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This Is Anfield • Liverpool FC Opinion •
Kyriakos Papadopoulos: Should Liverpool renew interest in Greek centre-back this summer?
Jack Lusby
@jacklusby_
Following renewed links between Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen’s on-loan Schalke centre-back Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Jack Lusby weighs up a potential move.
Brendan Rodgers could be set to return to his long-held interest in FC Schalke’s Kyriakos Papadopoulos this summer, if reports are to be believed.
Papadopoulos, currently on loan at Bayer Leverkusen, has struggled with injury this term, but has recovered to re-join the Bundesliga side’s first team.
“With just a year left on his current deal, [Papadopoulos] would apparently be available for as little as £ 5million,” writes one report last week.
But would Rodgers be right to renew his interest in Papadopoulos this summer?
At the age of 23, Papadopoulos already represents a hugely experienced centre-back on the domestic stage—after five seasons in the Bundesliga—in the Champions League—with both Schalke and Leverkusen—and internationally, where is a regular for the Greek senior side.
This is largely due to his phenomenal defensive prowess.
Over the last five seasons, Papadopoulos has averaged 2.6 tackles and 2.7 interceptions per game, as well as making an average of 4.9 clearances.
No Reds centre-back has made more tackles or interceptions on average this season.
Another hugely attractive aspect of Papadopoulos’ game, and a quality lacking in Liverpool’s squad overall, is his ability in the air.
The No. 14 has won an average of five aerial duals in the Bundesliga in this season, with the Reds’ best aerial contender being Martin Skrtel, who has averaged 3.7 per league game.
Papadopoulos is a tough-tackling and perceptive centre-back, with just the right level of aggression, as The Guardian’s Sachin Nakrani overviewed back in 2013 with help from Philipp Seldorf of Süddeutsche Zeitung:
[pull_quote_center]Papa was only 18 when he came to Schalke but he got into the team very quickly and has done well ever since. The supporters also love Papa because of his passion. They can see that he is always fighting for the ball, always trying to win possession.[/pull_quote_center]
An enduring criticism of Liverpool’s squad under Rodgers is that it has for long contained too many wallflowers and not enough match-winners—although this is being levelled with the rises of Philippe Coutinho, Raheem Sterling, Mamadou Sakho and Jordan Henderson of late.
Papadopoulos would add to this group as an uber-confident, and perhaps ego-laden, young talent.
In 2013, Nakrani revealed how “Rodgers has identified him as the new leader of Liverpool’s backline,” and this feeling persists now.
With Chapman suggesting that a deal could be brokered for as little as £5 million, these myriad strengths would seem to represent somewhat of a no-brainer for Rodgers ahead of the summer transfer window.
However, even for such an inexpensive deal, are there any stumbling blocks in the potential signing of Papadopoulos?
Naturally, given his current circumstance, the main weakness when considering this transfer is Papadopoulos’ injury history.
In the last five seasons, Papadopoulos has suffered 12 injuries, keeping him out of action for a total of 592 days, missing 90 games.
Despite a major knee operation in November of 2012, Papadopoulos has continued to sustain injuries in this area, although most have been relatively minor.
While this hasn’t necessarily inhibited his contribution when he is able to play, injuries have stunted Papadopoulos’ progress somewhat.
Furthermore, along with his physical fragility, there remain question marks over Papadopoulos’ psychological mentality, as Seldorf continued in 2013:
[pull_quote_center][Schalke fans] admire his bravery but also worry that he might be a little mad. This is something the management also worry about—if Schalke are losing at half-time they find it hard to get through to Papa in the dressing room. He just sits there looking frustrated and down, and that has sometimes affected his decision making; made his tackling more wild.[/pull_quote_cente]
In his 11 Bundesliga games this season, Papadopoulos has been awarded four yellow cards.
Papadopoulos could be considered a gamble, despite his low transfer fee—but if Rodgers decides he’s worth it, where would he fit in this Liverpool squad?
Where Papadopoulos Would Fit Into the Liverpool Squad
Centre-back is an area that clearly needs reinforcing in the summer, what with Toure’s contract currently set to expire along with that of Glen Johnson, and huge question marks over the lasting quality of Dejan Lovren.
Therefore, Papadopoulos would find an easy route into Rodgers’ first team, if he is able to stay fit.
Emre Can—a successful fixture in Rodgers’ back three this season—is targeting a long-term position in the centre of midfield, and the addition of Papadopoulos would enhance this possibility.
However, it could be argued that Papadopoulos’ best position in a back three would be at its axis, in the role that Skrtel currently performs.
With Papadopoulos’ vast physical qualities, ability in the air and no-nonsense style, he could be considered a youthful upgrade to, or competition for, the 30-year-old.
There are many factors for Brendan Rodgers to consider before bidding for FC Schalke’s centre-back Kyriakos Papadopoulos this summer, but if he does sanction this signing the Liverpool manager would be acquiring another accomplished defensive option for the future.
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Kirk Fletcher – My Blues Pathway review
Album Reviews Music
Dripping in emotion, oozing with phenomenal blues riffs and topped by a smoky vocal to make the heart melt
Kirk Fletcher, My Blues Pathway album review by Chris High
Cool. This is the only suitable word to sum up Californian Bluesman Kirk Fletcher’s fifth studio album, My Blues Pathway. Dripping in emotion, oozing with phenomenal blues riffs and topped by a smoky vocal to make the heart melt, there is something here for everyone who likes their music heartfelt, cut to the quick and sincerely delivered.
Ain’t No Cure for the Downhearted sets the tone, the quite majestic lyric underscored by Fletcher’s sublime playing, a rhythm section underscored by the Hammond playing of former Blues keyboardist of the year, Johnny Henderson.
Listening to this one album explains, completely, how Joe Bonamassa came to choose Fletcher to back him on both his Muddy Wolf tour of 2015 and his appearances at The Greek Theatre the following year. After all, if there’s anyone who knows what it means to be recognised by a great, then Bonamassa is surely it and, in Fletcher, he has spotted a true star.
Struggle For Grace is an emotive, electrifyingly exuberant piece, with hints of all three Kings rolled into one song, whereas Rather Fight Than Switch seeps with joy from every chord.
There are many elements which make My Blues Pathway stand out, but none more so than how the difficult has been made to sound so sublimely simple to execute. Place In This World Somewhere is basically a master class in blues playing at its very, very best. Then comes track of the album, D is for Denny, a slice of instrumental heaven that will have aficionados drooling.
All in all, Kirk Fletcher has conjured an album in My Blues Pathway that nods to the roots of the genre with more than a mere modicum of respect, yet and at the same time manages to coat a fresh glint of gloss to each and every refrain he has created.
Ain’t No Cure For The Downhearted (3:37)
2. No Place To Go (4:25)
3. Love Is More Than A Word (7:05)
4. Struggle For Grace (5:13)
5. Rather Fight Than Switch (4:01)
6. Heart So Heavy (5:03)
7. Fattening Frogs For Snakes (3:54)
8. Place In This World Somewhere (4:20)
9. D Is For Denny (2:53)
10. Life Gave Me A Dirty Deal (5:03)
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Long-Term Dosing of Intrathecal Baclofen in the Treatment of Spasticity After Acquired Brain Injury.
PM R. 2017 Jun; 9(6):556-562.PM R
Intrathecal baclofen (ITB) often is used to treat severe spasticity of cerebral origin. Although literature exists regarding the efficacy of ITB, there has been minimal investigation related to dosing in the adult-acquired brain injury population, particularly at long-term duration.
To investigate long-term dosing of ITB in adult patients with spasticity of cerebral origin due traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE).
Retrospective cohort study.
An academic outpatient rehabilitation clinic.
Forty-two adult patients with spasticity secondary to TBI, stroke, or HIE treated with ITB for greater than 3 years.
Medical records and device manufacturer records of included patients were reviewed to obtain demographic data, dosing information, dates of pump and catheter placements, and revisions.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE
Average daily ITB doses and mean change in ITB dose over 1, 2, and 3 years. Goal of ITB treatment (active function versus comfort/care/positioning) also was compared.
Of 42 total patients, spasticity was attributed to either TBI (n = 19), stroke (n = 11), or HIE (n = 12). The mean (standard deviation) age was 35.21 (10.17), 56.7 (13.1), and 35.1 (12.4) years for the TBI, stroke, and HIE groups, respectively (P < .001). There was a significant difference in the goal of therapy with "improving functional independence," accounting for 27.8%, 72.8%, and 0% in the TBI, stroke, and HIE groups, respectively (P = .002). The mean duration of ITB therapy was 8.5 (5.0), 7.8 (3.4), and 9.1 (4.6) years in the TBI, stroke, and HIE groups, respectively (P = .79). The mean daily ITB dose was 596.9 (322.8) μg/d, 513.2 (405.7) μg/d, and 705.2 (271.7) μg/d for the TBI, stroke, and HIE groups, respectively (P = .39). In the subset of the cohort with ITB therapy for more than 5 years, the mean percent change in daily ITB dose between time of chart review and 1, 2, and 3 years previously was 7.3% (13.6), 12.7% (16), and 24.7% (50.3), respectively. A complex dosing pattern was used more frequently in those with stroke (36.4%) compared with the TBI and HIE (9.7%) groups (P = .04).
Despite the long-term use of ITB therapy in this cohort, the mean daily dose of ITB continued to require adjustments. There was no significant difference in the mean daily dose between patients with a diagnosis of TBI, stroke, or HIE. A complex dosing pattern was used more frequently in patients with stroke.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE
linkinghub.elsevier.com
doi.org
Maneyapanda MB
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine/The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, 345 E. Superior St, Chicago, IL 60611(∗). Electronic address: mmaneyapan@ric.org.
McCormick ZL
Department of Orthopaedics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA(†).
Marciniak C
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine/The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL(‡).
Reger C
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine/The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL(§).
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Maneyapanda, Mithra B., et al. "Long-Term Dosing of Intrathecal Baclofen in the Treatment of Spasticity After Acquired Brain Injury." PM & R : the Journal of Injury, Function, and Rehabilitation, vol. 9, no. 6, 2017, pp. 556-562.
Maneyapanda MB, McCormick ZL, Marciniak C, et al. Long-Term Dosing of Intrathecal Baclofen in the Treatment of Spasticity After Acquired Brain Injury. PM R. 2017;9(6):556-562.
Maneyapanda, M. B., McCormick, Z. L., Marciniak, C., & Reger, C. (2017). Long-Term Dosing of Intrathecal Baclofen in the Treatment of Spasticity After Acquired Brain Injury. PM & R : the Journal of Injury, Function, and Rehabilitation, 9(6), 556-562. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmrj.2016.12.006
Maneyapanda MB, et al. Long-Term Dosing of Intrathecal Baclofen in the Treatment of Spasticity After Acquired Brain Injury. PM R. 2017;9(6):556-562. PubMed PMID: 28082177.
TY - JOUR T1 - Long-Term Dosing of Intrathecal Baclofen in the Treatment of Spasticity After Acquired Brain Injury. AU - Maneyapanda,Mithra B, AU - McCormick,Zachary L, AU - Marciniak,Christina, AU - Reger,Christopher, Y1 - 2017/01/08/ PY - 2016/05/28/received PY - 2016/12/13/revised PY - 2016/12/17/accepted PY - 2017/1/14/pubmed PY - 2018/4/12/medline PY - 2017/1/14/entrez SP - 556 EP - 562 JF - PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation JO - PM R VL - 9 IS - 6 N2 - BACKGROUND: Intrathecal baclofen (ITB) often is used to treat severe spasticity of cerebral origin. Although literature exists regarding the efficacy of ITB, there has been minimal investigation related to dosing in the adult-acquired brain injury population, particularly at long-term duration. OBJECTIVE: To investigate long-term dosing of ITB in adult patients with spasticity of cerebral origin due traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: An academic outpatient rehabilitation clinic. PATIENTS: Forty-two adult patients with spasticity secondary to TBI, stroke, or HIE treated with ITB for greater than 3 years. METHODS: Medical records and device manufacturer records of included patients were reviewed to obtain demographic data, dosing information, dates of pump and catheter placements, and revisions. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Average daily ITB doses and mean change in ITB dose over 1, 2, and 3 years. Goal of ITB treatment (active function versus comfort/care/positioning) also was compared. RESULTS: Of 42 total patients, spasticity was attributed to either TBI (n = 19), stroke (n = 11), or HIE (n = 12). The mean (standard deviation) age was 35.21 (10.17), 56.7 (13.1), and 35.1 (12.4) years for the TBI, stroke, and HIE groups, respectively (P < .001). There was a significant difference in the goal of therapy with "improving functional independence," accounting for 27.8%, 72.8%, and 0% in the TBI, stroke, and HIE groups, respectively (P = .002). The mean duration of ITB therapy was 8.5 (5.0), 7.8 (3.4), and 9.1 (4.6) years in the TBI, stroke, and HIE groups, respectively (P = .79). The mean daily ITB dose was 596.9 (322.8) μg/d, 513.2 (405.7) μg/d, and 705.2 (271.7) μg/d for the TBI, stroke, and HIE groups, respectively (P = .39). In the subset of the cohort with ITB therapy for more than 5 years, the mean percent change in daily ITB dose between time of chart review and 1, 2, and 3 years previously was 7.3% (13.6), 12.7% (16), and 24.7% (50.3), respectively. A complex dosing pattern was used more frequently in those with stroke (36.4%) compared with the TBI and HIE (9.7%) groups (P = .04). CONCLUSION: Despite the long-term use of ITB therapy in this cohort, the mean daily dose of ITB continued to require adjustments. There was no significant difference in the mean daily dose between patients with a diagnosis of TBI, stroke, or HIE. A complex dosing pattern was used more frequently in patients with stroke. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: III. SN - 1934-1563 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/28082177/Long_Term_Dosing_of_Intrathecal_Baclofen_in_the_Treatment_of_Spasticity_After_Acquired_Brain_Injury_ L2 - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1934-1482(17)30020-5 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -
Brain Injuries, Traumatic
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
Drug Administration Schedule
Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain
Infusion Pumps, Implantable
Injections, Spinal
Muscle Relaxants, Central
Muscle Spasticity
Pain Measurement
Severity of Illness Index
Long-term intrathecal baclofen: outcomes after more than 10 years of treatment.
Treatment of severe, disabling spasticity with continuous intrathecal baclofen therapy following acquired brain injury: the experience of a tertiary institution in Singapore.
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Comparison of clinical and neurophysiologic responses to intrathecal baclofen bolus administration in moderate-to-severe spasticity after acquired brain injury.
Occurrence of adverse events in long-term intrathecal baclofen infusion: a 1-year follow-up study of 158 adults.
Intraventricular baclofen as an alternative to intrathecal baclofen for intractable spasticity or dystonia: outcomes and technical considerations.
Effect of Intrathecal Baclofen on Pain and Quality of Life in Poststroke Spasticity.
Intrathecal Baclofen Dosing Regimens: A Retrospective Chart Review.
A clinical study of intrathecal baclofen using a programmable pump for intractable spasticity.
Long-term intrathecal baclofen therapy for severe spasticity of cerebral origin.
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University of Phoenix-California
3090 Bristol Street
Costa Mesa CA , 92626
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About University of Phoenix-California
Founded in N/A, University of Phoenix-California is a 4-year college. Located in Costa Mesa, which is a city setting in California, the campus itself is Urban. The campus is home to 11,035 full time undergraduate students, and 2,301 full time graduate students.
How politically active are students?
"We're apathetic"
"We know about current events and vote"
"We participate and encourage others to get involved"
"There's nothing we won't protest"
Are there intellectual conversations?
"We save it for the classroom"
"Sometimes, but not often"
"There's usually intelligent conversation to be found"
"All the time, including weekends"
Is the arts culture a priority?
"It's not really our thing"
"Occasinally we gallery crawl"
"There are a variety of opportunities"
"We're a very artistic group"
Do you feel safe on campus?
"I'm always terrified"
"I only go out in groups"
"I usually let someone know where I'm going"
"I feel extremely safe"
What's the sports culture like?
"We don't play sports"
"We play recreationally"
"We bought the gear"
"We live for the big game"
How accessible are your professors?
"Haven't met them"
"Available in class"
"They keep regular office hours"
"They're always available"
How important is fraternity/sorority life?
"No greek life, but other groups to join"
"There is some involvement, but not a lot"
"Plenty of people join a sorority or fraternity"
"It's everything. If you're not greek, you're a geek"
Do students drink alcohol?
"We're not into drinking at all"
"Maybe a little, but it's not a big thing"
"We only party on weekends"
"There's some drinking happening every night"
Do students do drugs?
"Never, we're here to learn"
"There might be people who do"
"People are known to partake on weekends"
"There's a huge drug scene"
Admissions Requirements for University of Phoenix-California
Admissions at University of Phoenix-California are considered N/A, with 100% of all applicants being admitted. In the 2017/2018 school year, of the students who applied to the school, only N/A of those who were admitted eventually ended up enrolling. N/A of incoming freshmen are in the top half of their high school class. N/A were in the top quarter, and N/A were in the top tenth.
The application fee is $N/A and you can apply online.
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Total Undergrad Enrollment
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of students living on campus
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The University of Phoenix-California Academic calendar runs on a semester basis. In the 2017/2018 school year the student to faculty ratio was 22:1. There are 14 full time instructional teachers. Degrees awarded at University of Phoenix-California include: Bachelor's Degree, Masters Degree, Post-master's certificate, Doctor's degree.
The total cost to attend on campus is $18,314. Let's break that cost down. Room and board will run $5,380 annually. Books and Supplies will cost another $1,120. And lastly, in state tuition and fees is $11,814. Additional cost elements for out of state students are as follows:
Cost Out of State
Tuition and fees(Out of state)
Total On Campus
Actual Cost By Income Level(W/Financial Aid)
$30 - $48K
$110K & UP
All students must apply yearly for financial aid. This process starts with the FAFSA. Though financial aid deadlines vary by school, it is a good idea to apply as soon as possible. For the upcoming school year, you can apply as early as October 1 for the FAFSA. Additional school aid will be dependent on the FAFSA results.
92% of students attending University of Phoenix-California receive some sort of financial aid. 74% were awarded federal grants. While 85% received federal loans. Many students do also need to apply for additional private student loans.
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You are here: Home › Opinion › Money Does Not Grow on Trees, No Matter How Green They Get:
Money Does Not Grow on Trees, No Matter How Green They Get:
Opinion 0 Kevin B. Murray
Update 30th April, 2016
The People asked the government for this 2016 budget and that’s a promise kept: House of Commons
Photo taken from CBC Feed on the Prime Minister’s $50 million “innovation” allocation to the Perimeter Institute for theoretical Physics (Research) in Waterloo Ontario-alongside the Minister of Small Business and Tourism.
Quantum LEAPS in Deficits, Evidence-Based Science, and Propaganda are all part of the budget rollout and the DAVOS agenda – the fourth industrial revolution.
The visit to the Waterloo INNOVATION CENTRE of research, educational OUTREACH and training, as the THEORY of BIG BANG FOR THE BUCKS goes, $50 million over five years was allocated to a THEORETICAL PHYSICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
The “evidence-based” allocation and intended use is to contribute in tangible ways to our understanding of the universe, according to the Prime Minister.
All the while the Universe will unfold as it should, black holes and sucking sounds of carbon taxes and international symposiums abound on the subject. Upfront Article: DAVOS-DIVERSITY AND RESOURCEFULNESS rebrands CANADA for the onslaught on THE NEW KNOWLEDGE AND SHARING ECONOMY- – dated January 22nd 2016, refers.
Now, the backdrop for the Waterloo event was a grand show either staged by the giver or receiver of $50 million bucks, even a gesture of mutual admiration perhaps. Others might argue it was a show of trite, crass, brazen and diversionary politics or matters of “picking winners and losers,” patronage aside.
It was in fact an opportunity to beef up the Prime Minister’s educational background of engineering studies and to recognize his start on a master’s degree in environmental geography, the latter educational status having been reported.
The recipient organization, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, trains the next generation of physicists through innovative programs, and shares the excitement and wonder of science with students, teachers, and the general public, according to its website.
The Institute is supported through an “innovative public-private partnership” – which unites government, individuals, corporations, and foundations in a shared venture to enable scientific breakthroughs, nurture scientific talent, and share scientific discovery with the broader public. It issues awards, encouragements and other forms of “recognition.”
The Founder and Board Chair is Mike Lazaridis who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, (FRS) United Kingdom. He is the Founder of Blackberry, which created the handheld device of that name. He is a businessman and an INVESTOR IN QUANTUM COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES.
The Prime Minister grabbed worldwide headlines during his visit and upstaged even President Obama’s own science fair for young kids held at the White House. Those kids seemed to be doing very practical, engineering, mechanical, and constructive things, according to the video feeds.
As it happened, wittingly or unwittingly, the Quantum Revelation put CANADA or the Prime Minister’s name in the game of world market promotion access and awareness. It enabled theatre and the opportunity to showcase Canada’s innovation interests and investment attractiveness.
The Prime Minister “surprised” everyone by his “depth of knowledge” in QUANTUM PHYSICS, and his explanation that Quantum Computing is; “More Information in a single bit is exciting,” “That’s what’s exciting about Quantum Computing!”
Afterwards, in a crowd-sourcing or analytic bits and bytes sense, Quantum Leaps of Faith in our Prime Minister abounded from one end of the earth to another. It brought to mind Einstein’s comment: “if you want to get educated- forget everything you were taught.”
For those familiar with the 1970-80 period and its Silicon Valley North innovations and ventures, may well recall the $50 million capital loss of Microsystems International and the developments that followed in the field of information management and communications. This was an era of serial start-ups, incubations, IPOs, and technical – or quantum conversions if you wish.
In short, apart from 18 idle government computers where the work was contracted out and allegations of patronage in the Government’s policy to spread contracts around based on “SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS,” the Government fell eventually and had, according to the Lambert Commission, lost control of the country’s finances.
(Ottawa Citizen: May 18th 1978 and May 19th Final Editions Numbers 270 and 270 refer)
Perhaps even the oil crisis could be added and the eventual disposition, acquisitions, or losses of anchor companies such as Nortel Networks subsequently, under the mantra of “Make the Internet what you want it to be”. But fear not.
All this to say, according to Leaders of the time from Harvard and MIT, most managers do not have greater or more information needs, but rather needs to understand and process information already available to them. No matter, the Perimeter Institute is a research facility, now $10 million a year better off.
The real question is whether it is the technology or the user that has been the driving force and to what extent industry carries the business risks’ financial load on the taxpayers, the users they serve.
Perhaps it could be added more openness and transparency of government on government “contributions” is needed, a veiled promise from the last election. That would be helpful concerning source funding and the benefits of state paternalistic support involving draw down on “INNOVATION,” the return on investment expected considering the matter of deficits embedded in Budget 2016.
In other words, get out of industry’s way, recluse rather than effuse on “allocations and contributions,” Ontario Government”, contributions aside. The article in the Ottawa Sun on April 18th by Anthony Furey: Ontario needs a Corporate Grants Sunshine List sheds a great deal of light on the lack of transparency in “innovative public-private partnerships”
In that context, a reporter had prefaced his question linking the matter of ISIL to somehow leave a “scientific” opening for the Prime Minister. The reporter earned for himself a characterization by some journalists that the particular question was “sarcastic.”
Briefing notes aside, business cases, and justification material for $50 million bucks and matters of openness and transparency were all also nicely sidestepped with the Quantum Physics Side Show.
There was no escaping the subliminal stage management. Mandatory minimum sentencing, as displayed in video feeds, alongside the presence of the Minister of Small Business and Tourism. Minimum tax relief through the innovations agenda for the engine of industry and the creators of jobs – somehow now been defined as “the recipients of middle-class tax relief,” were not even on the radar.
The curious thing was that if the mass of equations or hieroglyphics in the backdrop really meant anything they certainly would not have been displayed so openly by the CBC or the “incubation” institute itself for that matter. It was merely a distraction or blow for show.
Given the Native Indian Crisis, the Introduction of Bill C14 – the Medical Assisted, End of LIFE bill, reflections on the Supreme Court Mandatory Minimum position where clearly dioramic elephants in the room of scientific excellence, juxtaposing Charter Rights into a quantum equation of REAL CHANGE, EXCHANGE, and SHORT CHANGE for our families, small businesses, and our military.
Enough said, we are very fortunate to have reporters and erudite economists who independently delve into pressing issues such as those concerning the efficacy of the 2016 Budget Rational.
Not least of those efforts is the “debunking” by the parliamentary budget officer of foundational premises, estimates of job creation and claimed economic growth purported to be attributable to “INVESTMENTS” based in deficits.
For the large percentage of Canadians wanting to know where the $50 million came from, inferencing the matter of the ISIL, bombing withdrawal, the cancellation of the F35 and an F18 procurement, they may as well take shelter in the Trojan Horse.
Congratulations to the Minister of Foreign Affairs who signed off on the Saudi light armored vehicle, April 8th, fine pointing the export permit thwarting McGill charges and allegations that the contract was aiding and abetting human rights abuse. Upfront Article: A comment on Canada and the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty-Dated February 2nd 2016
On the F35, it is a matter of record from the Liberal general election race in 2011, the contender after much ado and HOOHAH about Parliamentary Budget life cycle estimates for the aircraft, the matter was a non-issue or a red-herring (Trojan Horse) and still is. UpFront Article: Don’t Forget Canada’s Trojan Horse – dated February 9th 2016
The Liberals stated there was no penalty for canceling the current F-35 arrangement and holding an open competition. A Liberal government would remain committed to the 2006 Memorandum of Understanding that gives Canadian industry access to F-35 contracts, described as development and industrial benefits, without any obligation to purchase the planes.
The agreement under the previous government has secured millions of dollars in contracts for Canada’s AEROSPACE INDUSTRY, Bombardier’s current considerations aside. There was never an F-35 purchase “smoke and mirrors” contract to cancel.
A former Prime Minister, four times removed, who actually cancelled “Cadillac” Helicopters-EH101, assured reporters in the foyer of the Houses of Parliament last week that sometimes budget deficits are necessary, but they can be balanced.
It is fair to say that Budget 2016 is not trustworthy and lacks openness and transparency on its INNOVATION AGENDA.
The current Prime Minister claims his first budget is what “the people” asked for and is an election promise kept. We respectfully disagree! We expected REAL CHANGE in transparency and accountability as promised. This is a matter of TRUST, PERSONAL TRUSTS and a COVENANT with the PEOPLE.
Kevin Murray is a former member of the Defence Industry Productivity Program Committee, co- Chairman of the Space Industry Committee and Member of the Aerospace Industries Marketing Committee. He was responsible for international marketing and development of research development and production agreements for Canada.
Ottawa Citizen: April 20th, 2016- Madeleine Ashby Writes: Trudeau spins around the real stories– Response on QUANTUM COMPUTING Charming, but obscures larger issue. Here’s a rule for life as well as press conferences-don’t take the bait […..] in many ways this was the perfect social media story […..] the story got us coming and going […..] the story obscured a much larger one [….] QUANTUM VALLEY and “the tech corridor” developing between Toronto and Waterloo.
Ottawa Citizen-National Post Insert NP4, April 20th 2016- Politics, Grits Inflating Deficit Size by Billions: The Trudeau Government inherited a surplus before plunging the Federal balance book deep into red ink, says a new report from the Parliamentary Budget Watchdog that also concludes the LIBERALS are inflating the projected size of their deficits in coming years by BILLIONS of Dollars.
Ottawa Sun: April 20th, 2016, David Akin-“Left with Deficit” BUT budget watchdog says LIBERALS inherited a small surplus-[…..] which means, in the PBO’s view the RED INK being spilled in Ottawa is now 100% the responsibility of the current LIBERAL government.
Ottawa Citizen: April 20th, 2016 -Front Page- LIBERALS inflated deficit figures. The Liberal government inherited a surplus, plunging FEDERAL FINANCES deep into the red.-On the Good News Side, the PBO anticipates the billions of dollars in “NEW SPENDING,” promised in the LIBERAL Budget 2016, will bolster the Canadian economy.
National Post: 20th April 2016: Mulroney urges Trudeau to SPEARHEAD PIPELINE EFFORT, John Ivison. Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney says the regulatory process governing pipeline approval is being “GAMED” by people who want to disrupt pipeline development and is urging Justin Trudeau to spearhead a “CONCERTED and COHERENT STRATEGY” to build ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE. […..] Mulroney also criticised the Trudeau Government’s decision to extend the REGULATORY REVIEW PROCESS.
The former Prime Minister also took aim at Liberal POLICY on the challenge of RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM and the recent CUT IN DEFENCE SPENDING. [….] “This is not the time to curtail DEFENCE and SECURITY SPENDING” “WE CANNOT TALK OUR WAY INTO MORE RELEVANCE IN THE WORLD.”
Ottawa Sun: April 21st, 2016 – Mark Bonokoski – These are the “GOOD OLD DAYS” for TRUDEAU LIBERALS.
Trudeau’s remarks [ about quantum mechanics vis-a vis computing] were not off the cuff but contrived. But rest assured the media who follow him around will not be tricked again into soft pitching him a PLANTED QUESTION.
His government released a budget that wasn’t a true budget, reversed a couple of Harperite decisions (like the Long Form Census and retirement age), passed three housekeeping bills of little consequence and lied through its teeth about the SAUDI ARMS DEAL.
Ottawa Sun, April 30th 2016 Sun Comment- P.M. Selfie’s vanishing act.
Justin Trudeau banning all journalists except NEW YORK based VICE MEDIA from his historic visit to remote Shoal lake 40 First Nations reserve would sound self- serving, when you ban the Canadian wire service and Aboriginal Peoples Television network […] It is no secret what Trudeau and his handlers are trying to do which is to control how the public perceive Trudeau by controlling how the media cover him, whenever they can. [….] the problem is with Trudeau who loves having the media in tow when they publicize his lectures on Quantum Computing. […..} Trudeau would be happy if his entire Prime Minister-ship was defined by such headlines as “Watch Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s charming Quantum Computing Lesson” (Washington Post) [….] “Man of your dreams Justin Trudeau casually drops Quantum Computing lecture in Press Conference. (Vanity Fair)
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MEMOGATE: Ijaz deposes before Pak judicial panel
‘Haqqani told me military mounted pressure on govt’
Islamabad, February 22
After weeks of delay, the controversial Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz today deposed via video link before a judicial commission probing the memo scandal and provided details of his contacts with Pakistani leaders and ISI officials.
Koran protests claim 8 lives in Afghanistan
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American war reporter Marie Colvin (L) and French photojournalist Remi Ochlik.
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ACCESS DENIED: IAEA chief inspector Herman Nackaerts arrives with his team at the Vienna airport from Iran. — AFP
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In a dramatic move, Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigned today saying he could no longer work without the support of Prime Minister Julia Gillard, amid speculation that he may pose a bitter challenge to her leadership.
Ijaz came to the Pakistan High Commission in London to record his statement through video conferencing while the three-judge commission appointed by the Supreme Court conducted the proceedings from Islamabad.
Ijaz, the main accuser in the memo scandal, had earlier refused to travel to Pakistan to record his testimony citing security concerns.
The businessman read out a statement that he had submitted earlier to the Supreme Court but did not provide any new evidence to back up his claims about the alleged memo, TV news channels here reported. Recounting his contacts with Pakistani leaders, Ijaz said he had met then ISI chief Gen Ehsan-ul-Haq in Brussels in 2003.
He said he had met former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in London in 2005 and that he had last met President Asif Ali Zardari in 2009. Ijaz said he met current ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha in a London hotel last year.
He acknowledged that he currently had few contacts with Pakistani leaders.
He claimed his contacts with Pakistan's former envoy to the US Husain Haqqani, for the alleged memo, began on May 3 last year - a day after the killing of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad. He claimed Haqqani had told him that the military was pressuring Zardari and the government.
In Islamabad, Attorney General Anwar-ul-Haq told the commission it would be necessary to conduct forensic tests on the BlackBerry messages that Ijaz had produced to support his claims.
Haq said the commission's secretary, who was in London for the video-conferencing, was not an expert on electronic devices and could not verify the authenticity of the BlackBerry messages.
Earlier in the day, Ijaz drove to the Pakistan High Commission in a cab. He told reporters before going inside that he would tell the truth and expose the reality about the memo. — PTI
Testifying from London
Ijaz said he met then ISI chief Gen Ehsan-ul-Haq in Brussels in 2003, former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in London in 2005, had last met President Asif Ali Zardari in 2009 and met current ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha in a London hotel last year.
He claimed his contacts with Pakistan's former envoy to the US, Husain Haqqani, for the alleged memo, began on May 3 last year, a day after the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Ijaz submitted his BlackBerry phone and ‘other evidences’ to a Pakistan judicial commission probing the memo scandal .
US apology over burning of holy book fails to ease anger
In Kabul and in provinces to the east, north and south of the capital, furious Afghans took to the streets screaming "Death to America", throwing rocks and setting fire to shops and vehicles as gunshots rang out.
In the eastern city of Jalalabad, students set fire to an effigy of President Barack Obama, and the US embassy in Kabul went into lockdown.
In Kabul, hundreds of people poured onto the Jalalabad road, throwing stones at US military base Camp Phoenix, where troops guarding the base fired into the air and black smoke rose from burning tyres, an AFP photographer said.
Afghanistan is a deeply religious country where slights against Islam have frequently provoked violent protests and Afghans were incensed that any Western troops could be so insensitive, 10 years after the 2001 US-led invasion.
The US commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, apologised and ordered an investigation into the incident, admitting that religious materials, including Korans "were inadvertently taken to an incineration facility".
Allen and US deputy defence secretary Ashton Carter called on Afghan President Hamid Karzai today to apologise again for the incident at Bagram airbase, the President's office said. — AFP
The website of photo agency IP3 Press which was founded by 28-year-old Ochlik said he was an award-winning photojournalist who had covered events including the 2004 rioting in Haiti and the Arab world upheaval last year.
Colvin, from Oyster Bay, New York, was a war reporter who had covered conflicts from Sri Lanka to Syria. She had been a foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times in Britain for the past two decades.
They were killed when rockets struck and demolished the house they were staying in, activists and witnesses in Homs told Reuters by telephone.
Meanwhile, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, trying to hammer the city of Homs into submission, on Wednesday killed 19 more persons. — Agencies
“The Iranian nation has never been seeking an atomic weapon and never will be. It will prove to the world that a nuclear weapon cannot create supremacy,” Khamenei told Iranian nuclear scientists.
“The path of scientific development, particularly the nuclear field, should continue strongly and seriously,” he said. “Pressure, sanctions, threats and assassinations will not bear any fruit and Iran will continue its path of scientific development,” Khamenei said.
The forceful restatement of Iran’s long-held position came after a five-strong delegation from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency left empty-handed following two days of talks focusing on suspected military aspects of Iran’s nuclear programme.
The delegation’s leader, UN chief nuclear inspector Herman Nackaerts, said on arrival in Vienna that, although it had “approached this trip in a constructive spirit,” no agreement with the Iranians on elucidating worrisome activities was forthcoming.
“We could not get access” to Iran’s military site in Parchin where suspected nuclear warhead design experiments were conducted, Nackaerts said. — AFP
“The simple truth is that I cannot continue to serve as Foreign Minister if I don’t have Prime Minister Gillard’s support,” 54-year-old Rudd said at a media conference in Washington DC, which was broadcast live in Australia.
“I therefore believe the only honourable course of action is for me to resign,” he said.
A “disappointed” Gillard, who ousted Rudd as Prime Minister in June 2010, said he did not inform her in advance that he would resign.
“I am disappointed that the concerns Mr Rudd has publicly expressed ... were never personally raised with me, nor did he contact me to discuss his resignation prior to his decision,” 50-year-old Gillard, who was in Adelaide, said in a short statement. — PTI
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HOME › Bookshop › History, Politics & Society › MARX THE HUMANIST
Marx the Humanist
by Muriel Seltman
Marx the Humanist presents Marx’s writings in a different light.
Instead of malicious denigration, which makes him responsible for everything done in his name after his death, it is recognised that Marx was not a prophet and could not have foreseen the changes that have occurred since then. His early writings reflect his humanism, and represent his long-term revolutionary appeal.
Although the focus is on Marx’s humanism, the first two parts initiate the reader into Marxism and provide an introduction to basic Marxist ideas, both philosophical and economic. This provides the context for his condemnation of the dehumanising impact of capitalism on workers through exploitation.
Like I expect quite a look of people I tried to read and obtain an understanding of Marxism during my youth but finding it incomprehensible and impenetrable I quickly gave up. Since then for me the name of Marx has become synonimas with images of Soviet era housing estates, badly stocked shops and spies on every corner monitoring your actions. Added to this one thinks of force collectivasation leading to mass starvation in the countryside, gulags and rigid censorship. But is this association entirely fair? Do we make Christ directly responsible for the Spanish Inquisition and the burning of heretics and witches?
The word Marxism is often used today as a term of appropriation by those who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo and who I would suspect have no real understanding of his work. However if you are open minded and can put all the baggage to one side then this book designed for the curious and interested is certainly worth a read. Here Muriel Seltman will take you by the hand and gently and painlessly navigate you through his basic philosophy and economic ideas and then look at his humanism and vision for the future. This is done by focusing on his actual written words. I was surprised how accessible Marx became and this was helped by the author's referencing some of the profound issues of today. There were other surprises including the fact that communism should be viewed as a means to an end rather than the Utopian end in itself. Also that Marx is increasingly relevant to today's world with its impending environmental catastrophe, automation and alienation.
Although Muriel Seltman was a member of the Communist Party (joining in 1952) and has undertaken a life time study of Marx she has come to the conclusion that a Communist Party is a bad idea and the role of the Marxist should be as a social agent not seeking power to run things in a still capitalist world. After reading the book (it's not long and can be completed easily in one or two sittings) I'm still of the opinion that at present liberal democracy with its laws and regulations curbing (or trying to) the worst excesses of capitalism is however imperfect the best model currently on offer but things change and Marx's belief that a world can exist where everyone despite the circumstances of their birth can maximise their full potential may come to be seen as increasingly relevant as the world faces up to its seemingly intractable problems. Well worth a read for those with an open mind and it may also be worth having a read of some of the author's other books.
by G Heard
The author's painstaking research and attention to detail is obvious in the writing of this book. There were many facts that I only discovered after reading this!
by Cristie
I came across Muriel Seltman's "Marx the Humanist" by accident while looking through the many, many different sections of NetGalley's offerings. As an English Studies (Literature) bachelor's, I'm interested in all sorts of different ideologies, anything that'll give me a greater understanding of what moves human beings from a societal and ideological viewpoint. When it comes to Marxism, I know a fair lot more than about, say, libertarianism, because come from a family at least partially socialist. Or communist. Or Marxist. Honestly, it's complicated.
Seltman's novel gives an easy introduction to Marx's ideas while also offering a thesis statement in the very title. "The Humanist" is broken down into four chapters, an appendix and an epilogue; the chapters first give a basic introduction to Marxism, through direct quotes from many of Marx's works like "The Capital" and "The Communist Manifesto" co-authored with Engels. In addition to these passages, the author gives additional context or furthers certain arguments, to mixed effect.
It's far from the most persuasive piece of historical (sociological, humanist) non-fiction I've read. Seltman too often abandons any attempts at convincing non-believers and nay-sayers, instead singing Marx's praises into what, at worst, felt self-congratulatory. Some of the author's arguments didn't go far enough, either. It seems like Seltman couldn't find a good enough balance between quoting passages and commenting on their own.
This is a really good introduction to Marx's ideas, thanks to well-chosen quotations, and a decent text by Muriel Seltman.
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Wild: Devan Dubnyk, Chuck Fletcher hope to…
Wild: Devan Dubnyk, Chuck Fletcher hope to narrow gap in Vegas
Minnesota goalie Devan Dubnyk will be in Las Vegas next week to attend the NHL Awards. (Pioneer Press: John Autey)
By Chad Graff | cgraff@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: June 20, 2015 at 8:04 a.m. | UPDATED: October 28, 2015 at 2:38 a.m.
In an attempt to decrease the considerable distance between the two sides negotiating a contract, Wild general manager Chuck Fletcher and goalie Devan Dubnyk are set to informally meet face-to-face in Las Vegas on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Dubnyk will be in Vegas to attend the NHL Awards as a nominee in two categories, the Vezina Trophy given to the league’s top goalie and the Masterton Award given to the player who best exemplifies perseverance. Fletcher will be there for league meetings.
Afterward, Fletcher will head to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and meet with Dubnyk’s agent, Mike Liut, Wednesday night or Thursday. Those two haven’t come close to completing a new contract for the goaltender who helped lift the Wild out of a midseason tailspin and into the playoffs.
Since a meeting in Buffalo, N.Y., at the beginning of the month, little headway has been made on a new contract for Dubnyk, who otherwise is set to become a restricted free agent on July 1.
“I’m still hopeful we’ll get a deal done,” Fletcher said. “He’s certainly a guy we’d like to sign, and it’s certainly our priority to re-sign him. And yet we’re cognizant that ultimately he holds the cards. We’ll do the best we can within those parameters.”
Those parameters, so far, have been more money and a longer term than the Wild have been willing or able to meet. Minnesota has had an exclusive negotiating window, but starting Tuesday — a day before the NHL draft in Sunrise, Fla. — Dubnyk’s camp can talk to any team it likes.
Fletcher said that could actually help the sides negotiate a deal because it would make clear the goaltender’s leaguewide value.
“He’ll have a much better idea of what the marketplace is by the draft, and we will too,” Fletcher said. “Hopefully that will help clarify things and allow both of us to find a way to come to a deal.”
At the end of the season, both sides stated their desire to get a deal done. But without an imminent deal, the team has begun looking at Plan B. Although Dubnyk is likely to talk with other NHL teams, the Wild are likely to talk with other goalies.
“During this time period, we’ll certainly speak to as many teams as we can (about acquiring a goalie),” Fletcher said.
The biggest challenge for the Wild is finding the salary cap space they’ll need to re-sign Dubnyk and other pending free agents, including No. 1 center Mikael Granlund.
They took the first step Thursday, waiving veteran forward Matt Cooke for the purposes of a buyout, a move that will save them $2 million in cap space next season.
But they still have goalie Niklas Backstrom, 37, under contract at a $3.4 million cap hit, and buying him out is no longer the sure thing it seemed to be at season’s end. Backstrom had elbow surgery after the season, and if he isn’t medically cleared to play, the team can’t buy out his contract.
“It is what it is, and we’ll see how things play out,” Fletcher said.
Meanwhile, Dubnyk’s side feels he’s due for a commitment, arguing that his 2013-14 season, which he finished in the minor leagues, was an anomaly and that statistics, rather than wins, are the best indicator of his talent.
The Wild, though, must decide whether they can give another player a long-term contract; they already have six signed through the 2018-19 season, and five of those contracts carry a cap hit of at least $4 million.
If not, they’ll have to persuade Dubnyk to take a shorter-term deal.
“He’s earned the right to be an unrestricted free agent, and you have to respect that,” Fletcher said. “Like every unrestricted free agent, he holds the cards. He can decide what he’s willing to sign for and when he’s willing to pursue a deal, and we have to be respectful and understanding of that.”
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Chad Graff | Minnesota Wild beat writer
Chad Graff joined the Pioneer Press in April of 2013 -- long enough to cover three straight Wild playoff exits at the hands of the Blackhawks -- after working for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Boston Globe. He's lived in California and Texas, but most recently spent a decade in New Hampshire. He watched New England fans celebrate seven championships in his time there, yet somehow his only sports allegiance lies with Nebraska football.
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The Zipless Facebook
by Choire Sicha September 26, 2011
Everyone has been going crazy about “frictionless sharing” for the last week. That’s Facebook’s cute new term for what happens when you give permission for something new and fun to enter your life and then it takes you to a party and “auto-shares” your activity with the world. You drunk slag. What to do? Short version long… you should probably get off the Internet now while the getting is good. (Well? At least consider it!)
• This explanation of the advent of “frictionless sharing” on Facebook led naturally to a conversation about how Facebook cookies work, including when you’re logged out of Facebook. And it was met with a rather strange reaction from a Facebook employee, who wrote: “Generally, unlike other major Internet companies, we have no interest in tracking people. We don’t have an ad network and we don’t sell people’s information.” That’s… absurd; Facebook is both an ad platform and an ad network, and has a pro level Facebook Ads (with, like, salespeople!) system and a self-managing, amateur-level ads system. (Also, you know: Nielsen Facebook ratings exists now?) While many of Facebook’s tracking systems has to do with non-advertising purposes, this is wildly beside the point.
• So now we have delightful products like the Washington Post’s “Social Reader app” (that’s what they call their newspaper on the Facebook. When you read their stories on that, it reports on you reading them to your friends! Isn’t that handy? Auto-broadcasting. Lifestreaming basically! Writes developer Michael Donohoe: “Earlier this year when I was still at the Times we talked to Facebook about a news app. Facebook had a whole set of new features in the pipeline (presumably just launched) and this passive reading action was one of them and they were pushing hard for us to use it.” Heh. But it’s apparently fine for the Washington Post.
• And then there’s the nutso trending in third-party apps. Color and Spotify’s permissions are insane; half the stuff you can interact with via Facebook (and Twitter!) is like “We can add friends and post to your wall and call your mom!”
What can/should you do? Well, you can laboriously keep up with changes in policy and privacy, for starters. It’s boring maintenance, like trimming your nose hair, which you should probably also do soon. This is a good explainer. Spoiler: start here, with your app settings, and delete everything you don’t love. But guess what! This is just the beginning. Just turn on your webcam and rip off your shirt, let’s just get this over with.
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The Light of Bihar: Chandrakant Singh
Post author:Tithiya Sharma
Post category:Bihar / Education / Unsung Heroes
He is the epitome of the oft cited Bihari fortitude. A brilliant scholar- moulded and strengthened by a childhood spent in depravation; igniting in him a burning ambition to succeed and make good on all the faith people had in him. Chandrakant Singh hails from Chamanpura village of Gopalganj district, a place you probably couldn’t find on a map unless you’re actually from there. But this audacious Bihari has put this nondescript village on the world map.
Chandrakant Singh
In two short years, Chandrakant Singh has established a world class school that will enrol it’s 500th student in the new academic year of 2011-12. He chose this village as the ideal location for such a school not because it’s his ancestral home, but because the landscape here is still devoid of a single electricity pole. This shrine to learning and nurturing talent is run entirely on generators.
The Chaitanya Gurukul Trust was set up with the vision to “Educate, Enlighten, Empower & Emit’. A vision that inspired a hundred villagers to give their land (which the Trust purchased at 30% more than market price) to set up the establishment.
Chandrakant Singh tapped in to all his networks to raise funds for this school. As an IIT alumnus, a former TATA steel employee and a researcher at GM at the time, he urged 3000 people to join in. The request was not a casual email soliciting funds, but a thoroughly researched business plan for a school that would eventually become self sustaining.
While many people shied away, a handful of Singh’s former classmates, professors and colleagues knew better than to disregard this determined man’s vision. Financial help poured in, as did the expertise and intellect. Chandrakant Singh was just the catalyst people needed to put into action their desire to give back.
“It’s important to prove that given the same opportunities, every child is capable of academic excellence“. Singh is certain that the school will change the fortune of this remote village with each successful student and soon it’s reputation for quality of education and leadership in academic best practices will highlight the plight of the surrounding villages.
The classrooms and other facilities here would be the envy of even the priciest private school in India. Technology is seamlessly woven into every aspect of student life. Sports and extracurricular activities are used to hone leadership skills, for moral guidance and team building. Teachers from many cities in India and abroad teach eager students via Skype! The school’s teaching staff underwent weeks of training before they gave their first lesson. The principal, Mr Arvind Saxena was awarded the title of Best Principal in Bihar for the year 2008.
“There is such disparity in our educational system currently. How can a student from a fancy private school in Delhi and another who learnt his lessons sitting on a cement sack in a village in Bihar, be expected to compete at the same level? I want my students to feel free and empowered by their education. They will eventually become model citizens for our country”, says Singh.
Chandrakant with his students
In their identical uniforms, one cannot tell a farmer’s son from a doctor’s daughter. Students are instructed to bring no extras from home, “not even a packet of kurkure”, Singh stresses. The monthly fees starts from Rupees 300 and increases by another 100 with each progressive academic year. The school also houses 180 residential students. Fees are reduced significantly for meritorious students with financial difficulties.
“In a decade I will turn this school into India’s leading educational institute. In another ten, perhaps the best in the world”.
At 37, his own ambitions are yet to peak. Singh wants to start his own research venture focused on renewable energy with a push for mass adoption in our country. He says that India’s greatest natural resources are yet to be tapped productively. “With such abundant sunlight and Bio-mass fuel available, it’s illogical for so many villages to still go without electricity in our country”, rues Singh.
But Chandrakant Singh’s legacy has already been decided. He is the man that gave hundreds of eager young minds a level playing field and a little room to dream big dreams.
Tithiya Sharma is a former journalist turned backpacking blogger who’s traveling the world looking for adventure and inspiration. She’s using social media for social good as she finds and meets a hundred everyday heroes and discovers a world worth saving. Check out her quest for inspiration: The 100 Heroes Project.
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Over 30,000 Households Are Giving up Their LPG Subsidy Every Day, Thanks to the #GiveItUp Campaign
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Following the #GiveItUp campaign launched by the government, numerous households have given up their LPG subsidies with the aim of helping the government in utilising that amount for other development activities in the country.
Thanks to the ‘Give It Up‘ campaign launched by the government, between 30,000 to 40,000 households are giving up their LPG subsidies daily.
The campaign was officially launched Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas in January and it gained momentum after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal for the same in March.
The aim was to encourage LPG users who can afford the gas cylinders at their market price, to voluntarily surrender their LPG subsidy.
Source: Wikimedia
With the view of taking it forward, oil marketers also started a countrywide door-to-door campaign in May end, informing people about LPG subsidies and how it would benefit the country if they #GiveItUp. This has had a huge impact as many willing consumers found a very easy way to give up their subsidies.
While addressing the country on the 69th Independence Day, the Prime Minister shared the news that at least 20 lakh people have already surrendered their subsidies.
2 times Asian Gold Medallist & Arjuna Award Recipient Sportsman (Boxer), Mr. Sangwan joined the #GiveItUp movement. pic.twitter.com/Itaom1hZCp
— GiveItUp (@GiveItUp) August 17, 2015
Suresh Gopi, Chairman of National Film Dev. Corp, and an Indane customer, has chosen to #GiveItUp for the nation. pic.twitter.com/JcSac7G1qw — GiveItUp (@GiveItUp) August 13, 2015
A day after this speech, the number quickly jumped to 21.26 lakh, and has been going up since then.
This #IndependenceDay, we salute the patriotic spirit of the 2 million people who chose to #GiveItUp for the country! pic.twitter.com/uKLMhh8Xel
A senior executive of an oil company informed The Times of India that the door-to-door campaign is focussed on the affluent localities in different states. “Someone living in Delhi’s GK-I or Mumbai’s Pali Hill doesn’t need subsidy of about Rs. 200 per cylinder at current rates. They understand this and are signing up willingly. The PM’s appeal has made it easier for us to persuade people,” he said.
Shri Dilip Doshi from the ‘Tarak Mehta ka Ulta Chashma’ fame and a @HPCL customer, joined the #GiveItUp movement! pic.twitter.com/vSYbYjXf9X — GiveItUp (@GiveItUp) August 12, 2015
Sincere thanks to Chairman of Wipro Ltd & renowned philanthropist Mr. Azim Hasham Premji for giving up #LPG subsidy! pic.twitter.com/2kYQL6HkF9
The government has also launched PAHAL, a program which is focussed at transferring cash subsidy directly into bank accounts of customers. As pointed out by the PM, the absence of middlemen and black marketers after the launch of PAHAL has helped the government save Rs. 15,000 crore. “We corrected the system and Rs.15,000 crore, which was stolen every year in the name of gas subsidy, has been saved,” he had said.
You can find more information about the campaign here.
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Newt Gingrich Gets Angry Again in Florida
With Florida’s high-stakes primary closing in, Gingrich barnstormed the state with harsh new attacks.
Lois Romano
Updated Jul. 13, 2017 11:02AM ET / Published Jan. 26, 2012 1:01PM ET
Joe Rimkus Jr., Miami Herald / MCT / Landov
Hell hath no fury like a Newt Gingrich scorned.
In a preview of what’s to come in tonight’s debate, an angry Newt Gingrich lashed out at his chief rival Mitt Romney, accusing him for running a negative and dishonest campaign against him.
“There is something so grotesquely hypocritical about the Romney campaign,” he said. ”I am angry and every American should be angry.”
The former House speaker went onto to assail Romney for harping on Gingrich’s work for mortgage lender for Freddie Mac when Romney himself owns Freddie Mac stock.
“He owns a Goldman Sachs subsidiary that forecloses on Floridians. He is surrounded by lobbyists who are paid by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to stop reform,” said Gingrich following an enthusiastic Tea Party rally in Mt. Dora, Fla. “And on that front, he decides to lie about my career?”
Polls show the men neck and neck—though there are signs that Gingrich’s momentum is slipping—heading into Tuesday’s primary here. A win for Gingrich would raise serious questions whether Romney, once a comfortable frontrunner, could recover. Gingrich has been met with large crowds around the state, while Romney has swamped the airwaves with paid ads. At every Gingrich stop of late, Romney surrogates have been showing up to refute his comments.
The ex-speaker will need a strong performance at the Jacksonville debate tonight. He thrives on audience reaction and he will likely get it; unlike Monday’s debate in Tampa, where NBC asked the audience to keep silent—which Gingrich complained about—tonight’s crowd will be allow to cheer.
Gingrich could barely contain his rage as he addressed about 1,500 people in the central Florida town. “They think we’re so stupid,” he said defiantly at least 10 times referring to his opponents—Romney, Barack Obama, and/or the Washington establishment.
He called the negative ads against him “junk” and “the desperate last stand of the old order … to try to drown us in mud.”
To reporters later, he was even blunter.
“To have somebody who was an independent in the ‘80s, who gave money to Democrats in ‘92, and who voted in the democratic primary for [Paul] Tsongas—to have his campaign take on a lifetime of work and lie about it, frankly I do find infuriating,” said Gingrich.
“It is one of the most dishonest things I’ve see in politics. I mean at some level there ought to be a sense of shame for someone being this fundamentally dishonest.”
Gingrich reiterated the view that his surge has panicked establishment Republicans who support Romney and who see a Gingrich nomination as a death knell for November: “The Washington establishment is going fight me every step to the nomination.”
He’s right about that.
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The Free Library > Business and Industry > Business > Real Estate Weekly > April 23, 2003
The Free Library > Business and Industry > Real estate industry > Real Estate Weekly > April 23, 2003
The Free Library > Date > 2003 > April > 23 > Real Estate Weekly
Examining tenant/landlord rights with lease assignment. (Insiders Outlook).
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Most commercial leases contain restrictions on a tenant's ability to assign the lease or sublet the space. A typical restriction permits the tenant to assign or sublet subject to the landlord's consent, provided such consent is not "unreasonably withheld." Tenants often ask the landlord for "consent," and when the landlord, refuses the question is often litigated as to whether the landlord unreasonably withheld its consent to an assignment or sublease.
Under New York law, in order for a landlord's refusal to consent to an assignment or sublease to withstand judicial scrutiny and be deemed "reasonable," it must be based on "objective criteria", i.e., readily measurable criteria of a proposed assignee's or subtenant's acceptability from the view point of any landlord. According to New York courts, such objective criteria consist of the financial responsibility of the proposed assignee/subtenant, the identity or business character of the proposed assignee/subtenant, i.e., its suitability for the particular building, the legality of the proposed use, or the nature of the proposed use.
In one case, a court found a landlord's refusal reasonable when it had been shown that the proposed assignee had a brief operating history and sub-par financial statements. In that case, a detailed affidavit from the landlord's senior vice president regarding the assignee's financial status was sufficient to defeat the conclusory argument of the assignee that the real reason for denial was the assignee's race and gender.
In another case, a refusal was deemed reasonable when the proposed assignment involved extensive modifications of the existing lease that included extending the term of the lease, expanding the tenant's right to assign, expanding the tenant's right to make alterations, and abolishing the tenant's obligation to post a security deposit. Reasonableness was also found by a court where the proposed assignee was a previous tenant of the landlord who had been a "troublesome" tenant.
If a refusal is based on "subjective criteria," i.e., criteria based on the peculiar needs or dislikes of the landlord, it is likely to be deemed unreasonable by the courts. For example, American Book Company v. Yeshiva University Development Foundation, Inc., the Yeshiva University Development Foundation was the landlord of a commercial building. It rejected a proposed subtenant for the building. Planned Parenthood, because the Foundation found Planned Parenthood's activities to be "'inconsistent with the present use of the premises and with the education activities of [Yeshiva] University.'" The rejection was challenged in the courts and the tenant prevailed.
The court found that the grounds asserted for the rejection were based on ideological differences between the Foundation and Planned Parenthood and therefore were were subjective and thus unreasonable. The court went on to hold that "when a religious or religiously affiliated or educational institution...owns commercial property, it is to be held to the established standards of commercial responsibility, its acts and conduct being vested with no greater and no lesser sanctity than those of any other owner."
A court has found a refusal by a landlord to be unreasonable when it was proven that the reason given by the landlord to support the refusal was nothing more than a sham that enabled the landlord to place a new tenant in the space at a higher base rent. In another case, unreasonableness was found where the landlord demanded a fee as a condition to its consent when such a fee was not provided for in the lease as a condition precedent for the landlord granting its consent. Though the question of reasonableness was not reached, a court in 1990 implied that an assignor's refusal to pay the landlord's alleged $30,000 "bribe" request, could be an unreasonable refusal. This was so, even though the landlord had requested the proposed assignee's financial information, which the proposed assignee failed to provide. The landlord claimed that it refused to grant consent based upon the failure of the proposed assignee to provide its financial information. So basically, the court implied that if in later judicial proceedin gs the assignor could sufficiently prove that the alleged bribe took place, that would deem the refusal unreasonable despite the proposed assignee's failure to provide its financial data.
These cases show that a landlord should proceed cautiously when confronted by a tenant with a request to assign or sublet. If the landlord has "objective" reasons for denying the request, it should clearly state them in connection with the rejection.
Of course if there is any doubt, a landlord should confer with its legal counsel to ensure that a rejection is appropriate and will survive any subsequent judicial scrutiny. If a landlord makes a refusal that is subsequently deemed to be unreasonable by the courts, the tenant can recover, among other things, monetary damages for breach of the lease and also the assignment can be allowed to take effect despite the landlord's refusal.
However, with the aid of competent legal counsel, one could incorporate a limitation of damages clause into the lease, thus potentially preventing the assignor for suing for damages in the situation where the landlord is found to have unreasonably withheld consent. The remedy for the assignor would be a judicial declaration that the assignment was unreasonably withheld, and that the refused assignment would be considered an effective assignment.
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The 10 Best Mountain Bike Trails in Arkansas
If you’re scratching your head wondering what kind of mountain biking is to be had in the deep South state of Arkansas, then chew on this; the IMBA’s 2016 world summit was held in Arkansas.
Over the past 10 years or so Arkansas, realizing the growing popularity of the sport, has been quietly investing in its mountain biking infrastructure.
Still not impressed?
How about the fact that Arkansas, on the bottom half of the country’s states when it comes to size and population, is home to five IMBA Epic MTB trails, which ties it with California for most IMBA Epics in the country.
It’s not difficult to see what part of the state is ground zero for this mountain biking expansion. Bentonville, with its location in the northwestern part of the state amid the Ozark mountains, has embraced the MTB industry, quickly turning itself into southeastern MTB hub town.
Although most of the state’s best trails are located in and around Bentonville, mountain biking is also making inroads in other parts of the state, including around centrally-located Little Rock.
Here are 10 of the best mountain bike trails in Arkansas.
1. Slaughter Pen, Bentonville
Accessible from the middle of Bentonville is Slaughter Pen. This trail will instantly tell you that Northwest Arkansas is no joke when it comes to mountain biking.
The trail is well designed with fast-flow and well-built switchback berms that at times seem unending, creating that roller coaster feel that all MTBers lust after.
Slaughter Pen is set up as a series of short loops, allowing you to create the difficulty level and length you want. Freeriders should check out Tatamagouche, which features jumps, drops, and a series of wooden features.
Once gassed, simply ride into the middle of town for a burger and a beer.
2. Upper Buffalo Trail System, Jasper
Upper Buffalo is one Arkansas’ IMBA Epic rated trails. What that should tell you is that the trail is challenging and that it will take you deep into the wilds of the Ozarks.
This is pure cross country mountain biking at its best. The trail is rugged, often leaf-covered singletrack. Make sure you know where you’re going as side trails weave in and out.
Among the obstacles, you’ll encounter are water crossings, with some that require you to remove your shoes and carry your mountain bike as you wade across. You’ll also face some technical climbs and plenty of rocky terrains.
3. Cedar Glades Park Loop, Hot Springs National Park
Proof that mountain biking isn’t just a sport for northeast Arkansas is Northwoods, located in central Arkansas just outside Little Rock. This trail, completed just less than two years ago by an IMBA Trails Solutions crew, is already one of the most popular in the state.
Northwoods includes all the benefits of modern trail design including, most importantly, plenty of flow. This trail winds through woodlands on a mix of hard-packed dirt and rock, skirting hillsides on bench cut trail.
Well-timed wooden features, berms, and jumps add to the thrill of this flow trail. There are even a few rock gardens thrown in for good measure.
4. Blowing Springs, Bella Vista
What makes the Blowing Springs one of the best trails in Arkansas is the fact that it has a little bit of everything.
This 20-mile plus loop has rugged and rocky trails with technical ascents and fast descents all while riding through the wooded backyards of a suburban neighborhood. The trail even runs through a golf course at one point.
The real gem of this loop is The Ledges. This technical trail primarily follows a ledge along a mountainside with plenty of downhill flow. This is experts only with drop-offs of up to 40 ft just a few feet off the trail.
5. Enders Fault, Greenbrier
Enders Fault is a classic cross country mountain biking trail located in the center of the state just north of Little Rock. The trail winds through forests of hardwoods and cedar, using a mix of fire road and single track trails.
With its relatively smooth and wide terrain, sections of this trail run faster than your typical technical cross country trail.
Enders Fault features fast descents and some short but challenging climbs. You’ll also face some technical but fun stream crossing. The trail mostly meanders through woods with a few exposed bench cut sections that skirt hillsides.
6. The Womble, Mount Ida
The womble is an Arkansas’ First IMBA Epic, so you know you’re in for challenge and adventure with this ride.
As most IMBA Epics do, the Womble heads off into the backwoods. In this case, you’ll explore the Ouachita Mountains as you follow this 35 miles plus trail. The terrain is a mix of loose rock and packed dirt with a tricky creek crossing and plenty of long climbs followed by heart-pumping descents.
Have your camera phone ready as there are many opportunities to stop and take in excellent views of the surrounding mountain ridges.
7. Iron Mountain, Arkadelphia
There aren’t many mountain biking trails in the southern part of the state, but there are a couple worth mentioning, and one of those is Iron Mountain.
This trail opens by winding through wooded areas and up and down hillsides. The terrain of mostly rocky soil makes for a very fast albeit bumpy ride.
After using a paved road to connect to the second set of trails, you’ll hit a mix of fire roads and technical singletrack while encountering sustained climbs and quick downhills.
Make sure to check out the White Zone section of this trail system, which is more flow and features many great views of Degray Lake.
8. Syllamo, Mountain View
This IMBA Epic in the rugged mountains of the northern part of the state offers an exceptional cross country mountain biking experience in a series of loops covering some 50 miles of single track.
Syllamo includes everything you would expect from an IMBA epic trail; long climbs, technical terrain, difficult descents, a backwoods setting, and stunning overlooks.
Highlights include a rock stairway to descend and some wide, but fun, stream crossings, and many thrilling descents. This road is very rocky and rooty in some sections, so a full suspension bike and self-sealing tubeless tires are recommended.
9. Mt. Kessler, Farmington
With its rugged terrain and natural beauty, the trails at Mt. Kessler offers a backwoods mountain biking feel without having to go very far from civilization.
Located just outside Fayetteville and Farmington, this trail system features more than 16 miles of trails with the most popular loop being the intermediate Kessler Loop.
The loop begins with a difficult climb that is rewarded with excellent views. The ascent is followed by a rocky and technical downhill section with plenty of berms for keeping your speed high. One of the highlights is a narrow trail that squeezes through a series of 12-foot high boulders.
10. Lake Leatherwood, Eureka Springs
An amazing set of flow and free ride trails make up this relatively new MTB park located just south of the Missouri border at the northeastern most part of the state.
Opened just a couple of years ago, Lake Leatherwood adheres to the current trend in flow trails with smooth and flat terrain that mostly skirts the hills and ridges of the Ozark mountains.
The main attraction of this trail park is its double black diamond, which features a massive jump created out of a rock. This is an all flow trail broken up by periodic sections of rocks that add a nice technical element.
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'Autoantibodies' may be driving severe Covid cases, study shows
Scientists find aberrant immune system in patients with virus could also be cause of ‘long Covid’
Ian Sample Science editor
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Sun 13 Dec 2020 10.09 EST Last modified on Sun 13 Dec 2020 17.12 EST
A electron micrograph of the coronavirus. Scientists at Yale found that aberrant antibodies in patients with the disease wiped out helpful immune cells and attacked the body on multiple fronts. Photograph: National Institute of Allergy an/AFP/Getty Images
Dramatic levels of “friendly fire” from the immune system may drive severe Covid-19 disease and leave patients with “long Covid” – when medical problems persist for a significant time after the virus has been beaten – scientists have said.
Researchers at Yale University found that Covid-19 patients had large numbers of misguided antibodies in their blood that targeted the organs, tissues and the immune system itself, rather than fighting off the invading virus.
The scientists compared immune responses in patients and uninfected people and discovered scores of aberrant antibodies in the former.These blocked antiviral defences, wiped out helpful immune cells, and attacked the body on multiple fronts, from the brain, blood vessels and liver to connective tissue and the gastrointestinal tract.
Further tests revealed that the more “autoantibodies” patients had in their blood, the worse their disease. The Covid-19 patients had more antibodies that had turned on them than people with lupus, an autoimmune disease caused by similar wayward antibodies.
“Covid-19 patients make autoantibodies that actually interfere with immune responses against the virus,” said Aaron Ring, an immunobiologist at Yale and senior author on the study. Numerous other autoantibodies attacked parts of the body that are known to become damaged in those with the disease.
“We certainly believe that these autoantibodies are harmful to patients with Covid-19,” said Ring, adding that the harmful effects may well continue after the infection has abated, leaving patients with longer-lasting medical problems. “Because antibodies can persist for a long time, it’s conceivable that they may contribute to the development of long-Covid diseases,” he said.
Ring partnered with Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of immunobiology at Yale, to screen 194 patients and hospital workers with varying severities of Covid infection for autoantibodies that targeted nearly 3,000 human proteins. Antibodies disable viruses by latching on to proteins on the virus surface, but autoantibodies are the wrong shape and mistakenly bind to proteins that are on, or have been released by, human cells.
Writing in the study, which has yet to be peer reviewed and published in a journal, the scientists describe how Covid patients had “dramatic increases in autoantibody reactivities” compared with 30 healthy hospital workers who did not have the virus. While certain autoantibodies in some patients were apparently present before Covid-19 infection, others appeared and ramped up as the disease progressed.
More than 5% of hospitalised patients had autoantibodies that weakened a key arm of the immune defence that is orchestrated by proteins called interferons. These patients were unable to control the amount of virus in their bodies and so developed more serious illness.
In two particularly grim examples of friendly fire, other patients had autoantibodies that targeted B cells, the cellular factories that churn out antibodies to fight the virus, while one patient had autoantibodies that appeared to wipe out many of their protective T-cells.
Rather than one type of autoantibody being to blame, the scientists believe that Covid-19 is worsened when many different wayward antibodies arise in the same patient. Tests in mice with some of the autoantibodies confirmed that they made the animals more susceptible to infection and more likely to die from the disease.
“The aggregate sum of these multifarious responses may explain a significant portion of the clinical variation in patients,” the authors write.
Scientists have long known that conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and multiple sclerosis are driven by the immune system malfunctioning and attacking the body. But less is known about viral infections and their ability to induce autoimmune reactions. Work is now under way to investigate whether autoantibodies are to blame for long-term symptoms in diseases like Ebola and Chikungunya, and also in cancer patients after immunotherapy.
Ring said that if Covid-19 autoantibodies endure in the body they might play a part in long Covid. “Post-Covid syndromes could plausibly be caused by long-lived autoantibodies that persist well after the virus is cleared from the body,” he said. “If this is the case, there are immunosuppressive treatments, such as those used for rheumatological diseases, that could be effective.” Long Covid is thought to affect about 10% of 18- to 49-year-olds, rising to one in five among the over-70s.
Danny Altmann, professor of immunobiology at Imperial College, London, who was not involved in the study, said autoantibodies could well explain the variety of Covid symptoms and the longer-lasting ailments some patients experience.
“I consider this very likely, especially by analogy to Ebola and Chikungunya, where autoimmunity does seem to be a big part of the answer. A big part of our lab direction of travel for the coming months is trying to relate long Covid symptoms to autoimmune profiles,” he said.
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The 1st Official Monster Hunter Trailer Brings The Heat
Posted by Bryn Darby | Oct 14, 2020 | Movies, Sci-Fi, Trailers, Video Games | 0
An official trailer for Monster Hunter has been released revealing the story for the anticipated live-action movie.
The upcoming Monster Hunter movie is based on the video game series of the same name and will be released in theaters December of this year. The trailer features an amazing cast including Milla Jovovich, T.I. Harris, Meagan Good, Diego Bineta, and Tony Jaa.
Monster Hunter Official Trailer
The trailer also features two iconic monsters from the Monster Hunter series, which are the Black Diablos and the Rathalos. Both well-known and iconic creatures are foes that players have hunted in many games of the franchise.
Monster Hunter is a fantasy action role-playing video game that has become a renown franchise, with a series of titles on multiple platforms. The first game was released in 2004 on PlayStation 2, but since then the video game series has had many instalments, including Monster Hunter World (PC, Xbox One, and PS4) and Monster Hunter Rise, which is coming soon to Nintendo Switch. The game involves hunting various large scale monsters using armor and weapons that can be upgraded and crafted from other monsters that the player has defeated.
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Some of the weapons included from the game that are seen in the movie trailer include the Great Sword, Bow, and the Dual Blades. The Dual Blades are the weapon of choice by Milla Jovovich when she plays Monster Hunter video games herself and her character, Captain Artemis, also is seen using them in this trailer.
The new trailer also shows the use of modern weaponry since the soldiers are from our world. Hopefully, we will see the use of the weapons seen in the games as the primary feature of the film, but it will be interesting to see how effective rifles can be against a large Wythian. We can’t to see what surprises are coming next.
Monster Hunter Synopsis
Behind our world, there is another: a world of dangerous and powerful monsters that rule their domain with deadly ferocity. When an unexpected sandstorm transports Captain Artemis (Milla Jovovich) and her unit (TI Harris, Meagan Good, Diego Boneta) to a new world, the soldiers are shocked to discover that this hostile and unknown environment is home to enormous and terrifying monsters immune to their firepower.
In their desperate battle for survival, the unit encounters the mysterious Hunter (Tony Jaa), whose unique skills allow him to stay one step ahead of the powerful creatures. As Artemis and Hunter slowly build trust, she discovers that he is part of a team led by the Admiral (Ron Perlman). Facing a danger so great it could threaten to destroy their world, the brave warriors combine their unique abilities to band together for the ultimate showdown.
What did you think of the Monster Hunter trailer? Let us know in the comment section below or let’s discuss on Twitter!
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Public lecture on Russia's Economy by Professor Hedlund
Professor Stefan Hedlund from the University of Uppsala, Sweden, will give a public lecture entitled:
"STRATEGY 2030: A Roadmap to Nowhere for Russia’s Economy"
on Wednesday, 16 March 2016, from 16:15 to 18:00 at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, Lossi 36, room 214.
As the Russian economy sinks into recession, the Russian government is putting a brave face on things. The threefold argument is that the combination of plummeting energy prices and Western sanctions has been beneficial, that the anti-crisis program is working, and that a “Strategy 2030” is being formulated to show the way into a radiant future. The essence of the latter is import substitution, putting an end to hydrocarbon dependence and promoting diversification. None of this is new, nor is it very smart. The realization that the resource based growth model has been exhausted dates several years back. The belief in import substitution lacks substance, and seeking diversification out of energy, which is the only sector with comparative advantage, makes even less sense. The bottom line is that the Russian economy is headed for protracted decline, leaving economic policy making to grapple with short-term crises rather than long-term visions.
Stefan Hedlund is Professor of Russian Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. A long-standing specialist on Russia, and on the Former Soviet Union more broadly, his current research interest lies in economic theories of institutional change. He also has a devouring interest in Russian history, which he has sought to blend with more standard theories of economic change. He has been a frequent contributor to the media, and has published extensively on matters relating to Russian economic reform and to the attempted transition to democracy and market economy more generally. His most recent publications include Invisible Hands, Russian Experience, and Social Science: Approaches to Understanding Systemic Failure (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and Putin’s Energy Agenda: The Contradictions of Russia’s Resource Wealth (Lynne Rienner, 2014).
The lecture series is jointly organised by the Centre for EU-Russia Studies (CEURUS) (University of Tartu), Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (University of Uppsala) and the Global Europe Centre (University of Kent) in the framework of the UPTAKE project funded by the EU.
For additional information, please contact: Dr Piret Ehin, Director of CEURUS, piret.ehin [ät] ut.ee
Maili Vilson
Lossi 36-214, Tartu
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Highway 97. (file photo)
Only a matter of time until ‘Okanagan Bob’ is identified, police say
The notorious Hwy. 97 driver’s identify can’t be released until he commits a criminal offence
Caitlin Clow
People may be wondering who the notorious Highway 97 driver known as Okanagan Bob is, but his name won’t be released by the RCMP because he hasn’t been charged with a criminal offence.
Traffic Services media relations officer Cpl. Mike Halskov said they can’t release his name by law, but it’s likely only a matter of time before a criminal offence occurs.
”It isn’t that we are refusing to publish the person’s name, it is that we are prohibited in law from doing so because the person has not been charged with a criminal offence,” Cpl. Halskov said in an email.
“In my experience, I suggest it is only a matter of time before that occurs, but for that I ask for your patience; we will undoubtedly come across this person again, at which time the evidence will dictate whether we recommend criminal charges that may include dangerous driving.”
Okanagan Bob was slapped with an eight-month licence suspension on Sept. 17 after clocking in 45 kilometres over the speed limit on his commute between Lake Country and Vernon.
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“Up until now, this person has only hurt himself,” Cpl. Halskov said. “Mostly in the pocketbook.”
RCMP members investigated Okanagan Bob’s daily commute over three days and he was stopped on Aug. 29, 2019, and issued several tickets.
He was hit with two counts of excessive speeding, driving without due care and driving without consideration, Central Okanagan Traffic Services Sgt. Bryce Petersen said. Cpl. Halskov said the incident landed the driver with 18 driver penalty points on this event alone.
“Under the new ICBC insurance regime, I would think his premiums will rise considerably,” Cpl. Halskov said. “I suggest it will be very costly for him when it comes time to re-apply for his driver’s licence once his prohibition expires.”
Okanagan Bob first came to public and police attention three years ago after dash-cam videos were posted to YouTube. In December 2018, more complaints came forward about Okanagan Bob’s erratic and aggressive driving.
Police first put the brakes on Okanagan Bob on Dec. 6, 2018. He was issued a ticket, his vehicle was impounded for seven days and he was issued a Level 1 vehicle inspection notice that removed his Dodge pickup truck from the road for a while.
“If he continues to drive as he has demonstrated in the past, it is only a matter of time before innocents get injured or killed,” Cpl. Halskov said. “Obviously we don’t want that to happen.”
In the meantime, Cpl. Halskov wants to remind motorists driving is a privilege in British Columbia.
“The simplest way to avoid getting tickets, having your vehicle impounded and receiving a driving prohibition is to drive defensively, obey speed limits, wear seat belts, drive sober and drive distraction-free.”
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PlayStation Now gets two PS4 classics in January
Horizon: Zero Dawn and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy are coming to PlayStation Now next month.
Horizon Zero Dawn and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy are coming to PlayStation Now next month.
Sony is adding three new games to the PlayStation Now game streaming platform next month, two of which are bonafide PlayStation 4 classics.
First up is Horizon Zero Dawn, the sumptuous open-world adventure from Guerrilla Games. It’s a sweeping epic with an engaging story and an exquisitely designed range of creatures and locations. It’s a generational highlight and not to be missed.
Nor should Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. It’s a smaller game for the franchise, and all the better for it. In our review, we said: “This is Uncharted with all of the fat trimmed clean off, giving you the absolute best bits – the exploration, the action sequences, and all of that magnificent writing – in what amounts to the very best video game supercut.”
Horizon Zero Dawn and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy will be available to stream from January to April 7, 2020.
January’s lineup is completed by Overcooked! 2. This fun multiplayer sequel from Ghost Town Games doesn’t quite recapture the magic of the first game, but it’s the perfect game for some family fun over the holidays.
December’s PlayStation Now games are also still available. PUBG is on the service until March 3, 2020. Persona 5 and Middle-Earth: Shadow of War are available until February 2, 2020.
Let us know what you think about the new additions – and how PS Now compares to Google Stadia – on Facebook and Twitter.
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Dover trails Wooster 10-7 in suspended contest
Alex Tichenor IndeOnline.com sports writer @ATichenorINDE
WOOSTER Early in the night, a full moon shined a murky red in the distance over Follis Field.
At the time, it didn’t raise any eyebrows, but perhaps it was a Friday the 13th omen for how the night unfolded.
Wooster and Dover couldn’t finish their crucial non-league high school football contest Friday because of an extended lightning delay, leaving the Generals wondering for another night when their first win would come. The game will restart (today) Saturday at 11 a.m.
At the time of the delay, Wooster led 10-7, with 4:47 remaining in the third quarter.
Weirdly, the postponement made sense in a game which lacked flow from the opening kickoff. Whenever either team got something going, something happened to stop the momentum in its tracks.
Sometimes it was defense. Sometimes it was careless turnovers. And, yes, sometimes it was the bellowing of thunder.
Still, both teams were able to muster scoring drives before the weather turned angry.
Wooster struck first after a first quarter which featured five punts, a fumble, an interception and a missed 26-yard field. Brayden Taylor bullied his way through a mass of humanity to get into the end zone, giving the Generals a 7-0 lead with 8:51 to go before the half. Micah McKee’s interception at the Wooster 39-yardline kickstarted the Generals’ scoring drive, making up for his earlier muffed punt.
After a clogged offensive performance in the first quarter, Dover roared back, taking less than two minutes to respond.
Facing a fourth-and-one from the Wooster 32-yardline, Dover running back Oshea Williams only needed a little bit, but he broke through the initial line of defense and outraced the rest on his way to a touchdown.
Drew Raber’s 26-yard field goal gave Wooster a 10-7 lead with 8:40 left in the third quarter.
Dover will be knocking on the redzone’s door when play resumes today. Kade Ruegsegger intercepted Wooster’s Owen Roach with 4:53 left in the third, giving the Tornadoes excellent field position.
Ruegsegger’s pick was the fourth of the night. Jacob Pagas come down with another for Dover, along with McKee and Jack Williams’ interceptions for Wooster.
Williams’ pick came as Dover drove down the field on what looked like a throwaway pass from Dover quarterback Ayden Hall, but Williams grabbed it around the goal line, saving the Generals from surrendering potential points.
Wooster’s secondary did an admirable job against Hall, who threw for five touchdowns last week, limiting him to 36 yards passing on 21 attempts at the time of the postponement.
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Cashel Chamber Slams VAT Increase
Cashel Chamber of Commerce has called on the proposed higher VAT rate increase of 2 per cent from 21 per cent to 23 per cent to be reconsidered for the survival of local SME’s and the local retail sector.
The Chamber sent a proposal to Minister for State, Phil Hogan, in July this year objecting to the already proposed VAT increase of 1 per cent in 2013 and a further 1 per cent in 2014 but this revised timeline and escalation of the increase will have a detrimental effect in the retail and service sectors.
President Mike Ryan said: “With consumer confidence at an all time low, retail and service providers in the private sector are struggling at the moment because of the recession and resurgence of the ‘Black Market’ and ‘Cash Merchants’. The fear of further austerity measures over the coming years has paralysed the local economy both from the consumer and local businesses perspectives.”
Mike Ryan continued “Over the past few years since the recession started, the most vulnerable in the private sector have taken most of the pain to date and for most there is little hope of recovery but if these new measures are implemented then that little hope vanishes”.
Full story in this week’s Tipperary Star
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April Sales Expected to Fall 3%, KBB Says
April 28, 2017 • by Staff
New-vehicle sales in April are expected to fall 3% year over year to 1.45 million units, resulting in an estimated 17.1 million seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR), according to analysts at valuation and data provider Kelley Blue Book.
“After a weaker-than-expected March, it’s becoming more likely that 2017 will be the first down year for the industry since 2009,” said Tim Fleming, a KBB analyst. “Kelley Blue Book expects April to continue this downward trend, however the SAAR should bounce back to approximately 17.1 million as a result of one less selling day. Beyond April, we will continue to closely monitor still high levels of inventory and elevated incentive spending by manufacturers, both of which are signs of overproduction following last year’s sales peak.”
After a record sales year in 2016 and seven consecutive year-over-year sales increases, Kelley Blue Book’s forecast for 2017 calls for sales in the range of 16.8 million to 17.3 million units, which represents a 1% to 4% decrease from last year.
April light-vehicle sales — including fleet — are expected to hit 1,445,000 units, down 3% compared to the same month a year ago and down 7% from March 2017. The seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) for April 2017 is estimated to be 17.1 million, down from 17.3 million in April 2016 and up from 16.5 million in March 2017. However, retail sales are expected to account for 79.2% of volume in April 2017, up slightly from 79% in April 2016.
At the factory level, Subaru is poised to set another monthly record, led by the recently redesigned Impreza sport sedan/hatchback. Fiat Chrysler did not perform well in April, but it could get a boost from the new Jeep Compass; FCA’s overall SUV lineup has struggled in an otherwise reliable segment.
SUVs continue to dominate sales growth in the industry, and this month, KBB analysts expect the mid-size SUV segment to see the highest growth at an estimated 8% increase. Mid-size SUVs appear to have the largest impact in swaying consumers from buying mid-size cars and minivans, both of which are down 20% this year.
“Mid-size cars continue to endure another poor month, and Kelley Blue Book anticipates the segment’s market share will fall nearly two percentage points,” said Fleming. “Just two of the 12 models in the segment — the [Volkswagen] Passat and the Mazda6 — have seen positive growth so far this year. Incentive spending for mid-size cars still remains high, despite the contraction in volume, which suggests further weakness may still lie ahead.”
There are 26 sales days in April 2017, compared to 27 sales days in April 2016. All percentages are based on raw volume, not daily selling rate.
Editor's Note: This story originally appeared on F&I and Showroom, another Bobit Business Media publication.
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The unknown Aston Villa team forced to play Liverpool tonight with a rookie Welshman in charge amid huge Covid-19 outbreak
The former Wales international is set to take his place in the Aston Villa dugout for tonight's FA Cup clash with Liverpool
Tom ColemanSports Writer
Mark Delaney is set to take his place in the Aston Villa dugout for Friday night's FA Cup clash with Liverpool
Former Wales international Mark Delaney is set to take charge of Aston Villa's depleted young side as they look to topple Liverpool in the FA Cup third round tonight.
The move will see Delaney take his place in the dugout amid a chaotic outbreak of Covid-19 within Villa's Bodmoor Heath training ground this week, with boss Dean Smith, along with the club's entire 25-man Premier League squad, currently self-isolating for a period of 10 days.
However, despite uncertainty, Villa have confirmed that the game will go ahead, following discussions with the FA.
The club tweeted on Friday morning: "Aston Villa can confirm that the #EmiratesFACup Third Round tie with Liverpool will be played at Villa Park this evening."
But with the entire senior squad unavailable, Villa will now field a team of comprised of under-23s and under-18s players against the Reds.
Delaney, who earned 36 caps for Wales, is likely to be joined by assistant George Boateng in the dugout, with the pair making 319 combined appearances for the club as players.
Both have been in dialogue with Smith, academy manager Mark Harrison and under-18s assistant Sean Verity as they look to put a team together for tonight's cup clash.
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Delaney himself has previously spoken of the standards he expects from his young stars, who are likely to face a strong, albeit similarly unfamiliar Liverpool line-up tonight.
He said: "It's important to have that relationship with the club. I've been here 21 years. The way I understand the club is the way I put it onto the players: You give 100 per cent for this club. You wear your heart on your sleeve for this club and you will get your rewards and fans and family will appreciate that.
"If you play at Villa Park and give your all the fans will back you all of the time. I try to instil that with the players. They're all technically gifted and they're all here for a reason but it's having that mental strength, desire and drive to be the best player you can be which fans will approve of."
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Despite the obvious doubts over the game, Villa were reportedly keen to fulfill the fixture against the champions, whom they thrashed in a shock 7-2 win earlier in the season.
The game may well have similar tone to that of the League Cup meeting between the two sides in December 2019.
With Liverpool competing in the Club World Cup in Qatar, Jurgen Klopp was replaced by under-23s boss Neil Critchley in the Liverpool dugout, with the Reds naming a line-up with an average age of just 19.
Villa cruised to a 5-0 win on that occasion.
Smith had intended to rest a number of first team stars anyway, but this latest Covid-19 outbreak has clearly thrown Villa's preparations into chaos.
It also remains to be seen whether Villa's scheduled Premier League clash at home to Tottenham Hotspur at Villa Park on Wednesday will go ahead.
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Fenland Street Pride groups celebrate achievements of last 12 months at Boathouse event
Published: 10:06 AM May 7, 2010 Updated: 6:15 AM November 4, 2020
IT was a night of celebration for some of Fenland s most dedicated volunteers. And the watchword for everyone there was pride. More than 50 members of Street Pride groups from all over the district joined councillors and senior officers from Fenland Dis
IT was a night of celebration for some of Fenland's most dedicated volunteers. And the watchword for everyone there was "pride".
More than 50 members of Street Pride groups from all over the district joined councillors and senior officers from Fenland District Council at the Boathouse in Wisbech to share their experiences and achievements over the past year.
Councillor Peter Murphy, FDC's portfolio holder with responsibility for the environment, presented members of each group with special certificates in recognition of their efforts. "You make such a tremendous difference to every town and village where you work," he told them. "As a council we obviously can't cover every nook and cranny, so we rely a lot on you to help us."
He added: "Of course, if only we could educate everyone not to throw litter, we wouldn't need you. But that time hasn't come yet!"
There are now six fully constituted Street Pride groups with 145 members in Parson Drove, Whittlesey, March, Manea, Chatteris and Wisbech. Over the past year they have put in 1,965 voluntary hours' work and staged 159 separate events - everything from litter picks and planting trees and bulbs to spearheading the ambitious plans to revamp March railway station.
Paul Medd, FDC's executive director, said: "You all make a fantastic contribution to the lives of your communities. It's important for us all to reflect on that and you should feel rightly proud of what you do. This evening is a great opportunity for us, as elected members and council officers, to say 'thank you'.
"What you do not only has a massive impact on the cleanliness of the district; it also has a great knock-on effect, acting as a catalyst for other groups."
He also praised the contribution made by other organisations who work with Street Pride such as FACET, the probation service and Network Rail.
One of the evening's biggest rounds of applause went to 14-year-old James Dietz, who joined the Whittlesey Street Pride group to help him carry out part of his Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme and plans to stay with it after completing that project.
A few days after the celebration James performed the naming ceremony when the group launched their third Street Pride boat, the Spirit of Whittlesey, on the Ramsey Road entrance to the town.
Jeanette Milner, FDC's Street Pride coordinator, listed the numerous awards the groups had totted up between them over the year, including several from Anglia in Bloom.
The evening also gave members an opportunity to say how they felt they were making a difference in their area. Several said that more people were now following their example. "More people in the village seem to be taking pride," said one. Another agreed: "From the first litter pick we now have fewer bags each time, which I feel is making the villagers aware."
• For more information on Street Pride, or to join a local group, call Jeanette Milner at FDC on 01354 654321 or email jmilner@fenland.gov.uk.
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'So unnecessary.' Nikki Haley eye rolls Donald Trump for touting burglary at Elijah Cummings' home
John Fritze
WASHINGTON – Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley offered a virtual eye roll and an admonishment to President Donald Trump on Friday after he appeared to taunt Rep. Elijah Cummings over a break-in at his home on Saturday.
"This is so unnecessary," Haley wrote on Twitter in response to Trump, adding an eye roll emoji to her message.
Trump tweeted the initial message on Friday after reports that police are investigating a burglary at Cummings’ home in West Baltimore.Trump has been blasting Cummings and his hometown for days, describing the city as a "rat and rodent infested mess."
“Really bad news! The Baltimore house of Elijah Cummings was robbed,” Trump tweeted on Friday. “Too bad!”
Baltimore City police confirmed they are investigating a burglary that took place during the early morning hours of July 27 on Cummings’ block in West Baltimore. Both police and Cummings said the burglary occurred about 3:40 a.m., hours before Trump’s tweets directed at the congressman.
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Equity Livestock's year reflects cattle price slump
Ray Mueller
Brillion - In sync with the challenging year that livestock producers faced in 2016, the Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association's bottom line also suffered a significant setback during its past business year, members learned at their annual district meetings.
The Baraboo-based cooperative, which has auction markets across Wisconsin and in northeast Iowa, along with other marketing programs, had its net proceeds shaved from $664,880 in 2015 to $236,965 in 2016, the report of financial operations indicated. Payments to producers selling through Equity plunged from nearly $754.130 million in 2015 to just under $502.569 million in 2016.
Equity's vice-president for finance Nancy Bilz noted that net operating revenue dropped by nearly $2 million from 2015 to a total of $12.359 million in 2016. This was due mainly to the loss on tariffs and commissions generated by livestock sales, she explained.
Sales volume decline
That reduction was tied to the combination of lower sales prices during 2016 and of a cutback in livestock volumes in Equity's sales channels, Bilz pointed out. For sales volume in 2016, Equity handled 736,213 head – down from 805,819 in 2015.
Those decreases were shared by the cooperative's four categories of livestock, Bilz noted. The 2016 totals and the percentage decreases from 2015 were 442,899 cattle (3 percent), 207,451 calves (18 percent), 47,676 hogs and feeder pigs (12 percent), and 38,187 sheep and goats (5.25 percent), she reported.
Market dilemmas
Equity's president and chief executive officer Charles Adami observed that Holstein bull calves that were once going to out of state buyers are no longer being consigned because of very low prices. Instead, many of them are staying within Wisconsin to be raised, he suggested.
Adami is also concerned by the choices being made by large consolidated dairy operations in the state to sell their cull cattle directly to buyers rather than through auction markets. Equity's volume also suffered a bit in 2016 because of competition that arose for one of the cooperative's auction markets, meeting attendees learned.
In a wider spectrum, the demand and prices for Holstein steers collapsed during 2016 because Tyson Foods stepped away as a buyer, leaving only two major packing company buyers, Adami explained. Overall plentiful beef cattle supplies along with Choice grading of carcasses reaching 80 percent, up from only 52 percent three years ago, probably prompted the Tyson decision, he said.
Price discovery lagging
Adami and Equity's chief operating officer Tod Fleming cited “a thin cash market” as another reason for the low prices, including the greatest price spread between Holstein and colored beef breed steers in many years. They noted a great portion of sales are through negotiated contracts, preventing the cash market from providing a fair price discovery process.
Asked what the portion of contracted and undisclosed price sales is, Adami estimated it to be at least 75 percent. He said a 25 percent cash market is not sufficient to establish a valid overall market price.
Not having a widely based cash market leads to wild swings in futures market prices and creates uncertainties for those in the feeder cattle segment of the market, Adami remarked. Fleming reported that the National Livestock Producers Association is urging its members to strive for a 50 percent cash market for cattle.
On another point, Adami warned that what's being said at a national level about relations with Mexico and Canada “could hurt us in the export market” because the two countries rank 1st and 3rd on agricultural exports by the United States. While noting that it's too early to draw any conclusions about that concern, he nonetheless hopes that “logical minds would point out the effect this could have on agriculture.”
Considering all those actual and potential elements of “doom and gloom,” Adami sighed and quipped that this could mean that “we're going to have a good year.”
Director's reflections
In his remarks to fellow district III members, district director Steve Schleis of Kewaunee agreed that 2016 was “not a year for the record books” in any good way. He said that the drop in Equity's livestock volume was not a surprise but that the major drop in prices for mature cattle and calves was not expected.
Amid its financial challenges, Equity is nonetheless continuing to build a new auction market facility at Stratford, completing replacements or upgrades on roofs, lights, furnaces, air conditioners, skidsteers, and office equipment at other sites, proceeding with its cooperative-wide installation of a new computer system, adding waterers at some locations for cattle held overnight, and now serving as an originator of federal Farmer Mac loans, Schleis reported. He noted that Equity, which is the compilation of 34 local shipping associations, has 50 loans worth $6.75 million on cattle, land, and crops.
Bilz exhorted members to enroll for direct deposit of payments to their banks. She indicated that mail service to some areas in the state is not satisfactory.
Cooperative mindset
In his prepared remarks, Adami dwelled on a district director's question to list five reasons “to do business with Equity.” He suggested that there are far more than five.
To address the question directly, Adami said the top five reasons all pertain to being a cooperative – an entity that's owned and governed by its members, an organization that's a social and financial partner in communities, a business whose employees are dedicated to serving the members, an institution that can obtain knowledge from its sister cooperatives, and an organization with a history of education and advocacy for its members.
Other reasons to do business with Equity cited by Adami and Fleming are its multiple channels for handling sales, its self initiated program to address animal welfare, its third party evaluation of that program, its 120 years of “honesty and integrity,” its setting of market standards for reporting and transparency, its programs to address market risks, its work with the Wisconsin Veterinary Association to develop the six-step “Food Armour” program, its membership in many related livestock and agricultural groups, its support of youth groups, and its efforts to respond with truth to false claims by anti-animal activists. Despite doubts in some quarters, Adami said Equity's leaders are convinced that sales checkoff fees for livestock are beneficial for the producers.
Local market activities
In an update on activities at the local Reedsville auction market, manager Andy Bubolz reported that the hay and straw sales have been attracting 40 to 45 loads on Wednesdays in recent weeks. He reminded shippers that cattle can be delivered on Monday afternoon for the Tuesday auction sale and that a lamb pool sale is conducted on a Monday every month.
Bubolz commended the local shipping association for its bidding activities for youth project livestock sales at the Manitowoc and Calumet County fairs and the Northeast Wisconsin Junior Livestock Show. He offered to visit livestock producers at their farms to talk about raising and marketing their animals.
In the election for the Reedsville association, Mike Van Duerzen, Marvin Schleis, and Jeff Wunrow were chosen as board members. The local association is working with total assets of $782,333.
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Liberty captures 2017 NISC title
On a wild day in Lynchburg, Virginia, the host school Liberty Flames battled through three games to reach the final contest of the 2017 NISC against Lamar. After adverse weather moved over the Liberty Softball Stadium, continuing the contest was no longer an option for tournament officials. By rule, the last completed inning became the final score, resulting in Liberty capturing the title, 3-1, in five innings.
Junior Tori Zavodny became the hero in the championship’s first contest against the Cardinals. With two runners on, trailing Lamar 5-4 and down to final three outs, Zavodny rocketed a home run over the right field fence to jump on top, 7-5. The Flames would add an insurance run and hold on to force the “if” game in the double-elim format, winning 8-5.
Pitching was the early story in the second game between the Cardinals and Flames. Through the first two and one half innings, each team’s offense was relatively silent. Then came the Bishop sisters. Amber and Autumn each dialed up a single before Alexia Taylor drove the first run of the ballgame. Two more runs in the inning gave Liberty the 3-0 advantage.
Brynn Baca kickstarted Lamar in the fifth inning and would eventually score via an RBI single from Kenzie Meeuwsen. Laura Napoli and Anissa Rodriguez each pitched well for the Cardinals, combining for three strikeouts and only two walks.
Julia Dimartino moved to 22-10 on the year, striking out four and scattering three hits in the championship win.
2017 NISC All-Tournament Team
Sierra Hyland
Crimson Kaiser
Chelsea Convissar
Kirtlyn Bohling
Takesha Saltern
KyRae Kogianes
Allison Spence
Sarah Finck
Riley Strandgard
Alley Cutting
Courtney Sutter
Noelle Winkles
Ciara Luna
Ashley McDowell
Brynn Baca
Kenzie Friesen
Amber Bishop
Tori Zavodny - Tournament MVP
Host Liberty stays alive, moves on to finals
Trailing 3-0 after the first two frames, Liberty went on a torrid run through the middle of the NISC semi-final game, scoring 13 unanswered runs to topple Kennesaw State, 13-5.
Courtney Sutter and Chandler Griffin each went yard against the host school. The Owl’s offensive duo combined for four hits, the two home runs and four of the five RBI. Kennesaw State ends a historic season, tallying a program record 40 wins.
Only on Liberty player did not record a hit on Wednesday morning. Tori Zavodny was downright unstoppable for the Flames. Zavodny lit up the Owls pitching staff for four hits, including a double and four RBI. Amber Bishop, Alexia Taylor and Jasmeen Click each had at least two RBI. Click dialed up the game-ending hit in the sixth to put keep the Flames’ season alive.
Kennesaw State’s season comes to an end Wednesday. Meanwhile, host Liberty moves on to the finals where they will face Lamar, who has yet to lose in the championship round. Liberty will need to best the Cardinals twice in order to claim the 2017 title. Game one is slated for 1:30 p.m. ET.
Lamar works through delay, earns title game spot
After playing five-plus innings Tuesday and seeing its game with Kennesaw State suspended because of weather, Lamar held on Wednesday morning for a 5-4 victory over the Owls to move into the championship game at the NISC.
The Cardinals (34-19), who were one of four at-large teams in the original NISC field, will play later Wednesday needing one victory to claim the NISC title.
In the game against Kennesaw State (40-19), pitcher Ciara Luna scattered eight hits and struck out seven batters. Brynn Baca had three hits and two RBI.
Kennesaw State’s Noelle Winkles had a triple and an RBI; Olivia Tamewitz added two hits. The Owls play Liberty (43-24) on Wednesday, with the winner emerging from the loser’s bracket to face Lamar for the title.
Liberty gets past Cal Poly on three-hitter
Liberty kept pace through the loser’s bracket of the NISC on Monday night, as pitchers Kenzie Friesen and Julia DiMartino combined to throw a three-hit shutout against Cal Poly, 3-0.
The Flames got two home runs off the bat of freshman Amber Bishop, with Deidra See driving in the other run. The game was a 1-0 nailbiter until the top of the seventh. Tori Zavodny also had two hits.
Sierra Hyland, who pitched a perfect game earlier Monday versus Weber State, allowed six hits and five walks.
Liberty will play the loser of Tuesday’s Kennesaw State-Lamar game.
Hyland's perfect game keeps Cal Poly moving
Sierra Hyland returned to her dominating ways in the NISC, throwing a perfect game no-hitter for Cal Poly in a 9-0 run-rule victory Monday against Weber State to advance in the loser’s bracket.
Hyland struck out 10 batters and moved to 24-12 on the season. Cal Poly will play Liberty later Monday, with the loser heading home.
Offensively, the Mustangs put the game away with a four-run burst in the top of the sixth inning. Hyland also had three hits and drove in three runs; Crimson Kaiser added two hits and Hailey Martin drove in two runs. Leadoff hitter Stephanie Heyward scored three runs.
Weber State also made four errors, ending its season at 37-22-1 overall.
Host Liberty stays alive with win over Illinois State
LYNCHBURG, VA – With their season on the line, Liberty leaned on their stud in the circle. Kenzie Friesen spun a one-hit performance on Monday afternoon to keep the Flames’ season brewing, leading them to victory, 3-0, over Illinois State.
Ali Domkusku and Sarah Finck pitched a wonderful game in their own right for the Redbirds. The duo combined for four strikeouts and forced 13 groundout, but three runs on eight hits proved to be the difference in the end. Allison Spence dialed up the only hit for Illinois State with a single in the fourth inning.
Alexia Taylor came up with a monstrous game when her team needed it the most. The third baseman led the Flames with three hits, one double and an RBI. Amber Bishop and Deidra See each had two hits as well in the win.
In the circle, Kenzie Friesen was virtually unstoppable. Friesen struck out three, force 10 flyouts and eight groundouts to pick up her 14 win of 2017 against just three losses.
Emerging victorious in their elimination game, Liberty will fight on to face the winner of Cal Poly and Weber State. The Flames’ next game is slated for Monday night at 9 p.m. ET.
NISC Championship Round - Day 2 Recaps
Liberty 3, Cal Poly 0
LYNCHBURG, VA - Liberty kept pace through the loser’s bracket of the NISC on Monday night, as pitchers Kenzie Friesen and Julia DiMartino combined to throw a three-hit shutout against Cal Poly, 3-0.
Cal Poly 9, Weber State 0
LYNCHBURG, VA – Sierra Hyland returned to her dominating ways in the NISC, throwing a perfect game no-hitter for Cal Poly in a 9-0 run-rule victory Monday against Weber State to advance in the loser’s bracket.
Liberty 3, Illinois State 0
LYNCHBURG, VA – With their season on the line, Liberty leaned on their stud in the circle. Kenzie Friesen spun a one-hit performance on Monday afternoon to keep the Flames’ season brewing, leading them to victory, 3-0, over Illinois State.
Lamar 2, Illinois State 1
LYNCHBURG, VA – Behind starting pitcher Ciara Luna, the Cardinals needed only two runs in the third inning to prevail over the Illinois State Redbirds, 2-1.
Illinois State struck first in the opening frame after three hits, including an RBI single pushed a run across for the first run of the championship round for the Redbirds. Sarah Finck, who would pitch all seven innings in the circle for ISU, gave up only four hits and two runs for a valiant effort. Allison Spence and Riley Strandgard turned in the best performances at the plate, combining for three hits and the Redbird’s only RBI.
A lead-off walk to start the third inning was just the spark the Cardinals needed to put themselves back in contention. Two straight singles carried both Ashley McDowell and Shelby Hughtson across home plate, giving Lamar the 2-1 advantage.
Now pitching with a lead, Ciara Luna wasn’t about to let the semi-finals out of her sight. Luna struck out five, walked one and gave up just one run in her seven innings of work, picking up her 18th win of the year and advancing Lamar to the coveted semi-final round.
Lamar will await the winner of Kennesaw State and Weber State who will go toe-to-toe at 1:30 p.m. ET Monday. Meanwhile, Illinois State will drop down to the loser’s bracket of the double-elim format and face host Liberty later Monday afternoon at 4 p.m. ET.
Kennesaw State 4, Weber State 0
LYNCHBURG, VA – Outhit 10-4 on Monday afternoon, a stellar Kennesaw State defense led the Owls over Weber State, 4-0, giving Kennesaw State a ticket to the NISC semi-finals.
Getting runners on base wasn’t a problem for Weber State. The Wildcats combined for 10 hits, two each from Takesha Slatern, KyRae Kogianes and Sydney White. However, 13 runners left on base ultimately led to the demise of Weber State.
Kennesaw State’s pitching duo of Alley Cutting and Abigail Green went for the tandem shutout of the Wildcats, twice working out of bases loaded jams to end the fourth and the sixth innings to keep the Owls on the winner’s side of the bracket.
Kira Czyrklis tallied two of the Owls’ four hits while four different KSU players combined for each of the four RBI.
Weber State will drop down into the loser’s bracket of the double-elim format to face Cal Poly later Monday night at 6:30 p.m. ET. Kennesaw State earns the right to advance to the semi-finals where they will take on Lamar on Tuesday at 4 p.m. ET.
Kennesaw State blanks Weber State
Lamar punches ticket to semi-finals
Weber State holds off Liberty in Championship Round
Weber State pitcher Kirtlyn Bohling threw six standout innings and worked out of trouble in the seventh on Sunday, holding off host Liberty, 3-2, to advance in the Championship Round of the NISC.
Bohling and the Wildcats got a double play in the bottom of the sixth to douse one threat, and in the seventh Liberty put two runners on right away – both scored unearned runs after an error on a hit from the Flames’ Deidra See. With one runner on, Rylee Reynolds and Autumn Bishop both walked, but Bohling got Amber Bishop to fly out to end the game.
Rae Gall hit a two-run homer for Weber State in the fourth inning, and Takesha Saltern also drove in a run. For Liberty, pitcher Chase Cassady struck out five batters in four innings.
Weber State will play Kennesaw State in the next round on Monday; Liberty plays Monday in the loser’s bracket.
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Coronavirus Testing Begins at the Weizmann Institute of Science
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 12, 2020—Following an agreement signed this morning between Israel’s Ministry of Health and the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Institute started conducting tests today diagnose coronavirus.
Coronavirus: The Quest for Solutions – How to Cope With Stress During the Coronavirus Crisis, With Prof. Alon Chen
Prof. Alon Chen – president of the Weizmann Institute and a leading neurobiologist who studies mental health – shares a two-part presentation in this videoconference with American Committee supporters.
Coronavirus Pandemic Brings Home Need for Proactive Vaccine Strategies
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus has triggered a paradigm shift in assumptions regarding vaccine development. The pandemic has made it clear, to governments and big pharma alike, that dedicating significant resources to proactive vaccination strategies are key to save lives.
The Coronavirus Crisis: Fighting Back – The Weizmann Coronavirus Response Fund
This impressive and inspiring video is a fast-paced snapshot of the Weizmann Institute’s rapid response to coronavirus. There are now more than 50 projects underway, many in collaboration with prestigious institutions around the world.
Self-Test Your Sense of Smell to Help Detect Coronavirus
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Is your sense of smell suddenly not working very well? Not to panic you, but sudden olfactory loss has emerged as a significant symptom in about 60 percent of COVID-19 patients.
Coronavirus: The Quest for Solutions – History of Coronaviruses with Dr. Ron Diskin
This clever and engaging animation accompanies Dr. Ron Diskin’s overview of coronavirus – a whole history in less than three minutes! He takes us from its discovery in the 1960s to the 2002 SARS outbreak to MERS in 2012 to today.
Self-Monitoring Your Sense of Smell May Help Detect Coronavirus
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 2, 2020—Along with fever, cough, and shortness of breath, many COVID-19 patients report a temporary loss of sense of smell. It appears that olfactory loss is significantly greater in coronavirus patients compared to the loss often experienced during a cold and, less commonly, in influenza (non-COVID-19) patients.
Coronavirus: The Quest for Solutions – American Committee Hosts Prof. Benny Geiger
In this videoconference, Prof. Benny Geiger, Head of the Institute’s Department of Immunology, gives an overview of what the Institute as a community is doing to fight coronavirus, and how researchers from across Israel have created a scientific support network.
Coronavirus: The Quest for Solutions – Weizmann Australia Hosts Dr. Ron Diskin
In this videoconference, Dr. Ron Diskin shares a new presentation on coronavirus and the state of the research. He goes from the history of the virus – from discovery to how it moves through animals and humans...
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Healthy Sleeping Habits
Here’s *Exactly* How to Buy a Mattress Online Without Any Regrets, According to a Chiropractor
Kara Jillian Brown・May 22, 2020
Photo: Stocksy / Matt and Tish
Splurging on a brand-new mattress can be a risky proposition—especially if you’ve never slept in it. There are so many mattress options out there, and you don’t want the allure of a good deal to leave you stuck with a bad one. Fortunately, R. Alexandra Duma, DC, a sports chiropractor at New York City recovery and wellness studio FICS, is here to explain how to buy a mattress online without regret.
“It is said we spend about a third of our life sleeping, so having a good mattress is crucial for good sleep and for good back health,” says Dr. Duma. “If you have a bad mattress it could be aggravating your existing pain and also causing you more pain.” No matter what sleep position you prefer, a quality mattress should provide the right support as well as the right comfort level. “A good mattress should gently support your whole body and keep your spine in a neutral position, no matter if you are laying on your back, side, or stomach,” she says.
Jeff Brannigan, director of programming at Stretch*d, says your body will let you know when it’s time for a new mattress. “If you have a mattress that doesn’t suit your body, you’ll pay for it physically. Being stuck in the same position for hours on end can be extremely stressful for the muscles, especially if it’s in a compromised position,” he says. “If you’re suddenly experiencing pain in your body without making any changes in your life and you’ve got an old mattress, it may be something to consider.”
While you might think of shopping for a mattress as bed-hopping through a showroom, shopping for a mattress online has become increasingly common. The process is much more streamlined than it used to be, with many companies offering fast shipping and extended trial periods. And now that many mattress stores across the country remain closed, it’s likely to be your only option.
“Since a mattress is such an important purchase, I’d advise you to make sure you have the option of returning the mattress if you start to wake up sore or find yourself in any sort of pain in the morning,” says Dr. Duma. “Test drive it before you commit to making the purchase.” Keep in mind that while many mattresses allow for a substantial testing period, it may be paired with a substantial fee for return shipping.
“The ideal mattress is different for each person and selecting one is very personal,” says Dr. Duma. “Anyone with neck or back pain should get a mattress that is not too hard but not too soft.” If your mattress is too soft, you’ll sink into it too much. But a mattress that’s too hard can put excessive pressure on your sacral region (if you sleep on your back) or your hips (if you’re a side-sleeper). “I recommend a medium-firm mattress or a firm mattress with a softer pillow top to provide that balance of support and cushion,” she says.
Remember: your mattress is an investment. “Don’t cut corners,” say Dr. Duma; stick to a comfortable price point within your budget, but don’t be afraid to spring for a high-quality mattress.
But don’t expect any mattress to last a lifetime. “No matter how great your mattress is, over time it will degrade in the quality of support it provides for your body,” says Dr. Duma. “Your mattress should be replaced every eight to 10 years.” To keep your mattress fresh and protected, be sure to buy a mattress cover, like this Zippered Mattress Encasement ($25 to $38). Unlike some mattress covers that feel like plastic, this one feels like fabric but it’s still waterproof. It also protects against bed bugs, dust mites, and other allergens.
Mattresses you can buy online that you’ll want to sleep in for the next decade
1. Leesa Original Mattress, $599 to $999
Leesa makes some of the most affordable yet high-quality mattresses out there. The Leesa Original is made with three levels of foam. The top layer is soft and breathable, keeping you snug and cool. The memory foam middle layer contours to your body while a memory foam base layer offers support. Leesa also offers the Hybrid ($849 to $1,424) and the Legend ($1449 to $2,099) which combine foam with springs. You’ll have 100 nights to test your Leesa mattress, but the return fee is $100.
2. Layla Hybrid Mattress, $999 to $1599
The latest offering from Layla uses copper-gel infused memory foam for rapid cooling, support, and antimicrobial benefits. The Layla Hybrid is a six-layer mattress that uses both foam and coils to offer increased support at deep compression areas. If you don’t know what level of support you like, a Layla mattress is perfect because it’s double-sided. One side is soft and plush while the other is firm. If you prefer an all-foam mattress, opt for the Layla Memory Foam Mattress ($449 to $949). You’ll have 120 nights to test your Layla mattress, and there’s no fee to return it if you’re not satisfied.
3. Tempur-Pedic TEMPUR-Adapt Medium-Hybrid, $1,599 to $3,198
First sold in the United States in 1992, Tempur-Pedic is the classic mattress that feels like a hug every time you get into it. (Remember the wine glass test?) And there’s a reason people still love it today. Every Tempur-Pedic mattress is made with a unique NASA-developed pressure-relieving material. The Tempur-Adapt Medium Hybrid combines that technology with three cooling layers plus individually pocketed coils to reduce transfer of movement. You’d be hard-pressed to find a better mattress in terms of overall comfort at this price point, say the experts. The knit cover has a cool-to-touch feel and an antimicrobial treatment that protects the mattress against common allergens. A comfort layer helps you relax while the support layer adapts to your body for personalized support. A slightly less expensive alternative, the brand’s newest mattress, the Tempur-Cloud ($1,189 to $1,679), adapts to your weight, shape, and temperature while minimizing pressure points and reducing motion transfer. It arrives compressed in a cardboard box, which makes it easy to set up and uses less energy for shipping. You’ll have 90 nights to test your new Tempur-Pedic, but return shipping fee is a hefty $175.
Staff pick:
4. Eight Sleep The Pod, $2,095 to $2,795
This mattress from Eight Sleep is a favorite here at Well+Good. It’s expensive, but might be worth it if you suffer from night sweats and hot flashes. Using cooling and warming technology that pipes water between an external hub and the mattress itself, the mattresses temperature can move freely between 55°F and 110°F. Plus, it’s connected to an app that provides sleep tracking, meditations, thermal alarm clocks, and more. Well+Good staff writer Kells McPhillips writes that the Pod saved her from night sweats and significantly improved the quality of her sleep. Watch associate beauty and fitness editor Zoë Weiner take it for a spin:
Tags: Decorating Ideas, Healthy Mind, Healthy Sleeping Habits, Home Tech
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What's on Netflix > Netflix News > When will Season 4 of ‘Queen of the South’ be on Netflix?
When will Season 4 of ‘Queen of the South’ be on Netflix?
by Kasey Moore @kasey__moore on May 20, 2020, 11:21 am EST
Queen of the South – Picture: USA Network
Queen of the South returned for season four in 2019 on USA Network. The show will subsequently come to Netflix in 2020 in the US and a few other regions too. Here’s what you need to know about Queen of the South season four and when it’ll be coming to Netflix around the world.
Often compared to Breaking Bad, the high octane series sees Teresa flee her drug-runner captors to begin her own drug empire. The series stars Alice Braga, Veronica Falcon, Peter Gadiot and Nick Sagar. The series is now USA Network’s longest current running show, with Suits going off the air after season nine this year.
Season four once again consisted of 13 brand new episodes and saw a few new casting announcements. These notably include Chris Greene and Sofia Lama joining the cast for the fourth outing. Season four ran on USANetwork between June and August 2019.
Now let’s move onto when the next season of Queen of the South will be coming to Netflix in various regions.
When will Queen of the South season four be on Netflix in the US?
Let’s kick off with Queen of the South season four on Netflix in the United States.
For the past three seasons, we’ve seen new seasons added in May. Season one was added on May 9th, 2017, season two on May 22nd, 2018 and most recently, season three on May 7th, 2019.
Our original prediction of it being added in May 2020 was sadly incorrect. Instead, it was confirmed that season four of Queen of the South will be on Netflix US on June 6th, 2020.
Here's just a few of the new films and shows coming to Netflix US in June pic.twitter.com/D8NlJyyMYx
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Queen of the South Season Four Release Date on Other Netflix Regions
Netflix UK will be getting Queen of the South season four on May 29th, 2020.
Likewise, Netflix in Canada and Australia can also expect season four to arrive in June 2020.
Other regions also expected to get the season four release around this time includes:
Are you looking forward to season four of Queen of the South? Let us know in the comments down below.
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N.J.'s Chris Christie refuses to rule out presidential bid in gubernatorial debate
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By Seth McLaughlin The Washington Times - October 9, 2013, 08:20AM
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie refused to rule out running for president in 2016 during the first debate of his re-election campaign, saying that if he does a good job as governor, then his political future will take care of itself.
“I’m going to continue to do my job the best way I possibly can, and I am not going to declare tonight Kristine, for you or anybody else, that I am or I am not running for president,” Mr. Christie told local CBS moderator Kristine Johnson on Tuesday. “You know what the people out there in New Jersey don’t expect me to. What they expect me to do is to do my job.”
Pressed on how he could ask for another four years in office when he might become preoccupied with running for the GOP presidential nod before the end of his second term, the tough-talking Republican said voters should support him if they like what he has done during his first term in office.
“I don’t think anybody in American or in the state of New Jersey expects anybody, three years away, to tell them what they are going to do,” Mr. Christie said. “Life is too long, Kristine, I won’t make those decisions until I have to.”
Mr. Christie holds a double-digit lead in his re-election bid against state Sen. Barbara Buono, a Democrat. GOP insiders and political observers say Mr. Christie could bolster his chances of winning the Republican presidential nomination by emerging with a strong victory in New Jersey, a traditionally blue state.
Ms. Buono said Mr. Christie is already running for president, and it bothers her that he is sacrificing the safety of children by vetoing “commonsense” gun control legislation to cater to the National Rifle Association and. She said he is sacrificing the health of women by opposing taxpayer funds for Planned Parenthood to cater to the “national conservative base.”
“You are compromising and sacrificing the dignity of our gay brothers and sisters by vetoing marriage equality because you know that would kill you in a Republican primary,” Ms. Buono said.
Mr. Christie said Ms. Buono is the “only person on this stage obsessed with 2016.”
“I can walk and chew gum at the same time,” Mr. Christie said. “I can do this job and also deal with my future, and that is exactly what I will do.”
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Fury at the shaken Capitol over the attack, security, virus
By CALVIN WOODWARD and ALAN FRAM
WASHINGTON (AP) — This time the fury enveloping the U.S. Capitol comes not from an insurgent mob but from within.
The anger on display is searing — Democrat against Republican; Republican against Republican; legislators of both parties against the catastrophic security failure that left top leaders of the government vulnerable to last week’s violence as well as to the coronavirus in their ranks.
The rage is being stoked even hotter by the passions aroused by Democrats’ fresh drive to impeach President Donald Trump.
This is a “powder keg” moment, one Democrat said. It’s certainly a historic one.
Metal detectors are set up for lawmakers and staff before entering the House chamber, a new security measure put into place after a mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The House is moving toward making Trump the first president to be impeached twice as part of an extraordinary effort to remove him from office before Democrat Joe Biden’s inauguration a week from Wednesday. The charge to be brought against him: “incitement of insurrection.”
Once again the phrase of the founders, “high crimes and misdemeanors,” has been turned against Trump, who was acquitted by the Senate in his first impeachment trial. And tempers are flaring in congressional hallways and offices still cleaning up from the trashing by the attackers.
Shaken members, long accustomed to protective bubbles, inquired whether they can expense their own bulletproof vests to taxpayers (yes they can). Democrats assailed a collection of always-Trumpers — Republicans who pressed the president’s false accusations of a fraudulent election even after the mob, motivated by the same lies, had finally been cleared away.
Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, among others, called for the expulsion or censure of Republican members who argued Trump’s case for overturning the will of the voters, if those lawmakers refuse to resign. Democrats were primarily after Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and a selection of House lawmakers who had also tried to throw up obstacles to Biden’s election certification.
“Failing to hold those responsible for the insurrection accountable would be a profound injustice and give a green light to future authoritarians,” Casey said.
Said Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland: “They have a full-blown independent reality, totally cut apart from the world of facts, and that is the groundwork for fascism. When you add racism, anti-Semitism, conspiracy theory and magical thinking, that is an absolute powder keg in terms of an assault on democracy.”
There was Republican to Republican finger-pointing, too. Much of it was aimed at House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California for not showing enough leadership, according to some former lawmakers as well as congressional GOP aides who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Some House Republicans are upset that McCarthy, one of Trump’s staunchest defenders in Washington, defended him too forcefully and for too long, making it harder to dissociate themselves from Trump after the Capitol siege.
In contrast, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky explicitly criticized Trump’s drive to overturn Biden’s election, saying it would “damage our republic forever.” He did so even as the mob breached the Capitol and lunged toward the chambers against outnumbered police.
McCarthy acknowledged outrage among his Republican colleagues over the attack in a letter to them Monday declaring “I share your anger and your pain” and making sure they knew the mob’s threat also came close to him.
“Zip ties were found on staff desks in my office,” he wrote. “Windows were smashed in. Property was stolen. Those images will never leave us.”
As if nerves weren’t raw enough over the actions of Trump and his diehard loyalists, three Democrats who sheltered with Republican House members when they were spirited to a secure room disclosed they had since tested positive for COVID-19. Some of the Republicans in that room over those hours had refused to wear masks.
Indeed, one of the newly infected, Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, said “several Republicans not only cruelly refused to wear a mask but recklessly mocked colleagues and staff who offered them one.”
Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey and Brad Schneider of Illinois were the others who announced positive tests after their time in the room as everyone waited to hear whether more cases were coming.
Democrats were livid.
“In the midst of a deadly assault on our United States Capitol, a number of our Republican colleagues laughed off rules designed to keep not just their colleagues safe, but to protect the lives of the teams of workers keeping things going, law enforcement, and staff throughout the Capitol,” said Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich.
On Tuesday, the House sergeant at arms office issued a statement saying all members and others going into the chamber must be screened for prohibited items, including firearms, and anyone failing to wear a mask on the House floor will be removed. The House was also voting to impose fines on lawmakers without face coverings.
The screening requirement comes as at least one lawmaker, freshman Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., has talked openly about carrying her firearm around town and onto the Capitol grounds, which has infuriated gun-control Democrats.
The new metal detectors outside the House chamber also galled some Republicans, some of whom uttered obscenities or ignored the devices, claiming they were impeding them from voting.
At a virtual meeting of the House rules committee, Democrats implored Republicans to stop peddling Trump’s myths of a stolen election. Trump’s accusations have been refuted for weeks by judges and election officials but motivated the mob and are still believed by legions of Trump supporters.
“When does service to Donald Trump end?” demanded Democratic Rep. Joe Morelle of New York. “It should be an easy one to answer.”
“When the people speak, it’s over,” he went on. Otherwise, “we have nothing. There is no America.”
There were some signs that the top Republican in the House was backing off his unwavering show of loyalty to Trump.
McCarthy had joined most House Republicans in December in supporting a lawsuit to block Biden’s election, and again last week in two votes against certifying Biden’s win. The lawsuit and both votes failed. He has so far avoided lambasting Trump publicly. But in a private conference call Monday with GOP colleagues, he expressed an openness to censuring Trump.
McCarthy “amplified the president’s disinformation about widescale election fraud,” former Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who often clashed with Trump, said in an interview last week. “That has been irresponsible. Mitch doesn’t fall in that category.”
“McCarthy is all in with Trump,” said Paul Cook, who retired in January as a GOP congressman from California and had differences with him over the years. “I think sometimes you have the greater good of the country, it’s not always the party.”
To Cook, it all comes down to the oath of office. “You take an oath, a lot of people kind of forget the words to that,” he said.
In their oath of office, lawmakers vow to defend the Constitution “against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
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HER SECRETS, HIS LOVE
All eyes turned to look at her and everyone had a different reaction to her salaam. Hamdan forgot about both her salaam and his mother's earlier question as he was bewitched by the beauty of her innocent presence.Yalina didnt know if she should disappear or take her friend from her mother's hostile gaze. Yalina was shocked to see that her mother was speechless watching Hamdan's reaction to Humeira's presence as well as enving the young muslima before her eyes of her enchanting presence, calming voice and beautiful angelic face. On the other hand , she contemplated on her son's reaction to the modestly dressed young woman who was unaware of the attention she had drawn to herself. The spell was broken by yalina's voice clearing her throat as the awkwardness intensified. Humeira's attention was drawn from her phone to the room by the sound of yalina clearing her throat. She looked up only to come face to face with a hostile gaze from the only new face she saw in the room. She was embarrassed to say the least and quietly mumbled a sorry before she turned around to flee but before she could go any further, she was held back by Hamdan's voice.
The Greatest Villain is Afraid of Cats
"The Villain has finally been caught!" Billions of people was overjoyed by the news that spread across the Wolf bane continent, but young master Wei was one of those who were more confused than angry...'He doesn't seem to be a villain at all? But the news says otherwise' Young master Wei embarked on a journey to find out the truth and maybe fall in love...maybe! ___________note___________ A little heads up. I will not write mature content without a warning. But I will not warn for gore. Feel free to criticize my story I'm still a newbie writer.
Unknown Prey
Fantasy Romance ROMANCE LOVE VAMPIRE DEMON WITCH WEREWOLVES FORBIDDEN LOVE HUNTER WARLOCK
Will she hunt him or will he hunt her? Kitty is a demon with powers beyond belief. She goes through life alone and has suffered many losses but nothing could prepare her for falling for someone who is meant to hunt and kill her kind. Leo a hunter sworn to change the paths of the hunter association must make the choice of hunting the one whom has captured his heart or turning his back on his way of life. Neither of them expected that the one night they spent together would change both their lives forever. From attraction to the desperate desire of want, this unlikely couple will face all obstacles to fight the systems in place for centuries. The forbidden love of a hunter and his prey. Will Leo and Kitty be able to protect what is theirs or will they lose it all?
My Unconventional Lover: Seeing A Different World
Fantasy Romance ADVENTURE R-18 GHOST SUPERPOWER ANOTHER WORLD FANTASY ROMANCE ANOTHER DIMENTION
Jane was a horror lover. But, despite her love towards horror movie, she had not had any encounter with the astral beings herself. However, when she moved to her new dormitory, she made herself a new friend. A ghost, to be exact. And a handsome one, too. But, there was something suspicious with this ghost. He was too...human. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "As the Princess of our clan, you deserve to command the Seventh Advisor and The White Army. May you bring peace upon those who are visible and invisible." "..." A princess? Don't joke with me! "Just accept it. It's not bad, though." A certain someone nudged my elbow as he grinned teasingly. "You will be the only princess who has two prince consorts." The older one spoke calmly. "My dear princess, will you build your own harem now?" His eyes flashed with dangerous glint. Harem?! Screw you! I suddenly felt that these two men were only here to cause me troubles. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *This story is pure fiction. There are some NSFW contents inside, so if you are under 17, please, don't read this novel. Note: Please, consider to review or comment this story when you read this *doing a 90-degree bow down Disclaimer: The cover is not mine.
lead me to the mansion
Horror&Thriller
The last descendants of Arlott have died and left the wife with the family's surname. A mansion passed through generations, yet she was unaware of this mansion's existence. Her husband died in an odd and despicable way as if he knew his doomsday, was it a disease that corrupted him or was it the works of someone? Lilith is to unravel everything by what her husband had left for her. The mansion. Stuck in the forgotten era, she came to a stop before the wooden door. It was loose and the door is barely hinged, the knob rattled open. In her sight, stood a 'person' ? ? her hands waver in fear, her scream is just behind her throat, she felt her knees give up. The clock ticked slowly with every second felt eternity. "It was you two" she exclaimed.
Slave to the Darkness
The world belongs to the humans but what they do not know is that in the dark hours of the night there is a slave market that happens in the woods. No one knows about it except those that are wealthy and pay a fee for the membership. As the slave market moves from town to town, finally they reach its destination where they call up the buyer letting him know that they have arrived with some intriguing goods that he might be interested in. The slave that was bought from the Slave Market in the middle of the night was taken to her new home by her first Master. She feels safe with him but doesn’t remember anything from her past and doesn’t know what secrets lurk in her mind. The Master that bought a new toy thought since she was what he was looking for. He hoped that she would last longer than the rest but what he didn’t expect was the past to come back to him after a hundred years without it. With his new memories he softens up but only for her as she is now his everything, he will stop at nothing to protect her and help each other remember their past together. Excerpt "Just who do you think you are? I will get you thrown out of this area if you continue to loiter around here. I was just having a chat with my soon to be man when you interrupted me." The girl pointed at Yuki blaming her. "Darling, were you going to pick up someone else when you already have me by your side?" Yuki turned and pressed her body up against his side. She rubbed her chest on his side to show that he was hers. "You know that I can not replace you, Liliana. I was only telling these ladies that they couldn't have the purse that I specially ordered for you." He moved his hand to her ass and squeezed. The ladies looked embarrassed for a moment. "No, I will get what I want. I want that man and that purse!" The lady screamed and her face turned beet red. Yuki turned her head over, "you can not control someone's feelings. You can not compare to me in any way shape or form." Yuki turned her head away shapely. "Oh is that so. THEN I CHALLENGE YOU TO A BEAUTY CONTEST!! There is a competition for the queen of the beach today and if you win I will leave you alone and bow down to you but if I win I want that purse and your man!"
A nordic romance that burns up coldly! "You and I are similar, don't you know? Amidst the foxes, we are two wolves who are bleeding from an injury. The frozen capital of Norway, Oslo. Silye, an asian who have been discriminated and bullied just because of her race, decides to escape this frozen hell by jumping off the school building but is saved by being caught by the 'Emperor' of the school. This wasn't a good news. This was a nightmare on its own.
Destined to love the one I hate
Amber is a warm-hearted and cute girl with a strong character . Her life was peaceful till the day her father left , asking her mother for a divorce . Her mother’s heart broke but she didn’t give up and tried her best to raise Amber and her sister . After the divorce, her family became very poor . From a carefree girl who liked to play all day long , Amber focused on her studies and tried her best to help her mom by becoming a rich person in the future . One day , when she’s late for school Amber accidentally trips and meets the handsome millionaire Nikolai . “ What a pauper ?! Trying to get my attention ?! Don’t dream ! “ said Nikolai . “Your attention ?! Are you nuts ?! Get lost ! “ said Amber . He was very rude to her and threw a check then ordered her to get lost . She took a baseball stick and smashed the front glass of his car . After that seven years passed . They met each other again . During this time Nikolai had to surpass hard things . One of them was his grandfather's will . With all the messed up incidents that happened again between them , Nikolai and Amber will be forced to marry because of an unwanted pregnancy . " You have been greedy for a long time ago ?! Don't delude yourself , I will never look at you ! Even though we'll be married , I will still continue my relationship with my fiance . " said Nikolai . " That's great ! I don't wanna deal with you either . " said Amber . The hate they felt towards each other slowly turned into a burning passion which neither of them could deny . A strong attraction and desire for eternal possession had occupied Nikolai's heart . After some time , he realized that his eyes kept following Amber . " I don't know how you managed to start the fire within my heart.......Now that you started it you should take responsibility and ease it with both your body and soul ! " A romantic love story with lots of comedy and adventure which connects the two of them even more . Amber's heart was hard to approach and that will make Nikolai even more obsessed with her . Learn how things will turn out....how love will bloom and hate will ease.......Destined to love the one I hate .
'YOU BELONG TO ME'
Fantasy Romance ROMANCE REINCARNATION R-18 MODERN FANTASY VAMPIRE WEREWOLF SOULMATE SAVIOR LOVEISREAL
Thousands of years ago Tinaya, the secret human lover of the distinct Alpha Werewolf was forbidden from the Werewolf world chased into the deserted land where demonic beasts dominate. Her soul was taken and she found herself on the moon where she becomes an Angel. Thousands of years later, she was sent to the Human world on a mission. She reincarnated and completely forget her real identity and her mission which she must fulfill within a thousand years. On a bloodmoon day, A werewolf found her lifeless in the woods and saved her, he later sent her back to her family. After 2yrs, he found her again in the woods, but this time, in the process of saving her, an unknown creature kidnapped her. The werewolf later found out that the girl was their awaiting Savior. Also, the creature that kidnapped her needs her to achieve more power. Now, she turned out to be the most wanted between those creatures. "Who will have Her? Will she ever be aware of her power? Will she succeed in her task? Read and find out! [BRONZE TIER WINNER: WPC #145] Cover picture made and designed by kwealthhub. ____________________ Contact author: Discord: Elita_Rose#0411 Book contact: Instagram: elita_author Facebook page: You belong to me By Elitá Rose Join Discord server Group: https://discord.gg/zguVrhFcn5
The Story of Dusk
Historical Romance ROMANCE WAR REVENGE KINGDOM-BUILDING FEMALE-LEAD MARTIAL-ARTS HIDDEN GEM FIRST LOVE HISTORICAL FANTASY SCHEME AND CONSPIRACY
She went to a place she shouldn't visit. She took the path she should not have taken. And… She loves someone she shouldn't love. ******** She was sent to him to retrieve the information, but her fate twisted when she fell for him... *******SNIPPET******* "Luna." She said. The girl’s eyes were so captivating that Xiao Tianyao couldn’t be able to draw his attention away from her, as though something was sucking his soul. “Beautiful…” He kept repeating the same word in his reverie. “… All the palace people from the Kingdom of Xinghe will be sentenced to death.” The eunuch added some information before he ended the decree. Afterward, the soldier from before stepped forward and was about to grab Luna’s hand with intention to drag her away, however, surprisingly Xiao Tianyao held his hand before he could touch her. “Stay away from her.” Xiao Tianyao said coldly. With puzzled expression he inquired his General action. “But, General… the decree said we have to kill her.” “I want her.” He said with finality. “But, Prince Xiao Tianyao your action is against the Imperial decree…” The eunuch retorted. Xiao Tianyao didn’t say anything anymore when he helped Luna to stand up, ignoring all of the questioning eyes as he walked away with her in his embrace. Xiao Tianyao unexpected attitude baffled everyone who were presence there. *** “Prince Xiao Tianyao decision can’t be justified.” The Eunuch mumbled. “All of you retreat for now. I will try to talk with The Prince. Leader Feng Chang, follow me please.” Both Feng Chang and the Eunuch rushed into the palace hall to the direction of the Emperor of Xinghe’s room that Xiao Tianyao had occupied. When it was only the two of them, mocking smile appeared on their lips. “Inform to the Emperor that Young Miss Luna will handle it beautifully.” Feng Chang said as he slow down his pace. “Young Miss Luna ability is simply unimaginable.” The eunuch announced it in amazed. He had heard about the mind controller ability to mess with other people mind, but never saw it with his own eyes. Only when he saw Xiao Tianyao was so beguiled by Luna, he knew that the mind controller’s ability was a calamity for their enemies. Feng Chang didn’t say anything when he saw the eunuch gloated face. ********************************************* ##Meet me on instragram : jikan_yo_tomare Disclaimer : cover picture is from pinterest.com Check out my other stories: **PURPLE DUSK TILL DAWN: dearest through the time **The Love of a Lycan
My Boyfriend Is A Dragon
LGBT+ ADVENTURE COMEDY ROMANCE TIME TRAVEL MYSTERY
A young boy named Bai Wu was saved and adopted by a thirty-something police sergeant named Xu Lan. It was love at first sight for Bai Wu, and once he started getting older, his heart yearned for a taste of the forbidden fruit - the romantic love of his adoptive father. The question is, will Xu Lan ever reciprocate? With deranged serial killers, parallel dimensions, time warps, dragons, and a bit of ancient black magic, Bai Wu and Xu Lan are caught in a series of crazy adventures while discovering what they truly mean to each other. This is a story of lust and madness!
WELCOME TO MY HELL
Contemporary Romance MARRIAGE PREGNANCY OBSESSION MENTAL HEALTH LOVEHATE REVANGE AGEGAP ITALIAN SEXUAL CONTACT MANUPALATE
He had it all. Wealth, health, good looks and a wonderful family. Growing up as the only son of the wealthiest and most powerful business man Elisio Devonte had its perks. And to add on it all, being a genius was a cherry on the top. what else could he want.. ofcourse he wanted a girl in his life. And he found her and he was sure to keep her for life. Now what could go wrong in his perfect life that made him crave for revenge? Who spoilt it all? Who is responsible for creating chaos in his perfect life? Ermanno knew one thing for sure. The person responsible will pay. And he was ready to welcome them to his hell. follow me on Instagram to see pictures of this story. the link is https://www.instagram.com/devilswhore1/
Chris and Hazel
Contemporary Romance ROMANCE VENGEANCE FAITH ENDURANCE PATIENCE REVIVAL ANGUISH
When it came to handling life, Hazel was a PRO! But...well there's ALWAYS A BUT! When it comes to a certain topic, she was CLUELESS! And the topic was Chris! Christopher Finch, her new boss! Nah! This isn't one of the boss-secretary love stories....this one's DIFFERENT! -------------------------------------------------------- Six years ago, he was her college senior! He turned down her proposal in their college cafeteria. Six years later, he's back as her new boss! All these years, she was holding onto an invisible ray of hope and now, it finally shined! So, Happy Ending...? Not Really! -------------------------------------------------------- 'He's married now?' she asked in awe as she witnessed his kids walk out of his office. Six Years of waiting and life gifted her Heartbreak! Let bygones be bygones, she decided to move on! Is it really that easy? Well...she had to try. We all had to...at some point! -------------------------------------------------------- 'What could possibly go wrong now?' she asked confidently. And that's when life decided to unveil the answers to her long lost questions... The major things she failed to notice in the past...were finally disclosed! After all there was more to Chris than she imagined! Till now she was only aware of his love but as she searched farther, she could finally see it all... The tears, the betrayal and the vengeance all of it flaring up inside his cold blue eyes. At least this time, he won't face it alone...
Hi I'm married, but I'm sleeping with my boss
Contemporary Romance HANDSOME MALE LEAD ROMANCE SLICE OF LIFE MODERN LIFE CEO LOVE STORY BUSINESS AFFAIRS LOVE SCANDAL
Meilin Yee Luan, a woman in her early twenties. She's sure she made the worst decision of her life. She married an irresponsible man and has to deal with the burden of living with him. Bao Luan, her husband. He's an arrogant drunk. He doesn't care about the fact that his wife Is working multiple 9-5 jobs just to make sure they live a comfortable life. She gets little time to herself and has to deal with his poor sexual desires and his rudeness. He drinks all day, he yells, he sits around doing nothing and he hits her without thinking twice. She wished she never met him in highschool, she wished she had listened to her friends back then when she was still a naïve teen. She wished she didn't accept that ring. She wished she ignored his good looks and went further to know who he really was. Her present condition almost leads her to the brink of suicide, but the little image of her mother each time she tries to take her life pops up in her head and she puts the knife away. Her situation didn't change. Day by day it worsened, the financial burdens increased when her husband left home for a long time and she has to deal with his debts all alone with no help. Her family cut ties with her and she was left alone to live with her husband. She wishes to apologize to them but as long as she's still his wife she can't go back. Her depression increased when she lost her jobs and she was struggling to get a better one but the good spots were all taken. She's forced to work as an elevator girl in a famous company and earns a medium salary. Her life was in for a change the day she was trapped in the elevator with a stranger. The CEO himself. Note image used as the cover is not mine. It's only used until someone volunteers to make me one suitable for my book. Credit goes to the original artist. Thank you important notice: I do not offer my readers 100% accuracy. I do not offer a 100% perfect book. If you're the sensitive type that has nothing else to do but insult books, you've come to the wrong place. But if you're a somewhat considerate person, you can read. Just don't be disrespectful to me. I have feelings. I'm not a bot writer, what I do offer you is a work written by a 100% human with flaws.
The Story of Blood and Roses
Mia Vincent only wanted one thing: Kill Anthony Murray. Kill the person who murdered her parents. Only his death would satisfy her thirst for his blood. When she was assigned the task of infiltrating his gang, she agreed willingly and started plotting the ways to destroy him. Yet she failed... miserably at that. How could she fall in love with a man who caused her so much pain? So. she ran... as fast as the wind, hoping to never see him again. When Anthony met Mia, he fell in love with her feisty attitude and thirst for adventure. He loved her with every fibre of his being. Yet in his world, loving someone was a risk, a danger to his empire. So, he chose to hurt her... made her stay far away from him. However, he soon realized how important her existence was. He couldn't live without her. Betrayals. Mobs. Guns. Violence. Will Anthony and Mia survive the wild ride? - - - - - "Are you going to shoot me, baby?" "Don't tempt me. - - - - - Read my other works: 1. Cornered by the CEO - Ongoing 2. Autopsy of a Mind - Ongoing 3. Alter Ego: His Sultry Lover - Complete 4. Phoenix in the Moonlight - Hiatus Story Discord: https://discord.gg/bG7YsaRRbs Author Instagram: @sunscar9
IS IT MY FAULT?
Henry used to be one of the poor local men in his small town .During his teen years he worked hard to brighten his life and his future ..Then after years of struggle and fighting he became an adult and achieved something, and he had everything but durimg that time he also lacked something too . Is it his fault that destiny wanted to play hard on him? Join his journey to know the prons and the cons which he faced and endured to know if anything happned during that time when he was searching for love , positivity and successfulness was all worth it .
The President's daughter
Jameson's company is on the brink of collapse and he was finding a solution to it but he found something else: a curtain to a world that is full of secrets. Where he was in this world he had a little role, just a pawn of the king but with a secret, he discovered something that he will alter his destiny to protect and survive this disaster, it was just a disaster of his company but turned into a war, the key to his survival is the little secret he finds out and that was his daughter, and this is the story of President's Daughter.
Fate Written
Destiny Alders is a girl who loves expressing herself through writing in her journal. Ever since she was nine years old she loved to write down everything she couldn't say out loud. Her feelings, bad days, everything was written in her journals. It wasn't until the night before her thirteenth birthday when she wrote not because she wanted to, but because she felt a strong will to. Her very first journal entry that was not about herself. Sean Davis is a mysterious guy hoping to outrun a tragic event he blames himself for. Five years later, he finally decides that he can't heal in the same place things happened. Taking his father, and his two siblings with him, they move into Luna City where his grandmother lives, hoping for a fresh start. Things take a turn when Sean finds what caused his tragic event. • • • • ‼️TEASER‼️ He leaned on his car, relying on it for support. Whatever it was forcing its way back through his mind, he stopped fighting it. He allowed the tsunami of thoughts to flood throughout his mind as if it were punishment. Like he thought he deserved to be drowned in an endless loop of... regret? And then something out of this world happened. He met my gaze and in an instant, he was calm again. I could hear his heart rate slow down. There was no longer fear in his eyes, no inner battle in his head. He won the war, and he had used me as his lever. He took this second of peace and allowed his waves to steady. • • • • TWO PERSPECTIVES Much credit to "Descriptionair" Join Destiny and Sean on an emotional roller coaster of love, uncovered secrets, heartbreak and intensity. WATTPAD rankings: || Highest Rank - #1 in Heartfelt || Strong Language. All Rights Reserved.
A love called hatred
Alex stood up infuriated. He took a step towards her. “I know what I said little miss know-it-all, you don’t have to remind me.” Kim gulped but still maintained eye contact with him. He scoffed at her audacity. He took another step towards her. “How much do you need this job?” Kim blinked confused. “What?” A love called hatred is a true life story of the complicated and misunderstanding caused by love mistaken for hatred .
Malory and Kyle must participate in the annual April Fest production as the leading co-stars. If they can cooperate by the end of the production, their long records of uncivilized behaviour towards each other will be forgotten. Malory and Kyle attempt to cooperate, grabbing the opportunity to make a positive impact on their own future. In the process, they become entangled in the chaos of the other’s personal life. Malory learns of Kyle’s disturbing reality, and Kyle learns of Malory’s scarring past. Can these two brilliant but messy teens learn to rely on each other in the face of their silent battles?
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Engwo (Ngwo) Dictionary
This provisional Engwo–English and English-Engwo Lexicon is compiled primarily for Engwo speakers but is also of great help to non-speakers who want to learn the language. The lexicon comprises approximately 6200 entries with (5902) in the main text and (298) in the appendix. The SIL Comparative Wordlist served as the basis for the initial collection of words. Julius A. EYOH, a native speaker and linguist, mostly wrote down the words but did the checking with several native speakers. Some entries were contributed by Debora ANGYIH EYOH, Mathias Edzeambo ESUA, ESAM Jerry ANKA, and Joshua N. EFON. Each lexical entry includes a phonetic transcription, part of speech, and the meaning of the entry in English. Where available, the plural forms of the nouns are given. Some entries have multiple unrelated meanings and so may occur more than once. Noun class numbers are given for the different nouns. Our wish is that this lexicon will arouse interest in the use of the Ngwo Language for both adults and children as they learn to read and write the language. The lexicon also serves as a repository of cultural terms and information, which may otherwise be lost as the language evolves.
Though a lexicon of this size can hardly provide you with all the words you want to find, it is a fundamental tool to build your understanding and usage of the language. The work to compile a lexicon (dictionary) is never completed. The volunteer linguist and the Ngwo Language and Cultural Committee (NLACCO) will gladly welcome your suggestions for improvement, which shall be reflected in future editions. Thanks and God bless you as you acquire more and more knowledge to become an expert in reading and writing Engwo. Please see more guidelines below.
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT NGWO
Geographical Background
Ngwo (Njikwa) is located approximately at latitude 6.12° north and at longitude 9.51° east (EYOH 2007:6). It is located in Njikwa Subdivision in Momo Division of the North West Region of Cameroon. It is found around 70 kilometers southwest of the Regional headquarters in Bamenda. In the north, the Ngwo language area shares a boundary with the Benakuma Subdivision in the Menchum Division, in the east with Oshie and Meta’ villages, in the south with the Ngie Subdivision, in the Southwest with the Widikum Subdivision (Menka) and in the west with the Akwaya Subdivision (Amasi and others). The Ethnologue (Gordon, 2005:70) lists a population of 50,547 speakers (2000 WCD) including the different dialects. The Ngwo language area, according to the Cameroon Linguistic Atlas (ALCAM), includes some of the following villages: Bako, Bakwa (Okorobi), Banya, Basa, Ekwebo, Ekweri, Konda, and Ngwo. The villages are located far from one another and are mostly linked by footpaths which makes spontaneous meeting very difficult.
The topography of the area is comprised of hills and valleys and the roads are not very motorable especially in the rainy season, beginning in June to September, when the dry season begins. The terrain is partly grassland and partly forest. The Ngwo forest areas and neighbouring villages provide a habitat for animals like gorillas, baboons, different species of monkeys, rock badgers [dassies], antelopes, different kinds of rats, etc.
The Ngwo people lived by subsistence agriculture carried out in their dispersed forests and savannah hills. Today, many have acquired education and serve in different walks of life such as government administration, education, agriculture, medicine, engineering, etc. The climate of Ngwo is cold and the main crops cultivated there among others include coffee (arabica and robusta), plantains, bananas, cocoyams, yams, cassava, potatoes, corn, beans, and groundnuts. There are fruits grown in the area like plums, pears, mangoes, oranges, guavas, grapefruits, pawpaw, and a few pineapples. The area is very conducive for vegetables such as cabbages, carrots, tomatoes, lettuce, etc. Sugarcane does well there also. Rice is cultivated in Bako. Tapping the raffia palm wine is also a major activity. Some people do weaving and carving. Part of Ngwo (Kutin) has a warm climate that is conducive for crops like cocoa, oil palms, and many other products. Palm oil processing is also carried out though at a low scale. The Ngwo people raise animals like cows, horses, sheep, goats, and pigs. They also keep fowls and a few ducks.
Traditional Administration
The Ngwo traditional authority is handled by the fon, chiefs, quarter heads, title holders, village council and quarter councils in collaboration with cultural and development associations. The âkɛ̀n (juju authority) serves as the military in maintaining peace, discipline and protection for the village.
History of Origin
Speakers of Engwo and related dialects all trace their origin to the Widikum (Tadkon) ethnic group. The village name of the reference dialect (Ngwo) was taken from the first son of the founding ancestor Nkwɛdi and his wife Ekpàbyɛ̀. When they entered the village from Andek-Ngie through Mbɛ, they gave birth to three sons: Ngwo, Etse and Afli.
The name Ngwaw is used to refer to the clan which involves all the villages of Njikwa Subdivision with the clan head being the Ngwo fondom known as the paramount fondom. The paramount Ngwaw fondom with its customary court at its Sabli palace acted as a powerful unifying authority such that the whole of the Ngwaw clan was moving towards speaking a single language (Engwo) with very limited dialectal differences. The intervention of the colonial forces became a serious check to its unifying activities. This clan territory goes beyond linguistic boundaries because it includes Oshie village with a separate language (Ngɨshe). It is important to note here that the Oshie people are now claiming autonomy from the Ngwaw clan. The clan would then be limited to its linguistic boundaries which cover all the other villages of Njikwa which are listed as dialects of Engwo (Ngwo). The other names -NGUNI, MINGUHNI, NGUNU and ENGWINI mean the same thing used by neighbouring villages or poorly written by the colonial auhorities as a result of communication barriers or mispronunciation in their attempts to spell the name of the village. Some neighbouring villages still use these names to refer to Ngwo, though the Ngwo people see such usages as pejorative. The name of the Subdivision which is ‘Njikwa’ means ‘road to the farm’ in the Ngwo language because the people lived basically on farming.
The name of the geographical area is called Ngwo but the language name is Engwo. It is spoken in Njikwa Subdivision, Momo Division in the North West Region of Cameroon. The language is homogenously spoken in about 15 different quarters (equal to villages) within the Ngwo reference dialect area but becomes heterogeneous (with a low degree of intelligibility) when we extend to the other villages listed as dialects: Konda, Basa, Ekweri, Banya, Bako, Okorobi, Bakwa, Ekwebo and Amasi (see ALCAM (Dieu and Renaud 1983), Ethnologue (Gordon, 2005) and Brye 1999).
Linguistic Classification and Dialects
Engwo is classified in the Cameroon Linguistic Atlas (ALCAM) under “Ngwɔ” code [861] as follows: Niger-Kordofanian, Niger-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Bantu, Grassfields, Momo, with the following listed as dialects: Konda, Basa (Bassa), Ikweri (Ekperi), Banya, Bako and Okorobi (Bakwa) (Dieu and Renaud 1983:352). The Ethnologue (Gordon 2005:70) lists Ngwo (Ngwaw) [ngn] with the following linguistic classification: Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Wide-Grassfields, Narrow-Grassfields, Momo.
The Ethnologue lists a population of 50,547 speakers (2000 WCD) and includes the following as dialects: Ngwo (Nguni, Ngwaw, Minguhni, Ngunu), Konda (Eza), Basa (Bassa), Ikweri (Ekperi), Banya, Bako, Okorobi (Bakwa). A Rapid Appraisal Survey of Ngwo (Brye 1999:15) proposes Bakwa (Okorobi), Ekwebo, and Amasi as some of the dialects. Additional Engwo speakers are scattered all over the world with a very high population in the Southwest Region of Cameroon, some in Europe and many in the United States of America (USA).
The following tree diagram based on ALCAM’s classification of Engwo is more explicit:
Benue-Congo
Bantoid
GrassfieldsBantu
Momo, Menchum, Ring, Eastern-Grassfields
Engwo, Ngɨshe, Ngie, Meta, Moghamo
Reference Dialect
This lexicon like other literacy materials written on the language is based on data collected from the reference dialect only: [ALCAM]: Ngwɔ (Engwo as spoken in Ngwo).
Neighbouring Languages
Neighbouring languages include Meta’, Mundum, Ngie, Ngɨshe, Manta, Ihatum, Batomo, Menka, Atong (Atoŋ), Caka and Beba’ (see Brye 1999:10). Within the Ngwo geographical area and environs are nomadic herders called Bororos who speak Fulfulde and many Engwo speakers have learned to speak it also.
English and French are the official languages of Cameroon adopted from their two colonial masters, England and France. As an integral Anglophone part of Cameroon, speakers of the Ngwo language use the English language as their official language. French is used to a lesser degree by those who have studied it in school or by those who have lived in francophone regions of Cameroon. Whereas English is used basically as the official medium of instruction, French serves mostly as a school subject. Whenever and wherever the Ngwo people gather, the language they most often use is Engwo.
Language of Wider Communication
Within the different villages listed as dialects, the mother tongue is spoken but when it comes to communicating with speakers across these dialects, the mother tongue is not frequently used; the language of wider communication, Pidgin English, is mostly used because mutual intelligibility between the dialects is very low.
Vitality and Viability
The Ngwo language is spoken within the Ngwo area and within the related dialects between native speakers. It is used at all local gatherings and during church sermons but is gradually being threatened by European languages (especially English) and Pidgin English where some native speakers are gripped with an inferiority complex towards their own local language and cultural identity. Many nevertheless are realizing the importance of upholding their cultural identity and using their local language with pride. Our hope is that learning to read and write Engwo will be a challenge to all the native speakers – young and old alike.
Engwo is an agglutinating language. This means that a word in the language can be made up of two or more segments (called morphemes) glued together. For instance;
abúgwɔ̀ “midrib of plantain leaf”
ebíiríbwa “manner of asking”
ewáwù “firewood”
abwádándà / éfúundà “rubber foam (Dunlop)”
The first underlined part of the words above is the prefix, helping to indicate that the noun is either singular or plural. The middle part is the root and the last underlined part is the suffix, giving more clarification on the nature (material) of the noun. All parts are compounded to form the noun. Thus the name agglutinating language. Engwo is a noun class language.
It is also a tone language because tone plays a vital role in distinguishing the meaning of words, as we shall see subsequently. The order of clause constituents is Subject Verb Object (SVO).
Previous Works on Engwo
Different persons have carried out research on different topics on the Ngwo language (grammar) and culture (literature) either to earn a school certificate or to promote the language and culture. Some literacy materials have been produced for local use. Further ahead is a list of the Engwo research works that we could find. You will see them under the heading ‘Bibliography.’
Ngwo (Engwo) Dictionary © 2018 Julius A. Eyoh
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HomeFeatured InterviewINTERVIEW with Irish producer / DJ WELSHY
INTERVIEW with Irish producer / DJ WELSHY
November 18, 2020 Neal McClelland Featured Interview, Interviews 0
It’s a well-known fact that Ireland, as a country, has always punched pretty hard in terms of music exporting globally over the years. XS Noize Neal McClelland catches up one of the new breeds of young rising stars Welshy (real name Ross Walsh) from the island who is presently riding high on a crest of success on with his track ‘Haiti’ and turning a lot of heads in his direction.
Where did your electronic musical roots begin developing?
Welshy: My early days began at 14 or 15, I’d always wanted to DJ, and I was very quick to learn. To get gigs, you needed to produce music. I downloaded a program called FL Studio and began watching a million and one Youtube videos a day, trying to learn the craft of music production. That led to me getting some gigs, and it built up from there.
Where did the concept for ‘Haiti’ come from?
Welshy: It started as a challenge. I sampled the sound of a rugby ball being hit. That became the kick or beat of ‘Haiti’. I needed to find a vocal that would fit that beat, and by chance, I had a vocal on my computer that I found then I threw it over the beat and it worked!
That was the original beat of ‘Haiti’ and that was the original demo that I uploaded, which went viral and led to me signing the track with the label Insanity Records. That led to the official version that you can hear now released – It’s a crazy story.
How do you feel that are you getting on musically in general?
Welshy: Yeah I’m flying in Ireland at the minute. I’m just happy. I’ve been very fortunate with the opportunities that I’ve been given and all the gigs I’ve done over the years.
Is there an area of Electronic Music that you can see yourself evolving into?
Welshy: I guess I don’t have a final destination where I want to go to. However I love Calvin Harris, he’s so innovative, he’s probably the only artist that can make any music genre. I want to try new genres, a bit of everything. I’d love to be known as a worldwide producer making music for other people.
Apart from Calvin Harris, who inspires you, musically?
Welshy: Avicii! The first time I heard ‘Seek Bromance’ I was like…what is that? I was inspired by local legends Marc McCabe & John Gibbons, and more with John’s new sound-making House Music, he inspires me and lives locally.
OK, there’s a new 14-year-old new Welshy out there, what advice do you give to him or her?
Welshy: Learn your craft; don’t be afraid to put some music onto the internet. I have loads of videos of my younger days online, and I’ll never delete them. It shows where I was and where I’ve progressed to now. I guess I hope it will be an inspiration to other people. If you are happy with your music, don’t be afraid to put it out online. ‘Gigwise’ take every opportunity that you can, regardless of the gig, treat it like you are playing at Tomorrowland.
And what about if that person can’t finish making a track or is stuck?
Welshy: If I’m stuck on a track, I like to leave it and start something new. Youtube is the best thing in the world. Creatively look to other artists, what they are doing & find your own sound. It’s all available to you on Youtube. Come back with fresh ears, get inspired by other people, listen to more new music.
‘Haiti’ is flying on Spotify globally. How do you feel?
Welshy: It’s a moment I’ll never understand how it happened to me. It was hard work.
Lastly – One word that describes the concept, delivery & reception of the track.
Welshy: I guess innovative!
Welshy is a very level headed young man, who knows exactly where he wants to go and how to get there, 100%. We see big things coming from him in the future.
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Welshy (real name Ross Walsh) has emerged as Ireland’s hottest young producer, independently achieving over 41 million streams and earning recognition from superstar names BTS, Kygo and The Chainsmokers. Now signed to Insanity Records, Welshy […]
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Bleed Like Me
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Christa Desir
Loss or Death
From the author of Fault Line comes an edgy and heartbreaking novel about two self-destructive teens in a Sid and Nancy-like romance full of passion, chaos, and dyed hair. Seventeen-year-old Amelia Gannon (just "Gannon" to her friends) is invisible to almost everyone in her life. To her parents, to her teachers-even her best friend, who is more interested in bumming cigarettes than bonding. Some days the only way Gannon knows she is real is by carving bloody lines into the flesh of her stomach. Then she meets Michael Brooks, and for the first time, she feels like she is being seen to the core of her being. Obnoxious, controlling, damaged, and addictive, he inserts himself into her life until all her scars are exposed. Each moment together is a passionate, painful relief. But as the relationship deepens, Gannon starts to feel as if she's standing at the foot of a dam about to burst. She's given up everything and everyone in her life for him, but somehow nothing is enough for Brooks-until he poses the ultimate test. Bleed Like Me is a piercing, intimate portrayal of the danger of a love so obsessive it becomes its own biggest threat.
Grim, Heartbreaking, Horrifying and Tragic
WOW. It’s no secret how strongly I loved Fault Line, so when I saw Bleed Like Me go up on Edelweiss, I knew I had to read it. I was not disappointed.
The other day I found myself in a conversation with a few people who thought YA was mostly made up of love triangles, teen angst and paranormal creatures that run around with their shirt off. To be fair, there are a good amount of these kinds of books in YA just as there are in Adult Urban Fantasy or PNR, and there is nothing wrong with these novels.
My issue always stems from the fact that some make blanket statements about YA when they don't even read YA. YA has too much romance. YA is full of girls and their inability to choose which Totally Hot Guy they want to spend the rest of their life with. YA has too much sex; we must protect the children! YA is too dark. Most of these I brush off as ignorance, but the last one usually gives me pause. It's rather ironic that some would want to limit stories that portray harsher lives of teens. It's almost as if they worry it'll rub off on kids, and it's an absurd notion.
Bleed Like Me would fall under the "Dark YA" umbrella -- though, I prefer to refer to it as an Issue Book since "dark" is subjective -- and like Fault Line, I would be hesitant to recommend it to a younger teen (read: under 13 years of age) unless they are reading it with their parent or guardian. It does contain a few mature themes: drugs, cutting, suicide, etc., however, nothing is glamorized and it would be a great book to open discussion.
This novel shows what happens when two teens so deeply tangled in a bad romance, go from bad to worse. It's just as grim, heartbreaking, horrifying and tragic as Desir’s debut. Like Fault Line, nothing is spared and the characters go through situations no one should have to deal with. Twilight has the stigma of being the punchline to YA for Bella and Edward’s co-dependent relationship being glamorized, but in Bleed Like Me, no such fairytale exists. Gannon and Brooks are in an unhealthy relationship, addicted to each other and unable to see how toxic it is.
It’s a quick read, but not always easy due to the subject manner. But I will say it was hard to put down and I spent 2 hours sitting in my grocery store parking lot binge reading because I just had to see how it ended. Nothing good happens in this book, so if you are looking for something light, this won't "Git R Done" for you. Still, it's an important read and I hope more people consider picking it up and giving it a chance. Add this to your list, people. It’s a winner.
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That time of year: Not everyone's excited for homecoming
Matt Eyer
By Rebecca Zhou,
Central York High School
It’s that time of year again -- time to spend $70 on a dress you’ll wear only once, waste countless hours in front of a mirror trying to put on fake eyelashes, and kill your feet trying to dance to "Cotton Eyed Joe" in heels. If you think I’m alluding to homecoming, you’re right!
As a junior who has never attended a single high school dance or football game, people think I’m some alien who doesn’t have a cell in her body dedicated to school spirit. But don’t the 10 school clubs and organizations I’m a member of constitute school involvement, and thus, school spirit? Even the kids in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" -- a coming-of-age novel about school outcasts -- attended high school dances and sporting events. I guess this just makes me extra unique.
I just can’t grasp the hype about dances. I get that it’s a momentous event where the girls get dolled up and the boys look suave in suits and bowties. But witnessing the football team lose the homecoming match and listening to some tiresome songs by a third-rate DJ doesn’t equate to a thrilling night. But yet it is. And people will still spend the immense amount of money and hours they do each year for one night.
In truth, I’m actually considering going this year. Life is short, and high school is shorter. But then I run into the problem of arriving at a dance, dropped off by my mother, groupless and dateless -- no one wants the social stigma of being some awkward loner, which I guess has some truth to it. I’m not going to lie, though, it’s a huge ego-breaker when no one asks you to dance while the other girls get all the lads. And my cute chiffon dress won’t pass as a homecoming dress, nor do I have the money to purchase an actual one. There are just so many factors that don't add up in my favor.
What happened to that certain je ne sais quoi that made homecoming so classy? Or is that strictly prom? Perhaps I'm too bitter about not being asked (yet). I feel very conflicted about going. Maybe I’ll just stay home again and eat vast amounts of ice cream while watching Disney princess movies, again.
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[PRNewswire] The Sino Park Won the 2019 Sustainable Cities and Human
Settlements Award
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(ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Sept. 9, 2019 PRNewswire=연합뉴스) The 14th GFHS was held on September 6 at the UNCC in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 2019 SCAHSA was officially announced. The Sino Park, located in the 5A-level Yushan Shanghu Scenic Area won, the "Global Human Settlements Award" and became the first residential project in Suzhou that has won this award since its 14 years' establishment.
Vera Songwe, UN Deputy Secretary-General; Anwarul K. Chowdhury, former UN Under-Secretary-General and GFHS chairman; Shamshad Akhtar, former UN Under-Secretary-General; Joyce Msuya, Deputy Executive Director of United Nations Environment; Lv Haifeng, GFHS Secretary General, and officials, ambassadors and mayors of different countries attended the forum and presented awards for winning projects.
The SCAHSA Award is one of the most important human settlements awards in the world. Known for its independence, authority and standards, it is called the "Nobel Prize for the global human settlements" and has won strong support and high recognition from United Nations Environment Program, Department of Economic and Social Affairs and other International authorities.
The Sino Park's winning has fully demonstrated that the development of the living environment of Changshu Yushan Shanghu is in the forefront of the world, and this is also a historic breakthrough for China's landscape to go to the world.
Located in Changshu main district, Yushan Shanghu Scenic Area covers about 42 square kilometers. It formed a world-class ecological pattern of "mountain and lake" in Changshu with miles of mountain and lake around. Covering about 100,000 square meters and as a representative of low-density villa area, the Sino Park was jointly created by Sunac China (01918.HK), Excellence Group and Jingrui Holdings, three leading Chinese real estate giants.
Sunac China, an integrated service provider for Chinese families, focuses on deep cultivation and high-end boutique development strategy. It has laid out nearly 100 cities in eight core regions. Sunac kept the top 4 position in Chinese real estate enterprise sales ranking in 2018. Relying on regional sources, and as a high-end iteration work of courtyard series, the Sino Park achieves Chinese landscape culture with the highest standards in the world. It has made great achievements in the planning and design of human settlements and provided a Chinese program for the whole world to refer to.
Photo link: https://photos.prnasia.com/prnh/20190909/2569443-1
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OPED: America's slide into madness continues
ANN MCFEATTERS
When veteran newswoman Cokie Roberts asked Donald Trump this week what he thought of reports that children are telling darker-skinned playmates they will be deported or that a wall will be built to keep them out, Trump said it was a "nasty" question.
He didn't know anything about such things, he said.
Parents are wondering how they can insist their children not use bad language or potty humor, say awful things to others, boast, flaunt their ownership of stuff, bully, make promises they can't keep and be openly and crudely disrespectful of adults when one of the most lionized men in America proudly does all those things.
After Michigan, Mississippi and Hawaii voters became the latest to announce they'd like a billionaire bigot for president, Republican establishment figures finally — finally — woke up to the fact that Trump is on his way to winning the GOP nomination and quite possibly the presidency.
Leaders of other countries say the know-nothingness of Trump supporters reminds them of the xenophobic, racist, misogynistic ways that Mussolini and Hitler came to power. People have been thinking that for months; now they give voice to it. It means something when the British, our closest allies, publicly debate whether to ban Trump from entering the U.K.
There is one man in particular to blame for this mess: Roger Ailes. He is the former behind-the-scenes Republican political manipulator who decided to make millions by creating Fox News to pit conservatives against liberals, coarsening political dialogue and encouraging celebrities such as Sarah Palin to bandy about unfounded, outrageous charges.
Ailes picked up on the entertainment value of Rush Limbaugh's diatribes, helped destroy civility and, perhaps to his chagrin, made Trump a viable candidate. He put Trump on the air, letting him spout off on whatever he wanted. The wily Trump, with his outsized thirst for self-aggrandizement, ran with it.
Now Trump is exploiting families' economic worries, fear of globalization, the puzzled anger of the dwindling middle class, the impotence of "poorly educated" white men who don't have job skills needed in a changing world, and frustration at the work ethic of immigrants determined to succeed. He is massaging the worst instincts of the haves and the have nots.
It has always been easy to get a mob together and foment ferment. TV is made for creating mass anger, especially when many people no longer read, watch or care about serious news.
To Trump, facts and fairness mean nothing. He openly admires dictators who commit mass murder. He outsources jobs to China, then vows to stop job flight. But he's getting what he wants because millions also don't know or care about the facts. It's easier to shout, jeer, sneer and proclaim, "I'm for Trump," whatever that means, than try to understand that bloviating does not equal a workable plan of action.
Even as president, Trump cannot force Mexico to pay $10 billion for a wall. Trump cannot keep Muslims out of the country based on their religion. Trump alone cannot keep nations from manipulating currency. He cannot shut down trade. He cannot create millions of skilled, well-paying jobs. He won't even pay a living wage to his hotel workers.
Elites ignored the Trump threat. Just look at a pillar of the establishment, wealthy Mitt Romney. Desperate for the GOP nomination in 2012, Romney wheedled Trump into endorsing him, even as Romney winced and held his nose. Too late, Romney now leads the failing campaign to try to force voters into seeing the self-absorbed, vapid, whiny, scary, vindictive man that Trump really is. Trump supporters are paying no heed to Romney, except to scoff.
Another New York establishment figure, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, said he'd run if it looked as if Trump would get the nomination. He now sees he could not win and would merely take votes from Hillary Clinton, thus assuring Trump victory in November.
Trump supporters don't care that Trump displays no understanding of the presidency, especially its responsibilities, let alone the nuances of foreign policy. They like the bombast, the bravado, the boorishness.
Living in a democracy is harder than it looks.
— Ann McFeatters is an op-ed columnist for Tribune News Service.
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Category Archives: The Wilds
The Wilds, Walking
Almost home: Tucson Mountain Park
August 20, 2020 Andrea Gibbons Leave a comment
Taking care of mom, hardly leaving the house for shielding as much as a terrible unrelenting heat. Starting work at 6 am latest to speak to people in the UK, so can’t even go walking when the temperature might make that possible. Until today. A drive out to near where we used to live. A walk with Cat Mountain almost always in view. Not living there still feels like a hole in the heart. An impossibility. For all the talk about modern mobility and all my own mobility, this is still where I am anchored. A piece of my heart still in that adobe house. The wind still carrying me amidst the deer, coyotes, rabbits enjoying the sun, the cactus wrens and towees and gila woodpeckers and roadrunners and threshers and this host of wild things making the desert such a vibrant place of life.
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Country Walks Without a Car, Smallholding, The Wilds, Walking
Formby Beach
March 7, 2020 Andrea Gibbons Leave a comment
I am backdating this to the day we saw we came to this beautiful place but writing this late (maybe late, who knows how late) in lockdown (25 May). I long for a beach, air, space, emptiness, woods, trains, travels, pubs, new things.
A cold, windy day of great dark clouds and blue sky, we hoped to find the beach empty. The older I get, the emptier I like my beaches. Formby was surprisingly full of people along much of the beach itself, but for the most part spread across the long horizon’s sweeps like Lowry figures. But in the glorious dunes there were few people, and the bright sun and deep shadow showed the beauty of low wind carved hills.
Across wet hard-packed beach the wind swept wide rivers of dry sand, swiftly racing undulations of changing currents and rivulets that stung against my shins.
We saw many dogs with joy quivering in every bound and wet shake.
People did fill the woods, one of the last places that red squirrels can still be seen. We did not see red squirrels, only a notice that we might encounter them dead or dying among the pines of squirrel pox. Devastating on many levels.
Nor did we comb the waters edge as the tide ebbed out for the prehistoric footsteps, not knowing that was the only place they could be seen. I’m still a little heartbroken about that. Walking to Formby from the train we missed the informational boards positioned for the passengers of cars, but even for them it wasn’t all that clear.
I loved that this was also a productive landscape, a world of small holding (or so it was once) and asparagus beds — ah, asparagus! How I love asparagus. There is a plaque for the Aindow family, a rare local name. The plaque tells us:
William Aindow… with his brothers Ellis and Douglas and sister Joan, he leveled new fields next to Victoria Wood. The Aindows also grew asparagus on part of Pine Tree farm and a long pointed strip of land next to Jubilee Wood called tongue sharp piece! It was here they had their sheds ad a couple of caravans where they stayed during the main asparagus season.
Horses were used on the Aindows’ farm into the 1990s. The narrow drills suited horse cultivation and the horse would move between the ridges without damage to the roots of the asparagus plant. When the ridges were formed by tractor cultivation, they tended to be wider. It wasn’t always easy to plough or harrow with a tractor o the sand because of the risk of getting stuck, especially when the sand was dry.
The ridges of their fields can be seen here:
A splendid walk, if cold and the wind, well the wind was really something.
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Climbing Wasson Peak
January 1, 2020 Andrea Gibbons Leave a comment
Such a lovely lovely first day of the year with Dan, Jessica, Mark, wearing my new to me Earth First T-shirt which once belonged to Z and came to me via Julie as a Christmas gift — a most precious thing. We started at the King’s Canyon trail head, and did a glorious loop up past the petroglyphs my dad first showed me. Deer, even though the trail was busy.
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Poetry in Stone
Image December 23, 2019 Andrea Gibbons Leave a comment
Pontatoc Ridge Trail
December 22, 2019 Andrea Gibbons Leave a comment
Started at the Pontatoc Canyon Trail/Finger Rock trailhead, just over 5 miles, lovely views but a there and back kind of walk, lots of looking out over the city. There were almost no birds, no sounds of wildlife, it was eerie.
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Ancient History, The Wilds, Walking
Frost Magic
December 1, 2019 Andrea Gibbons Leave a comment
In Glasgow giving a book talk to students at the School of Art. They were amazing, bright, full of questions and the need to talk about cities and justice and architecture and language, I loved them. Eight of them bought books. They. Bought. Books. My beautiful nephew Reuben’s second birthday, all too short and wonderful time with T and Laura, the science museum.
The world frozen, beautiful from their Hamilton window.
A quick run up to Chatelherault Country Park where I remembered again how much I love winter. I love this place. The ancient Cadzow oaks and the earthworks dating back to at least the 12th century. the Cadzow castle ruins looking over the river. Frost. Mist. Bare branches against the sky.
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Building Social Spaces, Environment & Justice, Struggle & Movement, Sustainability, The Wilds
from Matsutake mushrooms to entanglements, patches and methodologies
I found Anna Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World such an extraordinary book. I love particularly how it stretches to understand and theorise complexity in a way closely tied to justice struggles, that includes but is hardly limited to political economy and ecology.
It opens with this idea of entanglement, and its challenges to more traditional theorising around capitalism, nature, knowledge. I love her language, her style and the way it in turn allows such an intense grappling-with-things-as-they-are. She talks about enabling entanglements, all that this allows us to think through:
Ever since the enlightenment, western philosophers have shown us a Nature that is grand and universal but also passive and mechanical. Nature was a backdrop and resource for the moral intentionality of Man, which could tame and master Nature. It was left to fabulists, including non-Western and non-civilizational storytellers, to remind us of the lively activities of all beings, human and not human. Several things have happened to undermine this division of labor. First, all that taming and mastering has made such a mess that it is unclear whether life on earth can continue. Second, interspecies entanglements that once seemed the stuff of fables are now materials for serious discussion among biologists and ecologists, who show how life requires the interplay of many kinds of beings. Humans cannot survive by stomping on all the others. Third, women and men from around the world have clamored to be included in the status once given to Man. Our riotous presence undermines the moral intentionality of Man’s Christian masculinity, which separated Man from Nature. The time has come for new ways of telling true stories beyond civilizational first principles.
There is no question of what the stakes are — this wonderful idea of riotous presence. She continues
Without Man and Nature, all creatures can come back to life, and men and women can express themselves without the strictures of a parochially imagined rationality. (vii)
She continues:
My book then offers “third nature,” that is, what manages to live despite capitalism. To even notice third nature, we must evade assumptions that the future is that singular direction ahead…Yet progress stories have blinded us. To know the world without them, this books sketches open-ended assemblages of entangled ways of life, as these coalesce in coordination across many kinds of temporal rhythms. (viii)
This ‘crippling assumption’ of linear progress is critiqued again and again, as is the reduction of theory:
While I refuse to reduce either economy or ecology to the other, there is one connection between economy and environment that seems important to introduce up front: the history of the human concentration of wealth through making both humans and nonhumans into re-sources for investment. This history has inspired investors to imbue both people and things with alienation, that is, the ability to stand alone, as if the entanglements of living did not matter.’ Through alienation, people and things become mobile assets; they can be removed from their life worlds in distance-defying transport to be exchanged with other assets from other life worlds, elsewhere.’ This is quite different from merely using others as part of a life world—for example, in eating and being eaten. In that case, multispecies living spaces remain in place. Alienation obviates living-space entanglement. The dream of alienation inspires landscape modification in which only one stand-alone asset matters; everything else becomes weeds or waste. Here, attending to living-space entanglements seems inefficient, and perhaps archaic. When its singular asset can no longer be produced, a place can be abandoned. The timber has been cut: the oil has run out; the plantation soil no longer supports crops. The search for assets resumes elsewhere. Thus, simplification for alienation produces ruins, spaces of abandonment for asset production. Global landscapes today are strewn with this kind of ruin. Still, these places can be lively despite announcements of their death; abandoned asset fields sometimes yield new multispecies and multicultural life. In a global state of precarity, we don’t have choices other than looking for life in this ruin. (5-6)
Again this is creating theory able to think in new ways about an all-pervasive precarity, all-pervasive spaces of abandonment and ruin (at the same as possible spaces of life and hope), and the entanglements that are part of this in complex ways. On precarity:
Precarity is the condition of being vulnerable to others. Unpredictable encounters transform us; we are not in control, even of ourselves. Unable to rely on a stable structure of community, we are thrown into shifting assemblages, which remake us as well as our others. We can’t rely on the status quo; everything is in flux, including our ability to survive. Thinking through precarity changes social analysis. A precarious world is a world without teleology. Indeterminacy, the unplanned nature of time, is frightening, but thinking through precarity makes it evident that indeterminacy also makes life possible. (20)
On assemblage, which she draws on a great deal and I confess I’ve never much cared for… but I love the idea stretched to be wielded in this way, these lifeways.
The concept of assemblage is helpful. Ecologists turned to assemblages to get around the sometimes fixed and bounded connotations of ecological “community.” The question of how the varied species in a species assemblage influence each other—if at all—is never settled: some thwart (or eat) each other; others work together to make life possible: still others just happen to find themselves in the same place. Assemblages are open-ended gatherings. They allow us to ask about communal effects without assuming them. They show us potential histories in the making. For my purposes, however, I need something other than organisms as the elements that gather. I need to see lifeways—and non-living ways of being as well—coming together. Nonhuman ways of being, like human ones, shift historically. For living things, species identities are a place to begin, but they are not enough: ways of being are emergent effects of encounters. Thinking about humans makes this clear. Foraging for mushrooms is a way of life—but not a common characteristic of all humans. The issue is the same for other species. Pines find mushrooms to help them use human-made open spaces. Assemblages don’t just gather lifeways; they make them. Thinking through assemblage urges us to ask: How do gatherings sometimes become “happenings,” that is, greater than the sum of their parts? If history without progress is indeterminate and multidirectional, might assemblages show us its possibilities?
Patterns of unintentional coordination develop in assemblages. To notice such patterns means watching the interplay of temporal rhythms and scales in the divergent lifeways that gather. Surprisingly, this turns out to be a method that might revitalize political economy as well as environmental studies. Assemblages drag political economy inside them, and not just for humans. Plantation crops have lives different from those of their free-living siblings; cart horses and hunter steeds share species but not lifeways. Assemblages cannot hide from capital and the state; they are sites for watching how political economy works. If capitalism has no teleology, we need to see what comes together—not just by prefabrication, but also by juxtaposition. (23)
I love how for her this fits into the landscape — a term with immense baggage in the world of geography, but still very useful I think. It moves into questions of methodology, where I also find so much to think about here, draw into my own work.
Telling stories of landscape requires getting to know the inhabitants of the landscape, human and not human. This is not easy, and it makes sense to me to use all the learning practices I can think of, including our combined forms of mindfulness, myths and tales, livelihood practices, archives, scientific reports, and experiments. But this hodgepodge creates suspicions—particularly, indeed, with the allies I hailed in reaching out to anthropologists of alternative world makings. For many cultural anthropologists, science is best regarded as a straw man against which to explore alternatives, such as indigenous practices.12 To mix scientific and vernacular forms of evidence invites accusations of bowing down to science. Yet this assumes a monolithic science that digests all practices into a single agenda. Instead, I offer stories built through layered and disparate practices of knowing and being. If the components clash with each other, this only enlarges what such stories can do. (159)
The concept of salvage, something I also find really useful:
‘taking advantage of value produced without capitalist control…”Salvage accumulation” is the process through which lead firms amass capital without controlling the conditions under which commodities are produced. Salvage is not an ornament on ordinary capitalist processes; it is a feature of how capitalism works. (63)
On supply chains, commodities, what a mushroom can teach us about the contemporary nature of capitalism, the idea of translation:
A supply chain is a particular kind of commodity chain: one in which lead firms direct commodity traffic.’ Throughout this part, I explore the supply chain linking matsutake pickers in the forests of Oregon with those who eat the mushrooms in Japan. The chain is surprising and full of cultural variety. The factory work through which we know capitalism is mainly missing. But the chain illuminates something important about capitalism today: Amassing wealth is possible without rationalizing labor and raw materials. Instead, it requires acts of translation across varied social and political spaces, which, borrowing from ecologists’ usage, I call “patches.” Translation, in Shiho Satsuka’s sense, is the drawing of one world-making project into another.2 While the term draws attention to language, it can also refer to other forms of partial attunement. Translations across sites of difference are capitalism: they make it possible for investors to accumulate wealth. (62)
Global supply chains ended expectations of progress because they allowed lead corporations to let go of their commitment to controlling labor. Standardizing labor required education and regularized jobs, thus connecting profits and progress. In supply chains, in contrast, goods gathered from many arrangements can lead to profits for the lead firm: commitments to jobs, education, and well-being are no longer even rhetorically necessary. Supply chains require a particular kind of salvage accumulation, involving translation across patches. The modern history of U.S.-Japanese relations is a counterpoint of call-and-response that spread this practice around the world. (110)
She continues with what helped out allow the global shift to outsourcing but following the commodity chain of the matsutake — this is a long quote but traces this way of unraveling how things work, fit together, of seeing absences as well as presences, of bringing together multiple ways of understanding how a thing works and how assemblage might be a useful concept along more traditional concepts used in looking at capitalism like alienation:
…I let the thread of the story unroll quite far from matsutake. Yet at each step I need the chain’s reminders to resist the lull of current erasures. This is not just a story, then, but also a method: big histories are always best told through insistent, if humble, details.
In collecting goods and people from around the world, capitalism itself has the characteristics of an assemblage. However, it seems to me that capitalism also has characteristics of a machine, a contraption limited to the sum of its parts. This machine is not a total institution, which we spend our lives inside; instead, it translates across living arrangements. turning worlds into assets. But not just any translation can be accepted into capitalism. The gathering it sponsors is not open-ended. An army of technicians and managers stand by to remove offending parts—and they have the power of courts and guns. This does not mean that the machine has a static form. As I argued in tracing the history of Japanese-U.S. trade relations, new forms of capitalist translation come into being all the time. Indeterminate encounters matter in shaping capitalism. Yet it is not a wild profusion. Some commitments are sustained, through force.
Two have been particularly important for my thinking in this book. First, alienation is that form of disentanglement that allows the making of capitalist assets. Capitalist commodities are removed from their life-worlds to serve as counters in the making of further investments. Infinite needs are one result; there is no limit on how many assets investors want. Thus, too, alienation makes possible accumulation—the amassing of investment capital, and this is the second of my concerns. Accumulation is important because it converts ownership into power. Those with capital can overturn communities and ecologies. Meanwhile, because capitalism is a system of commensuration, capitalist value forms flourish even across great circuits of difference. Money becomes investment capital, which can produce more money. Capitalism is a translation machine for producing capital from all kinds of livelihoods, human and not human. (133)
Gives examples of children reclaiming precious and dangerous metals from cell phones as another example of salvage — not anything thought of as capitalist labour, yet important to more traditional forms of labour such as the making of new phones.
However, there is something peculiar and frightening in this dedication salvage, as if everyone were taking advantage of the end of the world to gather up riches before the last bits are destroyed. (274)
These different forms of exploitation alongside each other makes theorising and organising for a better world difficult, but it is the task before us. Salvage is perhaps a term that can help get us where we need to go:
The challenges are enormous. Salvage accumulation reveals a world of difference, where oppositional politics does not fall easily into utopian plans for solidarity. Every livelihood patch has its own history and dynamics, and there is no automatic urge to argue together, across the viewpoints emerging from varied patches, about the outrages of accumulation and power. Since no patch is “representative,” no group’s struggles, taken alone, will overturn capitalism. Yet this is not the end of politics. Assemblages, in their diversity, show us what later I call the `latent commons,” that is, entanglements that might be mobilized in common cause. Because collaboration is always with us, we can maneuver within its possibilities. We will need a politics with the strength of diverse and shifting coalitions—and not just for humans. The business of progress depended on conquering an infinitely rich nature through alienation and scalability. If nature has turned finite, and even fragile, no wonder entrepreneurs have rushed to get what they can before the goods run out, while conservationists desperately contrive to save scraps. The next part of this book offers an alternative politics of more-than-human entanglements. (134-35)
And so we return to methods, to storytelling, to knowing place:
History is central to this, but what is it exactly? What does it need to be?
“History” is both a human storytelling practice and that set of remainders from the past that we turn into stories. Conventionally, historians look only at human remainders, such as archives and diaries, but there is no reason not to spread our attention to the tracks and traces of nonhumans, as these contribute to our common landscapes. Such tracks and traces speak to cross-species entanglements in contingency and con-juncture, the components of “historical” time. To participate in such entanglement, one does not have to make history in just one way.’ Whether or not other organisms “tell stories,” they contribute to the overlapping tracks and traces that we grasp as history.2 History, then, is the record of many trajectories of world making, human and not human. (168)
Just two other tidbits to end:
Privatization is never complete; it needs shared spaces to create any value. That is the secret of property’s continuing theft–but also its vulnerability. (271)
I just need to sit and think about that. And this, which perhaps is the real challenge this book seeks to address, the need for these new ways of thinking, studying, understanding:
Progress gave us the “progressive” political causes with which I grew up. I hardly know how to think about justice without progress. The problem is that progress stopped making sense. (25)
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt (2015) The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.
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Walking the Seven Rila Lakes
So so beautiful.
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History, The Wilds, Travel, Walking
Boyana Church (БОЯНСКАТА ЦЪРКВА) to Boyana Waterfall
We were almost a week in Sofia before heading towards Mount Vitosha for hiking…it had been so hot, and then stormy. We took the metro to Vitosha station then the 64 bus. Public transport here is a bit terrifying until you figure it out, this helped immensely unlike many another site, especially official ones.
It’s a short walk to Boyana Church, which was amazing. From the UNESCO site:
Located on the outskirts of Sofia, Boyana Church consists of three buildings. The eastern church was built in the 10th century, then enlarged at the beginning of the 13th century by Sebastocrator Kaloyan, who ordered a second two storey building to be erected next to it.
A schematic drawing of the church from the church website:
The frescoes in this second church, painted in 1259, make it one of the most important collections of medieval paintings. The ensemble is completed by a third church, built at the beginning of the 19th century. This site is one of the most complete and perfectly preserved monuments of east European medieval art.
The frescoes are amazing. We were lucky enough to be the only ones there for a short time — having walked from the bus there was no press of people, no time limit. The caretaker gave us some beautiful stories behind the depictions. Photos are not allowed and are in short supply on the internet, my favourite there is not be found. A poet, whose eyes watch you wherever you are in the church. They are vivid and very beautiful, what photos do exist do not come anywhere close to capturing them. But I recognised the crowns of these immediately that we had seen the day before at the National Museum of History where they have been copied and sit on display. This is Tsar Constantine Asen Tikh and Tsaritsa Irina:
From there we walked up the hill to find the trail up to Boyana waterfall. We weren’t quite prepared for an hour and a 45 minutes or so of steep uphill climb with little break to get there, the guide book might have been a little more explicit. But the woods were beautiful, the falls lovely, and we did have some cheese and wine to work off.
Coming back down we encountered these amazing creatures — Dryocopus martius — their calls are quite eerie in an almost silent forest. Apparently if you can imitate them they will come find you. If only we had known, we chased them down switchbacks through the trees but they caught on to our game soon enough.
The mountain now, and some of its wonders:
We were up and back in around two and a half hours, then walked down the hill to Cinecitta Osteria Italiana, who let us in despite being a little more dishevelled than the other guests and having no reservation. A delicious meal. Glorious day.
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Country Walks Without a Car, The Wilds
Space and splendour and Weston Super Mare
February 8, 2019 Andrea Gibbons Leave a comment
I know those adjectives don’t usually go together, but I stand by it. The first Saturday of February, there were no holiday hordes. There was almost no one there but for a couple of the beaches where absolutely everyone was out walking their dogs. That was quite glorious. But we walked past great mud flats and rickety ruined piers stretched out above the mud and the waves through woods and out past sand bay full of windswept grass with black feathered heads beyond which stand mysterious islands shrouded in the distant mist and a great city shining white on the far banks of the Severn (Cardiff). Out to Sand Point, the tail end of the Mendips forming sweeping coves and secluded rocky beaches. A defense installation, pill boxes, old boats beached high. Neolithic mounds. Walls built by prisoners of the Napoleonic war. The sky was blue above us scattered with clouds — except when it was all cloud, but this is England after all.
Above all there was room to expand, to breathe even as the wind did its best to take your breath away.
I have a new coat that actually keeps me warm. It has changed my life.
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Post Office Boss Ponders Cutting Mail Delivery to Five Days. Congress Balks.
Republicans, Democrats oppose idea that would save billions of dollars as agency tries to shift to more package deliveries
Postal workers unions have objected to reducing mail delivery days.
Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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Updated May 1, 2019 8:10 am ET
The head of the U.S. Postal Service floated a new proposal to shore up the agency’s finances: deliver mail five days a week while expanding package delivery to seven.
Postmaster General Megan Brennan said Tuesday at a congressional hearing that such a schedule was one of the options the agency’s board of governors is examining as part of a business plan they intend to submit to Congress in the coming weeks to help stem billions of dollars in annual losses.
The schedule would devote one fewer day to its declining business of delivering letters while giving the agency no days off from the growing amount of packages the Postal Service is handling for Amazon.com Inc. and others as more Americans shop online.
Members of Congress, however, made clear that the idea likely wouldn’t get very far.
“Did you tell the board that dog won’t hunt?” Rep. Mark Meadows (R., N.C.) asked Ms. Brennan during a tense exchange at the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing regarding the quasigovernmental agency’s financial condition.
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Owl hit by car in Enfield back on its feet
Wednesday’s Warrior: 12-year-old Frankie DeMunda of Danbury
Wednesday's Warrior
by: Alyssa Taglia
Posted: Aug 5, 2020 / 08:17 AM EDT / Updated: Aug 17, 2020 / 12:38 PM EDT
DANBURY, Conn. (WTNH) — This week’s Wednesday’s Warrior brings us to Danbury to meet a young boy with a love for woodworking and giving back to his community.
12-year-old Frankie DeMunda of Danbury has a love for woodworking. “I got into woodworking by my grandfather,” he says.
Paired with a passion for helping others.
“I like making people happy.”
Frankie with a wooden American flag. Photo: Frank DeMunda
The COVID-19 pandemic inspired Frankie to make then sell his one of a kind pieces and use his profits to give back to his community and beyond.
“I donated to the fire department and the police department and I bought food. I bought lunch for families in need. Ice cream and pizza.”
His wooden American flags are his favorite because to him, “It symbolizes peace.”
On top of all of this, as teachers and students get ready to head back to the classroom, Frankie wanted to create something to help keep teachers safe and able to move around the classroom.
Frankie and his homemade hearts that say “Love.” Photo: Frank DeMunda
Frankie’s message to all of us, “Stay safe and follow the rules so this can get over quickly.”
A true warrior.
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Wednesday’s Warrior: COVID-19 has increased ACCESS outreach team’s will to serve, group coordinator says
by Alyssa Taglia / Jan 14, 2021
CONNECTICUT (WTNH) "If I were to capture our philosophy it would be we rise by lifting others," explained Evelyn Rossetti-Ryan, ACES Chief of Outreach and ACCESS.
She said the goal is to empower adults with disabilities and help them become contributing members of their communities.
Wednesday’s Warrior: New Haven woman encourages others to embrace 2021, find time to do good
by Alyssa Taglia / Jan 6, 2021
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) -- With 2020 in the rearview mirror, one New Haven woman is reminding everyone that there is a chance to do good in 2021.
It was a difficult year for all of us.
Wednesday’s Warrior: Bristol woman battling cancer finds opportunity to honor late husband lost to Alzheimer’s
by Alyssa Taglia / Dec 23, 2020
BRISTOL, Conn. (WTNH) -- What would you do for love? Nancy Merrow of Bristol will do just about anything.
"He was my soulmate...We were married for 40 years," Merrow said.
‘She doesn’t have a mean bone in her body’: Neighbor of Stratford woman arrested at Capitol checkpoint says she’s harmless
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Immigrants Supporting Immigrants on Reform
By Brian Mann
MELISSA BLOCK, host:
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.
MICHELE NORRIS, host:
And I'm Michele Norris.
When President Bush talks about immigration tonight, most people will think about immigrants from Latin America. But in Northern New York, members of the growing Bosnian community say they share many of the same concerns as Mexicans and other Hispanic Americans.
North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann has the story.
BRIAN MANN reporting:
When Americans talk about immigration, they usually mean Hispanic immigration. But here in Northern New York, the most visible group of foreign-born workers come from Bosnia in Eastern Europe. Dozens of families have settled in the small villages of the Adirondack Mountains, opening restaurants and businesses.
(Soundbite of sewing machine)
MANN: Sylvia's is a small tailor shop in Saranac Lake. Owner Sylvia Sycumseven(ph) is taking orders for alterations. Sylvia is a small woman, middle-aged with bone thin hands. She's different from a lot of immigrants in that she came to the U.S. as a refugee, fleeing the war that ripped Bosnia apart in the early 90s. She settled here as part of a fast growing network of Bosnian families. Sylvia is a U.S. citizen now.
This afternoon her shop is busy with customers, but also with Bosnian friends and relatives who drop by to gossip and trade news. For these women, the immigration debate is personal.
Ms. SYLVIA SYCUMSEVEN (Bosnian immigrant): I'm working here 18 hours and working very hard if I pay tax to government. And I'm really good and I will give my life for this country. If I want to send tomorrow my son to the army, you know, why have you kicked me out? Why you don't help me?
MANN: Yasmina Sycumseven(ph), Sylvia's sister is also a U.S. citizen now, but says many Bosnian families share the fears as the Hispanic protesters they see on television.
Ms. YASMINA SYCUMSEVEN: Like how I have my brother and he's like 12 years in America and he pay the taxes, he shouldn't be, he shouldn't go back.
MANN: Critics often focus on the fact that undocumented workers and the people who hire them are breaking the law. Sylvia Sycumseven sees a distinction between illegal immigration and other crimes.
Ms. S. SYCUMSEVEN: If we want somebody kick out, that's going to be somebody who did something bad for this country. Like if you have criminal and you kill somebody or if you're using drugs, you have to be back to your own country.
MANN: The Sycumsevens support the idea of a guest worker program. They say they've proved themselves by putting in long hours, opening businesses and creating jobs.
Ms. Y. SYCUMSEVEN: And it's like many people from Saranac Lake, they know who I am and they know how I work. I mean they can see through us.
Ms. S. SYCUMSEVEN: I'm proud to be U.S.A. citizen. We love this country. We love this country, honestly, and my children love here. This is second home.
MANN: One thing is different here. Immigration is still far less common. Across New York State, one in five people are foreign born. But in these rural villages, immigrants like the Sycumsevens make up only 4% of the population.
For NPR News, I'm Brian Mann in Saranac Lake, New York. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Home Sports Local Sports 2018 Kids Clinic
2018 Kids Clinic
Jaylon Morris
Practice makes perfect. That was the message today at the Kids Clinic at MGM Park hosted by the Biloxi Shuckers and former Major League catcher Barry Lyons.
Thirty kids from the Gulf Coast trained with Biloxi Shuckers players and team ambassador Barry Lyons. “It’s great. We want to always encourage and inspire kids to be the best they can be. Baseball is such an amazing teacher of life lessons,” said Lyons.
The young ball players learned how to hit and field ground balls. With the pros pitching the kids tips, they’re swinging them in the right direction. Shuckers shortstop Jake Hager said, “As a kid, your dream is to become a professional baseball player and become a big leaguer. It’s cool to get these kids out here and have them look up to us and learn from us. Hopefully they take a lot in.”
The purpose of this clinic is to learn the game of baseball. Shuckers pitcher Nate Griep said, “We teach catch out here. If you can’t catch, you can’t play baseball. It’s kind of a big thing. We try to pound that in so that everybody knows what they are doing then we move onto other things.”
“Fielding a ground ball is hard,” said Hager. “When you get into a good fielding position, you can catch a ground ball. I want to teach these kids how to be in the right position.”
With anything in life, fundamentals are important. The earlier a player learns the basics they are less likely to use bad habits. Camp attendee Joshua Duncan said, “I learned today how to spread my legs out better when I catch grounders. I just love this camp a lot because it’s helping me inspire for new things and helping me learn a lot.”
“It’s about having passion for something and making that your livelihood,” said Lyons.
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Baton Rouge native Jaylon Morris embraces his new home on the Gulf Coast. He received his degree in Communications from Southeastern Louisiana University. He worked as a student Anchor/Reporter for the award winning college television shows, The Big Game and Northshore News. Covering both news and sports at Southeastern allowed him to expand his storytelling. When Jaylon isn't reporting, he enjoys listening to music, his mother's great southern cooking, and watching professional wrestling.
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November 29, 2019 November 27, 2019 by Steve
There are many ways to experience San Diego. If you want luxury, there are numerous coastal resorts, which sit on radiant beaches with full-service spas to pamper you. You can also find luxury in downtown San Diego, in one of the many modern hotels with ritzy rooftop pools amidst trendy boutiques, hotels, restaurants, and clubs. However, your stay in San Diego does not have to be expensive. You can find budget accommodations across the city in close proximity to the beaches, attractions, and busy strips.
With hundreds of hotels and a diverse collection of neighborhoods in San Diego, your search for the Best Areas to Stay in San Diego becomes a dizzying task without a little help. Well, we have you covered. We will deal you all of the information you need to find the perfect San Diego neighborhood to fit your personality, along with lodging suggestions in each locale – all places we have visited – so that there is no mystery as you plan your trip to “America’s Finest City.”
Choosing a San Diego Neighborhood for Your San Diego Stay
There is great diversity in San Diego’s coastal communities and inland neighborhoods, and we do mean DIVERSE. Every area in San Diego has a unique personality, so you can choose a gritty part of town where people party and the streets get crowded, or you can choose isolation in locations that hug the ocean along beautiful bluffs and cliffs that make the front of postcards. There are five distinct areas in San Diego, and we will bring you through downtown, uptown and across the shoreline, exploring all of your best possible lodging options.
Downtown San Diego Neighborhood and Hotels
Downtown San Diego Skyline at Night
If you stay anywhere in Downtown San Diego, you will be near shopping, eating, and partying options that accommodate all ages and tastes. While a trolley runs through the busiest areas with stops at the major downtown attractions, many popular spots will be within walking distance to your hotel, especially if you stay in the Gaslamp Quarter. The Gaslamp District is the hub of Downtown San Diego, and it is named after the gas lamps that provided the lighting for the district during its early development in the 1860s. As a nod to its past, the Quarter now uses replica gas lamps on many of its streets corners, though they are powered by electricity.
Gaslamp is the busiest area of downtown, along with the East Village. In particular, 4th and 5th Avenue in the Gaslamp area is alive with everything from posh lounges to rowdy sports pubs, along with nouveau nightclubs and restaurants, which are mixed within the largest assemblage of Victorian-style commercial buildings in the United States.
East Village is home to the San Diego Padres, and it was PETCO Park, the Padres’ home stadium, that sparked the revamp of East Village. The Village is the largest neighborhood in downtown San Diego with 130 blocks of property. Before the city built the stadium in 2004, the Village was nothing more than a drab eyesore called the “Warehouse District.” Now, it is a literal work of art, as everything, from the trashcans to the traffic-control boxes, is painted in unique fashion by local artists. Among the art, there are warehouse restaurants and galleries, cafés in redbrick, bars where patrons sit rooftop, and trendy hotels.
If you are looking for a quieter and less-congested area of downtown, stay in Embarcadero or Little Italy. Embarcadero connects downtown to the harbor. Once the spot where fishing folks gathered, you are now more likely to find tourists cruising the waterfront walkway that follows a line from the Maritime Museum to the Convention Center. Along the way, you will find grassy parks with shade trees, gazebos, public fishing piers, war memorials, original sculptures, and Seaport Village, a collection of restaurants and specialty shops. In addition, from nearly any spot along the walkway, you will see a myriad of sailing vessels from Navy destroyers to cruise ships.
Little Italy is authentic to its roots as the landing spot for San Diego’s “Italian Colony,” which it was once called by its residents. There is “bocce” in the park every day, the bustling “Mercato” (farmer’s market) every Saturday, a Fiesta (party) every fall, and nearly every niche of the neighborhood is Italian proud and rooted in “old country” delights, from its food to its slew of churches.
For great luxury accommodations close to the action in the Gaslamp Quarter, stay at Andaz San Diego. When we first entered the lobby of this sexy, beast of a hotel, the party started immediately, as the management had chilled wine on the spot for its guests. This showed us right away that the service would be flawless and we would have a good time. Not only was that the case, but the priceless service came with zero attitude. You pay a lot for this spot in the middle of the action, but with free wine, luxurious rooms that bring the romance, and smiling faces waiting to serve, it is worth the extra cost. However, this is not a place for families; it does get loud as the street party carries into the hotel when the clubs and pubs close.
Found Hotel San Diego – Little Italy
For unique and moderately-priced options in Downtown San Diego, you are limited to hotels in Little Italy or Embarcadero, where you will still pay more than $100 a night. The Found Hotel (previously the Hotel Vyvant) in Little Italy is a charming spot with great value at $139, and Porto Vista Hotel, which is also in Little Italy, costs a little more for a night, but you will be rewarded. This renovated “budget motel” is now a nice little budget hotel with modern furniture and surprising amenities like a slick restaurant and lounge, fitness center, and hair salon (and blow-dry lounge).
Mission Bay, Mission Beach, Pacific Beach, San Diego Neighborhoods and Hotels
Pacific Beach San Diego
If you want to get into the middle of Southern California’s beach culture then Mission Beach and Pacific Beach are your best bets. In this area of San Diego, you can find luxury resorts in Mission Bay or low-budget hotels and hostels in Pacific Beach and Mission Beach. Either way, the clap of waves and the smell of the salty seas are within reach, as well as parks with biking and hiking trails, golf courses, surf shops, interesting boutiques, inexpensive dining options, ice-cream stands, and lazy and lively beach bars with a peaceful vibe.
In addition, Mission Bay is home to SeaWorld San Diego and the largest aquatic park in the United States. The Mission Bay Aquatic Center is a 4,600-acre park for swimming, fishing, kayaking, paddleboarding, sailing, windsurfing, and boating.
A cool place to stay in Pacific Beach is the Crystal Pier Hotel and Cottages, which offers a rustic, 1930s New England cottage feel on an actual oceanfront pier. Each cottage has a kitchenette and its own deck area with patio furniture. The waves will definitely put you to sleep at night, for a cost of $175.
If you are looking for a boutique hotel on the shores of Pacific Beach, Tower23 is the best spot with a killer view of the ocean. However, it is not as good of a spot as Crystal Pier, which you can see from the modern rooms and chic pool decks of Tower23. There are more high-end amenities at Tower23, and while we did enjoy the comfort of the rooms and the lively atmosphere at the sushi bar in the hotel’s golden coast restaurant, we were not too stoked by the price of $400 a night, when we could have been closer to the shore at Crystal Pier for half the price.
For more Budget options the Ocean Park Inn and the Surfer beach hotel all offer fantastic Ocean Side accommodation at very reasonable prices! Don’t expect quite the same level of service and luxury but they are still decent hotels in enviable locations!
Uptown, Old Town, and Mission Valley, San Diego Neighborhoods, and Hotels
Best Western Plus Hacienda Hotel
Uptown, Old Town, and Mission Valley are great areas for families because they are close to SeaWorld San Diego, and Balboa Park, which houses the world-famous San Diego Zoo, free cultural events, a myriad of museums and gardens, and hiking trails across 1,200 acres.
There is also great value in this area with lower-priced chain hotels and accommodations that have sleeper-sofa options for large families, and kitchenettes for extended stays. While there are plenty of historic sites, great Mexican restaurants, and even superb craft beer breweries and tasting rooms within reach, there is limited nightlife and it is far from the coast. Therefore, the California vibe is nearly completely missing. This is especially true in Mission Valley, which is a straight suburbia with a tangle of major freeways, car lots, and shopping centers.
It is hard to find any unique accommodations in this particular area, but there are plenty of bargains, and you cannot go wrong with the Best Western Plus Hacienda Hotel in the middle of Old Town. The hotel sits atop a hill and has clean rooms and inviting courtyards and fountains, each immaculately kept. In addition, the Cosmopolitan Hotel and Restaurant is a good place to rest your head. It also sits in the heart of Old Town, and its veranda overlooks the San Diego State Historic Park. The Cosmopolitan was built in 1869, and each of the hotel’s 10 large suites has Victorian-era, antique décor that includes pull-chain toilets and pine tubs (though, the showers are modern).
La Jolla, San Diego Neighborhood, and Hotels
Children’s Pool at La Jolla
La Jolla is San Diego’s affluent neighborhood with beaches and hillsides buckling with multimillion-dollar homes. Twenty minutes north of downtown, “The Jewel” gets crowded in the summer with sunbathers and ocean adventure seekers, who surf, scuba dive, and kayak. In La Jolla’s village, there are high-end boutiques, great seafood restaurants, and art galleries. If you want a small-town coastal feel, then head to this locale where ocean views are spectacular. While the tourist season does generate crowds, there is still a feeling of calm as you maneuver through the area.
You can find bargain hotels in the area, but most of the spots cater to folks with big wallets, which keeps the riffraff out. The two best spots in La Jolla are the Grande Colonial and The Lodge at Torrey Pines. In the heart of La Jolla village, you will find the Grand Colonial, which has gorgeous ocean views, and European décor like chandeliers, mahogany rails, and French doors. If you want to hang out in luxury surroundings by the beach in the middle of the busiest area of La Jolla, this is your spot.
On the other hand, The Lodge at Torrey Pines sits atop ocean-side cliffs and springs a rustic and woodsy California ambiance. The Lodge has a commanding view of the Pacific Ocean and the world-famous Torrey Pines Golf Course. You will get celebrity treatment in the spa, and you will feel like you have been transported to another place and time with door attendants who wear kilts, fireplaces in the common areas, and hardwood room furnishings.
Coronado, Point Loma, and Shelter Island, San Diego Neighborhood and Hotels
Hotel Del Coronado from the Beach by Dirk Hanson – CC3.0
The bay area of San Diego is a mix of family-friendly resorts and hotels, historic sites, residential homes, and military family quarters. If you stay in the areas of Coronado, Point Loma, and Shelter Island, you are sure to get a big room, a pool, and a nice view of the bay and beach in most of its hotels.
If isolation is your desire, you will find it Coronado, which lies across a bridge, or by way of ferry, from San Diego proper. Beautiful white beaches are on the other end, and they don’t draw the crowds of those sandy areas north of San Diego. However, since the area does sit in isolation, you will be far from the major attractions, so you will need to rent a car, commute by taxi, or hitch a ride through Uber or Lyft., which can become expensive if you do it often.
Shelter Island is a manmade peninsula between Downtown San Diego and Point Loma. The area is a relaxed spot with grassy parks and tree-lined pathways, while Point Loma is home to a naval base, Cabrillo National Monument, and Liberty Station, a shopping and dining destination.
For the best deal in Point Loma, San Diego, head to The Pearl Hotel, a revamped vintage motel that is now a retro hangout with kitschy decor and artwork provided by local children. It has a hip bar in the hotel and it is near the marina. This is not a great place for families because their rooms only have one bed, but for $139 a night, it is perfect for the budget-friendly couple.
On Shelter Island, look for the Best Western Plus Island Palms Hotel & Marina for the best deal. This particular Best Western is unique, with well-kept tennis courts, a jogging trail, and complimentary bikes. It has great views of the waterfront on a private marina, for around $159 a night.
Finally, for a great luxury experience in this particular area, check out Hotel Del Coronado, which boasts beautiful ocean views and spectacular architecture, for it is an old-school wooden, Victorian beach resort. At the time it opened in 1888, it was the largest resort in the world, and it is still considered one of the top ten resorts on the planet, according to USA Today. You will have to pay top dollar for a stay here though!
For years, it has been a popular destination for celebrity guests, royalty, and heads of state, including Presidents Harrison, McKinley, Taft, and Wilson, Prince Edwards and Wallis Simpson, and entertainers such as Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn, and Mae West, in its early years. More recent guests include EVERY PRESIDENT from John F. Kennedy to Barrack Obama, and mega-stars Brad Pitt, Madonna, and Oprah Winfrey, which only touches the surface of all the celebrity that has crossed Hotel Del Coronado’s path.
The Final Word on San Diego Accommodations
Along with the unique lodging locations we mentioned, there are plenty of chain hotels with prices below $100 a night, and they are not hard to find. However, when you visit a city as unique as San Diego, it is nice to stay at a place that matches its rich history and singular nature, as Southern California’s jewel, and “America’s Finest City.”
Once a quiet beach town, San Diego is now livelier than ever. While you can still find those sleep beachside lodges, you can also hit the streets of Downtown San Diego and most city centers in every San Diego location for late-night shenanigans. So, whether you are planning a family trip or a raucous adventure, San Diego is sure to please with a room to match.
Where do you love to Stay in San Diego? Which is your favorite area the City? Do you prefer the hustle and bustle of downtown or the relaxed pace of the beach resort areas? Which hotels do you love and have you stayed anywhere we all should avoid! Let us know in the comments below. Or if you have any questions or specific hotel recommendations just leave us a comment and we will get right back to you. We always love discussing San Diego.
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About Chris Ryan
Chris Ryan is an accomplished promoter, event planner, producer, activist, counselor, poet and blogger. Within the course of two and a half years Chris Ryan has worked with some of NYC's most established promoters/event planners, been named 2007′s GaySocialite of the year, granted a promoter of the year award from NYC's most famous gay establishment, Splash. He's worked in some of NYC's top venues including; Avalon, Capitale, Cipriani, Cielo, Pacha, Element, Le Poisson Rouge, XL, G Lounge, Plumm, Hilton Hotel, Indigo Hotel, Spirit, Myst/Quo, Splash, The Ritz, Vlada, Roseland Ballroom, Heaven, etc. In 2008, Chris Ryan has begun to unveil some of the most innovative & unique parties New York City has ever seen. The Fusion events "fuse" together all disciplines of art into an event that remains diverse yet cohesive at the same time. ChrisRyanNYC.com won best gay promotions website from NYC Event Patrons in 2008 & he was granted an award from the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, Gov. Patterson & Michelle Clunie (QAF) saluting him for his hard work in nightlife. Chris Ryan has also begun working with many renown companies, including; doctors, lawyers, physicians, modeling agencies & more. Chris Ryan has been responsible for wide-scale promotions for all these companies & generating tremendous business. Chris Ryan has even started to become National with events taking place in LA & Miami this year. In May of 2009 Chris Ryan received the very prestigious honor of being named a "40 Under 40″ Gays in America by the Advocate Magazine. He also created three successful parties that generated over 1,500 patrons each. In January of 2010 Chris Ryan was featured as one of the top promoters to look out for in Noize Magazine Chris Ryan joined forces with legendary promoter/event producer, Lee Chappell and created one of the most talked about events of all 2010, Desire @ Capitale. Chris Ryan and Lee featured one of the most outstanding artists NYC has ever seen, "Oh Land." Her performance coupled with an exquisite and unforgettable set design added to this extravagant event that held over 1,000 patrons in one of NYC's most successful PRIDE events! Chris Ryan then joined forces with legendary Pacha promoter, Rob Fernandez in addition to Jake Resnicow and Tommy Marinelli to bring one of the largest and most successful parties worldwide to NYC, MATINEE. The event on Governor's Island saw over 2,000+ attendees and one of the most ambitious productions ever. In 2011 Chris Ryan started Emerge Music Promotions with business partner Darren Melchiorre. Emerge Music promotions began signing artists with plans to develop and market the artists to the community at large. Emerge Music promotions has big events planned for 2012 and 2013. Chris Ryan debuted the IMAGE events which took place on top of two of NYC's most beautiful rooftop venues, Rare View and Indigo Hotel. The events were blogged everywhere and featured the fashion designs of several clothing designers, artists and photographers. Chris Ryan felt that fashion and art should be displayed at every event and attracted the likes of Malan Breton, Calvin Klein and even Katy Perry. Chris Ryan began an extremely successful event which incorporated the concept of a house party into a nightclub atmosphere. The event Twist'D at G Lounge has been one of the most talked about events in NYC and allows it's audience to play nearly-naked Twister, beer pong, flip cup & more with other attendees. Chris Ryan was granted an excellence in volunteering award from AVP (Anti-Violence Project) for all his efforts in supporting the organization. 2013 has a very promising landscape on the horizon and Chris Ryan is complacent in saying "you haven't seen anything yet!"
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Author speaks out
By: CAMERON BROADHURST | Monday, 18 August 2008
A LOCAL dean of Maori and Chinese studies, Song Lam QSM, speaks at Pakuranga Library tomorrow on similarities between the two cultures.
REACHING OUT: Language educator and Chinese community leader Song Lam speaks tomorrow about Maori and Chinese cultures at Pakuranga Library. Times file photo.
Following the Maori-Asian hui held at Manurewa Marae two weeks ago (Times, August 7), Ms Lam is keen to educate Chinese to reach outside of their own community and learn about others.
She says since the violent criminal deaths of the past few months she has heard racist comments from Chinese against Maori. She’s trying hard to counteract ignorance, which she says is also the result of media coverage.
“Most media is quite negative about Maori,” says Ms Lam. “That’s not good enough for me. When they [Chinese] get robbed they think it’s Maori or Polynesian. You can’t just say that.”
She says while the Auckland Chinese news media might be a good place to promote Maori culture, the lack of Chinese who actually understand it means there is not enough discussion.
“Not many will do that because of the lack of knowledge and a lack of contact. [Chinese] stick to their own culture but they need to learn more,” she says.
“I have stayed at many marae and am always treated with respect. I always have the attitude of trusting others �C Maori, Chinese, Polynesian or whoever. I want to find out for myself, using my ears, not just my eyes.”
++QUOTE1++But Ms Lam also believes the racism problem is two fold, as many Chinese or Asian immigrants feel ignored or looked down on in New Zealand. “Many people look down on others because they feel like victims themselves.”
She says the Manurewa hui, which brought Maori and Asian leaders together, was excellent but was disturbed when Asian guests entered the dining hall or wharekai without waiting for the permission from the elder, a protocol they were not aware of.
Ms Lam, an author of books in Chinese on Maori culture, would like to see more seminars in future and a greater sense of awareness between the two cultures.
Eru Thompson, chairman of Manurewa Marae, says there’s a wealth of information available on Maoridom, but he’s concerned the information that’s circulated is correct.
“What’s really important is understanding the culture of our people. But we can’t give a landscape view with just one visit.”
Mr Thompson says the Manurewa marae is the most active in the country and needs to represent Tainui faithfully as it engages other people or cultures. “We’ve said for a long time that we want to look after every-body.”
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The Firebirds Today
An integral unit of the Air Warfare Centre at RAF Waddington, 56 Squadron contributes to the operational development and optimisation of the Royal Air Force's command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (Air C2ISR) capabilities. This is primarily achieved through the management, conduct and independent oversight of through-life flight and ground trials. Comprised of experienced operators and operational analysts, with experience from a variety of Air C2ISR systems, the Squadron is also an invaluable source of specialist expert advice.
The Squadron works closely with 92 Squadron to ensure that test and evaluation developments are integrated with tactical development, and in close collaboration with the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.
This Squadron is divided into five test and evaluation flights:
Wide Area Surveillance - The Wide Area Surveillance Flight is 56 Squadron’s focal point for expertise in ground motion target indicator (GMTI) radar and synthetic aperture radar technologies, Airborne Early Warning and Control, airborne Command and Control and Air Battle Management matters. The primarily work of the Flight is with Sentry E-3D and Sentinal R1 platforms systems and sensors.
Airborne Electronic Surveillance - The Airborne Electronic Surveillance Flight has an overall responsibility for the provision of expertise and capability evaluation of UK Airborne Electronic Sensor systems. This includes the RAF's RC-135 Rivet Joint, Shadow R1 and P-8 Poseidon aircraft.
Unmanned Air Systems - The Unmanned Air Systems Flight acts as a focal point for remotely operated air vehciles including the RAF's RQ-9 Reaper and British Army's Desert Hawk.
Aerospace Battle Management - The Aerospace Battle Management Flight provides expertise and evaluation of ground-based C2 systems, sensors and data links. The aim is to enhance the effectiveness of the UK ground-based Air Defence and Air Traffic Management Systems.
Intelligence and Space Exploitation - The Intelligence and Space Exploitation Flight comprises Intelligence and Space specialists who support through-life test and evaluation of MOD intelligence exploitation and space capabilities. The Flight also applies its skills to the wide range of activities encompassed by C2ISR.
Note: Images taken from raf.mod.uk website and 56 Squadron archives, UK Crown copyright.
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YOSEMITE AT 150: A Photographic Celebration
Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Yosemite Grant through the lenses of 13 Photographers
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS: Annette Bottaro-Walklet, Dan Burkholder, Charles Cramer, Jeffrey Conley, Karl Kroeber, Anne Larsen, Mike Osborne, John Sexton, Alan Ross, Scot Miller, Jill Skupin Burkholder, Keith S. Walklet & R.P. Washburne
In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant, widely credited as the beginning of the national park idea, with photographs from Carleton Watkins fresh on his mind. Later, Ansel Adams’ famous images of Yosemite embellished and cemented Yosemite’s reputation as a photographer’s paradise. YOSEMITE AT 150: A Photographic Celebration brings together diverse perspectives and photographic processes and features fine prints by 13 contemporary Yosemite photographers, including Alan Ross & John Sexton, Ansel Adams’ last two Photographic Assistants, and the photographers responsible for First Light: Five Photographers Explore Yosemite’s Wilderness. In addition, the gallery is displaying “Yosemite Falls by moonlight, Yosemite Valley (California, 1986),” a print by the late photographer Galen Rowell.
Mike Tollefson, president of Yosemite Conservancy, will be our special guest at the Opening Reception on May 10. Photographers Scot Miller and R.P. Washburne will also be in attendance.
This exhibition shows Yosemite in a scope and variety you will not find anywhere else! Come, and be inspired. Partial proceeds benefit Yosemite Conservancy.
We are grateful to our sponsors for helping to make this exhibition possible: The Shopoff Group, Competitive Cameras and The Park Cities News
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Yosemite: A Gathering of Spirit is a documentary film created by Ken Burns & Dayton Duncan in cooperation with Yosemite Conservancy to honor the signing of the landmark federal act that preserved Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias. We are excited to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Yosemite with this inspirational film and hope that Yosemite lovers far and wide will join us for this unique experience.
We will present two screenings a day at Sun to Moon Gallery Thursday/Friday/Saturday from May 15 – June 14.
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The Deficit Myth - by Stephanie Kelton
The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory -- the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades -- delivers a radically different, bold, new understanding for how to build a just and prosperous society.
Stephanie Kelton's brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory (MMT) dramatically changes our understanding of how we can best deal with crucial issues ranging from poverty and inequality to creating jobs, expanding health care coverage, climate change, and building resilient infrastructure. Any ambitious proposal, however, inevitably runs into the buzz saw of how to find the money to pay for it, rooted in myths about deficits that are hobbling us as a country.
Kelton busts through the myths that prevent us from taking action: that the federal government should budget like a household, that deficits will harm the next generation, crowd out private investment, and undermine long-term growth, and that entitlements are propelling us toward a grave fiscal crisis.
MMT, as Kelton shows, shifts the terrain from narrow budgetary questions to one of broader economic and social benefits. With its important new ways of understanding money, taxes, and the critical role of deficit spending, MMT redefines how to responsibly use our resources so that we can maximize our potential as a society. MMT gives us the power to imagine a new politics and a new economy and move from a narrative of scarcity to one of opportunity.
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Partnership Table Still Caters for the Boys
If the wheels of justice move slowly, it is a comparative Ferrari when it comes to the glacial pace of increasing female partner numbers, writes Shaaron Dalton
Despite law firms publicly committing to promoting greater numbers of female partners, the reality is that the make-up of law firm partnerships is still overwhelmingly male.
This year’s Australian Partnership Survey, conducted in conjunction with ECP Legal, has shown that just under 34 per cent of all new partners of surveyed firms in the first six months of 2017 were female. Such a number is a very little increase on January to June 2012 (30.5%), and is indeed a decrease (34.4%) on the first six months last year.
This realisation that not much is changing comes at a time when corporate and government clients locally and internationally have begun introducing diversity quotas for the procurement of legal services.
Law firms realise it makes business sense to be seen as gender diverse. Managing partners and CEO’s are signalling their commitment to promoting females through the ranks. Wayne Spanner of Norton Rose Fulbright is proud that his firm has achieved 27% female partnerships, up from 21.5% five years ago. He was also the first law firm CEO to become an ambassador for Workplace Gender Equality. Allens has signed the Diversity Charter of the Law Council of Australia, as has Colin Biggers & Paisley.
The slow rate of increasing female partner numbers is not due to a lack of female talent. Despite the average female partner headcount from this year’s Survey being 23.6%, it is a long way down on the 60% figure of females brought in at graduate level.
Despite a general lack of meaningful change, there were pockets of encouragement. Standout performers included boutique Banki Haddock Fiora (5-10 partners) and mid-tier firm TressCox Lawyers (25-30 partners) having over 40 per cent of female partners. Encouragingly, the remainder of the top 10 gender diverse firms with over 30% female partners includes a broad mix of internationals (Clifford Chance, Squire Patton Boggs and Seyfarth Shaw), large domestic firms (Gilbert + Tobin and Gadens) and mid-tiers (Hopgood Ganim, Maddocks and Gilchrist Connell).
The three largest firms surveyed (with over 150 partners) HWL Ebsworth, Clayton Utz and King & Wood Mallesons all showed an upward trend in proportion of female partnerships over the past 12 months.
However, when you look at equity partner numbers, the situation is even more dire. Only 18.3 % of equity partners from surveyed firms are women. The glass half-full perspective would argue that this is an increase from 12 months ago (17.8%). However, given the stated commitment and aspirational targets of law firm leaders to have much higher levels of female partners, such few female owners of law firms show that such policies are not being enacted in any meaningful way.
Counting the Cost
Although the question was not asked in the survey this year, men are not taking up opportunities to work flexibly or part-time in any numbers. The gender balance of part-timers in law firms overwhelmingly female, including at partner level.
From over 20 years interviewing senior women in the profession, I can attest that there are certainly some very talented women who suffer partnership track set-backs during their maternity and early child rearing years. Some of these extremely capable women leave private practice as a result. Worryingly, many I have met tell me they chose to step off partnership track at an early stage and either stay in a less demanding role in practice, or to leave private practice for the greater flexibility offered in-house. Often for women the choices they make is for a sustainable role in the workforce to accommodate family obligations.
Most capable senior women continue to bill successfully when they return from maternity leave, often coping with a similar workload on a nominally ‘shorter’ week. The additional demands of appearance time for non-billable work, global client obligations requiring round the clock availability and the added stressor of taking a large chunk of work home puts pressure on the professional and personal lives of many female lawyers.
Men have often confided similar concerns during interview, regretting failed marriages due work taking precedence or being concerned at feeling pressure to drop community, family or sporting commitments, or find themselves sidelined in a competitive environment.
Client concerns and the hip pocket nerve tend to be the catalyst for change in law firms. I expect the pressures of client demand for diversity will force a reworking of the partnership model to better accommodate competing requirements like family and community through part-time and flexible working practices.
Such a rethink can only benefit both male and female partners, and clients and the profession as a whole.
Shaaron Dalton is a partner with ECP Legal.
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Kevin Trudeau Banned from Infomercials–Again
Must pay $5 million for falsely advertising his weight loss “cure”
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A federal judge has banned Kevin Trudeau from infomercials in which he has an interest for three years and ordered him to pay more than $5 million in profits from his book, “The Weight Loss Cure ‘They’ Don’t Want You to Know About.”
The ruling confirms an earlier contempt finding against Trudeau — the second time he has been found in contempt of court in the past four years.
In August, Judge Robert W. Gettleman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois stood by his conclusion in 2007 that Trudeau “clearly, and no doubt intentionally,” violated a provision of a 2004 stipulated court order that prohibits Trudeau from misrepresenting the content of books in his infomercials.
The judge stated that “the Infomercial[s] falsely and intentionally led thousands (probably hundreds of thousands) of consumers to believe that the Weight Loss Book would describe an ‘easy,’ ‘simple’ protocol that, once ‘finished’ would allow the consumer to ‘eat anything’ he or she wants.”
Stating that Trudeau was “not a credible witness,” the judge noted several “undeniably false” statements in his infomercials, finding that, contrary to Trudeau’s claims:
• The diet protocol could not be done “easily” and “at home,” because the protocol described in Trudeau’s book requires colonics, which must be done at the office of a licensed practitioner, as well as injection of human growth hormone (HGH);
• Dieters could not “complete” or “finish” Trudeau’s four-phase program, because Trudeau’s book states that “Phase 4 is for the rest of your life”;
• Dieters could not eat “anything” they want, because Trudeau’s book prescribes that dieters following Phase 4 must eat “only 100% organic food,” and no “brand name” food, “fast food,” or “food served by regional or national chain restaurants”; and
• The diet protocol did not require “no exercise,” because Trudeau’s book states that three of the diet’s four phases, including Phase 4, require walking one hour outside every day.
Given Trudeau’s “history of deception and contemptuous violation of court orders” and his “willful efforts to deceive consumers” into believing that his weight-loss book contained material that it did not, the court confirmed its ruling that found Trudeau in contempt of the 2004 order.
The Federal Trade Commission filed its first lawsuit against Trudeau in 1998, charging him with making false and misleading claims in infomercials for products he claimed could cause significant weight loss and cure addictions to heroin, alcohol, and cigarettes, and enable users to achieve a photographic memory.
A stipulated court order resolving that case barred Trudeau from making false claims for products in the future, ordered him to pay $500,000 in consumer redress, and established a $500,000 performance bond to ensure compliance.
In 2003, the Commission charged Trudeau with violating the 1998 order by falsely claiming in infomercials that a product, Coral Calcium Supreme, could cure cancer. The court subsequently entered a preliminary injunction that ordered him not to make such claims.
When Trudeau continued to make cancer-cure claims about Coral Calcium, he was found in contempt of the injunction.
In 2004, Trudeau agreed to an order that resolved the Coral Calcium matter. The order directed him to pay $2 million in consumer redress and banned him from infomercials, except for infomercials for informational publications such as books, provided that he “must not misrepresent the content” of the books.
The most recent contempt action stems from Trudeau’s misrepresentations of the contents of his weight-loss book in infomercials. In November 2007, Judge Gettleman found Trudeau in contempt, stating that he had misled thousands of consumers with false claims that were “in flagrant violation” of the court’s order.
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Hai named in top 6 Asian footballers ready to play in Europe
Vietnamese midfielder Nguyen Quang Hai has been named one of six notable names of Asia that are good enough to play in Europe this summer.
Quang Hai named among Top 5 footballers taking part in AFC Cup 2019 qualifiers
Asian Cup: Midfielder Quang Hai voted as best player of Group Stage
Asian Cup 2019: Quang Hai among 10 best performers
According to the foxsportsasia.com website, Hai is the hottest property in Southeast Asian football at the moment.
He has enjoyed a sterling past 15 months starting last January when he helped Vietnam reach the final of the AFC U-23 Championship.
Vietnamese midfielder Nguyen Quang Hai.
Since then, he has been in inspirational form as the Golden Stars won the AFF Suzuki Cup, reached the quarter-finals of AFC Asian Cup 2019 and finished fourth at last year’s Asian Games.
Hai has already garnered interest from several clubs across Asia but V.League 1 defending champions Hanoi FC are said to be reluctant to cash in on his services yet, although that could just prove impossible if an offer from Europe comes through.
Besides Hai, the website called Takefusa Kubo, who has scored four goals in 12 starts in the J1 League so far this season, the Japanese Messi”.
Special mention was also give to Alireza Beiranvand of Iran; Chanathip Songkrasin of Thailand; Almoez Ali of Qatar; and Jo Hyeon-woo of the Republic of Korea.
Vietnam football team, coach appointed ambassadors for anti-plastic waste campaign
The Vietnamese national men’s football team and its coach will be ambassadors for a campaign to limit single-use plastic products.
10 football clubs ready to compete in Vietfootball Cup 2019
The Vietfootball Cup 2019 is scheduled to take place between June 9 and August 11 in Hanoi, with a total of 10 football clubs from across the country set to participate.
List of 23 Vietnamese footballers to take part in King’s Cup announced
Vietnam’s football head coach Park Hang-seo on May 27 announced the squad for the upcoming King’s Cup in Thailand.
Vietnam football team to wear athlete tracking monitor
The Vietnam Football Federation has decided to equip the national team to play in the King’s Cup next month with sensors for tracking.
National men’s football coach visits disadvantaged students in Phu Tho
Head coach of the national men’s football team Park Hang-seo met with more than 1,000 students in Viet Tri city of the northern province of Phu Tho on May 9.
Source: VNA
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The Division, part one.
My beta experience with The Division, Ubisoft's third person RPG/shooter hybrid, is not off to a great start, and I've still not actually played any of it. Building my own character is what I was most looking forward to when I started the game and seeing the tabs greyed out is equal parts puzzling, disappointing and distressing.
Eventually, unable to generate even a remote facsimile of myself, I settle on a randomised, vaguely Asian woman; I'd just kept requesting a new face until I found one who looks like she's been through some shit.
But I'm still not allowed into the ravaged ruins of The Division's New York - there's a multi-minute video tutorial to watch, narrated by an Australian who sounds unable to decide if he's excited or not. I get brief instructions on using cover, special skills and grenades, which will shortly be explained by in-game prompts anyway, but am left to figure out how to sprint, shoot and climb obstacles on my own.
A brief cutscene ends with my character deposited in a safe zone; my HUD lights up with vendor and mission board locations, which I ignore.
I accidentally stumble out into the deserted, allegedly mean streets and make for the nearest non-main quest, a firefight between several heavily-armed soldiers and a trio of under-equipped rioters.
I manage to turn the tide of the battle in the military's favour, by single-handedly killing all three assailants and their two backup shooters.
This is the first of several fairly satisfying combat encounters; I am routinely outnumbered, but my use of cover, special skills and grenades suggests I paid much closer attention to that tutorial video than my AI opponents. It feels much more like an RPG than its obvious main rival Destiny, with damage numbers springing from bullet impacts, but it lacks the punchy satisfaction of Bungie's headshots.
After circling the block twice searching for a door, I enter a building and am tasked, via radio transmission, with activating a number of scanners; the building is uninhabited and filled with lootable containers, so at first I don't even notice the countdown timer. I find and activate the final objective with minutes to spare. I go to the roof to transmit the scan results and kill five more men.
Eventually I find myself at the objective for the primary mission, a besieged museum. Once again the military is being overwhelmed by an opposing force with inferior numbers, inferior training and inferior weapons; once again the deciding factor in the brief battle's outcome is my lone agent.
It strikes me that my equipment and weapons, at this point, are mostly what I've scavenged from fallen enemies. My tactical approach, too, has more in common with the rioters, given that I actually kill the people who shoot at me.
How do the soldiers know I'm not a bad guy?
I go into the museum, another safe zone; my HUD lights up with vendor and mission board locations, which I ignore.
I log out.
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Cinetwin Shintenchi to close by year end
July 29, 2013 January 12, 2016 Paul Walsh 2125 Views 0 Comment
Despite valiant efforts on the part of the company Jyohakyu which is behind Salon Cinemas, Hacchoza and Cinetwin Hondori, their fourth independent cinema space located in a corner off Shintenchi “park” will close by the end of this year.
The company took it over from Takarazuka in 2004, but the building has housed a movie theater since the Shintenchi Gekijyo opened there way back in 1952. Although its focus on arty films mixed in with the odd blockbuster initially pulled in a decent audience – over 60,000 customers in 2007 – numbers started to drop precipitously and by 2010 annual audience numbers had halved.
The increase in the number of cinema complexes has had an effect, but it has been the move towards digital in the film industry in general that has hit Cinetwin Shintenchi hard. Without a digital projector, Cinetwin Shintenchi was unable to screen most new releases and relied more and more on showing older movies. Jyohakyu president, Junko Kuramoto, told Chugoku Shinbun that the company had considered making the close to ¥10 million investment needed to purchase a digital projector and the construction work its installation would require, but was unsure whether they would be able to make the money back. The main priority is to put all their effort to making their remaining theaters the best they can be and show the best films they can, she said.
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Monday Magick: Cake – Pentagram (Video)
June 27, 2016 August 7, 2016 El KeterEsoterica
Sorry to say it, but there will be no revelation of deep esoteric wisdom in this week’s entry in our Monday Magick series. The only thing this week’s feature, “Pentagram” from Cake’s 1994 debut album ‘Motorcade of Generosity’, has to offer is good old fashioned goofy fun! A throwback to[…]
Monday Magick: Spoon – The Beast and Dragon, Adored (Video)
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After a couple of off weeks I “had to find that feelin’ again” to get Monday Magick back on track this week. To that end, I went back to basics with some good old fashioned diabolical Rock & Roll in the form of “The Beast and the Dragon, Adored” from[…]
Monday Magick: Erykah Badu – Twinkle (Video)
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This week’s Monday Magick entry is one of my favorite songs from an artist I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with. The tune in question is the futuristic Funk jam “Twinkle” by Neo-Soul high-pristess Erykah Badu from her 2008 LP ‘New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War’. As[…]
Monday Magick: The Mighty Shadow – King From Hell (Video)
November 16, 2015 August 5, 2016 El KeterEsoterica
This week’s Monday Magick entry is a rare contribution from the West Indies, a location not necessarily known for embracing the supernatural in its popular music. The tune in question is an energetic 1975 side with the incendiary title “King From Hell” which comes courtesy of Trinidadian calypsonian The Mighty[…]
Monday Magick: St. John Green – Devil and the Sea (Video)
July 20, 2015 August 3, 2016 El KeterEsoterica
This week’s Monday Magick entry is what some might call a “hidden jem” or “dusty classic” from one of the great “lost albums” of the Psychadelic era. “Devil and the Sea” is probably one the least wigged-out tracks from the decidedly occult-tinged self-titled 1968 debut from freaked out Los Angeles[…]
Monday Magick: Peter Brown – Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me (Video)
June 8, 2015 August 3, 2016 El KeterEsoterica
Monday Magick goes back to the vinyl archives this week to unearth a rare jam that mixes The Devil with funky Disco music. It’s a lengthy dancefloor stomper from Chicago-bred percussionist, singer, and producer Peter Brown’s 1977 TK Records debut ‘A Fantasy Love Affair’ titled “Do You Wanna Get Funky[…]
Monday Magick: Black Widow – In Ancient Days (Video)
March 16, 2015 July 31, 2016 El KeterEsoterica
This week’s Monday Magick entry, “In Ancient Days” by Black Widow, was inspired by a brief mention of the band alongside occult-rockers Coven in Peter Bebergal’s new book on popular music and the esoteric ‘Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll’. The tune comes from the[…]
Monday Magick: C.J. & Co. – Devil’s Gun (Video)
January 5, 2015 July 30, 2016 El KeterEsoterica
After an extended hiatus for the holidays Monday Magick is back with our first ever entry from the Disco era, C.J. & Co.’s certified Club Classic, “Devil’s Gun”. While not explicitly occult in content, any Soul, Funk, R&B, or Disco song that name-checks The Fallen One is certainly a rarity.[…]
Monday Magick: Big L – Devil’s Son (Video)
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It doesn’t really get more blatantly occult than this week’s Monday Magick entry, “Devil’s Son”, courtesy of Harlem native and Diggin’ In The Crates crew ambassador Lamont “Big L” Coleman. The tune was originally intended to be featured on the emcee’s 1995 debut ‘Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous’ and[…]
Monday Magick: Katy Perry – Dark Horse feat. Juicy J (Video)
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Our Labor Day candidate for Monday Magick, “Dark Horse” by Katy Perry featuring former Three 6 Mafia frontman Juicy J, is probably a surprise to some. But I totally meant to share this video when it debuted several month ago. After all, there’s a whole YouTube cottage industry of conspiracy[…]
Here Comes the Devil Red Band Trailer (Video)
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This looks goddamn incredible! Director Adrian Garcia Bogliano’s ’70s-style, Satanic, psycho-sexual, blood-and-fuck-flick ‘Here Comes the Devil’ hits theatres and VOD on December 13th. Whatever you do, do NOT watch this trailer any where NEAR work. ‘Here Comes the Devil’ @ MAGNET Releasing
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Bnet Fixes Afoot
This morning there will be some interruptions in File Sharing and stat services as we add capacity to our Bnet and File Sharing servers.
Today (10/15/2007) we're adding capacity to the database so it can keep up with the massive load of weekend games. The server will have to be rebooted during this time, which will disable both file sharing and viewing of stats on the website.
Sharing "should" only be down for about 10 minutes, and stats may see subsequent intermittent issues, which we will endeavor to keep to a minimum.
Halo 3 10/15/2007 8:56 AM PDT permalink
Bungie Weekly Update: 10/12/07
A few tidbits regarding famous Ballers and armor permutations as we head into the weekend.
Bungie Weekly Update 10/12/2007 4:24 PM PDT
Humpday Challenge: Vs. HBO
The kindly folks at Halo.bungie.org bring fierce justice to Bungie and by fierce justice we mean they had host advantage.
Halo 3 10/11/2007 5:36 PM PDT
Halolcats
Halolcats is one of those cat-meme sites, only this time, all the "catptions" are about Halo and related themes. We realize this site is a little olde, but decided to see if we could crush their bandwidth by sending you to LOL, or HaLOL as the kids say over there.
Oh and one of the Halolcats is by a Bungie employee and is a photo of his actual cat. See if you can find it. Click HERE.
Community 10/11/2007 3:22 PM PDT permalink
Bungie Studios Podcast: Yes, We're Here
Bungie's Executive Producer and taskmaster-ing expert Jonty Barnes is in the warm seat this week.
OMG My Stats are Borked!
Some folks have been experience statistical weirdness over the last few days, that weirdness is being rectified right now, but more weirdness is arising!
Over the past few days, some players (including myself) have noticed that their stats from games of Halo 3 have not been uploading to Bungie.net. The issue involved corrupted data that, in the simplest of terms, wasn't connecting players to their game data. The data still existed, the games just had to be relinked to the profiles.
Because of the way our database works, the most recently uploaded games affect the Player Bar at the top of your page. So, while the reprocessing is underway (it should conclude in the next 24-36 hours), things like your Rank and EXP may appear differently than they appear in game, specifically, they may appear how they were on say, last Friday. The good news is that the in-game display is correct and will be reflected on the website either after you play another game and it uploads, or one all of the processing is complete and you play another game -- that's because of the "most recently updated game history" bit I was talking about above.
So if your displayed rank, EXP or anything weird is showing up on your stats page, we're aware of it and it's the result of maintenance we are doing to keep everything current. Don't freak out, top men are on it.
Halo 3 10/10/2007 11:24 AM PDT permalink
Halo 3: Matchmaking Playlist Update 1
Ch-ch-ch changes come to Halo 3's Matchmaking system.
Halo 3 10/9/2007 11:07 AM PDT
Bungie Announces Independence: Press Release
Sketch writes:
Bungie is pleased to announce its new status as an independent developer with a continuing and mutually prosperous publishing relationship with Microsoft Game Studios.
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Bungie Studios Becomes Privately Held Independent Company
Bungie and Microsoft forge new long-term relationship.
KIRKLAND, Wash. — Oct. 5, 2007 — Bungie and Microsoft Corp. today announced a plan for Bungie Studios, the developers of Microsoft’s “Halo” franchise, to become a privately held independent company, Bungie, LLC, in which Microsoft will hold a minority equity interest. As part of this transaction, Bungie and Microsoft have forged a deep and long-term development and publishing relationship focused on the continued success of the “Halo” franchise. It is also the intent of both parties to expand their partnership to include new IP created and owned by Bungie.
Bungie’s critically acclaimed Xbox 360® exclusive “Halo 3” achieved $300 million in global sales in its first week. Released on Tuesday, Sept. 25, “Halo 3” is the fastest-selling video game ever and already one of the most successful entertainment properties in history.
“This exciting evolution of our relationship with Microsoft will enable us to expand both creatively and organizationally in our mission to create world-class games,” said Harold Ryan, studio head for Bungie. “We will continue to develop with our primary focus on Microsoft’s platforms; we greatly value our mutually prosperous relationship with our publisher, Microsoft Game Studios, and we look forward to continuing that affiliation through ‘Halo’ and beyond.”
“Working with Microsoft was great for us, it allowed us to grow as a team and make the ambitious, blockbuster games we all wanted to work on. And they will continue to be a great partner. But Bungie is like a shark. We have to keep moving to survive. We have to continually test ourselves, or we might as well be dolphins. Or manatees,” said Jason Jones, Bungie founder and partner.
Bungie’s management retained the services of Don Leeds, senior managing director of B-Hive Global, LLC, to spearhead the structuring of the deal and negotiate on their behalf. Bungie will remain in Kirkland, Washington, and is always looking to hire excellent talent.
About Bungie
Bungie was founded in 1991 with two goals: to develop games that combine brilliant technology, beautiful art, intelligent stories and deep gameplay, and to sell enough of those games to achieve its real goal of total world domination. Over the past 10 years it has produced games such as the “Marathon” trilogy and the first two “Myth” games, hailed as classics by critics and gamers around the world. Bungie’s “Halo” franchise is an international award-winning action title that has grown into a global entertainment phenomenon, selling more than 18 million units worldwide, logging billions of hours of multiplayer action on Xbox LIVE®, and spawning action figures, books, graphic novels, soundtracks, apparel and more. The critically acclaimed “Halo 3”, released on Tuesday, Sept. 25th 2007, is the fastest-selling video game ever, achieving $300 million in global sales its first week, making it one of the most successful entertainment properties in history. More information on Bungie can be found at http://www.bungie.net.
For more information, business only:
Bungie Global Media: Brian Jarrard, (425) 739-4900 ext.1, media@bungie.com
Bungie European Media: Cathy Campos, Panache PR, / ccampos@bungie.com
Bungie Online: www.bungie.net
B-Hive Global: Don Leeds, donleeds@optonline.net, www.b-hiveglobal.com
Inside Bungie 10/5/2007 8:22 AM PDT permalink
10/05/07 Bungie Weekly What's Update!
Get the popcorn out. Biggest News Ever. In the return of the Weekly What's Update.
Inside Bungie, Community, Halo 3 10/5/2007 8:03 AM PDT
Humpday Challenge: Halo 3 Debut
Click the left stick. And up, and down and up, and down. It's the Humpday Challenge.
Halo 3 10/4/2007 6:09 PM PDT
A/V Calibration Filter: Now Available
The Blue Filter, a non-essential tool you can use to finely tune your television is now available at the Bungie Store.
The Blue Filter, used in tandem with the A/V Calibration tool that comes in the Legendary and Limited Editons of Halo 3, is now available at the Bungie Store. The Blue Filter comes free with any order from the Bungie Store, make sure you add it to your cart though, because this item only has use for folks with the Legendary or Limited Editions of the game, due to its working partnership with the A/V Calibration tool
For a guide on how to use the Blue Filter once you receive it, click here.
Halo 3 10/4/2007 10:49 AM PDT permalink
THE DON WAN writes:
Last year in October, the Cavegirls hosted an online Halo 2 tournament to raise money for the fight against breast cancer. Since the tournament was a huge success last year, we've decided to hold another tournament in Halo 3! Please join us!
The Cavegirls present: Fight Like a Girl 2
Halo 3 tournament for the fight against breast cancer
When: October 20th, 2007
Where: On XboxLive
Entry Fee: $10 (If you are playing in both 2v2 and FFA, you need to pay the entry fee for each tournament)
Who can sign up? Anyone
Time: 11 AM Pacific
12 PM Mountain
1 PM Central
2 PM Eastern
How this tournament came about:
I was working at Safeway when I was inspired to put together a Halo tournament to help raise money for the fight against breast cancer. They actually wanted me to bake cookies on my day off. I decided to raise money my own way, so I asked my lovely Cavegirls if they were willing to help out. The tournament was a huge success. We raised $777 in three weeks, and the money helped fund a mobile mammogram station in Seattle, WA.
Please sign up here.
*This tournament is supported by LoadingReality
Get the Most Out of Skulls
Ske7ch wrote up how-to score in Halo 3, now we've got a brief guide on what Skulls to use during Campaign.
The Halo 3 Ultra Q&A
On Friday, we'll answer all your Halo 3-related questions. Make with the asking.
Halo 3 10/3/2007 8:58 AM PDT
We're playing you guys online as you read this. But we do address a couple of items.
(Re-)introducing the Gallery Forum
The Gallery Forum is back! Weekly caption contents with our development outtakes.
Welcome back to the Gallery forum - I hear that we have plenty of good outtake screenshots from the Halo 3 development process, so we'll try and keep this going about once a week.To refresh your memory, we'll post a funny picture from our pre-release builds or other internal source (please don't submit pictures to us for posting) and you write back with funny captions. The best one gets promoted to the Winners' Circle thread. Judging usually will run for a week or so.
Here's a direct link to this week's thread. You can also find the forum by navigating to Community - Other Forums - The Gallery Forum
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=13256180
Community, Forums, Halo 3 9/28/2007 2:49 PM PDT permalink
Halo 3 Launch Week FAQ : Updated 10/1
Now that Halo 3 is released, many of you have questions. Fortunately we have answers. UPDATED 10/1/07.
In the weeks and days ahead, we'll do our best to monitor pressing issues and questions from our community and keep you informed and up to date with the latest developments.
To kick things off, we've got a quick list of the most common questions we're seeing right now. We'll continue to update this post as new questions arise and new information becomes available. You can also use the forum thread attached to this story to post questions of your own for us to add to future updates.
Halo 3 Launch FAQ
UPDATED 10/1/07
Q: I am hearing soft or muted weapon sounds from my Dolby 5.1 surround system and no weapon sounds from the center channel.
A: Because the center channel is a mono speaker and is less flexible than front L and R speakers – our sound mix uses it primarily for dialog. Weapon sounds do not come from the center channel, but rather in full stereo from the front L and R speakers in a 5.1 setup. However, they should not sound muffled. If they do, then check your individual speaker settings and make sure that you are not using any “DSP” settings, such as “Cinema, Concert Hall,” and so on, on your receiver or processor. These custom settings can sometimes have a detrimental effect on audio balance. Look for the default mode – typically “Dolby Digital 5.1” and note that there is no DTS mix for our game audio. Your own weapons should, if your setup is correctly adjusted, be among the most clear and dynamic sounds in the game, in Campaign and multiplayer.
Q: I am encountering issues while playing Halo 3 where the game is apparently failing to read the disc properly. What should I do?
A: We are aware of reports that some people have received a "Disc Unreadable" error or similar issue while trying to play Halo 3. Bungie is working with the Xbox team to investigate the potential causes of this issue. Please visit the Microsoft Support Site and follow the listed instructions to see if this resolves the error message. For additional information or customer support, please call 1-800-4MY-XBOX.
Q: Why am I getting put into so many games of Shotty Snipers in the Team Slayer Playlist? (insert any other playlist related question)
A: We agree that Shotty Snipers is showing up a bit too much in Team Slayer and this is first on our list for our next immediate update to matchmaking. We will continue monitoring the playlist data as well as your feedback to establish priorities for future updates. You can share your thoughts in the Bungie.net forums. Also, by vetoing games/maps you don't like, you are giving us real world data to help us out.
Q: How do I customize my multiplayer apperance or adjust my controller settings?
A: If you press start to bring up the menu, you can press RIGHT with the stick to access the SECOND page of options. It is here that you can edit your armor, colors, etc...
Q: I started playing the campaign at my house but when I took my HDD/MU to my friend’s house and put it on his Xbox 360, it won’t let me resume my campaign. What’s up?
A: This is a known issue that our team is investigating. Currently, you are unable to transfer campaign progress to another Xbox 360 console whether you use a memory unit or take your hard drive. You can load up any mission or insertion point you’ve previously completed but you won’t be able to “resume” from your last saved spot.
Q: How do I purchase Bungie PRO?
A: Bungie PRO subscriptions are available now and can be purchased within the game by visiting your File Share.
Q: Help my screenshots/stats/progress is not uploading to Bungie.net!
A: As the number of people online continues to grow, it’s anticipated that there will be a delay for both screenshots and stat uploads to appear on Bungie.net. This is normal and expected. It’s important to note that your game history and screenshots and file share items are being saved, they are just caught up in a backlog of files on their way to the interwebs.
Also please note that screenshots will not appear in your Bungie.net gallery until you have put at least one item in your file share. Once you do that and the relationship is established, you’re good to go!
Q: What do I do if my Halo 3 game disc is scratched?
A: If you received a scratched or damaged Halo 3 game disc or “Essentials” Disc, you can get a free replacement by visiting Xbox.com and completing a few easy steps. Visit Xbox.com for more info. :
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/systemuse/xbox360/gameplay/discreplacement-program.htm
Q: I keep getting more than 10 headshots during missions in the Campaign, I'm seeing how many headshot medals I get on Bungie.net, but I'm still not unlocking the Headshot Honcho Achievement.
A: In order to unlock this achievement they need to be headshots with the sniper rifle.
Q: I pick up a Skull and I don't get an Achievement, wtf Bungie, fix yo' game?
A: Not all of the Skulls in the game award you Achievements, only the 9 scoring skulls.
Q: How do I unlock armor!
A: This is a mystery that our community will need to solve on their own. We may provide more details later, but it’s far too soon to spoil that right now.
Q: Where is X skull?
A: See above.
Q: Why can’t I put anything in my File Share?
A: This is most likely due to the privacy settings on your Xbox 360. From the Xbox, select “Edit User Profile”, then “Privacy Settings” and then for “Member Content” select “Everyone.”
Q: Matchmaking is slow and/or not working for me. What gives?
A: Yesterday there were some intermittent issues affecting Xbox LIVE but those were quickly resolved. Things should be operating normally now. If you are experiencing long waits, be sure to check your NAT settings as this can hinder your ability to find a good match. (www.bungie.net/router)
Pro Tip : When you are in the matchmaking lobby, hit the X button to bring up “Matchmaking Options.” From here, you can decide which matching criteria is most important – quickest, good connection or language preferences.
Q: Why didn’t I get my achievement after completing a mission?
A: First off, you can’t earn any mission completion achievements if you play on Easy. Secondly, don’t quit the game until you see the Achievement indicator appear on screen.
Q: How do I change my Bungie.net account name?
A: Sorry, you can’t.
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Halo 3 How-to: Campaign Scoring 101
Master the art of campaign scoring and achieve massive points with this handy guide. Warning : Potential Spoilers Inside.
Halo 3 9/25/2007 11:00 AM PDT
Watch Bungie count down to launch
Tune in tonight to a live videocast from the multiplayer lab at Bungie's private launch party.
In between trips to local retailers to hang out with fans in line, we're having a quiet (?) little private party. Want to join us in spirit? While we can't admit drop-ins at our office, we do have a live video feed streaming from the multiplayer lab where Bungie staff, family, and a few friends will be playing Halo 3 all night long.
We've also invited the Bungie crew to stop by and greet you via the camera, so there's no telling what you'll come across tonight.
WARNING! This is a Mature-rated game, and the language you hear from our enthusiastic colleagues will likely match that rating.
http://next.video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=4117007f-0e4f-4883-8815-41df001e3a2d
Thanks to our friends at MSN Video for relaying the video feed for us!
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Halo 3 How-to: Audio/Video Guide
Bungie's guide, tips and tricks for setting up your set-up.
Halo 3 How-to: Bungie Pro
Bungie Pro, our totally optional, expanded File Share is discussed (again) inside.
Halo 3 How-to: Networking in Halo 3
A simple set-up guide to getting your Network ready for Halo 3.
Bungie Launch Teams Deployed!
Our Bungie strike teams have been deployed around the globe to support the launch of Halo 3. Stop by and say hello if you're in the area!
Our elite team of promoters and underground army recruiters has been mobilized and sent to the far reaches of the Earth to help kick off the release of Halo 3. There are literally thousands of midnight madness events happening all over North America today with even more happening in Europe tomorrow. We don't have the manpower to do them all but we have sent a few teams out into the wild to represent the Studio for this momentous occasion.
Lukems already mentioned our presence at the Best Buy on 5th Ave. in New York City. Our very own Frankie will be there through midnight mingling with fans, kissing babies and maybe even giving away a few prizes. One of Bungie's art directors, Aaron LeMay and our studio manager, Harold Ryan, are also in attendance. St
The marquee launch event for the Seattle area will be happening at Best Buy in Bellevue. There will be ongoing shenanigans there all evening through midnight. The store is located at 457 120th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA. Around 11pm, we'll literally have bus loads of Bungie team members showing up at Best Buy to meet fans and give out some free gifts. We're also sending a bus load of peeps to the EB Games located at Redmond Town Center in Redmond, WA. The festivities should be underway shortly after 11pm tonight though I'll personally be at Best Buy much earlier in the evening.
The hoopla in LA will all be going down at the Gamestop located at Universal City Walk. (1000 Universal Studios Blvd., Universal City, CA, 91608). Bungie head of production, Jonty Barnes, will be there along with producer Allen Murray and environment artist Vic DeLeon. They too will be busy hanging out with fans, playing the game and throwing out some free swag.
The sunshine state launch bonanza is happening at Circuit City in Miami. (Circuit City, 8575 Northwest 13th Terrace, Miami, FL). Bungie FX artist Steve Scott will be there along with development engineer Luis Villegas.
We also have a few people out in Europe helping to finish the fight for the game's launch on 9/26.
Joseph Tung and Lee Wilson will be in London to kick things off. Francois Boucher-Genesse will be representin' in Paris and Jaime Griesemer is holding down the fort in Amsterdam.
It's hard to believe we are mere hours away from unleashing Halo 3 upon the world - thanks for all of your ongoing support and we hope to see many of you tonight and tomorrow at these launch events!
Community, Halo 3 9/24/2007 9:54 AM PDT permalink
Bungie in NYC for Launch Event Extravaganza
Members from the Bungie team have been dispatched to New York City for a massive launch event, check out the details within.
Tomorrow, Sept. 24th, beginning at 9 a.m. at the Best Buy in lovely New York City (the Best Buy at 44th and 5th), Bungie, Microsoft and tons dudes will be on hand until midnight, playing Halo 3 with the fans, goofing around, doling out tons of prizes, holding competitions and generally spreading the seeds of Infinite Win throughout the core of the Big Apple.
If that giant run-on sentence was too much to comprehend, here's the short and sweet:
When: 9 a.m. until Midnight, September 24th 2007
Where: Best Buy, New York City, 44th and 5th
Why: Halo 3's Launch Extravaganza, and who doesn't like prizes, treats and shenanigans?
Halo 3 How-to: Matchmaking Playlists
What are the Day 1 Matchmaking Hoppers? Never played Halo and want to know what Matchmaking is? Get introduced here.
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You are here: Home / News / FTC Files Amicus Brief on Antitrust Implications of Minor Pharmaceutical Changes
FTC Files Amicus Brief on Antitrust Implications of Minor Pharmaceutical Changes
November 29, 2012 by Sheila Lynch-Afryl
The FTC submitted an amicus curiae brief asserting that minor, nontherapeutic changes to a pharmaceutical, known as “product hopping” or “product switching,” can be the basis of an antitrust lawsuit. The brief, filed before the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in the case Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Warner Chilcott Public Limited Company, opposes Warner Chilcott’s motion to dismiss the complaint, which alleges a violation of section 2 of the Sherman Act.
Plaintiffs’ Claims
The plaintiffs alleged that Warner Chilcott introduced three successive brand reformulations of the antibacterial drug Doryx that offered little or no apparent medical benefit to consumers and that each reformulation was designed to impede meaningful generic competition and preserve Warner Chilcott’s monopoly profits. The plaintiffs alleged that Warner Chilcott violated section 2 of the Sherman Act by suppressing competition from lower-priced versions of the drug. Warner Chilcott filed a motion to dismiss arguing that product changes or redesigns can never constitute exclusionary conduct.
Product Hopping
In its brief, the FTC explained that bioequivalent generic drugs typically capture over 80 percent of a brand drug’s sales within six months of its market entry. The threat posed to existing brand drugs can incentivize the company facing a dramatic loss of sales to engage in a strategy known as “product switching” or “product hopping”: the brand company makes a minor nontherapeutic change to the brand product and before generic entry, it removes the original product from the marketplace, either directly or indirectly by, for example, recalling the original product or raising its price. This can cause patients and doctors to abandon the original product, and the brand manufacturer can convert existing market demand from the original product to the reformulated product. When the original product is less available or more expensive, doctors will stop writing prescriptions for it, and because a prescription must contain the same dosage and form as the generic for a pharmacist to substitute it, substitution at the pharmacy counter has been eliminated.
Antitrust Implications
The FTC argued that such product changes can violate antitrust laws. Further, the potential for anticompetitive product redesign is particularly acute in the pharmaceutical industry, where the success of a product-switching scheme does not depend on whether consumers prefer the reformulated product or whether it provides any medical benefit. The FTC argued that the plaintiffs stated a plausible antitrust claim and urged the court to deny Warner Chilcott’s motion to dismiss.
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Loss of Smell May Signal Milder Case of COVID-19: Study
WEDNESDAY, April 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Loss of smell is more likely to occur in patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 than in those with more severe illness, a new study finds.
This information could give health care providers an early indication of which patients may require hospitalization, according to the University of California, San Diego Health researchers.
"One of the immediate challenges for health care providers is to determine how to best treat persons infected by the novel coronavirus," said study first author Dr. Carol Yan, a rhinologist and head and neck surgeon.
"If they display no or mild symptoms, can they return home to self-quarantine or will they likely require hospitalization? These are crucial questions for hospitals trying to efficiently and effectively allocate finite medical resources," she said in a university news release.
In previous research, Yan and her colleagues found that loss of smell is a common early symptom, following fever and fatigue.
The new study included 169 patients who tested positive for COVID-19 at UC San Diego Health. Data on taste and smell were obtained for 128 of the patients, 26 of whom were hospitalized.
Hospitalized patients were much less likely to experience loss of smell (anosmia) than those who weren't hospitalized, about 27% vs. 67%, and similar rates were seen for loss of taste.
"Patients who reported loss of smell were 10 times less likely to be admitted for COVID-19 compared to those without loss of smell," said study senior author Dr. Adam DeConde, a rhinologist and head and neck surgeon.
"Moreover, anosmia was not associated with any other measures typically related to the decision to admit, suggesting that it's truly an independent factor and may serve as a marker for milder manifestations of COVID-19," DeConde said in the release.
The study was published online April 24 in the journal International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology.
"What's notable in the new findings is that it appears that loss of smell may be a predictor that a SARS-CoV-2 infection will not be as severe, and less likely to require hospitalization. If an infected person loses that sense, it seems more likely they will experience milder symptoms, barring other underlying risk factors," Yan said.
The findings suggest that if the coronavirus first concentrates in the nose and upper airway, the immune system has an opportunity to attack the virus there and prevent more serious illness that affects other areas of the body, according to the researchers.
They said loss of smell might be an indication of a strong immune response against the coronavirus.
"This is a hypothesis, but it's also similar to the concept underlying live vaccinations," DeConde said. "At low dosage and at a distant site of inoculation, the host can generate an immune response without severe infection."
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more on COVID-19.
SOURCE: University of California, San Diego Health, news release, April 27, 2020
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William Emmett HOXSEY[1]
Name William Emmett HOXSEY [2, 3, 4]
Born 23 Nov 1865 Madison, Madison, Illinois, United States [2, 3, 4]
Residence 1870 Township 6 Range 6, Madison, Illinois, United States [3]
Residence 1885 Spokane, Washington [4]
Residence 1900 Spangle, Spokane, Washington [2]
Died 10 Mar 1930 Spangle, Spokane, Washington, United States
Person ID P2022 Hoxsie
Father John Franklin HOXSEY, b. 7 Jul 1832, Madison, Madison, Illinois, United States, , d. 7 Aug 1904, Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States (Age 72 years)
Mother Elizabeth SPANGLE, b. 14 Jan 1833, Tippicanoe, Indiana, United States, , d. 10 Jan 1913, Spangle, Spokane, Washington, United States (Age 79 years)
Married 30 Mar 1850 Madison, Madison, Illinois, United States [5, 6]
Family 1 Adella CLARK, b. Oct 1874, California, United States , d. 2 Sep 1915, Washington, United States (Age ~ 40 years)
Married 1894 [2]
+ 1. Stacey Alva HOXSEY, b. 28 Apr 1897, Spangle, Spokane, Washington, United States , d. 29 May 1965, Los Angles, California, United States (Age 68 years) [natural]
Family 2 Frances M ROBERTSON, b. 3 Oct 1879, Sidney, Champaign, Illinois, United States , d. 12 Jul 1918, Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States (Age 38 years)
Married 17 Jul 1917 Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States
William Emmett Hoxsey
Marriage Certifcate
William Emmet Hoxsey
[S-2044729020] Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Trees.
[S-2044487593] 1900 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 18), Year: 1900; Census Place: Spangle, Spokane, Washington; Roll: T623_1751; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 58.
Birth date: Nov 1865 Birth place: Illinois Marriage date: 1894 Marriage place: Residence date: 1900 Residence place: Spangle, Spokane, Washington
[S-2044728670] 1870 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Record), Year: 1870; Census Place: Township 6 Range 6, Madison, Illinois; Roll: M593_; Page: ; Image: .
Birth date: abt 1866 Birth place: Illinois Residence date: 1870 Residence place: Township 6 Range 6, Madison, Illinois, United States
[S-2048869514] Washington State and Territorial Censuses, 1857-1892, Ancestry.com, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - Washington. Washington Territorial Census Rolls, 1857-1892. Olympia, Washington: Washington State Archives. M1, 20 rolls.Original data: Washington. Washington Territoria).
Birth date: abt 1866 Birth place: Illinois Residence date: 1885 Residence place: Spokane, Washington
[S-2049643793] Illinois Marriages, 1790-1860, Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - With some noted exceptions all marriage records in this collection can be found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, or available through Family Histor).
Marriage date: 23 Mar 1850 Marriage place: Madison, Illinois
Birth date: Jul 1832 Birth place: Illinois Marriage date: 1850 Marriage place: Residence date: 1900 Residence place: Spangle, Spokane, Washington
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Quick Hit: Violetera
Published July 31, 2020 by Stephen Carradini
Violetera‘s A Landmark, Not a Beacon is high quality post-rock. The trio takes a tightly defined palette and works it to its maximum results: drums, electric guitar, and distorted bass guitar. They rip through gnarly, nearly post-metal tracks (“Callisto”) followed up with ambient, earthy interludes (“Not Nothing”); they deliver elegant moments of beauty (“Opaque”); they get mysterious (“Exchange Value”); they do the quiet-loud-quiet thing (“15”) or not (the quiet-quiet-quiet of “Vestiges”). They even have a track that’s kind of a dance-rock track (“Statistician”) before dropping down to a twee glockenspiel line.
If you like twinkly lead lines, there’s plenty to go around. If you’re into atmosphere, this whole album is one long atmosphere. If you’re into muscly, acrobatic work, they do that too. Basically everything you could want in a post-rock record is here to some degree. That level of diversity keeps the record strong, as they don’t overdose on any particular part of the post-rock palette. If you’re into guitar-based post-rock, you’ve got to listen to A Landmark, Not a Beacon.
Quick Hit: New Dog
I spent a lot of time rapturing about Gabriel Birnbaum’s Nightwater for its slice-of-life ambient/indie efforts. New Dog‘s The Last Birds to Sing is in that vein as well, as each of these twelve pieces (named “I” though “XII”) are little moods that hover around two minutes long. (The closer is 3:34; the rest are 2:38 or less, with “I” being just 80 seconds long.) These pieces float along in a more melancholy vein than Birnbaum’s work, reliant on pedal steel, keys, and synth textures. I don’t usually quote the liner notes at length, but they’re so descriptive that I feel I should: “Twelve short, sparse vignettes, each — except the closer — composed of two alternating chords, followed by two more. The former represent morning, the latter evening. Some days are light, some dark.”
Of these, the pensive “IV” and “VI” stand out. “IV” includes the found sounds of footsteps, giving the piece an organic, woodsy feel. The warm textures and cascading pedal steel add to the organic vibe, although there’s a hint of darkness around the edges of the tune as well. “VI” opens with the sound of rain and expounds on that sonic idea of the rainy day excellently. Bass guitar makes an appearance in this one, giving heft to the tune that distinguishes it from the others while remaining delicate overall. The sonic palette that New Dog uses here is more constrained than Birnbaum’s; the pieces largely live in the same sonic world, as opposed to giving multiple lenses. This makes the album a consistent listen overall, but it may be a bit more gloomy than some are looking for. By the time the very sad “IX” comes around, it’s a relief to get the relatively cheery “X,” but it’s still a quiet, contemplative, dusky affair that fits the record. For those interested in subtle, affecting, melancholy music, The Last Birds to Sing is a good place to go.
Escaper goes into orbit with glee
While Muse’s last record was basically an unapologetic EDM record, the ur-text for Muse (the one I mean when I say “it sounds like Muse”) is 2009’s The Resistance: a record so audacious that it includes a three-part symphonic suite, a tune called “United States of Eurasia (+Collateral Damage)”, and the absolutely unhinged bombast of the title track. I applaud such self-aware attempts at transcending the pop straight jacket, even if they escaped so effectively that they pretty much left earth and went into orbit. Escaper carries that mantle from Muse. Apotheosis is similarly an ambitious record that throws genres in a rocket and sends them to space. There’s no point classifying Escaper as anything but a band: rock, jazz, funk, space-rock, ambient, dance-rock, jam-band, and more are all part of this collection. And, unlike (uh) some Muse records, the work is all distilled into a singular vision and served as a consistent offering.
Six-minute opener “Vista” is the perfect example of their work: ambient waves of reverbed clean guitar notes cascade into rhodes keys and a massively funky bassline. The percussion starts as a four-on-the-floor bass kick before introducing a high hat pattern with interspersed snare (dance-rock!). Hand percussion also appears (jam band!). The guitars come back in, making this some of the most elegant, chill dance-rock you could imagine. They’ve just made it to 2:30 in the 6:22 runtime. There may be only six songs here, but there are ideas for days. Follow-on “Open Sky” filters all of that into a spacey, Steve Miller Band-esque vibe and turns out … a pop song? A damn fine pop song, thank you very much. The chorus is catchy and fun without compromising their chill-space-jazz-funk thing. “Superhead” goes full jazz, letting the bassist pop off excellently while the rest of the outfit contributes supporting efforts. Also big-band horns and heavy distorted guitars appear, why not, they hadn’t covered all the genres ever yet.
“Apotheosis” is Escaper at is absolutely most Muse-ian, layering the romantic/classical keys performance with big rock guitars, chanted vocals, and jazzy breakdowns. Matthew Bellamy would probably be jealous of the glorious racket that occurs about 5 minutes in to this one. “Res Magna” returns to space-jazz-dance-funk with some tightly coiled percussive energy; this one is for the jam fans (7:21! Hopefully longer when performed live!). “No Strings” closes out the collection with a straight-up funk blast (well, as straight-up a blast as a space-jazz-dance-funk outfit can create), complete with iconic vocal patterning / delivery. It doesn’t quite reach the heights of the rest of the record, but those are very high bars. It is no discredit to the record, but I’ll take “Open Sky” and “Superhead” first. If you’re into bass (so much bass, so much excellent bass), chill-space-jazz-dance-funk, or Muse, you’ll love this record.
Quick Hit: Khruangbin
Khruangbin‘s Mordechai is an even-more distilled version of their vision for maximally-chilled funk / dub. Where 2018’s Con Todo El Mundo could have quite a lot of pep in its step, 2019’s Hasta El Cielo (Con Todo El Mundo in Dub) was a truly laidback concept that sent bass to the front and the guitars way to the back. Mordechai takes that latter approach for the majority of the trio’s effort here: opener “First Class” features reverb-heavy, lightly jazzy guitar; simple percussion; prominent bass walks; and distant, laconic vocals. Follow-on “Time (You and I)” picks up the pace by bringing the lead vocals back into lead status and focusing in on a more traditionally pop structure. It’s still almost six minutes long, so it’s not exactly compressed, but it’s more recognizably pop.
These two tracks next to each other frame the approach of Mordechai: dub tracks laidback to the point of deconstruction (“One to Remember,” “Father Bird, Mother Bird”) and focused pop structures with melodic lead vocals (the excellent genre-mashing single “Pelota,” the beautiful almost-disco of “So We Won’t Forget”). I’ve been leaning heavily toward instrumental work these past few years, but I have to say that I found myself gravitating toward the more focused pop structures. Still, this is the sort of record that you can put on during a lazy day and have it reflect the room perfectly. It can also help you get chill if you aren’t chill. And even the chillest Khruangbin is better than no Khruangbin.
Ezra Feinberg creates a major achievement
Ezra Feinberg‘s Recumbent Speech is a brilliant instrumental record that charts its own course. The mostly-peaceful songs dance around the edges of folk, ambient, deep listening, new age, neo-classical, post-rock, and prog without putting both feet firmly anywhere.
Feinberg’s strength is his ability to meld unique concepts into a single unified vision. Opener “Acquainted with the Night” starts with a rolling, pastoral, fingerpicked acoustic guitar pattern that turns into the ostinato base of the track. Feinberg melds this vision with that of spacey, exploratory, new age synth work that moves the work into a different lane. Bass comes in and grounds the piece, subtly moving it once again. The overall piece is hypnotic and zen-like, but with much more motion than a traditional ambient track would have.
“Letter to My Mind” continues this theme of melded visions, beginning with an ambient keys intro that morphs with the inclusion of another lovely acoustic line, delicate electric guitar leads, and tasteful percussion. The lay-back-in-the-pocket jazz drumming (from Tortoise’s John McEntire) accompanies thrumming bass guitar, which makes this track feel more like a post-rock track than the previous deep-listening track. “Palms Up” introduces a playful marimba into the mix as the ostinato base, giving the work a mid-century modernist feel before expanding into another cheerful, bass-heavy post-rock jam about 1:30 in. “A Spider Painted Over” continues the marimba inclusion, and the rhythmic patterns move toward the jazzy and syncopated. The core ideas of melodico-rhythmic base to build on continue, but this variation has a much more expansive view. The jazzy guitar leads further the effect.
The nine-minute “Ovation” is both the outlier and the soul of the record. It includes everything that has come before it (except the marimba), but puts it in the service of another vibe: mystic new age. The hazy, flute-laden, choral “ahs” approach gives the piece a connection to Andreas Vollenweider’s exceptional new age work. Around 6 minutes in, a surging, skybound electric guitar gives this a distinctly British-prog vibe to go along with new age mystic tones. “Ovation” is a bit outside the tonal focus of the record, but the approach is thoroughly consistent with the rest of the tunes.
The titular closer is also 9 minutes long, and it is an absolutely beautiful piece. It begins as a delicate electronic dance and slowly builds to a beachy, tropical vibe complete with dreamy pedal steel. This piece, with its staccato electronic heartbeat, is less organic than the other pieces–the acoustic guitar is mostly color here, instead of central. But regardless, it’s a peaceful, carefully considered track that puts Feinberg’s new age / deep listening / ambient / folk melange on full display. There’s not a bad track on the six-song collection; each of the pieces tell a part of the whole and add to the overall experience. Feinberg’s Recumbent Speech is a major achievement–it’s a strong record that clearly marks his voice. Highly recommended.
Quick Hit: Liam Mour
Liam Mour‘s Ode to Youth is an EP of ambient / lo-fi electronic work that shows Mour’s vision starting to form. Mour has performed with Gold Panda and Four Tet, which are good markers of where his sound starts: hazy, warm, lithe textures that can snap into focus stay drifty with the inclusion of a very small number of elements. “Give Me Your Light And I’ll Drive” starts out ambiguously (somewhat warm, somewhat ominous) before turning toward the dark with the introduction of electronic and live percussion. Just the addition of the percussion tones shifts the vibe. It’s these delicate touches and deft switches that show a lot of promise. The nearly-10-minute “Are You Ready For A Change” is deeply ambient, playing with subtle note changes and graudally building volume to build an ethereal wash.
“Grainy 244” takes the darker tones of “Give Me Your Light” and adds more motion and sonic layers, evoking a darker Teen Daze. The title track pulls the “is this light or dark” ambiguity farther forward, resisting easy sonic categorization until the percussion kicks in after two minutes (it becomes a bit of a straightahead techno jam, honestly, which is fun but unexpected). Closer “You Can Only Say It Isn’t” gets pastoral, including found sound of children playing / talking with PSA-style announcements. It comes off as a maximum-chill Pogo jam–but it’s a bit of an outlier in the collection, what with its relying on vocals so much. Overall, Ode to Youth is a good EP that puts Mour’s name out there. He’s got a lot of interesting ideas, and he’s just starting to get them into the world. Very interested to see what he does next.
Quick Hit: Closet Disco Queen
Closet Disco Queen produces instrumental riffhead magic. This album is one long collection of mighty, impressive riffs, distilled into smaller collections of riffs. If you like post-hardcore riffs, metal riffs, rock riffs, basically just riffs, you need this in your ears. The 8-song collection called Drink the Minibar – Live Recordings is exactly the sort of release I am coming to love: all punch.
Okay, not exactly all punch. The collection starts out with “Ninjaune,” which spends the first three minutes establishing the sort of towering reverb mountain that post-rock bands have become known for. Then at 3:30 they abruptly cut out the reverb and drop into a menacing, thundering guitar riff. It’s go time from there on out. The drums open up, and wow does the guitar get going. “El Moustachito” ramps up the energy further, starting out with a punk strum and all-four-limbs drumming. They tease back and forth from clean strumming to massive guitar drops, then knock out the first of their many memorable riffs around 1:00. It’s melodic, heavy, fast, and winding–not math-rock, but certainly enough to make a few mathe-musicians look up. If you’re looking for the high point of the record, though, it’s “Black Sorbet” — a frantic tune that builds up the weight of a riff through changing guitar effects over multiple repetitions, underpinned by impressive kit work. The “woohoo!” at 2:26 is fully deserved, as the riff onslaught that follows is truly thrilling.
While “Black Sorbet” is the highlight, it’s actually “Délicieux” that has the most exciting riff of the whole collection. It’s a torrential rager that starts at 1:05 and goes until 2:28 in multiple variations. As I’ve written before, it makes me want to get into a mosh pit, which I haven’t done in fifteen years. It is lightning in a bottle. It is a monster.
It appears that all of these live tracks have been previously released on Bandcamp except “Le Soucieux Toucan.” Maybe they wrote it after their latest releases, because the quality is certainly high enough to release. It’s a bit more moody than the previous tracks, as it tempers the rest of the record’s pounding enthusiasm with more evocative, pensive melodies. The drums hold down their end of the deal though, carrying the energy well. It’s a head-bobber instead of a rager, but it’s still got me moving. If you’re into melodic instrumental rock of any variety and you haven’t heard Closet Disco Queen before, now’s the time to jump in and this is the release to do it on.
July Singles 2
1. “Edwards Edward” – Arms of Tripoli. If you’re a fan of Pg.Lost and/or like your post-rock to have more rock than post-, Arms of Tripoli is here with some well-turned riff action for your enjoyment. The blistering opening salvo gives way to a tense mid-section before ratcheting up to full rager again and then introducing piano for a lovely coda over its seven-minute run-time. It’s a blast. Highly recommended.
2. “Vista” – Escaper. Throw keys-based jazz, dance-rock, spaced-out-rock, and funk into a blender, and you’ve got this deeply impressive jam. Best appreciated in a music-listening room, preferably with headphones, optimally way after dark. Highly recommended.
3. “Erickson” – Cri Du Couer. An insistent trance/deep house cut with metallic sounds, ominous synths and more layered in. Despite the eerie sonic surroundings, the beating heart of this track is the bass and percussion, keeping the rave vibe going.
4. “voyage au soleil” – numün. I’ve been somewhat aware of the term “deep listening” for a while as a tangentially related version of ambient from a different historical path, but I haven’t sought out deep listening before. numun’s track here is a pretty clear explanation of the concept: it’s an organically-built, slow-moving wall of sound that creates a dense, full atmosphere. (If I had headphones on, this would be all I was doing, in other words: I would be listening quite deeply.) It’s not a drone (too much motion), nor is it electronic; it’s not folk (although it does have acoustic elements), nor is it even weird americana or slowcoustic. It’s somber, but not melancholy. Instead, it is a dense, enveloping experience with some slight eastern overtones through an instrumental choice. It’s not surprising that the outfit is a combination of a country-ambient band (SUSS) and members of Gamelan Dharma Swara.
5. “Los Golpeadores de la cumbia” – Meridian Brothers. I am unqualified to determine whether this tune deserves its boast (or ironic claim) of being “The hard-hitters of cumbia,” but I can say that I enjoyed the squiggly, quirky, groovy little tune. It sounds like people trying stuff out for the heck of it, which is always fun.
6. “In Finite” – Jason Keisling. This grand, sweeping, royal-entry composition here, full of carefully-measured vibe that pays off the big moments when they arrive. It’s not quite a fanfare–I could see it being a royal wedding entry, with its romantic undertones.
7. “Drop Off (feat. Severin Bruhin and Loren Hignell)” – Vertaal. Funky, soulful jazz that’s heavy on textured keys, exploratory bass, and atmosphere. This would fit in a lot of different playlists from a lot of different genres.
8. “Code A” – All Atomic. Exactly the sort of techno I like: high-energy without going hardstyle, moody and atmospheric without being dour, mysterious without being obtuse, fun without being big EDM. It’s a subtle blitz of arpeggiator, swerving synths, and vibe. Fans of Daft Punk’s Tron soundtrack will love it.
9. “Blood Pact” – Sea Wolf. The video clip accompanying “Blood Pact” from Sea Wolf’s upcoming album Through the Dark on Dangerous Records clearly sees the truth. Nobody will deny, these are unprecedented times. So, why not ask fans to contribute clips of their experience during the pandemic? Build a collective narrative of our experience as we navigate this pandemic? The result is a collection of vulnerable moments, a dance of lyricism capturing the essence of inner contemplation as we all consider the perils of this brave new world. Alex Brown Church leads the wander through the collage of snippets to the tune of this first single. There’s an essence of Radical Face’s Ben Cooper, both desperate and hopeful. Comforting in its musicality, there are no surprises, but that comfort helps as we keep walking through these strange days. Giving fans the opportunity to be part of this project is something special: an even more meaningful way of inclusion during disjointed times. —Lisa Whealy
10. “Callisto Submerges” – Project K-Paz. This outfit creates improvisational music, but you’d be hard-pressed to tell: “Callisto Submerges” is a groove-laden, laid-back post-rock piece that builds from delicate beginnings through natural progression to punchy, roaring heights and back down over eight minutes. Each of the players can be heard beautifully–this is excellently engineered work. I’m a big fan of the bass sound. If you’re a fan of dark, cinematic post-rock, this will definitely scratch your itch.
11. “Pan Am Sun Isles” – Lyonnais. Amid a collection of leftfield pop, unusual genre experiments, and generalized way-out-there creativity is this noisy, crunchy, gritty instrumental rock nugget. It clanks, screeches, wails, and crunches its way through 3:36, content to be a scuzzy, digitally-damaged, garage-rock-freak-out instrumental jam. May we all be so content and at home in our skin. The collection it comes from is Exitos Varios [Variety Hits] from the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers; proceeds from the comp will go to immigration activists at United We Dream.
12. “Sailor’s Cry” – A.M.R. I’ve been loving Silk Music’s brand of Deep House for years now, and A.M.R. fits in perfectly to their smooth, elegant, crisp output. This track has lovely feathery vocals over the top of the beats and lush layers of sound, giving the whole piece an air of floating.
Relatives Schoensen
In the past couple years, I’ve recommended particularly genre-blending or atypical work with the phrase “for fans of adventurous music“. Little did I know that in April 2019, the phrase adventurous music came to life as Adventurous Music, a German music label for experimental sounds. The outfit has corrected my lack of knowledge and presented me with a truly adventurous collection called Relatives Schoensein.
The album is a 40-song (!) compilation and accompanying 92-page (!!) book that surveys all manner of experimental electronic music. Work spans the gamut of electronic stuff. The far end is very nearly white-noise: the long, harsh, atonal “Erode” by Fail; the far shorter, more tonal opener “Leipziger Elsterbecken (Gungan).” The inverse is lush ambient: the Lucho Ripley-esque “Il Tuo Glow Infinito” by Carlo Giustini, “Still Flowing” by Gallery Six. There’s also drone (the title track by Hendecagon, “Yellow” by Nyppy), left-field dance/electro (the busy “Sunworn” by Coppice Halifax, the punchy techno cut “Entity” by Johann Eiriksson), and truly unclassifiable work (“Transitions” by Jo Montgomery, “EKEA” by TBEX). There’s something for everyone here.
I am personally drawn to the melodic ambient and left-field dance, but there was less of that than the experimental, noisier, drone-ier tracks. “UUH (Reprise)” by Signalstoerung is a lovely ambient flutter, while “Southern Hemisphere” by The Empath (feat. Cosmic Noise Crew) is an intriguingly spacey jam leaning on arpeggiators. “Behind the Wall” by Vrum turns an ambient intro into a glitchy, eerie techno stomp, which is one of my favorite turns in the record. Closer “Breakstreet” by 16Pad Noise Terrorist morphs breakbeats and ominous bass with the inclusion of hazy textures to create a strange, inviting brew: it’s as if an orchestra and a rave are happening in rooms next to you, and you’re overhearing both at once. Also there’s some sweet turntable action, which sounds great.
If you’re into harsh electronic, experimental stuff, there is a ton of it on this compilation that will thrill you. If you’re more into melodic work, there are some gems, but not quite as many. Regardless, this is a truly adventurous compilation, and it makes me interested to see what else comes out of Adventurous Music. In addition to the full work, you can download 36 of the 42 pieces here as a benefit release, with proceeds going to Firesticks, Amnesty International, Target-Nehberg, Artist Relief and Campaign Zero.
singles: July 2020
1. “object one” – Ghost Liotta. All of the staccato drama of trip-hop, the low-key sonics of ambient, and the tense vibe of post-rock are present on this subtle-yet-solid piece from Ghost Liotta. This track shows a band in strong control of its vision and its craft, despite this being a debut single. Highly recommended.
2. “Requiem” – The Stakes. George Floyd, Dion Johnson, Breonna Taylor, and countless other deaths of black people served as the catalyst for the re-release of The Stakes “Requiem” music video. The Mikey Campbell-directed film created during quarantine captures the essence of The Stakes’ live performance. The video’s use of historical footage featuring Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. transports the listener to a touchpoint in history people remember while bringing out the stark lyrical imagery, then wrapping with the death of George Floyd.
Filmed in black and white, the clip makes purposeful use of shadows as living beings wrapping around each soaring beat from bassist Stephen Orsini. Kevin Phillips (drums) lays the groundwork for Lord Kash and ZeeDubb (MCs), while Ben Scolaro (piano) and Luis Martinez (guitar) color the framework beautifully. The song’s raw appeal strikes an emotional connection. In-your-face lyricism delivered eloquently finds stunning contrast with Marah Armenta’s vocals; the light to the darkness of the MCs’ reality. The Stakes have asked us to join them in helping keep Black and other individuals out of jail who have not been convicted of any crime by donating to the Black People’s Justice Fund. My life has been touched by this issue: I have a friend whose son was wrongly convicted of a crime he did not commit. They have fought for seventeen years for a new trial, now that there is DNA evidence. The Stakes’ clip is a further call to action for justice in situations like these throughout the country.–Lisa Whealy
3. “Default to Truth” – Spatial Relations. Here’s a peak pop-cultural sentence for you: The Antlers and Port St. Willow have collaborated to become ambient band Spatial Relations, and their first album is the soundtrack to Malcolm Gladwell’s audiobook version of Talking to Strangers. That’s a lot to take in. You can also appreciate the lovely ambient work without all that backdrop. “Default to Truth” is ambient in the truest, most Music for Airports sense of the word–it’s music that is literally intended to make the experience of something better. And the gentle, even delicate, work here would definitely do that: little tom rolls, subtle shushes, clicks, swoops, all of it is carefully calculated to be breathy, light, and yet grounded. Fantastic.
4. “Nebula” – Slowburner. Here’s a video about a jellyfish swimming in the darkness of the deep and an elegant synth composition approximating the lonely simplicity of the same with a title named after an outer space object. Like the movie Fargo: There’s a lot going on in the middle of nowhere.
5. “Moon in River” – JPH. Seems like a lot more people are jumping on the “let’s make ambient music” train, and I couldn’t be happier. JPH’s oeuvre is more fitting that most, as the outfit specializes in long, ostinato compositions that rely heavily on mood and repetition. The shift here is from organic / acoustic instruments to digital ones, and the shift is fairly seamless: the patterns of JPH’s work are recognizable while the emotional palette is extended outward through the dreamy keys. The 10-minute runtime is perfectly in line with JPH and ambient scope. Beautiful.
6. “Character” – Kylie Odetta. It feels like we’ve given up on designating summer jams before the summer started as a result of *waves hands in the air in the general direction of everything* but. Imagine this is June 2019. Life is weird and kinda bad but it’s summer finally and we can jam. This track, which is mostly tiny keys, percussion, and Odetta’s voice (with some other things for color, including a very effective flute), is the easy-going, goodnatured, feathery summer pop song that we’re looking for. There are some gospel vibes and appeals to the good Lord. If there’s a key that songs can be in that’s more major than major, it’s in that key. It’s a summer jam. Here’s to whatever shreds of summer we get in this strange and difficult year.
7. “The Garden Was You, But Now Your Spirits Free!” – Celebration Symphony Orchestra. This 13-minute suite is one long love letter to the indie-orchestra style. It combines the twee aspects of Sufjan’s Illinoise, the expansive list of players that The Collection entailed on Ars Moriendi, the slightly offkilter/your-mileage-may-vary vocals of The Yellow Dress (et al.), and the drama of Neutral Milk Hotel into one massive piece. An oddly beautiful/beautifully odd piece, rich with religious context.
8. “Overpass” – Dear Blanca. Dear Blanca’s single “Overpass” serves as a preemptive strike for the admitted power-pop junkies’ upcoming third album Perched, announcing pre-orders July 3rd. Dylan Dickerson (vocals, guitar), Alex McCollum (guitar, vocals), Cam Powell (bass), and Marc Coty (drums) create a cohesive sound, lush yet discordant, that somehow works. Produced by Wolfgang Zimmerman (Band of Horses, SUSTO) in Charleston, South Carolina, I hear flashbacks to the power-pop new wave magic that Mike Chapman produced on 1979’s Get The Knack. Dear Blanca’s “Overpass” may only have an essence of Capitol Records’ history-making debut release, but still, that’s a good company to keep.–Lisa Whealy
9. “Afluente dos Lugares” – Edson Natale. This is a deft mashup of flute, nylon-string guitar, bass, hand percussion, and spoken word that transcends the parts. It transcends genre, too, landing somewhere outside of folk, Brazilian traditional music, and spoken word poetry. It’s like a South American Balmorhea.
10. “Natural (Demo)” – Jackie Mendoza. Stacks and stacks of different synths create a dense but yet still somehow floaty backdrop for Mendoza’s speak-sung vocals, like if Bomba Estereo tried writing music on the International Space Station. This impressive banger (it’s only the demo???) is the first single of Exitos Varios, a fundraiser compilation album for the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers; I’m looking forward to the rest of the tracks.
11. “AYTYKWLA Jam” – Dishwalla. Songwriter and North Carolina State University songwriting instructor J.R. Richards discovered a gem during his UK quarantine. The never-released “AYTYKWLA Jam” is a funk groove captured in a moments before the session for And You Think You Know What Life’s About, released in 1998 under A&M Records. This instrumental is spontaneous, eclectic, and jazzy, as the groove struts in this spacey cut. The free-flowing interplay of sound is more compositional than most random improvs. The resulting departure escapes the genre box Dishwalla found themselves in the early days of MTV. Like Riaan Nieuwenhuis’s Bleeding Moon, Scott Alexander’s bass builds a groove-heavy framework for Rodney Browning Cravens to climb with his trippy spacey guitar. George Pendergast on drums creates a steady beat for the intricate keyboards from Jim Wood. Richards’ voice would normally soar, being among rock’s premier vocalists with Danny Elfman and of course Freddie Mercury in my opinion. Here a Wurlitzer piano seems like the place where the lead singer’s voice would soar, singing through the keys.–Lisa Whealy
12. “Amelie” – Reuel. The theme from Yann Tiersen’s score for Amélie is given a very theatrical interpretation, featuring a sped-up tune, techno beats, hand percussion, aerial silks, a piano in a giant empty room, impassioned key-hitting, and deep red overtones. It would all be a bit much for me except that the composition is undeniably fun. If you like The Piano Guys, you’ll love this.
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Designing Tech for Rural Peruvian Coffee Growers
Cornell faculty and students are working with a 1,000-member coffee-farming cooperative in rural northern Peru to create an interactive cost model of sustainable coffee production. Gilly Leshed,...
2 Info Sci Profs Receive NSF Honors
Four CIS professors from Cornell's Ithaca and New York City campuses – including two Information Science professors – have been recognized with National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early...
Lee Lands Test of Time Award
One of the three inaugural Test of Time Paper on Computational Linguistics, spanning all publications between 2002-2012 at five main Association for Computational Linguistics [ACL] conferences, two...
Cornell Shines at CHI '18
This spring, dozens of Cornell University scholars, spanning multiple departments and areas of expertise, head to the premiere annual conference in human-computer interaction – CHI – with an...
5 CIS Faculty Receive Google Research Awards
Google just announced another round of its Faculty Research Awards, and five Cornell CIS faculty were awarded grants to support their work in various areas across computer science....
PhD Zhang Named Microsoft Research Fellow
Justine Zhang, a PhD student in Cornell Information Science, has been named one of 10 fellows accepted to the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship program for the 2018-2019 academic year. ...
Levy, Barocas Paper Makes Notable Must-Read List
A crucial paper from Info Sci professors Karen Levy and Solon Barocas that explores user bias on online platforms has been named one of six must-read papers of 2017 by a leading privacy-law...
Kilgour Awarded 3-Year Doctoral Fellowship
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One Billion Downloads and Counting for arXiv
The online repository started 26 years ago as an electronic bulletin board on one computer, and has grown into an essential resource for physicists and mathematicians around the world. Since its...
Lee named Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Our department sends a big congratulations to Computing and Information Science Professor Lillian Lee, who has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (...
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MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 31, 2017-- Watsco, Inc. (NYSE:WSO) announced today that Barry S. Logan, Senior Vice President, is scheduled to present at Baird’s 2017 Global Consumer, Technology & Services Conference being held at the InterContinental New York Barclay in New York City on Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 7:55 a.m. (EDT). Internet users can listen to a live webcast of the presentation at the Investor Relations section of Watsco’s website at http://www.watsco.com.
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Watsco’s traditional sales channel is through one of its 561 locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico, and on an export basis to Latin America and the Caribbean. This network has been built over the last 25 years and serves 88,000 active customers. Watsco is developing and investing in technologies to enable sales via e-commerce, on-line marketplaces and through the retail sales channel. As the industry leader, we believe that significant growth potential remains given that the marketplace for HVAC/R products at the consumer level is estimated to be $88 billion annually. Additional information about Watsco may be found at http://www.watsco.com.
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A Chancer
This book can be purchased or ordered from your local independent bookshop or from
Tammas is 20, a loner and a compulsive gambler. Unable to hold a job for long, his life revolves around Glasgow bars, home with his sister and brother-in-law, the dog track, betting shops, casinos and occasionally a day at the races. Sometimes Tammas wins, more often he loses, but betting gives him as good a chance as any of discovering what he really seeks from life since society offers him no prospect of a better or more fulfilling alternative. First published by Polygon in 1985.
This excerpt is taken from: pp223-6 Minerva paperback edition (1995)
And the taxi was moving off from the kerb. And loud cheering coming from the upstairs windows of the building. John’s head could be seen and also Rena’s mother staring down. And then a clattering of feet and folk emerging from the close and chasing after the taxi, a couple of them tossing confetti. The taxi slowed to do a u-turn and the cheering was loud once more as it trundled past them all, with Rab and Rena’s faces at the window, laughing at everybody. Some of the guests started trotting behind it, waving and shouting Good luck and All the best. Tammas went with them and then Julie was beside him and they laughed at each other, and he paused to encircle her waist with his right arm, and squeezed her, half lifting her from the ground. Ahh! The breath came from her in a gasp and he let her go. She continued waving but was breathing quite harshly, now holding her waist with her hand. Christ, he said, Sorry Julie… He shook his head, gazing after the taxi; it was nearing the end of the street, turning, out of sight. Sorry, he said.
You just caught a muscle I think… She peered down at her waist, rubbing it.
I’m really sorry.
The other guests and relatives were returning into the close now and he waited a moment before sticking his hands into his trouser pockets and strolling after her. There were still faces to be seen at the upstairs window, and also at other windows in the tenement building. He walked to stand near Billy and Alec. Julie was speaking to a girl who looked as though she was not one of the actual wedding guests, and there were others – mainly elderly women – who were standing looking on. A boy said to Tammas: Hey mister was there a scramble?
Tammas did not reply. Billy was saying, You going up the stair?
Aye in a minute… He nodded in the direction of Julie.
O aye… Billy sniffed. I’m wanting to see you but man, it’s about the factory and that.
Tammas nodded. I’ll be up in a minute.
My da’s getting the forms, if you’re still interested.
Aye. Christ.
I’ll see you when you come up then… Billy turned and walked after Alec who had already gone into the close.
Eventually Julie came, accompanied by some wee kids who were staring at her dress.
Tammas asked, You going up the stair?
Going up the stair…?
Are you no?
They’ll be starting the records for dancing.
He nodded, offered her a cigarette.
I dont smoke.
O aye, sorry. He sniffed and went on: Listen Julie I’m sorry and that I mean lifting you like that, hurting you, it was really stupid – I didnt mean it I mean Christ, if I hurt you. He shook his head.
Dont be daft, you just caught a muscle.
Naw but…
It’s alright. She smiled. They’ll be expecting us up the stair.
Aye… He took out his matches, struck one and waited a moment before taking a light; he blew out the smoke.
Julie moved slightly in the direction of the close. The kids were still there and a couple were standing in front of her. She scowled at them: Away yous go and stop being so nosey!
But they continued to stand there, giggling, until Tammas suddenly leapt at them making them jump and they shrieked laughter and rushed along to the next close.
Julie was staring in the opposite direction. I was looking forward to the dancing… I was, I was looking forward to it.
Were you?
Yes. She made a shivering sound.
Fair enough… They stared at each other for a brief period, both looking away at the same time.
Betty thingwi’s got a face down to the floor.
What d’you say?
Julie was gazing back down the street as she replied, She’s got a face down to the floor.
What d’you mean?
You know fine well.
He shrugged, smiled very slightly. The silence continued for perhaps as much as half a minute. Then he added, I’m not going with her you know.
Mmhh.
I’m no… He puffed on the cigarette.
She nodded, she was biting on the corner of her lower lip; now she crossed her elbows over her breasts, her hands gripped the sides of her arms, just below the shoulders. She shivered. She said, I think we should go up the stair. Eh, you coming up? It’s really freezing.
He nodded but made no other movement.
Eh Tammas?
What about a pint first? he jerked his thumb in the pub’s direction. No a bad lounge. Fancy going over for a minute?
Tch! I’m no going into a pub like this!
You look fine. Honest I mean…
Julie paused before saying, You dont go into pubs dressed like this but.
It’s a lounge.
Doesnt matter.
It’s quiet; it’s really quiet.
Julie stared down the street without replying.
Could you no go up and get a coat?
She glanced at the close mouth.
Eh Julie?
Just for a pint, come on, I’ll wait for you.
She turned and said: What did you forget your speech for?
I dont know, I just – I forgot.
Julie shook her head.
Tammas sighed. He smiled. Come on, come on we’ll go.
I’ll need to change first.
I’ll wait for you here.
She nodded quickly and walked into the close, and kept walking along, to the foot of the staircase, where she glanced back over her shoulder. Tammas pointed to where he was standing inside the entrance and whispered loudly: I’ll just be here.
About ten minutes later the door on the first storey opened and footsteps down, but it was Alec who appeared. He strolled out with his hands in his trouser pockets. She told me to tell you no to wait Tammas.
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## Notes ##
+* If the instructions below seem overwhelming, note that it should be possible to do a lot of this course using only demonstration versions of these languages [[that run in your web browser|browser]].
* We were updating this page vigorously until about 2:30 pm on Saturday 31
January. Now it is relatively stable, but we'll tweak it as we learn more. We
encourage you to try to get the software set up sooner rather than later, and
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keyboard arrows.
+<!-- More info on installing Ocaml and VMs at <http://ocaml.org/learn/teaching-ocaml.html#OCamlinstallation> -->
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## Getting Haskell ##
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* As mentioned, **GHC** is the main Haskell engine or compiler you'll be installing. The current version is 7.8.4, from December 2014.
* **gcc** and **llvm/clang** and **Xcode** and **MinGW** are names for other compilers on various systems. Oftentimes these will be used during the installation process to get GHC up and running. Some of the strategies described below will help you install these if they're not already on your machine.
* **alex** and **happy** and **haddock** are names of various Haskell helper programs that GHC uses to get up and running.
-* **[Cabal](https://www.haskell.org/cabal)** is a "package manager" for Haskell. It allows you to install libraries or extensions that other people have built. (Usually those are published at the [Hackage](https://hackage.haskell.org) web site.) Some of these are experimental and may not always work; others are quite fundamental and are almost de facto parts of what people expect in a Haskell system.
-* **[Haskell Platform](https://www.haskell.org/platform)** is a standard bundle that includes a specific version of GHC, plus specific versions of some of the most popular libraries or extensions. This is updated once or twice a year. The current version is 2014.2.0.0, from August 2014. It includes GHC version 7.8.3.
+* **cabal** is a "package manager" for Haskell. It allows you to install libraries or extensions that other people have built. (Usually those are published at the [Hackage](https://hackage.haskell.org) Package Database.) Some of these are experimental and may not always work; others are quite fundamental and are almost de facto parts of what people expect in a Haskell system.
+* The **[Haskell Platform](https://www.haskell.org/platform/contents.html)** is a standard bundle that includes a specific version of GHC, plus specific versions of some of the most popular libraries or extensions. This is updated once or twice a year. The current version is 2014.2.0.0, from August 2014. It includes GHC version 7.8.3.
The easiest way to get up and running with Haskell/GHC is to install the Haskell Platform. Here's how to do that **on Windows**:
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On **Mac without MacPorts**:
-* Go to <https://www.haskell.org/platform/mac.html> and follow the instructions. This requires Mac OS X 10.6 / Snow Leopard or later; but there is a link to an earlier version of Haskell Platform, that's built for Mac OS X 10.5 / Leopard. During the installation, you may be prompted to install "the command line developer tools"; this is a portion of what Apple bundles together with Xcode (mentioned above on this page). The installer will take care of getting these for you if you give it permission.
+* Go to <https://www.haskell.org/platform/mac.html> and follow the instructions. This requires Mac OS X 10.6 / Snow Leopard or later; but there is a link to an earlier version of the Haskell Platform, that's built for Mac OS X 10.5 / Leopard. During the installation, you may be prompted to install "the command line developer tools"; this is a portion of what Apple bundles together with Xcode (mentioned above on this page). The installer will take care of getting these for you if you give it permission.
The Installer places everything in your system directories. If you'd like it instead in your user directory (easier to clean up later), you can do this after running the Installer:
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* In a Terminal, type `sudo apt-get install haskell-platform`.
-It's useful to know about the general [Haskell wiki](https://wiki.haskell.org) (not restricted to just GHC). They have a [Getting Started](https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_5_steps) page, which also recommends that you install the Haskell Platform.
If any of the instructions above don't work, then you can try alternative instructions for [Mac](http://new-www.haskell.org/downloads/osx) or [Windows](http://new-www.haskell.org/downloads/windows) or [Ubuntu](http://new-www.haskell.org/downloads/linux). Note that this method doesn't install all the extensions that are part of the Haskell Platform, but only the core pieces of GHC. You can use Cabal to download and manage any extra extensions you turn out to need, down the road.
**After installing Haskell**, open a Terminal and type:
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واکاوی تغییرات شاخص پوشش گیاهی در شکلگیری جزایر حرارتی شهری (مطالعه موردی: شهر ارومیه)
نوع مقاله : مقاله برگرفته از پایان نامه
صادق رمضانی 1
فریدون نقیبی 2
1 گروه شهرسازی،معماری شهرسازی و هنر،ارومیه،ارومیه،ایران
2 گروه شهرسازی ، دانشگاه ارومیه، ارومیه، ایران
امروزه عواملی متعددی از جمله تخریب پوششهای سبز شهری و افزایش بیرویه آلایندههای زیستمحیطی در نواحی شهری سبب حبس شدن انرژی تابشی خورشید و بروز پدیده جزیره حرارتی شهری می گردد که. پیامدهای خطرناکی از جمله انتقال آلودگی هوا و ذرات پراکنده سمی به همراه دارد. هدف عمده این پژوهش تحلیل وضعیت پوشش گیاهی و دمای سطح زمین در شهر ارومیه جهت بررسی شکل گیری جزایر حرارتی شهری و تحلیل آنها است. در این راستا از تصاویر ماهواره ای لندست 4 و8 مربوط به سالهای 1989 و 2017 مورد استفاده قرار گرفت. در این پژوهش بعد از اعمال تصحیحات لازم و آموزش تصاویر اقدام به شناسایی تغییرات تغییرات کاربری اراضی و نوع تغییرات آن گردید. شاخص پوشش گیاهی (NDVI) محاسبه و سپس با استفاده از باندهای حرارتی دمای سطح زمین (LST) محاسبه گردید. نتایج حاصل نشان داد که در طول 28 سال (2017-1989) دمای شهر ارومیه افزایش پیداکرده است. همچنین مشخص گردید که افزایش دمای نواحی داخل شهر ارومیه، عمدتاً ناشی از بین رفتن پوشش گیاهی و به زیرساخت و ساز رفتن اراضی سبز و همچنین فضاهای داخل محدوده شهری است که پوشش تنک آنها از بین رفته است. بررسیها نشان داد که شاخص پوشش گیاهی کاهشیافته بهگونهای که در مناطق بایر پوشش گیاهی از023/0 به 051/0- رسید. این موضوع نشاندهنده از بین رفتن پوشش سبز تنک است (حدود9.24 درصد از پوشش گیاهی شهر ارومیه در طی دوره 1989-2017 از بین رفته است.
جزایر حرارتی
تصاویر ماهواره لندست
شاخص پوشش گیاهی
Investigation of the vegetation index changes in the formation of the urban heat islands (Case study: Urmia city)
Sadegh Ramezani 1
Fereydoun Naghibi 2
1 Department of Urbanism, Urbanism and Art Architecture, Urmia, Urmia, Iran
2 Department of Urbanism, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
Nowadays, many factors such as destruction of the urban green areas and increasing the environmental pollutants in urban areas cause the solar radiation confinement and formation of urban heat island phenomenon. This has dangerous consequences, such as stagnation and lack of the air flow, transmission of air pollution and dispersed toxic particles in urban areas. The main purpose of this research is to analyze the vegetation status and land surface temperature in Urmia city, investigate the formation of urban heat islands and analyze their temporal and spatial variations. For achieving these purposes, Landsat 4 and 8 satellite images for 1989 and 2017 years were used. In this study, after applying the necessary corrections to the images and training them, land use change detection was accomplished. By using the red and the near infrared bands of the images, the vegetation index (NDVI) was calculated and then. Ground surface temperature (LST) was calculated by the image thermal bands. The results of this research showed that the temperature of Urmia city and its suburbs increased during the 28 years (1989-2017). It was also found that increasing temperatures within Urmia city was mainly due to the loss of the vegetation areas and to the conversion of the green area to urban lands by urbanization processes. The results showed that the vegetation index (NDVI) in Urmia city decreased as it reashed to-0.053 from 0.023 in the wasteland, which indicate the disappearance of thin green cover (about 9.24% of the vegetation cover of Urmia city disappeared during 1989–2017).
Estended Abstract
In the past decades, the rapid growth in the industrialization, the destruction of the urban green cover, and increasing environmental pollutants in the urban areas especially big cities, have confined the solar radiation in their atmospheres. This causes to trap the solar radiation throughout the day and reflect during the night (the heat islands). As a result, the natural process of cooling the earth's surface occurs less slowly during the night. In fact, the urban heat islands are discrete parts whose temperatures have risen throughout the urban surface and become more intense over the last century. The heat islands cause changing the pattern of winds in the urban areas and also suburbs, and occuring dangerous consequences such as stationary air or transmission of air pollution and dispersed toxic particles to different urban areas. These can ultimately disrupt the comfort of the urban dwellers. Recently, one of the major issues in the cities is how heat islands are formed and what their effects are on urban environment, as well as being aware of the vegetation status and urban surface temperature, which are two main goals of this research. The use of remote sensing imagery can provide powerful tools to evaluate and monitor environmental changes, including land use changes and vegetation covers, that allow the evaluation of the changes and calculation land surface temperature by image processing techniques and multi-temporal satellite image comparisons. In this study, Urmia city was selected to study and evaluate vegetation cover changes in relation to its heat islands.
To detect land use changes in Urmia city during the period 1989–2017, Landsat satellite images of the city were used and the coresponding land use maps were extracted. In the next step, land use changes were calculated and revealed in three classes of wasteland, vegetation and urban. It was found that most of the land use changes occurred in the urban areas. Vegetation and waste lands have been converted to urban lands about 1292 and 2721 ha, respectively. The research method consists of three general sections: The first part is to detect vegetation cover changes. To achieve this, ENVI5.1 software was used. In this software, after separating the study area, the radio metric and atmospheric corrections were performed. Then, the images were classified by maximum likelihood algorithm. To detect land use changes, ICW and TCW tools were used. In the second part, the vegetation index was measured using NDVI tool in Envi software. The vegetation index tool uses two bands, the red and near infrared bands, of Landsat satelite images. In the third part, ARCGIS software was used to obtain ground surface temperature (LST). To produce the surface temperature map of the study area, the termal bands of each period were used and converted into radians. Then the luminance temperatures recorded in the sensor were calculated by the corresponding equations. Finally, after determining the total temperature of the study area, an overlap was made between the temperature of each period and Urmia city map.
The temperature map obtained from GIS analyzes for year 1989 showed that the temperature range between 24–33 °C was extended to the subrbs of Urmia and the vegetation-covered areas. However, almost all parts of the city except the central part of it had average temperatures of 33-37 °C. The waste lands of Urmia were also within the temperature range of 37-42 °C. The temperature map of year 2017 showed that the cooler temperature range coverage was more scattered throughout the city as it covered many parts of the city, but the heat islands that were created in the city is important. The cool temperatures of 1989 have given way to warm temperatures in 2017. Some waste lands that were in year 1989 in range 37-42°C are now in the range 42-50°C. Inside the city there are areas with temperatures of 37-42°C and even 42-50°C. The vegetation index of the city has been steadily declining, reaching 0.2 from 0.4. Although some activities to improve and enrich the green space of Urmia city were carried out, but the vegetation area was reduced by 0.2 with Urmia urban growth and the city vegetation index decreased by 0.074 and reached to -0.051. The result of these changes was the loss of thin vegetation due to human activities. The calculation of the vegetation index of the study area showed that in the early stages of development of the city, many lands with green cover were destroyed and the corresponding cover was disappeared.
The results of the research showed that during the period (1986-1999) the temperature of Urmia city increased. It was found that the increase of temperatures within Urmia city is mainly due to the loss of the vegetation cover and the conversion of the green lands into urban areas. It was shown that the vegetation index in Urmia city decreased as it reached -0.051 from 0.023 in the waste lands that indicating the disappearance of thin green cover. In other words, in the areas that were previously covered by vegetation covers and had a cooling effect, by removing the cover and replacing the urban areas (9.24% of the vegetation cover of Urmia city disappeared during 1989–2017), the temperature has increased markedly and caused creating the heat islands. In order to reduce the environmental impacts and achieve sustainable development of Urmia city because of the heat islands, it was suggested that the expansion of green spaces in urban and industrial and forestry areas should be carried out for example in the urban areas of the east and south of Urmia. In order not to disturb the natural flow of the wind, it was suggested that Urmia urban growth should be prevented in the high quality lands of the north and east of the city and be reviewed the urban concession policy.
Heat islands
Landsat images
Urmia
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On the entrance, the selfie cam got an improve from a 7-megapixel sensor to a 12-megapixel sensor, and that decision ought to give Face ID a lift as nicely. Finally, Apple claims the new iPhone 11 will get about an hour extra battery than the XR and stand up to falls somewhat higher. Despite the extra lens on the Pro models, the three telephones support lots of the same digital camera features. Whether you’ve an iPhone eleven or one of many Pro fashions, a new Night Mode ought to imply higher footage in low light. All three new telephones provide QuickTake, a new digital camera function the place you can capture video whereas additionally shooting nonetheless pictures simply by lengthy-pressing on the shutter.
The hotter yellow tones may be nice in some circumstances, though images that veer extra towards inexperienced are less successful. Color shading can also be properly managed in most tested situations, so you possibly can count on the identical color in the middle and alongside the sides of the body.
How to Keep Your Apple AirPods From Slipping Out of Your Ears
Plus, battery life is outstanding and provides simply over nine hours of playtime on a single cost. Alternatively, a equally priced smart headset are the Amazon Echo Buds. These earbuds retail for $a hundred thirty and feature Alexa integration; they’re great for listeners already closely invested in Amazon’s sensible home ecosystem.
Samsung has simply introduced its second-generation true wi-fi earbuds, the Galaxy Buds Plus. They characteristic a design that’s more or less identical to the unique Galaxy Buds however provide numerous improvements. The Galaxy Buds Plus are priced at $149 and will come in black, white, and blue colour choices. If you want something with a extra polished aesthetic, consider the Master & Dynamic MW07 Go. These trendy earbuds are small and pack a mighty correct sound signature, boding well for every style of music.
According to Samsung, the Galaxy Buds are good for 6 hours of music playback, however the case holds solely slightly over one full charge (7 further hours of battery life, total). Consumer Reports doesn’t check battery life in headphones, but both claims held true in my casual trial. The Samsung Galaxy Buds don’t just sound higher than the AirPods, they’re among the greatest-scoring Bluetooth headphones Consumer Reports has ever examined. The Galaxy Buds often sell for around $130, in contrast with $one hundred sixty for the AirPods ($200 with an upgraded charging case). Safe to say, Samsung wins this battle, but who knows about the war?.
Apple introduced the feature with the second technology AirPods launched final April, however you need to pay additional for a suitable case. The AirPods are marketed for 5 hours of music playback, and the case is supposed to hold enough juice to power the earphones for four full costs.
AKG, one of Samsung’s many audio brands, has quietly announced its first pair of true wi-fi earbuds, the AKG N400, through a product page posted on Samsung’s South Korean web site. According to TizenHelp, which noticed the web page, the earbuds characteristic noise cancellation, and might run for 5 hours on a single cost (or six if you turn off ANC). They’re available in black, white, and blue, and in addition assist wi-fi charging.
At the end of the day, Apple customers will probably gravitate towards the brand new AirPods, while Android customers will be more inclined to choose up a pair of Galaxy Buds. Again, we can discuss your ears off in regards to the data recorded but don’t need to overlook the significance of personal desire. If you want that the AirPods don’t create a cogent seal, then that could be a cause to purchase, rather than avoid, them; otherwise there are plenty of great AirPods options out there. However, if you’d like the most effective audio high quality, comfort, and battery life, get the Galaxy Buds.
Can python construct android apps?
One goal of the IDE is to scale back the configuration essential to piece collectively a number of growth utilities, as an alternative it provides the same set of capabilities as one cohesive unit. Reducing setup time can enhance developer productiveness, particularly in circumstances the place learning to make use of the IDE is quicker than manually integrating and learning the entire particular person instruments.
Is Java hard to learn?
The Xcode IDE is at the center of the Apple development experience. Tightly integrated with the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks, Xcode is an incredibly productive environment for building apps for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.
Kotlin runs on the JVM and compiles all the way down to Java bytecode; you can start tinkering with Kotlin in an present Java or Android project and every little thing will work just nice. The Android software program improvement equipment (SDK) consists of totally different elements, together with SDK Tools, Build Tools, and Platform Tools. The SDK Tools primarily contains the inventory Android emulator, hierarchy viewer, SDK supervisor, and ProGuard. The Build Tools primarily include aapt (Android packaging device to create .APK), dx (Android software that converts .java files to .dex files).
Unfortunately, when pursuing app growth, first-time entrepreneurs typically underestimate the costs associated with building the options that they’ve conceptualized. A full-scale cellular utility will simply value over $50,000 in most cases to develop all of the options and capabilities. If you’ve adopted a lean startup technique, a minimum viable product will likely price $15,000 or more and will require further capital for subsequent rounds of development. So Kotlin was created explicitly to be higher than Java, but JetBrains wasn’t about to rewrite their IDEs from scratch in a new language.
Tighter integration of all growth duties has the potential to enhance total productiveness past simply serving to with setup duties. For instance, code could be continuously parsed while it’s being edited, providing prompt feedback when syntax errors are launched, thus permitting developers to debug code much faster and more simply with an IDE. This isn’t actually “true” Android improvement though, and the one real programming might be JavaScript.
For many fundamental tasks, it’ll do the job, but if you’d like to be able to declare true “Android app developerhood” (that’s a thing), then you need to brave one of many other selections on this list. This does require fundamental coding abilities, but it provides a pleasant and mild introduction to the world of programming. At the identical time although, it is positively limited to some extent and is a few steps removed from stepping into “app builder” territory. This is more useful for somebody who desires to create one thing relatively easy and isn’t as concerned about developing their coding expertise or changing into a pro.
Can I learn python on my phone?
Native apps are usually built by a developer in the specific language necessary for the desired platform. These apps are downloaded from the respective app store to the device and are stored in the device’s memory, making them ready for use at the click of the icon.
Platform Tools embrace the Android debug shell, sqlite3 and Systrace. “The pivot around the IntelliJ IDE is a shift for Google,” noted Al Hilwa, who covers software development software program for IDC, in an email interview. IntelliJ “is much less complicated and extra friendly than Eclipse and may help Android reach a broader section of developers,” Hilwa wrote.
Huawei Mate 10 Pro vs Mate 9: What's the difference?
It takes round half a dozen faucets to register your fingerprint and as soon as enrolled, you can wake and unlock your telephone in underneath a second. The fingerprint sensor also comes with gesture help, permitting you to faucet once to return a step, press and hold to return to the house display and swipe all the way down to access your notifications and shortcuts. Running both units via our testing reveals both have a cool display out of the box – with the Porsche Design more correct than the common Mate 9 – though this can be easily modified within the settings menu.
Like most flagships, both gadgets additionally come with a blue-gentle filter, which is branded as “Eye Comfort” mode and works simply as you’d anticipate by changing the display tone to a much warmer color. Digging further and the Porsche Design Mate 9 has a max brightness of 383 nits, whereas the Mate 9 tops out at over 600 nits. Rather than a revolutionary design, the Mate 9 is another step in the evolution of Huawei’s design technique.
The Mate 10 Pro and Mate 9 both have a 4,000mAh battery cell and both assist Fast charging. According to Huawei, should you cost Mate 10 Pro 20 minutes it gets juice for the entire lengthy day. Both the devices easily provides 2 days battery life on regular usage. For positive first thing which is available in everybody, Huawei fans mind whether they should spend money on the most recent Mate 10 fashions. Like at all times we in contrast the most recent Mate 10 fashions against their opponents.
The Mate 10 is that includes a traditional design with slightly thick bezels on the front for the physical home button and entrance-facing sensors whereas the Mate 10 Pro is bringing every little thing you possibly can count on from the newest flagship. The Mate 10 Pro is the corporate’s try and observe the newest bezel-much less design pattern. That’s why the main focus is on Mate 10 Pro as will probably be the competitor of newest Galaxy Note 8 and iPhone X. We already in contrast the device towards its competitor and in addition put gentle on how Mate 10 Pro is totally different from standard Mate 10.
Huawei is demonstrating that big doesn’t all the time have to feelbig, and that they’ll pull off a big show that’s still pleasant to your hand. Personally, while the Porsche Design Mate 9 is certainly a looker, I favor the feel of the regular Mate 9 in the hand. The Porsche Design Mate 9 is limited edition and with a price ticket of €1399, it’s undoubtedly not for everyone.
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Last Updated: Thursday, 11 December, 2003, 15:08 GMT
Call centres 'bad for India'
India's call centre industry has boomed in just three years
The mass transfer of call centre jobs from Europe and North America to India is bad for the subcontinent, a leading Indian newspaper writer has warned.
The huge growth in India's call centre industry was highlighted again last week, as British company Norwich Union announced they would be cutting 2,350 UK jobs and relocating them.
But author Praful Bidwai said that in effect the centres reduced the young Indian undergraduates to "cyber-coolies."
"They work extremely long hours badly paid, in extremely stressful conditions, and most have absolutely no opportunities for any kind of advancement in their careers," Mr Bidwai told BBC World Service's One Planet programme.
"It's a dead end, it's a complete cul-de-sac. It's a perfect sweatshop scenario, except that you're working with computers and electronic equipment rather than looms or whatever."
'Irrational exuberance'
In just three years, the number of centres has risen from 50 to 800 as Western companies have sought to take advantage of cheaper operating costs - estimated to be about 30-40% lower than in the UK.
There is a kind of irrational exuberance about the prospects of this kind of low-paid, low-value-addition work
Praful Bidwai
Average call centre salaries in the UK are about £12,500 ($22,000) a year, compared with £1,200 ($2,100) in India.
But Mr Bidwai said that call centres were exploiting young English-speaking Indians who "have an undergraduate degree and nowhere else to go."
"The tragic thing about India and the Indian economy is that in the last couple of decades, the GDP growth rate has actually improved, but joblessness has actually grown."
The call centre industry is seen by some as a vital part of India's economic development.
But Mr Bidwai said it had little value to India's wider economy.
"It's a couple of billion dollars a year at the moment, which isn't a hell of a lot, even by Indian standards," he argued.
"Our exports of textiles, for instance, are much, much bigger.
"There is a kind of irrational exuberance about the prospects of this kind of low-paid, low-value-addition work which creates this content both here and in the West, where people are losing jobs.
"People in India... [find] the job isn't really worth their while.
"Very large numbers of them suffer from a range of ailments - for instance sleeplessness, serious depression, ear infections - so you have a very high rate of [staff] turnover."
He also said the Indian government was pinning too much of India's future on the industry as a "catch-all" solution to the country's problems.
"It's being hyped-up. Some of our leaders are looking for shortcuts to the sort of hard task where you actually address the basic needs of the millions who are in a state of depravation," Mr Bidwai stated.
"They're looking at call centres as a kind of magic wand, and I think that's actually evading and ducking the real issues that confront the country - those are to do with poverty, equal opportunity, illiteracy.
"Those have to be addressed centrally."
The criticisms were acknowledged by Assim Hander, recruitment manager at Excel, a Delhi call centre, which includes Dell computers among its clients.
Norwich Union is the latest company to announce the transfer of jobs
But Mr Hander said that it was also important to stress the benefits that the centres had brought.
"You also have to look at the positives," he told One Planet.
He said that the call centre industry had been beneficial "in terms of the employment it has generated - and the number of people it has generated it for."
And he said that it was for the undergraduates to at least be employed.
"I would say it's a positive. Let's take a scenario where there was no call centre industry in India. What would these people be doing?
"Today, there is the demand for 150,000 graduates to be employed in an industry which was none-existent five years back."
He also said that although the industry has been mostly concentrated in Delhi, the jobs were now being spread throughout the country.
"Because of the fact that the demand for call centre executives in increasing day by day, the supply from Delhi is getting lower and lower," he stated.
"What we have done is to... move into smaller towns. Over the last three months, almost 60% of our total hiring has been done through these outstation offices."
Here are some comments we have recevied. If you would like to send a comment about this story you can use the form below.
Please BBC, don't lose your rational coverage by quoting Praful Bidwai and other pessimists. Please compare the salaries offered by call centres with other industries. Call Centres are really a good opportunity for Indian Economy.
Sharath, India/Sweden
I am an Indian in Germany, India should not fall prey to such low paid and valueless jobs from the west. I see no growth in the local Indian economy with the creation of jobs that exploit manpower. Moreover these conditions are going to shortlive and it not in the far future that many Indian workers in the call centers would be let without jobs. Job from the west be it for any purpose is not a reliable and sustainable way to development in India or any Asian country for that matter..
Kannan Pasupathiraj, Germany
I think that call centres in India are a great way of reducing operational costs and also a great way of improving job opportunities in India but I have one question? Where are the people who worked in call centres in the UK going to work or doesn't anyone care. It seems company's in the UK can do as they please for the sake of the bottom line and nobody seems to care. I am working out my notice at the moment until my role moves to India. Merry Christmas - try not to think about being on the dole for the new year.
Steve Wall, United Kingdom
I am working in UK but as high end qualified IT professional. I think mushrooming of call centre business to India is absolutely low value addition job. But then I don't say we won't do these types of jobs because a huge unemployed country needs this. Our aim should be to get high-value added jobs as well. In business of call centre there is no growth of an individual in technical front. They shall always be by and large remain white collared peons.
Pawan Bhargava, UK
Would you rather have graduates roaming the streets jobless or would you rather have them get some interim employment, be financially independent and be able to plan a future? No one's telling them to not move on or are they?
Malini Arora, USA
I think the author of the article does not understand the unemployment scenario in India. People with degrees do not get jobs, so the call center jobs are a boon to those who are unemployed. The author talks about all those problems associated with working in a call center environment, but those are the things people have to pay for to get a job. And people are willing to take the chances. Money flow is not that easy in India as it is in economically developed countries. I would like to ask the author to do more on field study rather than come to such superficial conclusions based on articles and television news shows.
Ramesh, India/US
It seems BBC has its own axe to grind...so what does it do? Simple, quote Praful Bidwai. Praful Bidwai is one person who always finds fault with anything thats good thats happening in India.
Rajeev Kumar, India
It is good for the short term as it provides employment to the unemployed but in the long term we must not depend on such foreign corporations who are likely to move on once another places seems more attractive to them.
Aruni Mukherjee, England/India
Instead of comparing the annual incomes, compare the purchasing parity - the lifestyle you can lead with $2,500 in India is equivalent to a lifestyle of $30,000 in the US... for an industry to be employing over a 150,000 graduates who would have been otherwise simply jobless is a lot of good news to any sound economist!
Vivek Jain, US / India
I am Indian, but I sympathize with those in the UK who complain about jobs going to India. At last we have got an article which looks at working conditions of those people who are doing these lousy jobs in India. Mind you, in India people are very unhappy with the job market. People don't want the West's jobs - they just want jobs.
Ramnath Parkar, Norway
Hard work with low pay by western standard is not a news in developing countries. Actually the situation in India started improving after economic liberalization during the 90s. The concern should be are the employers denying their employees anything in violation of the laws or violating anybody's human rights. Are these employees exploited any more than other workers with similar education and skills employed in other Indian or foreign businesses in India? If not, let the market work.
Dilip K. Bhattacharya, US! A
Pathetic that you cant fight with us on quality of workforce that you are trying these kinds of media blitz. May be you should throw out your high school dropouts and go for a more professional workforce.
Shiva, India
If call centers are that bad, people of UK and US should be glad that these jobs are going to India. At least now they can no more be "cyber-coolies".
Sreejith, India
This is nonsense. This is creating jobs in the developing that are far better paid that other local jobs. Hopefully the money they get paid will be spent boosting the economy while the taxes generateed will the redistributed to the poor. The money saved by the companies will be pasted to consumers in the first world whose shares and pensions will go up value. It's win, win, win. The only people going to lose in the short term are those who lost their jobs in the UK. We ought to concentrate on creating new jobs for such people.
Matthew Freedman, UK
I think call centers are very good opportunity for young Indians to get work experience. With this experience and money they saved, they can go back to school for higher education. Also, these opportunities will motivate more and more young Indians to attain a degree, which they thought is useless couple a years ago. As you can already see that most of the people move on and look for new and better opportunities after a couple of years of Call center experience. They are using this experience to hone their communication skills and earn money for higher education.
Mithun Bondugula, USA
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How ready is Queensland for the Olympics?
Warren Barnsley
The head of the world Olympic movement is impressed but southeast Queensland has a long way to go before it hosts the event, experts say.
International Olympics Committee president Thomas Bach likes what he sees in Brisbane and surrounds ahead of a push by some local mayors for the region to host the 2032 games.
They believe it is feasible given much of the required infrastructure already exists, particularly from last year’s Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
“I was really impressed, I must say … seeing the existing infrastructure, sports infrastructure,” Mr Bach said.
Experts agree Queensland is well placed to host the 2032 Olympics given basic infrastructure is sound and Australia has expertise in large scale sporting events.
But the region’s capacity to take on the task is at risk of being overstated, as even venues upgraded for the Commonwealth Games would need to have more capacity.
“I think what’s perhaps less well known is whether the average person in the street realises how much we need,” UQ tourism business expert Judith Mair told AAP.
“It’s not enough to say we’ve done the Commonwealth Games therefore we just need maybe another stadium and we’ll be right.”
The Gold Coast’s aquatic centre, which held 10,000 for the Commonwealth Games, is “still way too small for the Olympics”, said Millicent Kennelly, a sporting event expert from Griffith University.
“You can say we’ve got world class facilities, but we’re still going to have to take it up a notch,” she said.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has told Mr Bach in Japan that “Queenslanders will always want to outdo NSW” by putting on a better Games than Sydney in 2000.
Australian Olympic Committee boss John Coates said a recent IOC decision to allow a region or group of cities to host the Games left “no question” Queensland could do it.
The cost of hosting the Olympics and Paralympics has been estimated at $900 million.
That does not include upgrades to transport, which would be a whole new ball game given the slow transport on the Gold to Sunshine Coast corridor.
“We would need to have a number of things in place, including faster inter-city services,” Griffith University transport expert Matthew Burke said.
But Dr Burke believes Queensland would gain back the costs of transport through increased productivity in the long term.
The Games would expedite the construction of an expanded transport network that a burgeoning southeast Queensland would eventually need anyway, Dr Kennelly says.
“Even our telecommunications capacity will have to be brought up to scratch,” she says.
While Queensland could host the Games, the question remains whether it should.
“The opportunities I see for southeast Queensland are around connectivity,” Dr Kennelly said.
“Working together on this kind of bid opens up an opportunity to look at the bigger picture of southeast Queensland.”
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Gas station in Palmerston North, Manawatu-Wanganui
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Finding Narrative in Knowledge / Giving Voice to Words
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Dep Gov Enlists Professionals' Cooperation With Govt To Ensure Better Society
By Emmanuel Ebong
Professional associations in the country have been advised to close ranks with governments at all levels for the purpose of delivering good governance to Nigerians and preserve the society for posterity.
The Akwa Ibom deputy governor, Mr Moses Ekpo, who gave the advice while declaring open a Directors' Conference by the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations at Ibom Hotel and Resort, Uyo, said cooperation by professional bodies became even more urgent and desperate than ever before in the country given the recent EndSARS protest, lootings and destruction of lives and property.
Describing the theme of conference "Changing the Dynamite of Governance through Strategic Communication ", as apt and well thoughtout, Ekpo said it was a pointer to the fact that the Institute is well aware of its role in the new governance dynamics and paradigm so critical for the present time.
The deputy governor commended the decision of the NIPR leadership not only to get communicators to restrategize, but for doing so as stakeholders in governance.
He wished that the NIPR leadership and membership who are the eye-witness communicators and not peddlers of fake and unverified information should spare some moments during their conference to embark on the inspection tour of people-centered development projects initiated by the present administration in the state.
Ekpo listed such projects they should inspect while in the state for the conference to include; good roads infrastructure linking the 31 local government areas of the state; rice and garri projects; the Fertilizer blending factory; flour mill and Metering factory.
His words: "You should visit the 2-story Intelligence Building meant to accommodate the headquarters of oil companies and other organizations operating in the state, and the Maintenance Repairs and Overhaul (MRO) at our airport which is about 75 percent completed to provide maintenance facilities for airplanes in the country and the Equatorial Guinea Region.
Ekpo, who wished the NIPR 2020 annual conference participants made up of directors and heads of Public Relations a resounding success, was optimistic that they would return to their various circuits not only with a well-rounded message of a new paradigm in communication, but a resolve to be part of its field implementation.
The chairman, Directors' Conference, 2020 planning committee, Nkechi AliBalogun, explained that the conference was arranged to create a platform for informed discourse and influential ideas on how to build a prosperous and secure workforce and society in the best interest of all. Ali-Balogun noted that the conference was organized to also provide the unique opportunity for a shared conversation in the best way to respond to the social needs of society. Her words: "We are looking to grow a new class of directors who specialize in understanding and influencing the human and social dynamics of conflict and cooperation to achieve positive outcomes on behalf of employers.
Recent events have shown that people's identities; interests; networks and narratives are focal point for communications designed to deliver measurable change in support of political, social, development or military objectives. She remarked that the fourth edition of the conference was aimed primarily to foster corporate statesmanship; workers who are skilled in managing state affairs; corporate statesman, wise, skillful, and respected leaders in their chosen fields and who will place the common good above their own interests and actively work to shape the narrative.
The president and chairman of council, NIPR, Mallam Mukhtar Sirajo, Akwa Ibom commissioner for information and strategy, Comrade Ini Ememobong and his Delta State counterpart, Mr Charles Oniagwu, emphasized the need for leaders to always submit themselves to the public relations practitioners for useful advice to guard against making mistakes that would negatively impact on the corporate image of their organizations. They also stressed the need for public relations practitioners to be part of the decision making process of their respective establishments for the best to be achieved.
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Family: Fagaceae Dumort.
Genus: Quercus L.
Quercus pubescens Willd.
This species is accepted, and its native range is Europe to N. Turkey.
Accepted Infraspecifics
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechoslovakia, East Aegean Is., France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, Yugoslavia
Introduced into:
Includes 3 Accepted Infraspecifics
Quercus pubescens subsp. crispata (Steven) Greuter & Burdet
Quercus pubescens subsp. pubescens
Quercus pubescens subsp. subpyrenaica (Villar) Rivas Mart. & C.Saenz
Quercus pubescens Willd. appears in other Kew resources:
Mar 1, 2000 Reverchon, E. [s.n.], France K000352500 neotype
Vukotinovic, L.F. [s.n.], Croatia K000832033
First published in Berlin. Baumz.: 279 (1796)
Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (1998). World Checklist and Bibliography of Fagales: 1-408. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Hassler, M. (2012). Flora of Rhodes. Systematic list of flora of Rhodes http://www.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/~db111/flora/rhodos/list.php.
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A. Armada release "Anam Cara" TODAY on Hello Sir Records!
posted Jan 28, 2009, 10:26 AM by Vu Nguyen
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A. Armada release Anam Cara TODAY on Hello Sir Records!
...melodic post-rock in the vein of Explosions in the Sky and Godspeed You! Black Emperor and even borrows a little from '70s prog-rock outfits such as Genesis and Yes. - Flagpole Magazine
Speaking through actions is traditionally the task of self-assured, moral men adhering to a higher standard than lip service. Applying the same status to a rock-n-roll band is a woeful misstep but, at the same time, there is a similarity in the self-assurance it takes to maintain an instrumental rock band these days. Audiences are used to the bombast and beauty of Sigur Ros, the muscular U2-isms of Maserati and the soundtrack-worthy composition of Explosions In The Sky. Each speak to that particular portion of the human soul which seeks foundation and inspiration. The problem is the field of instrumental bands is becoming more and more crowded so why should you care about a band called A. Armada out of Athens, GA? Because A. Armada speaks to other needs.
On Anam Cara, the band's first proper record, A. Armada weaves its sound through ringing guitars dipped in echo and a rhythm section that serves more as propellant than mere support. The pieces shift from somber genteelness to intense consideration to soft cradling. This isn’t music to conquer the world by; this is music to conquer oneself with. But if you ask the band about this they’ll probably give you a blank stare. That is, really, the whole point; in making music for themselves they’ve inadvertently made it for you.
Hello Sir Records is releasing Anam Cara on January 27, 2009.
01. The Dam Was Split But The City Was Saved
02. The Moon Shifts The Sea The Sea Shapes The Shore The Shore Shakes The Sand The Sand Sinks The Ship
03. Fall-Triumph
04. Into Days & Nights & Years & Months
05. If Only You Knew What The Lost Soldiers Did To Me
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On the 9th of June 2018 the German Ministry of Defense hosted the Tag der Bundeswehr, during which 15 military bases across the country opened the gates for the general public. One of these bases was the Wehrtechnische Dienststelle für Waffen und Munition 91 (WTD91) in Meppen.
WTD91 in Meppen is a unique location, as it actually is a unit with both military and civillian staff where new weapons and munition are tested. For these purposes, the unit can use a 19200 hectare instrumented shooting range, which measures approximately 31 by 7 kilometers.
Meppen Range (EDR34) in Northern Germany, as shown on aviation charts
Weapons, weaponssystems, guided missiles, drones and armour are tested in Meppen for the German army, navy and airforce. WTD91 boasts a unique professional experience in the disciplines of balistics, acoustics, optronics and meteorology when it comes to military equipment.
The Tiger attack helicopter on the ground before the display
During the Tag der Bundeswehr, the visitors were welcomed onto the general area of WTD91 where they could see the equipment of the German army up close, from the Fennek reconaissance vehicle up to the immense PzH2000 howitzer. On the other side of the street, the WTD village was showing the various WTD units from accross the country. These units showed various military innovations that they are currently working on, from 3D printing and robotics via temporary camouflage paint onto an electronic quad from the Trier based WTD41.
Bundeswehrfeuerwehr
A few meters further the highlight of the day was reached, this was were the dynamic weapons display took place 3 times per day for 45 minutes. This weapons display was not only dynamic by the fact that the various military vehicles moved in front of the public, next to that live shots were fired to show the visitors the power and precision of the weapons.
The display started exactly on the hour with a first missile being fired from the LARS rocketlauncher. This first missile was fired to determine if it reached the right target area, situated 12 kilometers further. Once this was confirmed, a salvo of 15 rockets was fired. At this point it became quite clear why visitors had to wear ear protection and why children under the age of 14 years were not allowed at the dynamic weapons display.
The LARS missile system is no longer in use with the Bundeswehr, but WTD 91 still had plenty of rockets in stock to be fired.
LARS firing sequence
Next up was the Dingo armoured transport vehicle, shooting the remote fired MG5 machinegun at several balloons, destroying them all. When the Dingo drove off, the next weapons system was already prepared for action in the form of the MG6 machinegun. This machinegun has 6 barrels and can fire 6000 shots per minute. By using this massive firepower, an array of 400 clay pigeons was cleared in no time.
The Dingo shooting the MG5 machinegun
Then the heavy, tracked vehicles showed up on the range. First to display its firepower was the Puma Schützenpanzer which can transport 6 armed soldiers onto the battlefield. The Puma is equipped with a 30mm machine cannon, with which it destroyed the water barrels that simulated targets on the range. The puma was then followed by the Leopard 2. This main battle tank was staffed by a mixed German/Dutch crew. First it fired the 120mm canon whilst standing still, the next shot was fired whilst driving at full speed. The Leopard was then followed by the PzH2000 howitzer firing the mighty 155mm canon at a target 12km away.
Puma in action
PzH2000
Then, during a short parade of the ENOK, EAGLE IV and Boxer, a display was given how troops would be inserted and extracted from the battlefield.
After the ground-based displays, all eyes were focused onto the sky, as it was time for the aerial display of WTD61s Tiger attack helicopter. An array of impressive manouevres was shown directly in front of the guests, so that they could get an impression on the versatility of this helicopter.
When the Tiger display was over, it was announced that Meppen could see some aerial visitors as well. First up was a C-160D Transall from LTG63 in Hohn. This Transall flew along all Tag der Bundeswehr bases in northern Germany and treated the audience to a Sarajevo approach. The final visitor of the day was the Transall’s successor, an Airbus A.400M from LTG62 in Wunstorf, that flew accross the entire country to visit Tag der Bundeswehr events during which it was in the air for more than 6 hours.
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The “Cherry” Release of O-RAN Open Software Moves the O-RAN Ecosystem Closer to Deployment in Mobile Networks Around the Globe
In December 2020, the O-RAN Software Community (OSC), working with the Linux Foundation, published its 3rd open software release within 18 months, dubbed “Cherry”.
Cherry moves the O-RAN ecosystem closer to commercial deployments in mobile networks around the globe. On top of new functions aligned with the latest O-RAN specifications, such as the E2, A1 and O1 interfaces, this release also features significant advancements in the end-to-end integration of O-RAN Architecture components to meet the needs of early adopters. In addition, new software projects in the area of Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) have been initiated to drive the development of auto-configuration and management of O-RAN elements.
The main use cases delivered in Cherry include:
Policy based Traffic Steering using the A1 and E2 interfaces
Automated Monitoring and Health check of selected components using the O1 interface
Configuration, Fault and Performance Management Services aligned with OAM models and specifications newly approved by O-RAN
Life Cycle Management Framework of rApps and xApps using SMO
O-DU Low and High pairwise testing in O-RAN Software Community lab
Simulators for testing and integration, such as E2, A1, Open Test Framework, and more
“It is gratifying to see the continued momentum of the OSC’s open-source O-RAN implementation,” said Jack Murray, co-chair of the OSC Technical Operating Committee (TOC) and Assistant Vice President of AT&T. “AT&T is proud to have continued its contributions to enable RAN AI/ML through the Near-Real Time RIC implementation, and to provide a platform for software testing and integration.”
“We are glad to see Cherry has made big progress by building on the base of Bronze,” said Chih-Lin I, the Co-Chair of O-RAN Technical Steering Committee. “It not only realizes more 3GPP-defined models, but also brings O-RAN defined interfaces including E2 and A1 closer to commercialization. More ML and AI technologies are implemented in the RIC, RICAPP and NRTRIC projects to push the traffic steering e2e use case forward, which makes it a more intelligent RAN. The newly created SMO project is also worth special mention for the quick momentum that it has gained in contributing to O-RAN automation and management within just 3 months.”
“Nokia continues to be very active in O-RAN and a major contributor to the O-RAN specifications,” said Pasi Toivanen, Head of Edge Cloud Platforms at Nokia. “With the Cherry Release, Nokia is contributing to the Near-Real-Time RIC and the E2 interface to advance RAN programmability, network openness, and the introduction of AI/ML intelligence to the network. The contributions also deliver increased robustness, more xApp framework capabilities and enhanced manageability of RIC platform and xApps.”
“Radisys continues to contribute actively to O-RAN standardization and open source development. In the Cherry release, Radisys enhanced O-DU L2 implementation to support UE attach, and integrated with PHY (O-DU Low) through the FAPI interface to enable end-to-end testing, said Ganesh Shenbagaraman, Head of Integrated Products and Ecosystems at Radisys.
“highstreet technologies substantially contributes to O1/OAM within both O-RAN and OSC,” said Alfons Mittermaier, Managing Director of highstreet technologies. “We expect the disaggregated O-RAN architecture to become a door opener for small and medium sized enterprises and will deploy the Cherry release in a 5G reference network in Berlin.”
“HCL has contributed to the O-RAN Software Community across different Work Groups starting with the Cherry Release,” said Ramesh Sriraman, the Head of Telecom Center of Excellence at HCL. “We Improved Near-Real-Time RIC platform CI/CD deployment, automation, performance & scale; introduced AI/ML intelligence to RAN network via xApps; and contributed the initial implementation of the O-RAN O1 interface in the O-DU. It is a great honor for HCL to develop together with the OSC team.”
To learn more about the O-RAN Software Community Cherry release please read this O-RAN Blog post, and to access the code, check out the O-RAN Software Community website.
The O-RAN Software Community continues to be open to any participants that want to get involved in the creation of software for future RAN – for more details please visit https://www.o-ran.org/software.
About O-RAN ALLIANCE
The O-RAN ALLIANCE is a world-wide community of more than 240 mobile operators, vendors, and research & academic institutions operating in the Radio Access Network (RAN) industry. As the RAN is an essential part of any mobile network, the O-RAN ALLIANCE’s mission is to re-shape the industry towards more intelligent, open, virtualized and fully interoperable mobile networks. The new O-RAN standards will enable a more competitive and vibrant RAN supplier ecosystem with faster innovation to improve user experience. O-RAN based mobile networks will at the same time improve the efficiency of RAN deployments as well as operations by the mobile operators. To achieve this, the O-RAN ALLIANCE publishes new RAN specifications, releases open software for the RAN, and supports its members in integration and testing of their implementations.
For more information please visit www.o-ran.org.
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NHL Bye Weeks Could be Leading to Higher Scores
Finding an edge in baseball gambling can occasionally be tough and most of the time that it ends in a blown tire and a complete yard sale. There are, however, a few tendencies that seem to stay true year in and year out and I have identified one in respect to NHL scoring that I believe could be advantageous to TV ratings and, even furthermore, to your sportsbook account.
The tendency I am talking of is that scoring goes up — way up — when teams get rest. Last night, the initial slate after the all-star game, was a microcosm of the as we saw that a total of 99 goals played in 14 games. That’s over seven goals per match, and an OVER/UNDER record of 11-2-1. That crazy night closed out per month which saw a significant growth in scoring that raised the NHL goals per match league moderate to 5.46 and watched teams article a 185-162-31 OVER/UNDER record — a six percent increase in OVERs from the previous months.
A potential reason behind this boost in scoring is the recently instituted bye weeks. The NHL realized that scoring started to dip in January because of the extreme schedule its players were subjected to and wanted to do something to curb the trend. It is a well-established actuality that if scoring goes , so do evaluations, and also this bye week is an easy way to get players rested a little to give that scoring the tiny boost it requires in the dog days of the NHL season without creating a basic change to the rule book. These bye weeks will conclude at the end of the month and that I believe that you will almost immediately see scoring go back down to normal.
A Couple of teams to target on the OVER right are the Wild, Capitals, Blackhawks, Penguins, Stars, Jets and Blues. Throughout the month of January, those teams combined to get a 62-22-8 OVER/UNDER record and should simply continue to do damage on the scoresheet in the next month or so. One thing you may notice is that all these teams come in the Central and Metropolitan branches. These are both highest-scoring divisions in hockey and it is not near.
One thing to look out for is a shift in NHL totals. Books are slow to correct NHL lines and when they dothey probably already missed the tendency or are attempting to convince you to bet 1 way or another. Whenever your publication starts throwing out totals of 6 and 6.5, err on the side of caution and possibly avoid those games completely. That said, you should hammer the OVER whenever you find some of those groups I mentioned previously receive a total of 5 or 5.5 until the current scoring tendency stops.
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Season seven of My Big Fat Fabulous Life is about to kick off. This year, Whitney Way Thore is back with a new man in tow. In fact, she is engaged. Like many of the other TLC programs, this one is getting quite a bit of attention. Promos show that Whitney and her new man fell in love in Paris. However, it seems the star is getting fat-shamed for taking risks in her larger than life body that people would rather not see.
People love Whitney because she is larger than life. She is not afraid to attempt things that even some slender people wouldn’t try. She never lets her size stop her. While society has come leaps and bounds with regards to having a healthy body image, there are still some people that think large women are revolting. When she released a photo in Paris wearing lingerie, some fans were mortified.
Whitney had a red, satin nightie on, and she was lying on the floor with her legs propped in the air. It was supposed to be a sexy pose, but some people found it revolting rather than appealing. She was using the photo as an opportunity to tell others that you can be large and still be beautiful. However, some people didn’t hold back their tongue when they saw the picture.
Thankfully, in true Whitney fashion, she didn’t let the haters get her down. In fact, she took the chance to clap back at them on Instagram. She told them that if they didn’t like what they saw that they didn’t have to look. Every girl wishes to be a size two with the perfect body, but many people will never see those days. You must learn to embrace your body and love yourself regardless of what’s on the outside.
The good news is that Whitney has lost a great deal of weight. She has competed in weightlifting competitions and works out with a personal trainer. Fans can see that she has lost some significant weight, but many still feel the weight loss is not enough to post revealing pictures. It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. If Whitney and her fiancé are happy with her body, then she can turn a deaf ear to all the negative comments.
Still, people don’t like to be fat-shamed, even if they are comfortable in their own skin. Season seven promises to be full of adventure, and fans can’t wait till the January 7th premiere date.
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Simone de Beauvoir: Freedom and forgiveness
BY Artie Ahmad
Reading Time: 17 min
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SKYE C. CLEARY in the-tls.co.uk
Footnotes to Plato is a TLS Online series appraising the works and legacies of the great thinkers and philosophers
Soon after Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe (1949) was released in France to great fanfare and controversy, Blanche Knopf, the co-founder of the New York publishing house Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., heard about it. Excited by the buzz, and initially under the impression that it was a sex manual, she sought the advice of an expert in sexual behavior: a retired zoology professor and insect specialist named Howard M. Parshley. He told her that it was not dogmatically feminist, but rather “intelligent, learned, and well-balanced”, and was subsequently asked to translate it into English.
Beauvoir wrote The Second Sex after female suffrage was already taking hold, and her philosophy unintentionally inspired a new “wave” of feminism that ushered in no-fault divorce, academic gender studies, greater access to education, and contraception, which made sexual discrimination at work and marital rape illegal, and granted women other rights that helped them to overcome being what Beauvoir called “prey to the species” and to take control of their own destiny. Beauvoir wrote The Second Sex as a purely theoretical work; yet she was pleased that it inspired activists, such as Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem and Kate Millett. In an interview with Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber for French television in 1975, Beauvoir said that initially she had thought overthrowing capitalism would resolve the inequalities between the sexes. It was only later that she realized women’s situation was no better in the USSR, Czechoslovakia, or the Communist Party, for example, than it was in capitalist societies, and she decided to become more actively engaged in the feminist struggle.
Existentialism, as Beauvoir conceived it, was a living and practical philosophy. She did plenty of theorizing too – but she said her goal was to think through concrete problems, exploring potential solutions. She published essays, as well as novels, plays, memoirs and personal letters, which gave her more freedom to explore the challenges of the human condition.
For example, Jean-Pierre – a character in Beauvoir’s play Les Bouches Inutiles (Who Shall Die) – is disgusted with the way in which his town in fourteenth-century Flanders is being managed; he turns down a prestigious government job in the name of keeping his hands clean. But when he finds out that the administration plans to banish women, children, the old and the weak from the town during a siege, he regrets his quietism. “What stupid arrogance!” he tells the woman he loves, “I was a coward, and I have condemned you to die by remaining silent”. He campaigns for the government to change its policy so as to respect the basic human rights of its citizens – and succeeds. Jean-Pierre’s realization is a reflection of Beauvoir’s broad call to action: to become engagé – to be committed and active participants in creating the conditions of our lives.
Beauvoir was reluctant to be categorized as an existentialist, or even philosopher, but posterity begs to differ. She has since become one of the most widely-read philosophers, existentialist thinkers and feminists of all time – largely because of The Second Sex, although in 1954, her novel The Mandarins also won the Prix Goncourt.
In The Second Sex, Beauvoir began with the question: “What is a woman?” The answer, she found, was irritatingly complex. What started as an essay evolved into almost 1,000 pages of historical and philosophical analysis, which took her just fourteen months to write. As Beauvoir developed her philosophy in Parisian cafés in the 1940s, she became acutely aware of the inequalities between the sexes. One of her central themes underpinning the book is the Satrean maxim that “existence precedes essence”, meaning that we are thrown into the world (we exist) and then create our being (our essence) through our choices. If we’re prevented from choosing, then that’s oppression; if we choose to give up our freedom, then that’s what Beauvoir called a “moral fault”. The Second Sex became an in-depth philosophical investigation of how oppression, and women’s acceptance of it, shaped women’s situations.
The emphasis on situation is one of the key factors that distinguishes Beauvoir from other existentialists. For Beauvoir, we are free, but we are also thrown into contexts where we don’t always have the freedom to choose. This is very different from Jean-Paul Sartre’s emphasis on radical freedom; by his lights, any attempt to blame our situation for our predicament is a denial of freedom – a form of bad faith. In Being and Nothingness, Sartre imagined an impassable crag – a “brute existent”, to use a Heideggerian term – and suggested that it’s only impassable if one had imagined that it would be possible to climb it. In a not-so-subtle attack on this idea, Beauvoir argues in Ethics of Ambiguity that, “If a door refuses to open, let us accept not opening it and there we are free. But by doing that, one manages only to save an abstract notion of freedom. It is emptied of all content and all truth”. Whereas for Sartre, “success is not important to freedom”, Beauvoir’s point is that without the possibility to act – if we’re limited by our situation – then freedom is rendered impotent. We may be free to scale a crag, but unless we have the power to do it, it means nothing.
Beauvoir’s most revolutionary idea, which appeared in The Second Sex, is that, “One is not born, but rather becomes, woman”. The meaning of this has been debated ever since she wrote it. One way it can be understood is that although sex is biological, gender is socially and culturally constructed. The biological facts of a woman’s body do not mean necessarily that her role in society is to be a mother and housewife or that a man’s role is to be the breadwinner. Beauvoir argued that flawed logic such as this – that overemphasizes the biological aspects of life and reduces people to their anatomy – had been used to keep women in their role as “the second sex”.
We are all rooted in biology, but that doesn’t limit our futures in any meaningful way – hence her statement that “within the human collectivity nothing is natural”. We can’t deny the facts of our bodies – what she calls our “facticity” – but the assumption that our biology sets a specific destiny for us is mere prejudice. Gestating babies is a natural female animal function; the obligation to rear children is not. Rather it’s an engagement, a commitment that is chosen or rejected. Differences in the ways the sexes assert themselves are more about our situation than some “mysterious essence”. Although Beauvoir comes dangerously close to victim-blaming when she says that women have been complicit because they put up with it, she also acknowledges that women’s acceptance was a problem-solving strategy to negotiate the traditions, roles and constraints imposed on them.
This is where Beauvoir’s nuanced point about situation reaches its climax. Yes, we’re free, but it is always freedom in situation. Our freedom is violated when we’re in situations that close down the possibility of choosing into an open future. Those who are stuck in ignorance or oppressive situations are robbed of their freedom. Individuals can rebel against it, yet challenging social norms often comes at a high cost, which is why The Second Sex concludes with an urgent call to action for collective change – for women to challenge their oppression, embrace their freedom and live authentically by pursuing self-chosen projects and careers. The first step is economic independence; but we also need moral, social and cultural changes for relationships between the sexes to become one of fraternity, friendship and love instead of conquests and defeats. In an interview with Susan J. Brison in 1976, Beauvoir said, “I’m certain, in fact, that this idea of domination is one of the features of the masculine universe that must be totally destroyed, that we must look for reciprocity, collaboration, etc”.
Beauvoir’s ideas about how situations modify freedom also have wider implications beyond feminism to discussions on punishment, forgiveness and vengeance. Originally published in 1946 in Les temps modernes – a French journal edited by Sartre, Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Raymond Aron and others – Beauvoir’s essay “An Eye for an Eye”, written amid the war trials in the aftermath of the Second World War, considers the situation of criminals and the desire for vengeance.
Justice, Beauvoir proposes, affirms that we have a reciprocal relationship with other people, and if this relationship is disrupted, we want them to “pay for it”, to restore equivalence to our situation. Imagine you’re in a crowded place and you’re pushed. It feels like you’re a mere obstacle for the other, an object, a thing. You want an acknowledgement that the reciprocity between you and the shover has been violated. An apology can quickly disarm the situation and restore the respect between you and the other. If an apology is not forthcoming, it’s not unusual to want justice. Perhaps you address the perpetrator in a more-or-less polite manner, perhaps you hit them with your most scathing dagger-like look, or perhaps you give them a shove in return. This desire for restitution doesn’t just hold on a personal level – it’s an effort to maintain a level of respect between all of us. Beauvoir writes that, “the respect that he demands for himself, each person claims for his loved ones and finally for all men”.
Though one may well be angry at being pushed, usually the shover isn’t truly evil. More likely, it was an accident, or perhaps carelessness. Evil people will terrible things on others. For Beauvoir, “an abomination arises only at the moment that a man treats fellow men like objects, when by torture, humiliation, servitude, assassination, one denies them their existence as men”. It’s true that we’re objects for others, but we’re also subjects – and not to acknowledge this interior aspect of another’s being is violent. For Sartre, we’re always trying to reduce each other to an object, or reduce ourselves to an object for the other, and the attempt to rob one another of freedom forever traps us in sadomasochistic relationships. For Beauvoir, it’s an atrocity and to deny another’s subjectivity is the “sole sin” against humanity.
Robert Brasillach, the Editor of the Fascist newspaper Je suis partout, committed Beauvoir’s sole sin when, during the Nazi occupation of France, he published the pseudonyms and locations of French Jews, some of whom Beauvoir knew personally. Beauvoir sat in the press gallery during Brasillach’s trial, and when a petition circulated to save him from the death penalty, calling for “solidarity as writers”, Beauvoir refused to sign.
Punishment, Beauvoir thought, is a necessary evil against evil. If one is religious, one doesn’t face this problem. God is the ultimate judge and “He alone has the right to punish”. Others, however, do face the problem of how to uphold human values. Beauvoir thought she understood Brasillach’s situation reasonably well. She didn’t want him dead. But, she said, “there are words as murderous as gas chambers”. She didn’t believe in a God who would deliver ultimate justice, and she couldn’t excuse his advocacy of genocide.
Charles de Gaulle refused to pardon Brasillach and he was executed by firing squad. It might have seemed like this was a proper punishment but, for Beauvoir, this was not true vengeance; the victimizer escaped the experience of being in a reciprocal situation and, “in dying he slips out of the world; he shrugs off his punishment”. Nevertheless, although such punishment is a last resort, Beauvoir thought it important to reinforce the notion that actions have consequences, that life and death have meaning, and “it is not shocking to affirm them at the cost of a life”.
However, just as it’s absurd to hate a natural disaster for killing people, so too is it absurd to hate common criminals who do not intentionally violate our humanity. Soldiers in war, Beauvoir suggests, don’t deserve to be hated – not only because they act under orders, but because on both sides, the soldiers are in very similar situations. There is a reciprocity of situations.
Common crimes might seem horrendous in an objective sense. Yet, Beauvoir proposes, it’s a different story when we take into account the subjective experience of the perpetrator. Maybe the perpetrator made a mistake, or succumbed to an unfortunate impulse. Maybe they thought they were doing what was in their best interest at the time, or maybe they just weren’t thinking at all. We ought not be so quick to judge:
It requires a lot of arrogance and very little imagination to judge another. How can one measure the temptations a man could have faced? How can one appreciate the weight of the circumstances that give an act its real shape? One would have to bring his upbringing, complexes, failures, and entire past – the totality of his engagement in the world – into account.
Brasillach published multiple names repeatedly, intentionally, and fully aware of the murderous consequences of his doing so. Yet, in cases where the crime is an aberration, Beauvoir suggests erring on the side of forgiveness, since not all victimizers intentionally degrade the other to a thing: they don’t intentionally strip another person of subjectivity. A person might not understand what was wrong with their actions until they see it in a new light, through the eyes of their victims. In such cases, we could focus on rehabilitation instead of punishment. Beauvoir writes,
One reeducates children, the ignorant, those populations that are ill-informed; one does not punish them. Neither does one punish the ill or those mad people in whom conscience has been annihilated. And everyone knows that even a normal adult always acts out of situations that he has not chosen, that numerous physiological and sociological factors weigh on him.
To understand is to accept, and if we understand the situation, the subjective experience of the victimizer, then often the crimes lose much of what makes them awful. In one of her more controversial statements, Beauvoir goes so far to say, “One could explain even Hitler’s conduct, if one knew him well enough”. Still, for Beauvoir, explaining a situation doesn’t mean forgiving it. Even in those cases when we do understand the situation, all we understand is the context in which a person chooses. “Certainly, man is wretched, scattered, mired in the given, but he is also a free being. He can reject the most urgent temptations.”
Beauvoir’s acknowledgement of the tension between freedom and facticity reveals itself here again: it’s true that we’re free and responsible for our actions, but we’re also clogged in situations. For Beauvoir, as for Sartre, we are the sum of our actions, but we’re also more than that. We’re also our future and intentions. We can’t escape our past actions, but we ought not be slaves to them – and we ought not to reduce people to being slaves to their past – because people can always redeem themselves through new actions:
Can one condemn an entire man on the basis of one moment of his life? This would be all the more cruel because this weakness that one reproaches him for is already in the past. It does not exist anymore as the expression of a freedom, but as something fixed that the guilty party trails behind him in spite of himself. Since he is other than the person who committed the crime, can we still hate him? And what good is served by punishment?
Ultimately, Beauvoir argues that “all punishment is partially a failure” because, to restore justice in the world, to make one really pay for their crime, the perpetrator needs to experience the horror of it. That means not only the suffering, but also the situation of the victim. When those in concentration camps were freed and slaughtered their jailers, they came close to successful vengeance because, she says, “the victims and their torturers had really exchanged situations”.
Nevertheless, Beauvoir is extremely reluctant to allow for private vengeance. Certainly, “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” has what she calls “a whiff of magic. It strives to satisfy some unknown dark god of symmetry. But, above all, it corresponds to a profound human need”. However, the principle serves only to send avengers floundering into a bottomless quagmire of revenge and injustice. Social justice might be enticing, but without due process, it risks descending into a tyranny: those seeking vengeance can easily get carried away with their will to power; they make mistakes, and the wrong people get punished.
Court trials aim to address such issues, but Beauvoir points out that they too are deeply flawed. Often they’re an exercise in drama and pomp, where disinterested judges following abstract processes dish out arbitrary punishments that are so far removed from the crime that they don’t provide any reasonable restitution for the wrong committed. While we might be tempted to think that objectivity in the courtroom is ideal, Beauvoir counters:
The official tribunals claim to take refuge behind an objectivity that is the worst part of the Kantian heritage. They want to be only an expression of impersonal right and deliver verdicts that would be nothing more than the subsumption of a particular case under a universal law. But the accused exists in his singularity, and his concrete presence does not take on the guise of an abstract symbol so easily.
This is, however, the system we have. One of the main problems with Beauvoir’s approach is that there is no concrete way to understand whether a victimizer intentionally treats another as an object, or whether there is some other motivation, or whether they’re lying. The purpose of courts is to take such things into account, but whether they do so in an effective manner is another question. Moreover, forgiving attitudes can be taken advantage of.
Yet the implication of Beauvoir’s thinking is that positive education, rehabilitation, and putting our confidence in people to redeem themselves are better paths than vengeance. Forgiving doesn’t mean forgetting or letting people get away with atrocities; rather, it means being more finely attuned to individuals’ situations, respecting one another, and upholding the dignity of humankind. Whether it’s the tension between the sexes or between victim and victimizer, reciprocity and collaboration provide a clearer path towards fraternity and friendship. We’re all “gnawed away by nothingness”, as Beauvoir says; we are all adrift in the world together and find ourselves in ambiguous situations as freedoms constantly bumping into one another and into brute existents, but our lives are also interconnected like stones in an arch. Such is the human condition, Beauvoir writes: “For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity”.
Skye C. Cleary, the Associate Director of the Center for New Narratives in Philosophy at Columbia University, is the author of Existentialism and Romantic Love, 2015
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Which Beach Boys albums/songs do you consider to be psychedelic, if any?
I guess the term psychedelic isn't necessarily rigidly defined but was wondering which albums/songs would qualify here.
So which, if any, come to mind?
RubberSoul13
Re: Which Beach Boys albums/songs do you consider to be psychedelic, if any?
Of course the music surrounding smile has its moments...as does "Friends" and "2020"...I guess I'd say that's about it? None of them are psychedelic albums by any means, though.
DonnyL
Probably just Smiley Smile, 20/20, and Surf’s Up as albums.
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juggler
I guess I'd define "psychedelic music" as music that *sounds* like it was created by or for people under the influence of psychedelic drugs (e.g., LSD, mushrooms, peyote). On that basis, the only album that I might classify as psychedelic is Smiley Smile. With a few exceptions like GV, Gettin Hungry and H&V, most of Smiley sounds like it was or could have been part of a kind of acid trip soundtrack.
Brian has said that he wrote certain songs like "California Girls" while under the influence of LSD, and while I have no reason to doubt him, it also sounds like something he could have written while *not* under the influence of the LSD, so I really wouldn't classify it as psychedelic. Ditto Pet Sounds. Ditto perhaps 2/3 of Smile. I mean, there's studio chatter suggesting that the Boys are on LSD while cutting "Our Prayer," but it also sounds like something they could have done while not under the influence. On that basis, I don't consider the Smile versions of Surf's Up, Wonderful, Wind Chimes, Vega-Tables, TOMP/Sunshine, Barnyard, Great Shape, etc. to be psychedelic per se.
I guess I would classify Fire/Mrs O Leary's Cow as psychedelic. I think if you asked some listeners whether that one sounds like it was part of an acid trip, they might say yes. The Iron Horse and Grand Coolie sections of Cabinessence are also fairly psychedelic, iMO. Ditto a few other Smile bits like He Gives Speeches and You're Welcome.
Moments of the Smiley Smile and Wild Honey albums, Sail Plane Song. Nothing close to actual psych rock though (a good thing imo - imagine them trying to do 13th Floor Elevators style stuff??)
NateRuvin
"I had to prove that I could make it alone"...
I've always thought side 2 of Today! has a lot of elements of psychedelia, almost a stoned doo wop feel. All the tempos are slow, the instruments all blend together, very introspective lyrics.
The spoken word break during Amusement Parks USA is psychedelic as hell.
In my opinion, every album in between Today! and Love You features psychedelic moments. Whether it's the prominent genre like with Pet Sounds, or one of many genres (Sunflower, Surf's Up, etc)
That's a good point about Amusement Parks USA. Pet Sounds' influence on Sgt Pepper is, of course, widely discussed. But I've often thought that AP USA is under appreciated in that respect. Brian hit upon the sort of bizarre carnival theme 2 years before the Beatles.
Quote from: juggler on December 28, 2020, 01:29:24 AM
I totally agree with this! Sadly, nobody seems to take that song seriously because it's considered filler (wrongly so!).
Personally I think that parts of Wild Honey are kind of underrated in terms of being "semi-psychedelic". Lookin' at Tomorrow is a later sort-of-psychedelic production, it always reminds me of The Notorious Byrd Brothers.
Very Extremely Dan
I've often thought that there are two different types of psychedelic music that were popularized in the 60's. While both visual, in one the lyrics, arrangements, textures all combine to create a recognizable "sound painting" for the listener to enter, a'la Penny Lane or Amusement Parks USA. The instruments and textures sound like or are directly from the world the lyrics are describing.....Cabin Essence is a classic example of this...and in the other style of psych (which came to dominate) the instruments and textures themselves create their own unique visual sound world, think Hendrix's guitar panning from speaker to speaker. So I find quite a bit of the Boys catalog to fall in the former "sound painting" style...and occasionally a song like "All This is That" or "All I Wanna Do" are more the latter "unique sound world".....though it could be argued that the repeating layers of "mantra" of "All This is That" support it's lyric theme......and the fuzz bass and echoed vocals on "All I Wanna Do" do feel like a warm bath....
guitarfool2002
"Barba non facit aliam historici"
If the term psychedelic as applied to music were easier to define, this wouldn't be as much of a challenge or debate. But when you have listeners and journalists calling "Forever Changes" psychedelic alongside "Incense and Peppermints" and 13th Floor Elevators, the term becomes a convenient catch-all rather than an accurate description.
For me, to my ears, "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" was probably the most forward-thinking and psychedelic composition and production Brian had done, and it was ahead of the curve rather than following a trend. Literally nothing sounded or read quite like it before, and it set the bar so high especially for a non-single album track that it's hard to beat, though he did eventually. The producers of Mad Men nailed it when they used this song in one of the series' most memorable scenes. It's like "Tomorrow Never Knows", it is so far-out and modern and yes, psychedelic, that there becomes a clear before and after when you hear that. You can't hear something like that and expect the same band to revert to "Love Me Do", just like you can't be totally absorbed into "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" and expect to hear something more lyrically and sonically akin to 1963 from the same group. However, that's exactly what ended up happening.
Adding to the list of psychedelia: The entire Smiley Smile album. Most of "Smile" released and unreleased. "Good Vibrations" obviously. "Time To Get Alone". "Cool Cool Water". "Let's Go Away For Awhile". The intro to "California Girls".
"All of us have the privilege of making music that helps and heals - to make music that makes people happier, stronger, and kinder. Don't forget: Music is God's voice." - Brian Wilson
SaltyMarshmallow
I'm a fan of the description Brian coined, 'psychedelicate'.
Lonely Summer
I'm not sure anymore what psycadelic means. Years ago, I always heard the term used to describe Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, so I associated it with music created in the studio, using the studio as an instrument. Music that could not be replicated live on stage by a 4 piece band.
These days, though, I hear the term psycadelic often applied to raw, underproduced 60's rock - not exactly garage rock, but certainly not stuff recorded in a top end studio.
I can't think of any BB's music that fits the latter category.
Smiley Smile, except for two tracks, is very sparsely produced, so it's not trying to be Pet Sounds or Smile or Pepper.
Good Vibrations is psycadelic. Maybe Heroes and Villains.
Beyond that, I'm not sure.
Aum Bop Diddit
Brian wasn't psychedelic -- he was psychedelicate!
Hey! Those are *MY* wind chimes!
Don Malcolm
Agree with GF that IJWMFTT is "psychedelic"--primarily, to my mind, as a kind of first strike into more elaborate, elliptical melodies which are often found in the more ambitious psychedelic music that followed. (And, of course, the theremin.)
I would venture that there is more blues than R&B animating psychedelic music, particularly the SF bands, which puts GV in a unique context--psychedelic more in compositional technique than in overall texture, but achieving analogous effects due to the collision of different sounds that create an indelible, kaleidoscopic effect on the listener.
"Cabinessence" has some of that, particularly in the pictorial details embedded in the musical arrangement--in "Iron Horse" and "Grand Coulee" sections for sure, and Carl's slightly dissonant vocal coda in "Home on the Range."
Early versions of H&V have a version of that, but it's not really there in the SS version.
The more overtly sectionalized songs on SS have their own version, but this is more significant for what we might call the transition to songwriting employing "tags"--final sections that are not choruses. This is, again, something that the music has in common structurally with the more ambitious psychedelic bands.
I don't really think anything else on Pet Sounds is psychedelic aside from IJWMFTT. The title instrumental track is jazzy and is more of a sendup of earlier 60s "tiki" colliding with big band arrangements that the Wrecking Crew would do with pop-jazz singers. Let's Go Away is the romantic side of that type of composition/arrangement. It's like Brian was working through an entire series of expanded arrangements one by one with each track on PS, and IJWMFTT is the one that proved to be the harbinger of what would follow.
The vocal coda in Dennis' "Celebrate The News" is a trippy little rave-up--and is that Charles Lloyd's debut with the BBs with those brief flute filagrees?
"All I Wanna Do" is post-psychedelic pop, sort of a brilliant reimagining of "trippy" sounds that elevate what would otherwise be a downright sappy little love song.
And, hell, what about "Feel Flows" itself? Pretty trippy flute in that track, far more prominent than in "Celebrate the News"--was Carl a fan of Jethro Tull's "Bourée"?
The instrumental break in "Steamboat" is harkening back to something in that "psychedelic" realm, a hazy, slowed-down echo of a psychedelic guitar solo.
That's it--I'm all tripped out...
NickandthePassions
I’ve heard that Friends is great on psychedelics.
"Living a dream
Don't wanna sleep
Might miss something"
Joel Goldenberg
Sail Plane Song, All I Wanna Do.
My Smile Solution
Pet Sounds - not psychedelic but I Just Wasn't Made For These Times is
Smile - Mostly psychedelic : Good Vibrations, Heroes and Villains, Do You Like Worms, Cabin Essence, Vega-Tables, etc
Smiley Smile: Somewhat psychedelic - Good Vibrations, Heroes and Villains (again), Little Pad, Fall Breaks, Vegetables, etc
Wild Honey: Not psychedelic...
Friends: A little psychedelic: Friends, Diamond Head, Transcendental Meditation.
20/20: A little psychedelic : Time to get Alone, Never Learn Not to Love, Cabinessence
Sunflower : A little psychedelic : All I Wanna Do, Cool Cool Water.
Surfs Up : A Little psychedelic : Maybe Surfs up and Take a Load off your feet and Feel Flows
Holland: Steamboat! , parts of Mt Vernon EP
That's about it, outtakes like My Solution (Original 1970), Sail Plane Song, Can't Wait too Long, Over The waves and Rio Grande ( Brian Wilson Solo) I would regard also as psychedelic.
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Shifty Commuters, Bus Stop / A Cuppa Tea
Dave Richter
Review in Issue 12-2 | Summer 2000
This double-bill is performed by a duo with a collective performance background that includes text, movement, clown, performance art, video and sculpture. Shifty Commuters draw on all available resources to bring us these pieces of multi-media performance. Is it theatre? Performance art? Video installation? Who knows. However, what is clear is that Tom Beauchamp and Bia Oliviera give us two very different, funny, engaging and fascinating pieces.
The first piece, Bus Stop, concentrates on exactly that – a bus stop. Two clowns are waiting for the number 38 bus. The frustration sets in, revealing the differences between the two – one is uptight, the other totally flaky. Finally they journey into another dimension. All this is interspersed with an attention-grabbing sound and video collage ably supplied by Paul Vinell and the company.
The second of the two pieces focuses on that great British tradition – the cuppa. With neither of the performers coming from Blighty – but from New Zealand and Brazil respectively – this is some risk. However, what we get is a fascinating insight into a peculiarly British ritual, the vicar’s tea party. An RP voice-over provides advice on the making of tea, Joe Public gives his opinion, and a scientist tinkers with taste in the background, as a clown deals with the mundane world of crockery in front.
There is something very comforting about this piece, as it takes us on a nostalgic trip to the heart of the aromatic infusion. We recognise the familiar in a new way, and feel warm and cosy as the tea party commences once more. It is often said that audiences vote with their feet, here it seemed that they didn’t want to leave at all.
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LEGO BIONICLE – exciting updates!
by Thita (admin) on October 14, 2014
There has been so much new information on LEGO BIONICLE since our last update (see: LEGO Bionicle Confirmed & Teaser Video!) that I felt it was time to write another round-up article about all the exciting details. 🙂
First of all, the official LEGO BIONICLE website is now live (follow the link to get there) with high resolution images and bios on all of the main characters. There are also pictures of their masks and weapons. And there is a link to the official LEGO BIONICLE message-board if you want to chat with other BIONICLE fans. Below is the bio of all the six main characters.
LEGO BIONICLE – GALI (Master of Water): Gali is friendly and peaceful. But when the situation calls for it, she can be as fierce as a raging ocean. She finds injustice intolerable and always goes out of her way to help the ones who need it. Gali’s mellow ways have made her the most liked among the heroes. She is generous, a good listener and friend. Only one little thing: she just can’t seem to tell a joke right! Powers: Water control and the ability to out-swim any known creature.
LEGO BIONICLE – KOPAKA (Master of Ice): Kopaka is noble and reserved. Upholding his own strict moral code he strives to be perfect and always “do the right thing”. A fact that often makes him appear formal and even cold in the eyes of others. Luckily Kopaka’s clumsiness and his not too solid direction sense help the other heroes remember that, after all, Kopaka is just a Toa like them. Power: Freezing touch and resistance to cold.
LEGO BIONICLE – LEWA (Master of Jungle): Lewa is a true daredevil, a cunning rogue whose foolhardy manners have often gotten him into trouble. His rebel approach is a double-edged sword that the other heroes both love and hate. On one hand, Lewa finds new ways, on the other these ways sometimes lead to new trouble! Powers: Communes with plants and the wind.
LEGO BIONICLE – ONUA (Master of Earth): Onua is grounded and wise. He likes to spend his time alone meditating under the stars. Like an underground cave, receptive and silent. And… Snoring! Though Onua rarely says a word, the other heroes have come to respect this sleepy giant. They know that when he speaks, his crude voice caries guidance and wisdom. Powers: Night vision and the ability to create earthquakes.
LEGO BIONICLE – POHATU (Master of Stone): Pohatu is unyielding and fearless. Renowned for his unbreakable stamina, he is arguably the toughest of all the heroes. With firm resolution and mysterious stubbornness Pohatu strides forward as a fearless vanguard leading the way of the heroes. Well almost fearless. Pohatu does NOT like the dark. Powers: Breaks and hurls rocks with unspeakable strength.
LEGO BIONICLE – TAHU (Master of Fire): Tahu is hot-tempered and brave. He likes to excel and thinks of himself as the most heroic of the heroes. His forgetful nature has gotten him into trouble at time, but Tahu seems to be born under a very lucky star, and somehow always come out on top. Powers: Fire control and resistance to heat.
There is also an interesting video that introduces us to the story, and where it all began. I’m sure this will open up a lot of discussion amongst LEGO BIONICLE fans. At this point there are no plans for a TV show related to BIONICLE, instead the saga will be revealed though videos on the official LEGO BIONICLE website, so you might want to keep checking for updates.
Below is the official press-release for the return of LEGO BIONICLE from the recent New York City Comic Con. Attendees of the event also received an exclusive LEGO BIONICLE mask in clear color (pictures below). There is also a very interesting and detailed recap of the Comic Con BIONICLE reveal at FBTB.net (direct link to article).
THE LEGO GROUP REVEALS DETAILS OF JANUARY 1, 2015 GLOBAL LEGO BIONICLE LAUNCH
-Richly Reimagined Storyline Will Engage Fans of All Ages-
NEW YORK, New York City Comic Con (October 9, 2014) – The LEGO Group, makers of the world’s leading construction toys, today unveiled detailed product information, principle graphic design and a video short for the LEGO BIONICLE franchise onstage at New York City Comic Con. Featuring a range of constructible action figures, LEGO BIONICLE is based on a new and engaging storyline that will be available globally on January 1, 2015.
“We are thrilled to announce the relaunch of the LEGO BIONICLE franchise, which was one of our most popular LEGO franchises and our first ‘constraction’ or constructible action figure line,” said Michael McNally, Senior Director of Brand Relations, The LEGO Group. “We are eager to introduce and immerse a new generation of children in this rich character-driven world and can’t wait for fans of all ages to interact with the new story.”
Can the Toa Save Okoto From the Latest Threat? The new storyline takes place on the mythical island of Okoto, where the forces of darkness are on the move and the evil Makuta is once again materializing. He is overcome by the desire for the three mythic masks that will cast the world into darkness – the Mask of Creation, the Mask of Control and the Mask of Ultimate Power.
The desperate island inhabitants enlist six heroes – each masters of a sacred element – called the Toa- to help save their beloved island. The Toa must embark on a quest for Okoto’s ancient power masks that will allow them to unlock the full potential of their elemental powers. Only when the heroes are united, will they be able to battle the forces of evil, defeat Makuta and save Okoto.
To help fans bring the exciting story to life, The LEGO Group will offer a variety of exciting new LEGO BIONICLE sets from each of the different factions, ranging in price from $9.99 – $19.99 each:
Beginning January 2015 six new protector sets will be available including LEGO BIONICLE Protector of Jungle, LEGO BIONICLE Protector of Stone, LEGO BIONICLE Protector of Water, LEGO BIONICLE Protector of Earth, LEGO BIONICLE Protector of Ice and LEGO BIONICLE Protector of Fire.
In addition, six Toa sets will be also available in January 2015 including LEGO BIONICLE Gali – Master of Water, LEGO BIONICLE Pohatu – Master of Stone, LEGO BIONICLE Lewa – Master of Jungle, LEGO BIONICLE Onua – Master of Earth, LEGO BIONICLE Kopaka – Master of Ice and LEGO BIONICLE Tahu – Master of Fire, along with a Lord of Skull Spiders. (See videos below with pictures of all of the upcoming sets.)
➡ #70778 LEGO BIONICLE Protector of Jungle: Beware! The evil Skull Spider is mounting an attack deep in the jungle. Swoop to the defense of the Protectors’ village with the awesome Protector of Jungle, a sturdy, buildable figure featuring a dual-tone mask with pop-off trigger. Adjust the arms and legs to create fearsome battle poses. Then unleash the huge Air Elemental Flame Bow’s rapid shooter and send the Skull Spider scurrying for safety. 70 pieces. Price: $9.99
➡ #70779 LEGO BIONICLE Protector of Stone: Look out! The Skull Spider is lurking in the sand dunes near the Protectors’ desert village. Send out the mighty Protector of Stone to block the dangerous invader. Adjust the arms and legs of this durable figure for a variety of formidable battle poses. Whip up a vortex of sand with the giant Elemental Sandstorm Blaster and pin back the Skull Spider with the rapid shooter. Just don’t let this evil creature close enough to pop off that precious mask. 73 pieces. Price: $9.99
➡ #70779 LEGO BIONICLE Protector of Water: Watch out! The Skull Spider is trying to burst the bubbles of the Protectors’ underwater village. Blow this unwanted visitor out of the water with the Protector of Water’s rapid-shooting Elemental Torpedo Blaster. This robust figure, with BIONICLE head and shell and 2 turbines, is built for action play, so don’t delay – intercept the evil foe before it grabs the mask and seizes power from the Protectors. 71 pieces. Price: $9.99
➡ #70781 LEGO BIONICLE Protector of Earth: Underground alert! The crystal mine is under attack from the Skull Spider. Spin the Protector of Earth’s powerful crystal Star Drill to bore through rock and confront the evil intruder. If the Skull Spider latches onto the Protector’s BIONICLE head, it can pop the trigger and release the mask. Unleash the Elemental power of the rapid shooter to fend off the villain and keep control of the underground. 66 pieces. Price: $9.99
➡ #70782 LEGO BIONICLE Protector of Ice: Danger! The Skull Spider is leaping from a crack in the ice to attack the Protectors. Put the freeze on the evil intruder with the Protector of Ice’s rapid-shooting Elemental Ice Blaster. This mighty ice warrior with BIONICLE head and shell is built for ferocious battles, so spin the awesome ice saw blade and take down the Skull Spider before it can pop off the mask. 68 pieces. Price: $9.99 CAD $12.99
➡ #70783 LEGO BIONICLE Protector of Fire: Emergency! The Protector of Fire is under attack from the Skull Spider emerging from the molten lava lake. This sturdy, highly posable figure is fully equipped for the heat of battle, so strike back with the flame swords and open fire with the rapid-shooting Elemental Fire Blaster. You must take down the thieving invader before it can pop off the Protector’s mask. 69 pieces. Price: $9.99
➡ #70786 LEGO BIONICLE Gali – Master of Water: Gear up for an epic underwater duel to claim the precious Golden Mask of Water! Attach the shark fins to the feet of Gali – Master of Water and dive deep to the ancient ruins in the oceanic crater. Connect the fins to the harpoon to create a powerful elemental trident to attack the Skull Spider. Activate the battle arm to fend off its attempts to pop off Gali’s mask. The all-powerful Golden Mask simply must be safeguarded from evil forces. 87 pieces. Price: $14.99
➡ #70785 LEGO BIONICLE Pohatu – Master of Stone: Summon the awesome elemental power of Pohatu – Master of Stone to defeat the Skull Spider! Attach the convertible Jeterangs to the feet of this powerful, posable BIONICLE figure and launch into the sky. When you locate the Skull Spider, transform the Jeterangs into 2 huge Stormerang weapons and get ready to battle for the Golden Mask of Stone. Resist all attempts to pop off Pohatu’s mask, and activate the bashing battle arm to send the Skull Spider flying! 66 pieces. Price: $14.99
➡ #70784 LEGO BIONICLE Lewa – Master of Jungle: Match up against the evil Skull Spider with Lewa – Master of Jungle! Power up the dual-purpose X-glider to soar into the sky. When you spot the Skull Spider crawling from the ruins, swoop down to the ground and convert the X-glider into 2 massive battle axes. Prevent the thieving creature popping off Lewa’s mask using the 2 swords and turn the wheel to power up Lewa’s bashing battle arm. You must fight hard to protect the precious Golden Jungle Mask from the forces of evil. 85 pieces. Price: $14.99
➡ #70789 LEGO BIONICLE Onua – Master of Earth: Dig deep with Onua – Master of Earth to claim the mystical Golden Mask! This durable, highly posable figure with 4 golden BIONICLE shells and bashing battle arm is fully geared up for underground combat against the Skull Spider. Burrow underground with the turbo shovelers while evading the evil Skull Spider’s efforts to pop off Onua’s mask. Then convert his turbo shovelers into a massive earthquake hammer, the only tool powerful enough to break through to the Golden Mask. 108 pieces. Price: $19.99
➡ #70788 LEGO BIONICLE Kopaka – Master of Ice: Prepare for a chilling mountaintop conflict with Kopaka – Master of Ice! Watch out for the Skull Spider crawling from the snow, trying to pop off Kopaka’s mask. Adjust the arms and legs of this heavily armored figure to create fearsome battle poses. Fend off the evil creature’s attacks with the frost shield, bashing battle arm and the mighty Elemental Ice Spear. Get to the precious Golden Mask first then convert the shield into avalanche skis to escape. 97 pieces. Price: $19.99
➡ #70787 LEGO BIONICLE Tahu – Master of Fire: Heat up the BIONICLE action with Tahu – Master of Fire! Attach the lava surfboard to the feet of this powerful, posable figure and surf into the volcanic crater in adrenalin mode. Then turn the surfboard into 2 awesome elemental fire blades ready for combat. Activate the bashing battle arm to swipe away the Skull Spider’s attempts to pop off Tahu’s mask and get to the magical Golden Mask first. 89 pieces. Price: $19.99
➡ #70790 LEGO BIONICLE Lord of Skull Spiders: Patrol the entrance to the ancient city with the monstrous Lord of Skull Spiders! Protectors wanting to unlock the secrets of the city will have to get past this evil-eyed, 6-legged creature first. And the Lord of Skull Spiders has its own secret weapon – pull the rear lever to grip and crush anyone who gets too close! Combine with buildable LEGO BIONICLE Protector and Master sets for thrilling good vs. evil battles. 145 pieces. Price: $14.99
So I think that’s enough to digest for one day… what do you think? Are you excited about the return of LEGO BIONICLE? What do you think of the story? Feel free to share and discuss in the comment section below! 😉
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BLProductions October 14, 2014, 10:40 AM
Well, it looks exciting, especially for older fans I guess, but I’m gonna say “I knew it.” The prices are exactly what I thought: overpriced, based on size, not piece count. Although for me I think I’ll invest a little to give Metus a friend (or enemy, depending what he thinks of them). BTW, what group of Bionicles is Metus? I’m guessing he’s not a Toa. 😕
Also, I see that LEGO is giving their rapid-shooters a big push in those Protector sets. I’ve figured out how they work, too: you turn a gear connected to the axle that runs through the shooter, and a little bump (that gets turned by the axle) pushes/fires the 1×1 round plates out of the shooter. And that’s the rapid part: the faster the gear turns, the faster they fire. 😉
admin October 14, 2014, 10:56 AM
I’m gonna have to get myself a rapid shooter! That sounds so much fun! 🙄
Fikko3107 October 14, 2014, 1:16 PM
You know, I just remembered an interesting thing to note; most Bionicle waves often have this gimmick common to all of them; this only became really pronounced since around the 2004-2006 years. I think this could be a pretty good article…
admin October 14, 2014, 1:20 PM
Yes, that’s a very interesting topic. I will leave it for you though as I’m such a noob when it comes to Bionicle. I was in my dark ages by then. 😕
BLProductions October 14, 2014, 3:49 PM
I’m even more of a noob, since I barely knew about LEGO, and knew nothing of Bionicle (besides that it looked un-lego) when the theme was in production. 😕
Also, I just got my LEGO Shop holiday magazine, and it says that all four Hobbit sets will be available October 15 (aka tomorrow). 🙂
Yeah, I have been waiting for that day when they get officially released! I will probably write a post about them so our readers are aware. Maybe not tomorrow, as I have something else planned, but perhaps the following day. 🙂
Legozebra October 15, 2014, 10:04 AM
“Metus” is not a species, he is a character from the 2009 story arc who was known to be a traitor to the Agori and Glatorian heroes… This was all outside the “main” Matoran universe.
Fikko3107 October 14, 2014, 12:23 PM
Metus is an Agori; during the 2009 wave, after some revelations and stuff, the story shifted to another planet, Bara Magna, where the dethroned Great Spirit Mata Nui was casted away to. Bara Magna were inhabited by Matoran-like people known as the Agori, who settle disputes between villages by pitting their warriors, their “Glatorians” in arena battles. The dynamic might seem like Matoran-and-Toa-like at first, but it is vastly different.
BLProductions October 14, 2014, 12:47 PM
Ok, thanks! So would the Agori be considered as “good guys,” or are they just a neutral group of characters in the story?
Most are neutral, sort of, most of them are just trying to make a living. Out of the six in set form (I’m not counting those in the vehicle sets), two of them, Atakus and Zesk, are aligned to malevolent parties-though technically speaking, these two are a different species, though similar, to the Agori. Well, Zesk at least. Atakus I forgot. One of the remaining four is also secretly selling out the tribes to the villainous Skrall; is it Raanu, the Vulcanus Village Chief who just wants what’s best for the people? Is it Berix, the cowardly thief from Tajun? is it Metus, the Glatorian manager from Iconox? or is it Tarduk, treasure hunter from Tesara? I’ll let you check that yourself if you’re interested…
Let’s see… Metus is certainly weird, he absolutely detests doghouses, he doesn’t like Frank Rock… I’m getting carried away. I know nothing about the others. 😕 Oh wait, trick question. 🙂 It’s Metus, 99% sure. I read his mind. Am I right?
That’s right! In punishment, Mata Nui uses his Mask of Life’s powers to transform him into a talking snake. These events were chronicled in the fourth Bionicle movie, Bionicle: The Legend Reborn. The plot is weaker than the other movies, in my opinion, but the animation, besides the moving pins, at least, is top notch.
I think that I’ll admit that I cheated, and looked up the Agori before I submitted my response. I guess that Metus has known this the entire 4 years he’s been lying around my house, and never bothered to say so. 😕 And I wonder what kind of snake he turned into. Was it a Venomari, a Hypnobrai, an Anacondrai, a Fangpyre? 😉
Strider October 14, 2014, 10:47 AM
Huh. I don’t know much about the previous Bionicle theme, but this new update leaves me feeling a little underwhelmed. Not sure what I expected from the Lego group, but there are a lot of cliches to be found both in the legend and the characters. Two brothers, again, after Ninjago??? One seeks too much power and it leads to his destruction, blah blah blah. I hope that the story will develop and grow, because the legend and the characters so far don’t do much for me. I do like the sets, and there aren’t any rules saying I can’t make up my own characters, but I expected a deeper story after hearing so much good things about the old Bionicle. Still, this is just the beginning themes, so I might be pre judging it too much. I’d like to know how this legend compares to that of the old Bionicle.
Strider, you raise some good points. I’m not an expert on Bionicle, but I just emailed Fikko. Hopefully he can help us out with comparing this story and characters with the original.
Håkan October 14, 2014, 11:26 AM
Well, this is a reboot, and as I understood it, the old storyline was just too convoluted to be able to be used as a starting point.
Anyway, I bought a big box of Hero Factory/ Bionicle stuff at a thrift store recently, so I should constract myself some Mecha Moc when I find the space and time…
As a matter of fact, I’d like to argue that Ninjago actually copied Bionicle to some extent. In the very original lore of the story, it goes something like this (Excerpted from the Bionicle Chronicles series of novels, be warned, it’s quite long.):
The Legend of Mata Nui
In the time before time, the Great Spirit descended from the heavens, carrying we, the ones called the Matoran, to the island paradise. We were separate and without purpose, so the Great Spirit blessed us with three virtues: unity, duty, and destiny. We embraced these gifts and, in gratitude, we named our island home Mata Nui, after the Great Spirit himself.
But our hapiness was not to last. Mata Nui’s brother, Makuta, was jealous of these honors and betrayed him. Makuta cast a spell over Mata Nui, who fell into a deep slumber. Makuta’s power dominated the land, as fields withered away, sunlight grew cold, and ancient values were forgotten.
Still, all hope was not lost. Legends told of six mighty heroes, the Toa, who would arrive to save Mata Nui. Time would reveal that these were not simply myths – for the Toa did appear on the shores of the island. They arrived with no memory, no knowledge of one another – but they pledged to defend Mata Nui and its people against the darkness. Tahu, Toa of Fire. Onua, Toa of Earth. Gali, Toa of Water. Lewa, Toa of Air. Pohatu, Toa of Stone. And Kopaka, Toa of Ice. Great warriors with great power, drawn from the very elements themselves. Together, they were six heroes with one destiny: to defeat Makuta and save Mata Nui.
See some similarities? I’ll save my comparisons for another comment, but my point is, Bionicle was also initially built on the good brother, evil brother dynamic; I’ve been playing a lot of Street Fighter lately, so I’d like to point out that these are a similar concept like in the case of Gouken and Akuma. The concept of fighting brothers is quite common. Admittedly though, this does still manage to feel like it is inspired by Ninjago…hmm…
Anyways, even then, let me tell you this. The kanohi this Akimu bloke uses is the Kanohi of Creation; in the original series, this was the Mask used by Artakha, the ruler of the island of Artakha (Just go with it). The Kanohi of Creation allowed Artakha to create anything; fitting, for he was the creator of many objects in the Bionicle universe. Now, if Matoran works exceptionally hard, they’ll be sent to Artakha (the place) to work for Artakha (the being) where they can spend life idyllically creating things for Artakha. (Again, the being.) Now, if a Matoran is slacking, he’ll be sent to Karzahni, Artakha’s brother and ruler of (you guessed it) Karzahni. Karzahni was a much poorer ruler though; his job was to recondition poorly working Matoran to working shapes, but his “improvements” made them broken, deformed and destroyed. This made Artakha more popular than Karzahni. Growing bitter, Karzahni trapped the Matoran, until our heroes flooded the place and liberated the Matoran. So yeah, again, good brother, evil brother.
Wow, I’ve trailed off for quite a bit. I’ll leave you to that.
I knew I can count on you with this! 😛
Alright! You want a comparison? Be careful what you wish for… Here’s a few points:
-First of all, Ekimu and the name Otoko are new. Makuta, however, was the name of the primary antagonist of the original series, but provided there are no retcons, he’s fairly different in this new one. (Mask maker in the new one, scheming, powerful figure whom at some point hijacked the universe.)
-I should note, however, that if the mask Ekimu wears is indeed the Kanohi of Creation, that has appeared before in the original canon; though fans who base their imaginations of the mask on the descriptions in the web serials will be severely disappointed! To quote:
“The mask was the most ornate anyone had ever seen – more than just a Kanohi, it was a true work of art. The metallic protodermis from which it was forged was arranged in intricate patterns and designs, each reflecting one of the many cultures that flourished in the universe. The eye slits were angular and pointed, giving him an air of both wisdom and a vague sense of menace.”
So yeah, Ekimu’s mask looks nothing like that.
-Okoto vaguely bears semblance to Mata Nui (The island). To compare:
Okoto:http://biosector01.com/wiki/images/5/5c/Okoto.png
Mata Nui:http://biosector01.com/wiki/images/d/dc/CGI_Mata_Nui_%28Island%29.png
(In my personal bias, I prefer Mata Nui’s design.)
-All the Masks have been vastly redesigned, though they resembles their older counterparts slightly; except Gali’s, that is, which looks nothing like the regular Kaukau mask. Somehow, they managed to make her arguably even less feminine than her Mistika incarnation. Yikes.
Well, that’s all I can think of now. More will likely-no, more will surely follow…
Strider October 14, 2014, 3:12 PM
Thanks a lot! I can respect the story more if it was borrowed, (at least in part,) from the old legends.
LK901 October 14, 2014, 1:55 PM
I’m not sure. It does seem a tiny bit cliched, but not overlay. I really am not sure.
Oh, btw Strider I have revived my forum in case you want to rejoin 🙂
http://starbricks.createaforum.com
Ok, I’ll probably get on later :). Sorry, I’ve been absent for forever, but I’ll try to keep posting.
LegoUniverse Bob October 14, 2014, 11:09 AM
Admin, I think you messed up two of the prices a little. I would have thought Onua would cost the 25$ and Kopaka (I think) would cost the average. (BTW, can you tell me how to do each of those cool emotions. I only know three 😛 🙂 😀 ). Also, since everybody has been saying Bio was so good, I thought it would be a bit different from the classic “opposite side-bro gang”. Oh well, I guess it will probably have a deeper storyline, plus it seems this time it is aimed for a bit of a younger audience, seeing that it has that 6+ sign on the packaging of the exclusive mask. I hope I’m able to get a few of these, they look awesome. But I doubt my dad will let me get one, because he didn’t like the models of HF.
I just had the Canadian price added by accident. Had that fixed. You can find all the smileys you cna use here under the HOW TO COMMENT? section under the WELCOME! tab at the top of the page.
LegoUniverse Bob October 14, 2014, 1:51 PM
Thanks! 😀
Toa of Iron October 14, 2014, 12:33 PM
Thanks for the post admin, great source of information.
just wanted to say that if you look closely at the back of Onua’s mask you can see a transparent yellow piece which might mean the old heads are returning
Legozebra October 14, 2014, 12:52 PM
Actually, there are new heads… Pushing down on the eyestalk causes the mask to pop off
Ah, a great homage to the mask-popping gameplay of the original line, I bet.
Bios updated again! 🙂
ninja of stealth October 14, 2014, 12:58 PM
Awesome! Bionicle, one of the most known themes, is back! the thing is, LEGO needs to think of a new personality for things with the element of fire. it’s getting kind of old. 😀 I’ll probably will get at least one of these, I haven’t got any hero factory sets but now I’m glad I didn’t because these look way better and to top that off the storyline looks better!
Yeah, definitely!
ShadowPixl October 14, 2014, 5:25 PM
Funny how Makuta isn’t actually that bad in this timeline, considering all he wanted to do was be noticed more than his brother- definitely less evil then his previous counterpart.
By noticed more, I mean just get more attention. Anyways, it’s a lot more light-hearted and less dark then the previous line.
Crazybricks October 14, 2014, 8:30 PM
Off topic I just got the hun warrior and the scallywag minifigs from series 12 they are realy neat minifigs
admin October 15, 2014, 12:10 PM
Nice! I can’t wait to get mine! 😀
BuilderFox October 14, 2014, 9:12 PM
This is basically the same thing as hero factory…
Ray October 15, 2014, 12:10 PM
Hero Factory was supposed to be the replacement for Bionicle, using the same style of sets.
Early Bionicle stuff was plagued by the collectible bits (masks, discs, etc.) first introduced in Bionicle forerunners Throwbots and Roboriders. Probably most kids and parent ignored those things anyway, and toy stores didn’t carry them all that much. Things eventually evolved into each set having some kind of game element to it, which in turn evolved to the focus that Ninjago had on the spinner sets, and Chima’s Speedorz sets. (Note that no Ninjago spinners have been released in the post-Chima Ninjago revival.)
Bionicle and Hero Factory both focus on groups of good guys that are essentially identical save for color, weapon, and slight armor details. The early groups of similar groups of color coded bad guys gave way to larger most distinct villain sets, and the occasional vehicle. Bionicle toyed with the minifig scale one year when they provided sets that represented bases or buildings, and Hero Factory did their own minifig scale this past year with sets that represented giant monster versus giant mecha.
Ninjago and Chima have regular minifigures for the characters and instead put their focus on the variety of vehicles. Ninjago and Chima also have television series, which cements a clear storyline in the head of the audience, leaving the comics and novels to be secondary sources. Hero Factory has a handful of shorter TV specials, using shorter adventures to show the toy sets in action. Bionicle never achieved a coherent single source for its story, with things spread equally across comics, books, and movies, thus diluting the impact that any of them had, and the ability to maintain a solid and clear continuity.
Toa of Iron October 15, 2014, 7:49 AM
Are they really new popping helmets?
If so, they’re neat.
Very neat.
ninja5 October 15, 2014, 5:40 PM
YYYYYEEEESSSS!!!!!! This is so awesome! By the way, I went to Brickworld last weekend, and it was awesome! This was my first time, and I got to see the part of the Odyssey! I also bought a bulk bricks order, which is so going to get used. 😛 On a different note, Pirates looks cool too.
Funny, I’m going to BrickWorld next week! It will be my first time too! 😛
Gabriel October 22, 2014, 8:51 AM
I am so excited for these sets! You know, fans of the CCBS system introduced by Hero Factory have been clammoring for sets with more coverage. Most of the early sets were basically facades, with shells on the front, and the skeleton exposed in the back. They’ve been steadily improving, culminating in these beautiful Bionicle sets! Kopaka, for example, has cladding on the front and back of his lower leg. No wonder they’re so expensive; but I don’t mind at all. I think it makes for a better figure. Can’t wait to get my hands on them!
admin October 22, 2014, 9:39 AM
Gabriel, that’s a good notice! Thanks for sharing your thoughts! We only have to sleep a few more before these become available. 😉
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Carrollton Music Scene Back in Business
By Erin / September 4, 2012
Local band Baby Baby. Photo by Dontez Akins
After a slow summer in Carrollton, the music scene is re-emerging as fall semester begins. Local hangout spots are reviving with live music and patronage seeking the different sounds of Carrollton music.
With numerous locations appealing to various musical tastes, the Carrolton’s increasingly bustling Adamson Square offers a scene for everyone. Brian Crotty, owner of the Alley Cat, is already seeing a rising number of new faces and returning students with school back in session.
“With college here, a lot of new folks are checking out bars to see what’s their new place for music,” said Crotty.
Primarily seen as the town’s indie music joint, Alley Cat presents local artists as well as musical talent from Atlanta, Athens and Alabama. Crotty maintains a variety of genres and themed nights for the entertainment of the small town scene. The bohemian bar features Jazz Night every Tuesday with performances by The Fat Cat Five. Alley Cat also hosts the well-received Open Mic Night on Wednesdays from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Alley Cat remains one of the most dominantly musical spots for nightlife in Carrollton. “We bring a little bit of everything for everyone,” said Crotty. “There’s everything from Dubstep and DJs to superhot Atlanta bands like The Winter Sounds, Back Pockets and West African Band, as well as a lot of Athens connections. With Jazz Night and Open Mic Night, we are looking for every kind of genre.”
Blue Steakhouse, also located in Adamson Square, is also putting live bands in the spotlight. One of Carrollton’s most well-known musical groups, Cowtown String Band, performs every Wednesday night from 9 p.m. until midnight at the restaurant/bar. Jason Mcpanko, fiddler of the band, encourages everyone to come out in their dancing shoes for “old timey blue grass” and good times. Cowtown delivers a highly spirited performance with folk music and charismatic country melodies, incorporating inspiration from R.Kelly to Wilco into their music. Blue Steakhouse also offers a DJ specializing in nostalgic 90s tunes and a full bar bearing $1 PBRs.
The recent addition of the AMP at Adamson Square, an amphitheater with cinematic entertainments, festivals and concerts, is Carrollton’s latest venue for music. Upcoming events at the AMP will include a performance by country singer, Bill Gentry, on Sept. 3. Gentry kicks off the end of the Free Summer Concert Series at the AMP at 7:30 pm.
For more information on upcoming music events in Carrollton, keep close watch of flyers around town.
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Since 2013 the Jack Saloon Dix30 has had the same decor and vibes but now they've decided to change it all! Reopening soon, in March 2020, the Jack Saloon 2.0 will keep it's unique vibe but will now be inspired by Colonial drapery. According to the designer Stephanie Belanger, the restaurant will still be authentic but more refined and vintage by adding a touch of femininity and elegance. The perfect balance between keeping the restaurant's signature & past ambiance and creating a new one allowing them to satisfy more clients without affecting or loosing current clients.
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"The West Betrays the Kurds" - the pointless massacre of a minority people
by Giulio Meotti
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12257/kurds-turkey-betrayal
The Western media have ignored the fate of the Kurds, the people who defeated ISIS for us.
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson tweeted, "Turkey is right to want to keep its borders secure". The West gave the Turks a green light to massacre the Kurds.
The Kurds today, like the Czechs in 1938, were sacrificed in vain. The West has betrayed the Kurds three times in the last three years. They were our ideal allies. They opened their cities, such as Erbil, to tens of thousands of Iraqi Christians expelled by ISIS from Mosul. Iraqi Kurdistan is today the only place in the Middle East, along with the State of Israel, that harbors and protects all religions and minorities.
A new "Munich Syndrome" is now looming over the West. The Kurds, if they did not deserve a state, were at least worthy of our protection, especially after helping us to stop those who slit our throats on the boulevards of Paris.
The Kurds have a proverb: "We have no friends but the mountains". In Afrin, however, even the mountains could not protect them from the Turkish warplanes and the Islamist militias allied with Ankara.
Although the videos of terrifying executions are certainly not new in the tragic war of Syria, in this instance the video was shot by a terror group operating under the command of a NATO country, Turkey.
The video shows members of Syrian militias abusing the corpse of Amina Omar, a female Kurdish fighter who was also known as "Barin Kobani". She was killed defending Afrin, a city-canton in Syria attacked by the Turkish army of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
In the video, Omar, who belonged to the female unit of Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), is called "female pig" and a soldier steps on her breast. The desecration of her corpse ended up symbolizing not only the ferocity of the Kurds' enemies, but also the sense of a huge, unbearable moral and political betrayal suffered by the Kurds at the hands of their Western allies.
"Shame: the West is turning a blind eye to the fate of the Kurds" wrote Ivan Rioufol in France's Le Figaro. "They fought alongside us in the war against ISIS. Erdogan labels as 'terrorist' this small people arming women, who have their hair in the wind and leave religion in the private sphere".
"My sister, Barin, had fought alongside the coalition in Raqqa against the Islamic State and in many other places too", Omar's brother told The Times from the city of Kobane. "How can there be justice or trust between allies when the coalition put their own benefit above morality and allowed Turkey to attack us, and with Nato weapons?"
Pictured: Women fighters of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) near the town of Kobane, Syria, on June 20, 2015. (Photo by Ahmet Sik/Getty Images)
There has been a "deafening silence" from most Western leaders about the Kurds suffering an illegal Turkish invasion, said Sandeep Gopalan, a law professor at Deakin University in Melbourne. The European chancelleries all abandoned the Kurds to their fate.
Just think, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson tweeted, "Turkey is right to want to keep its borders secure". The West gave the Turks a green light to massacre the Kurds.
Worse, as an appeal published by the New York Review of Books reminds us:
"the Turkish attack on Afrin was entirely unprovoked. In fact, Afrin was so peaceful for most of the Syrian war that it became a safe haven for tens of thousands of refugees — some of whom are now refugees for a second time. In the cantons they controlled, the Kurdish-led forces had established an oasis, unique in Syria, of local self-government, women's rights, and secular rule".
The battle of Afrin was a horrendous defeat for the Kurds in Syria, one with appalling consequences. At least 820 Kurdish fighters were killed in action. Many other deaths have yet to be confirmed. By comparison, 660 Kurds were killed fighting under the insignia of Syrian democratic forces, supported by the United States, in the battle to free Raqqa, the de facto Syrian capital of the ISIS Caliphate.
Robert Ellis has compared Afrin to the Sudetenland in the 1930s:
"Two days before ceding the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany in Munich in September 1938, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain dismissed the issue as 'a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing'. Pretty much the same can be said of the attitude of the West towards Turkey's attack on the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northwestern Syria".
In the early hours of Sept. 30, 1938, Great Britain, France and Italy allowed the Nazis to annex the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia. The Czechoslovakian government opposed and resisted, but its Western allies, determined to avoid war "at all costs", were willing to negotiate with Adolf Hitler. The Munich Agreement, however, did not bring peace to Europe; it brought war.
Just as the Czechs were sacrificed in vain, the West has betrayed the Kurds three times in the last three years. The first time in Kobane, the besieged Kurdish city at the border with Turkey, where, in a battle that only "revealed the West's helplessness in the face of radical jihad", the inhabitants fought to escape a certain death under ISIS. After Kobane, the Kurds were abandoned during their referendum for independence from Iraq last September. Now they have been betrayed in Afrin, the Syrian canton where many minorities of the Syrian war took refuge.
When, at the end of 2014, Westerners decided to intervene directly to get rid of the ISIS Caliphate, they encountered an obvious problem. How could the West defeat the Islamists as we are no longer willing to risk our troops and lives on the ground? Through the Kurds. It was the Kurdish forces who gave first aid to those Yazidis fleeing the genocide waged against them by ISIS. Thousands of Yazidis ended up in mass graves or captured and put into sexual slavery. That is when Germany started to send weapons to the Kurds. Now the Yazidis in Afrin are suffering yet a new wave of persecution by the Turkish allies.
Bernard-Henri Lévy, the French philosopher, recently told Le Figaro:
"The tragedy that the Kurds are experiencing is the sign of an unprecedented weakening of the West. Is it the equivalent of the battle of Adrianople, which precedes the fall of Rome? I hope not. But the resignation has been such a great disgrace... one of those seemingly aberrant micro-events that signal a change in the world. This is not the first time that the West has disappointed its allies or sister nations. It was the case during the rise of Nazism. Then, with the abandonment of half of Europe to communism".
The Kurds were our ideal allies. They opened their cities, such as Erbil, to tens of thousands of Iraqi Christians expelled by ISIS from Mosul. Iraqi Kurdistan is today the only place in the Middle East, along with the State of Israel, that harbors and protects all religions and minorities. According to the former European parliamentarian Paulo Casaca, the Kurdish regional government has shown the utmost respect for all minorities that have been widely persecuted in other areas of Iraq.
An appeal signed by the French intellectuals Pascal Bruckner, Bernard Kouchner and Stephane Breton states:
"Abandoning them would be an unforgivable moral error. The Kurds of Syria defeated the Islamists who have caused the worst attacks in our history. The Turkish-Islamist atrocities in Afrin do not promise anything good. When young Kurdish fighters with admirable courage are captured by the jihadists, they are tortured, gutted and cut into pieces. This barbarism is unsustainable. The Kurds are also our only allies in the region and have demonstrated their effectiveness in the field. If we abandon them, there will be no one to help us contain new terrorist explosions against us. Finally, the Kurds of Syria are building a democratic society that respects ethnic and confessional pluralism and equality between men and women. This will have a profound influence in a region torn apart by tyranny".
Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor for Il Foglio, is an Italian journalist and author.
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by Nicholas Ballor, nSJ, November 10, 2013
Can we not give more?
The thought continues to haunt me as I think back on our recent visit. There is no excuse for allowing people, anywhere, to suffer such need.
We stuffed our little truck full of food and a few padded chairs early in the morning and drove out from Tijuana for about 45 minutes to arrive at a remote colonia.
Smoke, dust, garbage everywhere, random collections of wood and scrap stacked together to pass for shelters —
many side-by-side.
A scene of shades of brown dappled with black soot and white ash. To the left on our way to our distribution site was a cube the size of a small house, with noxious black smoke and flames escaping from above. This brown chimney was the community’s primeval kiln used to make bricks, which served as a main source of income.
As we drove further along the rough, dusty road, we honked our horn periodically to signal our most recent arrival with food and supplies. Our distribution site was at a high point in the colonia. Some railroad tracks were to our side. We waited there in the pounding heat, hoping that word of our arrival had spread. They came in fits. Perhaps by clusters of families or close friendships — communication networks.
It felt almost an insult to give to these poor so little.
A pint of rice, a pint of beans, six pieces of fruit — a chair if you were among the lucky first arrivals. Imagine giving a small cup of cold water to a desert-stranded man. A welcome relief, but the thirst will return and the desert is vast. But we showed these few with what little we give that someone cares. They have a tangible sign of hope. They have love. They need so much more, but every river has its modest beginnings.
The people did not strike me as suffering starvation, nor did they seem unhappy. Certainly, most were covered in dust, but most were fairly clean. No one struck me as mentally ill, and I was encouraged by how joyful many seemed. The children in particular seemed happy. So excited to get their banana or an orange, which we could only give them after ensuring their parents received their provisions. The children so present in the moment, not giving a thought to what may come.
An illness here and there was apparen t, but no dire problems. It is possible that those who came, or could come, were in the best of health and the rest, who we did not see, were left behind in the card-stack of scraps called “home.”
I muse on what more might help these in such need. An education? Spiritual nourishment? A leader and a message? Food is much needed, but so much the more some means of earning food and of living together in harmony as a community and as part of a much larger community at large. Is this community a testament to the dire need for reform of the very societal and governmental system in place that has allowed or even necessitated that such a colonia exist?
They need an advocate. Yes, they suffer greatly without food, and it is badly needed, but they need all the more for the very root causes of their suffering and poverty to be addressed and healed. These causes lie within and manifest themselves everywhere as dysfunctional families, communities, governments.
These suffering are Christ among us today, continuing to cry out and making painfully apparent the consequences of sin.
To help the Casa de Los Pobres, please donate. Casa de Los Pobres USA has NO overhead, 100% of your donation goes to the Casa in Tijuana.
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War in the countryside
on 15 August, 2014 at 13:30
In rural East Anglia, the ideal site for bombing crews to prepare for raids on Germany, newly constructed airbases had a huge impact on the flat and largely agricultural landscape and on rural communities. In a short three year span the 8th Air Force occupied nearly seventy airfields in the region bringing around 3,000 men and women to each of these places.
Their presence affected the lives of those living in the villages surrounding the airbases, including the children who played on the airfields, the women who cooked, cleaned and cared for the servicemen, the Land Girls working on the surrounding fields and the families who welcomed the servicemen into their homes.
The impact of WW2 in the region can still be felt today, and is quite possibly the largest social and cultural change to have ever happened here.
Three B-24 Liberators of the 458th Bomb Group fly in formation over countryside. Image Courtesy of the American Air Museum. FRE 67211
Farmers at work near an 8th USAAF base during WW2. Image Courtesy of the American Air Museum. FRE6539
A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-10706) nicknamed “Miss Bea Havin'” of the 388th Bomb Group flies over countryside., Image Courtesy of the American Air Museum. FRE 6468
farmers wife herds a flock of ducks past Master Sergeant JF Hallmaker and ground personnel of the 91st Bomb Group, whilst cleaning the guns on a B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed “Mary Lou”. Image courtesy of the American Air Museum. FRE3546
Sunset over East Wretham, home of the 359th Fighter Group.Image Courtesy of the American Air Museum. FRE 6180.
.Farmers collect hay at Andrewsfield whilst personnel of the 322nd Bomb Group work on a B-26 Marauder (serial number 41-31814) nicknamed “Bag Of Bolts”.Image courtesy of the American Air Museum. FRE7089
A farmer at work with a traction .engine, photographed by an airman of the 44th Bomb Group.Image courtesy of the American Air Museum. FRE7089
Personnel of the 303rd Bomb Group visit the local water pump. (FRE 1002)
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