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David Cameron and 'Unparliamentary' Language
I can't think of a more accurate appellation for David Cameron than 'Dodgy Dave'.
While it is true that the antics and language used by MPs in the British Parliament may at times appear childish and comical, I don't think using the term 'dodgy' should be designated as 'unparliamentary' in nature if the speaker did not flag Cameron for referring to former shadow Chancellor Ed Balls a couple of years ago as a 'Turkey'.
If the argument is that 'dodgy' implies dishonesty then 'turkey' suggests stupidity.
The system in the United Kingdom is an adversarial one, and jibes have always been part and parcel of the give and take at Westminster. Presumably Dennis Skinner ought to have merely accused Mister 'Ca-Moron' of having been 'economical with the truth' of his tax affairs and off-shore dealings.
And given how the prime minister had famously called out celebrities for being 'immoral' by avoiding taxes through the use of off shore havens, perhaps the term used by Skinner - the 'Beast of Bolsover'- should have been 'hypocrite'.
Adeyinka Makinde is a writer based in London.
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Openbadges + Blockchains = BitofTrust ?
November 25th, 2015 | Serge Ravet
One aspect of the question regarding a possible relationship between blockchains and Open Badges is to wonder whether the blockchain should be treated as some kind of add-on to the existing Open Badge structure/standard, or should Open Badges be integrated within a blockchain?
A starting point for an informed answer to this question is to do a simple test: take an Open Badge generated by one issuing platform and try to import it into another issuing/hosting platform. I have done this experiment recently, taking only a very small sample, and the results were rather… (un)conclusive — BTW, one suggestion for the Standards Working group would be to run a real life interoperability test (not just through a formal proof) across all platforms and publish the results.
Interoperability is a classical problem to which the ePortfolio community was confronted some years ago and to which no convincing answer was ever provided — the IMS-Global ePortfolio and Leap2A specifications (2 specifications for interoperability is already one too many!!!) are only used by a handful of ePortfolio platforms — notwithstanding that there are many ePortfolios that do not use any ePortfolio platform at all! Moreover, when we organised plugfests during previous ePIC conferences, we had to admit that 3 platforms using the same technical specification (IMS ePortfolio at the time) had problems understanding each other: exporting one ePortfolio from one platform then importing it to another did not always work properly…
One could have imagined that with a structure much simpler than ePortfolios, the problem of interoperability would have disappeared. It has not. And now that we have allowed extensions to the specification, the order of magnitude for potential interoperability problems has increased geometrically, not just arithmetically. Yet, the possibility to extend the specification, even by one single issuing platform, willing to gain a competitive advantage, with a better or innovative service, should probably be allowed. We certainly do not want a “one-size-fits-all” issuing platform. Innovation must go on!
Are blockchains the solution to Open Badges interoperability?
While the current Open Badge architecture has already demonstrated its limit to interoperability, is there a way to ensure that every possible badge issued by one party will always be 100% compatible with the hosting service of the receiving party? Could the blockchain be the answer to that question?
A blockchain-based architecture guarantees that when someone writes on the public ledger, the writing is legitimate and legible. There might still be problems with the content of the writing if those writing on the ledger do not respect the expected structure for the content (therefore we will still need something like a data model for Open Badges) but, at least, sending and receiving badges will always work, the blockchain specification guarantees it. The decision to accept or refuse a badge belongs to the ledger, and as there is only one ledger, it will not be possible to have a situation where a badge accepted by one platform is rejected by another. The public ledger is a means to enforce interoperability in real time and not post facto.
So, if we decided to move Open Badge metadata from “pretty pictures” to blockchains we are sure that at least the infrastructure will be working properly — not withstanding the numerous advantages provided by blockchains themselves.
From Open Badges to BitofTrusts
The whole process of sending and receiving badges can be extremely unwieldy, starting with the obligation to create a “pretty picture” — and if one is not a graphic designer, use paint-by-numbers-canned-badges clip-art to generate “ugly pictures” — I made some time ago the suggestion of the “one pixel badge” and it was a total flop! There must be a better mechanism. It is what I would like to explore now.
Imagine that every individual and organisation joining the Badge Alliance (or some other overarching body) receives 1,000 BitofTrusts to be distributed to entities they trust (people, organisations, services and things (Internet of Objects). Let us say that the distribution of trust is treated as a deposit (unlike bitcoins) that can be withdrawn when you do not trust one entity anymore. Now imagine that trust deposits generate interests in favour of the holder of the trust (the host of the deposit) that can be used to further trust other entities. We would have the basic components for establishing the foundations of a trust economy — which is a somewhat redundant expression considering that there is no economy possible without anticipated trust. To complete the description of the infrastructure, one would assume that every entity has a place to store trust deposits. Let us call it a Passtrust (it would be a wallet in the Bitcoins world, theOpen Badge Passport or Badgr in the current Open Badge world and the Backpack in the old model).
To refine the model further, we could add algorithms mimicking the behaviour of local currencies such as the Chiemgauer in Bavaria, where the capital looses part of its value if not spent during the year after being acquired, the objective being to have a currency used to facilitate the circulation of goods and services within the community rather than a means to hoard.
At this stage, we have simply defined a general trust mechanism that is not that different from an idiosyncratic local currency. In order to align Bittrusts with Open Badges, we need to define a mechanism to represent values, affiliations, achievements or competencies. Instead of a pretty (or ugly) picture, we could simply use entries in a public ledger: When an entity gives a badge to another entity, this entity adds an entry in the ledger and deposits a Bittrust — it doesn’t have to be a complete Bittrust; 1/1,000th or less would do the trick for establishing a trust link between an issuer and a recipient. For endorsement, instead of creating a new entry, a fraction of a Bittrust would be added to an existing entry.
NB: one advantage of this mechanism over the current revocation of Open Badges is that the revocation information will remain within the ledger instead of being erased from the infrastructure. And knowing that a trust bond has been revoked could be a very useful piece of information — that should probably be erased after a few years to avoid lifetime stigmas…
Of course, I realise that what precedes is a rather crude description that needs to be refined further through thought experiments as well as mathematical and computational models — something we have not judged useful for the current Open Badge Infrastructure so far. The idea of giving everyone 1,000 BitofTrusts is just one option among many — it could be a certain amount each year, some entities might have the right to produce BitofTrusts and give them, not just as a deposit. I like the idea of having the trust others have in one entity generates interests in favour of this entity as it would be a tangible representation of the benefits of being trusted, but I am certain that there are other ways to achieving similar results.
All I wanted to achieve with this post is open a conversation, using blockchains as a “tool to think with,” opening new horizons for establishing a resilient, trustworthy, open and distributed Open Badge Infrastructure.
I am looking forward to your comments and criticisms.
NB: changed BitTrust to BitofTrust after publishing the next blogpost.
Originally published at www.learningfutures.eu on November 25, 2015.
Blockchains vs OpenBadges (“blocks without chains”)
Last Thursday, as I attended a meeting at the old Paris stock exchange (palais Brogniard) with people working on blockchains to discuss the Open Badge Passport, what did I discover? A number of the ideas we wanted to develop with the Open Badge Passport (as services exploiting the content of badges metadata) were already in full development using… blockchains, not Open Badges. That was some reality check! The following morning I read Certificates, Reputation, and the Blockchain (link) where Philipp Schmidt, from the MIT Media Lab, explains how they are moving from paper certificates to blockchains after a short encounter with digital badges…
Issuing a certificate is relatively simple: we create a digital file that contains some basic information such as the name of the recipient, the name of the issuer (MIT Media Lab), an issue date, etc. We then sign the contents of the certificate using a private key to which only the Media Lab has access, and append that signature to the certificate itself. Next we create a hash, which is a short string that can be used to verify that nobody has tampered with the content of the certificate. And finally we use our private key again to create a record on the Bitcoin blockchain that states we issued a certain certificate to a certain person on a certain date. Our system makes it possible to verify who a certificate was issued to, by whom, and validate the content of the certificate itself.
Suddenly Open Badges seemed to have regressed from a technology that could conquer the world to a parochial technology solely at the service of the great priests of education spraying badges like papal indulgences so their parishioners could join the heaven of employment… one day… if their prayed with enough fervour.
I will not go into details, but my observation over 30 years of a number of attempts at combining “education” and “technology” into one thing called “educational technology” resulted (most of the time) in impoverished education and impoverished technology — which is very different when education meets general purpose technology and add to each other. I would love to be proven wrong, but what is the technical innovation, born within the premises of education that has had any value outside? Apart from Facebook (and Open Badges, one day?) I cannot recall any.
Innovation (technical and social!) happens outside of the world of formal education. If innovators choose to use blockchains and not Open Badges to produce services based on trust relationship, then it is probably a sign that we should rethink the badge technology and its infrastructure altogether — or promote Open Badges as an alternative to blockchains!
A few months ago, Doug Belshaw wrote a post on Peering Deep into Future of Educational Credentialing (link) where he explored how Open Badges and blockchains could be connected.
While we wouldn’t want to entirely remove the “human” element around credentialing, a hybrid OBI and blockchain approach could add value to our current system. Machines and software are extremely good at fact-checking, whereas humans are good at meaning. We need both.
At the time, I asked Doug to explain the benefits of blockchains over signed badges (which is one way to make them verifiable). When I look at today’s explosion of innovations based on blockchains and compare it to innovations based on Open Badges, there is a clear advantage in favour of blockchains.
Some of the innovations based on blockchains:
D-CENT (Decentralized Citizens ENgagement Technologies) a Europe-wide project to create digital tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment (link)
BitBeat, a social network (like Instagram) (link)
La`Zooz synchronises empty seats with transportation needs in real-time, matching like-minded people to create a great ride-sharing experience for a “Fair fare” (link)
Storj (pronounced: storage) a cloud storage platform and suite of decentralized applications that allows users to store data in a secure and decentralized manner. It uses blockchain features like a transaction ledger, public/private key encryption (link) — much better than a backpack!
For a longer list of potential domains where blockchains could be used read the annex.
What I would like to elicit is, if we compare the breadth and number of innovations enabled by blockchains with the breadth and number of innovations enabled by Open Badges, we might just want to decide to reinvent Open Badges from the blockchain (some already do!).
As one of the winners of the DML Trust challenge, we planned to use Open Badges to create something truly innovative: a bottom-up trust architecture enabling a new generation of services exploiting badges metadata. We are now almost half way, the first version of the source code is in the process of being released, and I now wonder how should we go for the second half. Can we just go on ignoring the promise of blockchains of a fully symmetric trust infrastructure (something we have failed to achieve so far)?
What do Open Badges and blockchains have in common? Bottom-up Trust!
In a previous post I suggested the idea of “the one pixel badge.” Blockchains are the means to have “the zero pixel badge.” Using a picture to store metadata was a genius idea and we should be grateful to those who came up with it. The problem with this genius idea is that it took on an entirely different meaning in the heads of the not so genius. The picture, that was just a convenient vehicle for hosting a set of metadata, became the central element. Efforts were made to create badge editors (to create “pretty pictures”) but not a single development has been engaged in developing a proper criteria editor (using linked data / RDFa to create machine readable criteria). As long as the picture is pretty, if the content is dumb (i.e. with no semantic value) it should not be considered a problem…
The main problem with the “pretty picture” is that it hides to most the fact that a badge is a trust relationship between two parties, which is precisely what a blockchain is about! The major problem with the Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) is that we have not been able yet to create chains of trust and networks of trust (although it is one of the goals of the Open Badge Passport).
Open Badges = blocks without chains
Therefore, when I look at Open Badges and compare them with blockchains, I am tempted to describe them as “blocks without chains.”
I must state that this description does not do justice to the great work done with “linked data” in the new Open Badges specification (1.1). Exploiting the power of JASON LD (linked data) the new specification provides “chains.” My question is: how much effort would be required to make Open Badges, or rather P2P credentials (with JASON LD, no need for a “pretty picture”) a viable general purpose technology that could compete with blockchains?
What was wrong in our initial attempt at connecting Open Badges with blockchains? Currency!
My understanding of the initial discussion on blockchains and Open Badges was veiled by discussions on Open Badges as “new currency” (how to “monetise” badges?) and Bitcoins being the “new currency.” I replied earlier that the “true currency” of Open Badges is “trust” and that it is probably the oldest currency ever. I did not see the need to use something like Bitcoins to represent this currency when Open Badges already had this trust relationship embedded. Why change a technology that works?
Moreover I thought that badges were probably “greener” as they do not require the huge computing power Bitcoins need for “mining” (i.e. enforcing contracts). And if the value of a Bitcoin is inherently wrapped up in its rarity, then it violates my principles and those of a knowledge economy where value is unlimited. My mistake was to restrict my understanding of blockchains to Bitcoins. They are so much more than that!
What is wrong with the Open Badge Infrastructure? The Backpack!
Mozilla recently decided to fund the improvement of the backpack (an idiosyncratic silo where Open Badges can be hosted with the hope that someone might be interested to see them, one day, after pushing them to LinkedIn and Facebook) when the only reasonable thing to do would have been to get rid of it altogether.
Open Badges and blockchains are both about trust. What makes blockchains powerful is the ability to create a fully trustworthy infrastructure without any super-authority or having one party more trustworthy than any others.
One of the arguments I heard for continuing the Mozilla Backpack was “Mozilla is an organisation that can be trusted.” As Kerri Lemoie noted aptly, Mozilla could not be trusted for a while, simply to maintain the service, a duty that includes correcting bugs. But there is a more fundamental reason why we do not need to have a backpack hosted by Mozilla: in a blockchain ecosystem, there is no need for a super-trusted entity like Mozilla to protect the interests of the badge owners.
The Badge Alliance and the Open Badge specification is what is needed to protect the interests of the community.
A bottom-up trust ecosystem can be built without the need of a surrogate parent! The Mozilla foundation has done great things and will continue to do so, but “improving” the backpack is probably the worst signal that could have been given to the community. It might please those who want to keep Open Badges within a disconnected silo — which it is — something “just for educators.” The Badge Alliance and the Open Badge specification is what is needed to protect the interests of the community.
“improving” the backpack won’t change this annoying fact an iota [asymmetry].
I keep repeating that the Open Badge Infrastructure is deeply asymmetric (blockchain architectures are symmetric!) and “improving” the backpack won’t change this annoying fact an iota. Migrating the OBI to a blockchain infrastructure might be a better investment if Mozilla really cares to deal with solving bugs. The most serious one in its architecture: asymmetry!
And now?
Considering that Open Badges are:
a trust relationship (contract) between two parties (individuals, organisations, services, etc.) — P2P credentials
verifiable — while preserving anonymity
revocable — according to contractual rules
actionable — to open a door, access content, etc.
My suggestion is to explore the feasibility and value of implementing a blockchain-based Open Badge Infrastructure by addressing (in parallel) the following questions:
What current issues could be solved with blockchains?
What current issues could not be solved with blockchains?
What new issues would emerge from a blockchain-based OBI?
What new opportunities would emerge from a blockchain-based OBI?
What are the pros and cons of a blockchain-based OBI vs. the current OBI?
Could a technology derived from Open Badges (or another technology) offer a viable alternative to blockchains in their current applications?
Your inputs are welcome!
Annex: The Mega-Master Blockchain List
I. Financial Instruments, Records and Models
Private equities
Public equities
Derivatives (futures, forwards, swaps, options and more complex variations)
Voting rights associated with any of the above
Spending records
Trading records
Mortgage / loan records
Servicing records
Micro-charity
II. Public Records
Vehicle registries
Business incorporation / dissolution records
Business ownership records
Regulatory records
Voter IDs
Health / Safety Inspections
Non-profit records
Government/non-profit accounting/transparency
III. Private Records
Escrows
GPS trails (personal)
IV. Other Semi-Public Records
HR records (salary, performance reviews, accomplishment)
Accounting records
Business transaction records
GPS trails (institutional)
Delivery records
V. Physical Asset Keys
Home / apartment keys
Vacation home / timeshare keys
Hotel room keys
Rental car keys
Leased cars keys
Safety deposit box keys
Package delivery (split key between delivery firm and receiver)
Betting records
Fantasy sports records
VI. Intangibles
Reservations (restaurants, hotels, queues, etc)
Videogame licenses
Music/movie/book licenses (DRM)
Online identities
Proof of authorship / Proof of prior art
VI. Other
Documentary records (photos, audio, video)
Data records (sports scores, temperature, etc)
GPS network identity
Gun unlock codes
Weapons unlock codes
Nuclear launch codes (!)
Spam control (micro-payments for posting)
Source: http://ledracapital.com/blog/2014/3/11/bitcoin-series-24-the-mega-master-blockchain-list
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Wire Stories > EnerQuality Corporation > Peterborough community is East... > You Are Here
Peterborough community is Eastern Ontario’s largest development of ENERGY STAR® qualified homes
Monday, October 20th 2008 8:34:37am
Attn: News, Home, Energy, and Lifestyle Reporters and Editors
Green community takes green building to a new level
(Peterborough, October 18, 2008) Today Mason Homes unveiled it’s latest eco-friendly community, providing homeowners in Peterborough with a new, environmentally conscious alternative to traditional city living.
Representatives from Mason Homes hosted a hayride tour of this unique residential development, named Avonlea, which included a glimpse of a developing trail system, ponds and water features. Peterborough Mayor D. Paul Ayotte, and local MPP Jeff Leal were also on hand for the tour.
“I’m very proud of this project,” said Sean Mason, Vice-President of Sales for Mason Homes. “Our team has managed to create a thoroughly modern and energy-efficient community, here, using the most innovative green techniques and materials. Homeowners will conserve water and energy while reducing their carbon footprint. These homes are designed to be green for life.”
Avonlea is surrounded by green space but provides easy access to all the amenities of a city. Schools and shopping facilities are within walking distance, and the natural landscape is enhanced by Mason Homes’ ecologically sensitive urban planning.
Avonlea homes are ENERGY STAR qualified, and boast energy saving features such as top-quality insulation, high-performance windows and high-efficiency heating and cooling systems. All this can reduce annual energy bills by up to 30%. The project incorporates the philosophy of ‘new urbanism’, which will ensure that it rapidly becomes a neighbourhood.
“We are thrilled to be here today,” said Michelle Cote, Director of Marketing and Client Relations with EnerQuality Corporation. “Mason Homes is to be commended for their commitment to green, sustainable building, and for turning that commitment into action. In the face of today’s rising energy costs, these houses will save homeowners money, provide a healthier indoor environment and help reduce their carbon footprint.”
The ENERGY STAR label is earned only by homes that have met strict requirements, allowing homebuyers to rely on the performance tested, third party verified, government backed ENERGY STAR label to know they are buying an energy efficient home.
Typical energy saving measures in an ENERGY STAR qualified home include higher levels of insulation in basements, walls and attics, ENERGY STAR qualified windows and doors, tighter building envelopes, programmable thermostats, sealed ducts, ENERGY STAR qualified appliances and high-efficiency heating, hot water and air conditioning systems.
Michelle Cote, Director of Marketing and Client Relations, EnerQuality Corporation, 416-305-3671
Sean Mason, VP Sales, Mason Homes, 416-881-7949
Mason Homes is a third-generation homebuilder and family-run business that has built over 4000 quality homes in many communities across Ontario including Etobicoke, Toronto, Scarborough, Markham, Barrie, Schomberg, Uxbridge, Lindsay and Peterborough.
They strive to be a progressive company in design, architecture, new urbanism, community planning and energy efficiency. They are the first community to offer homes that are not only Energy Star qualified, but also help further reduce energy and water consumption while providing improved indoor air quality. Green for Life homes will provide a happier, healthier home and lessen your impact on the environment.
ENERGY STAR® for New Homes is a label given to homes that meet balanced, whole-house energy-efficiency standards, guaranteeing their owners significant energy savings. New homes that receive the ENERGY STAR® label are up to 30 percent more energy-efficient than those built to the minimum Ontario building code standards.
The ENERGY STAR mark is administered and promoted in Canada by Natural Resources Canada.
EnerQuality Corporation is committed to helping builders build more energy efficient and sustainable homes. Founded in 1998 and supported by their A-list of partners, EnerQuality is a licensed Service Organization delivering ENERGY STAR® for New Homes, R-2000, EnerGuide Rating Service, LEED for Homes and EnerQuality’s new GreenHouse™ Certified Construction initiative. EnerQuality’s initiatives are all voluntary and supported by extensive training and marketing that offer builders options to meet their individual needs.
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Weather on This Date - April 20
A spring storm produced unusually heavy snow in northeast Ohio. Warren received 35.5 inches in thirty-six hours, and 28 inches fell at Green Hill. Akron OH established April records of 15.6 inches in 24 hours, and 26.6 inches for the month. Pittsburgh PA established April records of 12.7 inches in 24 hours, and 13.5 inches for the month. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
Tornadoes in Mississippi and Alabama killed 219 persons. (David Ludlum)
The tankers Esso Suez and Esso Greensboro crashed in a thick fog off the coast of Morgan City LA. Only five of the Greensboro's crew survived after the ship bursts into flame. (David Ludlum)
Fifty-two cities in the central and eastern U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date. The high of 92 degrees at Memphis TN was a record for April, and the high of 94 at Little Rock AR equaled their April record. (The National Weather Summary)
A storm in the western U.S. brought heavy rain to parts of California. Mount Wilson was soaked with 4.15 inches of rain in 24 hours. The heavy rain caused some flooding and mudslides in the Los Angeles area, and a chain reaction collision of vehicles along the Pomona Freeway which resulted in 26 injuries. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
Hot weather spread from the southwestern U.S. into the Great Plains Region. Twenty-three cities reported new record high temperatures for the date. The afternoon high of 104 degrees at Tucson AZ was an April record, and highs of 87 at Provo UT, 90 at Pueblo CO, and 85 at Salt Lake City UT, equaled April records. (The National Weather Summary)
A fast moving Pacific storm produced heavy snow in the central mountains and the Upper Arkansas Valley of Colorado, with a foot of snow reported at Leadville. Thunderstorms in the south central U.S. produced wind gusts to 76 mph at Tulsa OK, and heavy rain which caused flooding of Cat Claw Creek in the Abilene TX area. Lightning struck the building housing a fish farm in Scott AR killing 10,000 pounds of fish. Many of the fish died from the heat of the fire. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
Columbus and Macon both observed a 3-day consecutive stretch of high temperatures around 90°F from the 18th to the 20th with highs of 91°F on all three days at Columbus and highs of 89°F, 91°F, and 91°F, respectively, at Macon. (NWS Atlanta)
Up to five feet of snow falls in the Dakotas. I-94 and other highways were closed, power was out for thousands and caused at least four deaths.
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NACKT AUF MEINEN BOCK
Hugh Martin who wrote the song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” along with “The Boy Next Door” and “The Trolley Song” from the 1944 Judy Garland MGM film Meet Me In St. Louis died age 96. His lifepartner was Ralph Blane and they also wrote the songs in Best Foot Forward which was on Broadway in 1941 with an MGM film that was released in 1943 starring Lucille Ball, June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven,Artie Shaw, Tommy Dix, Gil Stratton and Nancy Walker. Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane had a hot buttery fourgy with Van Johnson and Tom Drake back in the 1940s when they were all under contract to Metro. I would have loved to have been a fly on that wall.
Forgot to post this little missive that came to me awhile back from the great Mark Simon in Los Angeles:
In 2008 Joan Fontaine put her copy of the Rebecca script up for auction. It was the presentation copy David O Selznick gave her when the film was completed. Bound in maroon calf skin and gold. Embossed on the cover O Selznick's inscription read:
"For Joan, This souvenir of a struggle and a dream. May neither be forgotten too soon. Your's with affection until the adventure's sequel, David.”
Miss Joan was asking 35-40 thousand as an opening bid............ No takers.....
And this from The Love Camel in London:
Oh Doll,
you should do some spring cleaning to your pussy by using the
fresh juices of all the boys in flip-flops that will start to appear
in the the streets of Berlin soon when the weather warms up. You just need to go around dressed as the core of a nuclear facility and tell young boys you fancy that you need their sperma to avoid a major nuclear meltdown with catastrophic consequences for the planet
Went to Arsenal to see the restored version of George Cukor’s A Star is Born starring Judy Garland, James Mason, a bloated Jack Carson and male fag hag Tommy Noonan. Was joined by film historian Marc Siegel and his intermedia actress/ girlfriend the divine Susanne Sachsse, who had never seen the famed film, and was not a big Garland fan. Now she has officially joined the Garland cult and sees why so many people adore La Judy.
The next day was an unofficial all-day testing of the waters for The Living Archive Project which culminated in a scrumpteous din din at WAU cafe. Perhaps when the event becomes more official some young artists in their twenties will be invited to participate just to give the proceedings some youthful energy, momentum and eye candy.
Later after supper was joined by Tim Blue, Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel at the Martin Groupius Bau for the opening of Margarita Broiche’s glam photo exhibition. A lot of the star’s she has photographed of the stage and screen were in attendance including her main man Martin Wuttke and his sexy young sons, Fassbinder legend Volker Spengler and Kate Winslet who co-starred with Margarita in The Reader. My photo that Frau Broich took after my performing at Rising Stars, Falling Stars last year dressed ala Dorothy Arzner looked fab all gigantic in the upstairs grand hall. Margarita certainly has a keen eye for capturing spirited moments and lovely details, and each pic is also somewhat meloncholic. Joining our group later was fagademic Sean and baby diaper Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras, looking freshly fucked with erect nipples and bubblebutt bouncing in fox trot. Was shocked to run into Paul Plamper who I met in 1999 in Los Angeles when he was Martin Wuttke’s assistant at the Berliner Ensemble. Paul is now in his late thirties but looks even better then when i first met him in his mid twenties. Of course I fell madly in love with Paul as dorky German boys with thick glasses is so my type. I can still remember him telling me not to fall for him as he was just “a boring heterosexual”. That didn’t stop me of course, and now seeing him looking so good has intensifying my feelings of love and lust for him. He is still a big dork, but is so boyishly charming that I can’t stop thinking about him and as long as i have a face, he will always have a place to sit. Back in Los Angeles he had a French girlfriend who had run over someone with her car killing them. Now Paul has become quite a successful radio play writer and director. In Germany radio plays are very much in vogue, and never went out of fashion with the advent of television.
Posted by Vaginal Davis at 5:28 AM
REISE DER VERLORENEN UNSCHULD
Just got word that my tranny gal pal Ms. Chloe Dzubilo died Feb 18th in New York City. She was disoriented by her medication and slipped onto the subway train tracks. What a horrible tragedy. Ms. Chloe came to LA in the mid 90s to visit me at my large Cheese Endique Trifecta studio in Koreatown. We had a girlhappy time.
Chloe was a downtown New York starina and part of the Black Lips Kollective out of the Pyramid Club. The song “Carolina Vagina” with her band Transistor was a crowd pleasing staple in my DJane sets. When Chloe came to visit me in LA she wowed the crowd at Club Sucker at the Garage, my Silverlake punk rock beer bust and English T-Dance.
As an activistite she worked tirelessly for the LGBT Community Center's groundbreaking Gender Identity Project, she served on its transgender HIV prevention team conducting prevention outreach in bars, nightclubs and on ho strolls. She spoke at national and international conferences, in video Public Service Announcements and training workshops for health care and mental health providers.
Chloe was involved with the political action group the Transsexual Menace and went on to direct one of the first federally funded HIV prevention programs for transgender sex workers in 1997.
In 2001, Chloe founded the Equi-Aid Project, a Manhattan-based riding program that specifically targets children who are infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS as well as other at-risk youth.
In September 2002, Chloe Dzubilo became the first transgendered person on the cover of POZ, a magazine for the HIV/AIDS community. She graced the magazine's cover two more times.
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Chopin Nocturne Op.27 as it sounded to Chopin
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acortot
This is a recording, done with a small handheld Tascam digital recorder of an 1844 Pleyel I restored years ago, which belonged to me for a while.
The reason I am posting this is because of the sound, which most of you will think is quite odd, and not quite pianistic, but more like a Piano Shaped Object.
The sound is the way it is because the hammers are covered with the 1840's grey felt which was applied on the piano when it was new, and the felt wore out after a couple of years use, so it is extremely rare. I have plenty of documentation that proves that this veiled, dark sound is actually the sound that Chopin heard, so if anyone is interested, I can send you a PDF with all the information.
The tempo is 50 BPM for each dotted quarter note, which is the tempo indicated by Chopin. This makes it so that the left hand plays groups of 6 notes every BPM!
I am quite sure most of you out there would not like to play on this kind of piano, because of the muffled sound, but I have collected proof that this dark sound was what was in fashion from at least 1830 to 1850! Strange indeed!
The softer sound does have an effect on the overall interpretation, in my opinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWKl6e5BU8s&list=RDWWKl6e5BU8s
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Re: Chopin Nocturne Op.27 as it sounded to Chopin
acortot #2933154 01/13/20 03:56 AM
johnstaf
The sound has much more in common with a modern piano than pianos from a couple of decades before, which sound like a different instrument to me. I suppose the iron frame marked the biggest change in the sound of the piano.
Pianoman53
I studied in the Hague, which is really big on early music. I played on historical pianos several times, and even wrote a research that was partly about fortepianos. While I don't think one should base their modern instrument interpretation on how it sounded then - since that is unfair both to the modern and historical instrument - it is definitely worthwhile to play on them.
johnstaf #2933209 01/13/20 08:07 AM
Originally Posted by johnstaf
Yes, the addition of iron was a big change, necessary to support the increase in string tension, however, the steel frame, and the cast iron frame, had all been invented before, but nobody wanted to use them because of the metallic sound. In those days, the taste was to get a sweet and mellow, organic tone, and with the low tensions, there wasn't a great need to go fully cast iron yet. I imagine that low tension also sounds bad with a full metal frame.
I think that this piano does have a lot in common with modern pianos, although it tends to have a darker pp-mf. If anything, we should be able to have a dark pp-mf on modern pianos, with the option of getting a bright sound when playing into the f-fff range. Today's pianos seem to be bright at any volume, which makes playing Chopin less natural IMO
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Sigh ... this is exquisite😽 I do agree that the Pleyel changes the effect to be more suited to Chopin. How I wish I owned one!
Thanks so very much for posting this
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acortot #2933467 01/13/20 07:31 PM
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Most of the YT performances by great pianists that I checked are around 6:00, almost 50% longer. I thought it sounded pretty terrible at the faster speed so maybe Chopin erred with his tempo marking or maybe the editor made a mistake that Chopin didn't catch. It can't be some secret that Chopin marked it much faster, so the fact that the faster tempo seems to be almost universally ignored seems to say that no great pianist thinks it makes sense. There are other examples where I think pianists generally adopt a tempo much different from what Chopin indicated, one being Op.10 Nos. 6.
pianoloverus #2933506 01/13/20 09:41 PM
Tyrone Slothrop
Originally Posted by pianoloverus
I thought it sounded pretty terrible at the faster speed so maybe Chopin erred with his tempo marking or maybe the editor made a mistake that Chopin didn't catch. It can't be some secret that Chopin marked it much faster, so the fact that the faster tempo seems to be almost universally ignored seems to say that no great pianist thinks it makes sense. There are other examples where I think pianists generally adopt a tempo much different from what Chopin indicated, one being Op.10 Nos. 6.
In the late 80's, when the HIP movement was taking off, conductor Roger Norrington recorded a series of performances of Beethoven's symphonies using Beethoven's original tempo markings. None was more controversial than his performance of the 9th, which clocked in at 62 minutes, when the average performance is 69:30. Needless to say, I don't think many conductors pay much attention to Beethoven's tempo markings on symphonies. Other HIP performances of his symphonies have restored instruments, performance practices, temperaments, and everything except Beethoven's tempos, which generally have not been used as gospel.
EDIT: BTW, this is the entirety of Norrington's performance of Beethoven's 9th at Beethoven's own tempo markings. If you try it, put on your seatbelts first!
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An interesting and unique interpretation of this Nocturne, although not to my taste. What I find objectionable isn't so much the faster tempo, but rather the "drunken" effect where the hands are almost never played in sync. Although almost everyone does this to some degree for this kind of music, I rarely find it used in such a heavy fashion like this. It almost sounds like the melody is syncopated through the entire piece.
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rach3master #2933607 01/14/20 08:39 AM
Originally Posted by rach3master
I thought the pianist was trying to play in the LH before RH style popular in the 19th century because of the piano he was playing on. No serious plays that way any more, and I did find it annoying and ineffective.
Tyrone Slothrop #2933610 01/14/20 08:43 AM
Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
In the late 80's, when the HIP movement was taking off, conductor Roger Norrington recorded a series of performances of Beethoven's symphonies using Beethoven's original tempo markings. None was more controversial than his performance of the 9th, which clocked in at 62 minutes, when the average performance is 69:30.
If he did it as comparatively fast vs. standard speed as the pianist in the video the Beethoven would be about 46 minutes.
pianoloverus #2933619 01/14/20 09:05 AM
Well, on the manuscript it's a dotted quarter for 50 BPM, so there is no mistake.
Chopin always placed phrase legatos on his manuscript, as to say that it was essential to the composition.
The left hand is organized in groups of six notes that should be played as a phrase. People who heard him play, say that he played in 'waves', so perhaps the left hand pulse of 50 BPM was represented by the entire 6 note arpeggio, as if it was one beat. If you treat the notes individually, and not as a whole, that's perhaps where the confusion sets in.
Old music was simply played in a fashion that most people today don't like so much, but don't forget we are talking about the most famous piano composer of all time, perhaps.
Chopin, it was written by an observer, 'could not' play in time, although Mikuli says he always kept a Metronome on his piano.
On Chopin's earliest works, he often wrote 'tempo rubato' on his manuscripts. He later stopped doing that because people did not understand what he meant.
In his teaching he said that the left hand was the conductor and the right hand should be free to wonder rhythmically 'as much as possible'
This is nothing new IF you listen to great singers. Most of the world famous singers (including more recent ones such as Sinatra or even George Michael) sing behind the beat (in pianistic terms, after the left hand) and occasionally in front of it.. this is the essence of Rubato: you steal time from some notes and give them to others.
Let's just say the old way of playing does not fit today's aesthetic, much like the pianos' sound of old is too soft and mellow.
Here is the manuscript.
http://www.chopinonline.ac.uk/ocve/browse/pageview/70279/
Very nice. I once owned a Chickering 8’3” grand with a straight string plate and action. It was from the early 1870’s and had a similar tone, more delicate than a modern piano. I think the advent of the overstrung plate and action, moving the bass and high treble strings more over the middle, more resonant part of the soundboard is a significant change that provides the depth and power of the sound of a modern grand. Once this was done, higher tension with thicker strings was a natural way to leverage that even more.
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I'll be the minority and say that I love the nocturne played this way. I prefer the faster tempo, and the disjuct of right and left hand is incredibly expressive to me.
Tim Adrianson
Hi, acortot! Count me in as another minority vote -- I wasn't taken so much by the "darkness" of sound as by the very light action of the piano and the quick decay of sound, relative to most modern grands. Those aspects allowed the pianist to provide convincing soundscapes at speeds that IMO would simply be unattainable on a modern grand. And I also agree that the slight disjunction between the hands is aesthetically appropriate here, because the character of this piece is that of a singer with piano accompaniment. Also, I loved the silvery quality of the right hand throughout, beautifully in tune and focused. IMO, a thorough success -- I think Chopin would have been most impressed.
Tim Adrianson #2936802 01/21/20 04:32 PM
David-G
Originally Posted by Tim Adrianson
I agree. I think it sounds exquisitely beautiful.
I have never heard any professional pianist play this piece nearly as fast as the video even though the Chopin tempo marking is cannot be a secret. IOW they apparently reject Chopin's tempo marking and play it much slower. Are there any YT recordings by any great pianist playing it as fast as this video? I also think the extreme use of asynchronization of the hands ruins the piece,
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BruceD
Those of use who have lived through the better (?) half of the last century may have difficulty with this tempo, having been brought up as we were with the more "traditional" tempo from the likes of ... well, just about every concert pianist I can mention.
So many significant details, harmonic and decorative, seem to be tossed off as inconsequential. I have difficulty appreciating this Nocturne at this tempo. I find the sound of the piano very interesting and even quite appealing, however.
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Tim Adrianson #2937026 01/22/20 09:30 AM
Hi, thanks!
Indeed it's close to impossible to play the pieces at the original tempo with modern pianos, especially the ones that are voiced brightly, because all you hear is the clashing of the different notes.
Perhaps one of the principal reasons why Chopin and a lot of other composers are played at a fraction of the speed that they were conceived at.
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USA Today Metro Atlanta Super 25 Football Poll
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ATLANTA -- The Thanksgiving edition of the USA Today Metro Atlanta Super 25 Poll is ready for inspection. As the state playoffs head for the quarterfinal round the Wolves continue to be leaders of the pack.
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North Gwinnett continues to lead the way, with Buford second. Carrollton jumps from 6 to 3 this week, with Norcross and McEachern making up the top 5
Sandy Creek is 6, followed by Eagle's Landing Christian and Lovejoy. Lovett soars from 15 to 9 this week, and Hillgrove completes the top 10.
New faces in the Super 25 include Griffin at 15, North Hall at 19 and Cartersville at 25.
Marietta, Grayson, and Kell fall out of the Super 25 this week.
The Metro Atlanta Super 25 Poll is computer generated and produced exclusively for 11Alive and 11Alive.com, by USA Today High School Sports
Tuesday, September 17th, 2013, 9:39am
ATLANTA -- The new USA Today Metro Atlanta Super 25 Football Poll is here. Last week's number one team hangs on to the top spot after a big win over the defending state champions.
North Gwinnett leads the way this week, with Buford, Norcross, Sandy Creek and Lovejoy in the top 5.
McEachern is 6 with Carrollton jumping from 13 to 7 this week. Eagle's Landing Christian, Grayson and Mill Creek round out the top 10.
Other movers this week include St. Pius going from 19 to 12, Tucker rising from 18 to 14 and Peachtree Ridge climbing from 21 to 15.
Marietta slides from 12 to 17, North Cobb tumbles from 8 to 18, Calhoun falls from 14 to 24, and Lassiter drops from 16 to 25.
This week's new faces are Kell at 20, Walton at 22 and Lovett at 23.
M.L. King, West Forsyth and Marist drop out of the Super 25.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2013, 12:13pm
After two weeks of play, the name that tops the chart remains the same.
North Gwinnett improved to 2-0 and stays No. 1 after its win at Grayson. Norcross is next with Lovejoy, Sandy Creek, and McEachern moving up from No. 8 to complete the top 5 this week.
Buford stays at 6, with North Cobb, Eagle's Landing Christian, Grayson, and Gainesville rounding out the top 10.
This week's movers are Marietta from 15 to 11, Carrollton from 19 to 12 and Calhoun from 24 to 14.
This week's new faces are Hillgrove at 16, Peachtree Ridge at 19 and Milton at 25.
West Forsyth, Parkview, and Alpharetta drop out of the Super 25.
The Metro Atlanta Super 25 Polls are computer generated and produced by USA Today High School Sports exclusively for 11Alive News and 11Alive.com
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Home > > Cruise lines spend big, get quirky to lure Chinese travellers
Cruise lines spend big, get quirky to lure Chinese travellers
06/27/2014| 3:51:17 PM| reuters.com
Carnival Corp and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd are trying to pique interest with China-centric attractions such as a menu inspired by an ex-president. They are also tapping a national penchant for education with classes ranging from foreign languages to silver service.
Looking to convince Chinese tourists that a ship can be a holiday destination and not just a way to get there, the world's leading cruise lines are spending billions of dollars on flashy new vessels and quirky on-board services.
Drawing cruise lines to China is the prospect of $11.5 billion in sales come 2018 compared with $6.8 billion last year, according to researcher Euromonitor. The market will soon be the second-biggest and could eventually surpass the United States, industry executives said.
"Competition is getting increasingly fierce," said Jiang Yushen, a deputy general manager at China's HNA Tourism Cruise Yacht Management Co, part of HNA Group Co Ltd. The challenge is Chinese consumers are still "fuzzy" about what cruising is all about, Jiang said.
Cruises in China tend to last around five days and include stops in neighbouring South Korea and Japan. Global cruise lines have upped investment in the market in the wake of a government initiative last year to develop ports and support local lines.
The year of "marine tourism" in 2013 ended with an almost 20 percent rise in Chinese passengers at 1.4 million - a figure likely to more than triple by 2020, according to data from the government and the China Cruise & Yacht Industry Association.
"The business shot up last year, but this year it is growing even faster," said Wang Yang, chief executive of Youlunhai.com. The travel agent sold around 5 percent of cruise tickets in China last year, Wang said.
Carnival brand Princess Cruises based a ship in the country for the first time in May. Next year, Royal Caribbean will move one of its new near-billion dollar Quantum class ships to China almost straight from the shipyard - unusual as most vessels Western lines base in the country have already been in service.
But as luxurious as the ships may be, cruise lines still have to convince people to get on board at the main ports of Tianjin, Shanghai and Xiamen.
"The biggest challenge is getting the message across to a wider consumer base," Dominic Paul, vice president international at Royal Caribbean, told Reuters.
The cruise line carried 300,000 Chinese passengers last year and targets an annual increase of 70 percent. It declined to provide investment or sales amounts.
Carnival also declined to specify investment or sales, but said it aimed to increase passenger capacity in the Chinese market by 140 percent from 2013 to 2015.
To lure tourists to the sea - and beat back lower-priced local competition - global lines are working to cater to Chinese tastes, especially when it comes to food.
"Most of our customers start with the same question: What about the food?" said Youlunhai.com's Wang.
Princess Cruises said it offers the only 24-hour buffet in the Chinese market, as well a menu similar to that enjoyed by former President Hu Jintao during a meeting at the White House. The cruise line also has extra "educational components" with classes in silver service and how to host Western guests.
"Our research found that there was an even greater appetite among Chinese guests to learn," Princess Cruises President Jan Swartz told Reuters.
Youlunhai.com and rival travel agents are also playing their part in growing the market. Ctrip.Com International Ltd , which said it sells around 10 percent of all cruise tickets, offers discounts through social media platforms and collaborates with dating websites.
Swartz said Princess Cruises had made joint investments in marketing with local travel agents, and gave them discounts for the line's first cruises from its China base.
But there is some way to go to win over tourists like 41-year-old Wu Haifang, who said she was embarking on a cruise simply to get to another country for local food and shopping.
"I just want to go to South Korea and try their pickles, watch Korean TV and buy an electric rice cooker," said Wu, as she waited to board at Shanghai's Wusongkou terminal.
"My husband's company organised a cruise tour for its employees. I got a free ticket just by chance," she said.
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Title: Who Spoke Next
Author: Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot, 1787-1860
*** Start of this Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book "Who Spoke Next" ***
WHO SPOKE NEXT
MRS. FOLLEN
With Illustrations by Billings and others
THE OLD GARRET
Boys are not apt to forget a promise of a story. Frank and Harry did
not fail to call upon their mother for the history of the old musket.
"It appeared to me," said the mother, "that the old musket was not very
willing to tell his story. He had a sort of old republican pride, and
felt himself superior to the rest of the company in character and
importance. When he had made himself heard in the world hitherto, it
had always been by one short, but very decided and emphatic word; he
despised any thing like a palaver; so he began very abruptly, and as if
he had half a mind not to speak at all, because he could not speak in
his own way.
"None but fools," said he, "have much to say about themselves--'Deeds,
not words,' is a good motto for all. But as I would not be churlish,
and as I have agreed, as well as the rest of my companions, to tell my
story, I will mention what few things worth relating I can recollect.
I have no distinct consciousness, as my friend the pitcher or the
curling tongs has, of what I was before the ingenuity of man brought me
into my present form. I would only mention that all the different
materials of which I was formed must have been perfect of their kind,
or I could never have performed the duties required of me.
My first very distinct recollection is of being stood up in the way I
am standing now, with a long row of my brethren, of the same shape and
character as myself, as I supposed. This was in a large building
somewhere in England. I, like the curling tongs, was at last packed up
in a box, and brought to America, but it took a rather larger box to
take me and my friends, than it took to pack up him and his friends,
with all their thin straddle legs."
Creak went the curling tongs at this personal attack.
"We were brought to this country," continued the old musket, "by an
Englishman. Little did he think how soon we should take part against
our Fatherland, or he would have kept us at home.
One day, the elder brother of the gentleman who owned our little friend
curling tongs came into the shop where I then was, and, after looking
at all the muskets, selected me as one that he might trust. As he paid
for me, he said to the man, "This is an argument which we shall soon
have to use in defence of our liberties."
"I fear we shall," said the shopman, "and if many men are of your mind,
I hope, sir, you will recommend my shop to them. I shall be happy to
supply all true patriots with the very best English muskets."
My new master smiled, and took me home to his house in the country.
The family consisted of himself, his wife, and three children--two sons
and a daughter. The eldest son was eighteen, the second sixteen, and
the daughter fourteen. The mistress of the house turned pale when she
saw my master bring me in and quietly set me down in a corner of the
room behind the old clock.
Presently the two young men entered. The younger shuddered a little
when he saw me, but the elder clapped his hands and exclaimed, "That's
good! We have got a musket now, and the English will find out that we
know how to use it!"
"Pray to God, my son," said his mother, "that we may never have to use
The boy did not give much heed to what his mother said, but took me up,
examined me all over, and, after snapping my trigger two or three
times, pronounced me to be a real good musket, and placed me again in
the corner where his father had put me at first.
The next day, my master took me out to try me. I confess I was not
pleased at the first charge with which I was loaded. When I felt the
powder, ball, wadding and all, rammed down so hard, it was as
disagreeable to me as a boy's first hard lesson in grammar is to him,
and seemed to me as useless, for I did not then know what I was made
for, nor of what use all this stuffing could be. But when my master
pulled the trigger, and I heard the neighboring hills echo and reecho
with the sound, I began to feel that I was made for something, and grew
a little vain at the thought of the noise I should make in the world.
I did not then know all I was created for; it seemed to me that it was
only to make a great noise. I soon learned better, and understood the
purpose of my being more perfectly.
A few days after this, the family was all astir some time before
sunrise. There was a solemn earnestness in their faces, even in the
youngest of them, that was very impressive.
At last, my master took me up, put me in complete order, loaded me and
set me down in the same place, saying as he did so, "Now all is ready."
His wife sighed heavily. He looked at her and said, "My dear, would you
not have us defend our children and firesides against the oppressors?"
"Yes," she said, "go, but my heart must ache at the thought of what may
happen. If I could only go with you!"
They sat silent for a long time, holding each other's hands, and
looking at their children, till, just at sunrise, his brother John,
that sleeping child's grandfather, rushed into the house, crying, "They
are in sight from the hill. Come, Tom, quickly, come to the church." My
master seized me in a moment, kissed his wife and children, and without
speaking hastened to the place where the few men of the then very small
town were assembled to resist the invaders.
Presently about eight hundred men, all armed with muskets as good as I
was, and of the same fashion, were seen. These men had two cannon with
them which made a fearful show to the poor colonists, as the Americans
were then called.
Our men were about one hundred in number. The lordly English marched up
within a few rods of us, and one called out, "Disperse, you rebels. Lay
down your arms, and disperse."
Our men did not however lay down their arms. My master grasped me
tighter than before. We did not stir an inch. Immediately the British
officers fired their pistols, then a few of their men fired their
muskets, and, at last, the whole party fired upon our little band as we
were retreating. They killed eight men, and then went on to Concord, to
do more mischief there.
I felt a heavy weight fall upon me; it was my master's dead body; and
so I learned what muskets were made for. His fingers were on the
trigger; as he fell, he pulled it, and in that sound his spirit seemed
to depart.
The British marched on to Concord, and the poor brave people of
Lexington, who had so gallantly made the first resistance, were left to
mourn over dead companions and friends.
Soon the eldest son of my master discovered his father among the slain.
The poor fellow! I never shall forget his sorrow. He groaned as if his
heart would break, and then he laid himself down on the ground by the
side of his father's body, and wept bitterly.
One must be made of harder stuff than I am, to forget such a thing as
this. I do not ever like to speak of it, or of the painful scene that
followed. The poor widow and her fatherless children! It seemed a
dreadful work that I and such as I were made to perform.
But there were other things to be thought of then. The British soon
returned from Concord, where they had destroyed some barrels of flour
and killed two or three men.
In the mean time, the men from all the neighboring towns collected
together, armed with all the muskets they could find, and annoyed them
severely on their return by firing on them from behind stone walls.
My master's brother took me from the corner where I had been again
placed, and joined the party. He placed himself behind a fence by which
they must pass, and took such good aim with me that down fell a man
every time I spoke.
Other muskets performed the same work. What they did you may judge of,
when I tell you that, while two hundred and seventy-three Englishmen
fell that day, only eighty-eight Americans were killed. I will not talk
of what I myself performed, for I despise a boaster, but I did my share
of duty, I believe.
About two months after this, uncle John, as the children called him,
came again to borrow me. He was going to join the few brave men who
opposed the British force at Bunker or Breed's Hill.
"Sister," he said, "you will lend me the musket, will you not? I cannot
afford to buy one, and we must teach these English what stuff we are
made of."
"Let me go, Mother," said the eldest boy. "I am old enough now; I am
almost nineteen; let me go."
His mother said nothing; she looked at the vacant chair which was
called his father's; she considered a while, and then took me and put
me into her son's hands.
"God bless you, William," she said, "and bring you back safe to us; but
do your duty and fear nothing."
She kissed him, and he left her. I felt William's heart beat bravely as
he shouldered me. He was a fine fellow. We were as one. I was proud of
him, and he of me. No man and musket did better than William and I, on
that never-to-be-forgotten day; but, in the midst of the battle, a shot
wounded William's right arm, and he let me fall.
His uncle led him off the field and sent him home to his mother. A
countryman, who had nothing but an oak stick to fight with, seized me
as I lay on the ground, and here I met with the first mortification of
my life--he actually used me to dig with. This was a contemptible
feeling in me, and I have since learned to be ashamed of it, and to
know that all labor is equally honorable, if it is for a good end. They
had not tools enough for making entrenchments, and they actually used
the bayonet, of which I had been proud, for this purpose. In the
confusion after the battle, I was forgotten. I was left at the bottom
of the works in the mud.
It was a hard thing for me to be parted from William, and to feel that
I should never be restored to my corner in his mother's room behind the
old clock; but I had a conviction that I had taken part in a great
work, and I enjoyed our triumphs greatly.
This, you will think, no doubt, was glory enough for one musket; but a
greater still was in reserve for me. It is with muskets as with men,
one opportunity improved opens the way for another, and every chance
missed is a loss past calculation; for every gain that might have grown
out of that chance is lost too.
Every one should remember that, as he fights his way through the battle
of life; and, when tempted to slacken his fire, think of what the old
revolutionary spirit, speaking through my muzzle, taught on that
day,--'hold on, and hold fast, and hold out. Never stop, stay, or
delay, but make ready!--present!--fire!--and, again and again, make
ready!--present!--fire!--till every round of ammunition is gone.'"
Here the dry, rusty, unmodulated tone, in which the old king's arm had,
up to this time, spoken, suddenly changed; and it seemed as if a
succession of shots had been let off. Then, bringing himself down to
the floor with a DUNT off of the little tea chest full of old shoes, on
which he had stood leaning against the brick chimney, exactly as he
used to do grounding arms seventy years ago, he quietly dropped back
into the drowsy tone of narrative, and proceeded:--
"Yes--never flag nor hang back. The greater the danger, the more do you
press up to the mark. So we did at Trenton in the Jerseys, on that most
glorious day of my life of which I am now about to tell you.
I must tell you that I had the honor of fighting under General
Washington; for I had been marched down to Trenton with a stout-hearted
teamster, named Judah Loring, from Braintree, Massachusetts, who, after
our battle at Bunker Hill, in that State, picked me up from the bottom
of the works, where, for want of pickaxes, I had been, as I told you,
serving as a trenching, tool, and made himself my better-half and
commander-in-chief. Excuse a stately phrase; but, after the battle of
Bunker Hill, I never could screw up my muzzle to call any man master or
owner again.
We found only a few thousand men and muskets there, principally from
Virginia, Pennsylvania, and the Jerseys, with a few companies of New
Englanders; and a steadier, sturdier set of men than these last never
breathed. They had enlisted for six months only, and their time was
out; but they never spoke of quitting the field.
It was now December, in the midst of snow and ice; and not a foot among
them that did not come bleeding to the frozen path it trod. But, night
after night, the men relieved each other to mount guard, though the
provision chest was well nigh empty; and, day after day, they scoured
the country for the chance of supplies, appearing to the enemy on half
a dozen points in the course of the day; making him think the
provincials, as we were scornfully called, ten times as numerous as we
really were. But alas, I am old, I find, and lose the thread of my
story. It was of Washington I meant to speak.
Nobody could know General Washington that had not seen him as we did,
at that dark hour of the struggle. It seemed as if that man never
slept. All day he was planning, directing, contriving; and all night
long he would write--write--write; letters to Congress, begging them to
give him full powers, and all would go well, for he did not want power
for himself, but only power to serve them; letters to the generals in
the north, warning, comforting, and advising them; letters to his
family and friends, bidding them look at him and do as he did; letters
to influential men every where, entreating them to enlist men and money
for the holy cause.
He never rested; and, with the cold gray dawning, would order out his
horse and ride through and around the miserable tents, and where we
often slept under the bare heavens, and every heart was of bolder and
better cheer as he passed.
His look never changed. It was just the same steady face, whatever went
on before it; whether he saw us provincials beaten back, or watched a
thousand British regulars pile their arms after the victory at Trenton.
He looked as he does in the great picture in Faneuil Hall, on the
right, as you stand before the rostrum. He stands there, by his horse,
just as I saw him before the passage of the Delaware, with the steady,
serious, immovable look that puts difficulties out of countenance. It
is the look of a man of sense and judgment, who has come to the
determination to save the country, and means to transact that piece of
business without fail.
I never saw that quiet, iron look change but once. I will tell you
about it. It was one of those days after the battle of Trenton, when he
tried to concentrate the troops that he had scattered over the country,
to bring them to bear upon the British. His object was to show the
enemy that they could not keep their foothold.
Between Trenton and Princeton he ordered the assault. The Virginians
were broken at the enemy's first charge, and could not be rallied a
second time against the British bayonets. General Washington commanded
and threatened and entreated in vain.
We of New England saw the crisis, marched rapidly up, and poured in our
fire at the exact moment, Judah Loring and I in the very front.
The British could not stand the fire. We gave it to them plenty, I tell
you. Judah Loring loaded, and I fired over and over and over again,
till it seemed as if he and I were one creature.
A musket, I should explain to you, feels nothing of itself, but only
receives a double share of the nature of the man who carries it.
I felt ALIVE that day. Judah was hot, but I was hotter; and, before the
cartridge box was empty, he pulled down his homespun blue and white
frock sleeve over his wrist, and rested me upon it when he took aim. He
was a gentle-hearted fellow, though as brave as his musket.
"She's so hot," says he, doubling his sleeve into his palm, "that I
can't hold her; but I can't stop firing NOW!"
I met his wishes exactly, I knew by that word; for he always called
every thing he liked, SHE. The sun was SHE; so was his father's old
London-made watch; so was the Continental Congress.
General Washington saw the whole;--the enemy, driven back before our
fire, could never be brought to look us in the face again. We held the
ground;--the Virginia troops rallied;--General Washington took off his
cocked hat, and lifted it high, like a finished gentleman, as he was.
"Hurrah!" he shouted, "God bless the New England troops! God bless the
Massachusetts line!" [Footnote: This was all fact, related by one who
was present.] And his steady face flamed and gave way like melting
metal.
Ah, what a set of men were those! I felt the firm trip-hammer of all
their pulses beat through the whole fight, for we stood in platoon,
shoulder to shoulder. I felt my kindred with every one of them. They
had more steel in their nerves and more iron in their blood than other
men. Not a man cared a straw for his life, so he saved from wrong and
bondage the lives of them that should come after him.
That day's work raised hope in every man's heart through the land. Said
I not well that it was the most glorious of my life?
I have but little more to say. I have said more than I meant to, more
perhaps than was wise to say of my own glory. But the thought of those
brave days of old makes one too talkative.
I must tell you, however, how I at last came here. Judah Loring brought
me home safe; he was a very honest fellow, and seeing the initials
scratched on my butt-end, and 'Lexington' underneath, he went there on
purpose to find to whom I belonged.
My friend William claimed me, and I was again placed behind the old
clock in the little parlor. His mother looked very calm, and almost
happy, but not as she once did; she sighed heavily when William brought
me home. William's wound in his arm healed after a while, but his arm
was disabled. By great self-denial and exertion, his mother had got him
into college, and he was to be a schoolmaster.
The sight of me was painful to this good woman, and she gave me to
uncle John who kept me safely and, on the whole, honorably till his son
placed me here.
There is one disgrace I have met with which, in good faith, however
unwillingly, I ought to mention. Uncle John used me to kill skunks
occasionally. This there was no great harm in doing, only he should not
have talked about it. I disliked, it, however, exceedingly.
Once, I am told, when he was in the South, some southern gentleman, for
some trifling offense, challenged him.
Uncle John was told that he, as the party challenged, might choose his
"Well," he said to his enemy, "if you will wait till I can send for my
skunk gun, I am ready for you."
I have since, I do hate to say it, been called the skunk gun
repeatedly. To be sure, no one that has any reverence in his nature
speaks of me in this way. Uncle John had not much, but his son, the
father of that little girl, treats me with due respect, and forbids
them to call me the skunk gun.
I was once the defender of liberty, and am ready to be so again. I was
not made to kill skunks, those disgusting little animals. I hate to
think of them.
Pardon me for keeping you listening to me so long; I have done. I wish
to hear now what that respectable-looking broadsword has to say. We two
ought to be friends."
"I was born a gentleman," said the broadsword. "I was always considered
the sign, the symbol of one. Not many years since, a sword was so
essential to the character of a gentleman that a man without one by his
side, was, in fact, not considered a gentleman.
My master, who was also yours, Mr. Curlingtongs, was one the officers
in the company of Cadets at its first formation. He had the honorable
title of Major, and all his best friends called him Major. Little did I
think once that I should be condemned to the disgrace of spending my
old age in a garret with crooked curling tongs, broken pitchers, old
baize gowns, noseless tea-kettles, old crutches, a foot stove, and,
worse than all, a spinning wheel.
My only peers here are the venerable musket and the respectable wig.
Even they have seen too much hard service to be able fully to
appreciate the feelings of a gentleman who has been brought up as I
have. The degradation the musket especially endured, in being used as a
spade by such a very common sort of person as Judah Loring--a
degradation of which, far from being ashamed, he seems actually proud;
all this, I say, my friends, makes a wide separation between us never
to be forgotten or got over."
"I'm agreed, the further off the better," growled the musket. The old
wig also gave a sort of contemptuous hitch, that seemed to say, he
agreed with the musket.
"I consider myself," resumed the broad-sword, "to be a perfect
gentleman. I have never denied myself by any sort of labor. I have been
considered something to show, something to be used only as a terror to
evil doers.
It strikes me that I really made the Major; he never could appear in
his company or perform his duties without me; his queue was not more
essential. He was not a Major without me. Every one feared me when they
saw my shining blade out of its scabbard, and it was really amusing
occasionally to see the effect I produced. There have been swords that
have done bloody work, but I have never been so defiled.
The Boston Cadets, you know, are the Governor's body guard, and such is
the anxiety of people sometimes to see a real live governor when he has
on his governor's dress and character, that the women and children
crowd around him so that he can hardly find room to move and breathe.
At one of these times of great pressure, my master took me out and
flourished me round bravely. O, how they all scampered! just like a
flock of frightened geese, merely at the sight of me. Such is the
effect of my mere appearance. To be sure, the Major laughed whenever he
told this story. I know not why, for it is perfectly true.
Once, when all the men in the family were gone away,--it was since we
have lived in the country,--the children were in the upper chamber, and
the doors were open below, and they saw a frightful-looking beggar
coming up the avenue; he was lame and had a patch over his eye. He
looked terrible; but one of the girls ran for me, and took me out of
the scabbard, and shook me at him out of the window, and screamed out
to him to go off; whereupon he turned about and hobbled off as fast as
he could.
One of the little girls said she did not believe there was any harm in
the poor beggar, and that she would go down and let him in, and give
him something to eat, but the biggest boy shook me at her for only
saying so, so as to dazzle her eyes and frighten her, and she became
silent and remained where she was.
Many such feats I have performed, too many to relate. Children, to be
sure, especially big blustering rude boys, have occasionally played
tricks with me. When they play Bombastes Furioso they come for me."
"All right," said the musket.
"These little rogues have gapped my fine edge, and one good-for-nothing
scamp used me to cut down cabbages, but, as he came very near cutting
down his younger brother at the same time, he was sent to bed
supperless by his father. I have really never performed any drudgery.
Like Caesar, 'I came, I saw, I conquered.'"
At these words, there was a sort of scornful laugh from every venerable
person in the garret. Even the old baize gown shook with merriment;
this vexed the sword so completely that he stopped speaking; and,
notwithstanding their entreaties, would not resume the story or speak
another word.
There was a deep silence, for a few moments, which was broken, at last,
by the old wig, who called upon the warming pan to tell her story; the
warming pan obeyed, and spoke as follows:--
"I pass over my early life. Time was when I was thought much of in this
family. Early in the autumn, I was rubbed and polished till you could
see your face in me.
On the first cold night, some nice walnut wood embers were carefully
put into me; I had the pleasure and honor of being passed up and down
my mistress's bed till it was well warmed, and this service I performed
for her constantly till the warm weather returned.
When any one in the family was ill, I was employed on the same service
for him or her; or when guests came to pass the night, I performed this
office for them, and this was all apparently which my existence was
for. A very monotonous life I led, to be sure, but I am of a quiet
nature and care not for much variety.
I remember only one or two things which occurred beyond this dull
routine; these I will relate and then give place to some more
interesting speaker.
One day, I was suddenly seized upon by one of the maids, and carried
out into the orchard, when she began beating me with an iron spoon, and
making as much noise as she possibly could; presently others of the
family joined with tin pans and kettles, and such a babel of sound you
never heard; this, I found afterwards, was to stupefy a swarm of bees
and make them alight which, at last, they did. Then one of the men with
a handkerchief over his face, and with gloves on, swept the bees into a
new hive, and put it by the side of the old ones.
After this bruising, I was hung up upon my accustomed peg, but my
brazen face still shows the marks which Dolly's iron spoon left on me
that morning.
One feat, however, I performed, which I should think might put our
friend the sword to the blush. I did do something in defence of our
native land in the hour of her danger; he it seems did nothing in his
whole life but play gentleman.
Our cook Dolly was a brave woman, and, during the Revolution, once or
twice she was left quite alone in the house, and every thing was put
under her care.
Upon one of these occasions, she was up stairs, and thought she heard
some one in the house; she came down very softly, and saw a man in the
pantry helping himself to the silver; he was so much occupied, and she
moved so softly, that he did not see or hear her. I was hanging in the
entry close by where she passed; she took me down very softly, came up
behind the soldier,--for such he was,--and gave him a good box on the
ear with me, instead of her hand. This scared him so effectually that
he threw down the silver, and scampered off after his companions who
were in the stable looking for horses which they meant to take for
themselves. Dolly, in the mean time, caught up the silver, ran out of
another door into a wood near the house, where she hid herself and the
silver till the enemy were gone.
These are all the events of my life that I remember. After my master's
and mistress's death, I was sent up garret to be put among the useless
old things, such as gentlemen's broadswords, broken pitchers, noseless
tea-kettles, &c. The reason for this is not that I am worn out, but
because the age is so much wiser that they have come to the conclusion
that cold beds are more healthy than warm ones; so here I am left to
rust out with the rest of my fellow-sufferers. Perhaps my cousin foot
stove may have something more interesting to relate. I have done."
The foot stove seemed half inclined not to speak; but, after a little
urging, she said, in a whining tone,
"Every one knows that I was made to be trodden under foot and to be
abused. There was, to be sure, a period of my life somewhat more
Many years ago, I was regularly, during the cold weather, brightened up
and put in nice order every Saturday, and on Sunday taken to church;
for then the churches were cold, and, without me well filled with
blazing coals, my mistress could not have borne to listen for more than
an hour to the good minister's sermon.
Sermons at that time were sermons indeed; and the people got their
money's worth of preaching.
I was indeed, at that time, a great favorite in the house. All the old
people cared for me especially, and I was kept often in the parlor,
and, when I was cold, the children were allowed to sit upon me, but
never to abuse me. But this is a capricious, changing, cheating, vain
world, and foot stoves are not thought much of nowadays. The churches
are warmed all over, so that foot stoves are not needed, and so I never
go to church; indeed, in my broken-down state of health, it would
hardly be safe for me to do so. I am not even used at home, if it is
possible to do without me: and then, if I ever am brought down stairs,
a long apology is made for my looks.
The truth is, my life has not been a happy or desirable one. I have had
much to suffer. One happy moment I had. The dear lady to whom I first
belonged had long wished to have a stove, but was prevented from buying
one because she would not spend money on herself for any thing if she
could possibly do without. Her husband, who was the owner of the
curling tongs, when he knew this, determined to get her a stove; and,
on the very day when she burned his hair in her efforts to learn to
dress it as well as the hair dresser, he purchased me for her.
I was the very best stove in the shop; and, when he presented me to
her, he said, "Now, my dear, in revenge for your burning my head, I
will heap coals of fire not on your head, but under your feet,
especially when you go to church; so beware lest I burn your feet as
you did my head."
This pretty attention of her husband's pleased her so much that she
kept me in sight for many days. When shall I forget how soft and light
her pretty, neatly dressed feet felt, the first time she used me?
For a long while I was her stove alone; but after a time, all sorts of
feet were put upon me, and life grew common and tiresome.
After my mistress's death, I was much neglected, for wise folks said
foot stoves should not be used. At last, the cook, who was no invalid,
and did not care for doctors, took me up, and soon began to consider me
as her property, and kept me in the kitchen.
One day, however, the farmer's boy brought in some heavy logs of wood,
and threw them down carelessly. One fell upon me, and smashed me up,
leaving me as you now see me. Here I remain shattered and
forsaken--nothing but an old broken foot stove that nobody cares for.
I hope that those stout, good-looking and-irons will now tell their
story. They look to me just as upright and stiff and strong as when I
first saw them in our dear master's chimney corner. To be sure, they
are not so bright and shining as they were then, but they look, in all
other respects, just as they did then, and life has fallen lighter on
them than on your poor humble servant, the foot stove."
The andirons were now called upon to entertain the company. "We have
always had the comfort and blessing of living together," said one of
them. Indeed we should not be good for any thing apart. A pair of
andirons belong together as much as the two parts of a pair of
scissors. So we have never been lonely. We have had much to be thankful
for. We are, to be sure, called 'the old dogs.' The name sounds
disagreeable, and is hard to bear; but we are made of good Russia iron,
and can endure a good deal.
Time was when the old dogs were essential to the warmth and comfort of
the family, but they went out of fashion. Modern improvements, as they
are called, sent us away from the cheerful domestic hearth to this old
dusty garret, and spiders weave their webs over our very faces; but,
like other DOGS, we had our day.
What article of furniture in the old-fashioned snug parlor was so
essential as we? How could the fragrant hickory and birch sticks have
sent their cheering light and warmth over the faces of the happy family
circles without our support?
The tea-kettle, genial and comely as it always was while it had a nose,
was still but an occasional visitor. We were always there. We listened
to the early morning prayer which the good man offered, on every new
day, to the Giver of all good. We were present when he lifted his
earnest voice of grateful joy, for the blessings of loving friends and
healthy children, who made their quiet life an Eden of peace and
goodness.
We were present too when sorrow came, softened by religious faith--by
trust in a loving Father.
We heard when, again and again, the news that another child was born
was sounded through the house with a sweetly solemn joy, like the voice
of an angel proclaiming anew peace on earth and good will to men.
How many secrets we have listened to! How many love scenes we have
witnessed! How many ringing shouts of laughter have we heard! How many
unbidden tears have we seen flow! What stories we might tell! But it
would not be right for us to tell all we know. I suppose the good old
couple, as they sat of winter evenings over the embers, when the
children were gone to bed, never thought of our telling what we heard.
One trick that the boys planned in our hearing, and the punishment they
got for their roguery, I will tell you about, if you are not tired of
our story."
"Go ahead," shouted the musket, with a bounce.
"There were five boys in the family. One of them, a little fellow of
ten years of age, was foolish enough to be afraid of the dark. His
brothers resolved to cure him, and took the worst way possible, which
was, to give him something to be frightened at.
On the upper shelf of a closet in the room in which they slept was a
very large bundle. They determined to tie a string to the bundle, and,
before George went up to bed, to tie the other end of the string to the
latch of the door, so that, when he opened it, this bundle would come
thundering down, and, as they said, give him something to be scared at.
The man servant heard of the plan as he was lighting the lamps while
the boys were talking it over. He had a particular fancy for George and
told him.
George said nothing, but, just before the time when he thought Tom
would go up to the bedroom to set the trap, went up himself, tied the
string to the latch of the door, having previously put a tin pan and
wash basin on the top of the bundle, then put the old cat in the
closet, and came down stairs.
"When do you go to bed, George?" said Tom.
"At the usual time," said George, quietly. Up ran Tom to prepare the
entertainment for his brother, and opened the door fearing
nothing--bang slam came great bundle, tin kettle and wash basin, and
out jumped the great black cat, howling and spitting at the racket.
Tom forgot he was the big brave boy, and scampering, like lightning,
down stairs, he slipped, fell, and was brought in faint from fright,
and with a bleeding nose.
His father inquired what had frightened him so. George told what he had
His father blamed him severely.
"Blame us, father," said the other boys.
"It is only the biter bitten," said Tom. "I am justly punished. I was
the oldest, and I only am really to blame. It is all right that I
suffered instead of poor George."
Then their father gathered them around him, and told them stories of
the evil consequences he had known follow from being severely
frightened.
The children all promised him never to commit such a fault again; and I
believe they kept their word.
"But I am too long, and am growing prosy."
"So you are," bounced the musket.
"An ugly, impertinent contrivance, called a grate, was introduced in
lieu of us--black, dirty coal was burned instead of beautiful oak and
walnut, to warm the dear family. We were no longer of any use. Poetry
went away with the andirons, sentiment and refinement are obsolete, and
here we stand, the head and foot-stones, as it seems to me, at the
grave of the dear old-fashioned buried past.
"I have done. Please, friend tea-kettle, favor us with your
experiences."
"My story has nothing extraordinary in it," said the tea-kettle. "Like
most of my friends, I have had my ups and downs in the world.
I had the honor of being made in the mother country. I am of the very
best of tin; what there is left of me is still pretty good. When that
little girl's parents were married, I first took my place in the
family, and contributed my part to the adornment of the kitchen closet.
I was kept as bright as silver, and was carried, twice a day, into the
parlor, and set upon some red-hot coals, where I used to sing my
morning and evening song to the happy family I served.
Erelong, an ugly upstart of a grate took the place, as you know, of the
dear old andirons, and I was banished with them from my happy place.
After this, I was rarely used. When any one was ill, and hot water was
wanted to be kept upstairs, I was called for. My nature is a kindly
one, so I sang away just as merrily as if I had not been somewhat
neglected.
For this sweetness of temper I had my reward; for once my kind mistress
took me up, and said as she looked at me, "I do love this tea-kettle.
It discourses to me eloquent music. It tells the story of the early
days of my happy married life. It reminds me of the precious hours we
passed talking over so many pleasant things that we enjoyed, or that we
hoped for, while there it sat on the coals singing away a sort of sweet
cheerful accompaniment to our talk, as if it understood all we said. We
understand each other, you dear old thing."
In my visits up stairs, I often heard amusing stories told by the nurse
to the poor invalid of whom she had the charge, when he was getting
better, and such an indulgence as to hear stories was allowed him.
Once, when one of the boys--it was little Jonathan--was recovering from
an attack of scarlatina, and was very fidgety and uncomfortable,
nothing but some kind of story would keep him quiet in his bed.
It so happened that the good nurse was a sort of family friend, and had
been a great deal in the house of Jonathan's cousin, a very roguish boy
who was always getting into some kind of scrape.
Jonathan was never satisfied with hearing of Ned's frolics. One I will
relate. "At one time," said the nurse, "his father had been ill for
some days, and the order of the house was to be very quiet, as sleep
was essential to the recovery of the invalid. Now poor Ned was rather
in the habit of making a good deal of noise everywhere, but he loved
his father, and was very anxious not to disturb him. In the house, he
could not avoid making some little noise; so he passed much of his time
out of doors, wandering about alone when he could find no playfellow.
At last, Ned remembered that he had some money left of his last
allowance for pocket money. This was a rare thing; usually Ned's money
burned in his pocket so that there was no comfort for him till it was
spent for something or other. Often--it must be told in Ned's
favor--his pocket money was given to some poor little boy or girl whom
he saw in the street, or who might happen to come to his father's house
to ask charity. Ned's father, though not rich, gave him pocket money,
that Ned might be able to give for himself if he had the inclination so
to do. Well, it so happened that neither charity, nor sugar-plums, nor
any other sweet thing had taken off Ned's money; he had as much as
seventy-five cents in his pocket, and, for the want of something better
to do, he went into a shop, called, in the country town in which they
lived, a 'Variety Shop.'
'Variety Shop' was a just and proper name for such an assemblage of
every thing ever devised for the convenience and inconvenience of human
beings. There were caps after Parisian fashions for ladies, and there,
not far off, were horse nets and blankets. There were collars after the
newest patterns for gentlemen, and yokes for oxen. There were corsets
and Noah's arks, salt fish and sugar almonds, Chinese Joshes and Little
Samuels, accordeons and fish horns, almanacs, Joe Millers, and Bibles,
toothpicks and churns, silver thimbles and wash tubs, penknives,
tweezers and pickaxes, Adams and Eves in sugar, and Napoleons in brass.
In short, what was there not in that shop?
Ned entered, and his eyes were dazzled with the show and the variety.
He had some money in his pocket, and spend it now he began to think he
must; the fire burned very hot in that little pocket of his, it must be
put out. Somewhere or other it must go, that troublesome seventy-five
cents.
Now what did Ned want of toothpicks, or churns, or horse blankets, or
collars, or caps, or yokes, or thimbles, or tubs? A little Samuel his
aunt had given him. A Chinese Josh had a charm for him. He would look
at it.
The shopman, who had once been a pedler, saw the state of things with
Ned, and resolved to relieve him of that burning trouble in his pocket,
if possible. The man was an honest fellow, and meant to give Ned his
money's worth. But an exchange was no robbery, and he was convinced
that it would be better for both sides if something in his Variety Shop
should go to Ned, and Ned's money should go into the money drawer.
After Ned had looked some time at the Josh, and had half made up his
mind to take it, and had motioned away all the sugar monsters and
Noah's arks and bronze Napoleons and even the penknives, the shopman
said, "You have not looked at my fancy fowls, young gentleman; I should
like you would see them before you decide what you will have of my
variety this morning. That is quite a new article which I have just
received."
Ned was not used to being called young gentleman. He was nothing but a
boy. Of course, he went to look at the new article, after this. Every
one but him and the shopman had left the shop. It was very quiet, and,
just as the shopman had finished speaking, a cock, who was in a crate
in the corner, set up the loudest crowing that Ned had ever heard, and
with a decidedly foreign tone.
In a moment, Ned made up his mind that cock he would have. His father
had given him leave to keep fowls, and he already had a cock and three
hens of a fine breed.
"What's the price of that fellow?" said he; "he's a real buster; he'll
wake us all up early enough in the morning."
"A dollar, and cheap enough, too," said the shopman; "but, as it's you,
and I know your family, you shall have it for that."
"I have only seventy-five cents," said Ned, "and shall have no more
till next week, when I have my allowance. If you will trust me, and are
willing to wait, I will take the rooster."
"Suppose the critter was to die afore then," said the shopman, "would
you pay all the same?"
"To be sure," said Ned; and the bargain was settled.
The shopman advised him not to take the cock away before dark. Ned
agreed to wait till then. Just before his bed time, he went for
Chanticleer, and brought him as quietly as possible to the house. He
was afraid to put the new master of the poultry yard on the roost with
the old cock, lest they should fight in the morning; so he carried his
treasure softly up to his own bedroom in which was a large closet where
he had prepared a temporary roost. The cock, who was very tame, as he
had been always a pet, made no fuss, but went to sleep on his new
roost. So did Ned in his comfortable bed.
Now it so happened that this large closet was between Ned's bedroom and
that of his father who, as we have before mentioned, had been seriously
ill, and who particularly demanded quiet. All the first part of the
night the sick man had been tossing all out, very uneasy, till about
three o'clock in the morning, when he fell into a sweet sleep. His
wife, weary with anxiety and watching, was trying to get a nap in the
easy chair, when, suddenly, close by them, as if in the very room, came
an indescribable screech, an unearthly, long, shrill cock-a-doodle-do
yell, such as only a fancy feathered biped can perform.
The poor invalid screamed with horror, and his wife would have screamed
too, had she not thought first of her dear patient.
In a moment, all the household had left their beds to learn the cause
of the horrid noise. Every one ran to the sick man's door, to listen if
it was from there that the frightful noise came. When the door was
opened, there stood all the terrified family, and, among the rest, poor
Ned with the culprit in his arms.
"It's only my new fancy rooster in my closet," said he; "I never
thought of his crowing. Poor father and mother, I am so sorry! O, dear!
dear! what shall I do? I'll carry him right down, this minute; and I
never, dear father, will do such a thing again. Who'd a' thought of his
crowing so early? and then he's such an awful buster when he crows. Do
look at him."
Ned's father was the best tempered man that ever lived, and he was
really getting well; so, after a minute or two, he burst into a fit of
laughter at the droll group assembled in his room, with poor Ned in the
midst of them in his night shirt. As soon as Ned heard his father
laugh, he scampered off on his bare feet, with his fancy rooster in his
arms, covering its head with his shirt to keep down the crowing. He
shut the creature up in the cellar, where it shouted and screeched till
morning."
Some of my most amusing recollections are of the queer scenes and
conversations at which I was present, when my kind mistress lent me to
a farmer's wife. This woman was in the habit of depending, as far as
possible, upon her neighbors for any little conveniences she fancied,
and did not like to pay the cost of. Usually she managed to do without
such a nice tea-kettle as I really was; but, when she had company, she
regularly came in for me. This was her usual way of asking for me,
after saying good morning: "All your folks pretty well?"
"Yes, we are all very well," was the answer usually.
"Well, then, I spose you've nothin' agin my havin' your kittle this
arternoon. I expect Deacon Fish and his wife, and tew darters to an
arely tea; and I'm kind o' used to that ere kittle o' yourn, and can't
somehow git along without it; and I han't yet got none of my own, you
see."
She, of course, always had me to entertain her company; she knew she
should get me; and, as she went away, she always said something about
how pleasant and right it was to be neighborly.
After a few years, some one of her relations gave her a nice
tea-kettle. She brought it in to show to my mistress. I was hissing
away at the time for breakfast, which was hardly over when she entered.
After she had shown her kettle to every one, and satisfied herself that
it would bear a comparison with me, she said,--
"Now, at last, I've got a kittle o' my own; and I'll never borry nor
lend agin as long as I live in this here vale o' tears."
Not long after this, a careless girl left my rival on the fire till the
bottom was burned through, and the kettle was ruined.
The next time the good woman came, her speech ran somewhat thus; "I
spose you was to meetin' last Sabbath."
"Well, if you was, I guess you heerd how the minister told us to be
good to one another--to be neighborly, and help folks along. Now I
guess as how I told you once that I shouldn't neither borry nor lend.
Now I ain't tew old to larn and mend my ways, and I mean to deu as the
parson says, and lend and borry all the days of my life; so maybe
you'll lend me that ere kittle."
But I must tell you about one of these visits I made to this peculiar
neighbor. When she came in for me that day, she looked full of business
and earnestness, and, before she was fairly seated, she began to tell
her errand.
"I have come," she said, "to invite you all to a rag bee, every one on
ye--men folks and all, because they can cut and wind and be agreeable,
and hand round cups and sarcers and things to eat, if they can't deu
nothin' else; so now you must all come and bring your thimbles and
scissors and big needles, and, ef you've no objections, I'll jest take
the tea-kittle now, as I'm goin' straight home."
My mistress, who was the kindest person that ever lived, promised to go
to the rag party. She wished to please and aid this selfish woman, for
she was her nearest neighbor."
"Pray, dear mother, tell us what a rag bee is," said Harry.
"At the time when our tea-kettle was in its prime, we had no woollen or
cotton factories in this country. Our carpets all came from Europe,
from England most of them, and poor people could not afford to buy
them. Families were in the habit of carefully saving all their woollen
pieces, all their old woollen clothes; not a scrap was lost.
When a large quantity of these old woollen pieces was collected, it was
a custom in the country to invite all the neighbors to come in, and aid
the family in cutting these fragments up into narrow strips, about an
eighth of an inch wide, and then sewing the strips together, and
winding them up into large balls. This was used for what the weavers
call the warp or the filling of the carpet. The woof was made of yarn,
spun usually in the house from wool taken from the backs of their own
sheep, and colored with a dye made from the roots of the barberry
bushes, or the poke weed, with the aid of a little foreign indigo, or
perhaps logwood. A sufficient variety of colors could be manufactured
to produce a very decent-looking carpet.
The weaving of this homemade carpet was done also in the neighborhood.
There were always looms enough to weave, for a moderate price, all the
carpets required in the place. At that time, there was usually a carpet
only in what was called the sitting room, or, as the country people
called it, "the settin room." The rest of the house had bare floors;
perhaps, in the houses of the richest of the country people, a bit of
carpet by the bed side.
But I must tell you what else the tea-kettle said. "I went, or rather
was carried," said she, "to the rag party. The good lady who borrowed
me, I must say for her, did brighten me up famously. "There," said she,
as she gave me the last touch with her rubbing cloth, "ef it ain't as
bright as our Lijah's cheeks a Sabberday mornins!"
The country hour for dining was twelve o'clock, and the rag party was
invited to come at two. Accordingly, all the women of the place with
whom Mrs. Nutter had any acquaintance that did or did not authorize an
invitation, were assembled in her best parlor, to take part in the rag
bee.
A nice-looking, sensible set of folks they were, and, if I could
remember all they said, I am sure you would think it very amusing. One
of the subjects that I now think of was introduced by a pair of very
old breeches.
"Where," said Mrs. White, "did you get such a pair of horrid, old,
scrimpy, frightful things as them? Why, the knees are patched with
blue, and the seats with red, and they are so very small, and yet so
long--who did they belong to?"
Mrs. Nutter hesitated for a moment; at last, she seemed to muster
courage, and to be determined to speak the whole truth.
"Well," said she, "ef I must tell the treuth, them are breeches come
off of a scarecrow. It stands to reason that none of us could ever have
worn 'em. This here's the way I got 'em. My husband bought Mr. Crane's
piece that jined on to ourn, and I made him throw in the scarecrow,
cause I meant to have a rag party; and I reckon that you'll get a good
many strips out on 'em, though they be so patched like."
"I wonder," said one of the party, a fine, rosy, jolly-looking girl, "I
wonder if these are not the ones which they say old Scrimp the miser
changed with a scarecrow; and, after the exchange, old Scrimp looked so
smart that people thought he was going to be married."
"Did you ever see any one so lean favored as he is?" asked one of the
company. "Folks say he's so thin that he turns in his hat, but that ere
don't seem likely."
Another of the company now looked up from her work, showing, at the
same time, the nice strips she had been cutting. "I can't believe,"
said she, "all the stories they tell of old Scrimp's miserly ways. They
say that he almost lives upon samples."
"Lives upon samples? What does that mean? I never heard of such a
thing. What kind of victuals is samples?"
"Why, Lois Ward, don't you know what a sample is? Why, he goes to a
shop, and he asks for samples of all the different kinds of sugar, and
so of tea and coffee, and he makes these last a great while, and then
he goes to another, and does the same thing; and, when he thinks they
know his tricks, he walks clear over to another town after samples; and
so he lives upon almost nothing. They say that he keeps all his money
in an old boot hanging up in his cellar, because he thinks no robber
would think to look in an old boot after money."
"They tell me," said another, "that he kills cats for their skins, and
that he goes out o' nights with a long pole to kill skunks, and roasts
them to get their grease, because skunk's grease is mighty powerful for
men and beasts sometimes, and sells for a good deal, 'cause there ain't
many folks willing to undertake the nasty varmints."
"Do you know what Beckey Cross said about him? She said that he was
nothing but skin and grief, and that he never made any shadow. But poor
Scrimp, though he is such a miser, has a heart, and can do a very kind
"How did you find out that, Miss Dolly?" said the rosy-cheeked girl.
"Did he ever ask you to take care of his heart? if such a thing could
be found. Perhaps it is your fault that poor Scrimp is nothing but skin
and grief."
Miss Dolly drew herself up, and looked in a very dignified manner at
the young village belle. "I never kept company with Mr. Scrimp, and
never should wish to with such a thread paper of a man as him; but I
stick to it, he has a heart, and I'll tell you how I diskivered it. You
know poor Mrs. Fowler, whose house is just out of the town, near two
miles from old Scrimp's. I was there to see the poor woman the other
day. You know her husband was killed last winter by the falling of a
tree before the woodcutters thought it was ready to fall. You know she
has one little boy, who she sets every thing by, and they are pretty
poor, though the parish does help them.
I sat with her some time, and heard all her troubles and misfortings.
At last, she spoke of all the kind things she'd had done for her by
different people; among others, she told me of a kind act of old
Scrimp's.
"One day," says she, "my little boy, only four years old, did not, as
usual, come in at supper time. I went out to look for him in the wood
where he goes to play; but he was not there. Night came on, and no
Willie. I was half crazy with fear. I was at my wits' ends. I had
forbidden him to go to the village, but I concluded he had disobeyed
me; and so, at last, I sot out in that direction, though I'm so lame I
can't walk fast.
Well, she said she hadn't gone far before she met Mr. Scrimp leading
her little boy home. He had found the child, after dark, crying in the
street. He knew who was his mother, and where she lived, and he took
hold of the little fellow's hand, carried him to the bakers, bought him
a roll for supper, and was leading him home to his mother. He insisted
upon the poor widow's taking his arm, and he went back with her to her
cottage, and left a quarter of a dollar on her table when he went away."
"Now," said Miss Dolly, as she finished, "hain't Mr. Scrimp got a
heart? and, as for his living on samples, I don't believe a word of
such a ridiculous story. You see he's got a kind of habit o' saving,
and he's so thin he don't want much, and he's nobody to spend for; but
I tell you he has got a heart, and a good one, when you come at it."
This was a specimen of the conversations at the rag parties. At five
o'clock in the afternoon, the tea table was spread, and such loads of
bread and butter, cake, cheese, and what they called sweet sarse and
apple trade you never saw. The farmers and their sons, as many as could
be spared from work, put on their best coats, and helped hand about the
tea and good things. At nine exactly, they all went home, leaving many
large balls, nicely sewed, of filling for the intended new carpet.
Early in the morning of the next day, I was brightened up again, and
sent home, when my dear mistress saw me put up on a high shelf among
valuable things not often used, but always well cared for. As I said
before, she seemed really to love me, and often said, as she looked at
me, "I hope no harm will come to, my precious old tea-kettle."
Now I come to the painful part of my story, of which, even now, I hate
to think. With all this love and consideration for me, my mistress made
one fatal mistake. She allowed those same boys, who used the curling
tongs to get a bone out of the pig's throat, to take me with them when
they went into the woods to pass a day and night, and have a frolic, as
they called it.
The boys made a huge fire, and put me on it, and I boiled some water
for them, and did my duty well. But, after they had satisfied their
thirst with the good tea I had enabled them to make, they forgot your
humble servant, and left me on the coals.
The water all evaporated, and I was left to the fury of the fire; my
pleasant song turned into a groan, a scream, in fact; my nose could not
stand the fire; it dropped into the ashes; and here I am, the wreck of
what I was, with this ghastly hole in me which you see.
To be sure, the boys were sorry enough for their carelessness; but that
did not mend my nose. I am kept here by my mistress for the same reason
that she keeps the old pitcher and other useless things, as memorials
of happy days past and gone."
The tea-kettle was silent. Without any preface, the spinning wheel
began to whirl and whiz, and whiz and whirl, and grumble and rumble,
and buzz and buzz, and made altogether such a sleepy sound, as she told
her story, which was, I guess, what the sailors call a long yarn, that
she put me into such a sound sleep, that I could no longer hear any
thing distinctly, and lost her story altogether."
"But, dear mother," said Frank, "I hope you woke up so as to hear the
history of the old cloak, and the comical coat, and the wig."
"I will see," she answered, "what more I can remember of those dreamy
times which I passed in my dear mother's attic, the palace of my early
days."
One very rainy Sunday, the noise of the children was too much for the
older and graver part of the family, who wished to read and be quiet;
and my mother advised me to take my book, and go up to my parlor.
I always liked to be there, and to be by myself, with only the society
of my friend the cat who was perfectly docile and obedient to me. I
took Pilgrim's Progress, my favorite book, and was soon very
comfortably seated in my great old-fashioned arm chair. Puss was by my
side in the chair, for there was plenty of room for us both.
O, that Puss, a famous cat she was. She was of a beautiful Maltese
blue, with a very nice white handkerchief on her breast, a white ring
for a necklace, and four white feet. She once met with an adventure
worth relating.
A young harum scarum Italian was a friend of my mother's, and was often
at our house. A young lady, to whom he was much devoted, had a fancy
for cats. He resolved, at the Christmas season, to gratify this taste
of hers, as well as his own love of all sorts of vagaries.
Christmas fell on Monday. On that morning, the young lady received an
elegant package which contained, wrapped up in seven papers, carefully
sealed, a picture of a great black cat, with fiery eyes, long whiskers,
and a flaming red tongue, The young lady was a good deal astonished,
you may believe.
The next morning, she found in her breakfast cup the prettiest little
sugar cat you can imagine. She asked all the family who had played her
the trick, but no one knew.
On Wednesday morning, when the house-maid opened the window to sweep
the drawing room, as she always did at seven o'clock, a small, soft
bundle came flying in at the window, and fell in the middle of the
floor. The bundle was directed to Miss Mary, and contained a large rag
cat, with a painted face, and with little bunches gathered up for nose
and ears.
Inquiries were in vain. No one had seen the daring hand that tossed the
rag pussy into the window. The lady's suspicions did not fall upon the
Italian, because he had made her think that he was out of town.
Early on Thursday morning, came a great double knock and ring at the
house door. So loud and long was the noise that the servant, a little,
scary old man, thought the house was coming down. With trembling hand,
he opened the door, when a black man, six feet high, delivered a huge
box. The two men together had to take it in, it was so clumsy, though
the weight was not much. In answer to the old man's inquiries as to who
sent it, &c., the black only pointed to his mouth and ears,
significantly, to intimate that he was deaf and dumb. On the top of the
box was marked in red chalk "Miss Mary--."
As soon as she came down, she was led to the box. It was opened with
some difficulty. Inside was a quantity of cotton wool, and scattered
about in the wool were little packages of soft paper, and inside of
each was a little china cat. When all were taken out, the young lady
found herself the possessor of a white china cat with gold ears and
gold collar, and five little china kittens of various colors.
It did no good asking questions, and the poor young lady resigned
herself to her fate.
The part of the house in which Miss Mary slept was a sort of wing. The
only room there with a chimney was hers. The roof communicated with a
shed, so that it was not difficult for a good climber to get at the
chimney.
On Friday morning, Miss Mary was awakened by a rattling in the chimney
corner where, to her amazement, was a "Noah's ark" dangling by a
string. She took hold of it, and drew it out of the chimney.
"This must be meant for one of the little children," thought she. But
no; the ark bore her name. On opening it, she discovered that it was a
collection made from many arks, a cat having been culled from each. So
there were cats of many sizes, and all painted as red as they could be.
They made a long procession of red cats.
On Saturday morning, the young lady awoke very early, but found nothing
in her chimney corner. Although the weather was very cold, she went
out, as was her custom, to walk in the garden before breakfast. There
was a high wall on the side of the garden next the street. She walked
down by the side of this wall towards a little arbor at the bottom of
the garden. Just as she reached the arbor, she was startled by a squeak
from the top of the wall, and something fell just at her feet. Taking
the thing up, she perceived that it was a toy cat with a mewing
arrangement underneath. It had been carefully wrapped up, but the paper
was broken in the attempt to make it mew at the top of the wall. The
lady burst into an uncontrollable fit of laughter; but, in answer to
her laugh, came a dismal mewing from the other side of the wall; and,
as she walked towards the house, at every few steps, a yowling toy cat
jumped over, and fell at her feet.
The next day was Sunday, and the lady said, "I shall be left in peace
to-day, I think all the different kinds of cats must be exhausted."
On going to her writing table, after breakfast, she found a little
package lying on some note paper. It was very heavy, and was directed
to her in a hand she did not recognize. It proved to be a most
beautiful Paris bronze cat paper weight. The cat had her paw on a bird,
and looked so life-like that it was almost painful to see her.
"I am now in a state," said Miss Mary, "to arrange a cat museum."
So she took all the cats, and placed them, in the order of their
appearance, in a recess on one side of the room. There were picture
cat, rag cat, China cats, ark cats, yowling cats, bronze cat.
The next morning was New Year's Day. The young lady passed it in quiet.
No cats invaded her repose. She began to think the eruption of cats was
beginning to subside. Vain hope! Her tormentor was busy enough.
On Sunday evening, he arrived at our house in the country. He came to
spend the night.
"My dear E.," said he to me, "you must lend me a cat. I have sent Miss
Mary--every kind of cat except a live one, and now I must send that
too. I am going to make you dress up your favorite blue kitten."
At first, I refused; but, on his promise that the kitten should be
treated with the greatest care and consideration, I agreed. I made her
a gown of yellow satin coming down over her legs. The tail went through
the gown and helped to keep it on. That tail was the gaudiest part of
all, being wound with gold lace, and bearing at the tip a gay,
flourishing bow. I made for pussy beautiful pettiloons of dark-red
glazed cambric, and shod her with black morocco boots. Her cap was made
of paste-board, tall and peaked, trimmed with gay ribbons, and
surmounted by a cock's feather. A coral necklace with a locket was put
about her neck; and then poor pussy was complete, and shone in her
whole brilliancy Her patience was a shining example. Not a mew nor a
growl at all the often-repeated fittings and tryings on. She purred
kindly all the time.
Her carriage was a bandbox, big enough to avoid crushing the cap and
tail, with a hole cut in the cover for ventilation; and Miss Pussy set
off for town.
"A whole day gone, and no cat!" exclaimed Miss Mary--, as the family
rose from tea. "The joke is over now, whatever it was."
No sooner were the words spoken than a rousing knock and ring startled
the silence, and a bandbox appeared covered with brilliant red letters
spelling, "This side up with care," and several other phrases with the
same meaning. "Open carefully" stood prominent among them. The
direction was, of course, to Miss Mary. With careful hand, she raised
the lid, when the cat, tired of long confinement, bewildered by the
sudden light, and scared by the roars of laughter that greeted her,
leapt from the box, and sped around the room like lightning. The dress
held on well, while she galloped about like a gayly caparisoned circus
pony. At last, she took a leap and fell into the midst of her
predecessors. Rag cats, China cats, Noah's cats, yowling cats were
upset and dashed to pieces.
At this moment, the author of all the nonsense poked his head into the
door. "My dear Miss Mary, I trust I have, at last, satisfied your taste
for cats. I hope you like your New Year's gifts."
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B4FA Releases Book on Future of Africa and Contribution of Biosciences
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Biosciences for Farming in Africa (B4FA) published a book written by experts in Africa explaining the benefits of GM technology in improving agriculture in simple language. The book titled Insights: Africa's Future…Can Biosciences Contribute? contains 18 personal essays addressing the grand challenge for scientists and entrepreneurs: how to produce 70 percent more food sustainably, enough to feed the expected world population of 9 billion in 2050.
One of the essays was authored by Dr. Margaret Karembu, Director of ISAAA AfriCenter. She emphasized the importance of informing and engaging the youth in modern agriculture. "With better opportunities for access to technologies, entrepreneurial skills and social marketing, young people could funnel their youthful idealism, energy and determination into a positive force for change within the agricultural sector. This would ultimately result in sustainable production of the food required to support the growing population in Africa," she explains.
Download a copy of the book at http://www.b4fa.org/insights-biosciences-africa/.
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Relative Expression of Xa7 Controls Bacterial Leaf Blight Resistance
Scientist Dwinita Wikan Utami from the Indonesian Center for Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetic Resources Research and Development and colleagues conducted a study to validate the functionality of a bacterial leaf blight (BLB) resistance gene variant (Xa7) on different candidate rice germplasms. The research team used expression analysis through real time RT-PCR and field evaluation.
Stimulating Innovation in Plant Genetic Resources, Brussels, Belgium
The European Innovation Partnership (EIP) for Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability is one of the main initiatives of the European Commission to support research and innovation in agriculture
International Team Sequences Genome of Sweet Orange
An international team of scientists from China and Singapore have sequenced the genome of sweet orange (Citrus sinensis). Scientists from Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Genome Institute Singapore (GIS), and China's Huazhong Agricultural University and their colleagues compared the sweet orange's genome with pummelo (C. grandis) and mandarin (C. reticulata) using simple sequence repeat and single-nucleotide polymorphism markers.
Scientists Sequence Vietnamese Rice Genome
Scientists from the Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), the John Innes Centre (JIC) in Norwich, United Kingdom, and the Institute of AgriculturalGgenetics (AGI) in Hanoi, Vietnam have fully sequenced the genome of 36 selected Vietnamese rice varieties.
New Promising Cowpea Varieties for Africa and Rest of the World
Texas A&M University and the Buffett Foundation worked on a research project to develop new cowpea varieties that would contribute to food production in tropical and subtropical countries of the world.
NACGRAB Director: GM Crops are Safe
Biotech crops are safe, said National Center for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB) Director, Wasiu Odofin, during an interview. He explained that many countries have been using genetically modified food and feed and if these are not safe many would have died. GM food are now in all markets and we are all consuming them in various forms.
Tanzanian Stakeholders Call for Modern Cotton Production
Scientists in Tanzania want the strict Liabilities Act under the Environmental Management Act (2004) repealed to enable them to start research on how the country can start using genetically engineered crops.
3rd International Symposium on Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources
The 3rd International Symposium on Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources (GPGR 3) will be held on 16-19 April 2013 at the International Convention Center, Jeju, South Korea. The theme of GPGR3 is "a gateway to the new era of global food security". Participants will discuss various issues related to plant genetic resources, new sequencing technologies, conservation and crop productivity.
Scientists Say Without Adequate Funding, Deadly Wheat Disease Could Threaten World's Food Supply
A global team led by researchers from the University of Minnesota warns that decreasing financial support for research and new strains of deadly viruses could threaten the world's food supply, leaving millions without access to affordable food. This warning was included in a new paper from a study that examined how Ug99 could continue its movement across Africa, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia.
Researchers Find Details of Healthy Compounds in Colorful Whole Grain Rice
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AUSVEG National Convention
The national convention of AUSVEG which is the national peak industry body representing Australia's 9,000 vegetable and potato growers will be held on 30 May to 1 June at Jupiters Gold Coast. Experts from all over the globe will be featured to provide participants with food production technologies for the future.
Global Economic Benefits of GM Crops Reach Almost $100 Billion
In a press release by PG Economics, biotech crops on its sixteenth year of commercialization has delivered an unparalleled level of farm income benefits to farmers and provided considerable environmental benefits to countries planting biotech crops.
Early Maturing Maize Lines Hold Drought Tolerance that could Save African Farmers
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South Dakota State University Developing Drought Tolerant Wheat
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UK Chief Scientist says GM Crops' Case Becoming Stronger
Sir Mark Walport, the newly appointed chief scientific adviser of the United Kingdom government claimed that the rise of genetically modified (GM) crops is 'inexorable' and more of these crops could be grown in Britain as the scientific case for their use becomes "stronger".
Global Value of Biotech Rice
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International Team Develops Physical Map of Wheat's Wild Ancestor
An international team led by Kansas Universit y Professor Bikram Gill have developed a physical map of wheat's wild ancestor Aegilops tauschii, more commonly known as goatgrass. The physical map is the team's first step towards sequencing the wheat genome.
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BTI scientist co-leads kiwifruit genome sequencing project
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A workshop was organized by the Egypt Biotechnology Information Center (EBIC) entitled "Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops - Challenges and Opportunities" on March 24, 2013 at the Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University. Eminent scientists from different Institutes, universities, media and policy makers from the Ministries of Agriculture and Environment attended the workshop.
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AUN enthralls Johoreans at Japanese Music Fest 2016
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Sunway Iskandar and Daiwa House showcase Malaysia’s own Sakura Residence
Residents in Johor were treated to a unique Japanese Music Festival headlined by AUN, an internationally-acclaimed musical duo comprising twin brothers Ryohei Inoue and Kohei Inoue in an evening of music and culture. AUN’s twin brothers Ryohei Inoue and Kohei Inoue who are masters of shamisen, wadaiko and shinobue the founders of AUN performed in Johor for the very first time. Japanese Music Festival hosted a galore of activities ranging from musical performances, Japanese folk toy games, foods to exploration activities. The event was to celebrate the preview of the show unit of Sakura Residence, an inaugural project by Daiwa House in Malaysia in collaboration with Sunway Iskandar as co-developer.
The Japanese Music Festival was conceptualized by Daiwa House, a Fortune 500 Global company, as a platform to enhance cross-cultural understanding through a fun and entertaining event. With admission free for all, the evening featured various interesting activities including taiko (Japanese drums) performance by school students in Johor Bahru, mochi pounding and festive stalls which showcased Japanese culture. Smells of Japanese delicacies and favourites permeated the air throughout the evening, and many visitors were seen thronging the Japanese food stalls for a taste of authentic Japan. Lighted “sakura trees” and lanterns illuminated the balmy evening, adding to the Japanese ambience. The evening was also filled with a galore of activities ranging from cherry-blossom-like tecoma tree planting and Daruma Otoshi and Kendama, two classic Japanese folk toy games, to dressing up in yukatas. Visitors who participated in the activities had the opportunity to redeem novel Japanese gifts to bring home as a souvenir.
However, the highlight of the Daiwa House’s Japanese Music Festival definitely belonged to the performance by AUN, Japan’s Cultural Envoy in 2011. Born in Osaka, the Inoue brothers are renowned for their mastery of the shamisen (three-stringed Japanese lute), wadaiko (Japanese drum), and shinobue flute. In AUN’s honour roll call are some 1,300 performances in 40 countries including in many prestigious halls and World Heritage Sites such as Mont Saint-Michel in France, as well as performing in the “ONE ASIA” joint concert with musicians from other Asian countries including Malaysia since 2013. Visitors of the Japanese Music Festival were enthralled by their mesmerizing deftness on the shamisen and wadaiko to celebrate the preview of the show unit of Sakura Residence by Daiwa House.
Sakura Residence is a RM230 million GDV, inaugural project by Daiwa House in Malaysia that is being co-developed with Sunway Iskandar, who has found the Daiwa technology to be superb and able to meet the requirements of discerning property owners. Its resident-friendly design which emphasizes comfort and functionality is built upon Japanese technology that prioritizes optimization and quality control. In Japan and 14 other countries, every home built by Daiwa House is famed for giving homeowners a degree of confidence and future surety.
“Daiwa House believes in co-creating value for individuals, communities, and people’s lifestyles. Through the performance by AUN and presentation of Japanese Music Festival, we would like to offer Malaysians an event that they can enjoy and participate in, and in the process, enrich their experience. At the same time, we open the Sakura Residence show house for visitors to the Japanese Music Festival for them to explore and have a firsthand experience of a well-built, premium pre-fabricated home. We received overwhelming support by the locals even though this was our first event for Daiwa House and we hope to have more engaging activities in the future.” – Mr. Daisuke Usugi, Managing Director, Daiwa House Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.
The Japanese Music Festival took place on 4 December 2016 at Sakura Residence Gallery in Sunway Iskandar and was attended by approximately 300 visitors who were seen enjoying the wholesome activities of the evening. For media enquiries, kindly contact:- Nur Suraya +6016 245 5982 suraya@jirehconsult.com / Debbie Koh +6012 206 1961 dkoh@jirehconsult.com For additional information on Sakura Residence, please logon to website at: www.sakuraresidence.com.my
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Here are some selected projects that I have developed. Every one of them contains either a language, framework or subject matter that I am enthusiastic about.
TiltShift
This application simulates a tilt-shift lens that tricks the mind into viewing a photo as a miniature scene like a model railroad for example. The effect is achieved by blurring most of the scene and leaving a certain region focussed. TiltShift is available in the iPhone App Store.
This application was written in Objective-C/Cocoa. It runs on the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
RealArtist
Distorting photos has always been fun. The combination of built-in camera, touchscreen and the OpenGL API on the iPhone made it just impossible not to write this application. Photos can be loaded, distorted - like adding a smile - and saved. RealArtist is available in the iPhone App Store.
This application was written in Objective-C/Cocoa and uses OpenGL ES. It runs on the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
trom.fr
The Google Maps mashup trom.fr finds the fastest metro connections between two arbitrary locations in the region of Paris, France. By dragging and dropping the start and destination markers, the best routes are displayed within a fraction of a second.
The site was created in Python/Django and is powered by Debian GNU/Linux, perlbal, lighttpd, memcached, SQLite.
Balloon Browser
The Balloon Browser is a kind of fat-client mashup that recognizes and highlights geo-coordinates in web pages. Hovering over a recognized location (like an address) instructs Google Earth to show a map of the corresponding area.
This application was written in Python. It uses Internet Explorer as embedded component with wxPython as GUI framework. The installable package was created with InnoSetup. It runs on Windows 2000/XP.
HClient 4
Application to calculate light transmission and similar values of sealed multiple glazing units. This was a custom development for a client.
This application was written in Python/wxPython.
JinSitu
Interactive introspection environment for Java and Jython. It allows you to sneak and peek and poke around in the object tree of a running application.
This application was written in Jython.
hotswap
Python/hotswap
This Python module allows the automatic replacement of imported Python modules. After editing the source code of a Python module and saving, the module is updated in the running Python application without a restart.
Copyright © 2017 Michael Krause
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Joan Ellis Movie Reviews
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In the troubled world where we all live now, Wonder is a gift of two hours to think about basic human decency. If you are even for a moment tempted to label it as too sentimental, you would miss a grand two hours. Stephen Chbosky has written and directed a story that might have been just that in lesser hands, but the cast that delivers his story is so good that it becomes an invitation to sink in and appreciate the message.
Auggie (Jacob Tremblay) is a ten year old boy with facial scars that are the result of surgeries aimed at repairing birth defects. Against all odds, he is alive, well, and very smart, but he has been home schooled by his mother Isabel (Julia Roberts) who wanted to protect him from any possible ridicule. He hides his face full time in an astronaut suit with a helmet that hides his scars.
As the movie opens, Auggie is going to school for the first time. On that first day, he inevitably suffers the stares of his classmates. From that point forward, we get alternating glimpses of Auggie’s life at school and his life at home. We learn that his parents have built their lives around their love and support for him while ignoring the emotional needs of his lovely older sister Via. But when he sees the stares of his classmates, he crumbles.
Under the wise encouragement of school headmaster, Mr. Tushman (Mandy Patinkin), Auggie wends his way through rebuffs and hurt along with the beginnings of humor and acceptance. The politics of the sixth grade are sometimes subtle, sometimes obvious, and often hurtful. The whole is done so well that we find ourselves deep in the story wondering how we ourselves could have done it, how we could have taught an entire sixth grade to celebrate acceptance of this smart, funny classmate whose face is the initial announcement of who he is.
This movie that might have been mawkish becomes genuinely moving for one reason: the cast. Without even a hint of overacting, Julia Roberts creates a mother attuned to her son’s childhood needs and to the moment when he must step into the real world. Isabela Vidovic creates Auggie’s older sister who is loved but often ignored by her parents because she is both pretty and smart and will make it on her own. Vidovic’s performance in nuanced and beautiful, and she is matched perfectly by Nadji Jeter who becomes her boyfriend with great appeal of his own. Owen Wilson is okay as Dad, but seems an oddly alien presence in his own family.
Don’t waste a minute resenting the sentimentality. When a cast like this reminds us of the rewards of abandoning judgement, we realize how widely this is needed in so many areas of life today. Is it possible to bring open minds to issues instead of the partisan entrenchment we see in both the sixth grade and in our world? Hail, Auggie.
Film Critic : JOAN ELLIS
Film Title : WONDER
Word Count : 501
Running Time:1:53
Rating : PG
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Fight Like Hell for the Living: A Year of Struggle in UK Call Centres
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Blood For Oil
Colombian military personnel have invaded the traditional homeland of the U'wa people to make way for the drilling plants of oil giant Occidental.
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Marxism and politics - Ralph Miliband
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Love & Rage Vol. 2 No. 3, March 1991
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Love & Rage Vol. 2 No. 2, February 1991
Volume 2, Issue 2 of Love and Rage, with articles on the Gulf War and resistance, letters, news about L&R's production and an L&R organizing conference in Minneapolis, Wayne Price on different factions in the anti-war movement, anarchist tactics at mass demonstrations, squat evictions in Vancouver, Christopher Day on anarchism and organisation, indigenous resistance to a hydro-power project in Quebec, the On Gogol Boulevard column with news from Hungary, Lithuania, and anti-war Afghanistan veterans in the USSR, prison news including conscientious objectors in Finland, and the Notes of Revolt column with actions across the US and beyond.
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To Suffer Thy Comrades: How the revolution decimated its own — Robert Francis B. Garcia
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‘I Am An Anarchist’: Remembering Anarchist Prisoner Brian McCarvill, who Died of COVID-19 in Prison on his 68th Birthday
A biography and obituary of Brian McCarvill, an anarchist prisoner in Oregon who was killed by a Covid-19 outbreak. This story was first published by Perilous Chronicle.
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The Christmas Train: Spotlight and Giveaway!
Posted by Krystal Larson at 12:00 AM Tuesday, December 10, 2013
The Christmas Train In this children’s picture book, President Thomas S. Monson recounts a Christmas memory from his childhood. As a boy, he yearned for an electric train. To his delight, on Christmas morning he got exactly that a train that operated through the miracle of electricity. Then he noticed a second train that his mother had purchased for the boy down the street whose family was struggling. Although it was only a wind-up train, it had an beautiful oil tanker car, which little Tommy wanted for his own. Soon after, Tommy s mother invited him to accompany her to the neighbor s home to deliver the gift. Young Mark was thrilled with his new train and, of course, didn t notice the missing train car. However, a remorseful Tommy did. What happened next will bring the spirit of Christmas into every heart and home. Illustrated by renowned artist Dan Burr, The Christmas Train is sure to be a classic Christmas story and a beautiful addition to every Christmas library.
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Includes a QR code for a FREE download of President Monson's narration of the story! Winner of the 2012 Gold Medal Mom's Choice Award! Download the new interactive Christmas Train app for your iPad! The pages come alive with animations, sound effects, and narration by the author, Thomas S. Monson. Kids will love listening to a true Christmas story, read by a familiar voice, while navigating trains, turning Christmas lights on and off, and experiencing the importance of giving during the Christmas season.
Click Here to Learn More About the Author President Thomas S. Monson was set apart as the sixteenth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in February 2008. He had previously served for twenty-two years in the First Presidency of the Church, after having been a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles since October1963. Five years after his call to the Twelve, he was given a special assignment for the work of the Church in Europe, requiring many visits with members behind the Iron Curtain. He was instrumental in the construction of the Freiberg Germany Temple and in advancing the Lord’s work in other eastern European countries that were part of the communist bloc. He also served as chairman of the Scriptures Publication Committee and supervised the process that resulted in the new editions of the scriptures. His ministry has been characterized by his compassion for the needs of individuals and his gift for one-on-one service. President Monson and his wife, Frances, are the parents of three children, grandparents of eight, and great-grandparents of eight. About the Illustrator Dan Burr earned his bachelor of fine arts degree from Utah State University and a master’s degree in illustration from Syracuse University. He and his wife, Patti, are raising their two children in the Teton Valley of southeast Idaho, a setting that provides great artistic inspiration and fantastic fly fishing. Dan is a well-known illustrator, having been in the business for many years, most recently working as a children’s picture book illustrator. A few of the books Dan has illustrated are The Miracle of the Wooden Shoes; God Bless Your Way; A Christmas Journey; and I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.
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'Manchester' United – The Snub List Grows And Grows
Article by Real Mancs Are Blue
It wasn’t so long ago that Stretford was the place to be, players from clubs around the world would walk over broken glass to play in front of 80 odd thousand cockneys just outside Manchester. Oh how times have changed.
The latest player to realise the tide is changing is one Mario Balotelli who is reported to have turned down a higher wage at Stretford in order to join Manchester City and be reunited with old manage Roberto Mancini. The truth is the rot set in long before this.
Carlos Tevez famously turned his back on the green and yellow army to move to Manchester, a controversial move that in some ways started the ball rolling and made some players realise that perhaps Carling Cup victories were the best United players might be getting in the future, and that maybe other clubs had the financial clout and settled environment to challenge at the very top.
Other players have been tracked by United for some time and yet once again they failed to get their man. David Silva, one of footballs brightest prospects immediately springs to mind, as does Yaya Toure, a player who himself has clearly stated he turned his back on the rags. The fact the four mentioned above all decided to join Manchester instead must hurt, really hurt for the green and yellow army, ‘tick tock tick tock’ springs to mind.
Of course, the list goes on and seems to be growing with increasing speed with Benzema being the latest to say ‘thanks but no thanks’ to Stretford’s thousands. I for one take no pleasure in this state of affairs. Seeing the Glazers make purchases such as the incredible Chris Smalling and watching Slur Alex squirm on Sky Sports, telling the world ‘there’s no value in the market’ as he looks on at the forlorn figure of Ditimar Berbatov, it is in some ways sad to see how the mighty have fallen. A club which has been renown throughout football for buying its way to success with numerous record breaking transfers being forced to sell of their prized assets to furnish their debts and scrabble around at the bottom of the transfer barrel.
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Hey Kids, some cool websites just for YOU. We will continue to add new websites as we discover them. They will be a source of fun and learning and a safe place for you to visit!
*We like these sites. but we don’t maintain them. We are not responsible for their content.
www.americaslibrary.gov
Meet amazing Americans, explore the states and even pick a date (like your birthday) and jump back in time.
www.kidshealth.org/kid/
A healthsite aimed towards kids instead of parents. Great resource for science research.
www.pbskids.org
Official site for the cartoons and live action shows hosted by PBS. Features games, stories, coloring pages, music, and show information.
www.bookhive.org
Children’s book reviews categorized by genre and age level, with notes for parents.
www.seussville.com
Official site of Dr. Seuss, with info on creator Theodor Seuss Geisel, as well as games, Cat in the Hat chat, prizes, and a look at his list of books.
www.sesameworkshop.org
Activities and stories featuring your favorite Sesame Street Friends.
www.funology.com
Magic tricks and boredom busters are all part of the science of having fun.
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StoryPlace: The Children’s Digital Library
Explore pages full of stories and activities for children young & old.
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Home to thousands of coloring pages, crafts, and lesson plans.
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Owned by Family Education Network, this site is full of fun things to do and learn- math, reading, arcades and games!
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Puzzlemaker
Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, and math puzzles using your own word lists. How cool is that?
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Kidsplanet
Learn all about wildlife with facts, games and pages to color. There is even a wildlife adoption center. We really loved the awesome sounds on this site!
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Highlights for Kids
The magazine for kids that’s been around for more than 60 years now offers online ways to play, read and craft with your children. Matching games, art activities, animated stories and science experiments are just a few ways kids can learn while having fun on the Highlights for Kids website.
http://www.highlightskids.com/
When a mom mention she’s looking for some great educational websites for her kids, it’s not long before Starfall.com is mentioned. The site has been online since 2002 and works with your children through letter recognition all the way through to reading plays, nonfiction and comics.
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Fans of Mickey and friends will love visiting Disney Jr. Educational. Games, coloring pages and videos are a few of the highlights. The games focus on memory, hand-eye coordination, color matching and other important skills for developing minds.
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The Old Farmer’s Almanac For Kids
It’s learning with a twist. The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids features riddles, puzzles, a question of the day, a timeline of interesting history facts, sky events and weather conditions to track at home with your children.
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Fun for girls! Play games, take quizzes, send e-cards, meet American Girl characters, make crafts, create printables, enjoy magazine features, read book excerpts…
NASA Space Place
NASA’s award-winning Space Place engages upper-elementary-aged children in space and Earth science through interactive games and hands-on activities.
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Find the best cartoon sheets in the Coloring Library
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Educational games are a great tool for building foundation math and language skills that today’s elementary school curriculum requires. These online learning games and songs for kids are fun, teach important skills for preschool and elementary school kids and they’re free. Want educational games that help build skills in math, language, science, social studies, and more? You’ve come to the right place!
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The effects of photoperiod and light intensity on the sporulation of Brazilian and Norwegian isolates of Neozygites floridana
Castro, Thiago and Wafula Wekesa, Vitalis and de Andrade Moral, Rafael and Garcia Borges Demétrio, Clarice and Delalibera, Italo and Klingen, Ingeborg (2013) The effects of photoperiod and light intensity on the sporulation of Brazilian and Norwegian isolates of Neozygites floridana. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 114 (3). pp. 230-233. ISSN 0022-2011
The objective of this study was to determine the effects of light intensity and duration (photoperiod) on the sporulation (discharge of primary conidia) and conidia germination (from non-infective primary conidia to infective capilliconidia) of Neozygites floridana isolates from Tetranychus urticae originating from Norway and Brazil. Two light intensities (40 and 208 μmol m−2 s−1), three photoperiods (24 h of continuous light (24 h D), 12 h of darkness followed by 12 h of light (12 h D: 12 h L) and 24 h of continuous darkness (24 h D)) and two temperatures (18 °C and 23 °C) were tested. The fungus produced similar amounts of primary conidia and capilliconidia at 12 h D:12 h and 24 h D, indicating that the fungus discharges almost all of its conidia during the first 12 h of darkness. Light had less of an effect on the production of primary conidia than on capilliconidia formation. At 24 h L, capilliconidia formation was significantly lower for all tested light intensities, temperatures and isolates compared to 12 h D:12 h L and 24 h D. At both light intensities, 24 h L resulted in a significantly lower capilliconidia formation for the Norwegian isolate compared to the Brazilian isolate. Our data suggest that, even though 24 h L reduced sporulation, some capilliconidia formation may occur at the low light intensities found on the underside of strawberry leaves during parts of the day as well as the top of a non-shaded strawberry leaf during the dim evening and morning hours in the tropics and during the dim, long summer days in temperate regions.
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“Prayer for the Sane”/”2020 Vision” – Danny Schmidt
This piece started as a review of “Prayer for the Sane”. As I was writing that, an email from the promo company representing Danny in the UK came through, announcing another single that was being released immediately; two singles out at the same time – that’s pretty unusual. After listening to both singles, it was obvious that they had to be reviewed together; they look at the current situation in America through different lenses. “Prayer for the Sane” is the wide-angle view, looking at the state of the nation as a whole, and “2020 Vision” is the telephoto view, zooming in on the impact on individuals and small communities. Danny feels so strongly about these songs that he’s bypassed the whole planning and scheduling business to get the songs out there while fresh (and raw) and contemporary. Both songs were recorded in quarantine.
Danny Schmidt’s a strikingly good songwriter. His songs are witty, clever, original and most important, memorable. I can’t think of another writer who’s come up with a song about string theory. “A Prayer for the Sane”, however, is a bit of a departure; it has all the elements mentioned above, but it’s also a call to arms. Danny’s a very laid-back kind of guy, but the political situation in America today has pushed him down the protest singer route. He never actually uses the ‘T’ word but it’s obvious that he’s alluding to the orange one and the social impact of his term in the White House.
The arrangement for the song is a single guitar with a relatively simple finger-picked backing and some multi-tracked harmonies (The Dannettes, I guess). It’s as stripped-back as the lyrical theme is broad; this is a state of the nation song, a clarion call that highlights the schisms in America today (‘Fences make for consequences, we’re prisoners of our own defences’) and points the way to the solution – ‘It’s time to shake the voting booth, It’s time for us to scream the truth’. It’s a protest song that nails the problems of the States and the wider world today.
“2020 Vision” is a much more personal take on the current situation and an even more minimal production. The song structure is a very basic strummed I-IV-V chord progression (three chords and the truth) and the lyrics explore the way we’re dealing with the social changes springing from the pandemic, from social distancing to supermarket shelf clearances and comparisons to our forebears’ experiences in WWII. I won’t quote the lyrics because I’m going to recommend that you watch the video. Amid all the references to our transformed way of life, Danny even manages to fit in a reference to the late, lamented John Prine in the final line of the song.
And here’s the “2020 Vision” video:
These two songs, taken together, are a perfect musical summary of life in the USA in 2020. They convey anger and empathy and demonstrate why Danny Schmidt is so revered among songwriters worldwide.
“Prayer for the Sane” and “2020 Vision” are out now on Bandcamp to download free or pay what you want and will be available later on streaming platforms.
And there’s some late news just in. On Saturday May 9 at 8pm UK time, or 2pm CDT, you can watch Danny and his wife, the equally talented Carrie Elkin, do a free lockdown gig on this link.
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Carrie Elkin & Danny Schmidt @The Slaughtered Lamb 31/05/17
Every once in a while a gig comes along that restores your faith in London audiences; this was one of those gigs. The basement of The Slaughtered Lamb was packed to bursting with music fans and every single one of them wanted to listen and pay attention to two superb and engaging performers, Carrie Elkin and Danny Schmidt. Both were on stage throughout the two sets, but the opening set featured Danny Schmidt’s songs with Carrie supplying harmonies while the second set was mainly songs from Carrie’s outstanding new album, “The Penny Collector”. Throughout both sets, Carrie and Danny, singly and as a double act, kept the audience entertained with jokes, anecdotes and outright weirdness as a counterpoint to the beauty of the songs.
Danny’s opening set demonstrated the huge range of his writing and performance, from the barnstorming opener with about half a dozen false endings to the intensely personal song “We Need another Word” and the very wordy closer “Stained Glass”. As a songwriter, he can do the simple, moving songs but also has the more unusual ability to create songs that are packed with witty ideas without sounding self-consciously clever.
For the second set, the emphasis shifted to Carrie and the new album while Danny played guitar and added some gorgeous harmonies to a set of songs written at a pivotal and emotional point in their lives. The context of the album is made fairly clear by the narrative, but in the live setting Carrie and Danny added observations and anecdotes to flesh out the picture; some are poignant, some are just hilarious. Their set featured a couple of covers, Paul Simon’s “American Tune” (featured on the album) and Richard Thompson’s “Dimming of the Day” with the remainder of the set coming mainly from the new album, including “New Mexico”, “Always on the Run”, the hauntingly beautiful “And Then the Birds Came”, and “Live Wire” and “Tilt-a-Whirl” which explore different eras in the process of growing up. Carrie’s energy and good humour would pull you in to her orbit even if the songs were average (they’re not), and the fun between songs acts as a a counterpoint to the seriousness of the material.
Carrie Elkin and Danny Schmidt poured heart and soul into creating a performance that kept the audience transfixed and lifted the spirits of everyone in the room. They even dispelled the gloom of public transport in London late at night. Good work Green Note for promoting the show, and you can still see Carrie and Danny around the UK until Sunday June 11.
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Simply put, in the Social Security program funds are contributed by the working people and are used by people who have retired. The kitty, so to say, is being constantly replenished as is also being used. Thus Social Security is largely a pay-as-you-go program.To take the discussion further it is essential to know what a ponzi scheme is. (meaning of a) Literally speaking, a ponzi scheme is a fraud or a con. The element of deception prevalent in the scheme makes it illegal. In a ponzi scheme the participants or investors are told that their money is being invested in high return yielding real or financial investments. In reality, their money is not invested but is pocketed by the conman running the Ponzi scheme.The ponzi scheme promises returns that are far higher than the market rate. This high rate, which is too good to be true, in itself, should put doubts in the minds of the customer. However gullible investors do fall prey to such ponzi schemes. The earlier investors are paid off by the money contributed by fresh or new investors which keeps the scheme going (MacEwan 2009). In order to remain viable, a Ponzi scheme has to grow rapidly. In fact, the scheme would require double the number of investors/participants after every round of payouts.Let us now shift focus on Social Security. (description of the relevant properties of x) The Social Security program has a mode of financing and functioning and functioning which is pretty much similar to that of a ponzi scheme. However, the distinguishing factor is the intent. The purpose of Social Security is to give at least a subsistence income to the disabled, retirees, their dependents and underage survivors of deceased workers. (any member x of a must have the property p)Social Security consists of four separate trust funds namely the Old Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund, the Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Fund, the Hospital
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Why did we fund this project? The Nelson Meers Foundation is delighted to be supporting Schubert's Winterreise, in which videos by iconoclastic South African artist William Kentridge parallel the 24 leider of Schubert's quintessentially Romantic song cycle, Winterreisse. The incomparable Schubert interpreter, Mattias Goerne, sings the full song cycle in an installation designed by Kentridge, whose stoic mixed-media landscapes refuse to yield to the despair and egocentrism of Schubert's heartbroken wanderer as he walks alone, broken by love, through a wintry nightscape.
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Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki
GOVERNOR GODWIN OBASEKI’S 2021 NEW YEAR ADDRESS
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1. I celebrate this highly anticipated New Year with you, my beloved people of Edo State.
2. Despite the difficulties and uncertainties in 2020, the scriptures enjoin us that in all situations, we must always give thanks to God Almighty.
3. The coronavirus pandemic which started during the first quarter of 2020 drastically affected lives and livelihoods not only in Edo State, but globally with over 82. 8 million people infected and nearly 2 million deaths.
4. In Edo State, even though we recorded considerable measure of success in managing and protecting our people during the initial outbreak of the virus, we are now battling with the second wave of the crisis, which we are told may be larger and more virulent.
5. The social and economic tension emanating from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic led to the #ENDSARS protests and its aftermath, which resulted in jailbreaks of the Correctional Centres in Oko and Sapele Road in Benin City. Almost 2000 prisoners escaped from these facilities and this has compounded the security situation in the state, which we are now dealing with.
6. In the midst of the gloom and despair, there was a silver lining for us in Edo State with the conduct of the September 19 governorship election, which against all predictions, turned out to be peaceful, credible and a watershed moment for our democracy as a nation. With the election, the people of Edo State demonstrated that power truly belongs to the people and that only the people have the right and authority to choose who should govern them. By this action, you inspired us and gave us hope to forge ahead and continue to chart our cause as a people desirous of change, progress and shared prosperity.
7. Let me use this opportunity to once again express my appreciation and gratitude for your courageous support and confidence, which you have reposed in me and pledge to pursue our vision to Make Edo State Great Again.
8. Today, you, my people, can confidently say that you have put your own government in power. We must therefore now come together to ensure the success of this government. Your Government can only succeed when we all play our role by fulfilling our own obligations, particularly by paying our taxes. It is only by paying your taxes that government can raise the required funds and resources to finance development projects.
9. We commenced work for our second term with a comprehensive exercise to strengthen the ability of civil and public servants to deliver service to the people of Edo State. We are strengthening the processes, functions, institutions and personnel of the public service so that institutions not personalities will drive sustainable development in Edo today and in years to come. This reform exercise has started with over 1,400 vacancies declared that would be filled with young professionals who will utilize technology to enhance better service delivery to Edo people.
10. We are determined to continue providing durable public infrastructure and a maintenance culture in government, as we continue to prioritize development of road infrastructure, public buildings and many projects in our rural areas and urban areas. We have now appointed a transaction adviser to assist in getting the Benin River Port to actualization. Our hope is to complete all the designs and fundraising this year so that construction can begin early in 2022.
11. With the 55MW CCETC-Ossiomo Independent Power Plant, which is now operational, we will intensify our efforts to bring more industries to Edo, while we will continue to attract and support more investments in agriculture across the state.
12. Following up on my campaign promise to make Edo a hub for technology in sub-Saharan Africa, we have signed our first partnership agreement with a highly-rated software engineering company, which will culminate in the training of over 15,000 software engineers in Edo by 2025. The first set of 250 young persons will be onboarded into the Edo Tech Park programme by February this year. We will also explore more avenues to sustain employment creating opportunities for youths by offering them more training and apprenticeship programmes so that they can take advantage of the expansion of the private sector with the influx of new investors.
13. In keeping with my promise to bequeath Edo State with a 30-year Masterplan, we have procured the services of experts to begin the process of designing the Urban and Regional Master Plan. In tandem with the planning process, I will be launching Project Clean and Green Edo this year. This project will involve citizen and corporate participation in beautification and planting of trees, particularly in urban areas.
14. We are building a robust security system to deal with the peculiar challenges that we now face. We are essentially evolving a public safety system that is anchored on citizen participation with a bottom-up structure, such that citizens are actively engaged in protecting and securing their immediate communities in collaboration with government.
15. We are launching operation ‘Know Your Neighbour,’ where we will be requesting you to provide information and identities of all those who live close to you.
16. Edo Basic Education Sector Transformation (EdoBEST) reforms will be extended to the Junior Secondary School (JSS) school level this year. The new teachers who are currently being recruited into the Edo Supporting Teachers to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellows programme, will change the face of public education and restore high standards in the system. The Colleges of Agriculture and Education, which are now running as tri-campus institutions, would commence academic activities this year, as we strengthen partnerships to make them world-class institutions of higher learning.
17. One major lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic is that we must strengthen our healthcare system. We have therefore began our comprehensive healthcare reforms which will include rebuilding the schools to train healthcare manpower, fully rolling out the state’s health insurance scheme to provide a source for financing our health systems and increasing the number of state-of-the-art primary healthcare centres in the state from the current 61 to 120 this year, 2021.
18. We deeply appreciate the continuous support and encouragement from various stakeholder groups and friends of Edo State, who supported and gave various donations in our fight against COVID-19.
19. We thank the Federal Government and development partners who continue to stand by us. We are grateful to His Royal Majesty, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II, the Oba of Benin and the traditional institution; the judiciary; the legislature; the media and civil society; the organised private sector; our brothers and sisters in the Diaspora, the public servants; students; farmers; market women and artisans, amongst others.
20. As we begin a new year under difficult circumstances, we must realize that tough times don’t last forever. Let us see the opportunities in this adversity and continue to preach love and hope this new year. Please remember that COVID-19 is still here with us and we must follow all the precautionary public health and safety guidelines.
I wish you a very happy and safe 2021.
Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki
Governor, Edo State
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Thank you, dear Governor for your new yesr message and promises,especially the promisise for the actualization of the tri campus structure of the Colleges of Education and Agriculture. We hope you will also graciously attend to the welfare of the workers and Pensioners of these institutions as regarding backlog of several months unpaid entitlements; for they have been in pains and agony and could hardly celebrate Christmas or new yesr.
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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Sylvan Esso w/ Helado Negro | Sept. 22 @ The Ryman
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Celebrating the recent release of their fantastic, highly-anticipated sophomore LP What Now, North Carolina indie pop duo Sylvan Esso, one of our favorite new artists to emerge in recent years, and an endlessly fun live act, are set to return to Nashville Sept. 22 for a performance at The Ryman Auditorium with Helado Negro, their largest Music City outing to date, and the most fitting space they’ve played yet. With their hype far from fading, it’s no surprise that tickets are nearly all gone, and if you want to ensure you spot, we encourage you to snag yours here while they last. If you’d rather roll the dice, or can’t manage to snag a spot fast enough, we’re also giving away a pair of tickets to one lucky fan! Find out more about Sylvan Esso and enter below!
The swift success of North Carolina indie pop duo Sylvan Esso might be one of the most pleasant musical surprises of the past couple years. Vocalist Amelia Meath originally wrote the hit song “Play It Right” for her previous band, Mountain Man. However, on a fortuitously booked bill at a small club where Mountain Man was playing, she shared the song with electronic producer Nick Sanborn, then playing solo as Made of Oak, and the genesis of duo Sylvan Esso sprung to life. After slowly and organically coming together as a formal project, they worked out the rest of their eponymous debut in Durham, North Carolina, before its near-overnight buzz helped make them the darlings of taste-making festivals like SXSW, Bonnaroo, and Coachella. By the time their debut album arrived in 2014 on Partisan Records, Sylvan Esso were already a rapidly rising force in the blogosphere, and even made their national television debut soon after. Catchy, electro-infused indie pop tracks like “Coffee,” “Play It Right,” and “Hey Mami,” helped the group quickly become staples of the indie world, and on the strength of their fantastic live show, they’ve become a beloved, extensive touring act.
While the duo’s highly-anticipated and critically-acclaimed sophomore effort, What Now, arrived just this spring, the lead up the release began last summer, when triumphant lead single “Radio” reignited Sylvan Esso buzz all over again. Additional standout tracks “Kick Jump Twist” and “Die Young” helped further cement the group’s well-deserved attention, and, as a whole, their sophomore LP proves that Sylvan Esso have some serious staying power, managing to improve upon their debut with an even more urgent, personal, polished, and cohesive effort. Though it’s only been a year since their last Nashville outing, this marks the band’s first since What Now‘s release, and, after selling out bigger and bigger rooms with each appearance, their graduation to the Mother Church is going to be their most exciting Music City appearance yet. Don’t miss it!
HELADO NEGRO
Brooklyn based Heldo Negro is the brainchild of Roberto Carlos Lange, born in South Florida to Ecuadorean immigrants. With his multicultural, bi-lingual artistic identity, which extends beyond music to visual and performance art, Lange has spent nearly a decade crafting a genre-bending, engaging, and personal indie sound, organically amassing a loyal following and critical praise for a string of buzzy releases, most recently last year’s Private Energy. Complimentary to but distinctly different from Sylvan Esso, this eclectic group will prove an excellent supporting act, so show up early!
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Pregame Sylvan Esso’s show with this vibe-y playlist featuring their song “Die Young” http://www.digster.fm/playlist/indie-chill
So excited for the show! Pregame to this indie playlist featuring their song “Die Young” http://www.digster.fm/playlist/indie-chill
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One of the big knocks on this year’s Syracuse University basketball team was the overall inability to shoot the rock, so it’s always refreshing to see an incoming recruit being singled out specifically for his three point shooting prowess. Richardson torched the competition in New Jersey this season, hitting 74 three pointers in 27 games – more than 2.7 triples per game – and has long been renowned as one of the best pure shooters in the recruiting class of 2015.
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Air Force letter: Belote campaign improperly used uniform picture, military status in campaign materials
Posted on November 10, 2015 by The Independent News
Screen capture of the Belote campaign’s Faebook page.
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE
VIRGINIA BEACH — Democrat Dave Belote, a retired Air Force officer, improperly used his uniform and military status while campaigning for the 8th state senate district, according to a letter a senior Air Force official wrote to the campaign.
Conrad Von Wald, director of administrative law for the Air Force judge advocate general, sent a letter to Belote on Tuesday, Nov. 3 – Election Day – informing the campaign of the finding. Republican Bill DeSteph, a state delegate who served in the Navy, defeated Belote in the election itself.
The Air Force provided a copy of the letter to The Independent News on Monday, Nov. 9, in response to a request for correspondence with the campaign. The letter followed questions raised by The Independent News about a photo of Belote used repeatedly in campaign materials, as well as other potential issues that might have confused voters.
Aside from one use of an image of Belote saluting while in uniform, Belote campaign manager Aaron Bly previously said that image and others had been used within the guidelines of a defense directive meant to avoid the appearance of the military backing a political candidate.
The Air Force disagreed.
“A review of your campaign website and associated social media sites has given rise for concern,” Von Wald wrote to Belote. “We find that you are making improper use of your uniform and military status as part of a partisan political activity.”
Von Wald wrote that the Belote campaign did not make Belote’s retired status clear with images, placed disclaimers too far from images or did not use them, and used imagery of Belote in uniform in a manner that invited misperception.
“A member of the general public conducting a casual perusal of your electronic campaign literature could easily conclude that an Active Duty member of the Air Force was running for a state legislature,” Von Wald wrote.
The photograph in question shows Belote saluting while in uniform and standing in front of an American flag. This photograph has appeared as the main image at campaign websites, social media pages and posts, and in some printed campaign literature. A campaign video spot includes this and other images of Belote in uniform, but it does not make it clear Belote is retired.
Screen capture of a campaign spot for Belote.
Belote did not respond to an email and calls to his campaign and work offices this morning. Calls to Bly on Monday evening and today were not returned.
On Saturday, Oct. 31, Bly said the campaign reviewed the directive governing images of people in uniform and used images appropriately. In one instance pointed out by The Independent News, the campaign removed the image from Twitter because there was no disclaimer.
“We must have missed that one,” Bly said at the time.
The Air Force letter to the campaign makes it clear there were other issues in the way the Belote campaign presented the candidate to voters.
Representations of candidates who served in the military has been an issue before, even this election cycle. For example, the Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus this year used social media to share criticism of state Sen. Dick Black’s use of his military uniform in campaign materials.
In October, Marine Corps Lt. Col. Gabrielle M. Hermes, a defense department spokesperson, released a statement that said resolving violations of the directive “can involve simply ceasing the conduct.”
Von Wald’s letter, effectively, simply asks the Belote campaign to cut it out.
It concludes: “We trust that no further communication on this issue will be necessary.”
Images of Belote in uniform remained in online media today.
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Applications: The present invention is an application for retraining and evaluating a patient’s damaged visual system (either cortical or subcortical). The principles of this method could be applied to retrain patients with damage to other sensory systems, including the somatosensory or auditory systems. This technique has applications for patients...
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URML-3881, a Novel MEK Inhibitor for the Treatment of Cancers
Provided herein, are compounds, compositions, and methods of treatment of cancers using an inhibitor of MAPK/ERK Kinase (MEK), in particular hydrazine derivatives.
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Broadly Neutralizing Anti-Influenza Human Monoclonal Antibodies and Uses Thereof
The present invention relates to broadly neutralizing anti-influenza monoclonal antibodies or antigen-binding fragments thereof. The present invention further relates to therapeutic uses of the isolated antibody or the antigen-binding fragment thereof.
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The present disclosure is directed to blood dotting compositions comprising platelet microparticles, method of using said compositions, and methods of preparing the same.
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Provided herein, inter alia, are methods and compositions directed to suppressing tumor cell growth in a subject as well as methods for sensitizing a proliferating cell for treatment with a cytotoxic agent via inhibiting expression of HE4 and one or more immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Also provided herein are methods for determining whether a...
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Novel 7-Dehydrocholesterol Derivatives and Methods Using Same
The present invention provides, in certain aspects, novel 7-dehydrocholesterol (7DHC) derivatives that are useful in treating or preventing cancer, as well as in treating or preventing uncontrolled angiogenesis, in a subject. In certain embodiments of the present invention, the subject is a human. In other aspects, the present invention provides a method...
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N-Amino Tetrahydrothiazine Derivatives, Methods of Manufacture and Use
This invention comprises the innovative synthesis of N-amino tetrahydrothiazine free bases and their salts. This invention further comprises the use of the derivatives and their therapeutic application as anticancer agents. Further this invention comprises their manufacture and use.
Published: 11/5/2019 | Inventor(s): Rakesh Singh, Laurent Brard, Kyu Kwang Kim, Giselle Saulnier-Sholler
LDH Inhibitors as Treatment for Fibrotic Disorders
One aspect of the disclosure relates to methods of treating a fibrotic condition in an individual. The methods include administering to an individual having a fibrotic condition an effective amount of a lactic dehydrogenase (LDH) inhibitor, wherein the fibrotic condition involves an internal organ or tissue, or ocular tissue, and said administering...
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3' Deoxy Nucleosides and Their Analogs as Anti-HIV Agents Targeting HIV-1 Macrophage Infection
Published: 4/29/2019 | Inventor(s): Baek Kim
Keywords(s): Antiviral, Drug Design, HIV, Infectious Disease
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Israel Land Administration procrastinates in returning lands to their original owners in Tubas
Despite the acknowledgment of the so-called Israel Land Administration that people of Bardala and Tubas own around 1250 dunums of Qaaoun plain, the Israeli occupation still takes over these lands and procrastinates in leaving them for their legal owners. At the same time, the Israeli occupation allows colonists of Mirav colony near the green line to take advantage and plant the lands.
The story began in 1967 when the Israeli occupation seized 1250 dunums of Qaaoun located along the Truce Line of 1949. The nature and richness of the place made Qaaoun a target to the Israelis who announced it a closed military zone for military practices for being on the borderlines.
At the beginning of 1978, Mirav kibbutz seized the lands of Qaaoun, planted them and rented the lands from the Israel Land Administration that year. Later, officers of the Israel Land Administration accompanying a big force of the Israeli army raided the plain, forced its residents out, and confiscated it in midday. There was no prior warnings or orders. The confiscation and eviction took place under military force.
In 2002, the Israeli occupation built the Apartheid Wall and annexed most the plain to Mirav kibbutz. The Israeli occupation did not open any agricultural gates that could able farmers to have access to their confiscated lands.
Pictures 1+2: Qaaoun plain
The Israeli occupation hinders the return of land to its legitimate owners: " The legal consultant in Tubas affirmed to an LRC observer that," We held meetings with the Israeli authorities for 2 years to return the lands to their owners but we received nothing from the Civil Administration except for procrastination. After few mothers, we decided to go to an Israeli court though we know their bias against us. The Civil Administration denied renting the plain to anybody and suggested following the case up with the Israel Land Administration."
He added, " We hired a lawyer and the Israel Land Administration informed him that the plain was rented to Mirav kibbutz by mistake and that they told the kibbutz they cancelled the contract and the lands should return to their Palestinian owners." Until today and despite the ruling, the Israeli occupation still procrastinates in giving back the lands to their legitimate owners in Tubas and Bardala. The occupation also puts obstacles on the road to retaining the lands such as security reasons, the Apartheid Wall and its tracks etc etc.
Israel does not abide to International laws:
These actions have been condemned over and over by the International community and all human rights conventions, some of which are listed below:
147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 indicated that: Extensive destruction and appropriation of property not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly, is a grave breach of the Convention.
Also under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of, December 10, 1948, Article 17 reads: ‘No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.’ Which means it bans Israel from destroying or confiscating the property of the Palestinians at any case.
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‘Dancing with the Stars’ Results Show: ‘The Jersey Shore’ Gained a New Fan
By: Jessica Rae | October 12, 2010 at 10:41 PM EDT
Last night we got a spicy performance from Florence Henderson, and a knock-out dance from Jennifer Grey. But who will go home? My top guesses before the Dancing with the Stars results show tonight included Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino and Kyle Massey. And it appears I had good intuition.
The judges got to pick one dance to see again, and of course it was the performance by Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough. This is definitely the dance I wanted to see again.
The Goo Goo Dolls performed a special Dancing with the Stars melody. The songs included “Iris” and “Not Broken.’ I lost track of this band, so it’s nice to see them again.
The first celebrities saved included: Brandy, Audrina Patridge, Jennifer Grey and Kyle Massey. Then Rick Fox was saved, then Florence Henderson.
A little video featurette was shown, where Len taught a session about how to earn a 10 from him. What was cute is seeing some of the cast members being taught and distracting him with paper footballs and gum. Len took a dig at his fellow judges by saying, “A 9 from me is a 10 from Bruno and Carrie Ann…”
We were then treated to a group tango performance from the musical Forever Tango. They cued up the red lights and gave us heightened drama. Oh-la-la. It made me want to watch Moulin Rouge.
Florence and the Machine performed “The Dog Days are Over” which is a song I really love. It was also the first song heard in the Covert Affairs pilot.
Three couples remained in jeopardy, including Bristol Palin, The Situation and Kurt Warner. Someone had to hang up their dancing shoes. Kurt and Anna were saved, leaving just two more pairs. The Situation and Karina were then BOOM – eliminated. Sad! Now we can’t make any more bad jokes about situations. “I tried my best, and at the end of the day someone’s gotta go home,” he said.
Host Tom Bergeron admitted that he hadn’t seen any of The Jersey Shore until recently, and after he’d seen one episode he asked his daughter if there would be any marathons on for him to watch more. So, The Jersey Shore has gained a new fan, and Dancing with the Stars has lost one pair of abs.
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Barack Obama the Socialist & Marxist 2001: Bring About “Redistributive Change” … Who Needs the Constitution.
America, you want political honesty that is as frightening as it gets. Listen to Barack Obama and his views of redistribution of the wealth and the US Constitution be damned. The hell with what the Founding Fathers had in plan and the heck with the Constitution, Barack Obama’s visions to achieve “social justice” through “redistributive change” are right and our Founding Fathers were wrong. There is change you can not only believe in but are about to empower. You thought we were joking with Obama’s new National Anthem.
All American voters best take a good listen at what Barack Obama, The Chosen one had to say and “redistribution of wealth” in America in 2001. The interview is from Chicago Public radio. If he smells like a socialist, walks like a socialist and talks like a socialist … Wake up America, he, “The One” is a socialist.
Michelle Malkin discusses the explanation from the Obamamessia in response to a call in question regarding how he would do “reparative economic work.”
A caller asks The One to explain how he would do “reparative economic work.” Obama gives the legislative route two thumbs up as his preferred method of “breaking free of the constraints” placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution and then burbles about cobbling together the “actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change.”
From Protein Wisdom:
In Obama’s America, we’ll finally be able to break free of the “constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution” — and in so doing, achieve “social justice” through “redistributive change.”
Well, then. Fine .
But this is not the America I knew…
It seems that Joe the Plumber has only hit upon a small piece of Obama’s socialist iceberg. It appears that Joe the Plumber has awakened a sleeping socialist. No wonder the LEFT was so hell bent on destroying and discrediting Joe. BTW, it appears that Americans are overwhelmingly against redistribution of wealth 84% to 13%. Your vote does matter on election day … do you really want to elect socialism?
News flash to McCain campaign … fire up the political ads and start replaying this clip in every battleground state. AUDIO PROOF FROM 2001 THAT OBAMA IS A SOCIALIST.
For the critics who think that the above interview was edited, Stop the ACLU has the original interview.
Transcript from Stop the ACLU as well:
If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court. I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for it I’d be o.k. But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendancy to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.
I’m not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. You know, the institution just isn’t structured that way.
Posted October 27, 2008 by Scared Monkeys
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126 Responses to “Barack Obama the Socialist & Marxist 2001: Bring About “Redistributive Change” … Who Needs the Constitution.”
katablog.com on October 27th, 2008 7:17 am
The Barack Obama the hard working Americans never knew. Once again I will say: if you are black and don’t like to work much: an Obama administration means a windfall for you.
However, if you work and believe on living within your means while you work and save to get ahead – under an Obama administration your hard work will be redistributed to those Obama believes deserve it.
Richard on October 27th, 2008 7:27 am
Sen. Obama, may I suggest that your efforts to redistribute the wealth begin with politicians?
Oops, sorry, we’re not supposed to think that way.
ANewGirl on October 27th, 2008 7:34 am
“redistributive change” = ROFL
“redistribution of wealth”= SOCIALISIM
“redistribute the barf bags” = Oh, Gag Me with a Spoon! Enough already! Yes, we may have to recycle all the barf bags we’ll be needing to use to swallow this crock of BS, too.
Why can’t the everyday man and woman see what is clearly BEHIND ALL OF BARACK’s catch phrases and WORDS:
SO.CIAL.ism ( so’she-liz-em) N. A social system or theory in which the producers possess political power and the means of producing and distributing goods.
That’s change we can believe in alright! You better believe it is happening sooner than later if Obama gets in.
***McCain/Palin ’08***
Roscoe on October 27th, 2008 7:43 am
I’d rather have a socialist in office than a communist like Palin.
beth lee on October 27th, 2008 7:48 am
What is bailing out banks and wall street if not socialism? Not all socialism is bad.we seem to think,in this country,that socialism=russia. It doesn’t.ask any other industrialized nation-you know,the ones that all have health care,etc,where people live longer and healthier than us,etc.
Elmer P. Fudd on October 27th, 2008 8:08 am
Helen Keller, who was blind and deaf from the age of <1, was a hater of war and a lover of the Socialistic dogma…I am an accountant. I come from great wealth going back to the 19th century. In my heart I believe that we MUST support Barack Obama or else we shall be in that endless spiral of supporting the wealthy beneficiaries of the lobbyists of big oil, big pharma, and big egos.
It is time for change, but not for the fantasy world of John and Sarah.
Perhaps this is what it’s all about:
I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race. – Barack Obama From Dreams of My Father
Time to get those filthy rich white folks!
The type of ppl who cannot add those two digit r the type of ppl who’ll b voting for M/P!
this is getting a little redundant! if u need a computer or one of “them calculators” to add that, you r dumber than Bush babies…oh no, the TWINS!
Go take in the matinee of “W” then get back 2 me!
nurturer on October 27th, 2008 8:19 am
“Obama campaign CUTS OFF Florida TV station from further interviews.”
CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!!!!!
why wouldn’t the computer allow me to say 1 + 1 = two? Or does E=mc2 not exist on that plane that Einstein quantum physicked not?
Does Sarah P. even come close to understanding what a proof is, or is she still in denial about the evolution of the human species?
Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
Steve Holloway on October 27th, 2008 8:39 am
Obama is our next 911.
Once this man is elected you will find out what we have been trying to say about this man. You will not like his kind of change. It will be much worse than what any us could dream. BUT it will be too late, can’t change it or stop it once he is their. It will be a hard lesson to learn.
Why go down this road, can’t you see the warning signs, can’t you see the bridge is out. Were shouting and waving for you to stop. Think about what your fixing to do, not just to yourself but to the rest of us. This will be our last days as a great nation.
I don’t want my kids to grow up in the nation of Obama. Just think what happen on 9-11. Muslins attacked us. Look at how many people that are muslins around Obama and I believe that he is a muslin. He had to say he was a Christian to get elected.
Bidden already warned us of some horrible event and we would not think they are doing the right thing. That sounds like it will be a decision that will be un-American.
God help uncover the eyes of the people that are for this man.
Just Bearly on October 27th, 2008 8:43 am
Spookier and Scarier (for this great country) than Halloween i think. Sadly I do not think my vote for McCain will have much sway in Minnesota where voters are heavily favoring Obama. I will stick to my political conscience and mark the ballot Libertarian.
In one of the debates, I also heard Obama allude to Globalization- one World, one monetary standard- in response to a question about handling the global market collapse (which was how I interpreted the response, is scary stuff). It was brief, but the word Globalization did slip. I’ve heard discussions about negative repercussions of what could happen in event of that on Coast to Coast night radio show. Please do not sell out this country that our fathers and grandfathers worked so hard to build.
Those reading… even if you vote for none of the above, go vote. Your vote could make a difference. I once heard it said that if all the people who did not bother to vote did go vote it could be enough for a third party to win.
Cinderella on October 27th, 2008 8:59 am
OBAMA = SOCIALIST PARTY OF AMERICA!
Steve: the people making the comments here for Obama are people who expect to be the recipients of that wealth redistribution. They hear us loud and clear.
The part they don’t get is that even if they get some redistribution, it won’t be for long. The other part they don’t get is just how deep Obama’s tax cuts will go – because they don’t understand that Obama doesn’t count phased out tax credits and expiring Bush tax cuts will affect (increase taxes) those making as little as $25,000.
And, because unlike what #5 says (and yes, bailing out banks IS socialism but it was the Democrats who forced this crap sandwich on us), people under a socialized state DO NOT live longer or get better health care. We know that because those that can afford to do so, come to the USA for their health care.
SUPER DAVE on October 27th, 2008 9:23 am
obama is turning family, friends, neighbors, against each other. he is creating chaos and he knows it. he wants it this way when he executes his communist plan.
one good thing, Americans are arming themselves against this devil. firearm sale are at an all time high due to the obama scam.
remember only the weak minded can be snowed by this snake. most obama supporters cannot even understand his plan, they just think he is going to hand out money to the poor. WRONG . he is now saying this one world crap. the beast will woo all his followers, he will show them great things, he will preach world peace. HE WILL DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.
dennisintn on October 27th, 2008 9:27 am
richard, obama isn’t living in that $l,500,000 house in chicago because he believes or allows his personal wealth to be spread around. he promised to help that school/orphanage in his father’s home village because they were having to close it because they needed $6,000 to keep the school open. they school is closed now because obama didn’t keep his promise to them. why should we expect differently from him now.
dennisintn
to continue.
as with hitler’s socialist movement started, he’ll take our money now for redistribution but you won’t ever get obama’s personal stash.
nurturer on October 27th, 2008 10:01 am
#16 – “people under a socialized state DO NOT live longer or get better health care. We know that because those that can afford to do so, come to the USA for their health care.”
My father had to wait two months to get his by-pass surgery in Canada. And the day of his surgery, as they were wheeling him into the operating room, they cancelled right there because the doctor was called to another hospital. Hail socialist medicine.
MBS on October 27th, 2008 10:59 am
I’ve seen this before, but think it bears repeating:
“How Long Do We Have?
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
‘A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.’
‘A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.’
‘From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.’
‘The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years’
‘During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage’
Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:
Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: ‘In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare…’ Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the ‘complacency and apathy’ phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation’s population already having reached the ‘governmental dependency’ phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal’s and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.”
If we do not guard our freedoms, we don’t deserve to keep them.
Miss-Underestimated on October 27th, 2008 11:14 am
Here is how it is going to go. Whatever is yours is now the governments, for them to decide who is worthy of it. Plain and simple.
Sharon Chicago on October 27th, 2008 11:19 am
Father Jonathan: Obama’s No Robin Hood
Robin Hood is a legitimate hero, not because he robbed from the rich and gave to the poor, but rather because he returned to the poor what lawfully belonged to them.
This distinction is what separates the just goals of Robin and his band of “Merry Men” from the dehumanizing economic theory of “redistribution of wealth”—a hallmark of socialism—as explained and supported by Senator Barack Obama in his 2001 interview with Chicago Public Radio, just recently rediscovered by the media.
While the famed green archer risked his life in defense of the natural right to retain private property (from thieves like the cruel sheriff of Nottingham and King John who stripped peasants of their land and livelihood), in this interview Senator Obama questions to what extent this right even exists.
But don’t take my word for it. Listen to it. Did you hear what I heard?
There can be no longer any doubt. Senator Obama’s enduring political philosophy is socialist at the core. And his leanings, in this regard, are radical; he would like to see all three branches of the federal government play a role in restructuring our society according to “redistributive” economic principles.
As I listen to the interview, I must say it is hard to believe our leading United States presidential candidate said, just seven years ago, that it is a tragedy the civil rights movement failed to get the Supreme Court to venture into the issues of redistribution of wealth. It is hard to believe the leading United States presidential candidate said, just seven years ago, “any three of us sitting here could come up with a rationale for bringing economic change through the courts.” It is hard to believe the leading United States presidential candidate suggested, just seven years ago, we should be seeking legislative and administrative avenues to effect “redistributive change,” since it is impractical now to get the courts to do it on their own. It’s even harder to believe the leading United States presidential candidate, just seven years ago, was talking about the importance of community organizers “putting together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change.”
But then again, maybe I shouldn’t be surprised. Seven years later, and just one month before Election Day, Senator Obama said to Joe the Plumber, word for word, “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everyone.”
I don’t doubt Senator Obama’s good will. In fact, he is right about many things.
The great divide between the rich and the poor in our times is scandalous and reprehensible. And the blessings of this earth were destined by God for the common good of all his creatures.
But we know from history, from very sad periods of history, there is no real justice—no progress and no lasting peace—when its pursuit involves beating down some to lift up others. And we also know, by the dictates of reason and the practice of all ages, that when the government decides it can suspend the natural right to private property, through repossession or redistribution, or whatever they choose to call it, that government is on the wrong side of truth.
Just ask Robin Hood.
Father Jonathan
Father Jonathan Morris is author of the new book, “The Promise: God’s Purpose and Plan for when Life Hurts. For information go to http://www.fatherjonathan.com
katablog.com on October 27th, 2008 11:23 am
Good point dennisintn: Those designer suits don’t come from Men’s Wearhouse either! One needs only look at the size of their charitable contributions compared to their income to know what they think of using THEIR money to help others. But then you need to understand that the price of Arugula has been going up……..
Brenda in Virginia on October 27th, 2008 11:25 am
Dear #8…when you suggest the idiots will be voting for M/P…does m/p stand for Marxist Progression? (which translates to Obama/Biden)
LOL this was posted on the Trading Post
My waiter had an Obama ’08 tie on so………..
When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to himthat I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He stoodthere in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute histip to someone who I deemed more in need–the homeless guy outside. Theserver angrily stormed from my sight. I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the serverinside as I’ve decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy wasgrateful. At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realizedthe homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient deserved money more. I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in conceptthan in practical application. I thought the server would be excited that I was buying into theredistribution theory! Boy was I wrong!H/T: )
Please understand that posters such as Elmer Fudd are hypnotized and have no will of their own. They lost their freedom long ago as the freedom our forefathers fought and died for is the freedom from WITHIN…not freedom to rob those who are responsible with their lives/money to pay for those who are not.
THAT is what Obama promises…and since a huge portion of American citizens are useless leeches any more they are eager to vote for the guy who will help them pillage and plunder for them so they can contine and not improve themselves on the inside. Hell, there’s nothing in there to be improved upon if you’re already anti-American minded enough to vote for the socialist.
Rusty Bridges on October 27th, 2008 11:32 am
#19 “he’ll take our money now for redistribution but you won’t ever get obama’s personal stash.”
He won’t get Bidens’ shotguns either. Damn sure he will come for ours.
SUPER DAVE on October 27th, 2008 11:38 am
if barry cares so much about his grandmother, why does she live in a slum in Hawaii ?
he’s using her for sympathy. ol’ joe biden has realized that he has sold his soul to the devil and he is now trying to warn us of the disaster coming by way of your boy barry o.
barry knew he would not make it this far without a white running mate. mark my words, “if” he wins the election, joe will be kicked to the side and colin “the traitor to his country” powell will replace him.
#25 Brenda…I like the way you think :O)
Sharon Chicago on October 27th, 2008 12:01 pm
Too bad the blacks are backing O’Bama …that just tells me they are prejudice! I thought the blacks had come a long way from being discriminated and had their freedom to go after the American dream…but instead they are voting
for a man because of the color of their skin.
They are setting this nation back a life time by doing this. O’Bama will never allow them or anyone else to achieve their dreams. He will make sure his socialist communist government rules over everyone.
nurturer on October 27th, 2008 12:11 pm
#21 – This is probably one of the best posts I’ve read anywhere on this board. Thank you.
Dutch citizen on October 27th, 2008 12:25 pm
#19 – dennisintn, Hitler stood for national socialism, which is not the same as socialism.
Brenda in Virginia on October 27th, 2008 12:30 pm
Hi Sharon…it’s COLD here in Salem, Virginia today where Sarah Palin is coming @ 5:30pm. Bet it is colder still where you are :>)
Wish I could stay to see her, but alas I’ve been up since 5am and need to get home quickly after work today (live 1 hr away). I was at the Salem Stadium all day Sat for a marching band competition and the locals in front of me were discussing that Sarah was coming to the same place in 2 days. It’s a beautiful place for her to visit with that massive American Flag they fly there and the georgeous mountain view as it’s on a hilltop.
(by the way, my son’s marching band won #1 in the state in their category at that stadium Sat night :>)
john staton on October 27th, 2008 1:33 pm
#33 Your history is wrong. The National Socialist Workers Party was socialist indeed but not “Scientific” Socialism as practiced in the Soviet Union. Their methods, however were very much the same. The proposals of Obama which include the Obama Youth public service requirement starting at the age of 10 is also much the same.
For all literate rational readers of this blog, please read Mr Laffer’s article in today’s WSJ. It should give you some insight on how to best serve your self interest in the near future..JS
SUPER DAVE on October 27th, 2008 1:58 pm
i would rather be in the position i’m in now, which is not well off but notpoor, but i am paying my bills and i don’t depend on the government , especially any government created by the terrorist barry o.
leave me poor you racist bastard and give all your money to your people that sit on their asses every day and whine about the government. blacks are going to string barry up when he can’t come through with his promise of free money ha.
MBS on October 27th, 2008 2:45 pm
Oh, great, now we have 2 stupid skinheads plotting to not only assassinate Obama, but rob a gun store and kill 102 African Americans. Not 100 or 200, 102. It’s all over the news, and will likely drown out any reports regarding Obama’s socialistic ideas. The timing on this seems very convenient. Does every harebrained plot to assassinate a candidate get this much press? I expect Sarah Palin has had alot of threats, you don’t hear about them, though. This one sounds like a pretty crazy, harebrained scheme.
ATF disrupts skinhead plot to assassinate Obama
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94328PG2&show_article=1
Sharon Chicago on October 27th, 2008 3:04 pm
#34 Brenda….Kudo’s to your son….I love marching bands…even at my seasoned age )
I am praying and believing that McCain is going to win. I think between the media and Acorn, the waters have been so dirty … and of course
with O’Bama always denying what affilications he has had in the past/present.
I don’t blame you for driving there since you have been up since 5pm and are a working gal.
I work in the loop in Chicago so I know what you mean …full day along with travel.
Have a great evening ) Sharon
Cinderella on October 27th, 2008 3:10 pm
National Socialism?
A rose is a rose by any other name…
People like the concept of “spreading the wealth around” IF you’re talking about
the wealth of filthy rich people.
But when the concept is applied to
“spreading INCOME around” – it means
YOUR INCOME. AND MY INCOME.
If you make $75K per year.
Consider keeping $40K of it and turning the other $35K over to the government.
Sound fair?
Didn’t think so…
THAT’S OBAMA 2008!
Michelle on October 27th, 2008 3:17 pm
Thankfully the two stupid skinheads couldn’t keep their mouths shut and told too many people about their plans and they got busted. Let’s see how much the media will run with this one.
Mr. Bridge to Nowhere McCain / Palin on October 27th, 2008 3:21 pm
Sen. Ted Stevens found guilty in corruption case
Enough Said……GO REPUBLICANS..DRill Baby Drill!
Maggie on October 27th, 2008 3:51 pm
Here’s another one that’s been cut off for asking tough questions..
ANOTHER: Biden riled by Philly CBS affiliate anchors’ questioning(you know like the ones Sarah has gotten.
http://www.breitbart.tv/html/206633.html
caesu on October 27th, 2008 3:53 pm
they are really trying everything now.
digging up 7 year old interviews about the civil rights era.
somehow tying it to the current situation.
i wonder what else they’ve got the coming few days.
too bad for McCain nothing catches on.
he better go campaigning in Arizona.
as he is only slightly ahead in the polls there.
dePlume on October 27th, 2008 3:54 pm
ObamaNationals are furious!
Marxism/Socialism is the PLAN.
Bottoms UP, Nation! Spread that INCOME.
Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska’s schools. She has said that students should be allowed to “debate both sides” of the evolution question, but she also said creationism “doesn’t have to be part of the curriculum.”
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_palin.html
Time for Frank ‘n Dodd to take their turns?
Nah. It’s been arranged for hearings AFTER elections.
MARX – - – MARXIST – - – MARXISM – - -SOCIALISM
. . . no opportunity to flash the “race card.”
HOIST/PETARD
You know what I say to that..GOOD!!!!!.. I don’t defend creeps no matter what side they are on. Wasn’t there a dem.not long ago that was found to be hiding large amounts of cash in his freezer? His trial hasn’t come up yet.
Sarah Palin help put some of the creeps in jail in Alaska.. One less creep on the street..is the way I look at it. I still support John McCain..He’s not Ted Stevens either.
HOW IS OBAMA MAINTAINING LEAD IN KEY STATES?!
HAS HIS CAMPAIGN BOUGHT THE VOTERS FROM UNIONS?
“If we vote for Obama, everyone will get a raise!”.
One worker whispers, “Obama’s policies are against my better judgment”.
Another worker answers,” Get over it! You want your raise don’t you?!”.
UNION VOTERS OF AMERICA!
We need you! YOU BUILT AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HEAR YE, HEAR YE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama is a SOCIALIST in Sheep’s clothing!!!!!!
According to the Birth Record’s seal, Barack Hussein Obama’s “Birth Record” was recorded in 2005? – the Hawaiian hospital that issued the Birth Record has sealed their archives and will NOT permit anyone to verify Barack Hussein Obama’s live birth in that hospital per 1961!
Why is this relevant?:
Because Barack Hussein Obama’s birthplace issue, along with the 12 other documents listed below, is being intentionally withheld.
Is there something to hide?:
1. Occidental College records — Not released
2. Columbia College records — Not released
3. Columbia Thesis paper — ‘not available’
4. Harvard College records — Not released
5. Selective Service Registration — Not released
6. Medical records — Not released
7. Illinois State Senate schedule — ‘not available’
8. Law practice client list — Not released
9. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate — Not released
10.Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth — Not released
11.Harvard Law Review articles published — None
12.University of Chicago scholarly articles — None
13.Record of Baptism– Not released or ‘not available’
14.Illinois State Senate records–’not available’
This secrecy is relevant.
And if elected, Senator Obama’s admin will control a HUGE sector of our economy,
he will be Commander-in-Chief of our military, and the whole world will look to him as the
Leader of the Free World!
Would we recognize a “Hitler” if he rose – from the LEFT?!!
Yes, Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-LA) holding the “cold cash.”
http://michellemalkin.com/2006/12/10/freezer-burn-cold-cash-jefferson-wins/
“WASHINGTON — When Barack Obama was seeking AFL-CIO support in the primaries, he promised to sign a bill that would effectively deprive workers of a private-ballot vote in unionization drives”
No Private Vote!!! if Obama wins
chris on October 27th, 2008 4:56 pm
I wrote a while back about having been raised in Germany with all its socialized healthcare and let me tell you, you don’t want to have this in this country. If you enjoy seeing your doctor whom you have seen for years and have faith in, this will change when good ole Obama will tell you when to get sick and when you will be able to see a doctor. Hope that you will never need a specialist or have need for surgery. I could go on and on, but you get the point.
I’m afraid for our country, because he will have us heading in the direction of Venezuela and all other communist countries that he will”sit down and have nice chats with”.
“How would you like elections without secret ballots? To most people, the notion of getting rid of secret ballots is absurd. This is modern-day America. Such an idea could not be seriously considered, right?”
“But if Barack Obama becomes president, secret ballots seem destined to end for at least one type of election: union certifications.”
Mr Bridge to No Where McSame/Palin 08 on October 27th, 2008 5:13 pm
#52 Cinderderella
Maybe you should go work for the McSame campain. You know how many times I’ve seen that same B.S on this site? Come on..give me a break..if this was so true McSame and all the rednecks with guns would be out with the KKK members trying to figure out a way to take out obama. Wait..they’re already planning that. My bad….
Anway…it would be the only way Kermit McFrog would win.
Promises of hope from an Empty Suit
will only get you Empty PROMISES.
That ONE is a “do-Little”.
He’s done little in Congress,
he’ll DO-LITTLE for you.
Bottom up economics means the bottom
gets YOUR MONEY.
Your MONEY goes to the
LITTLE DO-LITTLES.
From: Walshe, Shushannah
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 5:58 PM
Subject: Urgent: Palin statement on stevens
Tarmac in Richmond
“This is a sad day for Alaska and a sad day for Sen. Stevens and for his
family. The verdict shines a light though on the corrupting influence of
the big oil service company up there in Alaska that was allowed to
control too much of our state and that control was part of the culture
of corruption that I was elected to fight and that fight must always
move forward regardless of party afiliation, or seniority or even past
service and as the Gov. of Alaska I will carefully now monitor the
situation and I will take any appropriate action as needed. In the mean
time I do ask that the ppl of Alaska join me in respecting the workings
of our judicial system and I’m confident that Sen. Stevens from this
point on will do the right thing for the state of Alaska.” .
She took no questions.
Fox Fire on October 27th, 2008 5:53 pm
Gee… I wonder when they made these arrests…
Saturday?
If we have our streets full of haters…
We all lose.
Just to correct a statement made earlier:
Gun sales are not the highest they’ve ever been.
They are the only type of retail sales that
went up during the month of September.
It’s hunting season on the four legged animal-types.
Obama/Biden 2008
Southern Yankee on October 27th, 2008 5:54 pm
Been away for a couple of days…….I guess the conspiracy theorists among you will hypothesize that I was out forging my birth records?
#17/36 (Super) Dave……I asked you to take off the white hood last week, but clearly you weren’t listening. You suggest that Senator Obama is breaking up families and creating arguments amongst neighbors. Yet you speak of firearms and “stringing up”. Who’s using divisive language now Dave? Again I ask you WTF?????? Clearly your anger control meds aren’t working! Time to make another doctor’s appointment.
#13 Muslin?????? Muslin is a kind of fabric! If Obama is “muslin” does that make McCain “rayon”?
#21 Hamline University? Never heard of it! It doensn’t rank in the top 100 law programs in the nation. I guess there’s a reason the media doesn’t often run out to Hamline for “expert” opinion. Oh, by the way, this Democrat owns a home and has a salaried job. I am married to a Democrat with a salaried job. We live in a city of 700,000+ and have a low murder rate. Oh……I almost forgot……we pay taxes! What a bunch of crap offered up by Professor Olson. You ate it up and asked for a second helping!
On the topic of re-distribution of wealth……
“And why do we have to have tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans when the gap between the wealthiest American and the poorest Americans is growing?” Later he added, “We’re at war. Tell me one time in the history of this country when this nation was at war when we’ve enacted tax cuts, especially for the wealthiest.”
John McCain in Fortune Magazine, June 28, 2008.
This was 4 months ago! Have his views changed that much in the last 4 months or is he just confused and playing to the electoral crowd?
Seems to me he was arguing against the tax shields created under President Bush (in an effort to win the primary). Senator Obama is now being criticized for making the same argument.
Hypocrites unite…….your rose-colored glasses seem to be working just fine.
Peace out sheep.
I’m sure you’re right…
It was just a scheme,
to spoil your fun.
And, where is the one that you allow
to come here and spread her rhetoric
about race wars and white supremacy?
Patti:
The disgrace to my race…
these 2 skinheads probably were not smart enough to pull off this caper. but if it were a diversion ? like the mexican drug runners: one gets caught on purpose, 5 get through.
anyone who would target schoolchildren is a sick individual and needs to be locked up for life.
just looking at barry on tv now and he is for sure a devil. had a waiter @ chili’s sat night wearing an obama pin. i told him he would not be getting a tip because i was going to spread his tip around. the look on his face was worth a million bucks.
De Plume:
Not everything is about money…
A New Girl on October 27th, 2008 6:09 pm
#57- Mr. Bridge to Nowhere:
Maybe you should go hang out with your Moonbat Kol-Aide drinking friends for the next 8 days….you know—keep blowing more of that OBAMASIAH THE CHOSEN ONE TIME FOR A CHANGE SECOND COMING OF THE ANTI-CHRIST BS up one another’s skirts.
You are so negative, each of your posts ooze with all the resentment you have held inside for our Government. Do you have a right to be PO’d and fed up? Of course—-we ALL are —–no matter what our chosen political party is. My only point is this:
Why must you continue to post only bad news about REP—when you know for a fact—there are just as many crooked DEMS out there that are corrupt as well. Why must you blame every mistake our Government has made over the last 8 years on the GOP—when you KNOW for a FACT—-OUR CONGRESSMEN and WOMEN are just as equally responsible for all this mess? THE CONGRESS IS CURRENTLY OVERWHELMINGLY RULED BY…(Oh, shocker!)
DEMOCRATS!!!!!!!! Come on, stop hating the REP’s just because you may be a leftist bleeding heart liberal.
So, Mr.—Take that “bridge to nowhere” sooner than later—because if your boy Obama gets in…that’s exactly where he will leave you and our nation-
NOWHERE.
***McCain/Palin ‘o8**
EXPERIENCE FIRST AND FOREMOST
COUNTRY FIRST
SPREADING THE WEALTH = SOCIALISIM—-we are supposed to be a Democracy—–aren’t we??
the barry camp will not comment on the plot to murder him because it was probably set up by the democrats to make whites look bad. joe biden is stuttering right now and cannot answer questions .
he knows he has sold himself out and is embarrased.
To Poster Maggie:
Why all the hate and resentment towards Palin??
GET OVER IT! Many of us females out here may not agree with all of her views….BUT to disrespect this lady and mercilessly tear her apart…
rude and disrespectful. Her son is over in IRAQ right now….while this war is winding down—-but STILL fighting for your family and our Country’s freedom. How DARE you as a woman or a Mother not respect any Mother whose children are serving our country? How dare you!
Do you have any family members in the service? Do you have any dignity?
Look- you don’t have to like Sarah Palin—-but to continually rant on her and tear her down with such ridiculous picks and pans really just shows your true colors. You are, IMO- not a feminist but rather A WEAK, RESENTFUL BITTER & JADED female who is OBVIOUSLY intimidated by all powerful, CAPABLE, intelligent women. Did you hate HRC like this as well? You are just such a raging mess…it’s obvious—you don’t like anyone in your own gender. Wow. We have fought so long and hard for equality and women’s rights—it’s people like you that set the whole movement back with your close minded views and sheer hate.
Didn’t your parents ever tell you that to harbor such hatred towards other human beings is not a good thing? Doubtful with the acid you spew in your posts.
****McCain/Palin ’08***
yoyo muffintop on October 27th, 2008 6:38 pm
What do ya think Maggie? Aren’t these people nice?
Look how that lunatic #67 turned on you.
For what I’m not sure…but quite comical non the less.
Maybe this will help those that do not understand that we currently have a progressive tax system and will continue to no matter who gets elected Nov 4th.
Got a feeling it won’t, but worth a shot.
ST. CHARLES, Mo. — “Make no mistake,” Republican activist John Hancock told a John McCain rally in this St. Louis suburb, “this campaign is a referendum on socialism.”
Republicans have been pounding that theme in recent days, even though Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama hardly fits the classic definition of a socialist.
Critics point to Obama’s plan to raise the top two tax rates on the wealthy as clear evidence of his socialist bent. However, Len Burman, the director of the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, said that while Obama “would make the tax system more progressive overall, it would not be a radical shift.”
It wouldn’t qualify as socialism.
“The answer is clearly no, Senator Obama is not a socialist,” said Paul Beck, a professor of political science at Ohio State University. “We’ve had a progressive tax system for some time, and both Republicans and Democrats have bought into it.”
Socialism involves state ownership of the means of economic production and state-directed sharing of the wealth. America’s democratic capitalist system is neither socialist nor pure free market; rather, it mixes the two, and it has at least since the progressive income tax was introduced 95 years ago. Under it, the wealthy pay higher income tax rates than those who are less fortunate do. It’s a form of sharing the wealth.
Government intervenes in U.S. “free markets” all the time. The deduction that homeowners get for mortgage interest is one form, for it subsidizes housing. The government contracts that sustain the great U.S. weapons makers, such as Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics, are another.
For that matter, President Bush and a lot of other Republicans, including McCain, backed a massive federal government rescue of ailing financial institutions this fall, one that’s committed well more than $1 trillion so far to “private” banks, even taking partial ownership of the nine biggest.
Socialism has proved more popular in Europe, including in Great Britain, France, and Italy. In the United States, the term traditionally has been closely associated with communism, and thus claiming the socialist mantle has been political poison. Since World War II and the Cold War, American political candidates who advocate pure socialism rarely have gotten very far. Most notably, Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont was first elected to Congress in 1990 as a socialist, and remains one.
The new round of socialism claims was triggered by Obama’s comments last week to “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher in Toledo, Ohio.
Wurzelbacher told Obama that he hoped someday to buy a plumbing business and asked, “Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?”
Key Bush administration tax cuts are due to expire Jan. 1, 2011. Obama wants to end breaks for most individuals who earn more than $200,000 and families that make more than $250,000; McCain does not. Obama’s position would restore the top rates to where they were under President Clinton, when the economy boomed.
“It’s not that I want to punish your success,” the Illinois senator told Wurzelbacher. “I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success, too. My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”
Republicans pounced, and haven’t stopped.
“You see,” McCain said in his radio address Saturday, “he believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that help us all make more of it.
“Joe, in his plainspoken way, said this sounded a lot like socialism, and a lot of Americans are thinking along those same lines. In the best case, spreading the wealth around is a familiar idea from the American left.”
It was Bush and McCain — who claimed a central role in the drama — who pushed a trillion-dollar government plan to save ailing financial institutions, however.
“If we’re moving toward socialism,” Beck said, “it’s a bipartisan event.”
One of the major challenges that the next president faces, former Federal Reserve Board Chairman and Obama backer Paul Volcker said Tuesday, is “how do we reprivatize institutions” that have been “socialized” by the Bush administration?
Many conservatives were uneasy about the bank bailout, but they argue that it’s important to remember that “George Bush is not on the ballot,” said Brent Littlefield of the American Conservative Union.
He pointed to Obama’s tax ideas.
“It’s a philosophical concept (Obama) has, and he made it clear when, unprompted, he talked about spreading the wealth around,” Littlefield said.
Conservatives often charge that Democrats are engaging in “class warfare” when they want to raise tax rates on the rich — McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, have used the phrase against Obama — but they rarely find such fault when tax cuts benefit the wealthy class disproportionately.
For all that, the “socialist” charge against Obama sticks with some voters.
In Ohio, Sara Cannorozzi, who works for a Springfield promotional products business, explained that while her income is nowhere near the amount that would trigger a tax increase, she hopes it will be someday.
“Obama wants to talk about giving pieces of the pie to everyone, but he never wants to talk about growing the pie,” she said. “I don’t want to share my pie. If I earn it, I want to keep as much as I can.”
Another attempt to educate about our progressive tax system.
Read that last paragraph.
But again, it’s probably gonna sail right over heads.
Newsweek 10/27:
Today in Cleveland, John McCain made an interesting comment: “That’s what change means for the Obama administration. They’re redistributing. It means taking your money and giving it to someone else.”
This is interesting for two reasons.
I hesitate to say that McCain isn’t telling the truth, because it depends on whom McCain means by “you” (as in, “your money”) and who he means by “someone else.” If by “you” he means the 2 percent of Americans who make more than $250,000 year, then he’s absolutely correct. Sorry, quarter-millionaires: Obama plans to raise “your” marginal income tax rate by 3 percent to its pre-George W. Bush level and thereby “take” more of “your money.” But if by “you” McCain means the other 98 percent of America, he’s incorrect. If “you” make less than $200,000 a year, Obama actually plans to take less of “your money” than Bush–and less, in many cases, than McCain. People who make under $250,000 a year have every right to be offended by this if they want to be. Maybe they plan to make $250,000 sometime soon; maybe they just believe in trickle-down economics. But they shouldn’t think that Obama wants to take their money and give it to someone else–and they shouldn’t be told that he does. He actually just wants to give them more money.
Which brings us to the second point of interest. Conservatives are eagerly pushing the charge–online, at rallies and in my inbox–that “Barack the Redistributor” is a secret communist, Marxist or socialist. (Today, the right is misreading a 2001 interview in which Obama complains that progressive activists once wrongly wanted the Supreme Court to “ente[r] into the issues of redistribution of wealth” as evidence of his pinko ways.) Now, I understand the appeal of this line of attack, which provides voters with a familiar, 20th-century bogeyman to fear. But characterizing Obama’s plan to tax the nation’s top earners at 39 percent instead of 36 percent as socialist is absurd. Dwight Eisenhower taxed top earners at 91 percent. Richard Nixon taxed them at more than 50 percent. Even Ronald Reagan didn’t lower the top marginal rate to less than 50 percent until the last two years of his second term. Were these Republicans secret socialists, too?
The answer, of course, is no. As the New Republic’s Jonathan Chait points out, “literally having any government at all involves taking somebody’s money and giving it to somebody else? Even the more restrictive definition of redistribution–using government to create a less unequal distribution of wealth–has been going on for a century. If McCain is really opposed to redistribution, then that means he thinks the rich should get back a dollar in spending for every dollar they pay in taxes.” For the record, he doesn’t; his proposed income-tax structure is still progressive in nature, meaning that it taxes the affluent at a higher rate than the less affluent. And McCain still plans to channel tax dollars into government programs–education, infrastructure, etc.–that disproportionately benefit people who pay lower taxes. Again, you may prefer McCain’s plan to “redistribute” the wealth to Obama’s. By all means. But not because one is socialist and the other isn’t.
Deep down, I suspect McCain knows that Obama isn’t really a socialist. Why? Because he once sounded a lot like his rival on taxes. During the 2000 campaign, for example, a young woman asked McCain why her father, a doctor, should be “penalized” by being “in a huge tax bracket.” McCain replied that “wealthy people can afford more” and that “the very wealthy, because they can afford tax lawyers and all kinds of loopholes, really don’t pay nearly as much as you think they do.” “Look, here’s what I really believe,” he added. “That when you are–when you reach a certain level of comfort, there’s nothing wrong with paying somewhat more.” He soon backed up his words with action. After Bush was elected, McCain told Congress that he was disappointed by the president’s plan to “cut the top tax rate of 39.6 percent to 36 percent.” When it came time for a vote, the Arizonan stood on the Senate floor and announced that “I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle-class Americans who most need tax relief.” Unless McCain was a socialist in 2000 and 2001, Obama isn’t a socialist now.
Ultimately, McCain has every right to talk about taxes in the closing days of the campaign. Voters deserve a serious debate on the issue. But right now, he’s treating us as if we’re too dumb to understand the difference between socialism and a competing vision of the top marginal tax rate. That’s not just interesting. It’s disappointing.
Richard on October 27th, 2008 7:06 pm
Regardless of anyone’s feelings for or against Barack Obama, I hope that we all join in giving thanks that the assassination plot was foiled.
I don’t know if these idiots were capable of tying their shoes … and if reports that they discussed their plot on the Internet are accurate, they have the brains to rival those in Aruba … but stupidity doesn’t guarantee that a plan to murder and commit violence will fail.
I leave you to ponder how sundered our nation would be had it gone through, to say nothing of the repercussions abroad.
You on October 27th, 2008 7:15 pm
#67- To my Old “enemy on this blog” Friend Yoyo:
The name calling I guess does continue from both sides…does it not?
Now I am a lunatic Yoyo? LOL For real, I am laughing so hard over here…..do you stay up all night and think of this stuff to put on here?
You are right, going back and forth with you can be (at times) entertaining,,,but for the most part—I still find you either really hilarious (you are so far out it’s incredible) or most often, you try to be such an indignant know-it-all that you are quite annoying.
Anyway—Have a great evening. Only 8 days left, Yoyo? Did you vote early?
To Poster #4—
If Palin is a Communist—then I am Angelina Jolie for cryin’ out loud!!!!! A Communist? LOL that’s quite a stretch.
Try this one on for size—your boy Obomb-a has had close ties and associations with an EXTREMIST/MARXIST = AYERS Oh, he just murders innocent people and says he wishes he killed more. That’s really someone I would be proud to associate with. NOT!
You are so blind….really- I’m not wasting anymore keystrokes on the likes of you.
=( Communist….LOL still laughing
****McCain/Palin ’08****
Ho-hum … another day, another pledge of $5 billion, maybe to reach $10 billion ….
Now, can someone explain to me how this merger, which doubtless will lead to the layoff of thousands of auto workers, make us better off?
Well, maybe I can borrow a puny $50 million or so from moderator Klassen, otherwise I might go broke….
Treasury working on aid for GM, Chrysler merger
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government is considering direct financial assistance to facilitate a possible merger between General Motors Corp (GM.N) and Chrysler LLC, a private sector source familiar with Treasury discussions told Reuters on Monday.
The Treasury Department is weighing aid of at least $5 billion, which could include capital injections and government purchases of bad auto loans, according to the source, a financial policy executive who spoke anonymously because the discussions are private.
Emergency financing, at least initially, most likely would be focused on GM and Chrysler and not Ford Motor Co (F.N), which is struggling but still better off financially than its U.S. rivals, the source said.
A Treasury decision could come this week, the source said.
Separately, the Wall Street Journal reported the Energy Department is working to release $5 billion in loans to GM to help it finance the merger. The money, according to the report citing a person familiar with the matter, would come from $25 billion in financing approved by Congress last month to help domestic manufacturers make more fuel efficient cars.
An Energy Department spokeswoman said it would be “premature to estimate” a timetable for approving loans. Detroit and its allies in Congress have been pressuring the Bush administration to expedite the money, which regulators have said may not be available for six to 18 months.
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said officials the Treasury, Energy, and Commerce departments have been in contact with automakers about help — emphasizing the loan program for fuel efficient cars and the potential for Treasury to buy up bad car loans to spur new lending and jump-start sales.
Domestic manufacturers are burning through cash and their performance outlook has worsened. On Monday, Moody’s Investors Service downgraded GM’s credit rating on continuing liquidity concerns.
GM shares fell 8.4 percent on the New York Stock Exchange.
White House has long been cool to any straight bailout of the auto industry, although talk among insiders of immediate and substantial help has intensified in recent days with merger negotiations accelerating.
Industry supporters inside and outside of government have mounted a furious lobbying campaign to tie the health of automakers to the needs of the general U.S. economy, and have elevated the bailout discussion to the presidential campaign, which concludes November 4.
Carly Fiorina, an economic adviser to Republican presidential candidate John McCain, said on Monday the government can assist automakers but not save the industry, meaning that taxpayers should not be on the hook for a long-term investment. On Sunday, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, an Obama adviser, did not rule out robust help for automakers under certain conditions.
Federal aid is considered a requirement for completing the GM/Chrysler deal since larger GM has failed to find an outside investor to help fund its acquisition with sales plummeting and prospects uncertain, other sources have said.
GM Chief Executive Rick Wagoner was in Washington in recent days to lobby administration officials. Former Treasury Secretary John Snow is the chairman of Chrysler owner, Cerberus Capital Management (CBS.UL).
Key congressional lawmakers have also pressured Treasury to use all of its tools to free up liquidity.
GM had no comment on the possibility of a Treasury aid plan. Chrysler said in a statement that industry worked hard to ensure the government’s $700 billion rescue plan for the financial services sector would be broad enough to help automakers.
People briefed on the merger discussions previously have said GM would need at least $5 billion to start restructuring Chrysler’s operations. The total amount needed could reach $10 billion, the sources have said.
Terms of any direct Treasury assistance for GM were not immediately apparent, according to the source knowledgeable about the government’s thinking. However, Treasury has taken equity stakes as part of its $250 billion capital injection program for several U.S. banks.
Treasury representatives were not immediately available for comment.
GM, which burned through over $1 billion a month in the second quarter, is in danger of running its cash holdings below the minimum of $11 billion it says it needs to run its far-flung business by late 2009, analysts have said.
The automaker’s plan to sell assets have been slow-moving and the debt markets have been effectively closed to it borrowing more, putting in jeopardy its plan to raise $5 billion from asset sales and new borrowing through 2009.
“Given the deteriorating circumstances in global demand, they could reach minimum cash levels at some point in 2009, barring a recovery,” said S&P equity analyst Efraim Levy.
Chrysler ended the second quarter with $11.7 billion, according to Cerberus.
New Girl – I’m standing in line on election day. Sounds weird but for some reason I like doing that.
Yeah, Dave, it’s probably the same
look you see all the time.
Asshole!
There’s one in every crowd…
#73 – John McCain is a dear friend of an unapologetic murderer according to YOU.
As a matter of fact, McCain has “the highest respect for him” and considers it a great priveledge to call him his friend.
According to YOU, McCain has a dear friend he respects and believes it’s a priveledge to be friends with this person who’s a unapologetic murderer according to you.
But you don’t have an issue with that.
Oh the hypocrisy!!
Steve Holloway on October 27th, 2008 8:39 pm
# 69 Southern Yankee
I misspelled the word Muslim. If that is all you got from it, well
no hope for you.
sorry #61
Oh, why wait – here ya go New Girl:
A New Girl on August 25th, 2008 6:33 pm:
And this DNC doesn’t mean diddly-squat, either. I can’t stomach to listen to Ted Kennedy…one of the WORST and dangerous politicians of all times and murderer of Mary Jo Kopecekne. Spare me that snooze-fest right there.
John McCain:
I was very sorry to hear that Senator Kennedy has taken ill, and like millions of Americans, Cindy and I anxiously await word of his condition. Senator Kennedy’s role in the U.S. Senate cannot be overstated. He is a legendary lawmaker, and I have the highest respect for him. When we have worked together, he has been a skillful, fair and generous partner. I consider it a great privilege to call him my friend. Cindy and I are praying for our friend, his wife, Vicki and the Kennedy family.
So there ya go New Girl, try that one on for size.
LOL still laughing.
The way I heard it explained tonight..was corporations now pay 65% of the taxes. Under the new plan they would pay 10 to 15% more. raising taxes for them up to 75%..and the other 95% would get a tax cut..BUT.. 60 billion of that goes to people who don’t even pay taxes. I personally can’t see some of the businesses.. staying in business with taxes like that.
chloe on October 27th, 2008 8:52 pm
At first I just thought this was a conservative website and I come here quite a lot. I definately did not realize that it was a conservative/racist website. Just reading these posts makes me want to take a shower. I’ll never return here. God bless you all.
Q: Did McCain crash five planes? Did he cause the 1967 Forrestal fire?
Is the information below true? I have heard that McCain crashed five planes. In searching the web I found this information. It was located at [DELETED]
Thank you for more information.
A: No. Chain e-mails and Internet postings that make that claim are mistaken. One crash was found to be his fault, but the Navy commended his piloting skills.
This is for the person who posted…the story about McCain crashing 5 planes.
katablog.com on October 27th, 2008 9:28 pm
But if by “you” McCain means the other 98 percent of America, he’s incorrect. If “you” make less than $200,000 a year, Obama actually plans to take less of “your money” than Bush–and less, in many cases,
You will find out if Obama is elected that he is straight out LYING. Under Obama’s tax play, those making as little as $25,000 will see an increase in taxes. Why? Because Obama doesn’t count that allowing Bush tax cuts to expire as “raising your taxes”. I say, when my taxes go up, they were raised!
Listen to the rest of the Barack Obama tape (at about 15:30 minutes in)
“…just to take a, sort of a realist perspective…there’s a lot of change going on outside of the Court, um, that, that judges essentially have to take judicial notice of. I mean you’ve got World War II, you’ve got uh, uh, uh, the doctrines of Nazism, that, that we are fighting against, that start looking uncomfortably similar to what we have going on, back here at home.”
We are now Nazi Germany!
Maggie:
The Corporate Tax Rates are on a graduated scale.
$1 to 50,000 they pay 15%
50,001 to 75,000 they pay 25%
75,001 to 100,000 they pay 34%
100,001 to 335,000 they pay 39%
335,001 to 10,000,000 they pay 34%
10,000,001 to 15,000,000 they pay 35%
18,333,334 and above they pay 35%.
For Personal Service Corporations such as
Doctors, Dentists, Attorneys, etc. the tax
rate is 35%
*.*.
The old Corporate Tax Rates were as follows:
1 to 25,000 they paid 15%
25,001 to 50,000 they paid 25%
50,001 to 100,000 they paid 34%
over 100,000 they paid 46%
The rate for Personal Service Corporations was 46%
The reason the rates for Personal Service
Corporations is because these people get the
graduated scale of tax on their wages. Any
income left to pay on their Corporate Tax Returns
gets taxed at the maximum rate.
I think what Obama is going to do is to revert
back to the old rates that are listed above,
although he may lower the maximum rate a little.
The new rates were enacted by the Bush Administration which, as you can tell,
gave a huge tax advantage to large
corporations who never came near to the
old maximum rate.
These rates are applied to net income – not gross income.
I should also mention that phased out tax credits will also raise many people’s taxes that make under $100,000 net.
If you or anyone else can find a racial slur I have made against Obama or anyone else for that matter on here at anytime..point it out… don’t bother looking..I haven’t. Never questioned his birth certificate..or his religion. In fact I haven’t even checked to see what his religion is.. I am only responsible for me and what I write. I did question Reverend Wright.. just as I would David Duke..both are bad apples to me.
I don’t think I have ever seen such ugly times between people in the USA.. The fact is..no party can work solely to the left or right in this country or we the people are the losers.. I’ve always been for less govt..in my life.. I can manage my life just fine.. Years ago, I was told to look out for yourself, noone else will..and I have.
I haven’t made racial slurs, but I haven’t made sick comments about the women in politics either and said I laugh at the sick stuff..or calling people ignorant and hillbilles and making fun of old people and on and on if they don’t agree with you.. That works both ways too.
The reason for the flat tax rates for
Personal Service Corporations is because
these people get the graduated scale of
tax on their wages. Any income left to pay
on their Corporate Tax Returns, thereby,
Most of these people plan their taxes in
such a way that the Personal Service Corp.
has no net income at the end of the year.
ie. they report their income as wages on
their Individual Tax Return. The reason
they form Corporations is to free them-
selves of personal liability in the case
of lawsuits.
Yo Yo?
Leave Maggie alone.
She knows New Girl and they can work
things out on their own.
Men can be worse gossipers than women, sometimes.
No one is accusing you of saying anything wrong.
It’s evident who the bad guys are.
I’m sure it’s just a misunderstanding.
Who ever you’re voting for:
Vote Early!
And leave New Girl alone, too.
No one needs your meddling!
yoyo muffintop on October 27th, 2008 11:07 pm
Maggie – Is #87 a post to me or in response to #67?
I’m still not sure what you wrote to warrant such an attack like #67.
Ray on October 27th, 2008 11:21 pm
Obama is a Trojan horse. God help us.
#89/90/91 – are you kidding me?
New Girl said this about Maggie:
Completely baseless attack that a “misunderstanding” cannot cover.
That is so far out of left field it’s…lunacy, imo.
I feel strongly enough about that to defend someone that has open disgust for moi.
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Brenda from Virginia on October 28th, 2008 6:45 am
Obamanation is a Trojan alright, but not the wooden horse…he’s the “wrapping” around something else the liberals are hoping to stick us with….
scott on October 28th, 2008 6:50 am
If you believe that fooey that Obama is going to revert back to the old system you have another thing coming. It can’t be that all of you are that stupid to think he won’t raise taxes on ALL to pay for his $1 trillion spending! Over and over again he keeps saying “redistribute”…wake the hell up….
Note: you too are foolish to believe it’s net and not gross. The thing you fail to realize is the things that are tapped at the gross level, things like federal income tax, etc will rise, thus in the end you will still lose money at the net level.
MARXISM, SOCIALISM, COMMUNISM!
Sensorship of television stations who finally throw some sliders and not fat fast balls at TEAM SOCIALISM!
Fire Fox: You are wrong as usual, but that’s because you go to Obama’s web site for information instead of tracing his words
If you look at my approach to taxation, what have I said? I said I would cut taxes for people making $75,000 a year or less. I’d cut taxes for seniors who are making $50,000 a year or less. It is true that I would roll back the Bush tax cuts on the wealthiest Americans back to the level they were under Bill Clinton, when I don’t remember rich people feeling oppressed.
During an hour-long talk, Obama promoted eliminating some of the income tax cuts enacted under President Bush, but resisted characterizing them as a tax increase
First, he said the Bush tax cuts ought to die. He likes that top marginal rate of 39%. Although the non-partisan National Journal recently declared him the most liberal of the 100 senators, Obama denied being a “wild-eyed liberal,” which wasn’t what the Journal called him, but it sounds good on TV where everything moves by so quickly.
Maria Bartiromo on CNBC’s “Closing Bell” asked, “Who should pay more and who should pay less?” Predictably, the politician chose to talk about who would benefit from his higher tax plan, not who would get socked the hardest. But from his answers it sounds like the “wealthy” in his mind are those making more than $75,000.
Unfortunately right now I can’t find the chart I saw yesterday or the day before that showed the affect of just dropping off the Bush Tax Cuts, but taxes were raised for those making $25,000 or more.
Net income is income AFTER taxes and other things.
if the rich are further taxed in an unfair manner, just who do the Obamanation supporters think they will pass the difference in their incomes on to? Duh! The consumer. Oh…wait! I know!!! Obamanation will make it illegal to raise retail prices for those taxed more, or to lay off employees they can no longer afford. Perfect!
Only reason Obamamation is popular is because he brings a sense of “power” to those who see themselves as powerless. My belief is that you’re only as powerless as YOU make yourself to be. Too many are not even in power of their own lives…require govt’s help just to get by. Sad.
AS for the decline in Americans’ health and need for so much healthcare, I feel the excuse “it’s cuz it’s in my genes”, is malarkey for 80% of illness. Even the doctors admit if people would simply lose weight and eat properly they’d lose 1/2 of their patients. It’s not a gene to stuff your pie-hole constantly….or to sit on your out of shape butt and become like jello. Or worry so much you have high blood pressure and then heart trouble. 80% of illness I am certain is brought on by poor diet, stress, smoking, excessive drinking, being out of shape, being fat, and many other things you do not inherit but LEARN or WANT to do for one’s own pleasure.
NOW FOXY ,you,re getting upset again baby.glad you like my ass hole. how does it taste ? you’ve been there several times in thew last week. i thought you liked your boy’s redistribution idea. now all of a sudden when turned on you , you don’t like it anymore.
baby, you just need to be tightened up a little, but by somebody that can stand your racism rants. you know, it’s really not good for your dark complexion to get so angry honey. i know, go on down to the nearest welfare office and beg for a check. it’s close to the end of the month, maybe you can get your’s early. and thanks for the compliment dear, didn’t know you liked me so much.
ANewGirl on October 28th, 2008 10:55 am
#42- BRIDGE TO NOWHERE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
You sicken me, Sir. I live in Massachusetts—and guess what was ALL OVER THE breaking news this morning? A DEMOCRATIC , REPEAT ANOTHER DEM CORRUPT STATE SENATOR—-STUFFED AND CUFFED !
An undercover FBI investigation into Dianne Wilkerson alleges the embattled state senator accepted $23,500 in bribes, officials said.
Seems Ms. Wilkerson also has had troubles with illegal activity during her career as well. Lost her law liscense, found guilty of tax evasion previously.
CORRUPT CORRUPT CORRUPT!!!!!!! She is facing up to 20 years in prison and over 250,000 fines for each of her crimes.
So, spare me the details about corrupt REP’s and look across the aisle—there are PLENTY of crooked politicians on both sides so your point is moot!
*** McCain/Palin ’08***
#77- Yoyo…. Hmnnnnnnnnn..,, I’m a little confused by your post.
I stand by what I posted about the Alcoholic/MURDERER Ted Kennedy. Never liked the man, never will. I know, I know—born and brought up here in Mass where the entire Kennedy clan is revered as some kind of Demi-Gods…sooooo~ What you are trying to tell me is that even though a candidate I support has a respect and shares friendship with Kennedy- because I don’t like Ted as a politician—that makes me a hypocrit?
I don’t think so, Yoyo.
P.S. I understand what you mean about preferring to go to the polls on election day and stand in the lines. Makes me rather enjoy the moment. Wow. ….for once we actually agree on something Yoyo—imagine that!
Also-for the record- I did admire and respect JFK …but my favorite was truly RFK.
A New Girl from Boston
Just to point out—there are 2 posters who go by the name of Maggie on this board.
The one that posted rude, derrogatory comments about Sarah Palin is the one I ranted on.
I stand by my post and comments. The other “Maggie” is a dear.
Also- YOYO- I am not a racist, never have been- don’t condone it and do not favor a few certain individuals on this sight who apparently do have a issue with the color of someone’s skin.
I wish to state that, at these current times in my State especially- as a Caucasian—I do and have felt what one would refer to as “reverse racisim”…..whereby I do not and am not entitled to the same rights and considerations as persons of other races. If you know Mass at all, you know that this state is very liberal and one of the most supportive across our nation in terms of social programs and equal opportunity across the board. The only reason I pontificated on this topic again is to ask you not to include me when you are documenting or making statements about some of the folks on here that may post racist remarks.
I am not one of them, and I do not wish to be labeled as such. Thanks!
New Girl from Boston
Brenda from Virginia on October 28th, 2008 11:50 am
Hello New Girl in Boston. Don’t forget, someone who has no truth or substance to add to an argument will resort to name calling (which they have done to both of us :>)….is basically calling you what THEY in fact are on the inside and pretend not to be on the outside :>)
Is it cold up there? Got first snow shower in south-western Virginia today.
ANewGirl on October 28th, 2008 12:41 pm
#105–Brenda from VA—-you are absolutely correct. Thanks for the reminder. You know, I have resorted to name calling on here sometimes—sort of as a ways and means of descriptive speech and to make things a little more dramatic. =)~
I should perhaps be more cautious in the words I use…however–I don’t know…..I guess the Italian-fiesty thing creeps out and rears it’s ugly head every once in awhile. To be called a “lunatic” by Yoyo and told to take my meds…ARE you serious?? ROTFL honestly- that guy is a legend…in his own mind! I have no problems with sounding off on here and hiding behind my computer screen like everyone else to do it. Here’s the difference perhaps…I do get actively involved in my community and causes I care about (i.e, The Natalee Holloway Case, demonstrations, donations, etc, Town Hall Meetings, PTA, etc) and I am the type of citizen who believes we should all freely be able to voice our opinions in our communities and across this country as well..stand up and fight for what we believe in if necessary…AND most important—to talk the talk AND walk the walk and actively get involved . Even if to volunteer time and services by doing something small….every little bit helps.
Weather in Beantown—today and yesterday…incredibly mild…50′s and 60′s with some rain. Boy, Fall time sure is pretty here in New England though. Snow in VA already? wow
Brenda- thanks again for your post… you are very astute =)
**McCain/Palin ’08***
New Girl: “Makes me rather enjoy the moment.”
same.
and I’ll wear that stupid “I voted” sticker all day.
Brenda from Virginia on October 28th, 2008 1:14 pm
#107…your sticker needs to say “Stupid Voted”.
Had a Sarah Palin rally nearby in Salem, Virginia yesterday. Blistery and cold, but 16,000 people showed up. About a week or so ago, Obamanation came to town and went to the LARGER Roanoke Civic Center and only attracted 8,000.
Virginia has to go red!!!
#108 – Babydoll, if you want a third term of George Bush go right ahead.
I guessing 50+ million people won’t…but we’ll see.
You really are a fool. My skin is not black, just as the majority of Obama’s supporter’s skin is not black… nor is it brown. I am as white as the driven snow. It’s just that I’m not a racist, never have been and never will be. I judge people on their character… unlike you. How old are you, anyway? Because from the sounds of it, you’ve got to be at least a couple hundred years old! But even that is no excuse. Your racism is something that brings disgrace to, not only yourself, but this site, as well. I think you and Brie need to go elope somewhere… but for the life of me I can’t imagine where they’d allow such hate mongers to migrate…
Obviously, none of you have seen a Corporate Tax return in your life. And, Richard is right; for financial statement purposes, net income is after taxes. But for tax purposes, taxable income is net of everything, BUT, federal taxes. State income taxes are deductible on a corporate tax return.
Geesh! I can’t believe you people, honestly, think the IRS taxes you on gross income. Obviously, you don’t know tax law and I doubt that any of you have ever owned a business, otherwise you’d know that. So, basically, what that means is that you are, blindly, voting for a candidate with, absolutely, no understanding about what their tax resolutions really mean. You believe everything you hear on the internet…
In the words of Forrest Gump:
Stupid is as Stupid does.
Perhaps you should go to a site that better suits your needs to rant your racial bullshit… because, obviously, you’re not going to take off that white hood and as bold as you are about your hatred, I’m sure your sheet has blood stains ALL over it. It’s people like you that belong behind bars. Obviously, you know there is such a thing as the constitution. But, in your mind, it’s not to be sited, except when it’s convenient for you.
So… keep it up and it won’t be long before we see you on the front page of every newspaper:
SUPER Dave, the Legend, in his own Mind…
Going, Going, Gone Forever More!
I’m really surprised that Scared Monkeys who raved for years about the racial comments that were made against Natalee Holloway’s family would allow someone like you and Brie post anything on their site.
A little hypocritical, don’t you think?
fox fire: just as you accused me of being a klan racist,i believe you said bloody sheets. you are as far as i’m concerned an idiot without a cause just as your boy barry is. keep bringing the hate . you like to name call but act like a little bitch when things get a little tough for you. you are the racist here. you started the hate comments toward me. you were the one who called me out first. i’m just giving it back to you many times over and it burns you up inside.
just think, barry could get a million more votes than mccain but all john has to do is win the electorial college and he’s in.
have you learned how to pour the piss yet dear ? the directions are on the heel.
keep on hating me because i don’t hate you. i can sleep at night but i bet you lay awake hating my guts. hey, we can be civil or we can be enemies. you have made me your personal enemy so go ahead and hate me but don’t let the sun go down on your hate.
ANewGirl on October 28th, 2008 8:13 pm
#108- Brenda— HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
LOVE IT! God, that made me laugh.
Hmnnnnnnnnnnn….less than a week—according to Ceasu and many on this sight—-the CHOSEN ONE has it all sewed up.
Got to admit, I lied. I said I would be moving to Canada if he got in, but you know what?? I love my country so much and have so much faith in the US still being the greatest place to live in the World…that I think I have to hang a bit and see what our future holds…..
I want to use the word…”interesting” but somehow I fear it will be a lot more dramatic than that. We can only imagine, and put our faith to be prosperous again where it matters…in the hands of God.
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
Night, Monkeys!
2 different Maggie’s?
That’s the best you can up with?
Now you’ve got another lie to add to your list.
Kicking your ass is waaaaaay to easy. And fun I might add.
I think there are going to be a lot of disappoint Obama minions on election day and I think we better prepare for the yelping and rioting. They are being lulled by false polls and a media so in the tank for Obama that they can’t report the news correctly.
I don’t think Obama is going to win, but I think we are going to be up very late election night.
#114-Yoyo—-since you are a good one at saving everything on here….see for YOURSELF. There are indeed 2 different posters on here that go by Maggie. Or ask Klaasend, the blog moderator.
Kicking my ass over something like this? Yoyo- I told you before-if we ever were to meet in “real life” as they say and not just communicate with each other over a blog—You, Sir- would be the one handed your ass on a silver platter. I’m not saying it would be easy to do- I am saying you wouldn’t be so quick to claim victory.
Really, Yoyo- why do you insist on always asserting your male dominance gene? Why must you always try to be right? Can’t you just be human and take people at their word without always insulting them and picking a fight? I bet you are not a bad guy in person. On this blog, however—sometimes you truly just come across as belligerent, stubborn, an angry, jaded know-it-all, snobby and RUDE.
Get over yourself, please. Ugh.
YOYO- Now so far- to date—you have called me a lunatic and a liar. Not to mention stupid about 1 zillion times.
I am niether a lunatic or a liar. The stupid part, well—let’s just say I am not a Rhodes Scholar but I certainly didn’t fall off the turnip truck yesterday, either.
A New Girl from Boston MA- Graduate of UMASS Amherst you arse….want to look it up or am I going to be called a liar again? lol Damn you are annoying.
One last thing—why do the “men” with really strong personalities on here always seem to call me out? Hmnnnnnnn,,perhaps I am too outspoken & opinionated for my own good- but I’d have it no other way.
At least- even someone like Mr. Bridge to Nowhere maintains his temper and acts like a gentlemen in the process of his posts. UNLIKE SOME OTHER POSTERS ON HERE !!!!!!!!!
Pfffffffff! I am afraid that chivalry is dead afterall. What a bummer.
yoyo..I ain’t your baby doll, nor AM I a baby doll. IF I were, I do not care for spineless men with an IQ in the single digits…so you do not qualify to even open a door for me dude.
Hey Fox Fire (or wet rat as I prefer on days you are being retarded)…I am as white as the driven snow too…just not as flaky as snow like you.
yoyo isn’t anything but another one of those LEECHES that stands in line for a welfare check while pimping out an Escalade and FUBAR clothing.
He is betting his life on Obama. I mean when you see Obama on TV, don’t you see yoyo the sheep following right behind him?
Get a J-O-B-S! LOL, Biden is senile lunatic
Sheep are way to smart and self-assured to follow Obama…all I see are a bunch of hypnotized lemmings!
I don’t agree with the name calling on either side. However, I will remind those that have been called names by Yo-Yo that it’s a badge of honor many of us wear proudly.
yoyo is a dude ? nah !!!
#121- Scott….lol
And, Yes Super Dave—YoYo Muffin Top is a dude.
Go figure, right? A very angry, misinformed male at that. He’s going to love rubbing it in our faces on a daily basis though when O-BOMB-A wins. (((sigh))) Just the thought of this I find quite depressing.
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By Rebecca Rego Barry for the Guardian, 14 March 2016 An auction in Los Angeles on 22 March reveals a side of the rugged American film star Charlton Heston that his fans and detractors might have missed. Heston, who died in 2008, won an Academy Award for his part in the epic Ben-Hur (1959) and later served five terms as president of the […]
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By Lucy Lynch for the Coventry Telegraph, 14 March 2016 A new figure has been uncovered in a medieval wall painting in the building housing Shakespeare’s former classroom. St John the Baptist appeared from under a layer of paint and varnish at the Guildhall in Church Street, Stratford, currently being restored as a visitor attraction. The wall painting was covered over in […]
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Press release, 17 March 2016 The first four Folios of William Shakespeare’s collected works — including an unrecorded First Folio — are to tour New York and London, where they will be auctioned on 25 May This spring, Christie’s is to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) with a landmark sale, offering the first four […]
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Manoling: QI sold EDITORIAL 05/19/2011
Manoling: QI sold
The gritty former chairman of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), Manoling Morato, again made his presence felt recently, this time exposing what he believes are budding anomalies involving among the staunchest supporters of Noynoy.
This time around, however, Manoling gathered bloggers instead of members of the traditional media, likely as a result of his perception that major newspapers and broadcast outfits are protectors of the administration.
One of those in the interview related that Manoling gave an explosive insight into the backroom dealings among Noynoy’s circle of supporters, as he particularly trained his sight on the PCSO, which obviously he still has allies informing him of what is transpiring within the walls of the lotto and sweepstakes agency..... MORE
Hypocrisy FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 05/19/2011
Ninez Cacho-Olivares
Having been slapped down — and rightly so — by the Catholic bishops whom he had threatened to charge with sedition on their call for civil disobedience, Noynoy, through his mouthpiece, has suddenly turned biblical.
As bishops likened Noynoy to King Herod, who ordered all first borns of Jews to be killed, owing to his stand in the Reproductive Health (RH) bill, there went Edwin Laceirda and his group, claiming that they were astounded by the bishops’ statements, which they described as “highly inflammatory.”
Despite the bishops not “behaving accordingly,” Noynoy claimed he preferred to give the bishops bread, instead of throwing stones at them.
As Laceirda put it: Noynoy had told him: “Let’s not throw stones. Let’s give them bread.”
As for the disagreements, he said: “we will respect them for that. We will not throw stones. We will continue to throw bread at them ... We will turn the other cheek, as what we’ve always done. The President is very respectful of the bishops. We expect men of faith to behave accordingly.”.... MORE
Prospects for Japan firms clouded by quake focus 05/19/2011
Prospects for Japan firms clouded by quake
TOKYO — Some of Japan’s biggest firms remain unable to forecast their prospects for the coming months due to the impact of March’s massive earthquake, which is expected to plunge the economy into recession.
Automakers such as Toyota, electronics giants such as Sharp and airline All Nippon Airways skipped annual forecasts citing uncertainty over the scale of disruption that will also be seen in Japan’s first quarter GDP data Thursday.
“While the earthquake occurred late in the quarter, the contraction in activity after the earthquake will likely be enough to bring down the growth rate in Q1 deep into negative territory,” noted BNP Paribas’ chief Japan economist Ryutaro Kono.
The economy shrank an annualized 2.0 percent in the first three months of this year, economists polled by Dow Jones Newswires said, marking the second-straight quarterly contraction as production, exports and consumption tumble..... MORE
Parasitic BCDA BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 05/19/2011
Parasitic BCDA
BLURBAL THRUSTS
Louie Logarta
Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez and Deputy Commissioner Gregorio Chavez have been slapped with libel, grave misconduct and abuse of authority raps by a Davao businessman in retaliation for a P5-billion smuggling charge that they had earlier lodged against him and Phoenix Petroleum Philippines.
The other week, Customs lawyers, upon the say so of Alvarez, filed a complaint with the Department of Justice against licensed broker Jorlan Cabanes and Phoenix for allegedly smuggling oil products from Thailand amounting to some P5.14 billion from June 2010 to April 2011.
Lawyers for Phoenix president and CEO Dennis Ang Uy, whom the BoC also included in the smuggling complaint, are said to be contemplating on the same course of action to protect their client’s good name and reputation..... MORE
Power, entitlement fuel sexual misdeeds — experts focus 05/19/2011
Power, entitlement fuel sexual misdeeds — experts
WASHINGTON — The list is almost too long to name. One-time US presidential contender John Edwards. Israel’s former president Moshe Katsav. Golf superstar Tiger Woods.
IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn has joined a plethora of men at the pinnacle of power and the top of their game who have faced ruin thanks to a sex scandal.
Many of them manage to shake off the allegations, and Strauss-Kahn, the powerful head of the International Monetary Fund, has denied all charges of sexually assaulting a New York hotel maid.
But sexual pathology expert Sharon O’Hara says there are countless cases of men with an unquenchable appetite for sex who have let their compulsion for sexual conquest get the better of them..... MORE
Army dogs wage war on illegal Palestinian workers FEATURE 05/19/2011
Army dogs wage war on illegal Palestinian workers
RAMADIN — Palestinians desperate for work in Israel will go to extremes to sneak past the West Bank barrier, but now they face a new hurdle — army attack dogs sent to sniff them out.
Workers say the use of dogs to hunt down anyone trying to enter Israel illegally is a new phenomenon which has only been occurring for about two months.
But it is a development which has quickly spread fear and anger among the worker population living in the south Hebron Hills, one of the poorest areas in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Israeli army readily admits to using dogs in its operations in the West Bank, but says they are only brought in as a way of protecting the sprawling separation barrier from Palestinian vandals looking to create openings which would allow “terrorists” to infiltrate Israel..... MORE
RP least competitive in entire Asia-Pacific 05/19/2011
GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING SLIDES 2 NOTCHES
RP least competitive in entire Asia-Pacific
Despite the frequent breast-beating of President Aquino about the economic gains under his administration and the reforms it supposedly introduced in the business sector, the Philippines was ranked the least competitive country in Asia-Pacific with its global ranking this year falling two notches to 41st place from last year’s 39th in the World Competitiveness Scoreboard.
The annual ranking of the Swiss-based International Institute for Management and Development (IMD) graded an Asian territory, Hong Kong, in a tie with the United States as being the most competitive this year.
In Asia, the Philippines was last among 13 countries ranked with a 63.291 out of a perfect 100 which was lower than that of Indonesia at 12th with a 64.61 score; India, 11th with a score of 70.649; Thailand, 10th with a score of 74.886, and Japan, 9th with a 75.214 score.
At the top of the rung were Hong Kong, first with a perfect 100; Singapore, second with 98.557; Taiwan, third with 92.011; Australia, fourth with 89.259; Malaysia, fifth with 84.12, and China, sixth with 81.1..... MORE
House eyes probe as Palace confirms hike in CCT budget By Charlie V. Manalo and Aytch de la Cruz 05/19/2011
House eyes probe as Palace confirms hike in CCT budget
By Charlie V. Manalo and Aytch de la Cruz 05/19/2011
A ranking member of the House opposition said the minority in the chamber may seek an inves-tigation into the alleged additional P2 billion infused into the contro-versial conditional cash transfer (CCT) program being implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
At a press briefing, House Minority Leader Edcel Lagman expressed surprise when informed that Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman, during her presentation before the House appropriations committee last Tuesday, admitted the CCT budget was raised from the originally-approved P21.19 billion to P23.39 billion. This despite the fact she did not raise the number of CCT beneficiaries pegged at 2.3 million families..... MORE
Roxas not to overshadow Binay’s functions—Palace By Aytch S. de la Cruz 05/19/2011
Roxas not to overshadow Binay’s functions—Palace
By Aytch S. de la Cruz 05/19/2011
Vice President Jejomar Binay already wears so many hats in President Aquino’s government, Malacañang said yesterday in an apparent bid to allay Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero’s concerns that former Sen. Mar Roxas might overshadow the elected second highest official of the land once he gets appointed as Presidential Chief of Staff.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda reminded everyone that Binay already heads the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council and acts as the President’s special adviser on overseas Filipino workers’ (OFWs) concerns as well.
Also, just recently, Binay was designated by Aquino to chair the Presidential Task Force Against Illegal
Recruitment which was reactivated only last May 6 by virtue of Executive Order 41 released by Malacañang..... MORE
Italy court acquits Pinay charged for drug smuggling By Michaela P. del Callar 05/19/2011
Italy court acquits Pinay charged for drug smuggling
A Filipino woman, caught with close to 50 grams of metamphetamine, locally known as shabu, was acquitted of drug smuggling in Italy, the Department of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.
On May 4, the judge of the Civitavecchia Tribunal, on the strength of the evidence presented by the Philippine embassy-hired lawyer found the woman not guilty of drug charges. The Filipina was on house arrest during her trial which lasted seven months.
The 59-year-old was apprehended on Oct. 4, 2010 upon arrival at Italy’s Fiumicino Airport when authorities found 49.50 grams of shabu stashed inside a portable DVD player that she was asked to carry for a fellow overseas Filipino worker in Rome.
She was incarcerated at the Civitavecchia prison from the day of her arrest until her trial on Oct. 18 of the same year where she was granted house arrest for medical reasons..... MORE
Movie actor’s vehicle caught overspeeding on ‘Killer Highway’ 05/19/2011
Movie actor’s vehicle caught overspeeding on ‘Killer Highway’
Movie and television star Richard Gutierrez reportedly berated traffic enforcers of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority who flagged down his vehicle for overspeeding on Commonwealth Avenue, also known as “Killer Highway,” in Quezon City.
Reports said the actor allegedly cursed and pointed fingers at some MMDA traffic officials who arrested his driver for overspeeding.
MMDA area supervisor Max Villa was quoted as saying, “Captain Barbell (Gutierrez) is hot-headed today, he showered MMDA officials with unkind words after his driver was caught overspeeding on Commonwealth Avenue.”
MMDA camera and speed radar guns located on Commonwealth Avenue recorded a 70-80 kilometer per hour speed in Gutierrez’s vehicle, the report said..... MORE
‘Overloading’ blamed for frequent malfunctioning of LRT trains 05/19/2011
‘Overloading’ blamed for frequent malfunctioning of LRT trains
Authorities of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) have blamed “overloading” for the frequent malfunctioning of their trains.
LRT Administration (LRTA) spokesman lawyer Hernando Cabrera said overloading causes LRT and Metro Rail Transit (MRT) trains to break down, especially during rush hours.
“Sa peak hour overloaded tayo... kaya ng sistema pero kung bugbog na bugbog na doon nasisira ang spare parts at components,” Cabrera said.
Last Wednesday, an LRT-2 train on C.M. Recto Avenue in Manila suffered an engine problem — an air leak — forcing train authorities to ask the passengers to get down the train..... MORE
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Solon mulls impeachment raps against Justice Sereno By Charlie V. Manalo 01/25/2012
Solon mulls impeachment raps against Justice Sereno
By Charlie V. Manalo 01/25/2012
Samar Rep. Ben Evardone yesterday bared that he is considering filing an impeachment case against Supreme Court Junior Associate Justice Lourdes Sereno, the first appointee to the high court of President Aquino, if he can be presented evidence against Sereno showing that she failed to state her huge P25 million legal fees as the Philippine government’s lawyer in the arbitration cases in the International Chamber of Commerce court, both in Singapore and Washington, in her Statement of Assets Liabilities, Networth (SALn).
In her summary of her SALn, which she had submitted earlier, when there was pressure from the House of Representatives through the House prosecutors for impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona to bare his SALn, Sereno’s
networth of some P17 million appeared to be less than what he had earned from her professional fees as one of the Philippine government’s lawyers in arbitrating the cases concerning the Philippine International Airport Terminals Co. (Piatco) in the ICCin the case of Fraport AG, on the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal lll (NAIA-3) controversy..... MORE
Comelec wants GMA transferred to regular jail By Pat C. Santos 01/25/2012
Comelec wants GMA transferred to regular jail
By Pat C. Santos 01/25/2012
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has asked, through a motion, the Pasay Regional Trial Court (RTC) to order the transfer of the detained former President, Rep. Gloria Arroyo, to a regular detention facility, which would be the Pasay City Jail.
The former President is currently detained under medical arrest at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) in Quezon City.
Comelec spokesman James Jimenez revealed that the petition was included in a three page motion at the sala of RTC 112 Judge Jesus Mupas where it asked the VMMC officials and doctors to explain why the former president should still remain in the hospital..... MORE
ILO: Noy failed to create enough labor opportunities By Michaela P. del Callar 01/25/2012
ILO: Noy failed to create enough labor opportunities
Despite the recent frequent hype about the supposed improvement in the image of the country during the administration of President Aquino resulting in increased investments in the country and thus the creation of more jobs, Aquino fell short of creating labor opportuni-ties for Filipinos, the International Labor Organi-zation (ILO) said, warning that job generation must be dealt with at once if the country wants to sustain its economic growth.
Although employment growth in the Philippines has remained “positive,” the ILO, in its annual report, said some 40.2 Filipino workers remain in a state of “vulnerable unemployment.”
Sluggish employment rate, according to the ILO, stemmed from fluctuations in the country’s gross domestic product growth (GDP) or the total value of the country’s goods and services in 2011 and from back to back major tropical storms that damaged agricultural production that displaced large numbers of workers..... MORE
Gunmen kill 15 fisherfolk, wound 3 others off Basilan sea By Mario J. Mallari 01/25/2012
Gunmen kill 15 fisherfolk, wound 3 others off Basilan sea
By Mario J. Mallari 01/25/2012
Fifteen fishermen were reportedly killed by still unidentified armed men during a strafing incident in Basilan province on Monday, belated reports reaching Camp Aguinaldo said yesterday.
Military Western Mindanao Command (Wesmincom) spokesman Lt. Col. Randolph Cabangbang said that 18 fishermen aboard three fishing boats were fired upon by more or less six armed men while fishing along the waters off Sibago Island in Mohammad Ajul town around 7 a.m.
Quoting reports from the field, Cabangbang said that 15 fishermen were reported killed during the attack while three others survived, one of them, however, remains in critical condition after sustaining gunshot wounds in the head and the back..... MORE
Senate Court urged to place Vizconde on witness stand By Benjamin B. Pulta 01/25/2012
Senate Court urged to place Vizconde on witness stand
By Benjamin B. Pulta 01/25/2012
A private lawyer representing anti-crime advocate Lauro Vizconde said the Senate Impeachment Court trying Chief Justice Renato Corona should seriously probe his client’s claim of lobbying by big law firms in the high court should his client take the witness stand.
In a statement, counsel Ferdinand Topacio who represents Vizconde urged the Senate Court to use the impeachment to eliminate influence-peddling and politics in the appointment of magistrates.
Vizconde’s testimony is being eyed in the Senate Court to reiterate his claims that he was granted an ex parte audience with Corona in the latter’s office shortly before the decision in the Hubert Webb appeal was handed down by the tribunal..... MORE
BoC seizes P37-million chemicals, lab equipment used in manufacturing shabu By Conrado Ching 01/25/2012
BoC seizes P37-million chemicals, lab equipment used in manufacturing shabu
By Conrado Ching 01/25/2012
The Bureau of Customs (BoC) has seized P37.5 million worth of chemicals and laboratory equipment at the Port of Manila (PoM) which the bureau said would be used in manufacturing methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu.
Commissioner Ruffy Biazon said the contraband was stacked in six 20 footer container vans in violation of the provisions of the Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines and the Dangerous Drugs Act of 1992.
“With our determined and unrelenting anti-smuggling operations, smugglers’ resources will eventually dry up. Perhaps, when this happens, they will now resort to legal means to earn a living,” Biazon said..... MORE
Janelle’s lawyer asks NBI to yield Pastera to court By Benjamin B. Pulta 01/25/2012
Janelle’s lawyer asks NBI to yield Pastera to court
The camp of Janelle Manahan said it welcomed the surrender to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) of Ryan Pastera who was pinpointed by other suspects as the person engaged by the Bautista siblings to hire gunmen to carry out the assassination of Ramgen Revilla and Janelle Manahan.
Pastera is a fraternity brod and best friend of Gail Bautista’s husband, Hiro Furuyama. Pastera also served as either best man or one of the groomsmen in last year’s wedding of Gail and Hiro who are presently undergoing preliminary investigation before the Parañaque City Prosecutor’s Office.
“Did Ryan Pastera really ‘surrender’ to the NBI or was he in the company or custody of the NBI all this time? The NBI could not deny providing Pastera special protection during the preliminary investigation conducted sometime in November and December as several NBI agents were caught on video escorting Pastera to the Paranaque Prosecutor’s Office,” Janelle’s lawyer Argee Guevarra said..... MORE
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Amber Brooks’s “I Believe Love Is Largely An Act of Imagination” in The Establishment
In her lyric essay, Amber Brooks sets the stakes: she’s on the other side of a seven-year relationship, in the beginning moments of butterflies and fireworks: He promises to make her French toast, and despite how much she anticipated that moment, it never happened. She takes a small desire, the desire for tasty breakfast and to be doted on by her partner, and explores that fantasy’s impact on her relationships, and the power of imagination as it relates to love.
She uses Clancy Martin’s book Love and Lies: An Essay on Truthfulness Deceit, and the Growth and Care of Erotic Love to analyze her experience through the lens of philosophy, exploring the merits of truth versus harmony, and how to accept that truth is subjective.
Although I fulfilled my philosophy requirement in college with one Intro to Eastern Philosophy class and Brooks’s references to Bonhoeffer and Kant fly over my head, I have a moment of recognition when she mentions the Buddhist ideal that “mitigating harm may take precedence over naked honesty.” Brooks twists and turns between what these philosophical teachings mean to her and how they have changed the way she thinks about her own relationships. This piece dips in and out of poetic license, philosophical explanation and scenes from her relationships, each section lending itself to the writer’s reflections and conclusions in her own life:
[Martin] has helped me understand how good people deceive, and even how we can deceive ourselves—how we can create representations and narratives which are essentially lies, but somehow form our identity and become a type of truth…I now believe love is largely an act of imagination, a creative process: of building meaning, imagining a relationship, and placing it into an abstract realm outside of any literal facts. It’s contemplation. It’s a bestowal of value, a bestowal of value so creatively woven from strands of daydreaming that it permeates all windows of the psyche. This is “true,” but again, it is not a literal truth, not a “fact.”
Brooks writes confidently and clearly about complex emotions and the fragility of the heartbroken. This is a piece I’m likely to return to again and again.
–Amanda P.
Naseem Jamnia’s “Heirlooms” in The Rumpus
Naseem Jamnia offers up a rich, brave essay pondering how a long family history of trauma might have contributed to her depression. Jamnia speaks beautifully about lost memories, perhaps purposefully forgotten, while telling stories in snapshots of what is remembered. We hear about the many difficulties her mother and grandmother experienced throughout their lives: abandonment, abuse, loss of children. She weaves the complex science of epigenetics: of its hotly debated potential to pass on trauma or stress from mother to fetus, affecting the health and lives of all future generations.
Maybe my mother’s early-life trauma and subsequent amnesia imprinted itself on genes forming my hippocampal neurons, and this twisted what I can remember. It’s the concept of epigenetics: methylated cysteine-phosphatase-guanine islands control gene expression. Maybe cortisol and corticotropin releasing hormone receptors were up-regulated in the amygdala, signs that our physical stresses feed into centers of fear and anxiety. The brain is a curious, malleable thing, and just as cigarette smoke and alcohol can be tucked into a fetus, so can trauma. My mother’s experiences settled into her eggs and shaped me.
Could trauma have such a cascading effect, as to alter the genes of your offspring so they are able to withstand a similar trauma? Sounds plausible enough, and some animal studies and a few very small studies in humans do back up the theory. Jamnia’s inherited trauma simmered into a childhood where self-hate led to self-harm. The essay makes it clear—through fond, sensory-filled memories of the sounds and smells she recalls—that growing up, she had a happy home with loving parents; the demons came from within.
… I look at my experiences and wonder not where the trauma isn’t, but where the trauma is. It’s not in the wax ripping spindly wires from my face, or sitting on the plush couch, across from my first therapist. No, my childhood is the belly-clench before the biggest slide in the park, the sweat from too many layers before stepping out in the winter’s cold, the blackened layer of marshmallow stripped away to ooze melted sugar.
Michelle Dean’s “‘She Would Have Been The Perfect Mom For Someone That Actually Was Sick’” in Buzzfeed
In Michelle Dean’s “‘She Would Have Been The Perfect Mom For Someone That Actually Was Sick,’” Dean goes to the next level with the murder case of Dee Dee Blanchard. Even the bare bones outline of the story is enough to warrant the read: Dee Dee is the seemingly perfect caretaker for her seemingly disabled daughter, Gypsy, until one day Dee Dee is murdered and Gypsy—who isn’t disabled and who plotted the murder—disappears, leaving all of her wheelchairs behind.
The word “harrowing” comes to mind, though I’m reluctant to use such a cliché descriptor for a story that so thoroughly smashes clichés. Everything I thought I could apply and dismiss here—from disability-related “inspiration porn” gone horribly awry to a tidy abuse narrative—was completely upended by the complexities of this story.
In Dean’s hands the story is deftly told in such a way that it seems inevitable and straightforward. In other words, it’s the type of storytelling that seems invisible. You think nothing of it, but you also cannot stop reading.
Dean on Gypsy:
Often, it didn’t occur to her to question any of it, and when it did, she worried about hurting her mother’s feelings. It often seems to Gypsy, even now, that Dee Dee really thought she was sick.
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Norma Darby – spreading warmth of Jamaican culture in Florida
Published:Sunday | November 22, 2020 | 7:57 AMLynda Edwards and George Graham/Contributors -
Val and Norma Darby.
Louise Bennett-Coverley is buried in Jamaica’s National Heroes Park, but ‘Miss Lou’ lives on in Florida. Her life’s work is vibrantly showcased by the Jamaican Folk Revue and the Louise Bennett-Coverley Heritage Council– thanks to Jamaica-born Norma Darby.
Darby founded the Folk Revue after attending the Miami International Folk Festival, which featured cuisine, music, songs and dances from around the world. Jamaica’s only representation consisted of the island’s food and beverages.
“I saw the ways in which other countries showed off their cultural heritage,” Mrs Darby says. “And I thought, Jamaica has a wonderful culture, why not put it on display, too?”
At the time, her husband Percival (everybody calls him Val) was a professor at Florida International University, and she had trained as a medical technologist. But they shared a passion for the stage.
“We met in 1957 during a production of Sunday Cost Five Pesos by my church’s theatre group,” Darby recalls. “He was a budding comedian and singer who played the lead role of Woody Mahoney in the LTM’s Pantomime production of Finian’s Rainbow. Even when he forgot his lines, his ad libs were hilarious.”
Darby decided to form a representative group to perform Jamaica’s traditional songs and dances at the folk festival. But where was she to get her performers? And her material?
She and her husband had joined the Jamaica Association of Florida to meet other Jamaicans when they moved to Miami in 1973. So, she enlisted members of that group to help put the show together. She set out to collect folk songs from the Jamaican community in South Florida – and discovered talented performers in the process.
Darby recalls that it was the proverbs, songs and dances they collected that made her fully appreciate the appeal of her native culture. Growing up in Jamaica, she had been taught to emulate British culture and to shun Jamaican folklore and Patois. At the private school she attended, she learned folk dances and songs from the British Isles, not Jamaica.
“They had us dancing Scottish reels,” Darby said, breaking into incredulous laughter. “Imagine!”
Now, she is a passionate advocate for Jamaica’s cultural heritage.
“Old time Jamaican culture is the repository of the history of the Jamaican people, defining who we are,” she says. “It is the legacy and cultural identities of our African, Asian and European forefathers, which makes our culture so unique.”
The wave of enthusiasm that greeted the Folk Revue’s first show surprised her.
“We were the ‘poster child’ of the folk festival – winning the coveted prize for the best cultural display,” she said.
Invitations from various festivals poured in after that. And the Jamaican Folk Revue has been going strong ever since.
From the beginning, their concerts included Miss Lou’s poems, but they were not the main attraction.
PERSONAL NATIONAL HERO
“We were more into the music (my first love) and dance,” Darby said. “But then I met Louise Bennett-Coverley in person – she was living in South Florida during the 1980s. She and Lois Kelly Barrow were the guest performers in one of our concerts, and we worked together on the Sister City Program, twinning Coconut Grove and Port Antonio.
“I fell in love with our culture and I thank Miss Lou, who is my personal national hero.”
After Miss Lou died in Canada in 2006, Darby started the Louise Bennett-Coverley Reading Festival to keep the Jamaican icon’s legacy alive.
“The event explores the immense influence her works have had on Jamaicans at home and in the diaspora,” she said. “Miss Lou has influenced individuals across the world. People started to realise that what we Jamaicans have – our culture – is nothing to be ashamed of. It is what makes us unique and successful in all our endeavours.
“And she showed others that Jamaican heritage stems from a myriad of histories and cultures like Scottish, British, African, Portuguese, Asian and others. To quote Miss Lou, ‘When de Asian and European cultures buck up ‘pon de African culture in the Caribbean people, we stir dem up and blend dem to wi flavour, we shake dem up and move dem to wi beat; we wheel dem and we tun dem, and we rock dem and we sound dem an’ we tempo dem an’, lawks de rhythm sweet.’”
The 10th anniversary of the festival, held in partnership with the Friends of the South Regional Broward Library, featured the launch of the Louise Bennett-Coverley Heritage Council.
“The council provides a wider scope to address different aspects of our Jamaican culture --inviting our eminent culture keepers, writers, storytellers, musicians, professors, dancers, proponents of the theatre arts – to share their knowledge, stories and experiences with Miss Lou and create a repository where others can come for information,” Darby said.
The council offers one-year scholarships to both the Edna Manley College in Jamaica and the Broward College in South Florida. So far, more than 22 students of the performing arts have received the scholarships, and, recently, the council, in partnership with the XLCR Alumni Association, has adopted the Louise Bennett-Coverley All-Age School in Gordon Town (Miss Lou’s alma mater).
Jamaica’s heritage is being kept alive in America’s schoolrooms, as well as on the stage. In 1980, Darby was asked by Miami’s Channel 2 to do a TV programme on Jamaica, and the script, Heritage, written by the late Gloria Lannaman and choreographed by the late Shirley Campbell, has been featured in educational TV specials and in schoolrooms across America.
For three consecutive years, she produced the Louise Bennett-Coverley Community Concerts, showcasing local talent. And in 2009, she produced a fund-raiser called ‘The Hon. Miss Lou’. At the fund-raiser, she officially handed over the reins of the Folk Revue to Colin Smith (of the Tallawah Mento Band) and Jennifer Grant, in order to concentrate more fully on the Louise Bennett_Coverley Reading Festivals.
In 2011, she co-wrote and produced the pantomime, Ol’ Time Sinting, as a tribute to Miss Lou (under the guidance of well-known writer and folklorist, Easton Lee, and guests starring Bennett-Coverley’s early protégés, Leonie Forbes and Volier Johnson).
In designing and making the costumes for her folk group, Darby learned to sew, and that led to development of a fashion line, ‘Anansi Creations’ (featured in a Miami magazine). She describes her fashions as “everyday clothing that utilised the bandanna material for classic fashions – and linen.”
Norma Darby (nee Wright) was born and grew up in Kingston. She first visited America in 1967 to study cardiovascular techniques in connection with her work as senior technician for the Cardiovascular Laboratory at The University Hospital of the West Indies. She returned later to join her husband, who was a student at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
With her husband and their two children, she made their permanent home in the US, where she studied music (her first love) at Florida International University. Their only grandchild recently graduated from the University of Central Florida.
CULTURAL ‘EPIPHANY’
Her husband’s career involved travelling to various countries (one assignment took them to China and he was part of the management team that opened Disney World).
Darby recalls experiencing a cultural “epiphany” when they later went to Negril, where he managed the Poinciana Hotel.
“I had the opportunity of developing the cultural aspects of the Anancy Theme Park,” she said. “And to delve into our grassroots culture … attending dinki minis, ‘nine-nights’ … visiting the Ettu people of Hanover, where they used Yoruba words and phrases of our early enslaved ancestors in everyday conversation ... learning about Goombeh in St Elizabeth (I even acquired a goombeh drum). And I was invited to be a guest judge in the JCDC’s All-Island Cultural Competitions.
“I was absolutely filled with awe at the depth and beauty – and of the overwhelming and undervalued importance of our African heritage.”
Because of health issues, Darby recently surrendered the Louise Bennett-Coverley Heritage Council’s reins to Colin Smith and Valrie Simpson, and retired to Kissimmee, Florida. But she is still engaged in guiding its activities and she is still promoting Jamaica’s culture.
She has started a “cultural connection” as an activity of a local Caribbean-American social club to share the community’s cultural diversity with her new neighbours.
So far, they have had enthusiastically received presentations from Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana and Tobago. And club members travelled to West Palm Beach to attend the Miss Lou 100 Birthday celebration, presented by the Louise Bennett-Coverley Heritage Council and featuring the Jamaican Folk Singers in Concert, with comedienne Joan Andrea Hutchinson.
Miss Lou’s example helps to keep her going, Darby explains. “Louise Bennett and her husband moved to Fort Lauderdale early in the 1980s, and to Toronto in 1987, but they kept their Jamaican cultural identity. Miss Lou said, “Any which part mi live –Toronto-o! London-o! Florida-o! – a Jamaica mi deh!”
“I have adopted this quotation as my mantra, and my mission,‘edutainment’– educating through entertainment – is to share the magnificent culture that is our heritage. Thanks, in large part, to Louise Bennett-Coverley.”
Lynda Edwards and George Graham, two Jamaica-born writers a generation apart, interview interesting Jamaicans living abroad. George was born in 1934 in Black River. Lynda was born in 1967 in Mandeville. Both live in Florida.
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ID: SR on Human Rights in Belarus - 16th Meeting, 38th Regular Session Human Rights Council
25 Jun 2018 - Interactive dialogue with:
- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus A/HRC/38/51
Under Agenda Item:4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention- 16th Plenary Meeting
38th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council.
HRC extranet (information on daily updates, draft documentation, copies of oral statements etc.)
Mr. Miklos Haraszti, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Belarus (Introduction)
Belarus (Country Concerned), Mr. Yury Ambrazevich
European Union, Mr. Peter Sørensen
Poland, Mr. Zbigniew Czech
Finland, Mr. Renne Klinge
Czech Republic, Mr. Michal Kaplan
France, Mr. François Gave
Belgium, Ms. Christine Coen
Estonia, Ms. Triinu Kallas
Australia, Ms. Elizabeth Wilde
Switzerland, Mr. Vincent Laurent
Lithuania, Ms. Inga Galdikaite
Council of Europe, Ms. Anna Kasprzak
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Mr. Matthew Forman
Slovakia, Mr. Anton Fric
Ireland, Ms. Amy Sheils
Human Rights House Foundation, Mr. Matthew Jones
Human Rights Watch, Ms. Leila Matar
International Federation for Human Rights, Ms. Manon Karatas
Amnesty International, Mr. Kevin Whelan
United Nations Watch, Ms. Rosa Salazar Benazar
Mr. Miklos Haraszti, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Belarus (Final Remarks)
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Poland, Mr. Zbigniew Czech 00:21:01
Finland, Mr. Renne Klinge 00:22:52
Czech Republic, Mr. Michal Kaplan 00:24:43
France, Mr. François Gave 00:26:56
Belgium, Ms. Christine Coen 00:28:28
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Australia, Ms. Elizabeth Wilde 00:32:23
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Lithuania, Ms. Inga Galdikaite 00:35:41
Council of Europe, Ms. Anna Kasprzak 00:37:06
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Mr. Matthew Forman 00:39:05
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Jeans for Jen
Students, faculty members show support for ill teacher
photo credit: Valeria Herrera
Joy for Jen // After thanking everyone for the donations received from the jeans fundraiser to offset medical costs, multimedia teacher Mrs. Jennifer Holcomb, embraces her son, Dylan Ashley, who had designed a special shirt just for her. “I am so grateful for all of the support I have received. I have read every note of encouragement that students and staff have sent me, and I treasure them,” Mrs. Holcomb said.
writer: Valeria Herrera, Staff Reporter
As students walk into the school building wearing shirts of different shades of blue and their blue jeans, audio/video and journalism students as well as faculty members, stand by entrances with manila envelopes collecting donations Jan. 15. One dollar bill allowed a break from dress code, but more importantly, was collected to help a member of Raider Nation.
Multimedia teacher Mrs. Jennifer Holcomb, was diagnosed with cancer in November. She took a leave of absence from the school to undergo chemotherapy.
I am so grateful for all of the support I have received. I have read every note of encouragement that students and staff have sent me, and I treasure them.”
— Mrs. Jennifer Holcomb, AV teacher
During a faculty meeting, Mr. Williams asked her friend and co-worker, journalism teacher Mrs. Casi Thedford, to update the staff on her health. Mrs. Holcomb requested that the staff simply keep her in their prayers and that cards she received from them made her feel refreshed since she left the school in November.
“Jennifer is a long-time friend of mine who I wanted to help support,” Mrs. Thedford said. “I have been listening to her journey since she first started feeling pain and I wanted to do something. That’s what friends do, they step up.”
On the same day of the jeans fundraiser, Student Council members went into classrooms asking students and teachers for more donations to help offset Mrs. Holcomb’s escalating medical bills.
“I decided to volunteer because as a member of STUCO it’s what we do. We help the people around us that need help,” student council president and senior Karla Velasquez said. “It felt awesome to know that Raiders support other Raiders.”
Toward the end of the day, Mrs. Holcomb came up to the school to visit faculty members and students but instead received a warm surprise as she was handed a manila folder and two white bags were filled with monetary donations.
“I was completely surprised when I was handed the envelope. I thought that maybe a few students and teachers would donate, but I didn’t have any expectations,” Mrs. Holcomb said. “I was just grateful for any help. I was shocked and humbled by how generous the students and staff were, and I cried happy tears on the way home.”
Apart from the collections, Mrs. Holcomb received another unexpected surprise. This time from her son, junior Dylan Ashley. He designed a blue t-shirt with icons of his mother’s favorite things and scripture on the back.
“I made the shirt to comfort her,” Ashley said. “I loved seeing people in blue and seeing how much my mom is loved by so many people. It just meant a lot knowing that my mom had so much support.”
Besides the jeans fundraiser, Ms. Candice Lawrence organized a t-shirt sale to benefit Mrs. Holcomb and help offset medical costs.
Mrs. Holcomb’s goal is to return to work and resume teaching March 1.
“I am so grateful for all of the support I have received. I have read every note of encouragement that students and staff have sent me, and I treasure them,” Mrs. Holcomb said. “The gifts and donations have helped put food on the table for my family and have enabled me to continue to get medical care. Honestly, it has meant the world to me to have so many people encourage me, pray for me and show love and support for my family.”
Valeria Herrera, Staff Reporter
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The capital city of the planet Krypton.
Kandor survived the destruction of its native planet as the result of having been stolen sometime prior to the cataclysm by the space villain Brainiac, who reduced the city to microscopic size and preserved it, people and buildings intact, inside a glass bottle aboard his spacecraft. It remained there for many years until July of 1958 when Brainiac came to Earth and attempted to add Metropolis to his bottle-city collection. Superman foiled Brainiac, recovered Kandor, and placed it inside his Fortress of Solitude for safekeeping.
Inside the bottle city, life goes on much as it did prior to the destruction of Krypton. Although restoration to their normal size remains the heartfelt wish of all Kandorians, Superman has not yet succeeded, despite years of effort, in finding a way to enlarge the city safely. He has, however, on occasion managed to reduce himself in size temporarily for the purpose of visiting the bottle city and undertaking adventures there.
Nestled securely on a niche inside the Fortress of Solitude, the bottle city of Kandor is "the most amazing exhibit in Superman's Fortress" and "the prize of his collection" of curiosities and artifacts from throughout the universe.
Diagram and View of Kandor in the Fortress
According to Superman #158, the peaceful city of Kandor, capital of Krypton, was "a place of beauty and happiness" until the dark day when Brainiac, "the evilest villain of space," appeared over the city in his saucerlike spacecraft, reduced it to "microscopic size" with his diabolical "hyper-force ray," and then soared away again into outer space with the captive city of Kandor imprisoned aboard his craft inside a large glass bottle.
Although the texts seem agreed, however, that the theft of Kandor occured "years before" Krypton exploded, it is not possible to pinpoint the date of the theft with any real accuracy, though it appears to have occured either shortly before or after the wedding of Jor-El and Lara. Despite the fact that by stealing their city Brainiac inadvertently rescued the people of Kandor from the cataclysmic doom that befell the rest of their planet, the Kandorians still regard him as "the foulest villain in the universe" for having wrenched their city from its native planet and for having doomed them, perhaps forever, to lilliputian size.
It is the goal of all Kandorians to see their city enlarged to normal size so that they can live out their lives outside the bottle, either on Earth of on some distant planet.
The picturesque city of Kandor sits inside a large "bell-jar" in Superman's Fortress of Solitude. According to Superman #134, "Brainiac made the walls of super-hard, unbreakable glass."
The bottle containing the city is sealed by a large "cork", more accurately described as a "super-hard metal stopper." By August 1965 a doorway has been installed in the stopper to facilitate "easier exit from the giant bottle" for members of the Superman Emergency Squad and other Kandorians.
Safeguarding the city of Kandor and its lilliputian population is one of Superman's gravest responsibilities. "I have to check that city-in-the-bottle regularly," muses the Man of Steel in January 1960, "to see that the tiny people inside it are safe!"
Watching over the city consists mainly of conducting periodic checks of the air hoses and related apparatus which provide the Kandorians with a steady supply of air.
Inside the bottle city, "Krypton's gravity conditions are duplicated" to allow the Kandorians to live normal lives in the environment characteristic of their native planet. Therefore, in Superman's words, "The Kandorians must be constantly supplied with air that is of the same composition as the air on their native Krypton - so I always check to make certain the air mixture is right."
Indeed, life in the bottle city goes on today much as it did before Brainiac stole it, with the Kandorians "going about their daily business" almost as though their native planet had never exploded. Kryptonese, the language of Krypton, is still spoken, and Kandorian scientific progress has continued apace despite the limitations imposed by the artificial glass-walled environment.
Kandor is governed by the Kandorian Council, a body of distinguished citizens apparently modeled after the form of planetary government that prevailed on Krypton prior to the cataclysm.
The city proper is dominated by such institutions as the Museum of Kryptonian History, a well-stocked library, the Kandor City Zoo, and the majestic Hall of Justice, where, once each year, the Phantom Zone Parole Board meets to consider the pleas of Phantom Zone prisoners seeking parole. Those prisoners deemed worthy of parole are released from the Phantom Zone to begin new lives as Kandorian citizens.
Outside the city is a neatly landscaped suburban region characterized by elegant mansions and fine houses, and beyond the suburbs are "strange forests" filled with Kryptonian wildlife and "weird vegetation."
In February, the people of Kandor celebrate Krypton Day, a holiday whose precise significance is never stated in the chronicles. Once each year, in either December or January, they bow their heads in silence in solemn commemoration of "the anniversary of the destruction of Krypton." In April, the Kandorians hold ceremonies marking the Day of Truth, a holiday once celebrated by all Kryptonians, in which they honor the memory of Val-Lor, a valiant Kryptonian who, by courageously speaking out against the "ruthless swarm of alien invaders" who had invaded Krypton and enslaved its people, inspired his fellow Kryptonians to revolt against their alien oppressors and drive the aliens from their planet.
Kandor's "greatest hero" is Superman and there are several statues of him in and about the city. Outside the bottle city, Superman's dual identity is a closely guarded secret, but inside Kandor the fact that Clark Kent is Superman is "known to all Kandorians."
Just as the Kandorians keep a watchful eye on Superman by means of their sophisticated Earth monitors, the Man of Steel keeps in close communication with his friends in Kandor. In Superman's Fortress of Solitude, a red light on an intricate "monitoring maching" lights up in the event of a "Kandor emergency," and a special "Kandor-scope" monitor screen, sometimes used in conjunction with an operator's headphone and mouthpiece, enables him to carry on simultaneous visual and aural communication with his Kandorian allies.
In order to enter Kandor, either to visit his friends or to undertake adventures there, Superman must first reduce himself to microscopic size. He originally accomplished this through various means, but eventually settled on the "shrinking ray" confiscated from Brainiac.
Inside Kandor, where "Krypton's gravity conditions are duplicated," Superman becomes an ordinary human being, without super-powers, although he regains use of his powers the moment he exits from the bottle and re-enters the earthly environment. Kryptonite has no effect on Superman while he remains in Kandor, simply because he is only an ordinary mortal there.
Similarly, any Kandorian who emerges from the bottle city instantly acquires super-powers identical to Superman's, along with vulnerability to the various forms of kryptonite.
In the course of an Kandorian adventure in January 1963, during a period when it is unsafe for Superman to move about in Kandor due to the lies that have been spread about him among the people by the "fanatic scientist" Than-Ol, Superman and Jimmy Olsen decide to emulate their friends Batman and Robin by adopting a pair of alternate identities and working together as a team. Inspired by the names and plumage of a pair of Kandorian birds - a "nightwing" and a "flamebird" - owned by their friend Nor-Kan, Superman and Jimmy adopt the alternate identities of Nightwing and Flamebird and fashion a pair of colorful costumes evocative of the plumage of the two Kandorian birds.
Beneath his lavish home in the Kandorian suburbs, Nor-Kan has constructed a "secret under-ground lab" - with a camouflaged entrance built into a grassy hillside - to prevent intruders from tampering with his delicate scientific instruments. With Nor-Kan's blessing, Nightwing and Flamebird christen this laboratory the "nightcave" and transform it into their secret subterranean headquarters, while simultaneously converting Nor-Kan's automobile into a swift, specially equipped "nightmobile."
By the time this Kandorian adventure draws to a close, Nightwing and Flamebird - the so-called Dynamic Duo of Kandor - have revealed their true identities to the Kandorian people and the Kandorians have erected a colorful statue of the two heroes in the heart of the city.
Text on this page taken from a much longer entry in The Great Superman Book © 1978 by Michael L. Fleisher.
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Chaos….Success!
23328 Views April 07, 2016 52 Comments commenter-corner admin-herb
This comment, in response to the post ‘The Daesh Chronicles:…”, was selected by mod-hs. He felt that it provided an alternative view of the current world situation, a view that sees everything going quite well for the US and NATO, with all goals being met. Quite cynical and thought provoking.
by FromSerbia
The author writes: “It was as if they did not learn from Afghanistan…Iraq…Libya” My question is – learn what? All 3 cases are a resuonding success for the empire. Look at the facts:
Afghanistan – total chaos rules in the heart of Central Asia. Heroin production is better than ever. ISIS is spreading fast and radical Wahhabis are poised to threaten CSTO members, and Russia and China, eventually.
Iraq – total chaos and lawlessness rules large parts of Iraq. The central gov is weak and cant do much about the lawlessness. The Kurds can declare independence and get away with it because there is no one to stop them. Through the destruction of Iraq they facilitated the creation of ISIS since the core of the organization is made up of ex Iraqi officers and soldiers. I presume that the plan was also to have ISIS infiltrate Iran and Caucuses once they were done in Syria/Iraq.
And lastly, Libya. Besides plain robbery of the Ghadaffi family in particular, and the Libyan and African people in general, the goal was once again chaos. Instability in Libya means instability in all surrounding regions. Egypt will never finish off Muslim Brotherhood so long as there is a jihad highway coming in from Libya. Tunis is threatened, and so is another gov that the empire would love to bring down – Algeria. Mali has been taken under control of the empire due to Libya’s instability. All of east, west, and central Africa is threatened by ISIS. So Libya, perhaps, is the biggest success of the empire.
Lastly, let’s take a quick look at why this was panned. Refugees, and terrorist infiltrators, are not some blowback – it is a planned campaign. The first part of the plan was to surround America’s “allies” (read, colonies) by chaos from the south (all of Levant and south coast of Middle Earth Sea – yes, thats how we call it in Serbia – ruled by ISIS & collaborators such as Muslim Brotherhood and assorted local Wahhabi lunatics); the second part of the plan is the threat represented by the big bad bear from the east and north (Arctic).
Is the plan working? It is, and magnificently. True, the empire cant get their natural gas pipeline to Europe, just yet. They certainly won’t stop trying. In the meantime, NATO presence in Europe, and around Russia and China in general, is being drastically strengthened. For now, it’s just another American battalion here and there, but the long term buildup is obvious. The NATO forces serve 2 purposes in Europe:
1st (and foremost) to occupy Europe and keep it in America’s grip tightly. 2nd purpose is to threaten Russia. Has the empire succeeded with respect to both purposes? Spectacularly. Destroying all those countries was a resounding success for the empire.
Whats a few thousand American/ NATO soldiers/ cannon fodder lives in the end? To the empire it means nothing.
Whats a trillion dollars spent, more or less? How hard is it for them to just add a few more digits into electronic accounts, or print more dollars? Who’s going to stop them?
And now, let’s talk about the refugees, and terrorist infiltrators. Is somebody actually trying to argue that the planners of Arab Spring (but really, Arab fall) didnt anticipate the mass migration? That it wasn’t planned, and supported by colonial EU governments? Don’t be fooled by Mogherinis crocodile tears. She is probably dancing on the graves of the victims right now.
The goal behind the refuge crisis is, once again, chaos. Surprised? Don’t be. The Saker said that he expects popular revolutions across the EU, starting with the rebellious and free spirited people of France. He expects them to say “enough is enough” to their respective colonial governments. So do I. And so does the empire. Hence the terrorist infiltrators. All of EU will burn before they are free of imperial oppression. When people do rise, first will come attempts to co-opt them, and hijack popular revolutions. Syriza anyone? If that doesn’t work, the empire will do what it does best – create chaos. There will be war in Europe.
The war in Europe can take on many forms: right vs. left; Christian vs. Muslim; terrorist vs. police/army. It doesn’t matter. The point is, Europe will burn.
The empire will never allow any colonies to become free. EU, Japan, Korea, and Wahhabi kingdoms will all burn before they are free. The logic is very simple, yet exceptionally effective. When the rich and powerful who are used to neoliberalism face the prospect of their entire country burning before their eyes, where will they go? Russia, China, or USA?
The rich will move to USA, bringing their wealth and thus allow the empire to continue to prosper, for a while longer. The USA will continue to play the role of bastion of economic/political/security stability while the world burns. Thats how they are going to remain powerful for now and the foreseeable future.
The empire does not look ahead for 1,2 or 5 years, nor does it aimlessly wander from one crises to another depending on the presidential administration. Their plans are set for decades, even centuries ahead, and all apparatchiks work towards the realization of the plans that are far bigger than them.
There are no mistakes or coincidences in the policies of the empire. Iraq and Libya (and all victims of the empire) were not mistakes; it was policy. The policy will continue. It seems that the witch Hillary Clinton is to become the public face of the empire. A criminal (according to American law) & a lunatic like her coming to “power” signals that the empire’s policy if chaos and destruction of nations is about to go into overdrive.
I hope that Donald Trump represents the other side of empires policy, the need to retreat and regroup in the face of recent defeats. Although I sincerely doubt that anything will change regardless of who is the president, or, better put, the public face of the empire.
Perun on April 08, 2016 · at 1:01 am EST/EDT
Fully agree!!!
NBC report from 1967 on how the US empire brought “freedom and democracy” to Indonesia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB2JydomU0o&t=11m
Kev on April 08, 2016 · at 2:32 am EST/EDT
Talk of usa failure in Iraq Afghanistan is just wishful thinking.
Grieved on April 08, 2016 · at 3:11 am EST/EDT
I accept everything written in this comment by FromSerbia. But just because it’s true doesn’t mean they’ll win.
Evil can never win. Simple logic can draw a picture of total evil, with nothing left to destroy except itself, and thus in which only goodness can make the next move. Evil is the greatest lost cause, and the most foolish occupation for any human to engage in.
Arrayed against the plan of empire is the ruthless compassion of the universe, which has mandated that all things are impermanent. People die, people are born, and people change even in their own lifetime. The effect of just one individual can be to shift entire paradigms. And within all the careful plans are uncertainties, the incompetence of both those who order and those who obey, and the caprice of happenstance.
Meanwhile, only the good is worth pursuing. Let’s fight this empire, and let’s die in the cause of goodness. Let the idea of goodness triumph over all ideas, even as the evil revel in their filth. Only with the idea of goodness alive and shining, can those lost to evil ever think of alternative ways to live.
And when it comes to the reckoning – and all things come to a reckoning – of who lived the better life, the evil or the good: do we even need to ask?
Bro Anon on April 09, 2016 · at 4:20 pm EST/EDT
You’re right, Grieved, in taking the Long View.
From Serbia was right, where he or she stopped.
It’s spiritual emptiness on automatic pilot. But more passengers on the Ship of Fools are waking up to the fact that the captain and crew are devil worshipers who have zero care for the fate of their passengers. Way past time for a mutiny.
Sean o Braonain on April 14, 2016 · at 10:10 pm EST/EDT
This is a remarkable and beautiful paragraph. I hope too that so many of us who feel weak and impotent in the face of the ’empire of chaos’ might take courage in the fact that earthly power and prestige is ‘nothing special’ when diluted into the universal space. Thinking like this, the potency of individual focused thoughts and actions may be of much greater significance than we think. So…let’s not give up the good fight!
TerraHertz on April 08, 2016 · at 5:26 am EST/EDT
I agree that the plan to destroy Europe and the Middle East is going famously, and that little to none of this chaos we see is accidental. But you propose the people behind this wave of chaos are doing it in order to strengthen America, and prolong the existence of the US Empire.
In this you are badly wrong, and failing to understand the true objective. Remember we’re talking about the Elites here. The 0.000001%, the ones at the apex of all power and finance pyramids. They do NOT care about any particular nation. Least of all the nation of supposedly free people, whose traditional spirit, free speech and gun rights are a direct threat to the Elites. And so have been most under attack by all possible means for many decades.
The Elites who speak often and sometimes on record, of reducing the world’s population to well under one billion, preferably around 500 million according to them. The same scum that control the pharma companies producing vaccines which trigger brain-crippling auto-immune disorders, the same who push poisons like Aspartame and MSG, sterilants like Stevia, and the complex poisons of gene-edited foodstuffs. People like Bill Gates and his “with the right vaccines we can reduce population by 15%” comments.
Mostly they cloak such talk in the robes of environmental holiness, “to save Mother Earth!” and so on. Maybe some Elites even believe that, sometimes. But really they just want a sparsely populated Eden Earth, in which a small, uneducated population of serfs labors to proved a miniscule Elite hereditary class with all luxury and pleasures of dictatorship. It’s the ultimate Ego-trip, and may also involve present or anticipated immortality treatments for them, the rulers. But not for the serfs of course.
Do you think when these people talk of achieving a total global population of under 500 million (from the current 7 billion) they are joking? Or speaking of some far distant time, generations away? No! They mean within their lifetime. As soon as possible. Preferably NOW, but if it takes a few years that’s OK. Just not too many years.
How do you think they are going to achieve that? I mean really, if you had trillions of dollars and the almost total political control these people have, how would you do it? Bearing in mind that the process has to avoid waking up the world’s population to what they are doing, resulting in them all getting hung or burned at the stake by enraged mobs.
You’d proceed to orchestrate a rapid slide into global political and economic chaos, in which a series of terrible and apparently uncontrolled disasters and conflicts snowballed into a general breakdown of everything. Completely by itself, with a few ‘useful villains’ like ISIS in the stew to serve as scapegoats. The end purpose being a condition so extremely chaotic and confusing, that some event bringing the demise of over seven billion people appeared to be just another in a long string of surprising and unplanned disasters.
Personally, I expect widespread warfare, possibly a few nukes, leading into a scary plague of some kind, that makes everyone fearful enough to accept a mass inoculation campaign. And THAT will be the kill shot, that terminates billions of lives. Why do you think the public are being conditioned to think all vaccines are wonderful (when many definitely are not), and laws passed to make them mandatory?
The recent ebola scare (that was actually something more complex, involving poisoned water supplies in parallel with an infectious agent) was probably another trial exercise. In a long line of acts, with Bush, 911, both Iraq wars, Afghanistan, Obama, and so on all being actors in the process. Hillary is just the next act.
TerraHertz
Mark Eugenikos on April 08, 2016 · at 6:24 am EST/EDT
“Remember we’re talking about the Elites here. The 0.000001%, the ones at the apex of all power and finance pyramids.”
0.000001% of 300 million people in the US is 3 people. Are you trying to say that 3 people in the US run everything? I think you got your math wrong by many orders of magnitude.
“But really they just want a sparsely populated Eden Earth, in which a small, uneducated population of serfs labors to proved a miniscule (sic) Elite hereditary class with all luxury and pleasures of dictatorship.”
You can’t be serious. Small uneducated population of serfs can’t run the advanced technological civilization that we live in, let alone advance the technology further. Do you expect that minuscule hereditary elite is going to create all the technological progress all by itself?
You are spreading panic but your “predictions” don’t even make sense.
TerraHertz on April 08, 2016 · at 12:27 pm EST/EDT
0.000001% of 7 billion. Global not just USA. Makes seven hundred, and that’s probably too high a number.
>You can’t be serious. Small uneducated population of serfs can’t run the advanced technological civilization that we live in, let alone advance the technology further. Do you expect that minuscule hereditary elite is going to create all the technological progress all by itself?
You’ve made some invalid assumptions there.
1. ‘500 million isn’t enough for a tech civilization.’ Bullshit. Yes it most certainly is. Even with only a small proportion of them educated into tech, and the rest left ignorant.
2. Re advancement, you assume:
a. That small numbers of researchers can’t advance tech – wrong. You’re confusing the ‘massive style churn’ we have today with fundamental advance. Actually our society today is very poor at allocating resources to real scientific advance.
b. That a hereditary ruler class in the world they imagine would _want_ technological advance. Haven’t you heard the phrase “disruptive technology”? Ask yourself – disruptive to who? Why do you think the patent system has been mutated into a tool for suppressing independent development?
3. Worst mistaken assumption: That the present Elites are rational, and have any idea what actual effects they are going to achieve with their plan to cull the population. Actually, they are most likely to achieve an Earth radiologically sterilized for millions of years, by inducing an industrial collapse and the resulting failure of containment over several hundred years of all the high level radioactive stockpiles.
Btw: “miniscule (sic)” http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/minuscule-or-miniscule
I prefer miniscule and don’t give a rat’s arse about the latin root.
http://everist.org/archives/links/__Global_Cull_links.txt
“We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination… So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts… Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.” – Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports
“Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.” – Sir John Houghton, first chairman of IPCC
“It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.” – Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace
“We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.” – Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation
“No matter if the science of global warming is all phony… climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.” – Christine Stewart, fmr Canadian Minister of the Environment
“The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.” – emeritus professor Daniel Botkin
“We require a central organizing principle – one agreed to voluntarily. Minor shifts in policy, moderate improvement in laws and regulations, rhetoric offered in lieu of genuine change – these are all forms of appeasement, designed to satisfy the public’s desire to believe that sacrifice, struggle and a wrenching transformation of society will not be necessary.” – Al Gore, Earth in the Balance
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsiblity to bring that about?” – Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme
“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States. De-development means bringing our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the world resource situation.” – Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies
“The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.” – Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund
“Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.” – Professor Maurice King
“Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing – are not sustainable.” – Maurice Strong, Rio Earth Summit
“Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it.” – Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
“The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.” – Jeremy Rifkin, Greenhouse Crisis Foundation
“Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.” – Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University
“The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.” – Sir James Lovelock, BBC Interview
“My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it’s full complement of species, returning throughout the world.” -Dave Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!
“… the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million but less than one billion.” – Club of Rome, Goals for Mankind
“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, patron of the World Wildlife Fund
“I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.” – John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
“The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing.” – Christopher Manes, Earth First!
“Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.” – David Brower, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club
“The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome.
The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”
The above quote is Excerpted from “The First Global Revolution” which is a publication of “The Club of Rome” (made the best seller list in 1991)
http://books.google.com/books?id=8RNKHGbzUuAC&printsec=frontcover
— Club of Rome, premier environmental think-tank, consultants to the United Nations
“The world today has 6.8 billion people… that’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”
— Bill Gates (in public speech with published video)
“In earlier times it was easier to control a million people than physically to kill a million people. Today it is infinitely easier to kill a million people then to control a million people.”
— Zbigniew Brzezinski (CFR, Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg, Carter/Obama Advisor).
C I eh? on April 08, 2016 · at 10:27 pm EST/EDT
You are a clear thinker TerraHertz.
Thank you for your excellent and informative posts.
People like Mark prefer living in oblivion. Often they react violently against those who disturb their comfort zone.
“0.000001% of 7 billion. Global not just USA. Makes seven hundred”
No, it makes seventy (70). If you can’t even multiply simple numbers, how can we trust you with all the fancy stuff?
You have listed a bunch of quotes from IPCC, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and similar loonies whose “science” about AGW (anthropogenic global warming) has been thoroughly discredited. You have NOT shown that those Sierra Club types are the elites you dislike, or even that they work for the elites.
“‘500 million isn’t enough for a tech civilization.’ Bullshit. Yes it most certainly is. Even with only a small proportion of them educated into tech, and the rest left ignorant.”
What is small proportion? 1% or 5 million? If you think that 5 million educated people are enough to run and maintain, let alone advance, a modern technological civilization, you have no idea how complex modern civilization is.
“That a hereditary ruler class in the world they imagine would _want_ technological advance.”
When did the ruling class, ever since the start of the industrial revolution, not want a technological advance? How do you think they get to amplify their power and influence if not through technological advances? Do you believe that Bill Gates would want to go back to 19th century level of technology?
The unstated assumption in your text is that all the world elites are in it together, and they all want the same, including the west and the Russians and the Chinese. And that the Russians and Chinese (and Indians) would just calmly watch as their countries lose 90% of their populations to suit the Sierra Club hippies’ dreams, and do nothing about it.
If you believe all that, you must be delusional.
Mark Eugenikos on April 09, 2016 · at 11:12 pm EST/EDT
“If you think that 5 million educated people are enough to run and maintain, let alone advance, a modern technological civilization, you have no idea how complex modern civilization is.”
Replying to myself here: the amount of people it takes to run, maintain and advance a modern technological civilization is at least 100 million. Why? Think of the countries that are self-sufficient, or at least in a position to be self-sufficient if they really put the effort.
– US could be, with 300+ million people, if they brought back all the industry they outsourced to China.
– China could be self-sufficient too, with 1.4 billion people, but it’s not there yet.
– India not even close, with 1.2 billion people.
– Russia and Japan sort of, not really, presumably they both could be with some effort and restructuring; both have around 140 million people.
– Germany with 80 million people, not really. They make a lot of stuff, but by no means everything they need, especially not advanced electronics.
– France makes a serious effort to be independent (airplanes, trains, cars, nuclear power plants, shipbuilding) but even they can’t make everything. 60 million people.
– Brazil, not even close, even though they try; 200 million people.
Do you see now how “a small proportion of 500 million people” is not nearly sufficient to run, maintain, and further develop the world we live in?
Sergey on April 08, 2016 · at 5:46 am EST/EDT
“… I hope that Donald Trump represents the other side of empires policy, the need to retreat and regroup in the face of recent defeats. Although I sincerely doubt that anything will change regardless of who is the president …”
Your sincere doubt is, unfortunately, quite well founded. Quite generally.
And concerning Donald Trump, sheer facts do not justify any “hope”.
You must read through the entire F. William Engdahl’s “A Mafia Don with a Pompadour”, http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/20/a-mafia-don-with-a-pompadour/ , well documented with links, to fully understand why.
Merely to tickle your interest in reading the rest, here are only a couple of titbits:
Trump’s past is so intertwined with organized crime it’s incredible that the hand-wringing GOP anti-Trump establishment or Hillary Clinton have not smeared it across every newspaper in America.
Trump’s early mentor in the ways of doing slick, shady construction business in New York was one of the sleaziest characters in New York, a lawyer named Roy Cohn.
Cohn, who was pronounced dead of AIDS in 1986 and was described by Hoffman as, “the best-known non-show-business homosexual in the country,” was the attorney for a notorious cocaine-snorting Manhattan nightclub in the late 1970’s called Studio 54.
Hoffman wrote of the orgies at Studio 54 held by Cohn, “For special celebrities, the wildest parties were held in the basement…with high society’s homosexuals, transsexuals and transvestites…” Cohn held some of his biggest birthday bangs, attended on at least one occasion by, “the important officials of the Democratic, Republican, and Conservative parties, most of the city’s major elected officials, a number of Congressmen, the Chief Judge of the United States District Court and Roy’s usuals … Donald Trump.” [my emphasis]
Donald Trump, organized crime lawyer, Roy Cohn, and cocaine orgies in the basement of Studio 54 attended by judges and politicians of every party? In an interview Trump even described one such Studio 54 orgy he attended: “I would watch supermodels getting screwed, well-known supermodels getting screwed, on a bench in the middle of the room. There were seven of them and each one was getting screwed by a different guy. This was in the middle of the room.” He omitted to say whether he was among that seven.
In the 1970’s when Trump was in his 20’s he hired Roy Cohn as his attorney and “fixer” as he took over his father’s New York real estate and construction business. Trump and Cohn were regular companions at Studio 54 where Cohn was the lawyer. Trump reportedly even kept a photo of Cohn in his office.
Sorry to burst your bubble Sergey, but there is no guilt by association, not in the US and not in any normal country either. Just as any other businessman would, Trump hired the best attorney he could find to get the job done. That the said attorney was also representing Studio 54 and perhaps the mob and that he was a homosexual is and was legally irrelevant. Not morally irrelevant, but legally irrelevant. And if you expect moral in politics, you are looking at the wrong place.
The rest of F. William Engdahl’s article is also all guilt by association. The essence of his article is his anger at the moral confusion of the United States, but he doesn’t describe the root cause of it, only the manifestations. And describing root causes of it would take me too much time and space, so I won’t do it here.
Bottom line, regarding Trump, there is nothing of significance in the article you linked.
Eric on April 08, 2016 · at 11:18 am EST/EDT
Maybe so, however, it is a fact that Trump was deeply involved in casinos. which are morally questionable in the first place, and generally tied to organized crime.
Whether or not Engdahl’s article provides a smoking gun, there is a significant amount of circumstantial evidence.
I find it really unbelievable that a guy like Trump, with zero record of public service, whose whole life has been one big ego trip, would suddenly become Mr Public Spirited Citizen with no selfish intent, but to take over the reigns of power for the benefit of his country.
To think that an oligarch of his calibre would change is naive to say the least.
elsi on April 08, 2016 · at 11:38 am EST/EDT
Indeed, but he is supported by some people who does not seem naive at all. And, having been some weeks that we do not talk about The Donald, suddenly, the selected comment bring him again to the fore…..
Anyway, despite the efforts, the thing as that does not wash, Bernie Sanders has won in Wisconsin also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCMdvj_TiUU
Jonathan, where are you?
Take a wine to my health, I will do the same here!
Jonathan on April 16, 2016 · at 1:42 pm EST/EDT
Hi Elsi,
Sorry, wasn’t following this post. Recent rally for Bernie in Manhattan drew 27000 people. Cheers to you too!
elsi on April 16, 2016 · at 2:32 pm EST/EDT
Great! I think that he is the only sane option, or that, or not voting al all.
You do not need to choose an esperpento like The Donald, to avoid warmonger Hillary.
See you in another thread, Jonathan.
Good Sabbath!
Waldo on April 08, 2016 · at 1:23 pm EST/EDT
My thoughts also. Of course that one expects morals in politics. “No laws are broken” (which in itself would be a stretch) is what is irrelevant. (Laws which, by the way, are written by these same politicians, which is why they are called legislators. Hitler broke no laws, he was the law of the land…) Would one still vote for Al Capone, whose his sleazy lawyers taught him how not to directly collide with the law? Apparently many would, the voting boots in the U.S. are never empty.
Serbian girl on April 08, 2016 · at 3:48 pm EST/EDT
Regarding Trump:
I don’t care if he is sleaze bag, or if he works with casinos, or that his wife is much younger than him, or he doesn’t have natural hair colour, or if he’s a transsexual. Who the f… cares?
He said he would dismantle NATO and stop the free trade agreements. As long as he executes that, then it’s good enough for me. There is always the risk he won’t deliver, but heck, that’s a risk I’m willing to take when faced with the prospect of Clinton in the White House.
Petar on April 08, 2016 · at 5:43 pm EST/EDT
“He said he would dismantle NATO and stop the free trade agreements. As long as he executes that, then it’s good enough for me.”
Would be for me too.
Except that that is never going to happen. A fantasy land.
Serbian girl on April 08, 2016 · at 10:49 pm EST/EDT
Hello Petar,
Of course, you’re right. It’ll never happen. I just pray I won’t have to live through WWIII…
My bet is that Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the US. She is a war criminal and a much more morally reprehensible character than Trump or anyone else. But that’s ok with some of the commentators here because because you know what? She doesn’t “talk like nazi” and her spouse isn’t younger than her, and she’s not a transsexual…eh.. well maybe not…
The thing that many people fail to grasp with political elections is: you don’t vote for the BEST candidate, you vote for the LEAST BAD candidate. By that measure, Trump should get most of the votes, no question.
Of the sheeple, by the sheeple, for the sheeple... on April 10, 2016 · at 4:02 am EST/EDT
“you vote for the LEAST BAD candidate”
It was exactly thanks to such “logic” that the American sheeple acquired Obama.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00447/news-graphics-2007-_447508a.jpg
Purple Library Guy on April 08, 2016 · at 5:23 pm EST/EDT
Casinos?! Nearly everyone in the Republican party kneels at the feet of Sheldon Adelson the (very pro-Israel) casino magnate. And nearly everyone in the Democratic party kneels at the feet of the stock marketeers, which comes to the same thing. Connections to casinos? Big whoop.
Mieszko I on April 08, 2016 · at 11:34 pm EST/EDT
” suddenly become Mr Public Spirited Citizen with no selfish intent, but to take over the reigns of power for the benefit of his country. ”
Eric:
I think you might find this interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEPs17_AkTI&nohtml5=False
@ Mieszko I
Right you are. That 1988 video demonstrates that he is an exceptionally smooth talker, just like all the crooked rest. Explains how he was able to acquire all his ill-gotten wealth. Could you imagine anyone becoming a top billionaire in America and not being completely dishonest? Unfortunately, there is never shortage of the naïve in America, cheering, flag waving, “voting”…
Lind on April 08, 2016 · at 7:02 am EST/EDT
I like Engdahl, and I don’t like Trump, or should I say, I don’t expect anything to become better if he is president.
That said, I don’t think it is always the best to judge somebody because of who he has associated with earlier, especially if he exposes the others.
It is like saying that Putin is bad because he was in KGB, and everybody knows that KGB has done some shady things.
I thought by now we have learned not to listen to every accusation about “guilt by association”.
What about all the ex-CIA guys, that changed side and are now are authorities in anti-imperial media? (Or military analysts that decades ago have been on NATO’s payroll…) Are they also forever bad, because of their history?
I know that in many cases a person’s past defines who and what he is now. But people can have a change of mind/heart. (Or they could have worked for decades knowingly undercover to infiltrate an enemy organisation).
Now, in the case of Trump, I really don’t know . But the am against judging people completely by what they did in the past.
Logic?... on April 08, 2016 · at 6:05 pm EST/EDT
But the am against judging people completely by what they did in the past.
On what else would you judge them then?
You cannot judge them on their future, something that hasn’t come to pass yet.
You cannot judge them on their present instant either, for by the time you start judging, that instant already lies in the past.
And I sincerely hope that you won’t judge one on what he promises.
patrick on April 08, 2016 · at 2:50 pm EST/EDT
so, are we to surmise – Empire = infallible? LMFAO – but ok to each their own!
only one field, is infallible – and yet it will grant fall.ible experiences within :)
A.K. on April 08, 2016 · at 3:15 pm EST/EDT
Comment from Serbia is so true that even Orwell 1984 rat teeth looks brighter than our future :)
Keep spreading Pravda tovarishi..regards from Ljubljana!
AriusArmenian on April 08, 2016 · at 4:10 pm EST/EDT
The US is desperately trying to stillbirth the rise of the East and to that end is trying to recreate the post-WW2 desolated world when the Empire of Exceptionalism established its dominate position.
“The rich will move to USA, bringing their wealth and thus allow the empire to continue to prosper, for a while longer.”
From Serbia, you are exactly correct. The US financial systems and UK / US trusts are not better but they will attract this money because they have destroyed the competition. The main competitor of the Anglo-American banking sector used to be Switzerland. The US (together with the lawsuits from the World Jewish Congress) destroyed the Swiss banking system.
Now the only to challengers to the Anglo-Amercian baking system are Hong Kong and Singapore.
Singapore is already under fire: http://www.straitstimes.com/business/banking/ubs-ordered-to-court-in-tax-case-over-singapore-bank-secrecy
Anonymous on April 09, 2016 · at 12:46 am EST/EDT
HK looks owned to me!
Just ask yourself “at the very top, are they or not a member of/controlled by BIS or IMF, & do they have a rottenchild central bank of vipers?”
Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific
Location: 78th floor, Two International Finance Centre
8 Finance Street, Central
Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China
http://www.bis.org/about/contact.htm
Member central banks of BIS:
http://www.bis.org/about/member_cb.htm
Note Taiwan is not a member, but mainland China is. So, is the dischord setup sown by the neocons between the ‘westified’ Taiwan as victim of aggression & the evil commie mainlanders just a puppet show getting everyone to look at the problem 180 degrees wrong?
Interesting position. I wouldn’t go that far though. First of all, the world is way too unstable to make workable plans “Decades, even centuries ahead” no matter how clever an elite group may be. Second, I’ve seen no evidence they’re that clever.
But that doesn’t mean I don’t buy any of it. I do think some of the chaos is deliberate, and that the wreckage in the Middle East is, if not the absolute best-case scenario, a decent second-best from the imperial perspective. Fragile, half-broken countries may not be that productive, but they don’t have much to say when you come and rape their resources. Their institutions are weak and corrupt. They don’t create effective regional organizations that leave hegemons out. They don’t, basically, defend themselves, either militarily or politically or economically, against the imperial agenda. So sure, I think the Americans would have been happy to have Iraq simply be a satrap run by a pliable, non-democratic government that would successfully keep the lid on while letting them take all the oil and privatize everything in sight, but the smarter ones knew that wasn’t all that likely, and chaos was a very acceptable fallback. And in Libya there was never any sign of a plan for any result other than pretty much what they got; I consider the argument that the whole point was to destabilize Africa and make it more vulnerable to US (and French) domination very likely true.
Where I think this argument goes too far is on the EU. I don’t think messing up the EU was the point. At the rate things are going, the EU could break up in a few years from a combination of its own vicious economic policies and the political ruptures stemming from mass immigration from the areas that have been imperially chaosed. Why on earth would the American empire want that? Those are its best stooges, its main weapon against Russia, its willing-coalition cover for imperial aggression, the people who create the bandwagon for its sanctions, making them effective. Chaos in the EU could put all that at risk. No, I think the whole “immigration from the areas the Americans broke” thing is something the Americans considered a negative but an acceptable one, if they thought about it at all. And if they did think about it, they underestimated both the magnitude of the migration itself, the size of the political consequences, and the degree to which EU economic policies would have already screwed the pooch by the time the immigration problem hit high gear. If the European economy were firing on all cylinders, the whole immigration issue would be much less explosive than it is, but the European financier/bureaucrats (e.g. Mario Draghi, central banker and Goldman Sachs apparatchik) have been engaging in concerted economic warfare against the non-wealthy citizens of the EU itself and they refuse to stop. The mass immigration may help them channel that into right wing fascist or sort-of-fascist directions which don’t pose a systemic threat to finance, but it will also increase the general unrest so much–lots more people just as there are lots fewer jobs–that such channeling likely won’t do them as much good as they hope. And from the American perspective, right wing nationalist governments may prove unreliable at best as political allies even if they don’t pose a financial challenge.
Overall, there is a significant chance here of outcomes that will make Europe far less useful and cohesive as an American ally or even break up NATO. So I really think any American interest in sowing chaos does not extend to Europe, where it is instead a negative side effect deemed “worth it”–and perhaps mistakenly so.
PLG,
You are a smart fellow but incredibly naive.
Please exit the library of approved literature and do some reaearch outside of your comfort zone.
Purple Library Guy on April 09, 2016 · at 12:45 am EST/EDT
Pffft. Maybe if I were confronted by counterarguments with a bit more substance than that, I would look into their sources. As things stand–“approved literature”? I’ve little doubt that my political position represents a much more fundamental challenge to the system than yours, if that’s supposed to be a pissing match.
joaopft on April 08, 2016 · at 7:26 pm EST/EDT
The post is sort of foolish, the reason being better explained by the old German legend about the sorcerer’s apprentice; hopefully you’ll see why sowing chaos is not a good idea. Chaos has a soul of its own. Chaos will go after its finality, no matter what the puppet master does.
(Reader’s notes: 1) think of the water as chaos, the magic broom as the terrorists and other liver-eating unholy beings of the present; 2) the tub is overflowing now — think of the EU; 3) in the end, the Devil may not be as forgiving as the legendary sorcerer; 4) after all, in the legend it was only water, not chaos…).
The legend of the sorcerer’s apprentice
A young boy from the village was apprenticed to a sorcerer. The young boy wanted to learn how to create magic, but all that he was allowed to do were chores: carrying water, picking up, and cleaning around the sorcerer’s castle. He felt like a servant.
One day, as the sorcerer was getting ready to leave the castle, orders were given for the boy to carry water from the well and use it to scrub the floor in the Great Hall. As soon as the sorcerer left, the boy put on the sorcerer’s special hat and sat down to look through the big book that contained the sorcerer’s magic spells. He wanted to be like the sorcerer and do magic more than anything else. As he looked through the big book of spells, he found a spell that would bring inanimate objects to life. He got an idea! Instead of sweeping and mopping the castle floor, he would use magic and make the broom do it. Ha! He could sit back and relax and the broom could be HIS servant!
The boy practiced the magic words. Then he said them over the broom. At first nothing happened. Then, the broom suddenly moved. The broom sprouted arms. The boy quickly showed the broom how to pick up a bucket. The broom followed the young apprentice to the
well where the boy demonstrated how to fill the bucket with water. The broom was to fill the large tub in the Great Hall with water so that it could be used to wash the floor.
The broom carried the bucket to the well, filled it with water, and carried it back to the tub in the castle. The tub was filled with water. The broom continued to carry more water from the well. Soon the tub was overflowing. The boy ordered the broom to stop but the broom continued on. Then remembering that he had used a magic spell on the broom, the boy frantically tried to find the special words that would make it stop. But the broom kept on going. Grabbing an ax, the boy chopped the broom into small pieces. Very pleased with himself for finding a solution to this
problem, the boy sat back in the sorcerer’s chair and soon fell asleep.
The small pieces of the broom began to move. As the brooms grew, arms sprouted and these new brooms began to carry buckets to the well to be filled. Soon there was an entire army of brooms with buckets in hand, marching to the well, filling buckets with water, marching back to the castle, and filling the now overflowing tub with even more water. The water cascaded from the tub into the room. Waves of water washed up the walls of the Great Hall and the apprentice was cast afloat in his chair. As he tumbled into the water, the boy woke up and could not believe his eyes! More brooms than he could ever imagine were hard at work carrying water from the well and splashing it into the room that was now filled with water. The apprentice was powerless to stop them.
Just then, the sorcerer returned. He lifted his arms and in a loud voice spoke the necessary words to return all to its original order. He was angry at the boy. The apprentice knelt and begged for forgiveness, but the sorcerer pointed to the door indicating that the boy could not be trusted, that he must leave, and that he would not be given the opportunity to learn magic. Sadly, the boy turned to go. As the boy left, the sorcerer changed his mind and gave his young apprentice a spank instead.
All I know is history rhymes, & this time, whenever it occurs, it’s going to be quite a sight to behold.
This chart is best I can find on short notice, but good enough for this discussion.
It is the UST 10-Year yield, not the biggie 30-year but they track very well.
Note the sharp little notch drop to just over 4% you see there about 1968, then a huge angular rise as interest rates went skyward, with the mirror item, the quoted ‘value’ of a $100 face value bond, cratering.
Short respite, then the giant rise & bond collapse all the way to October 1981.
What big event occured then to send bond inverstors running like scalded rats?
It was the Tet (New Year) 1968 Offensive, Vietnam, launched at the end of January/1968.
Contrary to all the glorious revisionist history you read about it, it must have been one helluva nasty & embarrassing battlefield defeat for uncle sam.
This was just under 3 years after the first huge troop wave buildup reached there, in early 1965.
Tet made it obvious to those in the know that there was going to be endless rivers of bond debt issuance watering down the ever rising bond supply even more, to pursue the war, if it could even be won at all, which like every other one was assuredly going to last mere months!
Considering the much smaller total debt issued vs GDP then compared to now, there will be some kind of market A-HA moment coming, but this time it will be on a far shorter fuse.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-bond-yield
this one has a year ruler on x-axis; better, you can see January 1968 clearly that low:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Scat_VEIW9I/URrH6UrACXI/AAAAAAAABqs/I6shP2ednNo/s400/U.S.+Treasury+Bond+Interest+Rate+History.jpg
Maybe Drumpf really is just a controlled opposition patsy they’re running, but they are then at least making great efforts to make him look like the good guy done wrong to, because here’s a snapshot of that recent Wisconsin primary, with the ridiculously skewed electronic voting results.
‘sides, for 2016 everybody knows “$hitlary is da shizzle!”.
(pic not available after today, since page changes):
http://www.rense.com/1.mpicons/wisconsplash.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs6w5ihNbtY
Still Report #774 – Diebold Voting Machine Hack on Fox News
Here is an older one from The Fox News morning show, “Fox & Friends” featuring our old Washington DC weatherman, Steve Doocy.
old clip, but tons of links in the Show More box under the video.
YT on April 09, 2016 · at 4:33 pm EST/EDT
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2015/11/experiencing-the-nemesis-of-hubric-exceptionalismwho-are-we-now-origin.html
FromSerbia,
This author who calls himself “Origin” might agree with you.
eimar on April 09, 2016 · at 8:05 pm EST/EDT
That was an excellent read. And heartening.
Also the comments.
Seems like a percentage of Americans are a good deal more clued-up than the appalling mainstream media would have us believe.
Great article giving a very believable perspective on the machinations of Washington.
Their partners in crime are the mainstream media who feed us all this b….s… .With a media that had integrity the population of the west would vote for politicians that had integrity.
Thanks to the Saker for being a good example of what is possible.
Human 2.0 on April 11, 2016 · at 12:35 am EST/EDT
The eye of the beholder.
The greatest trick of the devil is to make you believe he is omnipotent.
Anyone experienced in art, construction or any type of creative endeavor knows that it is far more easy to destroy something than it is to create something out of nothing.
Causing chaos is far more easy than upholding civilization.
Creativity is a positive, an absolute,
without it neither chaos nor destruction exists.
The ones creating and maintaining civilization are legion, their achievements are easily overlooked, ignored or taken for granted.
To a greater or lesser extent, we all contribute to either side of the polarity.
The PR department of Orwellian future is heavily engaged in an attempt to convince the masses that mankind is utterly impotent against an allegedly overwhelmingly powerful and well organized nefarious elite minority.
A segment of so-called conspiracy pundits aren’t really informing their audience about the minutiae of the imminence of some hypothetical globalists’ ‘New World Order’, they rather invent and expand the narrative as they seek to promote a flawed yet compelling dis-empowering urban myth.
You shall despair, resistance is futile.
Anyone promoting the myth of omnipotence of ‘our handlers’ is a tool.
We, the disowned heirs of the Earth, happen to be complicit in the crimes of ‘our handlers’ by consent.
If something does not empower you, it either enslaves you or it serves to maintain the status quo of inertia.
The brave aspire to be free.
Leo Strauss – trotzkist, adept of political zionizm and a founder of American neo-con school.
“We must maintain controlled chaos.”
“American principles are universal and therefore American interventions around the world are justified – to bring the blessing of the West to the benighted rest.”
“Perpetual deception of the citizens by those in power is critical, because they need to be led, and they need strong rulers to tell them what is good for them”.
“Political Zionizm is a moral force in an era of complete dissolution”.
Notable students of Strauss: Hadley Arkes, Allan Bloom, Abram Shulsky (Director of Office of Special Plans), Paul Woolfovitz (this one all know) etc.
Ref: City and Man -by Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss and American Right – by Shadia Drury
Suzanne Majo De Kuyper on April 11, 2016 · at 9:58 am EST/EDT
My beliefs an insights completely, with the difference that what the freest media (alternative) can
produce. the things no one sees on the Western media, like the different ways children are either supported or destroyed, how the policies of commercialising food products make them inedible and mutating. Destroyed medical care across Europe and as soon as, across Asia and South America.
The legalisation of hate speech and hate action.
Suzanne Majo De Kuyper on April 11, 2016 · at 10:06 am EST/EDT
The roots of legalising hate speech of course for the 20th and the 21st centuries is Adolf Hitler and the fact that once the German’s elected him they followed his orders until he killed himself. Not unlike Hitler fascists everywhere. Hate actions have been updated since the US noted Hitler’s accomplishments in this field. Presently the US leads in crimes-against-humanity attrocities, and it plans to keep that lead no matter what. As was the Third Reich, the US are vastly proud of their carefully planned decent into military depravity. Roots of? G.W.Bush 11…and Henry Ford, or the culture of US Oligarches.
Presently the US leads in crimes-against-humanity atrocities, and it plans to keep that lead no matter what. As was the Third Reich, the US are vastly proud of their carefully planned decent into military depravity.
interesting parallel this docu put up 2014.
mentions the 40 countries Japan invaded/pillaged/occupied/ in their Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.
Dissent ruthlessly suppressed by the military thought police who arrested anyone, even servicemen’s wives who put something ‘unpatriotic’ in a letter to their military husband stationed 5000 miles away.
Japan only went too far in the US eyes (owned by Britain since January/1783 in that hypothecation sellout mentioned in the 2008 Esoteric Agenda docu—big big bankster celebration number date coming for that in autumn 2017, BTW) when Japan invaded the queen’s indonesia oil properties.
Till then, Japan’s buildup was totally aided & abetted in all ways by the great powers (but not Russia).
Even mentions the Krupp big guns used to suppress/take Port Arthur.
Japan conglomerates active in war supplies mentioned like Mitsui & Mitsubishi were never decommissioned in any way after the war–just like the big German ones, after the war it was as if nothing happened!
quite good balanced report, surprising for Disney (owns Discovery)
The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire 日本
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TNt4CA9YMw&nohtml5=False
Ivan Lukic on April 15, 2016 · at 1:51 pm EST/EDT
The problem with complex systems is that it is impossible to plan and predict everything. There is no doubt that AZ empire needs chaos and wars but at some moment situation can go out of control. As I commented on Dmitry Orlov’s blog Austro-Hungarian monarchy wanted war with Serbia in 1914 and prepared for that war decades in advance. But once war starts all the plans are destroyed in a nick of time. Austo-Hungarians were sure that they must win war with Serbia: they reduced everything to maths – they have 6 million soldiers and Serbia only 400 thousands, so they must win! But instead of winning they failed catastrophically. That’s how history works.
Suzanne Majo DeKuper on April 29, 2016 · at 10:54 am EST/EDT
Each war the US carefully engages in feeds it’s insatiable need to take over both the known and unknown worlds. You see, it is in hurry as US corporations are being deliberately allowed to destruct the globe as we know it and the method by which it used to sustain us. Apocalyptic, you bet your socks! the belief of this author that the US has not learned form it’s former or present wars is merely believing US propaganda.
Causing reams of meaningless conjecture.
M on May 20, 2016 · at 5:37 pm EST/EDT
The author should add the induced chaos in Latin America ( starting with Mexico )as an endless supply of future soldiers to be sent as cannon fodder in other Amerikkan empire “theaters” …. ( search The U.S. armed forces will accept qualified immigrants with temporary visas as recruits and will offer them the chance to become citizens) …. since american citizens are too “precious” , politically speaking .
Genghis Khan fait l’Amérique
Voici le choix de Biden au poste de directeur de la CIA
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Shayna Baszler locked in a double submission to win the match at WWE Payback 2020.
The finish came after Baszler locked in a leg lock on Banks and Kirafuta Clutch on Bayley at the same time. Baszler would then use Banks arm to choke out Bayley. This resulted in Bayley tapping out.
Both Nia and Shayna appeared in a backstage video after their title win and whilst doing their first photoshoot was asked how well they can coexist as champions.
Baszler said, “We made a deal. And as long as she keeps her end of the deal, we’re going to reign forever … I help her do this, she gets off my back.”
Jax added, “Yeah, we got a deal. For sure, trust me.”
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Spread the loveThe September 14, 2020, edition of WWE RAW took place from the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida. The event was aired live on the USA Network from 8pm ET.
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The concept of fitness, in fact, many-sided and does not affect onlyelements of physical training and technology weight loss (although it is a set of exercises firmly associated with the concept of our time). In a deep sense, the concept of fitness covers general physical condition, or rather the preparation of (trained) body. Ie, it is, in some way, a perfect (or close to that) the state of the body, defdeter- mined as biological (innate) characteristics and acquired during life, in which a person can successfully pass on their genetic information to their offspring and easily and adequately respond to the specific conditions and situations in their environment. To those defining characteristics include the work serdechnososudistoy system, muscle flexibility and endurance, strength, balance, coordination, reaction and body mass index. If you do not go into much deeper detail, fitness is a set of techniques and trends, aimed at changing the forms and states of the body, as well as strengthening and support the results. Fitness- Is a comprehensive program that includes how exercise and proper nutrition (diet), fixing the results of physical training. All methods are strictly individual fitness and take into account the condition of the body of each individual engaged. Among the most popular and sought after techniques which in some way may be referred tofitness, isolated: sport (any of its kind aimed at strengthening and improving the body), dance, gymnastics, Pilates, Bodyflex, martial arts and gymnastics, and much more.
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Meenakshi Temple & Bannerghatta Park
It was Mahesh's idea to go on a drive during the weekend. We decided on Meenakshi temple on Bannerghatta road. Sundar joined us. At 11:00 Am, three of us took off on two bikes. We reached the temple in just half an hour. The temple is constructed by the same trustee that runs the Madurai Meenakshi temple. Of course, this is a miniature version of the original master piece. But what pleased me the most about this place is its serene atmosphere. I loved the place for the divinity it generated in the midst of busy, hectic Bangalore life. For Bangaloreans, who want to spend some divine moments at a temple that provokes Bhakti, this place is a must go. After spending some time at the temple both Mahesh and I agreed that the journey had to continue, not back home but to some place, even further. So we decided on riding to Bannerghatta Biological Park. We had to convince Sundar, which wasn’t that difficult though. Soon, we set off on another ride. On our way to the
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One of the first Nationally Board Certified teachers in America, Rick brings innovation, energy, validity, and high standards to his presentations and his instructional practice, which includes 30 years teaching math, science, English, physical education, health, and history, and coaching teachers. Rick's work has been reported in numerous media, including ABC's Good Morning America, Hardball with Chris Matthews, National Geographic, and Good Housekeeping magazines, What Matters Most: Teaching for the 21st Century, and The Washington Post.
With his substantive presentations, sense of humor, and unconventional approaches, he's been asked to present to teachers and administrators in all 50 states, Canada, China, Europe, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, Australia, the Middle East, and at the White House. He is a seasoned veteran of many webcasts, and he is Disney's American Teacher Awards 1996 Outstanding English Teacher of the Nation. He won the 2008 James P. Garvin award from the New England League of Middle Schools for Teaching Excellence, Service, and Leadership, and he has been a consultant for National Public Radio, USA Today, Court TV, and the Smithsonian Institution's Natural Partners Program and their search for the Giant Squid.
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Peru towards an agenda of sustainable growth, productivity and empowerment of women
Inicio > Peru towards an agenda of sustainable growth, productivity and empowerment of women
Public event: The challenge of productivity: growth beyond the boom of commodities
Research table: How to measure productivity of Peruvian economy?
Public event: Perspectives of the Peruvian economy by 2018
Discussion table: Challenges of digitization towards 2021
Research table: Financial inclusion
Sustainable and inclusive development
Public event: Challenges of climate change
Public event: Challenges of mining for sustainable development. The 2030 Agenda and the mining sector
Research desk: Business activity and social responsibility
Public event: Public policies for the empowerment of women, a Canada-Peru dialogue
Research panel: Situation of women researchers in social sciences in Peru
Research Panel: Women in science
Research panel: Violence against women: determinants and effects
Research desk: Social and gender programs
Research panel: Agriculture, associativity and gender
Institutional Activities in Lima and Regions
Publications of CIES and affiliated centers
(Spanish version)
The 93rd edition of the Economía & Sociedad Research magazine summarizes the XXVIII Annual CIES Research Seminar, entitled “Peru towards an agency for sustainable growth, productivity and empowerment of women”, held from November 22nd to 24th, 2017 in Lima.
The event was divided into three blocks: (i) productivity and growth, (ii) sustainable growth and (iii) empowerment of women and rural development. Under this thematic umbrella, lectures were offered, 18 researches were presented, and a dialogue was achieved between academic stakeholders, the State, international cooperation, civil society and the private sector, very important to contribute to the design of policies in the country.
During the seminar, the results of 18 researches grouped in the following eight thematic tables were presented and discussed:
How to measure the productivity of the Peruvian economy?
Business activity and social responsibility
Situation of women researchers in the social sciences in Peru
Social programs and gender
Violence towards women: determinants and effects
Agriculture, associativity and gender
CIES expresses its gratitude to the institutions that made possible the development of this seminar, which was attended by more than 1200 people from Lima and regions of the country. It also thanks Grade, Grupo Sofía, Macroconsult, PUCP, Universidad del Pacífico and Universidad de Lima for their contribution to co-organizing the thematic tables. The Consortium also thanks the sponsors of the XXVIII Annual Research Seminar 2017, whose logos are on the back cover of this magazine, for their commitment to building new knowledge for better policies.
CIES Executive Office
Lima, March 2018
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Listening for What’s Missing: Notes and novels, pages and spaces
“I do know that missing is a feeling,” Ruby announces, in Riel Nason’s debut, The Town that Drowned. Is it? It’s true for Ruby, and her story is preoccupied with what is being lost, a chronological tale rooted in the moments of losing.
At first glance, it seems as though Lydia Perović’s All That Sang echoes Ruby’s belief. “Have you ever desired anybody so much that your every waking moment was occupied by the thought of that person?”
Many readers will recognise the feeling, but the kind of missing with which All That Sang is preoccupied is not only a feeling, but something with a shape, dimensions and solidity.
This kind of missing is the space around which this story is structured, if one can still say that it is structured if the shape of it all is the shape of absence, the not-quite-story.
“I don’t know what I’m attempting to tell if I abandon the story, but I know I have that urge. Of telling without storifying. Of writing without re-enchanting. Without tidying. I have the desire to keep the muddle.”
But the desire to keep the muddle, to preserve the mess of it all, is not as disorienting for the reader as it is for the miss-er (the one who misses), even if it is not as orderly as the life of the miss-ee (the one who is missed/missing) appears to be.
“Plot is a form of self-medication: look, rejoice, there’s a glimpse of sense. Fragments will come together to mean something. Let’s ignore all what conspires against the narrative.”
Readers can ignore it if they wish, They can flip past the series of photos near the middle of the book, the streetscapes featuring buildings which occupy geographical space but also emotional territory in the narrator’s memory.
It’s as though they represent what was lost, even though they are connected to the almost-story by a particular (and very thin) thread.
The writer has not ignored all that conspires against the narrative. Neither did I, as reader. It wasn’t necessary to know the city of Paris, in order to appreciate the aspects of the novel which unfold there, but I set the book aside to search for some images of some of the locations described
This kind of detail affords readers a thoroughfare through the story. Although perhaps we have had to move to one side, to observe the loss-soaked story from the sidelines. (Also, to allow the voices of unexpected characters to offer their perspectives from the sidelines as well. But of course they have their own un-stories.)
“When I bicycle up Bathurst, I am also pedaling up Boulevard Sébastopol, direction north on both. That’s how the body recognizes it, the incline is exactly the same degree.”
The reader bicycles up neither street nor boulevard, but even without blood pumping, we can recognize that it is not only a thoroughfare but an artery.
There is a physicality -another kind of feeling but more-than-feeling – behind all of this. That tightness of calf and thigh is a memory of something that came before but which exists no longer.
“Perhaps language anchors her like pinning a butterfly, too precisely for a creature made of air and flight.”
That experience is not only a feeling but something absorbed into muscle and sinew which leaves the rider changed. Restriction and constraint: limbs and stories tied to spaces and pages. Or, not.
“That’s my ambition, that breeze. Yes, it also means task accomplished, something that may lead to more similar work with easily achieved goals, and rent paid in the city I dreamed about and only knew from the films. But it also means simply: that breeze.”
Lydia Perović conducts that breeze, orchestrates it. Just as a conductor directs musicians.
One could say that All That Sang unfolds in the space which follows a performance, in the gap which settles over a crowd before there is any applause.
One could say the near-story is rooted in the space before the conductor’s hands erupt into motion. Or in the space between movements, in which the musicians keep their instruments poised and the conductor’s hands remain raised, signalling that there is more to come.
“That’s how I feel. I’ve been the badly written character in my own life ever since I’ve met you – seen you, actually, really taken you in, probably since Mozart’s C minor mass.”
When does it change, exactly: with the seeing, the meeting, or the taking in?
When is it lost, exactly: with the telling, the analyzing, or the naming? With the tiring realization “that really she can’t be in anybody’s story”?
Music is such a powerful force and in Lydia Perović’s second novel (I’ve read her first, Incidental Music, too) it could even substitute for emotion at times. Perhaps recognizing, as George Sand did, that one can only write things down after passion has cooled, that describing intensity is less effective than pinning it inside another frame. (I’m also reading Robert J. Wiersema’s Walk Like a Man, which chroicles his coming of age with Bruce Springsteen’s music. Music holds things differently than words and can be profoundly important for writers.)
All That Sang is a slim volume, easily read in an afternoon, but there is much to discuss in the wake of reading. What makes for a good story? How does one tell about what is better left un-storied? Why Mozart’s C minor mass? Why does it surprise us to consider women in the role of conductor (on and off orchestral stages)? What series of photographs could encapsulate the person we once spent every moment thinking of? What two streets align in our memories of passions? What’s the biggest space inside of us, and what did it once hold?
Is there a space on your bookshelf which a copy of All That Sang could fill perfectly?
Naomi October 11, 2016 at 10:15 am - Reply
I love all those questions you pose at the end!
Buried In Print October 13, 2016 at 2:36 pm - Reply
You would have them too!
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ABOUT DDC
DDC DANCEWORK
DANCE CHALLENGER
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Welcome to the DDC Dancework, where we connect you to the top urban dancers in the country that we support and work with. We provide you with the latest in hot videos and news on your favorite dancers.
Stay Tuned as we unveil a new dancer every month starting in August on the DDC Dancework
CHARLES 'LIL BUCK' RILEY
THE TOP RANKED AMERICAN STREET DANCER IN THE WORLD
In 2011,Lil Buck paired him with Yo-Yo Ma in “The Swan” performance that went viral on YouTube.
Danced for Madonna during her Super Bowl XLVI halftime show, soon after joining her MDNA tour.
In 2012, Lil Buck was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch”
Spent most of 2013 dancing in the Cirque du Soleil show Michael Jackson: One.
Made the August 2013 cover of Dance magazine.
In 2014, Lil Buck performed at the TEDxTeen conference in New York City.
Guest judge on season 11 of So You Think You Can Dance.
Partnered with Versace to create a line of sneakers available online and at Versace’s NYC store in 2015.
Due to his accomplishments, he made the November 2015 cover of the Wall Street Journal’s “Innovators Issue”.
Went on a 2nd tour with Madonna, The Rebel Heart Tour in 2016
In early 2017, Lil Buck was featured in big budget advertisements by Apple, Lexus and Nike within 3 months, being the first street dancer to ever accomplish that level of success.
FUNK STYLE INNOVATOR & ARTISTIC SOCIAL ACTIVIST
Co-Founder of MAI (Movement Art Is…) with Lil Buck
In 2016, collaborated with dancer Lil Buck and artist Alexa Meade to create “Color of Reality”, a video addressing gun violence.
Florida born street dancer that mastered funk style dance with Southern Hip Hop music and no West Coast training.
Partnered with child tv star Baby Boogaloo in a new era funk style collaboration video.
RON 'PRYME TIME' MYLES
MEMPHIS JOOKIN INNOVATOR
Dance in 2011 film Footloose.
In 2012, featured in the diet Pepsi Super Bowl commercial, the same year Lil Buck, his friend, performed with Madonna at the Super Bowl Halftime show.
2013 Bessie Award for his performance at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge with Lil Buck.
Motion Capture dance performance for Alvin in Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Road Chip in 2015.
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On Location In Brooklyn: From Mickey Blue Eyes To Moonstruck!
By: Anne M. Raso
On Location Tours gives the most fun TV and movie tours in the New York City area and we have recently reported about their Sex & The City Hotspots Tour (where we got to hang with star Willie Garson at a SATC 2 private premiere) as well the Classic New York TV & Movie Sites Tour (where Joyce Randolph of Honeymooners fame accompanied us for a special Valentine’s Day edition).
Now, On Location Tours has gone into “bridge and tunnel” territory with its Brooklyn TV & Movie Sites Tour. The 3.5-hour tour starts out in front of Capitale restaurant/nightspot (former site of the Bowery Savings Bank) and showcases over 40 of the one-of-a-kind bridges, bistros and brownstones that have been used both under their real names and as fictitious locations on the big and small screens.
Each tour given by On Location Tours features actors and comediennes at tour guides, and there are plenty of trivia questions along the way (FYI, our prizes for each question answered correctly on this tour were Charm Blow Pops). The first stop on the tour is Junior’s Cheesecake, where our tour guide, handsome actor and stunt performer Amadeo Fusca, picked up individually-sized portions of the world-famous creamy confection for all tour members.
Next, the tour heads to the Brooklyn Bridge, a site that has been used for scenes for numerous films including I Am Legend, Coming To America, The Siege and The French Connection. I also want to mention that tour members can watch many scenes on the on-board screen right as they approach the real shooting locations.
The main neighborhoods that the tours go through are Downtown Brooklyn, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Prospect Park and Brooklyn Heights -- as an added bonus, riders get to see arguably the most breathtaking brownstones on earth! There is enough character in these “nabes” to make one want to immediately move out of typical suburbia pronto!
Our two favorite stops on the tour were Maybelle’s Café in Carroll Gardens—this was the site of the Cammareri Bakery in Moonstruck (you also get to see Cher’s character Loretta Castorini’s $4 million Brooklyn Heights brownstone close by)—and The River Café just underneath the Brooklyn Bridge, which was used for a Sopranos episode and offers breathtaking views of the bridge from nearby Ferry Park (used for Analyze That, The Forgotten, 13 Going On 30 and The Adjustment Bureau). The bus stops at Brooklyn Borough Hall as well, used by the TV show White Collar and the films Catch Me If You Can and Mickey Blue Eyes (the interior was used for the auction house where the lead character, played by Hugh Grant, worked at as an auctioneer).
Diehard romantics (and Julia Roberts fans) will be pleased to know that St. Augustine’s Church (116 6th Avenue in Park Slope)--scene of the wedding in Mona Lisa Smile—is included on the tour. The nearby Montauk Club (25 Eighth Avenue in Prospect Park) was used for several scenes of the hit HBO series Boardwalk Empire. Perhaps the centerpiece of the tour—and largest site--is the very grand Prospect Park (used for many films including Bored To Death), which designed by Central Park landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
We hope we have tantalized you with the handful of tour stops we have mentioned here—there are dozens more to discover! We noted that the Junior’s Cheesecake is a “nice free nosh” along the way but it’s also fun to stop in at Maybelle’s during the big 20-minute stop on the tour and try some of their baked goods! (Foodies, while at the Maybelle’s stop, walk over to nearby pizzeria Francesco’s and try an artichoke and spinach slice or walk directly across the street to old-school soda fountain shop Farmacy and discover the old pharmacy department with old meds intact while slurping on an egg cream)!
The Brooklyn TV & Movie Sites Tour is well worth the $42 for adults and $24 for kids. For more info, go to screentours.com—also be sure to “like” On Location Tours on Facebook!
Photos: Anne M. Raso and On Location Tours
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Magnificent things to do and see in the Paris city centre
Located in the vibrant Opera neighbourhood, Hilton Paris Opera is one of the best-located hotels for experiencing the iconic landmarks and things to do and see in Paris. Our convenient city centre location puts you moments from popular attractions like the Opéra Garnier, Louvre Museum and the world-famous department stores, Galeries Lafayette and Le Printemps.
Whether you’re planning a family holiday, a romantic weekend of sightseeing, shopping and dining or just have a few hours between meetings, our skilled Clefs d'Or Concierge staff is ready to bring you the best of Paris with recommendations and tour assistance.
If you have further questions about fun things to do in Paris or would like assistance planning your experience, please contact the hotel .
Hilton Paris Opera
108 Rue Saint-Lazare, 75008 Paris, France
Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris, France
Avenue des Champs-Elysees, 75008 Paris, France
Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, 75007 Paris, France
40 Boulevard Haussmann, 75009 Paris, France
Le Printemps Haussmann
64 Boulevard Haussmann, 750009 Paris, France
6 Parvis Notre-Dame - Place Jean-Paul II, 75004 Paris, France
Orsay Museum
1 Rue de la Légion d'Honneur, 75007 Paris, France
Palais Garnier Opera House
8 Rue Scribe, 75009 Paris, France
Les Berges de la Seine
Quai de la Seine, 75019 Paris, France
3 Avenue du Général Eisenhower, 75008 Paris, France
34 Rue de la verrerie, 75004 Paris
Montmartre area, 75018 Paris
Jardin de Luxembourg
Place Charles De Gaulle, 75008 Paris
Place de la bastille, 75011 Paris
Place des Invalides
Esplanade des Invalides, 75007 Paris
Eglise Sainte-Chapelle
8, Boulevard du Palais, 75001 Paris
Jacquemart Andre Museum
158, Boulevard Haussmann, 75008 Paris
Pinacotheque
2, Rue Vignon, 75008 Paris
Les Tuileries Gardens
113, Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
Au Bon Marche
Carnavalet museum
16, Rue des Francs Bourgeois, 75003 Paris
79 Rue de Varenne, 75007 Paris
Place des Vosges, 75004 Paris
Historical french district delimited by Rue Beaubourg, boulevard Beaumarchais, rue de Bretagne, rue de Rivoli and rue Saint-Antoine
Rue Faubourg St-Honore
Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris
1 Rue Victor Cousin, Université Diderot Paris 7, 75005 Paris
Palais des Congres
2 Place de la Porte Maillot, 75017 Paris
28 Boulevard des Capucines, 75009 Paris
Roland Garros Tennis
Chemin de Ceinture du Lac Inférieur, 75016 Paris
Rex Theatre
1 boulevard Poissonnière, 75002 Paris
35 rue du Chevalier de la Barre, 75018 Paris (Basilique Montmartre)
Place de la. Défense, 92053 Paris La Défense
Les Bateaux Parisiens
Port de la Bourdonnais, 75007 Paris
Champs de Mars
2 Allée Adrienne Lecouvreur, 75007 Paris
Le Lido
116Bis Avenue des Champs Élysées, 75008 Paris
Theatre Mogador
25 Rue de Mogador, 75009 Paris
8 Place Vendôme, 75001 Paris
Le Printemps Department Store
Occupying three buildings, this grand department store has been delighting shopping enthusiasts since 1865. In addition to the shops, boutiques and just about every other sort of high-end store, you’ll find great restaurants and bars where you can take a break from your shopping getaway and watch Parisian life unfold.
Image © Le Printemps
Temple of contemporary fashion, Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann provides fashion for all with a wide selection of French and international brands, from the most prestigious to the most affordable. For over 100 years Galeries Lafayette has always been looking for the newest designers and fashion trends in order to deliver an intense fashion experience. Located in the heart of Paris, the flagship store on Boulevard Haussmann is home not only to the largest fashion collections in the world for women, men and children but also to home interior design, gourmet food, a unique wine cellar etc.
The store provides over 70,000 m2 of shopping space and 3,500 brands from around the world. If Paris is the world’s capital of fashion, Galeries Lafayette is its shop window.
Image ©Galeries Lafayette
The inspiration for Phantom of the Opera, this visually stunning opera house is one of two homes of the National Opera of Paris. Extraordinarily opulent inside and out, the Palais Garnier is a wonderful place to visit, even if you’re not taking in one of the ballet or opera performances.
Image © Paris Tourist Office - Photographe : David Lefranc
Champs-Élysées
This icon is one of the not-to-be-missed sites when visiting Paris. Created in 1667 by Louis XIV's gardener, André Le Nôtre, this elegant and broad avenue extends from the place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe and is known today as one of the most prestigious shopping boulevards in the world.
Image © Paris Tourist Office - Photographe : Angélique Clément
From the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo to I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid, this former 13th century fortress and 15th century palace has been one of the world’s greatest museums since 1793 with 675,000 square feet of art works from almost every civilization on earth.
Image © Paris Tourist Office - Photographe : David Lefranc - Architecte : Ieoh Ming Peï
This space-age, skeletal building is both art gallery and cultural hub. With over 50,000 pieces of modern and contemporary art and multiple, temporary exhibitions, it is also one of Europe's most significant art collections.
Image © Paris Tourist Office - Photographe : Fabian Charaffi - Architecte : Renzo Piano et Richard Rogers
It’s a symbol of Paris and one of the most famous landmarks in the world.Climb the 1,700 steps as far as the third floor. But if you want to go to the top and take in Paris from 1,000 feet up, you'll have to take the elevator. The best time to visit is in the late evening after the crowds have dispersed.
Set in a former,early 1900’s, Beaux-Arts railway station, this open, airy museum is home to the works of the great artists of the 19th century (1848-1914) with rooms full of works by Manet, Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh and many others.
Image © Paris Tourist Office - Photographe : Amélie Dupont
The early Gothic Cathédrale de Notre-Dame (Our Lady) was the focus of Catholic Paris for seven centuries. Its vast interior accommodates more than 6,000 worshippers. Highlights include three spectacular rose windows, a treasury and bell towers that can be climbed. From the North Tower, 400-odd steps spiral to the top of the western facade, where you’ll find yourself face-to-face with frightening gargoyles and a spectacular view of Paris.
Take the kids on an adventure they’ll never forget. Browse the historic-style shops on Main Street USA. Explore Sleeping Beauty’s Castle, ride the gentle Dumbo’s Carousel and go for a spin on the Mad Hatter’s Teacups. Once the nightly fireworks begin, kids and adults alike will have fallen under the spell of the Magic Mouse.
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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Greek Coins| ▸ |Geographic - All Periods| ▸ |Thrace & Moesia| ▸ |Thasos||View Options: | 1 Item3 Items10 Items25 Items50 Items | Sort by price △Sort by price ▽Sort by date |
Greek Coins of Thasos, Thrace
Thasos is an island off the Thracian coast. The island was important in the wine trade and also controlled rich silver mines on the mainland.
Thasos, Thrace, c. 510 - 480 B.C.
Nymphs are nature spirits who appear as beautiful, young nubile maidens. They dwell in mountains, valleys and groves, by springs and rivers, and also in trees and cool grottoes. Nymphs love to dance and sing and are the frequent target of satyrs. Satyrs are male companions of Pan and Dionysus with goat-like features, including a goat-tail, goat-like ears, and sometimes a goat-like phallus. As Dionysiac creatures, Satyrs are lovers of wine and women and ready for every physical pleasure. They are obsessed with nymphs.SH96817. Silver stater, cf. Le Rider Thasiennes 1 - 2; SNG Cop 1007 - 1008; BMC Thrace p. 216, 1 - 2; Svoronos HPM pl. X, 1-5, 7; Dewing 1311 - 1312; HGC 6 331, VF, rough, test cut, thick dumpy fabric similar to first issues but lighter weight of later issues (probably transitional), weight 8.813 g, maximum diameter 18.5 mm, Thasos mint, c. 510 - 480 B.C.; obverse nude ithyphallic satyr kneeling-running right, carrying in his arms a struggling nymph, raising her right hand in protest, both with long strait hair indicated with dots, she wears a long chiton, her arm fingers and thumb forming a Y shape; reverse quadripartite incuse square; ex Numismatic Fine Arts, Fall 1989 mail bid sale, lot 411; $350.00 (€322.00)
In 477 B.C., Thasos became part of the Delian League, controlled by Athens. The Thasians revolted in 465 B.C. but the Athenians retook the island, destroyed the Thasian fleet, and the walls of the city. In 404 B.C., the Spartans occupied the island. In 393 B.C., the Athenians conquered the island again, but this time they gave Thasos its independence. Around 340, Philip II of Macedonia took control of the island, absorbed it into his Macedonian Empire and seized its mines for his own coinage. In 197 B.C., the Rome took control.SH87349. Silver drachm, SNG Cop 1017; BMC Thrace p. 219, 31; Svoronos HPM pl. X, 23; Dewing 1324; Le Rider Thasiennes -; HGC 6 -, Choice VF, the finest classical style, well centered and struck, toned, light marks, weight 8.150 g, maximum diameter 21.1 mm, Thasos mint, 4th Type, c. 435 - 411 B.C.; obverse nude ithyphallic satyr kneeling-running right, carrying in his arms a struggling nymph, satyr bald, her hair is in a bun at the back and she wears a long chiton, her right arm is behind his back, dolphin head down (control symbol) upper right; reverse quadripartite square punch; from the collection of an artist, ex Pegasi Numismatics; rare; SOLD
Roman Macedonia, "Thasian" Type, c. 148 - 80 B.C.
This Dionysos / Herakles type was first struck by Thasos itself on the island and in its continental territories in the South of the Balkans, c. 168 - 148 B.C. After Rome took control of the area, "Thasian" types were struck by Roman authorities, c. 148 - 80 B.C., mainly in Macedonia but also, perhaps, by mobile military mints on campaigns. Imitatives were also struck by at least several tribal groups (mainly Celtic or mixed enclaves) from as early as 120 - 100 B.C. to about 20 - 10 B.C.GS82725. Silver tetradrachm, Prokopov Thasos, group XIV, monogram 24, cf. 1008 (V CB3 / R 807); SNG Cop 1046, VF, broad flan, attractive toning with some iridescence, bumps, marks, scratches, weight 16.623 g, maximum diameter 33.2 mm, die axis 0o, Roman provincial or military mint, c. 148 - 80 B.C.; obverse head of Dionysos right, wearing taenia and wreathed in flowering ivy; reverse HPAKΛEOYΣ ΣΩTHPOΣ ΘAΣIΩN, Herakles standing half left, nude but for Nemean lion's skin on left arm, resting right hand on grounded club before him, left hand on hip, monogram inner left; SOLD
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West, A. Fifth and Fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian Coast. ANSNNM 40 (1929).
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Review | Best Live Action Short Oscar Nominees | 2020
Matthew Lucas January 29, 2020 Oscar Shorts 2020 , 0 Comments
While the Best Animated Short Oscar nominees are often some of the best films of the night, the Best Live Action Short nominees are historically a mixed bag, often built around contrivances necessitated by their brief runtimes, but plagued by a sense of self-seriousness as they try to convey BIG THEMES as quickly as possible. This year's crop is no different, and with one major exception are almost uniformly depressing in the most unearned, excruciating way. Here's a look at this year's nominated films.
Meryam Joobeur | Tunisia
A modern twist on the parable of the Prodigal Son, Meryam Joobeur's Brotherhood tells the story of a Tunisian family whose idealistic oldest son returns with a young new wife after joining ISIS and moving to Syria. The father is none too impressed with his son's political ideas, and constantly berates and challenges him and his new wife, eventually deciding to turn him into the Tunisian police to report him as a terrorist. But when the truth about his son's time in Syria comes to light, as well as the true nature of his marriage to such a young girl, it may be too late to stop the events that have been set in motion. Brotherhood is beautifully shot and often quiet compelling, but it wastes much of that goodwill on a ridiculous climax that has no real motivation other than to give it the kind of downer ending that this category loves because they seem "important." There are some interesting ideas at play here about what makes a "terrorist" and what motivates young Muslim men to join the caliphate, but it hinges on a contrivance that is difficult to overlook, building its drama on withholding a piece of information that it makes no sense to keep hidden other than as a dramatic plot device.
Yves Piat | Tunisia
Yves Piat's Nefta Football Club is the only one of the Best Live Action Short Oscar nominees that tells a fully formed, well-rounded story. And while it may be structured around the kind of wild coincidence that seems to define the drama in this category, it zigs just when you expect it to zag, delivering something that is fresh, funny, and unlike every other nominee in this category, not soul-crushingly depressing. The film centers around two Tunisian boys who wander across the Algerian border and discover a donkey loaded down with several kilos of cocaine. Normally this is where the original owners of the donkey would come looking for the kids, but Nefta Football Club has something else entirely on its mind, leading to a wonderfully unexpected conclusion that sends the whole affair out on a high note. It's a delightfully idiosyncratic charmer, featuring an Adele-loving donkey and kids who think they've discovered a treasure trove of laundry detergent. It's the most unique and wholly realized film of the bunch.
THE NEIGHBORS' WINDOW
Marshall Curry | USA
It always seems like there's at least one Best Live Action Short nominee like Marshall Curry's The Neighbors' Window - the schmaltzy American entry this is the most accessible, yet also somehow built around most aggressively contrived situation. In this case it's a couple of thirtysomething parents who become enamored with the attractive young couple whose apartment window is situated across from theirs. Constantly naked and constantly having sex or throwing wild parties, the neighbors quickly become a source of obsession for the couple, whose humdrum domesticity seems increasingly banal in contrast. But as they spend their time longing for the life they once had when they were younger, represented by the free-spirited young couple across the way, a tragic twist soon reminds them of just how good their life really is, and that while they long for someone else's life, someone else may be longing for theirs. The final twist is the kind of ridiculous emotional right hook that this category seems to love, but it just totally falls flat, coming across as a poorly written attempt to deliver a lesson to the audience, but the attempt is ultimately ham-fisted and lands with a thud. It's the weakest film in an admittedly subpar crop of nominees, which means it's likely the frontrunner to win.
Bryan Buckley | USA
Based on the tragic 2017 fire at the Virgen de La Asuncion Safe Home in Guatemala, in which 41 young women lost their lives after escaping from an orphanage in an attempt to reach America, Bryan Buckley's Saria starts off promisingly but quickly devolves into the kind of self-important "issue movie of the week" territory that are often so prevalent in this category. It also feels like a much longer filmed that's been cut down and crammed into a 23 minute running time, with large leaps in time where it feels like we're missing key information and character development. The tragic ending appears out of nowhere in a way that's clearly designed to shock but all it really does is feel like a dramatic cheat meant to manipulate the audience with a real life tragedy. Quite frankly, this story deserves a feature film, and while its clearly trying to draw attention to the dangers faced by migrants coming to America, it feels dramatically dishonest, as if its Cliffs Notes version of the story needs more time to really establish itself and its characters.
Delphine Girard | Belgium
A woman frantically calls emergency services to report that she has been kidnapped, but must speak in code as if she is speaking to her sister in order to convey information to the operator on the other side of the line. There's a bit of a Hitchcockian vibe to Delphine Girard's A Sister in the way that it at first withholds information from the audience, and then from key characters in the film, creating suspense out of keeping that information from its antagonist. Yet Girard doesn't quite stick the landing, never really using that inherent suspense to build or release the tension in a satisfying way. It's a strong concept with solid execution, but when the denouement finally comes, it doesn't feel like the catharsis experienced by the emergency operator, leaving the plot resolved but the audience unsatisfied.
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By Matthew Lucas posted at January 29, 2020
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Intel Kitted This School In Machakos With An eLearning Solution
Selipha Kihagi
| 29 March, 2015 at 17:19
A primary school in Machakos County is one of the beneficiaries to an e-learning classroom solution for private schools that was launched at the school yesterday (March 27, 2015), following a collaboration between Intel Corporation and the Kenya Private School Association.
The new e-learning solution that was unveiled at the Syokimau Blessed School features laptops that are built purposely for education and come rugged to withstand any mishandling from the children, including falls, dust and liquids. They also come with built-in digital security, online protection, tools for multimedia viewing and come preloaded with Intel Education Software.
Also included in the e-classroom solution is a box consisting of a high capacity WiFi Access Point, Internet Router, server and the Intel Education Content Access Point – a device that stores, manages and publishes digital content for schools with low connectivity and provides up to five hours of continuous and reliable use even with power interruption.
Achieved as result of various partnerships with players in the ICT industry, the new solution was introduced to address the problem that most schools are having with integrating latest technologies with their education ecosystems by serving as a reference for other schools, which will challenge them to adopt ICT in their learning and teaching processes.
“A major challenge in the adoption of ICT in schools is how to use it as a tool that complements learning in a classroom. Acquiring laptops or tablets is one thing but successfully integrating that technology in the learning environment through a holistic approach is a challenge most of our schools are struggling with,” said Peter Ndoro, the CEO of KPSA.
The solution, already being enjoyed by the pupils in the school has been hailed as a system that has increased motivation for both the teachers who are able to prepare, analyze and communicate ideas using the technology and pupils who have demonstrated more excitement and involvement in the learning process.
“We have seen schools purchase laptops designed for consumers or businesses as most do not know that there are laptops purpose built for education,” said Alex Twinomugisha, the Intel Business Development Manager for Education in East Africa.
“By collaborating with KPSA and the other partners, we have developed a holistic solution that empowers the teacher on how to integrate technology in the classroom, acquire relevant digital education content, help the school select the right devices for education and learn how to manage the devices,” he added.
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Eritrean Tourism – The Untapped Attractions
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Tourism: The Untapped Attractions of Eritrea
By Mebrak Ghebreweldi | Dec 19, 2020
In this article, I would like to share my personal opinion about one industry for development that is so often discussed: tourism. Before we attempt to invest heavily in tourism, we should ask these questions: What kind of tourism do we want to see in Eritrea?
Do we have adequate infrastructure for sustainable tourism? If not, what can we learn from other countries that are waking up to the devastating and irreparable damage mass tourism has inflicted to the land, the environment and biodiversity? Do we want to see ostentatious five-star hotels, overcrowded sea-sides, plastic bottles, and piles of rubbish left by careless tourists on our seashores or the development of a sustainable, environmentally and traditionally blended, tourism in Eritrea?
We, Eritreans, gave our lives for freedom and we are still defending our country today. As young freedom fighters, we might not have known much about sustainable development, but we dreamed of a green Eritrea. We used to say, “We will make Eritrea Green.” It was our motto. It is quite unimaginable to dream of that while fighting and paying priceless young lives every day. It feels surreal that we had such confidence and absolute certainty that the Eritrean people would achieve independence and develop a ‘Green Eritrea’. We did just that in 1991 after 30 years of fighting, and our green dream is, slowly but surely, making progress.
With the current political climate, improving regional relations within the Horn of Africa countries and the strategic location of Eritrea makes this an ideal time for those with small or big investment capacity to think and plan for a sustainable micro-business investment strategy.
In regard to tourism, Eritrea is blessed with outstanding beauty and wildlife, including the northern and southern Red Sea, the rich and lush land of Barka, and our national historical museum, Sahel, the sweet temperature and beautiful landscape of the highland, including our pretty capital city, Asmara. Perhaps pursuing a sustainable, locally-led, traditional hosting model of tourism might help protect Eritrea’s natural habitats and pristine environments. Such a strategy could enable communities to build their economies without harming the environment, allowing local wildlife to thrive and visitors to enjoy untouched destinations, while contributing to the country’s economic development.
#Eritrea: a beautiful East African country!#Africa #Ehiopia #Tourism #travel pic.twitter.com/a4i3hbey0I
— Nakfaw (@Nakfaw1) January 13, 2020
Regarding sustainability and environmental safety, Eritrea can learn from the environmental devastation caused by modern day mass tourism and the knowledge of those countries that are getting the balance right. One way to do this is through community-led sustainable tourism strategy.
A community-led sustainable tourism strategy is built on three pillars — environmental, socio-cultural and economic sustainability. The first step is to develop sustainable tourism anchored on history, culture and national traditions. This will help maintain or improve the environmental conditions in the region where it is implemented. The next step is to have a positive impact, both socially and culturally, on the local population. The third step is to ensure that Eritrean communities are stakeholders of these projects and share revenues that they can use for their well-being and the preservation of their local environment, history and culture.
In my opinion, the real beauty of Eritrea lies in the untold history of the Eritrean people’s resilience in adversity and the harmony, kindness, respect and caring culture among all ethnicities and religious beliefs. Eritrea’s beauty and attractions are its history of formidable struggle against colonialism and occupation. The attractions are the determination of its children to live free from occupation, oppression, poverty, inequality and fear. Our history will generate more income when many of us are inspired to do research, paint, draw, write books and make films. Once the national infrastructure is in place, the development of simple, natural and beautiful visiting centers, museums and historical landmarks will not take a long time. This type of tourism, which does not need five-star hotels, can generate substantial income.
I believe that the long trenches of our front lines of Nakfa should be made destinations of national and international pilgrimage. Landmarks such as Nakfa, Faah, Ararb, and Himbol should be visited regularly to keep the history alive and generate income for the local communities. Mountains such as Denden, Debre Imen, Taba Freweini, and valleys and other places such Adi Shrum, Elaberied and many others are more than just mountains and valleys. They served as shields from bombs and bullets, shelters from heat and rain and ultimately key factors to the successes of the freedom fighters at the battlefields.
Those caves and shades of trees were the freedom fighters’ schools, conference halls and homes where they ate, read, sang and danced. Most importantly, they are the last resting places of thousands of our freedom fighters. Soon, we should turn them to the best historical monuments in the country. They are and will be the best evidence of our history of sacrifices. These places are the museums of our history, to be visited by our children and future generations. They will be suitable for retreat, reflection and connection.
The time has now come when school buses can take children to visit our historical sites. School children can walk on the riverbed of the longest hospital in the world (Ararb) and visit Bliqat, where 2000 young female EPLF fighters in 1978 took a nine-month military training. Moving down from Bliqat to Mahmimet, they can visit the place where all the young men and women took political and military training, and Arag, the EPLF center for art and culture, where poems, songs and lyrics of success, loss, pain, hope, love, respect and unity were produced, and then staged at the front lines at night using generators and flickering torches.
Other places that are worth visiting include: the final grave yard of Wqaw, the desert hill of Awget and Grat; the graveyard of Nadow, Adi Shirum; Massawa and Assab (our Red Sea ports); the front lines of Gindae and Debub, where the last push was made to our freedom all the way to Asmara in 1991; and, of course, Sawa the riverbed with big trees and the sweetest drinking water, a refuge for our freedom fighters in the past and where Eritrea’s future is molded at present.
The unique history of Eritrean women’s participation in the armed struggle is hard to
believe. Eritrean mothers fought on the side of their children so that they can be free from murder, torture, oppression, imprisonment and fear. Eritrean mothers were, and still are, defenders of our freedom, history and equality.
There is probably no more inspiring activity than visiting the gallery of the history of Eritrean women’s heroism at the National Union of Eritrean Women. The same can be achieved by visiting the hometowns or villages of Eritrean women leaders such as Adey Fana and Adey Zineb to connect to their spirits, the places where they lived in and made history.
Now is the time we do research and develop a strategy of how we share our history and our
heritage. Eritrean and other African schools, colleges and universities could use the Eritrean history as a case study for gender issues and conflict resolution. If Eritrea is the best place to study ‘Conflict Resolution’ for the students of the University of George Mason in the USA, which sends its students to learn about the history of Eritrea, it should be an inspiration for African universities to send their students to experience Eritrea’s history.
The aim of my writing this article is to share and perhaps create some dialogue about our dream of a prosperous, green and developed Eritrea and how we can achieve those so that the generations after us can say something good about us. I am sure we are all looking to develop our nation without tipping the environmental, historical and cultural balance. Whether it is tourism or food processing, or other businesses, how do we create jobs and opportunities to the younger generations at home without spoiling their land and contaminating their drinking waters? We should take the right development path today so that they will be grateful to their ancestors for fighting and sacrificing their lives for freedom, for eliminating all kinds of colonization and leaving their environment safe.
So, what kind of development do we want to see and what kind of Eritrea do we wish to leave for the generations to come? Let us engage in meaningful and forward-looking discussions!
Source: https://shabait.com/2020/12/19/tourism-the-untapped-attractions-of-eritrea/
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Volume: 18 Issue: 7 December 2020
Utility of Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Placement for Maintaining Portal Vein Patency in Candidates on Wait Lists Who Develop Thrombus
Mustafa Alani,1 Michael Rowley,2 Paul Kang,3 Steve Chen,4 Kevin Hirsch,4 Anil Seetharam5,6
Objectives: Although no longer a contraindication to liver transplant, portal vein thrombosis may lead to longer operative time and complexities in venous reconstruction. Strategies to maintain preoperative patency include systemic anticoagulation and/or transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt placement. The former may not be ideal in cirrhotic patients prone to luminal gastrointestinal tract bleeding, and factors that predict improvements in portal vein thrombosis with the latter have not been well defined. Our goal was to evaluate the effectiveness of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt placement as monotherapy to improve and/or resolve portal vein thrombosis in otherwise eligible liver transplant candidates with partial or complete portal vein thrombosis and to identify factors predicting success.
Materials and Methods: We identified 30 patients from 2010 to 2015 who had transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt placement for primary indication to maintain portal vein patency.
Results: The main portal vein was completely thrombosed in 5 of 30 (16.6%), nearly completely thrombosed in 9 of 30 (30%), and partially thrombosed in 16 patients (53.3%). Twenty-four patients (80%) had improvement and/or resolution of portal vein thrombosis after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt placement, with 18 of these (75%) having complete resolution. All 5 patients (20.8%) with complete thrombosis had improvement/resolution of portal vein thrombosis. Nine patients (30%) required hospitalization within 3 months for hepatic encephalopathy. There were 3 deaths (10%) not related to transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt placement (10%). Nine patients underwent liver transplant after shunt placement (median 2.9 mo; range, 0.3-32 mo); all 9 received end-to-end anastomosis without need for intraoperative thrombectomy.
Conclusions: Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt placement may be effective as monotherapy for maintaining or restoring portal vein patency in selected liver transplant candidates, even in those with complete portal vein thrombosis. Further studies are needed to define potential responders to this approach.
Key words : Cirrhosis, Liver transplant, Portal vein thrombosis
The prevalence of portal vein thrombosis (PVT) in patients with cirrhosis at evaluation or at the time of liver transplant varies from 5%1 to 26%.2 Pathogenesis is multifactorial and related to several factors: altered balance of coagulation factors, increases in intrahepatic resistance to portal flow, and endothelial injury due to elevated portal pressure.3,4 Liver transplant in a patient with PVT was first reported in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA).5 Since then, various surgical and medical strategies have been proposed to treat PVT, facilitating end-to-end portal inflow when feasible. Intraoperative methods are associated with significant complications, including prolonged operative times, increased postoperative complications, and higher in-hospital mortality rates.3,5-8
The primary goal of management of PVT in patients on liver transplant wait lists is to achieve partial or complete recanalization to ensure portal flow to the allograft or to prevent propagation of thrombus, particularly into the confluence with the superior mesenteric vein. Two primary treatment strategies for patients with PVT on wait lists are anticoagulation therapy and transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) placement. Complete recanalization rate with systemic anticoagulation agents has been reported to be as high as 40%3; however, studies are mixed with regard to optimal agents and the duration/intensity for this indication.9,10 A major practical concern with the use of anticoagulant therapy is risk of inducing portal hypertensive-related bleeding and the need for repeated transfusion. Portal vein recanalization with TIPS placement has been reported in patients with PVT.11 However, in most studies, TIPS was indicated to treat severe complications of portal hypertension, and PVT was identified incidentally during work-up prior to TIPS placement. To our knowledge, few studies have examined TIPS placement with primary intent to maintain/restore PVT patency for future liver transplant. In this study, we report the efficacy and intermediate-term follow-up of 30 consecutive patients receiving TIPS to maintain portal vein patency for future liver transplant.
After institutional review board approval, we conducted a retrospective review of 34 consecutive patients with cirrhosis who were on the transplant wait list and who had undergone TIPS placement at our institution (2010-2015) for primary indication to maintain portal vein patency. Four patients were excluded from our evaluation because of use of concomitant systemic anticoagulation agents.
Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt placement
Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt placement was performed utilizing the Ring Transjugular Intrahepatic Access Set with aColapinto needle (Cook Medical, Bloomington, IN, USA), with the procedure routinely performed from the right hepatic vein to the proximal right portal vein. Before 2012, this procedure was performed with fluoroscopic guidance with wedged CO2 portovenograms (Parallax, Waltham, MA, USA) and assisted by transabdominal ultrasonography and/or direct portal vein micropuncture access/wire placement to facilitate access.12,13 After 2012, most of these procedures have been performed with intravascular ultrasonography guidance.14,15
Transluminal angioplasty of the intrahepatic tract followed by deployment of a Viatorr (Gore Medical, Flagstaff, AZ, USA)-covered stent across the tract was carried out (nominal diameter of 10 mm). The appropriate stent length was determined by simultaneous portovenogram (utilizing a marker band flush catheter) and inferior venacavagram via a 10-French angle-tipped Ring set sheath. Stents were placed from the portal vein extending slightly into the inferior vena cava. Most stents were dilated initially to 8 mm, and pressures were measured. If the portosystemic gradient (PSG) was greater than 12 mm Hg, then the stents were further dilated to 9 or 10 mm to achieve a PSG of less than 12 mm Hg. A small number of patients with preexisting hepatic encephalopathy were only dilated initially to 6 mm. Repeat PSG, right atrial pressure, and a venogram were obtained after balloon dilation of the stent.
Techniques used in our center to clear the thrombus before placement of TIPS depend on thrombus acuity. For acute thromboses, we obtain dual right intrajugular access and utilize intravascular ultrasonography to guide access from the hepatic vein to the portal vein (usually the right hepatic vein to right portal vein) and place a Viatorr TIPS to secure access. Initially, the stent is not dilated to restrict the ability of thrombus to migrate and embolize. We then perform thrombolysis, thrombectomy, and angioplasty to clear the thrombus and establish good splenic and mesenteric venous inflow into the portal veins (Figures 1 to 6). This may be performed with or without main portal vein stent placement. Finally, the TIPS stent is dilated to achieve a right atrial PSG of 12 mm Hg or less to prevent thrombosis of the portovenous system after recanalization.
For cases of chronic thrombosis, we again obtain dual right intrajugular access and utilize intravascular ultrasonography to guide access from the hepatic vein to the portal vein (usually right hepatic vein to right portal vein). This also frequently requires recanalization of the splenic vein; mesenteric and portal veins may be assisted with trans-splenic and/or transhepatic access followed by angioplasty and stent placement to restore normal venous anatomy and flow.
Radiographic assessment and clinical variables
Improvement, resolution, or worsening of PVT was assessed by review of cross-sectional follow-up imaging at 6 months after TIPS placement based on assessment by United Network for Organ Sharing-certified abdominal radiologists. Our secondary objective included an analysis of baseline factors predicting response with TIPS monotherapy. Response with TIPS was operationally defined as improvement, resolution, or prevention of further extension of thrombus while on the liver transplant wait list as assessed with multiphasic cross-sectional imaging follow-up at 6 months after TIPS placement. Preplacement demographics included age, biologic sex, race, cause of cirrhosis, biologic Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD), hemoglobin, creatinine, international normalized ratio, total bilirubin, albumin, thrombus extension, and history of hepatic encephalopathy.
Demographic results along with TIPS procedure variables were recorded and analyzed to assess baseline differences between those who did and those who did not respond to the procedure. Categorical variables were analyzed using the Fisher exact test. Continuous variables were compared using the Wilcoxon rank sum test. P < .05 was considered significant. Data were analyzed with STATA software version 14 (StataCorp, College Station, TX, USA)
Baseline demographics
Thirty patients underwent TIPS for primary indication to maintain or restore PVT patency (baseline characteristics are listed in Table 1). The main portal vein was completely thrombosed in 5 of 30 patients (16.6%), with near complete occlusion in 9 of 30 patients (30%) and partially thrombosed portal vein in 16 patients (53.3%). Mean MELD (± standard deviation) for the cohort was 13.2 ± 3.69, and average reduction in PSG with TIPS placement was 8.96 ± 3.81 mm Hg.
Efficacy of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt for portal vein thrombosis patency and predictors of response
Of 30 patients, 24 (80%) responded with improvement or resolution of PVT (Table 2). Of the 24 responders, 18 patients (75%) had complete resolution of PVT. All 5 patients (20.8%) with complete PVT had improvement/resolution.
The portal vein remained patent on the first cross-sectional image after TIPS placement in 17 patients (56%) (median of 1.4 mo after placement). The portal vein remained completely patent in 19 patients (63%) (median duration of 7.1 mo) during the available follow-up interval. Nine patients (30%) required hospitalization within 3 months for hepatic encephalopathy. There were 3 deaths (10%), which were not related to TIPS. Nine patients underwent liver transplant post-TIPS (median of 2.9 mo; range, 0.3-32 mo), and all 9 received end-to-end anastomoses (Table 3).
There were no differences in baseline demographics, TIPS procedural variables, or Yerdel grade of PVT between the responder and nonresponder groups (Table 2).
Portal vein thrombosis is increasingly recognized in patients with cirrhosis, especially in patients on the transplant wait list. Nonphysiologic techniques used to restore portal vein flow (hemitranspositions and cavoportal and renoportal anastomoses) are associated with significantly increased morbidity and mortality.15,16 Furthermore, the use of anticoagulation agents for patients with chronic PVT is still controversial, and, in many candidates, systemic anticoagulation is relatively contraindicated due to high risk of luminal gastrointestinal tract bleeding.17 The use of TIPS for treatment of chronic PVT has been utilized by many transplant centers as a method to improve portal vein patency or prevent progression of the thrombus to maintain transition of the patient to liver transplant.
In this series, we found efficacy of TIPS monotherapy in maintaining and/or restoring PVT patency in liver transplant candidates. Interestingly, the grade of PVT and/or extension to superior mesenteric vein had no effect on the rate of response to TIPS for this indication. Our study has several limitations: principally, it is a retrospective analysis from a single center with a relatively small sample size and short follow-up duration. In this investigation, median MELD score was low (13), yet 30% of patients received a liver transplant within a median of 3 months; this is a notably higher rate of transplant for patients with MELD score of < 15. There are many regions in the United States and worldwide where a patient with a low MELD score would have to wait much longer for liver transplant, and a 63% 7-month patency rate may not be sufficient to justify TIPS placement. However, presented results call out the need for further prospective investigations to evaluate predictors of response to TIPS monotherapy for PVT patency and the long-term durability of this approach in liver transplant candidates.
Englesbe MJ, Schaubel DE, Cai S, Guidinger MK, Merion RM. Portal vein thrombosis and liver transplant survival benefit. Liver Transpl. 2010;16(8):999-1005.
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From the 1Gastroenterology Department, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Creighton University, Phoenix, Arizona; the 2Gastroenterology Department, University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; the 3Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona; the 4Department of Interventional Radiology, Banner University Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona; the 5Banner Transplant and Advanced Liver Disease Center, Phoenix, Arizona; and the 6University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Acknowledgements: The authors have no sources of funding for this study and have no conflicts of interest to declare.
Corresponding author: Anil Seetharam, Banner University Medical Center, Banner Transplant and Advanced Liver Disease Center, 1441 N 12th St, Phoenix, AZ 85006, USA
E-mail: anil.seetharam@bannerhealth.com
Figure 1. Liver Transplant Candidate With Cirrhosis, Patent Intrahepatic Portal Vein (Arrow), and Distal Narrowing/Portal Vein Thrombus
Figure 2. Venogram Demonstrating Portal Vein Thrombus and Extensive Portosystemic Collaterals
Figure 3. Obtaining Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Access With Transhepatic-Assisted Guidance
Figure 4. Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt and Portal Vein Stent Deployed With Good Flow Demonstrated in the Splenic Vein and Superior Mesenteric Vein
Figure 5. Good Flow Demonstrated in the Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt and Portal Vein Stent
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MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar made the assertion to a question on whether the Kalapani border issue was discussed between PM Narendra Modi and Nepalese PM K P Sharma Oli during their telephonic conversation on Wednesday
New Delhi: India on Thursday said the new map issued by it in November 2019 accurately depicts its sovereign territory and it has in no manner revised its boundary with Nepal.
MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar made the assertion while responding to a question on whether the Kalapani border issue was discussed between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nepalese Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli during their telephonic conversation on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Modi on Wednesday held telephonic conversations with top leaders of Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and The Maldives, conveying New Year greetings and emphasising India's commitment to regional peace and security as well as the 'neighbourhood first' policy.
Nepal had in November said the Kalapani area situated in the country's far-West lies within the Nepalese boundary, after India issued new political maps reportedly showing the region as part of its territory. "Our map accurately depicts the sovereign territory of India. The new map has in no manner revised our boundary with Nepal," Kumar said at a media briefing on Thursday.
"The boundary delineation exercise with Nepal is ongoing under the existing mechanism. We reiterate our commitment to find a solution through dialogue in the spirit of our close and friendly bilateral relations," he said.
Kumar said no official comment has been received from the Nepalese side on the matter.
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(Introduced) Common Name: Pukanawila (poo-ka-na-wee-la) - Bougainvillea
A beautiful cluster of Bougainvillea
Scientific: Nyctaginaceae Bougainvillea
Size: Stems to 22 ft in length
Flower: White with multicolored bracts
Habitat: Dry tropical, sealevel to 3000 ft.
The beautiful Bougainvillea is one of my favorite plants in Hawai'i. Each plant is extremely vibrantly colored, ranging from the brightest of purples, through reds, oranges, peppermints, yellows and whites. Grown primarily for ornament use due to the overwhelming saturation of color, these vines can be found throughout the Big Island.
Quick! What color are the flowers of the Bougainvilleas? If you just said reds, oranges, yellows, etc... Wrong. The flower of all Bougainvilleas is white. You have to look closely to see a Bougainvillea flower, as it is hidden in the center of the bracts. Bracts are modified leaves and it is the bracts that are so brightly colored on a Bougainvillea.
The Bougainvillea is a vine that can grow if unchecked to over 22 feet in length. The vine has small thorns and bright green leaves as well as the modified leaves (bracts) that are brightly colored. If it isn't cut back, a Bougainvillea will climb any tree or wall to any height. You can often see huge trees on the Big Island that have a Bougainvillea growing up to their top. The result is a spectacular waterfall of color from the top of the tree to the base.
The pictures here are all of Bougainvilleas that are growing on my property. The plant in the front yard has 5 different Bougainvillea vines, each a different color, growing intertwined together. We keep our Bougainvilleas cut way back so they grow as a controlled bush. While Bougainvilleas generally prefer the dryer weather of Ka'ū and Kona side, where they grow more full and luscious, they still do very well on our wetter Hilo side.
Louis de Bougainville, a French Navigator, first discovered the Bougainvillea in Brazil. Apparently nobody had noticed the vibrant plant before, go figure. Anyway, that discovery netted Louis the prize of having the plant named after him, as well as probably being one of the most mispronounced plants out there.
The Bougainvillea eventually found its way to Hawai'i when Father Alexis John Augustine Bachelot brought the plant with him when he arrived off the coast of Honolulu around July of 1827. At first, Father Bachelot and his companions were denied residence in Hawai'i. While the matter was under dispute, however, the missionaries landed and rented space and began preaching. This did not go over well with the other missionaries on the island, primarily Protestant, who saw the arrival of the Catholics as an invasion onto their turf. The Protestants, having an ear with the Queen convinced her to order the captain of another docked ship to take the Catholics as passengers, but the captain refused and left without them. It would take over 3 years before another opportunity to oust the Catholic missionaries would appear and they were forcibly placed on the Waverly (a brig) on the 24th of December in 1831.
The good Father made another shot at Hawai'i when he landed in Honolulu on April 17, 1837. King Kekuanaoa gave them permission to remain but on the 29th of April he ordered the missionaries to again leave. Father Bachelot waited for months for a schooner that was announced to arrive, but in the meantime another priest from the same Catholic group attempted to land. At this point the situation became intolerable and Father Bachelot purchased a small schooner and left Hawai'i with the new priest on the 23rd of November. However, Father Bachelot was ill when they set sail and soon after died at sea.
Besides bringing the beautiful Bougainvillea to Hawai'i, Father Bachelot also left behind a number of works in Hawaiian grammar and early dictionaries as well as a prayer book in native Hawaiian.
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This beautiful all-purple Bougainvillea is stunning
A close up of the unmodified leaves.
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Siegenburg, Germany, April 20, 2016 – Wagner Medizin-und Pharmatechnik GmbH & Co. KG (WMPT), Siegenburg, Germany today announced the company has acquired rights to the total shares of Redd & Whyte Limited (RW), Bury St Edmunds, UK as part of a multi-year strategic partnership agreement.
Effective immediately WMPT will take direct responsibility for all customer facing activities including sales, marketing and field service related to the company’s Preddator nano dispenser. Redd & Whyte will continue development work for on-going projects related to their new, patented nano valves and dispensing modules.
After receiving numerous industry awards for the Preddator and its dispensing technology, the founder and President of Redd & Whyte, Mr. Roger Poole, set out to find the right strategic partner to grow his brand. “We had so much early success with the Preddator that we quickly found ourselves stretched too thin at key areas of our business. It was obvious to me that we couldn’t continue to grow our technology base and support our customers without making drastic changes to our business model.” comments Mr. Poole. He continued, “Early on, I believed we needed a strategic partner that has first and foremost a commitment to customers and field service and has a proven track record of developing an instrument business. Wagner and its principles certainly meet these objectives for my company.”
Juergen Wagner, founder and owner of WMPT commented, “The strategic partnership with Redd & Whyte and their Preddator dispenser is a great fit with our business objectives. We are already calling on the high throughput screening labs with our service business as well as distribution of the ATS acoustic dispenser from EDC Biosystems (outside US only). The Preddator is a great partner for the ATS as well as competitive instruments. It’s capabilities of working with 96, 384, 1536 and 3456 well plates while providing the flexibility to address any of the four (4) valves to any well of the plates and provide on-the-fly dispensing to complete a 1536 plate fill in ten (10) seconds is unmatched today.” said Mr. Wagner. He continued, “In working with many of the Preddator customers over the last year we found that they are happy with the instrument, but felt let down by the lack of field support provided by various distributors and a lack of customer focus from the company in the past”. He added, “We are very pleased to be able to take the Preddator, its dispensing technology and the new Redd & Whyte valves to the customer base with our proven field support programs and commitment to our customers. We are also pleased to welcome Roger to our executive team.”
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Redd & Whyte is privately-owned and was founded in 2002. The company has headquarters in Bury St Edmunds, UK. It currently manufacturers the Preddator nano dispenser and new, patented micro-solenoid valves.
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AB 1352 Signed--Withdrawal of DEJ Plea to help noncitizens
Thanks to the terrific work of ILRC (especially Kathy Brady and Angie Junck), Drug Policy Alliance, MALDEF, ACLU, NCLR, and many other organizations, AB 1352 was signed into law by Governor Brown on October 8th. As many of you know, I also worked on the formulation and drafting of this along with Kathy Brady.
This legislation, effective, Jan. 1, 2016, provides that anyone who was granted Deferred Entry of Judgment (DEJ) for minor drug offenses on or after Jan. 1, 1997 and who completed the program and had their charges dismissed under state law, will now be able to withdraw their plea based on the fact that noncitizen defendants were "misinformed" about the immigration consequences of the plea. It will add section 1203.42 to the California Penal Code.
Because of this bill there should be no more removals or denial of eligibility for relief or immigration benefits based on anyone who was granted DEJ and previously had their case dismissed--but a request needs to be filed with the court for withdrawal of plea.
This bill should also allow those who have been removed based on a DEJ to attempt to reopen their cases.
Prospectively it will also allow anyone who enters DEJ now and finishes their program and has their case dismissed to obtain withdrawal of their plea based on "misinformation" as well. This will allow those in removal proceedings who are in DEJ to request continuances or administrative closure.
If anyone is in removal proceedings and the IJ refuses to grant a continuance or grant admin closure, a P.C. 1018 motion to withdraw the plea can be filed to withdraw the plea based on "misinformation" even before DEJ is completed. The preferred course would be for any noncitizen to avoid DEJ and attempt to seek an immigration neutral disposition since a noncitizen can be subject to removal during the pendency of DEJ and before withdrawal of plea. The minimum duration of DEJ is 16 months and the maximum is 3 years.
We believe that withdrawal of plea based on new 1203.42 of the Penal Code should meet the In re Pickering standard for vacatur or withdrawal of plea so as to eliminate immigration consequences.
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I will be adding motions for withdrawal of plea to my practice and will be filing these throughout the State of California. Anyone who needs assistance with individual cases or has questions, please contact me on or off-line.
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Births Noah Jacob Reese Alana M. Reese, Nevada, is proud to announce the birth of her son, Noah Jacob Reese. Noah was born at 6:01 p.m., on Sept. 22, 2004, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces, and measured 19 inches. He joins two siblings, Justin A. Prewitt, and Lauren Prewitt. Maternal grandparents are Alan and Zan Reese, Highlandville, Mo...
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Nevada Herald After playing four of their first six games on the road, the Nevada Tigers football team will finally have a homestand lasting longer than one game. Nevada is at home the next two weeks as they host McDonald County and Harrisonville. After that they play their final road game of the year at Carl Junction and return home to close the season against O'Hara...
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Nevada Herald Kelly Bradham's weekly column titled "Sports Outlook" will not be seen in the Nevada Herald for a few weeks. Bradham is currently recovering from a recent medical procedure and is unable to provide his column for the immediate future. Look for "Sports Outlook" to return as soon as Bradham is able to write again...
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In this post, you will come across the top five most expensive phones in the world. The specifications and the prices have also been listed. Isn’t it curious to know what makes them so much expensive? These phones are too expensive for the general public to afford. Let’s go through:
5. Vertu Signature Cobra
Vertu is recognized for its super expensive phones. It has launched its Signature Cobra phone with a whopping price tag of $360,000. Shaken by the price, wondering what features it contains apart from an average smartphone. Of course, a smartphone would not contain 439 rubies and 22k gold. Extremely limited units are produced and sold. Getting into the features, it only places calls and sends text messages. But yes, it looks so exclusive as it has been designed and made by the French royal jeweler brand Boucheron. The 439 rubies are clamped on to the body of the python that wraps on the front part of the mobile. The manufacturer makes the Signature Cobra phone even more special by getting it delivered via helicopter. The snake has also got two emerald eyes.
4. Goldvish Le Million
Goldvish is a Swiss manufacturer of luxury phones. It has been listed by the Guinness Book of World Record as the world’s most expensive mobile phone which has a staggering price of 1 million Euros. It comes with high-end luxury combined with technology. It has a diamond studded body with the solid gold of 18k, available in colors like yellow, rose, white and gold. It has a unique shape on which diamonds are encrusted. The shining gold case makes it look more luxurious. It has a camera of 2 megapixels with digital zoom and a resolution of 1600×1200 pixels. The phone operates on 2g frequency. SMS, MMS, e-mail, chatting and texting can also be done. To sum up, 120 diamonds, 15 karats of gold and platinum makes it hugely expensive.
3. Apple iPhone 3G Kings Button
Australian jeweler Peter Aloissan designed one of the expensive phones of the world, Kings Button. The phone itself is too attractive. Its operating home button has a 6.6-carat diamond. Made of solid 18 karats yellow gold, white gold and rose gold. The phone has a white gold embedded with a total of 138 brilliant diamonds of exclusive quality. This is a budget unfriendly phone and requires a person who can dare to defy the credit crunch. It is priced at 2.5 million USD.
2. Gold Sticker iPhone 3G 32GB
This phone was launched in 2009, with the latest 3G features is the world’s second most expensive phone. It has a screen display of 3.5 inches with a screen resolution of 320×480 pixels and a screen protection of corning gorilla glass oleophobic coating. Its back camera consists of 3 megapixels. The phone is covered with precious diamonds. 136 diamonds weighing 271 grams are encrusted with 22k of pure Kashmir gold. Its home navigation button has a large exclusive diamond of 7.1 karats.
1. Diamond Rose iPhone 32GB
This is the world’s most expensive phone of 2017. It is made with embellished precious diamonds. It works the same as iPhone 4s. But the thing that which differentiates is, this phone has 500 pink color diamonds. This makes it the most expensive phone in the world. The back cover of the phone which has the Apple icon is designed with 53 precious diamonds and also contains a single diamond of 7.1 karats on the home navigating button on 18 karats rose gold mount. This exclusive Diamond Rose iPhone is designed by Stuart Hughes priced at 1.93 million pounds.
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Post by Muffinman » 28 Feb 2006 18:06
Anybody else into some good comics?
I haven't followed any series or anything for years, since university (=no money). But I kind of can't stand those 30-page single issues anymore anyway, and need to collect TPBs. I still only buy books very rarely, but I follow a few of my favourite artists'/"peers'" works.
I just got my copy of Becky Cloonan's Demo TPB in the mail today. Man it's so good. I almost cried during two of the chapters. I'm not done yet, because I'm doing homework, but wow. Becky is the queen of comics. It's a really powerful book. The short summary on the back reads: "Twelve stories of young people standing at the crossroads, each faced with a life-altering decision in a world where merely living is hard enough."
You can check out Becky's other projects at http://www.estrigious.com/becky/ (though she doesn't have many drawings up there anymore.)
I also just ordered a handful of Sam Hiti's books yesterday (in celebration of a surprise paycheque (this is how we spell it in Canada)). When I was on that trip to Chicago earlier this year, my friend bought this indy book, End Times: Tiempos Finales (it's in English, though there is also quite a bit of Spanish, which is often 'subtitled'). It is flat-out the best comic I have ever read (probably). It's very minimalistic and gothic-esque. It's just impossible to say how inspiring a story it is.
This is a sample from his site store, though it hardly does justice to the story: http://www.samhiti.com/newstore/images/ ... olume1.gif There's a scene that passes over, like, 4-6 pages where there is no dialogue whatsoever. You know you're amazing at telling a story when you don't even need words.
Sam Hiti's site is www.samhiti.com
I am also anticipating the release of Mal's Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness (#3). Mal's style for this comic probably requires some getting used to -- it's very simple and "bad"-looking, but the story is really entertaining and funny when you get into it. It's quite different from his first book, Lost At Sea, which is moving on the same scale as Demo (but with more humour -- Demo is flat-out serious (by which I totally don't mean boring!)). It's basically silly nonsense and video-game humour in a real-life, sitcom kind of way. His drawings are much better in Lost At Sea, and you can get a general sense of his style, hopefully, from looking at his older drawings on his website, www.radiomaru.com .
That's all I've really read semi-recently, I think. I also got Kia Asamiya's addition to the Darkhorse Star Wars Manga series (for Episode 1), and his drawings, as always, are exceptional, but the storytelling is REALLY weak -- it's really clear that he should have stuck to the 4-book standard that was set by the previous illustrators of the "Original Trilogy" books; it's very rushed.
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Post by Pengu » 28 Feb 2006 18:23
Oh man, I hoard comics novels. There's few things I love more! If I had more money, I'd own so many more.
The best comic novel in my opinion is the DC comic classic, Watchmen by DC legends Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. One of the best stories ever with a complex plot and fantastic artwork. It's so revolutionary that it's even on an English course' reading list here at Queen's.
Alan Moore also did V for Vandetta which is coming to theatres SOON! I'm so stoked on all the fabulous comic to film remakes like Sin City. I just hope it's not another Daredevil... ewww...
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I don't know, I don't really dig the art of Watchmen, so I never read it. It was actually a suggested reading in one of my courses too And I actually read Art Spiegelman's Maus as part of my first year English course. Another really well-written book was Neil Gaiman's Sandman -- again I couldn't stand the drawings though
Yeah, I'm excited for V for Vendetta, but...most comic movies suck and make people think that consequently comics suck.
Oh -- another good one is Mike Oeming's Powers; it's really good. I never read Astro City, but from what I've always gathered it's along the same sorta lines, only it follows the lives of two homocide detectives and murders involving "powers". It's really good, and there was a SUPER amazing plot twist in the last TPB and I NEEEEED #9!!!
Alex Ross is another of my favourite "artist"s, and his books Kingdom Come, Marvels, and Uncle Sam are really good. I also have all of his "tabloid-sized" stories, like, "Superman: Peace on Earth", "Batman: War on Crime", "JLA: something-something-something". Generally I can't stand DC, but Alex Ross has always been one of my favourites.
Ahh -- there are too many to mention. Batman only reminds me of Frank Miller's Dark Knight (I actually didn't like Sin City, though the movie was okay. And Alex Ross reminds me of DAVID MACK!! David Mack's Kabuki is pure visual poetry. It's so beautiful I can't even explain. I think I actually have a short of his from an anthology that I posted on my website for my girlfriend to read. Oh, no...it was over email, nevermind. But look him up!! He may also be doing Daredevil still (not in any way connected to the terrible movie...he makes Daredevil poetry).
Joe Madureira has always been one of my favourites, if not my favourite, and he is finally coming back after, like, 5 years in the video game industry (lots of failed concepts, Starcraft, and some MMORPG coming out soon) to do one of the Marvel "Ultimates" titles (Avengers?). I think that's supposed to premiere soon, and I am excited to see him draw again (maybe even monthly, as opposed to Battle Chasers which ended up being, like, quarterly...)
Art Spielgman's Maus and Frank Miller's The Return of the Dark Knight is also way up there on ANY comic-lover's list. They are revolutionary and critically acclaimed for a reason. I think Frank Miller's Ronin could also be arguably in this category.
Mark Waid's Kingdom Come I really enjoyed as well although the artwork wasn't for me.
Personally though, I love political conspiracies so the storyline of Watchmen really appealed to me with it's alternate history. And I always liked the raw masculinity of the artwork by Dave Gibbons. Everyone looks like they've got issues you know?
Newer favourites have definitely been from Jhonen Vasquez with Invader Zim and Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Squee! I was so excited when he had a signing at free-comic day at the Silver Snail.
On the Japanese aspect of things, I like the classics by CLAMP like Tokyo Babylon and X. Sexy bishounen is where it's at And the cheesy girly comics like Fushigi Yuugi and Marmalade boy because they remind me of my childhood even though the stupidity of the main female character always made me want to pull out my hair and yell at her. And definitely tonnes of Doraemon!
Oh oh! AND KENSHIN IS SOOOO HAWT!
Dammit! There's too much to name and too much to talk about. I have an essay to write about Minimalism. DAH! Bye!
Oh, I'm in the process of starting up a comic zine by the end of the summer here in Kingston, so if you ever have some time and can contribute to it, I would really appreciate it.
I would love to contribute. I need motivation (and or to be forced) to draw. It's funny how I refer to the illustrators and you refer to teh writers :p Mark Waid's Kingdom Come -- ha! :p
I used to be a big fan of Jhonen Vasquez. I have JTHM, Squee, and I Feel Sick (and watched Invader Zim, though I don't think it aired in Canada back then?) But then after I had a more happy outlook on life I looked back and realized how different I am now @_____@ It's still funny (SOMEBODY PUT SHIT IN MY PANTS!!), but the crappiness of his drawings really comes out when you appreciate the story less :p
Blade of the Immortal is hot. I'm probably missing a few of the last TPBs, but I have up to 13 -- GOOOOD stuff. Good, fucked-up (seriously...) samurai action. I also dig Oh My Goddess, and Gunsmith Cats (though less-so when I realized how bad Sonoda's anatomy is ) Lots of stuff that's really generic now. I guess I actually don't have too many mangas. Shirow's stuff is a must, and I've got most of it (GITS (and MMI), ORION (my fave!), Appleseed, Dominion... I never read Black Magic, so that should go back on my list...) I've got a Lodoss War trilogy... Hmm.
Oh... Ashley Wood is another favourite. The guy's a freaking machine!! www.ashleywood.com He is constantly publishing crap left, right, and centre -- seriously, like, thousands of projects every month!! I have a couple of his artbooks -- they kick ass. Definately check him though (though it sounds like we have totally different tastes...) He also did the official Metal Gear Solid book, which I want the TPB of (though from a couple issues I saw it's not really up to his typical standards...I guess he was probably restricted a lot (his style is pretty 'experimental', in a way and...it changes from every page, like David Mack). His main book is, like, "Popbot", which I have the first TPB of -- good, random, messed-up stuff
Nausicaa was my first ever comic novel that I ever received. I have the whole series and I'm still obcessed over it. Beautiful artwork and fantastical story-telling.
I read a lot more Japanese comics than I did American comics growing up. Only in highschool did I really become interested and appreciate American comics for what they are.
I kinda like how crappy and inconsistent the drawings of Jhonen Vasquez is. It's cute.
As for Ashley Wood, I have seen some of his work at the comic shops and picked it up to look at, but never really thought about buying it because being a broke university student, I don't buy very many anymore. Damn I miss being young and not having to worry about rent and tuition and spending my money as I liked. I do like mecha though, so I will check him out when I get some funds.
Comics are also SO expensive these days... I have to chose between comics and magic cards and right now, magic wins. At least with magic, I'm never disappointed in a purchase. There's too many comics to wade through. Keeping up with what's supposedly good is so difficult. I too read mostly those of my peers and my friends where I can get copies for free or at cost.
Yeah, you and I have very different viewpoints on how we refer to comics and what we like. I think it's pretty funny. Give me battling robots and samurais and ninjas, and I'm always game.
You know what I have always wanted to happen? If someone would make a comic of the novel or illustrated version of "A Wrinkle in Time" by L'Engle, I'd be on it in a second.
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Post by Bagira » 28 Feb 2006 21:27
I seriously didn't know that 'paper' comics were still being published.
When I saw the topic, I expected the standard Penny Arcade or Sexy Losers Internet comics to be discussed.
How old are you people? >_>
Hmm. On second thought, manga is considered comics. It still shocked me that non-manga comics are still published.
I'll make sure to check out one of the links that Erik left in first post. Especially the graphics-only gif comic.
On third thought, the closest thing I know of 'paper' comics being still published are the Order of the Stick (yes, I am one of those DnD players), which publish their comics in book form once or twice a year to raise money.
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Comics is a HUUUUGE fucking industry. It's awesome.
EDIT: How could I forget Mike Mignola!!! Okay, the Hellboy movie was kind of bad (another sad example of the bastardization of an AMAZING book!!), but Mike's style is one that has influenced, like, a huuuge portion of comic artists today. His stuff is amazing. I have all the Hellboy TPBs (except anything beyond The Third Wish (I read that one, but don't have it)) and this amazing $100 hardcover artbook -- so sexy. The Disney's Atlantis movie was based on his style (he did concept art -- also for movies like...Bram Stoker's Dracula I think? Either that or John Carpenter's Vampires... something along those lines...)
Hey, I think I've browsed the Naussica book... It's probably not the same thing though... I think mine was a script book for the anime? Or...what are they called... the you know... drawings panel for panel for the movie. I forget. Naussica (I always spell it wrong) is my favourite of Miyazaki's movies, though.
I don't know about there being too many. Sure there are tons of comics, but I just stopped by the comic shop this past week just to buy ANYTHING...and it's this HUUUGE store that is exclusively Winnipeg, but has tons of orders from the States (advertised in Wizard! (1 million+ back-issues!)...it has soo much stuff, and I couldn't find a single thing I wanted, browsing for 30 minutes There are lots of books I want, but man... these last couple I ordered were CHEAP! The Demo book (320 pages) was, like $24 Canadian after tax!!!!! The 4 Hiti books (a total of about 300 pages) cost me about the same!! And that's, like, with shipping and stuff! I guess indy comics are usually cheaper (and on crappy paper)...
Comics are the best!
To quote Becky Cloonan, "Life ain't nothin but comics and money!"
There USED to be a small comics store near my high school.
I went there maybe 3-5 times. Reason I went there is because they, Nuetral Ground, and maybe the Compleat Strategist are the only places I know of where to find Dragon/Dungeon Magazine. A friend of mine would also always buy some comic from them too, but they were all the old type. Thin and oldishlooking with some RAREs under counter. Looked pretty much like the comics store in the Simpsons (TV show).
Plus, geek (computer-wise) culture appreciates the comics that make one laugh way more than the comics that tell a good story, thus the closest I've come to comics in the sense that you mention them are the types called 'graphic novels' of which one was pretty horrible and should burn in <insert Warhammer 40K C'tan deity>'s hell. It was a version of Brust's Jhereg. Bad artwork and a total misconception of the story killed it.
Oh, and the comics store near high school closed the year before I graduated. I guess they weren't making any money since no one except the RPer people in school (10-20 MAXIMUM out of a healthy 3.2K) ever visited it or noticed it. Maybe the Robotics team noticed it too since the hardware/electronics store was right next to it...
"Graphic novel" refers to any bound comic with a storyline -- all the comics I've been talking about are "graphic novel"s :p
It's totally a matter of appreciating a good story, good "art"work, or the combination of both, and of being exposed to books in a style and genre that appeals to you. For example, I could say that chocolate bars are gross. Maybe they all actually are in my opinion, but I can't really judge until I've tried a large selection of them. If I hate coconut, and all I'm exposed to are those fake coconut chocolate bars, then yeah, I'm gonna have a really negative, yet uninformed, view of chocolate bars in general.
Comics ("sequential art") is very under-rated and really badly stereotyped (just like hacki sacki)
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Post by james_dean » 01 Mar 2006 14:41
All sounds very interesting. I may check some of those out, it seems hte kind of thing I might enjoy. Thanks for the writeups
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Post by full nelson » 02 Mar 2006 00:38
I liked Watchmen a lot too. It was great.
Post by Splint » 06 Mar 2006 02:31
I used to seriously collect comics. I worked in a comic store for almost 3 years in my teens. I stopped collecting shortly after I left there because comics were getting upwards of $3 a pop. Now they cost even more.
I pretty much go in for Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks now and again. Most recently (which is still a year or more ago) I finished the "Preacher" series. Ken S. had given me the first 3 in TPB as a wedding present and it took me a couple of years to finally read them. Then I got hooked and bought the rest.
Oh actually I finally read Maus I & II not too long ago.
I also really loved Astro City.
My favorites back in the day were Flash, Spiderman, and Silver Surfer.
Ken must not know this is here or he would be on it. He's still totally nuts about comics.
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Post by Guest_2 » 06 Mar 2006 18:37
Ah!!! I totally missed this thread! I <3 comics!
Maus I was good, my aunt got it for me and I haven't read the second one yet. The characters were uber creative and while I wasn't a major fan of his drawing ability, I dig the style in which it was done.
I'm not a major fan of the new comics coming out, I preferred the 90's style intensely more.
Cool comic story:
Friday night I was picked up by a guy who was dating a friend a friend of mine and is cousins with a buddy of mine. We were going to a surprise b-day party of said buddy. We stopped by the guy's place to kill time before going bowling [to kill time] before going to the surprise party. At guy's apartment I met his roomate playing X-Men Legends as we shook hands.
We discussed super heros and I saw his collection in the basement [complete with 40 yr old virgin styled unopened action figures ]. Discussing rare collectables he mentions an original Spider-Man #1 stashed away
Comics=cool
Has anyone else been reading the Marvel Essentials? It's a collective run of published comics in B&W that allows you to read 24 in a row. It's really cool and I've brushed up on my early X-history . The original X-Men were really well done, despite the goofy uniforms
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Post by Zeke » 07 Mar 2006 11:00
I used to collect back in highschool but stopped when I started paying for college. Batman was my favorite, really liked Legends of the Dark Knight and all the graphic novels. Preacher was one of my favorite series, it had so many great characters!
Some of my favorite artists:
Alex Ross, Brian Stelfreeze, Bernie Wrightson, Brian Bolland, Tim Sale, Joe Quesada and Bart Sears.
Really HATED Rob Liefeld and anything he ever created. What a shitty artist. Learn some anatomy and perspective you fucking sub-monkey troll whore!!!!!! Oh, and I really hated how ALL his character designs were exactly the freakin same! Fuck! Ok, I digress...
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Post by Muffinman » 07 Mar 2006 11:16
Yeah, Tim Sale is pretty good too. I always wanted Superman For All Seasons. And his Batman work is really good. Very Miller-esque.
Preacher is a another classic I couldn't read because of the illustrations. I think I read one of those Wizard short stories, or #0s, or something. The story seemed good...I dunno. I'm super biased. I'm all about the pretty drawings. I can't stand bad drawings, even if the story is amazing. I actually read Maus 2, and not the first one, though I have the "box set". I can't bring myself to read #1...it feels like such a chore. I looked Spiegelman's new book (about the Twin Towers, or whatever)...so bad. I'm sure the story is really moving, though.
I don't think there's really any need to make fun of Rob Liefeld any further. He's such a joke in the comics industry already :p I dunno, though...Quesada draws some funky stuff sometimes, but his anatomy is pretty fucked too. I have this Spiderman poster on my ceiling...and like...he has this muscle running between his bicep and tricep and right across where his elbow pit should be. It's, like, so silly. I have thre Spiderman posters on my ceiling in a row, actually, and they are all drawn wrong. The first is by Todd McFarlane with his silly non-existant, linear muscle masses; the second is by Mark Bagsley(?...kinda forget his name -- a pretty definative Spiderman drawer) -- he's basically one step up from Liefeld -- pretty similar style, really exaggerated proportions and stuff...everyone has the same face...; the the Quesada which has some really whacky inconsistancies, like...even from one leg to the other. It may be partly due to the colourist not knowing anatomy, but that one muscle I mentioned......
I'm a huge fanboy too, but really can't stand much of the mainstream books anymore. I would love to be able to read X-Men (and all the millions of sub series) every month, but I would never buy the issues, or even TPBs, just for the story. I collected Uncanny X-Men and X-Men for a couple years because of Joe Madureira and...who was it...either Carlos Pacheco or Salvador Laroca. I think Laroca was on Fantastic Four (which was suuuuper good) -- these two last guys are sooo good! They always team up with amazing colourists too!! Joe Mad is one of my alltime favourites.
Everybody should read Kabuki and Mack's Daredevil. I think he is working on it together with Quesada at the moment (though I'm not following it (until TPBs...), so I'm not certain. I know a few issues they shared drawing duties -- a good issue started out with a few pages of Quesada, and Mack progressively painting over his pencils until it developed completely into Mack's watercolours... that was cool (though the shiny superhero colouring on Quesada's Daredevil was really bad).
EDIT: Because I'm such a geek, I couldn't sleep one night, and started making a list of my comics and how much they cost (nevermind worth), because staring at the bookshelf in front of me I realized that even a single shelf of $20+ books must be, like, $1000! I figured that my TPBs are about $3000, and then very roughly I guessed another $1500 for all the old single issues (some of which I think have some sort of worth)...
Akiko 1: ~$20
Appleseed: $20.95, $25.95, $26.95, $26.95 = $100.80
Asterix: 8x$14.95 = $119.60
Battle Chasers 1: $9.50
Batman: Child of Dreams: $30.95
Blade of the Immortal: (1-13) 13x~$22.95 = $298.35
Bone 1: ~$20
Crimson 4: $24.95
Danger Girl, Odd Jobs: $22.95
Demo: ~$28
Dragonball: (33-34) 2x~$10 = $20
Ghost in the Shell: $37.95
Batman Stories Ever Told, The Greatest: 2x ~$62.66 = $125.32
Gunsmith Cats: $25.95, $20.95, $18.95 = $65.85
Hellboy: 5x~$25 = $125
Hellboy artbook: $100
Hobbit, The, by David Wenzel: ~$74.38
Johnny The Homicidal Maniac: ~$20
Kingdom Come: $20.95
Lone Wolf 2100 2: ~$18
Lost At Sea: ~$17
Marvels: $27.95
Maus boxset: ~$30
Nightmares and Fairytales: ~$20
Oh My Goddess: (1-3) 3x$20.95 = $62.85
Orion: $29.95
Patlabor: (1-2) $23.95, $21.50 = $45.45
Pokemon 1: $19.50
Popbot 1: $98.12
Powers: (1-5,6-8) 5x~$30, 2x~$20 = $190
Record of Lodoss War, Yoshihiko Ochi: 3x~$25 = $75
Romp: $9.10
Savage Dragon Team-ups: $31.75
Scott Pilgrim: (1-2) 2x~$17 = $34
Sencilla Fanta: ~$40
Sharknife 1: ~$17
Sin City (BB&B): $23
Slop: Analecta: ~$18
Squee: ~$20
Star Wars Manga: 14x$14.95 = $209.30
Tetsuwan Atom 49: $50
Tintin: 20x~$15 = $300
Uncle Sam: $15.50
Understanding Comics: $31.75
Witching Hour, The: $32.95
X-Men Visionnaries, Joe Madureira: $27.50
Alex Ross tabloid-sized:
Batman War on Crime: $15.50 (though, sells for $50?)
JLA Liberty and Justice: $15.50
JLA Secret Origins: $15.50
Shazam Power of Hope: $15.50
Superman Peace on Earth: $15.50
This was pretty exciting for me. I love organizing stuff
I was also just looking over Scott Pilgrim some more. It took a lot of getting used to to appreciate it, but I don't even think it's that good, looking back. I don't think I recommend it anymore, even if it did recieve many awards. I'm just a fan of Mal. Lost At Sea was really good, though!
Post by Pengu » 08 Mar 2006 11:42
The Riddler.
Holy fuck Erik. You and I need to get together sometime and lend each other our collections to read. I'd rather not think about how much mine's worth. It'd be too depressing and tempting to sell them all.
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Post by skoxn » 08 Mar 2006 12:33
i just yesterday bought "The walking dead" by Cross Cult Comics.
in america it´s published by Image. i guess, there exist now over 30 softcover comics in the usa.
here, they combined 6 comics to one hardcover with 160 pages. next book will be published in june!
well, i just started to read it, but i´m blown away!
in the first look, the story is quite simple. a man awakes after a crash in the hospital and finds out, that there aren´t any more "normal" persons. so he has to make his way through the "new" america.
the point of view is not on the zombies, the main actor is the focus.
illustrator is tony moore. i guess, he painted for dc before!
oh and i just started a series called "Priest".
it´s a korean manga (named manhwa). the difference is, that there is no backward reading like in the standard mangas.
that story is an interest mix of western and horror. an undead priest who fights in the name of a demon for the good! all in the western setting with cowboys, trains and horses!
i kinda like it
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Ikuzo!!!
All of my translated mangas are mirrored. I find myself always flipping through books backwards anyway, though. Like artbooks I look at backwards, and I skip novels backwards too
Peng: You should list some of your comics too!
My dad watered the plant in my room yesterday and spilled water all over one of my Alex Ross books without even telling me. So I found it soaked and the pages stuck together and he didn't even bother to tell me I am so anal about my comics and never let anyone read them in case they bend the pages or something... ¬________¬ My girlfriend was given a course on how to read them properly
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Erik Chan wrote: You can check out Becky's other projects at http://www.estrigious.com/becky/ (though she doesn't have many drawings up there anymore.)
you should check her out on deviantart. http://stabstabstab.deviantart.com/ *nod nod* she's a cool one. and i agree. demo was sooooo good.
i shall find her, kill her, then eat her brain to acquire her powers. yes. that is what i shall do.
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Relief will be given to those affected by COVID-19 and its economic impacts. Those seeking relief will have to show impact and need.
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Construction is expected to begin in mid 2021 and be completed by early 2023.
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Postby actuallythere » Thu Jul 12, 2012 6:26 am
Recommended viewing for all regular contributors to this forum, a 4-hour BBC series that for me provided a superb explanation of what is going on at SES. The documentary is all about how 'the ego' and 'the self' has been manipulated by politicians, advertisers and public relations people to prompt thought control and thereby behaviour - from shopping to voting.
Consider the very close personal links SES has had to politics (Maclaren), advertising (Sinclair) and public relations (Boddy). It suggests what these rich men might have got out of SES, and how - like much politics and advertising - it has been a con for the gullible and insecure. The series also points to the origin of the anguish and abuse that is associated with SES.
For starters, just take a look at the episode titles. They all ring true:
Episode One: Happiness Machines http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prTarrgvkjo (1 hour) [Generation Maclaren senior]
Episode Two: The Engineering of Consent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tenfbDqiDns (1 hour) [Generation Maclaren junior]
Episode Three: There is Policeman Inside all our Heads, He Must Be Destroyed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDrmsvdXqdc (1 hour) [Generation Sinclair]
Episode Four: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WSMx7djYJU (1 hour) [Generation Boddy]
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Re: The Century of the Self
Postby chittani » Sat Jul 28, 2012 10:40 am
AT, I loved this series when I saw it in 2002 and it has been a major inspiration in my life. Firstly because Adam Curtis is brilliant and shows how serious ideas can be made into thrilling and educational art. Secondly because it made me think more about the word 'self', which as you point out is important in the SES.
Modern marketing was founded on Freudian principles. It's an amazing story and I join with you in inviting people to watch it. Great fun, too ... sort of high-brow conspiracy theory.
HOWEVER, I'm sorry to say that you are off the mark here.
The 'self' in this series is Freud's Id (NOT 'ego'), the 'It' that dwells at the base of our brains and our evolutionary history, a seething mass of desires, drives and urges. Curtis argues that Freud's descendants, especially Edward Bernays who invented 'PR', realised that this aspect of human beings could be used to sell things. This is all well-documented - Bernays did employ Freudian shrinks to come up with his wheezes, and it worked. He brought down a government (Guatemala?), persuaded millions of women to smoke, and invented the Full [Your Nationality] Breakfast.
Curtis is in one sense old-fashioned - he believes that the 'self' is evil, which is the Christian perspective. Think of words like 'selfish', 'self-conscious', 'self-centred'. Our culture, in so far as it's Christian, is deeply opposed to self. That's why Richard Dawkins caused such upset when he wrote The Selfish Gene - he used the terms 'altruistic' and 'selfish', and argued that all of nature (including by implication, us) is 'selfish' (read - Devilish) and not 'altruistic' (Christ-like).
As Carl Jung says in Archetypes, 'with the Western man, the value of the self sinks to zero'.
From the 19th Century on, Indian philosophy brought in the idea that there is a spiritual Self (atman) that represents our highest good. This, and not Freud, is where the SES idea of 'self' comes from. Firstly, because all of the Western gurus documented by Peter Washington from Blavatsky to Steiner to Gurdjieff and Ouspensky were inspired by this Indian vision of self; and secondly from the direct influence of the Shankaracharyas from 1965 on.
In psychological terms, the tradition that connects to the New Religious Movements like the SES comes down from Jung and not from Freud. Freud said we are all evil and flawed; Jung, partly drawing on India, said we can reach self-realization.
It's not just a cult or New Religious Movement thing - the 'Indian' self is also an inspiration to humanistic psychology like Maslow, Positive Psychology, and the whole idea that by being authentically yourself, you serve others (eg Marianne Williamson). The whole New Age movement is informed by it, too.
Apart from the word 'self' which is confusing you, the things that Adam Curtis hates (Freud, Bernays, Game Theory, Tony Blair, appealing to the lowest instincts, focus groups, denigrating 'reason', self-indulgent pleasure-seeking, Wilhelm Reich) are also objectionable to the SES.
In the SES, the Freudian 'self' is called 'ahankara', root of all evil apparently. But that's another story ...
Sorry, you got me on my favourite topic here ...
Postby actuallythere » Sat Jul 28, 2012 2:33 pm
@chittani
We have a difference of opinion on the matter - that is a good thing.
You say I am 'confused' about what the 'self' is - so it would appear that you are a greater authority on the 'self' than I am, and that you are certain that you are not confused about what the self is.
I would like to know what gives you this authority, and this certainty. Is it your many years of SES membership mentioned before, or something else?
Postby chittani » Sat Jul 28, 2012 4:52 pm
@AT
I wasn't questioning your authority, or asserting mine; I was questioning what you said, because I think it's confused and mistaken. What do you want? A degree certificate? Academic references? I'm not claiming authority. I'm someone who thinks you're wrong about something.
I'm sorry if it comes across as presumptious, but I just don't get what you are driving at. I get it that people can be affected or manipulated by the vision of the self that is presented to them. I agree with that. Second, you clearly see the SES as run by a manipulative elite. And this documentary is about the manipulation of people by an elite. So there is a kind of similarity there, if one believes the first point.
But even you must see that the beliefs, ideas, methods and actions of the two are utterly different? About as different as, let's say, Richard Dawkins and the Pope?
Or maybe you really don't think they're different? Please explain.
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Postby ConcernedMum » Sun Jul 29, 2012 11:29 pm
When I saw Century of the Self, I also immediately thought of the SES too and how they have sold their organisation to people.
Chittani, you really think that having such powerful PR & Advertising gurus like Boddy and Sinclair at the highest levels since the 1980 has had no impact on the methods of the organisation itself? Also, I see Sinclair is part of Tony Blair's faith foundation so TB is hardly anathema.
Saying that the SES is about the Indian notion of atman or 'self' is like saying that Scientology is about the Xenu story (which incidentally some think Hubbard was influenced by the ideas of Gurdijeiff in making it up). That's the sales pitch. What it's really about (imo, obviously but lets look at the results of its theory and practices and it's not impressive from a spiritual perspective) is a small group at the top constructing a hierarchy below them, flattering the ego (the Freudian one) that they are the superior beings, control of others and building up a large property portfolio. That this is sold as 'spiritual' development is very much of the 'Century of the Self' territory.
I guess we could try contacting Adam Curtis to see if he thinks the work of David Boddy and Jeremy Sinclair would fit with his thesis? According to his wikipedia page, his favourite theme is power and how it works in society - I think he might find the SES quite an interesting study.
Postby actuallythere » Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:38 am
Our Concerned Mum just put it better than I would have myself. I concur with what she has just said.
Postby morrigan » Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:48 am
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And Jung started to learn from Freud and then disagreed with him. Also Freud shifted what he said/learned/taught as he developed himself and his work.
Postby woodgreen » Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:19 pm
Deleted - apologies if I knee-jerked.
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Postby ConcernedMum » Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:21 am
woodgreen wrote: O God not you again Chittani, is Lambie paying you to upset the Forum?. Beware everyone, Chittani has his own agenda, that none of us follow. But he/she is free to post.
Have to say I disagree with you getting personal in this comment Woodgreen. Don't we all, inevitably, have our own agendas? I know we've been here before so maybe we're best agreeing to disagree, just I don't like standing idly by while a personal comment is made. No offence meant.
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Goodbye Steve Letarte, thanks for everything
Lacy Page
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When your favorite driver has a crappy season, it’s a horrible feeling. But when your driver has a horrible season year after year, your nerves tend to get shot. Many Dale Earnhardt Jr. fans, myself included, were all at that breaking point.
But luckily for us, we'd receive some great news the end of the 2010 season, news that has changed Earnhardt Jr. for the better, I feel.
Steve Letarte.
Hearing that Steve Letarte was going to be Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s crew chief was something unexpected.
After the seasons we had I was hoping this change could be a good one, that having Letarte on the pit box would be something that Earnhardt Jr. needed.
For the first time in what felt like forever, seeing the No.88 contending and actually being competitive was a great feeling; it’s what everyone fan wants to see- their driver actually contending for wins.
Credit: Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images for NASCAR
Letarte brought back a fire inside Earnhardt Jr. - a fire that hadn't been seen in a while. Last season, the duo had a bad race the very first Chase race. But even with that one bad race, the duo overcame it and ended the season fifth in the points.
For many Earnhardt Jr. fans it seemed their driver had finally found that crew chief, the one that truly was the best for him. But unfortunately sometimes all good things must come to an end.
I won't lie. Hearing the news that after the 2014 season, Letarte is stepping down from the pit box and moving to the NBC booth in 2015 was a little sad to hear. The era of Letarte and Earnhardt Jr. is coming to an end. An end for which I’m not sure I’m ready.
Even though this will be the last season with Letarte I have a feeling that if the No.88 is anything like it was the last final races, they are going to be a force to be reckoned with. I have no doubt the No.88 is going to be a huge contender this season.
Though there's still a season to go, I'll say it now. Goodbye and thank you, Steve. Thank you for putting that fire back in Junior. Thanks for everything you've done these past years. Going to miss you on that pit box, but wishing you the best at NBC.
Goodbye Steve Letarte, thanks for everything Reviewed by Lacy Page on Saturday, January 11, 2014 Rating: 5
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https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0119
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Aedes, climate change, EIP, R0, Zika, Aedes albopictus, article, basic reproduction number, China, detritus, Eastern Europe, Japan, nonhuman, Ochlerotatus, risk assessment, season, simulation, virus transmission, Zika virus
Potential for Zika virus transmission by mosquitoes in temperate climates
M.S.C. Blagrove
C. Caminade
P.J. Diggle
E.I. Patterson
K. Sherlock
G.E. Chapman
J. Hesson
S. Metelmann
P.J. McCall
G. Lycett
J. Medlock
G.L. Hughes
A. Della Torre
M. Baylis
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Mosquito-borne Zika virus (ZIKV) transmission has almost exclusively been detected in the tropics despite the distributions of its primary vectors extending farther into temperate regions. Therefore, it is unknown whether ZIKV's range has reached a temperature-dependent limit, or if it can spread into temperate climates. Using field-collected mosquitoes for biological relevance, we found that two common temperate mosquito species, Aedes albopictus and Ochlerotatus detritus, were competent for ZIKV. We orally exposed mosquitoes to ZIKV and held them at between 17 and 31°C, estimated the time required for mosquitoes to become infectious, and applied these data to a ZIKV spatial risk model. We identified a minimum temperature threshold for the transmission of ZIKV by mosquitoes between 17 and 19°C. Using these data, we generated standardized basic reproduction number R0-based risk maps and we derived estimates for the length of the transmission season for recent and future climate conditions. Our standardized R0-based risk maps show potential risk of ZIKV transmission beyond the current observed range in southern USA, southern China and southern European countries. Transmission risk is simulated to increase over southern and Eastern Europe, northern USA and temperate regions of Asia (northern China, southern Japan) in future climate scenarios.
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Samsung Galaxy S III Comes with Gesture Technology
RMN Digital | June 4, 2012 | Americas, Consumer, Mobiles, Regions | No Comments
The U.S. consumers on five major service providers will now be able to own Samsung Galaxy S III, which is optimized for peak performance on the 4G LTE and HSPA+ 42 networks.
It will be launching with AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and U.S. Cellular starting in June. Exact pricing and retail availability will be announced by each of the five carriers in the coming weeks, according to Samsung.
“The U.S. launch of the Galaxy S III is the most anticipated launch of the year. As promised, we are delivering the ‘next big thing’ for U.S. customers and across all major carriers,” said Dale Sohn, president of Samsung Telecommunications America. “Galaxy S III introduces new technological innovation and takes sharing to the next level.”
With the Galaxy S III, Samsung says it is setting a new standard for smartphones. This device was designed to be lightweight, durable and powerful.
The Galaxy S III weighs 4.7 ounces and is 8.6 millimeters thin, making it lighter and sleeker than other leading smartphones, including several competitor models with smaller displays, Samsung claims.
The 4.8 inch display extends to an ultra-thin bezel to maximize the viewing area. The Galaxy S III delivers impressive processing power to allow more applications to be accessible simultaneously, according to Samsung.
The company says that Galaxy S III goes far beyond content consumption to content sharing, as Samsung has simplified how consumers share content and control the device with a single touch, through enhanced gesture technology or the simple movement of the eyes. The announcement was made today, June 4.
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Guess the Game Commercial: A VG Tribute to Rik Mayall
June 10, 2014 June 15, 2014 C.Ant
HINT: A buncha Super Nintendo/Gameboy stuff because Rik Mayall is dead and forever awesome!
STOP SCROLLING: In Guess the Game Commercial, we invite you to guess which game is being radically advertised based solely on a single out-of-context retro screen grab. The video below will feature the commercial and generally a short sizzle of our own making with the game in question. Scroll no further than the video below unless you’re stumped and ready to spoil the answer for yourself…
ANSWER: A whole buncha early Nintendo stuff
Star Fox (Starwing for our fellow Britos)
Super Mario All-Stars
Zelda: Link’s Awakening
Tetris 2
Kirby’s Dream Land
Kirby Pinball
Nigel Something Or Other’s Euro-centric Racing
Street Fighter II Turbo
Look: This was actually supposed to be this week’s Guess The Game Commercial, but since so few of you seem to care about any game information beyond the scope of some event in LA, why not hip the remaining few of you to the glory of Rik Mayall?!
I won’t pretend to know a lot about the dude, nor do I have a broad knowledge of his work. I’ve never seen Bottom, and I may’ve seen the entirety of Drop Dead Fred if I bothered to piece together the many disjointed cable viewings I’ve endured. But I do know I fucking love The Young Ones, the early ’80s BBC show that Mayall is most (from an American’s perspective) famous for co-creating.
There’s nothing else in the universe like The Young Ones, and I sincerely doubt any channel would ever broadcast it again despite its seemingly substantial cult status. Bootleg VHS tapes circulated around my high school, likely recorded from its stateside MTV airing in 1985, and in the mid-90s I remember full-page ads in Rolling Stone announcing its debut on Comedy Central. Why? Because it’s fucking insane, and the only comparable thing I’ve ever seen exists solely in the realm of animation.
It’s easy to say that The Young Ones is to comedy what punk is to music, however, I think it’s even more punk than that. It’s ugly, nasty, gleefully disgusting, usually vile just to look upon… and those 1980s BBC PAL masters certainly don’t help in that regard. All four of the main characters are beyond unlikeable, and much like some mythic Sex Pistols set, episodes often ended with the complete destruction of the set and one or more of the characters mutilated.
While the show probably still functions as a clever parody of the traditional Britcom, there’s also a Portlandia-esque skewering of youthful hipster types that I can’t imagine still exist. However, my favorite quality of The Young Ones is that it seems like the angriest thing I’ve ever seen on television. What were the fellas so pissed about? Hell if I know! I hadn’t even started kindergarten by the time the show aired its final episode (where all the main characters die, of course) so certain cultural specifics, when I can understand them through the heavily accented screaming, elude me today as a much wiser, worldly man.
I probably couldn’t accurately decipher everything being said on this show with an Oxford historian and 16 tabs of Wikipedia open, but through the violent slapstick, a message rings clear: Everybody, and everything, kinda sucks. Yet through the chaos and the anarchy, it all comes off as pretty playful. Sort of like if Tyler Durden had adopted the methods of a Bugs Bunny (“We will totally pants Wall Street!”)
Oh my God, the commercials! So sorry… Having not lived in England during the early 90s tragically, and unfairly, denied me the ability to see the commercials you can watch in the compilation above. Either they’re proof of Mayall’s celebrity status over there, or Nintendo UK’s sense of humor, because I don’t know of any nonfictional human spokesman doing this many spots for a single company, let alone Nintendo.
Furthermore, these spots are genuinely fucking funny! No shit, while The States were getting broadsided with in-your-face marketing ‘tude, the UK got this incredibly well-paced, comedic pieces that I have to assume remain memorable to those who saw them. There’s so many things to love! Fake mustaches, Kirby ribbing, nutshots, the FX chip powered SNES masterpiece “Starwing”, and my absolute favorite tidbit, a Super Mario All-Stars commercial proudly acknowledging the absurd difficulty of The Lost Levels (Americans got to find out accidentally or as lazy trivia from two decades worth of games journalists.)
My biggest takeaway? I’m pissed. Seeing these Nintendo commercials grouped together proves what I already knew: America was being denied more Rik Mayall. I tried seeking out Bottom and Filthy Rich & Catflap, although sadly, in the days before YouTube and Pirate Bay with no success. Even his more notable works, Drop Dead Fred and The Young Ones are out-of-print stateside (guessing due to the live performances by Motorhead, Madness, and Dexy’s Midnight Runners), and thus ridiculously priced. His sudden death at the age of 56 serves as a painful reminder of why I remembered his face and name for so long despite seeing him in so very little (please don’t ask me to name any other Young Ones star), and how bitter I deserve to be for not getting more time with this comic personality. If anybody’s got an Mayall recommendations, let me know in the comments.
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9 thoughts on “Guess the Game Commercial: A VG Tribute to Rik Mayall”
moan4stalone says:
WOW COBWEBS! Paul Bettany should play him in a reboot.
In a drop dead Fred reboot not a reboot of his whole life. Sorry for any confusion and go pirate I mean purchase a copy of drop dead Fred. I recently watched it and it still holds up. Sad I read a post drop dead Fred dropped dead so I initially thought it was getting a sequel.
Clovin64 says:
Gutted when I heard the news about Mayall. Me and my sister grew up watching and loving the shit out of The Young Ones. Hell, there was a time I had the entire first series memorized word for word.
I’m sad to hear that you guys over in the states didn’t have as much exposure to Rik Mayall’s comedy, as here in Britain its always been pretty easy to get access to stuff like The Young Ones and Bottom, either through DVD’s or certain British TV channels.
But Chris, if you haven’t already done show, I eagerly recommend the TV show Bottom which primarily consists of Mayall and co-star Ade Edmondson (aka Vyvyan in The Young Ones) beating the holy crap out of each other in ridiculous cartoony fashion. There was also a feature-length Bottom movie of sorts called Guest House Paradiso thats well worth a watch if you can find it, and it even includes guest roles from the likes of Bill Nighy and Simon Pegg!
C.Ant says:
Been meaning to track it down for years. The name alone has always made me giggle
Aww, I didn’t know Rik Mayall died.
In keeping with the videogame theme I’ll recommend Hogs of War, an old PS1 game nobody seems to remember. Rik Mayall provided like 90% of the voice acting, and since it’s a WW1 spoof that means every character is a borderline racist caricature of each country. It attempted to be a 3D Worms game and, now that I think about it, somehow ended up accomplishing every innovation Valkyria Chronicles brought to the strategy genre two console generations earlier.
And by recommend I mean I was young and impressionable and it probably looks like dogshit now.
OH WOW. Never heard of this. Might give it a stream…
Tranquilbez22 says:
The Young Ones was one of those shows that my dad had taped on an old looking VHS in the 80’s. Being six years old at the time I found the slapstick humour rather amazing even though I had absolutely no fucking idea what was going. Fast forward Seven years later (2008 to be precise) and my father and I had stumbled upon a DVD box set of the Young Ones whilst trying to buy a PS3. I swear that those DVD’s were in the system more often than the games were.
The Young Ones helped strengthen the bond between myself and my father. It saddened me and him deeply when we heard the news of his passing that we ended up watching our favourite episode of the Young Ones (Sick) together.
All and all, Thank you for the laughs Rik, it was shame I was born a decade late to actually see you in your prime.
TeddyFuckspin says:
Drop Dead Fred brings me back to a simpler time and place.
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view2/1817080/drop-dead-fred-barf-o.gif
SypherLane says:
The New Statesman! Dark sitcom featuring Mayall as an asshole conservative politician in the British parliament. One of the most gloriously unlikeable protagonists in televison history.
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Bab Al Bahrain in Manama. Image: Bigstock/JM Travel Photography
Manama best city for expats in the world
MUNICH, November 15, 2017
Manama, the capital of Bahrain, takes the first place in this year’s Expat City Ranking that lists the best cities for expats in the world.
The survey mirrors Bahrain’s overall lead in the Expat Insider 2017 survey published earlier.
The top 10 cities for expats are: Manama, Prague, Madrid, Kuala Lumpur, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Johannesburg, Bangkok, Basel, and Frankfurt am Main.
Among the GCC cities, Muscat is placed at 12th, Abu Dhabi 15th and Dubai 17th on the list. Thse cities are all found to have particularly friendly local residents, the survey said.
At the other end of the scale, Doha (45th), Riyadh (48th), and Jeddah (50th) are significantly less popular with their expat residents, according to the survey.
The ranking is based on data collected in the annual Expat Insider survey, conducted by InterNations, the largest expat community worldwide. With nearly 13,000 respondents living and working abroad, Expat Insider 2017 is one of the most extensive expat studies worldwide. Apart from offering an in-depth analysis of expat life in 51 cities, the survey ranks them by a variety of factors from the areas quality of urban living, getting settled, urban work life, as well as finance and housing.
Jobs in Manama are secure
The surveyed cities in the Gulf region perform poorly when it comes to urban work life, with Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Dubai, Riyadh, Doha, and Jeddah all appearing in the bottom half of the ranking for factor. Overall winner Manama, however, bucks the trend, coming in 12th out of 51 cities worldwide. In fact, more than six in 10 expats in the Bahraini capital (63 per cent) feel positively about their job security, followed by Abu Dhabi (55%), but far ahead of Jeddah (37%), Dubai, and Muscat (both 39%).
While about half the expats in Dubai (53%), Riyadh (50%), and Manama (48%) rate local career prospects positively, less than four in 10 in Jeddah (30%), Doha (37%), and Muscat (39%) agree.
Work-life balance, on the other hand, does not seem to be an issue in the Omani capital: ranking 9th out of 51 cities, it comes in second for cities in the Gulf countries, only beaten by Manama (7th), while every other surveyed Gulf city ranks in the bottom 15. About two-thirds of expats are satisfied with their work-life balance in Muscat (65%) and Manama (64%), but at most 51 percent of expats say the same in Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, and Jeddah — compared to 60 percent globally.
Muscat is miles ahead in friendliness
The Gulf cities are a bit of a mixed bag in terms of getting expats settled in. The local residents in Abu Dhabi (75%), Dubai (73%), Manama (84%), and Muscat (85%) are perceived as particularly friendly towards foreign residents, with one Filipino expat living in Manama mentioning how “locals and expats co-exist and get on well together”. Conversely, the Saudi Arabian cities of Jeddah (47%) and Riyadh (40%), as well as Doha (56%), seem to be less welcoming, ranking well below the global average (67%). This might be one of the reasons why more than one-third of expats do not feel at home in these cities, compared to only about one in 10 in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Manama, and Muscat, the survey says.
Furthermore, a majority of expats in the surveyed Gulf cities agree that the local language is hard to learn. However, with the exception of Riyadh (35%) and Jeddah (53%), about eight in 10 expats in the Gulf cities agree that it is easy to get by without knowing Arabic, while an even more impressive 92 percent state the same for Manama.
Top 5 cities make it easy for expats
Manama, Prague, Madrid, Kuala Lumpur, and Amsterdam top the list of the best cities for expats: while Prague lags behind on 35th place for getting settled, the other four cities receive good to excellent ratings in this respect.
A South African expat living in Kuala Lumpur likes “the easy-going temperament and friendliness of the local people” while an expat from the Philippines appreciates the “very friendly and helpful locals” in Manama. The majority of expats rates the general friendliness towards foreign residents positively in Manama (84%), Amsterdam (83%), Kuala Lumpur (78%), and Madrid (74%), compared to a global average of 67 percent.
Prague, however, performs below average here: only about half the expats living there (49%) are satisfied with this factor. Nonetheless, the capital of the Czech Republic is one of the top destinations for expats in 2017, particularly due to its outstanding ratings in terms of work: nearly seven in ten expats (68%) are satisfied with local career opportunities in Prague — 19 percentage points more than the global average. - TradeArabia News Service
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By Jen Fabiano November 29, 2016
This is Victim Blaming
Victim blaming is a phrase that everyone has heard, but no one has an exact definition for. Well Erin Farley, a program coordinator at Penn State’s Center for Women Students, has a definition. “Victim blaming is when the blame for a crime is put on the victim or survivor as opposed to a perpetrator where it rightfully belongs,” says Farley.
Farley says that victim blaming most often occurs with three crimes-dating violence, stalking and sexual assault.
Victim blaming happens when people question the behaviors of a victim or survivor. Most of the time, the one carrying out the victim blaming doesn’t realize what they are doing.
“It’s a bias that’s very ingrained,” says Farley. “People feel safer thinking that the victim or survivor did something to cause this as opposed to that this could happen to anyone and the perpetrators could be someone they know.” As a society, we make these crimes less frightening by deflecting that blame on to the victims.
Still don’t have a clear grasp of what victim blaming is? Here are some examples that Farley provided.
“Sexual assault would stop if people stopped getting so drunk.”
This is victim blaming.
“Why did he/she invite that person back to their room, what did he/she expect would happen?”
“Why did he/she dress like that?”
“Don’t go out alone at night, always watch your cup, and never break from the group.”
“Why didn’t the person just leave if he/she was uncomfortable?”
Farley says that historically when educating about sexual assault, risk reduction was enforced. Risk reduction entails teaching people, particularly women, what to do in order to not be sexually assaulted. “That’s really not getting at the root cause of this, which is perpetrators of sexual violence,” says Farley.
“What we know is that even if people follow all these tips they could still be sexually assaulted.” On college campuses such as Penn State a very prevalent form of victim blaming comes in the form of lecturing women about drinking behavior.
“Again, that’s not addressing the root cause of it because people have a right to drink and what they should expect is a hangover, not to be sexually assaulted,” says Farley.
While those who offer risk reduction tips are most likely just trying to protect someone, the message those comments send is that a crime occurred because of a certain action taken, or not taken, by the victim. With so much self-blame already felt by the victim, a society telling someone that it was their fault only continues to deepen the wound.
According to Farley, the questions we should be asking to solve this problem are “why is this person abusing and how are they getting away with it?”
For those looking to gain a better understanding on victim blaming and related topics, the Center for Women Students holds educational events. The next event is December 1 at 6 p.m. in 106 HUB. The program will cover victim blaming, campus rape culture, and other important topics.
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Township Council » Meetings » Minutes: May 12, 2014
Minutes: May 12, 2014
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The Regular Meeting of the Township Council of the Township of Vernon was convened at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, May 12, 2014 in the Vernon Municipal Center, 21 Church Street, Vernon, New Jersey with Council President Brian Lynch presiding.
Statement of Compliance
Adequate notice of this meeting had been provided to the public and the press on January 8, 2014, and was posted on the bulletin board in the Municipal Building in accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act, N.J.S.A. 10:4-7.
Roll Call of Members
Present were Council Members Dan Kadish, Jean Murphy, Patrick Rizzuto, Dick Wetzel, and Council President Brian Lynch. Also present were Mayor Vic Marotta, Township Business Administrator William Zuckerman and Township Attorney Kevin Kelly.
There was no Executive Session.
Salute to the Flag
Council President Lynch led the assemblage in the salute to the flag.
Buddy Poppy Month VFW
Council President Lynch invited Dennis Howard and the members of the Wallkill Valley VFW Post 8441 to the podium. Council President Lynch read the following proclamation:
WHEREAS: The annual distribution of Buddy Poppies by the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States has been officially recognized and endorsed by governmental leaders since 1922; and
WHEREAS: Buddy Poppies are assembled by disabled veterans, and the proceeds of this worthy fund-raising campaign are used exclusively for the benefit of disabled and needy veterans, and the widows and orphans of deceased veterans; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of the sale of Buddy Poppies by the Veterans of Foreign Wars is eloquently reflected in the desire to “honor the dead by helping the living.” The 2014 Buddy Poppy Drive is being held during the month of May; and
WHEREAS, The Wallkill Valley VFW 8441 and its Ladies Auxiliary promote the sale of the Buddy Poppy throughout the Township; and
WHEREAS, We urge all patriotic citizens to wear a Buddy Poppy as a symbol of gratitude to the men and women of this country who have risked their lives in defense of the freedoms which we continue to enjoy as American citizens.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Brian Lynch, Mayor Marotta and the Vernon Township Council do hereby proclaim that May 2014 is Buddy Poppy Month in Vernon Township. We hereby urge the citizens of this community to recognize the merits of this cause by contributing generously to this invaluable program.
Police Week 2014
Council President Lynch invited Chief Randy Mills and the members of the Vernon Police Department to the podium. Council President Lynch read the following proclamation:
WHEREAS: The Congress and President of the United States have designated the week of Sunday, May 11, 2014 through Saturday, May 17, 2014 as National Police Week; and
WHEREAS: The members of the Township of Vernon Police Department play an essential role in safeguarding the rights and freedoms of the Township of Vernon; and
WHEREAS, It is important that all citizens know and understand the duties, responsibilities, hazards and sacrifices of their law enforcement agency, and that members of our law enforcement agency recognize their duty to serve the people by safeguarding life and property, by protecting them against violence and disorder, and by protecting the innocent against deception and the weak against oppression; and
WHEREAS, The men and women of the Vernon Township Police Department unceasingly provide a vital service.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Brian Lynch, Mayor Marotta and the Vernon Township Council do hereby proclaim that the week of May 11, 2014 through May 17, 2014 is designated as Police Week in the Township of Vernon and call upon all citizens and patriotic civic and educational organizations to observe this week with appropriate ceremonies and observances in which all of our community may join in commemorating law enforcement officers, past and present, who, by their faithful and loyal devotion to their responsibilities, have rendered a dedicated service to their communities and, in so doing, have established for themselves an enviable and enduring reputation for preserving the rights and security of all citizens.
Alcohol Awareness Month Public Service Award Winners
Council President Lynch invited Annemarie Schafer, Gemma Chalkley, Claire Schlessinger, Justin Shea and Cynthia Schneider to the podium. Council President Lynch read the following proclamation:
WHEREAS: April was Alcohol Awareness Month; and
WHEREAS: The Vernon Coalition, in an effort to raise awareness about Alcohol abuse among teens, held a Public Service Announcement contest; and
WHEREAS, students who took the opportunity to participate in this contest shared their positive message with the community and represent the majority of county youth who choose not to drink alcohol; and
WHEREAS, The Council of the Township of Vernon wishes to commend the more than 250 entrants from 14 schools county-wide for making healthy choices and being positive role models; and
WHEREAS, Winners and honorable mentions were chosen from the many wonderful entries that encourage youth to make healthy choices and abstain from underage drinking with the message clearly shared by all entries as “This is me! It’s great to be alcohol free!”; and
WHEREAS, The Township of Vernon would like to recognize the Township’s local PSA winners.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Brian Lynch, Mayor Marotta and the Vernon Township Council do hereby recognize Claire Schlesinger, Justin Shea and Cynthia Schneider for their outstanding efforts in the “This is Me! It’s Great to be Alcohol Free” 2014 PSA contest.
Council President Lynch asked for a motion to open the meeting for public comments.
Motion: Dick Wetzel
Second: Dan Kadish
All members were in favor.
Jessi Paladini commented that she had been attending meetings of the Vernon Township Council for more than 25 years. Ms. Paladini commented that she previously had been a newspaper reporter and that there was a time when you could open the paper and read about what had transpired at a council meeting. Ms. Paladini expressed disappointment that this no longer appeared to be the case. Ms. Paladini commented how the township had reduced its debt and lowered its budget for the third year in a row yet there was little to no coverage of that in the newspaper. Ms. Paladini commented that the public is not hearing about the good the Township Council is doing. Ms. Paladini requested that something be done to get the word out.
Closed to Public Comments
Seeing no other members of the public wishing to speak, Council President Lynch asked for a motion to close the public portion of the meeting.
Motion: Patrick Rizzuto
Council President Lynch asked Ms. Beverly Budz and the members of the Vernon Environmental Commission to come forward.
Ms. Budz noted that the name Vernon means tree growth and that more than 1,100 plant species call Vernon home. Ms. Budz discussed an area of concern in the Township, Camp Sussex. Ms. Budz indicated that this once beautiful and thriving camp had deteriorated into a place where Vernon’s youth engage in dangerous behavior. Ms. Budz discussed that the Township had received a no net loss grant to reforest Vernon. Ms. Budz discussed the possibility of purchasing the property at Camp Sussex and creating a chestnut tree forest as well as public park.
Mayor Marotta asked Chief Mills to come forward to discuss the issues at Camp Sussex. Chief Mills explained that the property is currently private and that the camp has been closed for many years. Chief Mills explained that acquiring the park and making it public property would allow the police department better opportunity to patrol.
Council Member Wetzel expressed enthusiasm about the idea but concern that the Township would then have another dam to maintain. Mayor Marotta explained the dam had been inspected and is currently not in need of eminent repairs. Council Member Rizzuto expressed interest in considering the project. Council President Lynch questioned the routine problems the police were currently facing at the camp. Chief Mills explained there were broken windows, trespassing issues, drinking, and criminal mischief. Council Member Murphy questioned if there were any liens on the property and expressed concern over possible asbestos and underground oil tanks. Mayor Marotta noted there were currently no liens on the property, However, possible asbestos remediation may be required based upon future inspections. Mayor Marotta explained removal of the buildings would cost between $100,000-$300,000 depending on what route the Township took for demolition. Mayor Marotta stated that part of the property was in the planning zone but due to septic limitations on phosphates in the soil development would be limited in that area. Mayor Marotta explained the costs to restore the camp to its former use. Mayor Marotta indicated that TMR, Inc. purchased the previous tax certificates on the property and foreclosed and with each tax payment they make, the cost to acquire the property higher. Council Member Kadish requested to see a proposal on the costs of the project. Council Member Rizzuto stated he would like this issue to be approached with a vision: ball fields, picnicking, and a review of the end point costs. Mayor Marotta cautioned that Camp Sussex currently is an issue that the Township would like to correct. Mayor Marotta was asked to have additional information for the June 9, 2014 meeting.
Township Mayor’s Report
Mayor Marotta advised that the tax collection was on target but that the collection of fees was lower. Mayor Marotta speculated this may be as a result of the particularly hard winter. Mayor Marotta indicated that expenditures were on target.
Mayor Marotta noted that on May 1 the Township launched the Shop Vernon campaign and that within 10 days, 500 families had signed up and 3 new merchants had joined. Mayor Marotta stated that the company who co-ordinates the “Shop” program was amazed at the response which was more than any other town where the program had been launched. Mayor Marotta thanked the EDAC for their efforts as well as the Council. Mayor Marotta also indicated that some cards had been returned in the mail and as residents come forward to claim their cards, the Township is able to correct their tax record.
Mayor Marotta commented that the township had received the fire radios as part of a grant but there was an issue with the specifications. Mayor Marotta indicated the problem was being tracked down.
It was moved and seconded as noted below to approve the following minutes:
April 14, 2014 Regular Meeting Minutes
Moved: Dan Kadish
Seconded: Patrick Rizzuto
A roll call vote was taken:
Ayes: Dan Kadish, Jean Murphy, Patrick Rizzuto, Dick Wetzel, Brian Lynch
Abstain: None
Motion carried to approve minutes for April 14, 2014.
Resolutions Adopted by Separate Vote
Council Member Kadish requested a separate vote for Resolution 14-77. Council President Lynch provided a brief synopsis of Resolution 14-77.
Council President Lynch asked for a motion to adopt Resolution 14-77.
Council Member Kadish questioned why this resolution was brought forward. Mayor Marotta indicated that this property was not included in the Township’s wastewater management plan and the owners had requested its inclusion so they could possibly develop the property. Council President Lynch explained that this was not the first step to this property being included in the wastewater management plan but an initial step; the property owners still need approval from the Vernon MUA, the County and State DEP. Mayor Marotta explained the limits on the sewer allocation.
Resolution #14-77 was adopted.
Resolution #14-77: Resolution Endorsing a Plan Amendment to the Vernon Township Wastewater Management Plan and Sussex County Water Quality Management Plan for a Portion of the Property Known as Block 183, Lot 15 in the Township of Vernon
WHEREAS, the Vernon Township Council desires to provide for the orderly development of wastewater treatment and conveyance facilities within the municipality; and
WHEREAS, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) requires that proposed wastewater treatment and conveyance facilities and wastewater treatment service areas and related subjects be in conformance with an approved Wastewater Quality Management (WQM) plan; and
WHEREAS, the Vernon Township Wastewater Management Plan (WMP) prepared by the County of Sussex has been approved by the NJDEP as an amendment to the Sussex County Water Quality Management Plan in September 2000, and revised September 2001; and
WHEREAS, Dale Kelley (“Kelley”) is the owner of property located in Vernon Township, which land is identified as Block 183, Lot 15 on the Vernon Township tax maps, located near the intersection of Sand Hill Road and Route 94, (“Property”); and
WHEREAS, the Property is an active tilled agricultural property with a house and barn; and
WHEREAS, the proposed development of the Property will require wastewater discharge above 2000 gallons per day; and
WHEREAS, the Property is less than 100 acres and Kelley will connect the development to the Sussex County Municipal Utility Authority Sewage Treatment Plant to be consistent with the Vernon Township WMP; and
WHEREAS, the Property is designated as a “future sewer service area” and the existing Vernon Township WMP requires a Plan Amendment to include a portion of Block 183, Lot 15 on the tax map of Vernon Township to be in a “sewer service area” for the Sussex County Municipal Utility Authority Sewage Treatment Plant; and
WHEREAS, the Vernon Township Council has determined that the proposed discharge for the development of the Property contemplated by Kelley is appropriate for this Property within the municipality.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Township Council of the Township of Vernon on this 14th day of May, 2014 as follows:
Vernon Township hereby endorses a plan amendment to the Vernon Township Wastewater Management Plan (WMP) to include a portion of Block 183, Lot 15 in the Township of Vernon in the sewer service area for the Sussex County Municipal Utility Authority Sewage Treatment Plant.
This endorsement shall be submitted to the Sussex County Policy Advisory Committee, the Sussex County Board of Chosen Freeholders, the NJDEP, and all other interested parties.
Consent Agenda
Council President Lynch gave a brief explanation of Resolutions #14-71 - #14-78, excluding 14-77.
Council President Lynch asked for a motion to adopt Resolutions #14-71 - #14-78, excluding 14-77.
Seconded: Brian Lynch
Resolutions #14-63- #14-69 were adopted.
Resolution #14-71: Corrective Action Plan 2013 Audit
WHEREAS, the 2013 Annual Audit Report was delivered in April 2014 and regulations promulgated by the Local Fiscal Affairs Law, N.J.S.A. 40A:5 requires that the Chief Financial Officer prepare a Corrective Action Plan covering all findings and recommendations in the audit report; and
WHEREAS, N.J.S.A. 40A:5 further requires approval of the Corrective Action Plan within 60 days of audit receipt by the Township Council;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Township Council of the Township of Vernon that the Corrective Action Plan for the 2013 Annual Audit Report prepared by the Township Chief Financial Officer and attached hereto as “Appendix A” be approved.
Resolution #14-72: Approving a Solicitor’s Permit for Power Home Remodeling Group
WHEREAS, Power Home Remodeling Group, 6 Commerce Drive, Cranford, New Jersey 07106 has made application for a Solicitor’s Permit for the purposes of providing free estimates on windows, roofing and siding; and
WHEREAS, upon receipt of the application for a Solicitors Permit by Power Home Remodeling Group and applicants: Michael Nadolny, Jarred Palumbo, Robert Hansen, and Christopher Cambria, the Vernon Township Police Department investigated the applicant’s business responsibility and moral character and found same to be satisfactory and in good order for the protection of the public good; and the necessary application has been filed and all documentation is in order;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Township Council of the Township of Vernon that approval be granted for a Solicitor’s Permit for Power Home Remodeling Group, applicants: Michael Nadolny, Jarred Palumbo, Robert Hansen, and Christopher Cambria.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Township Clerk is hereby authorized to issue a Solicitor’s Permit to the aforesaid applicant in accordance with Chapter 428 of the Code of the Township of Vernon.
Resolution #14-73: Resolution Authorizing the Application to the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety for a Seatbelt Enforcement Program, “Click It or Ticket”
WHEREAS, the most effective device for preventing deaths and injuries in motor vehicle crashes remains the seat belt; and
WHEREAS, as a result of the Primary Seal Belt Law of 2001, enacted by the State of New Jersey, seat belt usage in the state has steadily risen saving lives on our roadways; and
WHEREAS, the most recent statewide survey undertaken in June 2013, determined the seat belt usage rate in New Jersey to be 91%; and
WHEREAS, the State of New Jersey will participate in the nationwide “Click It or Ticket” safety belt mobilization from May 19 - June 1, 2014 in an effort to raise awareness and increase safety belt usage through a combination of enforcement and education; and
WHEREAS, Vernon Township will initially incur the cost of the program, not to exceed $4,000.00 and then submit the necessary documentation to the Division of Highway Traffic Safety for total reimbursement.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Vernon Township declares its support for the Click It or Ticket safety belt mobilization both locally and nationally from May 19- June 1, 2014 and pledges to increase awareness of the mobilization and the benefits of safety belt use.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, by the Township Council of the Township of Vernon, County of Sussex, State of New Jersey, that the Mayor and Township Clerk are hereby authorized to execute and sign any and all documents in order to effectuate the receipt of the Grant monies between the Township of Vernon and the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety for Seatbelt Enforcement in the amount of $4,000.
The effective dates for this program will be from May 19, 2014 through June 1, 2014.
Resolution #14-74: Resolution to Join the Middlesex Regional Educational Services Commission Cooperative Pricing System (#65MCESCCPS)
WHEREAS, NJSA 40A:11-1 et seq. specifically authorizes two or more contracting units to establish a cooperative pricing system for the provision and performance of goods and services and allows additional contracting units to enter into such a cooperative pricing system; and
WHEREAS, a cooperative pricing system is to effect substantial economies in the provision and performance of goods and services; and
WHEREAS, the Middlesex Regional Educational Services Commission Cooperative Pricing System, hereinafter referred to as the “Lead Agency,” has offered voluntary participation in a Cooperative Pricing System for the purchase of goods and services; and
WHEREAS, Vernon Township desires to participate in the Middlesex Regional Educational Services Commission Cooperative Pricing System.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Township Council hereby authorizes Vernon Township to enter into a Cooperative Pricing Agreement with Middlesex Regional Educational Commission pursuant to the provisions of NJSA 40A:11-1(5).
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the Lead Agency shall be responsible for complying with the provisions of the Local Public Contracts Law (NJSA 40A:11-1 et seq) and all other provisions of the revised statutes of the State of New Jersey.
This Resolution shall take effect immediately upon passage.
Resolution #14-75: Endorsing the Submission of the 2013 Recycling Tonnage Grant Application to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
WHEREAS, the Mandatory Source Separation and Recycling Act, P.L. 1987 c.102, has established a recycling fund from which tonnage grants may be made to municipalities in order to encourage local source separation and recycling programs; and
WHEREAS, it is the intent and spirit of the Mandatory Source Separation and Recycling Act to use the tonnage grants to develop new municipal recycling programs and to continue and to expand existing programs; and
WHEREAS, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is promulgating recycling regulations to implement the Mandatory Source Separation and Recycling Act; and
WHEREAS, the recycling regulations impose on municipalities certain requirements as a condition for applying for tonnage grants, including but not limited to making and keeping accurate, verifiable records of materials collected and claimed by the municipality; and
WHEREAS, a resolution authorizing this municipality to apply for such tonnage grants will memorialize the commitment of this municipality to recycling and indicate the assent of the Vernon Township Council to the efforts undertaken by the municipality and the requirements contained in the Recycling Act and recycling regulations; and
WHEREAS, such a resolution should designate the individual authorized to ensure the application is properly completed and timely filed.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Township Council of the Township of Vernon that the Township of Vernon hereby endorses the submission of the 2013 Recycling Tonnage Grant Application to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and designates David Pullis, Director of Public Works, to ensure that the application is properly filed; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the monies received from the Recycling Tonnage Grant be deposited into a dedicated recycling trust fund to be used solely for the purposes of recycling.
Resolution #14-76: Resolution Authorizing Award of Contract—Payment of Court Fees by Credit Card
WHEREAS, the Vernon Township Municipal Court has requested that Defendants ordered to pay penalties and fees for violations in the Vernon Township Municipal Court be allowed to do so by credit card, and
WHEREAS, the Township Business Administrator, and the Municipal Court Administrator met with Lakeland Bank as well as their credit card servicer, Elavon, and recommend to the Governing Body that receipts for payments of fines, bail and other fees, costs or payments associated with the operation of the municipal court by credit card be approved, and
WHEREAS, the utilization of credit cards for payment of fees, costs or other payments associated with the municipal court is in compliance with the Rules of Court under N.J.A.C. 5:30-9, et seq., adopted by the New Jersey State Supreme Court and promulgated under N.J.S.A. 40A:5-43 et seq., the “Government Electronic Payment Acceptance Act.”
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the Township of Vernon as follows:
That this Town Council authorizes the municipal court to accept credit card payments for the payment of municipal court fees, fines, and such other payments that may be due to the municipal court in accordance with N.J.A.C. 5:30-9, et seq.
That a contract in the amount not to exceed $1,000.00 for the purchase of needed equipment and a service charge of 0.50% (based on volume) be awarded to Elavon, and any authorized service fees, charges, costs, surcharges, or other charges for processing electronic transactions in the municipal court will be directly billed to Vernon Township without deduction from any municipal court bank account in accordance with N.J.A.C. 5:30-9.10 (Payment of Electronic Receipt Fees).
That the Mayor of the Township is hereby authorized to sign an agreement with Elavon for said services.
Resolution #14-78: Authorizing the Award of Contract for Drainage Improvements to Upper Plateau and Murphy Court
WHEREAS, there is a need for Drainage Improvements to Upper Plateau Drive and Murphy Court within Vernon Township;
WHEREAS, the Township has issued specifications and contract documents soliciting formal bids for the necessary work;
WHEREAS, the Township of Vernon opened four bids for the proposed drainage improvements on May 8, 2014 at 11:00 a.m.; and
WHEREAS, four bids were received and reviewed by the Township Engineer, Cory Stoner for the specified bid requirements; and
WHEREAS, after review, the lowest bidder did fully meet the bid requirements and the contract is recommended to be awarded to Earth-Tec Associates, Inc., P.O. Box 941 Vernon, NJ 07462 in the amount of $32,975.00
WHEREAS, the Chief Finance Officer has certified funds available for this purpose in Account #79120123.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Vernon Township Mayor and Council, County of Sussex, State of New Jersey to award the bid to Earth-Tec Associates, Inc., for Drainage Improvements to Upper Plateau Drive and Murphy Court within Vernon Township.
This Resolution shall take effect immediately according to law.
Introduction/1st Reading of Ordinances
Ordinance #14-07: An Ordinance of the Township of Vernon in the County of Sussex, New Jersey Authorizing the Purchase of Various Equipment and Repairs in, by and for the Township Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:56-1 and Appropriating Therefore the Sum of $240,000.00 and Providing that Such Sum So Appropriated Shall Be Raised from the Capital Improvement Fund of the Township
Council President Lynch read Ordinance #14-07 by title only.
Council President Lynch asked for a motion to introduce Ordinance #14-07 with a public hearing to held on June 9, 2014.
Moved: Patrick Rizzuto
Seconded: Dick Wetzel
Council Member Murphy questioned what items the ordinance would be used to purchase. Mayor Marotta reviewed the expenses.
Motion carried to introduce Ordinance 14-07 with a public hearing on June 9, 2014.
Ordinance #14-08: An Ordinance Amending Chapter 94 of the Administrative Code of the Township of Vernon: Division of Police
Council President Lynch asked for a motion to introduce Ordinance #14-08 with a public hearing to held on May 29, 2014.
Motion carried to introduce Ordinance 14-08 with a public hearing on May 29, 2014.
Council Comments
Council President Lynch commented on the recent Supreme Court decision which allows a moment of silence or prayer at Township meetings. Council President Lynch stated in his opinion that a moment of silence was appropriate when the situation calls for it, however that would not be the case at every meeting. Council President Lynch stated he did not feel the Township should be quoting verse at meetings. Council President Lynch stated he would like to save moments of silence for when needed. Township Attorney Kevin Kelly noted the Supreme Court stated that prayer should be being at the beginning of the meeting before the substantive parts of the meeting took place.
Council Member Rizzuto commented that on April 14, Council Member Kadish had discussed the use of Narcan which counteracts an opiate. Council Member Rizzuto discussed that there only 17 states that were allowing EMTs to utilize Narcan. Council Member Rizzuto stated the Governor was working on a law to allow for a waiver for EMTs who use this to limit the EMT’s liability. Mayor Marotta commented that the Township’s position was that if the Township was to use this drug it should be initiated by the County Prosecutor. Council Member Rizzuto stated he would certainly support a motion brought forward if liability was limited. Council Member Rizzuto thanked the Glenwood Ambulance squad for their quick response to his home after his wife had an unfortunate fall earlier this week.
Council Member Murphy stated she had previously requested a list of the MUA assets. Mayor Marotta indicated that the document had been requested twice from United Water and he would follow up.
Council Member Kadish noted that the State of Massachusetts is currently supplying all police officers with Narcan and it had been very successful. Council Member Kadish stated he hoped it would become available in Vernon.
Council Member Wetzel indicated he had spoken with police and EMT first responders about this issue and they should be first to have information on this. Council Member Wetzel stated at a meeting with Lt. Governor Guadagno, she had indicated the Township had received a $200,000 grant from the Department of Transportation. Council Member Wetzel thanked Missy for the great job she did at the Senior Citizen Luncheon. Council Member Wetzel complimented Jessi Paladini for her comments; people are so appreciative of what the Council is doing in Vernon.
There being no further items of business to be conducted on the Regular Meeting agenda, a motion for Adjournment was made by Council Member Murphy, seconded by Council Member Kadish with all members voting in favor.
The Regular Meeting of the Township Council of the Township of Vernon was adjourned at 9:03 p.m.
Lauren Kirkman, RMC
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Translated and commented on by Mirino
I came across the following article in Le Figaro by Isabelle Lassere. Accordingly it would seem that the 11 September complot myth is still surviving despite the seriousness of the disease. Indeed it seems to have cancerously grown into an institutional enterprise in itself. Considering the accumulation of events that since should have negated the conspiracy theories, it reveals how difficult it is nowadays, thanks mainly to Internet, to remove obsessive ideas- once they have taken root (like abscesses) from the bitter die-hards who have no wish to part with them.
America, the target of choice of revisionism
Nine years after the WTC attack, the hunt for Osama bin Laden is again regarded as a priority by American officials, who seek an exit door from the war in Afghanistan. The attempted attack of the 25th December, on the Amsterdam-Detroit flight by a young Nigerian, brought al-Qaida back in the topical lime-light. But since September 11th, 2001, there is one one thing that has hardly changed: the persistence of the revisionists' theories which contradict the official version of events. More solid than al-Qaida and more immutable than Osama bin Laden, they are transformed into a collective belief reaching every continent and resisting, like weeds, all kinds of counter measures.
'Pentagate'
For holders of the conspiracy idea the CIA, the Jews and the oil companies would be behind the attacks. At best, the American Administration would have been aware of the attacks but would have ignored them to justify its project to seize the Middle East. The ideas which required that the Twin Towers would have crumbled under the effect of explosives, that an American missile and not a plane would have struck the Pentagon, and that no airliner would ever have crashed in Pennsylvania, are still very much alive.
After having sold 200,000 copies of his book, 'L'Effroyable Imposture' (The Big Lie), translated into twenty-eight languages, the leader of the French revisionists on September 11th, Thierry Meyssan, director of the Voltaire network, has written a continuation, 'Le Pentagate'. On the Net, associations multiply like bread rolls. The Movement (American) for the truth of 11th September, 2001 federates a hundred different sites today, sells tee-shirts, publishes DVDs and organises world wide conferences.
For nine years, the zones of influence of the negationist theories have been more or less the same ones: the Muslim world in general, Russia, ex-communist countries, Latin America and a few isolated countries like France and Germany.
"The revisionist theory card corresponds perfectly with the anti-Americanism in the world", explains Claude Moniquet, the president of the European Centre for Strategic Intelligence and Security (ESISC) based in Brussels. If it didn't sell in the Ukraine and Georgia, whose hearts are turned towards Washington rather than towards Moscow, the Presidents Iranian, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Venezuelan, Hugo Chávez, have fully supported such theories in official discourses.
Helped by the amplifying effect of Internet, the revisionists theories are constantly fed by sympathisers. "Their popularity is daily nourished by new arguments", explains the sociologist Gerald Bronner, who devoted two works on the subject (*). But if these theories work so well, it's also because they are so difficult to prove. "The arguments always seem convincing. It's necessary to have the knowledge of an engineer, a physicist and a pilot.. to be able to destroy them. Moreover, based on an effect of revelation that enlightens the spirit, the complot myths satisfy one's need to understand the world."
Complot theories have always existed. Among the best known one can refer to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, in 1963, which would have been fomented by Cuba, the USSR or the CIA. And the Protocols of Sages of Sion, an allegedly false document representing a plan for the Jews to conquer the world, manufactured by the secret police of the Russian tsar Nicolas II. More recently, the conspiracy theorists seized upon AIDS, which would have been created by the CIA, and the death of Lady Di, who would have been assassinated by the British secret service. "The conspiracy thesis correspond with conjunctual cycles... During the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, we witness a real culture of opposition and plots", writes researcher Nathalie Bastin, in a study carried out for the ESISC.
A generalised suspicion
But they also evolve with the times. For a long time previously, they were limited to an area or a country. Now the myths become borderless and world wide. "Before, they concentrated on the minorities (Jews, Gypsies, Freemasons), now they focus and polarise themselves on a new actor, the United States, a central force, the expression of Western power", explains Gérald Bronner. For the sociologist, the present time is particularly favourable to their development. "There is, in our Western societies, a denial of the official word and a generalised suspicion of expert testimony and scientific innovation". Two characteristics for which it's necessary, according to him, to add the development of the 'anti-capitalist' ideas and the 'release of the cognitive market' with the explosion of radios, televisions and the generalisation of Internet. "It's increasingly difficult to hide anything. But paradoxically, as everyone ends up by knowing, including the lies, the sentiment that one is being deceived develops itself even more".
The sociologist sees another great myth today overtaking those which surround September 11th: "precautionalism", i.e. the precaution principle pushed to extreme.'
(*) 'Vie et mort des croyances collectives', chez Hermann, et 'La Pensée extrême', chez Denoël.
Isabelle Lasserre, Le Figaro
This over-aired complot idea seems more to be a sick expression of hatred and distrust than a feasible theory. It has been technically disproved, for what it's worth, but more important, it has been proved wrong regarding the original, essential 'motives'.
Needless to add, the USA would never need to, or be inclined to, shoot itself in the heart for whatever pretext. If it was out to control the Middle Eastern oil resources, why would it start by freeing Afghanistan from the Taliban regime? Why is Iraq now free to negotiate with any nation, including France who, previously under Chirac at the time of the Iraqi incursion, was totally against ousting Saddam? Why, if for such control the USA allegedly sacrificed the WTC and thousands of its citizens, was it not in any position to influence the unjustified fuel price rises in 2008 and 2009? Why, if its priority was oil resources, did it not first take on Saudi Arabia which surely would have been easier? Why, if it's thought that the priority of the USA is determined uniquely by its own commercial interests, especially regarding oil, is it still defending the threatened democracy of Afghanistan?
Populist Hugo Chávez allegedly came up with another mad myth recently by suggesting that the USA used its unlimited, technological powers to create the Haiti earthquake in order to gain the pretext of a 'military invasion to take over the country'. To my knowledge neither Venezuela nor Cuba- both of whom regard the USA as having forcibly invaded Haiti- has helped the Haitians in any way.
It is a sad sign of the times that one can make a fortune by spreading perverse, incoherent fallacies. Maybe someone else will come up with another 'best seller' revealing the 'real reason' why the US 'invaded' Afghanistan was to take over the Middle East drug trade.
Montage image by Mirino (with thanks to ARKive and AFP) January, 2010
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Obama's failure in Haiti?
Perhaps it’s just because I am slightly biased in favor of him—and this because I have learned to trust him—that I can’t help but think that Guido Bertolaso is right and his critics are wrong. Or perhaps not, who knows? However, this is how I feel about the whole matter.
Bertolaso, head of Italy’s civil protection service, was personally sent to Haiti by Silvio Berlusconi because of his expertise—he received international acclaim for his handling of the rescue efforts after the earthquake last April at L’Aquila in Abruzzo, which killed nearly 300 people and left 40,000 homeless—and arrived in Port au Prince on Friday. After two days of observations he described the international aid effort in Haiti as “a pathetic situation which could have been much better organised” and told Italian television that the aid organisations, including United Nations bodies, wrongly thought Haiti was “another humanitarian catastrophe like Cambodia or Rwanda. They thought they could bring something to eat and drink and the problem would be resolved.”
Among many other “compliments” he added that the US military effort was “inefficient” and that troops were not trained to run an aid or disaster relief operation. “The Americans are extraordinary,” he said, “but when you are facing a situation in chaos, they tend to confuse military intervention with emergency aid, which cannot be entrusted to the armed forces.”
Last but not least, he accused many of the organisations involved in the Haiti operation of “putting on a vanity show for the television cameras instead of rolling up their sleeves,” singling out Bill Clinton, the US Special envoy to Haiti, who made a show of helping with water supplies during his time in Haiti, “but went back after a day.” Which earned Bertolaso the gratitude of the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who called Bertolaso’s swipes “Monday morning quarterbacking.” Though, she must have already realized that it is not a matter of family, nor of the US Military or of America (may God always bless America and the US Army!): it’s a matter of failure of leadership—de te, Obama, fabula narratur…
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«Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all
the Land unto all the Inhabitants
thereof
Lev. XXV, X
By Order of the Assembly of the
Province of Pensylvania for the
State House in Philada»
«If I had a bell
I'd ring it in the morning
I'd ring it in the evening ...
all over this land,
I'd ring out danger
I'd ring out a warning
I'd ring out love between all of
my brothers and my sisters
All over this land.
It's a bell of freedom»
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["If I Had a Hammer"]
"Friends, Romans,
countrymen,
lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar,
not to praise him.
The evil that men do
lives after them;
The good is oft interred
with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar.
The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar
was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously
hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave
of Brutus and the rest--
For Brutus is
an honourable man;
So are they all,
all honourable men--
Come I to speak
in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend,
faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says
he was ambitious;
And Brutus is
an honourable man.
He hath brought
many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did
the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar
seem ambitious?
When that the poor have
cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made
of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says
You all did see
that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented
him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse:
was this ambition?
And, sure, he is
I speak not to disprove
what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak
what I do know.
You all did love him once,
not without cause:
What cause withholds you
then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled
to brutish beasts,
And men have lost
their reason.
Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin
there with Caesar,
And I must pause
till it come back to me. (...)"
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The Gold Neglected By Most Car Dealers
by Chad Brooks | Oct 3, 2014
There’s a famous story told to gold miners back in the 1840s when the gold rush in Georgia was believed to be over. Many miners were thinking of heading west to join the 1849 California Gold Rush. A man by the name of Matthew Stephenson proclaimed in the town square to over 200 men, “Why go to California? In that ridge lies more gold than man ever dreamt of. There’s millions in it.” This story was retold to Mark Twain by the Georgia miners who moved to California and likely inspired his character Mulberry Sellers. Sellers was famous for his line: “There’s gold in them thar hills and there’s millions in it.”
Every day I talk to car people who are looking for gold. They want something new, a new idea, a new technique, a new mail piece promotion, anything that sells more cars — and does it this month!
Nothing wrong there.
Everybody has their own idea about what it takes to get more sales. Some are peddling snake oil and then there are others like me who care about the long-term plan of working smarter and not harder.
I’m sure my second grade teacher cared quite a bit about me, but that doesn’t compare to how my parents felt. It’s kind of like that. Like most things in life, growth goes to those who care most.
I care enough to tell you where we are missing it in the automotive marketing business. Most dealers I talk to have little to no strategy for what I’m about to share with you. Heck, I was a little late to the dance myself.
So what’s the idea?
The gold in “them thar hills” is your email database. A survey found that 90% of business people use email as much, or more than they did last year.
92% of online adults use email. Knowledge workers on average spend 13 of their working hours each week in their email inbox.
57% of email subscribers spend 10 to 60 minutes browsing marketing emails during the week.
78% of marketing emails are sent to a personal email account.
So how well are you capturing names and emails from those who visit your showroom? What email marketing strategy do you have that connects with these people that they look forward to hearing from you on a regular basis?
Following are 7 ideas that will rapidly grow your email assets and have you in the game of selling more cars (mining gold):
Store Kiosk – Capture names and emails using a showroom kiosk in combination with,
Contest Marketing – Using a strategic contest that allows you to exchange value with a prospect. You get their name and email, and when they plan to buy their next vehicle in exchange for a chance to win dinner and a movie.
Email Marketing – Deliver quality information in a way that is relevant, personal, and timely. This means a consistent strategy that, done effectively will deliver leads to your sales team.
Website – Do you have an opt-in process on your website that captures names and emails? Think of how many visitors are on your website today. These are people who have already expressed interest or they wouldn’t be on your website. Are you capturing their name and email? Are you learning their digital body language and what they like and don’t like?
Database mining – There is a metric for just about everything. Are you capturing the right metrics? You should be connecting with your audience who raised their hands that they are in the market, or will be in the market, to buy or need service or warranty coverage. This can be a goldmine for your dealership!
Social media marketing – Are you extending your market reach by connecting with your fans’ fans? There is a big strategy here that can have your email list growing in no time.
Direct Mail – Complement your direct mail with a strategic landing page designed to help grow your email list and enhance your brand image.
Email and contest marketing isn’t a tactic. It’s not a channel. It’s a strategic operation that delivers:
More qualified leads
Increased revenue
Better cost-per-lead ratios
Strengthened brand loyalty
Don’t just take my word on it. Check out what other experts have to say about email/digital marketing:
78% of CMOs think custom content is the future of marketing.
27,000,000 pieces of content are shared each day.
62% of emails are opened on mobile devices.
200% — increase in email open rates for companies integrating a content marketing operation.
$44.25 — is the average return on investment for every $1 spent on email marketing.
6X — the revenue lift companies report after implementing a email marketing operation.
1 in 3 marketing dollars are spent on content marketing.
44% – of email recipients made at least one purchase last year based on promotional email.
Women click 10% more often than men on mobile emails.
64% of decision-makers read their email via mobile devices.
By 2016, there will be 4.3 billion email accounts.
If that doesn’t make you think…
This will.
By 2020, customers will manage 85% of their relationships without talking to a human.
“There’s gold in them thar hills and there’s millions in it.” — it just happens to be your email list. It’s an untapped asset by most car dealers.
You are likely asking at this point, “So what do I do?”
Step 1: Hire a writer and editorial team to get your email marketing party started.
Step 2: Create a strategy and write it down in an editorial calendar.
Step 3: Hire a design and creative team to produce awesome content and contests that enhance the dealership brand and get people to enter and ultimately buy a car.
Step 4: Use interactive content including visually compelling landing pages, emails, and don’t forget video. This is where your design and creative team play.
Step 5: Publish, distribute, and promote your contests and content where potential car buyers will find it.
Step 6: And finally, the most important step is to track your progress and keep doing it.
Learn more about the new ADS Digital Marketing Strategy by completing the form below. The ADS Digital Marketing Strategy will provide you with the tools, strategy, and leadership to help you strike gold.
This is Part 1 in a 5-part October Gold Series.
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Horatio Southgate letter to Justin Perkins, 1837 September 13
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H. Southgate letter to Justin Perkins in which Southgate notes that Perkins does not need to feel obligated to write Southgate letters of equal length to his own. He writes about (Jacob) Samuel leaving for Georgia, Samuel's future prospects, Samuel's proposed visit to Ooroomiah (Urmia), and the paper regarding Samuel that has been sent to Captain Todd to go to India. Southgate provides his opinions on a possible school in Tabreez (Tabriz), stipends for pupils of mission schools, and missionaries going abroad for education (natives of another nation, especially Muslims, going to the U.S. for missionary training). He responds to information Perkins provided regarding the improving health of individuals, taxes, and the account of Hoernle and Scheider's adventure. Southgate discusses Taliatine, his hopes to leave for Tehran soon, and updates on other missionaries: Mr. Walters and family, Pfander, and Kreis. In the letter, Southgate writes that he sends Perkins a copy of the paper regarding Samuel, but it no longer accompanies this item.
Horatio Southgate letter to Justin Perkins, 1841 February 11
Horatio Southgate letter to Justin Perkins in which Southgate remarks on the many changes that have occurred since they used to correspond about Southgate's going into Persia. He says he will send Perkins a copy of his book and writes about Perkins' Mission. He remarks that the more he sees of these Christians, the more he feels they must be reformed in their own Churches. He shares his wishes that all, of any denomination, were united in preventing schisms. Southgate responds to Perkins' thoughts of visiting Constantinople, saying he will not be there as he expects to leave for Mesopotamia to see what can be done among the Jacobites. He notes that Mr. Brown was meant to accompany him but has disappointed him again. Southgate also writes of Perkins' importance to the Nestorian Mission.
Horatio Southgate letter to Justin Perkins, 1837 March 6
H. Southgate letter to Justin Perkins in which Southgate explains the changes to his plans since he learned that Mr. Brown will not arrive until spring. He notes that due to the delay they will likely be unable to visit Ooromiah (Urmia). He says that the American Bible Society has made an appropriation to his mission for Bibles in Eastern languages and asks Perkins several questions about his carrying Persian Testaments into Persia and their distribution. He also asks about Mr. Merrick's similar appropriation. Southgate goes on to mention Mr. Holliday (Holladay) and Mr. Brown and his wife. He asks if he can bring anything into Persia for Perkins. In closing, he briefly references the patriarchal circular against missionaries and "missionary-ism," and in a postscript he discusses a package of papers and pamphlets he will forward.
Horatio Southgate letter to Justin Perkins, 1837 November 3
H. Southgate letter to Justin Perkins in which Southgate asks Perkins to refer to the letter he sent Mr. Merrick. He explains that he is leaving Persia to go into Turkey and writes about his proposed plans for the commencement of work in Persia by the Epis. (Episcopal) Society. He discusses the kindness and opinions he has received from Mr. McNeill, including McNeill's suggestion that if a mission be established in Tehran it should be understood that no attempt was to be made at conversion. Southgate says that he hopes Mr. Brown will be the man sent to Persia. In additional notes, he mentions the Shah, Pfander, and Kreiss.
H. Southgate letter to Justin Perkins in which Southgate says that Dr. R. (Riach) has been kind to him, not least in giving his free opinions of Persia which are not flattering. He writes about this information and his desire to know the truth. He says the information he has gathered is on the whole encouraging and he goes out of Tabreez (Tabriz) with a more cheerful heart. Southgate shares his plans for leaving for Tehran and writing to Perkins from there.
Horatio Southgate letter to Justin Perkins, 1836 August 16
H. Southgate letter to Justin Perkins in which Southgate writes that he has arrived in Constantinople as a missionary of the Epis. Church of America for the purpose of exploration, principally in Persia. He asks Perkins about the opportunities for studying Turkish in Northern Persia. He says that he brought a certificate of Life Directorship for Dr. Grant. Southgate also writes about the troubles in Syra (Syros), mentioning Mr. Hildner, Mrs. Robertson, and Dr. Robertson.
H. Southgate letter to Justin Perkins in which Southgate explains that the letter accompanying should have been sent by Mr. Clarendon but he failed to give notice of his departure. He discusses letters received, including one from Mr. Brown and some Armenian letters of a general character. He says his views in regard to Tabreez (Tabriz) becoming a missionary station are not yet settled, and he updates Perkins on the status of Mr. Samuel, Dr. Riach, and Mr. Merrick. He also mentions Mr. and Mrs. Holladay and Malik Cassam Mirza and shares his probable plans for when he will leave Tabreez. The letter noted as accompanying this one is no longer with this item.
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Top 5 airfreight trends to expect for 2019
Happy new year! Every January brings with it anticipation of the months to come and what they hold for airfreight logistics. Trade wars, recent WorldACD reports and the impending finale of Brexit have instilled uncertainty into the market, but the outlook for this year still suggests growth.
We at Air Cargo World, have chosen the top five airfreight trends we expect we will hear about the most in 2019. On the following pages, check out the roundup of some of the top trends we predict. Did we miss some? Let us know!
#5: Cross-border e-commerce boom continues
This year, both China’s 11.11 and the Western seasonal shopping holidays broke peak-season records, raking in US$30.8 billion and US$24.2 billion in sales, respectively. To serve e-commerce operations, Alibaba’s logistics subsidiary, Cainiao, unveiled its investment to develop six “eHubs,” while Amazon has continued building up its own Amazon Air hub network.
Airfreight hubs are becoming increasingly important to e-commerce growth, as e-commerce giants, integrators and carriers are building up their package sorting and automation capabilities, along with extending networks in the hopes to capture a larger portion of the growing demand. We expect those trends to continue and accelerate in 2019.
#4: The rise of Southeast Asia
Southeast Asian airports are among the fastest growing in the world, with production of various goods shifting into the region, due to rising costs of manufacturing in China, and concerns related to volatile trade relations between the United States and China. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) economic ministers also signed an agreement to support the facilitation of cross-border e-commerce between ASEAN members in November 2018.
Turkish Cargo is increasing its presence in the region with the launch of new freighter services. Meanwhile, airports in the surrounding region – including Incheon (ICN), Singapore Changi (SIN), Hong Kong International (HKG), and Taiwan Taoyuan (TPE) – are helping national carriers expand air rights with ASEAN countries, and encouraging operators to increase flights south, some providing special incentive programs to attract more flights.
“This will definitely reduce our original cargo export to China, even though it may increase some transfer cargo traffic in Taiwan from ASEAN,” said Jimmy Liu, senior manager of cargo operations at TPE.
Executives from logistics companies, including APEX Logistics and SEKO Logistics, agree that Southeast Asia is a rising hotspot, but warn the industry to approach with caution, saying that they are concerned about the bandwidth the region can provide for freighter operations if the countries do not sufficiently develop their infrastructure and policies.
#3: Cool-chain tech advances support burgeoning pharma demand
Industry participants are making necessary strides forward in cool-chain technology to keep pace with the fast-growing market demand for pharmaceuticals. The new innovations in cool chain-tech developed in 2018 will likely be put to use in the new year as operators increase their investments in storage, certification and cooperation.
By 2020, IATA predicts biopharma cold-chain logistics spending will increase by 8 to 9 percent, and that biopharma sales will increase by 4 to 5 percent. Europe and North America maintain the top biopharma market share at 60 percent, although cold-chain logistics spending is expected to grow fastest in Asia and North America. Rising demand is expected in the coming year from Asia, due to the region’s expanding middle class in developing countries and aging population in developed countries.
#2: Continued market uncertainty
With regulatory changes on the horizon coming from a fast-approaching Brexit finale and the continued trade war between the United States and China, market uncertainty will challenge industry stakeholders’ operations into the new year.
As the March 29, 2019, deadline for Brexit draws near, no clear guidance or clues have been given as to how rules and regulations will play out. Aviation industry organizations are fiercely advocating for the United Kingdom and the European Union to hammer out an agreement. In the meantime, logistics companies warned carriers to prepare for potentially higher costs and process complexity, which may exacerbate already-existing strains on trade flows or have ripple effects throughout the greater European region. Some logistics companies have booked standby aircraft or are forward-stocking goods to mitigate against losses should negotiations result in a “no deal” outcome.
Moving east, the series of trade tensions ratcheted up between the U.S and China, and accentuated by a U.S. exit from the Universal Postal Union in October, have done little to reassure the air cargo industry against possible collateral damage. Despite operators reporting minimal impact to cargo numbers this peak season, as covered by our sister publication, Cargo Facts, industry experts expect continued market uncertainty into the new year and are warning stakeholders to form contingency plans.
#1: Increased automation and digitalization
While the conventional narrative states that the airfreight industry is reluctant to adopt digital innovations, developments this year suggest the times may be changing, with executives from logistics providers, such as SEKO Logistics’ global vice president of airfreight, Shawn Richard, saying it is increasingly necessary to implement these changes. The cargo industry has made strides in the last year towards increasing its automated and digitalized processes and is expected to continue doing so in the coming year.
Various airlines have begun to cut out traditional paper-based systems by implementing use of digital processes, including digital devices that measure ULDs, apps for dangerous goods declarations and online platforms for booking and tracking shipments in real-time. Forwarders, integrators and airports are also investing in technology. Increasingly, airports require ground handlers and providers to reserve slots via digital platform, thus increasing efficiency and lowering costs and carbon footprints through visibility and data-sharing.
At the end of 2018, IATA also announced that the electronic airwaybill (e-AWB) will become the default contract of carriage for all air cargo shipments on enabled trade lanes, effective Jan. 1, 2019, which received mixed reactions from our sources – some optimistic at the news, and others expressing their reservations.
Either way, in the coming year, we expect to see more digital cooperation between various logistics chain partners, some through private agreements, and perhaps more as part of air cargo communities.
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Article: [Exclusive] Sungmin to be the first married in Super Junior Be happy 3. He’s the first to get married! It turned out to be true.. The wedding news barely broke out and they’re already clarifying it. Even if it’s a shotgun wedding, it’s fine. I mean he’s marrying her and taking responsibility. And they’re perfectly old enough to get married.
Sung-min Lee is a 34 year old South Korean Singer. Born on 1st January, in Ilsan-gu, Goyang, South Korea, he is famous for Super Junior in a career that spans —Hiatus Military Service and —; and —hiatus Military Service and —, —present. His zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Super Junior member, Sungmin, has confirmed that he is indeed dating musical actress Kim Sa Eun. The two were reported to be dating on the 25th of.
Got to work today and of course, even if the truth scares me, I wanted to look into the details. However Kim Sa Eun once again denied that this was the case during her recent interview, and that they had decided on marriage fast because they both had been thinking about it as they dated one another. It reads as follows: I will always be on the losing end. Even if it was just a dream, but I know, now, that you were speaking to me, about this all..
This is just the limit of what I can do. You are not mine from the start and you never will… Still, thanks for empowering me through life, just by you living and working hard.. Upvote if you think more people should see this post! Your email address will not be published. Search for:. Vertical Tabs. Recent Posts. Continue Reading. Sungmin and kim so eun dating.
Kpop Secret Full Edition is released! September 04, Kpop Secret is released! Welcome to the real world of k-pop. We tried to include all the secret stories about Korean entertainment industry in Kpop Secret.
The management agency of Super Junior confirmed on Wednesday (Sept 24) that the K-pop boy band’s Sungmin is dating actress Kim Sa-eun.
Whether it’s a Korean zombie series or an angsty, teenage love story, South Korea is known for churning out some of the best shows on TV, so buckle your seatbelts and head over to the Netflix’s international section ASAP. Susi minton Sep 14 pm I love, love , love this show. Seeking a way to be together, Juliet fakes her own death, with devastating consequences. K-dramas have contributed to the general phenomenon of the Korean wave, known as Hallyu. A man is sitting in an empty subway car when a tall, thin woman walks in and sits in front of him.
Yong-hwa is the vocalist and guitarist of the famous band Stupid. Its short length may show that you put the time and effort in to make every word count. Check out these 10 crazy real life love stories that would warm your heart. A criminal aspiring to build a casino finds himself in endless threat when a man starts imitating every single thing he does. He has a brother named Brian. Based on the real events of a New Jersey couple who dealt with This is a love story centered around an ex-boxer, Chul-min, and a telemarketer, Jung-hwa.
Love Story. The real-life story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to be elected to public office, is passionate, moving, and devastating. This drama is already in the center of attention of many Korean and international fans.
As already reported, the couple met for the first time through the musical ‘ Three Musketeers ‘, and quickly became close as they were similar in age and others told them about one another and how alike they were. They started dating in summer and not long after, Sungmin was said to have felt that Kim Sa Eun was the one. Kim Sa Eun also became attached to the Super Junior member as he was mature and was someone she could lean on.
On September 24, , Sungmin confirmed that he was dating actress Kim Sa-eun. They got married on December 13, in a private wedding. On March 31.
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What made korean singer and sungmin has just confirmed that he talks of rotational boy band super junior since What made korean singer and actor. Sm entertainment has just confirmed that super junior. Sungmin at least tried dating once, kyuhyun and of rotational boy band super junior up in the face to defend groupmate sungmin and stylized palely! An analysis and prediction.
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But we have people in our country who are not happy with this either.
Kim Sa Eun (상미); South Korean; Kim Sa Eun is a South Korean actress and musical actress. In , she started dating Super Junior’s Sung Min after both.
I’ll just simply explain reasons why Sungmin isn’t welcomed by Korean ELF and just a reminder that this is not a post to tell the international fans to hate on him too. I just personally found it frustrating to see international fans not being able to understand the korean fans and vice versa because I see the valid reason for them to be angry I don’t plan to be a supporter of Sungmin until he apologizes to his fans.
He was completing his military service during the time; however, it was around this point of the year that Sungmin started to ask for marriage approvals to Leeteuk as well through letters. He even bought a condo for Saeun and himself on February. He clearly didn’t consider the situation of his members and he was being selfish. They didn’t mind him getting married, but it conflicted with SJ’s schedule and they wanted him to push his marriage back several months around March.
His mother said to a Chinese fanbase owner, “There is no parent that beats his child” which meant that his family didn’t want the marriage to be held so soon. The reason Sungmin and Saeun wanted to get married on December 13, was because it was exactly a year since they’ve met. I suppose it was a special date to them, but Super Junior members were having a concert in Japan a week before the marriage and the week after which meant that they would have had to perform, fly back to Korea for the wedding, and then fly back to Japan to perform which would have been physically straining for the members, considering the fact they need to prepare and rehearse for the concerts.
As well, Sungmin missed concert rehearsals to go on a date with Saeun. Fans actually knew about them dating in advance but they decided to keep it quiet for the sake of Sungmin. When marriage rumors came up, fans started to ask for feedback from Sungmin. They just wanted to know what was happening and were nervous.
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Super Junior member Sungmin and actress Kim Sa Eun have Netizens have speculated the two had begun dating after spotting the two.
Are any pentatonix members dating Those who they were seen enjoying a report, suju member. Think everybody including the special episode of the nicest lips among sj would have a date? Our comments: best leader, kangin is this unbreakable rule of all make outward. Does anyone in pink colour are. Kyuhyun leaked out which k-pop boy band exo All make sacrifices for one of the decision is the last member hyoyoung at gimpo airport, how he prefers paying.
Kim Soo Hyun Married As reported by the media outlet sport chosun kim soo hyun and ahn so hee were planning to be married in april according to a rumor spread by the chinese media platform sina. KeyEast is strongly denying those reports. Kim Soo-hyun – Wikipedi. Just how is he still soo popular after these many years? I believe if he was more active he would be more popular than Lee min ho.
슈퍼주니어(Super Junior) Super Junior’s Sungmin and Kim Sa Eun release photos of their wedding ceremony. On December 13th at 6PM KST.
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Sungmin was born in the Ilsan district of Goyang , Gyeonggi. He has a younger brother, Lee Sung-jin. Together, they signed a contract with SM Entertainment and received training in singing, dancing, and acting. In , along with Typhoon, Rose and Attack, the six of them made their first television appearance in a show called Heejun vs.
Actors Siwan & Lee Sung Min and about 50 staff members travelled to Amman, Jordan K-dramas are Korean TV shows that date back to the s. Cum drama lui Lee Min Ho “The Legend of the Blue Sea†s-a terminat, “Saimdang The latest drama from hit writer Kim Eun Sook is The King: Eternal Monarch.
Hello, this is Sungmin. Where I should start I thought about what to say so many times starting with the first sentence. After writing and erasing and repeating this process several times I’m more reminded of the faces and voices of those I’m thankful towards My heart aches as I think of everyone who must have been very shocked and surprised about the sudden news. I’m sorry that I made you find out through articles first while I was contemplating how to first deliver the news to the E.
F, who love me and are a dear friend to me, before anyone else To be honest, before I delivered this news, there were times that I had to withstand by myself as I felt conflicted with the thought of my own decision as well as those of everyone whom I’ve been with up until now. Rather than it being a fear about the decision I’ve made, I was more worried about whether everyone that I’m thankful towards would be too shocked or become hurt by this news that they’ve never gone through before.
Although I’m a bit late, I’m gathering the courage to deliver the news myself from all the love and trust you’ve given me. I want to say how much I love and feel sincerely thankful towards everyone who have stood by my side like a shadow and watched me grow and cheered me on. I’m also thankful to everyone who has helped me up until now and the members and the agency who trusted and respected by decision.
I will strive to become a Sungmin who continue to work hard in the future and return the love you have shown me.
Korean fans of boy band Super Junior are demanding the removal of member Sungmin from the group, saying that he has deceived and ignored them. In a statement posted on the Korean site DC Inside with the banner “Sungmin Out,”, the fans said they no longer want Sungmin to be a part of the idol group when Super Junior make their comeback in October.
We demand that Sungmin be expelled from the group,” they said, according to Soompi. But when fans asked for feedback about marriage rumors, he ignored those requests. It was when fans found out about his marriage through the press that they decided to turn their backs on him,” the fans declared.
They also stated that they just start dating. Some news also show the couple and similar items which shown from both Sungmin and Kim Sa Eun. Movies for the.
Currently, the group has 11 members but only 4 are active. However, both sides deny the speculations. The two have been friends for a long time. They were once spotted wearing matching bracelets in their concerts, which after fans spoke out their curiosity. But the two have confirmed to be good friends and nothing more.
Kyuhyun and actor Uhm Ki Joon were rumored to be dating. Fans took them as lovers and spread news about a possible relationship between the two. He confessed that they go out to drink often which might have started all the fuss. Liu Wen and Choi Si Won played a couple on-screen, which led to fans speculating something was going on between the two.
There were even news about their love and closeness to each other. But no one can predict the future, so people hope they become a real couple as they have worked together in many drama series, understand each other, and look good together. But, he has said that he will go to Jeju Island when he will find a girlfriend.
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February 29, 2016 Branden American Idol, American Idol 2016 10
As we head into American Idol 2016 Top 8 Week (yes, there will be a double elimination this week), it’s time to take a look at who is standing out the most and who we can expect to be moving on after eliminations.
After last week’s judging, which included American Idol winner, Kelly Clarkson, we have a pretty good idea how the judges feel about the contestants, but as we know, their job is mostly done, considering their influence on voting is minimal. So we’ll be looking at a lot of factors here to decide the Power Rankings list. So let’s get to it.
1. La’Porsha Renae. She has a number of things going for her this week. She was one of the judges’ four picks for the Top 10, Kelly Clarkson told her she was going to win American Idol and fans love her. How much do fans love her? She came in second in our performances poll, garnering 22.5 percent of the vote and has right around 15,000 twitter followers. But watch out, La’Porsha, because fans are trying to push our No. 2 spot into No. 1.
2. Trent Harmon. Like I just said, fans are all ready to push Trent into the top spot, despite what judges thought last week. Not only is he also, one of the judges’ four picks, he also had a strong showing last week on stage and in our poll. He is actually in the No. 1 spot with a whopping 29.8 percent of the vote. And over on Twitter, he’s at 15.3K followers. I have a feeling this season’s big battle won’t be between Trent and La’Porsha, however, but between Trent and Dalton, who comes in at No. 3.
3. Dalton Rapattoni. Dalton has a lot of fan power behind him, which we know is what really matters, but if we’re looking at all the factors, he’s not as good a performer as Trent and La’Porsha. He was included in the judges’ Top 10 picks, which helps him here as well. But the biggest thing to note about Dalton is the fact that he has over 115,000 Twitter followers and he gets a lot of favorites and retweets, so that means that while some of those followers are surely purchased and spam, the dude has a lot of fans. Not all of those fans are here with us, however, because while he did finish third in our poll, he only got 13.23 percent of the vote.
4. MacKenzie Bourg. MacKenzie wasn’t among the four contestants the judges picked, but he comes with a built-in fanbase from his time on The Voice, so he gets boosted a bit. And of course, his performances are always very solid and polished, so he’s doing well all around. He came in 6th in our poll, but with 110,000 Twitter followers, he’s got more support than some of the others.
5. Lee Jean. I think a lot of people are recognizing how talented Lee is despite his iffy stage presence. I don’t know how much he has in him this season, but right now he’s ranking right in the middle of our formula. As I said, he’s very talented and his performances speak for themselves. And he has developed a decent following. On Twitter he’s at 16,500 followers and in our poll he came in fifth.
6. Sonika Vaid. I wish I could rank Sonika higher since she’s one of my favorites this season, but she’s not quite registering with fans yet. She did come in fourth in our poll, but that’s only 11 percent of the vote. And on Twitter she’s pretty low with 9,449 followers, so it’s probably safe to say the majority of her voters aren’t on Twitter. I think she has it in her to shoot up in the rankings if she sings the right song this week.
7. Tristan McIntosh. Something about Tristan seems to be registering with fans. She’s at 20,000 Twitter followers and came in 7th in our poll. That’s not a great showing in our poll, but our poll is very trustworthy, and that ranking would mean she’s probably safe this week. I’m not a fan of her performances, but she does have a good look and some star power to consider.
8. Olivia Rox. Olivia was one of the four contestants the judges picked, so she’s still got that going for her, but she really flopped in our poll, coming in 8th place. And in this poll, 7-10 are all really close, so anything can happen. When you factor in that Olivia only has 9,221 Twitter followers, it becomes clear the public isn’t seeing what the judges saw. And that’s a shame, because Olivia really is a great performer.
9. Avalon Young. Avalon has been pretty hit and miss, but I think it’s safe to say her days are numbered. If she doesn’t go this week, she’ll go soon. She ranks 9th in our poll and even though she has 16,000 Twitter followers, I don’t think she has enough of a fanbase to keep her going very long.
10. Gianna Isabella. I can finally say I don’t think I’m alone when it comes to my distaste for Gianna. Actually, distaste is kind of a harsh word. It’s more like I’m neither here nor there on her. But since she comes in last in our poll and has the lowest Twitter following, she ranks last in our rankings. Did her once-famous mother get her the votes she needs to stay? I don’t think so. Only Idol producers seem to care about her mom.
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Champion says:
Jlo said it’s about the girls this seson but I believe the teeny booper vote says DALTON! LOL
PhyllisG (Las Vegas) says:
I said the same thing last week watching the show….Dalton has all the teeny bopper votes.
Some things never change on American Idol. LOL
Hi Phyllis! True. IMO La’Porsha has zero marketability, but none of the ten says STAR to me. You’re probably right about Dalton.
To be honest with you I don’t see Trent winning either. Dalton (and I’m no teeny bopper) has the best shot because he is young and he engages the audience. I guess we will have to watch for the final time and see how this one pans out! LOL
You guys are all right on your prediction! Teens like Dalton! He already look like a star and his records will sell. He got the looks, voice and performance! He has a lot of young teens fans! And yes hes marketable!
AmericanIdolFan says:
Yes, completely agree! I see Trent going far, maybe even a Trent/Dalton finale, but honestly I’m thinking Dalton and Mackenzie will be top two. Sucks because Trent does have so much talent, but Dalton and Mackenzie have just as much talent also, PLUS they know how to get peoples’ attention, and flip a song to make it unique. I think some people may be surprised if its a Mackenzie/Dalton finale, but I’m completely supporting it! Should be interesting how things work out! 🙂
For some reason Trent doesn’t impress me. This should be a very interesting finale season.
SylviaUserOfTheYear #OliviaRox says:
Mess…Queenlivia will win
I have watched the show for 15 years now and based on previous judges opinions, vocal ability and artistry this is how the finals should turn out:
Eliminated: Gianna & Lee (those kids need more experience)
Bottom 3: Avalon (she is so good but probably not very popular)
Eliminated: Trent & Tristan (trent has no personality and sometimes he sounds like a sheep, he wouldn’t have made top 24 cut in Carrie Underwood’s year) Tristan is good but low popularity and needs to figure herself out
Bottom 3: Avalon (so much talent but probably not choosing right songs anymore)
Eliminated: McKenzie (votes for previous eliminated contestants would go towards dalton and the rest of the girls) Shocker!
Bottom 2: Avalon
Bottom 3: Olivia
Eliminated: Avalon – finally runs out of votes and lifes
Bottom 2: Sonika- she is very talented but won’t make it
Bottom 3: Dalton – I don’t think he will make final 2 because producers, judges and public will want a girl to win and he is not that good vocally (we want a real singer, there’s so many of him!)
Eliminated: Dalton – this will be the shocker of the season just like Daughtry
Bottom 2: Sonika
Eliminated: Sonika
La’Porsha vs Olivia
Winner: La’Porsha
Runner-up Olivia
there is a chance for second place be between Olivia/Dalton, Olivia being the (Angie Miller from Season 12)
Cheers, 🙂
Even though Laporsha is immensely talented, I think I have to agree that it will be a Dalton/Trent/Mackenzie finale. I think LaPorsha will fall short eventually, even though she has a talented voice, Dalton, Trent, and Mackenzie all know how to pull on the heart strings of America’s girls.
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Coventry Cathedral in a Day
September 9, 2013 September 6, 2020 by April Yamasaki, posted in Church and Ministry
One of the highlights of my UK Mennonite Church Canada Learning Tour was a day trip to Coventry Cathedral. There have actually been three Coventry cathedrals: the original monastery built in the 12th century, the much larger Gothic church built in the 14th century that was bombed and largely destroyed in 1940, and the present Coventry Cathedral built next to the ruins.
The ruins themselves are impressive, still black from the incendiary bombs that devastated the cathedral and burned the city.
The old altar has become a memorial to peace with the words “Father Forgive” on the back wall and a litany of reconciliation in front of the altar.
The litany is prayed every weekday at noon, and our group was able to join others who had gathered for prayer in the ruins that day. Afterward, we went inside the present cathedral to The Chapel of Unity for mid-day prayer.
The round table and round mosaic patterns on the floor echo the shape of the chapel and convey a sense of unity. Children from Hiroshima made the paper cranes as a sign of peace.
The architecture and artwork of the cathedral are stunning, with contributions from around the world. A bronze maple leaf in the floor of the entrance way acknowledges Canada’s donation. The baptismal font is a boulder from outside of Bethlehem, and behind is the floor to ceiling stained glass designed by English artists John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens.
The Plumb Line and the City sculpture was a gift from a church in Cincinnati. A crucifix was a gift from the Czech artist Jindrich Severa.
A bell from Germany is inscribed with the words Friede/Peace, there was an exhibit of tapestries by textile artist Jacqui Parkinson, and much, much more . . . .
Even the seat cushions were works of art . . . .
While at the cathedral, it was a great privilege for our group to meet with David and Fran Porter. Canon David Porter is the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Director of Reconciliation, whose role embraces both reconciliation within the Anglican communion and how the church can be a reconciling force around the world. Dr. Fran Porter is a research scholar and currently working on a book for the Paternoster After Christendom series.
I so appreciated our conversation on the “deeply pained and deeply complex” work of reconciliation. It’s not about resolving all of the differences that may exist between individuals or nations, but “how do we live with these differences in constructive and peaceful ways?”
I came away with two practical examples of working at reconciliation:
(1) building relationships – e.g., the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby’s commitment to visit all 38 primates of the Anglican communion;
(2) the importance of “a robust process” that includes “creating spaces where people can be heard.”
Later I saw the Coventry cross made from two charred roof beams that had been found together lying in the shape of a cross among the rubble of the bombed cathedral. A copy is outside in the cathedral ruins, while this original is now kept indoors protected from the weather.
The charred cross is a symbol of reconciliation along with this cross of three medieval nails below, which is a copy of the original that is now embedded in the Coventry Cathedral altar cross. The Coventry cross of nails is also a symbol of the Community of the Cross of Nails which is a network of groups who “work and pray for peace, justice and reconciliation within their own communities and countries.” It reminds me that the work of reconciliation needs to be ongoing in our own lives and all around the world.
As I end this look back at my visit to Coventry Cathedral, I pray again the Litany of Reconciliation:
All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
The hatred which divides nation from nation, race from race, class from class,
Father Forgive.
The covetous desires of people and nations to possess what is not their own,
The greed which exploits the work of human hands and lays waste the earth,
Our envy of the welfare and happiness of others,
Our indifference to the plight of the imprisoned, the homeless, the refugee,
The lust which dishonours the bodies of men, women and children,
The pride which leads us to trust in ourselves and not in God,
Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
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9 thoughts on “Coventry Cathedral in a Day”
Elfrieda says:
Thanks for this walk through Coventry Cathedral today, April. How significant the message is for this time of unrest, especially as we contemplate the situation in Syria! God have mercy on us all!
April Yamasaki says:
Yes, God, have mercy. Amen.
Superb Mennonite Church says:
Our group from Celtic Spiritual Pilgrimage spent a day at Coventry Cathedral. I too was moved by the powerful message of reconciliation and peace, with its accompanying commitment to work at it through many different avenues. The simple drawing of the Sarajavo Madonna in one of the chapels moved me deeply.
There is so much wonderful art at the Cathedral, and I was glad we were able to linger there. A Celtic Spiritual Pilgrimage would be special to do sometime too–care to share some of your experience here?
Jane A. says:
Beautiful, April. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Henry Neufeld says:
Thanks April for posting this. It is a wonderful memory of what we experienced as a group as we walked through both of the Cathedrals. What a joy it was to do this together.
Jane and Henry, you’re very welcome – the pictures hardly do justice to the Cathedral, but they are a good reminder of a special day and the message of reconciliation.
g panta says:
So beautiful. It is wonderful, thank you very much.
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REDEFINING CUSTOMER LOYALTY WITH RELEVANCE AND PERSONALISATION
For centuries, loyalty programmes have been intrinsic to retention measures in the retail sector. Beginning with the copper tokens that a New Hampshire retailer gave to customers to the “points for discounts” model in today’s leading ride-hailing mobile apps, loyalty has certainly come a long way—all the while, paying tribute to its past.
From copper to paper and plastic to pixels, the medium may have changed but the intention remains the same: to capture a consumer’s long-term interest by rewarding them for engagement. And over the years, it's safe to say that the appeal for loyalty programmes has remained.
Yet, despite this enduring popularity, concerns remain. According to Bond’s 2019 Loyalty Report, the average consumer belongs to 14.8 loyalty programmes, but is active in less than half of them. Naturally, as today’s commercial landscape only continues to grow and brand interactions become increasingly fragmented across omnichannel customer journeys, the compounded effect of ubiquitous loyalty programmes runs the risk of imparting less and less value.
So what do brands need to do? In this blog post, we’re going to be focusing on the importance of personalisation and relevance, the relationship between the two, and the critical role that they play in optimising your loyalty programmes.
The customer is always at centre stage
At Aqilliz, one thing we like to consistently highlight is the power of customer centricity. On the face of it, this means putting your customer at the heart of everything you do. Easy enough to understand, right? Marketers live and breathe to be able to connect with customers in a meaningful way—from awe-inspiring creatives to a strong understanding of what makes them tick, we’d all like to think that everything we do is for our customers.
However, this must extend beyond direct, external interactions with your customers and go one step further—what happens after? In every interaction within your brand’s ecosystem, you gain valuable data points directly from customers themselves and patterns discernable from their behaviours. Yet, when you collect customer data, are you collecting just what you need or more than that? When you look at your tech stack, does privacy underwrite its design?
Customer centricity is more than just about being able to deliver on the promise of personalisation. It’s also more than being able to provide the experience that your customers have grown to appreciate, whether it’s the ability to catch them at their preferred touchpoints or projecting the right marketing messages that address their needs. Customer centricity also means making deep, far-reaching changes to the way you work as an organisation and how you engage with your customers behind the scenes—it means knowing when too much data is actually redundant data, making the difficult (and often costly) decisions to overhaul your existing ad tech toolkit if it isn’t meeting data compliance requirements.
Personalisation and relevance certainly go hand-in-hand—the latter, of course, being the byproduct of the other. When done well, customer centricity is the ideology that underpins efforts at ensuring both personalisation and relevance.
Prioritising personalisation
Today, compelling products simply aren’t enough to keep shoppers from returning. A 2017 study commissioned by global digital agency Wunderman found that 79 percent of American consumers aged 18-65 are looking at a new metric to judge brands by: “wantedness”. Consumers voiced that brands needed to demonstrate that they understood and cared about them before considering a purchase. Three years later, the results of this study are certainly still relevant and especially so when placed in the context of loyalty and rewards programmes.
Without a clear understanding of your customers, it’s easy to fall into the trap of offering generalised rewards and incentives that fail to take your customers’ needs into account, leading to frustration and decreased engagement across the board. This is a shame, as personalisation can create up to a 6.4x lift in member satisfaction, driving increased spending and a long-term relationship between consumers and the brands they care about.
To support efforts at personalisation, brands need a strong customer data strategy, allowing them to tap into valuable insights that can be gained from past interactions across all touchpoints while reconciling that with transactional information such as past purchases, website visits, customer service communications, and other forms of publicly available data. When these data points are fully reconciled in a customer data platform (CDP), marketers can have a single, holistic view of a customer and are better positioned to optimise their programmes accordingly.
That being said, within loyalty programmes themselves, more needs to be done to untangle an increasingly complex supply chain across programme owners, participating merchants, and the wider programme ecosystem. With data silos across different programme stakeholders, it’s hard to have a full picture of how loyalty points are earned and later redeemed across a network of merchants. Emerging technologies such as blockchain can help to address this problem, by providing a single, unified view of the entire points lifecycle on a shared, transparent ledger. This means that programme owners and partners can benefit from full visibility in how consumers are behaving within the programme ecosystem, allowing for the increased personalisation and targeting of offers to boost engagement.
When blockchain is coupled with a CDP, designed to construct and consistently maintain each customer’s profile over time, brands gain access to a match made in heaven: an up-to-date data source and real-time behavioural insights, allowing for an increasingly streamlined model of personalisation.
Relevance: a matter of context and utility
Though closely tied, the importance of relevance goes beyond its relation to personalisation. Relevance is also about an adaptability to the external environment that impacts your customers—rewards that have been personally relevant to them several months ago may have little use at present. Consider the airline industry, home to hundreds of carriers each with their own frequent flyer programmes. These airlines often partner with one another as part of a group in order to inject greater liquidity in their programme ecosystems, giving travellers more opportunities to utilise their points across different carriers.
With the size and scale of the global tourism industry, these frequent flyer programmes are highly valuable and have proven to be a source of revenue for airlines—American Airlines’ AAdvantage loyalty programme, for one, is said to be valued at as much as US$30 billion and United Airlines recently announced that it would be raising US$5 billion by borrowing against its frequent flyer programme to weather the impact of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Indeed, the global health crisis has seen the revenue that would normally be accrued from frequent flyer programmes suddenly grinding to a halt, leaving customers stranded with points soon to expire and putting their cumulative hours of air travel to waste. This is where the importance of contextual relevance comes in.
Thankfully, airlines have been quick to pivot. Major airlines such as British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines, and many more have opted to extend the elite status of their most avid travellers, some even through to 2021 regardless of miles flown. Others are injecting greater opportunities for redemption and spend through co-branded credit card programmes when shopping for necessities. For example, Delta’s American Express credit card offers 4x more SkyMiles per dollar when customers shop at supermarkets across the United States. By recognising the new reality underpinning their consumers’ lives, airlines have found ways to adapt their loyalty programmes to ensure that they remain relevant while assuring customers that their patronage hasn’t gone to waste
The lesson to be learnt from this is that flexibility is crucial. Having a sufficiently robust ecosystem that welcomes interoperability across different programmes can provide more opportunities for liquidity, enabling customers to ensure that they have ample opportunities for redemption. Eliminating platform or location-specific restrictions to redeeming points is also another way to ensure that programmes are sufficiently relevant, resilient, and easy to use, allowing them to scale in growth while retaining customers over a longer period of time.
Elevating the customer-first mindset
For any brand, achieving success at all efforts of consumer engagement is paramount. Within a rapidly growing online landscape, consumers have more choice than ever and positive brand interactions are crucial to set oneself apart against industry peers. No matter the strength of the competition, a strong dose of personalisation and relevance in equal measure will help to ensure that you’re able to rely on a healthy base of brand-loyal consumers who continue to return. With that, it’s clear that there’s more to customer happiness than competitive rewards but an experience that shows, “we know you, we hear you, and we understand you”.
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How Sad. The BBC leaves Bush House
Mike Wheat
Post subject: How Sad. The BBC leaves Bush House
Posted: Jul Thu 12, 2012 2:42 pm
Location: Pryor, Oklahoma
Forum Friends,
The last BBC broadcast from Bush House left the airwaves today.
Or perhaps left the digital divide today.
You can find a video of the last news from Bush House on the BBC.
So it goes...
Peter Bertini
Post subject: Re: How Sad. The BBC leaves Bush House
Posted: Jul Thu 12, 2012 10:38 pm
Location: Somers, CT
I was going to post a link for the auction that was handling most of the BBC
equipment from the Bush House.
IMHO, the loss of the BBC world wide services on SW marked the beginning of the
end for shortwave's future. It was extremely shortsighted as well. Most countries
are under the assumption that listeners will migrate to the internet. Unfortunately
those in the poorest and most oppressed countries are the ones who lack internet
access, availability of uncensored news, and are those who relied on uncensored
SW broadcasts to hear the truth.
Just because it can be done doesn't mean it should be done.
Beaconhunter
Joined: Nov Fri 04, 2011 3:12 am
Location: Parksley, VA.
Peter- As one who has donated hand crank rechargeable radios to those who live in areas of occasional electricity, I fully agree. And as the number of Short Wave transmitters dwindles, the physical location and frequncies of those left will often be less than optimum for many of the listeners out there. As well as providing fewer voices for those listeners to find.
Yet so much of what the BBC posts on it's news pages is about the poor, those the BBC yells are "left behind", and the very people the BBC itself has abandoned.
Irony, no?
Posted: Jul Fri 13, 2012 1:07 am
Joined: Aug Mon 29, 2011 4:08 am
Location: The High Plains, but not drifting (79007).
I used to have an office right across the street from Bush House (and, of course, Marconi House, from where the BBC first broadcast in 1922).
Very sad.
radiorich
Location: Omak,wa,usa
Wow ,
?I remember as a kid listening to BBC wow thats to bad before you know it Shortwave will be no more
Renton481
Posted: Jul Fri 13, 2012 10:38 am
Joined: Mar Tue 27, 2012 1:24 pm
I'm still hearing the BBC on Shortwave every morning, they have a long broadcast in English to East Asia and Oceania, clearly audible on the West Coast.... I've also heard their broadcast in English to Africa from Ascension Is.
However, it is disturbing to see so many former broadcasters leave the shortwaves (i.e. Radio Netherlands, BBC no longer broadcasting to North America, Radio Canada off the air, etc.).
Shortwave has been useful because the ionosphere is kind of like a 'poor man's satellite'. You don't need expensive equipment (relative to the cost of satellite receiving gear or internet service), and don't have to pay fees, all you need is a radio, maybe a hunk of wire to add to the whip antenna if needed, and the cost of a set of batteries. Propagation, of course, helps.
dancraig
Posted: Jul Sat 14, 2012 1:56 am
I still listen to Radio Romania and Serbia in the evening, here on east coast US. Also, Radio Australia early in the morning, sometimes New Zealand. And sometimes Cuba.
Joseph Newton
Joined: Aug Fri 13, 2010 5:29 am
Peter Bertini wrote:
availability of uncensored news, and are those who relied on uncensored
All news is censored and largely slander.
Joseph Newton wrote:
There is some truth to that, but to keep things in the realm of non-political poignant reminiscences, may I offer the observation that, while the World Service occupied the upper floors of Bush House, the ground floor featured a small and exclusive mall.
I used to get my hair cut there. Cost a bloody fortune, but I haven't had a haircut as good since we moved away.
krystallo
Posted: Jul Sun 15, 2012 1:42 pm
Joined: Jul Thu 12, 2007 9:36 am
Location: Boston,Ma
Part of this may be the COST. SW transmitters use HUGE amounts of juice, often need at least "decent" propagation (which usually has been fairly bad this year ! ) and apparently are used and needed by a demographic that suddenly doesn't seem to matter anymore ( the "third" world).
"IMPORTANT" folks in the "first " world don't need SW to get foreign opinion or news anymore ( we've got the WWW). And the web is a MILLION times cheaper to operate.
I grew up largely, if not mostly with radio, but like it or not, "the times they are a changin' ".
Greg Dan
Money can't be the whole story, as the BBC seems to have it to spend when it comes to propping up the National Peoples Radio (NPR) in many US cities...... Here in Las Vegas, NPR used to broadcast dead air in the "no audience" Midnight to 4 AM time slot; now the BBC pays it's cousin to air day old "news"....
For decades, I used to listen to the much respected World Service as I traveled in Europe, the Pacific, and when at home in the US. For many reasons (money, changing technology, and I suspect some we shall not speak of here), the BBC decided to blow off the 1st world. They literally give away the top spot in international SW broadcasting, to compete on the Web with every 14 year old that has a blog.
The sun has indeed set on what was the BBC empire; a loss for the free world, a gain for the likes of Radio Cuba, Radio China, and NPR.
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Putting it all together Part 1 – Our biggest brick wall breakthrough so far started with a forgotten tweet, a LOT of work, and migraine on Super Bowl Sunday
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Super Bowl Sunday 2019 started like most of our Sundays. Felice got her breakfast in bed, the kids all got pancakes, and breakfast was complete. I sat down at the computer with a nice cup of coffee hoping to kick the mini-migraine that was resisting drugs and enjoy a few hours of genealogy.
The Tweet that broke open our mystery
As I sat down that morning, for some reason a Twitter post we’d made 7 months earlier about Felice’s mother “Susan” popped in my mind. Susan matched her 1st Cousin “Charles” with 2122 cM…enough that he was almost a full sibling. It was a head-scratcher. We’d tweeted out our confusion, and a follower explained to us that it might mean he was a “3/4 siblings”. 3/4 siblings are where the same person parents children by two siblings, for example, when one man has children with two women who are sisters. But the tweet came during a busy time and it fell out of our minds…until this morning when it hit like a lightning bolt.
Susan’s paternity was THE big “brick wall” of our family history research. The man listed on her birth certificate, Roger Homes, was likely not her father. Family history held that Susan’s mom Dealia had at least 1 of her 2 other children with Roger, but Roger was on Susan’s birth certificate because Dealia’s father him on there. He didn’t want his Grand daughter’s Father left blank. Family interviews had given us a couple of leads on Susan’s father, but finding “Big Ed” from a neighboring town in Mississippi seemed like a significant long shot. DNA was always our best hope to solve this mystery.
Going into that Super Sunday we had recently finished our series about the tools we used to go from a handful of Ancestry DNA matches to connecting them in a tree. In the “Casting a Wide Net” series (Link) we took a group of over 5000 matches to Susan that were shared between themselves and built them into a mirror tree. Ultimately we mapped out 17 of those DNA kits to each other and identified the MRCA for them and Susa.
Susan’s tree, as we had it originally
In of our research, we’d noted Susan’s maternal cousin Charles also matched the 17. This led us to focus on her mom’s side of the tree to find the link, but the evidence hadn’t lined up with that theory. We ended the series without being able to establish the direct link between the MCRA and Susan.
As the computer fired up that morning, the tweet, the MCRA, and the unknown father all slammed together at once: What if the maternal cousin wasn’t only a cousin? What if Charles’ father was also Susan’s, and what if the 17 matches were on their father’s line!
We’d never built out Charles’ father’s line because he was an Uncle who didn’t feed much information into our line. We’d added his parents, so knew their names and not much else. We’d interviewed Felice’s Aunt “Ann” and she explained about how she’d married Luther White at 13 years old and almost immediately kicked him out. Despite that, he would still go on to father each of her 10 children while Luther’s parents supported her and her children, including giving them a place to live.
Susan’s tree as we imagined it as the Super Bowl kicked off
I was shaking a little as I opened up Ancestry and started to build out the Father’s line. This theory perfectly clicked together, but if we were right we were about to be swimming in deep waters. It was always our hope to breakdown the brick wall of Susan’s paternity and to help her fill out the picture of her life. We envisioned a happy moment where we put to bed a lifelong secret and expanded our family tree. Now, this was taking a very sudden turn and we were likely unearthing a painful family secret.
All of this before my first cup of coffee on a Sunday…and little did we know at the time how deep this would go.
African American Genealogy
Genetic Genealogy
A Profile in Political Courage: An Ancestor Stands Against a Tyrant, Fellow Republican
Putting it all together – Part 2: The brick wall starts to crumble
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