleazy sanctimony of Robert Sencourt’s biography, or the vanity of T ...”
The Devilish God
David Wheatley: T.S. Eliot, 1 November 2001
Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot
by Denis Donoghue.
Yale, 326 pp., £17.95, January 2001, 0 300 08329 7Show More
Adam’s Curse: Reflections on Religion and Literature
Notre Dame, 178 pp., £21.50, May 2001, 0 268 02009 4Show More
“... Few presences were more imposing in postwar poetry than that of T.S. Eliot, but from his eminence as the Pope of Russell Square, Eliot has now shrunk to something more like a holy ghost. Pound’s right-wing unpleasantness, because so deranged, seems somehow more forgivable, to the huddled ranks of Poundians at least ...”
Christian Lorentzen: Not a Little Kafkaesque, 20 March 2014
“... enough to pay for the hotels, but the brother thing is probably a deal-breaker. What about T.S. Eliot?’ ‘I used to know The Waste Land by heart because I had a tape of it I would listen to on my Walkman as a teenager.’ ‘A T.S. Eliot mixtape! It humanises you and taps the nostalgia boom. That could compensate for ...”
What was left out
Lawrence Rainey: Eliot’s Missing Letters, 3 December 2009
The Letters of T.S. Eliot, Vol. I: 1898-1922
edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton.
Faber, 871 pp., £35, November 2009, 978 0 571 23509 4Show More
“... The final letter in the first edition of the first volume of T.S. Eliot’s letters, edited by Valerie Eliot, the poet’s second wife, and published in 1988, appeared on page 618; the same letter in the new edition concludes on page 816. Yet those figures may understate the extent of the transformation achieved by the new edition ...”
Anglo-Irish Occasions
Seamus Heaney, 5 May 1988
“... When the prospect of this evening’s honours was first mooted I was aware that T.S. Eliot had praised W.B. Yeats for not allowing himself to become a mere coathanger upon which the world draped its honours, but could assuage myself by thinking that Eliot had never witnessed the Merton Professor of English perform his capework as resourcefully and generously as he has just done ...”
A Cousin of Colonel Heneage
Robert Crawford: Was Eliot a Swell?, 18 April 2019
The Letters of T.S. Eliot, Volume VIII: 1936-38
edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden.
Faber, 1100 pp., £50, January 2019, 978 0 571 31638 0Show More
“... This edition of T.S. Eliot’s correspondence has so far reached only 1938 (he died in 1965), but there are already more than seven thousand pages of his letters in print, with hundreds more available on tseliot.com, and many thousands yet to come. Edited for the most part by John Haffenden, the edition builds on the collection made by the late Valerie Eliot and on many archives (especially those of Faber ...”
I gotta use words
Mark Ford: Eliot speaks in tongues, 11 August 2016
The Poems of T.S. Eliot: Volume I: Collected & Uncollected Poems
edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue.
Faber, 1311 pp., £40, November 2015, 978 0 571 23870 5Show More
The Poems of T.S. Eliot: Volume II: Practical Cats & Further Verses
“... The first person to annotate a poem by T.S. Eliot was T.S. Eliot. His notes on The Waste Land (1922) were composed partly so that his 433-line poem could be issued by his American publishers Boni & Liveright as a book, and partly, as he recalled in ‘The Frontiers of Criticism’ (1956), ‘with a view to spiking the guns of critics of my earlier poems who had accused me of plagiarism ...”
Feast of St Thomas
Frank Kermode, 29 September 1988
Eliot’s New Life
by Lyndall Gordon.
Oxford, 356 pp., £15, September 1988, 0 19 811727 2Show More
The Letters of T.S. Eliot
edited by Valerie Eliot.
Faber, 618 pp., £25, September 1988, 0 571 13621 4Show More
The Poetics of Impersonality
by Maud Ellmann.
Harvester, 207 pp., £32.50, January 1988, 0 7108 0463 6Show More
T.S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism
by Richard Shusterman.
Duckworth, 236 pp., £19.95, February 1988, 0 7156 2187 4Show More
‘The Men of 1914’: T.S. Eliot and Early Modernism
by Erik Svarny.
Open University, 268 pp., £30, September 1988, 0 335 09019 2Show More
Eliot, Joyce and Company
by Stanley Sultan.
Oxford, 326 pp., £25, March 1988, 0 19 504880 6Show More
The Savage and the City in the Work of T.S. Eliot
by Robert Crawford.
Oxford, 251 pp., £25, December 1987, 9780198128694Show More
T.S. Eliot: The Poems
by Martin Scofield.
Cambridge, 264 pp., £25, March 1988, 0 521 30147 5Show More
“... The idea that Eliot’s poetry was rooted in private aspects of his life has now been accepted,’ says Lyndall Gordon in the Foreword to her second volume of biographical rooting among these aspects. This acceptance, which she evidently approves, has undoubtedly occurred, as a root through the enormous heap of books about the poet, now augmented by the centenary of his birth, will quickly demonstrate ...”
Men, Women and English Girls
Lyndall Gordon, 24 January 1980
Looking for Laforgue
by David Arkell.
Carcanet, 248 pp., £6.95, November 1980, 0 85635 285 3Show More
A Night of Serious Drinking
by René Daumal, translated by David Coward.
Routledge, 150 pp., £5.95, October 1980, 0 7100 0325 0Show More
“... of a poet who is still fairly unknown to English-speakers but who, through his impact on T.S. Eliot, could claim to be the inventor of modern poetry. Laforgue’s short life was full of dramatic changes. Born in 1860 in Montevideo, he was brought to France at the age of six. (The 75-day voyage supplied the first intimations of the famous ennui.) In ...”
Donald Davie and the English
Christopher Ricks, 22 May 1980
Trying to Explain
by Donald Davie.
Carcanet, 213 pp., £6.95, April 1980, 0 85635 343 4Show More
“... So said an American who rightly believed himself to be profiting from living abroad, T.S. Eliot in England in 1918, honouring the American who had likewise profited and who had then become – as Eliot would – an Englishman: Henry James. ‘The fact of being everywhere a foreigner was probably an assistance to his ...”
Homage to Ezra Pound
C.K. Stead, 19 March 1981
The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound
by Michael Alexander.
Faber, 247 pp., £7.95, April 1979, 0 571 10560 2Show More
Ezra Pound and the Pisan Cantos
by Anthony Woodward.
Routledge, 128 pp., £7.95, April 1980, 0 7100 0372 2Show More
Ezra Pound and the Cantos: A Record of Struggle
by Wendy Stallard Flory.
Yale, 321 pp., £12.60, July 1980, 0 300 02392 8Show More
Ezra Pound and His World
Thames and Hudson, 127 pp., £5.95, February 1981, 0 500 13069 8Show More
End to Torment: A Memoir of Ezra Pound with Poems from Ezra Pound’s H.D. Book
edited by Norman Holmes Pearson and Michael King.
Carcanet, 84 pp., £2.95, February 1980, 0 85635 318 3Show More
“... In 1949 when a panel of his fellow poets (including T.S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, W.H. Auden and Allen Tate) awarded Ezra Pound the Bollingen Prize for The Pisan Cantos there was an immediate and angry public debate. The reaction is not surprising and might have been worse had the texts of Pound’s wartime broadcasts over Rome Radio been publicly available ...”
A Tulip and Two Bulbs
Jenny Turner: Jeanette Winterson, 7 September 2000
by Jeanette Winterson.
Cape, 243 pp., £14.99, September 2000, 0 224 06103 8Show More
“... writing the same book, but what is sadder is when a true writer seems to run out of books. T.S. Eliot observed that to continue to develop stylistically, a writer had to continue to develop emotionally … It is a commonplace of psychology that human beings, beyond a certain age, find it difficult to supplement their personalities with new emotional ...”
Victor Sage: On Lorna Sage, 7 June 2001
“... I received a letter from my new friend Lorna Stockton which announced that she was reading T.S. Eliot, ‘in a tree’. I stared at these words in alarm: who was this T.S. Eliot? Trees, for me, were climbing frames full of cunningly shaped, preferably fatal, challenges to ascent and had no relation to books. Books were ...”
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London stabbing: İbrahim Gül stabs police officer
Anasayfa » News In English » London stabbing: İbrahim Gül stabs police officer
İbrahim Gül has been charged with grievous bodily harm after a police officer was stabbed in the arm.
A police officer had to be treated in hospital after he was stabbed in Hendon Way, north-west London on July 10.
Ibrahim Gül, 37, of Finchley Road, north-west London, has also been charged with possession of an offensive weapon and possession of cannabis, the Metropolitan Police said.
The police offer has now been discharged and is expected to make a full recovery, the police spokesman said.
Gül is due to appear at Willesden Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
Officers were called to the scene after there were reports of a man with a knife in Hendon Way.
The man was reported to have stabbed a police officer while he was being pursued on foot.
The suspect was tasered and arrested before being taken to hospital as a precaution.
North West BCU Commander Roy Smith said: ‘This is another example of the dangers our officers face on a daily basis as they go about their duty protecting the people of London.
“Knowing that there were reports of a man in possession of a knife, this police constable and his colleagues ran to challenge and apprehend him – these are truly brave actions. I have visited the injured officer in hospital and thankfully he should make a full recovery from his injury.”
ETİKETLER: İbrahim Gül, North London, officer, police, stabbed
Britain’s youngest terrorist to be released from jail
Britain’s youngest terrorist who plotted to murder police officers in Australia can be freed from jail, it has been ruled. The convict, who can only be identified as RXG, was 14 when he sent encrypted messages instructing a jihadist to launch an attack on the Anzac Day parade in 2015. The boy...
London to pilot 24 hour vaccine centres by end of January
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A food aid campaign has been launched in London by the Turkish Cypriot Youth and Family Association (KTGAB). As the country battles coronavirus and continues into its second week of a 3rd national lockdown which is expected to carry on into March, many people have already felt the strain and...
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Police fine over 100 people in Haringey for breaking Covid rules
Police have issued 42 fixed penalty notices following a gathering involving more than 100 people in north London. Officers were called to Clyde Road, Haringey, N15 on Thursday, 14 January following reports from members of the public who were concerned about the number of people at a gathering. More than...
Raab: Government aims to give every adult first dose by September
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Is Game of Thrones a feminist show?
An analysis of the women’s All-Star team, who is likely to remain standing at the end, and how they rate as female role models.
May 12, 2019·13 min read
Considering how much the Ringer.com loves basketball and Game of Thrones, let’s do an analysis of the careers of the five most important female players from GOT, see who has earned GOAT status, and make predictions for the end of the show.
Who’s the GOAT in GOT?
I. Player Stats
Obviously, there are some people who want to use advanced analytics (e.g., breaking down kills into self defense, revenge, and cold blooded murder), but we need to unpack eight seasons, so I’ll keep things simple.
Here are traditional stats GOT tracks for its players:
AH (act of heroism, or self-sacrifice)
TB (total betrayals)
TFB (total family betrayals)
M (manipulates others through bribery, lies, or sexual acts)
C (major acts of cruelty including psychological torture, or ordering others to kill or torture other people— does not include catty remarks or abusing servants)
K (direct personal kills, regardless of motivation — does not include battles, explosions or ordering others to kill)
SA (number of people who have sexually abused the character)
V (number of people who have betrayed, manipulated or victimized the character)
D (character dies)
Player A: 1 AH, 1 TB, 4 TFB, 2 M, 1 C, 0 K, 1 SA, 4 V, 0 D
Player B: 6 AH, 0 TB, 0 TFB, 1 M, 1 C, 63 K¹, 0 SA, 2 V, 0 D
Player C: 1 AH, 0 TB, 2 TFB, 0 M, 2 C, 1 K, 0 SA, 3 V, 1 D
Player D: 0 AH, 0 TB, 1 TFB, 7 M, 9 C, 0 K, 1 SA, 5 V, 0 D
Player E: 3 AH, 1 TB, 0 TFB, 1 M, 7 C, 4 K, 2 SA, 10 V, 0 D
If you haven’t guessed who the characters are yet, here are their strengths and weaknesses:
Player A is a master of betrayal² and manipulation, but has also suffered greatly from the words and actions of others. She doesn’t get her hands dirty with overt acts.
Player B has mad skills in killing, but isn’t cruel. She has been hurt by others, but is the league leader in heroic acts by a degree of magnitude³.
Player C is strong at betrayal and cruelty, but has been so badly hurt by others she is now dead.
Player D is a master at manipulation and cruelty,⁴ but has also suffered greatly at the hands of others.
Player E has suffered at the hands of more people than any other character.⁵ Is it any wonder she matches Player D in cruelty? However, she is very strong in acts of heroism, and willing to get her hands dirty.
II. Ranking the heroes and the villains
If it isn’t obvious already, here are my final rankings:
TIER 1: Bad ass hero who saves the world: Player B
TIER 2: Flawed hero who sometimes goes to the dark side: Player E
TIER 3: Flawed character who suffers a lot, and causes her share of suffering: Players A
TIER 4: Flawed character who suffers some, causes her share of suffering, and acts as a plot device that sets so much destruction in motion you almost wonder if she’s a villain: Player C⁶
TIER 5: Major villain who causes far more pain than she ever suffered: Player D
III. The big reveal
If you haven’t already figured out who’s who, by now, here’s the answer key.
A = Sansa, B = Arya, C = Catelyn, D = Cersei, E = Daenerys
Without a doubt, the GOAT is Arya. She did everything by herself. No money. No men. And no dragons.
What is the final fate of these characters over the last two episodes?
I’ve already written about how the show runners have thrown out almost every idea the show built up over the first five seasons.
Screenwriting 101, as taught by Samuel Jackson
A mild reaction to Game of Thrones 8th and final season
In listening to recent podcasts about the show, and reading articles speculating on the end of the show, I’m beginning to think more and more that we will get the stupidest possible ending to what was one of the greatest TV shows of all time. Here are my predictions about the fate of each character still alive:
She may be the greatest female hero in the history of modern fantasy. Her story arc has taken her from being a deeply wounded innocent child to becoming a sociopathic assassin and highly skilled warrior to reclaiming her humanity as a member of the Stark family to claiming her sexuality (she’s 22 years old — grow up already!) to rejecting a marriage proposal, so she can be true to herself.
Arya is basically Frodo with one of those ninja staff thingies, and a Michael Jordan hand-switching finish move that ended with her sticking a knife in the Night King’s heart. In one of the most amazing surprise attacks in history, she saved the world as we know it. She deserves a happy ending, right?
Wrong. Arya has the unknown powers of the Faceless Men, and it was made clear by the massive purge of the Night King, his army, and two dragons over the last two episodes that all magic will be completely eliminated from this tale of fantasy.
Arya immediately goes off with the Hound on a suicide mission, and there’s no way we’re getting the satisfaction of her completing “the list” by killing Cersei. D&D will have to subvert expectations by killing her off senselessly and tragically. In GRRM’s original outline of A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF), Arya is one of the five main characters who make it to the end of the story, but nothing says she’ll get a hero’s send off and ride off into the sunset. (I don’t know about you, but I would watch a GOT spinoff called “On the Road with Arya and the Hound” in a tear-out-your-heartbeat.)
Daenerys was one of the strongest female characters in the show, but she has been set up to fail by the idiots (Tyrion, Varys and Jon) around her, lost the counsel of her wisest advisors (Olenna and Missandei), and now her frustrations are coming to a boil. Her heroism and lofty ideals (“I will break the wheel”) have been replaced by more and more acts of short sighted vengeance, incompetent tactics, and the feeling that she is transforming into another Mad Queen.
While every king who ever stormed a castle and conquered a kingdom has killed thousands of people, somehow it’s not okay for a woman to do it (unless it’s a false queen already on the throne who blows up the Sept of Baelor).
It’s a ridiculous turn of events to turn Dany into a power hungry tyrant in the span of a few episodes, but magic has to die in this world, so kiss Daenerys’ ass, the honeycomb and her dragons goodbye. If she doesn’t reduce the Red Keep to ashes (fulfilling a prophesy we saw as early as season 2) at least let her vaporize a cartoonish villain.
If the show runners are going to eliminate magic from a fantasy show, don’t they also have to eliminate Euron and his amazing technicolor dream boat?
Cersei
Cersei thinks she’s smart like her dear departed father, Tywin, but her arrogance and short sightedness have consistently created unintended negative consequences for her and her children. Every thing she has done throughout her story arc has been to escape and prevent Maggy the Frog’s prophesy, (along with the last line about the Valonqar strangling the life out of her, not included in the show), and her actions ended up fulfilling those prophesies.
The only sensible ending for Cersei would be for her schemes to backfire on her one deadly last time… don’t count on it.
Look for Cersei to win the battle against Daenerys, and then get double crossed and killed by Euron. Or maybe she’ll trip going down the stairs of the Red Keep and die instantly, like a bad joke in an Elmore Leonard novel.
That leaves us with Sansa, who has now become a fan favorite for many people. But if there is one character who has done almost nothing to earn final victory in the GOT, it is Sansa, and here’s why:
#1: BREAKING THE RULES
One of GRRM’s central themes in GOT is the importance of loyalty to family, lord and crown. A thousand years of history determines the actions of every man and woman. One of the worst crimes in this universe is betraying one’s family, and most of the characters who have done it have been killed off: Viserys Targaryen, Catelyn Stark, Lysa Arryn, Tywin Lannister, Ramsey Bolton, Ellaria Sand, Randyll Tarly, and Theon Greyjoy (who was raised as a Stark).
Only Cersei (blamed and wanted to kill Tyrion for the death of her son), Jamie (strangled a cousin so he could escape the Stark POW camp) and Euron (killed his older brother, the king) have gotten away with this crime and still live.
Guess who has betrayed her family four times more than any other character? Sansa.
Another one of GRRM’s big rules is that people who covet power end up get killed off. Examples of this are Renly, Stannis, Pyat Prat, the rulers of the slave kingdoms in Essos, Royce Bolton, Ramsey Bolton, Littlefinger, and Ellaria Sand (life imprisonment, watching her daughter’s corpse rot away).
Only Daenerys, Cersei, Euron, and Sansa are still living, but Sansa is the only character still viewed favorably.
#2: SKILLS/POWER ACQUIRED
It’s obvious that Arya suffered greatly, and worked tirelessly to acquire her amazing fighting skills and the secret powers of the Faceless Men.
Daenerys went from being a completely powerless girl “sold like a brood mare… shamed and betrayed, raped and defiled” to giving birth to dragons, acquiring an army and a fleet, freeing millions of slaves, and then risking everything to save Jon Snow beyond the Wall, and then fight for Seven Kingdoms at the Battle of Winterfell.
Even Cersei has made a series of ruthless actions and strategic decisions that have helped her consolidate and increase her hold on the Iron Throne.
What exactly has Sansa accomplished? She has learned how to trust no one. She has learned to lie to, manipulate and betray others. To her credit, she has learned to asked some relevant questions (“Shouldn’t the armor have a leather lining?” “How are we going to feed all of the North, the Dothraki, the Unsullied and two dragons?”) And she has learned to throw some really creative shade at Tyrion (“I used to think you were the cleverest man alive.”)
But what has she done to win the support of the North? (Aside from the King of the North leaving her in charge of Winterfell while he went to Dragonstone to enlist Daenerys’ aid.)
What acts of leadership has she shown? (Aside from leveraging Littlefinger’s love for her to get the forces of the Vale to show up at the Battle of the Bastards)
What acts of bravery has she shown? (Aside from saving Ser Dontos all the way back in Season 2.)
What winning tactics did she employ? (Aside from telling Jon, “don’t do what Ramsey wants you to do” and telling Jon and Daenerys they can’t trust Cersei.)
Look at her career stats again:
1 AH, 1 TB, 4 TFB, 2 M, 1 C, 0 K, 1 SA, 4 V, 0 D
One act of heroism, no ability to fight, a desire for power, and an inability to show affection to her sister (“Well, don’t get used to it.”).
But she is now considered a master manipulator.
The showrunners now consider Sansa a master manipulator, having uncovered (with Bran’s help) all of Petyr Baelish’s plots and crimes. It sure looks like Littlefinger’s successor will be the only one left at the end of the story to rule the North, or even, the entire Seven Kingdoms. I wish she had really earned it.
#3: FEMINIST HEROES
If I had a daughter, what role model would I hope inspires her? Here are a few good ideas: Serena Williams (world class athlete); Senator Elizabeth Warren (protector of the middle class and the poor); even Indra Nooyi (board of directors of Amazon).
Here’s a bad idea: hoping my daughter is inspired to become a pathological liar and manipulator like…
While I’m not saying she’s going to turn into Kellyanne Conway or Imelda Marcos, if the only skills on her resume read “manipulation” and “betrayal,” I would try to steer my daughter away from Sansa Stark as a role model.
And I think that is a problem for a show that people claim is feminist. Killing off the only strong women who performs heroic acts doesn’t seem to be the right message for the show.
#4: CHARACTER ARCS
So, maybe you want to argue that Sansa has survived such terrible abuse that she is one of the strongest and most resilient women in all of Westeros.
The big question is: “what will make for a great ruler?”
The answer is: someone who has been wounded deeply and carries those scars as both a badge of courage, but also as a reminder to be compassionate and humble.
That’s why Jon Snow is constantly chosen to be the leader of the men, regardless of how many bad decisions he makes and the thousands who have died following his stupid actions.
It’s also why Jamie is an outside longshot to sit on the Iron Throne — he is wounded and vulnerable, has successfully commanded armies and won (except against Dragons), AND he has already sacrificed everything that means anything to him in order to serve the realm (stopping the Mad King from destroying King’s Landing, fighting to defend Winterfell from the armies of the dead, and now on his way South to kill Cersei?).
Which women have what it takes to be a just and good ruler?
While Cersei and Daenerys have lost much of their humanity, Arya might have the wisdom — at the very least, she would be a vigilant defender of the weak and vulnerable. So would Brienne, for that matter.
Arya and Brienne, the toughest women in Westeros, have lived their entire lives without defining themselves in terms of a relationship with a man. And yet they were able to love and be loved by a man. I would say that a good ruler would need to have at least one positive relationship with the other sex.
But neither one wants to rule.
The only one left is Sansa, but she leaves so much to be desired. If she can’t show affection to her sister, how much compassion will she be able to show other women? And the closest thing she has to a positive feeling about a man is her lack of total disdain for Tyrion.
After it’s all said and done, I can’t find a single reason Sansa should rule Westeros. But maybe Benioff & Weiss found one…
George RR Martin may have written ASOIAF with non-traditional heroes in mind, including “cripples, bastards, and broken things,” along with a group of strong, complex female characters, but the world of Game of Thrones seems far from a meritocracy, feminist or otherwise.
I shudder at the thought of how low the show will sink, offering even more implausible examples of deux ex martina in order to “subvert” our expectations, while killing off everything that was magical about the show.
And I’m not talking about the dragons.
I’ve been wrong before.
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I hope I’m wrong again.
¹This is a fairly good approximation.
²A veritable grand slam in family betrayal: she lied about not remembering the Butcher Boy incident, and it cost her direwolf Lady; she informed Cersei of Ned’s plan to save his daughters by sending them back to Winterfell; she agrees to write a letter back home saying that her father was a traitor; and she immediately breaks her vow to Jon and reveals his true identity to Tyrion. In every case, she acts primarily in her own self interest.
³Even before she learned to become a great warrior, she risked her personal safety by saving Micah the butcher boy, releases Jaqen Hagar and the other criminals from a burning prison wagon; lies to Lannister forces to save Gendry; saves the Hound in the tavern fight; and decides to save Lady Crane and stops her from drinking the poisoned rum. After returning as a trained warrior, she saves the world by killing the Night King.
⁴Feel free to add to my list, because I stopped at these acts of manipulation (sexual favors to control Lancel, Jamie and Euron, lying to Sansa, and the High Sparrow, bribing Shae and Bronn) and cruelty (demands the death of Lady, plots Robert’s death, teaches Littlefinger the meaning of real poser, frames Tyrion for Joffrey’s death, orders the Mountain to murder a drunken tavern singer, chooses violence when the Faith Militant command her to go back to the Sept; blows up the Sept of Baelor; orders the Mountain to rape and torture the surviving Septa; and, orders the decapitation of Missandei.)
⁵While some fans would argue that Sansa suffered the worst abuse at the hands of Ramsey, consider how many total people have either sexually abused, betrayed, or victimized Daenerys: Viserys, Khal Drogo, Mirri Maz Dur, Xaro Xhoan Daxos, her servant Doreah, warlock Pyat Pree, Jorah, Hizdahr zo Loraq, and Jon Snow (reveals his secret to his sisters).
⁶Catelyn Stark is a character that a lot of people hate. She’s supposed to be one of the heroes, but her choices to put her anger and desire for revenge above everything, even if it means betraying her husband and children almost put her on the villain side of the GOT universe. For people who haven’t read the books, she was turned into Lady Stoneheart, whose only real emotion and motivation is revenge. It’s interesting that of all the characters who are resurrected, she is much closer to the White Walkers than Jon or Beric Dondarrion.
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IN A GROVE BY RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA SHORT STORY PDF
“In a Grove” (藪の中, Yabu no Naka?) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, first appearing in the January edition of the Japanese literature monthly. The In a Grove Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, by Ryunosuke Akutagawa In a Grove tells a story about a death of man through seven different accounts, opening with the. IN A GROVE (Yabo no naka) Source for information on In a Grove (Yabo no Naka ) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Reference Guide to Short Fiction dictionary.
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This article possibly contains original research. He says that he sold the sword before he was captured by the bounty hunter.
The wound had dried up, I believe.
However, it just seems like she wants to kill him, and trying to commit suicide after killing him is just an excuse. Yrove and try again.
Some sort of explanation can be found in the obvious fact that our memory is not completely reliable. The police commissioner listens to a woodcutter, a Buddhist monk, the infamous bandit Tajomaru, The mother of the wife, wife of the samurai, and the samurai through a medium.
All I saw was the color of her clothes, a lilac-colored suit.
Apr 21, Ana rated it it was amazing Shelves: Lists with This Book. Jul 22, Elizabeth rated it it was amazing.
My words are inadequate to express my sympathy for him. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.
In a Grove by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
The story brings about seven accounts of testimonies and confessions of the seven who are supposed to be involved, directly or peripherally, to a murder that happened in particular grove in the mountains.
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The plot of The X-Files episode ” Jose Chung’s From Outer Space ” also deals with conflicting testimonies from characters involved in an alien abduction case.
Oh what a tangled web we weave. Two questions arise at once: Jan 18, Priyanka rated it really liked it Shelves: The author portrays egotistical nature of humanity by having Tajomaru and Masago. She then cut the rope that bound Takehiro, and ran into the forest, whereupon she attempted to commit suicide numerous times, she said, but her spirit was too strong to die. FullReads Full-length classic stories broken into easy-to-read pages.
Those might be sort most accurate details of the entire story since there are many sjort among all the people involved in this case, making it impossible for the reader to actually know the truth, even when there bg not be such a thing Takehiro grabbed Masago’s fallen dagger and plunged it into his chest.
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And as you go on reading along, your former belief of what really happened akuatgawa be contradicted by another person’s account This story gives a great insight into how who we are can effect how we perceive even basic things. To view it, click here. Therefore, inconsequential details or relevant events might get lost in a sea of information, especially to those who are not used atory such things that eventually improve one’s observation skills.
The murderer can be him or her. She begs the police to find her daughter. The story opens with ryunosuek account of a woodcutter who has found a man’s body in the woods. Here’s more of my thoughts about it http: About meters off the Yamashina stage road.
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Akutagawa’s characters reveal that human truths are not only partial and self-seeking but also incommensurable, and the story puts the murder itself in doubt. Inhe entered Tokyo Imperial University, majoring in English literature. A scarf hanging from her head hid her face from view. Read it, and you’ll find yourself doing this face: I’m hovering on the brink of giving this particular short story 5 stars, just for the premise alone.
There are people who might revel in confusion and find it a rich vein in which to examine the human ryunosukf and its relation to truth. Akutaggawa know this was the story that inspired Kurosawa. In each account the robber raped the woman, the woman said something about shame or killing, and the teller of the tale killed the samurai.
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ARSCLIST June 2012
Re: Who needs vinyl?
Alex McGehee <[log in to unmask]>
You're so politically incorrect, but on the mark as usual. What about groups like the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra? I have some very fine Mozart and Haydn recordings by them and they just followed the leader and practiced a lot.
On Jun 8, 2012, at 12:53 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
> Hi Alex:
> That management style just doesn't work in Western countries anymore, anywhere. You see the last of the old-school corporate chieftons running up on the shoals in recent years. It's all about "politeness" and "correctness" and "colaboration." I don't like it, I think it's lowest-common-denominator group-think, but I am clearly in the minority on this. I'd much rather fight the good fight for uncompromising excellence and craftsmanship than "get along" and settle for vapid garbage.
> -- Tom Fine
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex McGehee" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 6:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Who needs vinyl?
> Hi Tom:
> I find it hard to believe that Dorati could possibly blow more fuses than George Szell, who once took down the entire Northeastern power grid, but I'll agree there was definitely something flowing through the Hungarian bloodstream back then. With orchestral committees now ascendent (generally a healthy thing) and no more tyrants allowed on the stage (see, Charles Dutoit vs. Montreal, et al.) one observation remains: Those podium dictators sure got some fantastic results – recordings that still hold their own fifty years, and more, later.
> -- Alex McGehee
> On Jun 8, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Tom Fine wrote:
>> Hi Don:
>> I see (and hear) your point. I think Decca and in many cases (at leat in the "golden age") RCA and Columbia also were able to coax great, exciting note-perfect records out of their artists. I do think that musicians may "clinch up" in a studio, so using a performance venue probably works best for classical recording. In the case of Mercury, oftentimes recording sessions would take place in conjunction with concerts, so the material was fresh and front-of-mind to everyone. Definitely in Moscow, I think sometimes in London, and a few times in the US, recording would take place at night just after a concert, so the orchestra had everything really fresh in their minds, and thus only had to control their "adrenalin come-down" after the performance. A good conductor like Dorati and Kondrashin could keep the excitement flowing. But what about a soloist? I marvel at Byron Janis playing that Prokofiev/Rachmaninoff performance in Moscow, to a standing ovation, then an encore, and then spending all night recording the two pieces to his high level of artistry.
>> The other tack is to make a recording a special occasion. I've heard complete session tapes of Paray and Hanson, and they made clear to the orchestra that they expected "your best, on every take" and then treated the whole occasion is a special way to "set the record straight" or indeed "create the draft of history." Fennell, also having heard complete sessions, was always upbeat and insistent, it took a lot to get him to be negative or harsh with his band. Dorati would blow a fuse easily, but his musicians expected that. What he was great at was getting everyone excited and paying very close attention, by getting them out of their comfort zone. I would guess fellow Hungarians Reiner and Szell worked the same way, but I bet Dorati blew more fuses. Hanson would take more of a "oh that's just not working" or "that was great" approach, knowing what he needed to get on each take and not stopping until he got it. Paray was the same way, but there was a filter because he didn't speak English so everything had to be translated to the non-French-speaking members of the orchestra. Fennell probably blew a few fuses over years, but I think he took more of a teacher role and more insisted than screamed. He seemed willing to explain what he wanted in great detail, so as not to put his musicians in a Catch-22 situation.
>> -- Tom Fine
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Cox" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 4:42 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Who needs vinyl?
>>> On 03/06/2012, Tom Fine wrote:
>>>> Jazz is inherently improvised music, and there's a very valid argument
>>>> that some of the best improvising goes on in a live-performance
>>>> setting. So I agree with you very much about jazz.
>>> I think it was Alfred Brendel who remarked on how much improvisation
>>> there was in a Fischer-Dieskau lieder performance.
>>> Certainly in small-group and chamber classical music, there is the same
>>> instantaneous response between the players as in jazz. The notes are of
>>> course the same each time, but the phrasing is not.
>>>> There was a time
>>>> when rock was the same, except usually the musical skill wasn't all
>>>> that good. Nowadays, a typical popular pop or rock artists's live show
>>>> is a scripted/automated/computerized light and sound and multimedia
>>>> thing, with little room to go off on an interesting improv. Not
>>>> universal, but typical. Like these stage-show extravaganzas, classical
>>>> music is "scripted" (scored), so a good conductor and orchestra should
>>>> be able to deliver a note-perfect and exciting performance to the
>>>> recording mics, using retakes to patch up less than perfect sections.
>>>> In a live setting, sometimes the script goes awry due to human
>>>> imperfections and/or poor conducting. A live audience rarely notices
>>>> the mistakes unless they are terrible.
>>> Better a live performance that has a few mistakes and is exciting than a
>>> note-perfect studio performance that is dutiful.
>>> Check out (for example) the Marlboro Festival series on Sony, the Kagan
>>> performances with Richter and others on the German "Live Classics"
>>> label, Britten's performances at the Aldeburgh Festival (best "Fingal's
>>> Cave overture I have ever heard), the 1943 Horowitz-Toscanini
>>> Tchaikovsky concerto, any recording by Sokolov (who will not record in
>>> the studio).
>>> Many of the Mercury recordings succeed in getting the same intensity in
>>> a studio recording, perhaps by making the session a special occasion.
>>> But a great many studio recordings are just tidy.
>>> Regards
>>> Don Cox
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FESTIVAL RECAP / GALLERY: Bonnaroo 2016
This year’s 15th Annual Bonnaroo was marked by hot weather, (mostly) sunny skies and considerably smaller attendance numbers than in years past, making 2016’s edition a comparably intimate affair for those who made the trip. Perhaps it was the absence of a ‘white whale’ mega-booking (See Paul McCartney in 2013, Radiohead in 2006 and 2012, Jay-Z in 2010, etc.) with the draw to nearly sell out the festival on their own. Rather, maybe this slow sales year is indicative of fact that we have finally reached the peak of festival over-saturation when even an event of Bonnaroo’s stature is affected, or likely a combination of both (combined with increased ticket prices). Rumored attendance figures were as low as 50k compared to the 70-90k reported nearly every year prior, although final attendance numbers have not been announced.
As for the programming on the farm, there was more than enough round-the-clock entertainment to go around. Familiar artists from the festival’s early days like Les Claypool, Ween, Sam Bush and Dead and Company dotted an eclectic lineup alongside an array of artists and comedians from most every major genre. The lineup ran it’s usual spectrum from mainstream country (Chris Stapleton) to metal acts (Lamb of God and Clutch) to modern R&B/soul superstars (Charles Bradley and Leon Bridges) all the way down the line to however-you-describe The Lennon Claypool Delirium.
Moreover, there was a glaring lack of major EDM artists filling big slots at this year’s festival (deadmau5 headlined the main stage only a year ago) meaning one of two things (or maybe both: (1) offering the impression that the recently dominant genre may be ebbing back to where it was around the time of the EDM/dubstep explosion of the early 2010’s; and/or (2) one of the causes of this year’s lower ticket sales.
While I wasn’t able to take in the entire Bonnaroo weekend this year like in year’s past, we luckily made it into Centeroo by Friday evening in time for an excellent run of sets that included M83 on Which Stage, LCD Soundsystem’s instant classic main stage debut and Tame Impala’s enjoyable (albeit too brief) and confetti-filled late night set back over on Which Stage.
Continue below for some photos from the weekend and a quick rundown of the best things I saw at this year’s 15th Annual Bonnaroo festival.
BEST OF BONNAROO 2016
1. LCD Soundsystem Highlight the Weekend with headlining Friday set
LCD Soundsystem at Bonnaroo 2016 // Photo by Wesley Hodges
The hype was nearly insurmountable and the list of predecessor acts to take up the huge task of playing a headlining Bonnaroo set is a who’s who of classic artists ranging from Paul McCartney to Radiohead to Jay-Z. James Murphy and Co. managed to exceed lofty (and borderline) unrealistic expectations and, most importantly, exuded the kind of energy and enthusiasm that you can’t fake. Murphy and Co. thoroughly enjoyed themselves and laid to rest any preconceived notions I may have had going in that perhaps LCD wasn’t ready to step up to the plate for this kind of show. The hits kept coming and it was exceptionally refreshing to these guys and gal earn their keep in such grand fashion, signing off with “Dance Yrself Clean” and “All My Friends” amidst a blast of fireworks, glowing totems and confetti. While 2010’s late night tent set was great, this was highest caliber professionalism on the upper echelon.
Takeaway: Let’s hope this reunion run is more of a full-on rebirth (with the delivery of promised new material). This set was quite possibly one of the best headlining sets in Bonnaroo history. It was just that good.
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2. Ween’s Triumphant Bonnaroo return closed out Which Stage on Sunday
Ween at Bonnaroo 2016 // Photo by Wesley Hodges
Having read reviews, watched videos and seen the career-spanning setlists from the first half-dozen or so Ween reunion shows, you just kinda knew going in that this one would be special and Gener, Deaner and Co. did not disappoint. The only drawback was the length of the set (75 minutes) didn’t allow for the band to delve too deep into their canyon-esque catalog. The setlist mainly stuck close to familiar classics like the opening “Transdermal Celebration,” “The Mollusk” and “Ocean Man” while an utterly stunning rendition of “Did You See Me” managed to send a wave of chills through the crowd as the Tennessee set began to set. Perhaps no crowd represented a wider demographic cross-section of Bonnaroo attendees, a telling fact proving that The Mighty Boognish is gained a new generation of fans since the return.
** Listen to the full set of Ween at Bonnaroo 2016 here.
Takeaway: This set (along with Dead and Company right after) brought the weekend and my personal experiences at Bonnaroo full circle, harkening back to the early years when jambands and the returning “indescribables” (like Ween and any incarnation of Claypool) reigned supreme over the Farm on a yearly basis.
3. The Claypool Lennon Delirium’s non late-night show that turned into one because the Bonnaroo gods and Mother Nature love you and wanted everyone to get weird
Les Claypool has been reliable for a line-of-the-weekend bit of stage banter (beginning with his “Trey Antipasti” comments with Flying Frog Brigade in 2002) and his comment about this being his ’73rd Bonnaroo’ after taking the stage a couple hours delayed (a phantom storm cell popped up out of nowhere Saturday evening to clear out Centeroo and give fans an unplanned, yet refreshing breather) with his latest bandmate, Sean Lennon. The set was twisted, dark, weird, colorful and the selection of the Syd Barrett Floyd classic “Astronomy Domine” as a cover late in the set (in addition to a take on The Beatles “Tomorrow Never Knows”) fit the vibe of Claypool’s latest project perfectly. As a bonus (“what a surprise…”), we got to hear Primus on the farm once again (they previously appeared in 2004 and again in 2011) and Claypool thumped his way through “Southbound Pachyderm” from Tales from the Punchbowl that may be about elephants or viewing solar eclipses (or both?). Either way, Claypool is one weird, talented dude and that’s why we continue to follow and critique his every project with renewed intrigue.
Takeaway: Les Claypool can play Bonnaroo in any form and it will still be riveting, bizarre and worthy of attending over just about anything else at the time. Also, you can count on the Colonel for a few laughs while filling the space between tunes. In the Bonnaroo universe, Les Claypool is basically a deity at this point, perhaps no artist has a deeper connection with the festival and perhaps a Claypool-led Superjam should be in order one of these days? Wouldn’t that be a trip?
"No bullshit Sean, this is my 73rd @Bonnaroo" @primus les claypool
— Wesley Hodges (@BrahBrahBrah) June 12, 2016
4. Chicano Batman open up Which Stage on Saturday
Chicano Batman at Bonnaroo 2016 // Photo by Wesley Hodges
Chicano Batman was entirely unfamiliar to me until recently and having never seen them live, I was excited to see what these guys could bring to the table. The LA quartet serves up a stylistic melangé of pan-Latin music, going in a lot of different places and exploring some jarringly psychedelic spaces at times throughout the hour-long set. Their complex, yet danceable style took jaunts through soulful tropicalia, meandering psychedelia, and groove-laden soul and the entire set was completely captivating. There were odd time signatures, complex rhythmic structures and it was generally difficult to predict where they were going to take things next, adding excitement and maintaining full attention of the building crowd throughout.
Takeaway: Will not miss LA’s Chicano Batman the next time they are touring and expect/hope to see them dotting major festival lineups for a long time. Discovering bands like these are what summer music festivals are all about.
5. Cymande’s Sunday appearance on Which Stage was their first US festival appearance in 43 years … and worth the wait.
There are left-field bookings (see GWAR, Alice Cooper, Billy Idol, Dierks Bentley) and then there are just total shockers like Bonnaroo booking this obscure crate-digger’s favorite London funk/soul group from the early-70s. Their name was buried midway down the Bonnaroo lineup when it was released this winter and the scattered turnout of diehards and Sunday wanderers were handsomely rewarded by a vibrant and definitively cool set from London’s greatest funk band, back from a very, very, very long break. Kudos to the guy dancing front left who held up two of their classic LP’s throughout the set.
Takeaway: For obvious reasons, go see them. If you don’t get the chance, dig into their back catalog. It is filled with musical genius.
Other Highlights
– Chris Stapleton’s lengthy and improvised band introductions during “Tennessee Whiskey” with the Bonnagrannies parked stage-right was a sight to see.
Dreams come true at #Bonnaroo. @ChrisStapleton invited us on stage for his performance! pic.twitter.com/IYrxuvQ0yQ
— Bonnagrannies (@bonnagrannies) June 11, 2016
– Charles Bradley’s version of Black Sabbath’s “Changes” brought chills across the farm in the middle of the Sunday heat.
– Tame Impala’s confetti blasts during “New Person, Same Old Mistakes” (WATCH). Great set but a tad underwhelming due to not filling their allotted two hours.
– Steve Gunn’s midday Saturday tent set was just what the doctor ordered on Saturday afternoon and included tons of material from his great new LP Eyes on the Lines.
Kurt Vile sidestage for Ween at Bonnaroo 2016 // Photo by Wesley Hodges
– The double-header of two of my favorite artists (Kurt Vile and Father John Misty) on Which Stage prior to Ween was nothing to shake a stick at, even if the bookends on either side made the ‘best-of’ list above. Maybe recent familiarity with the each artist’s live set had something to do with it. Nevertheless, Kurt Vile’s renditions of the sweeping hazy afternoon guitar jam “Goldtones” and “Jesus Fever” highlighted the his set for me and the laundry list of ridiculous stage banter quotes from Father John Misty’s J. Tillman is worth checking out. You can watch a good chunk of the FJM set here. Was cool to see Kurt Vile rockin’ out to his PA brethren stage left throughout Ween’s set.
Me n Dean Ween jus bein free… #bonnaroo #ween @weeninfo
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– Return of the Dead: Dead and Company’s festival closing set was like one big family reunion on Sunday night after several years of conspicuous Dead-related absence from the lineup. Call it cliched (because it is), but hearing “Tennessee Jed” amongst such a joyous and massive audience was the perfect way to wrap up another beautiful weekend on the Farm.
Here’s to yet another standout weekend (my 11th Bonnaroo) spent with old friends from far and wide. Hoping we can do it all over again real soon.
One thing remains true: The Farm ain’t perfect and far from most people’s idea of paradise, but it’s a truly magical place where musical dreams can and do come true.
Andrew Combs at Bonnaroo 2016 // Photo by Wesley Hodges
Chicano Batman ASL Interpreter at Bonnaroo 2016 // Photo by Wesley Hodges
Steve Gunn at Bonnaroo 2016 // Photo by Wesley Hodges
Cymande at Bonnaroo 2016 // Photo by Wesley Hodges
Aaron Freeman of Ween at Bonnaroo 2016 // Photo by Wesley Hodges
Gene Ween of Ween at Bonnaroo 2016 // Photo by Wesley Hodges
Dean Ween of Ween at Bonnaroo 2016 // Photo by Wesley Hodges
Dave Dreiwitz of Ween at Bonnaroo 2016 // Photo by Wesley Hodges
Danny Clinch photographing Ween at Bonnaroo 2016 // Photo by Wesley Hodges
Gene Ween at Bonnaroo 2016 // Photo by Wesley Hodges
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Football loses home opener to Bloomsburg
“We’ve showed signs of success and have been very close in a few games. I feel that this week we are going to figure it out and knock off a good IUP team,” Novak said.
Redshirt senior tight end R.J. Miller received a 13 yard pass from redshirt junior quarterback Brendan Boylan for the first touc: Salina Bower
The team is ready to put the loss behind them and focus on next week’s game against rival IUP on Saturday, Sept. 27. The game is scheduled to start at 4:00 p.m. at Indiana, Pennsylvania.
The Mercyhurst football team had their first home game this past Saturday, Sept. 20 against Bloomsburg University.
Bloomsburg defeated Mercyhurst 38-22. However, Mercyhurst came out hot scoring two early touchdowns to put them ahead 14-0.
The first touchdown was made by redshirt senior R.J. Miller on a 13 yard pass by redshirt junior quarterback Brendan Boylan.
Senior free safety Colin Kimball kept the home crowd hopes alive with a 61 yard punt return for a touchdown. Throughout the game he lead the team with nine solo tackles and an interception.
The excitement was short lived after they allowed two interception returns for a touchdown on back to back drives. Overall the team had six turnovers that resulted in 28 of Bloomsburg’s points.
Early in the fourth quarter another completed pass by Boylan was made to junior wide receiver Jaquan Williams for the second touchdown of the game.
True freshman wide receiver Brad Novak started in the home opener for the Hurst and feels the team can improve from this week’s mistakes.
“We turned the ball over too much. Anyone watching the game could see that. This week in practice we need to focus on ball security,” Novak said.
With numerous turnovers in the first three quarters, freshman quarterback Ramroth Finnegan took the field late in the fourth completing his first two passes for 29 yards.
“It was an extremely exciting feeling to be able to take my first ever collegiate snap in front of the home crowd. The support from them was great and I really appreciate all the fans who came out to watch us,” Finnegan said.
Novak was also excited to start in front of the home fans who were more than ready to cheer on the team.
There were nearly 2,200 fans in attendance at this game. There was also a pep band at the game which is new to Mercyhurst. The band got the crowd involved by playing familiar songs as well as starting chants with the cheerleaders throughout the game.
“It was amazing being out there in front of the home crowd. Having the fans cheer us on really helped with momentum. Even when we found ourselves in tough situations we were able to capture some momentum with the fans cheering us on,” Novak said.
Novak believes this team has what it takes to win and they have shown what it can do on offensive this week scoring 22 points.
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Guanzon: Some party-list groups offer seats for sale
Vince Nonato
ELECTIONS Commissioner Ma. Rowena Guanzon yesterday told senators some party-list groups “sell their seats” to unscrupulous nominees.
Guanzon made the claim during the Senate electoral reforms committee hearing on Senate Bill No. 372, a bill authored by Sen. Leila de Lima which seeks to strengthen the party-list system.
“I’m personally against the gaming of the party-list rules because, I’m sorry to say that in truth, a lot of party-list, or some of them, sell their seats,” Guanzon said.
“After they win, they (party-list groups) change their representatives or nominees,” she added.
She did not elaborate, but this was apparently an allusion to the case of the Duterte Youth party-list.
In the May 2019 elections, the group changed its list of nominees multiple times, as former National Youth Commission chairman Ronald Cardema attempted to slot himself in at the last minute.
On August 8, the Comelec First Division, in which Guanzon is a member, voted to cancel the 34-year old’s nomination for being over-aged and unqualified to represent the youth sector.
The group then sought the substitution of its list of nominees, still with Cardema as the first nominee. Following a word war with Guanzon, he withdrew his nomination on September 13 as a “personal sacrifice.”
Guanzon noted that under the current Party-list Act, the withdrawal, replacement or revision of the order of party-list nominees can only be done until the closing of precincts on election day.
“It’s not correct to say that the rule is they can change anytime of the year…,” she said.
“Why? Because the people have a right to information. The people have a right to know who they are voting for.”
Guanzon said that party-list groups may only change their nominees after election if the House of Representatives declares a vacancy when the original nominee is dropped from the rolls.
The Senate committee, chaired by Sen. Imee Marcos, was tackling De Lima’s bill seeking to redefine the term “bona fide member” to ensure that the nominees of party-list groups genuinely belong to marginalized sectors.
The bill also seeks to disqualify a party-list group from the elections if all of its nominees become unable to assume the seats they win after the beginning of the campaign period, apparently in response to Duterte Youth’s tactics.
The senator also wanted to prohibit nominees from being related by affinity or consanguinity within the third degree to any incumbent public official.
At the House of Representatives, Agusan del Norte Rep. Lawrence Fortun said party-list lawmakers should have no term-limits if the Comelec’s ruling on the appointment of AA Kasosyo nominee Margaux “Mocha” Uson as deputy administrator of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) stands.
Fortun was referring to the Commission’s position that Uson was not covered by the one-year appointment ban on individuals who lost in the previous election because the prohibition applies only to the party-list and not to the nominee.
“So, the one-year appointment ban on losing candidates does not apply to Miss Mocha because she was, technically, not a candidate in the last elections, but her party-list. The ban applies to the party-list, not her, because she was only a nominee. Kailan po ba kayo nakarinig ng party-list na inappoint sa isang posisyon sa gobyerno? (Have you ever heard of a party-list group being appointed in the government?)” Fortun told dzMM.
Following the Comelec’s position on the issue, Fortun said the three-term limit for members of the House of Representatives should not apply to a party-list nominee who has served a third term.
“He or she can be a nominee for a fourth consecutive term because the candidate in the previous three elections was not him or her, but the party-list. Hence, he or she is not a candidate for a fourth term,” he said.
Elections spokesman James Jimenez, after Uson’s appointment, has said that party-list nominees are not actual candidates “so the rule does not apply to them.”
He cited Comelec Resolution 9366 which states that “nominees holding appointive or elective offices may continue to hold office even after acceptance of their nomination, and the one year prohibition from being hired or rehired in a public office after their party-list organizations fail to secure the needed votes to qualify them for a seat in the House of Representatives, will not apply to them.”
The same resolution provides that incumbent party-list representatives who are nominated in the party-list race will not be deemed resigned.
“Applying the same principle, does it follow that a party-list nominee holding a public post need not resign, or cannot be deemed resigned, because he or she is not a candidate?
Hindi niya kailangang mag-resign, o hindi siya considered resigned, dahil hindi naman siya kumakandidato (The nominee does not have to resign or not deemed resigned since he or she is not a candidate),” Fortun said.
Article 9b, Section 6 of the 1987 Constitution states that “no candidate who has lost in any election shall, within one year after such election, be appointed to any office in the government or any government-owned or controlled corporations or in any of their subsidiaries.”
Poll watchdog group Kontra Daya convenor Danilo Arao said the Comelec should review its rule on the applicability of the one-year ban in the appointment to any government position of losing party-list nominees.
Arao said the uproar caused by the appointment of Uson should already prompt action from the poll body.
“That losing party-list nominee Mocha Uson ended up as Deputy Administrator of the OWWA around four months after the May 2019 elections necessitates a review of the one-year ban in the appointment to any government position of losing candidates,” Arao said.
“While it is commendable for Commissioner Guanzon to push for the inclusion of losing party-list nominees, the Comelec, as an institution, should follow suit toward the harmonization of election rules,” he said.
Arao said the Comelec’s position on the issue is “bereft of logic.” “Even at the risk of stating the obvious, a party-list group can never be appointed to any government position,” he said.
He also said that it is questionable that losing party-list nominees are not covered by the one-year ban but that winning nominees are covered by the three-term rule.
“If the party-list representatives are covered by the same rules as their district representatives, then it should follow that the losing party-list nominees should also be treated in the same manner as the losing district representative candidates,” Arao said.
According to Comelec Minute Resolution No. 19-0677, the commission en banc ruled to contradict the opinion of its own law department stating that the one-year prohibition from being appointed in government is applicable to nominees of losing party-list groups.
“After due deliberation, the Commission resolves that the one-year prohibition from being appointed to a government position is not applicable to nominees of losing party-list groups as the nominees are not the candidates but rather the party-list itself,” said the Comelec resolution dated June 19, 2019. – With Wendell Vigilia and Gerard Naval
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Danny Bacher/WCS
Danny Bacher
“Still Happy”
Whaling City Sound Website
Danny Bacher Website
Photo: #1
Broadway World and Theatre Credits
Soundcloud “Hooray for Hollywood”
Still Happy Press Release
Publicity: Patch, Broadway World, Playbill, TAPinto East Hanover/Florham Park, Herald-Tribune, Boca Newspaper, CNS, JazzTimes, Broadway World, New York Jazz Record, O’s Place Jazz, The Island Now, The JW Vibe, Glide Magazine, Syncopated Times, JazzWeekly, , JAZZIZ Magazine, O’s Place Jazz Newsletter,, Jazz Quad (Russia), JazzFlits (Netherlands), Midwest Record Daily Record NJ.com Summer Jazz
Radio: Mike Carlson, JazzWeek 11.19.18, JazzWeek 11.12.18
CDs: Distribution: NAXOS of America
Liner Notes Credit: Jeff Levenson
Personnel: Personnel List for Back Cover
Detailed Personnel List for Booklet
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On Saturday, August 29 at 7 pm, you can join Danny Bacher, an award-winning singer/saxophonist and entertainer extraordinaire, as he holds court at the Mansion with Jason Teborek on piano and brings to you an unforgettable night of swingin’ jazz, American popular song, storytelling and laughs with his signature style and wit! Danny Bacher is an award-winning entertainer who is a master of the demanding soprano sax and who combines his virtuosity on the instrument with a talent for comedy and narrative storytelling. He’s a smooth and cool individual who makes hot jazz and pop, cut from the cloth of the great Louis Prima and Mel Torme.
All performances will happen rain or shine under the large wrap-around covered porch. Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center is located at 240 Belleville Avenue, Bloomfield, NJ. Visit NiCoriStudios.com for tickets and more information.
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Singer and saxophonist Danny Bacher will perform “Get Happy” as part of Lynn University’s Mabel Mabel Mercer Foundation’s Cabaret at Lincoln Center Comes to Live at Lynn on Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center. Bacher honors the three Louis—Armstrong, Jordan and Prima. Tickets cost $40.
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“The way I like to connect to my audience is through humor and lightness,” says saxophonist, vocalist, and feel-good entertainer Danny Bacher. “l like to convey a positive message.”
Delivered without irony, these sentiments serve as the baseline philosophy behind Still Happy, the follow-up to Danny’s debut recording of 2016, Swing That Music. Whether conveyed through words or deeds, they reflect Danny’s North Star mandate: He aims to please.
He is a pure soul, a humanist at heart, whose creativity aligns perfectly with a desire to spread joy. This record is the latest installment in Danny’s vision of a sing-along, bouncing-ball world. It is a simple reminder: In the hands of a master storyteller, music is magic.
Still Happy features an artful marriage of tunes and performance – Danny leads us through a musical amusement park for grown-ups, replete with razzle, dazzle and hold-your-breath meditations. There’s great humanity here – a coupling of warmth and Wow! – elevating our mood like a fireworks show at the Jersey shore.
And much to speak about: Allen Farnham’s nifty arrangements, crafted to energize Danny’s indefatigable spirit; a rhythm section plus horns plus percussion galvanized tight by purpose and desire (beautifully acknowledged in the artist’s special thank-you’s); Danny’s own “In Spite of All This, I’m Still Happy,” and “Joie de Vivre,” each complementing perfectly the project’s theme and variations; signature moments of song, style and wit, proving that Danny is a triple threat capable of killing (or, at least, injuring) a dedicated audience; and a wry yet reverential send-up of
“Hooray For Holiday,” a peek behind the dream factory curtain, replete with Danny’s original, happy-making lyrics (You’ll be splurgin’ to see a surgeon/He’ll make your tuchas look good…).
“Hollywood” proves to be a touchstone, a contrast to the album’s final track, “Cloudy/Nuages.” Together they reveal the yin and yang of Danny’s personality. The former is exuberant, bracing, filled with vivacity; the latter, ruminative, introspective, private.
One imagines that Danny reached back to the methods of ancient Greek actors, deploying the masks of comedy and tragedy to communicate emotion. These performances, however, are less binary than they appear. Nuance prevails. Danny aims for the heart (and feet) by endowing these tracks – and all others – with sophisticated subtlety.
One hears traces of calypso (“Get Happy”), and doo-wop (“Shaking The Blues Away”), and pure Billie Holiday (“Getting Some Fun Out of Life”).
Together, they – and all other tunes – constitute a clear affirmation of both concept and execution.
So, while Danny makes clear that he is still happy, repeated spins of this record reveal there’s a band and a producer who feel exactly the same way. Fans to follow. Guaranteed.
Jeff Levenson
Produced by Jeff Levenson
Executive Producers: Joel M. Bacher, Danny Bacher
Recorded at Teaneck Sound Studio,
October 17th – 18th, 2018
Recording Engineer Dave Kowalski
Mixing Engineer: Jon D’uva
Mastered by Greg Calbi, Sterling Sound
Danny Bacher – Vocals, Soprano Saxophone
Allen Farnham – Piano
Dean Johnson – Bass
Alvester Garnett – Drums
Harry Allen – Tenor Saxophone
Charles Caranicas -Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Rolando Morales-Matos – Percussion:
All arrangements by Allen Farnham
Co-arranged by Danny Bacher
Danny Bacher uses Silverstein Ligatures
Alvester Garnett plays D’Amico Drums
Harry Allen plays D’Addario Select Jazz Reeds
Rolando Morales-Matos plays Pearl Percussion
Artist Thank-You’s
To the following, I want to express my deepest gratitude and heartfelt thanks for making this all possible.
First, to my beautiful and supportive wife Erin, for all of her love, understanding and inspiration; my parents, Jane and Joel, for helping me realize my dreams, for all their love and support, and for putting me on this planet; my brother Josh, sister-in-law Nadia, and little niece Millie, for their help and love, in life and on this project; my grandmother “MaMa” Jean, who helped shape who I am today, and whose valuable lessons in life I cherish always; and my grandmother Ann and grandfathers Harvey and Herb, whom I miss everyday and hold dear in my mind, spirit and heart.
To all of my loving family, loyal fans and, of course, “Bacher’s Backers,” who helped get me to a financial place much appreciated for this recording project. Special thanks to Dr. Daniel Suffin (“DS”); Yanni, Arlene, and li’l Eddie Kaloudis; John McLellan; Carol Scibelli; David Rousso; and Uncle Jon and Aunt Kathy Van Orden. And of course, much love and thanks to the machatunim, Toni, Chuck, and Mikey!
To all of my artistic friends that have given me such guidance and advice through this process, including: Steve Tyrell, Marilyn Maye, Roseanna Vitro, Nancy Marano, Barbara Maier, KT Sullivan, Bob Mover, Ed Joffe, Jason Teborek, Alexis Cole, Chris Byars, Dominic Chianese, Debbi Bush-Whiting, Marilyn Lester, Angelo Badalamenti, the late Lois Laurel Hawes, Richard Cramer, Bill Boggs, Steve Frumkin, Will Friedwald, and all my fellow Friars.
To my band: what an honor to have the support of such tremendous talents! Harry Allen, a true titan on the tenor; Charlie Caranicas, a marvel on trumpet and flugelhorn; Dean Johnson, a solid-rock time-keeper with a heart of gold; Alvester Garnett, the jovial spirit and heartbeat of the ensemble; Rolando Morales-Matos, for his mastery of percussion; and of course to my co-arranger and pianist, Allen Farnham, whose genius in arranging, abilities on the 88’s, and great attention to detail have been crucial to the success of this project.
I must also express gratitude to my producer, Jeff Levenson, whose artful mastery at the helm, both in and out of the studio, was exactly the right balance needed to take this album to heights that I couldn’t have foreseen.
Also, I must thank my family at Whaling City Sound, Neal Weiss and Ginny Shea, for believing in this project. And a special note of thanks to Ashley Perez; Andrea Valentini and Dave Kowalski at Teaneck Sound; Jon D’Uva, a master mixer; and Greg Calbi, the masterer in the mix!
In closing, making this record was a joy from start to finish, and I hope that after you have a listen, like myself, you’ll be “Still Happy!”
Enjoy! -Danny Bacher
01. Getting Some Fun Out of Life (Burke/Leslie, BMG Gold Songs, Burke Music Co, ASCAP)
02. Laughing At Life (Briand/Saban, Cezame Metro Park, BMI)
03. In Spite of All This, I’m Still Happy (Bacher, Danny Bacher Music, ASCAP)
04. Shakin’ The Blues Away (Chuck, Chappell Edzioni, WB Music, ASCAP)
05. Hooray For Hollywood (Whiting/Mercer, Warner Bros Inc, ASCAP) Additional lyrics by Danny Bacher
06. Lucky To Be Me (Bernstein/Comdon/Green, Leonard Bernstein Music, Warner Bros, ASCAP)
07. Joie De Vivre (Bacher, Danny Bacher Music, ASCAP)
08. This Happy Madness Jobim/De Moraes/Lees, Corcavado Music, VA, BMI)
09. Joy Spring (Brown/Hendricks, Cherio, Melody Lane, Second Floor, BMI) Additional lyrics by Danny Bacher
10. Lazy Afternoon (Moross/La Touche, Chappell, Sony ATV Tunes, ASCAP)
11. Get Happy (Arlen/Koehler, SA Music, Warner Bros, ASCAP)
12. Cloudy/Nuages (Biederbecke/Reinhardt, ASCAP
JazzFlits, volume 14, no. 257
Swing That Music
Danny Bacher (vocals, soprano saxophone), Cyrille Aimée (vocals), Warren Vaché (cornet), Pete McGuinness (trombone), Dave Demsey, Houston Person (tenor saxophones), Jason Teborek (piano), Howard Alden (guitar), Ray Drummond (bass), Bill Goodwin (drums),
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JAZZ ON RECORD
The swing and rhythm & blues, which developed alongside bebop in the 1940s, are still being used as a source of inspiration. British pop singer Joe Jackson already revived the festive jump & jive in a distant past. Over here, in the Netherlands, we have (had) several bands which did the same. The name Jump’n Jive from Zwolle comes to mind. And the Amsterdam Bob Color, although they moved onto rock ’n roll. At the time, that was also the direction this music took: swing – jump ’n jive/rhythm & blues – rock ’n roll. But all this aside.
Danny Bacher is a young American singer, who knows his business. You can hear a touch of Michael Bublé in him, but with plenty of drive and lots of swinging. Bacher has a lot of fun performing, and it shows. He draws from the work of Louis Jordan for the jump and rhythm & blues. He gets ballads from Louis Armstrong, and polite rock ’n roll from Louis Prima, including the medley ‘Just a gigolo/I ain’t got nobody’. Upon first hearing, Bacher uses the possibilities which are given to him a bit politely, but equally lashes out considerably. He’s not only a singer, but also the soprano saxophonist. Bacher moves through the repertoire with ease, aided here and there by the French-American singer Cyrille Aimée. Of course she takes care of ‘La vie en rose’, sung in French. I suspect a lot of dancing goes on during his concerts. This music demands it.
Hessel Fluitman, translated from Dutch by Nico Cartenstadt
Background/Bio:
Danny Bacher is a bright new star on the jazz landscape with a distinctive voice and a gift for phrasing. Says The New York Times, “Swing That Music is effortless fun in a tribute to jazz forerunners. It is about making hot music but staying cool, about cutting up while maintaining effortless self-control revealing Bacher to be prodigiously talented.” With his unusually warm, soulful soprano sax sound and a swingin’ “A LIST” band of jazz royalty, you’ve got the next “new classic” album, Swing that Music! Bacher’s dynamic debut pays homage to three iconic fire-brand “Louis’:” Armstrong, Prima and Jordan, with rare gems from each of their original repertoires. Executive and post-produced by world class jazz Producer, Suzi Reynolds, with Grammy-nominated vocalist Roseanna Vitro as Producer, Bacher is set to launch straight onto the stages and into the hearts of music lovers around the world. Vitro confirms, “Danny is reminiscent of ‘triple talent’ icons like Louis Armstrong and Sammy Davis, Jr. He’s a serious jazz musician who holds his own improvising on sax or scatting with the best musicians on the scene…he has a natural flair for comedy and a voice full of soul.”
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Jan 9, 2013 5:32 PM EST
ArteQuesta launches its Israeli Masters Collection, announces Rayah Levy and Jessica Jacobson, co-founders of ArteQuesta. This collection is the culmination of a decade of work to gather and preserve historically significant art works by Israeli Master Artists during Israel’s emergence as the Jewish state.
MILL VALLEY, Calif. /Mortgage and Finance News/ — ArteQuesta launches its Israeli Masters Collection, announces Rayah Levy and Jessica Jacobson, co-founders of ArteQuesta. This collection is the culmination of a decade of work to gather and preserve historically significant art works by Israeli Master Artists during Israel’s emergence as the Jewish state.
The collection features 30 artists, including Yaacov Agam, Reuven Rubin, Moshe Castel, Arieh Lubin, Emmanuel Mane-Katz, Menashe Kadishman, Yosl Bergner, Yohanan Simon and others to be announced. ArteQuesta collected and assembled many of these works from the families of the artists and original collectors dating from 1907-1980’s, protecting the works from being sold at auction, and preserving the provenance of each piece.
“These works are the visual documentation of the movement that revitalized and rebirthed the vibrant cultural heritage of the establishment of the state of Israel,” said Rayah Levy. “More than fine art, these are Israel’s cultural assets and portray its rich history and culture. These treasures tell the story of how the Jewish people used the arts to redefine their traditions in their homeland of Israel.”
The ArteQuesta Israeli Masters Collection is a visual record of the creation of the country and new culture of Israel through the eyes of its most prominent 20th Century Artists. ArteQuesta lends its network, personal passion and expertise in the art market to locate, identify and collect museum archival Judaic and Israeli art, with a focus on the nearly 50 years leading up to and following Israel’s emergence as a state in 1948.
“We are grateful for the influential art supporters and collectors such as Bruno Abramovitz and his son Motti Abramovitz, who have helped preserve Israeli art history by sponsoring many of these artists early in their careers and have provided us with access to their family’s museum quality collection,” said Levy.
ArteQuesta’s goal is to reach more collectors and patrons who wish to participate in the preservation of these artworks so that the provenance of each can be maintained and the heritage of Israel’s legacy can be conserved.
“Few of Israel’s masterful historic works are available anywhere,” said Levy. “Some can be found in museums, but many were purchased privately and are hidden from the public, sold at auction without provenance, or stolen during World War II. Our effort will help future generations understand the rich history and culture of Israel.”
ArteQuesta is committed to preserving cultures through the fine arts, and will put these same efforts to work for other cultures.
“ArteQuesta’s mission is to conserve cultural assets for many different cultures through building collections of historically significant art works and sharing those collections with patrons and public institutions,” said Jessica Jacobson, co-founder. “This is how we can help to promote the positive ways many cultures have impacted the world and tell our collective stories through the visual arts.”
About ArteQuesta:
ArteQuesta provides services to individual and corporate fine art collectors to build and manage art collections that deliver both short and long-term financial growth. It is recognized as a leading advisor in building investment-quality art collections for private and corporate clients including major banks and investment firms.
Launched in 2011, its founders Rayah Levy, art market and investment expert and curator, and Jessica Jacobson, education advocate and humanitarian, bring together the fine arts and the investment world, promote preeminent 21st century artists, and cultivate self-development as an artistic expression of humankind. For more information, please visit http://www.artequesta.com/ or follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/ArteQuesta .
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IndyCar: Happy 20th birthday to Ganassi rising star Sage Karam
Prior to Ryan Hunter-Reay’s news late Thursday afternoon of a new arrival in his family, there was already one birthday we were planning on noting today.
Sage Karam (far right, at Mardi Gras), who will make his second career Verizon IndyCar Series start and first as a member of Chip Ganassi Racing in the season-opening Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, turns 20 today.
The 2013 Indy Lights champion starred in his IndyCar debut in last year’s Indianapolis 500, and has also made some impressive drives in a handful of TUDOR United SportsCar Championship appearances aboard one of CGR’s Riley-Ford Daytona Prototypes.
He’s also earned the moniker “SK$” as a nickname.
Woohoo! 20 years old! It's been an awesome first 20 years! What a ride it was. Can't wait for the next 20!
— Sage Karam (@SageKaram) March 5, 2015
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Note Mike Hull’s picture here, above. The team managing director tweeted a photo of a transporter bearing Karam’s likeness, and it also includes his longtime sponsors Comfort Revolution and Big Machine Records.
As one keen-eyed observer, Chris (better known as @AndHesOnIt on Twitter), noted, this may be a sign of things to come relating to the rest of the season for Karam and the fourth CGR entry. Right now, the No. 8 GE LED Chevrolet is confirmed just for St. Petersburg.
You don't wrap a transporter for one race, right?
— Chris (@andhesonit) March 5, 2015
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Mercedes lodges then withdraws appeal against Verstappen in Suzuka
By Luke SmithOct 9, 2016, 7:18 AM EDT
Mercedes has withdrawn its appeal against Max Verstappen’s second-place finish in Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix after initially challenging the FIA’s decision not to penalize the Dutchman for erratic driving.
Lewis Hamilton went wheel-to-wheel with Verstappen in the closing stages of the Formula 1 race at Suzuka, with the Red Bull driver defending second place all the way to the checkered flag.
However, Mercedes informed the FIA after the race that it would be appealing the race result under article 27.5 of the sporting regulations which reads: “At no time may a car be driven unnecessarily slowly, erratically or in a manner which could be deemed potentially dangerous to other drivers or any other person.”
Mercedes felt that Verstappen’s actions at the Casio Triangle on the penultimate lap of the race that forced Hamilton to take evasive action overstepped the mark.
The FIA was informed of Mercedes’ wish to appeal the result, but when the stewards commenced the hearing, neither Hamilton nor Verstappen was in attendance or able to offer evidence.
The stewards decided to postpone the hearing to the next race in Austin, Texas, prompting Mercedes to withdraw the appeal when it became clear that a final race result could not be confirmed at Suzuka had it persisted.
“We have done this in the interests of establishing a final official result this evening once it became apparent that the hearing cannot be concluded today,” a Mercedes spokesperson said.
Hamilton took to Twitter to say that he did not want the result to be protested.
There is no protest from myself. Just heard the team had but I told them it is not what we do. We are champions, we move on. End of!
— Lewis Hamilton (@LewisHamilton) October 9, 2016
Hamilton tweeted and quickly deleted another tweet just before the above message.
“There is no protest from either myself or Mercedes,” Hamilton wrote. “One idiot said we have but it’s not true. Max drove well, end of. We move on.”
This is the initial tweet, which has now been deleted #JapaneseGP#bbcf1 pic.twitter.com/ahJXEcJQKe
— BBCF1 (@bbcf1) October 9, 2016
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DiZinno: Red Bull GRC LA showcases series potential in full display
By Tony DiZinnoOct 13, 2016, 1:21 PM EDT
Photo: Chris Tedesco/Red Bull Content Pool
The running joke that’s gone on about me and races for more than four years at a rather consistent clip is that when I attend a race, it rains. It started as an inside joke among me and a few friends prior to the 2012 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach and grew greater legs from there as more people got on. And thus, the hashtag #BlameTony was born.
I use that as a setup to note that the two prior Red Bull Global Rallycross races I’d attended on site prior to this weekend’s Red Bull GRC Los Angeles presented by Honda at the Port of Los Angeles were also rain-affected, in last year’s season finale at Las Vegas and earlier this year at the MCAS (Marine Corps Air Station) New River military base. The internal hope for me this weekend was that I wouldn’t provide Red Bull GRC a trifecta of rain at events I’d been at.
Mitchell DeJong. Photo: Chris Tedesco/Red Bull Content Pool
Luckily, we were blessed with perfect weather at the Port of Los Angeles all weekend, and the picturesque backdrop served as a phenomenally better year-on-year season finale for the burgeoning championship, compared to last year’s rain-drenched finale in Vegas.
Red Bull GRC was mixed in among SEMA week last year in Las Vegas, and with so many from the motorsports industry on site in Las Vegas for that, it felt as though Red Bull GRC was not the featured attraction. Having the race schedule on an awkward Tuesday-Wednesday set up was also tougher by comparison to the usual Saturday-Sunday affair, and by bringing the finale to L.A., that alleviated that concern this year.
Crowd. Photo: Chris Tedesco/Red Bull Content Pool
For starters, it’s apparent how much Red Bull GRC has caught on in L.A. This is the series’ headquarters, and it’s notable how many fans were already aware of what the series has to offer. A simple walk back to the paddock Saturday morning after checking in at the track rather surprised me, because there was a long line of fans waiting to get in the facility and watch the day’s action.
Red Bull GRC’s style of quick, rapid-fire races plays well here. When you have such a short track – 0.699 of a mile on this occasion – you can sit anywhere, whether in the GA or Honda preferred grandstands, or even watch from the Red Bull VIP area of the SS Lane Victory, and have a majestic view of the entire facility. There is not a bad seat in the house, and you’re treated to a show as the door-banging style of rallycross racing takes center stage from there.
The event layout here was slightly different than at MCAS or Las Vegas. All the manufacturer display areas are outside the track site, on the midway walk into the facility. They’re highlighted so that as you walk into the track site, you can check out what you want to check out first, and then be treated to the action once you were through the main gate.
Food trucks at Red Bull GRC. Photo: Tony DiZinno
Food trucks lined the track site as well, providing a bevy of surprisingly amazing options for fans at the circuit. Never in a million years did I think I’d be eating lobster tacos and New England clam chowder out of a food truck at a race track, but lo and behold thanks to Cousins Maine Lobster, I did on Sunday. And that was one of several eclectic options.
The only recommendation I would make going forward to amplify that is to have a shaded seating area after picking up the food; with sun-drenched afternoons both days, going into sunlight to eat the food you just acquired is a less than perfect scenario.
The level of interest from key IndyCar stakeholders was present all weekend throughout the paddock, and there was talk of potential new manufacturers looking around and scoping things out to see if they’ll join the field for 2017. Honda joined this year to run against Volkswagen, Ford and Subaru.
Then, perhaps most importantly, there was the racing itself. With this the last race weekend of the season, and championships on the line, the racing was tenacious – but fair. It was entertaining as all get out, too. A moment when Joni Wiman (No. 31 Honda Red Bull Olsbergs MSE Honda Civic Coupe) and David Higgins (No. 75 Subaru Rally Team USA Subaru WRX-STi) collided in mid-air over the jump was insane to witness.
Austin Dyne somehow drove the near entirety of the second race on Sunday with his hood up on his No. 14 AD Racing Ford Fiesta ST. Supercars debutantes Tanner Whitten (No. 07 SH Rallycross/DRR Ford) and Mitchell DeJong (No. 24 Honda Red Bull OMSE Honda) impressed in their first weekends in the big show.
Speed leads. Photo: Chris Tedesco/Red Bull Content Pool
And then, the title battles themselves were so much fun to watch as the tension built over each race’s respective final. The Supercars final was first up on Sunday, and it set up as a strategic chess match once Patrik Sandell (No. 18 Bryan Herta Rallysport Ford) got into the lead ahead of the pair of Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross #PinkBeetles of Scott Speed (No. 41 Beetle GRC) and Tanner Foust (No. 34 Beetle GRC) and then, lurking in fourth, was Brian Deegan (No. 38 Chip Ganassi Rallycross Ford).
Foust was in the difficult position of knowing he needed to get around Speed to secure the title, but he also wanted to race clean, fair and square against his teammate. While Sandell led, the question was whether Speed would make a mistake to open the door for Foust to make it through.
Then, on the second-to-last lap, it all changed. Speed went for the lead and Sandell and achieved it… only to see Deegan pull off the Honda Joker Lap move to end all Honda Joker Lap moves and leapfrog from fourth to first in one car. The “general” of Metal Mulisha laid down the law with this passing move, and would not be denied.
It made for an epic finish, as Deegan broke a five-year winless drought, and Speed secured the title over Foust, a hard-luck second. As Speed won and soaked up the moment, Deegan erupted in celebration, even taking the top of his firesuit off as the crowd roared.
This was merely the appetizer to the GRC Lites finale in the afternoon. Somehow, Cabot Bigham of Dreyer & Reinbold Racing pulled off a last-to-first run, after getting into second on the first lap after a first corner fracas where Olsbergs MSE X Forces teammates Oliver Eriksson and Miki Weckstrom saw their title hopes compromised.
Throughout the weekend, with the combination of the staff’s hard work, the perfect weather, the solid viewing, food and display options for fans and the great racing, it was obvious that a weekend like this is what makes Red Bull GRC sellable, and what makes it both fun and on the rise.
Note: The full Los Angeles event will re-air this Sunday, Oct 16 on NBCSN, from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET.
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WOMEN LEAD: On Gender Equity, UHC, and Family Planning
The May issue of the MSH Global Health Impact newsletter (subscribe) features stories on gender equity, UHC, and family planning including:
Add Your Voice: "WOMEN LEAD with..."
"Women lead with... her rights"
A version of this post originally appeared on the LMGforHealth.org blog.
(Photos by Sarah Lindsay, Rachel Hassinger, Willow Gerber, and Barbara Ayotte / MSH)
Video: Why Universal Health Coverage is a Women's Issue: MSH President Dr. Quick at Women Deliver
MSH President Jonathan D. Quick on "Why UHC is a Women's Issue"
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How Do We Measure Impact? The Seven "Cs"
From left to right: Sara Bennett, Eric Sarriot, Kenneth Sklaw and the author, Reshma Trasi.Photo credit: LMG
Cross-posted with permission from the LMGforHealth.org blog.
I had the pleasure and privilege of moderating a stimulating discussion, hosted by the USAID-funded AIDSTAR-Two project entitled, "Organizational Capacity Development: How Do We Measure Impact?".
The thoughtful and brilliant panelists Sara Bennett, Associate Professor in the Health Systems Program at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Eric Sarriot, founder and director of the Center for Design and Research in Sustainable Health and Human Development at ICF International; and Kenneth Sklaw, Team Lead for the Capacity Building Team in the Office of HIV/AIDS within USAID validated and challenged my thinking on ways to measure the results of organizational capacity development—which is core to the work that the LMG Project does around the world.
Welcome to the New MSH.org
Benjamin Greenberg
Did you notice that our website looks and feels really different?
We've redesigned and rebuilt our site from the ground up: showcasing our unique technical expertise and staff, values, global footprint, and mission to save lives and improve health among the poorest and most vulnerable around the world.
We also have integrated our Global Health Impact blog into the website to continue cutting-edge discussions on global health.
And we've made the new MSH.org easier to use.
Learn more about the new MSH.org
Watch the short video -- and see some of the new features firsthand:
New Global Social Service Workforce Alliance Launched
A new global network for addressing critical social service workforce issues has formed, called the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance (@SSWAlliance" href="https://twitter.com/SSWAlliance">@SSWAlliance). Comprised of organizations and individuals, the SSWAlliance: "recognizes the key challenges facing this workforce and aims to promote the knowledge and evidence, resources and tools and political will and action needed to address them, especially within low to middle income countries."
Amy Bess, coordinator, introduced the SSWAlliance via webinars on June 6 and 7, 2013.
Ummuro Adano, a steering committee member of the SSWAlliance, and a principal technical advisor at MSH, said:
'Victory for First Amendment Rights of NGOs': GHC Lauds Supreme Court Decision
Photo credit: kjetil_r via Flickr
In a landmark 6-2 decision, the US Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a 2003 law requiring organizations that receive US government funding for global health work on HIV & AIDS to have a policy explicitly opposing prostitution. The plaintiffs in the USAID v. AOSI case included the Global Health Council (GHC), Pathfinder, the Alliance for Open Society International (AOSI), and InterAction.
In a letter to GHC members, Jonathan D. Quick, MD, MPH, chairman of the GHC board of directors and MSH president and CEO, said:
From Capitol Hill to Cambridge: Highlighting Community Health Workers and Maternal and Child Health in Fragile States
Dr. Florence Guillaume, Minister of Health of Haiti.Photo credit: MSH/Filmona Hailemichael
On June 7, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) and partners hosted Dr. Florence Guillaume, the Minister of Health of Haiti, and panelists for a Capitol Hill luncheon on community health workers in fragile states. The day before, MSH hosted Guillaume in Cambridge, MA, for a town-hall style event on improving maternal and child health. Revisit the two events through a "Storify" story of photos, text, and tweets.
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Distributing New Shoes to Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Lesotho
Johanna Theunissen
Photo credit: MSH/Johanna Theunissen
Cross-posted with permission from the Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Regional Exchange (SHARE).
I used to smile at the sentimental nickname for Lesotho, “The Mountain Kingdom.” Following a few visits to the capital Maseru, I had the opportunity to travel to the district of Mokhotlong, in the east of the country. Here I discovered that this term is more literal than symbolic, and no laughing matter. Narrow gravel roads with incredible switchback turns had me engaging in lively discussion in the car to avoid thinking about how close I was to the edge. More important than experiencing the rugged beauty of the physical landscape, it was on this trip that I began to discover and appreciate the grace and resilience of Lesotho’s people. A subsequent trip to Mohale’s Hoek, a district south of Maseru (further explained below) reinforced my growing admiration.
Post-2015: Sustainable Health Development Requires UHC: Dr. Quick on Devex
Jonathan D. Quick, MD, MPH
Photo credit: MSH
This post originally appeared on Devex.com.
The Afghan health system was in shambles after the Taliban government was chased from power in December 2001. Immunization rates had fallen below 20 percent and nine out of ten women were on their own for labor and delivery. Suhaila Seddiqi, newly appointed as public health minister, could have begun her tenure with highly visible and politically popular moves like building hospitals in the major cities. She didn’t. Instead, she led the development of a basic package of essential primary care services and coordinated its delivery to Afghans throughout the country, including remote rural areas. It worked. By 2010, twice as many Afghans had access to family planning, maternal deaths were down by two thirds, and reductions in child mortality had saved 150,000 lives.
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Over 100 years of developing the Cadillac brand (Part 2)
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With a capacity of 5.4 liters and a capacity of 160 horsepower, the engine has become the model for the entire US automobile industry. Cadillac is regarded as the leading name in terms of design, engine power and performance.
Once again, the competitors were put in the chasing position. The 1949 Coupe de Ville was at the forefront of the trend Manufacture of hardtop chassis without middle pillars. Not a creator, but Cadillac and other brands of General Motors have contributed greatly to make this model popular.
By then, Cadillac held the number one spot for luxury cars in Detroit, the heart of the American auto industry. The name Cadillac is almost synonymous with the term honor, quality, and style. In 1953 the famous Eldorado convertible was introduced.
In 1957, Cadillac released a stainless steel convertible sedan, competing with Rolls-Royce in terms of equipment and price ($ 13,075). Eldorado Brougham stands out thanks to its air suspension and V8 engine. Over time, the name Cadillac grew.
The company reached its peak in the late 1960s and ’70s with its 2-wheel drive Eldorado 8-liter V8 engine. In 1976, the small but luxurious Seville car immediately achieved great success and once again became the trend of America.
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After this period, Cadillac began a period of decline. In the 1980s, Cadillac suffered three failures. The engines V8, V6 and V4 made in 1981 were not of high quality. In the same year, the Cimarron J-Car received market indifference.
The same gloomy fate is the Allante convertible car in 1986. Cadillac’s difficulties are not beyond the decline of more than a decade of American cars compared to other car manufacturers from Japan and Europe.
By the late ’80s, Mercedes-Benz cars, with good looks, excellent quality and high prices, overturned Cadillac’s leading position. If you see a Cadillac parked in front of a whole house and a Mercedes parked in the next house, one will conclude that the owner of the Mercedes owns a better car. At least he paid more for his things.
But Cadillac began its search for aura and the first attempt was to make the Seville STS in 1992. In 1993, it was fitted with a Northstar V8 dual camshaft engine. Not yet regained the dominance it has held throughout much of its development history, but it looks like Cadillac is on its way to the top of the top brands.
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California early educators are calling upon Governor Gavin Newsom, California Department of Public Health, and California Health & Human Services to prioritize child care personnel in the proposed rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations among essential workers.
Over the last nine months, California childcares have collectively provided care for the hundreds of thousands of young children across California. Many of our programs suffered Covid-19 outbreaks, insolvency, and significant loss of qualified staff due to Covid-19 fears. But we remained open to care for and educate California’s young children.
Broad vaccination among child care personnel will act as a backstop for our critical infrastructure by ensuring the health of our essential personnel which enables front-line workers to do their job, unlocks care for working families, and protects care for California's vulnerable young children.
Enables front-line workers to do their job
The childcare workforce can only continue to support our essential health workers if they are vaccinated. More than 5,600 child care programs have closed, and the number of parents, children and child care providers who have contracted covid has increased to 2,474 as of December 16, up from 1000 in early September. Without healthy child care personnel, child care programs close, and without child care, health and other front-line workers can’t go to work.
Teachers, farmworkers, grocery store employees may get COVID vaccine next
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday afternoon during a press briefing that early vaccination supply goes to the state’s roughly 3 million frontline workers first.
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Unlocks Care for Working Families
A childcare's closure results in lost care for working families and low-income families, meaning all too often women have to leave the workforce to care for their children. It means lost jobs for teachers, and a deepening of socioeconomic divides. When a childcare closes, the spots are lost forever, and local impact lasts for decades.
Vaccinating child care personnel will reassure families it’s safe to re-enroll children, stem fears among teachers, and enable childcares to avoid permanent closure. This stops the loss of thousands of childcare spots for working families and families in need.
Protects Care for Vulnerable Young Children
Children are dependent on adults and the wider society for their well-being, and setbacks in well-being during childhood can have severe negative and sometimes permanent effects that can last a lifetime.
Although children are less subject to direct morbidity and mortality impacts of infection from COVID-19 when compared to other age groups, they have suffered significantly in other ways during the COVID-19 pandemic. Public fear of Covid-19 has resulted in families withdrawing their children from care, and teachers leaving the workforce.
This results in significant lifelong educational and social impacts. The extent of learning loss and its impact on life prospects is expected to be far greater for children living in poverty or in otherwise disadvantaged groups.
Vaccinating child care personnel will ensure the safety of our critical child care infrastructure and return child care and education services to a functioning, albeit deeply damaged, essential resource for California families.
We ask Governor Newsom, the California Department of Health, the California Health & Human Services, and the Community Vaccine Advisory Committee to continue prioritizing early childhood personnel among essential workers for the Covid-19 vaccine.
First, sign and share the petition below.
And secondly, consider supporting organizations supporting this cause: sign up for a membership with CQEL and give to the Child Care Law Center.
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Saturday | April 21, 2018
Northmoor Country Club 820 Edgewood Rd. Highland Park, IL 60035
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NAMI CCNS Supporters,
On Saturday evening we had a wonderful gala to recognize veterans and the challenges they face…Finding Peace After War..a journey no veteran should ever have to travel alone.
Thank you to our speakers, Mrs. Amy Miner and her journey with her veteran husband trying to find peace and Hon. Patrick J. Murphy, recent under-secretary of the Army and his views on veterans and finding solutions to the issues they face. NAMI CCNS has new programs to meet the challenges of veterans needs,NAMI Homefront, Stable-ity (equine therapy) and our new veteran support group coming in July 2018.
Each of you make a difference, NAMI CCNS can and will improve the lives of people living with a mental illness. Thank you to our attendees, our sponsors, our volunteers and all who meet the challenge of ending the stigma! Thank you to our 2018 chairs Steve and Ronna Warshauer, you give us all the inspiration to fulfill the mission.
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Thank you to all of our 2018 NAMI CCNS Sponsors! Without you, we could never deliver our mental health services to the Chicagoland communities we serve!
Steve , Ronna & Stanley Warshauer $20,000 Medal of Honor Zall Family Fund $5,000 Silver Star Susan Levy $5,000 Silver Star Chris Kyle Frog Foundation $2,500 Bronze Star Marcie & Avy Stein $2,500 Bronze Star Remke Industries $2,500 Bronze Star Golub & Company $2,500 Bronze Star Thresholds $2,500 Bronze Star Spot Hero $2,500 Bronze Star NorthShore University Healthsystem $1,000 Meritorious Service Benchmark Construction $1,500 Meritorious Service American Hotel Registar Company/in honor of Chris Pawlowski $1,500 Meritorious Service Takeda $1,000 Meritorious Service Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital $1,000 Meritorious Service Lisa Doig $1,000 Meritorious Service Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois $1,000 Meritorious Service
Thank you to all that donated to this special event!
First Name Last Name Amount In honor of: John & Linda Hinde Air Diffusion Systems $250 TA Bauer $25 John & Theresa Berg $200 Richard & Judith Berkowitz $500 Steve & Ronna Warshauer Lexis Blitstein $50.00 Wei Shen Bridgeconnect Foundation $100 Laura Cooper Rob & Belinda Brock $200 Steve & Ronna Warshauer John Brooklier $100 Glen & Ann Dalhart $250 Jorge & Susan Delcastillo $100 David & Edith DeMar $200 Mario Donato $500 Leonora Gatewood $200 Lonny Gold $250 Mary Halpin $250 Nancy Hug $100 Rick & Nanci Kahn $500 Sandy & Lauren Kessler $500 Dr. Ronald & Geraldine Krasner $150 Michael & Susan Kuhn $400 Allen & Genie Kutchins $100 Barbara McDonough $100 Sharon Oberlander $500 HM Palmer $75 Jerry & Nina Pate $500 Grant Bagan Pont Partners, LLC $250 Joan Rose $250 Frank Saracco $225 Robert & Georganne Schweickert $100 Michael & Andrea Shindler $600 Steve & Ronna Warshauer Sonja Shiner $25 Mark Lawrence Spot Hero $2,500 Rondald & Julie Stepp $100 Mark DeCleene Susan Stern $250 Carol & Myron Warshauer $300 Garry & Lisa Wolfson/Seltzer $100 Steve & Ronna Warshauer
2018 NAMI CCNS Gala Guest Speaker | Honorable Patrick J. Murphy
Change Agent | Ed Tech Innovator | Vetrepreneur
The Honorable Patrick J. Murphy is America's first Iraq War veteran elected to the U.S. Congress and later served as the 32nd Under Secretary of the Army until January 2017. Secretary Murphy is currently the Distinguished Chair of Innovation at the United States Military Academy at West Point, a Senior Fellow at the Association of the U.S. Army, a media executive, and the Executive Chairman of Work Merk™, a professional education platform that bridges the gap between corporations and higher education.
As the Acting Secretary and Under Secretary, he led the management and operation of the Army—a Fortune 10-sized organization with a workforce 1.3 million,$148 billion budget as well as being the nation’s largest employer of millennials with over 130 thousand hired in 2016. Transforming a more innovative and responsive workforce led to an expansion of the Soldier for Life initiative, which saved $340M in FY16 and was instrumental in reaching recruitment goals for the first time in five years. Secretary Murphy also facilitated unprecedented public-private partnerships generating over $250M in savings, from Major League Baseball to 20th Century Fox. His aggressive and authentic use of social media to tell the Army story helped lead to an 18% growth across all platforms while managing a $240 million advertising budget. Also led coordination effort to allow first-ever access by registered veterans to Army Air Force Exchange online stores in order to better connect active troops with 20 million veterans, increasing in annual revenue to over $6.7 billion.
An award-winning media executive, he founded the production company Taking the Hill, which creates television, films and digital content. His current projects include Unconquered (Epix, 2018), Almost Sunrise (PBS, 2017), and Thank You For Your Service (Dreamworks/Universal Films, 2017). Previously, Patrick was host and executive producer for Taking The Hill (2011–2015), and The Triumph Games (CBS Sports, 2015–2016). He authored the book Taking the Hill: From Philly to Baghdad to the United States Congress, (Henry Holt, 2008) and has been profiled in When Trains Collide (PBS, 2017), Strange History of Don't Ask Don't Tell (HBO, 2012), Taking The Hill (Discovery, 2007), Patrick Murphy: Born To Lead (PBS, 2004), and a 2016 Washington Post article where he was nicknamed the ‘Soldier’s Secretary.’.
The nation’s youngest Democratic U.S. congressman from 2007 to 2011, from the the Eighth Congressional District of Pennsylvania, Congressman Murphy served on the Armed Services, Select Intelligence, and Appropriations committees responsible for the $3.4 trillion budget. He authored and co-authored several Veterans initiatives including the 21st Century GI Bill, the Repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and Hire Our Heroes legislation. The 21st Century GI has allowed 2.7 million post-9/11 veterans access to higher education, leading to over 450 thousand post-secondary certificates earned as of 2017. After joining the Army at nineteen he graduated from the Airborne and Air Assault courses and served in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps as a criminal prosecutor and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York. Following 9/11, immediately volunteered and served two overseas combat deployments – Tuzla, Bosnia
(2002) and Baghdad, Iraq (2003–2004). While serving in Iraq as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division, he led a Brigade Operational Law Team (BOLT) and earned a Bronze Star for his service.
At age 27, Captain Murphy was the youngest professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Taught constitutional law and the law of war, eventually leading the first-ever Law of War military academy competition at the Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and has lectured at Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Air Force Academy and the Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy. He is a graduate of King’s College Army ROTC Program and the Widener University Commonwealth School of Law, where he currently serves as a Trustee. He and his wife Jenni have two young children, Maggie and Jack, and reside in Pennsylvania.
Special Speaker | Amy Miner - Author & Mother
We are very proud to have this courageous woman, Amy Miner, joining us at this year's GALA. Amy Miner is a contributing author in the book, The Fire Within.
Amy Miner's late husband's fight did not end when he left the war. Instead, as with many veterans, Kryn Miner's battle against the emotional scars of a long military career was just beginning when he returned home after 11 deployments in 7 years!
His life came to a tragic end, not at the hands of the enemy, but at the hands of his PTSD.
Since losing her husband, Amy Miner has vowed to bring attention to the need for better treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.
Amy's story is one of truth, love and loss that must be heard!
Our 2018 NAMI Gala will focus on what we can do to help military service members, veterans, and their families cope with a mental health condition.
Just because our service members make it home does not mean that their battle is over:
25% of current military service members have signs of a mental health condition.
14% of individuals deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
14% have major depression
19% have experienced a probable traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Only about half of service members who need treatment for a mental health condition seek treatment, and only about half of them receive adequate treatment.
22 veterans commit suicide every day.
Spouses of those with multiple or prolonged deployments have a greater risk of a mental health condition. Children have more emotional difficulties.
WHAT NAMI CCNS CAN DO TO HELP (WITH YOUR SUPPORT)
NAMI CCNS is uniquely positioned to help military service members, veterans, and their family members. We plan to:
Offer an educational program (NAMI Homefront) at no charge. This program teaches participants how to recognize the signs of a mental health condition, break down the stigma against seeking help, manage a crisis, and obtain federal, state, and local support. Just as importantly, it teaches family members, caregivers, and friends how to care for themselves while helping their loved one.
Increase offerings of our STABLE-ity program, which offers equine-facilitated psychotherapy in partnership with the Equestrian Connection.
Work to offer a support group led by a qualified psychologist and a NAMI CCNS-trained veteran.
You can help military service members, veterans, and their families by attending, sponsoring , and/or donating an auction item to our Gala on Saturday April 21, 2018 at the Northmoor Country Club in Highland Park, Illinois. Money raised at the Gala not only will be used to help NAMI CCNS support our military service members, veterans, and their families but also will be used to continue our other support groups and courses (including such nationally recognized courses as Family-to-Family and NAMI Basics) and increase course offerings in languages other than English. Thank you for your generous support! Steven and Ronna Warshauer NAMI CCNS 2018 Gala Chairpersons
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What we learned about Houston — it’s all about the guards right now
By Kurt HelinOct 27, 2010, 5:45 PM EDT
Yao Ming looked rusty — which makes sense after 15 months away from the game at this level. He rushed shots and missed things that by Thanksgiving will fall. Luis Scola scored 18 but took 18 shots to do it, including going 2-for-7 on midrange jumpers he can hit. He didn’t look like the player from the World Championships, he seemed bothered by the long arms of the Lakers front line (even without Andrew Bynum they can do that to people).
It’s going to be like that for a while — the Rockets may have two of the better international big men in the game, but it is the guards — Aaron Brooks and Kevin Martin — that will carry this team for a while. Maybe a long while.
“It’s going to be Aaron and Kevin,” Rockets coach Rick Adelman said after the game Tuesday night. “With those two guys on the floor we did some really good things.”
Brooks and Martin combined for 50 points and hit 7 of 12 from three. Brooks, as he often does against Derek Fisher, seemed to find his way into the paint at will (Steve Blake did slightly better on Brooks, which is the main reason he was in at the end of the game, and it paid off on the last play for L.A.)
When things went wrong for Houston on the Lakers 21-4 run in the third, it came back to the guards as well — the Lakers were bombing threes and the Rockets did not answer.
“Our offense got a little bit stagnant, a little bit on my part,” Brooks said. “We need to run a little offensive sets, a little more pick-and-roll.”
The Lakers are a tough way to open the season, but they are also the measuring stick. There were moments where you saw flashes of this team being able to count more on Yao and the guards being able to have more space because of him. But just flashes. It will take time.
Until then, the Rockets are all about the guards.
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HE-MAN/THUNDERCATS #1 Is Nostalgic, Silly Fun (Review)
by Eric Diaz
Oct 5 2016 • 1:30 PM
If you were a kid growing up during the 1980s, you fell into one of two camps when it came to your preference for afternoon cartoon shows/toylines — you were either a GI Joe/Transformers kid, or, you were a He-Man/Thundercats kid. I was defintely on the latter side. GI Joe was just too basic for me, and Transformers were OK, but just not “out there” enough. Now, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe? It’s Conan the Barbarian meets Dungeons and Dragons meets Star Wars, but with everyone having crazy wrestler bodies and monster heads. What’s not to like when you’re a ten year old boy??
And Thundercats? Can you imagine the pitch meeting for that show? “So they’re anthropomorphic cat people, who come to a post-Apocalyptic Earth and fight an ancient Egyptian Mummy creature. Oh, and they sometimes hang out with robot teddy bears.” Again, what’s not to love? In short, as a kid, I lived for these two properties, as my bed sheets and lunch boxes and almost everything I owned could attest to.At about age 13, the live-action Masters of the Universe movie came out, and I rushed excitedly to the theater to see it. As I sat there watching the travesty unfold, as He-Man and Skeletor battle it out in downtown Whittier, California…hearing real people say these things from this cartoon, I realized that everythng I loved was really stupid. I went home and and packed up my toys that day, and put them in the closet.
But as silly as these two properties were, deep down a part of me still loves them, and always will. And when a He-Man/Thundercats comic was announced from DC Comics, my inner 10-year-old might have squeed just a little bit. Because unlike GI Joe and Transformers, which were allowed to crossover over the years due to Hasbro producing both properties, He-Man and Thundercats were produced by two separate toy companies and animation studios. As much as we might have wanted Lion-O and He-Man to fight side by side versus their respective cackling nemeses back in the day, it seemed an impossibility. But thanks to DC, that day has come.
The best thing about He-Man/Thundercats #1 is that writers Rob David and Lloyd Goldfine know how ridiculous both properties inately are, but they also know what makes them fun. There is no bending over backwards to make the storyline seem more adult, just because the authors know this is mainly being read by a bunch of thirty and fortysomethings who grew up with the cartoon. This plays out almost exactly as it would have as an episode of either cartoon, and also if it were being produced back in 1986.
The storyline for this issue is simple: The Thundercats’ main baddie Mumm-Ra, who is obsessed with snatching Lion-O’s magical Sword of Omens for himself, decided he needs another magic sword to defeat the Thundercats. He attempted this on the show once, trying to get King Arthur’s Excalibur for the same reason (I hate myself slightly for know this fact without having to look it up).
So who has a powerful magic sword? He-Man does! Of course, he lives on another planet in another dimension, but Mumm-Ra’s buddies, the Ancient Spirits of Evil, give him the power to rip a dimensioal wall and travel to Eternia to get He-Man’s power sword for himself. We then have our first encounter with He-Man in this comic as Prince Adam, his bumbling secret identity who looks just like his He-Man persona, only without a tan and more clothes on. Adam is late to an official ceremony in his honor, disappointing the kingdom once more. Again, it’s the start of any random episode of the cartoon. It’s perfect.
But then there’s a massive earthquake, as tends to happen when dimensional barriers breach and worlds collide, and Eternos begins to crumble to the ground. These next few pages are fun because it gives heroic cameo moments to the second-stringer Masters of the Universe characters, all getting a chance to help save the day. Of course, Prince Adam knows that this is a job for He-Man, but before he can pick up his power sword and do the whole “By the Power of Grayskull” business, he is ambushed by Mumm-Ra, disguised as his mentor, the Sorceress of Grayskull.
Now, this is where the comic gets a little weird for me, a loses its vibe as a whole “lost episode of the cartoon show”, when Mumm-Ra straight up stabs Prince Adam through the chest with his own power sword. It’s a big, bloody panel, and just not something you’d see in either show, ever. It’s one of the only moments where I felt like the writers were trying to make this more grown up because they know no kids are going to actually be reading this. I wasn’t personally offended by it, but it’s slightly off-putting in a comic like this about characters who use their swords mostly to block laser beams and never stab anyone.
Of course, Prince Adam, despite having a sword stuck in his chest, manages to hold onto it and say his magic phrase “By the Power of Grayskull”, which, we learn, not only turns him into He-Man, but apparently heals him from life ending injuries. He then totally whoops Mumm-Ra’s ass. It’s pretty cool, especially as drawn by artist Freddie E. Williams II. He’s this comic’s secret weapon, because his art style is like a modern, more amped up version of late artist Alfredo Alcala, who drew the majority of those old He-Man mini-comics that came with your action figures. His over the top, muscled out art style is perfect for this, and gives you all the nostalgic feels you could want.
I will admit, as an ’80s kid who adored both properties, It’s hard for me to judge this comic in any objective manner. Is it very silly? Yes, although intentionally so I’d say. If you haven’t seen an episode of either cartoon show will any of this resonate with you? I’ll go out on a limb and say no. But if you were a kid in the ’80s who loved both properties, this comic is a pleasant nostalgia trip, giving you the cartoon crossover you always wanted back in the day, but never got. (although I must say, She-Ra better show up before it’s all over). If you didn’t grow up with these cartoons and toys, I can’t honestly recommend this comic to you, but if you did, then this might be your favorite comic you get this month. Even if it is a guilty pleasure.
RATING: 3.5 OUT OF 5 BURRITOS
He-Man/Thundercats #1 is available at comic book stores now.
Images: DC Comics
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Iwuajoku Boluwatife Adams: Golden Eaglets Future Star
This is the amazing story of an aspiring Golden Eaglets Star on the rise. Meet Iwuajoku Boluwatife Adams, a young 16 year old modern left back who is capturing the hearts of top scouts in the Nigeria Football Federation through his electric pace and mesmerizing skills on the ball.
Following his Lagos Based Broadcity FC invite for football trial in Abuja by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), he has been able to showcase what he can do within a short time, earning him the admiration at the ongoing U-17 level screening in the Federal Capital Territory. His dream one day is to play in the famous Green and White shirt that has brought us glory on the global stage on five different occasions.
Having never played for a professional football team, and with his only experience coming from playing at one of the football academies in Lagos State upon the successful completion of his secondary school education, it is interesting to see why this lad is such a special talent.
Apart from being blessed with excellent natural football sense, the sheer force of will that this superstar in the making possesses is second to none and it is this determination to climb to the very summit of Nigerian football at his age level and possibly beyond that to potentially being capped by the Super Eagles someday that has driven him this far, being the best among his peers during the entire duration of their trial period. Taking it one step at a time, he has set his sights at first being enrolled into the legendary Golden Eaglets team of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and who knows? Maybe other successes may follow.
Iwuajoku Boluwatife Adams, despite being on a lower fitness level than his peers who had been in camp for some weeks before his arrival at the trial ground in Abuja, quickly caught the eye when given the chance to showcase what he could do on the pitch of play. The officials and technical crew were so impressed that they enquired about his details, taking down his name in the process, and assigning him a number, inviting him to come back again the following day.
For a player so young as him, he has been described by those who have seen him take to the field of play as having electric pace, being able to bomb forwards and defend excellently when tracking back to his defensive duties, and having thunder in his boots, likening him to the legendary Nigerian footballer, Teslim “Thunder” Balogun, one of the all time best Nigerian footballers ever. This in itself is not bad at all for a 16 year old. He is indeed the dream full back for any top side.
Boluwatife is a footballer that has the type of strength that only those above his age possess. Still on trial at the Golden Eaglets camp, he is going to be a mainstay for the Golden Eaglets and possibly the Super Eagles of Nigeria in the years to come if he is given the green light to join the original players in the team as a bona-fide member of the squad. He can rewrite his story and the story of Nigerian football if given the all clear to turn up for our nation in the famous Green and White shirt.
Iwuajoku Boluwatife Adams can be a true superstar and potentially a legend of the beautiful game as a Nigerian International if his talent is harnessed and put to good use in our national team. He has what it takes to succeed at the highest level and it is our belief that he will truly shine for the Golden Eaglets if he is if called up and not allowed to go the way of others who merely had a dream but were not allowed to live that dream through nepotism in the country.
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New Support Programme Launched to Help Local Groups Grow Community Businesses (England)
Power to Change, the independent trust supporting community businesses in England, has announced that local groups that need help to set up or grow a community business can now access support and match funding to launch their share offer. Community shares is a popular approach to raising finance, in which local people invest often small sums of money and become co-owners of vital local enterprises – from affordable housing to community pubs to green energy.
The new £3 million Community Shares Booster programme will support groups in England seeking to launch community shares offer. The first development grants and equity investments will be awarded from early 2018 as part of this five-year programme. Successful applicants could receive a business development support grant up to £10,000 in advance of launching their community share offer. After that, their organisation could have access to up to £100,000 match funding when the share offer goes live. Match funding will be in the form of equity held on equal terms with other community shareholders. For further information on the programme and how to apply please click on the link below.
https://www.communitysharesbooster.org.uk/
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Tag Archives: obstruction of justice
by nonnie9999 | July 18, 2018 · 1:56 am
A dyed-in-the-wool criminal
From Bloomberg:
Special Counsel Robert Mueller asked a judge to give immunity to five people who may testify at the bank-fraud trial starting next week against Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman.
Uhoh! Pauly Walnuts had better pretty himself up for his trial! We know how vain he is.
Click on image for full view
Filed under humor, parody, politics, Republicans, Robert Mueller, satire, snark, Wordpress Political Blogs
Tagged as bank fraud, Donald Trump, money laundering, obstruction of justice, Paul Manafort, taxes, Ukraine
by nonnie9999 | June 18, 2017 · 11:44 pm
Sunday Morning News Dump
From Slate:
It’s hard to keep track of things when you’re making them up as you go. The new line from the Trump administration is a breezy “what investigation?” flick of the wrist to bat away questions about the reported expansion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe to include not just Russian election meddling and Trump’s ties to any such effort, but also possible obstruction of justice by the president. On Sunday, the president trotted out his lawyer, Jay Sekulow, to do the Sunday morning talk shows.
On Meet the Press, Sekulow stressed that the president isn’t even under investigation.
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Filed under Advertising, humor, parody, politics, Robert Mueller, Russia, satire, snark, Wordpress Political Blogs
Tagged as Donald Trump, Jay Sekulow, obstruction of justice, Twitter
Tom Coburnt
The sordid tale of former Sen. John Ensign (R) of Nevada is casting its dark ethical – and perhaps legal – shadow wider and wider in Washington.
Aside from the likelihood that Ensign will face criminal charges, recent revelations don’t paint a very good picture of Sen. Tom Coburn, former senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum, nor the Justice Department.
Filed under Barbara Boxer, humor, Justice Department, movies, parody, politics, Republicans, Rick Santorum, Scandals, Senate, Senate Ethics Committee, snark, Tom Coburn, Wordpress Political Blogs
Tagged as 2012 election, adultery, C Street, Cindy Hampton, Cynthia Hampton, Doug Hampton, FEC, Federal Election Commission, Hypocrisy, John Ensign, Johnny Isakson, Mike Ensign, Nevada, obstruction of justice, Sharon Ensign, The Family
by nonnie9999 | August 15, 2009 · 12:07 am
Uh-oh, Chimpy, now you’ve gone and made him mad!
In his first few months after leaving office, former vice president Richard B. Cheney threw himself into public combat against the “far left” agenda of the new commander in chief. More private reflections, as his memoir takes shape in slashing longhand on legal pads, have opened a second front against Cheney’s White House partner of eight years, George W. Bush.
Cheney’s disappointment with the former president surfaced recently in one of the informal conversations he is holding to discuss the book with authors, diplomats, policy experts and past colleagues.
“In the second term, he felt Bush was moving away from him,” said a participant in the recent gathering, describing Cheney’s reply. “He said Bush was shackled by the public reaction and the criticism he took. Bush was more malleable to that. The implication was that Bush had gone soft on him, or rather Bush had hardened against Cheney’s advice. […]”
Oh look! Deadeye Dick has even scared Pickles, Jenna, and not-Jenna!
Filed under Barbara Bush, Chimpy, CIA, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, humor, Iran, Iraq War, Laura Bush, movies, parody, Patrick Fitzgerald, politics, Republicans, Scooter Libby, Scott McClellan, snark, Torture, waterboarding, Wiretaps, Wordpress Political Blogs
Tagged as Ari Fleischer, Hypocrisy, Jenna Bush, John Hannah, North Korea, nuclear weapons, obstruction of justice, Paul Bremer, Paul O'Neill, perjury, surveillance, terrorism
by nonnie9999 | November 20, 2008 · 12:58 am
This Canary Should Be a Jailbird
From Scott Horton at The Daily Beast:
When a former Alabama governor was convicted for selling public offices, it set off an investigation into improper conduct at the Justice Department that leads directly to the White House.
The most dramatic political prosecution in the 21st century—involving a former governor in Alabama, the U.S. Attorney’s office, and the Bush White House and Justice Department—has been rocked by incriminating new disclosures by a knowledgeable career Justice Department staff member who has provided information charging serious misconduct by the prosecutors.
Among other disclosures shattering the credibility of the case, U.S. Attorney Leura Canary’s “recusal” for conflict of interest is revealed as a sham. Moreover, The Daily Beast has learned, the matter has touched off concerns within the Justice Department over efforts to sweep accusations of unethical conduct under the carpet.
It appears the Justice Department was aware of even more startling allegations of misconduct but it chose to hide this from the court and from opposing counsel.
Filed under Alberto Gonzales, Barack Obama, Chimpy, Congress, Corruption, Democrats, George W. Bush, House Judiciary Committee, humor, John Conyers, Justice Department, Karl Rove, Michael Mukasey, movies, parody, politics, Republicans, Scandals, snark, Wordpress Political Blogs
Tagged as Alabama, Court of Appeals, David Margolis, Don Siegelman, ethics, Jill Simpson, Leura Canary, Mark Fuller, nepotism, obstruction of justice, Office of Inspector General, Office of Professional Responsibility, Office of Special Counsel, Richard Scrushy, Scott Horton, Tamarah Grimes, U.S. Attorney, William Canary
by nonnie9999 | June 11, 2008 · 12:41 am
The Blame for Plame Is Certain to Inflame
June 9 (Bloomberg) — Scott McClellan, the former presidential spokesman whose memoir says Vice President Dick Cheney may have misled him about the leak of a CIA agent’s identity, has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee.
Filed under Andrew Card, Chimpy, CIA, Dick Cheney, FBI, George W. Bush, Henry Waxman, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House Judiciary Committee, humor, John Conyers, Karl Rove, movies, music parody, parody, politics, Republicans, Scandals, Scooter Libby, Scott McClellan, snark, Valerie Plame, White House scandals, Wordpress Political Blogs
Tagged as Jane Tigar, Joe Wilson, Joseph Wilson, Michael Tigar, My Fair Lady, obstruction of justice, What Happened
by nonnie9999 | March 3, 2008 · 12:01 am
Contemptible
From Online Journal:
David Iglesias, the former U.S. attorney for New Mexico who was one of nine federal prosecutors fired two years ago for reasons that appear to be politically motivated, said a recent House vote to hold former White House counsel Harriet Miers and President Bush’s chief of staff, Josh Bolten, in contempt for refusing to testify before Congress about the matter was encouraging. But he said questions related to his dismissal remain unanswered.
In an interview following the historic vote, the first time in 25 years a full chamber of Congress voted on contempt of Congress citation, Iglesias called upon the White House to “do the right thing.”
“Congress is exercising its legitimate oversight role in this unfinished matter,” said Iglesias, who has written a book on the ordeal, “In Justice: Inside the Scandal that Rocked the Bush Administration,” that is due to be published in June. “I implore the White House to do the right thing and produce Ms. Miers and Mr. Bolten to the Congress.”
Filed under Alberto Gonzales, Chimpy, Corruption, David Iglesias, Executive privilege, George W. Bush, Gonzogate, Harriet Miers, Hatch Act, House Judiciary Committee, humor, John Conyers, John McKay, Josh Bolten, Justice Department, Karl Rove, Kyle Sampson, Michael Mukasey, movies, parody, Pete Domenici, politics, Republicans, Scandals, Senate Ethics Committee, snark, White House scandals, Wordpress Political Blogs
Tagged as Bill Kelley, contempt of Congress, David Margolis, Heather Wilson, Matthew Friedrich, Maurice Hinchey, obstruction of justice
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Homepage / Ground Warfare / FNSS PARS III SPM Self Propelled Mortar
FNSS PARS III SPM Self Propelled Mortar
The PARS III 8X8 SPM (ZHA, Zırhlı Havan Aracı) variant is a Self Propelled Mortar (SPM) configuration to provide indirect fire support. The vehicle can be armed with a 81 or 120mm mortar and a self-defense 7.62 or 12.7mm MG. It has a capacity of carrying 4 personnel including the driver, commander and 2 mortar crew. The PARS III is an improved version of the original PARS 8×8 wheeled armoured vehicle developed, designed and manufactured by the Turkish Company FNSS. The vehicle has a modular design uses a modular design offering the possibility to configure the vehicle for a full range of missions and in different types of configuration.
The PARS III 8X8 all-axle steering system gives the vehicle the lowest turning radius in its class at 8 m. The ability of gradual decreasing of steer by wire of rear axles and locking over certain speeds, together with the ABS system and the retarder contributes to enhanced driving safety. The fully independent hydro-pneumatic suspension system, which gives the vehicle the highest wheel travel of its class, and ensures the best road grip under different road conditions. The two-man driver’s cab at front of the vehicle offers a 180° horizontal field of vision and a high level of driving safety and comfort. Large glass periscopes, and front driving and maneuver cameras with thermal cameras located at the front and rear of the vehicle provide the driver and commander with a wider field of vision.
The PARS III 8X8 can be transported by military transport aircraft as A400, C17 & C5, sea, train or land. The PARS III 8X8 combat weight is 30,000 kg and is powered by a diesel engine. The powerpack consists of a water cooled diesel engine, coupled with a fully automatic transmission which generates a maximum road speed of up to 100 km/h. PARS III 8X8 is capable of maneuvering on a 60% vertical and 30% horizontal gradient, climbing 70 cm-high obstacles and crossing 200 cm-wide trenches. The PARS III 8X8 all-axle steering system gives the vehicle the lowest turning radius in its class at 8 m. The modular connection of the vehicle subsystems to the mine-resistant hull ensures ease of maintenance and replacement.
In November 2017, the Oman National TV has announced the delivery of first PARS III to the Omani armed forces. Under a contract signed in November 2015, the Turkish Company FNSS has planned to deliver 172 armoured vehicles PARS III 6×6 and 8×8 chassis in 13 variants until 2020 to armed forces of Oman. After three years of trials (the 8×8 PARS was put through in-country trials in Oman from the summer of 2012) and a test and evaluation period in the second half of 2015, FNSS was awarded a contract by the Omani MoD on 20 September 2015, valued at approx. U$500 million, for design, development, manufacture, certification to both customer and international standards and delivery for a total of 172 PARS III WAV in 13 variants (145 in 8×8 configuration and 27 in 6×6). Delivery is scheduled for completion by 2020.
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