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UK national debt hits record £2.024 trillion as government goes on coronavirus spending spree
To put the figures in some perspective, the debt level works out a roughly £30,000 per person living in the UK. It pushed borrowing up to 101.9%
of gross domestic product (GDP) after the public sector borrowed around £35.9 billion in August,
The August figure means the public sector borrowed more in a single month than at any time since 1993, when monthly records began.
National debt passed £2 trillion for the first time in history in July as the Government throws billions at offsetting the economic chaos caused by the Covid-19 crisis.
https://www.nationaldebtclock.co.uk/
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/news/uk-national-debt-hits-record-£2024-trillion-as-government-goes-on-coronavirus-spending-spree/ar-BB19ph8p
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1 hour ago, Golden Retriever said:
I too anguish about the future for my son and any future children he may have as well as humanity as a whole.
I flip flop from hope to anguish and back again, but as you say we have to keep fighting online, at protests and informing friends and
family, even if we are the few.
I suspect that there will be more of us than you think. people are not only scared of thinking what cant be true, they are scared of admitting it to themselves. They suspect it then they suppress those thoughts - there are millions in denial here in the UK and worldwide but a lifetime of conformity from the cradle does that. Collectively we are not meant to live life in a box, ridiculed and ostracised for thinking freely, questioning things around us. That is spirit and we all have it. Thats what life is.
Life means hope and opportunity occurs wherever it exists. where there is no life there is no opportunty and there are around 6 billion hopeful lves. you cant trust Lockheed martin to conduct a non biasesd census can you.
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Jaquiby
Idiots?
You mean the fucking braindead.
They outnumber us around nine to one sadly.
They're taking us all down with them.
That's my only consolation to be honest.....the fact that when the shit really hits the fan and it's too late, they will be crying and hurting a lot louder than me.
I knew it was coming, they didn't.
Couldn't agree with you more and some others that think alike. There absolutely bloody brain dead zombies. I've tried to be sympathetic, and understand, to reason and show the facts. But you could show them anything, Boris could come out and say " folks it's all over, it was a hoax" and they would beg to keep worshipping their covid God, and keep their masks and lockdowns. And now I show no concern over any of them, they've made their choice and choose to ignore what is staring them in the face. They'e sold their soul and self respect even when lots can see its a scam,and they will wake up only when everything is gone and destroyed, and they have no life left to live. At least like you say, we know what's coming, they don't.
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5 hours ago, oneantisworthtenofyou said:
i recall a few charities oxfam among them declared that fewer than 100 people or
"one double decker bus full of the richest billionaires in the world" was the headline
have more money than 50% of the population combined
or to put it another way 100 people have as much money as 3.5 billion people
so perhaps the rulers of the world are fewer than 100 people based on a mainstream source like oxfam?
which doesn't account for the nameless billionaires or deep state or cult/cabal type scenarios if such people do exist
i think they do
apparently there around 2300+ known billionaires in the world
but are the real rulers/controllers of the world among these 100 super known billionaires
are the "unknowns" fewer or grater in number than the known super rich billionaires of the world
if the number of controllers/super billionaire psychopaths at the top of the hierarchy
is around 100 then that is a ratio of 1 controller to every 78 million people on the planet
78 million to one sounds like pretty good odds in favour of the people..or possibly not.
Remember something David Icke said during his first appearance on the Alex Jones show :' In the final analysis, the evil is not of this world'. 4D entities feeding off human fear, they must be feasting right now.
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In honor of the memories of Nobel prize winner Kary Mullis (1944-2019), researcher and gay rights activist Hank Wilson (1947-2008), writer and activist Christine Maggiore (1956-2008), journalist Terry Michael (1947-2017), journalist Liam Scheff (d. 2017), and biomedical researcher David Crowe (d. 2020) who worked ceaselessly and courageously to expose the numerous frauds of Anthony Fauci and his fellow conspirators in the HIV=AIDS industry.
This is the story they would have us believe:
A deadly new virus is discovered...there's no treatment or cure...it's highly contagious...everyone is a potential victim...the world is at risk from asymptomatic super spreaders...new clusters of cases reported daily...
Everyone must get tested even though the tests are unreliable...positive antibody tests are called "infections" and "cases" even when the patient has no symptoms...every politician gets involved...media hysteria in high gear...activists demand salvation from government and Big Pharma...
Billions of dollars are authorized for fast track drug and vaccine research...simple, effective remedies are rejected while expensive, dangerous ones are pushed......presumptive diagnoses...exaggerated death statistics...falsified death certificates...
Covid 2020?
AIDS in the 1980s.
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Saturday 17th march by standupX. I've been reading elsewhere that the football lads and many other groups are attending in huge numbers and ready for a big fight against the police..
"This will make the poll tax riots look tiny." was one thing I read.
If this happens I can see why, but it is a shame what the police did to the peaceful protests since june, while letting the statue smashers do as they wanted all along.
Does anyone know where I can find more information about the Berlin protests this weekend? Heiko Schoning mentioned them in his arrest video but theres obviously nothing about it on the usual channels.
Judging by this sudden "spike" and further restrictions in Berlin I imagine they could be quite large.
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Our mate Hellgates back in the news again:
Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/502742-bill-gates-vaccine-rollout-hesitancy/
Round up the ‘anti-vaxxers’? Enlist religious leaders? Bill Gates warns US needs to brainstorm ways to reduce ‘vaccine hesitancy’
Billionaire software tycoon Bill Gates has urged the US to prepare for a Covid-19 vaccine rollout by deputizing trusted community leaders to “reduce vaccine hesitancy,” bemoaning the rapid spread of “conspiracy theories” online.
The Microsoft founder-turned-vaccine-evangelist painted a mostly rosy picture of a vaccine rollout getting “rich countries” back to normal by the end of 2021 in an interview during the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council on Tuesday.
However, with less than half of Americans saying they’d get a Covid jab – even if paid $100 for it – in a recent survey, Gates then focused his talk on enlisting the nation’s “trust network” to overcome the skeptics.
Lamenting that “vaccine hesitancy is in all countries and predates the pandemic,” Gates suggested American health officials start “thinking about which voices will help reduce the hesitancy, so we can get a level of vaccination that really has a chance of stopping” the virus.
Gates provided the example of challenges the polio vaccine faced in some countries – and the cunning lengths some were willing to go to get their populations jabbed.
Coronavirus czar Anthony Fauci hinted back in June that he was already on the task, revealing the government had a PR blitz planned in which “people [vaccine-hesitant Americans] can relate to in the community – sports figures, community heroes, people that they look up to” – will spread the pro-vaccine gospel.
Gates had typically harsh words for both conspiracy theorists and the social media platforms he believes enable them, complaining that “very titillating things” like the notion that “somebody intentionally made this virus, or that there’s some conspiracy” spread online “so much faster than the truth, which is that it comes from a bat.” Gates called on social media to “slow down or annotate things that actually cause huge damage, like not wearing masks or not being willing to take the vaccine if it proves that it is this key tool to getting back to normal.”
While he stressed he wasn’t suggesting Facebook and its peers go for “the Chinese solution” of telling companies what they must censor, the billionaire has previously called conspiracy theories about his funding of global vaccination schemes “a big problem,” and on Tuesday he slammed platforms for the absence of “smart solutions” to that problem.
Gates saved some barbs for the Trump administration, disparaging the government’s preparation for and response to the pandemic, accusing it of creating a “vacuum of leadership” by pulling out of the World Health Organization. Among other failings, “we didn’t do [pandemic] simulations” like some countries, he complained, referencing his now-famous 2015 TED Talk about the importance of comprehensive state-level planning for epidemics.
However, his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation actually staged one of the best-known pandemic simulations, Event 201, in conjunction with the World Economic Forum and Johns Hopkins University in New York last October. The barely-fictional scenario involved a deadly coronavirus originating in geese spreading around the world, devastating economies and triggering the imposition of strict behavioral controls while leaving a trail of 65 million bodies in its wake. The narrative was so close to the subsequent outbreak of the novel coronavirus that Johns Hopkins was forced to include a disclaimer on the event website.
Indeed, the US government has run several such simulations in conjunction with representatives of local governments, hospitals, and various other private sector interests over the years. “Crimson Contagion,” one such exercise held from January to August last year, predicted the US would respond in a chaotic and disorganized fashion to an outbreak, exposing weaknesses that were apparently not remedied in time for Covid-19. A 2017 Pentagon report similarly warned that a “novel respiratory disease” emanating from, among other places, a Chinese wet market could spread throughout the world, hurting the military’s readiness and national security for as long as two years and prescribing correctives – which apparently fell on deaf ears.
Gates has previously warned that the “final hurdle” to a vaccine-fueled return to normalcy is convincing the population to actually roll up their sleeves and take the jab(s), and the World Health Organization – of which his foundation is the single largest funder, following the US’ departure – declared “vaccine hesitancy” one of the biggest threats to world health last year. The billionaire has stated he hopes to have seven billion humans vaccinated with whatever formula proves safe and effective, but has suggested a mandate would be counterproductive and actually increase resistance to vaccines.
Gates is far from the only voice urging governments to soft-pedal their inoculation demands. Noting that a straight-up mandate would probably be challenged and nullified in court, a paper published earlier this month in the New England Journal of Medicine instead suggested at-risk populations be threatened with “penalties” like job loss for failure to get vaccinated. Australian PM Scott Morrison similarly had to walk back comments that vaccination should be “as mandatory as possible” after intense public outcry, and US President Donald Trump has promised the shot will be optional even as he tasked the military with delivering it.
Gates is funding the development of six leading Covid-19 vaccine candidates, and told the conference Phase III clinical trial data would be in before the year’s end. Acknowledging “we still don’t know whether these vaccines will succeed,” he nevertheless pooh-poohed Russian and Chinese vaccine development efforts, predicting that once ‘his’ – the Western – jabs were widely available at low cost, “I doubt there will be a lot of Russian or Chinese vaccine going outside these countries.”
He's obsessed with vaccines isn't he?
Crimson Contagion full NYT Link, includes pdf of the exercise, apologies if this has already been posted:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-outbreak.html
Before Virus Outbreak, a Cascade of Warnings Went Unheeded
Government exercises, including one last year, made clear that the U.S. was not ready for a pandemic like the coronavirus. But little was done.
WASHINGTON — The outbreak of the respiratory virus began in China and was quickly spread around the world by air travelers, who ran high fevers. In the United States, it was first detected in Chicago, and 47 days later, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic. By then it was too late: 110 million Americans were expected to become ill, leading to 7.7 million hospitalized and 586,000 dead.
That scenario, code-named “Crimson Contagion” and imagining an influenza pandemic, was simulated by the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services in a series of exercises that ran from last January to August.
The simulation’s sobering results — contained in a draft report dated October 2019 that has not previously been reported — drove home just how underfunded, underprepared and uncoordinated the federal government would be for a life-or-death battle with a virus for which no treatment existed.
The draft report, marked “not to be disclosed,” laid out in stark detail repeated cases of “confusion” in the exercise. Federal agencies jockeyed over who was in charge. State officials and hospitals struggled to figure out what kind of equipment was stockpiled or available. Cities and states went their own ways on school closings.
9 hours ago, zarkov said:
Yeah that's what it's all about, you see masks all around you and think everyone is bought into it but when you actually talk to people most know that its bollocks, they're just afraid to say it and get in an argument.
Ive been travelling the last two months and have met a lot of people, the majority I have spoken to are either against it or have some questions at least. A lot will mention something like "the cases are getting really bad now" because they think that's safer to say but when you keep talking and reveal you're not in support of it they'll reveal that they're not either.
Its the magic trick this mask wearing and hand washing does, to many members of this forum also. Most people just don't want to break the law, they can see through the bullshit but don't want to be ostracised. Yes there are well-conditioned zombies who think this is all fine and the authorities are just looking out for us, but I think in reality they're increasingly the minority.
Edited October 7, 2020 by Illmatic
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Yes he is obsessed,to the point where I question his ultimate motive.
We know he wants to genetically modify everyone and thus turn us into 'property' but I suspect another motive.
I remember reading about one infertility expert who was using his own sperm instead of donors and had created many children that were 'his' until he was found out.
That is some sick mindset,but hard as it is to believe,such psychopathic behaviour exists and Gates seems similarly egotistical.
I believe he has a God Complex and he intends to use his own DNA in his concoction - his ultimate fantasy to have all people contain his DNA?
5 minutes ago, Foggy Dewhurst said:
Yeah it has a sexual element I suspect. Gaining back some control he didn't have in childhood, maybe some kind of dom fantasy. But who knows, the only certainty is he is nuts
Refuse vaccine, bankrupt that dirty mofo gates.
community leaders are complicit.
sons class had a zoom with local vicar. was spouting the "you're a selfish prick if you don't wear a mask" line.
a class also performed a poem. you will never guess the title
"no breathing in class"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1cfVQyrQ3Q
something major fucked up in society
1 hour ago, shadowmoon said:
I was speaking with a woman who went to the london protests on 26th sept, she was pretty clued up about the whole situation and what went down on that day.
She said the so-called 'police' who went in heavy handed were nothing but drafted in security men - just your regular doormen and security staff - just bloody temps basically, that's part of the reason alot of them look so unkept and scruffy and kept absolutely quiet (on the day) when questioned by anyone - they were not actual police and didn't have a clue about the law, despite being given powers of arrest like a proper policeman or woman, even though they have the 'powers' of a police person on the day, apparently, unde rthe new coranavirus laws they cannot be sued like a bona-fide policeman can be.
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1 hour ago, Illmatic said:
My sister lives in Munich. She came over at the weekend and was completely unaware that there had been any major protest in Germany about Co-Vid 19. So yeah deffo not exactly widely reported!
23 minutes ago, sickofallthebollocks said:
They will have warrant cards?
A lot of them looked a bit middle eastern.
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The police in Hyde Park did seem a bit "off"
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=pandemic&sort=moviemeter,asc&mode=detail&page=1&ref_=kw_ref_key
so many plandemic movies
like a crystal ball into the infertile future
56 minutes ago, shadowmoon said:
Good question Shadowmoon - I'm not sure buddy - but as far as I could gather - there were alot of normal police - but the ones stirring up the trouble - especially in traf sq, were the dummy police.
I bet there was probably many of the 'doormen' there too?
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We are encouraged to bring our whole selves to work and many people are personal friends as well as professional colleagues. There is a flat hierarchical structure and no real job titles. Everyone is keen to help each other grow.
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Collaborative, through the use of convo, a messaging service, pods, assigned mentor groups and the initial training you are made to feel an integral part of the team despite us being a 90% remote company. We also have numerous social events across the year.
There is an almost completely flat hierarchy. Everyone is eager to help should you have any questions. There are regular social events which a large proportion of the company attend. There are also much more frequent smaller gatherings which people will set up.
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It's very open and transparent. You are encouraged to have work/life balance.
Company is centred around communication. In the workplace, we use a platform to ask and answer questions in an attempt to get the whole company involved, as opposed to writing emails which only a few people see. Outside of work, an effort is made for social gatherings. So, colleagues who we would not likely see on our placements, we will see them at these social events.
The company is very well structured to support you throughout your four placements. Even though you are a consultant in a company on your own The Data School community is always ready to help you, through convo or one to one opportunities.
Very inclusive, nice people and fun company to work for. We do lots of events after work and a Christmas trip once a year. There is the AD, then Sales managers, core consultants and trainee consultants.
Open, sharing, supportive and fun.
A lot of team work and socialising
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AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx on Thursday pushed back against a report that said she was distressed over the direction of the task force and was considering leaving. During a livestreamed news conference at Auburn University in Alabama, Birx was asked about a CNN report that said she was frustrated with what she saw as a diminished role and questioned how long she could remain in the role. Birx said she was not considering leaving. “Do I look like a person that is diminished? I’ll tell you that is the first time those...
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – While Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is set to appear on ballots in at least 39 states, swing state Ohio is among the places where his supporters are still working to get the former New Mexico governor’s name out to voters this fall. Whether he’s successful could make a difference to Republicans, particularly the fortunes of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, who is in a close race in the state with Democrat Hillary Clinton. Johnson on the ballot could complicate the Ohio race for Trump if conservatives who want a smaller government want a choice other than...
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Washington - When Michelle Obama worked in Mayor Daley's City Hall in the early 1990s, she was "distressed" by how a small group of "white Irish Catholic" families -- the Daleys, the Hynes and the Madigans -- "locked up" power in Illinois. And as she prepared to become first lady, Mrs. Obama naively wanted to delay a move into the White House for six months, so her daughters could finish the school year. Her initial thought was to "commute" to the White House from her South Side home. And Marty Nesbitt, one of President Obama's best friends, had been recruited...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government's $700 billion market rescue plan could assist automakers such as General Motors Corp (GM.N) by buying up distressed auto loans, a top lawmaker said on Tuesday. "Under the buying up of assets, they could buy up automobile loans," said Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat who chairs the House Financial Services Committee. Frank also said U.S. banks receiving capital injections under a U.S. Treasury plan to infuse $250 billion into the troubled sector are expected to use the funds to support lending activities. On Tuesday morning the Treasury Department unveiled more details of how it...
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Concluding Question: The Meta-Group and the United States Government It seems clear that the meta-group, with its influential connections on at least three continents, was powerful enough to effect changes, through the Russian 9/11, in Russian history. The question arises whether they could similarly effect changes in American history as well. As we have seen Russian sources claim that the U.S. Government has had access to he meta-group, for such especially sensitive projects as the assassination of Abu al Walid al-Hamadi. They claim the meta-group's involvement in a number of U.S.-sponsored regime changes in eastern Europe, from the overthrow of...
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A sign or pancarte outside an entrance to Lourdes.
pancarte (pahn-kart) noun, feminine
: sign, notice, road sign; placard
French definition by Petit Larousse: une pancarte: "[un] Panneau, [ou] plaque portant une inscription ou un avis destiné au public."
Audio File: listen to my daughter, Jackie, pronounce today's word and French definition:
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In the intermission between yesterday's Lourdes story and tomorrow's conclusion, here are 8 things that are prohibited at the holy lieu de pèlerinage*:
Interdits à Lourdes (Prohibited at Lourdes):
1. Les chiens ("dogs" ... or animals in general)
2. Les cornets de glace ("ice cream cones" ... or snacks)
3. Les cigarettes ("cigarettes")
4. Les vêtements de plage ("beach clothing")
5. Les téléphones portables (mobile phones)
6. Interdit de mendier ("begging is prohibited")
7. Attention aux voleurs ("watch out for pickpockets")
8. Pas de bicyclette ("no bikes")
... I should add that asking the candle-machine refiller guy (a contemplative frère?*) for his photo is prohibited too (but feeling super duper dumb and déplacée* for asking is not).
Comment on today's post... or help expand this edition with your own language savoir-faire: Do you (or does the person sitting next to you...) know the word for pancarte (sign) in Spanish? German? Italian? Chinese? What is the word for pancarte (road sign, public notice) in Danish? Swedish? In Tagalog? Click on the comments box to share today's word in another language. Meantime, I know today's word in Pig Latin... I'll add it here now.
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un lieu (m) de pèlerinage = place of pilgrimage; un frère (m) = a brother; déplacé(e) = out of line (misplaced)
French signage - pancartes: bilingual "Exit / Sortie" sign: add French flair to your chez vous with these industrial multilingual messages. Also (for your teen's chambre?): "Authorized Personnel Only" - "Réservé au Personal Authorisé" or Espace Clos Ne Pas Entrer sans Permis...and for the bathroom... "Wash hands before returning to work" or Se laver les mains avant de retourner au travail & "Défense de Fumer"
In French film: Army of Shadows: Jean-Pierre Melville's masterpiece about the French resistance against the Nazi Occupation went unreleased in the United States for thirty-seven years before its triumphant theatrical release in 2006.
guerir
In southwest France: the commune of Lourdes (located in the Hautes-Pyrénees)
Bonjour! It is great to be home after vacation, never mind that one of us brought back sinusitis as a souvenir... but that isn't why today's edition is titled "guérir"... Read on in the following column for more...
guérir (geh-reer) verb
: to cure, to make better; to heal
[from the Frankish "warjan" (to protect)]
French definition*: "délivrer d'un mal physique ou mental" (to deliver from a physical or mental illness)
*French definition from "Le Petit Larousse Illustre"
Audio file: Listen to my daughter, Jackie, pronouce today's verb and its French definition: Download guerir.mp3 . Download guerir.wav
We hadn't set out as pilgrims, but became so by circumstance. For our annual vacances estivales,* this family of four was headed west to a campground along the Atlantic coast of France when signs to the sacred town Lourdes began to appear--like the Virgin Mary herself--amidst fields of corn, and roadsides teaming with wild lilacs.
"We HAVE to stop! Lourdes--c'est à ne pas manquer*!" I said to my husband, quickly briefing him on the nineteenth-century French nun* who is said to have seen the Virgin Mary there in a grotto. Since the famous apparition, pilgrims have flocked to the southern French town from all four "coins du monde"* in search of mental or physical healing.
Jean-Marc hesitated over my request, reminding me of our campsite's check-in policy and the hurry that we were in to comply with it. But when he went on to add that, well, that didn't leave a lot of time to visit the holy town.... I nodded my head excitedly, only half-heeding his warning about a limited time frame. What I didn't tell my husband was that time was not a problem -- for a spiritual awakening can happen in the blink of an eye....
...more on Friday. To comment on today's word or edition, click this link. If you happen to know today's verb "to cure" in another language (Spanish, Russian, Italian, German, Swedish, Danish, Portuguese... Tagalog?...), please add it to the comments box. Mille mercis!:
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les vacances (fpl) estivales = summer vacation; à ne pas manquer = a must see; nineteenth-century French nun = Bernadette Soubirous; coins du monde = corners of the world
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Provendi Revolving Soaps (you'll find these in the public restrooms at Lourdes!): "The practical and very neat Provendi revolving soap fixtures have adorned public school washrooms throughout France for years. Now they're turning up in the most chic places. Lightly scented, vegetable-based 300g soaps snap (new style) or bolt (original) on to the chrome-plated bracket rod and rotate with the motion of the hands."
French film: In "The Song of Bernadette" Jennifer Jones plays the legendary French peasant who claimed to have dialogues with the Virgin Mary at a Lourdes grotto in 1858.
Book: "The Song of Bernadette"."Franz Werfel, an Austrian Jew, wrote this historical novel about a Catholic saint to commemorate his narrow escape from the Nazis via Lourdes." --Audiofile.
Children's book: Saint Bernadette Soubirous: Light in the Grotto
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Calvert Long-Term Income Fund (I)
The Fund seeks to maximize income to the extent consistent with preservation of capital, through investments in longer-dated securities.
CLDIX
Fund at NAV 0.47 3.70 14.88 14.88 9.56 9.17 7.17
Bloomberg Barclays Long U.S. Credit Index1 0.44 4.92 13.32 13.32 9.23 10.01 8.23
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance is for the stated time period only; due to market vola tility, the Fund’s current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. Returns are historical and are calculated by determining the percentage change in net asset value (NAV) with all distributions reinvested. Returns for other classes of share s offered by the Fund are different. Performance less than or equal to one year is cumulative. Performance prior to December 31, 2016 reflects the performance of the Fund’s former adviser, Calvert Investment Management, Inc. Total return prior to t he commencement of the class reflects returns of another Fund class. Prior returns are adjusted to reflect applicable sales charge (but were not adjusted for other expenses). If adjusted for other expenses, returns would be lower. The share class has no sales charge.
Class I Inception 01/30/2015
Performance Inception 12/31/2004
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Bank of America Corp 2.16
Morgan Stanley 2.10
Citigroup Inc 2.08
NBCUniversal Media LLC 1.73
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Charter Communications Operating LLC / Charter Communications Operating Capital 1.55
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Public Service Co of Colorado 1.45
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1. Bloomberg Barclays Long U.S. Credit Index measures the performance of investment-grade U.S. corporate securities and government-related bonds with a maturity greater than ten years. Unless otherwise stated, index returns do not reflect the effect of any applicable sales charges, commissions, expenses, taxes or leverage, as applicable. It is not possible to invest directly in an index. Historical performance of the index illustrates market trends and does not represent the past or future performance of t he fund.
Morningstar Long-Term Bond Category6 0.40 3.75 14.29 14.29 9.04 9.16 7.65
Fund at NAV 9.47 11.93 -5.47 15.15 -3.34 7.30 9.92 -5.32 20.96 14.88
Bloomberg Barclays Long U.S. Credit Index1 17.13 12.73 -6.62 16.39 -4.56 10.22 12.21 -6.76 23.36 13.32
Distribution Frequency Monthly
Subsidized SEC 30-day Yield7 1.90%
Unsubsidized SEC 30-day Yield 1.80%
Long-Term Bond
Oct 30, 2020 $0.04404 $19.79
Aug 31, 2020 $0.04975 $20.05
Jul 31, 2020 $0.04328 $20.56
Jun 30, 2020 $0.04344 $19.66
May 29, 2020 $0.05013 $19.14
Apr 30, 2020 $0.04637 $19.02
Mar 31, 2020 $0.04692 $18.00
Dec 02, 2020 $0.20230 $0.33590 $19.86
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7. SEC 30-day yield is a standardized measure based on the estimated yield to maturity of a fund's investments over a 30-day period and is based on the maximum offer price at the date specified. The SEC 30-day yield is not based on the distributions made by the fund, which may differ. Subsidized yield reflects the effect of fee waivers and expense reimbursements. Distribution Rate at NAV is calculated by dividing the last distribution paid per share (annualized) by NAV. The Fund's monthly distribution may be comprised of ordinary income, net realized capital gains and returns of capital.
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Municipal Bonds 4.09
Government Related Bonds 0.41
Effective Duration 13.05 yrs.
Average Effective Maturity 16.68 yrs.
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AAA 8.88
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United States 90.24
United Kingdom 2.24
Mexico 1.09
United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 0.25% 02/15/2050 3.93%
CALVERT CASH RESERVES FUND CALVERT CASH RESERVES FUND 0.00% 2.62%
Bank of America Corp 3.82% 01/20/2028 2.14%
Morgan Stanley 3.59% 07/22/2028 2.08%
Citigroup Inc 3.89% 01/10/2028 2.05%
NBCUniversal Media LLC 4.45% 01/15/2043 1.74%
AT&T Inc 3.55% 09/15/2055 1.68%
Charter Communications Operating LLC / Charter Communications Operating Capital 4.80% 03/01/2050 1.55%
United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.00% 02/15/2050 1.54%
City of San Francisco CA Public Utilities Commission Water Revenue 3.30% 11/01/2039 1.49%
9. Percent of bond holdings.
10. Percent of total market value.
Vishal Khanduja is a vice president and portfolio manager for Calvert Research and Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eaton Vance Management specializing in responsible and sustainable investing across global capital markets. He joined Calvert Rese arch and Management in 2016.
Vishal began his career in the investment management industry in 2005. He has been affiliated with the Eaton Vance organization since 2016. Before joining the Eaton Vance organization, he was a senior vice president, portfolio manager and head of taxable fixed income for Calvert Investments. Previously, he was a vice president and portfolio manager at Columbia Threadneedle and associate director of fixed-income analytics at Galliard Capital.
B.Eng., Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai
M.B.A., Tippie School of Management, University of Iowa
Brian Ellis is a vice president and portfolio manager for Calvert Research and Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eaton Vance Management specializing in responsible and sustainable investing across global capital markets. He joined Calvert Research and Management in 2016.
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Spanish Company Expands Its Biomass Power Plants
19/05/2017 /in Newsflash /by msv2016
The Spanish firm Ence – Energía y Celulosa intends to purchase the stake of Endesa – a leading operator in the Spanish electricity sector – in the renewable energy generation plants with biomass of Enemasa (Ciudad Real) and La Loma (Jaén), in which the company held 68.4 percent and 64.1 percent, respectively.
According to the information, the operation allows Ence to increase the installed power of its energy business by 29 percent, which now reaches 143 MW.
The plants, which mainly use olive stones (biomass derived from the treatment of the olive for oil extraction) have a total capacity for 32 MW and will reach an estimated net production of 175 million kWh in 2016, Ence announced in December last year. The company’s goal is to achieve 383 MW of installed capacity in biomass generation by 2020. By its own assessment, Ence is one of the main European producers of eucalyptus pulp (production capacity: more than 950,000 tons per year), an important Spanish company in the production of renewable energy using forest biomass and a leader in Spain for the comprehensive and responsible management of forest areas and resources.
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New Wuling EV, The Hong Guang, Launched In China
by Jonathan Lopez
— Jul 30, 2020
General Motors recently announced the launch of the Hong Guang minicar for the Chinese market. The practical new Wuling EV is offered in three basic variants, and arrives as the brand’s first fully electric vehicle. Pricing ranges between RMB 28,800 ($4,115 USD at current exchange rates) and RMB 38,800 ($5,545 USD).
The new Wuling EV takes inspiration from the Japanese kei cars in terms of design, offering a mix of practicality and highly compact exterior dimensions – or as GM puts it, “small on the outside, big on the inside.” This helps the new minicar maneuver in a packed urban environment, as well as fit into tight parking spaces wherever they might be available.
In terms of measurements, the two-door hatchback is 2,917 mm (114.8 inches) long, 1,493 mm (58.8 inches) wide, and 1,621 mm (63.8 inches) tall. The wheelbase is 1,940 mm (76.4 inches).
Inside, the new Hong Guang Wuling EV provides upwards of 741 liters (26.2 cubic feet) of space with the rear seats folded flat, as the vehicle’s boxy styling maximizes available room. There’s also 12 individual storage compartments dotting the cabin, including a smartphone tray in the dash.
The new Wuling EV produces a maximum of 13 kW (17.4 horsepower) and 85 Nm (62.7 pound-feet) of torque. Top speed is rated at 100 km/h (62 mph). Range per charge is estimated at 170 km (105.6 miles) in top trip, with charging possible via a 240V outlet. Various battery functions are accessible via a smartphone app.
Safety features include anti-lock brakes, electronic brake-force distribution, tire pressure monitoring system, and rear park sonar. GM says that over 57 percent of the new Wuling EV is built using high-strength steel.
What are your thoughts on the new Hong Guang Wuling EV? Do you find its low price point, small dimensions, and simple design appealing? Let us know by posting in the comments, and make sure to subscribe to GM Authority for more Wuling news and ongoing GM news coverage.
— Jonathan Lopez
Jonathan is an automotive journalist based out of Southern California. He loves anything and everything on four wheels.
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Looks quite sensible for city dwellers with charging access.
Tom Southridge says:
No care.
Will never buy any Chinese car—or anything else they manufacture—if I can manage to find it made elsewhere. I don’t care if it costs more.
They can take that POS and shove it up their a$$es.
And again, shame on GM for being in business with a government that is evil and a serious threat to the US.
I’d buy one immediately
ArizonaJon says:
The size is very similar the smart ForTwos that I have owned. Should be good for tight city driving and parking.
Looks sick. Like a tiny Box van.
Doug H says:
A lot of John Deere riding lawn mowers have more HP than this. It would be interesting to see how something like this would sell in other markets. Amazingly low price point.
I really like it. I think it’s perfect for a couple or small family with a budget who are seeking a simple and efficient electric vehicle. Really perfect for developing countries.
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Golf in the time of COVID
Written by John Gordon
Something strange happened on the way to this article.
The original theme was to explore how Canadian courses are dealing with the myriad of challenges reopening in the midst of a pandemic.
Chatting with course managers, I heard the usual explanations of sending carts out with just one rider, physical distancing at all times, F&B nightmares, cancellations of events like tournaments and weddings, and on and on.
Then I started to hear comments like these:
“Our leagues are at an all-time high and our memberships and junior memberships are showing a significant increase.” Michael Todd, the President and Director of Operations at Legacy Ridge Golf Club in Owen Sound, Ont., found a silver lining inside the COVID cloud that compensated somewhat for the loss of other revenue streams.
Although his club (originally the Stanley Thompson-designed Owen Sound G&CC) turns 100 years old this summer, there will be no centennial bash but golfers will still get to play. More golfers than ever, in fact—a theme I found repeated over and over, across the country.
“Golf is back!” exults Scott Atkinson, CEO of multi-course owner/operator Play Golf Calgary Facilities. “Golfers are playing more. Golfers are finding their way back after years of not playing and plenty of people are taking up the game for the first time. Our short-course play has doubled. Tons of families and lots of couples are playing together. It’s wonderful!”
You may have heard the phrase, “It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good.” If not, it refers to an unfortunate event that somehow benefits someone.
A clearer, more pertinent explanation comes via Ashley Chinner, the former touring pro who now works in the insurance business in the Toronto area. “I talked to a public course manager who told me his tee sheet has been slammed every day. ‘Hate to say it but COVID could be the best thing for golf since Tiger.’”
This is not to make light by any means of the coronavirus that has killed hundreds of thousands globally and affected millions of others. It does, however, demonstrate that there are glimmers of good news.
Membership at the semi-private Granite Ridge GC in Milton, Ont., is up 30 per cent and leagues are better attended than ever. Public tee times are booked solid several days in advance.
Scott MacLeod, a PGA of Canada member and the editorial director/associate publisher of Flagstick Golf Magazine, said he spoke to a colleague in New Brunswick who told him membership at his club increased to 550 from 390 this spring. In fact, Golf New Brunswick reports that many facilities in that province are seeing increases in both memberships and greens fee play.
In Calgary, Rob Ward told me Willow Park G&CC had 5,000 rounds in May compared to 3,700 the same month a year ago. Michael Turner reports anecdotally that courses in Metro Vancouver are seeing “exponential growth.”
From Manitoba, self-described struggling golfer and keen observer of the game Jim Geruzzi says he’s heard the same refrain from various courses. “Seems like rounds played are way up (20%++). Just in time, too, as some courses where facing hard decisions even before COVID.”
“We have to keep reminding ourselves that even in these tough times, we are still a club,” emphasizes Cory Johnson, the General Manager of Breezy Bend Country Club in Headingley, Man. “And that can be tough when you can’t socialize the same way you could before the virus.”
Johnson and his team have adapted many traditions to cope with our new and ever-changing reality with some surprising success. For example, the annual general meeting was held via video conference and had the highest turnout ever. From the time the course opened May 3, it has been busier than usual with the necessary protocols in place.
Sean Joyce, the Director of Golf at Mill River Resort in P.E.I., says their junior membership has doubled and adult memberships are up as well.
But there are COVID caveats, too.
Ian Leggatt, the former PGA TOUR professional who now is director of golf at Summit GC in Richmond Hill, Ont., has seen a growth in membership because, in his opinion, “people are reallocating their summer spend that they likely would have used for a vacation.
“I’ve said all along that this [COVID-19] would have a positive impact on golf. Now we just need to stay open and not let a few bad apples misbehave and get the courses shut down again.”
It’s not all sunshine and rainbows for the staff at courses. I’ve heard horror stories of golfers, private club members and public players alike, abusing staff and disregarding safety protocols put in place to protect them. In fact, I had an acquaintance quit his job at a course because of the constant abuse and the lack of back-up from management.
Ken Bruneski, the Superintendent at Nk’mip Canyon Desert Golf Course in Oliver, B.C., is appalled by the way some people are taking advantage of the new guidelines, like by requesting separate carts even though they arrived at the course in the same vehicle. “We are running into a lot of troubles here. With reduced tee times and hours of operation, combined with the limited number of carts, we are finding it impossible to get league play going or opening up the tee sheet fully to increase revenue. It’s more than a little bit frustrating.”
And the negative impact on other sports and activities must be acknowledged. They are the unfortunate and undeserving victims of that “ill wind”, for sure. Kids can’t play softball or soccer, older folks can’t lawn bowl, families can’t travel on vacation.
“Really, it’s the only game in town,” notes a tweet from Pointe West GC in Windsor, Ont.
One of my favourite sayings comes from J.H. “Doc” Holliday, a pal of Wyatt Earp and OK Corral shootout fame.
“There’s no such thing as a normal life,” he allegedly once said.
“There’s just life. And you deal with it.”
Such is life—and golf—in the time of COVID.
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Three Things — April 29: UCLA sees five-star go pro, Valpo scorer in the portal, NCAA NIL update
Posted by Eli Boettger on April 28, 2020
Eli Boettger | @boettger_eli | 04/29/20
Welcome back to Three Things!
The intention of Three Things is simple: Keeping you informed. The offseason can be a busy time and college basketball isn’t always on everyone’s radars from April to October.
Here’s how it will work: Every morning, Monday through Friday, we will provide you with three things that you need to know from the previous day. Pretty simple, right? You’ll be amazed by your new college basketball wisdom!
Here are the three things you need to know for April 29.
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UCLA sees five-star go pro
The Bruins saw their top incoming freshman leave the program Tuesday. The G League Select program added another star prospect in Daishen Nix, one of the nation’s best point guards out of the 2020 class. Nix announced he will decommit from UCLA and reportedly earn upwards of $300,000 as a pro.
Nix becomes the third player to join the G League’s program. Combo guard Jalen Green and Michigan decommit Isaiah Todd also chose to spurn college this month and join the G League. Nix, a 6-4 point guard, was expected to start at point guard next season for the Bruins and team up with distributor Tyger Campbell, who averaged five assists per game this past season.
Valpo scorer in the portal
Javon Freeman-Liberty had a change of heart on Tuesday, electing to remove his name from the NBA Draft pool and transfer instead. The 6-3 guard out of Chicago was one of the top scorers at the mid-major level last season, averaging 19 points per game while also tallying 6.1 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 2.2 steals an outing.
Freeman-Liberty has been a workhorse for Valparaiso the past two seasons, starting in each of his 66 appearances while playing 32.2 minutes per game. The sophomore is already picking up significant interest in the transfer portal and has a great chance at landing with a power-conference program looking for a backcourt starter.
NCAA NIL update
The NCAA will hold a conference call to further discuss name, image and likeness for athletes, according to several reports on Tuesday. The NCAA Board of Governors appointed a working group to discover possible solutions towards advancing student athletes’ ability to make money while still maintaining the fundamental aspects of college sports.
The working group proposed the following changes: allow student athletes to make money by modeling apparel as long as it doesn’t include school logos; allow athletes to make money from advertisements; prohibit athletes from marketing inappropriate products like gambling or banned substances; allow athletes to hire an agent for marketing opportunities; require athletes to disclose details of all endorsements to their athletic department.
Eli Boettger is a college basketball writer and founder of HeatCheckCBB.com. He has previously worked for Sporting News, DAZN and USA TODAY SMG.
Boettger’s content has been featured by Bleacher Report, NBC Sports, FiveThirtyEight, Yahoo Sports, Athletic Director University, Washington Post, Illinois Law Review and Notre Dame Law Review, among other publications. Boettger is also a current USBWA member and Rockin’ 25 voter.
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Home / News / ASU Regents’ Professor of photography Mark Klett listed as finalist in the Lucie Photo Book Prize
ASU Regents’ Professor of photography Mark Klett listed as finalist in the Lucie Photo Book Prize
Mark Klett, a Regents’ Professor of photography in the School of Art at Arizona State University, was recognized by the Lucie Foundation.
Work by ASU Regents' Professor Mark Klett.
“Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado,” which features Klett’s photographs, was listed as a finalist in the Lucie Photo Book Prize. The juried competition is open to a diversity of submissions, from published to prototype to handmade books, and awards are presented to photographers, editors, curators or publishers who have created these projects anywhere in the world.
Klett, along with photographer Byron Wolfe and writer Rebecca Solnit, spent years exploring Glen Canyon, where in 1963, the waters began rising behind Glen Canyon Dam and 170 miles of the Colorado River slowly disappeared as the riverbed and surrounding canyons filled with water.
According to the book description, “Both those who supported and opposed the dam considered it a longterm transformation, and Glen Canyon as dead and gone forever. But it’s coming back, in a bittersweet victory that is also the result of the pervasive disaster of climate change.”
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Anaesthetic wipes help men last five minutes longer in bedroom
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For men who have difficulty rising to the occasion in the bedroom, scientists may have a come up with a simple solution.
Anaesthetic wipes help certain men who suffer with premature ejaculation maintain an erection for an additional five minutes, a study reveals.
The wipes contain the local anesthetic benzocaine, which desensitizes the penis and delays ejaculation, allowing for a longer erection.
Yet, benzocaine can affect a woman’s chances of having an orgasm and may cause erectile dysfunction if the penis becomes too numb, an expert warns.
Researchers from Cornell University analysed 21 men with premature ejaculation who were in monogamous heterosexual relationships.
Fifteen men used the wipes, known as Preboost, while six others received a placebo wipe without benzocaine.
After two months, the men in the treatment group showed significant improvement in premature ejaculation compared to those in the placebo group.
They also reported greater improvement in ejaculation control, sexual intercourse satisfaction, pleasure and reduced frustration.
“This study is encouraging in demonstrating a new and innovative way to reduce the symptoms of premature ejaculation,” said American Urological Association spokesman Dr. Tobias Kohler.
He said: “Premature ejaculation can cause a variety of issues related to negative feelings and emotions that can lead to problems with sexual relationships.
“This data shows topical 4 percent benzocaine wipes is a promising therapy to treat the most common form of sexual dysfunction among men,” Web MD reported.
Yet, benzocaine can be absorbed through the vaginal wall and reduce a women’s chances of having an orgasm if a condom is not used, an expert warns.
The anesthetic may also be a cause of erectile dysfunction in itself if the penis becomes too numb, they add.
The study author’s note their findings should be considered preliminary until published in a journal. The results were presented at the American Urological Association meeting.
This comes after researchers from the University of Sheffield found that acupuncture may help with premature ejaculation.
Various alternative treatments – including acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, Ayurvedic herbal medicine and a Korean topical cream – also have significant desirable effects, they found.
Premature ejaculation is the most common ejaculation problem. It occurs when the male ejaculates too quickly during sexual intercourse.
Various psychological and physical factors can cause a man to suddenly experience the problem. Physical causes include prostate or thyroid problems, or the use of recreational drugs.
Psychological causes include depression, stress, relationship problems or anxiety about sexual performance. Treatments include couples therapy or medication to delay ejaculation.
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Group lauds Makinde’s achievements as he turns 53
By Adaku Onyenucheya
A socio development group, Oyo State Development Advocacy Group (OSDAG), has congratulated the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde on his 53rd birthday celebration, which usually coincides with the annual Christmas celebration on every December 25.
The group, in its congratulatory message, also lauded his achievements as governor of the State.
The group said the governor has done copiously well in the assignment given to him by the people of Oyo state, as he keeps setting the pace for other governors and leaders to follow.
The group also beckoned on all Nigerians to keep backing the governor with prayers of long life and protection.
According to the spokesman for the group, Micheal Ogunsina, the governor deserves all the prayers on his birthday, adding that, having his birth date fall on Christmas day is a sign that just like Jesus Christ, Makinde was also chosen and sent by God to lead Oyo State.
He added that similar to the example of Jesus Christ, Makinde is livng an exemplary life by touching on the lives and assisting the people
“Makinde is a reflection of God’s impeccable character, as a human servant, He is transforming lives, through quality leadership and Governance in Oyo State, he is more useful in the Nation Building beyond being a governor in Oyo State, because the future holds something more greater for Nigerians as his quality leadership will one day be impacted on the citizens in general. We pray to God to continue to guide him right, and make him triumph over all his detractors,” the group said.
The group, also stated further that, they are confident that the governor is a man of his word and will deliver on all his mandates to the Good people of Oyo State.
The group called on the people of Oyo state to continue supporting the governor in any and every capacity they can, advising them not to fall for the gimmicks of the oppositions in the State and elsewhere, hell bent to soiling his reputation with the play of dirty politics.
“As everyone knows, Makinde has constructed a lot of new roads, reconstructed of old ones, attended to social services, distribution of palliatives to the poor and vulnerable, quality Healthcare, economy expansion, prudent management of state funds, increased reputational rating, creation of thousands of jobs, attraction of more Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), mass relocation of people and businesses to Oyo State due to the business friendly atmosphere and the inviting policies of Governor Seyi Makinde, increase participation in agro businesses, clean and light up Oyo State, continued investments in the provision of security gadgets and equipment, for both conventional police and Amotekun Corps, and lots more,” the group said.
The group further encouraged all the citizens of Oyo State home and abroad and friends of the governor to keep rallying around him with prayers and physical support at all time, while assuring the governor that the group will not fail in its development advocacy assignment
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Senate President launches free medical outreach in Yobe
By NAN
14 November 2020 | 6:37 pm
The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, on Saturday launched a free medical outreach for the treatment of eye related diseases and other ailments at Gashua in Bade Local Government Area (LGA) of Yobe.
Lawan said that the outreach was a necessary intervention for the residents of the area.
“This medical outreach is in line with what we believe to be important and necessary as an intervention for our people who need either surgeries or general treatments to recover or improve their sights,’’ he said.
He said 5,000 persons would be treated for eye related ailments, while 6,000 others for hypertension, diabetes and other medical complications.
The senate president pledged to construct students’ hostels, clinic, staff quarters and science laboratories at the Federal University, Gashua.
Earlier, Prof. Adamu Abdullahi, the Head of the Medical Outreach Team, had underscored the importance of the programme.
“You may not know the impact of this activity until you get to the people who are direct beneficiaries of the programme.
“Majority of them are artisans and farmers, and for a lot of them, the problem had impacted on the quality of their lives.
“But today, this intervention will turn around their economic fortunes, some of them will be able to go and do their normal businesses,’’ Abdullahi said.
Mr Adamu Dagona, the Director Personnel and Management of Bade LGA, said the senate president’s interventions have gone beyond medical outreach to other spheres of human endeavour.
Dagona said that the interventions had extended to scholarships, mass annual animal vaccinations, provision of educational facilities, healthcare services, electricity, water and sanitation, roads and youth empowerment, amongst others.
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Merkel’s party bags key victory in bellwether state vote
14 May 2017 | 6:02 pm
German Chancellor Angela Merkel / AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSEN
Chancellor Angela Merkel dealt a devastating blow to her main rival on Sunday, four months before national elections, when early results showed her party securing a strong win in a regional vote in Germany’s biggest state.
Her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) clinched 34.3 percent of the vote in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), first results showed, snatching control of the sprawling industrial region which has been a Social Democratic Party (SPD) stronghold for decades.
The SPD only managed to garner 30.6 percent, its worst score in history in the state and sharply down from its 2012 showing of 39.1 percent, in a serious hit to confidence ahead of general elections in September.
SPD leader Martin Schulz admitted that the loss in his home state marked a “difficult day for the SPD” and for him personally, but urged supporters to battle on.
“We received a body blow, but we are still striving in the ring… now we’re going into the next round, the deciding round. At the end, when we look to the judge, it’s going to be the voters who raise the winner’s arms,” he said.
The former European Parliament president turned to France for courage.
“My friend Emmanuel Macron was at the bottom five months ago, and now, he is president,” said Schulz of the new French leader who took office on Sunday.
But Germany’s best-selling daily Bild noted that “with the clear state election failures, it would be very difficult for the SPD to win the general elections in September.”
Likewise, Spiegel Online said: “Martin Schulz now needs a miracle.”
– High stakes –
With a fifth of Germans — 13.1 million — eligible to vote in North Rhine-Westphalia, an election in the western state is always closely watched.
It carries even higher stakes this year, being the last regional vote before national polls and having a direct impact on whether the SPD can close a nationwide gap of around 10 percentage points with the CDU.
“We are going into the national elections with a lot of confidence,” said lawmaker Michael Grosse-Broemer, who heads the CDU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, noting that the latest win gave the party further “tailwind”.
The SPD had already suffered two setbacks since Schulz took over, with the CDU scoring strong victories in the small states of Saarland and Schleswig-Holstein.
Sunday’s humiliating result in its stronghold may raise serious questions on the centre-left party’s strategy.
Schulz had hoped that his push for “social justice” would resonate in NRW, which has lagged behind western Germany economically.
He argued that many people are struggling in temporary or low-paid jobs even though the country as a whole is growing richer.
But Merkel, who had also gone all out to sway the state of 18 million people, including 4.2 million of migrant origin, took aim at Schulz’s arguments.
Her party, she said, offered “justice in the sense of jobs, strong budgets, funds for local communities.”
She had urged voters to look at her government’s economic record, noting that with 7.5 percent unemployment, the state fares worse than the national rate of 5.8 percent.
– Security problem –
The state’s SPD-led governing coalition has also been under fire over security failures, and junior partner Greens also suffered a setback Sunday with polling reaching 6.0 percent, just above half of the 2012 score of 11.3 percent.
State interior minister Ralf Jaeger has faced criticism for failing to detain Anis Amri, the Tunisian asylum seeker suspected in the deadly Berlin Christmas market rampage last year.
Amri had lived in the state and was deemed a threat by intelligence officials, but Jaeger argued that there was insufficient evidence to lock him up.
On Jaeger’s watch, Cologne also became the scene of mass sexual assaults by groups of mostly North African men on New Year’s Eve of 2015-2016, inflaming the debate over the 890,000 asylum seekers Germany welcomed in 2015.
The populist AfD (Alternative for Germany), which has railed against the migration influx, on Sunday secured its first seats in NRW, which would see it represented in 13 of 16 state parliaments.
Liberal party FDP saw a revival, polling at 12 percent in the state, after being consigned to political wilderness when it failed to cross the five-percent hurdle in national election in 2013.
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Joshua Kimmich, the ‘phenomenal’ driving force at Bayern
02 November 2020 | 10:34 am
Joshua Kimmich PHOTO: Reuters
With Bastian Schweinsteiger as his role model, Joshua Kimmich is following in his idol’s footsteps at Bayern Munich by becoming the driving force of the European champions.
Kimmich will be at the heart of Bayern’s midfield on Tuesday when they make the trip over the Alps to face Red Bull Salzburg in the Champions League.
Kimmich has evolved from a right-back into an uncompromising defensive midfielder, whose full-blooded challenges often win back possession to counter-attack.
On Saturday, in typical fashion, Kimmich robbed Cologne midfielder Ellyes Skhiri of the ball with expert timing and then launched the break which resulted in a Serge Gnabry goal as Bayern earned a 2-1 win and moved top of the Bundesliga.
After Bayern conceded an equaliser at Lokomotiv Moscow last Tuesday, it was Kimmich who stepped up and hit the second-half winner from outside the area.
The 2-1 victory in Moscow preserved Bayern’s 13-match winning streak in the Champions League and for head coach Hansi Flick, Kimmich sums up Bayern’s fighting spirit.
“His mentality is very special. He is well on his way to being one of the players that shape this club,” said Flick after Kimmich scored the winner in September’s German Super Cup triumph over Dortmund.
The 25-year-old recently became a father for the second time.
He has grown into a household name in Germany — confirmed when Berlin’s Madame Tussauds announced in June that a wax statue of Kimmich will feature in their football section next year.
He has the innocent looks of a choirboy, yet Kimmich can frequently be seen barking orders at his Bayern team-mates.
‘Qualities to be anything’
His competitive nature makes Flick think twice about resting Kimmich despite Bayern’s dense fixture list.
“I have to expect he’ll be angry,” Flick admitted. “He always wants to be on the pitch.”
Flick is not the only top-level coach to marvel at Kimmich.
Both Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho have waxed lyrical about the Germany international.
Tottenham boss Mourinho believes Kimmich has the talent to play in any position.
“I see him as a top right-back, left-back, centre-back, No.6, No.8, No.10… he has qualities to be anything,” Mourinho told broadcaster DAZN.
“He’s intelligent and understands what he has to do here and what he has to do there. I think he’s phenomenal.”
Kimmich, a product of Stuttgart’s academy, thought his agent was joking when Bayern enquired about signing him from his former club Leipzig in 2015.
After the transfer was completed, Kimmich demanded to know why Bayern wanted to sign him — it was because then head coach Guardiola wanted him.
“I love this boy! He has everything, he can do everything, he gives everything,” Guardiola declared after Kimmich quickly established himself in Bayern’s first team.
Kimmich is one of the first names on Flick’s teamsheet whether at right-back or his preferred position in defensive midfield.
He showed his versatility last season, reverting to right-back for the knockout stages of the Champions League in Lisbon after injury to Benjamin Pavard.
Kimmich was in the thick of the action in the historic 8-2 drubbing of Barcelona.
He fired in a cross for Thomas Mueller’s goal, then unleashed a primal scream in celebration after tapping home Alphonso Davies’ final pass with Barca’s defence shredded.
His performances in Portugal contributed to Kimmich being named the top Champions League defender for the 2019/20 campaign as Bayern lifted the trophy.
Kimmich believes a lot of his success comes down to his mentality, which is something he tried to learn by watching one of his heroes while growing up.
“When I was younger, I did try to copy a lot of what he (Schweinsteiger) did,” Kimmich, who played with the long-time Bayern midfielder for Germany, told the club’s YouTube channel.
“He was always someone who led the way by bringing his own mentality to the table.
“For me, that was best shown in the (2014) World Cup final,” when Schweinsteiger soaked up everything the Argentina midfield threw at him in a magnificent display.
Kimmich has won five straight Bundesliga titles with Bayern and with three more years currently left on his contract, he could well match Schweinsteiger’s tally of eight.
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We will not underrate Luxembourg, says Yusuf
The Super Eagles listening to their coaches before yesterday’s training session. The team will take on Luxembourg in the last of their two-game tour of Europe… today. PHOTO: THENFF.COM.
Super Eagles’ Interim Coach, Salisu Yusuf, believes there are no more minnows in international football hence his wards will approach today’s friendly against Luxembourg as if it were the World Cup final.
The Super Eagles will take on the Red Lions of Luxembourg at the Stade Josy Barthel this evening. It is the final game of their two-match tour of Europe and the boys want to continue the good run after their 1-0 defeat of Mali in France on Friday.
Luxembourg have scored only four goals in their last 10 matches, whilst conceding 20. But Coach Yusuf said his boys would not under–rate the Europeans at the Stade Josy Barthel.
“There are no longer small teams in international football. You could get a sucker punch if you under –estimate any team. We will go out there and play to win,” Yusuf said.
The team spent longer than the 40 minutes that was earmarked for Sunday’s first training session, shaking off travel fatigue and generally enjoying the atmosphere under a light rain shower.
Yesterday morning, defensive midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi, arrived the team’s Alvisse Parc Hotel camp in Luxembourg City, bringing the number of players in camp to 21. Midfielder Babatunde Michael, who flew to Morocco after the clash with Mali to be on duty for his club, Raja Casablanca, was being expected in Luxembourg City last night.
Former U-17 and U-20 star Ndidi, who helped his Belgian club, KRC Genk to qualify for the UEFA Europa League following a 5-1 defeat of Charleroi on Sunday, could start in midfield alongside stand-in captain, Ogenyi Onazi, and Shehu Abdullahi.
Coach Yusuf and assistants are also likely to start Turkey–based defender, Kenneth Omeruo, in central defence, and South Africa–based goalkeeper, Daniel Akpeyi, may start in place of Carl Ikeme, as the coaches intend to take a look at all the players in camp.
Ikeme, Musa Mohammed, Kingsley Madu, Leon Balogun, William Troost Ekong, Shehu Abdullahi, Onazi Ogenyi, Etebo Oghenekaro, Moses Simon, Odion Ighalo and Alex Iwobi started the game against Mali, with Gbenga Arokoyo, Kelechi Iheanacho, Raheem Lawal, Aminu Umar and Brown Ideye coming on in the second half.
Luxembourg, coached by Luc Holtz, will rely on the fast breaks of winger Daniel Alves da Mota and the potency of Stefano Bensi in attack. Bensi scored 21 goals in the Luxembourg Premier League in the just–ended season. But there is also David Turpel, who netted 26 goals in 32 matches for Fola Esch in the Luxembourg top flight.
The Red Lions have won only two of their last 10 matches, beating Macedonia 1-0 in a Euro 2016 qualifier in September 2015 and Greece by the same margin in a friendly two months later.
Their last match, a friendly against Albania in March this year, ended in a 2-0 defeat for the Lions.
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Lazlo’s Clicker: Penny Dreadful, The Maya Rudolph Show
The title of Showtime’s new drama Penny Dreadful has its origins in 19th century Great Britain, when a popular fiction among the masses was offered in serialized form, each new portion costing one cent. The subject matter of these stories was invariably sensationalized violence and horror. They were also frequently printed on pulp paper, which explains another more well known title. Enough with the pop culture history lesson, however. Penny Dreadful is an engrossing and unique drama, and I’m hoping it sticks with audiences.
Bearing no relationship to the 1996 film of the same name, Penny Dreadful is set in England in 1891, and it grabbed a hold of me right from the outset. The mesmerizing Eva Green was shown with her head bowed so severely in prayer she appeared to be decapitated. Then she looks up and watches a nasty looking spider crawl right up her arm. In terms of imagery style, think Sweeney Todd.
The story centers on Sir Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton), an explorer whose daughter was abducted by vampires. He assembles a team in hopes of finding her that includes the clairvoyant Vanessa Ives (Green), American gunslinger for hire Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett) and a young medical intern by the name of Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway). Combining historical fictional characters with its own unique roster gives Penny Dreadful a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen feel, but with an X-Files creepiness, the gothic horror atmosphere invigorated by a True Blood appetite for graphic sex and violence.
Persuasively scary: Eva Green
There is plenty to appreciate here, especially the original goth-girl performance from the perennially underrated Green, and the story set up promises a good deal of intrigue with nearly limitless possibilities, much the same as the scandalous paperbacks from which the show draws it name. If you missed the first couple of episodes, get on board now. This show promises to be a fun ride.
LESS THAN an initial series order, but more than a stand-alone special, The Maya Rudolph Show aired its (so-far) lone episode this week, with NBC advising that a series order might be in the works depending, in part, on how the special was received. Well here’s hoping it was received well, because I definitely want more.
Maya Rudolph has always been one of my all-time favorite Saturday Night Live performers, and when I heard she would be doing a ‘70s style variety show special, I was eagerly anticipating its airing. True to her word, Rudolph captured the spirit of the great variety shows of the ‘70s like The Carol Burnett Show, Sonny and Cher or, one of my old favorites, The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour (google it). These shows found a way to blend sketch comedy, song and dance comedy pieces, musical numbers and, of course, plenty of guest stars, all packed into an hour of silliness, glitz and song. No one is better qualified than Rudolph to turn that format back into a weekly variety hour.
Think it’s easy to be glamorous and silly at the same time? Think again.
Although the show pulled decent ratings, the critical response was not overly enthusiastic, with many critics focusing on some of the flaws (as if the fledgling episode of any show could be expected to be without them) and with some critics wondering if the variety show was a format that necessarily needed to be revived. Of course, the alternative is even more American Idol contest knockoffs or truly repugnant fare like The Bachelor. I’ll take the variety and comedy hour any day of the week, especially if Maya is at the helm.
The Americans completed an amazing second season this week, and the show remains one which successfully delivers edge of your seat suspense week after week. Moreover, the set up for Season 3 is particularly intriguing. This is a show at the top of its game.
Educational TV. Things we learned from watching TV this week: 1) Reading your credit card agreement is a violation of your credit card agreement (The Colbert Report); 2) Conan O’Brien is not a dunce, but he does play one on TV (Conan); 3) PacMan has jaundice (After Midnight).
It seems to have become a tradition at Saturday Night Live to end the season with a flood of guests – most of them former cast members – and this week’s finale was no different. Andy Samberg was joined by Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Paul Rudd, Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, Tatiana Maslany, Seth Meyers and a whole bunch more. It’s fun to watch and nice to welcome back old friends, but it also highlights the fact that, with a few exceptions, the current cast doesn’t resonate the way the former one did. Any wonder then that the highlight of the episode were the two songs by St. Vincent?
The Normal Heart airs May 25 on HBO.
The season premiere of American Ninja Warrior airs May 26 on NBC.
Petals On The Wind airs May 26 on Lifetime.
The series debut of The World Wars airs on The History Channel on May 26.
The season premiere of America’s Got Talent airs on NBC on May 27.
The series premiere of The Wil Wheaton Project airs on Syfy on May 27.
The series debut of The Night Shift airs on May 27 on NBC.
The season premiere of So You Think You Can Dance airs on Fox on May 28.
The series premiere of Undateable airs on NBC on May 29.
The series debut of The Sixties airs on May 29 on CNN.
The series premiere of Crossbones airs May 30 on NBC.
TV’s a big place and I haven’t been to all of it yet. Got a favorite show you’d like me to comment on? Post a comment below, contact me on twitter @RobLazlo. or shoot me an email: [email protected] I welcome your input!
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Rob Lazlo lives in Atlantic City, NJ and is a lifelong Philadelphia sports fan, following the Phillies, Eagles, Flyers and Sixers.A former professional musician, he toured with the USO and visited Greenland, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Bahrain and many other locales.Rob is a big science fiction fan and loves movies, television, cooking, music and, of course, sports of all kinds. He works as a business consultant and is happily divorced with three children.For other hobbies, Rob plays sports titles video games and dabbles in online games. He also enjoys reading and following politics.
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Holt Uncensored: Patricia Holt on Books and the Publishing Revolution
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When Cell Phones Turn Readers into Idiots
January 24, 2011 | by Pat Holt
One needn’t be a fan of Barnes & Noble to sympathize with the staff at a B&N store where New York Times writer Nick Bilton and his wife acted like a couple of six-year-olds storming a playpen.
According to Bilton’s article, the couple sat down “cross-legged on the floor” and surrounded themselves with “several large piles of books,” which they “lobbed back and forth” (!) for “a couple of hours” (!!) while researching “ideas for a new home that we are planning to buy.”
Isn’t that nice. Whenever you need a library, just go to a bookstore, Bilton suggests. There you can turn new books into used books for all the customers to follow.
Then Bilton and his wife “snapped a dozen pictures of book pages with our iPhones” and “went home without buying a thing.” Very tidy. Bilton does mention that they “placed the books back on the shelf” like the Good Samaritans they see themselves to be.
A Disturbing Idea
But later that night, Bilton was struck by a disturbing idea: “I asked my wife: Did we do anything wrong? And, I wondered, had we broken any laws by photographing those pages?”
So conscientious! After all, those pages were protected by copyright, a very big word for a very important concept. You’d think an explanation of copyright would be the point to an article with the headline: “Can Your Camera Phone Turn You Into a Pirate?”
But no. The authorities Bilton consults compare the use of cell phones that photograph book pages today with the use of Xerox machines that duplicated book pages during the ’70s, and the use of Napster programs that shared music files during the ’90s.
According to these experts, technology has advanced so quickly that copyright laws can’t keep up, so nobody really knows the exact definition of piracy when it comes to cell phone cameras. But Bilton’s journalistic drive demands a deeper truth: Will he get caught?
“Need I worry yet that a phalanx of lawyers will soon grab me between the Home Decor and New Age aisles at Barnes & Noble?”
Well, if I were the two thugs running this chain, I would have thrown the Biltons off the escalator, but you know, bookstore clerks are nice. They allowed this couple to clog the aisles and rummage through new books on the floor because it might have sounded rude to ask them to put their !@#$%^&*! cell phones away.
That leaves readers to ponder a thought by Julia A. Ahrens, associate director of the Fair Use Project at Stanford Law School: “By the time this becomes an issue,” she tells Bilton, “we might not even have bookstores anymore.”
That’s comforting, isn’t it, Nick? One day the same might be said of libraries.
Bookstore Rudeness
I know that bookstores have long been invaded by ill-mannered customers who blithely sit down in the aisles, break the spines of new titles, “lob” books around or — these I could throttle — buy a book on Amazon and bring it into a bookstore to have autographed at an author event.
But Bilton’s article raises new questions about the effect of cell phones on social manners in general. Maybe we’ve all grown accustomed to cell phone users driving erratically or talking loudly on the street or in elevators and restaurants because for some reason, they think their conversation takes precedence over everyone else’s experience.
What I can’t figure out are bookstore customers who blatantly use cell phones to compare prices with Amazon’s while they walk around the New Release table, or worse, take cell phone photos of books they might want to read so they can buy them on Amazon later.
I won’t go into Kindle owners who actually bring … well, you get the point.
This is not just rude behavior; it’s profane. A bookstore offers browsing opportunities and instant camaraderie with staff and authors that we never find on the Internet. There’s something sacred about a place where censorship is fought routinely, unknown authors are welcomed and introduced and young adults who’ve inexplicitly stopped reading are lured back to books they’ll treasure forever. For a customer to interrupt this kind of sacred exchange because they’re so entirely self-involved seems tragic.
Thanking Our Lucky Stars
The Biltons don’t appear to be stupid or cheap — I bet if you asked them, they’d want to contribute to the betterment of bookstores. Then, too, Nick Bilton is the lead technology writer for the New York Times and author of I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works (Crown; 304 pages; $25), a book published last fall about the impact of iPads and smart phones. That makes Bilton an expert. Yet he doesn’t know the meaning of copyright? When he and the missus took advantage of the bookstore staff’s good graces, he had to ask, “Did we do anything wrong?”
So come on, Nicky, get off the phone. Think how you’d feel if somebody photographed your book and blithely departed “without buying a thing.” The future you write about can and should provide Americans with every kind of reading option, most especially the bookstore option.
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‘Repeal/replace’ becomes repeal and … whatever
June 30, 2017 kanelis2012 Leave a comment
My head keeps spinning. Why? I cannot keep up with Donald John Trump’s ever-changing strategy — such as it is.
The president has promised, guaranteed, signed in blood an effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it immediately with an alternative. The House of Representatives approved such a plan; the president high-fived the GOP leadership at a Rose Garden ceremony.
Then came the Senate’s version. The Senate GOP came up with a plan that looks a lot like the House version, which Trump then called “mean.” The Senate Republican leadership couldn’t find 50 votes to approve it. So it postponed a vote until they can get there.
OK, do you follow me? Here’s more. Today the president said it’s OK to just repeal the ACA and worry later — maybe much later — about a replacement.
Hey, wait! What about that promise/pledge to do it all at once? What happened to the president’s commitment to keep health insurance for every American? It’s gone, man!
Oh, yes. There’s also that other tweet that came out Thursday morning, the one that ridiculed a TV news anchor in personal and vulgar terms. Republicans are now fleeing from the president’s policy statements regarding health care repeal/replacement largely as a result.
The president’s overall campaign pledge to “make America great again” now appears also to be dead on arrival. This is not a sign of greatness, Mr. President. You are demonstrating weakness.
Here’s an idea: How about reforming the existing law, the ACA, by tweaking the things you dislike? The Congressional Budget Office has “scored” the Senate GOP plan with a grim projection that 22 million Americans will lose their health insurance.
We’ve got a health insurance law on the books already. Make that one better. You can do this, Mr. President. It will take some help from Democrats, who say they’re ready and willing to compromise.
That is how you legislate.
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Golden Rule, Mr. President?
One of the aspects of this latest feud that’s erupted between Donald J. Trump and the media involves its timing.
The president decided to go after MSBNC morning talk-show host Mika Brzezinski with a hideous tweet about her supposedly “bleeding from a face lift” while she and fiancé and fellow co-host Joe Scarborough sought to visit Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
The president is angry over “negative coverage” delivered by the MSNBC hosts. So he decided to make it personal.
Let’s consider a fairly underreported aspect of this spate uncivility. It comes just after the death of Brzezinski’s father, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was national security adviser to President Carter from 1977 until 1981. The elder Brzezinski, who died on May 26, was an avid anti-communist; he fled his native Poland, which would be taken over by the communist government that followed orders set down by the Soviet Union. Zbig, as he was known to his friends, became a naturalized American and then became one of the nation’s foremost experts on the Soviet Union. He was a great man who, quite obviously was revered by his family, including his daughter Mika.
Why couldn’t the president have honored Mika Brzezinski’s grief? Why did he feel compelled to launch that Twitter tirade while she is still hurting?
Oh, I almost forgot. That would require a sense of human decency, which the president seems to lack.
I am reminded of a New Testament passage. It’s in the Gospel of Matthew, referring to the Golden Rule. The New Living Translation instructs us as Jesus Christ taught: Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.
How might the president have felt had someone attacked him so directly — and so personally — so soon after the death of a loved one?
I’m guessing he’d get real angry … real fast.
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POTUS meddling with media?
Try for a moment to process what MSBNC “Morning Joe” co-hosts — Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough — said today about their relationship with the president of the United States.
According to Scarborough, Donald J. Trump’s White House called Scarborough and asked him to apologize for the “negative coverage” he and Brzezinski have done on the president. In return, again according to Scarborough, the president would call his good friend who runs the National Enquirer and spike a story that the publication is going to run about Scarborough and Brzezinski.
See the story here.
So, if I have this right — and if Scarborough is telling the truth — the president of the United States is now taking time away from matters of state to engage even further in a petty and petulant quarrel with the media over “negative coverage.”
Are there any more examples needed to demonstrate that Donald J. Trump is categorically unfit to hold the office of president?
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Hell freezes over: Fox News anchor defends Obama
When a TV anchor for Fox News Channel — the outfit formerly known for its “fair and balanced” mantra — comes to President Barack Obama’s defense, well, then you’ve got my attention.
So it was this week with Julie Banderas, who scolded Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel’s feeble attempt at defending Donald J. Trump’s vulgar tweet about another news talk show host, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski.
Banderas noted that Obama’s critics called him all sorts of names, heaped all sorts of unfair and inaccurate criticism on him. She told McDaniel that the former president responded with dignity and decorum. He chose not to fire off angry tweets in the wee hours of some morning to answer his critics.
Banderas said: “People used to call him a Muslim. People used to call him under-qualified, a sellout to America, a hater of Israel. I mean they called him every name in the book, but you didn’t see him lash out.”
Here is the Fox interview
“Today, the president acted like a human, and he pushed back,” McDaniel told Banderas.
Sorry, Mme. Chairwoman. A “human” doesn’t have to resort to such degrading personal attacks to make whatever point he sought to make. Someone will have to inform me on precisely what the president’s point actually was.
He tweeted something about Brzezinski “bleeding badly from a facelift.” He called her “Crazy Mika.” He attacked yet another female in public life, using language not fit for a junior high school playground, let alone from the commander in chief and head of state of the world’s greatest nation.
Chairwoman McDaniel’s use of the word “human” also should include the word “decency.” If the president had a hint of human decency buried somewhere in his DNA he would have refrained from attacking another human in such a personal and undignified manner.
Julie Banderas was absolutely correct to call the president out for his latest moronic Twitter tirade.
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Police risk their lives daily … if not hourly
I had a chance this week to renew an acquaintance with a member of Amarillo’s police department. He’s now a captain, but when I first met him more then a decade ago he was employed as an officer on bike patrol. He rode a bicycle around high-crime neighborhoods as part of the city ‘s community policing effort.
I won’t tell you his name, because he doesn’t know I’m writing this blog.
The young man had some nice things to say to me about the work I did back in The Day, when I wrote for the Amarillo Globe-News.
But I want to take a moment here to restate what I’ve noted already, which is that police officers have no greater fan or friend than yours truly.
My very first full-time reporting job was back in Oregon, at the Oregon City Enterprise-Courier, which was a small-town afternoon daily newspaper that published five issues each week, Monday through Friday. I would start my day before the sun rose visiting police department dispatchers, collecting information about the calls that came over the past 24 hours. I would look for possible news stories to report on for that day’s paper.
I developed good relationships over the years with cops, with chiefs of police, county sheriffs and dispatchers. I came to understand early about the dangers these folks face every time they report for work. One sheriff scolded me once for writing the words “routine traffic stop,” and he informed me that “there ain’t no such thing as a ‘routine stop.'” I got it.
Did I encounter some bad actors along the way? You bet. One sheriff’s deputy in Oregon City was caught stealing drugs from the evidence property room. A sheriff I knew — also in Oregon City — got entangled in a controversy involving arms deals in southern Africa. One officer in Amarillo detested me because I wrote editorials critical of the police association’s efforts to get a dramatic increase in pay.
But the vast majority of officers and their bosses did their jobs well, with dedication and with honor.
I was given a bit of an up-close look at police operations as a member of the Citizens Police Academy. I had written a column that was mildly critical of something I witnessed involving a police officer. The young captain I saw this week reminded me of that column and of the time we first met while I was attending those academy classes. One of the senior officers at APD read my column, then called me out, telling me in effect that I needed to get a more detailed look at police work. He invited to apply for the Citizens Police Academy; I did and got accepted.
Yes, I read news stories about police officers acting unprofessionally. I understand fully the anger among some communities about cops who harass citizens needlessly, or who demonstrate racial or ethnic bias against citizens. Many of these incidents end tragically and I generally am sympathetic with those who call for reforms within various departments.
However, my support for police remains resolute. My admiration for those who do their jobs well is as strong as ever. I’ve had the pleasure and the honor of knowing many of them over many years in journalism and, yes, I understand the inherent tension between cops and the media.
My professional experience with police in my chosen career has loaded with many pleasant memories of what I’ve witnessed. They have earned my undying respect.
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Travel ban now in effect: Do you feel safe now?
Donald J. Trump’s travel ban is back in force now, thanks to a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The court struck down previous lower-court rulings that set aside the ban, giving the president a limited victory in his campaign against Muslims around the world.
The president hails it as a way to make Americans safe from international terrorists. The ban affects those seeking to come to the United States from six Muslim-majority nations. If they do come here from any of those six nations, they must have some tangible, identifiable connection to this country: a relative, enrollment at a U.S. college or university.
He has vowed to protect us from those who seek to do us harm. The president asserted during the 2016 campaign that potential terrorists were “pouring into” our country and that, by golly, he intended to stop it.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t believe I’ll feel one bit safer down the road when the travel ban becomes fully implemented.
This ban doesn’t account for the home-grown terrorists who have brought misery to fellow Americans. It doesn’t deal at all with the terrorists, or terror groups, opening fire in crowded movie theaters, in nightclubs, at a U.S. Army post, in a Charleston, S.C., church.
We all remember 9/11. We recall the hideous nature of that dastardly act. We scorned the terrorists as cowardly bastards. We have gone to war against them.
Have we been hit by terrorists in an attack even remotely similar since that terrible day? No. Our national security apparatus, though, has stopped many attempts during the past 16 years.
It’s the so-called “lone wolf” terrorist who is so very difficult to detect in advance of their act.
In my view, a travel ban cannot stop someone from sneaking into this country from, say, Sweden or France, or Brazil or Russia who then would commit an act of terror.
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Time to say it again: Trump is unfit for the presidency
I feel compelled to share a blog I wrote slightly more than two years ago.
I posted it immediately after Donald John Trump declared his candidacy for president of the United States.
It posits the notion that Trump was unfit for the office he sought.
https://highplainsblogger.com/2015/06/the-impossible-has-happened-now-what/
OK, I couldn’t actually believe that Trump announced. I couldn’t believe he would be nominated by the Republican Party. Nor could I believe, once nominated, that he could be elected president.
Silly me. I was so very wrong on his nomination and then his election.
Events of the past 24 hours, though, have affirmed my initial thought about Donald Trump’s fitness for the very first public office he ever sought. He is not fit for the job. He is unfit to be the nation’s leader. He has no understanding of the dignity that the presidency requires of the people who hold the office.
He has tweeted something hideous about a TV news talk show host. It’s only the latest example of this individual’s view of (a) women, (b) the media and (c) the presidency itself.
The public record is full of statements from Trump that denigrate women. He fat-shames them, which perhaps is about the most ironic aspect of this man’s utter lack of self-awareness, if you get my drift.
He has declared the media to be the “enemy of the American people.” He cannot stand criticism, which I have noted many times already in this forum is part of the job of being president. His predecessors all have taken their share of criticism from the media; most of them have reacted well, others, well, not so well. But the media do their job, which is to hold public officials accountable for their statements and actions. That is most essential when it regards the nation’s head of state.
Finally, Trump’s constant berating of critics via Twitter demonstrates as clearly as is humanly possible that he doesn’t appreciate the office he occupies. He denigrates the presidency. He vows to “make America great again,” but his social media petulance weakens this already-great country.
I admit readily to being wrong about how this guy ever got elected president. I take small comfort only knowing that almost everyone in America got it wrong, too.
However, I stand foursquare behind the view that this clown is unfit for the presidency. Donald Trump shames this nation’s greatest office, even if he is without any capacity for personal shame.
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Twitter insult might doom health care overhaul
Donald J. Trump’s latest Twitter tantrum bodes potentially disastrous for a legislative goal he and congressional Republicans have established.
They want to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. A U.S. Senate bill is hanging by a thread. Senators postponed their vote on it until after the Fourth of July recess.
So what does the president do? He fires off a vulgar, insulting tweet this morning about two MSBNC talk show hosts, ratcheting up his idiotic war against the media. The tweet makes some bizarre reference to Mika Brzezinski “bleeding badly from a facelift.” He refers to her as “Crazy Mika” and her co-host Joe Scarborough as “Psycho Joe.”
Republicans upon whom the president depends to help him approve this ACA repeal/replace idea now are running like thieves away from Trump.
It’s fair to wonder: Is the president’s lack of discipline, decorum and dignity going to cost him a victory that — frankly, it must be said — was tenuous?
This is no way at all at how you govern.
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Memo to Melania: Rein in your husband
Dear Melania …
I hope you don’t object to my addressing you by your first name. I mean no disrespect. To my point …
I greeted your call for an end to cyber bullying with a bit of skepticism. My first reaction, along with that of millions of other Americans, was that you need to start at home in that noble effort.
You need to curtail your husband’s use of Twitter, I suggested, as a weapon to bludgeon foes and assorted critics.
Later I posted a blog entry extolling the virtue of your effort. You are right to use your high profile as first lady of the United States to end this scourge of Internet bullying. I applauded you then and I applaud you now.
However, your husband is at it again. I’m sure you’ve heard about that ghastly tweet he posted this morning about Mika Brzezinski, about how she was “bleeding from a facelift.” He called her “Crazy Mika.” Then he aimed his Twitter barrel at Joe Scarborough, her MSNBC morning talk show co-host, calling him “Psycho Joe.”
Just as a reminder, here is what he wrote: “I heard poorly rated Morning Joe speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came …” Trump tweeted before adding “to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year’s Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!”
The recriminations are going to come quickly over a period of time, Melania. Your husband’s fellow Republicans are incensed. Some of them are as incensed as the rest of us who didn’t vote for your husband.
I am reminded of the question leveled at the reviled late U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who in the 1950s said there were communists employed at the State Department. “Have you left no sense of decency?” came the question from U.S. Army counsel Joseph Welch to Sen. McCarthy during one of those infamous Senate hearings.
It’s time to ask the same thing of your husband. I never thought I’d wonder this about the president of the United States: Has he no sense of decency, or decorum? Does he disrespect the high office he holds so much that he stoops to the level of juvenile petulance to communicate in such a crude, hostile and undignified manner?
I guess, Melania, we’re back to where we began. Isn’t it time you reined in that husband of yours before you launch your campaign against cyber bullying?
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POTUS has sunk yet again to another new low
Donald John (Internet Bully in Chief) Trump has done it yet again.
He has demonstrated that there is no bottom to the level of crassness he is able and quite willing to exhibit on social media.
The president of the United States of America has decided to engage in a vile insult campaign against a member of the media, this time suggesting this individual was “bleeding from a facelift.”
The target is Mika Brzezinski, co-host of the MSNBC morning talk show “Morning Joe.” What did Trump say about this women, whose father, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, recently died? He called her “Crazy Mika” and said she and her co-host, former U.S. Rep. Joe Scarborough, wanted to spend some time at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. “She was bleeding badly from a facelift. I said no,” Trump said this morning on Twitter.
Read the NY Times story here.
According to the Times: The graphic nature of the president’s suggestion that Ms. Brzezinski had undergone plastic surgery was met with immediate criticism on social media. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina wrote on Twitter, “Mr. President, your tweet was beneath the office and represents what is wrong with American politics, not the greatness of America.” And a spokesman for NBC News, Mark Kornblau, wrote on Twitter: “Never imagined a day when I would think to myself, ‘It is beneath my dignity to respond to the President of the United States.’”
I am running out of ways to express my revulsion over the president’s conduct. His “war” against the media rages on.
This individual was elected to the nation’s highest office. It demands respect from those of us who revere what it stands for. It also would seemingly demand respect from those who occupy it. That the current White House resident, the commander in chief of our armed forces, our head of state and government would resort to this kind of ghastly insult campaign denigrates the office to a whole new level.
Now, I fully expect some criticism of this blog post from those out there who are going to change the subject by suggesting that other presidents have acted badly while holding this office. Spare me the diversionary tactic. This has nothing to do with them. It has everything to do with the here and now — and the individual who was elected to be our national ambassador on the world stage.
If only I could expect that there is nothing more hideous that the president can do. Sadly, I now fully expect him to go even lower.
Let’s all just wait for it.
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Low Risk Winter Athletics May Begin Jan. 19th
Low-risk winter sports (badminton, cheerleading, dance, boys swim/dive, bowling, and gymnastics (hosted at OH)) may begin practice as early as Tuesday January 19th. Coaches of those teams will be reaching athletes who have shown interest or participated for those sports when they began in November. Those sports that didn't have tryouts in November will have a schedule posted as soon as it is created. Here are a few additional items to be aware of:
Registration/Physical - All athletes must be registered on 8to18 and have a current physical on file.
COVID Mitigations - Masks must be worn at all times, social distancing will be observed, and no sharing of items. Bring your own water bottle as drinking fountains are turned off.
Locker Rooms - Locker rooms are still off-limits under our current mitigations.
Athletic Shuttles - Athletic shuttles will start running on Wednesday for students who are learning remotely. These shuttles should get athletes to OEHS by about 3:10 for practices. Please see this link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vhBGy1X5qDPsea9JZ2kKOgVnggNJepKc/view?usp=sharing for routes.
Some out-of-season sports will begin "contact days" in the immediate future as well. Coaches of those sports will be reaching out and posting their plans on social media and/or school announcements. The same COVID mitigations listed above will be in effect for contact days.
SD308 and IHSA Update January 15th
The IHSA Board of Directors met for their regularly scheduled Board meeting on January 13th. Here is a quick recap on the information from that meeting.
* IHSA sports remain in a pause until IDPH determines otherwise. We could see potential rollbacks by region as early as today, Jan. 15, but a chance exists that the status of sports may not change even if rollbacks occur.
* The Board approved the resumption of “contact days” in all IHSA sports that are not in a season as soon as IDPH allows.
* Given our current pause, the IHSA Board plans to meet again on January 27 to set a schedule for the remainder of the year, although they realize time is drawing short. See their full statement in the release below.
The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Board of Directors met for its regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday, January 13, 2021, where the Board announced that all IHSA sports not operating under an official IHSA season calendar may begin to conduct contact days as soon as they are allowable per Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) mitigations and local school guidance. Contact days normally exist within the IHSA as informal voluntary offseason workouts.
"The IHSA acknowledges the immense mental, emotional, and physical strain that a lack of contact with school programs is causing Illinois high school student-athletes,” said IHSA Executive Director Craig Anderson. “It is our intention that these contact days provide sport-specific training under the leadership of high school coaches. This is an effort to provide a viable sports option to high school athletes given the growing number of student-athletes opting for higher risk opportunities within the state and across state lines."
Additionally, the Board reviewed several options outlining a sports schedule framework for the remainder of the school year. The Board directed the IHSA staff to take feedback from today’s meeting, as well as any insight gained in the coming weeks, and bring forward viable scheduling options for a special Board meeting on January 27, 2021. The Board will provide an update following that meeting.
Once state leadership allows for low-risk winter sports (Boys & Girls Bowling, Cheerleading, Dance, Girls Gymnastics, Boys Swimming & Diving, and Badminton) to begin participation, those teams will be allowed to begin practice immediately and then continue their season through the season calendar established by the Board later this month.
Oswego and Oswego East High School continue to work with the IHSA to promote a safe return to play as soon as it is possible in conjunction with IDPH and IHSA mitigations and guidelines.
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Through the Woods – Horror in Norway
May 19, 2019 May 18, 2019 Rachael Brearton
“It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.” Mark Lawrence
Developer: Antagonist
Platforms: Windows, Xbox, PS4
Available on: GOG, Steam, Humble, Microsoft, Playstation
Engine: Unity
Through the Woods is a third person horror, adventure set in a forest on the shores of Norway and is heavily influenced by Norse mythology and folklore, which the game also borrows some of its monsters from.
Searching the woods for your son, you play as a female protagonist who is deceptively complex. At first, she evokes sympathy but this wanes as we discover more about her and her past through encounters and triggered dialogue in a kind of reverse character development. Unfortunately, I did occasionally find myself being dragged out of the narrative by questionable dialogue and flat delivery. I guess things could have gotten lost in translation, being written in Norwegian originally, but I played an updated version after the mother’s voice had been rerecorded with a new actor and supposedly improved.
The game starts a little slow and I wasn’t quite sure what I was meant to do at first. It didn’t take me long to work out where to go though because if I strayed from the right path I found myself walking into an invisible wall pretty quickly, which sadly also served to break the sense of immersion. That being said the game itself is pretty, with some really nice artwork, especially the forest and surrounding landscapes (the characters’ faces are a little bit odd, but that’s a small gripe).
I found little notes, diary entries and similar on my travels through the woods that gave tidbits of information about the monsters I’d be facing next (yes, it was that linear). These were based on Norse mythology and added an extra layer to the game that I found really interesting. The monsters themselves were sometimes creepy; the draugr was aesthetically horrific and an encounter with the wolves had an element of suspense but, despite dying a few times the game never felt challenging which I felt detracted from the horror element.
Through the Woods had an interesting overarching narrative littered with folklore as well as some interesting characters but the ending, at least in terms of gameplay was disappointing. Control is taken from the player during what should be a panicked and frantic moment, only to be left watching the protagonist walk when anyone in their right mind would be running. Shortly after, another moment is ruined; something that should have felt poignant was reduced to a single button QTE which felt almost distasteful and even lazy.
It took me about 9 hours to finish the game and despite its flaws, Through the Woods was an enjoyable experience and interesting addition to the horror genre, however, I did find it to be somewhat unpolished and it has very little replayability.
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Tag: Fifty Shades Darker
Fifty Shades Darker: I Prefer it Lighter
Posted on February 15, 2017 February 15, 2017 by ingloriousreviewsblog
Written (unfortunatly) by Nelson Cumming
I avoided the Fifty Shades series because people have said the books were a joke and the movie was a joke. The only reason I have started now is because I write regularly as a hobby. This is a movie I regret seeing and I urge people to avoid it.
Fifty Shades Darker is not bad, it’s evil.
What makes a Good Movie from a Bad Movie
Before you call me a man who cannot take romantic movies I think you need to see my reviews of The Lobster, Moonlight and La La Land. I would also recommend seeing Southside With You even though I didn’t write a review on it. These movies have three dimensional characters and took risks in their work. I left those movies in awe on how much a I cared for the people and how those movies were pushing the art of cinema to a different level.
Some of the worst movies ever made pile on a movement that exploits the worst of humanity. Dirty Grandpa was overly hedonistic, London Has Fallen is exploited dumb, senseless revenge and Mothers Day was sugery vanity in disguise of meaningful family moments.
Fifty Shades Darker is a movie which aims to manipulate the audience into believing emotionally abusive relationships and love are the same thing. That is a conept that I don’t want to see exacerbated into the world we live in.
The sadism (or stupidity) of Fifty Shades
Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) is psychotic and there is no way you can argue that. Early on, When Grey approaches Anastasia’s boss and introduces himself as “THE boyfriend” I knew he had an inferiority complex. What surprised me was how much that manifested into a deeply disturbing level.
No, there is no rape nor domestic violence but Fifty Shades Darker was not far off. There was so much verbal and emotional manipulation from Christian Grey to Anastasia (Dakota Johnson) and he is so controlling, possessive, demeaning and insulting that it was disturbing when Anastasia opens her arms (and legs) to him. I think the movie was called Fifty Shades Darker because it brought gender equality back fifty years.
There is no proper setup to even give a reason why any scene have any sense. Nor did the movie explore why Anasthetia would take a man like Christan Grey back. Therefore a lot of these scenes feel like they were done for no reason which makes Dakota Johnson’s character look like an easy manipulative target. She felt like a deer in the headlights that didn’t even know it. Near the end, the explaniation as to why Grey is such a dick (and a 2-inch one at that) is so terrible that I hated the movie even more.
The Worst Four Scenes in Fifty Shades Darker
I am going to spoil the movie here because this movie is so terrible that I recommend you don’t see it.
Number 4: The Repression Revealed
I know there will be women who will defend the Christian Grey character is emotionally complex. The height of his complexity is that he is compelled to do high levels of domination because his mother died from a drug overdose when he was a kid and had the sexual desire of dominating women that look like his mother for all his life as a form of vengeance. Anastasia love him even more now for being so open and honest!
Number 3: The Damaged Dominatrix
There is also a subplot where a girl called Lelia (One of Christian Grey’s former submissives) is obsessed with Grey despite the fact Grey helped make her an emotional wreck. She carries and gun and points it to Anastasia and all Grey does is say “Lelia!” and points at her. Seeminglingly, in a trance, Lelia points the gun to Christian, hand the gun to him and kneels in front of his feet in complete submission to this Almighty Christian Grey. I smacked my palm upon my hand very loudly. The person next to me looked at me as if I was weird.
Number 2: The Sadistic Sociopath
Lelia was unstable but Grey clearly exacerbated the problem, broke her mentally and dumped her (After the gun scene he said he “put her to a psyche ward where she belongs” the most ironic line ever) He is so sadistic that he admits he is a sadist and says he will stop being an asshole but the movie shows no change in him. He starts and finishes as a one-dimensional asshole.
Number 1: The Petrifying Proposal
Christian proposes to Anasthesia saying “I want to be with you every day, every minute and every second of my life…” I blurted out “Literally” and a couple of people laughed. I just couldn’t help myself at that point. She says yes to the proposal and everyone is happy. End of movie.
The Light at the End of the Tunnel
I felt so unclean watching this. If you want to look at the movie as laughably bad, it was. But it was so morally repugnant that I never enjoyed it as an artistically inept film that I thought it was going to be. This movie reminded me of the domestic violence between Rihanna and Chris Brown. That is a bad sign.
This is the first time in a long time where I felt completely screwed over. At the end, I saw this girl who looked like the dumbest bogan ever and she applauded like a walrus and looked at the people behind her. They did not respond. At that point, I learned more than ever that there are fucked up people in this world and I am glad I am not one of them -**
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States considered to be part of the Pacific Northwest include Washington, Oregon and Idaho. However, parts of Alaska, Montana, Wyoming and California are sometimes lumped in with the region. This week’s trivia challenge by Colfax Librarian Sarah Phelan-Blamires lets readers learn about their area.
To test your trivia skills against others, visit the Whitman County Library Facebook page at 5:30 p.m. Thursdays for a live trivia challenge. This week’s first-place winner will receive Lonely Planet’s Guidebook, “The Pacific Northwest’s Best Trips.”
In 1853, before Washington was admitted into the Union, the Washington Territory was created. The territory included what is today Washington and what two other states?
What company invented the tater tot in the 1950s?
What year is written on the Washington State flag? Hint: It was the year that Washington became a state.
Name the United States’ deepest lake, at a depth of almost 2,000 feet.
Kamiak Butte, located on the Palouse, was named for Chief Kamiakin. He was the leader of what tribe?
Idaho and Montana.
Ore-Ida. Short for Oregon and Idaho, as the company’s operations were located on the border of the two states. Tots were created from leftovers from French fry production, which the industrious owners felt were wasted.
Crater Lake (in Oregon).
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Home Space and Ufo In the vicinity of the galaxy М63 discovered 5 new dwarf galaxies.
In the vicinity of the galaxy М63 discovered 5 new dwarf galaxies.
Using an amateur telescope with a 0.14-meter aperture, astronomers made observations of a nearby spiral galaxy known as М63. Observations revealed the presence of 5 new dwarf galaxies around the galaxy М63 and allowed researchers to determine their basic parameters.
Dwarf galaxies containing up to several billion stars each are difficult to detect due to their low brightness, small mass and tiny size. Astronomers usually detect such objects as satellites of larger galaxies. It is believed that the large galaxies observed today were formed either as a result of mergers with dwarf galaxies, or as a result of drawing material from these galaxies.
Located about 29.3 million light-years away, the galaxy М63, called the Sunflower galaxy, is a large spiral galaxy without a central jumper with moderately tight or freely twisted spiral sleeves. Previous observations of the galaxy М63 revealed the presence of numerous arcs and «jets» on the periphery, having low surface brightness. It is believed that this very dim system of stellar and gas-pollinated flows is the result of the accretion of the dwarf galaxy that has occurred over the past few billion years.
To date, several dwarf galaxies have been discovered in the vicinity of the galaxy М63, which can be its satellites. In a new study, a team of astronomers led by Igor Karachentsev from the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, located near Nizhny Arkhyz, added several new objects to this list. After analyzing a picture obtained using a 0.14-meter refractor TEC140ED APO, working in conjunction with the Moravian G3-16200 Monochrom CCD (KAF-16200) camera, the researchers discovered 5 new candidates for the role of galaxy satellites of the galaxy М63, which have low surface brightness.
These candidate galaxies received designations from TBGdw3 to TBGdw7. The largest in the list of 5 new dwarf galaxies, are galaxies TBGdw7 and TBGdw3, which have maximum angular diameters of 21.7 and 21.6 angular minutes, respectively. The tiny galaxy studied was the galaxy TBGdw6, which has a maximum angular diameter of about 18.5 angular minutes. Astronomers add that the status of a dwarf galaxy for the case of an object TBGdw6 requires further confirmation, since this source may turn out to be a section of the reflective nebula.
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The dramatic tale of “A True FBAR Criminal”
In FBAR, Foreign taxes, IRS regulations, Tax Crime on July 27, 2012 at 8:02 am
One question I often hear when explaining FBAR liability is, “Are they really going to come after me?”
It’s not an unreasonable question. Oftentimes, the penalties for FBAR non-compliance can seem very severe, especially when dealing with a foreign client who may have recently become a U.S. taxpayer and unknowingly retained reportable accounts abroad.
This week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida issued a press release that provides an example of just who “they” are truly “going after.”
The presser announced yesterday’s sentencing of Miami Beach resident Luis A. Quintero for willful failure to file his FBARs. So what was the sentence? Roddy, tell him what he won!
Four months in federal prison;
Three years of supervised release;
250 hours of community service; and
A $20,000 criminal fine.
But wait! There’s more!
Is that 27.5% OVDP penalty looking more attractive?
Before anyone panics, lets take a look at what Quintero actually did. Court documents indicate that he formed two offshore corporations, which were then used to open certain Swiss UBS accounts, which housed (and hid) roughly $4 million. Quintero then facilitated multiple transfers to and from the subject accounts. Of course, none of that is necessarily illegal had he disclosed the accounts’ existence and their activities.
Which he didn’t.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office also noted that there was no question that Quintero knew that he was required to file an FBAR for the subject accounts. In fact, Quintero had previously filed FBARs for other Mexican bank accounts to which he was attached. That’s a bad fact if you’re trying to argue that your subsequent failure wasn’t “willful.”
The press release further indicates that the Quintero prosecution was a direct result of UBS’s 2009 agreement to cooperate with U.S. authorities in identifying suspected tax cheats. If you have a U.S. client that is, or was, a Swiss UBS customer in the recent past, you may want to suggest a review of their reportable foreign accounts.
Looks like there are fewer and fewer places for tax criminals to hide. I wonder when/if the Cayman Islands will catch on…
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Earnings Confirm NIO Stock as an Electric Vehicle Winner
Don't pay too much attention to the post-earnings sell-off in NIO stock
By Luke Lango, InvestorPlace Senior Investment Analyst Aug 13, 2020, 11:47 am EST August 13, 2020
Premium Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO (NYSE:NIO) reported second quarter earnings in early August that were remarkable and included record-high deliveries, revenues, and profit margins. Yet, NIO stock fell after the print.
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Usually, when a red-hot growth stock fails to rally after a strong earnings report, that’s a sign of an extended valuation and an exhausted rally.
I think you’re getting some of that with NIO stock today. The stock has come very far, very fast, and the valuation is now quite rich. But that doesn’t mean it’s time to sell NIO stock. Rather, it just means that you need to be patient.
In the big picture, NIO is a long-term winner, supported by robust electric vehicle adoption tailwinds in China, a growing pipeline of popular cars, and strong Chinese consumer demand for luxury vehicles. Near-term valuation friction and rally exhaustion will pass. When it does, the aforementioned secular growth drivers will push NIO stock higher.
So stick with the rally. Let this choppiness play out. Buy dips. Hold for the long haul.
Here’s a deeper look.
NIO’s Strong Earnings
Don’t let the NIO stock price drop fool you. The company’s second quarter earnings report was stellar.
Total deliveries clocked in at 10,331, up 169% sequentially and 191% year-over-year. The popular ES6 continued its ramp, growing deliveries 122% sequentially to a record-high 8,068. Meanwhile, demand for the ES8 is bouncing back after the company updated its legacy model. ES8 deliveries rose by more than 1,000% sequentially to over 2,000, their best mark since the third quarter of 2019.
None of this big growth was driven by discounting. Average sales prices rose 1% sequentially to roughly $51,000. That’s the highest ASP since the third quarter of 2019.
Because growth is being driven by demand and not discounting, profit margins are roaring higher.
Vehicle margins in the quarter clocked in at 9.7%, up from -7.4% last quarter and -24.1% a year ago. Gross margins were 8.4%, versus -12.2% last quarter and -33.4% a year ago. Net loss narrowed significantly in the quarter.
NIO also received a huge injection of cash from outside investors to fortify its balance sheet. The massive cash injections also give management cushion to absorb operating losses and ammunition to invest in long-term growth opportunities.
Also of note, the highly-anticipated EC6 launched in late July, expanding NIO’s vehicle portfolio by 50% and paving the path for continued huge delivery growth in the second-half of 2020. Indeed, management is guiding for ~130% delivery growth in Q3.
All in all, it was a really solid quarter from NIO, which broadly underscored that this company is executing strongly against its huge long-term opportunity in China’s electric vehicle market.
Rally Exhaustion
Despite the great results, NIO stock failed to rally, a sign that this rally in NIO stock is exhausted. At least for the moment.
The stock has risen more than 230% in 2020, including a 250%-plus rally over the past three months. That’s a big rally in a short time. Plus, NIO stock now trades at 8-times forward sales, for a company that has yet to strike a profit.
In other words, NIO stock is a richly valued stock on the heels of a huge rally.
It’s no wonder that the market can’t find many buyers here and now. It’s also no wonder there’s plenty of sellers who want to lock in profits.
To that end, I’m not surprised that NIO stock didn’t rally after strong earnings. Nor am I worried.
This is all just near-term noise. Valuation friction. Rally exhaustion. These dynamics are ephemeral. They will pass. And when they do, the secular growth narrative of NIO turning into the dominant premium luxury electric vehicle brand in China will power shares higher over the next five to ten years.
Big Long-Term Potential
Longtime readers of mine know the basic constructs of my NIO model. China’s auto market will remain the biggest in the world for the foreseeable future (20+ million passenger cars sold per year), growing slightly over the next several years due to population growth and urbanization trends. Electric vehicle penetration in that market will soar towards 30% in 2030, implying somewhere around 8+ million electric vehicle sales by the end of the decade.
The luxury vertical in that EV market will be big — around 10% — mostly because Chinese consumers have an affinity for luxury vehicles. Within that luxury vertical, NIO will grab about half of the market, leveraging branding, technology, production, and “home town” advantages to beat out other players in the market.
On those assumptions, I’ve long stated that NIO has $1.50 earnings per share potential by 2030. I’m revising that upwards to $1.85, mostly because strong second quarter earnings give me greater confidence that NIO can sustain higher-than-expected ASPs on its cars due to strong Chinese consumer demand for premium EVs, which will lead to higher revenues and bigger gross margins at scale.
Based on a 17-times forward multiple and an 8.5% discount rate, that implies a 2020 price target for NIO stock of $15 and a 2029 price target of over $30.
Bottom Line on NIO Stock
NIO stock is a long-term winner. Second quarter earnings confirmed as much.
So don’t pay too much attention to this post-earnings sell-off in NIO stock. The stock is just temporarily exhausted and running into some near-term valuation friction.
Let these headwinds induce some profit taking. Let the stock chop around, then buy the dip and hold for the long haul. Because long term, this stock is only going higher.
Luke Lango is a Markets Analyst for InvestorPlace. He has been professionally analyzing stocks for several years, previously working at various hedge funds and currently running his own investment fund in San Diego. A Caltech graduate, Luke has consistently been rated one of the world’s top stock pickers by various other analysts and platforms, and has developed a reputation for leveraging his technology background to identify growth stocks that deliver outstanding returns. Luke is also the founder of Fantastic, a social discovery company backed by an LA-based internet venture firm. As of this writing, he was long NIO.
Article printed from InvestorPlace Media, https://investorplace.com/2020/08/earnings-confirm-nio-stock-as-an-electric-vehicle-winner/.
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Home | Legal Matters | Russia not mulling extension of Aleppo truce: Deputy FM
Russia says it is not considering any extension of a ceasefire in Syria's northern city of Aleppo, where Moscow and Damascus had introduced a humanitarian pause.
The question of renewing the humanitarian pause is not relevant now, Sergei Ryabkov, the Russian deputy foreign minister, told Interfax news agency.
The unilateral ceasefire was aimed at permitting civilians and militants not affiliated to terrorist groups to leave the eastern areas of Aleppo. It expired on Saturday evening after a one-day extension on Friday.
Ryabkov also stressed, Our opponents must ensure appropriate behavior by the anti-government groups that in particular sabotaged the medical evacuation that was intended during the humanitarian pause in order for the truce to be extended again.
Russian and Syrian Air Force fighter jets had even stopped bombing the militant-held neighborhoods in Aleppo on Tuesday � two days ahead of the truce.
Russia said the militants prevented the residents of Aleppo from leaving the city through the eight humanitarian corridors that had been set up.
Ryabkov also censured the US-led coalition purportedly targeting the Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh in Syria because he said it was not really exerting influence on the opposition, the rebels and instead was slamming Damascus and Moscow.
Over the last three days, what was needed did not happen, he said.
Aleppo, Syria's second largest city, has been divided between government forces and the militants since 2012. In an attempt to free the trapped civilian population and to end the militants' reign of terror in the east, the Syrian army, backed by Russian fighter jets, began a major offensive on September 22.
The Syrian army has continued to make advances against the Takfiri militants in the southwestern countryside of Aleppo on Monday.
Syria's official news agency, SANA, reported that the Syrian forces managed to take Talet Bazo to the southwest of the Military Academies from the Takfiri Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as al-Nusra Front.
Also on Monday, the militant groups fired rockets at the neighborhood of Salahuddin in Aleppo, leaving a girl child killed and wounding 15 other people.
Syria has been grappling with a deadly militancy that it blames on some Western states and their regional allies since March 2011.
More than 400,000 people have been killed in the conflict, according to an estimate by UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura.
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Red stands for life. Orange stands for healing. Yellow, for sunlight, and green, for nature.
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The colors of the pride flag, signifying solidarity with the LGBTQ community, will light up the Johns Hopkins University gateway on Charles Street through June 28.
The color lighting comes in the wake of last week's attack on an Orlando nightclub—the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in American history, as well as the deadliest act of terrorism in the U.S. since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The Johns Hopkins community has banded together to mourn the victims and show support for the LGBTQ community.
"With pride, with empathy, and with hope for a better, safer, more humane future for all, Johns Hopkins University stands in solidarity with Orlando, the LGBTQ community, and all those affected by this senseless and devastating violence," says Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels.
Members of the faculty and staff have also offered their support. The Office of LGBTQ Life at Johns Hopkins hosted a healing session Thursday afternoon, welcoming Hopkins community members to Homewood Apartments for companionship and counseling, and to decorate a poster for next month's Baltimore Pride parade.
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"The attack on what is historically a safe place for the LGBTQ community is devastating," says Demere Woolway, director of LGBTQ Life. "It's overwhelming to see the faces of those who lost their lives, so many of them young Latino men. Still, amidst this grief, it is affirming that so many of the Hopkins community have been asking what they can do to be supportive. They have reached out to me and to each other, and have participated in the larger Baltimore community. Even in this difficult time, we can come together as a community to support each other."
Next week, rainbow flags will be raised at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, Howard County General Hospital, Sibley Memorial Hospital and Suburban Hospital. The flags will fly through the end of June in support of LGBT Pride Month and to honor those murdered and wounded in Orlando.
In an email to his colleagues at the Whiting School of Engineering, Professor Michael Falk noted that faculty members are uniquely positioned to act as allies for students, particularly those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer identifying, and who are likely to be assessing their safety in work and study environments following the attack.
He urged faculty to take part in the Safe Zone program, which offers training in forming a safer and more supportive campus climate for sexual and gender minorities.
Human Resources and Homewood Student Affairs compiled a list of resources for the university community:
Faculty and staff who need emotional counseling or support can contact the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program. You can make an appointment at FASAP by calling 443-997-7000. After hours and on the weekends, master's-level professionals are on call.
Students who would like emotional counseling, or are concerned about a friend, may contact the Counseling Center by calling 410-516-8278. Outside normal hours, the counselor on call may be reached through Security at 410-516-7777. The Johns Hopkins Student Assistance Program serves graduate students during challenging times. You may seek support for yourself or a friend by calling 443-287-7000. After hours and on the weekends, master's-level professionals are on call.
Some additional sources of support for full-time students include the Office of LGBTQ Life (410-516-8208) and Campus Ministries (410-516-1880).
The lights on the Johns Hopkins University gateway will remain through June 28, the 47th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.
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The Barrett Fieldcraft
February 26, 2019 SCI Leave a comment
The Fieldcraft bucks the trend toward detachable magazines but that connective web of stock material beneath the magazine well vastly increases the stock’s rigidity.
Each year Safari Club International chooses only one rifle to be named the Gun of the Year. SCI’s Gun of the Year is offered only through SCI Chapter Fundraising events. With more than 160 SCI Chapters worldwide, SCI Chapters have helped support wildlife conservation and the fight to preserve our hunting freedoms.
Safari Club International is proud to announce that the 2019 SCI Gun of the Year is the Barrett Fieldcraft. This rifle has been exclusively customized for SCI with a unique black stock, black Cerakoted barrel and SCI Laser markings. Only 50 rifles were produced and are marked with limited edition numbers 1 through 50. The 2019 SCI Gun of the Year is only available through SCI Chapter fundraising events.
Anyone who’s a serious gun enthusiast is probably familiar with the Barrett name and that company’s formidable .50 BMG sniper rifles that are used not only by our armed forces, but by dozens of State Department-approved countries around the world. Ronnie Barrett’s rifles are also used by civilian shooters, as his guns are quite popular among the 1000-yard-and-farther crowd.
But Ronnie Barrett is also a hunter, as are most of his many employees, so he thought it high time they begin producing their own hunting rifle. To do so they chose to emulate the most successful bolt-action sporting rifle in history, the Remington 700. The Fieldcraft, as it’s being called, is not an exact copy of the Remington action mind you, but all its basic design features are present in this gun except for the extractor.
A Timney trigger is standard on the Fieldcraft and works in conjunction with a 2-position side safety. The removable Throw Hammer lever on the scope’s power ring makes changes faster and easier.
The example we requested for review was the short action version chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor; it’s one of five short-action calibers being offered initially, the others being .22-250, .243, 7mm-08 and .308 Win. Their standard-length action is offered in .25-06, 6.5×55, .270 Win. and .30-’06. I had handled the gun at the SHOT Show, but when I pulled the Creed from the box I had forgotten just how light the gun really is. With a set of Talley integral-base 30mm alloy rings already installed, the gun weighs just 5 pounds. How do you get a rifle that light? Well, somehow the action, barrel and stock all have to contribute, and in this case, all those components do.
The stainless steel barrel, for example, is like a soda straw — 21” long and measures a mere 0.55” at the muzzle. The stock is of hand laid carbon fiber making it extremely light yet very strong and rigid. Adding to that rigidity is the fact that the Barrett design team decided to go with a blind magazine, which kinda’ flies in the face of the current trend toward detachable boxes. You have no idea how much more rigid a stock is having that thin web of material joining the equally thin sidewalls at either side of the magazine mortise. There is a convenience issue with a blind box when it comes to unloading, but that’s a compromise I would gladly make. With a blind box, you have an independent trigger guard bow, and in this case, it’s either a Remington OEM unit or an exact copy.
The barrel as well as the receiver are fully glass bedded. The blind magazine greatly stiffens the stock.
Another departure from the norm is that this barrel is fully glass bedded the entire length of the fore-end, which puts this rifle in the semi-production category because it’s a procedure that must be done individually by hand. Most rifles today, whether stocked in wood or synthetic, have fully floated barrels; it greatly simplifies production, but where very slender barrels like the Fieldcraft’s are concerned, is not the best bedding setup for consistent zero and small groups.
Where this rifle really differs from the Remington 700 is in several seemingly minor yet important details, not the least of which is its size. A Remington receiver measures 1.365”, and the bolt .710”, while the Fieldcraft’s is 1.225” and .590”, respectively. With such a slender bolt, the annular rim surrounding the recessed bolt face would be paper thin were this action to handle the larger rim diameters of the belted H&H and Jeffery-based magnums, which measure .532” and .535”, respectively.
Though smaller and lighter than the Remington action, which has a 2-3/4” magazine, the Barrett people wisely lengthened the box to 3 inches, a fact handloaders will greatly appreciate because it allows all but the heaviest bullets to be seated out to where they infringe less on usable powder space. Other excellent decisions were going to the larger 8-40 tapped holes for base screws instead of the smaller 6-48 industry standard, and choosing to go with a Timney trigger, which I suspect is the stock Timney replacement for the Model 700 without the linkage plate that slides along the left side of the trigger housing to activate the bolt release. Instead, this action uses a simple, direct-actuated blade-type bolt stop/release, just like that found on the Winchester Model 70. You simply push down on an upward extension that juts up through a slot directly behind the left wall of the receiver bridge.
Every major design feature borrows from the Remington 700 except for the extractor, which is of Sako design, and the bolt stop/release, which is similar to that of the Model 70.
The bolt glide on the test gun was exceptionally smooth, thanks to the spiral fluting on the bolt body; the fact that the magazine follower doesn’t intrude into the bolt raceway, and very tight machining tolerances. So smooth in fact that tilting the muzzle just 15 degrees had the unlocked bolt slide open! For testing, we mounted one of Bushnell’s excellent LRTS tactical scopes, the 4.5-18×44 with a G3 mil-based reticle.
Three of Hornady’s 10 6.5 Creedmoor loadings were used in testing.
Prior to the Fieldcraft I’ve tested some eight or nine 6.5 Creedmoor rifles and every one of them proved to be amazingly accurate. Ditto for the Fieldcraft, but kudos also to Hornady whose Creed ammo is equally amazing. Of the three loads I had on hand, the largest 3-shot group fired was with the 143 gr. ELD-X load and it measured 1.05”! With the 140 gr. ELD Match load the largest group measured 0.80”, and the smallest 0.60”! Such consistency with factory ammo is quite rare.
The Barrett Fieldcraft rifle carries an MSRP of $1799.
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Shane Eagle Drops New ‘Xenergy: The Final Saga’ Visual Album
Shane Eagle has just dropped off his new visual album, Xenergy: The Final Saga, exclusively on Apple Music today. Directed, produced, and created by Shane himself, it’s said that he assembled a team of young, forward-thinking artists, graphic designers, and filmmakers, who have aided him in creating an otherworldly accompaniment to his music.
The seven tracks that make up Xenergy: The Final Saga are a collection of fan favourites from his acclaimed mixtape Dark Moon Flower (2019), which have been selected to build anticipation for his forthcoming tour that was postponed earlier in the year. Shane also dropped off a new record called ‘Racks Talk’ that was produced by Gemini Major which you can listen to below too.
Set in a simulated world called “Xenergy”, Shane describes this newly-created existence as “a meditative space in time, which prevails in the mind state of one who has found a balance between chaos and peace”. With each live performance taking place in a different scenario, all narratives are drawn from Shane’s personal experiences of loss, pain, hope, inspiration, and gratitude – all expressed in the making of DMF.
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To live in the world is to be on the way to Self-realization
Who Is Anandamayi Ma?
Anandamayi Ma was a 20th-century avatar: a direct emanation of wisdom, born totally awake. By her own testimony, Ma manifested in response to the prayers of sentient beings for a female incarnation of the divine.
While accounts of her extraordinary lila, or enlightened activities, are legion, she lived her life as a householder in unusually close contact with her devotees, advising them about all aspects of life, laughing with them, comforting them, singing and simply allowing all those who came to find refuge in her presence. Her guiding presence is still available to anyone who wishes to seek it out.
Although Ma had little formal education, she directly embodied enlightened wisdom to such a degree, she was able to convey the subtlest teachings to tens of thousands of followers from all walks of life. Her teachings are precise, playful, gutsy, down-to-earth, inspiring and deeply moving. Jaya Ma!
Satsang with Anandamayi Ma
Ma’s Darshan – Free Photos!
Biographies of Anandamayi Ma
Life with Anandamayi Ma
Anandamayi Ma Sings Kirtan
Anandamayi Ma in the Movies
Articles and Podcasts about Anandamayi Ma
Sangha – Find people who love Anandamayi Ma!
Anandamayi Ma gave oral teachings in response to the questions of an enormous number of people from all walks and stations of life. She wrote no books or articles. Her satsangs remain one of the primary ways that we can receive Her teachings today. Atmananda, Ma’s English-language translator, worked closely with Brahmachari Kamal Bhattacharjee, a Pandit who devoted his life to recording Ma’s satsangs in Bengali with meticulous concern for accuracy. Together, they produced the most definitive record of Her words.
Words Of Sri Anandamayi Ma : Translated by Atmananda. A principal book of Mataji’s in-depth discourses in English. Free.
The Essential Sri Anandamayi Ma : Includes a good biography by a devotee, a selection of discourses from Words of Sri Anandamayi Ma (available in full above), and a wealth of photographs. Beautifully produced and good for starters if you keep in mind that all efforts to summarize Ma’s teachings pale in comparison to her own words.
Matri Vani (Mother’s Words) Volume I : A collection of short excerpts from Anandamayi Ma’s dictated letters to some of Her devotees. Translated by Atmananda. Free.
Matri Vani Volume II : A second collection of excerpts from letters and conversations. Translated by Atmananda. Free.
Mother Reveals Herself: Words of Ma recorded during intimate conversations with one of her primary disciples, Bhaiji or Jyotish Chandra Roy. Contains Ma’s own account of the extraordinary circumstances of her birth. Kindle Only on Amazon (linked above). For paperback, write to matrilila@gmail.com.
Ma’s words on the website of the Anandamayi Ma Sangha in India: a collection of her sayings and other teachings.
Ma’s Darshan
Darshan means to see. By seeing Guru and being seen by Her, we can directly see more of Reality and thereby progress in our spiritual unfoldment. This can happen to some extent even through the medium of a picture of Guru.
During her lifetime, Ma instructed that any images of her remain forever free. Jaya Kula honors that instruction by providing free, hi-resolution photos of Ma on our website and at teachings. You may download and print out these images for your altar, home or business. Click on a thumbnail photo to see and download the full image.
Ma in Siddhasana
Anandamayi Ma altar 1
Anandamayi Ma majesty
Anandamayi Ma and Gopal
For hundreds more photos of Anandamayi Ma, visit the Photo Gallery and the Photo Collection at the Anandamayi sangha resource website. A new collection of photos has been put up at the official India sangha website.
A Goddess Among Us : A readable and very inexpensive biography by Acharya Mangalananda.
The Life and Teachings of Sri Ma Anandamayi by Bithika Mukerji : One of the best biographies of Ma by a disciple who grew up in her presence and later became an academic.
The Life and Teachings of Sri Anandamayi Ma by Alexander Lipski : The full version of the shorter biography offered in The Essential Anandamayi Ma.
Ananadamayi: Her Life and Wisdom by Richard Lannoy : An excellent biography, wonderful excerpts of Ma’s words translated by Atmananda, and some of the most spectacular photographs ever taken of Ma. This is a great book for those who are new to Ma and also for those who want a book to treasure for life. A text only version is available online, and cheaper copies may be available from India.
Mother of Bliss by Lisa Lassell Hallstrom : A readable, scholarly biography with a feminist perspective.
Many of Ma’s devotees have written memoirs of their lives with Her. In addition, Ma encouraged some to keep a spiritual diary. These writings present a fascinating portrait of what it means, on a very personal, day-to-day level, to be a disciple of a great Guru.
Death Must Die by Atmananda and Ram Alexander : A riveting, blow-by-blow diary of a Western woman disciple’s life with Anandamayi Ma. Very expensive new. Buy it used! Note: You can download a shorter version of this diary published under the title As The Flower Sheds its Fragrance.
My Days with Sri Ma Anandamayi by Bithika Mukerji : A wonderful book about day-to-day life with Ma by a writer whose entire family were devotees.
Encountering Bliss: My Journey Through India with Anandamayi by Melita Maschmann : Another classic account of a Western disciple’s encounter with Ma.
Mother as Revealed to Me by Bhaiji : Anandamayi Ma’s principal disciple writes movingly of his life with his Guru. Free.
Listening to Anandamayi Ma singing kirtan can be a revelation, especially for those who might be wondering just what the name of God is all about.
Anandamayi Ma sings “Ma Durga” kirtan:
https://jayakula.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/07-Ma-Durga.mp3
More music resources:
The Multimedia Page at Anandamayi.org: Kirtan sung by several adept devotees and by Ma herself. The final section contains short video clips of Ma.
The Multimedia Page at Shree Shree Anandamayee Ma Sangha: Photos, video and audio.
Chant the 108 Names of Anandamayi Ma with Shambhavi Sarasvati and Jaya Kula: Download PDF of 108 Names of Anandamayi Ma and sing along! 108 Names of Anandamayi Ma (PDF).
Chant Jai Hridaya Vasini: Jaya Kula’s kirtan ensemble, Archana, sings a beautiful new arrangement of a selection of the names of Anandamayi Ma. These names were chosen by Jyotish Chandra Roy, affectionately known as Bhaiji, one of Ma’s principle disciples. The words in transliterated Sanskrit and English are included in the PDF.
Jai Hridaya Vāsini (PDF)
We are lucky to have many home movies and two documentaries featuring Anandamayi Ma. As is the case with all Realized beings, simply watching Her speak, move and interact is a teaching and a transmission.
Anandamayi Ma on YouTube
Longer video clips of Anandamayi Ma
A newly edited treasure trove of movies of Anandamayi Ma taken in the 1970s-1981.
Ascetics who knew Ma tell stories about her. Watch the excerpts on Youtube, then order the whole CD by writing to omma@anandamayi.org.
30 minute documentary video about Anandamayi Ma with some rare video footage of her. Unfortunately, the filmmaker got carried away with some “special” effects, but still worth watching.
PODCAST: How to Pranam According to Anandamayi Ma
ARTICLE: Women, Anandamayi Ma, and the Gayatri Mantra
ARTICLE: Anandamayi Ma: I am not an Alien
ARTICLE: How I met Anandamayi Ma
PODCAST: Anandamayi Ma on Maya
ARTICLE: Anandamayi Ma’s Birthday
The Official Site of the Sri Sri Anandamayee Ma Sangha in India
The Resource Site of the Sri Sri Anandamayee Ma Sangha in India
Ashram Information
Jaya Kula, Berkeley, CA
Ma Sharanam Ashram, USA Branch, Novato, CA
In the Footsteps of Anandamayi Ma – a Facebook page of Ma photos and quotes
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The Immoral Landscape? Scientists Are Associated with Violations of Morality
Bastiaan T. Rutjens ,
* E-mail: b.t.rutjens@uva.nl
Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Steven J. Heine
Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Bastiaan T. Rutjens,
Bastiaan T. Rutjens Steven J. Heine
Do people think that scientists are bad people? Although surveys find that science is a highly respected profession, a growing discourse has emerged regarding how science is often judged negatively. We report ten studies (N = 2328) that investigated morality judgments of scientists and compared those with judgments of various control groups, including atheists. A persistent intuitive association between scientists and disturbing immoral conduct emerged for violations of the binding moral foundations, particularly when this pertained to violations of purity. However, there was no association in the context of the individualizing moral foundations related to fairness and care. Other evidence found that scientists were perceived as similar to others in their concerns with the individualizing moral foundations of fairness and care, yet as departing for all of the binding foundations of loyalty, authority, and purity. Furthermore, participants stereotyped scientists particularly as robot-like and lacking emotions, as well as valuing knowledge over morality and being potentially dangerous. The observed intuitive immorality associations are partially due to these explicit stereotypes but do not correlate with any perceived atheism. We conclude that scientists are perceived not as inherently immoral, but as capable of immoral conduct.
Citation: Rutjens BT, Heine SJ (2016) The Immoral Landscape? Scientists Are Associated with Violations of Morality. PLoS ONE 11(4): e0152798. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152798
Editor: Jelte M. Wicherts, Tilburg University, NETHERLANDS
Received: August 25, 2015; Accepted: March 18, 2016; Published: April 5, 2016
Copyright: © 2016 Rutjens, Heine. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Data Availability: All data will be made available on BTR's website (www.bastiaanrutjens.com), as well as on Figshare (https://figshare.com/s/f29f4c654bbc0ab90ab3).
Funding: This research was funded by an AXA Research Grant awarded to BT Rutjens. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: Funding does not alter the authors adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
“They were mad, of course. Or evil. Or godless, amoral, arrogant, impersonal, and inhuman. They were Faust and Frankenstein, Jekyll and Moreau, Caligari and Strangelove.”
–Accompanying text to Haynes (1994) From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the scientist in western literature.
The above quote captures a fear and distrust of scientists that may seem all too familiar. Yet these anxieties are puzzling, especially to scientists, who hold their profession in such high esteem. The results of several surveys are consistent with the notion that science is a highly respected profession [1–3]. So why would scientists be perceived in such negative terms? One reason that people might distrust scientists is that their attitudes towards science in general are often motivated by ideology. For example, when considering phenomena such as climate change [4–6], nanotechnology [7], or genetically modified food [8], people’s perceptions seem to be more influenced by whether they agree with the scientists’ conclusions.
But another reason that science may be feared is that it can seem at odds with people’s notion of morality. On the one hand, science and religion are often seen as incompatible explanatory frameworks that each aim to provide ultimate answers to the big questions in life [9–12]. The tension between science and morality is likely because religion and morality are viewed as intimately intertwined [13–15], while science often provides support for explanations at odds with religious faith. On the other hand, some have argued that science can provide the modern bedrock of morality: it shouldn’t just describe why people act in certain ways but should prescribe what is right and wrong [16–17]. The idea that both religion and science can be integral to morality has sparked much controversy and debate [14, 18–22]. Some recent research supports the parallels between science and religion in guiding moral behavior. For example, when people were primed with science-related concepts they showed greater adherence to moral norms and acted more morally, particularly pertaining to fairness and care [14, 23]. The idea behind this research is that people associate science with progress [24], which is to the benefit of everyone, and therefore offers a moral vision of society. Interestingly, these results mirror previous work reporting findings obtained with activating religious concepts [25–27].
However, the notion that science might offer a basis for morality is likely a minority view; for many, perhaps most, lay people, the strongest associations with morality are with religiosity. For example, recent research found an intuitive association between religious disbelief (i.e., atheism) and immorality [13,28]. This research utilized a classic experimental paradigm by Tversky and Kahneman [29], the conjunction fallacy or representativeness heuristic, which is based on the idea that people easily form intuitive representations of a person based on only little information. In this research [13], it was found that participants judged a variety of immoral acts (from serial murder to necrobestiality) as more representative of atheists than of various other religious, ethnic, or cultural groups, highlighting people’s perceptions that morality is built upon religious beliefs.
The current research investigates whether scientists are similarly perceived in immoral terms. Despite that scientists are among one of the more respected professions [1–3], there are a few reasons to suspect that their morality might be sometimes called into question: In addition to the potential problem that science is viewed as incompatible with religion, science may also arouse suspicions because scientific progress is frequently associated with moral decline, societal pessimism, and technological disaster [30,31]. For example, it is not uncommon to hear that the general public is anxious about the role that science plays in such feared topics as atomic energy, genetic engineering, or superbugs. Likewise, pervasive cultural archetypes of the evil and deranged scientist (e.g., Dr. Frankenstein or Dr. Strangelove, or real life examples like Josef Mengele or Ted Kaczynski) may have damaged scientists’ reputations. Moreover, there are several widely publicized cases of fraud and retractions throughout the sciences [32–34]. Yet, thus far, we know relatively little about the kinds of associations that people actually have about scientists. This is problematic because we live in a world that relies heavily on science and technology, yet in which science is also regularly critiqued and distrusted [5,6,35]. In the present research we sought to address this lacuna by testing intuitive associations between scientists and various kinds of immoral conduct, and subsequently gauging more explicit stereotypes of scientists.
Overview of experiments
The current paper reports 10 experiments (N = 2328) organized around 2 sets of studies. In the first 7 studies we investigated intuitive immorality judgments of scientists, atheists, and various control targets. The final 3 studies target explicit evaluations of scientists versus other groups in an effort to shed light on people’s intuitive associations between scientists and different kinds of immoral behaviors. All research was approved by the Faculty Ethics Review Board at the University of Amsterdam (2014-SP-3818, 2014-SP-3888, 2015-SP-4027). All participants provided written informed consent before participating in the research.
Studies 1–7
We approached American adults on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and asked them to participate in a short survey on choices and values. A total of 1917 participants participated in the first 7 studies. Nine participants failed to correctly answer an instructional manipulation check [36] and 15 participants did not complete the study. The remaining 1893 participants were run across the 7 studies as follows: Study 1 (N = 266), Study 2 (N = 267), Study 3 (N = 265), Study 4 (N = 281), Study 5 (N = 281), Study 6 (N = 268), and Study 7 (N = 265). In each study, participants were randomly assigned to one of 7 conditions. The mean age was 30.04 (SD = 9.26, range 18–65 years), and 38% were female. Due to an oversight, in Studies 1–3 and 6–7 we did not record gender and age. See S1 Participant Demographics.
Procedure and materials.
Participants read a description of a moral transgression committed by a man [13,37–39]. We employed a wide variety of different kinds of moral transgressions, using scenarios that have been used in past research on morality [13, 38,]). In Studies 1 and 4, the scenario depicted a man who killed 5 homeless people and buried them in his basement; Study 2’s scenario described a man who engages in consensual incest with his sister; the scenario in Studies 3 and 5 depicted a man who engages in an act of necrobestiality; Study 6 portrayed a man cheating in a card game; and Study 7 described a man ridiculing an obese woman and then kicking a dog; see S1 Scenarios). Next, participants were asked to indicate which option was more probable: A) Robert (or Jack, depending on the study) is a sports fan or B) Robert is a sports fan and {condition}. Depending on the condition (which was a between-groups variable), and the particular study, option B) was always one of 7 options which included—depending on the study—two or three scientist targets (a scientist, a cell biologist, an experimental psychologist), an atheist target, and—depending on the study—3 or 4 of the following control targets (a Muslim, Hispanic, a Native American, a Christian, gay, a psychologist, a teacher, or a lawyer). Since it is impossible for a subset of a category to be more probable than the entire category, choosing option B indicates a reasoning error. However, as has been well-documented ever since Tversky and Kahneman’s seminal “Linda Problem” [29], people will commit the conjunction fallacy when the added target category in option B is deemed representative of the description (i.e., “active in the feminist movement”), while the original target category (i.e., “bank teller”) is not. The conjunction of both descriptions was ranked as more probable than the less representative constituent “bank teller”. In the current research, the likelihood that people will commit such an error is based on any intuitive associations between the description of the person (e.g., a serial killer) and the category (e.g., a scientist) that is selected [29].
Next, participants completed an instructional manipulation check to determine whether they were paying attention. Then, they completed demographic questions regarding their religious beliefs, ethnicity, profession, and political orientation (see S1 Participant Demographics for an overview of participant demographics across studies). Finally, participants were asked to indicate whether they believe a scientist can believe in God on a 100-point slider scale from certainly not (0) to of course (100). (This last question will be discussed under the Scientists and Religious Belief heading after Study 10).
Chi2 analyses were conducted in all studies to compare conjunction fallacies. In each study, we pooled the 3 scientist conditions (scientist, cell biologist, experimental psychologist), and the 4 control conditions (see S1 Conjunction Error Results for analyses with individual targets). An analysis comparing the scientist conditions with the control and atheist conditions revealed overall significant effects of target in Study 1 χ2(2) = 30.73, p < .001, Cramer’s V = .34, Study 2 χ2(2) = 46.36, p < .001, V = .42, Study 3 χ2(2) = 37.68, p < .001, V = .42, Study 4 χ2(2) = 11.90, p < .01, V = .21, Study 5 χ2(2) = 20.09, p < .001, V = .27, Study 6 χ2(2) = 40.44, p < .001, V = .39, and in Study 7 χ2(2) = 33.45, p < .001, V = .36 (see Fig 1). Subsequent analyses in Study 1 (serial murder) revealed that participants committed more errors in the scientist conditions (34.8%) than in the control conditions (17.3%; χ2(1) = 8.52, p < .01). Also, the atheist condition (62.0%) differed from both the scientist (χ2(1) = 10.41) and the control conditions (χ2(1) = 14.85), p’s < .01. In Study 2 (consensual incest), participants committed more errors in the scientist conditions (25.4%) than in the control conditions (6.1%; χ2(1) = 14.85, p < .001). Also, the atheist condition (60.5%) differed from both the scientist (χ2(1) = 16.34) and the control conditions (χ2(1) = 48.82), p’s < .001. In Study 3 (necrobestiality), participants committed more conjunction errors in the scientist conditions (64.2%) than in the control conditions (18.0%; χ2(1) = 37.75, p < .001). Necrobestiality was perceived as more representative of scientists than of atheists (42.9%, χ2(1) = 5.65, p = .019). The difference between the atheist and control conditions was also significant, χ2(1) = 9.97, p < .01. In Study 4 (serial murder—replication), participants committed more conjunction errors in the scientist conditions (30.4%) than in the control conditions (14.4%; χ2(1) = 8.57 p < .01). The scientist conditions did not differ from the atheist condition (33.3%, p = .74); the latter differed from the control conditions (χ2(1) = 7.99, p < .01). In Study 5 (necrobestiality—replication), participants committed more conjunction errors in the scientist conditions (47.4%) than in the control conditions (23.2%; χ2(1) = 14.55, p < .001). The scientist conditions did not differ from the atheist condition (51.3%, p = .70); the latter differed from the control conditions (χ2(1) = 12.20, p < .01). A strikingly different pattern emerged in Studies 6 and 7. In Study 6 (cheating), compared to the atheist condition (34.1%), hardly any participant committed an error in the scientist conditions (3.4%; χ2(1) = 29.95, p < .001). A similar difference was found when comparing the atheist condition to the control conditions (4.6%; χ2(1) = 23.27, p < .001). The scientist conditions did not differ from the control conditions, p = .74. Study 7 (abuse) revealed a similar pattern, where participants committed more errors in the atheist condition (51.4%) than in the scientist conditions (6.1%; χ2(1) = 28.04, p < .001) and the control conditions (9.6%; χ2(1) = 21.66, p < .001). Scientist and control conditions did not differ, p = .14.
Fig 1. Conjunction error rates (percentages) in Studies 1–7 for each category of targets.
All target groups differ at p < .01, except for scientist and atheist targets in Studies 4–5, and scientists and control targets in Studies 6–7.
These results provide a number of insights. First, replicating recent work (13), we observed an intuitive association between acts of both harmful and harmless (i.e., victimless) immorality and atheism; across all violations, atheists were more likely than controls to be intuitively associated with immorality. Second, we also found that people hold similar associations between some of the morality violations and scientists. Scientists were perceived as more likely than control targets to engage in disturbing violations of purity (i.e., serial murder, incest, and necrobestiality), however, they were not more likely to be perceived as being more likely to cheat or to engage in abuse. The latter finding is interesting (and encouraging) given the reasons we discussed earlier regarding how science may be distrusted for various motivational reasons. Although we had expected to find associations between scientists and purity violations, we were surprised to find no associations with fairness and care violations. This pattern of results can be interpreted in the light of Moral Foundations Theory (MFT; [40,41]). MFT maintains that there are two broad classes of moral foundations: Binding foundations are those intuitions that bind people into roles and duties as a means to allow them to live harmoniously with others. In contrast, individualizing foundations are those intuitions that emphasize suppressing selfishness and learning to respect the rights of others. Cheating/fairness and care/abuse (harm) reflect the two individualizing moral foundations. In contrast, the scenarios depicting serial murder, incest, and necrobestiality are primarily examples of purity/degradation, which is one of the 3 binding foundations (together with authority/subversion and loyalty/betrayal; perhaps a willful disrespect of the law as depicted in all the scenarios employed also reflects the authority/subversion foundation). Moreover, serial murder is obviously also an extreme example of harm. We will turn to Moral Foundations Theory in the next study to substantiate our findings and examine this interpretation in more detail.
Studies 8–10
What is it about scientists that triggers the observed intuitive association with immorality? That there was no association with cheating and abuse but only with more extreme purity transgressions, might suggest that there is some truth to the stereotype of a scrupulous “Faustian experimentalist” unburdened by morality but not deliberately evil. To further explore people’s perceptions of scientists’ morality, we conducted a final set of studies in which we assess explicit evaluations of scientists. Study 8 assesses moral stereotypes [42], and Studies 9–10 investigate more general stereotypes and perceived preferences, values, and motivations. Moreover, we explore how people’s views of scientists relate to their conjunction fallacies in Studies 9 and 10.
Thus far we have found that scientists are intuitively associated with a range of disturbing norm violations and acts of immorality, however, they were not associated with comparatively mild violations pertaining to fairness and care. In Study 8, we aimed to assess moral stereotypes of scientists by more directly exploring the moral foundations that are associated with them. Given the observed pattern of results, we expected that scientists would be associated with a lower endorsement of the purity/degradation foundation. At the same time, we expected no differences in endorsement of the care/harm and fairness/cheating foundations.
One hundred and thirteen American adults (35% female, mean age = 31.13, SD = 9.57) from Amazon’s MTurk participated in the study. Participants completed the moral judgment section of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ30-part2; [40]) but from the perspective of “John,” who was described as either a scientist or a sports fan (42). There were 15 items and 1 control item (“It is better to do good than to do bad”) which cover the 5 moral foundations of care/harm, fairness/cheating, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, and purity/degradation. Participants were instructed as follows: “The following questions are about John. John is a sports fan (or scientist; depending on condition). What we would like you to do is respond to the items below like you believe John would respond. Of course you do not know John in person, but please try to respond as John would to the best of your ability.” Scores on all 16 items ranged from 1 (John strongly disagrees) to 5 (John strongly agrees). Example items are “Compassion for those who are suffering is the most crucial virtue” (care/harm), “Justice is the most important requirement for a society” (fairness/cheating), “It is more important to be a team player than to express oneself” (loyalty/betrayal), “Respect for authority is something all children need to learn” (authority/subversion), “People should not do things that are disgusting, even if no one is harmed” (purity/degradation). Alphas were .53 (Harm), .44 (Fairness), .54 (Ingroup), .70 (Authority), and .54 (Purity), which reflects previous work [40]. Note that each subscale consisted of only 3 items.
After completing the moral foundation questions for John, participants answered the same set of items in the first person. Then, immediately afterwards, participants were presented with a manipulation check item asking them to describe what they remember about John. Twelve out of 110 participants were not able to correctly report that John was either a scientist or a sports fan and were therefore excluded from the analyses, as were 3 participants who did not complete the study. Participants then completed an instructional manipulation check, demographics, and indicated whether they think a scientist can believe in God. We also added the slightly different question “Compared to a regular person, how much do you think that the average scientist believes in God?”. (We use the term “regular person” as a shorthand to mean a non-scientist, and by no means are implying that scientists are not regular people as well. Note that responses to the slightly differently worded “How much do you think that a scientist typically believes in God?” were very similar). The results can be found in the ‘Scientists and Religious Belief’ section.
We averaged the three responses for each moral foundation, thus creating five indices on which higher scores reflect greater endorsement of that particular foundation (see Table A in S1 File, which include test statistics and effect sizes).
Fig 2 shows that scientists are overall perceived as less likely than a control group to endorse the binding moral foundations: loyalty/betrayal (F(1, 97) = 84.62, p < .001, η2p = .47), authority/subversion (F(1, 97) = 30.02, p < .001, η2p = .24), and purity/degradation (F(1, 97) = 9.17, p < .01, η2p = .09). Although our previous studies led us to expect such a pattern for purity/degradation, we had not predicted any differences for the other two binding dimensions; strikingly, these were the foundations which yielded the strongest effects. Consistent with Studies 6–7, there were no differences for the individualizing foundations of care/harm and fairness/cheating. These results were not impacted by covarying participants’ own moral foundation scores or political orientation.
Fig 2. Perceived endorsement of moral foundations by scientist versus control target, scored on 5-point scales ranging from 1 (strongly disagrees) to 5 (strongly agrees), controlling for perceived atheism of scientists.
Differences were significant for loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, and purity/degradation (all ps < .01). Error bars show standard errors of the mean.
The scenarios depicting violations of fairness and care that we employed in Studies 6–7 might be interpreted as less ‘extreme’ or ‘weird’ than the scenarios depicting violations of the binding moral foundations (Studies 1–5). Study 8 addressed this issue by employing the Moral Foundations Questionnaire instead of scenarios (and corroborating the results obtained in Studies 1–7).
In short, scientists are morally stereotyped as more degraded, more subversive, and less loyal than the sports fan control group. However, they are not seen as any different in their motivations for care and fairness.
One hundred and sixteen American adults from Amazon’s MTurk were asked to participate in a short survey. Five participants were excluded because of incomplete responses. The mean age of the remaining 111 participants (38% female) was 32.56 (SD = 11.34). Participants were first presented with a conjunction fallacy task. They read a short description of a person eating their deceased pet dog (a purity violation; 38) and were asked whether the person was a sports fan or a sports fan and a scientist. Then, they rated 5 groups on 14 Likert scales; a scientist, an experimental psychologist, an atheist, a regular person, and a lawyer. For each target group, participants were instructed to indicate the extent to which these traits generally applied (order was randomized), using slider scales ranging from 0 (totally disagree) to 100 (totally agree). The traits reflected various stereotypes and were primarily based on the Stereotype Content Model [43] and Moral Foundations Theory [40]; items can be found in Table 1). After rating all groups, participants completed an instructional manipulation check, demographic measures, and 2 questions about scientists’ religiosity.
Table 1. Stereotypes of scientist, experimental psychologist, atheist, lawyer, and regular person targets in Study 9.
All scales ranged from 1 (totally disagree) to 100 (totally agree). SD’s in parentheses.
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Of the 111 participants, 42 (37.8%) committed the conjunction fallacy.
Table 1 shows that scientists are perceived as significantly more nerdy, robot-like, goal-oriented, and emotionless than regular persons and atheists. Scientists were also perceived as more scrupulous, cold, liberal, and less loving of their country than regular persons but these evaluations of scientists did not significantly differ from the atheist evaluations.
Next, we assessed whether the stereotypical evaluations of scientists would be statistically related to the conjunction fallacy outcomes. We found that the only evaluations that correlated (very modestly) with the conjunction fallacy result were whether people perceived scientists to be ‘like a robot’ (r = .19, p = .044) or to ‘lack emotions’ (r = .18, p = .057). Put differently, the participants who viewed scientists as being more likely to eat their deceased dog scored somewhat higher on these two evaluative scales of scientists (see Table B in S1 File for all correlations). However, controlling for fallacy outcome did not meaningfully affect any of the reported differences in stereotypes between the different target groups that are presented in Table 1.
Interestingly, explicit evaluations of lawyers were in many cases similar to those of scientists, and sometimes even more extreme, with the exception that scientists were seen as more scrupulous, nerdy, and liberal than lawyers. However, in Studies 4–5, we utilized a lawyer target and did not observe a strong intuitive association with two different moral violations (serial murder and necrobestiality). Thus, while lawyers are explicitly evaluated to be quite similar to scientists on a number of the stereotype scales utilized in Study 9, they were not implicitly associated with morality violations.
Scientists were seen as less disobedient, and more trustworthy and less “a cheat” than the other groups, although the latter was less the case for experimental psychologists. These results are interesting because they indicate that people do not rate scientists as disobedient or as dishonest. This is consistent with the results of Studies 6–7 and resonates with the generally high levels of respect and prestige that scientists are seen to possess [1–3]. Rather, people seem to stereotype scientists as somewhat inhuman, rating them as robot-like and emotionless [2], goal-oriented, and to some extent scrupulous. This might suggest that it is not so much the case that people view scientists as immoral villains, but rather that they believe that scientists might be driven by other motivations that can sometimes supersede the motivation to act morally or abide to social norms. In a final study, we more extensively investigate some of these other motivations.
Two hundred and twenty-six American adults (48% female; average age = 35.93, SD = 12.22) from Amazon’s MTurk participated. The study consisted of three short parts. First, participants were presented with the same morality violation description as in Studies 3 and 5 (necrobestiality) and were asked whether the target was a sports fan, or a sports fan and a scientist. Next, participants evaluated four target categories (scientist, atheist, religious person, regular person) on 100-point slider scales in terms of “What do the following groups of people prefer or value more?” The endpoints of the scale are presented in Fig 3. To investigate potential halo effects, participants also indicated how much they liked each category of people. Next, they indicated their agreement on a 100-point scale with four statements about scientists versus regular persons (see Fig 4 for the items). All items were designed to tap into a perceived motivational trade-off and investigated the extent participants believe that scientists value–-and are driven primarily by—exploration and knowledge gain, in contrast to morality concerns. Participants then rated on 100-point unipolar slider scales how much they thought scientists, atheists, and ordinary persons are ‘mad’, ‘bad’, and ‘dangerous’ [44]. Finally, participants completed the same demographic questions as in previous studies, and 2 questions about scientists’ beliefs in God. Detailed analyses can be found in S1 File.
Fig 3. Evaluations of preferences and values, and likability, of the target groups (Study 10).
Within items, all means differ significantly from each other at p < .01 (Bonferroni adjusted); the only non-significant difference was liking of atheists versus regular persons). The third item was presented to participants from 0 (follow the norms) to 100 (explore), but reverse-scored in the current Fig. Error bars show standard errors of the mean.
Fig 4. Evaluations of motivational trade-offs of scientists and control targets, Study 10.
All means differ at p < .001. Error bars show standard errors of the mean.
Overall, 81 participants (36% of the sample) committed the conjunction fallacy with the scientist target.
As can be seen in Fig 3, scientists are evaluated as preferring and valuing knowledge, curiosity, and exploration over doing the right thing, morality, and following the norms, more so than any of the control groups (all p’s < .001). At the same time, scientists are the most liked group (all comparisons at p < .01), which renders a halo effect unlikely in accounting for the conjunction fallacy in this, and previous studies. Moreover, Fig 4 shows that scientists are perceived as being more motivated than the average person to acquire knowledge, satisfy their curiosity, and gain new insights, at the expense of the prevention of harmful or disgusting consequences of their actions (all p’s < .001). Fig 5 shows that scientists are not perceived as potentially more mad than the other targets, and that they are viewed as potentially less bad than the other targets (both p’s < .05). However, they are perceived as potentially more dangerous than atheists and regular persons (both p’s < .05). A more detailed description of these analyses can be found in S1 File.
Fig 5. Stereotype measure, Study 10.
Whereas ‘Can be mad’ stereotype did not significantly vary across groups, all ‘Can be bad’ means differ significantly at p < .05. ‘Can be dangerous’ was higher for scientist target than for regular person target (p = .053) and atheist target (p < .05). Error bars show standard errors of the mean.
Next, we again assessed which of the evaluations of scientists were statistically related to the conjunction fallacy outcomes (see Table C in S1 File for all correlations). In addition to the correlations in Study 9, such a relation would shed some light on what might drive the intuitive association of scientists with immoral conduct. Intuitively judging a morality violation (necrobestiality) as representative of scientists correlated modestly with evaluations of scientists valuing knowledge (r = .15) and curiosity (r = .15) over “doing the right thing” and morality. The fallacy measure also has modest positive correlations with the potentially mad (r = .18), bad (r = .18), and dangerous (r = .21) stereotypes; interestingly, the latter also reflects the one stereotype that was more strongly endorsed for scientists than for the other targets. Interestingly, controlling for fallacy did not alter the above results except for the “Can be dangerous” stereotype. Here, we observe that the effect of target category on the ‘dangerous’ ratings was only significant for participants who committed the fallacy (scientist associated with necrobestiality). In other words, there is a relation between associating scientists with immoral behavior and perceiving them as potentially dangerous. All correlations remained significant (all p’s < .05) when controlling for liking. There were no significant correlations between valuing norms over exploration or for liking of scientists (both rs < .04).
While Study 9 found that intuitively associating immorality violations with scientists modestly correlated with stereotypes of scientists as an emotionless robot-like person, the current study found that immorality violations correlated with the perception of scientists as primarily valuing knowledge and curiosity, as well as with seeing scientists as potentially mad, bad, and dangerous.
Study 10 shows that scientists’ preferences, values, and motivations are perceived as different from the motivations of other groups of people, including atheists. Indeed, scientists are perceived as preferring and valuing knowledge and exploration over maintaining morality, more so than any of the comparison targets. At the same time, this does not appear to lead people to dislike scientists or to evaluate them as bad or mad; participants only viewed scientists as potentially more dangerous compared to atheists and regular people.
Together, the results of Studies 9 and 10 suggest that people view scientists as goal-oriented, emotionless robots who favor knowledge and exploration over maintaining purity and social norms. In the public eye, scientists thus seem to exist more in an amoral landscape than in an immoral one.
Scientists and Religious Belief
Across all studies, participants were asked to respond to the following question: “Do you think that a scientist can believe in God?” In studies 8–10 we added two differently worded items. They also indicated whether they themselves work in academia or are scientists (9.5% were).
Participants overall seem to agree that scientists can believe in God, although they believe that scientists are somewhat less likely than a regular person to do so (see Table 2). We also assessed whether these responses correlated with the conjunction fallacy rates for scientist targets by combining the data of studies 1–5 and 9–10. The overall correlation of fallacy rates with “Can a scientist belief in God’ was r = -.003, p = .94 (N = 543); for both of the other two items correlations were r < .07 (p’s >.35). Participants’ self-reported belief in God did also not correlate with the fallacy (r = .06, p = .15), nor did their political orientation (r = .07, p = .12). Intuitive associations of scientists with immoral conduct were therefore not likely due to any perceived atheism.
Table 2. Responses to scientists and religious belief items, and occupation of respondents, across studies.
SD’s in parentheses. All items scored on scales ranging from 0 (not at all) to 100 (very much so).
The current work is the first to systematically investigate morality judgments of scientists, which is highly relevant given that we live in a world that is heavily invested in science and technology. Taken together, the results of 10 studies shed light on how the general public perceives scientists in terms of their morality: overall, scientists provoke decidedly mixed associations. While scientists are largely trusted (and liked), they are also viewed as somewhat inhuman and obsessed enough with the pursuit of knowledge that they are perceived as capable of immoral conduct and can be potentially dangerous. Indeed, people’s intuitive associations of scientists are unusual enough that they view them as a good fit for a host of highly disturbing behaviors. In general, the frightening behaviors associated with scientists were more likely violations of binding rather than individualizing moral foundations, particularly purity violations. These associations were observed for the general target category of ‘scientists’ as well as for the specific target categories of ‘cell biologists’, and ‘experimental psychologists’. Although it is possible that the specific target categories represent the general scientist category better than, say, a physicist or a political scientist, we do not believe this is likely; using targets from two different domains of science as well as the general category led to similar associations and evaluations across Studies 1–7 and 9.
These associations and stereotypes about scientists provide additional insight into the ideological rejection and distrust of science and scientific findings that many display [5,6,35].
This research also informs discussions regarding the link between religion and morality [13,14,18,22]. First, we provide a comprehensive replication of Gervais [13]. However, while religion might be intuitively viewed by many as the cornerstone of morality, the current experiments show that atheists are not alone in the immoral landscape. Serial murder, incest, and necrobestiality were judged as representative of both scientists and atheists, whereas cheating and abuse were seen as representative of atheists but not of scientists. These results resonate with research discussed earlier which showed that priming science-concepts increases adherence to fairness and care norms [14,23].
However, the current results do not seem to be due to scientists being simply perceived as a subcategory of atheists. Across studies scientists were not seen as unlikely to believe in God, and people’s judgments about scientists’ religiosity did not predict their conjunction fallacies. Moreover, atheists were perceived to act unfairly and to commit abuse, unlike scientists. In addition, we found that people held quite different stereotypes and evaluations about scientists compared with atheists. Scientists and atheists appear to be perceived quite differently.
Trustworthiness is an obvious variable for immorality perceptions [28], yet scientists were rated as more trustworthy than the other targets in our studies, which is consistent with scientists being among the most respected professions [1–3]. This result is interesting and encouraging, given the well-documented distrust of science on politically loaded topics (e.g., climate change, GMOs) as well as the aftermath of recent highly publicized fraud cases in academia. Rather than untrustworthy, it seems that scientists are viewed as somewhat unpredictable, in that they can be potentially dangerous and commit severe acts of immoral conduct. They are not perceived this way because they are seen as evil but more likely because they are seen—as shown in Study 10—to pursue knowledge obsessively and in the process might lose sight of what is moral. It is therefore not surprising that people can easily believe that scientists commit disturbing morality violations, possibly as a side-effect of their curiosity and search for knowledge.
The unusual intuitive associations that people have with the category of scientist were all assessed using the conjunction fallacy. It is possible that this measure does not necessarily tap into people’s representations of the prototypes of categories, but instead captures people’s representations of the full breadth of these categories. The scenarios in Studies 1–5 depicted decidedly extreme and disturbing behavior, so participants might have been searching for a category that was broad and unusual enough to include individuals that could act in such strange and alarming ways. The category of scientist might be seen as representative of these scenarios, even if it is perceived as largely consisting of respectable and morally upright individuals (e.g., Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Gregor Mendel), because the category may also be seen as containing a distinct lunatic fringe. That is, the boundaries of people’s category of scientists might stretch further out into the immoral landscape than they do for the control categories that we employed.
Related to the notion of boundaries discussed above, it is interesting that—as can be seen in S1 Conjunction Error Results—Christian targets in Studies 1 and 4 (but not the other control targets) were also associated with serial murder to a relatively strong degree. This was however not the case for the incest and necrobestiality scenarios. We did not predict this effect beforehand, but it is possible that the ‘Christian’ category is broad enough that it can contain both moral as well as some forms of extremely immoral behavior (e.g., serial killers explicitly inspired by religion or some particular Christian symbolism).
It is worth noting that people assumed that scientists were more likely to violate the binding moral foundations, which are the same moral foundations that conservatives tend to embrace more than liberals [40]. Perhaps, then, our participants were just assuming that scientists are liberal, and responded as such. However, we included other control targets that also could be deemed liberal: for example, psychologist, gay, and teacher, yet none of these showed the same pattern of alignment with (violations of) the binding foundations that people assumed for scientists. Moreover, respondents reported viewing scientists as less liberal than they did atheists. Thus, we do not think that merely viewing scientists as liberals provides a plausible alternative account for our findings.
These studies relied exclusively on samples of American MTurk workers and it remains an open question whether the results would generalize (but see [45], on the diversity and representativeness of MTurk samples). On average, MTurk workers tend to be better educated and more liberal [46] and thus more similar to scientists [47] than other Americans. If anything, a more representative sample of Americans should have even more negative views of scientists. Moreover, given that attitudes towards science vary around the world [48,49], we anticipate that people’s intuitive associations with science would also vary accordingly.
It is notable that all the scenarios in our studies involved male protagonists, so perhaps people only associate disturbing behaviors with male scientists. It would be informative to see what behaviors are associated with female scientists, but a problem with addressing this is that people’s implicit associations with scientists are decidedly male [50].
Taken together, the current work shows that people perceive scientists not as unequivocally bad, but rather their perceptions are a complex mixture of positive and negative stereotypes and associations. The results thus suggest that scientists are seen as existing within more of an amoral, as opposed to an immoral, landscape in which immoral consequences might be preceded by amoral causes.
S1 Conjunction error results.
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S1 Participant demographics.
S1 Scenarios.
The writing of this paper was supported by an AXA Research Fund (ARF) Fellowship grant to B.T. Rutjens. The authors wish to thank Romy van der Lee for her valuable input.
Conceived and designed the experiments: BTR SJH. Performed the experiments: BTR. Analyzed the data: BTR. Wrote the paper: BTR SJH.
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Shakespeare"s apocalypse
by Peter Milward
Published 2000 by Saint Austin Press in London .
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Religion.,
Catholic Church -- In literature.,
Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism.,
Catholics -- England -- Intellectual life.,
End of the world in literature.,
Christianity and literature.,
Judgment Day in literature.,
Religion in literature.,
Theology, Catholic.
Statement by Peter Milward.
Series Saint Austin literature & ideas series
LC Classifications PR3011 .M48 2000
Pagination viii, 90 p. ;
Shakespeare and the Apocalypse: Visions of Doom from Early Modern Tragedy to Popular Culture Shakespeare, William, Christofides, R. M., Shakespeare, William By connecting Shakespeare's language to the stunning artwork that depicted the end of the world, this study provides not only provides a new reading of Shakespeare but illustrates how. I read the book looking for allusions to Shakespeare, any handy through-lines between the plots. There wasn't much there, as it turned out. Mandel opens on a scene from King Lear. In her version, tragedy comes sooner than act five; Arthur Leander as dies before Lear's freind, his son-in-law, his daughters and ultimately Lear himself.
Book Description. The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation brings together a variety of different voices to examine the ways that Shakespeare has been adapted and appropriated onto stage, screen, page, and a variety of digital formats. The thirty-nine chapters address topics such as trans- and intermedia performances; Shakespearean utopias . Shakespeare and the Apocalypse: R. M. Christofides: Hardcover: Shakespeare book.
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Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Cited by: 6. Apocalyptic Shakespeare: Essays on Visions of Chaos and Revelation in Recent Film Adaptations. This collection of essays examines the ways in which recent Shakespeare films portray Shakespeares apocalypse book about an impending global wasteland, technological alienation, spiritual destruction, and the effects of globalization.
Shakespeare, plagues, and a post-apocalyptic novel On the eve of Shakespeare's th birthday, people around the world are preparing to celebrate the Bard and his plays. But what is it about his work that means we still celebrate not only his plays, but also his birthday. years later and Shakespeare just hasn’t gotten old.
Good old Will has earned his place in the literary canon for good reason. I mean, the guy invented words, remaking our language. He is responsible for the most cunning, hilarious : Molly Wetta. This is a list of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction works as portrayed in literature, film, television, and, comics.
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity.
Summary of the Book of Revelation. This summary of the book of Revelation provides information about the title, author(s), date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the Book of Revelation. Author. Four times the author identifies himself as John (,4,9; ).
Psalm 46 is the 46th psalm of the Book of Psalms, known in English by its beginning, "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble" in the King James the Greek Septuagint version of the Bible, and in its Latin translation in the Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 45 in a slightly different numbering system.
In Latin, it is known as "Deus noster refugium et virtus".Language: Hebrew (original). This book took me a little while to really get into, but after I was a third of the way through, I became immersed in this world (and more convinced that I do not want to ever survive the apocalypse).
Although if I did, I would probably develop an appreciation for Shakespeare and classical music. Next month’s book: Redshirts. Shakespeare’s company took over the indoor Blackfriars Theatre in after the leading boy company collapsed, and started doing darker, edgier productions, capitalizing on a market share that.
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About the Book This collection of essays examines the ways in which recent Shakespeare films portray anxieties about an impending global wasteland, technological alienation, spiritual destruction, and the effects of globalization. With Chapter 9 attention switches to Shakespeare.
It is argued that Shakespeare began his career as an historical dramatist by composing a series of plays which open in the apocalyptic key of Foxe's Actes and Monuments, but that that apocalyptic mode was gradually rendered unsustainable by the difficult historiographical terrain of the Wars of the Roses.
The result was Author: David Womersley. Apocalyptic language pervades many of Shakespeare's plays, but none more than Macbeth. Allusions to the Book of Revelation and to apocalyptic passages in the Prophets and the Crucifixion narrative situate the play in the context of the end of the world that many Jacobeans expected : Hannibal Hamlin.
I am interested in trying to engage students in the idea of Shakespeare presenting the Apocalyptic in his later plays and specifically in Lear, being studied in y Eschatology (the study for the end of days in Christian theology) is alive and kicking today, and presumably will be until the horsemen are actually standing in.
The Gap of Time, by Jeanette Winterson. Inspired by: The Winter’s of Shakespeare’s more difficult plays (to defend and enjoy), The Winter’s Take seems like a tough sell for a reworking in a modern novel, but Winterson’s transformation of sexual subtext into text slams this story into high gear.
Hedge fund manager Leo has an unspoken sexual spark with Author: Jeff Somers. In his book of that name, Kermode argued that “crisis is a way of thinking about one’s moment, and not inherent in the moment itself”. Man arrives in the world in media res, and the apocalypse is a.
The Shakespeare Apocalypse. By Dana Stevens. At the end of her talk, we’re all given copies of a new book that argues this, er, case: Shakespeare Author: Dana Stevens.
This book is available for free download in a number of formats - including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more. You can also read the full text online using our ereader. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude /5(8).Biblical Imagery in Macbeth No book has made a greater impact on world literature than the Bible.
"It has colored the talk of the household and the street, as well as molded the language of the scholars. It has been something more than a 'well of English undefiled', it has become part of the spiritual atmosphere.Apocalyptic Shakespeare: essays on visions of chaos and revelation in recent film adaptations / "Films covered include Titus, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Almereyda's Hamlet, Revengers Tragedy, Twelfth Night, The Passion of the Christ, Radford's The Merchant of Venice, The Lion King, and Godard's King Lear, among others.
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[[Image:Van.gif|thumb|Clayton Van Lydegraf]] {{TOCnestleft}} '''Clayton Van Lydegraf''' (1915 -1992), a long-time political activist in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere, was an important figure in the development of the New Left in the 1960s, first in Seattle and eventually on a national level. He was one of very few veteran activists of the Old Left who early-on understood the importance of the new generation of activists coming up in the mid-1960s - influenced and inspired by the Civil Rights movement and who were motivated by opposition to the Vietnam War. He developed friendships and working relationships with young activists in Seattle at least as early as 1966, informally teaching Marxism-Leninism, strategic thinking, and lessons from his decades of activism dating to the 1930s. His ideas were later important in influencing the development of the politics of Weatherman and the [[Weather Underground Organization]]. Van Lydegraf had been a leader in the [[Communist Party USA]] through the 1950s, but he left by the early '60s over political differences. He later joined the [[Progressive Labor Party]], but quit as it descended into dogmatism and sectarianism. He was unaffiliated when he came into the circle of New Left activists, but he joined numerous groups, including [[Draft Resistance–Seattle]] and [[Students for a Democratic Society]].<ref>[http://www.sds-1960s.org/van/index.htm Clayton Van Lydegraf (1915 - 1992, accessed November 15, 2010]</ref> ==PLP work== PLP’s original concept of participation in the trade-union movement was exactly borrowed from the [[Communist Party USA]]. This meant slow clandestine work in union committees and in alliance with supposedly progressive union leaders like [[Harry Bridges]] of the ILWU, [[Leon Davis]] of the 1199 and [[David Livingston]] of District 65 in New York. All of the PLM’s trade-union cadre were ex-CP’ers, white and mostly middle aged, in their forties and older. They were not inclined to any bold moves, were not in basic industry and were generally not together in a concentration. The one exception was a small group of New York City railroad workers, led by [[Wally Linder]]. However, when he was laid off in 1963 the base and membership of PL in railroads dried up and Linder became a full-time PL functionary, “the trade-union organizer.” Generally this not impressive trade union base (Considering he was N.Y. State trade union organizer for the CP, Rosen did not take much with him into PLM.) was either dying out (literally) or quitting by 1965. When [[Clayton Van Lydegraf]] and [[Lee Coe]] quit in late 1966 they took better than one-third of the trade-union cadre with them.<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1960-1970/5retreats/chapter5.htm|Jim Dann and Hari Dillon The Five Retreats: A History of the Failure of the Progressive Labor Party CHAPTER 5: RETREAT FROM THE TRADE-UNION MOVEMENT 1969-1971]</ref> ==Weathermen Flint "War Council"== December 27-31, 1969, about 400 of the national membership of the [[Weatherman]] faction of [[Students for a Democratic Society]] held a “War Council” at a ballroom dancehall in Flint, Michigan. Posters of a giant cardboard machinegun, [[Ho Chi Minh]], [[Che Guevera]], and [[Fidel Castro]] hung everywhere. Among the attendees of the “War Council in Flint" identified by the Flint police department and/or its informant were: [[Michael Avey]], [[Karen Ashley]], [[Bill Ayers]], [[Edward Benedict]], [[Margaret Bennett]], [[Douglas Bernhardt]], [[Jeff Blum]], [[Harvey Blume]], [[David Chase]], [[Peter Clapp]], [[Judy Clark]], [[Bernardine Dohrn]], [[Diane Donghi]], [[Linda Evans]], [[Brian Flannigan]], [[David Flatley]], [[John Fuerst]], [[Lynn Ray Garvin]], [[Bert Garskof]], [[Michele Garskoff]], [[Mark Glasser]], [[Theodore Gold]], [[Lenny Handlesman]], [[Ann Hathaway]], [[Karen Hardiman]], [[Daniel Hardy]], [[Tom Hayden]], [[Phoebe Hirsch]], [[Arthur Hochberg]], [[Anne Hodges]], [[John J. J. Jacobs]], [[Jeff Jones]], [[Sam Karp]], [[David Klafter]], [[Dianne Kohn]], [[Peter Kuttner]], [[Bradford Lang]], [[Stephen Lang]], [[Karen Latimer]], [[Jonathan Lerner]], [[Naomi Lev]], [[Bradford Long]], [[Alan Maki|Alan Maki]], [[Eric Mann]], [[Howard Machtinger]], [[Carol McDermott]], [[L.R. Meadows]], [[Lisa Meisel]], [[Jeff Melish]], [[James Mellen]], [[David Millstone]], [[Russell Neufeld]], [[Diana Oughton]], [[John Pilkington]], [[Edward Purtz]], [[Jonah Raskin]], [[Natalie Rosenstein]], [[Dennis Roskamp]], [[Mark Rudd]], [[Karen Selin]], [[Mark Shapiro]], [[Janet Snider]], [[Mike Spiegel]], [[Jane Spiegelman]], [[Marsha Steinberg]], [[David Sole]], [[Susan Stern]], [[Clayton Van Lydegraf]], [[Cathy Wilkerson]] and [[Mary Wozniak]]<ref>Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, The Weather Underground, Committee Print, January 1975, 126-7</ref>. ==Hard Times Conference== In 1976 [[Clayton Van Lydegraf]] for Bay Area [[PFOC]] attended the [[Weather Underground]] and [[Prairie Fire Organizing Committee]] organized [[Hard Times Conference]] Jan 30 - Feb 1 at the University of Chicago.<ref>Outlaws in Amerika, West Goals 1982, Pg33-35</ref> ==References== {{reflist|2}} [[Category:Progressive Labor Party]] [[Category:Hard Times Conference]] [[Category:Flint War Council]] [[Category:Students for a Democratic Society]] [[Category:Weather Underground Organization]]
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Just when you thought he was dead, Jason Voorhees has one more surprise: the long-awaited dedicated servers rolled out this week for Friday the 13th on PlayStation 4. According to publisher Gun Media, Xbox One players will receive the update once it passes certification.
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Writer Lara Dunning lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest. During her eight years as a freelancer, she has produced content for articles and blog posts for travel, trade and lifestyle publications (online and print) visitor guides, and destination marketing organizations. She has provided copywriting and content for newsletters, social media posts, blogs, emails, and newsletters as well as editing, proofreading and fact-checking.
On her assignments she has found herself in the unique small towns surrounding Big Bend National Park, tasting her way through Tofino’s culinary scene, sipping her way around Washington and Oregon wine country, and discovering charming small towns in Ireland, Greece, British Columbia, and more. Along the way, she has experienced some very unique and luxurious accommodations such as The Jefferson, the Hotel Kenmare, and Pacific Sands Beach Resort.
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Digital Leveraging: From Hastings To … the World
March 13, 2018 ODRRoger Smith
Hastings carries the legacy of having once been a fashionable Victorian south coast resort. That has left it with two funiculars and a pier. The latter has been recently saved with lottery money but is now – alas – in liquidation. Its failure flags the precarious economy of the town. There is noticeable renovation but almost one third of its children are reported still to live in poverty. So, it is perhaps logical enough that it houses a vigorous NGO, Hastings Voluntary Action, which almost twenty years ago created an independent body with wider geographical coverage, SeAp, to deliver advocacy in order that ‘everyone who uses health and social care services can have their voice heard on issues that are important to them’. To supplement its face to face work, SeAp hasdeveloped a website, C-App, (geddit?) for which it received a Charity Times award for the best use of technology in 2017 and was enthusiastically praised over three pages of the annual report of the Legal Education Foundation who funded much of the work.
The best way of appreciating C-App – which, confusingly is not an app but a website – is to follow this link and explore it. You might also have a look at the evaluation of the project because it is both helpful in understanding C-App and, more widely, provides a model of how to report and reflect. If you prefer to learn about C-App by video, then you can do that as well.
C-App provides assistance for applicants applying for two benefits (employment and support allowance, formerly invalidity benefit – ESA – and personal independence payments, formerly disabled living allowance – PIP). The administration of these has caused significant difficulty in part because applicants struggle to show that they meet very detailed, points-based assessments; in part, because the quality of administration has been dreadful, with the initial contractor prematurely ending its engagement after what the Guardian reasonably enough called ‘widespread public and political anger’ at its performance; and, in part, because the government deliberately wants to reduce entitlement. The difficulties with disability benefits have attracted a number of digitally based proposals – notably exploration of the concept by LexisNexis and a mandatory reconsideration request letter tool developed by AdviceNow. A future collaboration between these approaches would be potentially very valuable.
The C-App website supports the user to build up their application in the kind of detail that is required for a medical assessment eg, for PIP claims, by detailing issues under twelve headings ranging from ‘washing and bathing’ or ‘dressing and undressing’. You are given options about whether you can or cannot do an activity but also whether that applies most or some of the time. You can pause at any time and build up a printable checklist. You are encouraged to keep answering the full list and advised whether you have built up enough points to qualify. You can review and amend your answers. You are also given printable advice about attending your assessment and preparing your answers along such lines as ‘write down points you want to make about your conditions and their impact on you in case they are not covered/asked about by the assessor’ and ‘consider keeping a diary which you can show the assessor’. You are reassured that the site keeps no data on you as an individual user, though it saves some on your computer so that you can come back to it.
The site is essentially a guided pathway document assembly programme. You could use it to prepare for your medical assessment or ask for a review but what is distinct is the focus on self empowerment. Liz Fenton, SeAp’s head of business and operations, said, ‘The biggest emphasis was so that you would not, as a user, have weeks of terror about the assessment process and so people would feel less overwhelmed. That was one of the most exciting things about the project’. SeAp remains committed to its face to face provision and sees the app as a way of supplementing its contracted services out of their area. But, Ms Fenton expressed her surprise at the potential of the digital: ‘We did not understand until the end that for some users this could be better than conventional delivery. Some people can do better at moments when they are feeling well and up to it. There is real stress in having to tell someone about what you cannot do. The process of doing it in your own time can be better than face to face. In addition, carers and family can support you.’ As SeAp said in its evaluation, ‘Our intention was not to develop a tool that would replace the need for face-to-face advocacy or advice for those that need them. That would be impossible. Rather, it was to develop a website based tool that some people could use to get some help. For some users, this might be a prompt to seek further support, and for others it would help them to proceed by themselves.’
SeAp has a history of working in collaboration with other agencies in the work for which they have obtained competitive contracts. That carried over into this project and partnerships were clearly built up with the two major funders, LEF and Comic Relief, the developer NeonTribe, Hastings Advice and Representation Centre and clients who user tested elements of the site. Ms Fenton says that the funding for sufficient support was crucial. It included resources to meet the cost of a professional developer and a project manager. Comic Relief invited SeAp to participate in a ‘Tech for Good’ boot camp, a process on which there is a video on the SeAp website. Google provides $10,000 per month worth of free advertising which has helped to drive traffic to the site. The evaluation report provides figures on the first eight months of the site. Perhaps the most significant figure is that ‘The number of sessions involving engagement with the PIP essential guide is equivalent to 5% of the total number of PIP registrations in England and Scotland during this 8-month period. We can be confident that people undertaking these sessions found the site useful.’ SeAp estimates on the basis of site analytics that in this period 38,000 users found the information useful and 34,000 found it useful to practise answers to questions. Since its launch in February 2016 we have averaged 15,000 unique users per month, totallng 350,000 to date.
SeAp has ambitions to extend its provision to cover areas like health and social care complaints. It also has the challenge of developing the site to deal with the introduction of Universal Credit, intended to be a comprehensive benefit that involves a shift in the methodology of assessments. Work is under way to increase the number of organisations that will provide links to the C-App website. Personally, I recognise the neatness of the name but I might change it. Meanwhile, Hastings is hosting not only a rather beautiful pier (see it soon while it is still open and free) but what might be a world-leading project supporting benefit claimants in a way which supplements face to face provision and allows the leverage of the expertise built up in face to face advocacy for those for whom it is simply not available.
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U.S. Virgin Islands Can Access Sealed Jeffrey Epstein Deposition and Other Secret Files
Adam KlasfeldNov 25th, 2020, 7:32 pm
The U.S. Virgin Islands can access Jeffrey Epstein‘s sealed deposition and a secret list of other witnesses put on the hot seat for its enforcement action against the accused sex-trafficker’s estate, a federal judge in New York ruled on Wednesday.
“The USVI may use these materials solely in connection with the USVI’s pending Virgin Islands Criminally Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act enforcement action against the Estate of Jeffrey E. Epstein and several Epstein-controlled entities,” U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska wrote in a 17-page order, advancing a probe where Epstein had a home on what locals there called “Pedophile Island.”
The U.S. territory moved to intervene in an open-records case involving Epstein’s accused accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and their alleged victim Virginia Giuffre, in which an effort to bring transparency to the docket has been underway for more than a year. One of the depositions unsealed recently showed Epstein’s former house manager John Alessi claiming that Maxwell “constantly” took photos of topless young women visiting Epstein’s pool and kept them in an album.
The U.S. Virgin Islands government wanted the files for an enforcement action against Epstein’s estate and several entities under his control pending before a Superior Court there.
“The USVI asserts in its CICO action that Epstein ran a criminal sex trafficking operation in the Virgin Islands, ‘wherein he used his vast wealth and property holdings and a deliberately opaque web of corporations and companies to transport young women and girls to his privately-owned islands where they were held captive and subject to severe and extensive sexual abuse,'” Judge Preska summarized.
Epstein dodged deposition questions by repeatedly invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, and Maxwell argued that this was a reason to deny the Virgin Islands access to that file.
Disagreeing, Preska noted that the government can draw an adverse inference from that fact in civil litigation.
“Second, the substance of the deposition questions may on their own be fruitful—a jumping off point for the USVI’s significant investigatory powers,” she added.
The judge agreed, however, that the victims may have privacy interests that deserve protection, which is why she denied a previous request to Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz.
“In order to make crystal clear to the USVI the significance of the privacy interests here, the Court will provide separately to the USVI a copy of the sealed order explaining why it excluded from its prior production to Mr. Dershowitz materials related to a certain nonparty Doe with ‘particularly weighty privacy interests’ in the sealed materials at issue in this case,” her ruling states.
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[Image via video screen capture from ABC News.]
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Chicago Manual of Style Guide (Chicago 17th Edition): Getting Started
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What is Chicago Style?
The Chicago Manual of Style is a set of rules for publications, including research papers. Chicago style is especially popular in historical research.
Chicago Style has two different formats Notes & Bibliography and Author/Date for in-text citing and the bibliography. Each use a slightly different format.
If you are asked by your instructor to use Chicago Style, make sure to ask which format you should follow.
In Chicago, you must "cite" sources that you have paraphrased, quoted or otherwise used to write your research paper. Cite your sources in two places:
In the body of your paper where you add a brief in-text citation or footnote.
In the reference list at the end of your paper where you give more complete information for the source.
Access Date: The date you first look at a source. The access date is added to the end of citations for all websites except library databases.
Citation: Details about one cited source.
Citing: The process of acknowledging the sources of your information and ideas.
In-Text Citation: A brief note at the point where information is used from a source to indicate where the information came from. An in-text citation should always match more detailed information that is available in the Reference List.
Paraphrasing: Taking information that you have read and putting it into your own words.
Plagiarism: Taking, using, and passing off as your own, the ideas or words of another.
Quoting: The copying of words of text originally published elsewhere. Direct quotations generally appear in quotation marks and end with a citation.
Reference List: Contains details on ALL the sources cited in a text or essay, and supports your research and/or premise.
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A quick overview of how to use Chicago style.
Format #1: Notes & Bibliography
Includes both Note (in-text citing) and reference format examples of a variety of source types.
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(4 February 2017) Inspired by the late King Bhumipol Adulyadej, a grand Bangkok project aims to inspire a new generation of bookworms Work is being carried out quickly on the “Bangkok City Library” with the hope that the library can open in March 2017. Located at Kok Wua intersection at Ratchadamnoen Klang Avenue the four…
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Length: 1hr 51mins
We first meet ‘Little’ (Alex R. Hibbert), hiding from bullies in a derelict building. A chance meeting with the charismatic Juan (Mahershala Ali) and girlfriend Teresa (Janelle Monae) opens Little’s eyes to a shiny world beyond his own in a shabby district in Miami. Juan and Teresa provide a modicum of stability for Little in his otherwise neglected life with mother Paula (Naomie Harris), but disappointment is just a heartbeat away and soon he is left with just one satisfactory relationship, with playmate Kevin (Jaden Piner). In his teens, Little becomes known by his real name, Chiron (Ashton Sanders), and remains close to Kevin (Jharrel Jerome) but childhood traumas become teen traumas and you wonder when fate will finally deal him a winning hand.
‘Moonlight’ is a collaboration between Tarrell Alvin McCraney, who wrote the play – ‘In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue’ – on which it is based and Barry Jenkins, who jointly wrote the screenplay with McCraney as well as directing. The result is a powerful piece, with a poignancy that owes its existence to the credibility afforded by McCraney’s and Jenkins’ own childhood experiences, reflected in the movie. The film is split into three chapters of Chiron’s life and features three different actors playing him and also friend Kevin. Considering Jenkins ensured that Hibbert, Sanders and adult Chiron, known as ‘Black’ (Trevante Rhodes) did not meet until filming was complete, the continuity in characterisation is testament to Jenkins’ solid direction. Hibbert is an accepting Little and Piner plays the role of emotional lifeline in the shape of nine year old Kevin, sensitively. Sanders plays troubled teen Chiron with gravity, offset by Jerome’s cheeriness as teen Kevin. Rhodes’ measured mannerisms and perfect timing give Black a strength that makes you wonder if he is to be admired or feared and you concentrate all the more because of that; and also because the scriptwriters were economical with his lines. Andre Holland gives adult Kevin a gentle and giving personality who is happy with his lot. Ali and Monae are suitably saviour-like in their roles as Chiron’s role models, polarising Chiron’s mother, whose harrowing decline into crack addiction is admirably portrayed by Harris.
As is often the case with biographies, the plot lacks typical story structure. But the drama of Chiron’s life, coupled with a deliberate air of mystery ensures complete engagement throughout.
Visually, it is stunning. Cinematographer James Laxton worked hard to achieve Jenkins’ wishes regarding the depth of colour, given that he was working with an entirely black cast. And the close angle shots, giving away little information at times, along with some deliberately blurred shots, sharpen your senses and impart a surreal sense of realism. Using just a few pieces of covered music, composer Nicholas Britell is mostly responsible for the evocative mix of hip hop and classical music. The latter inspires a sense of pathos and also of acceptance on Chiron’s part; whilst the former lightens the mood and reflects the culture of the community.
Chiron’s first romantic encounter is a longed-for moment of real affection and is presented so perfectly on a moonlit beach. Highlighting some harsh realities of the world in which we live, ‘Moonlight’ offers redemption by playing out moments like these with such tangible tenderness, you cannot fail to be moved. This is not a movie to miss.
Reviewed by Lisa O’Connor on February 24th 2017 at Cineworld, Brighton.
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Three pretty schoolgirls on the cusp of adulthood – Claire (Haley Lu Richardson), Marcia (Jessica Sula) and Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy) – are abducted. Imprisoned, they fear the worst, but occasional bafflement provides some light relief from their understandable hysteria, when their captor, Kevin (James McAvoy), cycles through different personalities during his visits to the girls. It quickly transpires that he is suffering from a mental illness (dissociative identity disorder) and we are privy to his regular therapy sessions, presenting himself to his therapist (Betty Buckley) also, as a range of differing personalities. As the plot deepens, so his story is revealed but unexpectedly, Casey’s story also.
I have no doubt that McAvoy relished in the opportunity to play multiple parts in one hit. However, to do this well, requires commitment, experience and expertise and could have easily remained an unfulfilled challenge. To successfully develop the character of a main protagonist, one usually has the luxury of sticking with one personality and the end result is a depth that is, one hopes, tangible to the audience. But to develop a character that has multiple personalities is a big ask. Director M. Night Shyamalan did not expect McAvoy to display all 24 of Kevin’s personalities, but he did require him to bring several of Kevin’s alter egos to our attention and he does so, admirably. Providing some comedy moments with Hedwig, a child; Patricia, an older lady and Barry, best described as your favourite gay hairdresser, ‘Split’ is almost a one-man show with McAvoy taking centre-stage.
Richardson and Sula portray two teenage schoolgirls as you would expect. With typically perfect make-up, hair and clothes, they do a good job of conveying childlike innocence whilst seeming as helpless as baby rabbits in the headlights of an oncoming car. Casey emerges as the atypical teenage girl, with her own backstory to rival Kevin’s and Taylor-Joy brings intelligent reflection to her character, which moves cleverly from the background, as the quiet girl, to the foreground, as the one you secretly wager might just make it out alive. The implication that both Casey and Kevin have been on both sides of a ‘hunt’ is reflected in the current situation, where she and her friends are clearly victims of a hunt.
The abduction/imprisonment premise has been a popular one in recent years, so the success of such a story is dependent upon a twist; a difference; a crazy subplot. Shyamalan brings these secret ingredients to his tale of horror and the result is a movie that pushes you to the last inch of your seat. Graphic detail, though inhumanly horrific, is sparse but the continued threat of possible outcomes makes for a tense two hours.
Mental health experts may disapprove of the portrayal of this condition which is understandable; but one could argue that Kevin is a criminal who happens to have a disorder (or vice versa) and just as some people with no mental health issues are criminals, surely some people with mental health issues are criminals?
Reviewed by Lisa O’Connor, January 2017 at Cineworld, Brighton.
Certification: 12A
Twelve year old Conor O’Malley (Lewis MacDougall) is having a pretty rough time. Family is one very poorly mum (Felicity Jones), an absent dad (Toby Kebbell) and a highly-strung grandma (Sigourney Weaver). Throw in a few school bullies and life becomes decidedly bleak. Then, one night, a monster (Liam Neeson) calls … with his gigantic form of intertwined twigs and fearsome eyes that flash with angry flames, he presents as another problem – albeit a rather spectacular one – to add to the list of little Conor’s woes. But Conor secretly anticipates the monster’s visits with suppressed eagerness, so is he as monstrous as first impressions suggest?
MacDougall gives a highly emotive performance, mature beyond his years. Conor is a quiet, reflective child, visibly worn down by the burden of a terminally ill mother, whose gift of the only fulfilling relationship Conor has, is made bittersweet by her illness. MacDougall manifests Conor’s anger, optimism and sheer distress flawlessly and succeeds in allowing differing emotions to spill into each other.
Jones is sweet and natural as Lizzie, Conor’s mum and imparts a pathos without being over-sentimental. The two actors work well together, displaying the close and easy relationship that is surely intended. Having warmed to Conor, it is inevitable that one will not warm to his spiky grandma, so frostily played by Weaver, but with a foreshadowing hint of warmth. Kebbell pops up as ‘Dad’ and does a good job of the loveable but unreliable parent.
But imagination is at the heart of this movie and it turns out that it is full of life, passion and creativity. The monster is lifted directly from Patrick Ness’s award-winning book of the same name, courtesy of talented artist Jim Kay and director J.A. Bayona presents him magnificently, even taking care with the sounds of his dry twigs that comprise his body. Pitched somewhere between Treebeard from Lord of the Rings and Pan from Pan’s Labyrinth, Neeson is scary yet comforting; grumpy yet caring; confusing yet knowing. With themes of loneliness and parallels between the real world and the fantasy world, the comparison with Pan’s Labyrinth does not end there, but find out for yourself.
Lastly, special mention must go to the animation department. The telling of tales is magically presented with delicate, flowing animation. This is the trump card of ‘A Monster Calls’ and where the movie excels. Pastel shades and simple outlines give the animated characters a unique beauty and the continuity between scenes within tales is the work of quirkily creative minds.
A gentle fantasy tale, ‘A Monster Calls’ throws into doubt the conventions of that well-known and beloved genre of fairy-tales, yet clearly takes its inspiration from there. And the monster throws everything into doubt for Conor, including reality, as he deals with the latter’s suspicions:
“What is a dream, Conor O’Malley? Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?”
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Roland Announces New Roland Lifestyle Apparel Line - Now Available Globally
Rounik Sethi on Thu, December 17th 0 comments
Two Distinctive Roland Streetwear Collections Debut Honoring the Cultural Legacy of Iconic Electronic Musical Instrument Brand.
Los Angeles, CA, December 17, 2020 — Roland, the world’s most iconic electronic musical instrument brand, has announced the debut of its first line of Roland lifestyle apparel available globally.
Developed in response to growing demand from Roland fans around the world, the new Roland lifestyle apparel line debuts with two distinctive streetwear collections called “EST. 1972” and “808 Classic,” in honor of Roland’s musical and cultural legacy.
Designed by lifestyle creative agency Shines Creative and Roland, the “EST. 1972” clothing collection is representative of the year Roland was founded in Osaka, Japan, and the “808 Classic” collection takes design cues from Roland’s most legendary product, the TR-808 drum machine.
“Roland has achieved iconic status by creating instruments like the TR-808 that gave rise to entirely new music genres and ways of making music,” offered Nathan Chandra, founder of Shines Creative. “Music has the power to give rise to very distinctive clothing styles and even entire cultural movements. With the release of these new streetwear collections, Roland has begun to build its own unique bridge between fashion, culture, and music for everyone that loves the brand."
Both of Roland’s new lifestyle apparel collections are a limited release and each style ranges in price from $28-$64, including an exclusive set of hoodies, sweatshirts, t-shirts, sweatpants, and more. Future Roland apparel collections are also in development with Shines Creative, as are plans for Chandra and his team to curate apparel collaborations for Roland with culturally significant and design-forward brands.
Roland Creative Director Martyn Hopkins added, “Music and personal style often go hand-in-hand. For decades, musicians have used Roland instruments to create some truly memorable musical moments—not to mention some great nights out. We get lots of requests about whether there’s an official range of Roland merchandise, so it’s very exciting to be working with the team at Shines to give people just that—fresh designs, premium quality, exciting collaborations, with a few surprises mixed in. Stay tuned for more info.”
Los Angeles-based streetwear brand PLEASURES also released an “808” capsule collection in collaboration with Roland and Shines earlier this year that celebrates the 40th anniversary of the 808 drum machine. The five-piece, limited-run collection highlights the functionality and iconic design of the 808, with several styles selling out within 24-hours of release.
Roland’s new line of lifestyle apparel is available now for purchase globally. Please visit https://rolandlifestyle.shop/ to buy or to learn more.
Rounik Sethi
Rounik is the Executive Editor for Ask.Audio & macProVideo. He's built a crack team of professional musicians and writers to create one of the most visited online resources for news, review, tutorials and interviews for modern musician and producer. As an Apple Certified Trainer for Logic Pro Rounik has taught teachers, professional musicians and hobbyists how to get the best out of Apple's creative software. He has been a visiting lecturer at Bath Spa University's Teacher training program, facilitating workshops on using music and digital media tools in the classroom. If you're looking for Rounik, you'll most likely find him (and his articles) on Ask.Audio & macProVideo.com.
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The most dangerous idea is that nothing can change.
Recent Excursions
March 25, 2018 Madeline
2018 is shaping up to be a less travel-heavy year than 2017 was. I’ve been teaching two courses in the Digital Futures programme at OCADU, which has kept me in Toronto for most of the winter term. Also, I joined the roster of Perfect Note Speakers, which is a speaking agency local to Canada. But that doesn’t mean I’ve been staying at home! Recent appearances have included:
A keynote at the Future Cities Forum in Ottawa, thanks to ArtEngine and ImpactHub Ottawa
The Civic I/O and X-Prize foresight workshops at SXSW, followed by a panel called “Prototyping the Future with Science Fiction” with Ramez Naam and Bruce Sterling, moderated by Kevin Bankston
A series of conversations about the future with Scott Smith, at #ASOSassembles in London
Kevin and I will also be at RightsCon in Toronto this May, so come out and see us if that’s your thing. Some other appearances are in the offing, so watch this space and hopefully I’ll be better about posting my schedule. Also, I should mention that I’ve been commissioned for about four short stories this year, in various venues. So if you want one, now would be the time to ask!
That said, this time last year I was even busier, and very sick. This time last year, my book was part of a national reading competition broadcast over television, radio, and the internet. This time last year, I was teaching three courses at two universities. This time last year, my mother-in-law was delirious and in hospital following an infection, a fall, and possibly a stroke that landed her first in one nursing home, and then another. I wrote about the experience here at CBC Books, if you’re interested.
And now it’s time to grade some papers. More anon. Goodnight, and good luck.
Good news, everybody!
This year, talk about the future you want.
Madeline Ashby is a science fiction writer, futurist, speaker, teacher, and immigrant living in Toronto. She is represented by Cooke McDermid, and UTA. You can buy her books here.
Madeline Ashby has worked with Intel Labs, the World Health Organization, the Institute for the Future, SciFutures, Nesta, Data & Society, The Atlantic Council, Changeist, and others. She has spoken at SXSW, FutureEverything, MozFest, and other events. Her essays have appeared at BoingBoing, io9, WorldChanging, The Atlantic, MISC Magazine, and FutureNow. Her fiction has appeared in Slate, MIT Technology Review, Clarkesworld, and multiple anthologies. She is a member of the XPRIZE Science Fiction Advisory Council and the AI Policy Futures Group at the ASU Center for Science and the Imagination. She is the author of the Machine Dynasty novels. Her novel Company Town was a Canada Reads finalist.
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Wood Flooring: Borders/Accents
Borders and accents are the latest styling trend in home decor. This is where custom-designed accent features are inset into specific flooring areas. Borders and accents can bring an elegant look to an otherwise ordinary floor. The features are straightforward to install, and they cost much less than a complete custom floor, because the single element, regardless of the cost per square foot, never adds up to much. More importantly, most borders and accents can be retrofitted to existing floors, opening options to any home. For instance, special inlays cut into finished hardwood floors or wood borders spliced into carpeting can make any floor stand out.
A feature strip accent will catch more attention than if it were part of a standard pattern. Purpleheart wood is a bright, striking purple when freshly cut, darkening into a deeper purple with age. Try installing a purpleheart wood border around a cherry-plank flooring. Then to make sure it will not go overlooked, implant a strip of polished brass between the contrasting woods. The result is stunning.
Some floors lend themselves to accents and borders more than others. Locations most commonly enhanced by detail features are inside a foyer; around the perimeter of a room; as a centerpiece in the dining room; on stairway landings; and down the center of stairs or hallways.
In a more refined approach, home decor accents and borders have also been used successfully as visual dividers between rooms and to create a focal point by a fireplace mantel, under a chandelier, or even around a particular piece of furniture. The objective is to target areas that need highlighting and show off the feature best.
Most floors have need of periodic maintenance and repair, and such times are suitable to think about borders and accents. When hardwood floors require sanding the extra expenditure of custom inserts can almost be swept between the cracks. In fact, adding an home accent or border will sometimes lower the cost of repair when moving a wall or when a new wood section does not match the color of the existing floor.
Unless you're handy, you may want to hire a professional. Essentially, inlays are traced onto the floor, cut into place, and glued down with a floor-to-ceiling jack. Or in the case of edge stripping, the channel is simply routed part of the way into the floorboards. The tolerance for error is slim, but most tradesmen intentionally cut the opening narrow and then sand the inlay to the final fit. Obviously, in the case of new floors, the piece can be secured by tongue-and-groove joints during installation-that is, if the idea comes up before the floor gets set.
Hardwood floors can be modified more readily than others, partly because they're easy to tamper with, but also due to their compatibility with a variety of styles and a wide assortment of existing design elements. Homeowners have come to realize that with the right border and accents, even the humble floor will make a noble statement. You may find, once the accented floor is in place, that you hate to even step on it at all.
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Celebrities October 28, 2011 December 18, 2012
Paul Strank’s charity dinner in Mitcham sells the most expensive haircut
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When you are invited to a star-studded charity ball, a noble charitable cause is something you expect. But a haircut, maybe not. The Gala dinner at Chak89 in Bond Road, Mitcham hosted by Paul Strank Roofing and Elbrook Cash and Carry, saw high profile names bidding for the most expensive haircut to raise funds. The auction fetched an impressive £36,000 ($ 57,930) with the funds benefiting Shooting Stars Chase hospice for terminally-ill children and OneLife, a charity which helps youths from disadvantaged backgrounds. And proving to be a gracious host, Paul Strank bid £8,000 ($ 12,875) to shave the head of AFC Wimbledon’s commercial director, Ivor Heller.
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Since the groundbreaking launch of the Big Bang in 2005, Hublot has mushroomed breathlessly into a hothouse for materials and complications – progress, its CEO tells Alex Doak, that is down to keeping a constant eye on the future.
If it’s not enough that Usain Bolt, Pelé, Maradonna, Jay-Z, Kobe Bryant, and every Juventus and Chelsea player all wear Hublot proudly, nor that the brand boasts over 750 points of sale (including 70 of its own boutiques), then all it takes is a simple nose around the watchmaker’s multistorey pavilion at spring’s Baselworld trade fair to appreciate its extraordinary success – a success achieved by a youthful brand, on young (but very wealthy) wrists in a notoriously “mature” marketplace, supplied by venerable brands banking on heritage. Even Rolex next door is calm by comparison, at an event where appointments must be booked months in advance in order to tread a single step beyond the frosty fembots on reception.
“WE NEVER STOP WORKING
ON BOTH NEW IN-HOUSE MOVEMENTS
AND NEW MATERIALS.”
No, advancing into the meeting rooms within the Hublot stand at Basel is to realise how wildly popular this brand has become, among retailers, collectors and press alike. Not only does it hustle, bustle and bulge with experts desperate to get their hands on the new launches, but the noise is enough to tell you that passions run high with this particular watchmaker – a watchmaker making a sort of product that’s usually discussed in considered, reverent tones around velvet-lined trays and white gloves, not passed boisterously around with the sort of gasps reserved for action films or roller coasters, rather than luxury products.
What’s more, despite the sheer number of hands clamouring for a horological fondle, what strikes you next is the fact that they are rarely left dissatisfied. The innovation and creativity is prolific (despite each model remaining exclusive and by default feverishly collectable) with traditional Swiss mechanics “fused” to unlikely and futuristic materials, such as carbon-fibre, titanium and ceramic. This year, Hublot has even collaborated with Berluti on a watch whose dial is made using one of the finest but oldest materials going: butter-soft shoe leather.
But it goes so much further than just materials. The brand’s iconic porthole-shaped case construct is a modular jigsaw puzzle, allowing a mix and match of materials, giving a highly adaptable interplay of shapes and colour. The potential permutations for Hublot’s endless stream of limited-edition tributes to sporting or musical legends is, well, endless.
“This is the DNA of our brand,” enthuses CEO Ricardo Guadalupe over the hubbub of Hublot’s Basel crowd. “‘The Art of Fusion’ is our motto, as without innovation there is no future. We want all our teams to be creative, to push the boundaries in order for our brand to be first, unique, different.”
Despite his Spanish name, Guadalupe, is a thoroughbred Swiss watch guy. He was born and raised in Neuchâtel, the capital city of “Watch Valley” in the Jura mountains, and after a brief post-grad stint at UCLA, returned to Switzerland and took his first job with Bulgari, setting up their watchmaking factory in Geneva. But it was his second job, as sales and marketing director for Blancpain, that set him on his current course. The brand had just been sold to Swatch Group having been revived by one of the industry’s most legendary characters, Jean-Claude Biver, and Biver’s next project was a moribund Hublot – a rather anonymous brand known only for its vanilla-scented rubber straps. When Biver left Swatch in 2004 to take over Hublot, he knew exactly who he wanted as his right-hand man.
“With Jean-Claude, we work as a duo. We work hand in hand to keep Hublot’s new incarnation on the same direction. We are both passionate, hard workers and trust each other.”
That vibrant working relationship is clear to see from the brand’s rapid expansion over the past 12 years. Right from the outset, Biver and Guadalupe were hugely ambitious, setting themselves the task of switching from 90% quartz to producing 90% mechanical watches. Putting their best foot forward, within the very first year they had launched the Big Bang chronograph in steel and ceramic – still the brand’s biggest seller, and a modern cult classic, seen on yachts and in corner offices worldwide.
Turnover increased in four years from 25 million to over 200 million Swiss francs in 2008, when the brand was sold to LVMH. There has been physical growth too, with the inauguration in November 2009 of a new high-tech manufacture on the banks of Lake Geneva in Nyon – 6,000 square metres dedicated to in-house mechanical movement production. Keeping Hublot’s “fusion” truly cutting-edge and unique, the factory has even installed an experimental foundry to produce its scratchproof, 18-carat “Magic Gold”. Simultaneously, Hublot bought the Swiss company Profusion, which manufactures carbon-fibre components.
“We never stop working on both new in-house movements and new materials,” Guadalupe tells us. “Moreover, we always want to increase our verticalisation,” he says, referring to the industry’s ‘Holy Grail’ of bringing watchmaking’s countless aspects of production, from component machining to dial making, beneath one roof.
“It will take us approximately 5 years, but by then we will be producing, internally, 70% of our own movements and 30% of our cases with high-tech materials.”
There are plenty of Swiss watch brands who have managed this in-house consolidation in recent years, but while it’s always costly (upwards of £20 million is the basic budget required, most say) and difficult to hire the requisite talent, these brands are still making watches based on the same, timeworn principles of springs, cogs, levers. Just stop to consider Hublot’s biggest launches of 2016, however – the Ferrari-engine-inspired MP07 and the openworked MECA-10, which – and why hasn’t anyone done this before? – is inspired by the struts and wingnuts of Meccano. These couldn’t be further from your typical mechanical timepiece, as Guadalupe explains with zeal.
“The shape of a watch inspired by an engine block came quite naturally to us. The mechanics have been positioned for ergonomic comfort on the wrist, where the “cylinders” provide highly legible information that resembles the mileage indicators of Classic Cars. Then we have the bracelet evoking the exhaust manifolds, six hole sections for reassembly, all emphasising the mechanical part of the DNA…”
It costs roughly the same as a Ferrari, but you’re actually getting something infinitely more exclusive (not to mention cheaper to run). As Mr Guadalupe says, “The result is a very masculine and sporty aesthetic – strong and assertive.”
Not a bad description of Hublot as a whole, we’d say.
SIHH WATCH LIST
The hallowed, champagne-cream halls of Geneva’s Salon de la Haute Horlogerie were once again host to the world’s most revered watchmaking this January, and the most reverential of invite-only guests – ROX included. Here are our highlights…
ROX PRESENTS... HUBLOT ALL BLACK WITH ALAN SHEARER
With Christmas around the corner, and festivity in the air, what better time to hold the event of the year – The Hublot All Black Party. To celebrate 10 years of the All Black concept, ROX and Hublot partnered up to throw the event, showcasing the brands best timepieces and inviting along a very special guest, football legend and friend of Hublot, Alan Shearer.
CREATING THE BIG BANG
Hublot’s iconic Big Bang focuses on the “Art of Fusion” by combining objects and materials that don’t appear together under normal conditions. Browse our interactive guide to the Hublot Big Bang and explore the contrasting components that make up this striking natural masterpiece.
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Curry makes 105 straight 3s post-practice
Marveling once again, Stephen Curry made 105 straight three-pointers from the same baseline spot to finish practice on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) leading into Golden State’s game Sunday game at Chicago.
Stephen Curry (No. 30) of the Golden State Warriors drives to the basket ahead of LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers during their preseason game at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. AFP FILE PHOTO
The Warriors said they captured the final 103 on video at the Bulls’ practice facility. Curry’s shots were counted by his longtime shooting man, assistant Bruce Fraser and coach Steve Kerr only heard about his shooting star afterward. Curry finally missed, then pumped his arms and yelled in delight.
“I think his previous record was 77. That’s insane,” Kerr said. “I don’t know if the Guinness Book of World Records still exists. That was one of my favorite books growing up. If it still exists that should go in the book, because we have video evidence now apparently.”
You bet, two-time MVP Curry can still dazzle day after day at age 32 and at the start of his 12th NBA season. With his next made 3, Curry will have 2,500 for his career — joining only Ray Allen and Reggie Miller to reach that mark.
“It was SO amazing — 105 3s in a row. I knew it could be special around 30. Just amazing,” Fraser said by text, then added: “There wasn’t anything about the one he missed. I was actually more focused on just delivering good passes. I was nervous! Haha. Yes, lots of swishes.”
Draymond Green didn’t witness the all-out downpour, but he is plenty confident in Curry’s count.
“I have zero doubt that he did it. I don’t need to watch a video to see how they went in, any of that,” Green said. “As I’ve always said, obviously the greatest shooter I think to ever play this game. As great as that is, I can’t sit here and act like, ‘Oh, I’m surprised.’ It’s just not really surprising to me. It’s such an incredible thing but I’m sorry, Steph, it doesn’t really get me up out of my seat that he hit 105 in a row, ’cause if you said anyone’s going to hit 105 3s in a row, my guess would be Steph. He’s capable of it. Anything with shooting the basketball he’s capable of doing it.
“It’s dope, super dope.”
Curry said during training camp he would like to stay with the Warriors for good. He was due to make $43 million this season — his salary is expected to be affected by the coronavirus pandemic — and nearly $45.8 million in 2021-22.
Kerr said Curry got on a record roll and just kept shooting.
“So, he choked and couldn’t make the 106th one,” Kerr joked. “I guess he just didn’t have it in him. It’s very disappointing. I guarantee you he didn’t stop. If you’ve made 105 in a row you keep going. I’m pretty sure he missed and just wasn’t up to the challenge.”
Green is listed as questionable for Sunday to make his season debut as he works back from a right foot injury.
“I want to,” Green said of playing. “I just got to get my wind back, my body feels amazing.”
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How can the community assist in welcoming LGBTQ users?
This is a followup to my question Are there specific issues with unwelcoming behavior toward LGBTQ persons on Stack Exchange? . StrongBad, in a comment replying to one of my comments, suggested that I go ahead and ask something along these lines. This question is directed at those who have experienced unwelcoming behavior.
I'm so confused over the nature of the unwelcoming behavior that others have alluded to. If I can't figure out what is happening because it gets deleted quickly, there's little I can do to work toward preventing future occurrences.
What, specifically, can individuals in the community do to support those who have experienced gender bias? I'm asking you -- those of you who have experienced bias related to being LGBTQ or some other sort of gender bias. What do you want or need us to do so that you feel welcomed?
Are you looking primarily for greater awareness of the issues you commonly face? That is, there is nothing really that specific for us to do except to attend sensitivity training, show greater empathy, etc.
Do you want us to be more vigilant in voting down and flagging unwelcoming content so that it gets deleted quicker?
Are there a few specific users that you want to be "taught a lesson", and the rest of us are caught up in the crossfire?
Do you want us to proactively ask you for your pronouns or other biographical or identity details before we engage with you? (I apologize for accidentally misgendering Aza in my previous question, but there's nothing on her profile to indicate her gender or that she wants people to be particularly sensitive in this regard towards her. Perhaps I could have sent her a note "Hey Aza, I'm going to reference you in an upcoming post, what are your pronouns?", but that seems so awkward.)
Do you want help with lobbying Stack Exchange into making changes to the existing system such as adding support for adding pronouns, sexual orientation, etc. to user profiles?
discussion community code-of-conduct welcoming
A thousand thanks for putting up these questions. I can't say how important I find it that our community looks into this aspect of the whole "network crisis". It is all fair and square to confront SE.COM about the way they dealt with Monica Cello. But looking into the mirror, and figuring what this community (independent of the company running the servers) should (want to) learn about itself, that is equally important! – GhostCat Oct 2 '19 at 0:11
@GhostCat I find this important as well, but I wonder - for years women complaining about feeling unwelcome (esp. on Stack Overflow), they were told that their gender doesn't matter because it's all about the post and not the user. I as a woman had to listen to some unsolicited advice on how I should feel as well. Now that it's about LGBTQ, the topic is suddenly important and taken very seriously. Don't get me wrong, it definitely is... but... I don't quite know how to feel about that fact. – user204841 Oct 2 '19 at 1:05
@ModusTollens It should have mattered for you too – user384163 Oct 2 '19 at 1:08
@ModusTollens They did, for sure. We simply reached the next level. Welcome to a world where everybody deserves to be accepted as individual, not as a member of some group. – GhostCat Oct 2 '19 at 3:36
@ModusTollens - Grab the ball and run with it. We are all in this together, my friend. – TempGuest Oct 2 '19 at 4:04
I agree with Alon Eltan. Only on very specific SE subsections is gender and sexuality at all relevant. Should we also research a poster's racial and religious background before responding to them? Their political stance? Where would it end? – Weckar E. Oct 3 '19 at 3:16
You're being disingenuous. The slippery slope argument is called a fallacy for a reason, and using it demonstrates that you are not acting in good faith. It is not a difficult concept: when you are talking directly to or about another user, apply the correct pronoun, with priority to the pronoun that they have explicitly claimed. That's it. // Their gender and sexuality is relevant when you have deliberately disrespected someone on that basis. By acting that way, you made it relevant, because you chose to have that discussion with or about them. @WeckarE. – Nij Oct 3 '19 at 10:48
@Nij I would never deliberately disrespect someone. I just often don't feel like going out of my way to respect someone. If someone has clarified their pronouns in such a way that I don't have to go looking for it (say, by having to check their profile page), of course I'd use them when appropriate to flow-of-text. But I cannot be expected to check every single profile just-in-case. – Weckar E. Oct 3 '19 at 12:56
@Nij Additioally, I think it is equally so a slippery slope to assume that anyone who is not going out of their way to 'respect' you, must be deliberately disrespecting you. Apathy exists, people. – Weckar E. Oct 3 '19 at 13:02
@WeckarE. of course I'd use them when appropriate to flow-of-text. so still not an outright "I will respect you if you ask me to use a particular pronoun." – user371773 Oct 19 '19 at 18:35
I have experienced problems at SE around the use of gendered pronouns.
I am a female SE participant who works very hard to remain gender neutral on SE. When I was getting started at a particular male-dominated SE site, I found it quite beneficial in building up reputation and respect to fly under the gender radar there. I was careful to avoid writing anything there that would give any hints as to my gender.
Several years ago, there was a user at that site with whom I had some ongoing tension. I’ll call him User A. (His gender was clear from his user name or his personal home page, easily found via google by using the information he posted in his SE profile.)
User A outed me as a female participant in a discussion comment. That page received thousands of views and I flagged his comment. I patiently attempted to work through the problem with the site moderators, but they said they could not edit his comment or remove it, and they said they could not force User A to dialogue with me, or with them, about the problem. I was shocked. I carefully explained how gender affects interactions on that site, and I explained that my opinions would have much less credibility on that site if my gender were known. I explained that I didn’t want to publicly correct User A regarding my gender, because that would either mean confirming the gender attribution he had made, or being untruthful, which I have an aversion to.
Eventually I found a discreet way of communicating with User A. He explained that I had posted something on a different SE site regarding breastfeeding, in which my actual gender was clear. Once he pointed that out, I went back and edited that post. In the new version, I just said "we," so it wouldn't be clear which parent (me, or my husband) was the one who was doing the breastfeeding. User A removed the problematic comment and we both removed all traces of the conversation.
I felt that the site moderators could have easily and quickly solved the problem, by simply removing the comment that referred to me as "she."
So, how can people be supportive?
Let's get in the habit of not assuming others' gender, unless it's been made obvious (through name, profile, image, posts or comments).
Moderators can be watching for this issue when responding to flags.
Let's all practice greater empathy. When we write something, let's ask ourselves, How would I feel if someone directed that to me?
SE can lead the way in practicing greater empathy, by reinstating Monica Cellio pending an open discussion of the proposed changes to the Code of Conduct. In my experience, Monica approaches moderation with empathy and humanity, and has been a model moderator.
Maybe it will become necessary to ask her to step down due to irreconcilable differences, later on, during an open discussion of the proposal -- but we're not there yet.
By removing her prematurely, SE is causing more harm than good to the principles of tolerance, inclusion and respect.
TempGuestTempGuest
Thanks for sharing! You said " I carefully explained how gender affects interactions on that site". What did you mean by that? Can you explain that for us here? Because most of your post here seems to be about the fear of others finding out you're a woman, but I'm not seeing a description of why it's such a bad thing if people find out you're a woman. While women are clearly in the minority, I haven't personally witnessed any special treatment of those women that are here, so hearing from you might shed some why on why you feared people finding out you're a woman. – mason Oct 1 '19 at 22:43
It's great to have a real example. It's also interesting in that it's the very opposite of the usual scenario: in your scenario, you wanted people to go on assuming you were male, because it simplified things and/or you felt it increased your credibility. Honestly, though, it seems to me that if every person were to conscientiously research a person before using pronouns in reference to that person, the result would have been the same: User A would have found your answer about breastfeeding, seen that you were clearly female, and then used "she" to refer to you. – Wildcard Oct 1 '19 at 22:53
+1: This answer stresses patience, understanding, empathy, dialog, discussion, and working together to improve our community. – Nat Oct 2 '19 at 0:15
@Marco13 - Sorry, which of my sentences or paragraphs are you referring to? // People use pronouns frequently in discussions on SE. // My experience had nothing to do with anyone accusing anyone of anything. It was about me wanting to be seen as a neutral person, without anyone assuming I was any particular gender. I wanted them to assume I was a person. It wasn't about hostility or offensiveness -- it was about leveling the playing field. – TempGuest Oct 2 '19 at 3:22
@Wildcard - I wanted to be seen as a person first. In real life, I have always wanted to be seen as a person first, and a woman, or a certain nationality, second. There were many participants in that male-dominated site who, consciously or unconsciously, thought differently about opinions expressed by participants who were openly female. I can't really point a finger of blame at User A, given that I had left that post out there identifying myself as a breastfeeding mother. But I would have liked to rely on the moderators' solidarity and support. – TempGuest Oct 2 '19 at 3:27
@mason - I didn't explain all that to User A -- sorry if I wasn't clear. I explained all that to the site moderators. With User A, I kept it short and sweet, and just told him I prefer the pronoun "they." He respected my preference after that. // The article is about women functioning in a male-dominated STEM field, right? So, it's relevant. I would like, now, to allow you some time to do some reading and reflecting, as I will also be doing, and then another day, when you and I are both ready, we can "meet" again, if you like, and talk some more. – TempGuest Oct 2 '19 at 3:59
Yeah, this ended up being an unstructured mess. There's a summarized version at the end, but the rest contains reasoning and some hits at the unreleased CoC, as it has been presented by the two answers posted to two different resignation posts on other metas.
What do you want or need us to do so that you feel welcomed?
The new CoC as it has been presented this far overcomplicates it a lot. Speaking for myself, I'm perfectly fine with "they" instead of a random gendered pronoun, and I'm pretty sure most people are. SE isn't built up as a social media where gender is listed. Even if it is, there's far too many variations to properly cover it.
For an instance, there's people who don't have pronouns at all, and prefer to have their name used instead, there's people who change pronouns daily, there's people who use multiple pronouns, some who use all, some who use all except one or more, and all kinds of variations in between.
My point is: don't overthink it. Most on-site interactions actually don't touch pronouns, with a possible exception to meta sites. Personally, if I'm in doubt, I use "they" or avoid pronouns entirely if I'm on main or meta. Chat is different, and I'll rather ask if I need to. Using names is, as far as I know, the variant the fewest amount of consider offensive. I actually haven't met anyone who has felt offended by name use (provided it's not deadnaming, which is bad either way, but doesn't really apply online).
Generally, if you're in doubt and it makes sense to ask (it would likely be considered noise on main/meta), ask. And even after you've asked, I doubt anyone minds if you fall back to their name. Speaking for myself, I like hearing my name from time to time.
Do you want us to proactively ask you for your pronouns or other biographical or identity details before we engage with you?
If it doesn't make sense to ask, no. Again, chat is a lot better for these types of things. Optimally, we'd have a system for adding pronouns to names, but that gets complicated fast with all the variations. Not to forget that some people don't want to list their gender, and requiring it can ironically be unwelcoming too.
While a lot of people know their pronouns, there's still people who aren't sure what they are, and prefer to not list anything or even see that option. Not to forget people who aren't out of the closet. Both these might be a minority of a minority, but they matter, and their problems are real.
This part needs its own paragraph because of a misleading definition elsewhere; "they", aside the plural use, is widely regarded as a gender-neutral pronoun. Now for the misleading definition; "they" does not have to refer to non-binary people. I know some non-binary people, one of which is fine with he/she/they. I also know one who prefers it/its, but who's fine with "they" too in the sense that using "they" isn't considered offensive or hurtful. Non-binary people can use all kinds of different pronouns.
Moreover, non-binary isn't technically a gender - it's a spectrum of gender identities that include all kinds of identities. Quite literally, non-binary means something outside a binary system (here: male and female). The "implications" vary from person to person, and I don't have a chance of listing all the variations. I actually don't know all myself - more on that later.
Honestly, I doubt anyone will call you unwelcoming for using "they". Personally, I find that a lot of people just assume programmers here are male, at least among new users. "sir" and "bro" is also thrown around an unnecessary amount regardless of the receiver, and this practice needs to die in a fire, preferably yesterday.
Misgendering is a slippery slope. There's some people who can't be misgendered (that's those who use all pronouns, and don't really care which are used). Some people use multiple pronouns and can be harder to misgender (if one or more fall in the "binary" pronouns).
Personally, I only consider misgendering a problem if it's repeated, and it's clearly malicious. That being, if someone uses "he/him" about me, I'll correct them. I don't like it, but I'm not going to hate the other person for that. Note that not all people take this approach; some people are hurt the first time. I've gotten a bit of a laid-back approach to it. However, repeated use in a way that's pretty obviously an invalidation attempt is directly hurtful.
Again, this isn't complicated: listen to people. There are a lot of unique approaches to pronouns out there (trust me - I'm in multiple LGBTQ servers on Discord, one of which is a server exclusively for transpeople and non-binary people).
That being said, no one is required to learn all the pronouns - there's a lot of them Live site: https://pronoun.is/all-pronouns. There's also no point in learning all of them, but if someone tells you they use a pronoun you haven't heard before, all you need to do is remember that the person uses that pronoun, and you're good.
TL;DR:
Listen! Discarding people's pronouns or identity because "it has to be proven" is offensive. If someone tells you their pronouns, accept it and use it. Some might sound weird at first, but a lot of things sound weird the first time they're heard.
Don't use gendered pronouns without clarifying first. Or, as written more elegantly in the first answer - avoid assuming gender. Prefer gender-neutral language or names if you're in doubt.
Remember that some people don't use pronouns. Listen to them and find out what they use instead.
Make changes to the CoC - but please don't make it so strict it fails to include other members of LGBTQ who may not be as visible (including, but far from limited to people who are still figuring out their identities, people who use multiple pronouns, etc). Allow names, allow "they", but make sure it doesn't allow for intentional misgendering.
Flag behavior that's clearly abusive. Under this comes a second request (albeit not for users): make comment moderation tools better for everyone to help find abusive behavior and mitigate problems fast.
Don't be like SE. We have feelings too
Zoe the 1337 PrincessZoe the 1337 Princess
+1 - During the past few days, I've read many answers (at least 15, including all in this post) which are at least primarily about the proposed CoC changes regarding pronoun use. Among these, your answer is the one which I most agree with & which makes the most sense to me. Thank you for writing this. – John Omielan Oct 3 '19 at 2:03
I had to look up "deadnaming". Calling someone by their old birth name after transitioning. That can happen online too, when users change their usernames. – Mari-Lou A Oct 5 '19 at 12:26
@Mari-LouA yep, but that also requires you to remember the previous one, and for the person to not like that username. Personally, I used a username I still use on some other sites, including GitHub (because it isn't really gendered). But yeah, that can happen. Deadnaming isn't just after transitioning though, it's generally after a name change. – Zoe the 1337 Princess Oct 5 '19 at 12:30
I still have lots to learn and understand. – Mari-Lou A Oct 5 '19 at 12:31
However, I am acutely aware that language is like walking on eggshells, make one false move and people's feelings get hurt. – Mari-Lou A Oct 5 '19 at 12:33
A change of username is rarely as emotive as a change of real name, @Mari-LouA, though I suppose it may be in certain circumstances. And, of course, some people use their real names as usernames. – TRiG Oct 6 '19 at 18:02
""sir" and "bro" is also thrown around an unnecessary amount regardless of the receiver, and this practice needs to die..." This is really a cultural thing, and I don't mean the microcosm of culture that exists in the world of software development or even engineering. Where I grew up, it was quite common for people to call you "dude" or "bro" regardless of your gender. It wasn't because people assumed you were male. Gender was fairly evenly split, and often, they were your friends, so they knew quite well your identity. "Sir" is the same, but a different culture. It isn't meant to misgender. – Cody Gray Oct 18 '19 at 18:01
Please stop giving credence to the idea that using a person's pronouns is somehow onerous.
The very fact that you can find people on this site who openly think that it is acceptable to use some pronouns, but to refuse to use others is unwelcoming and emotionally draining for people who have struggled to find language with which to accept themselves.
The fact that people feel able to debate this is unwelcoming.
Most of time in the Stack Exchange world you just don't need a person's pronouns (which are only used in the third person). In many reply contexts you end up using the second person and addressing a person directly. On some occasions you will find yourself referring to another post by author "the answer by CB" and only very occasionally is a third person pronoun needed (e.g. "What CB fails to mention in their answer ..."). At this point you can simply look at a person's profile - it'll only be a click away - if they state their pronouns then use the pronouns which they state, otherwise use something gender neutral such as "they".
It really is very simple, and it means a lot to many people.
CB BaileyCB Bailey
I see this being pretty easy to adopt for english users, but how to deal with the worldwide community any the many users for whom english is a second language? I, for example, first encountered "they" as a neutral pronoun some years ago, it was never taught to us in school (non-native speaker). How are we going to educate people, make them aware of the problem and teach them how to deal with it? – user204841 Oct 1 '19 at 22:48
And from stuff that was posted it seems like using neutral pronouns or names to avoid using specific pronouns would not be allowed under the new (unpublished) CoC. – user204841 Oct 1 '19 at 22:53
Gender-neutral language, e.g. "they", definitely seems like a good idea. I dunno so much about any convention that requires people to look at others' profiles; that seems to invite an unnecessary level of social entanglement. – Nat Oct 2 '19 at 0:44
@ModusTollens theregister.co.uk/2019/10/01/stack_exchange_controversy Monica announced in advance she will not refer to a person as they. Imagine how that feels for a person who has realized they are nonbinary. It cannot possibly be welcoming (again, remember the question and the answer we are commenting on.) I really like Monica (we have several sites in common) but on this issue she was wrong. (Wrong enough for what happened next, probably not. But still wrong.) And now everyone is "oh noes the poor new users they will never figure it out" but it is not that hard really. – Kate Gregory Oct 2 '19 at 13:04
oh come on. Go read the 20 or 30 resignation and on strike speeches. They all say the same thing. And that article includes a quote from Monica herself saying she will not use they. There is no universe in which she's perfectly happy to use they be SE decided to pretend she wasn't. And she doesn't find it "linguistically hard" she just doesn't believe in nonbinary people and won't call anyone they. Caleb doesn't believe in gender and if your "genetic sex" (the phrase in Caleb's resignation letter) is known, that's what Caleb will use. These positions are not ok. And pronouns are not hard. – Kate Gregory Oct 2 '19 at 13:18
@KateGregory C'mon. This is a site people from whole world use. Many of them struggle hard to compose sentences that resemble English grammar. And you expect them to grasp subtleties of person pronouns in English? Good luck. – Tadeusz Kopec Oct 2 '19 at 13:42
@TadeuszKopec yes I do because it's not hard. But that is not what this answer says. This answer says "stop saying it's hard." And the demodding isn't about ESL users making honest mistakes, it's about mods saying "I refuse to do what I know the person wants because I know their gender better than they do" and there's no way that's welcoming or respectful. Stop conflating "honest mistakes" with heel-digging refusals. – Kate Gregory Oct 2 '19 at 13:46
@KateGregory You are severely mischaracterizing Monica's stance. I hope that's not in bad faith, but I feel you should take some time to learn what she actually said rather than continue to make false statements. Check out the screenshots [Please don't link to leaked private conversations, it's rude and potentially harmful --Ed.]. Monica offered to use any pronoun that a user wants, except she didn't wish to refer to a single person as "they" because she felt it was grammatically awkward (even if not grammatically incorrect).... – mason Oct 2 '19 at 13:53
But that's the point! It's not up to her what someone's proper pronoun is! (People keep acting like it's hard.) Do you know how many times singular they has been used in this comment stream alone? You don't even notice it because it's so natural. Refusing to use it is not sticking up for grammar. It's hurting gender non conforming people and acting like that makes you virtuous. – Kate Gregory Oct 2 '19 at 13:56
@KateGregory If she feels that "they" shouldn't be used to refer to a single person, then refusing to call a single person "they" has nothing to do with gender issues. It's a complex nuanced issue, and people draw the line at different places. While I may not entirely agree with Monica's stance, I don't find it offensive at all. She actually offered to use a lot of the neo-pronouns (or whatever they're called) if a person wished for them to be used. Anyways, my point is that you're arguing in bad faith if you keep mischaracterizing her position now that you know what it is. – mason Oct 2 '19 at 14:00
You're wrong. It has everything to do with gender issues. We all use they for a single person all the time. In this comment thread, Monica is referred to as they several times. Nobody notices. Singular they is just not a problem. It isn't complex or nuanced -- people just claim it is while refusing to honour the reality of the people they talk about. Language changes. We used to use "the n word" and the "the r word" and now we don't. Years ago, kids called me Kathy because they said that was the only short form for Katherine. They were wrong. Refusing to call a person they is also wrong. – Kate Gregory Oct 2 '19 at 14:07
@KateGregory Why should the listener alone decide what can be spoken? The speaker has agency too. If the listener is offended by X and the speaker is offended by Y, why not use Z instead? Using a different pronoun for the same gender is not misgendering, it is not factually wrong, and I have yet to see a good objective reason for it to be offensive. – Reinstate Monica Oct 2 '19 at 15:58
@Solomonoff'sSecret: Please have a look at the question and the answer again. You are on a question asking how we can be welcoming to LGBTQ users. This answer is telling you that not debating other people's pronouns is one concrete and important way to do this. If you want to research the history of why having one's pronouns "gatekept" has a painful history, then please feel free to research this on your own time. If someone is offended by my prounouns, then perhaps they need to examine why this is. – CB Bailey Oct 2 '19 at 17:15
@CBBailey I will personally call you whatever you wish to be called. However, this entire pronoun-gate has arisen because a moderator refused to address a single person with "they" because they felt "they" is confusing because many people only know it being used in a plural sense. That moderator even acknowledged the dictionary says it's okay to use "they" for singular reference. That moderator also offered to use any other pronoun (including the neo-pronouns) or to avoid pronouns completely to sidestep the issue. It wasn't about a lack of respect, though the company chose to view it that way. – mason Oct 2 '19 at 17:45
Using a person's pronouns is not onerous. Tracking the preferred pronouns of the several thousand site users I've interacted with over the years is onerous. I'd prefer to remember the pronouns of the people I refer to on a regular basis, use neutral writing for everyone else, and put the majority of my effort into the main purpose of this site, which is asking and answering questions. – Mark Oct 2 '19 at 20:23
Believe our issues instead of mocking them.
In so much of this conversation, a queer person trying to express the problem with Stack Overflow is immediately pounced on by a defensive dude reacting like it's the most ridiculous thing he's ever heard.
The worst examples are deleted now, as the worst examples tend to be, and that's a positive sign that the community is trying, but don't go asking for receipts because, look at my reputation score, I don't and can't have them.
Stop celebrating transphobia.
When a moderator resigns and posts a long ramble that denies the validity of trans people as his parting words, and the post gets hundreds of net upvotes, it indicates that the power user community generally agrees with transphobia, or at least doesn't think it's as much of a problem as losing one of their own. On a queer-friendly site, that post would have a negative score, or just be removed until he came up with a better statement.
On many smaller occasions across this Meta site, people are posting transphobic things as well, like telling us that our pronouns are wrong, that we are liars, or that we are mentally ill. They get net upvotes as well.
Don't let transphobia stand. Call it out. Call out the people who say it's not that bad. When a transphobic person leaves, let them, don't martyr them.
Trans folks are on the front line of the politics of LGBTQ+ issues at the moment, and even the cis parts of the LGBTQ+ community can see what's happening.
Fix structural misogyny.
Misogyny affects a majority of the queer community:
Queer cis women suffer from misogyny in the usual way.
Trans women suffer from misogyny navigating their life as women.
Trans men suffer from misogyny because they once were perceived as women, and possibly still are by some, and they also grew up experiencing it.
Non-binary folks get the worst of everything.
Of course straight cis women are also affected by misogyny on Stack Overflow. Women's issues and LGBTQ+ issues go hand in hand here.
Structural misogyny takes forms like:
Women who call out problems, such as April Wensel, are disbelieved by the core community of this site.
The processes of this site favor asking, answering, and moderating questions in the manner typical of cis men. When you have suffered from misogyny, you use more cautious and appeasing language, which this site doesn't reward.
More reputation points go to men than women, because men fit better into the community as it is, giving men more control over the site in a self-reinforcing cycle.
You can't support the LGBTQ+ community without supporting women, and you can't support women without believing them.
Broaden your idea of what the community is.
The core community that created this toxicity isn't going to fix it on its own. So the question isn't just what you can do, it's what the women who left can do if you get them to come back. It's what the queer folks you're getting too defensive about can do. It's what the new users can do.
Strengthen the code of conduct.
Hoo wow I bet Meta isn't going to like this point.
A code of conduct is a fairly essential tool in maintaining a respectful, inclusive community. Most successful open source projects, for example, have a strong code of conduct by now. SO is clearly lagging behind if putting anything as basic as "don't misgender people" in the Code of Conduct (note: I don't know the actual language any more than you do) is a shock to the community.
Inclusion, without a code of conduct to support it, will be chipped away until it's nothing.
rspeerrspeer
Could you call out some examples too, under the sections Stop celebrating transphobia. ? – anki Oct 2 '19 at 5:11
1/2 It isn't an obscure interpretation. It's a direct reading of what was written by Caleb in their post on Christianity Meta, here. @Blue – Nij Oct 2 '19 at 6:14
2/2 To expand: In several places they make it clear that they do not agree with the idea of using a pronoun preference they have been explicitly informed of, because they believe they should use the pronoun that "matches the gender" (paraphrased) of the user they refer to, as determined by Caleb themselves, and then try to justify this either as a facet of their personal beliefs that should not be interfered with, in the interests of maintaining the status quo; or because they have never received complaints about it and therefore it is not really a problem that needs being solved. – Nij Oct 2 '19 at 6:14
@Nij Are you sure you interpret their posts as intended? See this comment from Monica. Regarding Caleb, I re-read his post, and the focus is on "Now if I avoid pronouns altogether by sticking to proper names or disengaging from the individual, that's being considered an insult too." How can using proper name instead of a pronoun be considered insulting? How can disengaging be considered bad? – dim Oct 2 '19 at 7:30
1/3x That's Caleb's interpretation of a proposed COC that the general public haven't seen. I can't say with any guarantee, but based on every other experience where such a concept is introduced to TOU/COC/EULA, this is likely to be a massive exaggeration. If people can read a law saying that civil marriages will be awarded as being a requirement that religious institutions award religious marriages to the same people, despite this being obviously false and having no basis in the bill itself, I am not surprised that someone who demonstrates similar biases would at best miss the difference... – Nij Oct 2 '19 at 7:36
@Blue, your comment about "making up imaginary situations" shows exactly where you stand. This is a thread about how to support queer folks in the community, but you don't. – rspeer Oct 2 '19 at 14:51
@Nij, rspeer: I don't think Caleb's post is being heavily upvoted because of the line about "mismatch for their genetic sex", I think it's being heavily upvoted for other large parts of the post, which provided the first third-party explanation of what happened. – Mark Oct 2 '19 at 20:11
One point that stirs up the conversation are the accusations. When someone requests a certain use of pronouns, and someone does not comply, the person is called "transphobic" and "disrespectful", which, in turn, is (IMHO rightfully) perceived as aggressive and hostile. This has nothing to do with "phobia" or "respect". One person may simply have a different attitude towards language than another. Expecting someone to accept any form of speech that a group or authority dictates is dangerous. Leaving strong accusations like that one out would certainly help to have a civilized discussion. – Marco13 Oct 2 '19 at 20:19
@Mark - I was just getting ready to make the same point. RE: When a moderator resigns and posts a long ramble that denies the validity of trans people as his parting words, and the post gets hundreds of net upvotes, it indicates that the power user community generally agrees with transphobia. That's neither an objective conclusion nor a fair characterization. The post is a long and rambling one indeed, so people may have upvoted it for any number of reasons. It's not fair to assume that everyone (or even most) who clicked the upvote button did so just to pile on some transphobia bandwagon. – J.R. means 'Just Reinstate' Oct 2 '19 at 20:23
@Mark Still, those who upvoted that post (or praised it by noting how judicious or elucidating it was) presumably have gone through that line (and other connected passages, which occupy a good chunk of the post) and didn't find it a big deal, or at least not enough to affect their vote or remark. As rspeer notes, in a queer-friendly site that would have been a dealbreaker. (On a related note, the period from this answer quoted by J.R. in the comment above has a second sentence: "[...] or at least doesn't think it's as much of a problem as losing one of their own".) – duplode Oct 2 '19 at 22:04
@Nij Openness, tolerance and inclusivity should go both ways. I really don't share the point of view of Caleb, but what would you expect from a moderator on ChristianityStackExchange talking to his "brothers"? What's next, will we force "Free Tibet!" banners on chinese.stackexchange.com or "Happy Hanukkah!" on islam.stackexchange.com, in the name of openness? It's not possible to make everyone happy on every stackexchange website, that's why there are multiple sites in the first place. To get respect, show some respect. If you want to impose respect, you'll get disdain. – Eric Duminil Oct 3 '19 at 9:25
There is nothing to be respected about the idea that LGBTQI+ are not truly people, do not have individual personalities, or should be deliberately misnamed and misgendered. Tolerance cannot go both ways: either you side with the oppressor or you side with the oppressed. If it is too much for someone to just use the right pronoun, there is no possible way to have respect go both ways. It's extremely ironic that you say requiring some basic decency will earn disdain, when that's exactly what misgendering and misnaming demonstrates in the first place. – Nij Oct 3 '19 at 9:52
@Nij: So what, let's close every religious StackExchange website? You should simply accept that LGBTQ people won't get much support from monotheistic religions. You won't manage to solve this problem in comments or with a shiny new dictatorial code of conduct. I'm very much atheist and anti-cleric but I simply accept that there are religious people, and it's good that they have a platform on which they can write n̶o̶n̶s̶e̶n̶s̶e̶ their point of view. It makes it easier for me to ignore everything coming from their corresponding websites. – Eric Duminil Oct 3 '19 at 10:23
People can quite easily discuss the more discriminatory aspects of religious faith in a respectful way without necessarily displaying that discrimination themselves. That people choose to disrespectful, and are allowed to continue acting that way, is not an excuse to keep allowing it. We can defend the right of bigots to hold their bigoted opinion; they do not have the right to use every possible platform in sharing it, and neither do we need to support giving them one. – Nij Oct 3 '19 at 10:32
I'm perfectly capable of coping with different opinions and ideas; it's a major part of my jobs. But you and others have missed the entire point of a COC that requires pronouns be correct - nobody should have to "cope" with being treated as subhuman or second-class or as if merely existing is abhorrent. That you think it is possible for tolerance to go both ways, when one of the sides in question is literally the intolerance of the other side's existence, demonstrates you do not even understand what you're disputing. – Nij Oct 6 '19 at 3:33
You can listen.
When we say that things are a bit difficult you could say "How so?" And maybe watch your tone when you say it lest you come off as saying "I demand you prove it to me." (I don't think your previous question crossed that line, but it was close) When we do give examples don't pop out the woodwork to explain why our examples aren't valid. Please, just listen. Accept that we may be telling the truth and that even if we are wrong or misguided we are just trying to tell you how it looks to us. Take the time to consider your response and do so with compassion and patience and deference. Maybe then the civil discourse will flow more freely.
Don't expect us to educate you.
Educating people is terribly draining, don't expect us to do it. We might be willing to help you learn, but don't specifically ask us to do so. Instead, ask the community and hope someone will be willing to answer. And, in any case, Google is your friend, use it.
Don't get defensive when we talk about an issue we are facing.
Don't, never ever, say that "not all [category of people] are like that". We know and it's very tiring to hear this excuse all day long.
Also, don't imply that we are oversensitive. Maybe we are, maybe we aren't (and we probably aren't). But, in any case, it's not an excuse to make us feel bad and unwelcome.
Make everything in your power to hide transphobic stuff from us.
Flag them, edit them, vote to delete them. If something is clearly out of line and people aren't reacting quickly enough, don't wait for the answer to be deleted, remove the offensive part yourself (yes, sometimes it's the whole answer).
Do not passively watch when someone says something offensive.
Be an ally, protect us, show us that we aren't alone and that you don't stand by that.
Listen to us.
Sometimes, allies say stuff that aren't true. It's okay. But listen to us when we correct you. As the people who suffer from the oppression, we know best what is and isn't right for us.
Use your downvotes.
There is nothing more depressing than seeing something transphobic highly upvoted and without any downvotes.
Don't take any risk.
If you see something borderline, flag it/edit it. I'm all for "assuming good intent", but when it can hurt someone else feeling (even unintentionally), then I would rather be too cautious than not enough.
BelovedFoolBelovedFool
Honestly, I've had a bad experience with the last one there. I've even been suspended from chat for flagging something that was eventually deemed acceptable. The fact that I was just trying to help was seemingly lost. – Robert Columbia Oct 2 '19 at 12:20
@RobertColumbia Yeah, I had "bad" experience with that too (flag being rejected and no action taken (like editing) because the comment wasn't offensive enough...). But I won't stop doing it. The more people flag one thing as being "not nice", the more likely people are to realize that it is, indeed, "not nice" (or that it could be interpreted this way at least). – BelovedFool Oct 2 '19 at 12:24
Can I add to your second point: don't imply that all of us are "snowflake SJWs" who will scream at you if you get our pronouns wrong even by mistake. Because that's just as annoying, especially when I hear it coming from the same people insisting "well not all of us are unwelcoming..." – F1Krazy Oct 2 '19 at 12:27
@F1Krazy I edited to add something about being "oversensitive". I didn't talk about the fact that we won't scream at people misgendering us, though. I don't want other queer people to feel like they don't have the right to be mad about that. I also don't want them to feel like they are being "tone policed". – BelovedFool Oct 2 '19 at 12:42
@Ælis Trans people definitely have the right to be angry about being misgendered, I didn't mean to suggest that they don't. My point is that it's hypocritical for people to assume that all trans people are like that, and then turn around and say how dare we suggest that all SE users are unwelcoming. – F1Krazy Oct 2 '19 at 12:47
@F1Krazy True that x) But I don't think adding this to my post would be really relevant. Feel free to add that as a separate answer though :) – BelovedFool Oct 2 '19 at 12:48
"the right to be angry about being misgendered" Is there such a thing? And is it universal? I get misgendered once in a while even as a comically stereotype white male and I'm certainly annoyed that I have to correct someone the same way I'm annoyed at banner ads or red lights. I assume it's more annoying the more it happens. But I'm not angry. At what point does the right to be angry begin? My personal line would be "when it's intentional, repeatedly and meant to insult", but were should we draw that line? – nvoigt Oct 2 '19 at 14:39
@nvoigt it's very individual. Some people don't care at all, others are hurt on the first instance, others are hurt when it's repeated, and with a lot of variations between. – Zoe the 1337 Princess Oct 2 '19 at 15:13
When I first looked at your post, I felt a big weight of negativity. But then I saw I could relate to all the fine print you wrote! So, I drafted a more positive version. It wouldn't fit very well in the comments; and since the ideas are all yours, I don't think it would be right to post it in an answer box. So, I am going to very tentatively put it as an update at the bottom of your answer, as a collaborative contribution. But if you feel it doesn't fit well there, please do a rollback. – TempGuest Oct 3 '19 at 2:46
Regarding use your downvotes, unfortunately, we can't differentiate I upvoted this because I agree with the transphobic message and I upvoted this because I agree with this user taking a stand against a moderator being fired without any communication. I sincerely hope the upvotes on certain posts are because of the latter, and do hope you don't feel like the voting majority is transphobic. If something is purely transphobic with no other message, per your last point, a flag is probably better (but can be accompanied by a downvote of course). – Erik A Oct 5 '19 at 16:07
@ErikA Unfortunately, I did feel like the majority didn't care at all about transgender people. In my mind, they wouldn't have upvoted otherwise. They could have done nothing, downvote or left an answer/comment to clearly express their point of view (without having to upvote something transphobic). – BelovedFool Oct 5 '19 at 16:16
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Volkswagen awaits automotive law to produce 2m cars in Nigeria — MD
Thomas Schaefer, Head of Volkswagen Sub-Saharan Region and Managing Director: Volkswagen Group South Africa and Dr. Okey Enelamah, Nigeria’s Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment shake hands after the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop an automotive hub in Nigeria.
Thomas Schaefer, the Chairman and Managing Director of Volkswagen, says the company is ready to produce two million made-in-Nigeria cars as soon as President Muhammadu Buhari gives assent to the automotive industry bill.
Schaefer made the statement in Abuja during an interview with newsmen as he led a delegation to discuss developing the African automotive industry by adopting an African approach.
“The market at the moment in Nigeria is not big due to various reasons, total number of cars built in Nigeria is about 10,000 cars which is small.
”I personally believe that Nigeria is good for 2,000,000 cars per year; with good government policies and collaboration with the industry, this can be achieved, ” he said.
Schaefer said that used cars imported into the country were preventing any kind of industrialisation.
He said that Volkswagen would invest more than 100 million dollars in the first stage of its development project in Nigeria and provide more jobs.
According to him, Nigeria has been recognised as an important segment of the African automotive sector.
“We are also pushing for the passage into law of Nigeria’s automotive policy capable of advancing the growth of Africa’s automotive sector.’’
Schaefer advised the government not to allow Nigeria to become a dumping ground for used cars even if the vehicles are cheap.
Schaefer said that Volkswagen would ensure that 70 per cent of the raw materials used in its production were sourced locally.
”You need to localise the raw materials otherwise there will be no cost advantage.
”If you bring in all the materials, the logistics cost will kill the project.
“Nigeria has a lot of raw materials that can be used, ” Schaefer said.
Also, Mr Martyn Davies, Automotive Industry leader in Africa, said that the law would provide significant policy for foreign investors to help formalise operations in Nigeria.
Davies called for an effective management system for the country to boost the value chain.
”A country like Nigeria has a very hard decision to make because it is either the country continues to import second and third hand cheap substandard vehicles which is cheap and consumer-friendly or the country wants to create jobs,” he said.
The new National Automotive Industry Development Plan, also known as the Automotive Policy, was introduced in October 2013 to revive the ailing Nigerian auto industry.
The objective of the automotive policy is to restore assembly and develop local content, thus creating employment, acquiring technology and reducing pressure on the country’s balance of payment.
The bill has been passed by the National Assembly waiting for the president’s assent.
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Published 1979 by Oxford University Press in New York .
Art appreciation -- Juvenile literature,
Guides the reader through selected illustrations demonstrating how each particular artist achieves his special purpose.
Statement Bryan Holme.
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How many potato varieties are there worldwide?
C. 5,000
What country has the highest annual per capita cabbage consumption at 44 pounds?
A. Germany
B. Russia
C. Poland
What fruit has more protein than any other?
A. Avocado
B. Banana
C. Persimmon
A feature of the built environment that no longer serves any purpose yet continues to be maintained is known as a:
A. Thomasson
C. Patterson
Japanese artist Genpei Akasegawa named these useless but inexplicably maintained items for baseball player Gary Thomasson who went from being an all-star in America to nearly setting the all-time strikeout record in Japan’s Central League. Thomasson wound up mostly sitting on the bench making a lot of money for doing nothing — useless but maintained.
A spontaneous trail of trampled grass created by pedestrians where no paved walkway exists is called a:
A. happy trail
B. desire path
C. soul patch
The only inverted traffic signal — green on top, red on bottom — in the United States is in an Irish neighborhood in which city?
A. Chicago
B. Pittsburgh
C. Syracuse
In the first game of the 2012 season, Alabama opened with which great traditional Big Ten team, winning 41-14?
A. LSU
B. Michigan
C. Georgia
Michigan would ultimately end the 2012 season 8-5 (6-2 Big Ten) with a loss to another SEC team, South Carolina.
Seen along the sidelines is the Alabama mascot, an elephant. What is his name?
A. Big Burt
B. Big Al
C. Big Ed
An elephant became the university's mascot in 1930 when an anonymous fan shouted "Hold your horses, the elephants are coming!" Big Al, in costume, made his debut at the l979 Sugar Bowl.
The University of Alabama was founded in 1831, but in what year was the first football game in the school's history?
The Alabama Cadets (they weren't known as the "Crimson Tide" until 1907) first played on November 11, 1892 against Birmingham High School — and won 56-0. The Cadets lost the next day's contest with the Birmingham Athletic Club, 5-4, but came out on top 14-0 when they met once again later that season.
In what year were the so-called “WARC bands” established?
Which of the following is actually in the ITU phonetic alphabet?
A. able
B. baker
C. Charlie
How many callsign districts border the Great Lakes?
What do the Amateur Radio Stations NA1SS and RS0ISS have in common?
They are both located on the International Space Station.
B. They are both owned by Steven Spielberg.
C. They made the first contact between Russian and the United States.
D. They are located at the geographic North and South poles, respectively.
What is Dr. Owen K. Garriott W5LFL famous for?
A. He made the first trans-pacific contact using amateur radio..
He lost his life while monitoring Mount St. Helens during its eruption.
C. He was the first amateur operator to operate from space.
D. He used amateur radio to organize disaster relief following the earthquake in Haiti.
This well known country music star changed his amateur radio call-sign to W4CGP, which he said stood for "certified guitar picker".
A. Chet Atkins
B. Roy Rogers
C. Randy Parton
D. Buck Owens
Which of these unlikely celebrities was awarded a U.S. patent as co-inventor of frequency-hopping spread spectrum (FHSS)?
A. Hedy Lamarr
B. Katherine Hepburn
C. Bea Arthur
Which of the following is not one of the eight most common carrier frequencies used in voice inversion scrambling?
A. 1750 Hz
B. 2718 Hz
C. 3339 Hz
The E.F. Johnson Company developed which trunked radio system?
A. EDACS
LTR (Logic Trunked Radio)
C. MPT-1327
EDSCS, or Enhanced Digital Access Communications System, was developed by General Electric. The British Radiocommunications Agency developed MP T-1327.
In what year was the 20-meter band authorized for amateur use?
Of the 6,000 active amateurs at the start of World War I, what percentage served in the military during that war?
A. 66.7%
C. 33.3%
D. 93.7%
CB radio was created in 1958. In what year did the CB operator population first outnumber hams?
The Atlantic hurricane season goes from when to when?
A. June 1 to November 30
B. May 1 to October 30
C. May 1 to October 30
D. There are no hurricanes in the Atlantic.
Hurricanes are named alphabetically, with female and male names alternating. When did this way of naming first start?
D. Hurricanes don't have names; that's just silly.
What is the deadliest hurricane on record?
A. Hurricane Andrew
The Lake Okeechobee hurricane of 1928
C. The Galveston hurricane of 1900
Which statement about American alligators and crocodiles is FALSE?
A. Crocodiles have higher bite pressure than alligators.
B. When alligators close their mouth their teeth slide into sockets while crocs have long teeth that protrude from their faces.
C. Crocs tend to live in fresh water while alligators hang out in salt water.
D. Alligators have wider U-shaped snouts while croc front end are more pointed and V-shaped.
The bite pressure of a crocodile is approximately 3,700 psi , while the American alligator's is only about 2,980 psi. alligators. Alligators live in fresh water; crocodiles hang out in salt water.
The words "moron", "imbecile" and "idiot" mean different things. Which category of mental deficiency is the worst?
A. moron
B. idiot
C. imbecile
An idiot has an IQ between zero and 25; an imbecile's is 26-50. The IQ of a moron is 51-70.
Are the following three statements about turkeys all true? • A group of turkeys is technically called a "rafter". •Domestic turkeys are shockingly stupid, but wild turkeys are not. •Due to the popularity of white meat, turkeys have been bred to have huge breasts to the extent that modern domesticated turkeys typically are unable to mate.
Where was the first Labor Day parade?
A. New York
B. Chicago
C. Philadelphia
Labor Day was promoted by the Central Labor Union and the Knights of Labor, who organized the first Labor Day parade in New York City on September 5, 1882. The day was celebrated with a picnic, concert and speeches.
Ih what year did Labor Day become an official holiday in the United States?
By the time it became a federal holiday in 1894, thirty states had already passed bills officially celebrating Labor Day.
Labor Day marks the end of…
A. Hot Dog Season
B. Pizza Season
C. Hamburger Season
According to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, during "hot dog season" -- which runs from Memorial Day to Labor Day -- Americans consume roughly 7 billion hot dogs, or about 818 hot dogs every second.
Center-fed half-wave dipoles have an input resistance of approximately:
A. 37 ohms
B. 50 ohms
C. 73 ohms
D. 100 ohms
Alabama hasn’t always been known as “The Crimson Tide”. What did they first go by when starting their football program in 1892?
A. The Thin Red Line
B. The Fighting Tide
C. The Red Sea
D. Big Red
For the Movie Ghostbusters, three Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man suits were made and all were destroyed during filming. How much did one suit cost?
A. $5,000
B. $10,000
C. $20,000
In radio electronics, what is a TNT?
A. a type of transistor
B. a type of tube
C. a type of oscillator
d. a calibrating device
What type of early radio receiver could be used as a short-range radiotelephone transmitter?
A. a tuned radio frequency (TRF) receiver
B. a superheterodyne receiver
C. a regenerative receiver
D. a crystal receiver
Who sent the first Morse code signal across the Atlantic Ocean?
A. James Clark Maxwell
B. Heinrich Hertz
C. Guglielmo Marconi
D. Ferdinand Braun
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The X and Y axis of a spectrum analyzer convey which measurements, respectively?
A. time and bandwidth
B. time and frequency
C. frequency and amplitude
D. bandwidth and amplitude
The GAP “Titan” vertical antenna uses how many “traps”?
A survey was done in 1998 interviewing 1,000 random licensed amateur operators. What was the reported average amount invested in radio equipment, at that time?
B. $1,022
C. $4,090
D. $6,215
Information taken from a QST survey done by Readex, Inc., an independent research company, in 1998.
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My Congressman, Rick Nolan, from the Minnesota Fighting Eighth Congressional District. From his website:
“I want you to know that I am vehemently opposed to a military strike that would clearly be an act of war against Syria, especially under such tragic yet confusing circumstances as to who is responsible for the use of chemical weapons. Beyond the potential for escalating the conflict and the killing, we risk danger to our ally Israel, involvement by the Russians and the Iranians, and blowback to the United States by radical groups operating in the region.
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Rep. Rick Nolan (D-Minn.) challenged the evidence that Obama administration officials have presented on the reported use of chemical weapons by Assad’s force against Syrian civilians. US intelligence officials and Syrian rebel groups claim that more than 1,000 Syrian died in that attack, including hundreds of children.
Nolan and Kerry got into a “heated exchange,” according to multiple sources on the call. Nolan compared Syria to Vietnam, which angered Kerry, who was wounded during that conflict.
In a statement afterward, Nolan said the call further convinced him to not support the president’s plan, and he added that Assad should be tried in an international court.
“After a three-hour classified briefing, and taking time to read all the classified documents, what I have heard and read has only served to convince me more than ever of the folly and danger of getting America involved in the Syrian civil war,” Nolan said. “I will vote and work against President Obama’s request for open-ended authority to launch military strikes against the Syrian army.”
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The missionaries were happy for the eight day respite at Fort William. Eliza wrote that June 19th was “the first Sabbath that we have spent in quietness and rest since the 8th of May.” Resting on Sunday was important to the missionaries, but the American Fur Company traveled 7 days a week so the missionaries had no choice but to keep going.
On June 21, they left Fort William after having rearranged their belongings into packs for the animals and the smaller wagon. They left the larger wagon behind. The fur company left all their wagons. From here on, Narcissa and Eliza would ride sidesaddle. The next goal was to reach the Rendezvous 400 miles away.
After leaving Fort Laramie the party traveled for about 5 days along the south bank of the North Platte. They reached a crossing near Casper, Wyoming but the river was too high to be forded so boats were made by stretching buffalo hides over a frame of willow branches. These were called “bull-boats” because only the skins taken from the tough old buffalo bulls were used. Imagine the time it took to stop and make the boats before being able to continue. This article shows the making of the Bull boats. http://www.womenofthefurtrade.com/wst_page15.html
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Home Newsletters Multicultural Travel News KCK CVB launched ‘KCK Taco Trail’ Oct. 1 highlighting nearly 50 taquerias in Kansas City, Kansas
KCK CVB launched ‘KCK Taco Trail’ Oct. 1 highlighting nearly 50 taquerias in Kansas City, Kansas
Monday, Oct 12, 2020
The Kansas City Kansas Convention and Visitors Bureau launched the launch of the ‘KCK Taco Trail‘, a mapped-out trail of nearly 50 local taquerias. Within the last decade, the taco scene has exploded with taquerias all over town, making Kansas City, Kansas the go-to destination for authentic tacos. The KCK Taco Trail gives the community a flavor-filled experience of culture and history through food. Starting Oct. 1, locals and visitors alike can visit www.kcktacotrail.com to sign up for the KCK Taco Trail. The trail not only maps out where to find the most authentic tacos, but also gives diners the chance to win prizes. The KCK Taco Trail is ongoing however, consumers have until Oct. 31, 2021 to complete the trail and win prizes. To view a full list of the nearly 50 restaurants on the KCK Taco Trail, visit www.kcktacotrail.com. For more information, follow the KCK CVB on Facebook at www.facebook.com/VisitKansasCityKS and Instagram at @visitkansascityks.
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Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! (2018)
Just before the release of Mystery Dungeon on Friday, it’s another Pokemon review! My sister got a new Switch Lite for Christmas, and bought herself a copy of Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! to play. When she had finished it (she blazed through it in about 3 or 4 days) she let me borrow it. With mechanics that blend the gameplay of both the staple Pokemon franchise, and the new style of Pokemon Go, Let’s Go, Pikachu! is a fun, if not terribly unique, rendition of the original games. The Kanto region is back in its third feature game, and sees you progress through the newly stylized world on your way to becoming a better Pokemon trainer. However, in this version, you’ll have a designated partner Pokemon that will be your closest friend on your journey: you have a choice between Pikachu or Eevee (depending on the game you buy). Pikachu will stay out of its pokeball, and be with you every step of the way (a la Pokemon Yellow). With the help of your partner, you’ll take on Team Rocket, the Gym Challenge, and become the first ever Champion of the Pokemon League – so let’s go!
You’ve got a friend in me
I love Pikachu. Kidd, specifically – my Pikachu. All the cutscenes with him were absolutely adorable, and they did a fantastic job of integrating him into the story. I didn’t think he would feel that special to me, but he really did. And useful? God bless whoever decided to make the HM moves all usable by your partner Pokemon – they take up no slots, and are all available at any time – so no more need for an HM slave in your party. The Partner Play feature was also particularly enjoyable. Similar to the Amie function from X/Y, you can play with your partner in this specific mode in order to boost your friendship, and get more benefits while battling. The other Pokemon on your team can get similar boosts from walking with you outside of their pokeballs, so make sure you give each member a chance! I always have, and always will, love any kind of mechanic that encourages your Pokemon to work harder by being friendlier to them; having a strong bond reflect their capabilities in battle is a fantastic element, and it’s certainly welcome in this title, which emphasizes these bonds above all.
Pikachu, you’re KILLING ME.
Battling has taken a slight backseat in Let’s Go! which incorporates the catching mechanics of Pokemon Go, rather than having you fight wild Pokemon. While you’ll still be squaring up against other Pokemon trainers along the routes between towns, wild encounters are now exclusively catch-only. The coloured rings indicate how difficult a Pokemon will be to capture (green for easy, red for hard) and some are inherently easier to capture than others. The berries from Pokemon Go are also present, some making Pokemon friendlier and easier to catch (Razz), while others will calm a Pokemon’s sporadic movement (Nanab), making it calmer. You can tilt the Nintendo Switch around to aim your throws, depending on how and where the Pokemon moves. I found it pretty hilarious to tilt the Switch around (especially in public) so I didn’t mind this mechanic too much. The modern inclusion of overworld Pokemon was also a huge improvement to random encounters, and made going through caves and other grassy areas much less annoying.
Gotta catch ’em all
The only aspect of the catching system that really bothered me was the non-effect that Great or Excellent throws seemed to have on your chances of a successful capture. Allegedly, getting these quality throws (when the circle is at its smallest, and you’re able to hit the center) increases the capture rate, but it sure didn’t seem like it. I would get something like 5 Excellent throws in a row, all of which the Pokemon would arbitrarily escape from, only to biff my next throw, and capture it immediately. Lovely. This was an ongoing situation throughout the game, and I did find it frustrating, mainly because of the way EXP is calculated. Regardless of how many Excellent throws I managed to get, it never seemed to make capturing a Pokemon any faster, or easier, than if I just carelessly lobbed normal throws.
This game is STINGY in the way EXP is doled out. While giving too much per capture would make it too easy to become overpowered, beyond the first quarter of the game, it really felt like catching Pokemon was a waste of time. This is problematic given that catching ‘mons is one of the main pulls of this particular title. If you’ve caught a Pokemon before (i.e. it’s not your first time encountering it), and you don’t get a Great or Excellent throw, nor do you capture one that has a ‘special’ size (some have auras that indicate they’re either Tiny or Huge) you’ll be getting around 200 EXP. Obviously, when your Pokemon are at higher levels, this is absolutely nothing. Getting a reasonable amount depends on a) capturing a Pokemon for the first time, and b) getting an Excellent throw. With my above complaint, about missing out on Excellent throws, it made capturing Pokemon feel kind of pointless. Once you’ve caught one, there is no point in catching any more of that species – unless you’re hunting for shinies. I occasionally felt like my Pokemon were underleveled, simply because battling trainers seemed to be the only reliable way to get a reasonable amount of EXP. The game does provide ‘Candies’ to help improve your stats, but that’s no fun.
First generation problems
It’s hard to have underleveled Pokemon when you have to face down the Gym challenge, but I had a balanced enough team that I didn’t struggle too much when facing the Gym Leaders. I loved the Gym re-designs, and the 3D models for the Leaders were all rendered phenomenally well. Sabrina has always been my favourite leader in Kanto (mostly because of the anime, she was scary as hell) and her fight was still my favourite. Misty, Erika, and Blaine’s gym’s all got overhauled as well, and I enjoyed getting to revisit the original leaders to see what kinds of changes had been made. Kanto in general looks fantastic in this title; getting to see Gary Oak, and Jessie and James in all their glory, as well as the Lavender Tower scene with Marowak was incredible with the improved graphics.
Don’t cry, don’t cry, don’t cry…
Though graphics are a significant step up in this title compared to past iterations of the original games, I can’t say that other older elements didn’t frustrate me. In fact, the outdated elements stood out as even more glaring, because of all the other improvements. I’d forgotten how awful the level-up moves learned by the starter Pokemon were – though it’s great to be able to have all three on a single team (you bet your ass I had a Venusaur, Blastoise, and Charizard) I went through about 50% of the game with Charizard’s only Fire-type move being Ember. Unless you hold back their evolutions for several levels, all their moves are hot garbage. For context, my Charizard was at level 56 upon completing the game, and it doesn’t learn Flamethrower until level 47. LEVEL 47.
I experienced similar issues with Venusaur and Blastoise. Pikachu, however, gets access to several exclusive moves, like Zippy Zap, and Splishy Splash, which are actually really good, despite their horrendous names. Also, dude, where’s my bike? Getting to ride Charizard was a great substitute, but I didn’t have a Charizard until the final third of the game. Mostly, these complaints just made me think about the quality of life improvements that have been made in the games since Red/Blue’s release over a decade ago. Some of these issues (like the lack of held items) simply made me miss the newer games.
Back to Route 1
I’m not sure how many times I can make the argument that “while this game wasn’t particularly unique, I think it’s a great title to get new players/kids into the franchise” until we accept that everyone has played Pokemon, and these newer, hand-holdy titles aren’t needed anymore. I do understand that this particular title is geared more toward children, but it simply didn’t bring anything exceptional to the table. It was very cute, and very wholesome. But the customization options aren’t as extensive as other titles, the Pokemon selection is limited, and the catching mechanics (and lack of reward for doing it) get old very quickly. While I enjoyed the partner-Pokemon aspects, this Kanto re-tread didn’t do enough to make me love the game itself. I certainly enjoyed my time with it, and had forgotten how much I loved the OG Pokemon story (that Marowak section still hits hard, man) but I think we can put the Kanto games to bed now. I think we’ve all walked these routes, and battled these Gym Leaders enough times now. While Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! is a solid, perfectly adequate Pokemon game, it’s just that – nothing more, nothing less.
A final thanks to my excellent team, as always: to Kidd (Pikachu) Ragnar (Charizard), Biorr (Venusaur), Lucatiel (Pidgeot), Hadrian (Blastoise), and Atreus (Marowak) – ya’ll the real MVP’s.
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Posted on March 4, 2020 March 4, 2020 Author meghanplaysgamesCategories ReviewsTags lets go, nintendo switch, pikachu, pokemon, review
5 thoughts on “Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! | Review”
Gaming Omnivore says:
Nice review! Using Pikachu in Let’s Go! became almost game-breaking for me. You can teach it all kinds of different type moves like Surf, making you rely so heavily one a single Pokémon while it was an extra grind to level up anyone else. I really enjoyed going back to the Kanto region, but some of the things you mentioned in the game made it feel a little hollow at times.
meghanplaysgames says:
Thank you! And agreed – I appreciated that they made it more “viable” to use a Pikachu for the whole game, but it was actually super OP… All the candies you get basically give you a minimum of +20 in every stat – Pikachu was a beast by the end! I always enjoy going back to Kanto, but I think we can get away from having entirely new games set in that region now (though I do appreciate when it’s available to visit post-game).
Stephen Brown says:
The catch rate was the main thing that bothered me. Like you said, no matter how many great or better throws you got, it didn’t seem to effect it. The amount of times I got frustrated, sometimes wasting more than 20 pokeballs on a single Pokemon, was a problem.
I actually had to look up whether your throw quality affected the capture rate because I genuinely didn’t think it did. That’s how bad it is. Eventually I got tired of trying to line up the better throws and threw pokeballs until I caught the Pokemon… which was sad. They definitely should have made it a more significant factor in the capture chances.
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Arado Ar 196 Detail Sets
by: Rowan Baylis [ MERLIN ]
Revell's 1:32 Arado Ar 196 has rightly proved an enormous success since its release last Christmas. Beautifully moulded and highly detailed, it flies in the face of the ever escalating kit prices we've witnessed and goes to show that top quality mainstream kits needn't cost an arm and leg.
But of course there's always scope to add more detail to even the best kits, and Eduard have released a series of upgrade sets for the Arado, tackling the interior and exterior, along with a separate set of seatbelts which did not arrive in time for this round-up and will be reviewed later.
Set 32 681 – Ar 196A-3 Interior – $33.95
This upgrade arrives on two etched frets. The first is partly pre-painted and self-adhesive (also available as Zoom set #33076, price: $22.95), while the second fret is plain metal. Together they add 94 new parts to the interior, along with a clear film for reflectors for the pilot's gunsight. The set breaks down into the following basic areas:
Instrument panels and consoles
Radio faces
A navigation chart and instruments
Throttles and control boxes
Straps, levers and brackets throughout the cockpit
A perforated jacket for the MG15 barrel
The biggest change over the standard kit are "sidewalls" that run the length of each side of the cockpit, effectively hiding most of the complex structure as moulded by Revell. In a way this is something of a disappointment, as the open structure looks very attractive, but the few photos which I've found online indicate that Eduard are correct in boxing everything in.
Eduard are undeniably the market leaders with their pre-painted etched parts, and the level of detail is here in the Ar 196 set is excellent. The sheer quality and miniscule detail of the pre-painting is quite superb, far beyond the finest that most modellers could ever hope to paint by hand. The navigator's equipment is a real delight, with a map and various items such as dividers, a set square and ruler for plotting a course.
When it comes to pre-painted cockpit consoles etc. there's always the inevitable slight problem of matching your preferred model paints to the colours Eduard have used – in this case RLM 02 and RLM 66 – but you can always argue that any difference is down to the use of pre-painted sub-assemblies in real life. More of a concern with the Arado is that Eduard have painted the instrument panels in RLM 02, whereas I think RLM 66 would be more usual. Admittedly there is sometimes a degree of variation evident in photos of German cockpits of the period, but Revell have gone for RLM 66 and I have to say I think they're right. I suspect Eduard have based their choice on colour photos of an Ar 196 main instrument panel which appears to be a replica and painted in a modern match for RLM 02, rather than the regulation (as I presume) RLM 66.
Eduard provide a perforated jacket for the machine gun barrel. The instructions indicate simply cutting off the kit's barrel and replacing it with the etched jacket, but in this scale I think you may want to simulate the barrel inside with a length of thin rod. Incidentally, Eduard show the ring and bead sights reversed compared with kit's gun, but I've found photos online showing this arrangement so I guess you can take your pick.
In terms of complexity, the set itself shouldn't present any major problems for anyone with a bit of experience working with etched parts. There are few boxes to fold to shape, but the large scale means none of the parts are too small. On the other hand, the surgery needed to fit some of the parts will certainly require care and patience. The observer's instrument panel looks particularly awkward to get at without damaging the surrounding details, so be sure you know what you're doing before attacking it with a scalpel or modelling chisel.
Set 32 267 - Ar 196A-3 Exterior – $22.95
The name suggests the second set deals purely with the kit's exterior, but in practice, that means anything beyond the cockpit, so the set adds detail to the engine as well as the outside of the airframe, covering the following areas:
Tie-rings and brackets for the floats
Springs and actuators for the water rudders
Actuators for the control surfaces and trim tabs
Hand and foot-holds for the fuselage
Engine baffle plates and cowl ring supports
Interior structure for the cowl panels
Stays for the bombs' fins
While it may not have the same immediate visual impact as the interior set, the single fret contains 147 new parts, so there's plenty to keep you busy. And this time some of the items are quite small, but there don't appear to be any difficult folds to make – those that are required are merely "doubling up" to give greater thickness. No major surgery appears to be needed to the original kit parts, but of course you're working on the exterior so any slips will be all the more visible, so once again care is essential. Overall, the set is more a case of delicate touches rather than radical changes, but Eduard's etched items should certainly add a worthwhile degree of extra finesse to the already excellent Revell kit.
One beauty of Revell's Ar 196 is that its low price means you can afford to splash out on some upgrades for it without fear of breaking the bank. Eduard's sets certainly provide a feast of eye candy in the cockpit along with subtle improvements to the exterior. While the etched parts themselves shouldn't prove too difficult to work with, some of the surgery required to fit them could be tricky, so the sets are best recommended for modellers with a fair degree of experience and confidence.
Highs: Highly detailed. Pre-painting is superb and far finer than most of us could possibly achieve by hand.
Lows: A question over the RLM 02 instrument panels.
Verdict: Eduard's etched details are a very worthwhile addition to Revell's Ar 196, adding plenty of detail where it counts while not being overly complicated, although a fair degree of experience is still recommended before you go hacking into Revell's fine kit.
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Suggested Retail: See text
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bill_c
Nice review as always, Rowan. These sets (innie and outie) are both on my order list from Roll Models.
Are these the same as the PE sets released by Revell, also produced by Revell.
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“Maturity beyond her years” – young hot-shot Hannah Passmore back in Blue & Gold for 2020 Vitality Netball Superleague season
Teenage shooting star Hannah Passmore is excited to continue her “amazing learning curve” with Team Bath Netball after being named in their 2020 Vitality Superleague squad.
It is a second successive Superleague campaign for the 18-year-old, who is delighted to be continuing her netball education at a club where she has already excelled at many levels through the Blue & Gold’s performance pathway.
Passmore gained more invaluable top-flight experience last month when she represented Team Bath at the British Fast5 Netball All-Stars Championships in front of a sell-out crowd at London’s Copper Box Arena.
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“My goal for the season ahead is to establish a place in the match-day squad. Fast5 really fuelled my desire to play alongside the incredible athletes we have in Team Bath and I can’t wait to take to the court in 2020.”
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The Wild Trout Journal was a magazine devoted to angling in Yellowstone Country.
The editor and main contributor, Mike Dry, unexpectedly died in the summer of 2005.
Mike was a very good friend and I miss his companionship -- Tom Morgan 2013
In recent months, I had been hearing about a new fly rod Tom Morgan was building that some were calling the Ultimate. During the 18 years he was an owner of the Winston Rod Company, Tom designed and built some of the finest rods on the planet. So you had to take the talk seriously.
Since I had also heard George Anderson had consulted on the project, I decided to swing by his shop in Livingston and find out about The Rod.
Mike Dry: So what's all the talk about? This new rod of Tom Morgan's.
George Anderson: By the time Tom came to me, he already had some design ideas. He wanted to produce a series of perfectly matched rods for the kind of fishing most anglers do, especially on Western waters: casting light lines at 30- to 50-foot distances, yet still have the power to make longer casts with bigger flies.
My job was to sort of be the "ultimate critic" of his prototype rods. Give him a sense of what did and didn't work until he got what he wanted.
MD: So how did the process work?
GA: Tom had a very good idea on what had to be done with the use of new graphite materials and with new mandrels (rod designs) to produce a superior rod to what was presently on the market. He had G. Loomis build some blanks on these first mandrels and brought them all over to Livingston where we cast a variety of different tip and butt designs to come up with the finest combination in each line size.
We then cast a variety of other manufacturers' rods, including Tom's own Winston designs, in each line size from 2-6 to determine who had the "best" rods in each line category. At that point, we compared Tom's new designs to what we felt were the best casting rods on the market and determined where we needed to make some minor changes to improve these initial prototypes for Tom's new rods.
Tom would analyze our testing results and order more mandrels or make some changes to the pattern on the existing mandrels. We would then repeat the testing process and fine tuning until we came up with a rod that would perform better than our "benchmark" rods in each line size. This process went on for about 9 months.
MD: So what did you guys come up with that makes these rods so special?
GA: These are exceptionally soft-actioned, smooth casting rods. To get this, Tom did a couple of things different.
By using four individual mandrel tapers -- one for 2, 3, 4 and 5/6 weights -- each of his rods has close to an even number of wraps when the graphite's rolled on the mandrel. This eliminates the effect of the spine and torque twist when casting, so you get a more even flex and more accurate cast.
The other thing he did that's so important is make the tip of the butt section and the butt of the tip the same diameter. This is why his rods have such a smooth transfer of power that's very distinctive.
A lot of today's rods use a slip over tip design which increases tip diameter and stiffness. You also have to add material in the butt section to balance the rod. So you end up with a heavier rod than these new Morgan rods.
Most of today's rods are also a lot stiffer than Tom's and require a lot of line to load the rod properly. Often, way more than you need when you're fishing. So, as you know, the caster ends up doing a lot of the work instead of the rod.
MD: I know lots of anglers today like these faster action rods because they can cast them so easily. How are they going to like the action on Tom's rods?
GA: Tom's new rods still retain a fairly fast action with a softer tip and strong butt section. They are just softer across the board, allowing the new rods to load with a minimal amount of line in the air and to cast very accurately at the short to medium distances...distances where good anglers are doing 90% of their fishing.
People are going to pick up these new rods and say that this rod loads beautifully with the recommended line size. They won't feel that they need to go up one line size to get the rod to load at shorter distances, which is often the case with many of the rods now on the market.
MD: Speaking of Winston rods, an obvious question is "How different are these rods than the ones Tom designed at Winston?" Many people I know think they're just about the greatest thing available.
GA: That's true. We sell a huge number of Winstons in the shop and people really like them. They cast great and they're beautiful. But there are some important improvements in Tom's new rods. They're subtle differences. Not "night and day." But most anglers will find these rods perform noticeably better than the best rods on the market today.
MD: I've had a chance to see some of the materials that will be used in finishing and packaging these rods. Pretty amazing?
GA: I don't think there's any question about it: they're the best crafted rods you can find. The detailing is unique. There's just nothing like it around at any price.
MD: Give me some specifics.
GA: Well, the rods are just beautiful. They've got Number 1 grade cork handles (you really have to look hard to find any filler). The reel seats -- they're hexagonal shaped to match the rod tube and cap -- are all exotic woods Tom has been collecting for 20 years. You just pick which one you like when you order and it's made up for your rod. There's an agate stripping guide and garnet red wraps that are a pretty touch. It's a true custom-made rod.
MD: You mentioned the rod tube. That sounds pretty unusual.
GA: Yeah. They're custom-made, too. Extruded aluminum finished with an electrostatic process. It expands the pores of the metal so a translucent garnet paint is absorbed into them. Then it's baked on. You can't knock or chip the paint off. The rod cap is black anodized aluminum and topped off with a pure silver minted medallion with Tom's logo on it.
The rod bag is even unique. It's made of ultra suede which cushions and polishes the rod when it's in the tube.
MD: You're starting to get a little worked up here. I take it you kind of like the rods?
GA: (laughter) Who wouldn't. The whole package is a level of design and attention to detail no one has ever done before. There's just nothing like it.
MD: So who's going to buy these rods?
GA: They're definitely going to be for the angler who wants to enjoy the highest levels of fly fishing experience--performance and craftsmanship--and is willing to pay a premium to
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Migration in the time of Conflict: Experiences from Nagaland state
Morung Express News Dimapur | December 3 In a transformative effort to engage with the pressing issue of migration, the Stockholm University in collaboration with The People Channel, and The Morung Express from Nagaland organized a round table discussion on “Migration in the time of Conflict: Experiences from Nagaland.” In her introduction, Anthropologist Dr Dolly Kikon pointed out that the discussion and the main issue was not on the question of whether migration was good or not. She also shared a brief synopsis on her research and personal experience with Indigenous migration and migrants. Sharing his view on the theme, Anthropologist Professor Bengt G Karlsson from Stockholm University, stated that Migration has really accelerated in the past ten to fifteen years, and in a way, all of us understand why this is happening. What really generated migration in the North East India, he said, could be attributed to factors like employment and educational opportunities. Also participating in the discussion was Vikheho Swu, Cabinet Minister of Road & Bridges, termed migration as a global issue and a ‘reality check on a phenomenon which is bound to happen to any developing society.’ Highlighting the ‘craze’ for government jobs in Nagaland, he stated that there is an excess of 40,000 government employees. He pointed out that from the total population of 19 lakhs in the state, there are about 1.20 lakh government employees when the actual need for about 80,000. Furthermore, with not enough support from the State government in terms of policy, there is an absence of development function in rural areas, Swu added. “The reason for such grim situation is because Nagas lack in vision, planning and management therefore policy makers, educationist, social activist and entrepreneurs have to put their heads together to plan. We must accept the fact that migration is here and here to stay,” Swu concluded. Three panel sessions were held on topics of “Why migration matters”, “Challenges and experiences of migration”, and finally concluding with “Community reflections on migration”. The first session moderated by Dr RK Debbarma from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences had on the panel Dr Rajdeep Singha, also from TISS, Rozelle Mero from The People Channel, Kvulo Lorin from Tetso College and Vijaya Eastwood of Harley ventures, Gurgaon. Introducing the topic, Dr Debbarma urged, “Let’s talk about migrants without dehumanizing them,” insisting that terms such as “illegal immigrants” are dehumanizing in nature. Highlighting the huge scale of migration within India, Dr Singha revealed that 72 million – almost equivalent to Germany’s entire population – of India’s populace cross migrate with female out-migrating men. Also speaking on the panel, Lorin shared that his experience of working in the city has helped build a network, which in turn has helped students of Tetso College find job placements. Lorin was however of the opinion that youngsters in Naga society lack direction in finding opportunities. The second session moderated by Rozelle Mero had Tiala Jamir, Lomi Shikhu, Metsino Chase and Jai Syied – all of them working professionals who have served across the country and abroad – as panelists. All of them shared their experiences and challenges faced as migrants themselves. During the discussion that ensued, the challenge faced on re-entry back to the society in Nagaland was raised with the observation that Naga society looks upon those who have been abroad with a judgmental eye. The post-lunch session on “Community reflections on Migration” was moderated by Dr Dolly Kikon and had in the panel MLA and former Parliamentary Secretary Mhonlumo Kikon, Jenny Esther from Don Bosco Tech, Dr Sedevi Angami from Christian Institute of Health Sciences & Research, and Jenpu Rongmei of CAN Youth. Discussing the pros and cons of receiving migrants, Dr Sedevi opined that, “Migrants add variety and increase the talent pool in the society.” Issues on high prevalence of dropouts and unemployed youth in Nagaland and the challenges on uneducated unemployed youth were discussed while the need for introducing migration policy and a policy mechanism for youths were also raised. One of the reflections was that the community as well as the government has failed to understand conditions of uneducated unemployed youth as many policies such as skill development were towards improving the conditions of educated unemployed youth. In her concluding remarks, Dr Dolly Kikon observed that often “conflict attached to migration” is not talked about. Migration to a large extent is also caused by “structural violence and militarization,” she noted. She called for looking at time not in the linear past-present-future context, but by envisioning the future, relating it to the past, and then living the present as a way towards the envisioned future.
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If Trump Fires Mueller
How a Democratic-controlled House can salvage the Russia investigation
Here’s what the post-midterms world might look like: Democrats control the House by a decent margin. But they pick up just one seat in the Senate, allowing Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to exploit that more powerful legislative body to guard the White House. (Both electoral outcomes are likely, according to predictions.) Then, before special counsel Robert Mueller has the chance to reveal any of the work his team has been quietly doing during the campaign season, President Donald Trump finds a way to end or severely curtail Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Trump’s boldest move would be to fire Mueller himself. Shortly after Mueller was appointed in May 2017, Trump’s team claimed that the special counsel had conflicts of interest—claims that Trump might use to justify firing him. More recently, Trump has complained that the investigation—which by special counsel standards has barely begun—has gone on too long. If Trump is planning on firing Mueller, he’s most likely to do it right after the election, since it will take two months before the new Congress is sworn in and any political consequences will be delayed.
If Trump does not want to fire Mueller directly, he could derail the investigation in a couple ways. He could replace Mueller’s supervisor, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Rosenstein has forced Mueller to spin off unrelated parts of the investigation, but for the most part has permitted Mueller to proceed as he wishes, much to the chagrin of the White House. If Rosenstein were fired and no other staff shake-ups were made, his automatic replacement would likely be Solicitor General Noel Francisco, who has previously accused the FBI of overreach and claimed that former FBI Director James Comey, who was fired by Trump over the Russia affair, had shielded Hillary Clinton from possible prosecution. Democrats worry that an empowered Francisco could fire Mueller himself.
Alternately, Trump could convince Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has recused himself from the Russia investigation, to resign. Trump could replace him immediately with either Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar or Department of Transportation General Counsel Steven Bradbury, both Senate-approved officials who could take over temporarily under the Vacancies Reform Act. Both are reportedly under consideration to replace Sessions; both could fire Mueller if named attorney general.
Finally, Trump might even carry out a Wednesday Morning Massacre, working his way through the Department of Justice until someone decides they’ll back a claim that Mueller has engaged in misconduct—then use that accusation to justify firing him directly.
That would leave the new Democratic majority in the House as the chief means of carrying on the Mueller investigation. What could Democrats actually accomplish?
There are three main elements to a Mueller-less Russia investigation: 1) what Democrats could investigate whether or not Mueller is fired; 2) what they would be missing if Mueller were to be axed; and 3) what Democrats can salvage from an aborted investigation. Let’s take them in turn.
Democrats can call a whole lot of witnesses.
In a recent op-ed in The Washington Post, Rep. Adam Schiff of California promised that if he were to become chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence under a Democratic majority, the committee would provide “a full accounting” of Russia’s entanglements with the Trump campaign and Trump White House.
He said the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, under Rep. Elijah Cummings’s leadership, would address how Trump “is profiting off the presidency,” indicating that that committee would investigate Trump’s possible violation of the Emoluments Clause, which prohibits the president from receiving payments from foreign governments. These payments may include those made to Trump’s inauguration committee, some of which came from Russian donors.
Schiff also suggested that the House Judiciary Committee would focus on “potential abuse of the pardon power [and] attacks on the rule of law,” which could include Trump’s daily attacks on the FBI, his tampering in FBI investigations, and the pardons he reportedly floated to his former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and one-time campaign chief Paul Manafort, before both entered plea agreements and started cooperating with Mueller.
If Democrats win the House, Rep. Adam Schiff will likely play a central role in the House’s investigations into Russia’s role in the 2016 election.
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Schiff suggested his own committee would examine Russian financial influence over the president, which could cover Trump’s various business dealings in Russia. But it’s also likely that the Financial Services Committee, under Rep. Maxine Waters of California, would conduct much of that work.
In March, Schiff and the other Democrats on the Intelligence Committee released a status report naming witnesses Republicans had refused to call in their own cursory probes into Russia’s ties to the White House. These witnesses included White House aides Stephen Miller and Keith Kellogg, as well as former administration officials like former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and K.T. McFarland, who served under Flynn.
Between them, these witnesses could provide more insight into the Trump campaign’s interest in pursuing a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as into whether Russians were offering stolen emails from the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee in exchange for such meetings. The witnesses could also shed light on Trump’s personal involvement in Mike Flynn’s reassurances to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, during the presidential transition in December 2016, that the Trump administration would seek to reverse Obama-era sanctions on Russia.
Schiff said he could also call Roman Beniaminov, who worked with Rob Goldstone, the music promoter who first set up the Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 in which Donald Trump Jr. sought to obtain dirt on Hillary Clinton. Beniaminov learned in advance that Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya would be dealing “some negative information” on Clinton.
Democrats would also call witnesses related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the Trump-affiliated firm gained access to the data of millions of Facebook users. Those witnesses could provide insight into how the Trump campaign exploited Facebook’s personal data to suppress certain kinds of voters in 2016. The legal concern here is two-fold: first, whether Cambridge Analytica employees from the U.K. worked for Trump illegally in the United States; second, whether Trump’s PAC, where some of those employees worked, coordinated improperly with the campaign. Given reports that Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix had discussions with billionaire Trump supporter Rebekah Mercer about optimizing the release of the emails stolen by Russia, Democrats would also inquire whether Cambridge Analytica exploited data stolen by Russians.
Perhaps the most incendiary testimony could relate to how Russians Aleksandr Torshin and Maria Butina, with the assistance of Republican operative Paul Erickson, used the National Rifle Association as a vehicle to draw the Republican Party closer to Russia. While Butina was arrested in July and Erickson is reportedly under active investigation, court documents relating to Butina’s prosecution describe Rockefeller heir George O’Neill Jr.’s active cooperation in Butina’s operation, down to his learning about Putin’s personal approval for the effort to host a series of “friendship and dialogue dinners” at which Russians could foster pro-Russian policies. “[A]ll that we needed is <<yes>> from Putin’s side. The rest is easier,” Butina wrote O’Neill in March 2016.
In the March plan, Democrats also said they would compel more information and testimony from witnesses that Republicans had let off easy. For example, the report lays out how both Donald Trump Jr. and Trump’s former campaign chair Corey Lewandowski refused, in past appearances before the Intelligence Committee, to describe communications pertaining to the June 9 meeting in Trump Tower.
The report also calls for more materials from the president’s former lawyer Michael Cohen pertaining to a 2016 bid to brand a Trump Tower in Moscow that continued well into the election year. And it argues that Erik Prince, the former head of the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater, must fully explain his meeting in the Seychelles with the head of a Russian investment firm, Kirill Dmitriev. Reporting since Prince testified to the committee in November 2017 suggests Prince lied about the meeting being an effort to set up a backchannel between Trump’s team and Russia.
Democrats have also promised to subpoena Twitter, WhatsApp, Apple, and the Trump Organization to learn more about communications that might be part of a conspiracy. For example, they’d like to obtain records showing which people, including Trump associates, communicated with Russian military intelligence mouthpiece Guccifer 2.0 or WikiLeaks, the outlets that released the Clinton and DNC emails stolen by Russia. In addition, Democrats would like to learn whether Trump associates communicated using encrypted messaging applications—messages that might have been missed in prior records requests.
So Democrats have a fairly robust plan for the investigations they’ll conduct if they win a majority in the House. But even that would only scratch the surface.
Democrats don’t have Mueller’s investigative prowess.
The steps laid out by Schiff don’t account for what happens if Mueller is fired before finishing his investigation. That’s a problem because, at every step of his probe, Mueller has identified key players in Russia’s 2016 election operation that no one, including members of Congress, had yet discovered.
A few examples: A rural California man, Richard Pinedo, sold Russian internet trolls the identities they used to sow division among voters on Twitter and Facebook during the election—a role only disclosed when Mueller indicted the Internet Research Agency, a Russian troll farm based in Saint Petersburg. That same indictment described, but did not name, three Trump campaign officials in Florida who interacted with Russian trolls organizing a “Florida Goes Trump” rally in August 2016. (Those three people have never been publicly identified, and if they’ve been interviewed by any congressional committee, that fact remains secret.)
Meanwhile, Sam Patten, a Republican lobbyist, started cooperating with federal prosecutors a good three months before it was publicly reported. Patten was the partner of the Russian-Ukrainian consultant and suspected Russian intelligence officer Konstantin Kilimnik, who interacted with Paul Manafort during the Trump campaign.
The most visible signs of Mueller’s investigation since February pertain to longtime Trump hatchet man Roger Stone, and yet where that aspect of the probe might lead remains a mystery. Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg, Stone assistant John Kakanis, Stone social media adviser Jason Sullivan, Stone associate Kristin Davis, radio host Randy Credico, and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi—all appeared before Mueller’s grand jury.
Longtime Trump aide Roger Stone is an integral, if mysterious, figure in Mueller’s probe.
John Sciulli/Getty Images for Politicon
Mueller’s team also interviewed Ted Malloch, an associate of the British anti-immigration firebrand Nigel Farage. They questioned Trump aide Michael Caputo, while Stone aide Andrew Miller is currently fighting a grand jury subpoena in the District of Columbia Circuit Court. By May 25, at a time when just four of his associates had publicly revealed their testimony, Stone said eight of his associates had already been contacted by Mueller’s team. (Another witness against Stone received a subpoena but has never been publicly identified.)
While public reports have focused on questions about Stone’s interactions with Guccifer 2.0 or WikiLeaks, some of the Mueller team’s activity may relate to Stone’s dirty election tricks, which were funded by dark money groups. It’s unclear how such fundraising might relate to allegations that Stone cooperated with Russia. So even for the part of the Mueller investigation that has been most public, there are big gaps in the public record—gaps that committees in the House might not be able to close.
And that’s just witnesses. Mueller has also obtained a great deal of records and communications that no committee in Congress is known to have obtained. As one example, on March 9, Mueller obtained search warrants for five AT&T phones, having shown probable cause those phones included evidence of a crime. At least one of those phones belonged to Paul Manafort (which is how details of the warrant became public), but the identities of the other people who had their phones searched remain undisclosed.
Then there’s the money angle. Buzzfeed has done great reporting on Suspicious Activity Reports on bank transfers associated with the Russian investigation. It has also raised questions about whether Treasury has cooperated with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the one committee that requested financial records relating to the investigation. But there’s no sign any committee in Congress has examined Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency transfers—financial flows that have figured prominently in Russia’s campaign disruption efforts. If the Mueller investigation is sidelined, congressional investigators might need to access the secret connections Mueller’s team has spent 18 months discovering.
How would they go about doing that?
Democrats can use a Watergate playbook.
House Democrats might follow the precedent set during Watergate—the last time that a president tried to thwart an investigation into election corruption by firing the Department of Justice officials conducting it.
Mueller’s activities thus far have been laid out in plea deals and highly detailed “speaking” indictments, which provide far more information about the actions involved than strictly necessary for legal purposes. But according to the regulation that governs his appointment, at the end of his investigation Mueller must also provide the attorney general with “a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions reached by the special counsel.” Also upon completion of the investigation, if the attorney general overrules an action Mueller wanted to take, he or she must notify the chair and ranking members of the Judiciary Committee.
It’s not clear what, within the scope of the regulations, would happen to such a report in the scenario laid out here, where Mueller got fired on some trumped-up claim of improper action. The only thing that would necessarily get shared with Congress is the report on why the attorney general had overruled Mueller, which wouldn’t necessarily include details of what else Mueller had discovered. Indeed, Neal Katyal, the former Obama administration lawyer who wrote the special counsel regulation under which Mueller operates, recently advised Rosenstein to provide a report to Congress before a meeting with Trump at which he might have been fired.
But Rosenstein might not permit such reports under department regulations. Rosenstein has refused to share information on the investigation in the past, citing the Department of Justice policy on not confirming names of those being investigated unless they are charged. And thus far, even Republicans attempting to undermine the investigation have not sought investigative materials from Mueller, instead focusing on the FBI investigation up to the time when Mueller was hired on May 17, 2017. That’s partly because under rule 6(e) of grand jury proceedings, information can only be shared for other legal proceedings (such as a state trial or military commission).
Yet a Watergate precedent suggests the House could obtain the report if Mueller were fired.
A Watergate precedent may be the key to protecting the Mueller investigation.
Pierre Manevy/Express/Getty Images
Some Freedom of Information Act requests have recently focused attention on—and may lead to the public release of—a report similar to the one Mueller is mandated to complete. It was the report done by Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski, referred to as the “Road Map.” The Road Map consists of a summary and 53 pages of evidentiary descriptions, each citing the underlying grand jury source for that evidentiary description. In 1974, Jaworski used it to transmit information discovered during his grand jury investigation to the House Judiciary Committee—which then used the report to kickstart its impeachment investigation.
Before Jaworski shared the Road Map, however, he obtained authorization from then-Chief Judge John Sirica of the D.C. Circuit Court. In Sirica’s opinion authorizing the transfer, he deemed the report to be material to House Judiciary Committee duties. He further laid out how such a report should be written to avoid separation of powers issues. The report as compiled by Jaworski offered “no accusatory conclusions” nor “substitute[s] for indictments where indictments might properly issue.” It didn’t tell Congress what to do with the information. Rather it was “a simple and straightforward compilation of information gathered by the Grand Jury, and no more.” Per Sirica, that rendered the report constitutionally appropriate to share with another branch of government.
If Mueller—whose team includes former Watergate prosecutor James Quarles—were fired and he leaves any report behind that fits the standards laid out here, this Watergate precedent should ensure it could be legally shared with the House Judiciary Committee.
Can Trump do anything to stop them?
The D.C. Circuit Court recently heard a case, McKeevy v. Sessions, on whether judges can release historic grand jury materials. Chief Judge Beryl Howell, who is presiding over the Road Map FOIAs as well as the Mueller grand jury, has stayed the Road Map FOIA to await its results. But McKeevy is a request for public release of grand jury materials, rather than disclosure to a government body with the constitutional duty to conduct its own investigations. As such, it probably wouldn’t affect the Watergate precedent.
So if Trump challenges the conveyance of Mueller’s report to the House Judiciary Committee, he would be making an argument not even Richard Nixon made. It is also an argument that the U.S. v. Nixon precedent—which held that due process limits the president’s claims of privilege—likely would not support.
Still, Trump will have one more way to stall, though probably not kill, House efforts to pick up where a fired Mueller left off. Under current House rules, committee chairs have the authority and the majority votes to issue subpoenas; if Democrats win a majority, they could even set new rules in the new Congress permitting committee chairs to issue subpoenas by themselves. But because the Department of Justice traditionally enforces subpoenas, congressional committees led by the opposition party have traditionally struggled to enforce subpoenas they do issue, especially for White House officials. That would be doubly true if Trump replaced Sessions with someone even more interested in obstructing real accountability for the president.
Even under Republican control of Congress, Trump officials have avoided or sharply limited their testimony by suggesting executive privilege might cover their testimony—without actually making Trump invoke it. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and then-Director of National Security Agency Mike Rogers dodged testimony in this fashion, before ultimately testifying in a session closed to the public. More egregiously, former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks and Lewandowski refused to answer some of the questions posed by the House Intelligence Committee, notably declining to share information on the presidential transition.
Given two recent precedents—forcing the testimony of George Bush’s White House Counsel Harriet Miers (and consigliere Karl Rove) in the investigation into the firing of U.S. Attorneys and the cooperation of Barack Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder in the investigation into the Fast and Furious scandal—a Democratic House will likely be able to compel cooperation from witnesses, even if it might take a while.
At a fundraiser in July, Rep. Devin Nunes, the Republican who thwarted all of Schiff’s investigative ambition on the House Intelligence Committee, explained that unless the Russian investigation were stopped, then the only way to thwart it would be for Republicans to retain the majority in the House. “We have to keep the majority,” he said. “If we do not keep the majority, all of this goes away.”
It might take time and a whole lot of litigation for the Mueller investigation to come to light. But Nunes may well prove to be right.
Marcy Wheeler @emptywheel
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist who covers national security and civil liberties.
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Heart of the Primaries 2020, Democrats-Issue 15 (April 22, 2020)
By Cory Eucalitto
In Newsletters
This week: Romanoff secures spot on ballot against Hickenlooper in CO Senate primary, Tiffany Caban endorses challenger against five-term incumbent in N.Y.’s Assembly District 36 primary, and which Democratic candidates have raised the most money?
Where do Democratic and progressive pundits and commentators disagree? Each week, we bring you excerpts that highlight differing views.
“You know, the problem with nonstop gloom and doom is it gives Trump the chance to play the optimist, and optimists tend to win American elections. … So, look, if this insanity happens again, news sources have to rein it in. … [A]t some point, the daily drumbeat of depression and terror veers into panic porn. Enough with the ‘life will never be the same’ headlines. …
Giving the proper perspective isn’t a cover-up of the truth. It is the truth. … We need the news to calm down and treat us like adults. … Trump calls you fake news. Don’t make him be right.’”
Bill Maher, HBO, April 18, 2020
“The protesters taking to the streets against social distancing are a small minority of Americans — and their attitudes represent a fraction of public opinion.In fact, America has done something remarkable in this moment: It has united.
Last week, 81 percent of Americans told pollsters for a Politico/Morning Consult poll that the country ‘should continue to social distance for as long as is needed to curb the spread of coronavirus, even if it means continued damage to the economy.’ …
Large majorities of Democrats and independents are more concerned about the virus than the economy, as are about half of Republicans.”
Laura McGann, Vox, April 20, 2020
Which Democratic candidates have raised the most money?
The latest quarterly campaign finance reports were due April 15. The tables below show the top five Democratic primary Senate and House fundraisers through March 31. They also show the second-highest fundraiser’s amount in each race listed. The tables only include contested primaries that have not yet taken place. Candidates who are no longer running are not included.
Romanoff secures spot on ballot against Hickenlooper in CO Senate primary
Former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff won 86% support at the state Democratic Party assembly Saturday, securing his spot on the primary ballot against former governor and former presidential candidate John Hickenlooper.
Hickenlooper qualified in February by collecting signatures.
The Denver Post’s Justin Wingerter wrote, “It’s likely then that Romanoff, the favorite of progressive Democrats, will face off head-to-head June 30 against Hickenlooper, the favorite of establishment, moderate Democrats.”
Two other candidates who competed at the assembly did not meet the 30% threshold to qualify for the ballot. According to Wingerter, three candidates who did not meet the signature threshold are considering legal action, arguing social distancing measures related to the coronavirus pandemic interfered with signature collection.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee endorsed Hickenlooper shortly after he announced his Senate bid in August 2019. Other national groups, including Giffords PAC and NARAL, endorsed Hickenlooper. Romanoff’s list of endorsers includes several current and former state and local elected officials.
Romanoff said the assembly vote meant “that despite all the wishes of the party bosses and party brokers in Washington, the people (of Colorado) have a different idea.” He also said of incumbent Sen. Cory Gardner (R) and Hickenlooper, “Voters don’t want to replace one fossil fuel funded, insurance industry parroting candidate for another.”
Hickenlooper’s campaign said, “This health crisis has been hard on everyone and has made clear how broken Washington is. … It’s time to elect a senator to represent Colorado who will expand health care, tackle climate change, and stand up for Colorado workers and small businesses.”
We recently reported on Colorado’s March 7 Democratic caucus preference poll, where Romanoff won 55% support to Hickenlooper’s 30%. Candidates needed at least 15% support in that poll to move on to county and state assemblies. Hickenlooper opted for the signature route of ballot access. Hickenlooper could have also taken both routes, in which case he would have needed at least 10% support at the state assembly in addition to signatures to qualify.
Gardner is one of two Republican senators up for re-election in a state Hillary Clinton (D) won in 2016. He faces one primary opponent. Three election forecasters rate the general election Toss-up, Tilt Democratic, or Lean Democratic.
Greenfield gets support from Senate Majority PAC, AFL-CIO in Senate primary in Iowa
The Senate Majority PAC, a Democratic super PAC, released an ad supporting Theresa Greenfield, saying she would take on special interests, lower prescription drug prices, protect coverage for pre-existing conditions, and protect Social Security.
The Iowa Federation of Labor AFL-CIO endorsed Greenfield Monday. The Lee-Gazette Des Moines Bureau wrote, “The union typically supports Democratic candidates for federal office, but does not typically endorse candidates during a contested primary.”
Greenfield, formerly president of a real estate company, is one of five candidates running in the June 2 primary.
Greenfield leads the field in endorsements from national groups and Democratic elected officials. Her endorsers include the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, EMILY’s List, End Citizens United, and Reps. Dave Loebsack and Abby Finkenauer. She’s also topped the field in fundraising with $5.6 million.
Eddie Mauro has raised $4.3 million, $4 million of which he self-funded. Mauro, a businessman and former teacher, has endorsements from several state and local elected officials and Mills County Democratic Party Chairwoman Donna Crum.
Michael Franken, a retired Navy admiral, raised $579,000. His endorsers include Reps. Elaine Luria and Seth Moulton and several county party chairs.
Attorney Kimberly Graham has endorsements from Brand New Congress, the National Organization for Women, and current and former county party chairs. She raised $192,000.
Cal Woods was in the Navy and worked as a reporter and realtor. He did not report finance figures, and his campaign website does not include an endorsement list.
The primary winner will face incumbent Sen. Joni Ernst in November. Three election forecasters rate the general election Lean Republican.
Massachusetts cuts signature requirements for congressional candidates
We recently reported that Senate candidates in Massachusetts needed to collect 10,000 signatures to get on the ballot. In a ruling issued Friday, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court cut the requirement in half to 5,000. House candidates now need to collect 1,000 signatures instead of 2,000. The deadline is May 5. As of April 7, incumbent Sen. Ed Markey’s (D) campaign said he had 7,000 signatures. Challenger Joe Kennedy said he had 15,000.
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Utah Democrats to vote on gubernatorial candidates Saturday
The Utah Democratic Party will hold a virtual convention Saturday to select its gubernatorial nominee. Six candidates will appear on the ranked-choice convention ballot. A candidate can win the nomination outright by winning 60% of the vote. Otherwise, the top two finishers will advance to a June 30 primary.
Should a primary be held, it will be open to registered Democrats and unaffiliated voters only. No Democrat has won election as governor of Utah since 1980.
Montana AG candidate Raph Graybill wins endorsement from former Gov. Schweitzer
Former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer endorsed Raph Graybill for state attorney general Thursday. Schweitzer, who was governor from 2005 to 2013, said Graybill had the right mix of legal and leadership experience.
Graybill is legal counsel to Gov. Steve Bullock (D), who has also endorsed him. He and state Rep. Kimberly Dudik are the only two Democrats in the running.
At a March candidate forum, Graybill emphasized his legal work on behalf of the administration to challenge federal policy under President Trump. Dudik said she had a record in the state legislature of working alongside Republicans.
The June 2 primary is open to all registered voters. Incumbent Tim Fox (R) is running for governor, leaving the seat open.
Tiffany Caban endorses challenger against five-term incumbent in N.Y.’s Assembly District 36 primary
Tiffany Caban (D), who lost a primary race for Queens County District Attorney in 2019 by 60 votes, has endorsed a challenger to incumbent Asm. Aravella Simotas (D).
Caban’s pick is Zohran Mamdani (D), a housing counselor with the organization Chhaya, where he works on foreclosure prevention. In addition to his endorsement from Caban, Mamdani has also been endorsed by the Queens branch of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Simotas was an attorney at Bickel & Brewer until 2015. This will be her first contested primary and second contested election since first winning the district in 2010. She faced a general election challenge in 2012 from Julia Haich (R), whom she defeated 84-16%. She ran unopposed in the primary and general elections in 2014, 2016, and 2018.
In addition to her endorsement of Mamdani, Caban endorsed four state legislative incumbents in New York City districts: Sens. Julia Salazar (SD-18) and Jessica Ramos (SD-13) and Asms. Yuh-Line Niou (AD-65) and Ron Kim (AD-40).
Heinrich endorses two challengers to incumbents in New Mexico state Senate primaries
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) endorsed Siah Correa Hemphill and Pamela Cordova in two contested primaries against incumbent Democratic state Sens. Gabriel Ramos (D-28) and Clemente Sanchez (D-30).
Correa Hemphill is running against Sen. Ramos in District 28. Ramos is running for a full term. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) appointed Ramos to fill the remainder of Sen. Howie Morales’ (D) term. Morales became lieutenant governor in 2019. Ramos is a former county commissioner and runs a Farmers Insurance agency. Correa Hemphill has worked as a teacher, school psychologist, and director of special education.
Cordova is running against Sen. Sanchez in District 30. This will be Sanchez’s first primary since 2012 when he defeated incumbent Sen. David Ulibarri (D) in the Democratic primary and Vickie Perea (R) in the general election, 53-47%. He ran unopposed in 2016. Sanchez was the director of the Small Business Development Center at New Mexico State University. Cordova is a retired teacher and manager of the Los Padillas Community Center.
In both districts, the winner of the June 2 primary will likely face a contested general election. The only Republican candidate in the District 28 race is James Williams (R). In District 30, Joshua Sanchez (R) is the only Republican filed to run. Democrats currently hold a 26-16 majority in the New Mexico state Senate.
Electrical workers’ union issues endorsement in seven-way primary for open upstate New York seat
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (I.B.E.W.) Local 241 endorsed Ithaca city alderman, Seph Murtagh (D), in a crowded seven-way primary for Assembly District 125. District 125 is currently represented by Barbara Lifton (D), who announced she would not seek re-election earlier this year.
In addition to Murtagh, three other town and county officials are seeking the Democratic nomination: Cortland County legislator Beau Harbin, Tompkins County legislator Anna Kelles, and Dryden Town Supervisor Jason Leifer. Jordan Lesser, Lifton’s legislative counsel, is also seeking the nomination as are community members Sujata Gibson and Lisa Hoeschele.
Lifton was first elected in 2002 and won re-election eight times. Her most recent contested election was in 2016 when she defeated Herbert Masser, Jr. (R) 70-30%.
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Founded in 2004, ActBlue is an online platform that raises funds for Democratic and progressive candidates, campaigns, and organizations. ActBlue says, “[W]e build and power the premier online fundraising platform for Democratic campaigns, progressive organizations, and nonprofits working to create a better future.”
ActBlue is a political action committee, but contributions distributed through the platform are individual donations, not PAC donations.
Politico reported on April 20 that ActBlue broke its fundraising record in the first quarter of 2020, receiving $533 million from over 4.3 million donors. According to the organization’s website, ActBlue has raised over $4.8 billion since 2004.
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Aruban authorities probe insurance policy in missing woman case
Editor's note: Tune in to “Nancy Grace” at 8 p.m. ET on HLN for updates from Aruba on an American woman who recently disappeared from the same area that Natalee Holloway vanished from in 2005.
The suspect in the disappearance of a Maryland woman during a vacation in Aruba had taken out a travel insurance policy on her, an island official said Wednesday.
It is too early to conclude whether the insurance policy was a possible motive for the disappearance of Robyn Gardner, Solicitor General Taco Stein told CNN.
Giordano's lawyer, Michael Lopez, has not returned repeated CNN calls for comment regarding the insurance policy.
According to Aruban prosecutors, the missing woman and the suspect, Gary Giordano, arrived on the island July 31 from the United States. Gardner was last seen August 2 near Baby Beach, on the west side of the island.
Giordano told authorities that he had been snorkeling with Gardner when he signaled to her to swim back, according to a statement from the prosecutor's office. He said Gardner was nowhere to be found when he reached the beach, according to prosecutors.
Lopez argued unsuccessfully Monday that there was not enough evidence to keep his client behind bars, and a judge ordered that Giordano be held for another 16 days while police continue their investigation.
Giordano himself told authorities about the travel insurance, Stein said, and the FBI brought copies of the policy to Aruba this week. Investigators were still going through the documents, and Stein could not confirm the amount of the coverage or who the beneficiary was.
Local reports - citing sources close to the investigation - have said that a bloody hand print was found on stones behind the Nanki Country Club, at the same spot where the pair was said to be snorkeling.
"The blood discovery is interesting," Stein said, but he did not confirm or deny the details in the local reports. He gave the same response when asked about reports that an unused condom was also found at the location.
Meanwhile, an FBI official has arrived in Aruba to act as a liaison in the case. FBI agents have already been involved in the investigation in the United States, searching Giordano's Gaithersburg, Maryland, home.
Investigators plan to mount another search for Gardner, 35, in the coming days, Stein said. The efforts will be focused on the southern tip of the Dutch Caribbean island, with police, firefighters and Dutch troops taking part, he said.
- CNN's Tristan Smith, Martin Savidge and Ric Ward contributed to this report.
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Karen Kessler
Maybe she is in this with this guy, she lost her job, and they cant find her body, she could be waiting for him to collect the insurance policy, they may be going to meet in Mexico after the Millions are paid out to him. They may have cooked this up so they can collect the insurance and live nicely for years
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What insurance company pay out without a body...If they planed on getting any money without a body they are both really stupid. You can barely get an insurance company to pay for anything legitimate..you don't just call them up and say so and so is dead with no proof...I really think this guy killed her but is so stupid he didn't think things through..so now he killled her for nothing
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Intugame VR App Receives New Update
Intugame Entertainment the developer behind the virtual reality (VR) streaming app Intugame VR has announced several key improvements to the software in its latest update. The app which allows any PC videogame to be streamed to a smartphone device, can be used alongside numerous mobile head-mounted displays (HMDs) like Google Cardboard or Merge VR.
Of the several improvements Intugame VR has received, the most important is probably the ability to view the game in up to 60 FPS. It now also supports full-screen mode on Windows 8, but the mode works best on Windows 10 advises the developer. This means you don’t have to play your game in bordered mode to get the full VR experience. Another improvement was made to the multiple monitors support. You can now select which monitor you want your app to capture and turn into VR.
It’s important to note that, while images are displayed in 3D, services such as these don’t provide a true VR experience, with menus and other features that aren’t properly adjusted. That said, they do provide an easy solution to finding out what many popular PC titles would look like in VR.
The app is available for iOS and Android, priced at £7.74 GBP, and VRFocus will continue to report on the latest updates and announcements from Intugame Entertainment on its VR software.
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BC University Presidents Sign Climate Action Statement
Victoria, BC – University presidents from across British Columbia have signed a Climate Change Statement of Action committing their institutions to a leadership role in reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.
“It is important, as institutions of higher learning and research, that we lead by example in addressing the challenges of climate change”, said University of British Columbia President Professor Stephen Toope. “Our actions will also help Premier Campbell achieve the ambitious targets he has set for the Province.”
The statement of action commits each university to initiate a comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse gases by creating a planning body that includes students, staff, researchers, administrators and other partners. Within one year, each institution will have a complete inventory of greenhouse gas emissions on campus and within two years, targets will be set and strategies in place to achieve the targets. All action plans, inventories and progress reports will be made publicly available for review and comment.
University of Northern British Columbia President Dr. Don Cozzetto said, “The Mountain Pine Beetle infestation in the Province is clear evidence of the impacts of climate change. It is devastating and clearly requires each and every citizen to do their part and change their behavior. I willingly commit my institution to do its part.”
“In January Premier Campbell expressed his confidence in BC’s four research universities by making a significant investment in our leading edge environmental research”, said University of Victoria President Dr. David Turpin. “This investment in the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions together with the sustainability initiatives already underway on our campuses and our future efforts coming out of the statement of action will make a real difference.”
“I would like to commend BC’s university presidents for their leadership in encouraging the development of a better overall understanding of global climate change challenges said Premier Gordon Campbell. “This commitment to creating and implementing an effective and comprehensive Action Plan will go along way in making a real difference and in helping us meet our targets.”
BC’s university presidents will be inviting other post secondary institutions across British Columbia and Canada to join them in signing the Statement of Action.
For more information, see The University Presidents’ Council of B.C. Climate Action Statement (PDF).
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Students’ warming hut reflects well on architecture program
December 4, 2014 —
For the fifth year, Faculty of Architecture students will showcase their talent on the river trail at the Forks, this year with a warming hut entitled “Mirror Cloaking.”
The Mirror Cloaking” shelter proposal by U of M Faculty of Architecture students, Wong Zheng, Rafael Vieira Leal and Wei Zou.
The winning team’s shelter will be included among others chosen from over 100 submissions from around the world in Warming Huts v. 2015: An Art + Architecture Competition, an annual competition now in its sixth year.
The “Mirror Cloaking” shelter, by U of M students Wong Zheng, Rafael Vieira Leal, Wei Zou, uses one-way mirrors and polished stainless steel panels to create a mirror box that allows skaters to perceive the warming hut from outside as part of the winter landscape — yet closer inspection reveals that the hut is a reflection of its surroundings. And once inside, skaters can see out.
The students say, “The design plays with the idea that the enclosed structure become transparent and visitors can still find warmth within an ‘open’ space.”
“The Faculty of Architecture, with its large and very successful undergraduate Environmental Design Program, is honoured and pleased to participate again in the Warming Huts event,” says Ralph Stern, dean of the faculty. “It is a great opportunity to underscore the fundamental interrelationship between design and environment in a prominent location celebrating both Winnipeg and Manitoba.”
This year’s competition includes an art installation category. The submissions were reviewed by a blind jury, which includes U of M alumnus and trailblazer Sasa Radulovic. The jury narrowed the entries to two winning shelter designs and one installation.
“Over the years, we’ve pushed the envelope on the word ‘Warming Hut,’” says Paul Jordan, chief executive officer of The Forks Renewal Corporation. “More and more, we’ve seen the designs resemble less of a hut and become more about attention to design and detail. The completion has become a competitive space for artists and architects to dream and see their dream into reality. And the best part is that it’s really allowed us to make high-end art and architecture accessible to everyone.”
Other structures on this year’s trail will include “Recycling Words,” designed by KANVA Architecture from Montreal, “The Hole Idea,” designed by Weiss Architecture & Urbanism Limited from Toronto, Canada and “This Big” by Tina Soil & Luca Roncoroni from Droebak Akershus, Norway, who also won in Warming Huts v.2013 for their entry, “Wind Catcher.”
Over the years, the Warming Hut competition has also attracted some great additions. This year, Kelvin High School, with the help from Red River Mutual, has designed and will be constructing a hut entitled 6043.
Architecture alumnus Joe Kalturnyk conceived the RAW:almond concept.
And after much success, RAW:almond, an outdoor popup restaurant on the trail, will also bring its unique outdoor restaurant experience back to the trail. Architecture alumnus Joe Kalturnyk conceived the RAW:almond concept and collaboration, which enters its third year.
Construction of the huts will take place in early January, weather permitting, and will be on the Red River Mutual Trail the third week of the same month.
The winning team (l to r): Wong Zheng, Rafael Vieira Leal, Wei Zou.
Warming Huts v. 2015: An Art + Architecture Competition is made possible through the support of: the Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Association of Architects, University of Manitoba, Faculty of Architecture & Partners Program and KGS Group.
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New Land Rover Defender due in 2020: fresh spy shots of the 4×4 icon
The new Land Rover Defender is edging closer to production with a 2020 release date and a £40k starting price likely
The all-new Land Rover Defender is moving closer to production and by way of confirmation, we now have spy shots showing the production car in disguise.
Speaking from the 2018 Paris Motor Show, Jaguar Land Rover’s chief marketing officer Felix Bräutigam said: “It’s exciting to now start getting one step closer to officially announcing the rebirth of an icon.”
We’d previously spotted the new Land Rover Defender during winter testing, but that test mule was merely a shortened Range Rover Sport body on new Defender running gear. These new shots reveal the shape and dimensions of the production Defender for the first time.
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Land Rover would not comment directly on the new Defender in the images but did say in a statement that: “Jaguar Land Rover runs a wide range of engineering and technology development programmes. We can confirm that the Defender programme is progressing well and has reached an exciting stage of its development.”
While the new Defender’s exact launch date is unclear, Land Rover has hinted that customer cars are less than two years away. Bräutigam told Auto Express: “Our first, really excited customers should have their cars by 2020. We will stage it properly; the train has left the station but we are not rushing to a specific date.”
The new spy shots reveal a thorough update on the classic Land Rover Defender shape with design cues from the modern Land Rover and Range Rover models making their way onto the off-road warrior. The four-door test car has a large, completely flat bonnet that appears covered by heavy cladding, while the slim grille below has similarly sleek headlight units at each end. The familiar Land Rover vents are visible behind the front wheelarches and the windows are set back from the boxy shoulder line which suggests more substantial cladding on the doors.
At the rear, the new Defender’s sides taper towards the roof while a side-hinged tailgate gives access to the luggage bay, flanked by more familiar looking, squarer lighting units.
However, while it will display similarities with the old car, it is clear Land Rover doesn’t want to create a replica of the original. Bräutigam said: “The new Defender will not simply be a copy-cat, something retro. It will be something that moves the game on for Land Rover.”
The vehicle in the pictures is equipped with a 2.0-litre diesel engine according to the registration information held by the DVLA, but with Land Rover having already confirmed that all its models post 2020 will be electrified in some way, we expect that powertrain to feature at least a 48-volt mild-hybrid system. Jaguar Land Rover insists the Defender will need a “balanced engine portfolio” in order to succeed in all global markets, however. A look under the rear of the car also appears to reveal an independent suspension set-up.
While this appears to be the longer wheelbase Defender 110 model, Land Rover is developing a Defender 90 with a shorter wheelbase and prices for that version could start from as little as £40,000.
What we know about the new Defender
Even though Land Rover bosses have discussed an all-new Defender openly, the company has been keeping its cards close to its chest. JLR executive Dr Ralf Speth informed us that early development mules had started to be tested by bosses back in 2017. Rather excitingly, the JLR boss assured us that the new car will be “even more capable” than the outgoing Defender when the terrain gets challenging.
Dr Speth did admit at that stage that the design and engineering work behind the new Defender has been all but settled, to the point where he had the opportunity to try the new vehicle. Teasing further, he said: “I have driven test mules already… and also tried the car against competitors, in on and off-road environments. It’s sensational.” He would not put a timeframe on when the new Land Rover Defender would debut but he did say: “It is coming. We are working an authentic successor of the predecessor.”
It is expected that the Defender will have an aluminium body built on an aluminium chassis and will utilise parts from other Land Rover vehicles and be built alongside other cars from the range. Speth continued, saying: “We’re already doing this now… We used the modular architecture and elements of our chassis for weight reduction to make the new Discovery a better-handling car. We will do so also in the future because we always learn.”
It’s not yet clear where the new Land Rover Defender will be built, but JLR UK managing director Rawdon Glover did say the prototype vehicles were being assembled at the company’s ageing Brown’s Lane facility.
“We were still using Brown’s Lane to build our prototypes, which not many people knew. But now we have a new facility,” said Glover. “The verification build phase will come off a pilot production line, but the next phase goes into the manufacturing plant. You will find out more about this in the coming weeks.”
Large Land Rover Defender family planned
Beyond the launch of the basic model, Land Rover is planning to introduce a series of Defender models, spanning a variety of shapes and bodystyles. Land Rover’s chief marketing officer Felix Bräutigam told Auto Express: “One of the exciting things for us is that we are not launching a car, we are launching a family of cars.”
Furthermore, design boss Gerry McGovern has hinted that a performance SVR version of the forthcoming 4×4 could also be on the cards. Such a car would be developed by Jaguar Land Rover’s newly formed Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) division, and would allow the brand to tap into demand in Russia and China for powerful and luxurious rugged off-roaders, currently dominated by the Mercedes-AMG G 63.
It’s also likely that a hardcore Defender SVX will join the range at some stage and we could even see a luxurious SVA version in line with the Range Rover SVAutobiography.
The first new Defender is expected to arrive in showrooms in 2020 with an official reveal some time before that, and it will spawn a family of at least three individual models. McGovern said: “The Defender is all about durability – that indestructible, durable vehicle which is what a family of Defenders would be.”
Whatever happens, the new Defender will continue Land Rover’s recent move upmarket. “In its core form it can be something that can be quite elemental up to something incredibly luxurious,” said McGovern.
What do you make of these latest Land Rover Defender spy shots? Let us know below!
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The Acting Speaker (Mrs. Ringuette-Maltais) on Copyright Act
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The recorded division on the motion stands deferred.
The recorded division shall also apply to Motions Nos. 2, 3, 50, 51 and 52.
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Index » Radio Paradise/General » General Discussion » Trump Lies Page: Previous 1, 2, 3 ... 15, 16, 17 ... 28, 29, 30 Next
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Location: West Jersey
Posted: Feb 11, 2020 - 7:42am
Trump held a rally in Manchester on Monday night, where he reiterated a debunked claim that voters from Massachusetts drove up to the Granite State to vote in 2016. âRemember last time?â Trump asked the crowd at Southern New Hampshire University. âWe won the primary tremendously. We shouldâve won the election, but they had buses being shipped up from Massachusetts, hundreds and hundreds. And it was very close, even though they did.
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R_P
Posted: Feb 10, 2020 - 4:45pm
Still stuck on stupid while lusting after executions
âStates with a very powerful death penalty on drug dealers donât have a drug problem,â the president claimed, falsely. (again)
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Location: Southampton, NY
Posted: Feb 9, 2020 - 6:31am
The 2020 Election Will Be a War of Disinformation - The Atlantic
Location: sou' tex
Posted: Feb 7, 2020 - 4:19pm
R_P wrote:
Secret Service has paid rates as high as $650 a night for rooms at Trumpâs properties
Those charges, compiled here for the first time, show that Trump has an unprecedented â and largely hidden â business relationship with his own government. When Trump visits his clubs in Palm Beach, Fla., and Bedminster, N.J., the service needs space to post guards and store equipment.
Trumpâs company says it charges only minimal fees. But Secret Service records do not show that.
"Well, I thought it was a terrible thing when she ripped up the speech,â Trump told reporters as he left the White House for a trip to North Carolina. âFirst of all, it's an official document. You're not allowed, it's illegal what she did. She broke the law.â
Love how his cling-ons just dismiss this. Don't see it. The selective blindness is astonishing.
Posted: Feb 6, 2020 - 11:50pm
10 fact-checks of Rush Limbaugh, Medal of Freedom winner
PolitiFact has fact-checked Rush Limbaugh 42 times since 2009; 81% of his statements have been rated Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire.
Limbaughâs inaccurate ratings frequently were false statements about former President Barack Obama.
Limbaugh has also been a persistent critic of climate change.
FactChecking the State of the Union
The president's address included false and misleading claims on jobs, wages, energy, immigration and more.
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Chump is the Picasso of bullshit artists and he’s got an audience of “open minded” saps. One selfish crook and a tribe of racist clowns.
Fact-Checking Trumpâs State of the Union Address
(...) But the trial still had witnesses.
We, the people, are the witnesses. We witness crimes carried out in plain sight by this government every day. We witness them on TV and we witness them in our daily lives, as ordinary citizens suffer from Mr. Trumpâs ceaseless corruption. We are so tired of being witnesses that we feel like a captive audience. But it is important to remain a witness in a time of autocratic consolidation.
The Trump administration does not like witnesses. That is why Mr. Trump spent his whole life intimidating them into silence, whether through NDAs or threats of violence carried out by lawyers such as Michael Cohen. That is why they attack journalists and civil servants and scientists and try to forbid them from sharing facts with the public. It doesnât feel empowering to be a witness under a regime determined to destroy the very concept of truth. But the truth always matters. If the truth didnât matter, they wouldnât work so hard to suppress it.
Posted: Jan 25, 2020 - 12:09am
The Trump administration is set to continue its corporate friendly assault on U.S. environmental regulations Thursday by finalizing a rule that will allow companies, landowners, and property developersâincluding golf course owners like the presidentâto dump pesticides and other pollutants directly into many of the nation's streams and wetlands, potentially threatening the drinking water of millions of Americans.
"This will be the biggest loss of clean water protection the country has ever seen," Blan Holman, an attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center, said in a statement.
The new measure will roll back Obama-era "Waters of the United States" (WOTUS) regulations aimed at ensuring wetlands and streams are protected under the 1972 Clean Water Act, which the Trump Environmental Protection Agency has repeatedly targeted despite the president's professed desire for the U.S. to have the "cleanest water" in the world.
"This puts drinking water for millions of Americans at risk of contamination from unregulated pollution," said Holman. "This is not just undoing the Obama rule. This is stripping away protections that were put in place in the '70s and '80s that Americans have relied on for
their health."
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Conservative Columnist Nails ‘Inescapable Reality’ Donald Trump’s Lawyers Can't Avoid
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/max-boot-donald-trump-impeachment-lawyers_n_5e295589c5b67d8874acdbbe
Posted: Jan 23, 2020 - 2:40pm
kurtster wrote:
did not list the statements you called lies. They were listed in a response to my comment.
That said ...
Looking backwards in this thread there are so many people to respond to that it just ain't going to happen.
Other than this ... just because you all agree does not make you all right.
To say that there is only one side of a story, any story that matters or is the only correct one is wrong.
So Kurt...you are to be congratulated. You have merged the Trump Lies and Impeachment threads with the same response.
Of course, you're right that we could be wrong, and there are always multiple sides. In all honesty, I appreciate your willingness to take a position in a hostile environment. We can agree to disagree, but hopefully, we all want the same things for the country, our families, and to a lesser extent the planet and its populations. In theory, there is the possibility that everyone on the planet is happy, even if achieving it is likely impossible. Hopefully, you take the back and forth as spirited debate, not personal attacks. I don't know anyone here well enough to attack them on a personal level.
That said... :)
Do you believe that the President is honest?
The subject is the lying idiot placed in the White House by Fred Flintstone Tea Partiers. Too much of the focus keeps being dragged down by some cry baby ego freaks thinking their choice of tRump is smart and best for the USA.
Their swindler-in-Chief waves his priorities in their red-capped faces and they nod and shout.
Apples and oranges should not be compared, imho.
A successful impeachment is very different from the effects, or wave-currents potamus keeps creating on world and trade matters.
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Perhaps it's time to start a thread about lies and flip flops made by democratic candidates that you all simply dismiss as bluster or outright ignore.
Don't worry. I won't because I have not the time to keep up with all of it because there is just me who would be posting and there is just as much from your side of the street as there is mine. That and you all will just ignore that thread just as I ignore this thread.
There's not really much of a comparison; would it add up to 16,000+ false or misleading claims? Even if that number is an exaggeration, there is no one who lies as regularly and easily as he does. The candidates have been "called" on their inaccuracies or falsehoods, by members of both parties and people here. Not only are Trump's lies often ignored by his own party but there are so many of them that they're often ignored by his opponents. Could you imagine if any of the last four Presidents made outright false claims such as these?
"We have the greatest economy we've ever had in the history of our country."
"For the first time in decades, we're no longer concentrating wealth in the hands of a few..."
"Just last week alone, the United States concluded two extraordinary trade deals — the agreement with China and the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement — the two biggest trade deals ever made."
Those lies were just in the course of one short speech to an international audience.
And therein lies the beauty of his strategy and the genius of his delivery.
As President, he gets enough attention to have people do foolish things with their lives...like count the number of times that individual feels he has lied. What do you put on the resume....lie counter? It's amazing, but it takes unwavering focus to keep up.
Someone posts the number of lies, which has specific details for each and every item, and the response from the Republicans is "you guys do it all the time too". He (Trump) has deflected and projected and repeated things so many times, that the people who follow him accept the notion that he's only doing what everyone else is doing. To drain the swamp, first, you have to put on your boots and get dirty. It's brilliant actually. Project every single thing you do wrong as exactly what everyone else is doing. Impeachment...for what? Withholding funds and Quid-pro-quo's happen all the time. Get used to it...ask Mick. That statement is true....what's missing is that it's against the Constitution to do so for personal, political gain. Withholding money because US interests suggest it's prudent....Perfect. Do the exact same thing so the President can drag his most likely opponent in the 2020 Presidential election down into the swamp with him....that's a documented no-no. If you can make Biden look corrupt, why not vote for the corrupt guy leading the greatest economy in history?
Kurt...You listed specific lies that Trump said in front of the world, and his followers respond with generalizations. I know you're busy. List 3lies told by Dems in the past week. Jot down the name and what they said...explanations as to the truth would be appreciated, but aren't necessary if you're too tied up. Thanks!
I did not list the statements you called lies. They were listed in a response to my comment.
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Those who try to trivialise the issue and muddy the waters with their inane talk of color and free trade remind me of those cowboy and indian films many moons ago and the retort: "White man speak with forked tongue!"
Oh thank you Ohmsen for reminding all of us of just how important ethnic-cleansing terrorism was to the USA nation-building process!
While killing and taking from weaker, culturally-inferior was good business in the 18th and 19th century for the victor, it is not at all clear that cost-benefit analysis always favours the victor in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. From a zero-sum game, it sure looks like a negative-sum game these days.
Frankly I cannot imagine justifying killing and taking in the post-war period from economic and security perspectives. Nevertheless, there could be the intrinsic value to killing large numbers of innocent civilians.
The kill ratios in favour of the USA are quite impressive to say the least. They put the Israeli-Palestinian kill ratio of 5:1 to shame.
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I thought it was an iguana...
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QUARANTINE SOURCES OF POWER : WHETHER EXERCISE OF POWER BY COMMONWEALTH DEPENDS ON TRANSFER OF STATE DEPARTMENTS
AuthorGARRAN Robert Randolph | Date 28 June 1912
CONSTITUTION, ss. 51 (ix), 52, 69 : QUARANTINE ACT 1908
The Comptroller-General of Customs forwards the following memorandum for advice:
The Minister for Trade and Customs desires the opinion of the Crown Law Authori-ties on the point raised in the first paragraph in the attached press cutting and referred to in the memorandum of the Director of Quarantine, especially on the matter on which the supposed opinion of Professor Harrison Moore is quoted.
The paragraph referred to, from the Age of 22 June, is as follows:
COMMONWEALTH BANK WHETHER WITHDRAWALS FROM SAVINGS BANK SUBJECT TO STATE STAMP DUTY
AuthorHUGHES William Morris | Date 28 June 1912
The Governor of the Commonwealth Bank has asked for my advice as to whether stamp duty would be chargeable on withdrawals, whether by cheque or other form, from the Savings Bank Department of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
There is no provision for stamp duties under the law of the Commonwealth, so no stamp duty would be chargeable under Commonwealth law.
The liability to State stamp duty might depend upon the form of the instrument. If for instance it were a negotiable instrument, I think that stamp duty might be payable on it as such.
ACQUISITION OF LAND MEANING OF 'LAND' : WHETHER COMMONWEALTH HAS POWER TO ACQUIRE ROADS
ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1901, s. 17: LANDS ACQUISITION ACT 1906. s. 5
The following case has been submitted, by direction of the Minister for Home Affairs, to me for advice:
I am instructed by the Minister for Home Affairs to inform you that he has been requested by the Minister for Defence to compulsorily acquire for the purposes of the De-partment of Defence certain lands near Liverpool, New South Wales, as indicated on the attached plan marked 'D' by red border as amended on the northern boundary by tracing thereto attached.
LIMITATION OF ACTIONS WHETHER COMMONWEALTH MAY WAIVE BAR TO CLAIM WHERE DAMAGE NOT REPORTED WITHIN TIME
The Secretary, Department of Defence has forwarded the following memorandum for advice:
MINISTERIAL APPROVAL WHETHER TERMS OF CONTRACTS MAY BE APPROVED GENERALLY : ONUS OF PROOF : MODE OF PROOF
AuthorGARRAN Robert Randolph | Date 1 June 1912
CONTRACT IMMIGRANTS ACT 1905, s. 5
The following memorandum has been referred by the Secretary to the Department of External Affairs to me for advice:
Attention is invited to the enclosed letter from the Premier Manufacturing Company, and the newspaper cutting attached thereto.
2.The present practice in dealing with applications for approval of contracts proposed to be made with a number of persons abroad for service in the Commonwealth is as follows:
ELECTORAL DISTRIBUTION EFFECT ON DIVISIONS PENDING GENERAL ELECTION : WHETHER ENROLMENT, TRANSFER OR CHANGE ON OLD ROLLS MAY BE DEFERRED UNTIL WRIT FOR BY-ELECTION
AuthorGARRAN Robert Randolph | Date 29 July 1912
COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1902-1911, ss. 21. 26
The following memorandum by the Chief Electoral Officer has been submitted by the Secretary to the Department of Home Affairs to me for advice:
Section 21 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act reads as follows:
if both Houses of Parliament pass a resolution approving of any proposed distri-bution the Governor-General may by proclamation declare the names and boundaries of the Divisions, and such Divisions shall until altered be the Elec-toral Divisions for the State in which they are situated.
ELECTORAL DISTRIBUTION DISAPPROVAL BY HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT : WHETHER COMMISSIONERS PREPARING FRESH DISTRIBUTION REQUIRED TO ALTER AS REQUESTED BY HOUSE
AuthorHUGHES William Morris | Date 6 August 1912
COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1902-1911, s. 22
The Minister for Home Affairs forwards for advice the following minute by the Chief Electoral Officer:
I desire to bring under the Minister's notice the terms of the amendment moved by Senator Henderson and carried by the Senate, in relation to the proposals of the Electoral Commissioners for Western Australia; and to suggest that, in view of the provisions of Part III of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902-1911, the Attorney-General's advice be obtained as to the correct legal procedure.
AIR NAVIGATION WHETHER COMMONWEALTH HAS POWER TO REQUIRE AIRCRAFT TO BE REGISTERED : WHETHER REQUIREMENT TO REGISTER VEHICLES FOR DEFENCE PURPOSES EXTENDS TO AIRCRAFT
CONSTITUTION, ss. 51 (i), (vi), 98: DEFENCE ACT 1903-1911, s. 67
Certain proposed regulations relating to aerial navigation are now under con-sideration of the Department of Defence.
In this connection the Council of Defence recommended that the opinion of the Attorney-General be obtained as to whether a clause could be inserted in the regu-lations requiring all aerial machines to be registered.
The Defence Act by section 67 provides that the owners of vehicles and animals may be required by the regulations to register them periodically.
NAVIGATION AND SHIPPING EXTENT OF COMMONWEALTH POWER WITH RESPECT TO HEALTH ON BOARD SHIP : INCONSISTENCY BETWEEN COMMONWEALTH AND STATE HEALTH LAWS
AuthorGARRAN Robert Randolph | Date 9 August 1912
CONSTITUTION, ss. 51 (i), 98, 107, 108, 109 : NAVIGATION ACT 1912 : HEALTH ACT 1911 (W.A.)
The Comptroller-General of Customs desired to be advised on the point raised by the Director of Quarantine in a memorandum written by the Director on a letter received by him from Dr Cumpston.
Dr Cumpston wrote as follows:
LIMITATION OF ACTIONS WHETHER COMPLIANCE WITH PRESCRIBED PROCEDURE MAY BE WAIVED: CRITERIA FOR WAIVER
AuthorGARRAN Robert Randolph | Date 22 August 1912
The Secretary to the Department of Defence has forwarded the following memor-andum to me for advice:
With reference to your [memorandum of 29 June 1912](1); containing opinion with re-gard to the suspension of a regulation by Order in Council to meet certain special cases where it was equitable that consideration should be given, I shall be glad if you will kindly advise me on the general question of setting aside any regulation in order to satisfy equity, justice or convenience.
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Board index Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine Ren'Py Questions and Announcements
Lost RPY files? Restore them from RPYC!
Discuss how to use the Ren'Py engine to create visual novels and story-based games. New releases are announced in this section.
This is the right place for Ren'Py help. Please ask one question per thread, use a descriptive subject like 'NotFound error in option.rpy' , and include all the relevant information - especially any relevant code and traceback messages. Use the code tag to format scripts.
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#1 Post by iichan_lolbot » Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:14 pm
Well, I've just finished a project that took about a month of late-evening-afterwork-development.
Original idea was to run an existing game with additional RPY file, which contain code to extract some information from RenPy runtime to make it easier to restore lost script manually.
When I realized, that I can easily decompile all non-python strings, I started to think about extracting some simple python statements.
The problem was that: there was no python script source code in runtime, I didn't want user to change anything in RenPy and also at first I didn't even knew that sources are really stored in RPYC files.
After developing a Python 2.5 bytecode decompiler (that was really fun and great experience, guys! Totally worth it!) I realized, that 2.3 and 2.6 dialicts have some differences and finally I gave up. I decided to give user an instruction how to make source code accesible in runtime, so decompiled files could be even more similar to original ones.
So, here it is. I'll be happy to hear any responses or ideas.
P.S. Special for PyTom, sorry for exposing Eileen's underwear. This picture meaning is that script shows what's *inside* RenPy game, no offence to you.
P.P.S. Work was partly inspired by this old personal message:
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Re: Lost RPY files? Restore them from RPYC!
#2 Post by PyTom » Sat Feb 11, 2012 3:00 pm
I've removed the code attachment for the time being, to give creators time to weigh in on this development, before the script goes overly public.
My own feeling is that, while Ren'Py is licensed in a way that allows something like this to be created, it's also something that we don't really want out there where anyone can get it. A tool that allows one to extract game source has both good possibilities - helping people recover games and allowing for translations - and bad ones, like enabling copyright infringement.
I'd just like to let the community talk about this before everyone has this tool.
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#3 Post by jack_norton » Sat Feb 11, 2012 3:04 pm
Well, I just sent you an email about that. I can see only ONE possible use for this, and it's not really legal...it can only damage people and benefit nobody. If such script become public I'd have to stop using Ren'Py to make all future games for sure.
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#4 Post by papillon » Sat Feb 11, 2012 3:42 pm
Such tools have been made public for other game engines in the past and they usually don't cause as much trouble as you'd think. It's more common to have a few sneering folk poke around inside your game and scoff that they could do better than to have them actually nick the code and reuse it (it's not that easy to make sense of or repurpose other people's programming that wasn't designed to be easily portable!) or to edit the game a little and try to resell it. The latter happens most often with people who can't program at all but can only edit enough to get to static resources (like graphics) and alter them to put their names on things.
Given Jack's current DRM system as I understand it, it would affect him a lot more than most other people.
OTOH I know such tools do already exist to at least some extent, I've seen reports on certain forums of people having a look inside certain RenPy games.
I would personally prefer such things not to be publicised here, but I don't think of it as the end of the world.
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#6 Post by DaFool » Sun Feb 12, 2012 12:02 am
Main reason why I'm into open development and not so secretive about projects anymore. The earlier you post about something you're working on, the more it will be credited to you, and will make for effective evidence in any App store like wholesale copying infringement cases.
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#7 Post by backansi » Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:17 am
Confused. Was the tool attached by iichan_lolbot something like script extractor?
As a developer getting start to make a commercial game with RenPy, I feel sudden decrease of will on my project at first when I found this post.
I've seen ,of course, script extractor programs while playing many of games and I know it wouldn't be so much harm to developers but I have a feeling in my guts that I don't like it and I don't think I'm the only one who thinks like that.
Visual novel / text adventure games are easy to make, so it means if someone who have bad purposes can copy script of these games, they can do bad things more easier than when they cannot.
There's law for protecting copyrights but I don't think it would have an effect on amateur world, though the bad person will get moral judgements.
And besides that, it could be unwated tool to developers who want to show a game story through their games only and I think their wish should be protected.
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#8 Post by DaFool » Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:45 pm
Yeah, for a visual novel, once you extract the pictures, the music, AND the text, you've pretty much gotten the whole game. Only beneficial for translators and fan-patchers. And there are no Ren'Py games yet people are dying to have translated which they can't just talk to the creators directly.
Although that's a really high level of skill demonstrated there by iichan_lolbot -- whom I think is somewhat a commercial developer as well -- it's a shame there's a conflict of interest here.
With Ren'Py 6.13.9 coming out, it pretty much behooves us to release the Android version at the same time as the desktop version. I don't want any Apple App-store nightmare scenarios of some hack company uploading a mobile version of the game and steal the release window before the original creators get a chance to do so.
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#9 Post by Jake » Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:04 pm
jack_norton wrote: I can see only ONE possible use for this, and it's not really legal...it can only damage people and benefit nobody.
Celso, Celso... there's one possible use stated in the subject line of the thread; I'm pretty sure that retrieving lost script files from old projects isn't illegal now, and it certainly helps people and doesn't damage anyone! Being so melodramatic only makes you look daft.
On top of retrieving the scripts for old projects, learning from other people's coding approaches is also perfectly legal to the best of my understanding. Several countries' copyright laws even have specific provision allowing copyrighted material to be used for educational purposes! It certainly benefits people, for that matter - a large proportion of today's programmers started out looking at other people's code to see how it worked, how to structure their programs, and so on.
Since it's already trivial to use Ren'Py functions to extract the images, movies, sounds and other resources from an RPA, and any half-decent programmer could already replicate the gameplay in any Ren'Py game I've seen, I presume you're talking about removing the DRM - which is a very specific and not at all general problem, since I don't know of any other Ren'Py game developers using DRM. And frankly, you have been warned before that DRM is ultimately futile. If nobody has produced a crack for your games' DRM already, it's not because your DRM is so awesome, it's because nobody thought it was worth their time. If they don't think it's worth their time now, it's not going to necessarily suddenly become worth their time after this decompiler is more widely available. Your average novice is still going to be completely lost even with your source code, and even the best programmers working for big software houses can't realistically hope to put off determined and knowledgeable people.
jack_norton wrote: If such script become public I'd have to stop using Ren'Py to make all future games for sure.
Oh? And where are you going to go? You could code in C or C++, I suppose, but not only does that mean you'll have to do a hell of a lot more work to write your game, but also C and C++ decompilers have been around for longer than Ren'Py itself has. You could write in a higher-level language like Java or C#, maybe use a library like LWJGL or an engine like Unity that runs on one of those languages, except... both languages support reflection/introspection out of the box that allows such decompilation. I would even hazard a guess that there does not exist a single widely-used language or platform which doesn't have this kind of decompilation tool available to it in one form or another.
The fundamental reality - the bottom line - is that people's computers have to be able to interpret your game's program or script command by command, line by line in order to run the software. This means that all the commands have to be stored in the downloadable executable that you sell to your customers. Since all the data is in there, it's only a matter of time and motivation for someone to write a tool which extracts said data in some way other than just executing the program. It will always be possible, it's only not been seen for Ren'Py so far because the few people in the EVN community with sufficient programming skill and knowledge haven't been bothered to write the code to extract it until now. As support for a programming platform grows, the likelihood that a tool like this will arrive approaches certainty. I think it's safe to say that you will never, ever find a platform for game development which isn't ultimately possible to decompile like this, one way or another - you can run from minority platform to minority platform as soon as such a tool becomes available for each one if you like, but that will just mean that you have to learn a new set of quirks, deal with a new set of people and worry about poor support or flexibility at each point along the way.
I code in C#/.NET professionally, and have done for several years; there is a tool available - 'Reflector', formerly by a guy named Lutz Roeder (Microsoft employee) and now supported by RedGate (relatively respected tools company) - which provides perfect, compilable source code for any compiled .NET assembly. IIRC, it's been around about a decade... but in that decade, developers around the world have continued to make money selling .NET applications. In fact, people still use C# to code Unity games!
(For what it's worth, said tool was used on a nearly daily basis at my previous employer, and to the best of my knowledge not a single use of it was illegal.)
My opinion is that there's little actual harm, overall, to such a tool existing. Despite what Celso would like us to think, there are many actual, practical, and legally- and morally-acceptable reasons that people may want such a tool. As the original poster suggested, many people do actually lose the source code to their own projects and have only the compiled versions available; programmers who want to learn will sometimes find the ability to look at other people's code useful for the learning process. If anyone ever releases a useful library for Ren'Py in compiled form only, and neglects to mention caveats of use or valid inputs in their documentation, being able to see the source makes it more possible for people to use those libraries. It is just a tool - and like a hammer can be used for knocking in nails or murdering people, it can be used for good and bad purposes. I suspect that anyone who suggested that we ban hammers would be roundly ignored!
The bad side universally assumes bad actors - that is, people who are intentionally doing things that they know are wrong. For them to flourish, you also need people to accept their behaviour - if someone makes a game which is obviously a ripoff of another game just with replaced graphics or whatever, I have little doubt that most people will call them out on it and shun them, for example.
The more practical argument, of course, is that you can't stop it existing. The guy has already written it, and could distribute it wherever he likes, however he likes; PyTom doesn't control the whole Internet, so even if he chooses to censor it here, it will quite plausibly still be available elsewhere... and worse still, the more-naïve developers who inhabit this forum won't know about it and will continue to falsely believe their compiled games to be impenetrable. Arguably for this reason alone it's worse to censor it here than to allow it to be posted and discussed openly. Any other guy could come along and do the same work and make a similar tool at any moment, and if Ren'Py continues to grow in popularity, they certainly will.
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#10 Post by jack_norton » Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:38 pm
Well the main problem for me is that would make my new online activation system easily "crackable" by people with zero coding knowledge. Despite what people think, unless you make World Of Goo, having a simple but effective DRM can increase your income by a lot. Probably, I'm the only person using Renpy that would be damaged by this, however Pytom already suggested me some other way to protect the games.
Still I don't completely agree with your philosophy - if someone want to share the code, to help others, I think it should be HIS choice, and not a "forced" one like this. Let's say I pay $10.000 a coder to make me a super complex life simulation with isometric map and walking sprites, well documented and easily moddable. Then I want it to be available to everyone for free on lemmasoft? It's my my choice, fine! But if I pay and others can use the code for free, it's not really correct I think, don't you agree? or you think every person on earth should have the right to access the source code of other people?
(apart for the fact that nobody would have anything to learn from my code!)
One thing is saying that there are some people that will be able to decompile a game no matter what, another is provide a tool that can easily and quickly extract the sources like that. Last time I checked, the source code of Skyrim wasn't in public domain
#11 Post by PyTom » Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:37 pm
Jake wrote: If nobody has produced a crack for your games' DRM already, it's not because your DRM is so awesome, it's because nobody thought it was worth their time. If they don't think it's worth their time now, it's not going to necessarily suddenly become worth their time after this decompiler is more widely available.
Yes and no. Whether something is worth your time or not is - to a large degree - dependent on how much time it will take. Say I make $15/hour, and the game costs $15. It's in my interest to develop a crack if doing so will take less than one hour. (There's probably some assumption about time being fungible in there.) So in that case, the availability of a decompiler makes it far more likely that someone will find it worthwhile to decompile a game.
My sense is that at least some of the commercial creators are operating at the margins, where a few sales can have an affect on their lifestyle.
jack_norton wrote: Well, I just sent you an email about that. I can see only ONE possible use for this, and it's not really legal...it can only damage people and benefit nobody. If such script become public I'd have to stop using Ren'Py to make all future games for sure.
And, of course, this is also wrong. There are plenty of legal and moral (if not exactly legal) uses for a script like this. For example, making a game run on hardware that the current version does not support. That's illegal, as the law goes - but I don't have a problem with it. Reading the code of a game isn't illegal at all, if I understand the law correctly. (IANAL)
Even the moral aspect of this cuts both ways. It seems like a lot of this activity is inspired by the desire to make derivative works of Katawa Shoujo - even though the creators have pretty explicitly indicated that they don't want such works.
Ren'Py decompilers have existed for a while now - IIRC, I saw one a week or so after KS came out. So I don't think the world is going to end because of this.
It's a cat-and-mouse game. I can try to come up with new techniques to stop decompilation (or code injection), and sufficiently motivated people can work around those techniques. As Jake points out, this is true of any engine. And I'm not sure I will bother - it's more work for me, and I'm not sure it will help very much.
I do think it's important we have this conversation now, before a decompiler becomes widely available, so people can understand it in proper context. (Not a great thing, but probably not the end of the world, either.)
#12 Post by Jake » Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:42 pm
jack_norton wrote: Well the main problem for me is that would make my new online activation system easily "crackable" by people with zero coding knowledge.
Unless your online-activation system has a variable set "BYPASS_DRM = False" at the top of each code file, I think you'll find that it'll still require a fair bit of coding knowledge to bypass! The vast majority of people will look at the source code for your games and shrug and give up, seriously. On top of this they have to understand how to re-package the game into a runnable form, which isn't immediately obvious either, and would require extra not-immediately-obvious work to extract all of the resources and reassemble them in the correct places.
Sure, it lowers the bar, but there's still a bar... and the people who have the knowledge and skill to pass it still have to think it's worth their time.
The important part, though, is that the release of this kind of tool is more or less inevitable for any kind of compiled language, even if just as an academic exercise to the programmer to see if he can make it. The source code for Ren'Py is entirely open, which means that someone who wants to know how .rpyc files are put together only has to go and look at the Ren'Py code to find out. That this guy has done it proves that it's possible, so even if you convince this guy to delete his project, another one will crop up sooner or later. There are a couple of places on the 'net that you can find code which claims to decompile .rpyc files already, unrelated to this guy.
jack_norton wrote: Still I don't completely agree with your philosophy - if someone want to share the code, to help others, I think it should be HIS choice, and not a "forced" one like this.
But if I pay and others can use the code for free, it's not really correct I think, don't you agree? or you think every person on earth should have the right to access the source code of other people? ;)
As I said - copyright law in several countries already makes provision for people to commit acts which would otherwise be illegal if they're for educational purposes. In the general case, it's not what I think - it's what the people who make our laws and the judges that decide cases think. I'm not saying that I think it's universally a good thing for people to go around decompiling every program that they come across, but in a lot of cases I don't think it's a bad thing either. Tell me, what's the absolute difference between someone who can read the executable file opening the .exe of a compiled C game that you distribute in a hex editor and following it through to see how stuff is done (unlikely, but technically possible), someone opening a .rpyc file in a hex editor and following it through, and someone decompiling the .rpyc file into a more-readable form and following it through to see how stuff is done?
And you're possibly also missing an important point - it doesn't mean people can use the code for free, because your code is still protected by copyright. Someone who decompiles your program to find out how it works learns the techniques, but can't literally lift and recompile your code and redistribute it without infringing your copyright; to do it legally, he would need to license it from you. He can't even publish the source code in text form legally - he can just read it.
Of course, without such a tool as the one we're discussing available, you'd have no way of finding out whether people had taken your code and re-compiled it into their game or whether they'd just written a similar system from scratch - you can also use such a tool to look at other people's games if you suspect they've stolen your code and prove it!
Jake wrote: And you're possibly also missing an important point - it doesn't mean people can use the code for free, because your code is still protected by copyright. Someone who decompiles your program to find out how it works learns the techniques, but can't literally lift and recompile your code and redistribute it without infringing your copyright; to do it legally, he would need to license it from you. He can't even publish the source code in text form legally - he can just read it.
Copyright is pretty meaningless here.
The only way to enforce it is through a private lawsuit, and I don't think anyone involved in VN making has the free cash for that sort of thing. (Well, there are things like a DMCA takedown and so on - but those are easy for someone to call your bluff on.)
#14 Post by jack_norton » Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:12 pm
PyTom wrote: The only way to enforce it is through a private lawsuit, and I don't think anyone involved in VN making has the free cash for that sort of thing. (Well, there are things like a DMCA takedown and so on - but those are easy for someone to call your bluff on.)
Nah you don't need that, if you can prove that someone stole your code/assets, and is trying to resell a rip-off, you simply contact their vendor and they'll immediately shut down. It has happened already in the past several times, and every time was enough an email to the vendor (BMT, Plimus, Paypal, etc) with the complaint and the game was blocked from sale very quickly. They were blantant ripoff so easy to see they stole art/music (which is incidentally also a reason I always want to have my own art in my games, and not royalty free stuff).
Jake wrote: you can also use such a tool to look at other people's games if you suspect they've stolen your code and prove it!
Yes I missed this possibility indeed makes what I said above easier to prove.
#15 Post by DaFool » Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:20 pm
Don't really care about people potentially poking into the game (acknowledging its superior craftmanship!) or even not paying for it (at least they're playing it!)
These are what I'm afraid of if it's as easy to decompile:
http://ironhidegames.com/post.php?id=38
http://pyrogoth.deviantart.com/journal/ ... -281433325
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussi ... -your-help
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/01 ... -dungeons/
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Fish Do Grow on Trees
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You’ve got to start thinking about this as an ecosystem. All these plantations might as well be growing corn. But if you want clean water, salmon, wildlife, and high-quality lumber, you’ve got to have a forest. — Mike Fay, a Wildlife Conservation Society biologist and National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence
Seeing a pair of bald eagles, a possum and a black bear just minutes into my trip to an interview is, to say the least, icing on the “Eco Cake.”
Especially now, with so many people in various stages of isolation and paranoia — restricting time outdoors has a double-whammy effect on our mental health, but also on the health of a community who expects in-person participation and face-to-face debate.
Virtual bird watching and online hikes just don’t cut it.
My assignment is to catch a 30-something scientist — coordinator of a non-profit — doing what he loves best: hands-on, in-the-field work, coordinating with landowners on projects to restore river refugia.
I met Evan Hayduk, 35, with Mid-Coast Watershed Council when I first moved to the coast from Portland. That was Jan 2019 at Oregon Coast Community College for a dual presentation as part of the Williams Lecture series.
“Shedding a Scientific and Humanitarian Light on Climate Change” was a one-two punch featuring Hayduk alongside Bill Kucha, well-known artist and founder the 350 Oregon Central Coast.
That night unfolded as a contrast in personalities, age and emphases. Kucha is a 70-plus-year-old two-and three-dimensional artist who also composes and performs his music, guitar in hand. Hayduk opened up the talk with a detailed PowerPoint that emphasized the power of natural tidelands/wetlands to not only purify water for species like salmon, but also as natural mitigation for carbon dioxide absorption from fossil fuel burning.
Tidal wetlands are important habitats for salmon and a diversity of other fish and wildlife species. They also trap sediment, buffer coastal communities from flooding and erosion and perform other valued ecosystem services. — Hayduk
This is a story about a man, about his passion, about his vision to see a better world through several lenses, not exclusively through biology.
The first personality to greet me on the private land near Lobster Creek was Hayduk’s loyal two-year-old Australian shepherd, appropriately named, “Tahoma.”
“The original name for Mount Rainer,” Hayduk emphasizes. In fact, “Tahoma” is the Puyallup word for “Supreme Mountain,” and according to others, Tahoma translates to “the breast of the milk-white waters.” Or as Hayduk has heard, Mother Mountain.
Before his gig here with Mid-Coast Watershed Council (MCWC) starting 2016, Hayduk worked on Tahoma (Mount Rainier National Park) running the restoration crew at its native plant nursery.
Today, we are on one of four adjoining 40-acre chunks whose landowners have granted Hayduk and MCWC access to flood plain habitat and Little Lobster creek to “help restore once was a healthy complex riparian ecosystem.”
All water flows downstream
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. — John Muir
While the Alsea River is the mainstem of salmon runs, tributaries like Lobster Creek play a crucial role in salmon health. We are in an area known as Five Rivers, 25 miles east of Waldport. Alder, Cougar, Buck, Crab and Cherry creeks make up those five tributaries.
Within the Alsea Basin, the Lobster/Five Rivers watershed provides an important contribution to the populations of native fish. However, water quality problems, relating to stream temperature, have been documented in several sub-watersheds and along the main stems of both Lobster Creak and Five Rivers. The level of disturbance in the watershed has contributed to the degradation of quality habitat. [So states a 227-page scientific paper, from the Bureau of Land Management, “Lobster/Five Rivers Watershed Analysis.]
Hayduk is “eyes, ears and feet/hands on the ground” coordinator of this project. The day I show up, he has 164 home-propagated lupines and a couple of dozen Camus bulb starts. Zach and Casey from Lincoln Soil and Water Conservation District (LSWCD) soon arrive as part of their regular brush-clearing duties to fight back the canary grass and Himalayan blackberry bushes, both pernicious invasive species in our ecosystem.
They have an auguring machine to dig holes for all these pollinating plants Hayduk and his wife, Jen, grew in their Waldport home garden. Jen is the interim director of LSWCD.
The husband-wife team met in 2008 when they both worked for a backcountry conservation crew near Port Angeles. She’s from Pennsylvania, and Hayduk grew up in Woodinville (near Seattle) with his two older sisters and parents.
My dad was a general contractor in Seattle. My family had 1.5 acres and turned it into a formal English garden, so I spent a lot of time with plants.
He tells me he always knew he’d be working with plants as he got older. He did an undergraduate degree at Santa Clara University. He graduated from the Evergreen State College in 2012 with a master’s in Environmental Studies. One of his more unique programming experiences as a student was contributing to the Sustainability in Prisons Project (SPP) in school in Olympia.
I gravitate toward the prison work he did more than eight years ago. On SPP’s website, the goal is clear: “SPP brings together incarcerated individuals, scientists, corrections staff, students, and program partners to promote education, conserve biodiversity, practice sustainability, and help build healthy communities. Together, we reduce the environmental, economic, and human costs of prisons.”
Hayduk’s work now is all about conservation, restoration and replicating the natural systems that contribute to streambeds and streambanks gaining structures that make them prime refuge for young salmon and other species to blend into a natural ecological community, or web.
Stream Fish, Flora
Now there are some things in the world we can’t change — gravity, entropy, the speed of light, the first and second Laws of Thermodynamics, and our biological nature that requires clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean energy and biodiversity for our health and wellbeing. Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. It makes no sense to elevate economics above the biosphere, for example.
–– Canadian scientist and TV series producer David Suzuki
It goes without saying rehabilitating an ecosystem like a Coastal Range temperate forest is much more complicated (and complex) than sending a projectile into space.
Evan Hayduk is one of these “forest triage experts” — he sees what 150 years of headstrong resource exploitation, unchecked razing of ecosystems and overharvesting have done and how difficult it is to put it all back together.
I met up with him on the land where he is rehabilitating riparian and river systems. This article was precipitated by my interest in Hayduk’s association with Mid-Coast Watersheds Council, most notably the monthly guest speaker series, “From Ridgetop to Reef.”
He also has just received an impressive laurel: American Fisheries Society’s 2020 Rising Star Award. This is a recognition of Hayduk’s work as someone early in his career through a partnership with NOAA and the National Fish Habitat Partnership:
“Hayduk was recognized for the quantity and quality of his restoration projects and his cooperative work with agencies and landowners.”
He sent me the entire package — the award, the letters of recommendation, projects he has worked on, his college transcripts. As I’ve learned in the Deep Dive column reporting/writing, we have some real gems on the coast. Hayduk could be a superstar in a larger non-profit and in a bigger demographic.
His job with MCWC — promoting freshwater and coastal fish conservation — is one-part grant writer, one-part field expert, one-part people manager, one-part public engagement/relationships impresario. He told me that he goes to landowners with those streams, creeks and rivers run through their properties in order to find ways to encourage stream health and restoration mitigation.
My time with him in early June focused on the process of dropping 60-foot trees into streams, crisscross fashion. This might seem counterintuitive as a best practice for stream health, but in fact, it’s a dynamic natural way to rebuild stream beds and create a functioning healthy floodplain and wetlands cohesion.
He tells me this replication of an ecosystem’s natural hydrodynamic process creates these weirs and in-stream structures that “spread the creek out,” keeping gravel beds intact all the while connecting cold water refugia to the floodplain.
The most challenging aspect of these projects comes down to humans.
“We need to work with land owners,” he tells me. “I sort of see myself as the glue between everybody.”
He shows me this riparian floodplain near the Upper Little Lobster Creek where he and his crew of volunteers have planted conifers, including cedars, and other plants to help revitalize the power of those trees to hold in soil. When the deciduous alders age out (around 60 years), they have a tendency to fall. Conifers live longer and they too will fall and act as natural “damming structures” to replicate what a natural stream should be: a haven for salmon and other aquatic species.
I study all these saplings growing inside “cages” that protect their early growth from deer.
Wood Wide Web
“The wood wide web has been mapped, traced, monitored, and coaxed to reveal the beautiful structures and finely adapted languages of the forest network. We have learned that mother trees recognize and talk with their kin, shaping future generations. In addition, injured trespass their legacies on to their neighbors, affecting gene regulation, defense chemistry, and resilience in the forest community. These discoveries have transformed our understanding of trees from competitive crusaders of the self to members of a connected, relating, communicating system. Ours is not the only lab making these discoveries-there is a burst of careful scientific research occurring worldwide that is uncovering all manner of ways that trees communicate with each other above and below ground.” ― Peter Wohlleben, “The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — Discoveries from a Secret World”
The connection between healthy rivers, functioning floodplains, and healthy fish, Evan emphasizes while putting planting riverbank lupine (Lupinus rivularis) in clusters of four, is trees. I learned much of these interlinked processes while teaching and living in Spokane, working on issues around the Spokane River, a highly urbanized and suburbanized river. Those forested watersheds have much higher water quality. Trees also provide a wide variety of ecological services.
Hayduk sources logs from many places, including Georgia Pacific other for-profit outfits, land owners and from projects on BLM, State and National Forest lands.
While the tree canopy lessens the erosive impact of rain and slows the velocity of stormwater flowing towards the river, trees trap sediments that build the floodplain while the roots stabilize the riverbanks.
I jump into some “ponding” water just below one of the crisscross tree structures Evan and his volunteers had dropped into this moving water refugia, Little Lobster Creek. I was presented with nice stretches of fine sand and cul-de-sacs of great pebble beds, perfect habitat for salmon redds. Hayduk showed me fresh water mussels. Crayfish were scrambling in the shallows piercing the shadows underwater.
Hayduk emphasized that there are some healthy stream systems in our area where past disruptive logging practices and snag clearing have not been so impactful and permanent. However, the cost for this sort of project Hayduk is heading up tallies to $28,000 per acre, with invasive species, brush clearing and salvage log/wood placement as the large chunk of the bill.
The tree species that best work for the log weirs and dams are conifers, like Doug firs and cedar, that latter species having the added benefit of not rotting for decades while submerged.
It’s a no-brainer trees also provide shade for maintaining water temperature. To carry the analogy to the end point, we see fallen leaves, limbs and branches support food webs by providing food and habitat for insects that are food for fish, Hayduk states. Clean, cool water with more food equals bigger fish.
Nuances like growing alders on the flood plain or marsh plain encourages other species of trees to grow on the decaying fallen alder.
Looking at the ecosystem from a centuries-versus-a-few-decades perspective is important in understanding what Evan and others of his ilk are attempting. “Big conifers that fall help with grade control. Water tables rise. Conifers in the riparian areas can grow from 100 to 200 years before they fall into the creek.”
This concept of a “messy” stream refugia as being the most healthful for all species is anathema to the way most humans have thought about rivers. Scientists like Hayduk know fish get through any of the hurdles a natural stream environment presents them — even with huge logs and entire trees with root balls integrated into the water flow.
Big enough wood simulating log jams buy time to get refugia back to an interconnected vibrancy. Thus far, in this area, 28 structures have been laid on 2.4 miles of stream, Hayduk stated.
Fragility in a huge forest
He shows me areas where logging trucks came in and now the stream is bare of trees and also where channel incision had “down cut” incisions into the bedrock, not a healthy Coho or chinook refuge.
Again, this is a fragile complex system Hayduk and his cohorts work on. The flood plain is many yards beyond the actual stream channel. So, a 30-foot creek flood flow necessitates a 60-foot log or fallen tree.
The connection between fish, trees and rivers is now poised emerging in our urban areas as sound ecology and ecosystem management. Many cities, large and small, are recognizing the benefits of reestablishing the physical and emotional linkage between river, trees and the human community. For instance, San Antonio has its iconic River Walk, Chicago has just completed its riverfront, Washington DC has its Southwest Waterfront neighborhood, and Pittsburgh has reconnected neighborhoods to its three rivers via a network of urban trails.
We talk about the high turnover rate for positions like his own, as well as his wife’s at the Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District.
His wife Jen knows the connection of little things put back into an ecosystem having global ramifications. She obtained her master’s degree at OSU in marine resource management.
Back to the glossary: Jen Hayduk could explain the power of blue carbon, which is elegantly illustrated by this marine plant species she was studying — seagrass (Zostera marina). These seagrass habitats provide important “ecosystem services,” including their ability to take up and store substantial amounts of organic carbon, known as “blue carbon.”
Again, the couple not only understands the fragility of homo sapiens as an individual species in a time of COVID-19, but how the cultural and economic activities can so easily be disrupted.
No more volunteers out in the field, Hayduk tells me, and many projects are on hold and grants stalled/delayed because of the lockdown.
The lack of human traffic might be temporarily beneficial to such threatened species as the Northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina), marbled murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) and Oregon spotted frog (Rana pretiosa), but Evan Hayduk would rather spend time in the field with people throwing in to help him with his work with river and wetlands restoration.
His background in human rehabilitation through ecological health started with people locked out of society, in tiny prison cells.
“The effects of nature on incarcerated individuals is powerful,” Hayduk tells me. His mentor was Nalini Nadkarni, Ph.D., Founder of the Sustainability in Prisons Project. “Prisoners spend limited time outside. But the program demonstrated they are good with plant stuff. It’s a powerful therapeutic tool, working with the Oregon spotted frog raising them from tadpoles all the way to adult frogs and releasing them into the wild.”
For individuals like Hayduk, “the cure” is being outside, working with/within nature, and with people (Homo sapiens), who are also part of the ecosystems, whether we recognize it or not.
Right now, Jen and Evan are tending a huge Waldport home garden, pickled goodies like carrots, tomatoes and cucumbers. Jen has even gotten into exotic plant growing, selling one of her “children” on etsy.com for a pretty penny.
They are self-sufficient, well-traveled, share visions and know how to grow food. Traits we all might need when the you know what tied to global warming hits the fan.
Q&A: Evan Hayduk Style
Hayduk is a busy fellow, having put in 63-hour work weeks and rushing to harvest tons of garden produce and preserving them, an undertaking he and his wife Jen have been doing for several weeks. Still, though, Hayduk put down some compelling responses to my intrusive queries.
Paul: What are the three things you suggest citizens can do to help folks like you and nonprofits like MCWC do what you have to do to protect salmon habitat/refugia?
Evan: A. Help and protect beaver on the landscape. This is #1. Beavers do a better job to create and maintain salmon habitat than we could ever hope to. Tolerate beavers if you live on a property that has a stream. There are beaver solutions that make it easier to “live with beaver.” Inform your neighbors about the importance of beaver and join efforts to stop trapping and killing of this ecosystem engineer.
B. Get involved! Volunteer your time helping at a MCWC event (when we bring them back after COVID-19). If you live on a river or stream clear invasive species and plant natives. Or give us a call and we can help.
C. Donate! Donations to the MCWC are tax deductible! They go directly to helping us get projects on the ground that protect and improve salmon habitat. For a non-profit like ours, just a little goes a long way.
Paul: Who are two of your biggest influences in this work, in your life?
Evan: I think I’ll separate that out into two categories life/work.
Life: My parents. I grew up observing an absolute model of love, hard work and kindness. My dad worked his way from a carpenter to owning his own construction company. This instilled a work ethic that I couldn’t shake even if I tried. I spent weekends growing up working in our 1.5-acre garden, working with my dad to turn bare land into formal English gardens. If I don’t put in a good amount of time in any given weekend now, I feel like my weekend was wasted.
Work: I’ve been lucky along the way to have some great mentors. I mentioned to you Nalini Nadkarni, who I worked with at Evergreen with the Sustainability in Prisons Project. Nalini is the most amazing person I have ever been around. Her energy is contagious, and when she is in a room there is an electricity that is undeniable.
During my time at MCWC, I also have had amazing support from some Oregon Coast legends. Before retiring in November 2018, Wayne Hoffman was an absolute encyclopedia of information. I could walk into his office, ask about any given creek on the midcoast, and Wayne could ramble on forever about the stream, current conditions, past projects, habitat potential, etc. Fran Recht and Paul Engelmeyer, who started the MCWC back in the late 1990s, are both dedicated stewards of the environment and have devoted their lives to the midcoast. My success at MCWC is due in large part to Wayne, Fran and Paul, and the rest of the active MCWC board and community.
Paul: If you were to present to a high school class, what would your elevator speech introduction be to them.
Evan: Salmon and people aren’t that different. We all need cool, clean water to survive. The actions we take to restore salmon habitat — replacing bad culverts, placing large wood in streams, planting native trees and shrubs — all do more than just restore salmon habitat. These actions restore the natural systems and processes that give us idyllic images of cold-water streams rushing through lush, green mountain terrain. We are focused on salmon, but the work we do touches everything that lives on the landscape — from birds, to bees, to you and to me!
Paul: Ocean forest range here and Olympics are some of the best places on earth to capture carbon. What makes your work out here so vital to that part of the picture?
Evan: Carbon storage is story of our lifetime. We have pumped so much carbon into the atmosphere that we have offset the balance of the system. Protecting and restoring old growth forests, sinks for carbon, is vital. Restoring salt and freshwater marshes and wetlands is also crucial. We can keep carbon locked up in estuary mud or in a 10-foot diameter cedar tree, but if these systems that support these processes are not protected and restored, we are headed down a bad path.
Paul: What are two of your most observable successes thus far in your work here?
Evan: In the last couple years we have tackled some very big projects, though any large wood placed in a stream, any tree planted, or invasive species removed is a success. By far the most observable success was the North Creek culvert project. This project was completed in 2019, restoring full aquatic organism passage to 13 stream miles of pristine habitat on US Forest Service managed lands in the Drift Creek (Siletz) basin. The undersized culvert, installed in 1958, not only blocked adult and juvenile salmon from accessing habitat upstream, but also ceased river processes and degraded habitat above and below the culvert site. The complex project in a remote location was difficult, and 60 years of “Band-Aid” solutions failed because they didn’t address the real problem: the culvert itself.
Paul: A “land ethic” by Aldo Leopold says a lot — riff with it, as in these two quotes:
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
Evan: We as people often see ourselves as other, as separate from nature, but this couldn’t be more incorrect. We not only breathe the same air as all other beings on this earth, we have by every measure had a greater impact than any.
Paul: Again, if you as director got a $5 million check from nonprofit for your work, no strings attached, what would you use that for?
Evan: Well, a boy can dream, can’t he? I think acquisition of important habitat areas would be high on the list (other than just hiring other staff to help!). Though, giving a better wage and benefits package to our staff and work crew would be a no-brainer.
Paul: Give the young reader some spiel on why they might want to pursue a degree or degrees in the general field of environmental sciences tied to ecology during a time of COVID-19, dwindling budgets for these sorts of jobs and more and more tuition expenses.
Evan: I had a professor at Evergreen (Gerardo Chin-Leo) who liked to say one of my favorite expressions: “Science is the painful expression of the obvious”. He also liked to say “Ecology isn’t rocket science; it is way more complicated than that.” Everything in this world in inextricably connected, the clues are in the interactions of flora and fauna on the landscape. Uncovering these connections and understanding how the work we see today has evolved through millennia of interactions is incredibly enthralling (to me!). These times are hard (COVID), budgets are being slashed in this field, salaries in this line of work have never been great. However, the folks that choose this line of work have a greater calling. Understanding this complex world which we are a part of and working to restore ecosystems is more rewarding that any paycheck could ever be.
Paul: Wood wide web — In your own words, explain this concept, if you have any input around how this concept ties to what you are doing in the “preservation” field.
Evan: This gets at the complexity (it isn’t rocket science!) of the natural world. Above ground we see large trees, growing individually across the landscape. What we don’t see, is the complex system of roots, fungi and microbes below the soil that supports this vast forest. Tree talk to each other, conspire when drought is near, and share resources/nutrients through the fungal networks that have co-evolved with them over millennia. This is the original “community”, and our communities could get a lot of good out of better understanding how to work together towards a shared goal.
Paul: You are working in restorative ecology. Explain that.
Evan: We are working with a degraded landscape. We are also dealing with shifting baselines. Bad enough is the direct impact on habitat over the last 200 or so years, this has gone further to disrupt ecosystem processes that maintain what we think of as a functioning system. Restoring these processes is difficult, but if successful, process-based restoration can reset these systems to be self-sustaining. Though the impact can be quick, the restoration can take centuries. When we plant a tree for long-term recruitment of wood to a stream, it’s full impact won’t be felt for 100 or 200 years.
Paul: Then, you were working in a sort of restorative justice program at Evergreen tied to sustainability in prisons. Expand.
Evan: This is where I lean on the words of Nalini: the power of nature. Everyone who works with SPP sees the power of fresh air and getting your hands dirty. Working in a prison can be a dismal setting — windowless cells, limited outside time, fluorescent lights. This is not a restorative situation. There are major problems with the criminal justice system in this country, I don’t claim to be an expert on this. But I have seen the impact that building a greenhouse in a prison yard can bring. What the nurturing of a tiny plant from seed to flower can do for a person. We worked with prisoners to captive rear Taylor’s Checkerspot butterflies and Oregon spotted frogs in Washington. Watching these “hardened” criminals hand feed and raise these tiny creatures in a prison setting was restorative, for me, and for those individuals. The guys that raised the frogs made hats with “Cedar Creek (Prison) Frog Crew” printed on them, they wore them around the prison like badges of honor.
Paul: Where do you see yourself in 15 years? Location-wise, intellectually speaking, emotionally, and politically?
Evan: Oof. I’ve been so busy lately I’ve just been able to take it day by day. In 15 years, I’ll be 50. I have no idea where this world will be at that point, so I really can’t say where I’ll be either. Long term dreams are important, but right now I’m just thinking about how to get my projects on the ground for this summer…
Note: Story first appeared in Paul’s column, Deep Dive, Oregon Coast Today.
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March 6, 2016 March 11, 2016 bushfirebill Uncategorized
With the news that Nikki Savva’s husband, Vincent Woolcock, is working for the PM’s office, it’s starting to look like a typical Turnbull black op is underway.
It’s nasty. It’s vicious. It’s over the top. Quite Turnbullistic.
Not that Abbott doesn’t deserve some payback for all the trouble and misery he’s caused.
But whatever the reason, and whatever the truth about Abbott and Credlin (and I’m still waiting for some insider, pundit or Possessor Of The Savvy – where are you, Laurie Oakes? – to put on the record a denial that something sticky was going on) the Liberal Party has turned into a soap opera.
It’s got everything: betrayal, sex, money, beautiful people (well…), power, and greed.
Or perhaps The Munsters Ministers?
This is what you get when you put a wrecker in charge. It’s a classic Frankenstein’s Monster scenario: when the Beast gets tired of chowing down on villagers, it just burns down the village. Wreckers wreck. It’s in their nature.
Putting Abbott in charge of a party was bad enough. But putting him in charge of a nation? Then cutting him loose? We got “dead” and “buried”, sure, but someone forgot “cremated”. When you’re dealing with someone who’s so good at coming back from the dead, that’s a serious omission. Pretty soon the public will adding 2+2 on the politics and the party that put him there.
It was entertaining to see Laura Tingle call the ex-PM “an oaf”, on Insiders Sunday morning. The Insiders un-loaded, big time today, but where was an assessment this blunt just a few months ago? They even had Nikki on to spruik her book. Gone were the “Prime Ministerial At Last” declarations and the “Bill Shorten is a nerd” jokes. Without the slightest whit of self-reflection it was declared that Tony Abbott had been all bad, all the time. If you ever doubted the Theory Of Evolution, Insiders today was a quintessential example of Darwinian adaptation.
The pushback against Abbott is on the way. The Turnbull forces are hoping they can warn Tony off. They can’t. Tony only listens to himself. If anything is the hallmark of Abbott’s career it’s that, and an inability to toe the party line. When you’re against everything, you stand out, be it in the party room, the cement factory or the seminary. Tony doesn’t like being told what to think. Tell him the subject of the day and he’ll find a way to take the contrary view. It’s his best bet to be different.
Turnbull is similar, but slightly more suave about it. But even with Turnbull the cat gets strangled, the rival is pilloried, the enemy is disgraced. His anger management problem isn’t smaller than Abbott’s, just different.
Right now the Liberal Party has two leaders. Neither will give in. The problem is that neither of them are leaders. The nation can only stand by, watching this farce unfold and for the spoils to sift through the cracks.
(Hint: when things descend to the level of sex-scandal, and you’ve sooled the Feds onto your rival, there’s only one way down.)
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bushfirebill says:
They must be getting this “tough talk” idea from focus groups.
Poor focus groups! They want the government to be tough with cross benchers because the cross benchers rejected the very laws that the same focus groups hated under Abbott.
Geez. Talk about up ’emselves!
You have a similar cognitive dissonance with Tony Windsor. I heard John Hewson talking last night about a “revenge” votes against Windsor. Revenge? Yes, for not allowing Tony Abbott an extra 3 years to REALLY wreck the joint.
Windsor was one of the few outside Labor who saw Abbott for what he was… and acted on it. And they want to PUNISH him for THAT?
“Is this my cake? Can I eat it too?”
Nothing makes sense anymore.
Definitely logging off now.
2gravel says:
tlbd
Prat! I can think of a few more expressive words than that. I hope they don’t give in to that bit of blackmail. To paint the senate as the problem is so wrong. As usual the msm are happy running that line.
Like BB, I’m off for a three day break, Razz’ Mum is coming to supervise her, while I am going with Kids and Grandkids to Mallacoota, and hopefully get to go in the new boat and maybe have a go at catching a fish.
Have a good long weekend everyone, and look forward to reading about whatever happened political wise when I return.
jaycee423 says:
Interesting comment on the Whirlpool forum concerning regional NBN. capacity…I fully agree with this poster..:
” So, we live in a rural area. We *just* get mobile reception, but only with an external aerial (bouncing off a hill). Until recently, we had one of the old IPSTAR satellite systems, but it was always shit, and in the last year or so, stopped working completely. So we hooked up a mobile (Galaxy Ace), and were using that – it only gets 2 bars of reception, but that’s still 10x as fast as the satellite ever was.
About a month ago, we decided that we didn’t have enough downloads (1.5G on the mobile), so we got a new mobile broadband device and plan (http://www.telstra.com.au/small-business/broadband/mobile-broadband-devices/#tab-wifi-4g-advanced-ii – the $60/8Gb plan), hoping that it would have better reception. It didn’t – even with an extended aerial, it only gets one bar. The connection is much slower than the Galaxy Ace, and *way* more prone to extended drop-outs.
So we put the mobile broadband plan sim in the Galaxy Ace, and it worked – we were using the broadband plan, with the decent reception from the Ace.
Until this morning, when I get an SMS on the Ace, via the broadband sim, saying:
This SIM Card does not provide access to mobile data when used in a mobile handset. To access mobile data, please place this SIM card into a Mobile Boradband device, Tablet, or other data only device. To access mobile data on this device with this SIM card, please contact Telstra to change to an applicable postpait plan, or any prepaid plan. Need further help? Call us on 13 22 00 (Personal) or 13 20 00 (Business) we are here 24×7
I don’t want to change to a phone plan, because it costs way more per Gb, and I don’t want to use the thing for telephony anyway.
So my questions:
Why has this happened now? It was working for at least month. Have Telstra changed something?
Is there a good reason for this change?
Is there a way to get around this? Get the phone to report as a Tablet or something?
Is it worth even bothering to ring Telstra? I suspect I will just be fobbed off, or they will try to force me on to a more expensive plan. They have me by the balls, because no other carrier works out here, and there NBN satellite system is useless.”
Telstra must be chortling: “You only get a Turnbull NBN. once in a lifetime!”
Here is a report I put up in our (now defunct) community blog on a NBN. / Telstra / Local Govt’ meeting..
The “Find out more about” meeting on the 16th Sept’ 2015 at Cambrai Council Chambers between the ; NBN. / Telstra / Local Govt.’
I was in the “audience” as both observer and consumer of the Broadband Promise…I say “promise” , because that is what it was..a pledge to deliver 25MB/s. To every home by 2020.
Let me just make an observation here about one of our near neighbours , “across the ditch” ; New Zealand, who I believe, still mainly produce, package and export butter and other dairy products, get Broadband coverage of ..wait for it..from between 200MB/s. – 1GB/s. ..??
But we are told we WILL…not ARE…but will, (it’s a promise., remember..not a reality) get a whopping 25MB/s..because THAT , it appears , is all we will need..after all. WE are not making that much butter any more, since it seems we outsource our total manufacturing industries to the cheapest provider..Thank you LNP.
So let’s break down that meeting a tad..:
Basically, there were four “players” in the room..1) NBN. corp’ ; the owner or the product. 2) Telstra ; once the owner, now the retailer of the product ie; another ISP (Internet Service Provider). 3) Local Govt’ representative..; the liason / customer between US; the constituents, the ISP. Provider and the NBN. 4) WE, the people.
The NBN. Corp’ gave a power point presentation of what , where and when they will (see that ; “will” again) deliver that 25MB/s to one of three mixes in the area.
1) Fibre to the premises / node ?
2) Fixed wireless via selectively placed towers in proportion to population.
3) Saterlite to the sparsely populated areas.
Telstra , now reduced to little more than a ISP (internet service provider), delivered a mostly sales pitch about how THEY will (“will”)deliver to us ; the customer a superior service depending on your location, YOUR capacity with up to date tech’ equipment to be able to use that capacity . Townies , of course will be preferred. BUT..you can purchase these new, you-beaut products that will enhance your reception.
I will note here that there was conciliatory admission of the problem with “punching” transmission reception through the many thick limestone walls of these regional homes..hence the need for the customer to wander around the house and property to get mobile reception . On this point, allow me a degree of levity if I point out that The Vatican , with it’s limestone walls at least 10 feet thick, has not deprived The Pope, for at least a thousand years, the capacity to receive daily instruction from God through, I presume , a sort of “Royal Telephone”!…a delivery system with apparently so much more power that the NBN.
Local Govt’ and We the people can , I accept be bracketed in the one group on the subject : “What you see is what you will (“will” ) get” customer. In this age of the so-called “Free Market”, the one element of the equation that seems to always get over looked is the most important one..; The Customer….they , if the providers care to reflect are the reason the product is produced..THEY are the reason it will grow and become successful..if ..IF..the product is as good as promised and not just another crappy “just in time technology” that will have to be stitched and patched and band-aided over because of the ideological differences that demand a second rate product…Because, if we recall, under a Labor govt’ (and it can’t be either overlooked or denied!) the expectation from the original NBN. was fibre to the premises for every home in Aust’ except where physically unrealistic or impossible…but then with the LNP. govt’ the whole idea of a government owned enterprise was anathema to the ideology of the “free-market” principles of the LNP. and it’s succulents..so the NBN. was fractured, dissected, slaughtered to deliver what now looks like a dog’s breakfast of ; Multi mix, multi dates, multi ISP. Contracts and god knows when delivery with a MAX’ of 25MB/s!
In the end, I saw the whole exercise of the Information Day as a kind of “soft-sell” ..more of a reassurance that “it will come, it will come”..like the second coming and YOU will benefit ( there’s more “wills” in these promises than you’d find in the locked safe of any retirement village) ..But I will take a moment to make a sort of futurist observation..: In this high-tech’ shrinking world, I shouldn’t imagine it would be too difficult in the near future for a pirate broadband spectrum deliverer to broadcast from some inner-space platform, say; a all-weather balloon in the stratosphere or whatever, in another country’s air space , a broadband service to any who would like to hook-up and by-pass the local product for a “Better, Faster, Cheaper” broadband service..now wouldn’t THAT put the kybosh on things!
I leave the rest of the guessing to you, after all, you got till 2020.
Now, the funny thing is..Not many seem to “get it”..that NBN. co. has NOOOO intention to deliver AT ALL to the isolated regional areas…and we have been delivered into the greedy arms of Telstra as a “secure customer block” to do with as they please.
Tony Windsor “gets it”, many of us “get it”…the “it” being that regional Aust’, from the Fitzroy Crossing to Lakes Entrance, from the tip of Cape Yorke to The Gloucester Tree are going to be held in regional development suspended animation from the last century without a fully deliverable FTTP NBN. or it’s measurable equivalent in satellite or fixed wireless service.
We have not only been dudded…we have been betrayed and many are comatose on LNP. /MSM. Soma to even see it is being done
Think Big @Thought4rce 27m27 minutes ago
Turnbull will give us high-speed-rail to the node. The last kilometer will be serviced by horse & buggy. #BadgerysCreek #NBN #auspol
gigilene says:
I’d like a bit of rain:
https://delimiter.com.au/2016/03/11/shorten-pledges-greater-role-fttp-labor-wins-election/
What if the cross-benchers turn the tables and vote for Turnbull’s crappy bill? Where does that leave He Who Wants An Early Election?
The cross-benchers could come up with a cracking good excuse about not wanting to create chaos by bringing on an early election. It would be believeable, seeing as the polls keep telling us the voters want the government to go full term.
Times a thousand, Leone!
Mike A.T. Edwards @mikeATedwards 26m26 minutes ago Perth, Western Australia
@canthavepudding Just a random thought, but isn’t threatening the senate undemocratic?
"PM misleads public in desperate search for Double Dissolution trigger", says @BOConnorMP #auspol pic.twitter.com/y5kUSQBzN5
— Political Alert (@political_alert) March 11, 2016
Well-informed, up-to-date on party affairs, these Greens – NOT.
The other day NSW Greens pollie Jeremy Buckingham made a big song and dance about his intention to run against Barnaby in New England. Buckingham is currently a member of the NSW Legislative Council.
Fairfax Media can reveal the race for New England will get more crowded, with NSW upper-house MP Jeremy Buckingham close to announcing a dramatic switch to the federal sphere to contest the seat.
A senior Greens source confirmed on Wednesday that Mr Buckingham, who has established a profile in New England through years of campaigning against coal and coal seam gas mining around the Liverpool Plains, is being urged to run and is “seriously considering” putting his hand up.
Greens strategists believe his “attack dog” reputation, particularly against Mr Joyce’s complicated stance on mining, can significantly boost the Greens’ vote and “take more bark off Barnaby”
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/barnaby-joyce-faces-pincermovement-threat-from-tony-windsor-and-state-green-jeremy-buckingham-in-new-england-20160309-gnepnd.html#ixzz42YdWSeBA
Buckingham is more your attack sloth than attack dog, but anyway ……..
Turns out the Greens already have a candidate for New England, selected in August last year, a Mercurius Goldstein. Mercurius is an educator, based in Sydney. It’s a bit of a surprise, given the small number of Greens and Greens candidates in Sydney, that Buckingham had not heard Mr G was already the candidate (well, maybe not, Buckingham isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer) and even more surprising that the ‘senior Greens source’ Fairfax spoke to had not heard of his selection either. It was even on the news.
http://www.nbnnews.com.au/tag/mercurius-goldstein/
So in a desperate bit of damage control Jeremy Buckingham has had to issue a statement in which he announces he won’t be running in New England, tempting though the idea was, and claims he and Mercurius (that name should go down a treat in New England) have both been slaving away saving the country from CSG and mining. Funny they never talked about being selected as a candidate though, isn’t it, seeing as they are supposed to be such good mates and all.
STATEMENT FROM JEREMY BUCKINGHAM ON NEW ENGLAND
http://greens.org.au/news/nsw/statement-jeremy-buckingham-new-england
Mercurius ran in the 2015 NSW election as the Greens candidate for Northern Tablelands, which covers part of the New England electorate. He didn’t do too well.
http://www.moreechampion.com.au/story/2644965/greens-promise-new-approach/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/nsw-election-2015/guide/ntab/
Fawlty towers worthy.
Even Waffles’ ‘new’ ideas are nicked. From Labor.
Glad you're paying attention, @TurnbullMalcolm. pic.twitter.com/j971KvFMJP
— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) March 11, 2016
Same with innovation. It was Shorten’s idea. They copy some of the opposition’s policies while at the same destroying everything JG did.
Having dealt with the Libs, @GreensMPs are now seeking support,financially & otherwise.
Sorry @AdamBandt.NO.#auspol pic.twitter.com/ujDRaLNwn8
— #PutLibsLast‼️ (@johndory49) March 11, 2016
I’ve been thinking. Maybe we should be blaming Windsor. If the cross-benchers had gone with Abbott in 2010, he would have imploded back in 2012 instead of 2015. We’d be four years clear of him by now. Ashbygate might not have happened, the visceral three year vendetta against Gillard would probably have been a lot shorter and less comprehensive. The ‘failed experiment’ of the hung Parliament would be on Abbott’s head, not Gillard’s. And they’d never have been able to actually claim a mandate for anything.
I’m only half-kidding here, and I admit I’m utilising a whole lot of hindsight. But if the cross-benchers had said, “OK Abbott, we’ll give you our support for the moment, on the proviso that we can withdraw it any time at out discretion, let’s see if you’re any good,” things might have been interesting.
BSA Bob says:
Comment here about broadband in rural areas.
Our IPSTAR satellite, never real brilliant, has stopped working. To provider gives us no useful information,
a different story with every person we speak to. Can someone, I’m looking at you Jaycee but any advice is welcolme, give me their opinion on the state of the NBN satellite rollout & any options that may be available? We can only get satellite here, no mobile phone reception to speak of. I’ll look in in a few days (have no option because I’m now using the local library).
Great to see Windsor out & about again. I think he’s got a problem with the media though. Because one news story I saw nominated the NBN, Gonski & climate change as some of his main concerns. All areas heavily associated in one way or another with Turnbull & consequently all areas currently avoided by the media.
BSABob…At that information night back late last year, the NBN. chappy said that the satellite would be “operational” in 2016, but the regions would have to wait in a queue to be “served” by it..Our area could expect to wait till 2020…thatk you very much!
What is happening now, is that the NBN. has cut wireless services to this and I suspect many regions to next to useless(our LAP. office was without internet for a week or so) and has given Telstra a free hand to sell the outdated copper ADSL2. in the towns and replace wireless broadband with mobile broadband via a “Advance 2” modem…which is little more than a glorified mobile phone (w/sim card) for the more remote users….suffering the same sort of dropouts that you come to expect from a mobile in a remote area!
Welcome to the “real world” of Turnbulltech..
Denise C @SpudBenBean 40m40 minutes ago
Denise C Retweeted Van Badham
Seems the Greens have been played like a violin on senate voting reform. Why they should never ever trust the LIBS
Denise C added,
Van Badham @vanbadham
So the senate voting changes SURPRISE turned out to be LNP strategy to coerce the crossbenchers into Union-busting.
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The doco
thanks , Duck..
Well goodness. Ms Murph and I have had the same idea.
I wouldn’t argue with that
Cruz is asked about what would happen if there were a brokered convention.
“There is some in Washington who are having fevered dreams of a brokered convention… I think that would be an absolute disaster,” Cruz says.
“There are only two of us who have a path to the nomination… Donald and myself,” he says.
And here’s his sales pitch:
“If we nominate Donald Trump, Hillary wins,” Cruz says flatly.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/mar/10/republican-debate-miami-trump-cruz-rubio-kasich-live-us-election?page=with:block-56e23e14e4b0dfdfc092590c#block-56e23e14e4b0dfdfc092590c
Noice!
I’ll have to find that poem about Penelope and that Athens Rose…I have it here somewhere…I think it may have been written by Thucydides..or Euripides..or someone…..maybe Socrates!…now where is it…?
Phemius (in The Odyssey)
“Neither a purple-dyed robe, nor flaxen tresses, nor gold, nor a gem from India, nor any other ornament so adorns a woman as fair chastity in a fair heart. Cupid vainly attacks the home protected by such a good guardian.
Oh chastity, source and measure of bountiful child-rearing, oh sacred rule of the marriage bed! You alone separate us from the beasts, servant and friend of our beauty. It is your doing that a man sees his offspring are legitimate and his bloodline secure.
You alone endure as woman’s glory. Surpassing heaven, you lift up to the goddesses women who are more suited by a chaste homeliness than beauty marred by base crime. As a gem befits a fair ring, so a pure mind shines on a woman’s snow white countenance. ”
No roses but not bad.
Bejeebus!…He’s got it baad!
Y’know…I just reckon I could do better than that….and without the aching male worship for “purity of mind”.
First Dog does a Niki Savva; only better
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2016/mar/11/surely-we-have-to-take-some-responsibility-for-electing-this-giant-man-baby
Rubio unhinges, to wild applause
Marco Rubio scored a huge hit on the Republican debate stage in Miami on Thursday night, with strident rhetoric on the subject of Barack Obama’s reopening of relations with Cuba.
The Florida senator, the son of Cuban migrants, is seeking to win the Florida primary on Tuesday and thus rescue his flagging campaign for the White House.
He was asked about Obama’s trip later this month to Cuba, which is still governed by the Communist Castro regime. Rubio was asked why the United States should not engage further with Cuba.
Rubio said the US changes had allowed money to flow to the Castro regime, and added: “Nothing will change for the Cuban people … In fact things are worse, than they were before this opening.”
The only result of “the opening”, he said, was that the Cuban government had more sources of money.
It was a huge applause line.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/10/marco-rubio-republican-debate-us-cuba-thaw
The Penelope bird:
For even Madam Time is paused and her dead-hand held fast as the young women sly pass..with but a glance and wistful smile to those who adore..touch not vain blade lest the moment spoil to but gaze upon and weep with desire.
Oh women!…thine eyes alone would tempt a greater God than man’s humble creation and thy beauty even if only in the beheld eye enough to blind the honest to thievery and if thou desires; let thee accrue the price or the cost , beholden to no man’s pitiful measure..for it is thy cup that pours the bouquet and let know but that you will choose the bloodline..and your body the time and place….no disgrace!
Your choice ; glory or vainglory, let time grow jealous and men grow old while you can choose to look to either, for heaven befits a granted grace and beauty will reach even the heart of a stone, but the moment loaned of a woman’s touch can be for a wanting man enough to satiate the longing hunger for heaven’s gate!
(But then…I’m not presuming to tell you ladies nuthin’).
Gradually becoming NE II: “We’ll decide where you people will get roads, roads and more roads; not some namby-pamby lot of well-informed researchers like Infrastructure Australia”.
Alert: very ugly photo at top of page!
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/mar/11/malcolm-turnbull-days-of-passive-atm-handouts-for-infrastructure-are-over
I really, really wish Gabrielle Chan had written that article.
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Mitsubishi admits more models have incorrect consumption figures
Alexi Falson Aug 31, 2016
Car News, Mitsubishi
Alexi Falson
Mitsubishi executives have admitted more cars than initially reported have been involved in the fuel consumption scandal. CEO Osamu Masuko and head of R&D Mitsuhiko Yamashita confessed that domestic sales have been stopped, and owners in Japan would be compensated.
A press conference was called just hours after the Japanese transport ministry found that Mitsubishi had overstated mileage on eight of its vehicles, including the Pajero and Outlander. This is in addition to the four compact vehicles that were embroiled in the scandal in April, which resulted in major loss of public trust and forced Mitsubishi to turn to Nissan, who ended up acquiring a one-third stake for US$2.2 billion.
“Both competition and compliance have tightened in the industry, but we had a lax approach to compliance and this was one of the factors which led to this issue. We need to change this,” president Masuko Osamu said at the press conference.
Mitsubishi recently submitted revised data to the transport ministry, which revealed an 8.8 per cent disparity between the marketed and real-world consumption figures of its vehicles.
Masuko Osamu said Mitsubishi will compensate the 76,000 owners of impacted vehicles in Japan, $977 each. Masuko says the issue will also affect some of its overseas exports, where owners could be eligible for compensation, but continued to explain these numbers would be limited.
Mitsubishi has revealed a forecasted loss of more than US$1.4 billion this year in the aftermath of the scandal, the first loss posted in eight years for Mitsubishi.
Mitsubishi said the results of an internal investigation revealed that a lack of governance, poor communication and pressure culminated in the problem. In April, the company admitted to using unapproved mileage calculation methods for around 25 years.
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Alexi is a contributing news journalist and junior road tester at PerformanceDrive. He has a passion and appreciation for the engineering in cars, as well as new technologies that lessen the impact on the environment. His dream cars are an M3 to drive to work, and a LaFerrari for the weekend.
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PHILS RUMORS: Phillies looking to add infielder with clutch “Jean”
Ty Daubert
As a team looking to make a huge splash this offseason, the Philadelphia Phillies seem to be eyeing Seattle Mariners shortstop Jean Segura as a potential candidate for the first new face they bring in. Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reports that the Mariners, a rebuilding franchise, could be looking at infielder J.P. Crawford in a deal that would send Segura to Philadelphia.
Segura, who is signed through the 2023 season, has hit over .300 each of the last three seasons and led shortstops in batting average last season at .304. He is also a nifty shortstop in the field, which will help a Phillies ball club who did not get much offensive or defensive production out of that spot in 2018.
I believe that a package that includes Crawford, first baseman Carlos Santana, and a lower-end pitching prospect like Enyel De Los Santos could be what it takes to get Segura into red pinstripes. This deal would net the Phillies the first valuable piece of this important offseason that they desire, while continuing to allow them flexibility in regards to what players the team will go after in free agency or other trades. This move could allow them to move Rhys Hoskins to his natural position at first base and open up an outfield spot for someone like free agent superstar Bryce Harper. Jim Salisbury of NBC Sports Philadelphia also reports that a Segura trade does not rule out the potential signing of Manny Machado as the third baseman of the Phillies. The Phillies have many different paths they can take on their way to acquiring talent before next season and trading for Jean Segura just might be the right one to take first.
Ty Daubert is a baseball writer for Philly Front Office. Ty is a native of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and is currently a student at Cabrini University. He is also a baseball umpire for several organizations. Ty can be found on Twitter @TyDaubert
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Premier Ford’s derogatory term for mental illness offensive and unacceptable
“Any self-respecting members of [Ford’s] Cabinet should do the right thing and stand up to this kind of harmful rhetoric.” ― Warren (Smokey) Thomas, OPSEU President
Health Canada must protect Canada's public blood supply, not increase risk by expanding private collection
"Health Canada should focus on patient safety and supporting Canada's public blood system. Instead, they are supporting private companies to undermine our voluntary donation system.” — Larry Brown, NUPGE President
External review concludes govt. acted properly in Hassan Diab’s extradition case
Show your support for Diab by calling Justice Minister David Lametti on August 1 and 2 and urge him to launch an independent public inquiry into Diab's extradition and to reform Canada's extradition law.
BCGEU participates in provincial workers’ compensation system review
“Workplace injuries can be devastating for workers. Unfortunately, our current workers' compensation system just compounds their challenges.” — Stephanie Smith, BCGEU President
New grant from BC govt. helps distribute sanitary products, collects research on period poverty
“Good research leads to good public policy. We are excited about this project and the insights it will provide.” — Val Avery, HSABC President
Nova Scotia invests $1.86M in home care sector
“Home care workers are some of the most dedicated and compassionate people working in health care and government needs to treat them with the same respect they do other health care professionals.” — Jason MacLean, NSGEU President.
OPSEU demands government reverse its decision to privatize commercial fishery inspections
“Until the government reverses course, it’s basically telling the commercial fishing industry: you don’t have a license to fish, you have a license to steal.” — Warren (Smokey) Thomas, OPSEU President.
Correctional officer attacked on the job
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President Thomas's statement on distribution problems at the LCBO
The LCBO is a massive organization that provides critical investment in our public services. It should be run by people who know the retail business and who know Ontario’s alcohol system, not by people who only know Ford’s cellphone number.
BCGEU President Stephanie Smith writes to Premier Ford in support of OPSEU
"We stand with OPSEU and urge you to reconsider your archaic policies and harmful push for privatization." — Stephanie Smith, BCGEU President.
NUPGE signs off on letter opposing CETA ratification
"Canada and the E.U. should continue to support a type of economy which profits more than just the privileged few."
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Instructors at Maritime College of Forest Technology need to unionize
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NUPGE raises concerns that federal funding could be used to subsidize privatization
Unless the Minister completely rejects the idea that the Social Finance Fund will be used to "bring private funding, incentives and discipline into social services," past experience shows we need to assume that it will be used to subsidize the privatization of social services.
HSAA serves government with statement of claim
“This government was elected on a mandate of jobs, pipelines and the economy, not on picking a fight with working people. They consistently promised not to attack front-line workers. In just two months, they have already broken that promise.” — Mike Parker, HSAA President
NSLC right choice for cannabis sales expansion
"It is critical to keep our services public, and in making today's announcement about the sales of edible cannabis products, our provincial government is supporting good jobs in communities throughout Nova Scotia." — Jason MacLean, NSGEU President
Privatized services operator admits to fraud
Both Serco and G4S operate privatized services in Canada where wrong doing could have very serious consequences.
NAPE sounding alarm on ambulance ‘red alerts’
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EI improvements needed to protect low-wage workers
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Local & State Government Law Section Spring Forum (Webinar)
Who’s Got Your Back So Ya Don’t Get Hacked? Recent State Data Protection Laws and Regulations Generally, Education Data Protection Specifically
Legislation and regulation are catching up with the challenges of data protection at the state and local government level. This panel will provide an overview of these new state requirements. It will also examine as a case study the recent NYS Department of Education regulation on data protection and its impact on school districts and their private vendors. They will also discuss the scourge of ransomware attacks, and how these attacks can affect other state and local governmental entities, as well as private attorneys, firms and other businesses.
Smart Growth, Downtown Revitalization and the Emergence of “Sustainable Development Law” in New York State
Over the past decade, several laws and Executive Orders have been enacted that support the Triple Bottom Line of Smart Growth and Sustainable Development Environment, Equity and Economy. Case studies will be used to demonstrate how sustainable development laws and related programs have worked in concert to achieve sustainable community development, particularly in the context of Governor Cuomo’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative. The roles of both state and local planners in implementing these laws and programs will also be discussed.
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Will Oakland Raiders Play In San Diego Or At Coliseum In 2019-2020 Before Las Vegas Stadium?
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Atlanta GA Cyber-link to Oakland, CA – The Friday April 20th morning meeting of the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Joint Powers Authority (Coliseum JPA), consisted of an impatient group of people minus Oakland District Three Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney. That’s too bad, because the Downtown-West Oakland-Adams Point rep who’s showed up for what I’m told is about less than half of all of the Coliseum JPA meetings this 2017-2018 season, missed a doozy of a session: one that may have determined Oakland’s future course in sports history.
The Oakland Raiders, and more specifically Mark Davis giving direction to team president Marc Badain, have still not told the Coliseum JPA if they are going to take the lease extension deal offered to them in February: one that winds up doubling the rent for 2020 to $6 million.
Of the JPA Board Members i’ve contacted, there were some who wanted to lower the rent ask to the Raiders, and others who objected, and none who wanted to be named for this news post. The outcome? The Raiders have less time to respond to the lease offer than before: June 30th is the date. I think that’s a good thing.
The Oakland Raiders have been jacking around the Coliseum JPA almost since they came back to Oakland. Al Davis blasted the deal on national TV in 1997. Then the Raiders went lawsuit happy and tried to win damage money against Oakland in court because they were cartoon-level lines-coming-out-of-their heads pissed off over the bad PSL sales two years later. Then came a nice run to Super Bowl 39, and a quite period of seeming bliss from 2002 to 2007.
Then in 2008, the Raiders were unhappy again, and talking about moving back to LA, having rejected San Francisco 49ers Head Coach Jed York’s offer to share his Levi’s Stadium because, as Jed told me, “Mark didn’t like the color of the seats (red)”. That started a near un-broken string of whining on the part of the Silver and Black, with vacations from the rancor in 2009-2010, only to resume in 2011, and continue with San Antonio, Carson, and eventually Las Vegas as relocation targets. And, with the Raiders holding what ESPN called “secret meetings” for three years from 2014 to 2016, before getting their stadium deal approved by the Nevada Legislature October 16, 2016.
So, almost since they got back to Oakland, the Raiders have either bad mouthed the deal, threatened to move, and held meetings behind the collective back of the Coliseum JPA, all the while asking for as low rent as possible, and even (allegedly) withholding parking money the JPA was supposed to receive.
So, it’s not hard to understand why the Friday morning meeting of the Coliseum JPA consisted of some folks who’d had enough of being treated like the Oakland Raiders occasional side piece. That feeling increased when the news the Raiders were, as it was put, “snooping around” San Diego was let out at the meeting. Yep, the Oakland Raiders have been trying to be the temporary San Diego Raiders until the Las Vegas Money Pit, uh, I mean stadium, is read… Whenever it’s ready.
To date, the Raiders have no announced a deal in San Diego. Considering a number of factors, it’s no wonder: the Chargers rent was $3.3 million, which is about what the Raiders are set to pay the Coliseum JPA this year. Then there’ travel costs and housing costs, and luxury suite sales, and basically all of the considerations they are facing in Las Vegas, save the new stadium planning, and the Raiders are in a costly and unnecessary spot in San Diego; staying in Oakland makes more sense, but Mark Davis seems bent on making the JPA go back to its customary position of nice guy finishing last and getting cheated on by his wife.
“This is a divorce” was the view constantly given to me by a number of Coliseum JPA Members, and so they feel, to a person, that the Raiders owe them.
They’re not a happy group, the Coliseum JPA. I have to admit, the Oakland City Council and the Alameda County Board of Supervisors would have to be high on weed not to share their view. But considering the meeting was held on 4-20 and one of their members was absent once again, maybe many of them are.
Meanwhile, between now and June 30th, the Raiders find themselves on the clock, and I’m not referring to the NFL Draft.
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The Mormon Church Doesn’t Hate Weed as Much as It Loves Money and Power
By Chris Roberts • 06/19/18 6:00am
Holy writ aside, money is power. Kaitlyn Flannagan for Observer
Whether Utah qualifies as America’s resident theocracy (as its founders intended) is a subject of debate, but no reasonable person can deny the significant power wielded there by the Mormon church.
In state politics, the church’s presence looms in a way Amazon or the Koch brothers do elsewhere. In 2016, a hate-crimes bill was scuttled in the state Legislature because, the bill’s sponsor said, “of a press release issued by my church.”
Holy writ aside, money is power, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has an unholy pile of it. Its adherents gave the church a reported $33 billion in tithes alone in 2010, and, that year, church leadership gleaned another $15 billion from investments in real estate and the stock market.
All this is to say that while the Mormon church is not invincible and its dominance over day-to-day life in Utah may be waning, it remains a major player in Utah politics. This underscores the significance of the church’s predictable and steadfast opposition to a state voter initiative, which will appear on Utahns’ ballots in November 2018, that would legalize medical marijuana.
On its face, standing in the way of giving medical marijuana to sick people doesn’t seem like a political winner for the church.
Just under 63 percent of Utahans identify as Mormon. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a similar number of Utah voters identify as conservative. But tracking with the rest of the country, these self-described conservative Republicans overwhelmingly support medical cannabis—a stance also shared by U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, himself a Mormon.
But Hatch is retiring, and key population centers in Utah like Salt Lake City are becoming steadily less Mormon. Though most Mormons say they are still heavily involved in church activities, the LDS church is not infallible—when church elders branded same-sex couples as “apostates,” hundreds of members resigned in protest. All this to say that while the church is still a political and economic powerhouse, there are cracks in the facade—cracks that are less apparent in institutions like the state Legislature, where 90 percent of elected representatives are Mormon.
If passed, the Utah Patients Coalition’s proposed initiative would be among the nation’s most restrictive cannabis laws—laws that have not created any intractable problems anywhere else in the union, according to data—but the church is nonetheless claiming that limited cannabis access for sick people would create “serious adverse consequences” for the state.
But so far the church has stopped just short of telling its members outright to vote against the initiative—that would be “political campaign intervention” as opposed to mere “issue advocacy,” a technicality that nonetheless allows the church to hang onto its tax-exempt status—but it is clear the church feels threatened in some way.
There is a worldly theory: According to a trove of documents obtained and published by MormonLeaks and analyzed by a Reddit user, about $1 billion of the church’s $32 billion in stock-market holdings are in pharmaceutical companies. Pharmaceutical companies oppose medical marijuana for obvious reasons—if cannabis is medicine you can grow at home, the value of patented medicines drops—but there is a spiritual angle as well. For proof, look at the Catholic Church’s similar reaction.
In 2016, with marijuana legalization looming in California, Salvatore Cordileone, San Francisco’s own archbishop issued a statement “inviting” voters in his flock to oppose Prop. 64. Cordileone’s opposition wasn’t surprising—a known and outspoken political conservative, Cordileone led marches against gay marriage—but even the much chiller Pope Francis has made his opposition to drug legalization known. Leaders from other religious traditions have also signed onto other similar policy statements that alternately try to tie cannabis legalization to the opioid epidemic or proclaim that legalization is just a cover for the billion-dollar marijuana industry.
But how does weed threaten religion, exactly? The answer is simple and cynical.
Harken back to the Mormon church’s blanket prohibitions on alcohol and caffeinated beverages (the latter of which even ISIS does not deny its adherents), and remind yourself why drug prohibition began in the first place. Identifying (or in this case, creating) “individual deviance,” discouraging it, and “encouraging conformity” is the very definition of social control. Laws like drug prohibition are instruments of social control, but their purpose and function are obvious enough.
Remind yourself what the typical pattern of behavior is in the face of a threat. It is to lash out and in: to attack and neutralize the threat, while clinging ever tighter to what’s left. Here again the Catholic Church provides an example. Its power is declining across the world. In heavily Catholic Ireland, voters just legalized abortion, a few years after legalizing gay marriage. This follows a pattern seen in other countries.
Here’s the thing with religious dogma: there’s no room for debate or reform. Religions are there because they provide the easy answers. They provide a solution to the dilemma of freedom and all the anxieties uncertainty creates.
And that’s also dogma’s central flaw. Put one crack in the facade and five more appear. Start tracing those lines, and the whole edifice will crumble.
Putting theology aside for a moment, churches exist to consolidate and dispense power. Both the Mormon and Catholic churches have an organized central hierarchy and significant wealth in real estate and other worldly possessions. And they do so even more profoundly within a religious framework. What is more powerful than the source of creation itself, and the force that sets the rules that determine the difference between heaven and hell? If you can get someone to listen to one rule, maybe they’ll listen to another. They might even swallow the whole list. Imagine what else you could compel someone so swayed to do!
Not long ago, Utah restaurants were allowed to remove their “Zion curtains”—the glass partitions set up between bar patrons and the bartenders mixing their drinks. The Mormons ceded ground there. If it yields on marijuana legalization, what might be next?
In this way, marijuana legalization is a symptom of religions’ recognition that their monopoly on these answers is weakening. Their choice to stand in the way—and get run over—is only accelerating their decline.
Filed Under: Politics, National Politics, ISIS, marijuana, marijuana legalization, Pope Francis, Orrin Hatch, pharmaceutical industry, Catholic Church
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Helen Mirren Just Burned “Dinosaur” Trump With This HILARIOUS Quote
Trump Adviser: Rules Keeping Banks From Stealing From Retirees Are Like Slavery
Donald Trump, the overgrown toddler who has somehow risen to become the Republican presidential nominee, would like the public to believe his skin is as thick as the hide of a Tyrannosaurus rex, so one would suspect the comments of Hollywood legend Helen Mirren about his appearance will roll right off his back. However, the public knows Trump’s skin is as thin as the excuses he has offered to explain why he refuses to release his taxes.
Mirren was attending a lunch in New York City at the posh Le Bernardin, which boasts caviar at $155 an ounce, to promote her new film “Eye in the Sky.” She took time out of her busy promotional schedule to generously say a few words about the orange failed businessman. Mirren said of Trump:
I think there are a few old dinosaurs left, and I think Mr. Trump is one of them. Enormous body, small head, small hands. Those little dinosaury hands. But you know, I am a great optimist. I believe in the young and young women. I think the dinosaurs will die out.
Mirren’s dig at Trump is certainly a sore spot for the faux-billionaire, and one which has afflicted him for decades. The observation of Trump’s childlike hands began in the 1980s by now Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter who wrote in “Spy magazine” that Trump was a “short-fingered vulgarian.”
According to Carter his comments incensed Trump so badly that he has carried a grudge for years, and regularly sends Carter pictures of his hands, with the fingers circled in golden sharpie with a comment, “See, not so short!” Trump even once said in defense of his sausage-like appendages:
My fingers are long and beautiful, as, has been well-documented, are various other parts of my body.
Trump’s short fingers have become so renowned there is even a political action committee named “Americans Against Insecure Billionaires With Tiny Hands” which demands Trump “release the measurements” as they are rightly concerned, “If the White House phone rings at 3 a.m. will his little hands even pick up the receiver?”
The comparison to Trump to a tyrannosaurus rex earlier, however, was not accurate. If one were to liken Trump to a dinosaur, then only one is apt, the Microraptor, which is the smallest dinosaur ever discovered.
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Share this Story: 'They said, 'If you don't calm down, you're going to end up getting shot'': Police take down armed man at Billings Bridge mall
'They said, 'If you don't calm down, you're going to end up getting shot'': Police take down armed man at Billings Bridge mall
Megan Gillis
Ottawa police Photo by File photo /Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa police say officers armed with rifles tackled and arrested an armed man who was accosting people at a local mall Sunday, during the peak of pre-Christmas shopping.
Police safely arrested and disarmed the man, who has not been identified, at Billings Bridge Shopping Centre after the incident at the mall and nearby McDonald’s restaurant around 5 p.m. A firearm was recovered.
'They said, 'If you don't calm down, you're going to end up getting shot'': Police take down armed man at Billings Bridge mall Back to video
No shots were fired and no one was hurt, said police, who reported they issued an alert about the arrest “to allay any public concern.”
The incident began with a dispute between two people near the mall, then the suspect made his way to the shopping centre, police said.
There he’s alleged to have told a number of people he had a firearm on him and showed it to a number of people while threatening them.
A store employee called 911 to say he saw a firearm on the person, sparking the police response.
“Obviously a number of people in the mall were quite frightened seeing five or 10 police officers tackling a person and not knowing what happened,” Sgt. Peter Van Der Zander said.
“This person had a weapon on him and had accosted a number of different people.”
Ultimately he was tracked down near the drug store in the mall.
Shopper James Grant Porter, 55, was sitting on a mall bench outside the pharmacy when he saw the man from behind as he was being tackled by police near the exit from the Independent grocery store.
“Tonight was pretty unreal,” said Porter, who saw police, rifles drawn, run into the mall through the main and grocery store entrances.
“It was a matter of seconds. They got him down, nobody got hurt,” Porter said.
“They said ‘if you don’t calm down, you’re going to end up getting shot.’ ”
All Porter said he saw of the man as he was carried out in shackles was one of his feet, which was bare.
“After that, the mall cleared right out,” he said.
“The weapon he had in his possession is now in police custody along with the accused,” Van Der Zander said.
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$50,000 Professional Prize Money
June 14th - June 18th 2021
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August 15th - August 21st 2021
Best of Hawaii Golf 2021
11 Days in Golf Paradise
August 15th - August 25th 2021
7 Day Tour and Tournament
Mission Hills Haikou & Sheraton Shenzhou
10 Day Tour and Tournament
Briscoe's Pro-Teams Golf Invitational
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Welcome to Pacific Golf Management
Pacific Management is a market leader in.
Golf Events, Tours & Tournaments
Golf Course & Resort Management & Operations
Corporate Golf Days & Events
Golf Consultancy - Design – Construction – Operations
Pacific Management was formed in 1990 by Richard Ellis.
Richard has been a golf professional for more than 30 years, born in Brisbane Australia and spent 14 years as a tournament professional, he won 15 tournaments playing the Asian, Australian, New Zealand & South Pacific golf tours.
Richard is one of the most respected names in Australasian golf served as President of the New Zealand PGA for 10 years, was a director of the PGA Tour of Australasia for 15 years. Richard was awarded golfs International goodwill trophy by the International Golf Association in 1998.
Richard was instrumental in setting up the South Pacific Professional golf circuit with tournaments in Fiji, Samoa, Tahiti, Rarotonga, New Caledonia & Vanuatu.
In 1983 Richard made his first venture into the corporate world setting up Auckland’s first golf driving range and within 12 months the associated golf shop became NZ’s largest retailer of golf equipment. In 1986 Richard over a management contract to run Auckland’s busiest public golf course at Takapuna.
In 1990 Richard formed Pacific Golf Management and took a 50% shareholding in Takapuna Golf Course and embarked on a major course redesign which also included new clubhouse and all weather golf range.
Since 1990 Pacific Golf Management has been involved in numerous golf related projects including a number of golf expos, management of New Zealand’ first true international golf resort at Gulf Harbour Country Club and Lakes Resort an 18 hole International course with exclusive gated residential community.
Apart from golf course and resort management Pacific Golf has been contracted by a number of International companies to organise national wide and overseas corporate golf events. The most significant event Pacific Golf has organised was 1998 World Cup of Golf held at Gulf Harbour Country Club. This was largest prize money event ever held in Australasia with a $3 million purse. The event saw the likes of Sir Nick Faldo, John Daly, Colin Montgomerie, Padraig Harrington and Angel Cabrera compete, the tournament was televised to over a 130 countries worldwide.
Pacific Golf organises a number of very successful overseas golf tours and tournaments in Hawaii, Fiji, Asia, Australia and South Pacific Islands.
Above left: South Pacific Golf Classic New Caledonia - Professional & Amateur winners Michael Long & Ross Jenkins
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How Gwyneth saved Meryl Streep’s Thanksgiving
By Julie Gordon
December 3, 2014 | 1:45pm
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It’s nice to have a neighbor like Gwyneth Paltrow.
Oscar winner Meryl Streep used the domestic diva’s oven after hers malfunctioned on Thanksgiving, quite convenient since the actresses live in the same Tribeca apartment building.
“I had a Thanksgiving disaster because my oven didn’t work,” Streep said on Wednesday’s episode of “Live with Kelly and Michael.” “I hate my oven. I hate it. And you never hate your oven more than on Thanksgiving Day when it won’t cook the turkey.”
Appropriately, the goop founder, whose annual holiday gift guide featured a $4,739 gold juicer, “has the best oven I have ever seen in my life.”
“[The apartment] is a beautiful, beautiful place,” Streep added.
Unfortunately, there wasn’t an A-lister run-in, as Paltrow & Co. weren’t home for the holiday. “I emailed her. … They weren’t there,” Streep said.
The building’s doorman let Streep and one of her daughters, “who was dying” to be inside the gorgeous New York apartment, inside.
Streep said she was able to cook her turkey at her own apartment — after a whopping 11 hours in the oven — but used Paltrow’s pad for whipping together the side dishes.
“I did all the sides in her oven,” the “Into the Woods” star told Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan. “The sides were fantastic.”
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Is Candice Swanepoel channeling Beyoncé?
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Soap opera star Jensen Buchanan arrested for DUI
By Derrick Bryson Taylor
May 20, 2016 | 9:41am
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers arrested for DUI in Malibu after car crash
Garrett Hedlund arrested for DUI earlier this year
Olivia Jade Giannulli's boyfriend, Jackson Guthy, arrested for DUI
'Melrose Place' star Amy Locane going back to prison for 2010 DWI crash
Jensen Buchanan was arrested on Wednesday for driving under the influence.
The beloved soap opera actress, 53, was driving west on Calif., Highway 154 around 6:19 a.m. when she drifted into oncoming traffic, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Buchanan’s black Mercedes slammed into a white Ford C-Max hybrid.
Both Buchanan, who suffered minor injuries, and the driver of the hybrid, 56-year-old Bradley Asolas, who suffered major injuries, were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
While it seems Buchanan has hit a personal low, she recently returned to television to star in the “Young and the Restless” after a lengthy hiatus. Her acting credits also include “One Life to Live,” “As the World Turns” and “General Hospital.”
“Sometimes you need to take a break from something to really get your enthusiasm and excitement back, and it really gave me a great appreciation for how fun it is, how challenging it is,” she told CBS in 2015.
A rep for Buchanan had “no comment” on the matter.
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John Berry, original Beastie Boys member, dies at 52
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SKU: 9781250153296. Category: Biography.
An intimate, revealing look at one artist’s journey from self-censorship to full expression
As one of the most celebrated musicians in the world, Alicia Keys has enraptured the globe with her heartfelt lyrics, extraordinary vocal range, and soul-stirring piano compositions. Yet away from the spotlight, Alicia has grappled with private heartache-over the challenging and complex relationship with her father, the people-pleasing nature that characterized her early career, the loss of privacy surrounding her romantic relationships, and the oppressive expectations of female perfection.
Since Alicia rose to fame, her public persona has belied a deep personal truth: she has spent years not fully recognizing or honoring her own worth. After withholding parts of herself for so long, she is at last exploring the questions that live at the heart of her story: Who am I, really? And once I discover that truth, how can I become brave enough to embrace it?
More Myself is part autobiography, part narrative documentary. Alicia’s journey is revealed not only through her own candid recounting, but also through vivid recollections from those who have walked alongside her. The result is a 360-degree perspective on Alicia’s path, from her girlhood in Hell’s Kitchen and Harlem to the process of growth and self-discovery that we all must navigate.
In More Myself, Alicia shares her quest for truth-about herself, her past, and her shift from sacrificing her spirit to celebrating her worth. With the raw honesty that epitomizes Alicia’s artistry, More Myself is at once a riveting account and a clarion call to readers: to define themselves in a world that rarely encourages a true and unique identity.
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About picoCTF
Research Vision
Big Learning, Small Challenges
pico-Boo!: How to avoid scaring students away in a CTF competition (2019)
Automatic Problem Generation for Capture-the-Flag Competitions (2015)
PicoCTF: A Game-Based Computer Security Competition for High School Students (2014)
picoCTF: Teaching 10,000 High School Students to Hack (2013)
picoCTF 2013 - Toaster Wars: When interactive storytelling game meets the largest computer security competition (2013)
If we cannot make learning cybersecurity easy, then we will make it fun. Many capture-the-flag (CTF) competitions are designed by elite hackers for elite hackers, but on the picoCTF team we have software engineers, system admins, artists, students, teachers, administrators, new hackers, old hackers and we make a competition for high school and middle school students. Being so close to the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), every picoCTF competition has mind-bending challenges to challenge the saltiest hacker, but that’s the end of the journey for anyone prepared enough to make it that far.
Two key aspects separate picoCTF from other CTF’s: we provide the necessary tools to solve challenges to every participant & we provide “on-ramp” challenges in almost every category. About the first point, our website includes a “web shell” that grants access to our Linux server where we have pre-installed tools that participants need to analyze and solve challenges. The upshot is that high school students with access to old hardware or non-traditional devices (such as Chromebooks) can still participate. No preparation or installation of tools is required for picoCTF. Second, about “on-ramp” challenges, our team carefully crafts challenges that slowly introduce participants to using the shell, to making use of extensive learning resources we provide, and to the traditional CTF categories themselves, namely: binary exploitation, reversing, web exploitation, forensics, cryptography. Some on-ramp challenges fall under a “general skills” category which many times are computer science concepts such as number bases or encodings which are crucial to understanding many other problems farther down the path.
Finally, as far as “fun”… not everyone is motivated by competition (though many are). We also provide a videogame each year to provide something enthralling for explorers. Participants discover problems slowly as they solve others, and the yearly competition inspires collaboration between student teams. There is no way to make every cybersecurity concept easy, but our multifaceted strategy for making learning about cybersecurity enjoyable inspires students to work together, to learn to solve seemingly intractable challenges and incidentally learn quite a bit about computers and security along the way.
Abstract: The lack of computer security experts poses a challenge for the private sector and national security. To encourage middle & high school students to learn more about cybersecurity, picoCTF was created in 2013. picoCTF is a “capture the flag” computer security exercise built on top of a video game that teaches students technical skills such as reverse engineering, forensics, cryptography, and binary exploitation. The challenges are specifically designed to be hackable and provide a safe and legal way to explore cybersecurity. Since the first competition in 2013, picoCTF has grown from around 2,000 teams to 8,000 eligible middle & high school US & CA teams and over 27,000 total global participants in the 2018 competition. Two key changes have been implemented since the competition’s inception to improve learning outcomes and increase student engagement. More introductory and intermediate difficulty problems were added to each category, gradually increasing in difficulty. Also, a new “classroom” feature was added to the competition that allows teachers to create internal scoreboards and track student progress. An analysis of the results of the 2018 competition shows that these new problems kept students engaged for more problems in the competition, and students with teachers who utilized the classrooms feature performed better than students with teachers who did not.
Abstract: Computer security games, especially capture-the-flag (CTF) competitions, are growing in popularity. A typical CTF contest presents users with a set of hacking challenges, where correct solutions reveal a text “flag” that can be submitted to a scoring server. In traditional CTF architectures, the problem and the flag are the same across the competition.
In this paper we discuss automatic problem generation (APG), where a given challenge is not fixed, but rather can have many different automatically generated problem instances. APG offers players a unique competition experience and can facilitate deliberate practice where problems vary just enough to make sure a user can replicate the solution idea. APG also allows competition administrators the ability to detect when users submit a copied flag from another user to the scoring server. In 2014 we ran a large-scale CTF competition called PicoCTF, where we measured the prevalence of flag sharing. Our results indicate that about 0.8% of flags submitted to AGP problems were copied, with 14% of teams submitting at least one shared flag. In 68% of flag sharing cases, teams went on to eventually solve the problem on their own.
Abstract: The shortage of computer security experts is a critical problem. To encourage greater computer science interest among high school students, we designed and hosted a computer security competition called PicoCTF. Unlike existing competitions, PicoCTF focused primarily on offense and presented challenges in the form of a web-based game. Approximately 2,000 teams participated, with students playing for an average of 12 hours. We present the game-based competition design, an evaluation based on survey responses and website interaction statistics, and insights into the students who played. Further we have released our platform and challenges as an open source project, which has been adapted into the curricula of 40 high schools. Since its release in August of 2013, the PicoCTF platform has been used to host six other capture-the-flag competitions.
Abstract: In the spring of 2013, two student-lead organizations, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning and Team Osiris, designed and hosted a computer security competition for high school students called picoCTF. Unlike existing competitions, picoCTF focuses primarily on offensive hacking skills presented in the form of a web-based video game to better excite students about computer science and computer security. Over the 10-day competition nearly 10,000 middle and high school students participated across almost 2,000 teams vying for $25,000 in prizes, making picoCTF, to the best of our knowledge, the largest hacking competition ever held. The competition introduced thousands of high school students to advanced topics such as the command-line interface, cryptographic ciphers, the client-server paradigm of the web, file system forensics, command injection, data representation, and program representation. picoCTF sets a new standard in scale and educational impact in pre-collegiate computer science.
Abstract: Computer security competitions have become a great resource for students who are interested in computer science as a career. Most of these computer security competitions, commonly known as CTFs (Capture the Flag), are presented in a Jeopardy Board style of gameplay. This type of presentation only displays the problems and lacks a compelling storyline, interaction, or player immersion. A team of five graduate students (dubbed Team Osiris) from Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center worked with Carnegie Mellon’s Hacking Club PPP to create `picoCTF,’ a computer security competition to encourage U.S. middle school and high school student’s interest in computer science. It was Team Osiris responsibility to add gamification to picoCTF; to push the game presentation beyond a static Jeopardy Board. Team Osiris created game design, art, animation, and programming around a fun, interactive story. The result of this effort was Toaster Wars, a CTF game experience. The competition took place from Apr. 26th to May 5th 2013, were almost 10,000 players participated. By adding gamification to picoCTF 2013 or Toaster Wars, players had a more immersive learning and competition experience.
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The Power of Hand-Washing to Prevent Coronavirus
The single most important piece of advice health experts can give to help us stay safe from COVID-19 is this one: Wash your hands.
"In the final analysis, it's the hands. The hands are the connecting piece," says Elizabeth Scott, PhD. Scott co-directs the Center for Hygiene and Health in Home and Community at Simmons University in Boston.
"You can't necessarily control what you touch. You can't control who else touched it. But you can look after your own hands," she says.
Hand-washing — with soap and water — is a far more powerful weapon against germs than many of us realize.
Scott says it works on two fronts: "The first thing that's happening is that you're physically removing things from your hands. At the same time, for certain agents, the soap will actually be busting open that agent, breaking it apart."
Coronaviruses, like this year's version that has left 100,000 worldwide infected with COVID-19, are encased in a lipid envelope — basically, a layer of fat. Soap can break that fat apart and make the virus unable to infect you.
The second thing soap does is mechanical. It makes skin slippery so that with enough rubbing, we can pry germs off and rinse them away.
Sounds pretty simple, but the vast majority of people still don't do it right.
A 2013 study had trained observers discreetly watch more than 3,700 people wash their hands. It found that only about 5% of them followed all the rules. About one in four people just wet their hands without using soap — a move hygiene researchers call the "splash and dash." About one in 10 didn't wash at all after a trip to the restroom. The most common shortcoming for most people was time. Only 5% spent more than 15 seconds washing, rubbing, and rinsing their hands.
Scott says that's not good enough if you're trying to keep from getting sick.
With a new virus on the loose, the stakes are higher now. It's time to bring your technique up to speed.
How? Well, first turn on the water. It doesn't matter if it's hot or cold.
"We've done research on water temperature, and what we've discovered is that water temperature doesn't really matter in terms of effectiveness," says Donald Schaffner, PhD, who studies predictive food microbiology, hand-washing, and cross-contamination at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.
Second, lather up. The soap helps germs slip off your skin as you rub your hands together.
If you're in control of the soap you're using, you may want to pick a liquid or gel over foaming pump soap. A 2017 study that compared liquid and foam soaps from the same brand found that washing with foam didn't significantly reduce bacteria on the hands of people who were in the study, while washing with a liquid soap did.
The study was small and the first of its kind. Generally, scientists like to see research results repeated before they are accepted as fact. Study participants only washed for 6 seconds. Sadly, that's about the average time most of us spend washing our hands — but it's less than the 20 seconds the CDC recommends.
Still, study researchers think their results make sense. Because foam washes off more quickly than gel soap, users are more likely to splash and dash after a dollop of foam.
"People tend to wash their hands for a shorter duration with the foam soap," says Ozlem Equils, MD, president of an educational nonprofit called MiOra.
What about bar soap? Numerous studies have found that bacteria can stay on bar soap that stays wet because it gets used frequently. But studies that have looked to see whether that's a problem show that the bacteria don't seem to transfer to the next user. If your bar looks slimy, rinse it off under water before you lather your hands, and try to store it so it will dry out between uses.
If you're in a public bathroom, and there's no soap, just rubbing your hands together under the water does do some good. A 2011 study from researchers at the London School of Tropical Hygiene found that washing with water alone reduced bacteria on hands to about one-quarter of their prewash state. Washing with soap and water brought bacterial counts down to about 8% of where they were before washing.
The bottom line is work with what you have. Something is better than nothing.
How long should you scrub your hands? At least 20 seconds, according to the CDC. As you've probably heard, that's the same amount of time it takes to sing "Happy Birthday to You" twice. If you're tired of that one, Twitter has some great suggestions for others.
Pay attention to places on your hands you might not always think about.
Studies where people smother their hands with Glo Germ — a product used to teach proper hand-washing that glows under a black light — before they wash reveal the areas people tend to miss.
"Typically, spots people will miss will be the back of the hands, people will miss the lower palm. You might see some fluorescence around the fingernails and the nail bed area, where people typically don't wash well," Schaffner says.
And here's something that's good to know: Intention counts. Schaffner says his research has shown that the more people try to get better at hand-washing — going for longer, scrubbing more thoroughly — the less likely they are to spread contamination around a kitchen.
Finally, dry your hands.
"Paper towels actually have a beneficial effect beyond simply washing," Schaffner says.
That's right. Rubbing your hands with a paper towel removes even more germs than just washing alone. Dry hands are also less likely to spread contamination than wet hands.
How often do you need to wash? A lot. The CDC says to wash your hands:
Before, during, and after food prep
Before eating
Before and after tending to someone who's sick
Before and after treating a cut or other wound
After going to the bathroom
After changing diapers or helping a child in the bathroom
After blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing
After touching an animal, or touching pet food or pet waste
After handling pet food or pet treats
After touching garbage
If you can't wash, reach for some hand sanitizer. Lipid membrane viruses like coronaviruses are killed by alcohol-based hand sanitizer, Scott says. Just make sure it's at least 62% alcohol.
Make sure to use enough so that it covers all the surfaces on your hands. Rub that on until your hands feel dry, which should take about 20 seconds.
If you still have some skin left on your hands after all that washing, try to keep it clean. Avoid touching contaminated surfaces. Use a clean paper towel to open bathroom doors. Disinfect dirty surfaces that you use every day, like the touchscreen on your phone and your computer keyboard.
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