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Illinois Becomes Last State to Legalize Concealed Carry
Jacob Sullum | 7.9.2013 4:26 PM
Today the Illinois legislature overrode Gov. Pat Quinn's veto of a bill allowing state residents who comply with certain objective standards to carry concealed fireams. Illinois, the last state to impose a blanket ban on concealed carry, is complying with a December decision in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit said that policy violates the Second Amendment. Under the new policy, which will take effect in nine months or so, people 21 or older who have state-issued firearms owner identification cards can obtain licenses to carry concealed weapons provided they have clean records and complete 16 hours of training.
That is known as a "shall issue" policy, as opposed to a "may issue" policy, which gives local law enforcement officials broad discretion to reject applications. Eight states have such a discretionary policy. Of the rest, 39, now including Illinois, have "shall issue" laws, while three states do not require permits for concealed carry. The new law gives the Illinois State Police six months to make applications for concealed-carry licenses available. It has to issue a license within three months of receiving a valid application, so it could be nine months before the first Illinois gun owner is licensed to carry.
Previous coverage of concealed carry in Illinois here.
[Thanks to Jason Imboden for the tip.]
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Auric Demonocles
July.9.2013 at 4:30 pm
while three states do not require permits for concealed carry
Vermont is almost as cool as alt-text.
Live Free or Diet
I enjoyed just seeing the Airweight .38 Centenial pic. Hope the guy has a pocket holster.
Generic Stranger
It’s actually four – Alaska, Arizona, Wyoming and Vermont. Also, I think another state has or is about to go constitutional carry; can’t remember which one, though.
Pwyll
July.10.2013 at 9:03 am
Arkansas went CC just this month, making 5.
Spoonman.
And they were just 12 hours away from completely unregulated concealed carry. So close.
DaveSs
Not entirely.
While a logical person would assume that since the State cannot enforce a ban on carrying a firearm, municipalities also cannot enforce bans.
Cook County had an ordinance ready to go that would effectively ban carrying without an impossible to get permit.
Scarecrow Repair
Still would need the FOID, that wasn’t voided as part of the court decision.
Recently some European argued with me that the US should just implement strict gun control because it’s been proven to work. I cited Chicago as proof that strict gun control has been proven not to work, so he then said you can’t count that because the US as a whole doesn’t use strict gun control. Apparently an area larger than England banning all carrying doesn’t count. I fear he’s going to have a heart attack when he finds out how loose the state has gotten.
When was the last time Hawaii issued a carry permit to a “civilian”?
AlgerHiss
Or California…or New York, especially that sewer they refer to as NYC…or any of the other “may issue” states.
H. Protagonist
Getting a sheriff to sign off in California isn’t that hard, except for in the areas where almost everybody lives.
Under the new policy, which will take effect in nine months or so, people 21 or older who have state-issued firearms computer owner identification cards can obtain licenses to carry concealed weapons cell phones provided that have clean records and complete 16 hours of training. Open carry of cell phones is still illegal
Two Constitutional amendments guaranteeing basic human rights, yet two completely different standards.
Seriously, though, what is the justification for 16 hours of training? How is it not obviously nothing more than a burden and deterrent to the exercise of the right?
Because guns are icky. It’s not like it’s voting. If it’s voting and you say someone has to go to the DMV to pick up a free ID you are obviously going over the line.
Oh, or an abortion clinic.
Invisible Finger
You call it a burden and deterrent. Illinois calls it a jobs program.
sam the man
So many god damn unnecessary regulations. All in the name of “public safety” just like they did to the medical marijuana bill. Fuck Quinn.
Suggested alt-text: I have something in my front pocket for you.
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Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
From disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty comes a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.
Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling.
Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn’t fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life.
Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By exploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity. Sitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practical and imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirely different story.
REBEKAH TAUSSIG, PH.D. is a Kansas City writer and teacher with her doctorate in Creative Nonfiction and Disability Studies. She has led workshops and presentations at the University of Michigan, University of Kansas, and Davidson College on disability representation, identity, and community. She also runs the Instagram platform @sitting_pretty where she crafts “mini-memoirs” to contribute nuance to the collective narratives being told about disability in our culture. She lives in a tiny, old house with her fussy family of tender-hearted snugglers.
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by Patrick Swadden October 10, 2020
written by Patrick Swadden October 10, 2020
Ryerson, reconciliation, and the challenges of replacing names and monuments
This story is part of Monumental Challenges, a series looking at Ryerson, reconciliation, and the issues surrounding replacing names and monuments.
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On Sept. 2, Ryerson president Mohamed Lachemi announced a presidential task force to examine Egerton Ryerson’s history, particularly his involvement in the creation of the residential school system. Ryerson is the university’s namesake and founded Ontario’s education system. However, he was also an architect of a system that committed cultural genocide against Indigenous peoples in Canada. The intergenerational trauma caused by the residential school system continues to deeply affect Indigenous communities to this day.
Many in the community are calling for the statue of Ryerson on Gould Street to be removed, while others believe this is not enough and Ryerson University should change its name entirely. Despite the installation of a plaque next to Ryerson’s statue acknowledging his role in the residential school system, the monument was defaced multiple times this summer.
In this editorial feature, our diligent reporters at the Ryersonian take a multi-pronged approach to this issue. We examine the names of local institutions, such as Dundas Street and Vaughan Secondary School—both named after controversial historical figures—before turning to sports teams that have recently been rebranded or should soon go through name changes.
We examine other universities that have undergone rebranding and the financial undertaking that entails. We discuss how post-secondary institutions can better educate students about the history of residential schools in our education system. Our video production team takes you through a visual journey of Egerton Ryerson’s history. Finally, we investigate the historical meaning of statues, and whether a more appropriate substitute exists for the space overlooking Gould Street.
We consider these issues as they relate to movements in the Ryerson community and beyond. Under the weight of social unrest and protests around the world, statues are being toppled, monuments defaced, and long-held controversial names of streets, sports teams and institutions are being removed.
The work of the task force has just begun, but we want you—our reader—to be informed and ready to engage with the decision-making process.
– Patrick Swadden, editor-in-chief
Toronto and Ryerson University are in the “Dish With One Spoon Territory.” The Dish With One Spoon is a treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee that bound them to share the territory and protect the land. Subsequent Indigenous Nations and peoples, Europeans and all newcomers, have been invited into this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship and respect.
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21-22-23 June 2018, Paris Sorbonne University International Jean Rhys Conference: Transmission Lines / Lignes de transmission
by Webmaster SAES | Feb 26, 2017 | Colloques
International Jean Rhys Conference: Transmission Lines / Lignes de transmission
21-22-23 June 2018, Paris Sorbonne University
Jean Rhys’s recognition as a major author came late, almost accidentally so, and not without a number of misunderstandings, misfires and sidesteps; lines of transmission between her work and contemporary readers now appear certain if erratic, unpredictable, and sometimes discontinuous. Her status within the various lineages of modernist and Caribbean fiction is doubly problematized by Rhys’s position as a woman, and as one of the last members of the white creole society. Jean Rhys’s position upon the literary map of the 20th century remains unstable, even after Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), which constituted a turning point in the critical rediscovery of her earlier work. She shunned public exposure and yet, desperately sought acknowledgement by her own peers; she stood away from the modernist circles of Montparnasse and yet, explored a radically avant-garde writing, which retrospectively makes her rank among them.
This conference wishes to interrogate the twists and paradoxes of transmission, in its various, and often, in the case of Rhys, paradoxical, meanings; it will be placed under the sign of plurality and criss-crossing, including that between modernism and (post)colonialism. Indeed, her bridging the span between modernism and post-colonialism has made her an author studied separately by two currents of thought which we would like to reconnect towards a more hybrid reading along the transmission lines of the Caribbean/modernist rhi(ys)zome.
With Jean Rhys, transmission is precisely not teleological or testamentary. The modernist polyphony at the heart of her experimentations with form can be seen as an obstacle to transmission both technically and hermeneutically, while her always problematic authority places her in the marginalized position of the postcolonial author. Transmission comes up against the notion of inscription; it remains transient, fluid, and precarious. In order to encompass the modernist Rhys and the postcolonial ‘writer back’, we would welcome papers on Jean Rhys’s peculiar history of publications and critical reception, with the late scrutiny by postcolonial studies of an author only seriously acknowledged after The Empire Writes Back (1984).
This conference wishes to reassess the heritage of the first critical period largely dominated by an emphasis on the typology of the ‘Rhys woman’ and the victim paradigm: we invite papers examining the resistance to transmission as a process, the deconstruction always at work, the dead-ends and unease in the reading experience, the lines of flight in many directions. Our ultimate aim would be to create a moment of critical kairos by reconnecting the structuralist/modernist reading of the 1980s, and the poststructuralist/postcolonial Rhys of the 1990s: we propose to grasp those lines and allow them to travel farther, towards what is still there to read between the lines – of transmission.
Topics may include, but are not restricted to:
• moments of passages, dissemination, transfers and transitions, including between languages
• patterns of continuity/contiguity and leaps/gaps in texts that struggle against frames of all kinds
• the paradigm of memory and testimony, when the marginalized voices of the modernist city and the Empire were grappling with an irrevocable loss and resisting silencing
• the minimal resistance of female characters who do not recognise the masculine power structures relegating them to passivity
• the multiple lines of transmission drawn by Rhys’s letters, whose publication in 1984 corresponded to a landmark in her critical rediscovery
• reflections on (trans)mediation and generic hybridity
• the lines of literary filiation and influence of Rhys on contemporary authors
• resistance to transmission as an opposition to commodification, to systems of colonial trade and exchange
• the radio and its impact on the transcription of voices
Please send proposals no later than June 1st 2017 to
Juliana Lopoukhine j_lopoukhine@yahoo.fr,
Frédéric Regard flook@orange.fr and
Kerry-Jane Wallart kjwallart@yahoo.fr
We are contemplating publishing a selection of papers after the conference.
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Governor’s European Trade Mission | Rural Radio Network
Governor’s European Trade Mission
The Nebraska Delegation only had one working day in Copengagen, since all business is closed on Sundays. Thanking a pre-exhisting company within Nebraska, was the main reason to visit.
“Here in Denmark we had the chance to sit down with a company who has already invested a quarter of a billion dollars in Nebraska – Novozymes,” said Governor Pete Ricketts.
Before heading to Novozymes, the delegation had a briefing at the Embassy of the United States. This was to allow delegation members have a better understanding of the current situations in Denmark.
Novozymes hosted a biosciences ’round- table’ to some of the Nebraska delegates. This aloud both parties to talk about topics under biosciences that were important to them.
Courtesy of Matt Miltenberger. Governor Pete Ricketts meets with Novozymes CEO Peder Holk Nielsen.
“We talked a lot about ethanol and renewables. We also talked about other chemical opportunities, enzymes and so forth, and so how, again, we can take advantage of the agriculture economy but then really focus on the value added and what that means for Nebraska,” said Director of Economic Development, Brenda Hicks-Sorensen.
The entire delegation was then able to attend a tour of their facilities. “We were glad and honored that you guys took the long trip to Denmark and other places in Europe,” said Anders Kristoffersen, Public Affairs Manager with Novozymes.
RRN’s Jesse Harding. Governor Pete Ricketts talks to the delegation and guests at U.S. Ambassador’s residence.
Hor’durves were served at U.S. Ambassador Gifford’s residence.
RRN’s Jesse Harding. Governor Pete Ricketts along with U.S. Ambassador Gifford talk to the delegation and guests at the Ambassador’s residence.
With the conclusion of the trip, Governor Ricketts says what the next steps are, “It is one of the things about developing relationships and you don’t develop relationships just once – it takes time to develop relationships. We have to continue to come back and talk with the folks here and help open up those doors for our folks in Nebraska.”
“I am really grateful for everybody who came along on the trip. The folks who came as apart of the trade delegation again, we had producers from all across the state, we had people from people from the biosciences industry and renewable fuels industry. They all payed their own way, they all volunteered their time, took time out of their busy schedules, away from their families, and they did a wonderful job representing Nebraska. And I’m just very grateful for their participation,” said Governor Pete Ricketts.
Attendees included:
Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts
Matthew Miltenberger, Governor’s Office Chief of Staff
Director Brenda Hicks-Sorensen, NE Department of Economic Development (NE DED)
Director Greg Ibach, NE Department of Agriculture (NDA)
Joe Chapuran, International Development Manager, NE DED
Cobus Block, International Development Assistant Manager, NE DED
Stan Garbacz, Agricultural Trade Representative, NDA
Angel Velitchkov, Counsel for International Trade, NDA
Dan Duncan, Executive Director, NE Innovation Campus
Ann Willet, Director Strategic Alliances for Food, Fuel & Water, NE Innovation Campus
Rolando Flores, Director, Food Processing Center
Steve Wellman, American Soybean Association and NE Producer
Steve Nelson, President, NE Farm Bureau
Tim Scheer, Director, NE Corn Board
Royce Schaneman, Executive Director, NE Wheat Board
Paul Kenney, Chairman, Nebraska Ethanol Board
Duane Kristensen, Operations GM, Chief Ethanol Fuels Inc.
Jeff Briggs, COO, Green Plains
Paul and Deb Gangwish, PG Farms, Inc.
Buck Wehrbein, NE Beef CouncilBoard of Directors and Manager of Mead Cattle Co
Mike Drinnin, Feedlot Council Vice Chairman and NE Cattlemen
Dan Jensen, VP Sales and Marketing, Greater Omaha Packing Co.
Kenny and Misty Stauffer, Hoot Owl Ranch
Jesse Harding, Farm Broadcaster, KRVN/Rural Radio Network
Suji Park, Founder, FDMR
Bret Wyant, VP Sales, American Laboratories Inc.
Barry Kennedy, President, NE Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Mindy Ruffalo, Director International Business Development, Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce
Sean Johnson, Executive Director, Gateway Development Corporation
The final working day in Brussels, on the Governor’s first international trade mission, was nothing short of a busy one. The Governor’s morning started with a meeting with the Commissioner of Agriculture, Phil Hogan. A small group of delegate participants were able to attend.
“We found that many of the upper level European Officials really understand bio technology way better than the general public does,” said Director of Agriculture, Greg Ibach.
RRN’s Jesse Harding. Director Greg Ibach presents about Nebraska Agriculture.
Another small group met up with the Governor to attend a Bioscience meeting with some companies such as; Archer Daniel Midland (ADM), Bayer Crop Sciences, Novozymes and others. It was really to showcase what Nebraska has to offer companies like this in means of facilities, products and green technologies.
Courtesy of Stan Garbacz. Governor Ricketts and Ambassador Gardner both speak the dinner hosted at the Ambassador’s residence.
Dinner was hosted by U.S. Ambassador to the European Union (EU) Anthony L. Gardner, at his personal residence. Some EU officials and USDA FSA members attended and continued trade conversations.
In the next month, the Ambassador will be hosting a beef event to showcase U.S. products to the European Union. He says most attendees will be EU Officials and Companies.
“We are trying to break down a lot of characters, misconceptions about American agricultural exports and we are trying to make clear that American products are competitive and Europeans should want to buy them,” said Ambassador Gardner.
Courtesy of Stan Garbacz. Dinner hosted at Ambassador Gardner’s residence.
This concluded the portion of the trip that was hosted by the Nebraska Department of Agriculture.
The main goal in visiting Brussels is meeting with European Union (EU) Officials to discuss trade relations. Kicking off the first morning, was with the USDA in their U.S. Mission to Europe (USEU) with the Foreign Agriculture Services (FSA). They were able to give a briefing, along with other USDA segments, about the background on the EU and where their agricultural viewpoints stand.
RRN’s Jesse Harding. Jim Higgiston, Minister Counselor of Agriculture with the USEU and USDA FSA briefing the delegation on the EU.
The first EU group the delegation met with was Copa Cogeca, a European Farm Cooperatives and Farmers’ Association. The major topics we discussed was Genetically Modified (GM) crops, antibiotics in meat production and geographical indicators.
Just like in the United States, their producers don’t always agree with what the government has proposed – a prime example of this was the recent proposed rule that member states could make their own decision to allow or accepts GM crops.
RRN’s Jesse Harding. In the meeting with Copa Cogeca. (L-R) Paolo Gouveia, Director of General Affairs; Arnaud Petit, Director of Commodities and Trade; Jim Higgiston, Minister Counselor of Agriculture with the USEU and USDA FSA; Pekka Pesonen, Secretary General; and Camelia Gyorffy, Senior Policy Adviser for Livestock.
“Treating farmers differently, in different member states, depending which government is favorable or less favorable to GMO’s – is simply unfair and we don’t like it. And it would also damage our inputs especially, to meat production like pig meat and poultry sectors. When it comes to the U.S., we are dependent on U.S. imports of soybeans. Therefore, we have major fears if this would work and it would endanger the very principals of the EU. And that’s why we are against it,” said Pekka Pesonen, Secretary General of Copa Cogeca.
A small group accompanied Governor Ricketts to the European Commission.
A small group traveled with Governor Ricketts to a meeting at the European Commission, where they talked to Arūnas Vinčiūnas the Head of Cabinet with Health and Food Safety. While others met with Marc Zoltan Somogyi, Head of Unit for Agriculture, Fisheries, Sanitary and Phytosanitary Market Access and Biotechnology, DG Trade, and the majority of the group toured the European Parliament.
RRN’s Jesse Harding. Governor Ricketts thanks Arūnas Vinčiūnas, Head of Cabinet with Health and Food Safety, for taking time to talk to the Nebraska Delegation.
Similar again to the United States, public perception is driving some member states to consider banning GM crops into their country. “It is really a bit of public perception of negativeness and (it’s) very easy to scare people with some negative miss-information. You know, you can run around with a Frankenstein maize and then every one will sign a paper (saying) ‘I don’t want that!’ Sure but, there is no such thing. Scientists here and our food safety authority are really the best scientists we have and when they say there is no health risk, then there is no health risk,” said Arūnas Vinčiūnas, Head of Cabinet for Health and Food Safety.
Dinner was hosted at the USEU by Ambassador Anthony L. Gardner.
RRN’s Jesse Harding. Governor Pete Ricketts thanks Ambassador Anthony Gardner for hosting dinner.
Day 3: Italy
The final day in Italy was spent hosting a “round table” discussion to Italian Companies. The Goal was to promote Nebraska as place where companies can open up American sectors. People who presented to the Italian Companies were: Governor Pete Ricketts, Director Ibach, Director Hicks-Sorensen, Dan Duncan, Rolando Flores, Marco Checchi and Suji Park.
RRN’s Jesse Harding. Marco Checchi, CEO and owner of Pelliconi, presenting during the promotional event.
Marco Checchi, CEO and owner of Pelliconi, as a division of his business in the United States – but not in Nebraska. He provided testimonial on the benefits of what America has to offer. “It was amazing to seeing these people from Nebraska from so far away coming to Bologna and experience this city, visiting this city and understanding the differences in culture but mainly the similarity we have,” Said Checchi in Italian and English.
RRN’s Jesse Harding. Participants of the Investment Promotion Event listening to a speaker.
Director Hicks-Sorensen thought the overall event went well and was well received. “The feedback was absolutely positive. One of the attendees from Italy actually very enthusiastically highlighted that she didn’t have a passport and was going to go fill out the paperwork that afternoon. And she was looking-forward to coming to Nebraska,” said Director Hicks-Sorensen.
After the event, the entire Nebraska Delegation and some of the Italian Companies who attend the meeting went to a lunch where Nebraska beef was served. Following lunch, Governor Pete Ricketts presented the Italian participants, with the help of Director Ibach, an Honorary Nebraskan Citizenship.
RRN’s Jesse Harding. Governor Ricketts with Director Ibach with the Italians after receiving Honorary Nebraskan Citizenship.
After the lunch, the Nebraskan Delegation headed to the airport flew to Brussels, Belgium.
For day two the group split up between locations. Most of the group went with Governor Pete Ricketts; Director of Agriculture, Greg Ibach; and Director of Economic Development, Brenda Hicks-Sorensen, to the World Food Expo in Milan. While other participants went on a tour of a feed lot and meat product processing facility.
A train was taken to Milan to visit the Expo. The Expo is held every four years in different countries each time. Different countries and companies build large pavilions to show case their food products.
RRN’s Jesse Harding. PCO Robert Peaslee joined the group to show them around the expo. He talks with Governor Ricketts about his job duties.
Coldiretti hosted the Nebraska group for lunch. They are a farm organization (similar to Farm Bureau or the Farmer’s Union but, are more like a co-operative) that help support their producer members. When greeted, they had musicians play the American National Anthem.
The purpose behind meeting with Coldiretti was, “That’s a possible distribution channel for our Nebraska products in the future. So, that’s the reason why we wanted to develop the relationship with them,” Said Governor Ricketts.
This was a great opportunity for all the participants, to get a better feel for the countries traditions and products. Even though it is a business trip, apart of that means to better understand the culture and traditions to build strong relationships.
RRN’s Jesse Harding. Governor Ricketts partakes in a tradition of singing with an accordionist.
Coldretti showcased some of their member’s local – traditional products such as, balsamic, parmigino-reggiano, salami and prosciutto.
RRN’s Jesse Harding. Governor Ricketts samples traditional products of aged salami and prosciutto with Coldretti member.
To make parmigino-reggiano, the milk has to come from registered Red (Reggiano) cows and be aged for a minimum of 24 months. They they go through a rigorous process to be stamped as traditional parmigino-reggiano cheese.
For the balsamic comes from to regional specific grapes and is aged for 12 to 25 years. Third generation producer says that it is hard for young people to start producing traditional products since there is the aging and becomes a family tradition to keep operations going.
RRN’s Jesse Harding. Governor Ricketts presented with some traditional Italian products by the Coldretti.
Governor Ricketts said what stuck out to him the most, by talking to the producers, was just the differences in the agriculture in general. “Their average farm size, for those farmers, is eight hectares. Which they were saying in the United States is 400 hectares. So, it’s a very different scale and they have different issues.”
RRN’s Jesse Harding. The group with PCO Robert Peaslee and Carlo Lambro, President of New Holland Agricultural in front of their pavilion.
After lunch with Coldretti, the group went through the USA Pavilion and then the New Holland Pavilion. The Governor was able to learn more about the company and the different types of equipment they produce.
RRN’s Jesse Harding. Governor Ricketts with Carlo Lambro, President of New Holland Agricultural in the cab of a tractor.
The group who did not go to Milan, went and toured the Busseto Plant (a meat product facility) and a feed lot – both owned by Inalca. In the Busseto Plant they make processed meat products such as salami. Steve Nelson, President of Nebraska Farm Bureau, said he was really impressed how they were able to keep to their traditions and still have modern facilities.
“The main difference was all of the cattle were in doors or at least covered by roofs. Confined feeding as we would know it in the U.S.,” explained Nelson about the biggest difference compared to Nebraska feed lots. He also says most of the cattle were Charolais or Limousin, which typically comes from France.
Courtesy of Steve Nelson, President of the Nebraska Farm Bureau, of the facilities of the Inalca feed lot.
“It’s noteworthy to say that this company purchases a good amount of beef as well. Still a demand for the high quality products that we raise in Nebraska, that are feed in Nebraska with Nebraska corn – that provides a level of quality that are hard to find else where in the world. And so, I know some people at home and in Nebraska are concerned about the size of operations and this is a huge operation that we have been visiting and visiting different parts of their facilities. At the same time, it’s an opportunity to bring Nebraska products into apart of the world that Nebraska products would be otherwise. And there is demand for Nebraska products and I think it’s very important to continue to build these relationships to enhance the value of what we do in Nebraska,” said Nelson.
We arrived into Bologna around 11am on Monday, June 8, and was able to check into the hotel. Director of Agriculture, Greg Ibach showed Department of Economic Development and myself around the area before we took off for our first tour. We took a bus to the Inacla beef processing facility.
Inacla is a large facility (for the country) that will process around 5,000 head of cattle per week. The Inacla group has several facilities throughout the county. This allows the group to process about 70 percent of the cattle in Italy. They also are the largest importer of Nebraska beef in Europe. In the facility we toured, not only do they break down the cattle, they also do packaging.
“Inacla groups go through about 10,000 cattle every week. This is the bigger quantities that we use because only 10 percent comes from outside,” said Salieri Francesco, Quality Control Manager with the Fresh Department of Inalca Packing Facility.
RRN’s Jesse Harding. Salieri Francesco, Quality Control Manager with the Fresh Department of Inalca Packing Facility (right) explains the operations to the Director of Agriculture, Greg Ibach (left), and Governor Ricketts (center).
The two main differences between the two countries was the types of cattle and management of the cattle and the labeling/transparency of the cattle.
They have a large veil industry and require them to be between under eight months of age. In Italy they also don’t castrate their cattle so, a large majority of cattle processed are bulls.
In Europe they have strict transparency laws. They require cattle to be tagged and id throughout their entire life. Cattle will have a passport and producers are required to have this when transferring the cattle. In the packing facility, they use a bar code system to track all the cuts of meat from all the individual cattle. The end products can be tracked not only to the individual farms but to the cattle themselves. Labels will say were the cattle were born, raised, processed.
“What I think what is most important about trade missions and opportunities to work with customers is learning about them and building a relationship. So, today they were able to show us what they were proud of, which is plant and their process, and at the same time we had the opportunity to understand how they market so we then can work our Nebraska beef into their marketing and company goals and plans too ,” said Nebraska Director of Agriculture, Greg Ibach.
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The Stars Don’t Align for “Meteor Shower”
Posted on December 1, 2017 by zoglinreviews
Stars draw the crowds on Broadway these days, but seldom has shrewd casting created such an instant must-see as Steve Martin’s new comedy Meteor Shower. The big attraction is a pair of acclaimed TV comedians making their Broadway debuts: Keegan-Michael Key, co-creator of the superb sketch-comedy series Key and Peele, and Amy Schumer, who has shown her acting chops not only on her show Inside Amy Schumer but in her sharp feature-film debut, Trainwreck. Great to see both of them on stage. Too bad it isn’t under better circumstances.
Martin’s play (which has been staged previously outside New York) is a slim, shaky piece. A married couple (Schumer and Jeremy Shamos) addicted to new-age marital counseling invite some new friends (Key and Laura Benanti) to their house for a dinner party to watch the eponymous stellar event. But an evening of astronomy and small talk quickly turns into a battle with the bullish newcomers, who seem bent on upending the marriage of their fragile hosts. A decent, if familiar, premise — but any realistic satire of the needs and neuroses of modern marriage quickly goes off the rails into outlandish farce. (Husband blurts out a confession to the guests: his wife once cannibalized her best friend on a camping trip.) And then things really get weird.
My guess is that Martin had in mind an absurdist mixture of Albee and Ionesco, with a dash of Pinteresque menace. But veteran comedy director Jerry Zaks can’t see beyond the broadest laughs. And he forces his stars to do the same. Key bounds onto the stage as the pompous interloper with such a shrill voice and machine-gun delivery that he might be playing the foppish villain in a Restoration comedy. Schumer is a little more grounded, but she can never really locate her character, and compensates with sitcom mugging and too many piercing screams.
As for the meteor shower, it provides the occasion for one silly, cartoonish sight gag, but otherwise is pretty much a fizzle. Like the play.
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The forthcoming solo project from restaurateur Brandon Pearson focuses on seasonal menu items
by Eileen Mellon
A salad with golden and red beets, shaved and pickled fennel, grilled watermelon, and a pistachio-and-herb vinaigrette (Photo by Eileen Mellon)
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Gazpacho from Aloi (Photo by Adan Velis)
The inside of Aloi features communal tables and a 14-seat bar. (Photo by Eileen Mellon)
The mural on the side of Aloi, located at 3103 W. Leigh St. (Photo by Eileen Mellon)
“It’s their turn in the season,” says Ben Watters, head chef of Aloi, talking about green beans and zucchini as he explains his vision to integrate seasonal menu items from local farmers into the restaurant's menu.
Aloi is the forthcoming solo project from Brandon Pearson, co-owner of Sabai and the recently opened Temple, set to debut by the end of July at 3103 W. Leigh St. in Scott’s Addition.
“I feel like this was something I needed to do and wanted to do. It’s more refined and more my own,” says Pearson. “We want to integrate what’s grown now and to represent a time and a place in food.”
Don’t expect Koa Moo Dang or Laotian rice noodles, signature dishes from Pearson's other ventures, to grace the menu. Diners aren't likely to find trite fried green tomatoes, duck fat-drizzled asparagus or pimento cheese on the refined, veggie-forward, fluctuating menu, either.
It won't be uncommon for menu items to change weekly. Aloi will focus heavily on seasonality, stepping away from the saturated Southern roots the Richmond dining scene has wholeheartedly embraced and homing in on contemporary American cuisine woven through with local, seasonal products from purveyors such as Tomten Farm, Manakintowne, Seven Hills, Yellow Umbrella Provisions and Autumn Olive Farms.
“They say dress for the job you want, not the job you have, and this restaurant sort of does that,” says Adan Velis, managing partner and beverage director of Aloi. “Building the stage for what we want Richmond to be, and what we want to see it evolve to — that newness.”
All three of the restaurant's heavy hitters are on board with the concept. Velis says the cocktail menu will take cues from what Watters and his team in the kitchen have available, and he'll incorporate lots of shrubs, house-made tonic and ginger beer. There won't be any soda in house. Although a few beers will be available on tap, the main focus is on cocktails — Velis runs the speakeasy at Sabai — and American wines.
“We want to emphasize the idea of the home and value things made nearby in our beverage program,” says Velis.
The Aloi space, formerly a woodshop for Pearson, who also designs and builds furniture, was converted for the restaurant; his artisan's touch is still evident, however. He designed every table and wood accent inside the space, including an intricate ceiling, three eight-person communal tables, and a 14-seat bar that faces the kitchen, visible through large glass windows. He describes the interior as chic, low-lit and where sexy food serves as the main star.
“It’s all about food; we want the food to be plated like fine dining but in a more casual, laid-back space with not a lot of fuss — fine dining without fine dining," says Pearson.
Velis has experienced with this approach: He helped open The Dutch, an upscale yet unstuffy restaurant in Soho, that was dubbed Restaurant of the Year by The New York Times in 2011.
“We're doing something casual and fine-dining but taking all the pretense out of it to hit the right points,” says Velis. “The kitchen is the centerpiece, and we want food from the cultural fabric of America — the flavors that make it what it is now.”
Watters, formerly of Brenner Pass and Lemaire, staged at Alinea in Chicago, on the list of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants last year, with chef-owner Grant Achatz. His experience there and at Brasserie Ten Ten and Frasca in Boulder, Colorado, allowed him to hone his skills and push a regionally driven, fish-forward menu.
“We're trying to do things a little bit different, take it a little farther than everyone else, and we want people to step outside of their comfort zone and be adventurous,” says Watters. “Hopefully we can get people excited and they say, 'I can’t wait for them to bring back that salad next summer' and look forward to the seasonality of the menu.”
Seasonal test menu items include East Coast oysters with a dill, basil, cucumber and elderflower mignonette and heirloom Hanover tomatoes accompanied by juicy stone fruit. Watters' goal is to maintain the integrity of the ingredients and have that dictate where the menu moves, to enhance flavors rather than cover them up, yet still provide big, bold tastes and courses that don’t induce an unwelcome heaviness.
Most importantly, for Watters, Pearson and Velis, it’s about honoring the product and where it came from.
“The people working to get the oysters or working in the fields, those are the real rock stars," says Watters. It’s hot in the kitchen, but I get to have AC or bottled water and they have the hard, dedicated work. We should be proud because we're lucky enough to serve their products.”
Aloi will be open Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 5 to 11 p.m., Thursday through Saturday from 5 p.m. to midnight, and closed on Mondays. The bar will open at 4:30 p.m. each day of operation.
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The Dreadful Kasper:
- He was ready to destroy a man's livelihood and reputation to achieve his ends
Thank the Good Lord for smartphones and recording devices now available everywhere: if it hadn't been for them, Walter "Africans shut up" Kasper would have almost certainly ruined the livelihood, reputation, and integrity of a good man and excellent journalist. That is possibly as horrific as the things said by Kasper themselves, if not more.
As Matthew Archbold says:
Just a quick question. As we all know now, Cardinal Kasper gave an interview which Ed Pentin of the Register and Zenit reported on in which he denigrated the African bishops. When the outrage ensued, he denied ever giving the interview and said he'd never said any of those things. Pentin, however, taped the interview.
But here's my question. If he hadn't, Pentin's career would've been harmed. Possibly irreparably. Would Cardinal Kaspar have admitted to the interview or simply watched another man's life be possibly destroyed?
There's no answer. But perhaps we have our answer in that Cdl. Kaspar is now publicly faulting Pentin for not maintaining "journalistic methods" because he didn't know he was being taped.
He now says he was giving an interview to two other journalists and Pentin recorded it without his knowledge. So at first he did deny saying those things but now is just saying he didn't say it to Pentin. He just said it near him.
Sooo...I'm thinking we have our answer to my question. [Source]
So much for his "mercy"!
This once again shows how unbelievably difficult it is to fight Modernists: they are ready to do everything and anything to reach their goals (cf. Pascendi, paragraphs 2-3), which orthodox Christians are not. Worse: according to the "Forte Theology" of the partial Monday relatio -- even when Modernists actually do believe in something -- since all bad things have "semina Verbi" and "elements of sanctification", lying, cheating, and destroying are not even "sins" properly, but just "steps" of the path to an "ideal" of truth, faithfulness, and integrity that is nearly impossible to achieve...
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President Jokowi Appoints Nine KPK Selection Committee Members
By Office of Assistant to Deputy Cabinet Secretary for State Documents & Translation
Date 17 Mei 2019
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President Joko Jokowi Widodo has appointed nine Selection Committee (Pansel) members whose job is to choose new commissioners for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for period of 2019-2023.
The appointment of the committee members is stipulated in Presidential Decree Number 54 / P Year 2019 on Establishment of the Selection Committee Members for the KPK Commissioners for 2019-2023 Period signed by President Joko Widodo on Friday, 17 May 2019.
The selection committee was established to guarantee the quality and transparency during the selection process of the candidates for commissioners of the KPK. The selection process includes filtering and proposing names of candidates to the President until the final test. The candidates wish to replace the current commissioners whose term will be completed on 21 December 2019.
Following is the list for the committee members:
1. Chairperson-cum-Member: Dr. Yenti Ganarsih, S.H., M.H; an academic lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Trisakti University
2. Deputy Chairperson-cum-Member: Prof. Dr. Indriyanto Senoadji, S.H., M.H.; Professor of Criminal Law of University of Indonesia, also ex-acting head of the KPK
3. Members:
a. Prof. Dr. Harkristuti Harkrisnowo, an academic expert in criminal law and human rights
b. Prof. Dr. Marcus Priyo Gunarto, S.H., M.Hum., an academic and criminal law expert at Gadjah Mada University.
c. Prof. Dr. Hamdi Moeloek, an academic and psychology expert at University of Indonesia
d. Dr. Diani Sadia Wati, S.H., LL.M., an expert staff at Ministry of National Development Planning
e. Dr. Mualimin Abdi, S.H., M.H., Director General of Human Rights at Ministry of Law and Human Rights
f. Hendardi, S.H., founder of Setara Institute NGO
g. Al Araf, S.H., M.T., Director of Imparsial (an NGO focused on human rights issues)
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Translated by: Estu Widyamurti
Edited by: Mia Medyana
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Immigration Bureau sacks airport officials as it investigates billion-peso bribery claims
Coconuts Manila
18 February 2020, 2:58 am ·2-min read
Five officials at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport have been sacked in connection with an alleged scheme in which officials accepted bribes in exchange for facilitating the entry of Chinese nationals into the country, the Bureau of Immigration announced today.
“[The bureau] immediately relieved all terminal heads, and the head of travel control and enforcement unit pending the result of the investigation,” Immigration Bureau spokeswoman Dana Sandoval said in an interview with radio station DZMM.
Sandoval added that officers in charge have been delegated to replace the sacked officers, but refused to release the names of those involved. They were terminated upon the orders of Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente.
“For prudence, I am unable to release the names of those relieved… it might be best to wait for the results of the investigation of the [bureau’s] fact-finding committee,” she told Rappler.
Read: Senator claims billion-peso corruption scheme facilitated entry of Chinese ‘VIPs’
Sandoval added that the commissioner had also ordered the creation of a committee to probe the allegations, which was given 15 days to investigate and submit a report.
“But the investigation does not revolve entirely around [the sacked officials]. We’re looking at the bigger picture, all that might be connected to this alleged scheme, whether internal or external,” Sandoval told GMA News.
Yesterday during a Senate hearing, Senator Risa Hontiveros accused corrupt immigration officials of receiving an estimated PHP1 billion (US$19.771 million) in bribes from Chinese travelers in the form of so-called “pastillas,” bundles of money rolled up and wrapped in paper like the milk-based confections.
The scheme, according to Hontiveros, was approved by the Immigration Bureau’s top officials, who she alleged were benefiting from the arrangement.
However, the bureau’s deputy commissioner, J. Tobias Javier, and its Port Operations Division head, Grifton Medina, who were both at the Senate hearing, rejected Hontiveros’ allegations and insisted it was the first time they’d heard of the alleged scheme.
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End corrosion of galvanized steels under atmospheric corrosion environment
K. Sekita, T. Hirano, K. Noda
The corrosion prevention mechanism and edge corrosion of the galvanized steels have been investigated. The atmospheric exposure tests were carried out for the observation of corrosion process on the specimen surface under the seashore environment for one and half years. The wet and dry corrosion cycle tests controlled at 33%RH and 84%RH after dropping 0.5M NaCl solution were carried out for the investigation of corrosion morphology on the galvanized steel. From the results of the exposure tests and the wet/dry cycle tests, it was indicated that the galvanized steel was protected by the corrosion product of Zn under the atmospheric environment. The anodic polarization curve measurements were carried out for the exploration of the anodic polarization behavior under the neutral solution. According to the results in the anodic polarization curves of the galvanized steels, the anodic current density of the edge part was larger than that of the surface part.
ECS Transactions - Corrosion Posters (General) - 214th ECS Meeting/PRiME 2008
Corrosion Posters (General) - 214th ECS Meeting/PRiME 2008 - Honolulu, HI, United States
Duration: 2008 Oct 12 → 2008 Oct 17
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Sekita, K., Hirano, T., & Noda, K. (2008). End corrosion of galvanized steels under atmospheric corrosion environment. In ECS Transactions - Corrosion Posters (General) - 214th ECS Meeting/PRiME 2008 (48 ed., pp. 7-13). (ECS Transactions; Vol. 16, No. 48). https://doi.org/10.1149/1.3149564
End corrosion of galvanized steels under atmospheric corrosion environment. / Sekita, K.; Hirano, T.; Noda, K.
ECS Transactions - Corrosion Posters (General) - 214th ECS Meeting/PRiME 2008. 48. ed. 2008. p. 7-13 (ECS Transactions; Vol. 16, No. 48).
Sekita, K, Hirano, T & Noda, K 2008, End corrosion of galvanized steels under atmospheric corrosion environment. in ECS Transactions - Corrosion Posters (General) - 214th ECS Meeting/PRiME 2008. 48 edn, ECS Transactions, no. 48, vol. 16, pp. 7-13, Corrosion Posters (General) - 214th ECS Meeting/PRiME 2008, Honolulu, HI, United States, 08/10/12. https://doi.org/10.1149/1.3149564
Sekita K, Hirano T, Noda K. End corrosion of galvanized steels under atmospheric corrosion environment. In ECS Transactions - Corrosion Posters (General) - 214th ECS Meeting/PRiME 2008. 48 ed. 2008. p. 7-13. (ECS Transactions; 48). https://doi.org/10.1149/1.3149564
Sekita, K. ; Hirano, T. ; Noda, K. / End corrosion of galvanized steels under atmospheric corrosion environment. ECS Transactions - Corrosion Posters (General) - 214th ECS Meeting/PRiME 2008. 48. ed. 2008. pp. 7-13 (ECS Transactions; 48).
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Final Agreement Will Permanently Safeguard 85 Percent of Great Bear Rainforest Stronger First Nations Control, Strict Forestry Rules for Remainder
February 1, 2016 /in Press Releases /by Sierra Club
VANCOUVER, British Columbia ─ February 1, 2016
Today First Nations governments and the BC government, with the support of ForestEthics Solutions, Greenpeace, Sierra Club BC and five forestry companies, announced the fulfilment of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements. Eighty-five percent (3.1 million hectares) of the remote wilderness region’s coastal temperate rainforests are now permanently off-limits to industrial logging. The remaining 15 percent (550,000 hectares) of the forest will be subject to the most stringent commercial logging legal standards in North America. First Nations oversight of their lands has been strengthened and new community development opportunities negotiated as a result of the government-to-government implementation process.
The fulfillment of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements, announced within days of the launch 10 years ago, will protect biodiversity and help mitigate climate change, support improved community well-being, and provide economic certainty to the forestry sector.The success of the Agreements represents a milestone for collaboration between governments, the environmental organizations and forestry companies.
“The Great Bear Rainforest Agreements is one of the most visionary forest conservation plans on Earth,” says Valerie Langer, ForestEthics Solutions Director. “It is a principled approach that sets a new legal and science-based standard for sustaining healthy forests and maintains intact, old-growth that will keep millions of tonnes of carbon out of the atmosphere.”
“The realization of the Agreements proves their value as a model for collaboration, conservation, communities and climate action” says Jens Wieting, forest and climate campaigner for Sierra Club BC. “Implementation of the Agreements strengthens the resilience of communities and secures the ecological integrity of an ancient and vastly rich network of forests, fjords and islands twice the size of Vancouver Island.”
“Today is the culmination of 20 years of campaigning for the Great Bear Rainforest. The completion of this marathon would not have been possible without the incredible leadership of the rainforest’s First Nations leaders,” says Richard Brooks, Greenpeace’s Forest Campaign Coordinator. “From conflict to collaboration, we now celebrate the protection of areas of cultural and ecological importance while ensuring economic opportunities for the communities exist long into the future.”
After five years of intense conflict, followed by 15 years of intensive collaboration and negotiation, the new model of conservation management is informed by science, First Nations rights over their lands, and stakeholder input. The goal of this unique conservation approach is to maintain healthy forests and high levels of community well-being across the entire 6.4 million hectare Great Bear Rainforest, an area the size of Nova Scotia.
BC’s coastal old-growth rainforests store record high amounts of carbon per hectare accumulated over thousands of years and continue to sequester carbon. Increased protection of old-growth forests will result in an immediate reduction of carbon losses from logging.
The five members of the industry group that worked together with the environmental organizations as stakeholders to support the process are Interfor Corporation, Western Forest Products, BC Timber Sales, Catalyst Paper and Howe Sound Pulp and Paper. All parties involved are committed to Annual Monitoring reports and a five-year and ten-year review mechanism.
For backgrounder:http://www.savethegreatbear.org/resources/category/updates
Valerie Langer, Senior Campaigner, ForestEthics Solutions
valerie@forestethicssolutions.org, 604-307-6448
Jens Wieting, Forest and Climate Campaigner, Sierra Club BC
jens@sierraclub.bc.ca, 604-354-5312
Richard Brooks, Forest Campaign Coordinator, Greenpeace Canada
richard.brooks@greenpeace.org, 1-416-573-7209
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Vision Realized in the Great Bear Rainforest Have your say on B.C.’s climate action plan today!
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Scroll.in show ‘Eco India’ wins international prize for video on women oyster farmers in Maharashtra
In 2013, the women in Wadatar in Sindhudurg district, aided by the United Nations Development Programme, innovated the way oysters are farmed.
Sep 20, 2019 · 03:47 pm Updated Sep 20, 2019 · 04:12 pm
A screengrab from an "Eco India" episode on women oyster farmers in Maharashtra's Wadatar village. | Scroll
The “Eco India” sustainability magazine show produced by the video team of Scroll.in in collaboration with Germany’s public international broadcaster Deutsche Welle has won the second prize in a video competition organised by non-profit organisation Women in Seafood.
The show won the prize for its video on how, in 2013, women in the village of Wadatar in Mahatashtra’s Sindhudurg district, aided by the United Nations Development Programme, started building bamboo structures in a creek behind the village to implement an innovative way of farming oysters. The women, who have formed a self-help group, set up ropes with empty oyster shells on bamboo frames. Oyter larvae attach themselves to the empty shells and are harvested over time. This oyster farming method has also been replicated in other places across the west coast.
A video from Spain won the top honour while a video from Peru, titled The aquaculture women of Lake Arapa, took home the third prize.
“This year the videos of very high standards pay a wonderful tribute to women working in the seafood sector, their commitment, their resilience and their love to their work,” said WSI President Marie Christine Monfort. “All actors of these videos, directors and real characters, should be warmly congratulated.”
British journalist Nicki Holmyard, who was part of the jury, said the standard of all the films that won an award and received special mentions was high.
“They demonstrated the many ways in which women are active throughout the seafood industry,” she added. “There were happy tales and sad tales, tales of bravery and perseverance, and tales of the struggle against circumstance. A couple of films even brought a tear to my eye. All the women should be congratulated on their outstanding efforts; they left me in awe.”
Women in Seafood was set up to highlight gender imbalance in the seafood industry, women’s contributions, and promote greater gender diversity and inclusiveness.
Watch all the episodes of “Eco India” here.
Women in Seafood
Kashmiri journalist Yusuf Jameel wins PEN Gauri Lankesh Award for 2019-’20
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We Demand Radical Reforms to Stop Police Murder
Alisdare Hickson
I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called We Demand Radical Reforms to Stop Police Murder and is located at https://socialism.com/statement/we-demand-radical-reforms-to-stop-police-murder/.
Este artículo en español
Fiery and massive demonstrations for racial justice, largely initiated by furious Black youth, have ignited in response to the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others across the decades. How can we transform these expressions of rage, which have gone global, into a sustained movement for structural change? Through a multiracial, working-class united front of civil rights activists, socialists, feminists, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, unions and community organizations fighting for the following demands:
Create Elected Civilian Review Boards with the power to fire cops
Establish boards elected from the community that give the public the power to fire cops who commit misconduct. Establish an Independent Prosecutor, elected and separate from the District Attorney’s office, to take action against police crimes.
Slash police budgets and recall their military hardware
Cut police funding, which sucks up 1/3 of budgets in major cities, by at least half. Redirect the money to social services that benefit oppressed communities, thereby improving conditions for all workers. Fund housing, food programs, education and healthcare. Establish a massive public jobs program with affirmative action goals. No use of the National Guard in protests.
We can win!
The capitalists and their two parties will always choose defending private property and the wealthy rather than eradicating racism and inequality. Those of us who are exploited and marginalized can win by creating a multiracial coalition that fuses the fighting spirit of the streets with the power of organized labor, grass-roots groups, and the Left. It is time to unite around a working-class program that has the concerns of the most oppressed at its heart.
The Campaign for an Elected Civilian Review Board has introduced legislation in NYC that is a good starting point and could be a model for other cities. Find more info at StopPoliceViolenceNYC.org.
The Freedom Socialist Party is dedicated to building an independent working-class movement that understands how the police and capitalism go hand in hand. Join us in fighting to break with the murderous status quo and build a movement to do away with the whole profit system.
Issued by the Freedom Socialist Party
nycfsp@socialism.com
For a printable PDF of this statement, click here.
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Sinfonia concertante in E-Flat Major for 4 Horns & Orchestra, Op. 153: III. Allegro moderato
Trygve Madsen, german hornsound, Bamberg Symphony, Michael Sanderling
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I’ve Got A Crush On You Kristin Chenoweth, Dave Koz E♭ Major 3 5B 97
Elephant Love Medley Aaron Tveit, Karen Olivo, Original Broadway Cast of Moulin Rouge! The Musical E♭ Major 6 5B 144
The Sound of Music Lisa Stokke E♭ Major 2 5B 145
Since I Gave My Heart Away Stephen Schwartz E♭ Major 2 5B 87
Festival March Páll Ísólfsson, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Petri Sakari E♭ Major 2 5B 111
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Within Blue Empires Paul Lovatt-Cooper, Brass Band Fröschl Hall, Hannes Buchegger E♭ Major 3 5B 95
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Concertino For Euphonium And Symphonic Band, Op. 123 - 3. Allegro Trygve Madsen, THE STAFF BAND OF THE NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES E♭ Major 0 5B 141
You’re My Saving Grace… Kristin Chenoweth E♭ Major 2 5B 84
The Death Of Gavroche Aaron Tveit, Daniel Huttlestone, Students C Minor 2 5A 83
Remember O Lord Thomas Attwood Walmisley, Edward Higginbottom, Choir of New College, Oxford, Ryan Wigglesworth C Minor 0 5A 135
Tonight, Pt. 1 (from "West Side Story") Larry Kert C Minor 1 5A 114
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Tonight (From West Side Story) Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence, Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic C Minor 4 5A 141
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Home | Roger Mudre | Asarabacca
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Roger Mudre
48" x 48" panel with clean sides. Painting transforms and shimmers in changing light due to hand-applied metal-leaf under-layer. Ready to hang.
SKU: RM049
Medium: Acrylic over Metal Leaf on Cradled Birch Panel
About Roger Mudre
The focus of Roger Mudre’s work is the circle. This Connecticut-based artist finds inspiration in the colors and patterns of nature. Painting in jewel toned acrylics, he builds sheer layers of color on a subtly reflective metal leaf surface to create a picture plane that changes with the viewer’s perspective.
Roger's work is part of many corporate and private collections including Hotel Zero Degrees in Norwalk, Connecticut, Frontier Communications, and the Energizer Corporation in Shelton, Connecticut. Roger is influenced by Joesph Albers, Sol LeWitt, and Mark Rothko.
“I have never known any other path to take except that of an artist. The concept of infinity has been the inspiration for my work, employing the circle, the perfect form, as a muse. These mages reference microscopic worlds, cellular growth, auras, the cosmos, and places unseen, only imagined. The square format allows for a field of pattern that continues equally in all directions, reinforcing the feeling of infinity. My paintings begin with the application of metallic leaf. Using both additive and subtractive techniques, multiple layers of glazed color are built up. The underlying metallic leaf not only adds a rich tone to the work, it allows the light to refract off the surface of the finished painting. A variety of tools are used including brushes, scrapers and rags giving the paintings a very nuanced texture and complex depth of color. The combination of reflective metal leaf and the many layers of glazed color allow the painting to appear subtly different, depending on the light and viewing angle, creating a constantly changing visual experience. The result is a record of a journey that is both a sensuous and a creative exploration."
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Judge Advocates / National Security Careers
Calling all law students! Info about careers in the Air Force, Army, National Security Agency – and more
by Charlie Dunlap, J.D. · 14 September 2020
Recently I’ve received information about legal careers in the Air Force, Army, and the National Security Agency that I wanted to pass on to law students – and others who may be interested in such opportunities. (BTW, I have an upcoming post about national security law careers in the private sector.)
I’m especially excited about the first input from Maj. Dedra Campbell (and it’s not just because she’s the Air Force’s top JAG recruiter!) She’s a fellow Villanova Law alumni! (Let’s just say we were a few years apart!) Maj. Campbell provides a quick overview and some helpful links:
1) Each year, the Air Force selects approximately 25-30 paid summer 1L and 2L interns for assignments around the country. In light of COVID-19, The Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG Corps) has managed its internship/externship programs through a mix of in-the-office work and telework. The application window for spring externship program will likely open in September. This year, summer internship positions will likely be advertised in the December/January Application windows. They are always announced on the JAG Corps’ social media pages (Facebook at www.facebook.com/USAFJAG and LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/air-force-jag-corps-015803143/), and all career service officers are notified.
As an intern, you would have the opportunity to work under attorney supervision in numerous practice areas including, but not limited to: preparing criminal and civil cases by conducting legal research, writing briefs and opinions, conducting investigations, and interviewing witnesses; assisting attorneys who counsel and represent Airmen, veterans, their family members, and retirees in personal legal matters; and supporting attorneys in other areas, such as federal tort claims, government procurement law, employment law, international law, and environmental law.
2) The Graduate Law Program (GLP) is designed for first year law students to participate in the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) for two years while in law school. The One-Year College Program (OYCP) is designed for second year law students to participate in AFROTC for one year while in law school. The JAG Corps does not award any scholarships for participation in GLP/OYCP. However, students successfully completing GLP/OYCP are guaranteed a position in the JAG Corps once they meet all the JAG Corps’ licensing requirements. The application deadline for the GLP/OYCP is 10 January. The application is available online at airforce.com/jag.
3) If you have completed your second year of law school or have completed two-thirds of your degree requirements you may apply for a direct appointment as a JAG. Boards are held three times a year (September, November, and April). You must submit the online application by the 10th day of the month prior to the board (10 August, 10 October, and 10 March). The application window for the upcoming November selection board will open approximately 14 September. The minimum requirements to be an Air Force JAG are: (1) that you be 39 years of age or younger; (2) a U.S. citizen; (3) a J.D. graduate of an ABA approved law school; (4) admitted to the highest court of any state or U.S. territory; (5) and pass the medical examination after selection.
Captain Tyler Gattermeyer is the Army’s designated as a Field Screening Officer (FSO) for Duke Law which means he’ll be actually conducting the interviews albeit remotely. For Duke Law students he can be contacted at tyler.a.gattermeyer.mil@socom.mil (Law students at other institutions can easily link to Army JAG Corp’s recruiting information here).
Capt Gattermeyer provided a link to the current issue of the Army Lawyer, and it gives you an idea of the span of duties for an Army JAG, and it also has an interesting article on Korean-American women in the Corps.
Captain Gattermeyer provided a short but interesting summary of his journey to becoming a military lawyer:
I graduated from the Univ. of Louisville School of Law in 2010 and spent approx. 3.5 years as a public defender before accepting a Reserve commission with the Army JAG Corps. After a little over a year in the Reserves (the majority of which I spent on active duty orders at Tobyhanna Army Depot, near Scranton, PA), I accessed into the Regular Army with my first assignment as Trial Defense Counsel at Camp Casey, Korea. After my one-year tour with TDS [Trial and Defense Services], my wife and I moved to Ft. Stewart, GA where I took an assignment as Trial Counsel with the 3d Infantry Division.
I spent nearly two years with 3ID and then moved to my current assignment at Ft. Bragg, NC where I currently serve as the Battalion Judge Advocate for 1st Battalion, 3d Special Forces Group (Airborne).
CPT Gattermeyer
Almost immediately after signing in to my current unit, we deployed to Syria. I was the legal advisor for the Special Operations Task Force and my primary role was to advise the SOTF Commander on Law of War/LOAC/ROE/Operational Authorities, while also reviewing fiscal operations, advising on administrative investigations, and essentially anything else that came up (aside from providing legal advice to individual Soldiers).
We were in Syria for about 4 months when Turkey began their offensive campaign into northern Syria, which as I’m sure you know, changed everything for us. Was definitely a unique (and difficult) situation, one which taught me more than I could have anticipated.
We returned mid-January and my duties returned to more traditional in-garrison duties. I still do operational authority analysis and ROE briefs, but more time is spent on administrative law actions, UCMJ, ethics, legal reviews of training concepts, etc.
The big thing that drew me to the JAG Corps was the operational, law of war piece. It’s simply fascinating to me. In that regard, I couldn’t ask for a better assignment than the one I have right now. Getting to practice operational law in a dynamic, deployed environment is (for lack of a better term) awesome.
Mr. Kastan
Duke Law grad Ben Kastan, who is currently the Assistant General Counsel for Cyber and Chief of the Cyber Unit within the National Security Agency (NSA) Office of General Counsel (OGC) , advises about a great civilian opportunity in the intelligence community. Here’ an extract from the NSA materials (be sure to note the deadline):
We wanted to make you aware that we have posted a vacancy announcement for the Legal Honors Program in the National Security Agency’s Office of General Counsel. We are seeking highly motivated entry-level attorneys to join our Legal Honors Program in Fall 2021.
The Program is a three-year term appointment that includes rotations through our seven legal practice groups, which include the areas of Operational Authorities; Operational Support; Legislation; Litigation; Acquisition, Research & Technology Law; Law & Policy; and Administrative Law & Ethics.
Honors attorneys will be well positioned at the close of their three-year term to apply successfully for a full-time attorney position within NSA OGC or to utilize the skills acquired during the Program to launch a career outside of the Agency in national security law or other legal disciplines. More information about the Legal Honors Program and NSA’s Office of General Counsel is now available on NSA’s website (see here).
The ad closes September 30, 2020, and we encourage those that are eligible for the program to apply online here.
Please note that NSA OGC has determined that all hiring for the Legal Honors Program will occur virtually this year. All applicants must apply through the intelligencecareers.gov website, rather than through an OCI program. Feel free to contact us at OGC_Hiring@nsa.gov with any questions.
I hasten to add that there are also terrific military career opportunities in the Navy (see here), Marine Corps (see here), and also the Coast Guard (see here). In addition, the JAG corps also hire civilian lawyers, and, separately, the service general counsel offices hire civilian lawyers as well.
Duke Law has had an enviable record of helping students become military lawyers, as well as obtain other positions in the government’s national security enterprise (see e.g., here, here, here, and here). That said, as I mention above, there are also plenty of opportunities in the private sector for careers related to national security law, so be on the lookout for upcoming posts discussing them.
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First Move by a U.S. Senator to Ease Rules on U.S. Hotels Operators in Cuba
Richard Lardner, Associated Press
- Mar 08, 2016 4:18 pm
Only Congress can end the bad travel restrictions on U.S. travelers to Cuba, so it’s good to see any move however small.
A U.S. senator is urging the Obama administration to ease restrictions on investment in Cuba so American hotels can operate in the island nation.
Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, says that as diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba improve, business opportunities will grow.
In a letter sent Tuesday to the secretaries of Treasury and Commerce, Klobuchar says regulatory barriers must be removed to ensure the U.S. hospitality industry has a fair shot at competing in this emerging market.
Klobuchar, who chairs the Senate Travel and Tourism Caucus, says hotel operators from Spain and the United Kingdom are already negotiating deals to build hotels in Cuba.
The senator also is sponsoring legislation to lift the current embargo on Cuba and allow more U.S. goods to be exported there.
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Facundo Pellistri: 6 Things to Know About the Young Uruguayan Winger
slayminded.com — May 21, 2020 0 comment
As transfer fees continue to go through the roof, clubs are increasingly desperate to pluck the next big thing for a bargain price.
Young Uruguayan winger Facundo Pellistri is one name that has emerged in the past year, bursting on to the scene in his homeland for Penarol.
The 18-year-old has drawn admirers from Premier League sides Manchester City and Newcastle, as well as Spanish giants Real Madrid.
With the race to sign the young starlet hotting up, here’s all you need to know about the wide-man…
Coached by Uruguay Legend Diego Forlan
Athletico PR v Penarol – Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores 2020
The youngster could have no better man to guide him at club level than compatriot and football legend Diego Forlan. The one-time Manchester United striker took over the reins at Penarol earlier this year and has been impressed by his young winger.
Forlan told Jogo Bonito, as quoted by Fox Sports: “Facundo Pellistri has very good potential. He has a lot to improve. He is growing and makes a difference. We know that it will be difficult to keep him for a long time. He has a lot of speed and is unbalanced.”
As a man who has done it all for club and country, Forlan will undoubtedly be able to nurture Pellistri’s precocious talent should he remain in Montevideo for a little while longer.
Has a Cheap Release Clause
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In what will be music to the ears of interested parties, the winger reportedly has a buyout clause of just $12m, a bargain for such a talented player.
With the expected impact of coronavirus on the transfer market, clubs will be looking to secure cut-price deals like this to improve their playing squads without forking out astronomical fees.
He’s Not Just Coveted in Europe
Boca Juniors v Argentinos Juniors – Superliga 2019/20
While all the talk has been about a move away from South America, there has been notable interest from Argentine giants Boca Juniors.
Argentina icon and former teammate of Diego Forlan Juan Roman Riquelme is currently vice-president at La Bombonera and has Pellistri high on his list of priorities.
Ex-Villarreal star Riquelme told Teledoce: “He is young, talented, he hasn’t played that much but you can see he is a real rascal with the ball at his feet. And that is important. There aren’t many like him around, who have the courage to be so cheeky on the pitch. That is highly valuable.”
High praise indeed.
Manchester City Are Frontrunners for His Signature
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If Pellistri is to take the plunge and move abroad, it is looking increasingly likely that it could be at Manchester City.
Pep Guardiola and co have reportedly offered the youngster a five-year deal at the Etihad, which would include a huge wage increase for the future star.
Although he is much coveted by the club, the Sky Blues would seek to loan out the winger to a La Liga club in order to allow him to acclimatise to European football.
The wide-man is known for being absolutely rapid and a real handful on the ball.
Despite having only made 25 senior appearances for the Manyas, Pellistri has already impressed many with his attacking ability down the right flank.
While he has only been a fixture of the first team for around nine months, he has already been handed the number ten shirt. A gesture to make him stay, perhaps?
A Product of Uruguay’s ‘Baby Futbol’ Scheme
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Pellistri is one of countless young players who began their footballing lives playing their beloved sport under the ‘Baby Futbol’ scheme – for children aged four to 13.
This organised football is played in both Argentina and Uruguay and has helped shape the likes of Sergio Aguero and Luis Suarez.
While it appears like any other children’s football league around the world, ‘Baby Futbol’ is renowned for its intensity and aggression, and serves as a way of instilling that famed South American fighting spirit.
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A Century of Sea Travel: Personal Accounts from the Steamship Era
by Christopher Deakes & Tom Stanley
“It is another point in favour of American traveling that there is not the hard and fast line between the classes that exists on British vessels. In theory, the Americans are all one class.”
Observations such as this—about fellow passengers, ships and their crews, food, conditions on board, the excitement of travel, the apprehension of what fate has in store on the other end of the voyage, and a thousand other things—are gathered here to paint a vivid picture of steamship travel from the 1840s to about the 1950s.
Be it the Lord of the Realm in his stateroom or the emigrant in steerage or the soldier on a troop ship, the simple fact that there was time to do nothing in particular prompted many to put pen to paper and reflect upon their circumstances. Whether it’s the heaving of a ship on sea or the staccato of railcar wheels or the hypnotic drone of an airplane engine, the very process of traveling tends to shift the mind into a different gear. If you think about it, the blank postcards you find even today on an intercontinental jetliner seem positively quaint—but you’ll probably grab one and scribble a note to someone anyway.
The variety of writers and writings presented here gives a multi-faceted and vastly engaging view of one’s fellow man. Some was obviously expected to be read—letters and memos etc.—but others—diaries etc.—surely not. The authors of the book string these snippets together and embed them into an overall narrative that follows the order in which a voyage would normally unfold: departure, the ship itself, accommodations, being at sea, fellow passengers (with special consideration for shipboard romances), food/entertainment, ports of call, hazards, the crew, and, if all went well, arrival. A separate chapter deals with troop ships.
The authors call their book a kaleidoscope and that is a perfect description: A complex, colorful, and shifting pattern or scene. Given the source and intended purpose of the material, its charm lies in being just what it is—subjective observations with no ambition of offering any sort of exhaustive or even insightful treatment of a topic. It is to the authors’ credit that they are able to flesh out these slice-of-life snapshots with background and context, often specifically related to the excerpts they are using, and thus keep this approach from devolving into random noise. While the sheer quantity and rapidity of the many quotes may for some set too quick a pace, an overarching and engagingly told story is clearly in place.
From snide gossip to Deep Thought, from a child afraid of new surroundings to an ill passenger hoping that the sea air will restore health, from cleaning up at roulette to hurling one’s guts out—pretty much the entirety of human experience is on display here, and no one with any sort of imagination could possibly find this book boring!
Imagination is obviously something Messrs Deakes and Stanley possess in spades. The former used to be a shipping agent and collected shipping postcards (he also wrote A Postcard History of the Passenger Liner, ISBN 978-1848321519, 2005/2012) and the latter took his postcard-collecting to a higher level by becoming a dealer specializing in maritime subjects; many of his items are used in this book. The scope of the illustrations is as wide-ranging as the quotes themselves: postcards, travel posters, invoices, promotional brochures, fine art, photos, maps, luggage labels, health inspection certificates, itineraries.
Imagination is also evident in book designer Roger Daniel’s work, be it the seafoam green covers or the faded-ink passport-stamp look of the chapter titles.
This is a lovely book and, at first read, you’ll probably not be able to resist the temptation to keep turning pages. But, like any smorgasbord, it’s best to pace yourself and take time to “digest” the riches in quiet moments here and there.
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The Blatant Miss Universe Pageant Scam
Many people feel there is something rotten about the very nature of beauty pageants. I’m fine with them. I like beautiful women, what can I say? I will say this though, with regards to the biggest sham of a pageant of all time, the “Miss Universe” pageant. In case you have missed the glaringly obvious and still believe that pro wrestling is real, allow me to point out the corrupt and biased nature of this once venerable event.
Who wins Miss Universe… every time? An Earth girl. I know our women are attractive, intelligent and charitable, but EVERY SINGLE FREAKING TIME!?!?!? I know, I know. Who is it hurting? No one, right? Wrong. It’s hurting us. We used to be a planet of integrity that would never rig a beauty pageant. We lived in a world where men were men, Julys were for fireworks and whales were for corsets and lamp oil. No more.
And do you know how it’s going to hurt us most? We are PISSING OFF the Martians! You may think of them as a backwards culture of canal dwelling bacteria but they have feelings and if we continue to make a mockery of their females by shafting them at pageant time, the tiny destroyer armada which they are now building will arrive at our planet sometime in the year 2736 and tiny hell will come with them.
I hope you will join me this year in supporting an extra-terrestrial winner at this year’s Miss Universe pageant. It’s simple enough. Cheer loudly for Miss Mars during the evening gown competition. Let the judges know who is the crowd favorite. The life of your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandchild may depend on it.
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Gay Marriage is Wrong. Period! End of blog title. Exclamation point.
In November 2008, a majority of “yes” votes on California’s Proposition 8 protected the institution of marriage. Some people think gays should be allowed to marry. Homosexuality in all it’s forms, with the exception of hot, spring break, college lesbian make-out, is wrong. But, just because I enjoy Girls Gone Wild, that doesn’t make gay love moral, and neither should those beautiful, hot, nubile, salacious, supple, young ladies have the same rights as I do.
We need to defend our rights as Americans to sit around a bowl of popcorn, as man-husbands and woman-wives, and enjoy the Oscar winning performances in Brokeback Mountain, in the assurance that neither actor was actually gay and that those cowboys will never marry or be afforded the full rights of a straight citizen.
And if some church full of gay people with so-called “beliefs” (which to them are probably just some things they think are true) and so-called “love” for each other (which to them is probably just a feeling) wants to claim they have the so-called “right” to marry because of so-called “freedom of religion” (which to them is probably just their “literal” interpretation of the constitution) then it’s the State’s job to intervene and restrict that freedom. Some freedoms, rights and civil advantages should be reserved for straight people only. End of story.
But the story doesn’t end there. Just because people who are different think they are right and have some “beliefs”, that doesn’t mean that those beliefs should be respected in the laws of our nation, ESPECIALLY if they are a minority. This goes for the Amish, the Buddhists and the National Wildlife Federation. These are all minority groups, whose radical opinions about simple living, the spiritual connection of all beings and owls don’t represent the whole and therefore they have no right to marriage either.
I hope you will join me in introducing federal legislation to stop Amish marriage. If we give equal rights to gays, then the Amish, where does it stop? Soon everyone will feel entitled to them. What would equality be worth if everyone had it?
” Er…um …Thy knee is touching mine.”
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Did Nostradamus Predict Osama Bin Laden’s Death?
Don’t you think the “Osama” verses “Obama” thing had to be screwing with Nostradamus? This is the guy who warned us to watch out for “Hister”. Many people credit the prophecy below with predicting Adolf Hitler’s violent reign:
NOSTRADAMUS QUATRAIN #2 – 24
“Wildmen ferocious with anger, crosssover rivers,
The greater part of the battlefield will be against Hister,
In armor of steel they will make the great assault,
When the child of Germany will heed no one.”
…and that prediction was difficult enough without our President having been named “Franklin Delano Hipster” to confuse things further.
Though it is controversial, many credit the following writing with predicting recent events involving Obama and Osama…
“And then, after great searching, Ozbama will send two birds bearing men of war to the East
And they will find and kill… wait… that’s not possible.
Why would he have his own men… how could Ozbama be in two different… nevermind.
That one makes no sense.
Scratch that. Let’s go back to the one about the ePhone.”
Conclusive? It’s debatable. What do you think?
Decide for yourself. Whatever you decide, make sure you use it in an argument this week.
“History is the almost arbitrary agreement of many people about who did what, when and how. Nostradamus blows my mind with how flipping accurate he is, but that cat can’t spell worth a damn.”
…and if you disagree with Martin Luther King, then you’re no better than the terrorists.
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Theory of Comedy Relativity
Most theories in theoretical physics began with the observation or imagining of something simple. Newton saw an apple falling, Einstein daydreamed about a flashlight. Einstein wondered what would happen if he were riding on a beam of light and turned on a flashlight. Would the light bend?
Great comedians also daydream about some of the same simple things. Steven Wright said, “When I was a kid, I went to my grandfather’s funeral and I was thinking about the batteries in my flashlight. My grandfather was lying in a casket, so I told my aunt that maybe he was in the wrong way.”
This is my simple observation…
Have you ever noticed that the funniness of a joke is always relative to the speed at which it is told?
In comedy, timing is everything. There is a certain point when a joke delivery is just too slow or fast to make the audience laugh. Let’s call those limits the “relative speed of funny”. Let’s look at humor that is delivered on the slower side. Obviously some jokes, when told at slower speeds, are funnier than others, so each joke has a unique threshold that, when passed, diminishes the measurable funniness of that joke to a level of zero. Just imagine you are with a friend and they say,
“Knock. Knock.”
You reply, “Who’s there?”
Five minutes later your friend says, “Amos.”
You’re like, “What?” Your friend is silent. You repeat, “What about Amos? Dude, what are you talking about? Are you ok?” After some time, you put it together. “Amos who?” Days pass and your friend stares blankly.
Finally, while the nurse is changing the IV on your apparently catatonic friend, he spouts, “A-mosquito bit me.”
You glance around the room. His mother is sobbing. His bleary-eyed wife is signing papers and her head snaps up in shock. The room is silent. You’re friend looks at all of them and says, “Get it?”
Your friend has simply told that joke too slowly. No one finds it funny at that speed. There are natural limits on comic timing.
Nature also has a “speed limit” of 186,000 feet per second, we call that “the speed of light”. Nature will start slowing time down as you approach this speed limit in order to keep you from traveling faster than light.
If I faced you and walked backwards away from you, at a rate just a tad slower than the speed of light, we would both notice each other getting smaller and quieter as I walked away, but if we had super telescopic vision and hearing, we could continue to observe one another. As I approached the speed of light, from your point of view, I would appear as though I were moving and talking slower and slower. From my point of observation, your motions and words would appear and sound to me as though they were speeding up. Time would seem to be passing more quickly at your relative position than it passed at my own. What seemed like a few moments to me, could seem like three long years to you. This may seem far-fetched, but it has been proven repeatedly in real experiments.
The Theory:
If I tell you a joke while walking backwards away from you at just a hair slower than 186,000 feet per second, to me you would appear to get smaller and smaller while never getting my joke. To you, I would appear to be telling the world’s slowest joke, which would not really ever turn out to be particularly funny, because the timing would be off. It would just be delivered too slowly.
If I were able to do a test where I told you that joke multiple times, with exactly the same delivery each time, but at varying speeds of travel, starting slow and then working my way up in speed by one foot per second each time I told it, and you were able to forget each successive telling, so that it would be fresh each time, eventually there would be a round at which the joke went from funny to unfunny. This way, we could determine at the exact speed at which the joke would cease to be entertaining.
That speed is the relative funniness of that joke. (Rf) It is constant when the joke is always told in the exact same way to the same listener. For the purposes of our models, the listener is of a median level of fanship. They know someone who owns the comedian’s album, and think they saw the performer on cable, but are actually thinking of Ray Romano, whom they found amiable and amusing.
Comedy timing being the sensitive beast that it is, for most jokes, the speed at which they became unfunny would be somewhere between 50,000 and 80,000 feet per second. At that range of speeds, their delivery would tend to be just slow enough to become weird and to be unfunny. BUT, if we invented a joke that was so funny that even when we told it over a long period of time, people would laugh at it anyway, that joke would essentially allow the comedian to perceive that his joke was so extremely witty that he traveled into the future. It would also cause the audience member to perceive that the comedian had told a joke that was so uproarious that the riotous nature of it caused him to stop aging completely during the joke telling process.
This brings forward the problem of how do you make a joke so hilarious that, even when told at unprecedentedly slow rate of one jest spread over three years, it is still funny. This is where more relativity must come into play.
Theoretical Method#1 “Hypermouth”
The joke would need to be long enough to take three years to tell at normal speed and yet still be funny. It could then be told by the comedian at an accelerated rate, which to him would seem like only a few moments of hyperfast joke telling and to the audience it would appear as though the comedian just told an epically long, three-year-joke at normal speaking speed and it was really funny on day 1,095. I think this is an impossibility in both physics and comedy, since the joke would likely “jump the shark” after the third month of the audience listening to it and the comedian couldn’t possibly tell a joke with three years’ worth of words at such high speeds without his lips bursting into flames. Even in the vacuum of space the lip molecules would rub against one another and cause massive heat from that friction. His saliva would boil and his tongue would superheat his teeth into molten enamel. No one likes seeing that. I saw it once at an open mic and only the guy’s friends laughed.
Theoretical Method #2 – “Slowjoke”
More effectively, the comedian could learn to tell a shorter joke, but tell it sooooo slooooowly, that to him, it would seem to take three years, but when the audience heard it, it would appear to be at told a normal rate of speech, last only a few moments before completion and be appreciably farcical. “Ha! A mosquito.” [snort]
I guess what I’m saying is, learning not to rush through good comedy and enjoying the journey is ultimately the secret to both time travel and success in show business. This is proven by both my experience performing and theoretical physics, so I defy anyone to challenge it. If you don’t believe me, try it.
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my day with the mayor of cleveland.
The Mayor of Cleveland came by last week. I awoke at 6 a.m. to the sound of him honking his car horn repeatedly and rather than let him further disturb the quiet, Amish neighborhood in which I reside, I jumped in the back of his impala and we raced off into the crisp morning air. As we sped down the country back roads, the sound of his glass-packed muffler shook the windows of sleepy houses. Old farmers in horse drawn buggies reined their teams tightly and shook their fists as their daughters hurled their bonnets spitefully after us in disgust.
The mayor looked at me with that evil, bloodshot gleem in his eye that he gets after several sleepless days of non-stop rampaging and though I could not smell him in the cold rush of wind coming through the car windows, I knew he reeked of gin and cheap perfume.
“Mister Mayor, do you think we could slow down for a minute and talk about why you’ve gotten me out of bed at such a…”
I was interrupted in mid-thought by the loud, rhythmic smashing sound of mailbox after mailbox impacting against the large, golden key to the city which the mayor swung casually in his left hand, like some kind of crazed, polo-playing juggernaut.
“SMASH!!”
“…at such an early..”
“an early hour of the…”
“forget it.”
We careened into the square of a small town somewhere south of Cleveland proper. The impala screeched to a halt and before I knew it he was out of the driver’s seat and was standing on the edge and looking down into a fountain. I followed him and peered into the rippling waters, hoping to spy the thing which had so abruptly captured his attention.
“Whoa there buddy, gimme some space, I got a shy bladder.”
I backed away awkwardly, “Um, mister mayor… should you really be peeing in there?” I looked around nervously and jerked as I felt a hand on my shoulder. Formulating an excuse for the mayor as I turned to face what would surely be yet another angry sheriff, I was surprised to see a pair of scantily clad ladies smiling and giggling. He had, apparently, brought us here to rendezvous with some strippers that somehow played an integral part in his yet unrevealed plan.
“Let’s go!” said the mayor, hurling an empty gin bottle and simultaneously spinning to scoop up the two showgirls about the waists and skipped drunkenly toward the car. I rushed to catch up as he gunned the engine and a squad car slowly rounded the corner. “C’mon slowpoke!” He shouted my way and he grabbed the scruff of my bathrobe to haul me through the car window into the laps of the cackling girls.
As the squealing of his tires gave way to the sound of a wailing police siren which faded steadily into the distance, I knew two things. First, that there was no cop alive who would catch us today in the mayor’s souped-up muscle car, and second that our easterly direction of travel and the multi-day binge, which his honor was obviously on the tail end of could mean only one possible destination… the zoo.
I checked the date on my watch and made some quick calculations. Yes, it had been nearly four months and if the mayor didn’t see some elephants soon, the city would pay a heavy price. He gets like this at least three times a year. I’ve never ascertained exactly why. The rest of the time he is the genteel, baby-kissing, glad-handing mayor of Cleveland, polite, kind and mild. But for some unknown reason, when the mood takes him, he changes suddenly. He becomes a liquor-swilling butt-grabbing cretin who will rampage and wreak havoc continuously until he is somehow irresistibly drawn to the one thing which will restore order to his reckless state, the Cleveland Zoo. It’s not the zoo itself, so much as it is the right combination of gibbons, bears and tapers that somehow calms his fevered brain. Something about the smells or sounds or the feel of the polar bear’s fur under his naked cheeks as he rides it around its cage, restores him. Something about the frightened shouts of the zoo keepers, whose silence I must repeatedly buy through bribery and elaborate blackmail… some unknowable combination of all these things returns him to sanity.
It is my sad lot as it was my father’s before me and his father’s before him and so on through history, all the way back to our underground society’s first sentinel, Benjamin Franklin, to guard the welfare of the city of Cleveland by standing ever ready and vigilant, never shirking our sacred duty lest there be a repeat of incidents like the great Chicago fire or many other such unfortunate reminders of why each mayor must never be far from his appointed handler who knows the secret trigger which will avert disaster.
To those unsung few who, at the appropriate time, usher their mayor to just the right bowling alley, or deliver to him just the right sandwich, or sing him just the right Credence Clearwater Revival song at the critical moment… to those few, my hat is off. Fight the good fight, my brothers and sisters in noble secrecy. Mayors everywhere are depending upon us.
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Afterlogue:
Upon completing this important work of non-fiction, it was brought to my attention that certain elements might be interpreted as sexist. Particularly the parts where I refer to all mayors as “he” are at risk for this misinterpretation. Please let me explain:
1) This piece, though it is true and accurate down to every last detail, is a work of comedy. Rhythm and economy of language are critical to humor. It would be unwieldy to write, “each mayor must always be near his or her handler so that he or she can…” etc. This would not be nearly as funny to read. Trust me. I am a professional.
2) No “handlers” are currently assigned to female mayors in our organization. They do experience this cycle of irrational insanity and destruction as well but the cycle runs at more frequent, monthly intervals and no amount exposure to zoos can save us.
To find out more about politicians, temporary insanity and Benjamin Franklin, visit your local library.
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prepare to stare into the eyes of terror!
Gather round chillins, for a spooky Halloween yarn. The legend of the “Night Mare” holds that a foal as black as pitch, born on Friday the 13th gallops the earth, terrorizing the sleep of all who fall beneath it’s icy, unblinking stare. The story has it that the stallion traded its soul to the Devil for the demonic ability to stalk its victims by remaining perfectly silent, unmoving, shiny and plastic. Behold and tremble at the Night Mare’s mastery of this unholy talent.
[Stare at the Night Mare for 10 seconds]
Prophecy has it that in the end times, the Night Mare and it’s hellish offspring will be saddled and ridden across the earth by Satan’s legion of fallen lawn jockeys and garden gnomes. It is said that old Lucifer himself challenged all the imps, demons and gremlins to try to ride the Night Mare, but each was unable to stay astride the dark beast for more than a moment! This was partially due to the slippery, polished surface of the equine fiend’s plastic shoulders and partially due to the fact that it was the eighties and parachute pants were in fashion. They say on nights like this, there still echoes the sound of the Night Mare’s devilish hooves, firmly planted and unmoving. Listen carefully and you can’t hear them now. Moooohahahahahah.
you never read this, and I never wrote it.
I hear a lot of talk about “big conspiracy”. I have boiled it down to just three questions:
1) Who has the real power?
2) Just how closely are we being watched?
4) What happened to question number 3? Why did it suddenly disappear? Was it close to something? Did it make the people with the real power nervous? Are we just going to just stand by and buy the story that “It just left without any notice.” What? It just vanished without a trace? Keep asking questions about number three. Don’t back down. The truth is out there.
-Anonymous (spence.)
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where have all the stranglers gone?
In this day of Hannibal Lechters and Jason Voorhies… um Voorhies’ses… you know what I mean. These days, there’s nowhere for an old fashioned “strangler” to ply his trade. That’s what used to terrify us, the mysterious and ambiguous “Lover’s Hill… street… something… strangler.” He was hiding in the shadows waiting to choke some unlucky person in a convertible, wearing his black golfing gloves and black turtleneck sweater… a real gentleman’s homicidal maniac. These days the killers dress in old winter sports equipment and rarely take the time to look for just the right hat.
I met with an old strangler last night. He was hanging out in a small coffee shop next to the senior center downtown. A lot of old killers congregate there and reminisce of a more civilized time. Times when you weren’t just a “guy with an axe” but you were a very important “axe murderer”… a time when nicknames were well-thought-out.
He ordered the banana pudding and sipped a coffee. His hands were wracked with arthritis and he couldn’t even strangle an earthworm. It was a bit like seeing the old lion at the zoo with his shabby coat and toothless snarl. Out of respect I didn’t turn my back to him at all. I think he appreciated the gesture.
“Strangling? That’s a young man’s game.” he’d say. “I don’t think much about it anymore. Oh sure, I’ll think about it now and again when I’m trying to wrench the lid off of a mayonnaise jar or when I’m squeezing the neck of a life-sized replica of a surprised looking human that I keep in my attic. Otherwise, I don’t pay it much mind.”
I, for one, feel safer knowing he’s off the streets and making potholders in a craft class.
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Trump attempts to bypass Congress with slew of pandemic-related executive orders
Tim O'Donnell
August 8, 2020, 5:27 PM ·1 min read
President Trump on Saturday announced multiple executive actions intended to extend economic aid, as Congress remains in a stalemate over the next coronavirus relief package. The measures will likely face legal challenges, however, as Trump attempts to bypass the legislative policy-making process.
The president said during a press conference at his golf club in Bedminister, New Jersey, that, via executive order, he would unilaterally renew expanded unemployment benefits, hold off student loan payments, and extend a moratorium on evictions. Additionally, Trump said the action authorizes the Treasury Department to defer payroll taxes for Americans making less than $100,000 per year. He suggested he may extend the deferral if he's re-elected in November and ultimately terminate the tax, although his stance on the matter is at odds with both parties in Congress.
The extended unemployment boost under Trump's order would have an additional $400/week go to individuals who lost their job because of the pandemic, landing between the previous $600/week figure and the $200/week plan discussed by Republicans lawmakers.
Trump did not participate directly in negotiations with congressional leaders in recent days, according to The Associated Press, and, in addition to the legal ambiguity, "Trump's embrace of executive actions to sidestep Congress runs in sharp contrast to his criticism of former President Barack Obama's use of executive orders on a more limited basis."
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Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller becomes first woman to play in the Power Five
Doug McIntyre
Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller made history on Saturday afternoon by becoming the first woman to appear in a Power Five college football game.
Sarah Fuller becomes the first woman to kick for a Power Five school with this kickoff. pic.twitter.com/4srlfgZYL9
— Yahoo Sports College Football (@YahooSportsCFB) November 28, 2020
Fuller normally serves as a goalkeeper on Vanderbilt’s women’s soccer team, which she led to the Southeastern Conference title last weekend. She was added to the Commodores’ roster after the team’s other kickers were forced into COVID-19 quarantine, rendering them unavailable for Saturday’s matinee at Missouri. The Power Five is comprised of the biggest conferences in college sports: the SEC, ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12.
Fuller, a senior, made coach Derek Mason’s roster following a successful tryout earlier this week. “She’s got a strong leg,” Mason said. “We'll figure out what that looks like on Saturday.”
The moment came at the beginning of the second half when Fuller, wearing a “Play Like A Girl” sticker on the back of her helmet, kicked off. She didn’t have an opportunity in the first half, as the Tigers dominated the visitors and ran out to a 21-0 lead.
Making history. #PlayLikeAGirl | #AnchorDown pic.twitter.com/57ffStmje9
— Vanderbilt Football (@VandyFootball) November 28, 2020
It was the only action she saw in her team’s eventual 41-0 loss, one that dropped Vanderbilt to 0-8 on the seasons. Nonetheless, Fuller became just the third woman to play at the top level of college football, after fellow kickers Katie Hnida and April Gross.
“Honestly, I was just really calm — the SEC [Championship] was more stressful,” Fuller, in a post-game interview with the SEC Network, said afterward. “I just want to tell all the girls out there that you can do anything you set your mind to, like you really can. And if you have that mentality all the way through, you can do big things.”
It’s not yet clear if Fuller will remain with Mason’s team when Georgia visits on Dec. 5. Oren Milstein, Mason’s first choice kicker in 2019, opted out of the 2020 campaign because of coronavirus concerns. Its other specialists had to isolate after coming into contact with people who tested positive for COVID-19 and might not be cleared in time for next weekend’s contest.
Hnida broke the glass ceiling when she took the field for New Mexico in 2003. Gross followed in 2015 with Kent State. Jacksonville State’s Ashley Martin was the first woman to play NCAA football at any level in 2001. None have suited up in the NFL yet, although United States women’s national team great Carli Lloyd impressed during a workout with the Philadelphia Eagles last year, shortly after she helped the USWNT win its second consecutive World Cup. Like Fuller, Gross and Martin played soccer before switching to the gridiron. Vanderbilt folded its men’s soccer program in 2006.
Before Saturday’s game, Hnida and Lloyd both voiced their support for the 6-foot-2 Fuller, a native of Wylie, Texas, who is majoring in Medicine, Health and Society at the Nashville school.
Vanderbilt Commodores placekicker Sarah Fuller before making history in Saturday's game against the Missouri Tigers. (Denny Medley/USA Today)
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ARCHIVE FEVER ENWEZOR PDF
Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary. Exhibition organized by Okwui Enwezor for the I. Photography, New York, N.Y. 18 January-4 May Mr. Enwezor’s “Archive Fever” is up there with it. It has something like the same suspenseful pace, without the focused story line. The archive of. Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, curated by Okwui Enwezor, explores a variety of ways in which contemporary artists.
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From inside the book. Each photograph shows a hand holding a tiny passport photograph of a family member who died during the Enwfzor invasion of Arcchive. These images offer a wide-ranging subject matter, but are linked by the artists’ shared meditation on photography and film as the quintessential media of the archive. This looks such an interesting course. Recent Books in the Arts. It just seemed a natural thing to do. For both Dean and Ruff, it is precisely the muteness of photographs that triggers their intensified circulation, and at the same time, that makes them such contested and unstable cultural objects.
Very readable and informative. I look at wrchive photographs in my archive and, in remembering and recollecting, re-create different versions of my history Beyond the realm of the snapshot is another empire … connected to a more regulative, bureaucratic, institutional order that invigilates and exercises control over bodies and enwezog.
Over the past 30 years, successive generations have taken wide-ranging approaches to archives, most of them like Cornell Archive Fever also includes works by artists such as Walid Raad, whose investigation of the document and its relation to historical representation is achieved through the employment of the fictional.
As Enwezor explains in the catalogue, in this political work the document is turned into a monument, an altarpiece for death Over the past 30 years, successive generations have taken wide-ranging approaches to archives, most of them like Cornell concentrating on photographic and filmic collections. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here One the one hand, the strictly American perspective on the event is decentralized archiev a way that potentially changes its political and collective meanings; on the other hand, one is made aware of the horrifying events that followed: You are commenting using your Twitter account.
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As everyone has mentioned a lot of interesting thoughts and threads. Others are more concerned with photographs as ethnographic objects in themselves. Encountering these iconic images seven years after the event triggers different temporal registers in the viewer while investing these traumatic images with new geographical and historical perspectives.
Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: The photograph becomes the sovereign analogue of identity, memory, and history, joining past and present, virtual and real, thus giving the photographic document the aura of an anthropological artefact and the authority of a social instrument.
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. My library Help Advanced Book Search. Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art Exh. Uses of the Document in Contemporary Artcurated by Okwui Enwezor, explores a variety of ways in which contemporary artists appropriate, investigate, and reconfigure archival materials and structures. Within this critical project the archive served as both a theoretical term and a descriptive one in the analysis of projects by artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Marcel Broodthaers, both of whose work is constructed as an archive in order to dismantle the idea of a coherent artistic identity as well as to criticize the museum as an institution that regulates the cultural and symbolic currency of artworks.
5. Okwui Enwezor writing on the archive Fever Exhibition 2008
Hi Jan, I do think it ties in very much with Documentary of whatever kind. Installed in its own room, the piece is composed of one hundred front pages of international newspapers published a day after the destruction of the World Trade Center. Srchive and the Archive Photography is simultaneously the documentary evidence and the archival record of such transactions — Because the camera is literally an archiving machine, every photograph, every film is a priori an archival object.
Gabriele Guercio has written works on modern and contemporary art as arvhive as the history of art theory. There are certainly plenty of nouns and adjectives to choose from there. But perhaps this is not the failure of the exhibition, but of the political present, in which the viability of art as a critical practice is precisely what is at stake. For artists, of course, these imperatives provoke all kinds of exciting opportunities for eccentricity and falsification, and the works included herein take many forms, including physical archives arranged by bizarre cataloguing methods, imagined biographies of fictitious persons, collections of found and anonymous photographs, film versions of photographic albums and photomontages composed from historical photographs.
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Pleased you found it helpful. To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Really interesting piece and very informative. April 23, Fver Enwezor Archive Fever: Learn how your comment data is processed. Yet, as Enwezor acknowledges, an interest in the critical logic of the archive is nothing new and was already prevalent in modern and postmodern art.
No eBook available Amazon. As Derrida notes, the Greek etymology of “archive” connotes both “commencement” and “commandment,” implying that authority is as much at stake as authenticity. There is further information here.
Tacita Dean explores amateur photography in Flohwhich is composed of images collected in flea markets in Europe and the United States. You are commenting using your WordPress. International Center of Photography- Photography – pages. Visit the CAA Website.
Subscribe to CAA Newsletter. That is, the work pushes the assumed rationality of the archive to its limit by using an archivs of an event like the Holocaust that challenges received notions of proof and witnessing.
Keep up the good work but stop distracting me!
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You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Here the time of making functions as a shadow archive next to the flat panel of the large-scale print. The Collection is held at Liverpool Feger Library. I wish you would stop posting such interesting things!
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Environmental Public Health Act
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1 Short title
Part II ADMINISTRATION
3 Appointment of Director-General and authorised officers
4 Delegation of power by Director-General
Part III PUBLIC CLEANSING
Cleaning of Streets, etc.
5 Director-General to cause public streets, etc., to be cleansed
6 Duty of owner and occupier to keep clean private streets, etc., abutting on their premises
7 Dustbins in streets
Removal of Refuse
8 Director-General may apply systems for collection and removal of refuse, etc.
9 Removal of industrial waste, stable refuse, etc.
10 Director-General may require owner and occupier to provide dustbins and refuse bins, etc.
11 Maintenance of refuse lifts and chutes and chute chambers in buildings
12 Occupier of house to remove refuse
13 Prohibition on use of nightsoil or human excreta as manure
14 Prohibition on use of nightsoil or human excreta for manuring earth in pots, etc.
15 Prohibition of cultivation or use of manure or irrigation which is a nuisance
16 All refuse, etc., collected to be property of Agency
Offences in respect of Uncleanliness in Public Places
17 Prohibition against throwing refuse, etc., in any public place
18 Building works constituting danger to life, health, etc.
19 Prohibition against dropping, scattering, etc., certain substances in public place
20 Prohibition against dumping and disposing
21 Notice to attend Court
21A Corrective work order
21B Obligations of person subject to corrective work order
21C Breach of corrective work order
21D Variation and revocation of corrective work order
21E Interpretation of sections 21 to 21D
22 Provision of public disposal facilities
23 No disposal facility to be constructed, etc., without licence
Disposal and Treatment of Industrial Waste
24 Prohibition against disposal of industrial waste in unauthorised places
25 Proper storage of industrial waste
26 Notice requiring periodic removal of industrial waste from premises
27 (Repealed)
28 Industrial waste brought to disposal facility to be recycled or treated
29 Dangerous substance or toxic industrial waste not to be brought to disposal facility without permission
30 Excessive production of toxic industrial waste
30A Furnishing of information and keeping, etc., of records on waste and submission of waste reduction plan
31 Licensing of persons carrying on business of collecting, removing, etc., of refuse or waste
31A Special administration order, etc., made on application by Agency
31B Meaning and effect of special administration orders
31C Remuneration and expenses of Agency and others
31D Restrictions on voluntary winding up, etc.
Part IV FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS, MARKETS AND HAWKERS
32 Food establishments to be licensed
33 Licensing of hawkers operating from stalls, etc.
34 Licensing of itinerant hawkers
35 Director-General may issue temporary permits
36 Licences for private markets
37 Persons with infectious diseases not to carry on business
38 Unauthorised structures
39 Cleanliness of markets and stalls
40 Articles of food unfit for human consumption
41 Cleanliness of vehicles, equipment, etc.
41A Penalties for offences under this Part
Part V PUBLIC NUISANCES
43 Public nuisances to be abated
44 Nuisances liable to be dealt with summarily
45 Nuisance order
46 Execution of order for demolition
Part VI INSANITARY PREMISES, SANITARY CONVENIENCES, GENERAL HEALTH REQUIREMENTS FOR BUILDINGS
Insanitary Premises
47 Premises in unwholesome state
48 Destruction of rats, wasps, bees, etc.
49 Closing and demolition, etc., of insanitary dwellings
50 Overcrowding of houses
Sanitary Conveniences, Drains, Sewers and Wells
51 Public toilets
52 Insufficient and defective sanitary conveniences
53 Repairs
54 Sanitary conveniences in work premises or work place
55 Care of sanitary conveniences
56 Inadequate bathroom facilities
57 Construction and maintenance of private drains
58 Drains, etc., to be kept in order at cost of owners
59 Restriction on construction of wells, etc.
General Health Requirements for Buildings
60 Buildings to which public has access to be kept clean
61 Director-General may require employers to provide mess rooms, etc.
62 Appointment of Environmental Control Officer in construction site
Part VII SWIMMING POOLS
63 Licensing of swimming pools
64 Closure of swimming pools
65 Penalty for offence under this Part
66 Application to Government swimming pools
Part VIII FUNERAL PARLOURS, CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA
67 Licensing of funeral parlours, cemeteries and crematoria
68 Corpse of person dying of infectious diseases
69 Corpse not to be retained beyond 48 hours unless encoffined
70 Decomposed corpse
71 Agency may provide cemeteries and crematoria
72 Places which may be used for burials, etc.
73 Unlawful burials
74 Power to close cemeteries, etc.
75 Unauthorised structure
76 Exhumation
Part IX CONTROL OF PURITY OF WATER SUPPLIES
78 Water intended for human consumption
79 Polluted or unwholesome water
80 Regulations on standard of quality, etc., of water supplied
80A Penalty for offence under this Part
Part IXA GENERAL CLEANING INDUSTRY
80B Purpose of this Part
80C Non-application of sections 99 and 103
80D Carrying on cleaning business without cleaning business licence prohibited
80E Offence to engage unlicensed persons
80F Application for cleaning business licence
80G Grant or refusal of cleaning business licence
80H Conditions of cleaning business licence
80I Form and validity of cleaning business licence
80J Revocation and suspension of cleaning business licence
80K Financial penalty
80L Changes to information submitted
80M Monitoring powers
80N Register of licensees
Part X ENFORCEMENT
81 Power to enter upon lands for purposes of Act
82 Penalty for obstruction
83 Director-General may act in cases of emergency
84 Appeal to Minister against notice, order or decision
85 Default in compliance with notice
86 Authorised officers may demand names and addresses in certain cases
87 Power of investigating offences under sections 20 and 23
88 Powers of arrest
88A False or misleading information
Part XI COMPENSATION, DAMAGES, FEES, COSTS AND EXPENSES
89 Compensation, damages, fees, costs and expenses to be determined by Magistrate’s Court or District Court
90 Damage to property of Agency to be made good in addition to penalty
91 Fees, etc., payable to Agency
92 Recovery of costs and expenses payable by owners
93 Recovery of costs and expenses by instalments
94 Liability of transferor of property in respect of costs and expenses incurred by Director-General
95 Limitation of liability to fines and penalties
Part XII MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
97 Exemption of agent who has no funds in hand
98 Service of summons, notice, etc.
99 Licences
100 Receipts, notices, etc., may be given by authorised officer
101 Furnishing of information required by Director-General
102 Saving of prosecutions under other laws
103 General penalties
103A Offences by bodies corporate, etc.
104 Composition of offences
105 Inaccuracies in documents
106 Jurisdiction of court
107 Evidence
109 Amendment of Schedules
110 Exemption
111 Regulations
112 Transitional provision
FIRST SCHEDULE Description of purposes for use of Food Establishments to which section 32 applies
SECOND SCHEDULE Infectious diseases
THIRD SCHEDULE Subject matters of regulations
FOURTH SCHEDULE Private persons who can be authorised to exercise powers under the Act or Regulations and powers in respect of which persons may act
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An Act to consolidate the law relating to environmental public health and to provide for matters connected therewith.
[1st July 1987]
1. This Act may be cited as the Environmental Public Health Act.
“Agency” means the National Environment Agency established under the National Environment Agency Act 2002 (Act 4 of 2002);
“authorised officer” means any person appointed by the Director-General under sections 3(2) and 4(2) to be an authorised officer;
“auxiliary officer” means an individual who is appointed as an auxiliary officer under section 16A(1) of the National Environment Agency Act (Cap. 195);
[Act 4 of 2016 wef 01/05/2016]
“basic rate of pay” means the total amount of money (including wage adjustments and increments) to which an employee is entitled under his contract of service for working for one month, but does not include —
(a) additional payments by way of overtime payments;
(b) additional payments by way of bonus payments or annual wage supplements;
(c) any sum paid to the employee to reimburse him for special expenses incurred by him in the course of his employment;
(d) productivity incentive payments; and
(e) any allowance however described;
[Act 15 of 2014 wef 01/04/2014]
“basic wage” means wage calculated at the basic rate of pay for one month;
“building” includes any house, hut, shed or roofed enclosure, whether used for the purpose of human habitation or otherwise, and any structure, support or foundation connected to the foregoing;
“cleaner” means an individual who is engaged, whether as a full-time employee, part-time employee or casual employee and whether or not at piece rates —
(a) to perform cleaning work for a person other than his employer; or
(b) to supervise other individuals performing cleaning work for a person other than his employer, whether or not the individual is known as a supervisor or leader or by any other title,
and includes any individual who is declared by the Minister, by notification in the Gazette, to be a cleaner;
“cleaning business” means a business, whether or not the business is carried on for profit, in which a person provides cleaning work to other persons through the services of cleaners engaged or employed by that person;
“cleaning business licence” means a licence granted under section 80G(1);
“cleaning contract”, in relation to a person, means a contract for the provision of cleaning work to other persons by cleaners who are engaged or employed by the person;
“cleaning work” means work carried out in Singapore that has, as its main or only component, the bringing of premises or any public place into, or keeping of premises or any public place in, a clean condition, and includes supervising the carrying out of such work but excludes any work that the Minister declares, by notification in the Gazette, not to be cleaning work;
“Commissioner for Labour” means the Commissioner for Labour appointed under section 3(1) of the Employment Act (Cap. 91);
“construction site” means any premises on which works of the following description are being or are going to be carried out:
(a) the erection, construction, alteration, repair or maintenance of buildings, structures or roads;
(b) the breaking up or opening of, or boring under, any road or adjacent land in connection with the construction, inspection, maintenance or removal of works;
(c) demolition or dredging works; or
(d) any other work of engineering construction;
“dangerous substance” means —
(a) aquafortis, vitriol, naphtha benzine, gunpowder, lucifer matches, nitroglycerine and petroleum;
(b) any explosive within the meaning of the Arms and Explosives Act (Cap. 13);
(c) any radioactive material within the meaning of the Radiation Protection Act 2007;
[Act 27/2007 wef 01/07/2007]
(d) any substance which owing to its nature, composition or quantity constitutes a danger to property or human life or health; and
(e) such other substance which the Agency may, with the approval of the Minister, by notification in the Gazette, declare to be dangerous substance for the purpose of this Act;
“Director-General” means the Director-General of Public Health appointed under section 3(1);
“disposal facility” includes a recycling facility, a refuse disposal ground, any place used for the deposit of refuse or waste, an incinerator or any plant, machinery or apparatus used for the processing or treatment of refuse or waste;
“dwelling-house” includes any building or tenement or any part thereof which is used, constructed or adapted for use for human habitation;
“flat” means a horizontal stratum of any building or part thereof, whether such stratum is on one or more levels or is partially or wholly below the surface of the ground, which is used or intended to be used as a complete and separate unit for the purpose of habitation or business or for any other purpose, and which may be comprised in a “lot”, or in part of any “subdivided building” not shown in a registered “strata title plan” (the last 3 expressions within quotation marks having the same meaning as in the Land Titles (Strata) Act (Cap. 158));
“food” includes drink, chewing gum and other products of a like nature and use, and articles and substances used as ingredients in the preparation of food or drink or of such products, but does not include —
(a) live animals or birds;
(b) fodder or feeding stuffs for animals, birds or fish; or
(c) articles or substances used only as drugs;
“food establishment” means any place or any premises or part thereof used for the sale, or for the preparation or manufacture for sale, or for the storage or packing for sale, of food, whether cooked or not, intended for human consumption;
“footway” includes footways and verandah-ways at the sides of streets;
“funeral parlour” means any premises where corpses are received for the purpose of preparation for burial or cremation or for the carrying out of funeral rites or ceremonies prior to burial or cremation, and includes any premises used for such purpose by whatever name called;
“garden refuse” means the refuse from garden and agricultural operations;
“house” includes dwelling-house, warehouse, office, shop, school and any other building in which persons are employed;
“industrial waste” means any waste whether solid, liquid or gaseous produced in the course of or is the waste product of any trade, business, manufacture or building construction, and includes toxic industrial waste and any dangerous substance;
“infectious diseases” means —
(a) any disease set out in the First or Second Schedule to the Infectious Diseases Act (Cap. 137); and
(b) any skin disease which is likely to be contagious;
“itinerant hawker” means any person who, with or without a vehicle, goes from place to place or from house to house carrying for sale or exposing for sale any food or goods of any kind;
“latrine” includes bucket latrines, bore-hole latrines, water-seal latrines and pit-latrines;
“market” means any place used for the sale of any meat, fish, fruit, vegetable, poultry, egg or other article of food, whether cooked or uncooked, for human consumption, and includes any premises therein used for the sale of goods or in any way used in conjunction or connection therewith or appurtenant thereto;
“nuisance” means any act, omission or thing occasioning or likely to occasion injury, annoyance, offence, harm, danger or damage to the sense of sight, smell or hearing, or which is or is likely to be injurious or dangerous to health or property;
“occupier” means the person in occupation of any premises or having the charge, management or control thereof either on his own account or as agent of another person, but does not include a lodger; and, in relation to any part of any premises, different parts of which are occupied by different persons, means the person in occupation or having the charge, management or control of that part;
“operator”, in relation to a public service vehicle, means the owner, ticket conductor, driver, ticket inspector or person who is in charge or in control of the public service vehicle;
“owner”, in relation to —
(a) any premises, means the person for the time being receiving the rent of the premises, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee or as receiver, or who would receive the rent if the premises were let to a tenant, and includes the person whose name is entered in the Valuation List prepared under section 10 of the Property Tax Act (Cap. 254);
(b) any premises where building works are carried out, includes the developer;
(c) the common property of any subdivided building, includes the management corporation established under the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act 2004 having control of the building, or the person receiving any rent or charge for the maintenance of that common property or any body corporate constituted under an order made by the Minister under section 3 of the HUDC Housing Estates Act (Cap. 131); and
(d) the limited common property of any subdivided building, includes the subsidiary management corporation established under the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act 2004 having control of the limited common property, or the person receiving any rent or charge for the maintenance of that limited common property;
“place of public resort” means a building or a defined or an enclosed place used or constructed or adapted to be used either ordinarily or occasionally as a church, mosque, temple or other place where public worship is or religious ceremonies are performed, not being merely a dwelling-house so used, or as a cinema, theatre, public hall, or as a public place of assembly for persons admitted thereto by ticket or otherwise, or used or constructed or adapted to be used either ordinarily or occasionally for any other public purpose;
“premises” means messuages, buildings, lands, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained or not under statutory authority, and includes any place or structure, or any part thereof used or intended to be used for human habitation or for any other purpose whatsoever;
“private market” means a market other than a public market;
“private street” means any street not being a public street;
“public market” means a market owned, leased or maintained by the Government;
“public park” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Parks and Trees Act (Cap. 216);
“public place” includes any place whether privately owned or not to which the public has access;
“public service vehicle” has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Act (Cap. 276);
“public street” means any street over which the public has a right of way and any street vested in the Government;
“public waste collector licensee” means a person designated by the Director-General under section 31(3);
“recyclable” means such refuse, waste or other material or thing as may be prescribed by the Agency, with the approval of the Minister, to be capable of being recycled or reused;
“recycling facility” means any premises used for the sorting, segregation, processing or treatment of refuse, waste or any other material or thing for the primary purpose of recycling or reuse;
“sale” includes barter, exchange, import and export and also includes offering or attempting to sell, or causing or allowing to be sold, or exposing for sale, or receiving or sending or delivering for sale, or supplying any food, drink or goods where consideration is to be received by the supplier for such supply either specifically or as part of a service contracted for, or having in possession for sale or having in possession any food, drink or goods knowing that the same is likely to be sold or offered or exposed for sale and “sell” shall be construed accordingly;
“sanitary conveniences” includes latrines, toilets, urinals and water-closets;
“showboard” includes showcase and any description of container used for the display of any article or thing;
“specified amount” means the amount that is specified in an order made by the Commissioner for Labour under section 80H(2);
“stable refuse” means the dung or urine of birds, poultry or animals and the sweepings or refuse or drainage from any stables or cattle-sheds or places for keeping animals, birds or poultry;
“stall” means any table, shed, showboard, vehicle or receptacle or any other means used or intended to be used for the purpose of selling food or goods of any kind and includes any structure affixed thereto by way of roof, support or flooring;
“street” includes any road, flyover, square, footway, back-lane or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public has a right of way, and also the way over any public bridge, and also includes any road, car park, field, grass verge, footway or passage, open court or open alley used or intended to be used as a means of access to 2 or more holdings, whether the public has a right of way thereover or not; and all channels, drains, ditches and reserves at the side of any street shall be deemed to be part of the street;
“swimming pool” means any swimming pool —
(a) to which the public has access, whether or not admission is gained by payment; and
(b) managed, operated or run by any hotel, club, association or other organisation;
“toilet” means a facility for urinating and defecating which is water flushed, and which connects, directly or otherwise, with a private sewage disposal system or with the public sewage disposal system;
“toxic industrial waste” means any industrial waste which owing to its nature, composition or quantity constitutes a danger to human health or the environment or which contains or may produce pathogens of transmissible diseases;
“vehicle” means any vehicle whether mechanically propelled or otherwise and includes a barrow and a cart;
“waste” includes —
(a) any substance which constitutes a scrap material or an effluent or other unwanted surplus substance arising from the application of any process; and
(b) any substance or article which requires to be disposed of as being broken, worn out, contaminated or otherwise spoiled,
and anything which is discarded or otherwise dealt with as if it were waste shall be presumed to be waste unless the contrary is proved;
“waste collector licensee” means any person who is licensed under section 31 to collect and remove refuse and waste;
“waste disposal licensee” means any person who is licensed under section 23 to construct, establish, maintain or operate any disposal facility;
“waterway” means a navigable river, conduit or drain;
“work place” means any premises or place used for any industrial, trade, commercial or manufacturing purposes and includes all construction sites, work sites and farms.
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A portrait of the artist as a young man – in Dalton
DALTON — Raised in Dalton, Brian DiNicola is Berkshire grown. But his paintings, which have been displayed in galleries from San Diego to Boston, haven’t made their way into the county’s art scene.
“In a way, I feel like I’m foreign to the art scene here,” DiNicola said in his studio on Wednesday night, three days before his 29th birthday.
DiNicola’s efforts to change that began when he displayed portraits at the Saint Francis Gallery in Lee last year, and now he’ll be one of six artists with Berkshire roots whose work will be highlighted in a new exhibit at The Stationery Factory.
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Changing partners in the California broadband subsidy dance
18 June 2013 by Steve Blum
broadband, casf, cpuc, public policy
Whose happy ending will it be?
With the California state budget passed by the legislature and sent on to Governor Brown for his expected signature, broadband subsidy bills are starting to move forward again. Senate bill 740 and assembly bill 1299 were approved last month in their original chambers, and have now swapped places.
SB 740 is the bill that will determine the future of the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF). Originally, it would have added $100 million to CASF and made it possible for a wide range of independent Internet service providers and local agencies to apply for broadband infrastructure grants and loans.
But cable and telco lobbyists got their hooks into members of the senate energy, utilities and communications committee and stripped the extra money out of the bill and added restrictions that would make it very difficult to fund projects out of whatever might be left. Potentially, SB 740 as currently written could even scuttle projects already under review. It was approved by the full senate on a near unanimous vote and sent to the assembly, where it was just assigned to the assembly utilities and commerce committee.
Which was the home of AB 1299, a proposal to take $25 million (or whatever might be left in CASF) away from broadband infrastructure and give it to public housing projects. That bill was also approved with chop licking endorsements from incumbent lobbyists and sent over to the senate, where it’s been given to, surprise, the energy, utilities and communications committee. All very neat and tidy.
Under standard procedures, the senate committee has about three and a half weeks to figure out what to do with AB 1299, but the assembly committee can muck about with SB 740 until mid-August. One possible outcome being discussed is to combine the bills into either A. a compromise that keeps CASF in business or B. sees legislators and lobbyists roll over and have a smoke.
Any bets?
The only loony thing about Google's Project Loon might be the name
It sounds a little different when a city talks about acceptable Internet use
City of San Bruno Fiber to the Home upgrade analysis, 6 April 2018.
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Memorable LGBTQ Album Covers of 2018
Posted on December 27, 2018 by ddeal
Memorable LGBTQ Album Covers of 2018 from David Deal
Record albums refuse to die even though sales are no longer what they used to be. Musicians continue to rely on long-form collections of songs to tell personal stories, and album cover art remains a crucial aspect of the storytelling. In 2018 (as I’ve done for many years), I explored music released during the year to identify the most memorable album cover art. I looked for album covers that:
Capture your attention.
Express the essence of the artist.
Say something about the musical content of the album itself.
This year, I was struck by the number of album covers that expressed what it means for an artist to be the Other, especially to be LGBTQ. The year witnessed a bumper crop of works created by LGBTQ musicians, perhaps most notably by Janelle Monáe, whose acclaimed Dirty Computer created a public forum for Monáe to announce her pansexuality. The album cover art of LGBTQ artists was as intensely personal as their music. Here are three examples:
Blood Orange, Negro Swan
Negro Swan, the fourth album from Blood Orange, the moniker for musician Devonté Hynes, expresses the complicated journey of the black LGBTQ experience. Blood Orange recently said that Negro Swan is “an exploration into my own and many types of black depression, an honest look at the corners of black existence, and the ongoing anxieties of queer/people of color. A reach back into childhood and modern traumas, and the things we do to get through it all.” The album’s title underscores race-based Otherness by using wordplay to subvert a term, black swan, meant to signify a rare thing of beauty. Songs such as “Charcoal Baby” articulate the artist’s vision, with lyrics such as:
No one wants to be the Negro Swan
No one wants to be the odd one out at times
Can you break sometimes?
In “Dagenham Dream,” Blood Orange recalls how he stopped wearing makeup and tried to start conforming after getting beat up for being an Other, much to the sadness of one of his school teachers:
And my eyebrow acted like the boys in town
Then my teacher told me that this, made her sad
Had to act just like the others to get around
But Blood Orange also offers hope that he will embrace his Otherness, as in the song “Smoke,” in which he sings,
Choosing what you wear and getting this far
Waiting for the smoke to clear . . .
The Sun comes in, my heart fulfills within
Indeed, Blood Orange has also said of Negro Swan, “The underlying thread through each piece on the album is the idea of hope, and the lights we can try to turn on within ourselves with a hopefully positive outcome of helping others out of their darkness.”
The album cover personifies Negro Swan through the image of Kai the Black Angel, who appears sitting on a car’s front passenger window frame with a white do-rag on his head and angel’s wings sprouting from his back. His head rests on his arms. His facial expression looks ambiguous. Is he calmly resting? Resigned? Sad? It’s hard to tell because his face is partially obscured by his arms.
In the video for one of the album’s songs, “Jewelry,” Kai the Black Angel appears briefly sitting on the car’s window frame. His facial expression again exudes a sense of calm. He also looks hopeful for the touch or embrace of the viewer. He reaches out toward the camera with a gentle wave, and as the car moves away from view, he continues to gaze back at the viewer, as if to make the brief moment of communion last as long as possible. For a few seconds, Kai the Black Angel shares the light that Blood talks and sings about on Negro Swan.
On Dirty Computer, Janelle Monáe celebrates LGBTQ sexuality while confronting judgments that are inevitably cast upon the Other. On the song “Crazy, Classic Life,” she sings with confidence and defiance,
Young, Black, wild and free
Naked in a limousine . . .
I just wanna party hard
Sex in the swimming pool . . .
I’m not America’s nightmare
I’m the American dream
Just let me live my life
Elsewhere, she explores what it means to live as a sexual being on her own terms, as in the song “Take a Byte”:
I’m not the kind of girl you take home to your mama now . . .
Maybe it’s lust, maybe it’s love, maybe it never ends
Ooh, say your goodbyes (say ’em now)
Play in my hair and nibble there all on my mocha skin
Yeah, just take a byte
In “Pynk,” she speaks bluntly and frankly about a sexual experience whose meaning is even more clear in the song’s video:
Pink like the inside of your . . . baby
Pink behind all of the doors, crazy
Pink like the tongue that goes down, maybe
Pink like the paradise found
Pink when you’re blushing inside, baby
Pink is the truth you can’t hide, maybe
But the album cover dials down the overt sexuality and instead presents the artist in another light. Her eyes are nearly closed, and her face is covered with a beaded veil. Why? One explanation I’ve read makes perfect sense: she’s expressing an homage to her mentor Prince:
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The connection is obvious in the video “Make Me Feel,” which sounds and looks like a Prince video. In it, Janelle Monáe explores her own lust for female bodies. And indeed she adorns the beaded veil in the video as she does on the album cover.
But the video also appears in a completely different context, as part of a 48-minute movie, Dirty Computer – An Emotion Picture, that debuted in April along with the album’s release. The movie depicts a world in which people living lives of individual freedom are rounded up and have their memories erased. A voice-over explains, “You were dirty if you looked different. You were dirty if you refused to live the way they dictated. You were dirty if you showed any form of opposition at all. And if you were dirty, it was only a matter of time . . .”
Monáe portrays Jane 57821, whose life of unfettered sexual joy makes her an outlaw and a target for the authorities. Her life is told through sequences taken from her standalone videos, including “Move Me,” which recontextualizes Monáe as Jane 57821 wearing the jeweled veil. In the context of Dirty Computer– An Emotion Picture, her joyous pansexual life puts her at risk for being persecuted and subjected to a horrible fate. Now we see the cover in a new light: her sexual identity, which is a source of pride and joy, also creates a personal risk, as it does for the Other.
In a Billboard interview, she elaborated on the meaning of the movie:
Dirty Computer is a near-future story about a citizen who finds love and danger in a totalitarian society. She’s an outlaw because she’s being herself . . . Overall, I wanted to reflect what’s happening in the streets right now, and what might happen tomorrow if we don’t band together and fight for love.
Jane 57821 is alive today, fighting for her own identity in the United States. Jane 57821 is Janelle Monaé.
Ah Mer Ah Su, Star
Star is an expression of self-love and healing from the perspective of a transgender artist, Amerasu Star, who performs as Ah Mer Ah Su. In an interview with PAPER, she says the album reflects her learning self-compassion and acceptance after surviving an abusive relationship with a man and being diagnosed as bipolar type two. On the song “Heartbreaker,” she not only transcends a relationship but turns the tables on a man who is hurting her:
I once tried to put you under my spell
Then realized I’d failed and I was overwhelmed
I’ll run into the arms of others
To try to forget you
And it hurts, it hurts, it hurts
But being a heartbreaker is easier than being broke
Here is how she describes the song meaning to PAPER:
I think I’ve had my heart broken too many times by men, to the point where I’ve become someone who ghosts people or runs away. It’s my way of turning the tables, of running away from feeling too good, because I want to break your heart. I’m tired of being heartbroken; it has happened too many times. As a transfemme, it happens so much that we are with shitty dudes who don’t care about us at all really. They view us as sexual objects and I’ve been devastated by that, so I wanted to totally change the narrative.
The overwhelming vibe on the album is about claiming your own narrative by reaching within. On “Need You, Need Me,” she defiantly looks forward after breaking free from an abusive relationship. On “Be Free,” she asks her audience, “Are you growing?/Are you showing any sign of change?” The soaring “Perfect” exhorts the listener to reject self-loathing, stop trying to chase for perfection and instead embrace something more positive and healthy:
How many days have I spent feeling shame?
Where I said I was to blame for my circumstance?
If you couldn’t be you? . . .
I’ll never be perfect
The world isn’t perfect and neither are you
The album cover art, taken from the video for “Perfect,” expresses the album’s themes. The vibrant colors suggest the star that shines within us. Ah Mer Ah Su holds herself tenderly with her eyes closed, as if lost in a moment of self-love. The somewhat grainy and blurred image seems to capture the narrative of “Perfect” – the reality that there is no such thing as perfection, and what matters is accepting and celebrating ourselves as we are. Hers is a universal message, too. As she told Billboard,
[M]y album isn’t just for transgender black people. I want everyone to listen to this album and listen to a trans woman sing about her experience. I want everyone who listens to understand what it’s like to be me and realize how precious and delicate — yet strong and empowering — my story is. I want my sisters to listen to this album and know that they are worthy, beautiful, and deserving of love.
Ah Mer Ah Su, like Blood Orange and Janelle Monáe, has connected with listeners in emotionally powerful ways. Fortunately we have her music and artistic expression of her songs to deepen that connection.
For more examples of memorable LGBTQ album cover art, check out my SlideShare. What album cover art from 2018 resonates with you?
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How does time spent on the bed impact the properties of flocs?
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Libya: Recruits’ age ranges from 17 to 76 at rebel training camp
Suhaag April 5, 2011
BENGHAZI, LIBYA—Faitor Ali may well be Libya’s oldest rebel-in-training.
He’s 76.
So, it’s a good thing physicals aren’t required for recruits. Ali walks with a cane, his eyes are rheumy behind coke-bottle glasses and his bones crea
Faitor Ali, 76, listening to instructor at a Libyan rebel training camp. ROSIE DIMANNO/TORONTO STAR
k when bending over to study the innards of a grenade launcher’s firing mechanism.
The septuagenarian isn’t kidding himself. He acknowledges the unlikelihood of being transformed into a front-line warrior at this late stage of life. But that’s not the point. Embracing the spirit — and burden — of revolution is the point. Aligning with the rawshaheeb is the point. No one, he says, is too old, or too young, to die for the cause.
“I just want to encourage young people to join the fight,’’ Ali told the Star on Monday, during a morning break from instruction at a large training camp on the outskirts of Benghazi.
“Okay, so my presence here is really just symbolic. I can hardly see anything when I look through the gunsights of a rifle, to be honest. But if I’m willing to go through the training, then there can be no excuse for any young man not to try.’’
In fact, Ali comes to the task better prepared than most among the hundreds of males in the current training class. He was a police officer for nearly three decades. He actually knows his way around a gun, if not the combat weapons and light artillery that trainers are introducing to recruits.
“If Gadhafi were standing in front of me, I don’t think I’d miss,’’ Ali cackles.
Creating a combat-ready infantry almost entirely from scratch is a daunting challenge for the nascent military command. While a shaheeb militia drawn largely from students, taxi drivers, merchants, computer programmers and civil servants has been undoubtedly enthusiastic — charging toward the fray in a flotilla of battered family sedans and pick-up trucks — a quick dose of bang-bang reality has sobering repercussions.
Initial gains on the ground over the past few weeks have been just as hastily surrendered, the rebel surge reversing with unseemly havoc whenever confronted by a hugely superior and tactically clever opponent.
Moral righteousness won’t win this fight. Overwhelming coalition air power can’t do the job either, certainly not around urban areas such as the strategically important oil refinery town of Brega, where the front line was still stalemated Monday night, with fierce fighting between the sides.
There’s no alternative to boots on the ground and, clearly, those boots will have to be filled with Libyan feet, since neither NATO nor any Western power — or Arab League state, for that matter — has the remotest intention of reinforcing the shaheeb militia with professional infantry troops; won’t even arm the rebels.
Improvements in control-and-command, better battle organization, are evident at the front, since regular army soldiers — defectors from Gadhafi’s forces — recalibrated the insurgent advance, imposing order on disarray and instilling cohesion on chaos.
Scrubeenies, military naifs who were given only a day’s training in the early stages of the revolutionary press, are now kept well behind the leading ranks.
“Graduating’’ new recruits, however, is critical. And certainly there’s no shortage of the willing.
At the main training facility, a former army base known to Benghazis as the 7th of April camp — named after the date when activist college students were publicly hanged there on Gadhafi’s orders — has been rechristened the February 17 Brigade, or Martyrs’ Brigade.
Volunteer fighters — who aren’t screened physically, psychologically or ideologically — now receive between two and three weeks of instruction in the bottom-line basics of warfare on the parade field.
On Monday, some 300 recruits rotated among half-a-dozen staging areas, under the tutelage mostly of retired army non-commissioned officers barking instruction: here assembling and disassembling weapons, there becoming familiar with the trajectory of rocket-launched grenades, over beyond taking turns on an anti-aircraft artillery piece.
“Ordinarily, soldiers would spend six months developing expertise on each piece of equipment,’’ noted Fawzi Abdullah, a 52-year-old army vet who fought under Gadhafi’s banner for 30 years, deployed as part of meddlesome interventions in Chad, Uganda and Lebanon.
A typically gruff and intimidating ex-NCO, Abdullah looks around at his charges and takes heart from their eagerness.
“They may not have any experience but they’re not so hard to teach,’’ Abdullah insists. “Most are educated men. They have cell phones and computers. They learn quickly.’’
What Abdullah wishes those who’ve graduated would learn, off the top, is to cease shooting their weapons into the air in celebratory rounds.
“I tell them over and over again: Don’t waste ammunition! But that’s the one thing where they won’t listen.’’
Ali Faitory is only 18, hasn’t even finished high school, but he’s signed on, ardently spouting all the right rhetoric: “Gadhafi must be stopped. This regime must be overthrown. We’ve been put in a situation where we have no choice except to fight.
“I’m not scared.’’
The teen pauses, then admits: “Well, yes, I’m a little bit scared. And my mother, she’s a lot scared. She didn’t want me to join the rebel fighters. She tried to prevent me from leaving the house this morning, actually.’’
Another greenhorn, Ahmed Aljaswy, is even younger at 17, kitted out in crisp khaki trousers and a raffish Tilley hat.
“My mother approves of me joining the fight,’’ he insists. “She has courage, she told me to go. She would be happy if I became a martyr.’’
That is surely an exaggeration. While parents may take some solace in losing a son to a liberation war, surely no mother would choose martyrdom for a child. Libyans aren’t radicalized Islamists, for the most part, though there are assuredly some jihadists in the rag-tag mix.
But, for all his eagerness to get to the front and prove his revolutionary mettle, Aljaswy adds that this military adventure is only for the short-term.
“After Gadhafi is gone, I’ll never pick up a weapon again.’’
In any event, none of these mini boot-camp graduates will be going anywhere near the front lines any time soon. All new recruits will be sent out in veteran-led units and kept firmly in the rear.
“I am proud to serve my country, Free Libya,’’ says Ashraf Salen, 23, a computer technician. “I hope to eventually make it up to the front lines. But I’m pretty sure all we’ll be doing is transporting food and fuel to the fighters.
“The truth is, I’m just a city boy from Benghazi. I’ve never fired a gun before in my life.’’
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Family Guy Sneak Peek: Witness the Birth of a New Giant Chicken Feud
By Andy Swift / October 20 2017, 10:50 AM PDT
Why should the guys have all the fun?
Sunday’s Family Guy (Fox, 9/8c) flips the script on Peter’s long-running feud with Ernie the Giant Chicken, giving Lois a chance to go mano a mano with his wife Nicole — and TVLine has an exclusive sneak peek of their intense(?) encounter.
At the very least, we can all learn a lesson from this: If your husband is involved in a blood feud with a giant chicken, it’s best not to befriend him — especially if he’s a married giant chicken.
The episode, titled “Follow the Money,” also features returning guest voice Ryan Reynolds, as well as one of the final appearances by Mayor West (voiced by the late Adam West).
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Shop Fred Leighton and Kwiat For a Covid Cause
The jewelers are donating proceeds to White Plains Hospital in New York
May 3, 2020—Looking for the perfect Mother’s Day gift that also gives back to a charity? There are a lot of jewelers donating to good causes right now. Two that have gotten very specific with the charitable funds are the sister companies Fred Leighton and Kwiat that share a boutique on Madison Avenue in New York City. They have partnered with White Plains Hospital in an effort to support healthcare workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic on the front lines with an initiative that goes on through May 6.
“We are in awe of the selflessness and heroism of the medical professionals on the front line and we wanted to do what we could to support them,” explains Fred Leighton CEO Greg Kwiat. “White Plains Hospital is one of the premiere hospitals in the New York metropolitan area fighting this pandemic. The Kwiat family has always called the White Plains Hospital home, and the need to support it in this fight was clear to us. We felt that our clients would feel a strong connection to the immediacy of this need, and would appreciate knowing exactly how their contribution would be spent to support the hospital.”
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The amazing detail of the charitable donations is that you see the exact dollar amount from a purchase being donated to the hospital and how it is being spent. For example, if you want to get the diamond necklace the mother in your life so richly deserves for transforming into a teacher as well as working full-time from home at her job, now is the time to get it. Order a 6-carat illusion setting graduating diamond necklace for $25,400 from Kwiat (in the photo above) and $6,350 will fund enough isolation gowns for a day at White Plains hospital. If she has always wanted a Tennis bracelet, order a $7,600 Kwiat Bezel Set Tennis Bracelet set with 2.60-carats of round diamonds and $1,900 will fund one POC glucometer and three IV pumps.
If vintage or vintage inspired is more of what you have in mind, head over to the Fred Leighton selection of items that have similar specifics listed for the cause. Plus, lots of pieces are marked down and on sale. There are several items in the contemporary collet setting collection in the $1,500 ballpark. The Edwardian double snake ring in the image above is marked down from $8,500 to $5,700. The symbol of eternal love is not only a good buy, $570 of the purchase would fund two IV-pumps and four no-touch thermometers at the White Plains Hospital.
Go to the Kwiat or Leighton websites to browse more of the collections and see the specifics on what each jewelry purchase would fund.
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Maren Morris Debuts New Song ‘If I Just Get Out of My Way’ During Livestream [WATCH]
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Maren Morris unveiled a brand-new song, tentatively titled "If I Just Get Out of My Way," during a livestream concert broadcast from Brooklyn Bowl Nashville on Friday (Dec. 4).
Luckily for Morris fans who didn't tune in to the show as it happened, some viewers captured part of the fresh ditty from the performance and shared it on Twitter. Watch the video further down in this post.
As reported by the Nashville Scene, which reviewed the singer's entire livestream concert, "If I Just Get Out of My Way" finds Morris "examining her choices and the ways she's coped with tough times in the past." That's certainly an accurate account of the number that Morris performed accompanied only by a lone acoustic guitar player during the Brooklyn Bowl broadcast.
The brooding tune finds the entertainer wondering, "What if 'happy ever after' isn't just something we say?" She also intones the evocative, title-containing couplet, "I know I'm going to make it to the stars someday / If I just get out of my way."
Before the broadcast, a press release touted the following: "Flaunting a fusion of country, folk and pop influences, Maren Morris plays live from Brooklyn Bowl Nashville on Friday, Dec. 4. Carrying a catalog of powerhouse vocals and genre-bending anthems, tune in and feel Maren's energy live from Music City."
Morris interacted with some viewers' feeds as they were piped into the venue. She even singled out one group who were strumming along on their own guitars during her set, as the Scene notes.
It'd be no mistake to say that Morris has had herself a successful 2020: In November, she won both Song of the Year and Single of the Year at the 2020 CMA Awards. Before that, she captured the Female Artist of the Year distinction at September's 2020 ACM Awards.
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March 26, 2011 thomasconroy Leave a comment
Haven’t done one of these in a while. Once again, these are just some films that I’ve seen recently for the first time and added to The Mitchell List. I’ve featured them here, with a short review for each.
“Sahara” (Zoltan Korda) – 1943
No, I’m not talking about the Matthew McConaughey/Penelope Cruz turd that came out a few years ago. “Sahara,” starring Humphrey Bogart and Lloyd Bridges was not only a movie about World War II, but one of the first films ever made featuring Americans fighting in said war. It takes place in the deserts of North Africa and follows a diminished American tank crew, a handful of stranded British soldiers and their fight to protect a water hole from a Battalion of five hundred Nazis. The film features some good cinemtagraphy, excellent sound design and some riveting action scenes. However, I was kind of put off by the mean spiritedness of the American soldiers, tricking the Germans who are dying of thirst into coming to an empty water hole with the intent of slaughtering them. Overall, it adds to the central propagandist logic of the film of glorifying the G.I.s and antagonizing the Nazis as the real battle raged across the ocean, back at a time period when our soldiers really did have a cause worth fighting for.
GRADES: B * * * 1/2 / * * * * * 6.8 / 10.0
“Frantic” (Roman Polanski) – 1988
Roman Polanski has been known for a lot of things, both in the filmmaking world and outside of it. However, after seeing films like “The Ghost Writer” and now this, one facet that I can definitely accredit to him is perfecting the formula of the Hitchcock thriller. Harrison Ford is an ordinary man put into an extraordinary situation when his wife is kidnapped while both are on a business trip to Paris. Ford must go beyond his limitations as a private citizen to solve the kidnapping and ends up getting involved in a criminal conspiracy in the process. This is a great little thriller with some classic scenes. Polanski and Ford both do a fantastic job of never letting the main character tread into action-hero territory, keeping the suspense alive by allowing the audience to see themselves in the protagonist’s shoes by constantly asking themselves what they would do if put in said situation. My only huge qualm with the film is its technical quality. There’s some interesting shots and cutting work in play. Yet overall, the film looks not only plain, but boring. Still a successfully thrilling film.
GRADES: B+ * * * * / * * * * * 7.8 / 10.0
“Stagecoach” (John Ford) – 1939
With this grand tale of high adventure, John Ford created, perhaps, the mother of all westerns. A true motley crew of passengers, including a marshall, a prostitute, an alcoholic doctor and an fugitive outlaw, must take a stagecoach through volatile indian country. They must put aside their differences, band together and survive the journey, together. Classic films from the golden age of cinema rarely display such excitement and raw adventure. Ford’s portrait of the separate characters forming a courageous bond, though certainly not without turmoil, is the strongest prospect of the film. The audience really becomes a member of the journey. It’s not difficult to understand why this film, among others, inspired an entire generation of kids playing cowboys and indians. The film also features some great performances, the standout being Thomas Mitchell’s Oscar-winning work as the comic and philosophical doctor struggling with his demons.
GRADES: A- * * * * 1/2 / * * * * * 9.2 / 10.0
Now, since it has been a time since I authored one of these posts, I’ve obviously seen a lot more than three films since the last one. Therefore, I thought I’d put up my ratings and simply say a few words on the other features that I viewed.
“The Last Emperor” (Bernardo Bertolucci) – 1987
Certainly a gorgeous-looking epic which has some well-directed scenes, however lacking a strong protagonist or a worthy third act.
“The Beach” (Danny Boyle) – 2000
By far, the worst outing of Danny Boyle’s entire career. A true misstep from beginning to end, with flaccid characters that seek out a psuedo-“Lord of the Flies” style of Spring Break.
GRADES: C- * * / * * * * * 3.6 / 10.0
“Suspiria” (Dario Argento) – 1977
A true horror classic with some highly influential camerawork and one hell of an unorthodox and all together harrowing musical score.
“Flirting with Disaster” (David O’Russell) – 1996
O’Russell is definitely a director who has gotten better with age. This film is a lot of fun with an extensive cast, but is just too goofy to be taken seriously.
GRADES: B+ * * * 1/2 / * * * * * 6.8 / 10.0
“Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” (Alex Gibney) – 2005
The breakout film for rockstar documentary director, Alex Gibney, which uncovers corruption with excitement and poise.
“Iron Man 2” (Jon Favreau) – 2010
This sequel, lacking the wit and excitement of the original, doesn’t quite flush the franchise down the toilet, but makes it a lot less reputable.
“Catch-22” (Mike Nichols) – 1970
I’m usually always up for a good war/political satire, which this is. However, the plot is so insanely convoluted that it’s just downright confusing, but not in a good way.
“Trade” (Marco Kreuzpainter) – 2007
A compelling, yet overly self-righteous, thriller about sex trafficking features Kevin Kline in a role with nearly no comedy and one really weird and unbalanced ending.
GRADES: B- * * * / * * * * * 6.0 / 10.0
“Cool World” (Ralph Bakshi) – 1992
Ridiculously bad on all accounts. This movie makes “Space Jam” look like an undisputed masterpiece.
GRADES: D * / * * * * * 2.4 / 10.0
“All the King’s Men” (Robert Rossen) – 1949
A true acting showcase. Obviously superior to the remake, yet still not coming close to grasping the depth and insight of the novel they’re both based on.
“The Adventures of Robin Hood” (Michael Curtiz) – 1936
Definitely, the best film I’ve ever seen by Michael Curtiz. Like “Stagecoach,” it’s a source of pure inspiration for imagination and adrenaline.
“Dodsworth” (William Wyler) – 1936
This early work by one of my favorite directors can be dry and unentertaining a times, but features great production value and an extremely satisfying climax.
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How to Farm Silver Carp
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2 March 2010, at 12:00am
This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming silver carp.
Hypophthalmichthys molitrix Valenciennes, 1844 [Cyprinidae]
FAO Names: En - Silver carp, Fr - Carpe argentée, Es - Carpa plateada
Biological features
Body laterally compressed and deep. Ventral keel extending from isthmus to anus. Head large. Eye small, on ventral side of head. Gillrakers sponge-like. Dorsal fin with 8 rays; no adipose fin. Anal fin with 13 to 15 rays. Lateral line with 83 to 125 scales.
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Hypophthalmichthys molitrix
Seedling collection cages
Fish rearing pond area
Spawning tanks
In the 5th Century B.C. in China, Fan Li described the ponds used, the selection of fish, and the breeding season of common carp, together with its sex ratio and growth rate. By the Han Dynasty (3rd Century B.C. to 3rd Century A.D.), there were further developments in the production of common carp. In the Tan Dynasty (7th –10th Century) there was a transition period from common carp culture to the rearing of grass carp, black carp, silver carp and bighead carp. From the 10th to the 12th Century, expansion in the production of these four cyprinids was even greater, and the feeding habits and relationship between the species became better known. Subsequently, there has been great progress in pond-fish culture in China from the monoculture of common carp to the polyculture of grass carp, black carp, silver carp and bighead carp.
Since the 1950s, after a breakthrough in artificial breading, the culture of silver carp, as well as other carps, has spread tremendously into most areas of China. Silver carp has long been an important cultured species in China because:
It is herbivorous and low in the food chain; feeds and fertilisers are therefore easily available at low cost.
It can be polycultured with some other species, due to its specific habitat.
Seeds are readily available from artificial breeding, without reliance on natural resources.
Production management is simpler and the rearing period is shorter than for other carp species.
In recent decades, silver carp have been widely introduced into European and Israeli waters for algal control and as a food source.
Main producer countries
Main producer countries of Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (FAO Fishery Statistics, 2006)
Habitat and biology
Silver carp is a freshwater species living in temperate conditions (6-28 °C) and its natural distribution is in Asia. This species requires static or slow-flowing water, as found in impoundments or the backwaters of large rivers. In its natural range, it is potamodromous, migrating upstream to breed; eggs and larvae float downstream to floodplain zones. While it is fundamentally benthopelagic, as an active species it swims just below the water surface and is well known for its habit of leaping clear of the water when disturbed.
Silver carp are typical planktivores, the gillrakers being the main means of filtration. Silver carp consume diatoms, dinoflagellates, chrysophytes, xanthophytes, some green algae and cyanobacteria ('blue green algae'). In addition, detritus, conglomerations of bacteria, rotifers and small crustaceans are other major components of their natural diet. Silver carp spawn in late spring and summer, when the temperature of the water is relatively high. From April to August, either because of the rainstorms or the swollen upper reaches of streams and rivers, its broodstock are concentrated in spawning locations where conditions are favourable, and the current swift, complicated and irregular. Spawning temperature is generally between 18 ºC and 30 ºC, with an optimum of 22-28 ºC.
The eggs of silver carp, like all Chinese carps, are non-adhesive. After spawning, the eggs begin to absorb water through the egg membrane and swell until its specific gravity is slightly greater than that of water, so they can stay at the bottom (in the case of static waters) or float halfway in mid-water (in flowing waters) until the fry hatch.
Production cycle of Hypophthalmichthys molitrix
Seed supply
Broodstock
Good quality broodstock eligible for induced spawning are essential for seed production. Only when adults have reached 4 - 6 years old with a body weight of over 2.5 kg, as well being free from serious diseases and injuries, can they be acceptable for creating broodstock for induced spawning. Generally, broodstock are stocked by weight, at 1 500-2 250 kg/ha, with a female:male ratio of about 1:1.5.
Induced spawning Under artificial conditions, the pituitary glands of broodstock do not secrete sufficient hormone for their natural propagation in ponds. Artificial methods have been devised whereby such broodstock are injected with estrogenic agents such as LRH (Luteinizing Release Hormone) or LRH-A (Luteinizing Release Hormone-Analogue), fish pituitary gland (fish hypophysis), HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin), etc., so as to induce the fish to secrete its own gonadotrophic hormone, or to provide a direct substitute for this. The standard dose of the estrogenic agents varies:
Fish hypophysis: 3-5 mg (DW)/kg of female broodstock (for male fish the dose is reduced by half).
HCG: 800-1 000 I.U./kg of female broodstock.
LRH-A: 10 µg/kg of female broodstock. The dose is given in two injections, 1-2 µg/kg in the first and the remainder in a subsequent injection after an interval of 12-24 hours. Only one injection is given to males, usually at the time of the second injection for females.
In order to facilitate production and operations, it is usual to ensure that the fish spawn in daytime. If the single injection method is adopted, it is given in the afternoon around 16.00; then oestrus will occur at about dawn on the following day and spawning will take place. If the double injection method is adopted, the first injection is most commonly given at 14.00-16.00 and the second at about 24.00.
Choosing the most suitable season to induce spawning is one of the key factors in the successful artificial propagation of silver carp. Other success factors include gonad maturity, suitable weather conditions and water temperature and local phenology. A period when average water temperatures remain at 18 ºC or more for 10-15 continuous days is considered an appropriate time for spawning induction.
Fry production
The environmental factors that affect hatching rate include a water temperature range of 22-28 ºC, with an optimum of 26 ºC. If it is lower than 17 ºC or higher than 31 ºC, embryonic development will cease, or be abnormal. After the emergence of the tail buds of the embryonic stage, oxygen consumption suddenly increases to more than twice of the amount of earlier stages. By the larval stage (68 hours after hatching) oxygen consumption reaches its highest peak, equivalent to 8-10 times that of the earlier stages. High dissolved oxygen levels are therefore highly important for the development of embryos and larvae.
Running water type hatching devices (hatching jars, vats and circular hatching tanks) are all designed in accordance with the characteristics of Chinese carp eggs and in order to fulfil the requirements of embryonic development. This enhances hatching rates and the availability of fry for stocking. Commonly, the volume of a hatching jar (vat) is about 250 l and the stocking rate is 2 000/litre. Circular hatching tanks are ring-shaped tanks built of cement or brick, with a size that depends on the scale of production. Small versions have a diameter of 3-4 m, while the larger type are 8 m in diameter. The rings are 60-100 cm wide and about 90 cm deep and the tanks may hold 7-15 tonnes of water. The stocking rate is in the range of 700 000-1 200 000 eggs/m³. Such tanks are suitable for comparatively large-scale production units.
Good water quality is very important to achieve a high hatching rate. Water that has been polluted by industrial activities or pesticides should not be used for hatching purposes. Small fish, tadpoles, shrimps and copepods are all very harmful to fish eggs and larvae. The degree of injury by predators is closely connected with egg density, the predator level, and the duration of contact with them. Predators may be eliminated by capture, filtration and chemicals such as quicklime, bleaching powder, rotenone etc.
The culture of fingerlings requires special care because fry are small and delicate, their feeding ability is weak, they do not adapt well to changes in external environment, and they are not expert in avoiding predators. Therefore, well-controlled intensive systems are necessary to maximise survival rate and to produce healthy fingerlings that will lay a solid foundation for high productivity at the grow-out stage.
The nursery stage refers to the period from 3-4 day old fry to the production of fingerlings that can be stocked into the grow-out enclosures. There are two stages in nursery production. Firstly, in the fry rearing stage, they are grown until they are 15-20 days post-hatch and have a body length of 2.5-3 cm; these are usually called 'summer seedlings' in China. Secondly, in fingerling production, these 'summer seedlings' are reared for a further 3-5 months, when they become 8-12 cm in body length, which are known as 'yearlings'.
After draining the nursery ponds, mud and wastes need to be removed and dikes repaired, following which they must be sterilised with chemicals or herbs before the stocking of fry. The main purpose of these procedures is to eradicate predatory and other wild fish, harmful aquatic animals and plants, parasites and their eggs, and pathogenic bacteria. The chemicals used may be quicklime (CaO), bleaching powder, tea-seed cake, rotenone, etc.
After pond clearing, the pond water is fertilised by applying a basal manure, in order to produce natural food organisms before the fry are stocked. The time of application and the amount of manure vary with the pond conditions and the type of fertiliser. Fermented manure and compost, if used, may be applied within 3-5 days before fry are stocked, at 2 250-4 500 kg/ha. The water should look greenish brown, indicative of rich plankton population.
The fry stocking rate has an impact on survival rate. If it is too high, survival will be low; however, it should not be too low either, or space will not be properly utilised and production costs will be unnecessarily high. The correct stocking density is 1.5-2.25 million/ha.
The routine management of nursery ponds consists of:
Morning and afternoon inspections to observe fry activity and changes in water colour, in order to decide on the quantity of fertiliser and food to apply, or whether water replacement is necessary.
Being careful to exclude harmful insects, frog eggs and tadpoles, etc., and to remove the weeds growing at the edges of the ponds.
Observation, so that fish diseases can be prevented or treatment given.
Training the fry, so that they are strong enough withstand transfer into fingerling ponds with minimal mortality. This training process consists of driving the fry into a net-cage with a net and concentrating them in it for about 20-30 minutes, during which they secrete a lot of mucus and their muscles become stronger. Then they are released back into the pond. Usually, this process is carried out once or twice before the fry are transferred into fingerling ponds.
Ongrowing techniques
A two-year-culture cycle is generally adopted in pond fish culture in China; the first year is for rearing fry into fingerlings and the second year is for rearing fingerlings into market-size fish.
Polyculture is very popular in the rearing of silver carp in China. The considerable skill of aquaculturists enables them to maximise unit production efficiently by using the characteristics of various species to utilise the whole water body efficiently.
Another popular system is continuous harvesting and stocking, sometimes referred to as 'catching and stocking in rotation'. This consists of stocking at a high density, partial harvesting of the larger fish, and the addition of new fingerlings; this keeps the carrying capacity of the pond high all the time. This also speeds up turnover and supplies fresh fish to the market in both summer and autumn. Silver carp and bighead carp are the main species used in this system; grass carp and a small amount of Wuchang fish are the next most used. If tilapia is polycultured, market-sized fish should be netted out, leaving the smaller ones, in order to stop them propagating in the pond.
Feed supply
Silver carp are typical phytoplankton feeders, consuming diatoms, dinoflagellates (Pyrrophyta), golden brown algae (Chrysophyta), yellow green algae, some green algae and blue green algae (Cyanophyta). In addition, detritus, conglomerations of bacteria, and rotifers and small crustaceans are major components of their natural diet. Generally, there is no need to provide formulated feed in silver carp culture.
Harvesting techniques
In the continuous harvesting and stocking system the following aspects need care:
Injuries and mortalities are liable to occur in summer and autumn harvesting if this operation is slow and careless, because water temperatures are rather high at that time and fish are active and consume a great deal of oxygen; they can not stand being herded together for long periods.
Fish should be caught on cool days, when they are not gasping, never on humid or rainy days when the fish are gasping or likely to gasp. Feeding should be reduced the day before harvesting and wastes and grass residues that hamper harvesting operations removed.
When the fish are confined, those that have not yet reached the marketable size must be returned to the ponds immediately and gently.
Harvesting operations stir the pond bottom mud, resulting in turbidity and higher organic matter levels; fish also consume more oxygen after violent activity. It is therefore essential to replace a large amount of the water and to turn on aerators in order to increase the dissolved oxygen content.
Handling and processing
Silver carp are normally bought live, based on traditional consumption patterns in China. It is therefore essential to keep them alive from harvesting to marketing. Trucks and boats containing water are basically used as transportation tools in most areas.
The production costs for silver carp vary from country to country (and even place to place) and the scale of operations. The major factors are the cost of labour, culture facilities, water, seed, feed (fertiliser), power, and transport.
Diseases and control measures
The major disease problems affecting silver carp are included in the table below:
Enteric Redmouth Disease Yersinia ruckeri Bacterium Inflammation & erosion of jaw & isthmus; emaciation; darkening; red opercula; red fin bases; haemorrhages on intestine containing yellow fluid; stomach with clear fluid Sulfamerazine or oxytetracycline baths
Bothriocephalus infestation Bothriocephalus archeilognathi Cestode tapeworm parasite Infestation commonly occurs in the intestine; details not stated No information available
Myxobolus infestation Myxobolus pavlovskii Myxosporean parasite Occurs most commonly in gills; details not stated No information available
Anchorworm Disease Lernaea sp. Copepod parasite Wounds on the skin & muscular tissue Trichlorfon or Diflubenzuron baths
Dactylogyrus Gill Flukes Disease Dactylogyrus sp. Monogenean parasite Gills swollen & pale; high mucus secretion; spread opercula; restlessness near inflow; gasping air; heavy ventilation; dark colour; loss of weight; feeding ceases; high speed swimming; jumping; scraping against objects; can cause epithelial outgrowths & tissue swelling on gills; serious epizootics & mortality Masoten, quinine, Trichlorfon, formaldehyde, methylene blue, Flubendazole, Mebendazole, Levamisole, or Praziquantel baths
Trichodinosis Trichodina sp. Protozoan parasite Slime covers skin like fog, fins clamped & denuded of tissue Formalin, malachite green or methylene blue
Suppliers of pathology expertise
In China, advice is obtainable (for example) from:
Prof. Wu Shuqing, Fish Pathologist, Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences. (http://www.prfri.ac.cn/).
Production statistics
By far the largest producer of silver carp through aquaculture is China, while India and Bangladesh are also major producers of this species. Significant amounts of silver carp are also raised in Iran, the Russian Federation and Cuba.
Market and trade
Hypophthalmichthys molitrix is generally cultured and consumed locally alive or fresh in most of the producing countries. No information is available on international trade. The market price in China for this species is relatively low compared to most other species, normally 4-5 Yuan/kg (USD 0.5/kg). There are no specific market regulations for silver carp; it is treated the same as most fish commodities in the markets.
Status and trends
Hypophthalmichthys molitrix is a native species in China and Eastern Siberia, but has been introduced to many other countries for aquaculture and its use in controlling algal blooms. It is not only utilised as human food but also appreciated by its ability to clean reservoirs and other waters from clogging algae.
The culture of silver carp has expanded steadily over the past decade, rising from 1.9 million tonnes in 1993 to 4.1 million tonnes in 2003. Further expansion is expected as its production costs are lower than most other cultured species since there is no need to provide supplementary formulated feed, and most ordinary people can afford to consume it regularly.
Recent research on silver carp is mainly focussed on integrated fish farming in small-scale aquaculture in developing countries.
In order to keep the product longer and further extend the markets instead of just consuming it fresh, processing technologies need to be developed.
Main issues
Hypophthalmichthys molitrix is traditionally sold fresh for human consumption and has also been introduced into many countries where its ability to clean reservoirs and other waters of clogging algae is appreciated even more than its food value. However, several countries have reported adverse ecological impacts following its introduction. The main global issues currently are:
If silver carp are introduced into the wild, it is anticipated that they will quickly and extensively establish themselves.
Silver carp can consume two or three times their weight of plankton each day. Because of their preferred food items, they may provide direct competition with native fish larvae and juveniles.
Silver carp can grow about 1 m in length and about 27 kg in weight and can represent a danger in public waters used for recreation. It has been reported that boat, jet skiers and fishery biologists have all been hit by silver carp in the lower Upper Mississippi River, for example.
Responsible aquaculture practices
Silver carp production, since no supplementary feed is supplied, is a rather environmentally friendly way of animal protein production. Responsible aquaculture at the production level should be practised in accordance with the main principles of environmental and ecological protection, as laid out in Article 9 of the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries.
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Mr Telly is the funniest, angriest letters section in New Zealand
Sam Brooks | Culture Editor
Sam Brooks defies the ancient wisdom ‘never read the comments’ and goes deep into nine weeks of the TV Guide’s Mr Telly letters.
Since the beginning of time, there have always been internet comments, whether they were some dude ring-a-dinging a bell in a town square, Martin Luther hammering a bunch of complaints to the front door of a church or the more traditional letters to the editor.
But even as methods of complaining have evolved, some of the older ones stay around. I bring you: Mr Telly.
Mr Telly is the letters to the editor section of the TV Guide. I have clear memories of reading these letters with glee when I went to my grandmother’s house – there would be letters demanding new seasons of shows that had been long cancelled, asking why people didn’t dress properly to read the news and the ever-important screeds about TVNZ moving Coro again.
For some reason, Mr Telly exists in the year of our lord 2018. So you don’t have to, I’ve rounded up the common elements from the Mr Telly section for your perusal. Some of them warm the cockles of your heart, but mostly, it just reminds you that people everywhere have garbage and strange opinions; the internet just made it easier to express them.
Without further ado, Mr Telly.
Letter Writers with Strangely Chosen Names
This is a selection of the fine people who choose to write into Mr Telly, but are too afraid to use their real names.
You’ve got your usual descriptive names like Disgusted, Disgusted Two!, Annoyed, The Guys, I Know Best and so on. Then there’s the stranger ones like Wild West Meat Eater and Lesser-Spotted One-Eyed Gabbling Winker, a series of words which can’t possibly mean anything strung together like that.
And then there’s the person who is just a Fan of Dan, who I understand is a weatherman of some sort – and honestly who can blame them.
The Dan, the man, the legend.
Angry About The Way Men Dress
In the nine weeks of Mr Tellys I scoured, I was delighted to see that there were no letters complaining about the appearance of women. Possibly because they got dinged for publishing letters of this kind in the past – or possibly because they’ve filled up their lifetime quota of these letters and have had to move onto men, like this little gem here:
“Isn’t it about time Neill Rea of Prime’s The Brokenwood Mysteries had a shave, shower and a decent shirt to wear?”
This is actually a pretty sick burn, though:
“Can TVNZ not afford to pay Mike Hosking enough money so that he stops wearing his young son’s clothes and starts to dress in his age group?”
Angry About The Weatherman
The people who get angry about the weatherman are also the people who tend to rely on their news about the weather from the terrestrial box sitting opposite their couch or sitting device.
“I wish someone would tell Dan the Man (our weatherman) to please, please slow down while reading the weather forecast. A viewer could think he was being chased by a train.”
“Dan is a very personable presenter and I’ve no doubt an able meteorologist, but all his own work? I don’t think so.”
The Dan, the man, the legend, the star of Mr Telly
Angry About The Internet
If you had to write to the TV Guide instead of raging on the internet, you’d probably be pretty angry at the internet as well.
“I am sure TVNZ will say that OnDemand can be viewed through a computer (for those who have one) but I for one am not going to watch a programme on my iPad mini when I have a perfectly good widescreen TV sitting in the corner of my lounge.”
Move over Ernest Hemingway, we’ve got the six saddest words in the English sentence: “10KM from the centre of Masterton.”
“We are a mere 10KM from the centre of Masterton but frequently am unable to load sites such as Facebook and Stuff because of out-of-date copper wiring servicing our road. And no, it’s not a dead-end gravel road either. In the evenings when more people are home to go online we get constant messages such as ‘problem loading page’ or ‘server not found’.”
Angry About The Inevitable Passage of Time
Again, as is to be expected, with people who write letters to the editor rather than just ill-thought out, emotionally-charged invectives on their social media of choice, there are some letters which are from older people who have forgotten things or just want things to be the way they were.
“I am a senior citizen with a sense of humour and I cannot understand why the comedians of today – male and female – have to resort to the ‘f…’ and ‘s…’ words to try to get a laugh. … I recall with a smile such wonderful characters as Ronnie Barker in Open All Hours, Porridge and with Ronnie Corbett in The Two Ronnies.”
There’s also literally just a letter where someone asks the names of the guest actors in an episode of The Brokenwood Mysteries.
The Brokenwood Mysteries: a Mr Telly favourite
Angry About TVNZ Not Buying A Show Called Red Rock
According to the internet – which I have because I am further than 10KM from Masterton – Red Rock is an Irish crime drama based in the fictional seaside town of Red Rock. I had not heard of it before now, and I will never hear about it after this. But if you’re a Mr Telly writer, then you absolutely have heard of it and you’re FURIOUS that TVNZ made the business decision to stop buying a show that wasn’t rating particularly well.
“I was amazed to read that the reason the brilliant Irish police drama Red Rock was taken off was because it didn’t perform. What planet are these programmers on?”
“I cannot believe TVNZ’s response to the letters from people, like me, who are totally disappointed with Red Rock being stopped.”
“What numpties make the programming decisions at TVNZ?”
“TVNZ, I would have to totally disagree with your comment that Red Rock didn’t perform well. Where do you get these ratings from?”
And finally this heartrending piece written by a woman who is surely just Shirley Maclaine in Terms of Endearment.
“Where is my programme? Is it coming back? Were we warned and I missed it? I am gutted, TVNZ, and no pathetic platitudes, please. I want real, meaningful words.”
(Apropos of nothing, two of the letter writers are called Lyn, a third is called Lynne. Maybe this is Lynne’s personal letter campaign to get Red Rock, a television show that definitely exists, re-instated.)
Angry About People Being Angry At Naked Attraction
The true galaxy brain is not being angry at television, but being angry at people who are angry at television. These two letters have some shocking Shyamalanian twists, let me tell you.
“I would like to congratulate both TVNZ and the British makers of this show. All of nature runs around naked and exposed – but we humans hide away our beautiful naked bodies like they are something to be ashamed of … If TVNZ decided to produce its own show like this, I would love to host it – (In a sensible and educational way, but with my clothes on).”
“Some people have written that the Naked Attraction programme on TVNZ2 is filth. Well, for us, we don’t find the human body anything but beautiful – created in God’s image.”
Naked Attraction: another Mr Telly fave
Angry About Te Reo Māori
Because it wouldn’t be a comment section without the racists. I can only imagine that the macrons were added by Mr Telly himself, because you know these guys weren’t using them.
“Why does a supposedly ordinary programme about people moving house have to be full of Te Reo Māori? Is it because Tamati is presenting it? If so, why isn’t shown on Māori Television? There is a definite place for te reo in our society, but why does it have to be shoved in our face on a non-Māori channel?”
“When a commentary on is on primetime TV then please do it in English and have the subtitles in Sign and Māori. That way everyone wins.”
“Why is this programme not on the Māori channel? Isn’t that what it is for? I have now tuned out as I am sick to death of TVNZ going overboard with Māori these days.”
Just… I Don’t Know
I wish only nice things for this strange man, who may or may not be popular Donald Sutherland son Kiefer Sutherland.
“As a self-confessed dirty old man’, it was at least a month before I realised the gyrating dancers on those (NZ Post) ads were to do with posting letters. If I have a moan about ads, it’s actually the fire department ones of men floating near the ceiling on beanbags – they really make me cringe. Why would grown men belittle themselves by participating in such rubbish? In the meantime, can someone explain what the man says when he comes home to find his wife in bed with a giant red lolly (on the M&Ms ad)? No one in our family can understand what he says. – K Sutherland (Queenstown)
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Yulia Nefedova is celebrated for her playful critiques of consumer culture, her canny explorations of sexuality and gender themes, and her systematic experimentation with X-rated graphics, droll drawings and cryptic doodles.
The female bod — what is incorporated into it and how it is represented — is at the center of Yulia’s eye-popping oeuvre. She tackles, among other things, themes like our take on sex, the status of women in society, fantasy, and self-expression.
She is in a wanton way querying the function of symbols and their meaning in relationship to art and the social meaning of fashion, identity, and all kinds of psychological foibles. The woman is both mythical and modern, a doubled-edged depiction of threat, seduction, subversion and sass all at once.
Yulia’s sexed up, socio-political-pop references are always packaged in a poetic, pretty, porn-y, paradoxical and provocative form — often with a cheeky and ironic undertone — while pushing gender boundaries to the max and flecked with a fetishistic flair.
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In bacteria, cytoplasmic degradation of proteins depends on a small group ATP-dependent proteases, related to but distinct from the eukaryotic proteasome. The Gottesman lab first demonstrated the importance of proteolysis as a regulatory mechanism, and her lab and others have demonstrated that selectivity of these proteases generally is independent of tagging by molecules such as ubiquitin and instead depends on regulated delivery of substrates to proteases via adaptor proteins and anti-adaptors. This process is highlighted in the complex regulation of the bacterial general stress response, under active investigation in the lab. Small regulatory RNAs in bacteria play roles akin to those played by microRNAs in eukaryotic cells, but differ significantly in their biogenesis and protein partners, as well as in promoting as well as inhibiting mRNA stability and translation. The Gottesman lab is active in discovering and characterizing these regulatory RNAs and their roles in the cell. As with the proteolysis machinery, small regulatory RNAs play critical roles in the bacterial general stress response.
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In US A 4-Year-Old Girl Died After Her Mom Kicks Her In Stomach For Not Brushing Teeth
In the US, Washington, a four-year-old girl died after her mother kicked her in the stomach for not brushing the…
By Administrator in International News on February 6, 2017
In the US, Washington, a four-year-old girl died after her mother kicked her in the stomach for not brushing the teeth. The mother’s name is Iris Hernandez–Rivas who is 20-years-old called the police to report to find her daughter Nohely Alexandra Martinez Hernandez. Nohely Alexandra was not responding to their home in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Iris Hernandez said to the police that Nohely, her daughter had gone to take a shower and after 15 minutes later she found her lying in the bathtub with face down. Iris did not call police immediately she called 911 after an hour, Fox5 said.
The little girl Nohely was then taken to the hospital in a critical condition. Once they reached the hospital, doctors said Nohely had got many injuries on her body and has suffered from head trauma. Then later they took her to Children’s National Medical Centre in Washington DC, even there she was in critical condition then later the little girl died. Police told to Fox5 the girl died on Friday.
As per the reports, the Police said, Iris Hernandez-Rivas, confessed that she kicked her daughter in the abdomen as she got angry on her because Nohely had not brushed her teeth.
When she kicked her Nohley fell backward into the wall and hit her head, Hernandez-Rivas said to the police. She even told that the injuries which Nohley had on her body were of several days before when she hit her with the belt.
At present Iris Hernandez-Rivas charged with first-degree assault and first-degree child abuse. Police are waiting for the child’s official death reason; she will face more problems after all things are sorted.
RIP Nohley Alexandra Martinez Hernandez!
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I want to thank the members for their efforts every day and more-so this week, to the member with the large donation to my patreon, thank you I am humbled by your generosity, to the members who made a stringent effort to get out information about THI and also about Kim and The Trust to a wider audience, thank you all.
Over the course of alt media there have been several money oriented platforms put forward, and we all had interest in some of them as a potential possibility of improving our own lives initially, our members have largely moved on from that thinking level, of not I and my, but we and us, but these internet based money programs have been everywhere.
Be it NESARA/GESARA/St. Germaine Trust/Jim Willie, Clif High, Bix Weir and others of buy gold and silver has they are going to sky rocket/Cestui Que Vie Trust and the birth certificate fund/OPPT/The RV, dinars,zins and currency revaluation with Tony, Tank, Gilliland, Schmidt, Shrout and several others/Neil Keenan and The collateral accounts which also involved AVR/Karen Hudes and WB/OITC with Mr. Crayford plus Ray Dam/VK Durham claims they owned this and that trust, then we had crypto currencies and blockchain plastered all over the internet, quite a list and I am sure there are others I have forgotten, due to sheer volume of them.
Now in 2016 if we take out the personal attachments of Kim and I, a new money program came along speaking about The Manna Trust, promising funds for the countries and also the people, evidence was provided in quite a bit of detail and people demanded more proof, fine, more proof was provided and then even a former RV stalwart jumped on board, based purely on the evidence provided, both by word and actions. The Trust has delivered funds to some countries including America (think the last 3 budgets), but not to the people from an outside point of view, and that could possibly be used in an argument against the trust and it’s validity, another promise not fulfilled, they may say, and yet the intel last week with regards to what happened in The Treasury and some others, have shown the exact reasons why the people haven’t started receiving the funds.
So that is the background story of this piece, so here we are in 2018, having had the alt media bombarded us with money based schemes, all of which just put out some information, all of which promised tomorrow, next day or 2 weeks and many of them now proven to be frauds at worst, misled at best, but the one things all the programs above have in common, is all of them at various stages and some still continue, to have their narratives and programs and the people that cover them, are plastered all over the alt media, particularly during the time period 2010-2014, it took up almost all of the alt media did it not?
From a public view it could be seen as a positive change via these people striving to get this fund or trust, from an over view it could be seen as a distraction, but who are the masters of distraction? yes the cabal and their agency minions. Questions you all have to answer is why having plastered all over the internet for so long all the above people and their programs, has one group and money program been not only left out of the internet, but avoided at all costs, yes I have heard the stories of alt media people being paid to not put certain people on the internet and it doesn’t surprise me in the least, I see it as another desperation act personally.
So, why hasn’t THI and The Trust been used as another distraction on the internet and has been actively blocked as many of the members found out for themselves this week and other weeks, (although a particularly unpleasant character in Cosmic Voice did post it there this week, with his special brand of rhetoric against me, but that matters not to me, kudos to opening your mind a bit) so could it be because it is actually not a distraction, but something very real and a threat to their system? The discrepancies are far and wide, mass over promotion of money programs and then ignore one in particular that comes forward. Question for new listeners is why? why have they used all of the above people in distraction programs and ignored this one? I am not here to provide that answer for you, you need to make up that decision for yourself, once you do, you will understand things in a much better way I suspect.
One of the questions asked today is, why is it that they do not want you or the trust to get any credit for anything that you guys have done up to this point?
Perhaps a comment left by email from one of the listeners described it best, You are not invited onto other shows because I think you are invisible to most. I go through the same thing. It’s your frequency is just so high, in my opinion. What you are doing is so extraordinary and on such a high frequency and vibration that others cannot connect, so it makes you “invisible”. Something to really ponder on in alignment with the two worlds theory, I released to THI listeners back in the fall of 2016.
*A version of the US military landed in Haiti at the weekend not to protect Haitians, restore order or give back the billions stolen by Clinton Foundation, no they were sent there at request of Hillary to protect American interests. Hillary has no interest in Americans unless skinning their children or taking money off them, did you know Hillary is a dragon member, not the black American dragon member oh no, the blue dragon which is the UK.
If Hillary was that interested in Americans, why didn’t she order troops to go and help the California people, which after all is a so called Blue state, whatever that bollocks means.
Portal people describing riots in Haiti, it is not riots at all, the people who are fully aware of what’s going on, and they are fighting back to protect their country and the resources of which these mercenaries are trying to steal, all of it out there is all being orchestrated by another family member of Hillary, her brother Tony Rodham.
Is it any wonder their kids are plain at best and stupid, Hillary is a Rothschilds and Bill is a Rockerfeller, a marriage of convenience, can’t think of a worst combination for a marriage or children, sick family, sick bloodlines.
The American people need to stand up and remind their sons and daughters in the military who they are really working for, for those close to military bases hand out fliers and let them know, it is time to protect Americans not dragon groups dotted all over the world, or Rothtillians.
*Chinese “elders” and also connected to some alleged Chinese Royals spoke to us this weekend and wanted Kim to fly to China for a meeting, to make a deal. This is a common theme for Kim people asking her to travel to other places, whereby they can kidnap her, there has been several attempts to do this both direct and indirect, she and we are not that stupid. Kim told them right now I do not believe they want to do good things, and requested them to release the Pentagon from their contract by 5pm EST Sunday (the contract Kim is referring to for the benefit of the new members is, The Pentagon did a deal to sell all of Americas military equipment and hardware to a Chinese group, on behalf of The Black Dragons who are stationed in both countries, and the US Military are currently leasing it back from them, yes all our planes, ships, tanks, missiles and weaponry belong to this Chinese group, I must stress it is not the Chinese govt) Kim stated she will release intel on everything they are doing to every intelligence agency world wide, plus all Central banks, and including a complete copy of the contract to the Dept of Treasury and also Mr. Trump directly, should they not release the military hardware contract. Tip for members and new listeners is, when you hear of issues in MSM between America and China, like tariffs and other issues, it is largely to do with The Dragon groups issues imposed on each country, and very little to do with both countries or their respective governments. Important piece to understand, TAPP, TP deals were nothing to do with countries, only dragon groups and off world trade syphoning the relevant countries.
* Following their failure to meet the deadline which we both suspected they wouldn’t. Kim then prepared and sent out a 2779 page intel report with a 2 page summary being sent to all countries intelligence agencies and the military world wide, with special edition sent directly to President Donald Trump, and in case you people with badges forget, he is The Commander in Chief. The Central banks were sent the copies so they can all see how things really work with these Chinese Elders and how their transactions always lead to no pay on the contracts they negotiate, or fail to provide proof of funds to pay out in the future.
*All major govt, military and agencies departments are now in total shock, panic, indecision and wells the fargo do we do now is order of their day. A case of should we stick or twist, that decision will be made for you soon, whether you like it or not, you will all be judged by the public in the near future, of which decisions you all made, I hope you all make the right one.
*Following on from Trump being blocked from releasing the funds from MWHT via The Treasury last week, we have had two separate cases in past week whereby two separate judges have decided to over rule the President of this country and tell him what he can and can’t do. First a judge bans and overturns the ruling on the CNN agent Jim Acosta’s press pass, then another paid judge (they always are in current system) decides to block Trump from banning immigrants seeking asylum (1. these are not immigrants 2. they are mercenaries, another system paid group) Just who is running this country? clearly not Mr. Trump, and this is what all Americans need to start grasping, the whole country is being hijacked on so many levels, be it the financial assassination program, false flags, deliberately destroying American peoples homes, businesses and infrastructure via fake storms or engineered fires. I can tell you here and now, he is doing the best he can in very trying circumstances, with war hawk factions piping in his ear, threatening this, that and the other, treasonous scumbags within the military, agencies and the government, backed by the equally treasonous media. This country is under full scale attack whilst the people sleep, and others argue party politics or when is the funds arriving?
Are country is under heavy attack and people are oblivious to it, if you want to get the gist of what is playing out now minus the nuclear bombs, go and watch the series Jericho, a series from 2006-2008 it has all the ingredients, mercenary military acting as real military, fake govt masked as a corporation and even mentions the group Citadel, we referenced last week, all in your face, unless actions are taken soon the incidents and life in the town of Jericho, will be replicated all over this country and Canada.
*The Federal Reserve rocked up to The Treasury and the Government this trying to get them both to declare America bankrupt, this is the 3rd or 4th time they have tried to do this in the past century, all other attempts and threats worked, this one won’t, reasons why will be later in the show.
*Pope Francis, Benjamin Netanyahu and also the bank JP Morgan have all this week requested to call Kim and work with us, like I said many months back, all of them will have to come to us one day, all of them, we’ll see whether this is a genuine attempt to correct things or another one of their lets play games and delay tactics again, like the so called Chinese Elder/Royals at the weekend.
*Word of warning about the internet, many of you have heard of YT’s, some blogs and sites going down, but what we have found out is far worse than put out currently, the clowns are decimating the internet currently with articles whether from blogs, websites or news media that doesn’t fit into their narrative, is all being removed from the internet. Wikipedia and other similar sites are disappearing not only whole pages, but also altering documents and narratives on the internet to suit their agenda, they are changing the history again. Search for historical documents and past history are now starting to disappear at an increasing pace, Search engines are bringing next to nothing up that we in the alt media would search for, it is all being stripped away. If you have sites or articles saved and wish to keep those details, you will have to copy and paste into a separate file on a hard drive, as links and articles relevant to alt media are being deleted rapidly.
*Weather management using space based power systems was filed December 2010 by a company called Solaren. Description of it is, a space based power system and method of altering weather using space borne energy. The space based power system maintains proper position and alignment of system component without using connecting structures.
Power system elements are launched into orbit and the free floating power system elements are maintained in proper system alignment. in other words in geo stationary orbit. Energy from the space based element is applied to a weather element, such as a hurricane, and later the weather element to weaken or dissipate the weather element. The weather element can be altered by changing the temperature of a section of it, which can also change airflows and the direction of the storm. In 2011 the same people in an email stated they are the first to propose solar generator based in space, that beam down RF waves to a receptor site and convert it into DC current, initially receptor site was Mojave Desert but moved it to Sebastopol, with is located in the wine region in Sonama County California, which is exactly the same area where 2 consecutive ridges of low pressure was located in last 2 weeks, what are the chances? In 2016 PG & E announced their decision to purchase 200 MW of energy from a space based platform, that company is Solaren, PG & E is ran by Rothschilds, Rothschilds are also the owners of many wine fields dotted around California, conveniently none of theirs have burned in any fire, but quite a few other winery burned in earlier fires. Funny that isn’t how life throws up these little quirks and how easily people brush over them as a coincidence. Well actually it is not funny given 100’s have died, 10K’s have lost their homes and business, and over 1000 are missing, it is just not funny. Previous fires burned many of the new pot fields putting those new business out of business, in comes Monsanto/Bayer (bayer is a rothschild name also) and apparently are going to take over the whole of the N. American pot industry, hence reason supply issues are running at record lows in Canada, they are stalling the current business’s for takeover and then they run the whole industry. I told you all the pot legalization thing was another cabal oriented plan, which too many yet again have fallen for it. Get wise to it, the pattern always repeats.
* because their other programs to eliminate people failed it is clear now they have a new way of disrupting things – weather wars. they are able to create high and low ridges of pressure and this steers it, CA had a low stationed just north of SF off the coast, that moved out and another one went into exactly the same position, but it is all a co-incidence right? the outcome? it created by complete accident according to portal people, more wind less rain, all whilst the portal people named fires raged, but here’s where I have a problem, because I apply common sense, some logical thinking and something oblivious to too many people these days, critical thinking.
Many of you will have seen the pictures and videos across the internet, but I struggle to see how an ordinary brush fire (their words not mine) incinerates brick or breeze block to complete dust, or how fires that have the ability in Santa Ana winds, that were gusting 30-70mph range, depending on which portal people coverage you listened to, so we have raging fires being blown by gale force winds and yet fires can burn in an open field in a complete straight line, and then can carve through a house in windy conditions mind, and completely cut that house in half, with no evidence of burning in part of the house left standing, no fire marks on the roof shingles, nothing, But don’t mind me I’m just a conspiracy theorist or so they say.
But again lets look at some of their evidence not mine, “Ordinary bricks begin to decompose at 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit.” Temperatures for making and firing bricks in a kiln is 900-1200F, so if you fire bricks in a kiln at 1200F how can they decompose at same temperature? so those two figures don’t make sense for a start, but lets ignore those silly little discrepancies shall we? Next figures, grass burns at 518F and trees at 572F both were bone dry because of prevailing conditions, so if they didn’t go on fire, whichever neither did for most of it, it means the temperatures in the fire didn’t reach 518F would it not? their next figures given to us is the wildfires were burning at 1472F which would account for brick issue temperature disintegration, but please explain how 1472F does not burn grass at 518F or trees at 572F burning point? Given we have seen evidence of melted car windscreens which requires temperatures of around 2400F, how does a 1472F fire melt glass? Then we see the awful sight of people being cremated in their cars, cremation temperatures range between 1400 and 1800F, and yet not hot enough to burn grass and trees, which require the least temperatures to burn. I mean does this really make any sense whatsoever?
Here is a song that explains straight line fires that burn at odds temps it is called Firedance and 2nd song reflects this town that was raised to the ground literally but lies on top of a gold strata, that place is Paradise, which just happens to be alongside where ridge of low pressure was and almost in geographic alignment to Sebastopol, where the Rothschilds PG&E and solar based tech is based, oh my.
*Naeim Giladi, is the author of the book: “Ben-Gurion’s Scandals: How The Haganah and Mossad Eliminated Jews” (Dandelion Books, LLC, Tempe Arizona, 2nd expanded edition 2003).
Stalin’s decision to use the Zionists in establishing the state of Israel after the Second World War was motivated primarily by his intent to oppose the United States in the oil rich Middle East. The temporary Soviet support for the Zionists materialized in the form of allowing 711,000 Jews to exit from countries behind the Iron Curtain in 1945-1947, supposedly in order to emigrate to Palestine. The Zionists advertised this migration under the code-name “Briha” – escape of Jews from Europe. In reality, the vast majority of Jews preferred to go to the United States or stay in France. Of the 711,000 Jewish refugees, panicked by some fifteen pogroms staged by the NKVD in 1945-1947, with some Zionist assistance, only 232,000 actually went to Palestine. Only the pogrom of Kielce on the 4th of July, 1946 was described in the world press, naturally the Soviet version. Fifteen other pogroms in the satellite states, four of them in Budapest alone, were never reported in the world media, or were reported in such a way that they did not survive in public memory. The Zionists organized the groups of Jewish refugees who left Poland mainly through the cities of Szczecin and Klodzko. The Soviet terror apparatus in Kielce conducted show-trials of nine Poles, who under torture signed confessions and were immediately executed. Later, their families provided evidence that none of the executed men were present in Kielce on the 4th of July, 1946. The Bishop of Kielce, Czeslaw Kaczmarek, was tortured for forty hours and lost nineteen teeth before Jewish security officers were able to extract from him an incriminating statement. They acted under the supervision of colonel Jozef Rózanski Goldberg, director of the ministry of national security (MBP), who wrote a threatening note to Bishop Kaczmarek: “I have smashed the faces of lawyers, and I warn you, Bishop Kaczmarek, not to ever seek legal help.”
The Soviet terror apparatus organized the departure for Palestine of Jewish war-veterans and provided them with weapons manufactured in Czechoslovakia. In March 1947, the Soviet Union, represented by Andrei Gromyko, was the first member state of the United Nations to demand the partition of Palestine and creation there of the state of Israel as a new member of the UN. The UN authorized the Partition of Palestine in November 1947, and on May 14, 1948, the state of Israel was founded.
In exchange for helping to bring the United States into the First World War, the British proclaimed Palestine as a “Jewish Homeland.” This was done in a letter of November 2, 1917 written by the foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour, to the chief Zionist in Gr. Britain, Walter Rothschild.
When you consider who really took over Russia during the so called Bolshevik revolution that had nothing to do with Russians, and everything to do with Khazarian political ideology, zero to do with the jews or their religion, even though the latter is fairly insideous to humanity, you begin to see the picture.
What his – story wont tell you is Hitler twice arranged for the safe transportation of the Jewish people, remember his mother was a Jew, once in a meeting with Winston Churchill and Menachem Begin to move them all to Palestine, which was/is a British colony country, Menachem Begin refused, this was in 1942-43 time, so before any of the now legendary accounts of atrocities (which was refuted by Red Cross official documents of the time and other civil rights groups who reported on what went on in the camps, all reported they were being looked after well) and also a 50c per head deal to return them to wherever required to the Rothschilds, which they also refused to undertake, and again you see the picture here, when you have an open mind. Two attempts to remove and save the Jewish people from the camps, and both were refused by so called people of their own ilk.
Question is, why did the worlds media from 1888 to 1945 mention the term 6M Jews over 130 separate occasions in their publications? Why that figure? why not mention 150K which is the exact figure the Red Cross determined the amount of Jews in the camps? Why has the Holocaust Plaque been reduced several times from the official figure of 6M and if memory serves me correct down to less than 2M now? Look killing one Jewish person to me is too much, but I will repeat again this is not anti jewish, and this is all about how the control system uses certain peoples and countries for their own agendas, they care not about any peoples or any country, and only how they can leverage it in a way for their total gains.
But, the jewish peoples have to get off their high horse and their goyim narratives, as the longer that goes on, the more they will use you as pawns, message to the jewish people still thinking the goyim (us are shit under their shoe) who do you think will save you? It wont be yahweh or Jehovah that’s a guarantee, if he was saving you, you wouldn’t have gone through so much strife, for so long to begin with, reality is it will be the so called goyim who save you, time you embraced them. Time for us all to embrace each other me thinks.
*Question to ponder, have you ever heard of someone who was an artist, an archeologist with a keen interest in mysticism and lifes hidden treasures, or a spiritualist ever turning into a homicidal megalomaniac? Now what if the person had all 3 of them traits, would you think it possible for that person to be a homicidal megalomaniac? I’m not answering it, i’m asking the question, but what if I tell you those were the personal traits of one Adolf Hitler, does that change your opinion? I for one am no apologist or supporter of Adolf Hitler, but I would like to see these questions explained before I make my own mind up on how evil he was, and not be forced fed information on a massive scale, that borders on propaganda, propaganda as most know now, is based in and of lies.
*Humboldt County is where most of our group lives, but people in neighboring counties have been joining, too, especially Trinity County. We also have a few people from the counties of Del Norte, Mendocino, Sonoma, and Shasta County so far. Some of our achievements this year: -Identified thousands of democratic conservatives -developed a conservative communications network -learned key stuff about our liberal enemies -learned from mistakes we made -engaged hundreds of people to fight for changes -started & maintaining ongoing discussions of solutions -keeping people riled up about our situation
*branding people via birth certificates Kim mentioned about how they assess each person lifes tax earnings and base their value on you from thereonin. So they assess you to pay $2M in all taxes over your working life, they believe you will only be at a base lower level of earning over your entire working life, compared to someone they assess to pay say $10m in taxes over a working lifetime. Questions arise from this is, are they then if you are assessed in lower taxes, confining you to jobs in minimum or low wage pay sectors only? Have you ever wondered why only certain people get the higher paid jobs? and even when you are qualified get overlooked for certain positions? Could it be your stock value they assess and attribute it to your tax earnings via the birth certificate and the cattle number known as social security or national insurance, determines which jobs you can have and which jobs you cant? Now I know personally some people are deliberately blacklisted from certain jobs or in some cases, any jobs as they blackball you via your SS or NI number, this has gone on a long time. Key questions to find out for us all in the future is, just how much of your life has been dictated by hidden forces and rules, whereby you where confined to be a lower earning person by some exclusive committee, none of us knew existed.
*Had an interesting conversation with a friend last week, who has re-appeared having gone through a rough period in his life and hopefully from my perspective continues some of the positive work he was doing back in 2104 with the program members, and chime in occasionally when time allows, of how he feels life and this world is going, that person was Shane the ruiner. The reason I bring it up is he said something on the call that highly resonates with me, when we were discussing the SSp and I mentioned they are the Nazi breakaway group, he said yes but we are the real breakaway group.
After a quick ponder I agreed with his notion, in essence we are exactly what he stated, this also ties into what I stated back in 2016 about the two worlds overlaying each other and how it works.
Reasons why is, we have taken steps to step out of their world and have started to create a new one in our image, not theirs. We no longer accept their lies, wars, divide and conquer (although that program will take some time to correct fully) no longer tolerate the political shenanigans, their methods of health, education, legalities, criminality and downright psychopathic behaviors, and we are all working towards correcting that in our own way.
A new breakaway world where Politicians are for and by the people, teachers who will actually teach something of value and not teach children how to pass a test, health workers heal and cure not manage conditions, leaders who guide and teach to advance the all, not rule over people with an authoritative iron fist of my way or the highway, nations coming together and working side by side, law people enforcing the law not legal babble bs’ery
*well people have focused on chemtrails a long time, and I mentioned back in 2014 it didnt make any sense, we all breathe the same air, unless it was an ET off world program, now it makes less sense as their interference is limited or gone, plus humans in general have become immune to them.
The same applies to the furore over 5G again it doesn’t make sense when we all will take in the frequencies, not saying 5G or chemtrails are good by any means, but perhaps not as devastating as some make out?
Now it could well all be orchestrated by an underground group to get rid of surface population as well, think SSp and something I hope to get greater knowledge on over the next year or so. something to ponder on? Rest assured if it is, the peace treaty will be enforced on those elements.
*Nancy Id like to add a suggestion to your People’s Club new business model. Every company should have a small classroom for mentorship and apprenticeship studies even if it is an hour a day or a home study program that each employee can elect or choose as a way to improve themselves. Good business models follow natural law and employees should understand this. There are books on this. A good company organizational chart template follows natural law. There are divisions, some more important than others for company survival. There’s quality control. There are learning manuals for each job description and even an ethics department in which employees are sent if they screw up. He’s given a chance to mend his ways. Each employee is considered valuable. Each employee is encouraged to improve their knowledge.
*Drake has lost his way and that show he is doing with kent dunn ended any credibility he had left. Drake has stated this week that Marduk was back and he was seeking him out and he will take him out – oh dear Drake, you might get away with that with some elements in CV who are stuck in the 2013-14 time loop narrative, or the Quantum Shift or is it shit group, but not in this group Drake, sorry, the very fact you are a sharing a show with a channeler is in and of itself a 180 from the Drake we all knew when I left CV, I’m sorry Drake but you are becoming an embarrassment now, which I personally find sad, despite him selling me out for the Wilcock/Keenan mafia group. The reality is Drake is reading old logs out of the now disbanded ET group which ran in the background of the Cosmic Voice group from 2013 and 2014 when certain missions were carried out by people within that group, I can confirm yes that Marduk was in Africa for the fake Mandela funeral in November/December 2014 time, Mandela had died though the previous June, and the reason Marduk was there for the fake public funeral was, which was another one of their ritual style ceremonies, Marduk was being guarded by American troops there, but Mandela was a former trustee of the Trust (so not a good guy – sorry) and why he was there. Marduk was annunaki and part of the draco group, in a human looking vessel here, he was the nephew of Anu who is better known in the bible as The Lord. As for Marduk he was removed permanently by us in November 2016 after our request to the council was approved for his permanent removal.
*Did you know the IRS was not approved by an act of Congress, this means that income taxes are not enforceable, but before everyone rushes off and stops paying tax, please hold fire on that action whilst current system in place, is worked out and corrected, we don’t need people going to jail. The only act of Congress approved was the Tax and Revenue service which is still in place in some states, not the Internal Revenue Service, and it is the Tax and Revenue service which has the real authority, but that has remained a dormant government department since the 1930’s as I understand, (due to much messing with articles on the internet mentioned earlier, cross checking that information has now become needle in a haystack time)
So what we are working on now is a dismantling of the IRS which does not require Congressional oversight or approval, and a transition over to the official government name and department called the Tax and Revenue Services, once that transition is completed the IRS has no authority or legitimacy to collect taxes, I repeat once that transition is completed, that will end the IRS as we know it. The new department TRS will be staffed with new people and will not include any high profile or positions people within the current IRS structure. Following that transition three now separate departments will be merged into one, which will cut costs and also resolve cross issues, the three are the Criminal Investigation Unit, The Treasury Investigation Unit and also the IRS Investigation unit, maybe the latter unit will be one who gets more investigated than anyone outside lol, anyway this will streamline depts which is the main effect of it.
Once the Tax & Revenue Service is up and running, the transition will not require much, in the way that it will have impact for the average person, but we are working on a deal with the new department to eliminate income tax completely for all Americans, and introduce a spending tax of 10%.
We are also working a Social Security pension fund structure, all of what you pay into that fund currently was going to the IRS and was then being transferred to a Swiss Rothschilds Bank until Kim stepped in, when the IRS sent the Roths $780B this past year and she confiscated it all and put it all back into the Trust.
As an idea which will be put forward by The Trust should it be approved, maybe a portion of your income tax not paid, which would be a volunteer only program, could be paid to The Trust or a Govt Dept depending on which is selected, into an extra pension fund that you know will be protected and not run the risk of it being stolen or misused by some so called broker (which to me equals snake oil salesman) or some Wall Street jackass. Just an idea.
*The Trust contacted the Chinese Treasury this week to negotiate a deal with them directly with regards to the debt America owes China the country, not the elders or the dragon groups. As of Tuesday morning the $1.476T debt owed by America to China was settled in full by The Trust to The Peoples Bank of China, in return the Chinese Treasury returned all of the Treasury debt bond notes to signify debt paid in full, So America is now free of Chinese debt.
Following that deal and fittingly not a surprise like a kid running for the ice cream van, the Federal Reserve turned up at the Treasury Department asking for their payouts on their debt notes totalling $196T, so Kim collected all the debt notes for $196T and paid it back all the debt to the Fed, but wait just a minute, Kim and The Trust owns all of The Federal Reserve, so Kim chatted with herself for a bit as a representative of both the trust and the fed, and paid back the $196T to herself and then returned it all back to The Trust haha and zeroed out all the Fed debt on behalf of America.
So America now has no debt to China or The Federal Reserve all wiped out in one quick swoop. Following this move by Kim and the team, the Federal reserve people who spent all day debating in The Treasury and delaying some of our other work with The Treasury, The Treasury turned round and booted The Federal Reserve people out of The Treasury and they were told they have no authority to come back there anymore. Oh happy days indeed. The Trump administration now has the wherewithall to remove The Federal Reserve from our shores once and for all, make it happen and quickly, with tomorrow being Thanksgiving I ask you all to give a small Thanksgiving to Kim and the team as well, we have achieved so much this year despite clowns and limited resources, and in some cases a complete lack of support.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all, enjoy it and spare a thought for all those native Americans who were slaughtered on that day, his story has rarely told the real truth of what happened in the past, this show strives to correct it, together we all move forward and remember to all those who live on their own at this time, you never with THI should feel that you walk alone, you don’t.
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Earl Forbes, courtesy of The Ceylankan, vol. 59/3 August 2012
World War II (the War) ended in August 1945. For nearly six years the world was thrown into hitherto unseen turmoil and carnage, culminating in decimation at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States of America emerged from the War relatively unscathed. Other than the bombing of Pearl Harbour, the war was not fought in the United States or its Territories. Europe was badly battle scarred and had to redraw its boundaries and reconstruct as a first priority. But more so than anywhere else, the big picture was soon to change radically in Greater Asia. In 1947, India gained Independence from Britain. Very early in the next year, Sri Lanka followed attaining independent status on 4th February 1948. Singapore and Malaysia were now free of Japanese occupation and moving towards greater self-government and independence from Britain. Indonesia unilaterally declared independence after nearly 300 years of Dutch rule; and so history making events occurred, one after another.
Post World War II — Australia’s population strategy: Australia had just come out of the War and, despite being on the winning side, there was an air of apprehension about. There was the realisation that a vast country, with a wealth of natural resources and a relatively small population, was an easy target for any predatory power. The Japanese had displayed their imperialistic ambitions during the War. They had been in Papua New Guinea; on Australia’s doorstep. Also, home soil, (viz. Darwin) had been under air attack. The Japanese were defeated but other predators in the region were about. The all important question was: “how was Australia to meet such a threat in the long term”?
Migrants arriving in 1966 — Pic by David Moore
‘Populate or perish’, was the cry at the time. But it was not ‘populate’ at any cost. It was not ‘populate’ with a baby bonus. In 1947, the Immigration Minister, Arthur Caldwell said: “We have 25 years at most to populate the country before the yellow races are upon us. It would be far better for us to have in Australia twenty or thirty million people of 100 per cent white extraction than seven million people who are 98 per cent British”.
In taking this approach, the Minister at the time was not enunciating radical new policy. He was merely elaborating on what has come to be called ‘the White Australia Policy’. The basic elements of this policy had been around from the time of Federation. In 1901, the new Federal Government enacted the ‘Immigration Restriction Act’ and the next year the ‘Pacific Island Labourers Act.’ These Acts were directed at ending the employment of Chinese labour (previously in the goldfields) and Pacific Islanders (in Queenslands sugar and cotton plantations). The enactments reflected the widely held view among many at the time that ‘there would be no place for Asiatics and coloureds’ in the future of Australia.
Developments in Ceylon: About the time Australia was re-iterating its ‘white only’ migration policy, the Burgher community in Ceylon was faced with hitherto unforeseen problems. At any given time in the past four hundred and fifty years of foreign rule in Ceylon, the Burghers made up only 1% or less of the population. However, at the turn of the 20th century (1910 to 1920), 60% of doctors, 100% of surveyors, 61% of Public Works engineers, 20% of lawyers and a high percentage of those in the middle ranks of the Public Service, were drawn from the Burgher community. Furthermore, up to 1889, the Burghers had equal representation in The Ceylon Legislative Council, as did the Singhalese (70% of the population) and Tamils (16% of the population). However, the rapid advance towards self government and eventual independence from Britain saw the fortunes of the Burgher community rapidly change. In 1931 universal suffrage was introduced in Ceylon giving all adult males and females the vote. In a situation where the Burghers made up less than 1% of the country’s population there was no prospect of the community ever being able to secure even one seat in a Parliament elected on the basis of largely territorial electorates. In fact in later years Burgher and European interests were represented only through nominated members to the Parliament.
Running parallel to the movement for self government and independence was the push to replace English with Sinhala as the language of provincial administration, of the lower courts, the medium of instruction in schools and the official language. In 1937 the Sinhala Maha Sabha was formed to promote use of Sinhala in all official forums. Along with the loss of political representation, the proposed switch to Sinhala raised doubt and fears in the mind of many a Burgher. The rapid movement away from English as the medium of school instruction and official communication left many a Burgher with the feeling that not only was his or her future in jeopardy, but more importantly, the futures of their sons and daughters were also seriously compromised. Up to that time, the Burghers had taken for granted that a good English education was their birthright. The good education coupled with a strong work ethic invariably saw the vast majority of Burghers in well paid employment. It now appeared to many that this position would inevitably change in the medium to long term. The writing was on the wall and opportunities beyond the shores of Ceylon were being seriously explored. Besides the United Kingdom, Canada and the USA, the Burghers looked upon the Land Down Under as an attractive place to settle permanently.
However, Burgher migration to Australia was not an option under the strict letter of the 100% white extraction migration criteria of the time. The Burghers claimed to be (and are) of European extraction but were certainly not 100% white (although some did try to claim as such). In the mind of many a Burgher, so unacceptable were developments in Ceylon at the time that they banded together in organisations to strengthen and advance their case for re-settlement outside Ceylon. One such organisation was the Burgher Settlement League. Not to be stifled by the 100% white extraction requirement the Burgher Settlement League made its play to the Australian authorities in Colombo On June 21, 1947, Mr. G. F. Van Der Hoeven, (a member of the Dutch Burgher Union, Secretary of the Burgher Association of Ceylon and President of the Burgher Settlement League) in a letter to the Chief Secretary, Ceylon stated: “I am now the President of the “Burgher Settlement League” which aspires to encourage
Emigration to Australia of all Burghers – men, women and children – who are desirous of doing so, in order that they may find more suitable opportunities than here, to secure a sound economic future, to obtain a good standard of living and to continue to maintain and preserve their identity in terms of Western culture and outlook of life. There is no scheme available in Ceylon, not even by the United National Party, by which the Burgher can be a Ceylonese without having to absorb the national sentiments, culture, outlook, language, dress and even Religion of the overwhelmingly predominating Sinhalese community. The European or Britisher is an Imperialist and the Burgher, an interloper, a “Yes-man” and therefore unwanted too. Whatever assurances may be given by the Politicians and bureaucrats individually or collectively, there is no doubt that the Burgher has come to the end of his tether….” [i]
In Australia, cracks begin to appear in the 100% white extraction Immigration policy: At this time, though Australia did much to attract migration from Britain and Europe the migrant inflow was not the flood that it was expected to be. Australia was finding difficulty in reaching its stated target of an annual immigration intake of 1% of the population. Australian Authorities in Ceylon and India were suggesting that the Burghers and Anglo Indians would, subject to screening, make suitable migrants. In the land of opportunity, the White Australia policy was still intact but showing the faintest signs of weakening. Was Australia to open its doors to those in other British Colonies who claimed to be part-European in ancestry? Would the Burghers of Ceylon, Anglo-Indians and Eurasians elsewhere, make the grade as, ‘Good European Aussies’?’
Between late 1946 and 1951 migration from Ceylon to Australia was rigidly scrutinized and limited to a comparatively small number of Burghers who met the tests of ‘European ancestry, appearance, upbringing and outlook’. The details of this process are set out below and illustrated in extracts from confidential and secret communications passing between the Australian High Commission, Colombo and the Department of Immigration, Canberra.
Migration of Ceylonese Burghers only became possible when the concept of ‘predominantly European’ ancestry was accepted by Australia. But what in practical terms was “Predominantly European’ ancestry? Australian bureaucrats of this period, (as bureaucrats usually do) found a very practical answer to the question. .
On 11th November 1948 the Australian High Commissioner’s Office, Colombo, in an official dispatch raised the following question: ” Reuters message reports Minister for Immigration statement in the House on immigrants from Ceylon, inter alia, that only persons of at least 75% European origin are admitted into Australia. I would appreciate advice on that specific point, which seems to be at variance with my instructions, namely applicants must be predominantly of European origin. I have interpreted predominant as more than 50%’[ii]
The above query was answered in the following manner. “The Regulations are that the immigrants must be more than 50% European and in addition must be European in appearance (so that 75% is felt to be necessary to be sure)”.[iii]
Predominantly European (over 50% ancestry + European in appearance): The response to the query of 11th November 1948 was a masterpiece in ‘Yes Minister’ style bureaucratic jargon; i. e. more that 50% European ancestry was O K but to be sure select only those who are also European in appearance so that it works out to about 75% European! In other words both the Minister and the instruction to the High Commission, Colombo are correct, although they appear to contradict each other
But how was 50% or more European ancestry to be established? In this deadly serious pursuit of the time, the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon, (D B U.) took a leading role. The D B U was established in 1908. Among other activities, this organization from the outset, put out a publication aptly titled, ‘The Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon’. Very early into publication the D B U Journal started tracing the genealogy of prominent Burgher families. Not only were genealogies published but these were updated whenever there was an addition to a prominent family. The D B U was fortunate to have as a founder member and President, Mr. R. Anthonisz. He was an archivist proficient in Dutch. From original government records and such other material as Dutch Reformed Church and School Registers, he was able to preside over the accurate extraction of information about the early history of Dutch settlers and their families. In additional to official records genealogists and archivists had access to ‘stamboeks’ (family or clan books) which were maintained by the head of the particular family. In these family books were recorded births, deaths, marriages, and other important events relating to family ancestry.
By the time genealogies were being sought by prospective Burgher migrants to Australia, Mr. R. Anthonisz had passed away. He died in 1930. With the assistance of another notable scholar, viz, Mr. D. V. Altendorff, many an applicant for entry to Australia was able to establish ‘Predominantly European’ ancestry.
Like the Dutch Burghers, descendants of the British and the Portuguese also sought assistance from archivists to try and establish Predominantly European ancestry. The task for British descendants was not too difficult. A large number of British who had settled in Ceylon came out in the second and third decades of the nineteenth century. With the help of comparatively good government, church and school records they were able to trace ancestry back to the original settler who came out to Ceylon or India as army officer, evangelist/teacher, civil servant, engineer, or businessman. Where there were gaps in the official paper records it was not uncommon to have affidavits and declarations from prominent or elderly family members attesting to the European lineage of a particular applicant.
At the time the sub group which encountered the greatest difficulty in establishing more that 50% European ancestry was the ‘Portuguese Burghers’. To begin with they had to examine genealogy over a period of over 400 years. Also, the descendents of the Portuguese had intermarried more freely with other Ceylonese communities and ancestry was mixed more so than the Dutch or British . For the descendents of the Portuguese, matters were further complicated as many Sinhalese had adopted Portuguese surnames, (mostly said to be at the time of conversion to Christianity).
If one thought that only the Ceylonese Burghers were deadly serious about the Predominantly European ancestry requirement, it would be incorrect. Australian Immigration bureaucrats were deep into the question of Burgher genealogy too. The genealogies accompanying applications for migration were scrutinised minutely as did any accompanying statutory declarations and affidavits. The level of close scrutiny is reflected in the following communication between Colombo and Canberra. An internal Departmental Dispatch from Colombo to Canberra, dated 3rd February 1948, had this to say: “As an example of Mr. Van der Hoeven’s unreliability as it affects us he recently wrote us a letter supported by documentary evidence to the effect that he had made a thorough examination of the genealogy of one of the members and his family and certified that all members of that family were predominantly of European descent. As it happened the people concerned had interviewed us some days previously and we knew beyond doubt on the admission of the people themselves that the father was straight Eurasian(50% European) and that the mother was the daughter of an Eurasian (50% Eurasian) and a pure Sinhalese, the resultant percentage of European blood in the children being 371/2%.” [iv]
So much for Predominantly European ancestry. What about ‘European Appearance’? Often, even today, when a crime is committed we hear the police refer to persons as being of European, Middle Eastern or Pacific Islander appearance. We have therefore in our minds a comparatively clear picture of what each type of ‘appearance,’ ought to be.
Among the Ceylonese Burghers in the post 2nd World War era there was a wide range of ‘appearances’. Some were blue eyed and of very fair in complexion. Others were dark skinned and often not distinguishable from some of the Singhalese, Tamils and Muslims of Ceylon. These inconsistencies in appearance were the cause of a great deal of confusion in the minds of Aussie officials. A Memorandum from the Office of the High Commissioner for Australia Colombo, to Canberra, noted:-
“Many of these Burghers would make suitable immigrants for Australia provided that the ad-mixture of Asiatic blood and consequent dark colour which is characteristic would not be a barrier to their employment in Australia. The degree of darkness of complexion varies remarkably even in the same family.”[v]
Practical difficulties associated with the over 50% European ancestry and European appearance led to some serious disagreements between Colombo and Canberra. On 4th March 1948, the Department of Immigration Canberra sent a communication to Colombo stating:-
‘….Customs Boarding Officers who act for Immigration Department on arrival ships Australia have reported in fifty-five cases that persons arriving from Ceylon holding certificates issued your office stating that they are predominantly of European descent are definitely non- European in appearance and do not come within category of persons eligible permanent admission.
In case one person named Pereira who called Canberra and was definitely non-European in appearance. He could not produce any evidence of mother’s ancestry. Evidence produced regarding father could not be accepted as conclusive proof that father was of pure European descent or even predominantly European. Pereira states that evidence was accepted by your office that he was predominantly European.”[vi]
The matter of persons of non-European appearance coming in as migrants seems to have caused concern among the Australian public at the time. The question of predominantly European ancestry could be clinically examined by bureaucrats at their desks, but European appearance was a more subjective assessment. In Canberra politicians and bureaucrats were concerned that the appearance aspect of the migration test was not being applied as required.
Such was the concern of Canberra on this matter that an official notification was sent from the Immigration Department, Canberra to the Australian High Commission, Colombo stating: “Hostile criticism has been aroused this end at appearance of considerable numbers Anglo-Indian or other partly coloured people on ships arriving here.”[vii]
There was subsequent consultation with The United Kingdom and the Shipping Companies to limit the intake of passengers of non-European ancestry and appearance, at Colombo and ports in India.
The Australian preoccupation with European appearance persisted long after migrants arrived in Australia. As is the case today, migrants could apply for ‘Naturalisation’ a few years after arrival. In the nineteen fifties the typical Naturalisation Application form contained 17 questions. The questions were quite innocuous. Typically the questions ranged from personal details to such matters as;
Question 3 — ‘Evidence produced as to birthplace and nationality…………?’
Question 11 — ‘Has applicant an adequate knowledge of the responsibilities and privileges of Australian citizenship?’
Question 15 ‘Is there any evidence that the applicant and his children are mentally deficient?’
However, after the 17th question there was a blank space on the application form termed ‘General’. In the nineteen fifties there is evidence to show that most cases favouably approved for naturalisation carried the hand written notation by the interviewing officer;
‘Appearance predominantly European’.[viii]
The fact that more and more persons of non-European appearance were being admitted as migrants from Ceylon, India and other locations led in 1950, to a tightening of the migration approval criteria. The problem for the Australian authorities seemed to be that with the mixed races there was a need to screen carefully before acceptance for migration was given. In October 1950, Canberra sent a Memorandum to Colombo, further clarifying (sic) the requirements for migrant approval. This Memo stated;
‘The Minister has decided that eligibility for admission to Australia of persons of mixed race shall depend upon compliance with the following conditions….
(1) a person must be 75% or more European ( as regards origin). Documentary evidence of this must be furnished;
(11) he must be fully European in upbringing and outlook;
(111) he tends to be European rather than non European in appearance’.[ix]
Now there were, in addition to the European ancestry and European appearance, further requirements that the applicant must be ‘fully European in upbringing and outlook’.
In spite of all this highly restrictive policy, many a Ceylonese Burgher did migrate to Australia. Canberra kept a close watch over Colombo and required that full lists of applicants ‘Approved’ or ‘Not Approved’ for entry to Australia be sent in to Canberra. Lists were sent from Colombo to Head Office, Canberra, every six months. The following is an example of one such list (abbreviated).
‘LIST OF APPLICANTS FROM CITIZENS OF CEYLON FOR PERMANENT ENTRY TO AUSTRALIA
AS FROM OCTOBER 1949 TO MARCH 1950
Applications of Immigrants Applications of Immigrants
APPROVED NOT APPROVED
Mrs. Daisy Irene Elaine Misso Mr. Francis Godfrey Wright
Mr. George Victor Ebell Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Annesley Moldrich
Mr Christopher LLewellyn Vanderwall Mr.Clarence Olwin Wolff
Miss Rhoda Margaret Bartholomeusz Mr. Leslie Irwin De Jong
Mr. George Randolph Staples Mr Cecil Ladlux de Kretser’.[x]
The right of review in ‘not-approved’ cases: When approval was refused, the individual or family in question had recourse to a review process. In early 1950, the matter of Mr. Wolff’s non-approval (see list above) was referred to in a memorandum sent from the Australian High Commission Office in Colombo, to Canberra. This communication covered not only the particular case of Mr. Wolff but also the reliability of genealogies in general. On these matters the memo stated;
‘Mr. Wolff was able satisfactorily to establish his genealogy. He is a member of the Burgher community but the High Commissioner did not feel able to approve his application for the reason that his colour was darker than we would feel it would be to secure his admission to Australia. This is, according to our understanding of the present interpretation that a migrant should be of predominantly European descent. We would be grateful for advice if any decision is made to modify this requirement. I should add of course that Burgher genealogies present some difficulty since although they are traced for several generations and more than a century through records kept since the Dutch administration of Ceylon, cases are believed to have occurred in which Sinhalese persons assume Dutch or Portuguese names upon Baptism in their respective Churches’.[xi]
The case of Alice Nona: Probably no individual incident could illustrate the post war Australian preoccupation with restricting non-European migration or even temporary entry, than the saga of ‘Alice Nona’. The facts go like this.
In early 1949, a Mrs. E H Temple (the Australian wife of an Englishmen working in Ceylon) planned a holiday to Australia, traveling by sea. Mrs. Temple had a six month old baby and wished to have a Ceylonese servant travel with her. The servant, (Alice Nona, aged 35) was described as a ‘nurse’. The Australian High Commission in Colombo was contacted by the Temple’s and after some delay documents were issued for Alice Nona’s travel to Australia as Mrs. Temple’s nurse. All arrangements went to plan until the ship on which Mrs. Temple and Alice Nona were traveling, docked at Brisbane. At Brisbane, Alice Nona was ordered not to leave the ship.
No doubt this restriction caused great inconvenience to Mrs. Temple. But more importantly, the incident raised outrage in Ceylon and other Asian countries. A Brisbane newspaper carried the headline: ‘Cingalese Nurse Can’t Land’.
In Ceylon very strong criticism of the Australian order prohibiting Alice Nona from disembarking in Brisbane was expressed in the English press; especially in the ‘Ceylon Daily News’. The press in Ceylon went into the matter in detail and highlighted the fact that Alice Nona was granted valid entry documents to Australia by the High Commission in Colombo. At first the Canberra Authorities did not relent. They took the view that Colombo had made a mistake. Canberra maintained that only wives of Australian officials could bring servants to Australia!
The situation for the Australian Authorities was not one that could be defended for long. The campaign in support of the Alice Nona gathered momentum and in Ceylon,
India and other Asian countries was causing embarrassment to Australia. Britain was said to have exerted diplomatic pressure urging reversal of the prohibition order. Canberra soon relented and the following order was made: “Mrs. Alice Nona permitted to land under exemption for one month.”[xii]
(Photocopies of all documents mentioned in the article are held by the author).
[i] Extract from letter dated 21 June 1947 from the President the Burgher Settlement League to the Chief Secretary Sir Charles Collins.
[ii] Extract from Dispatch dated 11th November 1948 from High Commissioner Colombo to Immigration Authorities Canberra.
[iii] File note made on 15th November 1948 in regard to Dispatch 2. Underlining of the words ‘in addition’is present in the original document.
[iv] Extract from Departmental Dispatch dated 3rd February 1948 from the Commissioner for Australia in Ceylon to Canberra.
[v] Extract from Memorandum from the Office of the High Commissioner Colombo to the Department of External Affairs Canberra dated 4th August 1947
[vi] Extract from Departmental of External Affairs cablegram dated 4th March 1948 to the Australian High Commissioner, Colombo.
[vii] Extract from cablegram from Department of Immigration, Canberra to the Australian High Commission, Colombo.
[viii] Extract from Department of Immigration, Application for Naturalization or Registration: Processing Sheet for Mr…… (This was for a Ceylonese applicant).
[ix] Extract from Memorandum from Canberra for the Office of the High Commissioner, Colombo.
[x] Abbreviated list of Applicants from Citizens of Ceylon for Permanent Entry to Australia
[xi] Extract from memorandum for the Secretary , Department of Immigration, Canberra from the Official Secretary , High Commission, Colombo.
[xii] Cablegram from Department of External Affairs to Australian High Commission Colombo, dated 30th March 1949. [Underlining by author and not in the original document].
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17 responses to “The White Australia Policy, Ceylonese Burghers and Alice Nona”
James Jupp
THIS IS AN EXCELLENT AND IMPORTANT PIECE OF WORK. EFFORTS SHOULD BE MADE FOR IT TO BE PUBLISHED IN AUSTRALIA AS AN IMPORTANT HISTORICAL DOCUMENT IN IMMIGRATION HISTORY.
Rohan van Twest
Hi Michael, can please send me Earl Forbes email address? I have a paper that may be of interest to his research of White Australia policy.
Valentine Desmond Lewis
Quite right. These are historical facts and must be preserved for future generations.
B Van Dort
This is a Fabulous Article and Puts to rest the Pure Dutch Notion that was Put to us Australians. It was Obvious This was not true. Now with Transciptions of Australian Government Documents the True position is Spelt out.I do hope that these Details are well Circulated throughout the Sri lankan burgher Community and the Australian Communities.
I Agree totally .The Article should be Published to Make the Australians aware. Aussies were Sick and Tired of Being told these Lankans were Pure Dutch. A great Friend Of mine ,Who went as a Burgher and Came by Ship 1i 1948 or1949 told Me that in the case Of some Burgher Migrants Immigration Officials made Some Brothers Lift their Banyans to see if their Skin Colour was the same
Aussies perhaps do not want to be reminded of their racist immigration policy.
My friend Jennifer van der Graft told me that her Burgher mother was subjected a UV skin test to determine if there was any excessive pigmentation below the skin as part of the Australian immigration screening process in The Netherlands. I believe that this was in the late 1940s as well.
I do not take much stock in this pure Dutch Burgher stuff, but people can believe anything. Some of my own grandparents’ generation used to tell us this nonsense but I did not take it seriously as I knew that they were not likely to bash someone over the head over it – just one on those quaint traits that made this generation what it was (sadly mostly dead and gone now). It was so much fun to listen to their stories when we were kids.
What is Dutch any way? Good many of the family genealogies published in the DBU journals are of Brits. And the so called Dutch were perhaps more likely Germans. And if there is any European purity it is in the Y-chromosome or paternal lineage. There is not a single Dutch Burgher family (DBU genealogy) that does not have a south Asian maternal cross somewhere down the line. As far as I am concerned there would not have been a burgher community in Ceylon without the acquisition of genes from Asian to resist tropical diseases. No pure European (White) colony could have been established in the tropics prior to the emergence of modern medicine and hygiene.
In the distant future, white Aussies will be thankful to the infusion of Asiatic genes to help reduce the appalling rates of skin cancer among the light skinned folks.
My friend Jennifer van der Graft told me that her Burgher mother was subjected a UV skin test to determine if there was any excessive pigmentation below the skin as part of the Australian immigration screening process in The Netherlands. I believe that this was in the late 1940s.
Dear Rohan,
Nice to See you Agree With me And Sir Richard Ottley who as Chief Justice Of Ceylon Officially Decreed That the Burghers were Eurasians.I am a 7th Generation Aussie Who married A nice Burgher Girl and I have 3 Lovely Kids who Are Proud Aussies ans are Also Proud of their Sri Lankan Heritage and Visit The Beautiful Island Frequently.You MentionedThat the Old Folk Knew Of Their Asian content In their Bloodlines But in a Jocular Way Just Ignored It. Hardly Good Eneough. I can tell you In 1961 i had alot of Great Burgher Mates. Good Blokes.They asked If i would Like to Play Cricket With them and to Do so I would Have to Be a Member. The Boys duly Took me Along to A meeting and Nominated My name. I was asked to Leave the Room and after Some time I was called Back .The Old President Informed me They coould Not accept me Because I was Not Dutch. How Bloodt Hurtful and Ridiculous. This Old Bloke was Dark In Compexion and I read With Interest Recently in Official Documents He Was Originally Turned Down To come to Australia Uunder The Ridiculous White Australia Policy. We cant Blame Aussie Racism in this Case Rather it was Burgher Racism. GARY CRUSE ELLIS.
Renuka Senanayake
An interesting read of our collective past and issues of colour that continue on today.
Rosemarie Jansz
I think there is still a few of the “Old Burghers” who still believe that they are pure Dutch and completely choose to ignore their ancestory. Perhaps a bit of racism as well!
Ashley de Vos
Many used their fingers to consume food. Spoons were in common usage. Many women even chewed beetal leaf and engaged in the gossip of the day. There were Chinese and African slaves in the households, who left there mark. The need to lay immaculate tables with silver. Came late in the British occupation, common on the plantations with servants. There was a need to project a life style as a member of high Society now living in bungalows, mostly poor immitations of the feudal houses in the mother land. It was part of an upward mobility. This life style was usually referred to as being western culture, and possibly requisite by the Oz immigration. Even Queen Victoria used her fingers to eat her chicken. European culture what !
The Chief Justice of Sri Lanka in 1883 was asked to Decree in law what a Dutch Burgher Was. He decreed they Were Eurasians.Most of their Genealogies are Inaccurate or altered to remove the Asian Bloodlines.
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Any citation for the percentages of Burghers in Ceylon government service quoted in para #4? I would be very grateful for further information on the subject.
Nick van der Hoeven
My grandfather is Goerge van der Hoeven described in this text
“Mr. G. F. Van Der Hoeven, (a member of the Dutch Burgher Union, Secretary of the Burgher Association of Ceylon and President of the Burgher Settlement League) in a letter to the Chief Secretary, Ceylon stated: “I am now the President of the “Burgher Settlement League” which aspires to encourage”.
I was aware of the huge effort he put in to help the community be welcomed to Australia during that difficult time. He passed away in 1977.
Interesting now with the DNA tests going around we can be more certain regarding our true ancestral backgrounds. My father married a European lady and both my brother and I are therefore half Burgher half Eastern European. According to the DNA we are still approx 30 percent West Asian – which I assume means that my father (who passed 4 years ago) was 60 percent West Asian…
My father Henry Ralph van der Hoeven was the son of George van der Hoeven (ancestors first fleet dutch) and Phyllis Bevan (ancestors 1st Fleet from the British side).
My grandmother had a fair complexion and she was one of 20 children. We have an interesting photo (turn of last century) with my great great grandparents both fair with 20 children a real mix of colours. Fascinating stuff.
Also interesting is that all of Georges children (plus George and his wife) were all accepted into Australia – but many of the extended family were deemed too dark and sent back. Heartbreaking.
Thank you for this NOTE Nick van der Hoeven. Pl send me that photograph and any others that are helpful in reading the past — to me at mrober137@gmail.com ….. I am in touch with Earlson Forbes and also the DBU in Lanka.
20 children !1 Mein Gott!! very much like some of the Burgher and English ladies in the early 19th century…. and suggesting marriage in the teens [also found locally among the Sinhalese, and other ethnic groups.
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The blood–brain barrier internalises Cryptococcus neoformans via the EphA2-tyrosine kinase receptor
Phylicia A. Aaron, Mantana Jamklang, John P. Uhrig, Angela C Gelli
Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that causes life-threatening meningitis most commonly in populations with impaired immunity. Here, we resolved the transcriptome of the human brain endothelium challenged with C. neoformans to establish whether C. neoformans invades the CNS by co-opting particular signalling pathways as a means to promote its own entry. Among the 5 major pathways targeted by C. neoformans, the EPH-EphrinA1 (EphA2) tyrosine kinase receptor-signalling pathway was examined further. Silencing the EphA2 receptor transcript in a human brain endothelial cell line or blocking EphA2 activity with an antibody or chemical inhibitor prevented transmigration of C. neoformans in an in vitro model of the blood–brain barrier (BBB). In contrast, treating brain endothelial cells with an EphA2 chemical agonist or an EphA2 ligand promoted greater migration of fungal cells across the BBB. C. neoformans activated the EPH-tyrosine kinase pathway through a CD44-dependent phosphorylation of EphA2, promoting clustering and internalisation of EphA2 receptors. Moreover, HEK293T cells expressing EphA2 revealed an association between EphA2 and C. neoformans that boosted internalisation of C. neoformans. Collectively, the results suggest that C. neoformans promotes EphA2 activity via CD44, and this in turn creates a permeable barrier that facilitates the migration of C. neoformans across the BBB.
Cellular Microbiology
https://doi.org/10.1111/cmi.12811
blood–brain barrier
Cryptococcus neoformans
cytoskeleton remodelling
EphA2 receptor tyrosine kinase
transcytosis of brain endothelial cells
10.1111/cmi.12811
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Aaron, P. A., Jamklang, M., Uhrig, J. P., & Gelli, A. C. (2018). The blood–brain barrier internalises Cryptococcus neoformans via the EphA2-tyrosine kinase receptor. Cellular Microbiology, 20(3), [e12811]. https://doi.org/10.1111/cmi.12811
The blood–brain barrier internalises Cryptococcus neoformans via the EphA2-tyrosine kinase receptor. / Aaron, Phylicia A.; Jamklang, Mantana; Uhrig, John P.; Gelli, Angela C.
In: Cellular Microbiology, Vol. 20, No. 3, e12811, 01.03.2018.
Aaron, PA, Jamklang, M, Uhrig, JP & Gelli, AC 2018, 'The blood–brain barrier internalises Cryptococcus neoformans via the EphA2-tyrosine kinase receptor', Cellular Microbiology, vol. 20, no. 3, e12811. https://doi.org/10.1111/cmi.12811
Aaron PA, Jamklang M, Uhrig JP, Gelli AC. The blood–brain barrier internalises Cryptococcus neoformans via the EphA2-tyrosine kinase receptor. Cellular Microbiology. 2018 Mar 1;20(3). e12811. https://doi.org/10.1111/cmi.12811
Aaron, Phylicia A. ; Jamklang, Mantana ; Uhrig, John P. ; Gelli, Angela C. / The blood–brain barrier internalises Cryptococcus neoformans via the EphA2-tyrosine kinase receptor. In: Cellular Microbiology. 2018 ; Vol. 20, No. 3.
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Harper Beckham reveals surprising way dad David is like Del Boy
Marie Claire Dorking
David Beckham has revealed his daughter thinks he pronounces the word, girls, like Del Boy, pictured June 2019. (Getty Images)
David Beckham has revealed his daughter, Harper, is highly amused by the way he pronounces the word “girls”.
The former England footballer, 45, shared an image of himself in the rain with the family’s three dogs, while revealing in the caption that his youngest child likens his pronunciation of the word “girls” to that of the character Del Boy in Only Fools And Horses.
“Good Gurls,” the dad-of-four captioned the image. “I was just watching Only Fools And Horses and Harper said Daddy you say girls like that man (Del Boy).”
Beckham went on to joke that it was the best thing his daughter could have said to him.
“Perfect rainy weekend with the GURLS,” he finished his post.
Read more: Harper Beckham supports NHS in charity tee and £15 shoes
Good Gurls 🤣 I was just watching Only fools and horses and Harper said Daddy you say girls like that man ( Del Boy ) 😆 best thing she could have ever said to me 😂 .. Perfect rainy weekend with the GURLS ♥️
A post shared by David Beckham (@davidbeckham) on Oct 4, 2020 at 3:28am PDT
This isn’t the first time David Beckham has shared his love for Only Fools And Horses.
The football star previously joined actors David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst, who play Del Boy and Rodney in the hit comedy series, for a once-off episode of the show in aid of Sport Relief.
At the time Beckham told Radio Times that he would “die a happy man” after filming the Peckham-set sketch.
“I've never done anything like this before, especially with two people I'm really in awe of and have been for many years,” he said.
“It wasn't just about learning the script, it was about delivering it; saying the right things at the right time.”
Read more: Victoria Beckham goes foundation free and debuts her freckles on Instagram
Harper’s teasing of her dad’s accent, comes as it was also revealed that the nine-year-old treated her parents David and Victoria Beckham to breakfast.
Victoria, 46, posted a picture of the breakfast and the note that came with it saying: “We love you so much Harper Seven.”
Watch: Victoria Beckham’s reaction to Kardashians dressing up as Spice Girls
Harper had sweetly put together a breakfast of fruit and a toasted egg sandwich decorated with tomato ketchup love-hearts, before placing the whole thing on a tray with a glass of water with ‘Love’ written on the side.
The prepped breakfast came with a cute note for her parents that read: “Dear Mummy and Daddy, I hope you sleeped well and I hope you both like your breakfast.
“I love you so so so much. Happy Sunday.”
Pinkalicious 💗 is back making cupcakes 🧁 for breakfast 🤔 💗 #HarperSeven 💗 one for Mummy @victoriabeckham 💗
A post shared by David Beckham (@davidbeckham) on Oct 5, 2020 at 12:39am PDT
Read more: Victoria Beckham's fans react to son Brooklyn's engagement news
As well as the more traditional breakfast, Harper has also been busy making a sweet treat for her mum and dad, which came in the form of pink cupcakes.
“Pinkalicious is back making cupcakes for breakfast,” David wrote alongside a picture of Harper holding up her hands covered in pink cake mix.
Harper is famously close to her dad and earlier this year the family shared a sweet throwback clip of the youngest Beckham taking her first wobbly steps to mark the footballer’s 45th birthday.
In the footage, revealed in an Instagram post to the Spice Girls 28 million followers, a toddler Harper can be seen trying to walk tentatively towards the sportsman, who appears to be behind the camera.
As Harper tumbles to floor, the father-of-four can be heard encouragingly telling her: “Clever girl!”
Known for being a devoted dad, Beckham is clearly keen for his daughter to enjoy football as much as he does, as the pair were spotted together in the stands during the Women’s World Cup in 2019.
Earlier this summer, the 45-year old shared a short video showing Harper practising her football skills at the family's Cotswolds home, where they spent lockdown.
Harper is the youngest of the Beckham clan joining big brothers: Brooklyn, 21, Romeo, 18, and Cruz, 15.
Watch: Harper Beckham steal the F-Row
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Ruxolitinib/nilotinib cotreatment inhibits leukemia-propagating cells in Philadelphia chromosome-positive ALL
Yuan Kong1,
Yi-Lin Wu1,2,
Yang Song1,2,
Min-Min Shi1,2,
Xie-Na Cao1,
Hong-Yan Zhao1,
Ya-Zhen Qin1,
Yue-Yun Lai1,
Hao Jiang1,
Qian Jiang1 &
Xiao-Jun Huang1,2
As one of the major treatment obstacles in Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Ph+ALL), relapse of Ph+ALL may result from the persistence of leukemia-propagating cells (LPCs). Research using a xenograft mouse assay recently determined that LPCs were enriched in the CD34+CD38−CD58− fraction in human Ph+ALL. Additionally, a cohort study demonstrated that Ph+ALL patients with a LPCs phenotype at diagnosis exhibited a significantly higher cumulative incidence of relapse than those with the other cell phenotypes even with uniform front-line imatinib-based therapy pre- and post-allotransplant, thus highlighting the need for novel LPCs-based therapeutic strategies.
RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) and real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) were performed to analyze the gene expression profiles of the sorted LPCs and other cell fractions from patients with de novo Ph+ALL. In order to assess the effects of the selective BCR–ABL and/or Janus kinase (JAK)2 inhibition therapy by the treatment with single agents or a combination of ruxolitinib and imatinib or nilotinib on Ph+ALL LPCs, drug-induced apoptosis of LPCs was investigated in vitro, as well as in vivo using sublethally irradiated and anti-CD122-conditioned NOD/SCID xenograft mouse assay. Moreover, western blot analyses were performed on the bone marrow cells harvested from the different groups of recipient mice.
RNA-Seq and qRT-PCR demonstrated that JAK2 was more highly expressed in the sorted LPCs than in the other cell fractions in de novo Ph+ALL patients. Combination treatment with a selective JAK1/JAK2 inhibitor (ruxolitinib) and nilotinib more effectively eliminated LPCs than either therapy alone or both in vitro and in humanized Ph+ALL mice by reducing phospho-CrKL and phospho-JAK2 activities at the molecular level.
In summary, this pre-clinical study provides a scientific rationale for simultaneously targeting BCR–ABL and JAK2 activities as a promising anti-LPCs therapeutic approach for patients with de novo Ph+ALL.
The Philadelphia chromosome (Ph), the result of a balanced translocation between chromosomes 9 and 22, leads to the constitutively active breakpoint cluster region, Abelson (BCR–ABL) tyrosine kinase, which is critical for the pathogenesis of both chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and Ph-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Ph+ALL) [1,2,3]. With the widespread use of BCR–ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), the prognosis of Ph+ALL has improved, but most patients relapse [4,5,6]. Some patients with Ph+ALL develop resistance to TKIs [7,8,9] but others may relapse due to the persistence of quiescent leukemia-propagating cells (LPCs) [10,11,12] which are defined by their capacity to initiate human leukemia and to self-renew in immunocompromised mice [13,14,15,16,17]. High-dose chemotherapy, TKIs, and even lethal conditioning before allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) kill leukemia cells but cannot effectively eliminate LPCs.
Using an anti-CD122-conditioned non-obese diabetic/severe combined immunodeficiency (NOD/SCID) xenograft mouse assay, we previously reported that LPCs were enriched in the CD34+CD38−CD58− fraction in human Ph+ALL [10]. Furthermore, a cohort study demonstrated that Ph+ALL patients with LPCs phenotype at diagnosis exhibited a significantly higher cumulative incidence of relapse than did the group with other cell phenotypes, even when receiving uniform front-line imatinib-based therapy pre- and post-allotransplant [18]. Therefore, it is imperative to identify novel therapeutic targets based on LPCs to improve the prognosis of Ph+ALL patients.
The Janus kinase (JAK)2-signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) pathway, which contains central components of hematopoietic cytokine receptor signaling pathways, participates in vital cellular functions, such as supporting the survival and proliferation of leukemia cells in the bone marrow (BM) microenvironment [19,20,21,22].
Recent evidence has demonstrated that CML stem/progenitor cells are able to survive independent of BCR–ABL kinase activity, suggesting that other pathways contribute to the persistence of these cells [23,24,25]. Among these, JAK2 is a component of the BCR–ABL network pathway and is activated in CML stem/progenitor cells [26,27,28]. Ruxolitinib was the first-in-class JAK1/JAK2 inhibitor approved for the treatment of primary myelofibrosis [29,30,31]. Gallipoli et al. [28]. reported that the combination of ruxolitinib and nilotinib, a second-generation TKI that is more potent than imatinib in CML, resulted in the enhanced eradication of CML stem/progenitor cells, highlighting JAK2 as a novel therapeutic target in CML stem/progenitor cells.
De novo Ph+ALL closely resembles the aggressive lymphoid blast crisis of CML and is prone to relapse even after combined treatment with potent second-generation TKIs and allo-HSCT. Abundant evidence suggests that JAK2 is an ideal target for anti-CML stem/progenitor cell therapy [26,27,28]. Moreover, Bi et al. reported that increased Th17 cells and IL-17A existed in patients with B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) and promoted the proliferation of B-ALL cells through activation of PI3K/Akt and JAK2/STAT3 signaling [32]. However, the JAK2 expression pattern in LPCs and the therapeutic effect of JAK2 inhibitor to eradicate LPCs in Ph+ALL remain to be explored.
In the current study, we aimed to compare the gene expression profiles between the sorted LPCs and other cell fractions from patients with de novo Ph+ALL. Moreover, we aimed to investigate whether selective BCR–ABL/JAK2 dual inhibition therapy using nilotinib combined with ruxolitinib could more effectively eliminate imatinib-insensitive LPCs in vitro and in humanized Ph+ALL mice and the underlying molecular mechanisms of this therapy.
Six patients with de novo Ph+ALL diagnosed at Peking University Institute of Hematology from January 1, 2015 to May 31, 2015 were enrolled for this in vitro and in vivo study. The patient clinical characteristics are shown in Table 1. The inclusion criteria were (1) 18–60 years of age, (2) a diagnosis of ALL based on the 2008 World Health Organization (WHO) criteria, and (3) the detection of the Ph-chromosome and/or BCR–ABL mRNA. Bone marrow mononuclear cells (BMMNCs) from the patients at diagnosis were rapidly isolated by density centrifugation using a lymphocyte separation medium (GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI, USA). The BMMNCs were immediately cryopreserved in 10% dimethyl sulfoxide (Sigma, St. Louis, MO, USA) with 90% fetal bovine serum (FBS, Gibco, Gaithersburg, MD, USA). The BMMNCs were stored in liquid nitrogen until the cell sorting procedure was performed. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Peking University People’s Hospital, and written informed consent was obtained from all patients before study-entry in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
Table 1 Clinical characteristics of the patients with de novo Ph+ALL for in vitro and in vivo study
Cell sorting of the LPCs and other cell fractions in the Ph+ALL patients
The frozen BMMNCs of de novo Ph+ALL patients (N = 6) were thawed and stained with mouse anti-human CD58-FITC (Beckman-Coulter, Brea, CA, USA) and CD34-PE, CD19-APC-Cy7, CD45-PerCP, CD38-APC monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs, Becton–Dickinson, San Jose, CA, USA). The LPCs (CD34+CD38−CD58−) and other cell fractions (including CD34+CD38−CD58+, CD34+CD38+CD58− and CD34+CD38+CD58+) in the viable BMMNCs were defined and sorted using a FACS Aria II (Becton–Dickinson) as previously reported12 (Fig. 1). The purity of each fraction was >97%. Fluorescence-minus-one controls were used to identify positive events for CD34, CD38 and CD58. The data were analyzed using BD LSRFortessa software (Becton–Dickinson).
Representative flow cytometric analysis of a Ph+ALL patient sample sorted according to the distribution of CD34, CD38 and CD58 expression. In the viable bone marrow mononuclear cells (BMMNCs) of a de novo Ph+ALL patient, the LPCs (CD34+CD38−CD58−) and other cells (CD34+CD38−CD58+, CD34+CD38+CD58− and CD34+CD38+CD58+) fractions were sorted simultaneously
RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq), real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR), and data analysis
To search for the potential molecular basis involved in LPC-mediated Ph+ALL progression, we performed RNA-Seq with the sorted LPCs and other cell fractions from the patients with de novo Ph+ALL (N = 2) to analyze their gene expression profiles. Total RNA was isolated from pellets using the RNeasy Mini Kit (Qiagen, Valencia, CA, USA). Three micrograms of RNA per sample was used as input material, and sequencing libraries were generated using the NEBNext Ultra RNA Library Prep Kit for Illumina (NEB, Ipswich, MA, USA). The library sequencing was performed on an Illumina HiSeq 2500 platform, and 125-bp paired-end reads were analyzed. Downstream analysis was performed using a combination of programs, including Bowtie2, Tophat2, HTseq, Cufflink and our wrapped scripts. The DESeq R package (1.10.1) was used to analyze the differential expression between the LPCs and other cell fractions. In all statistical analyses, P-values were analyzed using the Benjamini-corrected modified Fisher’s exact test, and a P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
To confirm the RNA-Seq results, the relative JAK2 mRNA levels (forward primer: 5′-TCTGGGGAGTATGTTGCAGAA-3′; reverse primer: 5′-AGACATGGTTGGGTGGATACC-3′) between the LPCs and other cell fractions sorted from the patients with de novo Ph+ALL (N = 6) were analyzed using a SYBR green-based qRT-PCR technique. Normalized levels of the JAK2 ratios in the qRT-PCR assays were evaluated through comparisons with the GADPH levels (forward primer: 5′- GCACCGTCAAGGCTGAGAAC -3′; reverse primer: 5′- TGGTGAAGACGCCAGTGGA -3′).
Selective BCR–ABL and/or JAK2 inhibition for treating Ph+ALL LPCs in vitro
The sorted LPCs (1 × 105/well) were cultured in StemSpan (Stem cell Technologies, Vancouver, BC, Canada) supplemented with four growth factors (20 ng/mL recombinant human (rh) interleukin-3 (rhIL-3), 20 ng/mL rhIL-7, 20 ng/mL rh Flt3-ligand (rhFlt3-L), and 50 ng/mL rh stem cell factor (rhSCF)) (PeproTech, Locky Hill, NJ, USA). After 48 h of suspension culture with the vehicle (DMSO, Sigma), imatinib (5 μM, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland) [24, 33], nilotinib (5 μM, Novartis) [33], and/or ruxolitinib (300 nM, Novartis) [34, 35] treatments, an apoptosis assay was performed on the LPCs using the Annexin-V and 7-amino-actinomycin D (7-AAD) Apoptosis Detection Kit (Becton–Dickinson) as described in our previous reports [36, 37]. The late apoptotic cells (Annexin-V+/7-AAD+) were analyzed using the BD LSRFortessa software (Becton–Dickinson). Aliquots of isotype-identical antibodies served as negative controls.
Mice and xenograft assay
The anti-mouse CD122 [interleukin-2 receptor β (IL-2Rβ)]-conditioned NOD/SCID xenograft assay was performed with intra-bone marrow injection (IBMI) as previously reported [10, 38,39,40]. Briefly, 5- to 6-week-old NOD/SCID mice (Vital River Laboratories, Beijing, China) were sub-lethally irradiated (2.1 Gy total body irradiation from a 60Co source) followed by treatment with 200 μg of anti-mouse CD122 monoclonal antibody generated from hybridoma TM-β1 (provided by Dr. T. Tanaka of Hyogo University of Health Sciences, Kobe, Japan) [38]. The mice then received an IBMI of the LPCs fraction sorted from de novo Ph+ALL patients (N = 6) < 24 h post-irradiation and CD122 treatment. The injected LPCs doses were 1 × 104 cells/mouse (6 mice for each treatment condition). All animal experiments were approved by the Ethics Committee of Peking University People’s Hospital.
Selective BCR–ABL and/or JAK2 inhibition therapy in Ph+ALL LPCs-xenografted NOD/SCID mice
To evaluate the effects of selective BCR–ABL and/or JAK2 inhibition therapy on Ph+ALL LPCs, the recipient mice were treated with vehicle (10% 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidone and 90% polyethylene glycol 300; Sinopharm Chemical Reagent Co., Ltd, Shanghai, China) or with a single or different dual combination oral gavage treatments with imatinib (100 mg/kg/day, Novartis), nilotinib (75 mg/kg/day, Novartis), and/or ruxolitinib (30 mg/kg/day, Novartis) simultaneously once or twice a day starting at 2 weeks post-transplant and lasting for 2 weeks. The mice were observed daily for body weight changes and survival during and after treatment.
Engraftment of human Ph+ALL cells was defined based on the frequency of hCD45+ cells. Moribund mice were euthanized at 8 and 12 weeks post-transplant, and a mixture of cells from tibias, femurs and the spleen were obtained. To assess human Ph+ALL cell engraftment, flow cytometric analyses were performed using mouse anti-hCD58-FITC (Beckman-Coulter), CD34-PE, CD19-APC-Cy7, CD45-PerCP, and CD38-APC MoAbs (Becton–Dickinson).
To evaluate the engraftment levels of BCR/ABL-expressing cells, BCR/ABL transcripts were detected in BM cells from murine recipients using a TaqMan-based qRT-PCR assay performed as previously described [10]. BCR/ABL primers and probes that amplify b3a2 and b2a2 junctions have been reported [41, 42]. The primers and probes that amplify the ABL and e1a2 BCR/ABL junctions came from data reported by the Europe against Cancer Program [43, 44]. Normalized levels of the BCR/ABL ratios in the qRT-PCR assays were evaluated by comparisons to the ABL levels [10, 41, 42].
For a histopathological analysis of leukemic infiltration, femur, liver, spleen, and kidney tissues of recipients were fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde for 1 h, dehydrated with 70% ethanol, and embedded in paraffin, followed by the preparation of 5-µm sections. Hematoxylin–eosin (HE) staining was performed on each tissue section. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) with rabbit anti-hCD19 (Abcam, Cambridge, MA, USA) was performed after a graded alcohol dehydration and antigen retrieval using heated citrate buffer. Sections were studied by light microscopy (Axiovert 200; Carl Zeiss, Jena, Germany).
To understand how the different treatments affected the molecular pathways, western blot analyses using anti-human antibodies to phosphorylated CrkL and JAK2 were performed on the BM cells harvested from the different groups of recipient mice. The antibodies were obtained from Cell Signaling Technologies (Danvers, MA, USA).
Statistical analyses were performed using the χ2 test for categorical variables and the Mann–Whitney U test for continuous variables. Analyses were performed using the SPSS 22.0 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA) and GraphPad Prism 6.0 software packages (GraphPad Software, La Jolla, CA, USA), and differences with P < 0.05 were considered statistically significant.
Overview of the RNA-Seq data
Approximately 62–76 million clean reads were obtained to establish four RNA-Seq libraries. As shown in Table 2, high percentages of reads (83.6–84.6%) were mapped. A total of 77.0–91.3% of the mapped reads were located within exons, whereas less than 19.6% of the mapped reads were located within introns and intergenic regions. These data indicated that we established four libraries with high quality, which allowed us to compare the transcriptomes between the LPCs and other cell fractions from the de novo Ph+ALL patients.
Table 2 RNA sequencing results of mRNA from the LPCs and other cells fractions in patients with de novo Ph+ALL
JAK2 mRNA and phospho-JAK2 were more highly expressed in the LPCs fraction than in the other cell fractions in patients with de novo Ph+ALL
A Venn diagram shows that 3722 genes were differentially expressed between the LPC1 and Other Cell1 fractions sorted from patient No. 1 with de novo Ph+ALL, whereas 4162 genes were differentially expressed between the LPC2 and Other Cell2 fractions from patient No. 2, and 2800 differentially expressed genes were co-expressed in both patients (Fig. 2a). A scatter plot shows the differentially expressed genes (Fig. 2b left panel, LPC1 vs. Other Cell1; Fig. 2b right panel, LPC2 vs. Other Cell2) with |fold change| >1.5 and Padj < 0.05. There were 3722 genes differentially expressed between the LPC1 and Other Cell1 fractions. Among them, 1825 genes were up-regulated and 1897 genes were down-regulated. Moreover, 1954 genes were up-regulated and 2208 genes were down-regulated in the LPC2 fraction compared with their expression levels in the Other Cell2 fraction. Based on the RNA-Seq data from patients with de novo Ph+ALL, JAK2 was differentially expressed and was more highly expressed in the LPC1 fraction than in the Other Cell1 fraction (1.60-fold change, P = 0.03) and was more highly expressed in the LPC2 fraction than the Other Cell2 fraction (1.79-fold change, P = 0.004).
Comparative results of gene expression levels and the distribution of genes differentially expressed between the sorted LPCs and other cells fractions in patients with de novo Ph+ALL. a Venn diagram showing the genes detected by RNA-Seq that were differentially expressed between the LPC1 and Other Cell1 fractions (light blue circle), between the LPC2 and Other Cell2 fractions (light red circle), and gene expression profiles common to both groups (intersection). b Scatter plot of differentially expressed genes (left panel, LPC1 vs. Other Cell1; right panel, LPC2 vs. Other Cell2). Red points represent up-regulated genes with fold changes >1.5 and Padj < 0.05. Green points represent down-regulated genes with fold changes <−1.5 and Padj < 0.05. Blue points represent genes that were not significantly different. c The relative mRNA expression levels of BCR/ABL and JAK2 between the LPCs and other cells fractions from the patients with de novo Ph+ALL (N = 6) were analyzed using qRT-PCR assays. d Representative western blots of phospho-JAK2 and GAPDH were shown in the LPCs and other cells fractions sorted from the patients with de novo Ph+ALL
The relative mRNA expression levels of BCR/ABL and JAK2 between the LPCs and other cell fractions from the patients with de novo Ph+ALL (N = 6) were further analyzed using qRT-PCR assays. No significant difference was found in the BCR/ABL mRNA levels between the LPCs and other cell fractions from the patients with de novo Ph+ALL as measured by qRT-PCR (Fig. 2c, 1.07 ± 0.17-fold, P > 0.99). Consistent with the RNA-Seq results, JAK2 mRNA levels in the LPCs fraction were significantly higher than those in the other cell fractions (Fig. 2c, 2.05 ± 0.19-fold, P = 0.002). Likewise, the significantly higher levels of JAK2 mRNA detected by qRT-PCR were further validated in the protein level of phospho-JAK2 in the LPCs fraction when compared to the other cell fractions by western blot (Fig. 2d).
Cotreatment with nilotinib and ruxolitinib simultaneously induces an increase in apoptosis of Ph+ALL LPCs in vitro
To investigate anti-LPCs effects in vitro, the levels of drug-induced cell apoptosis were analyzed in the different treatment groups. As shown in Fig. 3, imatinib or ruxolitinib alone had no significant anti-LPCs effect in vitro compared with the effect in the vehicle-treated control group. Among the different treatment groups, cotreatment with nilotinib and ruxolitinib induced significantly higher levels of early apoptosis (Fig. 3b) and late apoptosis (Fig. 3c) in LPCs than did the other treatment groups. Alternatively, similar high levels of alive LPCs were found in the ruxolitinib-treated group (59.3 ± 1.2% vs. 62.6 ± 1.9%, P = 0.15) or imatinib-treated group (58.9 ± 1.4% vs. 62.6 ± 1.9%, P = 0.15) compared with the vehicle group. No significant difference was found between ruxolitinib-treated group and imatinib-treated group (59.3 ± 1.2% vs. 58.9 ± 1.4%, P = 0.98). In contrast, nilotinib (35.8 ± 0.6% vs. 59.3 ± 1.2%, P < 0.0001), imatinib combined with ruxolitinib (41.1 ± 0.8% vs. 59.3 ± 1.2%, P < 0.0001), or nilotinib combined with ruxolitinib (19.4 ± 0.9% vs. 59.3 ± 1.2%, P < 0.0001) resulted in significant reduction in alive LPCs compared with those in the ruxolitinib-treated group. Among these treatment groups, the levels of alive LPCs in the nilotinib combined with ruxolitinib-cotreated group exhibited the most marked reduction (Fig. 3d).
Effects of in vitro treatment with a single drug or different combinations of imatinib (IM), nilotinib (NL) and ruxolitinib (RUX) on LPCs from patients with de novo Ph+ALL. a Sorted LPCs from Ph+ALL patients (N = 5) were treated with DMSO vehicle, IM (5 µM), NL (5 µM) or RUX (300 nM) or their combination and cultured. Representative flow cytometric analysis of apoptotic LPCs was determined after Annexin-V/7-AAD staining following 48 h of treatment in each arm. b Percentages of the early apoptosis (Annexin-V+/7-AAD−) LPCs, late apoptosis (Annexin-V+/7-AAD+) LPCs (c), alive (Annexin-V−/7-AAD−) LPCs (d), and dead (7-AAD+) LPCs (e) were measured following Annexin-V/7-AAD staining after 48 h of treatment in each arm. Cultures were assayed in triplicate. All data from the independent experiments are presented as the mean ± SEM. Significance values ***P < 0.0001
Establishment of human Ph+ALL LPCs in the anti-CD122-conditioned NOD/SCID mouse xenograft assay
When the recipient mice exhibited ruffled fur and lethargy, the engraftment levels of human Ph+ALL were analyzed in the BM and spleen. Two months after the transplantation of 1 × 104 LPCs and treatment with vehicle, the recipient mice exhibited splenomegaly. The engrafted human cells were further confirmed by morphologic and cytogenetic analyses (Fig. 4a). Flow cytometry analysis demonstrated that the BMs and spleens of the recipients were efficiently engrafted with human Ph+ALL cells with an aberrant phenotype similar to that in the donor Ph+ALL patients (Fig. 4b). There was widely disseminated disease, including significant leukemic infiltration into the BM, liver, spleen, and kidneys of the recipient mice, as shown by HE staining and IHC with anti-hCD19 (Fig. 4c). These results indicated that a humanized Ph+ALL xenotransplant model was successfully established using anti-CD122-conditioned NOD/SCID mice and IBMI with LPCs from Ph+ALL patients.
Establishment of a humanized Ph+ALL xenotransplant model using anti-CD122-conditioned NOD/SCID mice and intra-bone marrow injection (IBMI) with LPCs from Ph+ALL patients. a Compared with an irradiated non-transplanted control mouse (Ctrl), the mouse transplanted with LPCs and treated with vehicle (Vehicle) exhibited significant splenomegaly at 12 weeks post-transplant. A low-magnification image of human Ph+ALL engraftment in a bone section (left panel), May-Giemsa staining (middle panel) and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis (right panel) of leukemic blasts in the BM of the recipients (Vehicle). b Flow cytometric analysis demonstrated that the BMs of the recipients were efficiently engrafted with human Ph+ALL cells with an aberrant phenotype similar to that in the donor Ph+ALL patients. c Human engraftment of the BM, spleen, liver and kidney of the recipient (Vehicle) was further confirmed by HE staining (upper panels) and IHC with anti-hCD19 antibody (lower panels)
The combination of nilotinib and ruxolitinib simultaneously exerts superior anti-LPCs activity in Ph+ALL than the other treatments
To further evaluate the effects of selective BCR–ABL and/or JAK2 inhibition therapy on Ph+ALL LPCs in vivo, the recipient mice transplanted with LPCs were randomized to different treatment groups on day 15 post-transplant and were treated with various single or dual drug interventions for 14 days (Fig. 5a). At 8 weeks (Fig. 5b) and 12 weeks (Fig. 5c) post-transplant, similar high levels of human Ph+ALL engraftment were observed in the imatinib-treated mice and the vehicle-treated control mice. Consistent with the anti-LPCs effects in vitro, ruxolitinib alone had no significant anti-LPCs effect in the recipient mice, but this drug reduced Ph+ALL engraftment more significantly when ruxolitinib was administered with imatinib or nilotinib. Notably, treatment with the combination of nilotinib and ruxolitinib, compared with imatinib, nilotinib, or ruxolitinib treatment alone or imatinib combined with ruxolitinib, led to the most significant reduction in human Ph+ALL engraftment in the BMs and spleens of the recipients (Fig. 5b, c). Moreover, HE staining and IHC with anti-hCD19 demonstrated that the infiltrating levels of the transplanted LPCs were significantly lower in the spleen tissues of the nilotinib and ruxolitinib-cotreated mice than in those of mice in the other treatment groups (Fig. 6b). Further evidence that the most effective anti-LPCs effect occurred with the combination treatment was derived by the engraftment analysis of BCR/ABL expressing cells using a TaqMan-based qRT-PCR assay (Fig. 6c).
Effects of single drug treatment or different combinations of IM, NL and RUX on the engraftment of human Ph+ALL cells in the anti-CD122-conditioned NOD/SCID recipients transplanted with LPCs from Ph+ALL patients. a Experimental design for the in vivo experiments. LPCs sorted from newly diagnosed Ph+ALL patients (N = 6) were transplanted by IBMI into 5-week-old, sub-lethally irradiated (2.1 Gy of total body irradiation from a 60Co source) and anti-CD122-conditioned NOD/SCID mice. From +14 days post-transplantation, the recipient mice were randomly administered with vehicle (10% NMP-90% PEG 300), IM (100 mg/kg/day), NL (75 mg/kg/day), RUX (30 mg/kg/day), IM (100 mg/kg/day) combined with RUX (30 mg/kg/day), or NL (75 mg/kg/day) combined with RUX (30 mg/kg/day) via oral gavage for 14 days. b The engraftment levels of human Ph+ALL CD45+ cells in the BMs and spleens of mice under different treatment conditions were analyzed by flow cytometry at 8 weeks (N = 6 patients, N = 3 mice per patient per treatment group) and c at 12 weeks post-transplant (N = 6 patients, N = 3 mice per patient per treatment group) or until the mice were moribund
Cotreatment with NL and RUX exhibited the most effective anti-LPC effect. LPCs sorted from newly diagnosed Ph+ALL patients (N = 6) were transplanted by IBMI into 5-week-old, sub-lethally irradiated (2.1 Gy of total body irradiation from a 60Co source) and anti-CD122-conditioned NOD/SCID mice. From +14 days post-transplantation, the recipient mice were randomly administered with vehicle (10% NMP-90% PEG 300), IM (100 mg/kg/day), NL (75 mg/kg/day), RUX (30 mg/kg/day), IM (100 mg/kg/day) combined with RUX (30 mg/kg/day), or NL (75 mg/kg/day) combined with RUX (30 mg/kg/day) via oral gavage for 14 days. a Representative images of splenomegaly in the mice under different treatment conditions and a control NOD/SCID mouse (Ctrl) without receiving the Ph+ALL LPCs transplantation. b Differences in human engraftment were further confirmed by HE staining (upper panels) and IHC with anti-hCD19 antibody labeling (lower panels) of the spleens in the recipient mice treated with the different drugs and the Ctrl mice. c The engraftment analysis of BCR/ABL-expressing BM cells using a TaqMan-based qRT-PCR assay in the recipient mice at 12 weeks post-transplant. d Representative western blots of phospho-CrkL, phospho-JAK2, and GAPDH in the bone marrow cells of humanized mice transplanted with Ph+ALL LPCs following treatment with vehicle, single agents or a combination of RUX and IM or NL mice, and Ctrl mice. All data from the independent experiments are presented as the mean ± SEM. Significance values: ***P < 0.0001
Cotreatment with nilotinib and ruxolitinib is more effective in reducing phospho-JAK2 and phospho-CrkL activity in vivo
To determine the activities of JAK2 in humanized mice with Ph+ALL LPCs following treatment with single agents or a combination of ruxolitinib and imatinib or nilotinib, levels of phospho-JAK2 were examined by western blot analysis (Fig. 6d). Among the different treatment options, the combination of nilotinib and ruxolitinib was the most effective at reducing phospho-JAK2 levels in the recipients, whereas imatinib did not reduce the level of phospho-JAK2.
The phosphorylation levels of CrkL (Fig. 6d), the kinase substrate of BCR–ABL, were evaluated. We found that nilotinib or nilotinib treatment combined with ruxolitinib inhibited BCR–ABL kinase activity completely, whereas the phospho-CrkL levels did not change significantly when the recipient mice were treated with ruxolitinib alone.
These results are consistent with the engraftment levels evaluated using flow cytometry (Fig. 5b, c), histopathological analyses (Fig. 6b), and qRT-PCR assays (Fig. 6c), indicating that the combination of nilotinib and ruxolitinib more effectively reduced the LPCs capacity in immunodeficient mice through a deeper suppression of JAK2 activity than either single agent or the combination of imatinib and ruxolitinib. However, further comparison of the total JAK and CrkL protein is required to illuminate whether the change in phosphorylation was due to reduced amounts of total protein.
Using RNA-Seq and qRT-PCR, the current study revealed that JAK2 was more highly expressed in the sorted LPCs than in the other cell fractions in patients with de novo Ph+ALL. Furthermore, we provided pre-clinical evidence that combination treatment with a selective JAK1/JAK2 inhibitor (ruxolitinib) and nilotinib more effectively eradicated imatinib-insensitive primary LPCs than either ruxolitinib or TKIs alone by reducing the activities of phospho-CrKL and phospho-JAK2. These data indicate that simultaneously inhibiting BCR–ABL and JAK2 activities in LPCs is more effective than using single agents for patients with de novo Ph+ALL.
For decades, Ph+ALL has been regarded as the ALL subgroup with the worst outcome [2, 3]. The current management of Ph+ALL patients relies on the use of a TKI with or without chemotherapy followed by allo-HSCT. However, relapse remains the critical obstacle of treatment failure even after allo-HSCT. Therefore, the identification of alternative approaches to effectively prevent relapse in Ph+ALL patients is urgently needed.
JAK signaling pathways are required for cytokine and growth factor signaling [19,20,21,22]. The downstream molecules, which belong to the STAT family, are activated by JAKs. The JAK2–STAT5 pathway plays critical roles in normal hematopoiesis [19, 20] and CML leukemogenesis [21, 45, 46]. Recent studies have suggested that the JAK2–STAT5 pathway may provide putative survival signals to CML stem/progenitor cells; thus, the addition of ruxolitinib to a TKI therapy improved the therapeutic efficacy in CML both in vitro and in immunodeficient mice [26,27,28]. Therefore, therapeutically targeting the JAK2–STAT5 pathway appears to be a promising anti-LPCs management in CML [26,27,28].
Nilotinib is a second-generation TKI with a potent binding affinity for BCR–ABL tyrosine kinase [47, 48]. The advantages of nilotinib include its high in vitro affinity for BCR–ABL tyrosine kinase, and the improved molecular remission in the treatment of chronic-phase CML with this drug [47, 48]. Moreover, the combination of nilotinib with high-dose cytotoxic drugs in induction treatment, which comprised concurrent vincristine, daunorubicin, and prednisolone, as well as either 5 courses of consolidation followed by 2-year maintenance with nilotinib, or allo-HSCT, achieved significantly higher cumulative complete molecular remission and 2-year hematologic relapse-free survival rates than imatinib for patients with Ph+ALL [2, 49, 50]. Moreover, nilotinib’s low incidence of adverse events enhances drug compliance, making nilotinib more attractive than imatinib in the treatment of Ph+ALL [49].
The anti-CD122-conditioned NOD/SCID xenograft mouse assay with IBMI and the finding that LPCs were enriched in the CD34+CD38−CD58− fraction in Ph+ALL patients provided us with a useful LPCs target and xenograft model for examining the anti-LPCs efficacy of drug treatment in Ph+ALL [10]. Indeed, the in vivo oral administration of ruxolitinib and nilotinib for 2 weeks significantly reduced infiltrated human leukemic cells to a greater extent in multiple hematopoietic tissues than did nilotinib or imatinib monotherapy. In contrast, ruxolitinib had no anti-LPCs effects when administered alone and was unable to augment the immediate effects of TKIs in rapidly decreasing the leukemia burden during the initial phase of therapy. However, the nilotinib-mediated inhibition of the BCR–ABL kinase might restore the requirement for cytokine-dependent JAK signaling and sensitize the residual LPCs to cotreatment with ruxolitinib [28]. Therefore, effective nilotinib therapy sets a precondition in which ruxolitinib acquires therapeutic efficacy in maintaining Ph+ALL remission.
In line with the current study, Appelmann et al. [51]. reported that dasatinib-mediated inhibition of BCR–ABL kinase resensitizes residual leukemic B cells to JAK inhibition in a Ph+ALL mouse model. In the report by Appelmann et al., different candidate LPCs (polyclonal cytokine-independent LPCs were generated using the retroviral vector-mediated introduction of the p185BCR−ABL isoform into BM progenitor cells derived from Arfnull C57BL/6 mice, followed by a 7-day expansion of the transduced progeny under B-cell-selective culture conditions) and a Ph+ALL mouse model (LPCs were intravenously injected into the tail veins of healthy, non-conditioned 8- to 10-week-old C57BL/6 mice to establish a Ph+ALL mouse model) were employed. Although the candidate LPCs, mouse models of Ph+ALL, and second-generation TKIs were utilized differently in the two studies, Appelmann et al. [51] and the current study provide consistent evidence for the effective anti-LPCs effect of the combination of ruxolitinib and a second-generation TKI in Ph+ALL treatment. Mallampati et al. [52] demonstrated that the inhibition of JAK activity in combination with BCR–ABL inhibition can effectively short-circuit mesenchymal stem cell-mediated TKI resistance, which provided a mechanistic rationale for the current and previous pre-clinical studies suggesting that cotreatment with a second-generation TKI and a JAK inhibitor may be more effective in eradicating LPCs in Ph+ALL.
The current study suggested that targeting cytokine signaling through the combination of ruxolitinib and nilotinib is a promising strategy to eradicate residual Ph+ALL LPCs in vitro and in vivo. We are aware, however, that further in depth analysis and functional validation of the RNA-seq data of the sorted LPCs and other cell fractions from patients with de novo Ph+ALL, as well as investigation of the modulation of the important apoptosis markers and cell cycle status during the different treatment are needed to explore the underlying mechanisms and to determine how these processes sensitize LPCs to the combination of nilotinib and ruxolitinib. Alternatively, it is conceivable that residual LPCs after nilotinib treatment can be rescued through a cytokine-triggered JAK2–STAT5 pathway, which requires further clarification.
Albeit preliminary, the data presented here indicate that cotreatment with nilotinib and ruxolitinib can more effectively eliminate imatinib-insensitive LPCs through a deeper suppression of BCR–ABL/JAK2 activity both in vitro and in humanized Ph+ALL mice. Therefore, this pre-clinical study appears to provide a scientific rationale for using selective BCR–ABL/JAK2 dual inhibition as a promising anti-LPCs therapeutic approach for patients with de novo Ph+ALL.
Ph+ALL:
Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia
LPCs:
leukemia-propagating cells
RNA-Seq:
qRT-PCR:
real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction
JAK:
Janus kinase
Ruxolitinib:
JAK1/JAK2 inhibitor
BCR–ABL:
breakpoint cluster region, Abelson
CML:
TKIs:
tyrosine kinase inhibitors
allo-HSCT:
allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
NOD/SCID:
non-obese diabetic/severe combined immunodeficiency
STAT:
signal transducer and activator of transcription
B-ALL:
B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
BMMNCs:
bone marrow mononuclear cells
MoAbs:
Rh:
recombinant human
IL-3:
Flt3-L:
Flt3-ligand
SCF:
stem cell factor
IL-2Rβ:
interleukin-2 receptor β
IBMI:
intra-bone marrow injection
HE:
hematoxylin–eosin
IHC:
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XJH and YK designed the study and supervised the manuscript preparation. YK, YLW, YS, MMS, XNC and HYZ performed the research. YK and YLW analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript. All other authors participated in the collection of patients’ data. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
We thank YDN and SLL from the Animal Center of Peking University People’s Hospital for their excellent assistance with caring for the mice. We thank XFZ from the National Center for Protein Sciences Beijing (Peking University) for their excellent assistance with the FACS sorting. American Journal Experts (http://www.journalexperts.com) provided editorial assistance to the authors during the preparation of the manuscript. The authors thank all the core facilities at Peking University Institute of Hematology for sample collection.
All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article and its supplementary data files.
The authors reviewed the manuscript, agreed with its contents and consent to submitting it to Journal of Translational Medicine.
This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Peking University People’s Hospital. Informed consent was obtained from all patients and donors before entry into the study in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81570127, 81370638 and 81530046), the Milstein Medical Asian American Partnership (MMAAP) Foundation, the Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81621001), the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Program (Z151100004015164), the Science and Technology Project of Guangdong Province of China (2016B030230003), and National Key Research and Development Program (2017YFA0104500).
Peking University People’s Hospital, Peking University Institute of Hematology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Collaborative Innovation Center of Hematology, Peking University, Beijing, 100044, China
Yuan Kong, Yi-Lin Wu, Yang Song, Min-Min Shi, Xie-Na Cao, Hong-Yan Zhao, Ya-Zhen Qin, Yue-Yun Lai, Hao Jiang, Qian Jiang & Xiao-Jun Huang
Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China
Yi-Lin Wu, Yang Song, Min-Min Shi & Xiao-Jun Huang
Yuan Kong
Yi-Lin Wu
Yang Song
Min-Min Shi
Xie-Na Cao
Hong-Yan Zhao
Ya-Zhen Qin
Yue-Yun Lai
Hao Jiang
Qian Jiang
Xiao-Jun Huang
Correspondence to Xiao-Jun Huang.
Kong, Y., Wu, YL., Song, Y. et al. Ruxolitinib/nilotinib cotreatment inhibits leukemia-propagating cells in Philadelphia chromosome-positive ALL. J Transl Med 15, 184 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12967-017-1286-5
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Influence of hemoadsorption during cardiopulmonary bypass on blood vesicle count and function
Lukas Wisgrill1,
Christian Lamm2,
Lena Hell3,
Johannes Thaler3,
Angelika Berger1,
Rene Weiss4,
Viktoria Weber4,
Harald Rinoesl5,
Michael J. Hiesmayr6,
Andreas Spittler2,7 &
Martin H. Bernardi ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-8297-898X6
Extracorporeal circulation during major cardiac surgery triggers a systemic inflammatory response affecting the clinical course and outcome. Recently, extracellular vesicle (EV) research has shed light onto a novel cellular communication network during inflammation. Hemoadsorption (HA) systems have shown divergent results in modulating the systemic inflammatory response during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) surgery. To date, the effect of HA on circulating microvesicles (MVs) in patients undergoing CPB surgery is unknown.
Count and function of MVs, as part of the extracellular vesicle fraction, were assessed in a subcohort of a single-center, blinded, controlled study investigating the effect of the CytoSorb device during CPB. A total of 18 patients undergoing elective CPB surgery with (n = 9) and without (n = 9) HA device were included in the study. MV phenotyping and counting was conducted via flow cytometry and procoagulatory potential was measured by tissue factor-dependent MV assays.
Both study groups exhibited comparable counts and post-operative kinetics in MV subsets. Tissue factor-dependent procoagulatory potential was not detectable in plasma at any timepoint. Post-operative course and laboratory parameters showed no correlation with MV counts in patients undergoing CPB surgery.
Additional artificial surfaces to the CPB-circuit introduced by the use of the HA device showed no effect on circulating MV count and function in these patients. Larger studies are needed to assess and clarify the effect of HA on circulating vesicle counts and function.
Trial registration ClinicalTrials.Gov Identifier: NCT01879176; registration date: June 17, 2013; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01879176
Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) surgery appears to influence the host immune response leading to a systemic inflammatory response with increased pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines [1, 2]. Thus, systemic inflammation might negatively influence the postoperative course of this high-risk patient group [3].
The novel hemoadsorption (HA) device CytoSorb (CytoSorbents Europe GmbH, Berlin, Germany) was designed to adsorb mid-molecular weight hydrophobic molecules, including cytokines, through size exclusion and nonspecific surface adsorption in peripheral blood [4, 5]. The CytoSorb adsorber consists of porous polymerized divinylbenzene beads, encased in a polycarbonate cartridge with a total volume of 300 mL. Though some case reports and case studies suggest promising effects, including effective adsorption of mid-molecular weight hydrophobic molecules in septic shock, there is still a lack of clinical studies and understanding of the device [6,7,8,9]. In our previous randomized-controlled trial, the HA device had no impact on the proinflammatory cytokine response and, furthermore, on the postoperative course in patients undergoing cardiac surgery on CPB [4].
Microvesicles (MV), as part of the extracellular vesicle (EV) population are submicron vesicles (0.1–1 µm) secreted or shed from the cellular membrane during activation, proliferation and apoptosis. Upon circulation of whole blood over adsorbent polymers, blood cell activation, adhesion, and release of MVs can occur [10, 11]. Subsequent immune activation and induced apoptosis may lead to the release of apoptotic bodies (AB), defined as being larger than 1 µm [12]. Circulating vesicles thus are receiving increased interest as inflammatory and coagulation biomarkers in clinical settings and might shed light onto new pathophysiological mechanisms [13].
Thus, we hypothesized that the systemic immune activation during CPB could induce MV release and, consequently, that the Cytosorb device—with the proposed “adsorbing” properties—may diminish the release of those immunomodulatory vesicles. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the influence of the CytoSorb HA device on the release of peripheral blood MVs in patients undergoing major cardiac surgery on CPB compared to a control group for the first five postoperative days. High-sensitive flow cytometry was used to analyze MV and AB subsets in platelet-free plasma. Additionally, a MV-tissue factor (TF) activity assay was used to investigate TF-bearing vesicles. Polymer-dependent cell activation and adhesion was determined by scanning electron microscopy.
This study was a subcohort analysis from the randomized control trial as recently published by Bernardi et al. [4]. The study was approved by the ethics committee of the Medical University of Vienna with reference number EK Nr: 1095/2013, reported to the Austrian Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (INS-621000-0505) and registered at ClinicalTrials.Gov (NCT01879176) before recruitment started. Written informed consent was obtained from each patient prior to inclusion. Since analysis of MV characterization was not planned initially, the collection of additional blood samples was amended to the study protocol and approved by the ethics committee on June 16, 2014.
Study design and patient characteristics
The original study [4] was conducted during September 10, 2013, and May 6, 2015, at the Division of Cardiac Thoracic Vascular Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Additional collection of blood samples for MV characterization started on September 29, 2014. For a detailed description of the trial as well as detailed clinical follow-up we refer to the clinical trial publication [4].
Briefly, patients undergoing elective open-heart surgery (coronary artery bypass graft, valve surgery or combined procedure) with an expected CPB duration of more than 120 min were included. We excluded a priori patients who declined informed consent, underwent transplant surgery, pulmonary endarterectomy or scheduled insertion of a cardiac assist device as well as emergency or urgent procedures. Also, patients with elevated preoperative serum creatinine > 177 µmol/L, C-reactive protein > 20 mg/L, or bilirubin > 34.2 µmol/L; patients with a body mass index < 18 kg/m2, pregnancy, history of stroke, receiving chemotherapy, antileukocyte drugs, tumor necrosis factor-α blockers, immunosuppressive drugs (e.g. tocilizumab), or diagnosed with any disease state that could produce leukopenia (e.g. acquired immune deficiency syndrome) were excluded.
In total, 46 adult patients were recruited into the clinical trial. Since analysis of MV characterization was not planned initially, we only included 18 patients (n = 9 CytoSorb group, n = 9 Control group) starting on September 29th 2014. Patient characteristics were collected by case report form and data are summarized in Table 1.
Table 1 Patient and surgical characteristics
Study procedure and blood sampling
Anesthesia and CPB priming were performed according to institutional standards. CPB was performed by using non-pulsatile flow at 2.5 l/min/m2, a non-heparin-coated circuit, and a membrane oxygenator (Quadrox; Maquet, Hirrlingen, Germany, or Capiox; Terumo, Eschborn, Germany). More procedural details can be found in the previously published study protocol [4].
In the intervention group, the 300 mL CytoSorb cartridge was installed into the CPB circuit using a side arm coming from the venous outflow tube and returned over the venous reservoir prior to the oxygenator. The cartridge flow was standardized controlled by a roller pump with 200 mL/min. The control group was treated similar without installed adsorber. Blood samples were taken at following timepoints: preoperative; before CPB; after CPB; 2 h after CPB; 24 h after CPB; 48 h after CPB and on the 5th post-operative day (POD). Blood sampling was conducted as described in our published protocol [14]. Briefly, whole blood was carefully drawn into sodium citrated blood collection tubes and immediately carefully transported into the laboratory. For the subcohort analysis, additional blood samples for MV characterization were drawn according to published standards and once centrifuged at 2500×g for 15 min at room temperature without brake [14]. The resulting platelet-poor plasma was gently transferred into a polypropylene tube and centrifuged at 13,000×g for 5 min at room temperature. The platelet-free plasma was distributed in aliquots, shock frozen in liquid nitrogen and subsequently stored at − 80 °C prior to analysis.
Immunolabeling and flow cytometry
For immunolabeling, samples were thawed in a waterbath at 37 °C and were immediately processed as described elsewhere [15]. Different panels were used to identify specific MV subsets: PE-labeled anti-CD41 (platelet-derived MVs/ABs), APC-AlexaFluor750-labeled anti-CD235a (erythocyte-derived MVs/ABs), PE-labeled anti-CD15 (myeloid-derived MVs/ABs), and PE-labeled anti-CD31/CD54/CD146 (activation-dependent MVs/ABs derived from activated thrombocytes and endothelial cells). All antibodies were purchased from Beckman Coulter Gmbh (Krefeld, Germany). For sample preparation, 10 µL plasma was diluted in 50 µL PBS and stained with the respective antibodies for 2 h in the dark at room temperature. In a second step, Cy5-labeled annexin V (AnnV; Biovision, Milpitas, CA, USA) was added to the sample and diluted with calcium binding buffer, resulting in a total volume of 500 µL, and incubated for 1 h in the dark at room temperature. 2 ATU/mL of recombinant hirudin (Sigma Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA) was added to the calcium binding buffer to prevent clot formation. Diluted binding buffer was sterile filtered through a 0.2 µm mesh to reduce background noise. Prior to staining, the antibody mixture was centrifuged at 20,000×g for 30 min to remove fluorescent particles as described elsewhere [16]. Flow cytometry was performed using a CytoFLEX S flow cytometer (Beckman Coulter Gmbh). For calibration of the violet side scatter (405 nm), green fluorescent silica beads (1000 nm, Kisker Biotech, Steinfurt, Germany) were additionally used to define an MV/AB gate based on the scatter properties. MVs were defined to be smaller, ABs to be larger than 1000 nm. The setup and gating strategies are shown in Fig. 1. Enumeration of vesicles was performed using volumetric measurement of the CytoFLEX S (events/µL). All persons conducting the flow cytometric characterization were blinded to the study groups.
Flow cytometric setup and gating strategy. Green fluorescent silica beads (1000 nm) were used to define the side scatter properties and the microvesicle (MV) gate was set right underneath the silica bead population (left panel). Using an unlabeled plasma sample, the scatter and gate settings were validated as seen in the right panel without any trigger. All events above the MV-gate were assumed to be larger than 1000 nm and were separately analyzed as apoptotic bodies (ABs). a Next, the fluorescence trigger was set for the APC-channel (Annexin V (AnnV)) using an AnnV-stained plasma sample without calcium, preventing calcium-dependent labelling of AnnV (left Panel). The fluorescence trigger was set and validated using an AnnV-labelled plasma sample (right panel; b). The gating strategy of CD41 + MVs (platelet-derived MVs; left panel) and CD235 + (erythrocyte-derived MVs; right panel) (c)
Tissue factor activity
For the vesicle-associated TF activity measurement, vesicles were isolated from platelet-free plasma by centrifugation at 18,000 g for 20 min at 4 °C, washed twice with Hank’s balanced salt solution and resuspended in 200 µL of HBSA. Samples were incubated with either mouse anti-human TF antibody or a control antibody for 15 min at room temperature, and then 50 µL aliquots were added to duplicate wells of a 96-well plate. Next, 50 µL of HBSA containing 10 nm activated factor VII (FVIIa), 300 nm factor X (FX) and 10 µL CaCl2 was added to each sample and the mixture was incubated for 2 h at 37 °C. Activated FX (FXa) generation was stopped by the addition of 25 µL of 25 nm EDTA HBSA buffer. 25 µL of the chromogenic substrate was then added and incubated at 37 °C for 15 min. Finally, absorbance was measured at 405 nm. The TF-dependent FXa generation was determined by subtracting the amount of FXa generated in the presence of TF antibody from the amount of FXa generated in the presence of the control antibody.
The adhesion of blood cells to the adsorbent beads was studied using scanning electron microscopy. After whole blood treatment, the adsorbent cartridges were thoroughly rinsed with isotonic saline, and the adsorbent beads were removed from the cartridges and fixed in saline solution containing 2.5 vol% glutaraldehyde (Carl Roth GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany). Samples were dehydrated using an ethanol gradient, dried for 12 h at room temperature, sputter-coated with gold (Q150R ES, QUORUM), and analyzed with a TM-1000 Scanning Electron Microscope (Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan).
Continuous data are summarized as mean and standard deviation. Categorical data are summarized as frequencies and percentages. Normal distribution was assessed using Shapiro–Wilk test. Normal-distributed data were analyzed using the Student’s t test or the ANOVA post hoc Tukey test. Non-normal distributed data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test or Dunn’s non-parametric comparison for post hoc Kruskal–Wallis test. Correlation analysis was performed using the Pearson correlation coefficient. Statistical significance was assumed as p < 0.05. Statistical analysis was performed using R 3.5.1 (https://www.r-project.org).
A total of 18 patients (22% female) were included in the study: 9 in the intervention group and 9 in the control group. The mean age was 70.2 ± 9.9 years. In 5 cases (28%) a coronary artery bypass graft, in 4 cases (22%) a combined procedure and, in 9 cases (50%) a valve procedure was performed. We did not observe significant differences in demographic or clinical data in our study cohort. The patient characteristics are summarized in Table 1.
Hemadsorption does not affect circulating vesicle counts or tissue factor activity
First, we assessed the MV and AB count in both study populations utilizing flow cytometry. The cut-off between the two vesicle populations is based upon a physical determined scatter-property using fluorescence-marked 1000 nm silica beads. Based on this marker, we distinguished MVs (< 1000 nm) and AB (> 1000 nm) and the corresponding subset using fluorescence labelled antibodies. We found high interindividual differences in the exaggeration of MVs and ABs. Overall, we found no statistical significance in both study populations based on total vesicle count, total MV/AB count or phosphatidylserine bearing (AnnV+) MVs/ABs. Analyzing vesicle subsets, we found no significant difference in platelet-derived MV/AB, erythocyte-derived MV/AB, myeloid-derived MV/AB or CD31/CD54/CD146 MV/AB (Fig. 2). All subsets showed similar kinetics after surgery independent of the use of HA (Fig. 3a). However, based on these results, we analyzed one CytoSorb column using scanning electron microscopy. Although we observed adhesion of blood cells on the polymer beads of the CytoSorb column, this phenomenon was not reflected in the circulating vesicle count (Fig. 3b). Additionally, the TF-activity assay showed no detectable levels of TF in our plasma samples (data not shown).
Individual count of circulating blood vesicles. Individual microvesicle (MV) and apoptotic body (AB) counts (events/µL) in plasma samples from each patients undergoing major cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) in Control group (n = 9; a) and Cytosorb group (n = 9; b) at different timepoints
Count and hemolysis parameter correlation of circulating blood vesicles. Vesicle counts (events/µL) in plasma samples from patients undergoing major cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) with (n = 9; CytoSorb; black triangles) or without (n = 9; control; gray circles) hemoadsorption. Samples were analyzed using flow cytometry. Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation (a). Scanning electron microscopy was performed to analyze a hemoadsorption column directly after use. Respective pictures are shown in ×400 and ×5000 magnification (b). Correlation analysis was performed to assess the link between vesicle counts, hemolysis and infection parameters. The color represents the respective rho-value and the presence of circles indicate a significant p-value < 0.05 (c)
Vesicle counts correlate with High-Motility Group Box-1 levels
Next, we aimed to assess the utility of circulating microvesicles and apoptotic bodies as indicators of inflammation and hemolysis. In our previous studies [4, 5], we found no effect on inflammation and hemolysis between patients treated with hemoadsorption compared to the control group, although a greater decrease in haptoglobin levels on postoperative day 1 was observed. Using correlation analysis, we did not detect significant correlations between MV subpopulations, haptoglobin, free hemoglobin, bilirubin, lactate dehydrogenase and C-reactive protein (Fig. 3c). However, we found that High-Motility Group Box-1 (HMGB1) is significantly correlating with the total MV (Ann + and Ann-) events (Fig. 4a) as well as with erythrocyte-derived apoptotic bodies in both groups, but not IL-6, IL-10, TNFα (after LPS stimulation). Additionally, use of inotropic drugs such as noradrenaline and dobutamine showed no correlation with MV counts (Fig. 4b).
Correlation analysis of blood cytokine/alarmin levels and microvesicle count. Correlation analysis of total microvesicle (total MV) counts and HMGB1 plasma levels (a). Correlation plot of investigated cytokines, alarmins and inotropic drugs with MV counts. The color represents the respective rho-value and the presence of circles indicate a significant p-value < 0.05 (b)
Microvesicle counts during CPB using the CytoSorb HA cartridge have not been assessed before. In this study, we did not find any differences in perioperative plasma vesicle counts between patients treated with or without the CytoSorb device. Additionally, we found no significant differences in the time course of circulating plasma vesicles within each group.
Cardiac surgery, especially those utilizing CPB, is associated with the development of intravascular hemolysis, which appears to be linked with adverse clinical outcome [17]. High mechanical stress, different blood flow and pressure conditions, surface activation and cardiotomy suctioning can lead to excessive hemolysis during the perioperative course [18]. In our previous study [5], no effect on hemolysis between patients treated with hemoadsorption compared to the control group was found. However, a greater decrease in haptoglobin levels and an increase in lactate dehydrogenase on POD 1 in the control group was observed, which may be an indicator for free hemoglobin adsorption in the intervention group.
Therefore, we investigated the microvesicle as well as apoptotic body count in plasma samples of these patients and correlated our findings with established laboratory hemolysis markers. Interestingly, we found no correlation between hemolytic serum markers and vesicle counts in our patients. Hemolysis is caused by active destruction of erythrocytes, leading to the excessive release of hemoglobin as well as haptoglobin in the peripheral blood stream [18]. Thus, it is tempting to speculate that the count of microvesicles and apoptotic bodies concomitantly rises as well. In our study, we found no significant difference in platelet- and erythrocyte-derived microvesicles/apoptotic bodies in both study groups. It appears that neither the supposedly higher cellular shear stress nor the proposed “adsorbing” features have an impact on microvesicles and apoptotic bodies, at least in our study. Poon et al. observed higher platelet- and erythrocyte-derived exosomes/vesicles after initiation of CPB up to 24 h post-surgery. This might be due to the different vesicle isolation procedure, as Poon et al. used an exosome enrichment kit prior analysis [19]. Using a direct phenotyping protocol without initial vesicle enrichment, we observed no significant difference. Another study, conducted by Emanueli et al. found a significantly higher exosome count (30–90 nm) after CPB initiation compared to pre-operative samples [20]. Thus, our direct phenotyping protocol enabled us to study larger vesicles such as microvesicles and apoptotic bodies without isolation bias but might explain that we found no significant differences in the respective vesicle populations as we were unable to sufficiently detect exosomes/vesicles smaller than 200 nm via flow cytometry.
Subsequently, we were interested in the physical interactions of the CytoSorb cartridge with circulating peripheral blood cells. We investigated a used CytoSorb cartridge via scanning electron microscopy, showing cellular attachment of leukocytes on nearly all polymer beads. We additionally analyzed myeloid- and activation-derived microvesicles and apoptotic bodies but did not find differences in the vesicle counts between both groups. Furthermore, we found no difference in TF activity in both populations. This is in line with previous results, as patients undergoing CPB showed a high tissue factor dependent activity in pericardial effusion, but not in peripheral plasma [21]. In general, CPB leads to immune cell activation and release of inflammatory mediators [2]. However, these mediators do not seem to induce TF-expression on peripheral blood MVs. In our previous study, we found a long-lasting anti-inflammatory Interleukin-10 response in CytoSorb treated patients, but no statistically significant difference in proinflammatory mediators [4]. It appears that the insertion of the CytoSorb device, adding additional artificial surfaces and materials, does not boost the systemic immune cell activation in the circulation.
Lastly, we aimed to assess the utility of plasma vesicles as inflammation and hemolysis markers in patients undergoing CPB. Microvesicle counts, for example in packed red blood cells, seems to correlate with occurring hemolysis acting as quality indicator [22]. Thus, using correlation analysis, we found no significant association between inflammatory markers and hemolysis marker in our patients, nor a difference in the use of packed red blood cells and inotropic drugs. Interestingly, we found a significant correlation of HMGB1 with total MV counts in our study cohort. HMGB1 is an alarmin and is passively released upon tissue injury, necrotic cell death and cellular stress or actively secreted via immune cell activation [23, 24]. Secreted HMGB1 seems to exert immunomodulatory properties, activation inflammatory cascades via TLR4 as well as acting as immune chaperon [25,26,27]. Those MVs seems to play a role in immunoregulation during burn injuries [28]. However, the role of HMGB1-bearing vesicles during CPB needs to be further evaluated.
This study has several limitations. We were not able to include all patients from the main clinical study, but only a subgroup of 18 individuals. A higher patient number is needed to detect significant differences between the investigated cohorts. Additionally, with our flow cytometric method we are not able to sufficiently detect and quantify exosome levels in our study. Finally, we only investigated the count and TF-dependent procoagulatory function of circulating plasma vesicles, not the carried content inside of the vesicles (e.g. microRNA).
This is the first study evaluating the impact of HA on circulating microvesicles and apoptotic bodies in patients undergoing CPB. Adding additional artificial surfaces to the CPB-circuit with the use of the HA device had no effect on the systemic immune cell activation in the circulation. However, we observed adhesion of blood cells on the polymer beads of the CytoSorb column. Larger studies are needed to assess and clarify the effect of HA on circulating vesicle counts and function.
The data that support the findings of this study are available in anonymized form from the corresponding author on reasonable request and after agreement with the local ethics committee.
Apoptotic body
AnnV+:
Cluster of differentiation
CPB:
FVIIa:
Activated factor VII
FX:
FXa:
Activated FX
HA:
Hemoadsorption
MV:
Microvesicle
POD:
Post-operative day
TF:
Tissue factor
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We thank all the medical staff from the Division of Cardiac Thoracic Vascular Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine and the Department for Cardiac Surgery, especially Dominik Wiedemann for contributing the study. Special thanks go to our medical students Klaus Dragosits, David Hirschl, Falk Preißing and Christoph Steinkellner for their invaluable help in data collection.
The original study has been partly financially supported by CytoSorbents Europe, GmbH. All other funding for laboratory measurements and human resources were departmental and institutional funding. For this posthoc analysis no additional funding was needed.
Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Division of Neonatology, Paediatric Intensive Care & Neuropaediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Lukas Wisgrill & Angelika Berger
Department of Surgery, Research Labs, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Christian Lamm & Andreas Spittler
Clinical Division of Haematology and Haemostaseology, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Lena Hell & Johannes Thaler
Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Therapy Approaches in Sepsis, Department for Biomedical Research, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria
Rene Weiss & Viktoria Weber
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Landeskrankenhaus Feldkirch, Feldkirch, Austria
Harald Rinoesl
Division of Cardiac Thoracic Vascular Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria
Michael J. Hiesmayr & Martin H. Bernardi
Core Facility Flow Cytometry, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Andreas Spittler
Lukas Wisgrill
Christian Lamm
Lena Hell
Johannes Thaler
Angelika Berger
Rene Weiss
Viktoria Weber
Michael J. Hiesmayr
Martin H. Bernardi
Conception and design: LW, MJH, AS, MHB; Acquisition of data: LW, CL, HR, MHB; Analysis and interpretation of data: LW, AS, MHB; Drafting of the article: LW, AS, MHB; Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: LW, CL, LH, JT, AB, RW, VW, HR, MJH, AS, MHB; Final approval of the article: LW, CL, LH, HAT, AB, RW, VW, HR, MJH, AS, MHB; Statistical expertise: LW, MHB. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
CytoSorbents Europe, GmbH has been informed about the submission of the final manuscript. CytoSorbents Europe, GmbH did not influence the genesis, intellectual content or writing of the manuscript.
Correspondence to Martin H. Bernardi.
This study was approved by the ethics committee of the Medical University of Vienna with the reference number EK Nr: 1095/2013, approval: March 12, 2013. Additional collection of blood samples for MV characterization was amended to the study protocol and approved by the ethics committee on June 16, 2014. Written informed consent to participate and consent to publish was obtained and signed from each patient.
MHB and MJH have received travel funding for a lecture from CytoSorbents Europe, GmbH. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Wisgrill, L., Lamm, C., Hell, L. et al. Influence of hemoadsorption during cardiopulmonary bypass on blood vesicle count and function. J Transl Med 18, 202 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12967-020-02369-x
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Trinity Tennis enters spring season with high hopes
Dana McLaughlin|February 26, 2016
Trinity men’s, women’s tennis teams begin their seasons with a winning streak
Both the Trinity University women’s and men’s tennis teams have kicked off their spring seasons with a series of competitive matches against nationally ranked teams.
Last weekend, the men’s team traveled to Pepper Pike, Ohio to compete in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Division III National Men’s Team Indoor Championship. Seeded fifth heading into the tournament, the Tigers defeated top-ranked Washington University 7-2 on Saturday in the consolation round.
In the afternoon, the Tigers were also victorious over the No. 2 ranked Pomona-Pitzer Colleges from California, winning the match 6-3. The Tigers finished in fifth place overall for the weekend tournament following key victories by senior Paxton Deuel in the No.1 singles match and junior Chas Mayer in the No. 5 singles contest.
“This past weekend we had good competition that hit the ball well, and I think moving forward we have to continue to realize that we just have to play our game and not go out there and try to do anything special,” Mayer said.
On the doubles side, the No. 3 pair of senior Eliot Guin and first year Wilson Lambeth notched the Tigers’ sole doubles victory against Pomona-Pitzer. The No. 1 doubles pair, senior Adam Krull and sophomore Matt Tyer, in addition to the No. 2 team of Deuel and junior Clayton Niess were narrowly edged by the Pomona Pitzer Sagehens, 9-7 and 8-6.
Guin reported his confidence as the team returns from the indoor nationals and looks ahead to the next weekend of competitive tennis.
“Although we suffered a close loss to UChicago, we still took out the (top two) seeds of the tournament, Wash U [ranked 3rd nationally] and Pomona [ranked 4th nationally],” Guin said.
Lambeth continues to contribute to the team’s early success, especially on the doubles side.
“The [first years] have all stepped up, and I think that we have a very deep team this year that can compete with just about anyone,” Mayer said.
Mayer and Guin both noted that their personal goals for the spring season tie directly into the team’s goal of competing for the top honor – a national championship. Guin cited the team’s vibrant dynamic as a key ingredient to maintain their success.
“We are a very close-knit group of guys on and off the court “¦ Those relationships translate to a feeling of brotherhood,” Guin said.
Still early in the season, the men’s team currently sits at an eighth place national ranking with an overall record of 5-4 against all competition. The Tigers will return home to face Division II opponent St. Mary’s University (TX) at 10 a.m., and Laredo Community College (TX), of the National Junior College Athletic Association, at 4 p.m.
Similarly, the Trinity women’s tennis team jumped straight into competitive play over the past two weeks. First, the Tigers travelled to Walla Walla, Washington to battle four teams from the West Coast on Feb. 13 and 14. Coming away from the weekend 2-2, the Tigers handled No. 22 Whitman and No. 35 Linfield College (OR) but fell short to Redlands and Lewis and Clark College (OR).
“I’m really confident in what our team can accomplish this spring. I think we are as good as we have been in a few years and we proved that by beating Whitman and having some other really close matches,” said junior Liza Southwick.
The Tigers returned home to host Tyler Junior College and Texas Lutheran University last Saturday.
The Tigers defeated Tyler JC with decisive wins in the No. 2 doubles match where the pair of sophomore Marie Lutz and first year Caroline Kutach won 8-4. Additionally, the No. 3 doubles team of sophomore Blaire Porter and Cheyenne Duncan narrowly lost a close fought match, coming short of Tyler Junior College with a final score of 9-7.
Tyler Junior College also secured the top three spots on the singles side of competition with Kutach playing the No. 1 singles match, senior Gabrielle Roe in the No. 2 lineup and first year Andrea De Leon battling in the No. 3 matchup. These narrow defeats allowed Tyler JC to walk away with a 6-1 overall victory on Saturday morning.
However, in the afternoon, the Tigers rebounded to defeat SCAC conference opponent, TLU, in a resounding 8-1 victory.
Roe attributed this afternoon surge against TLU to the team’s collective positive mindset.
“As a senior, it has been so interesting to see the dynamic change from my first year to my last year playing college tennis, but one thing is for sure… Every player always brings their heart and sense of sisterhood out on the court with them,” Roe said.
Roe, the SCAC Player of the Week, highlighted the importance of new athletes on the team.
“The freshmen are contributing a great deal… And the greatest thing they bring to the table is their love for the game and their positivity day in and day out,” Roe said.
Southwick echoed Roe’s testament of the positive team culture and role of the first year players De Leon, Hannah Cook, Caroline Kutach, Liz Sanchez and Erin Tsai this spring.
“The freshmen are awesome. They bring so much talent, laughter, and an amazing work ethic to the team that inspires and drives each one of us,” Roe said.
Southwick went on to describe how the team’s energy is focused on a collective goal of advancing far into the NCAA’s this spring.
“I want us to each contribute however we can to make us the most successful we can be. Whatever is most important for the team is most important for me and I am trying to live that out day to day,” Southwick said.
The Tigers were led by three back to back wins in the doubles matches. Kutach and Lutz clinched the No. 1 match, Roe and Southwick secured the No. 2 doubles and Duncan and Porter rounded out another victory at the No. 3 spot. The Tigers went on to win every singles and doubles match except for the No. 1 singles contest between Lutz and TLU’s 11th nationally ranked powerhouse, junior Sofia Vega.
Kutach, Roe, De Leon, Erin Tsai and Duncan all won their individual remaining singles matches.
The women’s team will remain at home this coming weekend as they take on St. Edward’s University out of at 2 p.m.
In preparation for the weekend, Roe added that she plans to focus her attention on being more aggressive at the net.
“St. Eds is definitely a formidable opponent; it will be a tough and fun match.”
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Ilhan Omar working on law to investigate all officer-involved incidents
Minnesota Congresswoman seeks to establish an independent federal agency to investigate all officer-involved shootings
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) attends a panel at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a member of The Squad, announced that she is currently working on legislation that will “establish an independent federal agency to investigate all officer-involved shootings and excessive uses of force.”
On Twitter, the Minnesota Congresswoman wrote her post in response to the police killing of George Floyd in her native Minneapolis. She said that she is working on legislation to make this level of federal oversight “a reality.”
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We need to establish an independent federal agency to investigate all officer-involved shootings and excessive uses of force.
I am working on legislation to make this a reality.
— Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) May 28, 2020
Omar called for peace in the city during comments made to reporters on Thursday.
“It’s heartbreaking what took place last night, and continues to happen, to watch our city burn is one of the most devastating things to us,” Omar said. “I’m asking for the community to step up and show us how to organize a peaceful protest so people are not taking advantage of the hurt people are feeling.”
The Congresswoman also said that she has concerns that violent or destructive protests could spark a “cycle of violence,” which could potentially lead to more people of color being harmed by police.
Moreover, she is concerned that the violence could cause a spike in coronavirus diagnoses in Minnesota due to the lack of social distancing and wearing of personal protective equipment.
On Twitter, she wrote that while the anger is justified, Minnesotans must protect one another.
Our anger is just.
Our anger is warranted.
And our priority right now must be protecting one another.
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) May 28, 2020
Omar called for the end of the cycle of violence.
In another tweet, she echoed the sentiment of many saying, “Charges need to be brought immediately. Deep injustice begets social unrest. We can’t ask for peace without delivering justice.”
George Floyd was murdered in broad daylight in our city.
Charges need to be brought immediately. Deep injustice begets social unrest. We can’t ask for peace without delivering justice.
If the county attorney is unwilling to do that, a special prosecutor needs to be appointed.
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Another member of The Squad, the four-woman group of allies within the House Representatives, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said recently that politicians are scared of “the political power of (the) police.”
AOC wrote that George Floyd should be alive, saying that he was killed even as he begged for his life. The popular Democratic Socialist Representative said, “The status quo is killing us.”
#GeorgeFloyd should be alive. Instead, he was killed as he begged police for his life.
The impunity of police violence is a systemic problem we must face to save lives.
Police brutality is now a leading cause of death for young Black men in the US. The status quo is killing us.
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Home News Los Angeles Friendship Circle of Los Angeles Celebrates the Groundbreaking of an All-Inclusive Playground
Friendship Circle of Los Angeles Celebrates the Groundbreaking of an All-Inclusive Playground
Friendship Circle of Los Angeles kicked off the beginning of construction for a new all-inclusive playground on Sunday July 21, 2013 at 1952 South Robertson Boulevard.
The event marked the beginning of construction for “My Backyard”, a playground designed specifically for children who have physical disabilities and other special needs. Play structures and equipment were chosen by a team of skilled professionals and specialists based on years of experience with the special needs community.
The new playground will feature California’s first and only integration carousel, which whill allow children who are wheelchair-bound to roll directly on! Some other features included in the playground are a water and sand play structure, imperative for children who have sensory needs, an interactive raised garden that will enable children to enjoy gardening and watching the ‘fruits’ of their labor, a tricycle path with evenly spaced multi variation pavement for kids who require the stimulation of the vibrations and much more. Long term plans include curriculum where typical children will have the opportunity to play with children who have various disabilities by utilizing each component of the yard to its full potential. Furthermore, Jewish values, rituals and lifestyles will play a part in the plans to make the yard interactive and a place for physical, spiritual and communal growth. For example, the children will learn about the Jewish harvest holidays and then go outside and work in the Friendship Garden. These plans include opening up the yard to local schools and youth groups where they can be a part of this place of inclusion and life-long learning.
98% of Jewish children who have moderate-several disabilities in Los Angeles do not attend a Jewish school. The Friendship Circle, and now this playground, will be a Jewish ‘home away from home’ for these children.
The event included a breakfast for donors and a ceremony featuring speeches by founders Rabbi Michy Rav-Noy and his wife Miriam, Vice-President of Partnership & Innovation at the Jewish Federation Scott Minkow, parent and donor Bezhad Kianmahd, and Steve Bram, a representative of the R.P.O (Real Estate Principals Organization), which gave an $80,000 grant and ongoing consultation for the project. Children attending participated in art projects and were treated to a Mad Science show. Towards the end of the ceremony, the crowd broke into a dance at which point Director, Michy Rav-noy played a shovel like a guitar! Most inspiring, however, was the heartfelt and profound comment made by Mr. Kianmahd:
“I believe the G-d created each one of us with love….and no one is perfect…in that sense, we all have ‘special needs’. Nevertheless, G-d loves each and every one of us and takes care of our needs…that is the true message and embodiment to the Friendship Circle. This message is lived daily at the Friendship Circle. ”
The Friendship Circle of Los Angeles was initiated by Rabbi Michy Rav-Noy and his wife Miriam in 2003 to address the social needs of Jewish children with special challenges. Its mission is to provide these children with opportunities to engage with others through social, recreational, educational and Judaic experiences. At the heart of all Friendship Circle programs are its 420 teen volunteers from 58 schools around Los Angeles, who are paired with participating children to provide mentorship and friendship. It’s a win-win for everyone as the teens give of themselves and children are the recipients of all that love.
To learn about Friendship Circle of Los Angeles’ events and programs, become a volunteer or to register your child for one of Friendship Circle’s programs, please call 310.280.0955 or visit their website at www.fcla.org.
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Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad Offers Living History on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
by Michael H. Cottman
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Mural of Harriett Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Photo: Michael Cottman.
“I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.” – Harriet Tubman
Joe Manokey stood along a stretch of the Underground Railroad and spoke proudly about his legendary distant cousin, Harriet Tubman.
“Our family has always pushed to get Harriet Tubman more recognition,” said Manokey, 45, who was born in Dorchester County where Tubman became a famous abolitionist. “The Moses of Her People” helped more than 70 families and friends escape slavery through her Underground Railroad.
“Harriet Tubman led black people to freedom, but she was also a spy for the Union Army, a nurse, a cook and a scout,” Manokey said.
“She is an important part of history,” said Manokey. “And she is important to me as a member of my family.”
Manokey pointed to a walkway on the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, a 125-mile driving tour across Dorchester and Caroline counties, dotted with 35 historical sites.
Manokey said that his family is honored that Tubman’s image soon will appear on the $20 bill.
Joe Manokey, a distant cousin of Harriett Tubman. Photo: Michael Cottman.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced in April that Tubman would replace slave owner Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. This would make Tubman the first woman in more than a century — and the first African- American woman — to appear on U.S. paper currency.
The revised bill’s 2020 arrival will coincide with the centennial of women’s suffrage.
But not everyone is cheering. U.S. Rep. Steve King (R–Iowa) tried to block Treasury’s plan, but the Republican-led House Rules Committee killed his measure on June 21.
King’s office did not respond to repeated requests to explain his opposition to the Tubman $20.
“It’s not about Harriet Tubman, it’s about keeping the picture on the $20,” King said to Politico last week. “Why would you want to change that? I am a conservative, I like to keep what we have.”
“This is a divisive proposal on the part of the president, and mine’s unifying,” King said. “It says just don’t change anything.”
The Treasury has no cost estimate for the Tubman $20, saying the expense will depend largely on security improvements and new accessibility features for the visually impaired.
Meanwhile, Cambridge resident Adrian Holmes — a co-owner of Liv Again, an upscale store featuring diverse art, novel furniture and home décor — said Tubman inspires women.
“Harriet Tubman being featured on the $20 bill makes her more attainable,” Holmes said. “She’s not a mystery woman from the past. Everywhere she went, she made a difference. Everywhere she went, she impacted her community, and that is inspiring.”
The road to Emancipation is well documented. Driving through Dorchester County on the Eastern Shore, tourists can visit the 17-acre Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park and Visitor Center. The grand opening, next March 10, will unveil a memorial garden, walking paths and more.
The Byway’s 35 marked sites include Long Wharf in Cambridge, where slave ships offloaded enslaved black people who were sold along the waterfront; Malone’s Church in Madison, where free and enslaved black people gathered; and Joseph Stewart’s Canal, where enslaved blacks dug a seven-mile canal through the thick marsh on Taylors Island between 1810 and 1832. These enslaved Africans were the property of the affluent Stewart family. Tubman toiled in Joseph Stewart’s home and fields.
Though they celebrate Tubman’s profound contributions to America, many black residents in Cambridge say an undercurrent of racial tension has festered for decades along Maryland’s scenic, slow-and-easy Eastern Shore.
Jermaine Anderson, 42, co-owner of Liv Again, wants Tubman’s new-found national recognition to encourage more openness among Cambridge residents.
“I’m hoping it will spark a discussion about race relations here,” said Anderson, who grew up in Cambridge.
“Cambridge is a racially divided city, and the Harriet Tubman Park and the Tubman $20 bill present a better opportunity to talk about race.”
Cambridge has a long history of racial friction. Black residents protested against discrimination and advocated for civil rights. The city suffered race riots in 1963 and ‘67. Buildings burned, shots rang out and blacks clashed with police. Then-U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy invited Cambridge community leaders, both black and white, to Washington, D.C. in 1963 to stop the violence.
Meanwhile, Donald Pinder, president of the Harriet Tubman Organization, Inc., said Tubman’s museum in Cambridge is a testament to her fortitude.
Asked if the recent Tubman publicity will encourage Dorchester County to engage in candid discussions about race relations, Pinder paused.
“What people will say publicly is different from what people will say privately,” Pinder said. “Sometimes the truth never comes out.”
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‘Space is hard’: Celebrations on hold as rocket fails to fire in South Australia
News ‘Space is hard’: Celebrations on hold as rocket fails to fire in South Australia
7:17pm, Sep 15, 2020
Industry representatives with a model of Australia’s first space-capable rocket. Photo: SpaceAustralia.com/Twitter
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A small rocket scheduled to blast off from a launch facility in South Australia has failed to fire, but the company behind the mission says it could try again within 24 hours.
Southern Launch had planned to launch its TED-01 DART rocket from the Koonibba Test Range on SA’s west coast at midday on Tuesday
But chief executive officer Lloyd Damp said the outcome was not what the company wanted.
“We ignited the rocket motor, but the rocket itself, the propellant, didn’t ignite,” he told reporters at the site.
“This is one of the things we’ve been training for over the past few days.
“We will unpack the rocket and find out work out what went wrong and we might be back as early as tomorrow to try again.
“Space is hard.”
The date has been set.
Our first rocket to launch to the edge of space (in recent times) from South Australia is happening next month!@vistronaut covers this exciting story from @SouthernLaunch & DEWC Systems.https://t.co/vMn9wUH989#SpaceAustralia
📸 Southern Launch pic.twitter.com/1xjQkWDxcd
— SpaceAustralia.com (@SpaceAusDotCom) August 27, 2020
The 3.4-metre, two-stage rocket was to carry a miniature sensing device to an altitude of about 85 kilometres, before both would fall back to earth.
The rocket’s payload is less than 27 centimetres long, but with its suite of antennas will conduct an important sensing mission to detect and identify specific radar signals.
Premier Steven Marshall travelled to Koonibba for the launch and said the company would learn from Tuesday’s problems.
He said regardless, it was an exciting development for the space sector in SA.
“This will be the first commercial space-capable rocket launch in Australia,” Mr Marshall said.
“All of the previous launches have been government launches. So this is just a taste of what is to come.”
Beautiful morning to be flying into Ceduna and travelling to Koonibba for the historic rocket launch at @SouthernLaunch 🚀 It’s a huge vote of confidence in #SouthAustralia’s space industry to have missions like this taking off. pic.twitter.com/rYg0TwFOmR
— Steven Marshall, MP (@marshall_steven) September 15, 2020
Southern Launch had planned two separate launches from the SA site, with a second scheduled for Saturday.
Mr Damp said that was still the plan but much would depend on the analysis of what went wrong with the first attempt and the weather.
A low-pressure system is expected to develop in the west on Wednesday with a trough forecast to bring rain and thunderstorms across SA.
-AAP
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Target is asking for trouble with new Mario Kart-themed stores
by Bryan Clark — in Gaming
In advance of the upcoming release of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Target has gone Nintendo crazy. According to its senior vice president of merchandising, Scotty Nygaard in a statement, it’s all about the experience.
Experience counts—it’s what keeps guests coming in and coming back to our stores. So we’re delivering the fun like only Target can, giving generations of Mario fans a shopping trip they won’t soon forget.
If it’s experience you want, it’s experience you’ll get. Target’s Mario Kart experience starts before you even open the doors, with its giant red bollards — the things that keep cars from plowing into the store — designed to look like Mario and Luigi, our favorite Italian plumbers.
Cute, right?
Cute quickly turns deadly once you enter the door. It’s now decked-out as a starting line and begs customers to “Go,” which has zero possibility of turning out well.
Luckily, the carts are on the inside. If they were outside, I have no doubts this would actually be used as a starting line while wily soccer moms shoved one another out of the way or, worse, started chucking bananas and improvised explosive devices.
Seriously, this is going to end badly.
And if you needed further proof that no one is going to make it out alive — not even unwilling civilians who are simply trying to grab some hummus and find the exit — these shopping carts tell the story.
I can almost picture a California mom, baby in the front, Starbuck’s unicorn latte in hand, racing around Target doing hot laps while avoiding booby traps set up by competitive dads, kids, and wily senior citizens.
It’s almost like Target has never seen how competitive people get when Mario Kart glory is on the line.
These deathtraps are found at over 650 locations nationwide. Beware.
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A Cognitive Dissident
THE ANTIDOTE TO COVIDAPHOBIA
John Ward May 22, 2018 The Twattering Classes
The Twattering Classes
How quickly time flies when you’re enjoying yourself: once again it is time to venture into the acid attack of Twitter, there to gaze upon gender experiments among the Rolling Stones, the Owen Jones dialectical analysis of newt ownership, Boris Johnson befriending Buenos Aires, Jeremy Corbyn’s thoughts on Deathophobia, and Jeremy Hunt’s big non-monetary thank you to NHS nurses.
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In the furtherance of compiling this piece tonight, I went to Twitter and received this welcome:
This notification has everything. First up, it thinks that “something” as a noun to attach to “technically wrong” is the sort of explanatory update to put me at ease. The “something” could be the outbreak of World War III, Planet Earth suddenly moving out of its sun orbit, the US filing for bankruptcy, a full-scale ISIS shoot-to-kill invasion of Twitter HQ or a military Putsch in Washington.
It’s up there with “Something’s not right” (Gmail) and “A major error has occurred” (Microsoft).
Second, it thanks me for noticing that a blue panel popped up to tell me that Something is technically wrong. Do I really deserve a thank you for using my primary senses and ability to read? In these days of standards so low you have to be an ant into limbo-dancing to creep under them, perhaps I do. It’s hard to tell: but something in my left brain tells me this is akin to that applause you hear on US sitcoms when celebrity guests manage to walk onto the set without tripping over their egos.
Nevertheless, Twitter said it was going to ‘fix it up’ – albeit with no guidance as to whether the fixing thing would be upside down or right way round. So the first tweet I came across left me in some doubt:
Now I’m happy to accept that Keef has gone all tranny of late and Ron Wood has been rejuvenated by monkey-gland treatment; but this duo looks suspiciously like Dot and her ne’er do well son to me.
It’s hard to post a Twattering Classes piece without at least a dash of Owen Jones, so here’s one of his latest radical solidarity retweets:
Um, Cuddly Ken has already resigned from the Labour Party. I humbly beg to doubt that a gag about him having a pet newt called Adolf is a “serious falsehood”. Those of us with sense-of-humour antennae didn’t do anything beyond giggle. Jon Craig is clearly a knob who probably thinks Jeremy Corbyn has a pet mouse as a result of his conjugal relations with a London Zoo elephant called Evita. As for Owen himself, yes, he is old fashioned: his belief system makes him the Labour equivalent of Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Off the other end of the sanity spectrum, Boris Johnson had this to say about his trip to Argentina:
This my well be true, but it will require a degree of creativity on BoJo’s part. To repay Britain’s national debt, for example, Boris the Spider could sell the Falkland Islands to Buenos Aires for £2.3 trillion. This is the same national debt that Gideon Nobsore told us we were paying off, when in fact it was doubling under his stewardship.
However, something tells me Argentina might be a bit short of the readies.
Time now to turn to the tweets of Jeremy Corbyn, our man on the spot with the compulsion to demonstrate his fluent grasp of Virtue Morse Code. Jezzer is an atheist, but he had this to say about the Manchester atrocity:
Any connection made by scumfascistbigots between the 22 deaths and Britain’s appeasement of mad Islamics is of course prima facie evidence of Islamophobia, and will result in the incarceration of such insane conspiracy theorists once the triumph of Socialist Certainty comes to pass by 2022 at the very latest.
But Jeremy of Galilee wishes to make it clear that everyone – be their station in life high or low – will be free to express clichéd claptrap free from the fascist interference of regressive forces once the Sovyet Paradise has been established:
Yes indeed, his thoughts are with those who are blown to bits, beheaded, stabbed and shot under the enlightened Mayorship of Sadiq Khan. Repeat after me: “Yes we Khan!”
But let us end tonight with a tweet from the maestro when it comes to shit-dodging, fake emotional up-chucking hypocrisy in social media. I could not, of course, be referring to anyone but that other Jeremy….he of the hail fellow well met surname greeting, “See you next Tuesday”:
Secretary Hunt is just gagging to pay tribute to NHS nurses….up to but not including paying them what they’re worth. Such a calculation would not be (I admit) an easy one to make. But in a Benthamite culture recognising genuine sacrifice for the good of the greatest number, I would suggest that the exchange rate re this one might be 1 Nurse = 20,000 bankers and other assorted Bourse traders.
However, I am just another fluffy non-violent extremist, and so you would all do well to ignore me.
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Rob on May 23, 2018 at 8:28 pm
Thanks JW. Awful state of affairs
”So the critique of ‘whataboutery’ makes US global hegemony aims and oil obsession inadmissable evidence, then? Just so long as we know. JW”
It’s the conflation of that with the roots of Islamic terrorism which is wrong.
I don’t disagree at all that the US / UK / Western alliance has a lot of blood on its hands.
I simply hold the view that Islams don’t need much excuse to kill the non-believer, mandated in their book as it is.
Are we really supposed to believe that the MEN Arena (and its target of young girls having fun) is solely due to Western imperialism and nothing to do with the rape jihad, gang attacks and intimidation of non-Muslims living near Muslim ghettos across Europe?
You seemed to recognise the same yourself in your blog.
I’m sure the attempt on Ghadafi’s life had absolutely nothing to do with how he ran the place like a mafia state and I’m sure the poor little Islamb who tried to kill him had absolutely no agency of his own, simply a puppet for eeeevil Britain.
I taught Libyans IN Manchester BEFORE Ghadafi was overthrown. It taught me what real fear looked like. They would not say a word against him and looked nervously at the table when his name was mentioned. Because there were two internal security agents also in the school observing everyone.
You are making a very valid point, & I fully accept it: people sporting black hats kill other assholes wearing black hats. So we are left deciding whose hat has a little more grey in it. And as you say, it sucks. JW
@SalfordLad
Thanks for the whataboutery
‘Libya’, ‘Iraq’ … they are simply excuses for the age old war against the kuffar. Happened in scores of countries over the last 1400 years.
FrankS1 on May 23, 2018 at 2:18 pm
Facial recognition software has a long way to go yet, as Keef and Ron can attest.
jdseanjd on May 23, 2018 at 12:24 pm
Book by Canadian naval intelligence officer William Guy Carr: Pawns in the Game
Banksters are behind every war since the English Revolution, 1640s.
John Doran.
The Brit/Rothschild plot for global domination has been sparking up extreme Wahhabism since 1710:
http://www.tmoamerica.org/sheikhgillani/desk/504-isis-british-wahhabi/
John Pilger discusses savage Brit foreign policy in Afghanistan, Libya, Syria & Yemen. 13 mins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJjae0fEcGA
Hieronimusb on May 23, 2018 at 12:10 pm
The ‘hum’ produced by this supremely vacuous form of dissemination might be described as a ‘cacaphony’ – that’s caca+phony – you will notice that it was necessary for me to move my vowels in order to make this observation.
MI6 paid its Salafist assassins £100,000 to kill Gaddafi. http://www.voltairenet.org/article196454.html
Shieldssage on May 23, 2018 at 12:03 pm
Indeed salford Lad…. Salman Abedi, was part of an extremist group, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, that thrived in Manchester used by MI5 for more than 20 years. When The Bot May was Home Secretary, LIFG jihadists were allowed to travel unhindered across Europe and encouraged to engage in “battle”: first to remove Gadaffi in Libya, then to join al-Qaida affiliated groups in Syria.
That rancid woman has the blood of 22 kids on her hands.
She should be forced to answer why Abedi able to travel freely through Europe to Libya and back to Manchester only days before he committed his ‘lone wolf’ terrorist crime.
TFS on May 23, 2018 at 11:11 am
I’m not sure using the Manchester bombing is good evidence for tighter controls on the border. You’ve referenced a similar connection with 9/11 in an earlier article, that of poor immigration controls and the link to terrorism.
On 9/11, if memory serves me correctly some of the alleged hijackers we alive and well after the fact. I’ll ignore the process of giving these ‘alleged hijacker’ their visas, itself fraught with some interesting evidence suggesting, there were ‘Patsies’. They ‘whoever they were’, were know to the security services, thus the problem in this instance does not lie with immigration but with the USAs Praetorian Guard, you know, the usual suspects, CIA, FBI……
I would suggest not using 7/7 as an example for tighter immigration controls as it is similarly fraught with evidence of ‘alleged’ guilt with respect to the persons convicted in the court of public opinion on that day. Personally, on this subject I believe that the 4 Muslims, the alleged perpetrators, were innocent, and were murdered by the state.
With regards to Manchester, would i find the UK’s own Praetorian Guard connected in some way to the perpetrators?
Thus, using these terrorist attacks for tighter controls would seem a fools errand. The problem in this case in not border and immigration controls, but our own Praetorian Guards, always prepared with National Security and the Greater to Good to do what is right.
I do however, agree with you on tighter immigration controls. What are the odds it’s Sweden or Germany who suddenly finds the need first?
Geoff on May 23, 2018 at 12:37 am
Would like to answer the following?
How much is a nurse worth?
How much do they earn after they have completed all of their training?
How much does the equivalent nurse get in the private health sector?
How much extra is the British public prepared to pay for the NHS nurses e.g. make the same contributions as in France.
How will you finance your health care after Brexit, will you stay in France or return to the UK.
Salford Lad on May 22, 2018 at 11:32 pm
On this day of rememberance for those who died at the Manchester Arena, let us not forget the bombers Father was an MI6 asset, who was sent to Libya twice to attempt to assassinate Ghadaffi. The first attempt caused the death of many innocent by-standers.
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Brotherf In Armf
Posted by Just Another Film Buff under All Posts, Bollywood, Review | Tags: Bollywood, Kaminey, Kaminey film review, Kaminey moview Review, Kaminey review, lisping in movies, Priyanka Chopra, Shahid Kapur, Vishal Bhardwaj |
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The protagonist of Vishal Bhardwaj’s Kaminey (2009) tells during the beginning of the movie: “We are never screwed by the paths that we take, but by those which we don’t”. And at the end of the film, this is exactly what must be told of Kaminey too. The idea behind Kaminey is inarguably great – so great that each one of us who hears it would be tempted to elaborate on it, make our own version of it and provide a whole new dimension to it. The sad thing is that that is precisely what has happened. With much hype behind it, Kaminey has proved to be yet another idea wasted, but is sure to have its own takers claiming everything, from Shahid’s six pack abs to its pretty neat soundtrack, as a reason to celebrate it as a masterpiece. Cinema is often called a “collaborative art” and Kaminey serves to prove that the real challenge is not to produce art, but to derive it out of collaboration. What would make for a more interesting movie than Kaminey would be a film about its making, for it is surely going to be funny seeing too many people trying to incorporate their own vision into the film, leaving the director helpless.
(Possible spoilers)
Here is the plot for those who would like to know what the film is about. I’m pruning down a lot of details which Bhardwaj seems to have retained for the sake of filling the runtime of the film. Guddu and Charlie (both played by Shahid Kapur) are twins. Guddu is working in an NGO, spreading awareness about HIV/AIDS and is in love with Sweety (Priyanka Chopra). Sweety is pregnant with Guddu’s child and is the sister of Bhope (Amol Gupte), a fundamentalist politician who is now hell bent on getting rid of Guddu to stabilize his position in the party. Charlie, on the other hand, is a gambler and a small time crook. He dreams of having his own horse-race booking company and hopes to grab hold of lady luck by whatever way he can. His villain is Tashi (Tenzing Nima), a high-profile gangster with international connections whose “goods” fall into the hands of Charlie. There are also some two dozen characters who enter the screen now and then, laugh manically, get shot and get forgotten. And yes, their paths cross, things (are made to) happen and they live happily ever after.
Kaminey is written by four people and it shows. Remember the game we used to play where each one of us took turns to add one line to take the story forward? Now remove all the fun from that and voila, you have the script of Kaminey. This proverbial broth absorbs a specific character from each one of its cooks, but doesn’t have one of its own. Nor does it present memorable characters in it. May be Bhardwaj was trying to create a Pulp Fiction (1994) of sorts, but the result is far from it. His characters are quirky for the sake being quirky. May be their names do allude to some movie classics, but you almost hear them crying out: “Hey there, I’m a offbeat and kinky character. Please love me and imitate me”. Neither are they employed as abstractions to make large scale statements about the world as in “arthouse cinema”, nor are they distorted and caricatured to pay homage and refer to film history as in Pulp Fiction and nor are they used to summarize the spirit of the age. They are not even real people living in all three dimensions. Characters come and characters go. Peripheral characters have their own limelight and die without a trace.
Let me try to clarify what I mean by summarizing what “each script” of Kaminey wants to be and what it turns out to be. The first of these was the potential USP of the film. Kaminey is full of Bolly references. Two brothers, who love each other, growing up on either side of the law, a larger than life baddie who vacations in exotic locales while giving orders to pull the trigger elsewhere and even a climax where almost all the characters in the film start firing at each other, while the bad bro turns martyr to save his sibling – we’ve seen them all before. What Kaminey seems to be trying is to pay tribute to and give a reboot to this Masala Noir genre while attempting to retain the sensibilities of today’s generation. But such a film ought not to take itself seriously. Instead it has to go for the laughs, all the way. This is where the second thread of Kaminey intervenes. One might argue that Bhardwaj was trying to give a slick production like Raghavan’s superb Johnny Gaddaar (2007), but characters in such films, I believe, should never be psychoanalyzed. Look at each character in Gaddaar. What do they all want? Simple. Money. Each of them is a mere placeholder, a mere entity that is driven along by the plot, its uncertainties and well, its fate. Kaminey, on the other hand, earnestly elaborates on the characters’ motivations and dreams, trying to make us empathize with them. It even presents extended Freudian sequences for this “purpose”.
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Kaminey is then a character-driven film, you say? Let’s take the case of Guddu and Sweety – the two characters that the writers may claims as having depth. Apart from their one night-stand, we are given about three short scenes that are supposed to illustrate their relationship. The first of this is a perfunctory “chemistry scene”. The second one, which turns up just after the fiasco at their marriage ceremony, seems like just another ploy to siphon sympathy. And wait till you hear what the laughable basis of their romance is, in the third scene which takes place in a train. And finally, the most annoying of all the contributions is what makes the already out of control film seem overreaching and pretentious. With a tacked up message that blows up to full scale during the final shootout and cooked up observations that would make Thomas Friedman scratch his head, Kaminey shows signs of a naughty liberal chuckling his way through. Kaminey is not four films packed into one, but one film torn apart into four. Even if it had stuck to one of those paths, Bhardwaj would have had a pretty decent bullet point in his resumé.
Everything seems to come in pairs in Kaminey. There are pairs of brothers everywhere in the film. I would have even loved if the rapper-gangsta from Bombay to Bangkok (2007) showed up in Kaminey to claim that Tashi was his half-brother! But seriously, Kaminey never capitalizes upon this opportunity anywhere in the film. Let me just tell you about a couple of points in the film where I thought it could have taken the “other path” and salvaged itself to an extent. The first is at the intermission point, where Guddu and Charlie are confronted by wrong sets of goons. There was scope both for some awesome comedy and awesome suspense there. Not by the regular identity-confusion gag (and if the film’s vision was strong, that too), but by some subversion of conventions and morals. Instead, the film opts for some slapdash rush towards the climax, which is the second time I felt that the film could somewhat reset itself towards the destination it wanted. When more than a dozen characters are present on your canvas for a single scene, it’s very easy to mash it all up and that is exactly what happens. But this could have proved to be gold if only Bhardwaj had decided to stick to the true purpose of the film.
I may be just playing the troll over here, but surely, none of the scenes hold together. Each version of the film’s script seems to pull down the other, taking the film into a zone of utter indecisiveness. Kaminey, unfortunately, does not even have the surface gloss of Dev D (2009). Using ill-focused, largely handheld shots, Kaminey betrays both its history and quality. One can’t even comment on the technical aspects of the film, for the script leaves them without a direction. So it remains a mystery whether the excessive number of close-ups did good to the film or whether Bhardwaj’s device of revealing the past towards the end was apt, for the film does not seem to know what is good for it at all. All that is amusing in the film is the way Shahid Kapur makes lisping sound funny (lisping is new, stammering is out of date, you know). As for Vishal Bhardwaj, it is only good that he now returns to his personal and honest way of storytelling, for god sake, having a say on the final script. I risked Swine Flu by going to this movie and I say I deserve a medal.
35 Responses to “Brotherf In Armf”
Kartikey Says:
This makes it interesting. The diverse views, often antithetical.
Just Another Film Buff Says:
Hmm… the plot thickens eh? Let’s see the BO verdict.
Very interesting review..
Nitesh Says:
I second to what you wrote. And it’s kinda funny to read all the glowing praises for the film.
Yes. I think the film would have been called a masterpiece even if it had not released. Will all that promo hype!
omar ahmed Says:
Sorry to be a spoilsport or as Arnie likes to say ‘party pooper’ but I thought Kaminey was a blast! I’m not sure about all the references to Guy Ritchie and Pulp Fiction though – it felt more of an extended unconscious homage to the masala cinema of the 70s. It’s a film that straddles that middle ground between art cinema and the mainstream. Technically, the film is outstanding in all areas especially the cinematography. I think it has to be viewed in the context in which it was made; it is post-modern Indian film – I would compare it to the way Tarantino shot Kill Bill, with a nerd like love of cinema. ‘Kaminey’ is VB’s tribute to masala cinema – it is hyperkinetic film making that blends together the nauseau brought on by a Tony Scott film with a fondness for locations that reminded me of VVC’s ‘Parinda’ and its inventive use of Mumbai. I will be posting my analysis soon complete with the litany of intertextual references VB makes. I guess you are right about the hype though.
Wow, waiting to read that. I envy that you like the film. It just didn’t work for me…
Please elaborate what you mean by ‘The idea behind Kaminey is inarguably great’. What IS this idea?
From the same review:
“…is to pay tribute to and give a reboot to this Masala Noir genre while attempting to retain the sensibilities of today’s generation.”
Christy Bharath Says:
“the real challenge is not to produce art, but to derive it out of collaboration.”
hallelujah, comrade
when can we see a few estranged Kollywood reviews!?
touche! That’s the same question I’m asking myself… I’m not sure if it would be Kandasamy. Hope not!
Arjun Arora Says:
I wonder if you’ve seen Sankat City? If yes, what did you think of it?? I found some similarities between the two. Though Sankat City, to me, was FAR better.
I’m so sorry that I missed that one. Will catch it soon.
I look forward to your views on that. I like the way you write/think. Commendable.
Sankat City DVD’s and CD’s are out!! Waiting to hear your take on it….
Kutty Says:
Back after a long time.. :)
Anyways, guess you have been slightly too harsh on the movie. The problem is what you expected from the movie. In a sense I guess maybe you expected much much more.
As someone who doesn’t fancy Tarantino’s cinema (yes, it includes the legendary Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs) and this being almost a homage to movies of those kinds, I ended up liking it more than I expected.
Maybe because I fell in love with a couple of characters, Amol Gupte and the two policemen for instance. In that sense I looked at it more as a character driven movie, which you seem to have shot down.
But in a sense, as you said, maybe he took the movie too seriously and ended up falling in the same traps as the Masala Noir movies you are talking about.
Hey Kutty, Kamon aachoo? So you do get time to watch movies eh? :P
Well, it seems like I’m in the 0.00001% who thought this one fell on its face.
Satish Naidu Says:
Srikanth, I’m not sure about the stats. You see, I think you might be in the 0.01%.
I have not seen the film, but a good friend of mine, and a voracious movie-viewer mails me this about the movie. I think it treads pretty close to what you say.
One question I would like to ask Vishal Bharadwaj. “What’s the big rush sirjee?”
Kaminey felt like such a rush job. It is in so much hurry that most of the scenes become a hodge-podge series of shots which desperately scream at you “Look I’m so snappy. Look I’m so trippy. Look I’m so smart and look I’m faster than you. Dare you blink!”
Of course it is one helluva ride, but the ride doesn’t give a damn whether you are with it or trying to cling onto any thread you see. The ride wants to any freakin how reach its destination within a given deadline.
*SPOILER ALERT START*
Consider the ending shots. The shootout is over. Charlie is hit. In the next shot we see a bullet being removed. Immediately cut to, twins CU – Guddu CU – Priyanka CU, cut to Charlie betting in the crowd with a board of Mikhail and Co, cut to Fofhie. THE END.
These above images just rush through as if its job is just to inform. “What’s the big rush sirjee?”
*SPOILER ALERT END*
Surprisingly, though my initial words seem harsh towards Kaminey, my immediate reaction was far from negative. I really liked the 2nd half, except few things at the end. But when I started discussing it with my sister, the haze of ‘why didn’t Kaminey crack it’ slowly started to clear and I became more confident about my problems with the film.
I rarely come across Bharadwaj Rangan’s reviews in my daily surfing, but for Kaminey, I made it a point to read his opinion. And he gets one insight dead right.
“Kaminey is best experienced as a minor movie with major, character-driven set pieces. But there are times you are left with the niggling feeling that Bhardwaj is attempting to inflate this minor material into a major movie. “
Kaminey tries to give weight to the otherwise mean, quirky and frivolous characters. Along with this it also tries to bring some gravitas into a Guy Ritchie-esque plot. It tries to evoke a sense of traumatic childhood, brother vs brother, kameena panti, right and wrong, ambitions and love. And this is exactly where it messes up. The dynamics between the brothers rest on a clichéd (I never thought I would use this word for Kaminey) and a contrived guilt laden flashback. The love angle works better as a plot propeller rather than evoking any emotions (ala True Romance. The love angle was so freakin intense). And what was the big deal about the kameeneys. Were they that Kameeney? Have we not seen more kameeneys in our bollywood. Take for example Sayaji Shinde from Shool. And now compare it with Bhope Bhau. Bhope bhau could be termed as more entertaining, but who would you term a proper Kameena. Bhope bhau acted more like a chindi politician playing chindi power games. Tashi was just going around with his business. Lele Lobo were the becharaas stuck in a situation. What was the most Kameena thing these guys did in the movie? *SPOILER ALERT START*
For me it was the ruthless First class compartment Maandavli. I cant think of any more Kameenapanti apart from the fleeting killings. The Bengaalis, looked like were totally edited from the movie to evoke a sense of surprise at the end.*SPOILER ALERT END*
So, my point is, why make a big deal about the whole thing, why play the profoundly worded title song amidst this chaos, “Why so serious sirjee?” If the screenplay were treated a bit more farcically, a bit lighter handedly this would have become a far more potent film.
My final problem with the film would be the shaky and headache inducing cinematography + editing. Tassaduq Hussain and Meghna Sen do complete disservice to the screenplay. Now I know why Mr. Anurag Kashyap referred to Kaminey as a Guy Ritchie meets Paul Greengrass. And for Kaminey there shouldn’t have been any Greengrass influence. This ain’t a Bourne Bourne Identity or a United 93. Then why shake the hell out of the viewer. Why all the fast cuts and the constant barraging of ‘cool’ looking out-of-focus shots. Please keep the camera still and let us soak in the crackling chemistry between the characters. “Sirjee, you don’t need these gimmicks to be cool. Your raapchik dialogues and the quasi edgy direction are enough sirjee!” The need for more cool and calm editing is accentuated by the presence of the non-spoonfeeding screenplay. The screenplay doesn’t divulge all details and keep many things hanging around trusting (sometimes over trusting) the audiences sensory, cerebral and emotional receptors. In such cases the character dynamics have to be soaked in by the viewers so as not to be hindered by the lack of details. And this needs still shots to maintain the overall clarity of the going ons.
Okay, enough of bitching. Actually all this bitching is more of a natural retaliation to the insurmountable praise it’s been receiving. Even my most trusted people like Raja Sen and Rajeev Masand couldn’t find a fault in the film. I respect them so much for their Bollywood reviews that I sometimes doubt my own reasoning. But to hell with the critiquing and lets delve into why Kaminey is a screamer in its own right.
The screenplay (barring the above mentioned issues) is indeed imaginative and many a times rib tickingly audacious. When characters run into each other there is always an inherent tension and they end up in a crackling showdown. Watch out for Mikhail vs Bhope bhau. Each character is supposedly the Dude in his vicinity and that results into a strong underlying energy throughout. And the actors make a feast out of it. Not a single one looking outta place. Shahid Kapoor delivers a visceral performance as Charlie and also oozes sincerirty as Guddu. Priyanka plays her bit with mast bindass honesty. Her feisty and earthy marathi rendering made me go weak down the knees. Enough has been said about the rest of the cast. I would just like to add that each one commands his screen space in presence of others and come up with jhakaas performances.
Kaminey surely takes hindi cinema a notch up with its narrative and plot structuring, but doesn’t reach in the vicinity of cinematic class. It mish-mashes genres rather unspectacularly. (Mithya did that spectaculary) But anyways the energy, which is maintained on high levels throughout, ensure that not a dull moment is delivered. And finally it has upped my respect for Mr Tarantino ten fold.
Thanks so much for that mail, Satish. Get lost Bergman, I’m not alone in this world!
A really perceptive write up indeed. He/She should start writing. I can guarantee one reader. :)
Shubhajit Says:
I don’t think its a bad film, rather I’d second the views of Omar Ahmed. However, despite that I must say yours is a marvelously written review. Just because I don’t agree with what you’ve said doesn’t mean I can’t like the way you said what you’ve said. By the way, I hope you manage to make sense of the last sentence. Anyway, its always interesting to have views that go contrary to popular feeling – and that is the long and short of it. And the way you’ve written, if you had gone on for a few more paragraphs, I might have started believing you :)
Thank you Shubajit. As you said, at the end of the day, its just an opinion.
BTW, the last sentence is supposed to read:
“I risked Swine Flu by going to this movie and I say I deserve a medal.”
It will be interesting to see how a film like ‘Kaminey’ stands up in a few years – the way we judge films in their immediate context changes considerably later on.
Exactly, that’s why I believe that I’ll like a few movies more in the future. And a few less…
ABVan Says:
Kaminey seems to be a love it or hate it kinda movie.
I felt in trying to be “snazzy” and “crisp”, V.B. somewhere down the line fell into the cliche trap. (shootout/Bhope’s change in ideology/bhai-bhai confrontation etc)
Irony. because from scene 1, that’s one thing he tries very consciously to avoid.
Having said that, I loved the attempt. I loved the dialogues and I loved the oddball support cast.
But for now, I’d stick with Maqbool.
In fact, I would have loved if the film had elaborated on the Bhai Bhai confrontation.
I would have preferred one of the brothers being played by some other actor. That way, we could have had a crackling buddy movie, where the bros fly at each other’s throats, spouting one liners all the way. I am not able to think of a comparison now, the closest that comes to my mind is Thiruda Thiruda (Chor Chor)- incidentally a witty RGV script.
Siddharth Says:
well.. for one.. i can’t get my head around the leads.. shahid kapoor and priyanka chopra.. i mean, who are they kiddin.. you needed someone like a younger sanjay dutt.. an original badass.. if he has a gun in his hand.. you don’t call it a gun.. you say- ghoda.. and for the girl you needed someone like urmila in daud.. i mean, chopra’s an airhead and plastic.. the first half of the film, i squirmed through.. i love the second half though.. i thought it went real abstract.. without rhyme or reason it jogged ahead.. i loved the shabby cinematography and those pointless montages of mumbai and the black and white footage.. the plot became so very perfunctory.. but the movie bogged me down yet again with that lousy ‘ending shootout’ song.. i mean, come on, VB, how come you suddenly choose to go all jingo on me now. whats with the righteousness?
i still like it for some tiny pleasures tucked away in the periphery.
I also hate the way he fucked up the soundtrack. the songs deserved better.
All that was missing from the final song was a subtitle reading “Crime doesn’t pay”. I couldn’t even see all of this as a “glorious mess”. Plain mess.
i also had a tactile moment of beauty when i developed a massive craving for vada pav.. one i haven’t been able to fulfill yet..
bangalore should have more vada pav
Bangalore would make a great geographical equivalent of Kaminey (if you will allow for some stupid comparisons that is) – floating in Pizzas and Burgers, but never ever tasty as Vada Paavs or Paav Bhajis
Satyanshu Singh Says:
I must appreciate the intellectual level of thinking and the impressive command over language you and some other posters here have. Please take it as a complement.
But the kind of analysis you make, just think it this way, it would be possible to find serious flaws in Citizen Kane and 2001: A Space Odyssey and Pather Panchali and what not. I have an observation although, those who are not satisfied with Kaminey belong to a group that takes cinema a lot more seriously than others.
I am a struggling writer-director in Mumbai, my younger brother is an assistant director and we keep meeting people from the film industry. And if you were among us, you would know, how important Kaminey is for Hindi Cinema. And how difficult it is to make such a film.
Anyways, I am a person who believes in appreciating more than criticizing. Guess this is the problem with me.
And one final word, I am sick of people saying ‘Maqbool was far better than Kaminey.’ Not that I disagree. Only if all those people had taken the trouble to watch Maqbool in a theatre, perhaps it would not have been a loser at the box-office. When a ‘Johnny Gaddar’ or a ‘Sankat City’ comes, we conveniently miss it. We catch it later and when a ‘Kaminey’ gets some loud praise we let out that wise tone: ‘Johnny Gaddar was better’.
If only we could appreciate efforts, honestly….
Satyanshu,
I never believe in considering the efforts behind making a film as an indicator of quality and a tool for compromise. I really admire the guts of the director to go through it all. But that I think should stay away from viewing the final product. If efforts were a yardstick in appreciating movies, then films like Fizzcarraldo, 81/2 etc. would be masterpieces even if they hadn’t released.
Yes, I see how cherished it is for people in the industry to see a film like Kaminey come out of the studios, but that is because I feel those people almost always give weight to the conditions under which it was made more than anything.
I also believe that comparing Gaddaar is a valid one because it is the kind of film Kaminey wants to be and falls short. Instead of speculating, it is always better to see it alongside a film that has done it gloriously.
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Indonesian is an especially interesting language because of its history and formation. In terms of history, one can divide it up into three eras that have an interconnected history with Standard Malay. During the early kingdoms era, it was the register of Malay spoken on the Indonesian archipelago as Malay has been used as a lingua franca among the islands for over five hundred years. As trade and other transactions occurred between the various populations on the archipelago occurred and increased throughout time, Old Malay was used as a common language. Subsequently, the different varieties of Malay spoken evolved along the different populations, specifically in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei. In terms of the Malay spoken in Indonesia specifically, Dutch and Javanese influences were especially strong.
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During the Dutch colonial era, when the Dutch East India Company arrived and established itself, the Malay language continued to evolve, albeit with its own characteristics in Indonesia as the Dutch used it for administrative purposes. Still, at this time, while Malay was used as a lingua franca, it was not actually a language that was widely spoken, even though it was more spoken than Dutch. With the Dutch influence, a large influx of Dutch vocabulary entered the Malay language at this point.
In the modern era, the Indonesian variety of Malay started to reflect the nationalist movement in Indonesia, especially due to the disappearance of the Dutch. That is, a national identity was established around the Indonesian variety of Malay. Thus, Bahasa Indonesia was born directly from Malay and was adopted as an official language of Indonesia. This occurred relatively recently in 1945 when Indonesia declared its independence and enshrined the language in its constitution, although only 5% of the population in Indonesia spoke it as a native language. Again, this is due to the role of Indonesian operating more as a lingua franca.
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Modern Indonesian thus stems from the Malay language with the Indonesian language considered one of several standardized versions of Malay. Bahasa Indonesia is the official language of the Republic of Indonesia, while Standard Malay is considered the official language of Malaysia. While some consider these two languages two sides of the same coin, others consider them to be separate languages that continue to evolve in separate directions, due to cultural, political, and linguistic factors. Moreover, Indonesian also displays a much stronger Dutch influence on the original Malay in relationship to the other standardized versions, with a large of amount of Dutch vocabulary being absorbed into modern Indonesian.
Most speakers of Indonesian speak it as a second language. In Indonesia, there are over 725 languages spoken and most of these are spoken as a mother tongue by their speakers. However, Bahasa Indonesia acts as a lingua franca between the different populations in this region. Thus, the Indonesian language is commonly spoken in the public sphere, while the hundreds of other languages are used at a more local level. Indonesian in the public sphere serves as the language of business, education, and media, despite most of the speakers using it as a second language.
In terms of grammar, the language is subject, verb, and object, but with a flexibility that may not be found in other languages. In terms of vocabulary, there are thousands of loan words that come from a variety of languages, due to the location of Indonesia as a country of trade, and its historical background, including the various political, commerce, and religious influences. These influences include Sanskrit, Chinese, Arabic, and a variety of European languages, most notably Dutch, due to the colonial history of Indonesia. There are no plural forms, grammatical gender, and verb conjugations, however, making learning the language perhaps an easier endeavour compared to other languages.
The writing system is based on the Latin system of writing, meaning that it is written similarly to English and most other Western languages. There is one letter for each sound and vowels, even though these do not correspond directly with English sounds. Words are separated by a space. There has been a reform to standardize the spelling since its acceptance as an official language. Thus, the writing system of Indonesian can be quite different than other varieties of Malay, including Standard Malay in Malaysia and the Malay used in Brunei. These differences help separate and make unique Bahasa Indonesia as a national language of the Republic of Indonesia.
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This group does not promote peace, as it claims, but pushes anti-Semitism and is linked to terrorism, a new report reveals.
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a group at the forefront of the war against Israel, is not as they claim, a pro-peace grassroots student organization, but is rather a terror-affiliated anti-Semitic network that currently operates with autonomy and impunity at colleges and universities across the US, a new report reveals.
A 52-page report published on Tuesday by Dan Diker and Jamie Berk of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) revealed that SJP, the student arm of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement in the US, has adopted a policy of “anti-normalization” of relations with Zionist groups and most Jewish organizations with the exception of the equally radical, anti-Zionist and pro-BDS Jewish Voice for Peace.
SJP activists advance their skewed notion of “Palestinian justice” by undertaking initiatives to isolate, demonize, and ultimately destroy the state of Israel, instead of promoting the potential benefits of Palestinian nationhood.
The report shows that many students and university administrations have erroneously treated SJP as a legitimate pro-Palestinian equivalent to pro-Israel student groups. However, as the paper documents, SJP is an extremist organization that maintains affiliations with Arab and Islamic terror groups, is overtly anti-Semitic, incites hatred and violence against Jewish students, and rejects the existence of the state of Israel within any borders.
SJP Linked to Terrorism
Furthermore, SJP has been linked to terror groups, the report shows. For instance, SJP at the University of California, Berkeley, has been defined as a campus front for Hamas.
Principal backers of SJP include founders, financial patrons and ideological supporters who have been connected to Islamist terror organizations such as Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
SJP is a byproduct of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), an organization whose leaders were former members of Palestinian and Islamist terror organizations. AMP was founded in 2005 by the former leaders of three organizations; Kindhearts, the Islamic Association for Palestine, and the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. All three organizations were implicated by the US government between 2001 and 2011 for financing Hamas.
SJP has also been proven to be a driving force behind on-campus anti-Semitism. Brandeis University and AMCHA Initiative studies have revealed a direct correlation between BDS activities and anti-Semitism on campuses with large Jewish student populations. The studies also found a correlation between the presence of SJP and a rise in campus anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.
Expose, Investigate, and Prosecute
“SJP is not a peaceful, mainstream equivalent to pro-Israel student organizations,” the writers conclude. SJP does not maintain transparent donors and fundraising efforts. Instead, it operates under mysterious auspices and receives monetary and material support from organizations and individuals connected to Palestinian terror groups and associates.”
Furthermore, “SJP also advances policies of anti-normalization, and regularly intimidates and harasses Jewish and pro-Israel students. Documented incidents of anti-Semitism involving SJP members make the commonalities between this organization and Palestinian extremists and terrorists more apparent,” the authors write.
“There are means to stop SJP’s violence, harassment, intimidation, and linkages to terror groups. There are also strategies and initiatives to expose SJP’s boycott of Jews, Israelis, and Zionists on campus, extremist propaganda regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as its illegitimate funding,” the report points out.
The report calls for “constant monitoring and diligence,” otherwise SJP will continue to “operate unabated.”
The action the report suggest is that “university donors and alumni would be advised to remain well-informed and vigilant, and demand that campus communities and state governments unmask, expose, investigate, prosecute, and sanction SJP to reign in their extremist and anti-Semitic actions on US campuses.”
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Posted on October 16, 2004 by Other News Sources
Lawrence Solomon
To counter the high energy prices that consumers now face, governments in Canada and the U.S. have been subsidizing domestic energy production. This dirty government business lowers the bill a little for consumers but raises it a lot for taxpayers, making us worse off in the exchange.
Much better to offshore our unproductive industries, most of them energy guzzlers, to reduce energy demand. That would lower both our energy bills and our tax bills. Magnifying the benefits, such offshoring would also eliminate the subsidies our bad businesses receive.
The latest money sinkholes come in the form of Arctic pipelines. Earlier this week, the U.S. Senate provided an 1,800 mile Alaskan pipeline project with US$18-billion in loan guarantees – fully 90% of the cost of the project’s estimated costs – all to bring natural gas to southern markets a decade from now.
The generosity shown the pipeline’s backers – a consortium including BP, Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips – may be just the beginning of the immense subsidies this project will need. The companies, worried that energy prices may plummet after the Middle East conflagrations pass, have been lobbying for floor prices for their natural gas. Should the price of the project increase as expected – TransCanada’s competing and also uneconomic Arctic pipeline project has just seen its cost rise by one-third – the invisible corporate hand that guides much of the economy will again be outstretched, in demand for fresh subsidies.
Arctic pipelines are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to subsidizing the continent’s energy systems. Since the 1960s, most major energy investments – whether in tar sands, nuclear plants, hydroelectric dams or ethanol – have had no economic justification. Rather, they have typically met two political needs – direct support for unviable energy industries and indirect support for unviable energy-intensive industries, often in resource sectors. Continent wide, perhaps one-quarter of all energy is consumed in uneconomic industries, with Canada the disproportionately bigger wastrel.
The Quebec government, one of the most aggressive subsidizers, has long attracted electricity intensive industries with offers of cash and deep-discounted power, provided courtesy of state-owned Hydro-Quebec. Two years ago, for example, the previous Parti Quebecois government convinced aluminum giant Alcoa to spend US$825-million expanding a smelter at Baie Comeau. The price? An US$128-million interest-free loan, a 10-year provincial tax holiday, and dirt-cheap power. The estimated cost to the provincial purse per job created? Some $100,000.
The deal came unstuck this year after a newly elected Liberal party reneged on the agreement and in its stead offered a mere US$100-million interest-free loan and 50 years of “low-cost electricity” with annual rate hikes no higher than inflation. The estimated cost per job? $60,000.
The prospect of electricity costs rising with inflation was too much for Alcoa to contemplate. “We could not reach an agreement on a formula that would have ensured long-term affordable energy for the Baie-Comeau modernization project,” Alcoa Canada Primary Metals president Jean-Pierre Gilardeau said in June, in announcing the breakdown of negotiations. “With energy representing more than 30% of our operating costs, we simply cannot invest $1-billion [Canadian] in a project with the risk that energy prices will rise considerably over the life of that project. Over 40 years, even with only moderate increases, energy would represent a $10-billion cost.”
The story will have a happy ending, but only if the negotiations aren’t revived and Alcoa builds its smelter elsewhere. In Quebec, taxpayers will be spared and electricity rate-payers, too – to pay for Alcoa’s cheap power, Hydro-Quebec has been raising electricity rates on its residential customers. The additional money in the pockets of Quebec citizens will be spent in more productive ways, creating more jobs than those lost at the smelter.
Alcoa would then move on, as it has already begun to do, to the many countries that can intelligently host energy-intensive industries. Often these are developing countries with vast natural gas reserves that don’t lend themselves to ready export. Alcoa this week announced that it would be building a 322 tonne aluminum smelter in Trinidad and Tobago, an island nation that can’t easily bring its vast natural gas reserves to market. The smelter industry will create jobs in Trinidad where it would cost jobs in Quebec, and it will help the island develop rationally, where it prevents Quebec from developing rationally.
For such reasons, Alcoa and other energy-intensive industries are slowly vacating the continent, their rate of departure slowed only by their access to below-market energy supplies, and to the public purse. Cut off their access and they’ll more quickly gravitate offshore, where they’re wanted and needed. Cut off their access and North America won’t need to subsidize energy megaprojects because we, too, will become awash in energy.
Lawrence Solomon is executive director of Urban Renaissance Institute and Consumer Policy Institute, divisions of Toronto-based Energy Probe Research Foundation. http://www.urban.probeinternational.org
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Strengthening NC Public Education
Public education has always been our country’s greatest equalizer, educating and lifting all. North Carolina, once a leader in public school education, has failed our students, parents, and educators in recent years. North Carolinians deserve better. In the State Senate, Wiley will fight every day to fully fund public education, raise teacher salaries to above the national average, and reduce class sizes and the amount of classroom time spent on standardized testing.
Endorsed by the North Carolina Association of Educators.
Endorsed by the Network for Public Education Action.
Building an Economy that Works for Everyone
A strong middle class is the sign of a strong economy. In the years since the Great Recession, the middle class is still suffering. Wiley Nickel is focused on growing the middle class by creating jobs, building the local economy, and reducing income inequality between the rich and the poor. In the State Senate, Wiley will work to make the economy fair and inclusive by cutting taxes for working and middle-class families. He will accomplish this by making wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share of taxes, raising the minimum wage to a $15 living wage, and making sure women receive equal pay for equal work.
Endorsed by the North Carolina State AFL-CIO.
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Endorsed by the Raleigh Professional Fire Fighters.
Expanding access to Affordable Healthcare
Wiley Nickel supports Universal Healthcare and Medicaid expansion for North Carolina. In the State Senate, he will work to expand access to affordable healthcare for all North Carolinians. Currently, 32 States and D.C. have expanded Medicaid to make health care more affordable for millions of Americans. Republicans in the NC General Assembly have repeatedly blocked Medicaid Expansion, leaving up to 500,000 North Carolinians without affordable health care. Our tax dollars sent to Washington are already paying for expanded Medicaid coverage in other states. We must expand Medicaid for the working poor and seniors in North Carolina, as well. This would bring up to 5,000 good high paying jobs in Wake County. In addition, with 500,000 more NC citizens being insured, there would be reductions of up to 7% in health care premiums for everyone else in North Carolina.
Wiley Nickel is a champion for North Carolina’s environment. As someone who worked for Vice President Al Gore for years, Wiley will hold corporate polluters responsible for endangering our water, air, and protected ecosystems. Wiley will work to combat climate change by making clean, renewable energy more accessible and affordable for North Carolina families and businesses.
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The United States Constitution bans “punishing a person for his poverty.” However, current prison bail systems nationwide do exactly that. Those who cannot pay bail, which includes many low-income and minority groups, often face consequences such as job loss or serving unnecessary jail time for minor crimes. This issue affects all of us, not only those who are being charged excessive bails for minor crimes. About $14 billion taxpayer dollars are wasted each year to keep the mostly nonviolent population awaiting trial in prison. Wiley Nickel supports bail bond reform, sentencing reform, and a moratorium on for-profit private prisons. He will fight to create NC laws that reform and reshape our state’s criminal justice system.
Endorsed by the North Carolina Advocates for Justice Political Action Committee
Protecting Women’s Rights
Women’s rights are human rights. Wiley Nickel is pro-choice and is unwavering in his commitment to protecting funding for Planned Parenthood. In the State Senate, Wiley will fight the right-wing extremists who want to put politicians between women and their doctors.
Endorsed by many pro-choice elected officials and pro-choice leaders like Deborah Ross.
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Equal Rights and Justice for North Carolina
North Carolina was once a progressive leader in the South. Discriminatory laws like HB2 have cost our state thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in revenue. Wiley Nickel supports marriage equality and a full repeal of HB142. Wiley cares about issues that matter to the LGBTQ community and fully supports efforts to combat hate violence. Wiley will be a leader in efforts to make North Carolina a state that is inclusive of everyone.
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Commonsense Gun Safety
Almost half of all Americans know someone affected by gun violence. Wiley Nickel will fight the powerful gun lobby and the NC GOP for common sense gun safety policies that will keep guns out of the hands of felons, domestic abusers, and would be terrorists. In the State Senate, Wiley will fight to close gun show loopholes and pass universal background checks.
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We need comprehensive immigration reform that includes a pathway to citizenship for the eleven million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Wiley Nickel is a strong supporter of DACA. On the State level, Wiley will support driving privileges for undocumented residents in North Carolina and in-state college tuition for DACA recipients living in North Carolina.
Improving our Democracy
Gerrymandering is wrecking our Democracy! The 2016 election proves that special interests have too much control over politicians and our government: the voices of everyday North Carolinians are getting drowned out. In the State Senate, Wiley will fight to get big money out of politics, push for independent non-partisan redistricting reform, and improve access to the ballot.
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“Humans of Damascus” – The (Other) Art of Community (Building)
An Interview with Rania Kataf
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Cover Photo of “Humans of Damascus” on Facebook. Photo: Rania Kataf ©
With “Humans of Damascus”, I did not want to create a page on Facebook. I wanted to build a community. (Rania Kataf)
In his inspiring book “The Art of Community”, Charles H. Vogl goes through the principles of belonging: initiation, boundaries, symbols, rituals, stories, temple and inner rings. These seven time-tested principles for emerging and connected communities could be applied entirely or in part, even to groups not physically or geographically connected. In other words, to communities interacting between real and virtual world, like “Humans of Damascus”.
In October 2016, Rania Kataf created a group on Facebook, that has rapidly grown beyond the seven ancient gates of the Syrian capital. Damascus, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities of the world, has been for its strategic position a nexus of powers and influences coming from everywhere, and left their marks on the city.
Kataf’s idea of “Humans of Damascus” community came out of the fear of losing and forgetting. Over the past years of conflict in Syria, the country started to lose its cities and their peoples. Destruction and violence have been spiraling out of control. Homs has suffered massive damage, and large parts of Aleppo and its Old City have been reduced to rubble. There were times, wherever one looks, one feels that Damascus is one step away from surrendering to despair. Rania Kataf has been concerned: everything and everyone would break, and what has bonded people together, with their cities and homes, would shatter.
Since 2011, the country has been featured in the news worldwide. The whole world is talking about the Syrian tragedy, in terms of violence, destruction and terror. Rania Kataf has been lucky enough to have the opportunity, to work in the Old City of Damascus. She wanted to show and share her daily experience, through words and pictures.
There are powerful photographs that speak volumes, and like music, they are capable of overcoming the barriers of language. Rania Kataf has noticed how the photos she posted on her personal page on Facebook have attracted lot of interest and attention. Snapshots of stones and faces, of the city and its people that might be forgotten or invisible, have also awakened stories and evoked nostalgia. She wanted to show the hidden and almost forgotten accounts of Damascus and its people.
Family register dating back to 1942. Photo: Rania Kataf ©
Christians and Muslims celebrating Christmas at the Greek-Melkite Cathedral of the Dormition of Our Lady, located in the Zaytoun (Olive) Alley, and said to be built on an old Synagogue. Photo: Rania Kataf ©
Initiation is also what mark (new) members of the community. They are welcome to post and share photos and stories, away from political and religious debates. Within less than two and a half years, the group attracted over 15,700 members from Damascus, other Syrian cities and from other countries. Rania Kataf receives daily dozens of requests to join the group, however, she wants a mature and enduring community that grows with and through its members, not a page that grows with numbers.
It is about creating a community, and most importantly, a positive one. A group that is more passionate and more resilient, in face of the uncertainty caused by the years of conflict. A community where members strengthen the bond that already brought them together, remain hopeful and positive, and to spread out this positivity. Only a strong and well-established community will benefit people and their surroundings, where they feel and appreciate genuine belonging and devotion.
The routine of letting fresh baked flatbread breathe before getting packed. Photo: Rania Kataf ©
Modest street-food vendor with some of the best and tastiest sandwiches in the city, and offering mobile services too. Photo: Rania Kataf ©
When your bread is a combination of dough, salt, yeast, water and some Damascene fresh air. (Rania Kataf)
“Humans of Damascus” also have symbols that represent the shared values and remind the members of them. On the cover picture, there are wrinkled hands of an old man holding his stick. He is no longer aware of things around him, and his sons take him to their shop every day. He also chants the adhan (Islamic call to prayer) occasionally in the nearby mosque. The way this old man holds his stick reminded Kataf of how to hold on to the city.
The name of the community has been inspired by “Humans of New York” (HONY), and the idea of spotlighting the unfamiliar face(s) of New York removed from clichés. In Autumn 2015, Humans of New York featured stories of Syrian refugees.[1] For Rania Kataf, this creates sad and negative clichés among the millions of HONY’s followers. She wanted to show the other stories of those who, despite the war, did not leave the city, which would not survive for millennia without its people.
“Treasures of Nature” for apothecary and perfumery in Madhat Pasha Souq in Old Damascus. Photo: Rania Kataf ©
One may tend to think that the trades practiced by our ancestors have become obsolete. In Damascus, one would be surprised how many skills and occupations are still passed on from generation to generation. Many people come from a long line of an occupation that even marked their family names. Mr. Bitar, who has a background in geology and speaks English fluently, is still maintaining the work of his great ancestor Ibn Al-Bitar, the Andalusian pharmacist, physician and botanist that moved to Damascus and died there. “I love my work”, Bitar says, “I feel it runs in my blood.” (Rania Kataf)
“Humans of Damascus” community has become a social and cultural hub, and platform for exchanging stories and photos.
Many historic houses in Old Damascus stand vacant and closed, waiting for someone to ask for them, to knock at their doors and to bring life again to their courtyards. Some (former) residents long for their homes and ask what happened to them. Others long for the scent of fresh bread, food, spices and jasmine in the serpentine lanes of the Old City. Even foreigners who have been in Damascus and fell in love with it miss some places and corners. Today, and despite the war, “Humans of Damascus” (re)creates an accessible Damascus, even if just virtually, for those who are far away and, for whatever reasons, cannot be there.
Courtyard at Beit Al-Shirazi located nearby the Umayyad Mosque, and dating back to the Mamluk period. Photo: Rania Kataf ©
“Lot (12). Closed in favor of the higher commission for Jews‘ Affairs”. Photo: Rania Kataf ©
Ever since the Jewish community left Damascus early in the 90’s, most of their houses have been rented or closed until further notice. Recently, several Jewish families have asked to reclaim their homes, but it is still unclear what will be the fate of these houses. (Rania Kataf)
Stories allow Rania Kataf, and the other members, to appreciate the values they share in their community. Coincidences are also part of Kataf’s work. Either happy or sad, some twists of fate become special accounts to recall and tell. Every now and then, Rania Kataf comes across doors and facades that magnetize her. Sometimes it is easy to knock at the door and enter. Other times it takes her days, weeks or even months of waiting before finding her way in. Like Dar al-Yasamin (The House of Jasmine) in Bab Touma, which after almost one year of waiting, happens to be owned by the old Damascene gentleman who has become her French teacher.
Near al-Tawbeh Mosque, Rania Kataf ended up in a dead-end alley with a door. When it suddenly opened, a conservatively dressed woman showed up with her young daughter. She invited Kataf to take some pictures of her old, almost deteriorating house, and also surprised her when she agreed to be photographed herself: something unusual for women in these very conservative areas. The daughter’s name is Sham (Damascus in Syrian colloquial Arabic, and Great Syria under the Ottomans). The mother called her daughter after the city so that the little girl, born and brought up in the war, grows strong like Damascus.
The protracted conflicted has touched everyone’s life in Syria, in a way or another. “Humans of Damascus” has become a virtual shrine, set aside and dedicated to everyone who loves this exceptional city, either originally from Damascus or not, and either Syrian or not. This community grows through the participation of its members: through photos, videos, personal accounts, or archival materials.
Sheikh Mahmoud with verses of the Quran on his shoulders at Ibn Arabi Mosque in Damascus. Photo: Rania Kataf ©
Sheikh Mahmoud has been part of Ibn Arabi Mosque in Damascus since his earliest youth. He is very old, even if nobody knows his age, he is a ”miracle”. It is believed, that he has reached this age because of the blessing of this holy place he calls “home”. (Rania Kataf)
Zeriab coffeeshop, in Quemariyeh, one of the most cozy places where you can spend your evening while in Old Damascus. The owner loves cats and allows them all the time; and if you are lucky, you will end up sharing a table with this little one. (Rania Kataf)
Little cat in a Damascene coffeeshop. Photo: Rania Kataf ©
On a more personal level, “Humans of Damascus” has been a turning point in Kataf’s life. Coming from a background in Food Science and Management from the American University of Beirut (AUB), she found her herself pursuing courses in Cultural Heritage. “Humans of Damascus” has deepened her old passion for painting, calligraphy and photography. It has also been a refuge from what living in city at war could cause: sadness, fear, and waiting.
When homes are destroyed, and surviving becomes a struggle, talking about a culture seems to be a lavish luxury. Yet, there is a huge responsibility towards this culture: to deepens ones knowledge about it and to pass it on to new a future generations. The war will be over, and Damascus will stay.
Interaction with the city, its peoples and their stories, has made of Kataf a more patient person, and a better listener. She has learned how to take things much easier; how to accept them, how they come; and how to always be grateful. She keeps building this community from “real-world” Damascus, talking and listening to its people and to their stories and tales of nostalgia. Being an administrator of the Facebook group, Kataf does not control. She is there to moderate and mediate whenever a misunderstanding occurs. She is there to foster the can-do and the hold-on spirit. To create and to build a community, is about feeling the responsibility, solidarity and cohesion that it is involves.
This community is like a child. You do not bring a child to this world to abandon it or give up on it. You need passion, love and commitment to raise it and watch it grow. (Rania Kataf)
“Humans of Damascus” has grown through the engagement of its members. Creating a community can look simple or even mundane, however, it can also be life changing. It is about creating meaningful relationships that serve, support and heal. The war has destroyed homes and shattered lives. Through images and words, Rania Kataf has shown, despite the war, the other art of community building.
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[1] Humans of New York. Refugee Stories
Zeina Elcheikh, “Humans of Damascus” – The (Other) Art of Community (Building). An Interview with Rania Kataf, in: Visual History, 25.03.2019, https://www.visual-history.de/2019/03/25/humans-of-damascus/
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25 Best October Vacation Destinations
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October, a month that brings to mind fall festivals, leaves changing, and cooler weather, is also a fantastic time to take a trip. Head to places like Asheville, Bar Harbor, or the Poconos, where fall foliage is at its best during this time of year. If you’d rather escape the sometimes chilly weather and head someplace warmer, options include Antigua, Ocho Rios, and San Juan. CDC information for travelers. Hours/availability may have changed.
1.Poconos, USA
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The Poconos, or the Pocono Mountains, is a region in Northeastern Pennsylvania that is known for its lakes, mountain peaks, valleys, and other beautiful features. The mountains are flanked by the Delaware Water Gap, which offers beaches and other recreational facilities. Those who love hiking will appreciate a trip to Bushkill Falls, which has numerous waterfalls connected by trails and bridges. The area is a year-round destination for recreation, with numerous ski resorts and waterparks both drawing many visitors during their respective seasons. Visitors in October will find the area rich in fall foliage with many opportunities for fall-themed fun, such as Octoberfest, harvest festivals, heritage days, and more. Read more
2.Asheville, USA
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Asheville is a beautiful small city nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. The city has many stunning examples of historic architecture, such as dome-capped Basilica of Saint Lawrence and the massive Biltmore Estate. The Biltmore offers tours and displays artwork from master artists, including Renoir. The arts scene is very vibrant in the town, with numerous galleries and museums in both the Downtown Art District and the River Arts District nearby, which features former factory buildings that have been converted into art studios. During October the area is especially beautiful with the fall foliage often at its peak, making it a fabulous time to visit.
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3.Big Sur, USA
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Big Sur is a rugged section of the central coast of California. It stretches between the cities of San Simeon and Carmel and is flanked to the east by the Santa Lucia Mountains. Big Sur is best explored by traveling the famous, two-lane road known as State Route 1, which is famous for its views of the Pacific Ocean, rugged oceanside cliffs, and windy turns. The area is only sparsely populated and offers a range of state parks, camping areas, hiking trails, and beaches for those who enjoy outdoor recreation. October is in the middle of peak travel season, so expect crowds, but there are definitely less visitors than the summer months.
4.Brisbane, Australia
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Brisbane is a large city that sits on the banks of the Brisbane River. It is the capital of Queensland and features many interesting museums and other attractions. The massive Sea World Gold Coast is a popular choice among family travelers as is the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, where you can get up close and personal with some of Australia’s most iconic wildlife. The South Bank cultural precinct is packed with interesting attractions such as the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, the Queensland Museum and Sciencenter, public lawns, and swimming areas. October is the middle of spring in Brisbane, with warm days and breezy nights providing pleasant weather for exploring the city as well as the many festivals and events that happen at this time of year.
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5.Charleston, USA
Charleston is a city on the Atlantic coast of South Carolina. The historic town was founded in 1670 and features many relics of its history, such as cobblestone streets and many pre-Civil War homes and buildings in the historic district. For an ultimately nostalgic experience, book a horse-drawn carriage ride through the old section of town and you’ll feel as if you are being transported to the Charleston of several centuries ago. Other attractions include Fort Sumter, the Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, City Market, and Waterfront Park. October is a popular time to visit as the weather is perfect, so you may have to fight some crowds, but the visit will be worth it.
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6.Charlottesville, USA
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Charlottesville is a city in Virginia often visited en route to Thomas Jefferson’s mountain-top mountain and plantation, Monticello. The city is home to the University of Virginia, which was originally designed by the former president as well. Another former president, James Monroe, also lived here and his home is also preserved as a museum with many original items and furnishings. For those interested in the outdoors, the city is also a good base for exploring nearby Shenandoah National Park and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Visiting in October means temperatures may be a bit cool, but the fall foliage is beautiful and certainly worth bringing along a jacket on vacation.
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7.Faro, Portugal
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Faro is the capital of the Algarve region of Portugal. The city has a long history with many interesting attractions such as the Arco de Vila, a neoclassical gate located on the same location as the original Moorish gate. The old town has cobblestone streets and historic buildings just ripe for exploring, such as the 13th century Faro Cathedral. Museum lovers will appreciate the Municipal Museum, which displays artifacts from the medieval and prehistoric periods on the property of a 16th century convent. During October, the weather is mild and temperatures are cool but not too cold, making it a popular time to visit.
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8.Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
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The Galapagos Islands is a chain of volcanic islands located nearly 1,000 kilometers off the coast of Ecuador, of which it is a part. It is one of the best places in the world for viewing interesting wildlife as its isolated location and interesting terrain mean it is home to many species that are not found anywhere else in the world. Charles Darwin famously studied the islands in the 1830s due to this wealth of biodiversity. In October the weather is typically cool and dry with occasional rain. It is also the mating season for fur seals, making it a particularly interesting time to visit.
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Lampang is the third largest city in northern Thailand. The city is a bit off the beaten path but is beginning to see tourists who come for the riverside charm, numerous cafes, and hip hotels. Market shopping is phenomenal here, with many hilltribe handicrafts and other goods produced in the region on offer. You’ll also find numerous temples worthy of a visit, including Wat Lai Hin, Wat Pongsanuk Tai, Wat Phra Kaew Don Tao, and Wat Si Rong Meung, each one unique and beautiful in its own way. The Dhanabadee Ceramic Museum is another popular attraction. The weather in Thailand is warm year round, and while October can be a bit rainy, it is a good time to get a hotel deal and avoid the sweltering heat of Thailand’s hot season.
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Las Vegas is a city in the Mojave Desert of Nevada. The city is famous around the world for its nightlife, which revolves around casinos and other entertainment venues that are open around the clock year round. The main focal point is an area known as The Strip – a 4-mile stretch lined with themed resort hotels, casinos, elaborate fountains, and replicas of famous attractions from around the world like the Eiffel Tower, an Egyptian pyramid, and more. October falls in the shoulder season, when the temperatures aren’t too hot and the crowds are smaller than in summer and winter. Visiting during the week will score you better hotel deals than weekend getaways.
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Mauritius is an island nation in the Indian Ocean that is known for its beautiful sandy beaches, stunning lagoons, and coral reefs. The interior of the island is mountainous and includes hiking opportunities such as the trails through the rainforest at Black River Gorges National Park, which offers stunning scenery of waterfalls and opportunities to see interesting wildlife such as the flying fox. Remnants of colonial history remain in the capital city Port Louis and include a plantation house and botanical gardens from the 18th century. October is an ideal month to visit because it is the island’s driest month and the warm, dry weather is just perfect for a beach getaway.
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12.Miami, USA
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Miami is a vibrant, cosmopolitan city on the southeastern tip of Florida. The city has a strong Cuban influence due to the many immigrants who have settled here from the state’s southern neighbor. You’ll find many cigar shops and delicious Cuban cafes along Little Havana’s Calle Ocho. Across the bay from downtown is South Beach, a glamorous area known for its multicolored art deco architecture, trendy nightclubs, and beachfront hotels. The weather is warm late into the year so visitors in October will typically find it still warm enough to swim in the ocean but much less crowded than during the rest of the year.
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Ocho Rios is a port town set on Jamaica’s northern coast. The city was once a tiny fishing village but today one could barely imagine that to be true with its busy bayside beach, numerous resorts, and popularity as a cruise port. The interior is characterized by rainforests and mountains, and nature lovers will appreciate a visit to Dunn’s River Falls and the Turtle River Falls and Gardens. Meanwhile, animal lovers can get a close experience with dolphins and other animals at Dolphin Cove, a popular family attraction. October is Jamaica’s wettest month but the sea is still warm and it can be a good time to avoid the crowds.
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Paris is the capital of France, a large, cosmopolitan city that is a major center in Europe and is internationally renowned for food, culture, art, and fashion. The city features many 19th century buildings and wide boulevards. There are many landmarks that draw tourists to the city year after year, with highlights such as the Eiffel Tower, the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, and the Louvre Museum. Paris is also a major destination for fashionable shoppers who will enjoy strolling the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré and admiring the designer boutiques that line it. Paris is quite cool in October but you’ll find better prices and fewer lines at attractions by visiting then.
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15.Queenstown, New Zealand
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Queenstown is a city on the shores of New Zealand’s Lake Wakatipu on the South Island. In addition to being on the lakeshore, the city’s backdrop is the Southern Alps, providing beautiful scenery of mountains and lakes at every turn. The area is known around the world as a destination for adventure travelers with ample opportunities for hiking, adventure sports, bungee jumping, jet-boating, and skiing. October is the beginning of spring in Queenstown, with some of the ski resorts still open for the first half of the month while the hiking trails are beginning to open up, as are golf courses, making it a nice time to visit.
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16.Rocky Mountain National Park, USA
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Rocky Mountain National Park is a large protected area in Colorado. The park straddles the Continental Divide and contains a number of stunning mountains, dense forests, and alpine landscapes. The park features scenic mountain drives such as the famous Trail Ridge Road and the Old River Road. Opportunities for hiking are seemingly endless, with a large trail network covering various distances and skill levels. One of the most popular hikes is the trail surrounding the easily accessible Bear Lake. Snow is possible during your October visit, but if you come early enough in the month, it is likely that the Trail Ridge Road will still be open (it closes due to snow in winter) and elk viewing is at its prime.
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17.Austin, USA
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Austin, Texas, is the state’s capital located near the Hill Country Region. The city is a college town and is home to the flagship campus of the University of Texas. It has a vibrant, young, and eclectic feel to it with a rich live music scene based largely around country, rock, and blues. The city also has a great deal of green space with many nice city parks that provide a destination for enjoying the outdoors virtually year round through hiking, swimming, boating, and fishing. The fall months offer comfortable temperatures and many popular festivals, so it’s a great time to come.
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18.Bar Harbor, USA
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Bar Harbor is a town located on Mount Desert Island in Frenchman Bay in Maine. The town is the jumping-off point for exploring the stunning sights of nearby Acadia National Park. Soaring Cadillac Mountain is a popular hiking destination that offers beautiful views of the town, Frenchman Bay, and the nearby Cranberry Islands. Sand Beach is a beach with a park that is surrounded by mountains, making it especially picturesque. Those who enjoy hiking will also enjoy walking the Shore Path, which offers views of the Atlantic and the Porcupine Islands as it travels along the shore of the bay. October is a popular time to visit if you want to see fall foliage.
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19.San Juan, USA
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San Juan is the capital of the US territory of Puerto Rico. The island is popular with travelers looking to spend some time on the beach, the largest of which sits in front of the Isla Verde resort area, which is known for its nightlife, casinos, and bars. The capital is charming in its own right with cobblestone streets, colonial Spanish architecture, and a couple of massive 16th century fortresses with views of the ocean. October is an ideal time to visit, especially if you’re hoping to save a bit on airfare and room rates as the weather is nice but it’s a less busy time.
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Sardinia is a part of Italy and is the second largest island in the Mediterranean. The island has more than 1,000 miles of shoreline made up of many beautiful, sandy beaches. The interior part of the island is more isolated and rugged with a number of hiking trails. There are also interesting, bee-hived shaped stone ruins scattered throughout the island, which were built in the Bronze Age and provide an interesting sight while you are exploring. October can be a bit cool for beach-going, but the cooler temperatures are a welcome reprieve for many after the island’s summer, and the prices are better than in the summer months.
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Antigua is one of the two main islands that comprise the country of Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean. The island is surrounded by coral reefs and is well known for its beautiful sandy beaches, while the historic English Harbour features a restored dockyard with a marina and the Dockyard Museum. There are a number of hiking trails that lead up to Shirley Heights, a historic military lookout, and offer stunning views of the amazing area. The weather in Antigua is warm in October but you may see a bit of rain and there’s a chance of hurricanes. This means that you may be able to score a bargain if you plan to take your trip during this month.
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22.Seville, Spain
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Seville is the capital of Spain’s Andalusia region in the southern part of the country. The city is famous around the world for flamenco dancing, for which the city’s Triana district is a center. A number of ornate buildings are worth visiting, including the Alcazar of Seville, a Moorish castle complex, the Gothic-style Seville Cathedral and its Giralda minaret-turned-bell tower. You could spend days strolling the streets of Seville, dining in its cafes, and soaking in the city’s charm. The weather in October is generally warm enough for exploring and not overly hot. It is the rainy season, however, but along with the wetter weather you’ll find the hotel prices to be much more affordable than the rest of the year.
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23.Shenzhen, China
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Shenzhen is an modern, urban area of southeastern China that connects Hong Kong to the Chinese mainland. The area is known as a destination for shopping with highlights such as Luohu Commercial City, a huge mall with almost anything you could ask for. The city also has a number of modern buildings, such as the Ping An International Finance Center, a 600-meter skyscraper. Other attractions include the Window of the World, which has skiing and ice skating, the Hong Kong Wetland Park, and OCT East, a resort complex with different themed areas. In October, temperatures are comfortable, making it a good time to visit.
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Zion National Park is a preserved area in southwest Utah that is most notable for the sharp red cliffs of Zion Canyon. Visitors can see the park by vehicle by driving the park’s scenic drive, which traverses its main section. The drive also passes many trail heads, from which you can hike through the forest. The Virgin River and Emerald Pools offer a chance to enjoy the waterfalls and even a hanging garden. Autumn is an ideal time to visit the park weather-wise as the temperatures are usually comfortable, the water levels are low, and fall colors peak in late October.
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Zurich is a large city and an international financial center in Switzerland. The city has been around for a long time and this becomes obvious when one strolls the beautiful streets of the old town, known locally as Altstadt. Many pre-medieval and medieval buildings are still standing, including the 11th century Fraumünster church and the iconic Grossmünster cathedral, which dates to the 12th century. The waterfront is also pleasant and features various waterfront promenades such as the Limmatquai, where one can easily pass the better part of a day enjoyably. October can be pretty cold in Zurich, but if you are willing to brave the temperatures you’re likely find a good price on accommodations.
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SUSE® and WSO2 today announced a partnership to provide jointly certified and supported middleware and Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions for developing and deploying next-generation applications on-premise or in cloud environments. SUSE and WSO2 have certified WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware and the WSO2 Stratos PaaS foundation for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and OpenStack-based private cloud platform SUSE Cloud. The two companies are also delivering a reference architecture for deployment of WSO2 Stratos on SUSE Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Through a mutual support agreement both companies will ensure that organizations receive seamless support for their open source middleware and private cloud deployments.
As a result, WSO2 recommends SUSE Cloud as the preferred IaaS for WSO2 Stratos deployments and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as its preferred operating system for WSO2 middleware deployments. And SUSE has chosen WSO2 as its preferred middleware/PaaS solution on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Cloud.
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By running the easy-to-implement WSO2 Carbon and WSO2 Stratos on top of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Cloud, IT Operations and Enterprise Development can work together to rapidly meet new business requirements in a more secure and fully-supported manner.
WSO2 Stratos PaaS and all cloud-enabled WSO2 Carbon middleware products are based on the WSO2 Carbon framework. Therefore, the same WSO2 Carbon products can run directly on servers or plug into the WSO2 Stratos PaaS foundation to create the most complete, enterprise-class PaaS, with support for more core services than any other PaaS available today.
Based on the OpenStack project, SUSE Cloud automates the fundamental capabilities for deploying an IaaS private cloud. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is optimized for all major hypervisors and is available from over 50 public cloud service providers.
As a result, SUSE and WSO2 joint solutions provide unmatched flexibility to seamlessly deploy applications across private, public, or hybrid cloud environments – and back. No matter where the applications are deployed, IT organizations can manage them using SUSE Manager.
“Our highly connected planet means technology and market dynamics can change in a flash, upping the ante on enterprise agility. The SUSE and WSO2 open source platforms naturally complement each other in solving the challenge, by empowering IT and the line of business, to rapidly address their organization’s changing needs,” said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, WSO2 founder and CEO. “Together, they give developers unprecedented freedom to deploy applications quickly onsite or in the cloud—with consistent monitoring, governance, and real or virtual billing—which run efficiently and scale elastically to meet their shifting demands.”
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The combination of WSO2 middleware and SUSE enterprise Linux infrastructure solutions enables companies to maximize current investments while preparing for the future. Certified to run on industry-standard hardware, SUSE and WSO2’s joint offering leverages companies’ current hardware as they rollout next-generation solutions. In addition, the WSO2 Stratos architecture shares everything—server hardware, JVM, databases, even services such as an enterprise service bus (ESB)—to maximize technology utilization. Meanwhile, SUSE Cloud’s self-service capabilities enable enterprises to deploy the necessary computing resources without burdening IT staff.
“IT departments are looking for ways to provide their developers with an agile environment for solution delivery, while retaining control of security and performance characteristics,” said Ruben van der Zwan, CEO at Yenlo, software development and consulting company focused on middleware and business process management, and preferred WSO2 partner. “Together SUSE and WSO2 are helping more companies leverage the power of the open source cloud, and backing that technology with industry leading services and support.”
Epilepsy Institutes of the Netherlands Foundation (SEIN) is at the center of epilepsy patient care and research in the Netherlands. SEIN uses WSO2 Carbon Middleware and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to provide a solution for systematically gathering and sharing information on the disease with hospitals, outpatient clinics, universities and research institutions. “The WSO2-SUSE combination provides us with a centralized platform for exchanging data by integrating previously disparate information storage systems,” said Jean Willem Barzilay, chairman of the board of directors and responsible for all business units within SEIN. “Standardizing on open source software helped reduced cost. Yenlo has seamlessly implemented this joint WSO2-SUSE solution and provides the service and support. From day one we have benefited from the user friendly solutions of WSO2 and SUSE.”
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SUSE and WSO2 also prepare enterprises for future computing needs, providing a private PaaS solution that simplifies the development and deployment of next-generation cloud applications and scales easily to handle future computing needs. WSO2 Stratos monitors CPU, memory, bandwidth and service-level agreements (SLAs) and automatically scales up or down depending on load, transparently adding or removing services. As the cloud scales up or down, SUSE Cloud automatically—and optimally—deploys workloads across the physical infrastructure.
“As enterprises see the need to improve their ability to deliver business services rapidly in response to market dynamics they are moving toward cloud-based delivery models,” said Nils Brauckmann, president and general manager, SUSE. “There is also wide recognition that open source software provides rapid innovation and helps avoid vendor lock-in. By combining the infrastructure expertise of SUSE with the platform solutions from WSO2, our joint customers will be able to build a service-oriented IT environment that gives them the agility to succeed and the scalability to grow.”
SUSE and WSO2 joint middleware and cloud solutions are available now. For more information about the offering, please contact your SUSE or WSO2 sales representative. For more information about these joint solutions, attendees at Cloud Expo East can stop by Booth 331 at Cloud Expo East or attend our session, “Bridging IaaS and PaaS to Deliver the ServiceOriented Data Center,” on Thursday, June 13, 2013, at 8:15 AM EDT. Or you can attend the WSO2+SUSE+Yenlo European Roadshow 2013 this summer at a city near you by registering at https://wso2.com/landing/wso2-suse-yenlo-eu-roadshow-2013. More information about the SUSE and WSO2 partnership can be found at https://www.suse.com/partners/alliance-partners/wso2/.
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"Everybody was talking about the fact that I lost three million subscribers."
By Allison Collins on November 6, 2019
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James Charles has had quite the year.
Since the last time he stopped by WWD to talk about his Morphe palette, which has since sold out four times, he had a public feud with a fellow YouTuber that made mainstream news and cost him three million followers. But six months, one puppy, and another Morphe palette later, Charles, 20, says he is on the mend.
In his words, he’s “OK.”
“It’s been definitely like a roller coaster over the past few months, and it’s been a lot of ups and downs, but I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to get everything back in order, get my right team in place, and come up with a lot of really fun projects that I know will be a huge passion for me, so it would take my mind off of things and really get my head back into the space that it needs to be in, which is creating, creating, creating creating, because that’s truly what makes me the most happy,” Charles said.
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“In terms of mental health, I’m OK, but in terms of what I’m working on, I’m really excited,” he added.
The James Charles x Morphe MINI collection is officially LIVE! 🌈💞 shop now and don't forget to use code "JAMES" for 10% off! ➡️ morphe.com & ALL ULTA stores!! ___ makeup by @the_wigs_and_makeup_manager photo by @jonsams
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On a whirlwind press tour for his second Morphe collaboration, Charles was apologetically an hour late — rain — and showed up in glitter eyeshadow and Prada stretch fabric booties, game to shoot an entire video (sneak peek) and answering rapid-fire fan questions in seven minutes provided it didn’t require him to talk about anyone else. He straightened out the letters on his Sisters necklace and got down to business, questioning the popularity of his cooking videos, as he can’t really cook, and unveiling that he plans to launch his own beauty brand, now that he feels he has a solid idea.
Charles just introduced his second collaboration with Morphe, a mini version of his Artistry palette and a 13-piece brush set, is toying with the idea of bringing his Sisters Apparel brand into retail in 2020 now that he’s secured a new manufacturing partner (he had been working with Jeffree Star’s Killer Merch, but the fight ended that partnership), and is working on some sort of secret film production. He’s being judicious in the projects he’s decided to work on, he said, and has experimented with taking time off.
“[The fight] affected both [business and mental health] for sure — everybody was talking about the fact that I lost three million subscribers,” Charles said. “This put into perspective what really mattered to me. I was definitely getting to a place where I was really obsessed with likes and performance and coming up with new video concepts, which I think every influencer falls into at some point. But this was an important moment for me, as awful as it was, to take a step back and realize what was important to me, which is friends, family and my own personal happiness.”
He canceled his tour, though said he hopes one day to plan another one.
“After everything that happened I’m taking priority on my mental health, which has never been a priority for me before, it’s scary to admit, but I think there’s always time for a change. I’ve been really making sure that I’m good before forcing myself and overworking and not getting any sleep. The Internet is always there, I can always make new videos. The fans will understand.”
By the numbers, Charles, whose subscriber count is now back up, is one of beauty’s biggest influencers. Right now, he has 16.2 million YouTube subscribers, 15.9 million Instagram followers and 4.2 million Twitter followers. He started doing makeup for his friends in upstate New York, where he’s from, before posting looks on Instagram and eventually landing the CoverGirl contract that propelled him into mainstream culture.
Lately, he’s trying to think less about likes — “I’d be lying if I said I didn’t notice, but I definitely cared less this year” — and said he experimented with taking them off on his Instagram account, and “hated it.” He also didn’t like YouTube’s removal of verification badges, he said.
“There’s a lesson to be learned here — verification symbols and likes do not determine your success, your creativity as a creator.…That being said, I do think they are important because they help fans identify who the real accounts are.” He also sees value for brands looking to evaluate which influencers to work with.
Charles is still making beauty videos, but they don’t always perform as well as his other content. One recent video about the Anastasia Beverly Hills foundation has nearly 3.5 million views, while “Adopting a Puppy!!” has 12 million. “No More Lies,” the video where he addresses the fight with YouTuber Tati Westbrook, has 47 million views.
“Everyone’s confused right now about what people truly want to see. Nobody wants to watch tutorials anymore, nobody’s clicking on reviews anymore,” Charles said. Influencers are full-fledged celebrities now, watched equally for their personalities as the subject matter they create around, Charles posited.
“We’re able to reach an audience that is so much more than just the beauty lovers — that’s the reason the reviews and the tutorials don’t get as [many] views, because those are videos specifically for the beauty lovers,” Charles said. “A lot of us feel the pressure of needing to create that extra crazy, fun kind of out-of-the-box content, too, to kind of appease the whole audience…it becomes harder and harder as we all get bigger.”
New York, it’s been fun ✌🏼 last outfit of fashion week for the marc jacobs show today 💞 styled by @joeythao
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Charles is showing more of an interest in fashion — he attended his first Met Gala and New York Fashion Week earlier this year — and is working with Joey Thao, a Los Angeles-based stylist who also works with Nikita Dragun. “Fashion is a huge passion of mine, but it’s something I’m not necessarily the best at,” he said. In 2018, he described his style as “ath-leisure with a twist of gay.”
At some point, he’s planning to launch his own beauty brand.
“I didn’t want to do it [before] because I didn’t have a solid concept.…I didn’t want to put out something that was ridiculous just to slap my name on it and get a few extra dollars in my bank account,” Charles said. “I definitely won’t be doing another palette anytime soon, [but] I do finally have a solid concept for a brand that hopefully will be something new in the market.”
James Charles’ mini Morphe Artistry palette.
On Oct. 17, Charles launched the mini artistry palette at Ulta Beauty and Morphe — in stores and online. After listening to fan feedback, Charles decided to make the palette smaller, include a mirror and drop the price point. It retails for $26 — “$23 if you use code James for 10 percent off,” he noted.
“We gave the girls what they want,” he said. “We’re not claiming it’s a crazy new palette that everybody has to go out and buy, which I think is different from a lot of other launches because, of course, everyone wants to sell, duh, it’s a business.…I don’t know how this is going to do, to be perfectly honest…it’s the same colors, we’re not hiding that.”
The mini hasn’t yet sold out, but Charles’ prior palette was the best-selling Morphe product this year. Morphe has also done product collaborations with mega influencers Jaclyn Hill and Jeffree Star, and recently landed a $2.2 billion valuation and investment from General Atlantic. The company’s influencer collaborations were said to be part of the appeal.
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- Lead cross-functional initiatives per year to ensure autonomous schools can actualize their flexibility and/or autonomy. Identify the most pervasive issues that divert the attention of school staff away from instructional practices. Identify and implement innovative solutions to improve support to schools and/or solve persistent problems.
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- Excellent interpersonal, analytical, critical thinking, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively in a credible and confident manner at all levels in the organization, both orally and in writing.
- Ability to assess appropriate priorities and organize workload on multiple assignments.
- Ability to collaborate with others on challenging, time sensitive projects as a team player.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction.
- Knowledge of program management best practices.
- Work style that yields strong results when working independently or as part of a team.
- Ability to foster effective relationships with district staff, schools, and external partners.
- Ability to prioritize multiple projects.
- Ability to develop, plan, and implement short- and long-range goals, establish priorities, and organize resources.
- High degree of integrity in handling confidential information.
- Ability to navigate complex problems among multiple constituencies and drive towards solutions.
- Ability to effectively facilitate meetings to achieve desired results.
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- Bachelor’s Degree is required.
- Master’s Degree a plus.
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Ethical Hacking Software: Enter Acunetix!
The term “hacking” is typically wrongly associated with malicious intent and security breaches. However, in reality, it is a discipline within which its practitioners wear very different “hats”, some which may come as a surprise to some. Ethical hacking, or white-hat hacking, is a term used to represent individuals who would use the same techniques as a malicious black-hat hacker, however, with the intention to benevolently attack systems on behalf of their owner in order to assess their security before the bad guys do.
Ethical hacking (also commonly referred to as penetration testing) is a field of cybersecurity where security professionals test web applications and network infrastructure for security vulnerabilities. While it requires deep knowledge of how systems work and how to break them, they also need tools to do their job and make their life easier to get results quicker to their customers or other stakeholders. This is where a vulnerability scanner like Acunetix comes into play.
Acunetix is a vulnerability scanner that focuses on automatic security auditing for thousands of web application vulnerabilities at speed and scale. Testing everything from Cross-site Scripting and SQL Injection to web server security, Acunetix provides ethical hackers, developers, and stakeholders alike with the necessary tools and software integrations they need to effectively discover and remediate web application vulnerabilities before the malicious actors have an opportunity to exploit them.
Acunetix achieves this by combining a re-engineered crawler and scanner with a vast array of highly tuned test cases, intelligently designed to run as fast and efficiently as possible.
Unfortunately, while thorough, manual security testing by a penetration tester is time-consuming, expensive, only provides point-in-time security assessment (security tools are not run continuously), and does not provide a scalable approach when organizations have several hundred or even thousands of web applications to test.
Fortunately, automated pen testing software like Acunetix allows organizations to test their web application security quickly, cost-effectively and, most importantly, continuously.
Leave No Stone Unturned with Cutting-Edge Technology Coverage
With the Acunetix web vulnerability scanner, security teams can set up scheduled automated scans to test for thousands of web application vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
While most information security software supports only legacy technologies, Acunetix takes technology support to the next level with the best-of-breed JavaScript support. Unlike most vulnerability scanning software, Acunetix has full support for modern single-page applications (SPAs) and can understand and fully test applications that rely on JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular, Ember, and Vue. This means that Acunetix can scan everything from legacy web applications developed on traditional stacks to modern web apps taking advantage of all the latest and greatest technologies.
Speed and Flexibility Are Not Mutually Exclusive
Unlike many other ethical hacking software, Acunetix is lightning-fast. With a re-engineered core and a highly optimized crawler, every inch of Acunetix is tuned for speed and efficiency, allowing it to scan hundreds of thousands of pages without breaking a sweat.
What’s more, Acunetix can save the progress of a scan midway, pause it, and resume it later on from where it left off entirely automatically. This is crucial for time-boxed ethical hacking tests or when scanning enormous web applications with time restrictions.
Integrations with third-party penetration testing software like PortSwigger Burp Suite make it easy to move between automatic and manual ethical hacking for advanced users who need it. Moreover, findings from Acunetix may be exported to a wide variety of industry-leading web application firewalls (WAFs) such as Imperva SecureSphere, F5 Big-IP ASM, and Citrix WAF.
Easy Reporting and Issue Tracker Integration
It’s no secret that for most ethical hackers reporting is a burden and takes up an enormous amount of time. Acunetix allows you to instantly generate a wide variety of technical, regulatory, and compliance reports such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, OWASP Top 10, and many others.
Additionally, Acunetix allows users to export discovered vulnerabilities to issue trackers such as Atlassian Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Mantis, Bugzilla, and Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), so both ethical hackers and developers working on fixing vulnerabilities can stay perfectly in sync without the need to switch tools or sift through PDFs.
What is a hacker?
A hacker is a person who is very skilled and who uses their technical knowledge to overcome a problem. A black hat hacker (malicious hacker) is a hacker who has malicious intentions and hacks for criminal purposes. A white hat hacker (ethical hacker) is a hacker who hacks to help secure systems. A grey hat hacker is a white hat hacker who sometimes violates laws or ethical standards but does not have bad intentions.
Read more about why hackers are important.
What is meant by ethical hacking?
Ethical hacking means trying to find a vulnerability in a system to show the creators of this system how to fix it. Ethical hacking is often called penetration testing. When automated, it is called vulnerability scanning.
Read more about how penetration testing and vulnerability scanning go together.
Is ethical hacking legal?
Ethical hacking is legal if the owner of the target computer system knows about it or openly welcomes it. For example, it is legal if you are hired by a company to hack their systems. It is also legal if a company publishes a hacking bounty program. Also, note that this may be different in different countries.
Read more about how ethical hackers from Russia legally hack Google.
Which software is used for ethical hacking?
Professional ethical hackers first use vulnerability scanners to automate their work. Then, they perform additional manual analysis using manual penetration testing tools. Such tools include exploit frameworks, listening proxies, and other investigative software.
See step-by-step how an ethical hacker works.
Learn more about prominent vulnerabilities, keep up with recent product updates, and catch the latest news from Acunetix.
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Research ship captures the moment a meteor breaks up over Tasmania's south coast
By Erin Cooper
Posted ThuThursday 19 NovNovember 2020 at 3:54amThuThursday 19 NovNovember 2020 at 3:54am
Duration: 19 seconds 19s
The ship's voyage manager said it was a case of being in the right place in the right time
The livestream camera on board the CSIRO's research vessel Investigator operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, but rarely does it pick up a remarkable event.
A livestream camera on a CSIRO research vessel has captured the moment a meteor broke up over the ocean
The meteor appeared bright green to the naked eye but was captured on video in black and white
The voyage manager said the ship was in the right place at the right time
Just before 9:30pm on Wednesday, crew on board the vessel about 100 kilometres south of Tasmania were treated to the sight of a meteor breaking up over the ocean.
The bright flash of light, which appeared green to the naked eye but was captured on video in black and white, descended from space and disintegrated before their eyes.
Voyage manager John Hooper said capturing the moment was just "a stroke of luck".
"What we saw on reviewing the livestream footage astounded us, the size and brightness of the meteor was incredible," he said.
"It was amazing to watch the footage and we were very fortunate that we captured it all on the ship livestream."
Glen Nagle from CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science said while more than 100 tonnes of natural space debris enters Earth's atmosphere daily, most of it flies over unpopulated areas, making this sighting all the more special
Mr Nagle said friction is what gives meteors their spectacular appearance.
"When a meteor enters the Earth's atmosphere at high-speed, it is the friction of rock with the atmosphere that makes them burn, as their kinetic energy is converted to other forms like heat, light and sound.
"Many meteors were once asteroids, travelling through space on their own trajectory, but this changes as they pass close to Earth, where they can be affected by its gravitational pull," he said.
"As they enter our atmosphere, they become meteors and their entry can be visually spectacular."
The RV Investigator crew were undertaking routine seafloor mapping and trialling marine equipment when the extraordinary sight occurred — a sight they don't think anyone else has managed to get on-camera.
"Cameras are everywhere, in our pockets and around our cities, but they have to be pointed in the right place at the right time and RV Investigator was in that place and time," Mr Nagle said.
Posted 19 NovNovember 2020ThuThursday 19 NovNovember 2020 at 3:54am
'I thought we were goners': Skies over Australia lit up by 'fireball' meteor
Meteor suspected as 'fireball' filmed in Australian night sky
'The biggest event we've seen': Meteor landed in ocean 400km off Adelaide
Astronomy (Space)
Planets and Asteroids
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Hurricane inundates Bahamas
Published: Sep. 2, 2019 at 8:18 AM EDT
(9/2/19) - A spokesman for Bahamas Power and Light says there has been a total blackout in New Providence, the archipelago's most populous island.
Quincy Parker told ZNS Bahamas radio station on Monday morning that crews are working to restore power on the island that lies south of the path that Hurricane Dorian is expected to take.
He said the Bahamas Power and Light office in Abaco, which was hit by the Category 5 storm on Sunday, has been flattened.
"The reports out of Abaco as everyone knows," Parker said as he sighed, "we're not good."
Parker said officials are anxious for the storm to pass so they can start rebuilding.
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Up-to-date information on the Aena network airports
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Check what you need to know before travelling on our infocovidaena.es website.
If you are travelling, check with your airline before going to the airport and remember that the use of a mask is compulsory for indoor public spaces and outdoors when impossible to keep the safety distance.
Bear in mind that entry to the airport terminal is prohibited for anyone who is not traveling. Only passengers with a boarding pass, airport workers and companions with just cause (minors traveling alone and PMR) can access the airport facilities.<
Check with your airline the specific conditions regarding the luggage allowed on the plane before you go to the airport. Some airlines do not accept hand luggage.
Before you come to the airport, check the health control requirements and entry documents for the country you are travelling to.
Passengers coming from third countries must bring to the airport the FCS health control form that can be done before the trip from the website of the Ministry for Health spth.gob.es or the mobile application you may download from that website, and go through the temperature check of the Border Health Care with thermographic cameras.
Remember that you should not go to the airport or travel in case you have symptoms of illness.
As of 0:00 hours on 21 June, the restrictions on flights entry through the Spanish external borders from EU and Schengen countries end.
As of 1 July, the EU external borders are gradually opening to flights coming from third countries. Check the list of countries whose nationals are allowed to enter Spain on the Re-open EU website.
As for 9 October, the municipalities of Madrid, Alcobendas, Alcorcón, Fuenlabrada, Getafe, Leganés, Móstoles, Parla and Torrejón de Ardoz are in state of alarm. The entry and exit from this cities are restricted. The movement of people in transit is not subject to restrictions. More information in the Official Spanish Gazette.
Updates on the situation
Updated on Friday 9 October 2020 at 04:50 pm
Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas
All operations have been moved to terminals T1 (from 1 July) and T4
Air Europa is operating at terminal T4
Check-in is carried out at Terminal T4, departures, floor 2 and Terminal T1 floor 1.
All baggage reclaim is carried out at Terminal T4 floor 0 Hall 10 and Terminal T1 floor 0 halls 1 and 2.
Commercial services. Terminal T4 check in area: available the pharmacy, the shops Enrique Tomás, the Casa de las Carcasas and the Global Exchange currency exchange office. Terminal T4 boarding area: available the Botiquin-pharmacy the eateries Paul, Enrique Tomás, Café Pans, McDonald’s, Calsberg, Deli&Cia, Mama Campo, Más Que Menos and Eat and the shops Madrid Duty Free, Enrique Tomás, WHSmith (central, north and south), Express Duty Free (north and south), La Casa de las Carcasas, Loewe, Max Mara, Sunglass Hut, Naïve, Tech&Fly, Sibarium, El Ganso, Massimo Dutti, Zara, Uterqüe, Collection, Victoria's Secret, Boss and Mr.Blue and the Global Exchange currency exchange office. Terminal T1 boarding area: available the eateries Paul, Lavazza and La Place and the shops tiendas Hudson and Madrid Duty Free. Terminal T1, arrivals area: available the pharmacy and the tobbacconist’s (outside the terminal). T4 Satellite, boarding area: available the Madrid Duty Free and WHSmith shops (gates S), the Enrique Tomás eatery and the Global Exange office for currency exchange and VAT refund. T2, check-in area: available the pharmacy.
Closure of the weapons inspection office at Terminal 1. All the procedures will be carried out at the weapons inspection ofice located at Terminal 4.
Closure of the Vip lounges.
Car park. Modules C, D, E and F of P4 (T4), modules B and C of P2 (T2), the P1 (T1), express car park T1 and arrivals express car park T2 are open. Modules A1, A2P, A2, A3 and A4. remain open in freight zone.
More information on Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport website.
Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat
Terminals T1, T2A and T2B are operational.
Check which terminal your airline operates in.
Access to the terminal is only allowed to passengers who have a valid ticket or boarding pass, in the 6 hours prior to the scheduled departure of the flight, and to the strictly necessary companions of passengers who require special assistance, minors or with duly justified cause, according to Royal Decree-Law 26/2020. Access to Rent a Car customers who return or collect a vehicle is also allowed, with supporting document. In Terminal T1, access to Departures will be through the central door and the north door during daytime and only through the central door at night. Access to Arrivals will be through the Intermodal building (Floor 0). In Terminal T2, access will be through the doors located at the ends of T2B.
Check with your airline which terminal your flight departs from, as well as which desks you can check in.
The left-luggage service is not provided in either of the two terminals.
In Terminal T1, all baggage claim is carried out in the main hall, including that of the Barcelona-Madrid Corridor. At Terminal T2, baggage claim for Schengen flights takes place in the T2B lounge and for Non-Schengen flights in T2A.
Meeting point. If you have to pick someone up, it is recommended to wait in the cark park, because it is forbidden to do it inside the terminals in accordance with the provisions of Royal Decree-Law 26/2020 and its subsequent development, which has established a meeting point outside the buildings. In Terminal T1 this point is located on floor 0 in front of modules C and D of the car park. In Terminal T2, the meetings will take place outside the terminal. Only go to the airport if it is essential.
In Terminal T1, vehicle parking is concentrated in modules A-B-C of the general parking. Modules D-E-F and Open-Air G car park are closed. In Terminal T2, parking is operational in the surface parking of terminal T2B and in the terminal T2C building. The express car parks at both terminals are also operational. The long-stay car park is closed. Access to the operational parking lots is done through the usual roads.
Shuttle Bus. The shuttle service between the terminals resumes its operation from July 24. The connection between terminals can also be made by subway or by TMB bus line 46.
All public transport arriving at the airport may suffer alterations in its services. We recommend users to consult different operators for possible modifications.
Commercial services: In terminal T1 are open Burger King, Café Central, EAT., Foodies', Starbucks, McDonald's (Sky Certer), Enrique Tomás Experience, Boldu (beginning of boarding area B), MasQMenos (boarding area D), Café Pans (boarding area A), Haagen Dazs, Tapa Tapa (boarding area B); the stores Tech&Fly (boarding area A), Relay (boarding area D), Barcelona Duty Free, Barça Store, Zara, Uterqüe, Massimo Dutti, Burberry, Ted Baker, Swarovski, Mango, Desigual, Natura, Sunglass Hut (Sky Center), Superskunk (Sky Center), and La Mallorquina (T1 Sky Center); and the Aqua Salon Spa (boarding area A). In terminal T2, Barcelona Duty Free, Barça Store,Relay, Natura, Hudson, Go Natural, Coffee Republic, Enrique Tomás and SLAM by Hnos Torres are open at boarding modules S and U.
The vending service remains also operational.
At the public area the banking services, the pharmacy and the tobbacconist's remains operational.
The TaxFree service remains operational.
The fast lane service at terminal T2 is closed.
The Pau Cassals and Canudas Vip lounges are open. The rest of Vip lounges remain closed.
More information on Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat airport website.
Check-in of all flights is carried out at the desks located at the centre of the south area of the check in floor (lines 5 to 12)
Modules B and C are operational. Modules A and D remain closed.
Only one exit door remains open for arriving passengers (door C).
Public transport to/from the airport may be subject to alteration. Users are advised to check the EMT Palma and TIB official information.
The Meet&Assist service, the Fast Lane service and the Valldemossa VIP lounge are open (the rest of the VIP lounges are closed).
Two floors of the general car park, the first class car park and the arrival express car park are open. Long-stay car park is closed.
Commercial services. The Pharmacy of floor 2 (check-in) is open and vending machines at arrivals, check-in and boarding are available. Departures area, floor 4: La Ensaimada 1854, Mallorca Duty Free, Mango, Lol Kids, Camper, Tech&Fly, Victoria's Secret, Collection and Relay and Lavazza, Deli&Cía and Hard Rock Café are open. Module B, boarding: Café-Café is open. Module C, boarding: A box of, Hard Rock, Natura, Swarovski, Sunglass Hut, Tutti Frutti, Love Me, Express Duty Free, Sibarium and Relay are open and Beaudevin, Farggi and Mc Donald's cafes are open. Arrivals area, floor 0, Deli&Cía cafe is open.
More information on Palma de Mallorca airport website.
Málaga-Costa del Sol
Check in and, security checkpoints are located at T3. Boarding docks C and D are operational.
T2 is closed.
The access to the departures area is carried out through the doors located next to the pharmacy and at the transport hub mezzanine.
The access to the arrivals area is carried out through the transport hub or straight from the bus and train areas.
Shopping area. All the shops and eateries are progressively opening. The pharmacy, tobacconist, Sunglass Hut, FlyMate and Superskunk are open in the check-in area. In the boarding area, Malaga Duty Free, Parfois, Swarovski, Sunglass Hut, Relay, Lol Sweet (stand), The Ocean Company, Discover Andalucía, Victoria's Secret and Natura stores, and Dehesa Santa María, Burger King, Starbucks, Mama Campo, GIraffe World Kitchen, Costa Coffee and Eat are open. Málaga Arrivalshop is open in the arrivals area. In addition, vending machines distributed throughout the check-in and boarding areas are available. The ATMs at arrivals are operational and soon those at the departures floor will also be operational too.
The Vip loung, the Meet&Assist service and the Fast Lane service are open.
Car rental. The companies resume their services at the terminal (basement floor -2) and their car park offices.
Public transport. Public transport to/from the airport may be subject to alteration. Users are advised to check the de EMT Málaga and Renfe official information.
PRM service. Will require a pre-booking with the notice period set out in Regulation. 1107/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, which in this case the pre-booking period of the service is 48 hours in advance and persons with reduced mobility must be at the meeting points more than 2 hours in advance of the departure of their flight.
The lost&found service has been suspended temporarily. If you have lost any item you may write to objetosperdidosagp@aena.es and they will inform you as soon as possible.
Aena information service. The support office for passengers, users and customers is open.
The P1 car park, the express car park, the first class car park and the general aviation car park are open.
More information on Málaga-Costa del Sol airport website.
Alicante-Elche
The meeting point for companions is located on floor -2 (basement 2), central area.
Line buses pick up passengers on floor -2 (basement 2).
The Vip lounge Costa Blanca is open.
Fast Lane and Meet&Assist services available.
The lost&found service is open.
The Long-stay car park is closed. General car park P1, the First-Class car park and the Express car park are open.
Bankia and Euronet ATMs located in the open areas are operational.
Commercial services: The Pharmacy, Tobbaconists', Alicante Duty Free, Arrivals Duty Free, Swarovski, Sunglass Hut, Desigual, Lol Kids, Lol Sweets, Encanto Alicante, Superskunk, PV21, WHSmith (boarding), Victoria's Secret, Eat., Burger King (boarding) and Costa Coffee (outside). Vending machines are available.
The access to the terminal building is restricted during the night.
Airport operations are adjusted and two thirds of the terminal building are closed.
Closure of the Vip lounge and Fast Lane and the Meet&Assist service is suspended.
The Long-stay car park and two floors of the General car park are closed.
Commercial services: the Pharmacy, Spar, Canariensis Duty Free, Gran Canaria Duty Free, Gran Canaria Arrivalshop, Sunglass Hut, El Market Canarias, Superskunk, Relay, Swarovski, Burger King, Café Pans (arrivals and boarding), Café Indias, Enrique Tomás, Leon and Starbucks are open, and vending machines are available.
Baggage lamination open in check-in zone 2.
Baggage reclaim hall B (floor -1) is partially operational (according to hours)..
Closure of the security checkpoint B (floor 0).
The Pharmacy and the shops Tenerife Duty Free (floor 0 and floor 1), El Market Canarias, Tenerife Arrivalshop, Casa Ricardo, LuckyIsland, Tenerife Gourmet España, Sunglass Hut, WHSmith (arrivals and boarding), Victoria's Secret, Desigual, Island Gifts, Sweet Treats and Lava and Burger King, cafeteria Ritazza and Camden Food are open. Vending machines are available.
Closure of the Vip lounge and the Meet&Assist service is suspended.
The Fast Lane service is operational.
The boarding area of the Regional Terminal remains closed and terminal T1 is open.
At arrivals Terminal T2 remains opens and a corridor is available to get to the Metro (underground) and to the lost and found offices.
The General Aviation Terminal is operational upon demand.
The Vip lounge and the Fast Lane service are open; the Meet&Assist service is suspended.
Only the General car park remains open.
Commercial services: The shops ALE-HOP. Valencia Duty Free, Suku Concept Store, Sunglass Hut, PV21, Sweet Air and Relay (boarding), and the restoration points La Pausa and Burger King are open. Vending machines are available.
Extension of the reduced configuration. As from 1 August, The following facilities are open: boarding area is operative until boarding gate 16. All the baggage reclaim, except 1 and 2, are operational and check-in hall has been expanded to counter 69.
Commercial services: the pharmacy, the shops Ibiza Duty Free, Pachá, Desigual, Ibiza Gourmed, Sunglass Hut, News and Books and I love Ibiza (all of them in boarding area), and the eateries Paul, El Kiosko and Santa Gloria (all of them in boarding area) are open. Vending machines are available.
The Vip lounge is open.
The general car park and the long-stay car park are open.
Closure of eight boarding gates, four baggage reclaim carousels and three security arches.
Commercial services: The shops Relay (boarding), Tutti Frutti, Buy Bye, Iberikum and Oh lé, and the cafeteria Horno San Buenaventura are open. Vending machines are available.
The General Car Park P1 the rest remain closed.
César Manrique-Lanzarote
As from Sunday 21 June terminal T1 will be open for flight operations.
Commercial services. Lanzarote Arrivalshop (arrivals), Lottery (check-in), Lanzarote Duty Free, Aloe + Lanzarote, Sunglass Hut, Collection, Tutti Frutti, Love me Lanzarote, La Isla Gourmet and Relay (all of them in boarding) and the cafeterias Camden, Burger King, Pans & Company, Coffee Republic and La Tropcial (all of them in boarding) are open. Vending machines are available.
Closure of the Vip lounge.
The T1 car park is open. The T2 car park is closed.
Commercial services: Lottery, Bilbao Duty Free, Sunglass Hut, Enrqiue Tomas and the cafes Pans&Company and Exploring the World from Bilbao are open. Vending machines are available.
The Vip lounge reopens on 22 July.
Transport. As from 1 July the services Airport-San Sebastián and Airport-Arrasate resume operations. The line A3247 Airport-Bilbao operates with reduced timetable.
The General car park P1 and, as from 16 July, the Express car park at departures are open. The Long-stay P2 and the Express car park at arrivals are closed.
Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna
Only 1 toilet in each boarding floor will remain open, one at the baggage reclaim hall and one at the public area.
As of 21 of July the Nivaria Vip Lounge will be open.
Commercial services. The pharmacy and lottery (check-in), Relay (arrivals), Sunglass Hut, Kotufas, Tenerife Duty Free, La Casa de los Balcones, Buy-Bye and Relay (all of them in boarding area) and the restoration points Panaria, Ritazza and Dorada (boarding) are open. Vending machines are available.
Closure of part of the baggage reclaim hall except from baggage reclaim carousels 11, 12, 13 and 15.
As from Wednesday 25 March, only the South check in area will remain operational.
At the boarding area the boarding gates from 12 to 18 will remain operational.
The General car park and rent a car parking are open.
Commercial services. The pharmacy (check-in), Fuerteventura Duty Free, Sunglass Hut, Lava, Relay, El Market Canarias, Dolcemania, Desigual and Victoria's Secret, (all of then in boarding), Dehesa de Santa María cafe (boarding) and the Paradise terrace (boarding) are open. Vending machines are available.
The Winter season reduced configuration is maintained.
The general car park and the express car park are open. Closure of the Long-stay car park.
Commercial services. The pharmacy (check-in area), Menorca Duty Free, WHSmith and Breadway (all of them in boarding area) are open. Vending machines are available.
Santiago-Rosalía de Castro
Commercial services: the beerhouse Air Food One, Lottery and the stores Santiago Duty Free, Gourmed, Sunglass Hut and Malabarium are open. Vending machines are available.
Closure of the left luggage service. The baggage wrapping is open.
General car park and express car park are open.
Girona-Costa Brava
The airport is open and the spaces that are operational at the terminal building go along with the current needs.
The Duty Free store, the cafeteria La Pausa, the tourist office and the Aena information desk are open. Vending machines and ATMs are available.
Remains open the General car park.
Terminal spaces are being redistributed according to operational needs.
The pharmacy, Jeronimo Shop, Canariensis, Hecho en La Palma and Stop&Shop are open; vending machines are available.
The General car park remains open.
The Duty Free store and cafeteria Meal O'Clock are open. The vending machines are operating as normal.
The car rental offices are available.
As for 25 June, the airport resumes normal operational timetable, from 6:30am to 0:30am.
The Terminal building opens at 05:00 am, before the first flight and closes after the last flight has departed.
Commercial services: The Duty Free store and the cafeteria Caffriccio are open. Vending machines are available.
The General car park is open.
F.G.L. Granada-Jaén
As of July 1, the airport operates normally.
Commercial services: The shop Granada Duty Free and the Fresh Self Service & Bar are open. Vending machines are available.
Seve Ballesteros-Santander
Commercial services: As from 1 July, opens Come&Fly multi-store; vending machines are available.
As for Monday, June 8, the aiport recovers its normal operating hours for general aviation and school traffic.
Commercial services; The Airport Multishop, The Gambrinus and The Shop (boarding) are open. Vending machines are available.
Región de Murcia International Airport
As of July 1, the airport resumes its regular schedule of operations.
Commercial services: Semba and Food&Goods cafes and Submarine; WHSmith (boarding area) and Murcia Duty Free stores are open; vending machines are available.
The bus service Airport-Murcia resumes its activity on 21 July. Rest of lines are suspended.
El airport operates normally.
Commercial services: Duty Free store (Non Schengen boarding) and the cafeteria Bier Garten are open. Vendimg machines are available.
Commercial services: Ruta Jacobea Gourmet (boarding area) and Belnibe shop are open; vending machines are available.
Closure of VIP lounge
Car hire; Europcar, open; Avis, open; Atesa, open; Sixt, open.
As of 15 Jyly, the general car park and the express car park are open.
Commercial services: The Pharmacy and the Almería Duty Free Shop are open. Vending machines are available.
As from 27 June, the airport operates normally.
Commercial services: As from 1 July, open El Rincón stores. Vending machines are available.
As of 1 July the airport resumes its regular schedule of operations. Commercial flights will start operating on 2 July.
Vending machines are available.
As for 22 June, the airport resumes normal operations.
Operating normally. The airport cafeteria and the airport shop are open.
As of 1 July the aiport will no longer operate on demand.
Commercial services: As from 21 June, opens the airport cafeteria. As from 1 July, opens the shop (boarding zone). Vending machines are available.
As from July 1, the airport resumes its regular chedule of operations. Commercial flights will operate as of 2 July.
Commercial services: As from 1 July, opens Starbucks. Vending machines are available.
Operating normally. The airport cafeteria is open and the airport shop will open on 1 July.
The airport operates normally from Mondays to Sundays, from 8:30 am to 8:00 pm.
Commercial services: As from 21 June opens the airport cafeteria. Vending machines are available.
As from 22 June, the heliport operates normally.
As of 1 July the airport will no longer operate on demand.
Logroño-Agoncillo
As of Sunday, April 12, the airport operates on demand, within its normal schedule, upon prior request from the airlines three hours in advance.
As of Thursday, May 7, the airport operates on demand, within its normal schedule, upon prior request one hour in advance.
The airport operates on-demand flights within its current operating hours, from Monday to Friday until 3:00 p.m. From that time on and on Saturdays and Sundays special emergency flights, sanitary flights or flights of activities considered essential must be requested two hours in advance. Commercial flights that comply with the current regulations must be requested 24 hours in advance.
Huesca-Pirineos
As of Thursday, May 7, the airport operates on demand, within its normal schedule, upon prior request from the airlines three hours in advance.
Son Bonet
The airport operates on demand, within its normal schedule, upon prior request from the airlines three hours in advance.
As of 8 June, the airport operates normally.
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At Algeciras and Vitoria scheludes and facilities are being adapted to the new operations of the airlines.
At the air side of Aena airports only those outlets that are essential to meet the needs of workers, suppliers and passengers remain open. Only some catering serices at the main airports remain open, and also some press and convenience shops selling food and drinks, and special attention is paid to the vending machines supply.
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Aviation Weather Map
As a private pilot, the weather is often of particular interest to me. I like a good rainy day or thunderstorm as much as the next person, but when you're in a light aircraft, they're really not ideal - especially when flying in or around mountains, and I hear there's at least a few of those here in Colorado.
Of course, aviation has solved this with some of the most regularly-updated and precise weather reporting around, and as such, where there's even a small public airport, there's probably a weather station emitting METAR reports. Even better, there's four rough categories of weather for flying - VFR, MVFR, IFR, and LIFR. Sounds like a good subject for a map to me.
So, I've built an aviation weather map with lights at each airport showing the weather. Two maps, actually - I built one last year for the San Francisco Bay Area, but moving state meant redoing the map, so I've recorded the build in the video above, and I'm writing this down so you too can build one if you wish.
The actual physical map for the build is made of:
A high-quality inkjet print on 13"x19" semigloss paper (but any way of getting a nice paper map will do!)
Foamcore / Foamboard (cut to size)
Spray glue (to hold them together)
Two short pieces of square wood dowel (to provide a hanging mount/wall offset)
A spring punch (to make the holes for the LEDs - something around 5mm or 1/4" is best)
Then the electronics take a little bit extra:
A Particle Photon (but realistically any microcontroller will do with some code changes)
Addressable 5050 LEDs (Adafruit sells these as NeoPixels)
Varied small-gauge wire (I just have reels of 10 different colours in 0.6mm/22AWG size)
Prototyping board and female headers (to attach the microcontroller to - or, just solder to it directly and skip this)
Solder and soldering iron (I am a fan of the TS100)
Hot Glue (to hold the LEDs down and provide some diffusion)
Tape (to hold down the LEDs and wires; kapton tape is probably best given how insulating it is)
You can see the full build process in the video, but the basic steps are:
Print and cut out your map, and mount it onto the foamcore with spray glue. You either want to have a nice flush, square edge, or a frame it's going to fit perfectly in that has at least 2cm of depth behind it for the electronics.
Identify the airports you want to put LEDs in place of - verify they have METAR information available on something like AirNav!
Poke small holes (with a needle or very small drill) from the centre of the airports through to the back of the foamcore) so you can locate them from the back
Use the spring punch from the back to punch the holes into the foamcore and through the map. If you do it from the front, you'll get nasty dents as the foamcore gets compressed.
Sketch out the path of a single set of wires that will run continuously between all the LEDS on the back in a single path.
Place the LEDs over the holes on the back of the map, with their in/out data pads aligned with the path you drew (so you can actually solder them well later). Tape them down.
Use a very small dab of hot glue in the hole on the front to both secure the LED, and to provide a diffuser so it's not a point light. You could, instead, buy LEDs with built-in diffusers and poke those through, but I didn't have these.
Solder all the LEDs together in a long chain using three runs of wire, making sure you solder positive to positive, ground to ground, and data out to data in. Warning: this takes a long, long time and is annoying.
Either tape or hot glue the LEDs down from the back to keep them fully in place.
Attach your microcontroller to the end of the LED chain and hook up the power and ground lines to the power pins on your microcontroller (making sure its power regulator has enough overhead for the extra current) and the data line to one of the digital-out pins.
Edit the software to set the correct set of airport codes in sequence (starting at the LED closest to the microcontroller) and the right data pin.
Hot-glue on the wood pieces and hang it on the wall!
The software for this is relatively simple, and I've uploaded mine to GitHub so you can take a look over it.
I've used a Particle board, because I'm a fan of both their flash-over-the-air technology and the ability to handle API requests on the server side; on the device you just subscribe to and send simple text-based events, and then in the Particle console you can tie those into API calls that handle the SSL and JSON decoding for you. It's rather nice, and Particle do charge a small monthly fee for the Device Cloud usage but I personally find it worth it (it's especially nice with their LTE boards that do all this, transparently, over mobile data - including the flashing part!)
If you want to use a more standard Arduino-like board, you'll have to replace the Particle eventing code with an SSL client and a JSON decoder, so expect to use a moderately powerful Arduino board for that. You could also put a Raspberry Pi as the driving board if you really want to go all-out; there's plenty of libraries for talking to addressable pixels from the Pi's GPIO pins, and you can use a nice language like Python!
Additionally, as I mention in the video, I used a piece of code to turn a set of image tiles from a tiled "slippy" map server into a single PNG; that's part of my landcarve suite of tools, and you can find it on GitHub. There's not a great user manual for it right now, but if you do landcarve tileimage --help you can hopefully figure it out.
It's a nice moderate build - the LED soldering is the main annoying part of it - but I do enjoy having the map up in my study, and as a bonus, it's useful to glance at when I am about to go flying to see if it's even worth heading out, or cancelling due to weather.
I also found it fun on the San Francisco version to watch weather literally roll across the map from the coastal side as the marine layer drew in; the weather here in Colorado has been pretty nice since I built this version, so it's mostly shining green the whole time, but I'm curious to see if there's a similar effect as mountain/winter storms roll across the state.
I would love to build a bigger version of this that was all of Colorado - after all, it's a rectangular state, so it's easy to make a wall map of - but that needs a large-format printer, and I don't have easy access to one of those right now; I'd have to go to a printing shop to get it done and pay the requisite cost. I might still do that, but during these times of pandemic, I am trying to keep my projects as inside-the-house as possible for now.
I guess there's also room to build a several-hundred-LEDs version of this that's the whole country, but the map you see here was already about 4 hours of soldering wires onto tiny pads; I think at that scale, I'd just try and find a proper pre-made string of addressable LEDs and just deal with the extra wires and depth somehow!
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Home Local The Year in Review: Helping Hands/Showing Support
The Year in Review: Helping Hands/Showing Support
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Jan. 1, 2020, dawned as the beginning of a new year — just like any other new year. But this past year was unlike any in living memory, and throughout the year, people started going above and beyond.
In this special series for Aerotech News and Review, we take a look back at 2020 — the year everything changed.
– Ed.
In July, Tom Conroy Sr., pictured in the lead photo, turned 98! More than 75 years prior, Conroy was turning wrenches, and joining air crew with Army Air Corps on anti-submarine warfare patrols during World War II. Conroy also volunteered to serve with the Marine Corps reserve during the Korean War. To mark his 98th birthday, Conroy was serenaded by with Happy Birthday by about 100 veteran friends and supporters. Those turning out to pay their respects included motorcyclists from Patriot Guard Riders, Patriot Crusaders, American Legion Riders, vet motorists and veterans supporters from Coffee4Vets, Vets4Veterans, Point Man Antelope Valley and more.
In July, the community welcomed home Walter Sapp, 76, after he spend three months and five days in the hospital with COVID-19. Sapp, a Coast Guard retiree, is known as a veterans community supporter and Loyal Knight of Elks Lodge 1625 in Lancaster. He was welcomed home by a thundering procession of motorcyclists from Patriot Guard Riders, Patriot Crusaders, bikers who ride with American Legion, and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Following in cars were vet supporters from Sapp’s own military support group, Coffee4Vets, as well as Vets4Veterans, Point Man Antelope Valley and other groups.
In April, Coffee4Vets delivered a Crazy Otto’s breakfast for frontline workers at the William J. “Pete” Knight Veterans Home in Lancaster. At the same time, High Desert Medical Group delivered hygiene items for which veterans had not been able to shop, including skin moisturizer and Poli-Grip. Delivery team was Coffee4Vets President Juan Blanco, VP Atherine Blanco, Board Members Tony Tortolano and Krishna Flores, with Crazy Otto’s owner and Blue Star Dad Jin Hur and his Avenue I team preparing the meal.
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A B-52 from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., flies over healthcare facilities in the Antelope Valley May 14, 2020.
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Socially distanced and masked, local volunteers walk the grounds of Lancaster Cemetery, Dec. 18, 2020, placing holiday wreaths on the graves of veterans, as they participate in the annual Wreaths Across America.
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Home » EPA challenged on its ethanol lifecycle analysis
EPA challenged on its ethanol lifecycle analysis
04/21/16 9:58 AM By Jodi Delapaz
WASHINGTON, April 21, 2016 - On behalf of the Energy Future Coalition, the Urban Air Institute and the Governors’ Biofuels Coalition, Boyden Gray and Associates PLLC recently submitted a formal Request for Correction of Information to EPA on the agency’s lifecycle analysis for ethanol and gasoline under the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), according to 25x'25, which also supports the request.
Ethanol advocates have long called into question the data EPA has used in projecting the lifecycle analysis, notes 25x’25. “The agency has consistently used outdated – thus inaccurate – information that underrates ethanol’s performance as a cleaner, reduced-emission alternative in our nation’s transportation fuel supply,” says 25x’25, a group pushing for 25 percent of U.S. energy to be supplied by renewables by 2025.
Here are some of the groups’ assertions and details of their request:
EPA has failed to assimilate new evidence demonstrating significant improvements that have been made in ethanol’s lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, therefore the agency should update its findings to reflect that the lifecycle GHG benefits of the RFS are much greater than predicted. For example, says 25x’25, data cited by the groups’ request show increased demand for corn causes much less land-use change and related emissions than EPA predicted in 2010. The evidence includes improved economic models and newly available land-use data from periods of increasing corn ethanol production, which show significant increases in yield but no significant increases in land use change.
Improved agricultural practices and technologies are substantially reducing the carbon intensity of ethanol by increasing the ability of soil to capture and retain carbon deep below ground. Evidence includes updated science on soil organic carbon, which indicates that best tillage practices sequester more carbon in the soil than previously thought. The evidence suggests that many cornfields are net carbon “sinks,” capturing more carbon than land-use change and corn farming releases, says 25x’25. These more efficient agricultural practices and technologies have also reduced the per-bushel amount of nitrogen fertilizer applied to the corn crop and eventually converted into the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O), the request states.
Biorefineries have become much more efficient, using less natural gas and electricity to produce each gallon of ethanol, the groups point out. Biorefineries are also producing new co-products that reduce the carbon intensity of ethanol, including distillers grains, which is used as animal feed; corn oil, which replaces soy-based biodiesel; and other co-products that lower the carbon intensity of corn ethanol.
By contrast, petroleum-based fuels are becoming increasingly carbon intensive, the request states. As a result, the gasoline carbon intensity baseline should be significantly higher than EPA suggested, increasing the comparative benefit of ethanol, the groups say.
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The groups submitting the request say they hope their appeal, coupled with an ongoing evaluation by the EPA Inspector General into EPA’s treatment of ethanol’s GHG and air quality effects, will compel EPA to update its analysis and report its findings to Congress.
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Adult Language Adult Situations Suitable for Children
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Delirious (1991)
Directed by Tom Mankiewicz / Dennis Iliadis
Genres - Comedy, Fantasy | Sub-Genres - Fantasy Comedy | Release Date - Aug 9, 1991 (USA) | Run Time - 120 min. | Countries - United States | MPAA Rating - PG
Synopsis by Paul Brenner
John Candy plays Jack Gable, a soap-opera writer who finds himself trapped inside his own television program with a magic typewriter in this toothless comedy. Jack finds himself embroiled in protecting his beloved Laura (Emma Samms), an actress who plays Rachel Hedison in Jack's show -- "Beyond Our Dreams" -- from having her character being killed off by the program's producers, the Sherwoods (Jerry Orbach, Renee Taylor). Laura has recently broken off with her co-star and lover Dennis (David Rasche) and is heading off for a weekend with Jack. As Jack unloads Laura's luggage, he conks himself on the head and knocks himself out. He awakens in a town bearing a name similar to the town in his soap opera. Dennis is on hand, but as his character in the show -- Dr. Paul Kirkland. Jack realizes that he has found himself in an alternative world made up of his soap opera world -- particularly apparent when he is recognized as Jack Gates, "the Wolf of Wall Street." Jack then meets Laura, who, in this soap opera world, is actually Janet Dubois, the daughter of a late biochemist who invented a pill that allows anyone to eat whatever they want and not gain any weight. The unscrupulous Hedison family (Raymond Burr, Charles Rocket, Dylan Baker) want to steal the formula for the pill and make a fortune for their pharmaceutical company. Jack then discovers that he can exit and re-enter the show at will and can alter the narrative of the show however he wants by typing up new plot points on his typewriter. In order to save Laura's character from the Sherwoods, Jack re-writes the show to save Janet by having his own character come to her rescue at the last minute.
Nothing Goes Right | Writer's Life
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In 2011, researchers found a genetic link between ALS and frontotemporal dementia, or FTD. Many patients with ALS share a genetic mutation on the C9orf72 gene with people who have developed FTD. This research demonstrated a genetic link between the two disorders, and has led many researchers to believe that the two diseases may be related.
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Genetic Structure, Self-Identified Race/Ethnicity, and Confounding in Case-Control Association Studies
Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Human Genetics, February 2005
In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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American Journal of Human Genetics, February 2005
Hua Tang, Tom Quertermous, Beatriz Rodriguez, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Xiaofeng Zhu, Andrew Brown, James S. Pankow, Michael A. Province, Steven C. Hunt, Eric Boerwinkle, Nicholas J. Schork, Neil J. Risch
We have analyzed genetic data for 326 microsatellite markers that were typed uniformly in a large multiethnic population-based sample of individuals as part of a study of the genetics of hypertension (Family Blood Pressure Program). Subjects identified themselves as belonging to one of four major racial/ethnic groups (white, African American, East Asian, and Hispanic) and were recruited from 15 different geographic locales within the United States and Taiwan. Genetic cluster analysis of the microsatellite markers produced four major clusters, which showed near-perfect correspondence with the four self-reported race/ethnicity categories. Of 3,636 subjects of varying race/ethnicity, only 5 (0.14%) showed genetic cluster membership different from their self-identified race/ethnicity. On the other hand, we detected only modest genetic differentiation between different current geographic locales within each race/ethnicity group. Thus, ancient geographic ancestry, which is highly correlated with self-identified race/ethnicity--as opposed to current residence--is the major determinant of genetic structure in the U.S. population. Implications of this genetic structure for case-control association studies are discussed.
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Masks mandatory for RVC facilities as state of emergency declared
As the province declared a public state of health emergency, Rocky View County (RVC) municipalities in the area are preparing for the new restrictions.
Nov 27, 2020 5:45 PM By: Scott Strasser and Jordan Stricker
Rocky View County announced face masks are now mandatory inside all County facilties after new restrictionns were announced by the province on Nov. 24. Photo by Jordan Stricker/Rocky View Weekly
Following the Alberta government's declaration of a state of public health emergency, Rocky View County (RVC) and other regional municipalities are under new restrictions.
Although the County does not have a mask bylaw, masks are now mandatory inside all County facilities, according to rockyview.ca. County Hall is open to the public, but appointments are recommended.
As of Nov. 26, RVC had recorded 122 active cases of COVID-19, with an active case rate of 281 per population of 100,000. The County's situation remained classified as "enhanced".
At that time, Chestermere had 67 active cases and Cochrane had 29 active cases. Both communities were classified as enhanced, with mask bylaws in effect.
Chestermere Lake Middle School and RancheView School in Cochrane remained under "watch" with an outbreak of five or more cases, while Chestermere High School had been added to the Alberta government's school status map, listed as "open" with two to four cases. Cochrane High School and the Edge School, in Springbank, were also listed as open.
With the prevalence of COVID-19 continuing to escalate province-wide, Premier Jason Kenney enacted a second state of public health emergency Nov. 24 and announced a number of new restrictions meant to prevent further spread. Kenney said the restrictions would be in effect for three weeks and will be re-evaluated in mid-December.
“As [chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw] has said, there’s no one single way through this pandemic,” Kenney said during a press conference watched by more than 100,000 Albertans. “Any decision impacts the lives of our friends and neighbours.”
As per Kenney’s announcement, indoor social gatherings are now banned in Alberta, while outdoor gatherings are limited to 10 people. The restrictions apply to wedding ceremonies and funerals. He added social gatherings are the largest known source of transmission.
“Many people may think a family dinner or get together with friends is no big deal and just normal,” he said. “We don’t imagine when we gather as a family that people will be transmitting a virus like this, but it is the key reason why COVID-19 is winning.”
Faith-based gatherings now face a mandatory limit of one-third capacity in communities of the province under “enhanced” status, while masks are mandatory for indoor workspaces in the same areas.
The restrictions will also impact schools. According to Kenney, students in grades 7 to 12 will transition back to at-home learning from Dec. 1 to 18, and students will return to in-school classes Jan. 11, 2021.
Kenney said some businesses must close for in-person service, including banquet halls, conference centres, trade shows, auditoriums, concert venues and children’s play places.
Most retail businesses may remain open with a 25 per cent capacity limit, Kenney said. Restaurants and bars are able to offer in-person dining with 25 per cent capacity and a maximum of six people from the same immediate household at a table. Movement is not allowed between tables.
Hair salons, personal wellness services, hotels and professional services will be restricted to operating on an appointment-only basis, he added, and must follow all public health guidelines in place.
Entertainment services such as casinos, movie theatres, museums, libraries, indoor entertainment centres and recreational facilities must also operate under the 25 per cent threshold.
Health Minister Tyler Shandro said Alberta peace officers will have the authority to enforce the new restrictions. Violations can result in fines up to $1,000, which can increase to $100,000 through the court system.
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Water Volume in Tonle Sap Lake Still Below All-Time Lows
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AKP Phnom Penh, August 20, 2020 -- The Mekong River Commission (MRC) says the volume of water in the Tonle Sap Lake is still below all-time lows.
In a weekly situation report, the MRC’s Flood and Drought Management Centre in Phnom Penh said low inflows from the Mekong River and tributaries in the early wet season resulted in a “very critical situation” for the lake.
The centre reported last week that the annual reverse flow of the Tonle Sap River did not begin in earnest until Aug. 4. The delayed reversal followed two "extremely small and brief instances" in July, it said.
More than half of the annual inflow into the lake originates from the Mekong mainstream.
“The low inflows from the Mekong River are most likely affected by less rainfall in the upper sub-catchment areas,” the centre said.
The Upper Mekong Basin in China is estimated to account for about 16 percent of the water discharged by the river into the sea through the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.
The biggest contribution is estimated to come from two major left-bank tributaries between Stung Treng and the Lao capital of Vientiane. These account for more than 40 percent of the river’s discharge, the MRC says.
(Hydrograph of water levels on the Tonle Sap River at Phnom Penh Port as of 07:00 Thursday (blue) compared with all-time lows (brown) and last yer’s levels (green): MRC)
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US markets fall amid global fears
Stocks drop once again following a volatile day on world markets.
The Nikkei has lost almost 40 per cent of its value in the last month [AFP]
Alfred Goldman, chief market strategist at Wachovia Securities, said the market’s late drop reflected investors’ ongoing concern over the direction of the economy.
“When confidence is razor-thin, the nervous tension goes way up and, bam, the
sellers take over.”
“It’s just an overall malaise about how bad the economic slump is going to be globally,” he said.
Asian crash
Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei index closed down 6.36 per cent to end the day at its worst closing level since October 1982.
The index has lost more than 20 per cent since last Monday and nearly 40 per cent in the last month alone.
The broader Topix index of Japanese shares posted an even steeper fall of 7.4 per cent.
In Europe, markets followed the Asian lead, initially plunging but had pulled back most of their losses by the close.
London’s FTSE index was down 0.79 per cent, while Frankfurt’s DAX was up 0.91 per cent.
However, France’s CAC 40 lost 3.96 per cent at 3067.35 points.
Patrick O’Hare at Briefing.com, which provides live market analysis, said: “It is fear that is driving the market and the prevailing fear now is that 2009 earnings estimates will need to be marked down considerably as global economies retrench.
“Another fear the market can’t shake is the fear of forced selling by troubled hedge funds.”
The closing numbers in Asia capped a volatile day, with the Nikkei at one point on Monday morning trading up three per cent, before plunging once again.
Measures by Japan’s prime minister failed to revive flagging market sentiment (Reuters)
Earlier moves by Taro Aso, the Japanese prime minister, to introduce measures to calm stock markets failed to revive flagging sentiment.
During an emergency meeting of the Japanese cabinet on Monday, Aso called for steps including tighter controls on short-selling and expanding a government fund to recapitalise banks to as much as 10 trillion yen ($106.1bn) from two trillion yen, Kyodo news agency reported.
In a further sign of the impact of the global economic slowdown, Japanese consumer electronics giant Canon said it was lowering its net profit forecast for 2008 by 25 per cent, due to the global slowdown and the strengthening of the yen.
The company said that the sharp recent falls on global markets had “increased concern over the impact to the real economy”.
“Additionally, drastic fluctuations in exchange rates between major currencies have led to a heightened sense of uncertainty over the future,” it said.
On Monday, a surprise statement from the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrialised nations hinted at further intervention, saying its members would co-operate to aid stability.
But that appeared to do little to immediately boost investor confidence.
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BP goes BIO, joins Biotechnology Industry Organization
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Energy giant BP (who remembers that this stands for British Petroleum?) has taken another step towards the biofuel economy by joining the Biotechnology Industry Organization's Industrial and Environmental Section, BIO announced Wednesday. The companies in this group, "... are all committed to renewable energy production and sustainable industrial development and they recognize industrial biotechnology is a key driver for a cleaner, greener and more secure future," said BIO President & CEO Jim Greenwood. He continues, using a few words I've never heard before (I've hyperlinked them to internet dictionaries where you can find the definitions if you're as clueless as I am about them)
"BP is the first major integrated energy company to join BIO, signaling an important shift in fuels production that will couple biotechnology with the use of renewable agricultural feedstocks. Twenty years of research in genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics is now paying off, and industrial biotechnology is the enabling technology behind this shift," Greenwood said.
BP also announced a $500 million Energy Biosciences Institute where the company will research into long-term alternative energy sources.
[Source: Biotechnology Industry Organization]
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BA Acting and Performance student Karola Kosecka shares her first term experience
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Tyrone Huggins Published date
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This year, Wimbledon welcomed our first ever BA Acting and Performance students to the college. Introduced alongside BA Contemporary Theatre and Performance, these new courses aimed to challenge conventional notions of actor training and develop performers who thrive on collaboration and who want to be highly experimental in their approach to performance making.
With the term in full swing, we spoke to student Karola Kosecka, who shared with us her experience of the course.
Could you tell us a bit about yourself?
I’m an international first year student studying BA Acting and Performance at Wimbledon College of Arts.
Originally, I'm from Poland, which is where I would say my adventure with theatre started at around the age of 9 years old. Through attending a youth club, I joined an acting group where we started performing on stage and from there I just fell in love and discovered theatre was my passion.
How did you find out about Wimbledon College of Arts?
Initially I was thinking about applying for acting courses in Warsaw. At the same time one of my friends from Poland started studying a fashion course at UAL. When I came over to visit her, we got talking about theatre and I realised the teaching system in London suited me much better.
I decided to look for courses at UAL and found out they had recently started this new course, which seemed a perfect fit.
Performance from Design for Dance 2016 a collaboration between BA Theatre Design students at Wimbledon and dance students from Middlesex University. Caption
What made you choose the course at Wimbledon?
I had applied to a few acting courses elsewhere, but what attracted me to the BA Acting and Performance course at Wimbledon was that I got the impression the course was more experimental and expressive. Other universities I looked at placed more emphasis on traditional acting skills and techniques. Then I met course leader Richard Allen and if further confirmed my choice, as he spoke a lot about collaborative work in groups, which is my preferred learning style.
Performance from Design for Dance 2018, a collaboration between BA Theatre Design students at Wimbledon and dance students from Middlesex University. - Credit: Guillaume Valli Caption
What has the course been like so far?
The first 2 weeks were very hard for me as it took a while getting used to the fact that my first language wasn’t other people’s first language. But then as I began to gain more confidence I really enjoyed getting to know all the other students on the course.
I’m really enjoying the movement classes and theatre laboratory days. We are always told there are no mistakes in the studio, which really creates a feeling of freedom to express yourself and challenge yourself to explore new ideas.
We have just started working on Faust, a tragic play by Goethe, and what I like about it is that we’re given the freedom to interpret the play and explore the themes in our own unique, different ways using movement.
What advice would you give to someone applying to the course?
When I was writing my personal statement, I spoke a lot about what acting means to me, how it inspires me and has shaped me as a person. I think colleges like Wimbledon want to learn more about you and how passionate you are in dedicating yourself to the craft, rather than just listing all the skills you’ve developed. So just be honest about who you are and what you want to become. Be true to your experiences and feelings and give examples of things that have inspired you.
Scene from Alice Through the Looking Glass, 2018, with costumes designed by students from Wimbledon College of Arts, performed by drama students from the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA). Caption
If you could describe life at Wimbledon in 3 words, what would they be and why?
Liberating – I really feel I can be myself here and there are no boundaries to what I can achieve.
Inspiring – because I’m finally in an environment surrounded by likeminded people who share the same passion and goals. Everyone bounces off each other, it’s just a real collaborate community feel which is encouraging.
Explorative – we are given the freedom to talk about everything and everyone’s voices and perspectives are always heard.
For more on Wimbledon’s performance courses, visit the course pages for BA Acting and Performance and BA Contemporary Theatre and Performance.
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Gold Rate In Madhya Pradesh Today Gold Rate In Madhya Pradesh Today
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Today's Gold Rate in Madhya Pradesh ( 19 Jan 2021 )
Today's Gold Rate (22K) per gram
Compare 22K & 24K Gold Rate In Madhya Pradesh (Today & Yesterday)
Rate Change
Standard Gold (22 K) ( 1 gram ) ₹ 4,726 ₹ 4,706 ₹ 20 ↑
Standard Gold (22 K) ( 8 grams ) ₹ 37,808 ₹ 37,648 ₹ 160 ↑
Pure Gold (24 K) ( 1 gram ) ₹ 4,962 ₹ 4,941 ₹ 21 ↑
Pure Gold (24 K) ( 8 grams ) ₹ 39,696 ₹ 39,528 ₹ 168 ↑
Daily Gold Rates
Date Standard Gold (22 K) Pure Gold (24 K)
1 gram 8 grams 1 gram 8 grams
19 Jan 2021 ₹ 4,726 ₹ 37,808 ₹ 4,962 ₹ 39,696
Weekly & Monthly Graph of Gold Rate in Madhya Pradesh
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Madhya Pradesh is a Northern state in India which is is said to be very rich in culture and boasts of one of the most ancient but renowned universities of India, Nalanda. The state is very well established in terms of language and artistry and are said to be consisting a population that has a very simple taste and lead a humble lifestyle, but when it comes to jewelry, gold is an auspicious part of their day to day life. A woman from the state is often seen wearing some sort of gold ornament even if it is the form of a nose ring. However, in Madhya Pradesh similar to other states in the country the rates are based on the prices around the region and fixed on the basis of the gold rates from the other parts of the country. Here, you will read about the general trend and rates of gold in the state.
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Gold Rate Trend in Madhya Pradesh for July 2020 to September 2020 (per gram of 24 karat gold)
Factor July August September
1st Day Rs.4,904 per gram Rs.5,450 per gram Rs.5,250 per gram
Last Day Rs.5,397 per gram Rs.5,240 per gram Rs.5,145 per gram
Highest Price Rs.5,397 per gram on 30 July and 31 July Rs.5,723 per gram on 8 August Rs.5,311 per gram on 17 September
Lowest Price Rs.4,883 per gram on 4 July, 5 July, and 6 July Rs.5,221 per gram on 29 August Rs.5,072 per gram on 29 September
Trend Incline Decline Decline
Change 10.05% -3.85% -2.00%
Quarterly Gold Rate in Madhya Pradesh from July 2020 to September 2020:
Gold prices in Madhya Pradesh in the month of July opened and closed at Rs.4,904 per gram and Rs.5,397 per gram, respectively. The prices of gold were stable on 4 July, 5 July, and 6 July and were at Rs.4,883 for a gram. This was also the lowest rate that the yellow metal hit for the month.
In August, gold prices declined by 3.85% over the course of the month. On 8 August 2020, gold hit its highest prices for the month and was at Rs.5,723 for a gram. The yellow metal hit its lowest rate on 29 August and was at Rs.5,221 per gram.
On 1 September, the price of gold in the state was at Rs.5,250 per gram. However, gold prices declined by 2.00% by the end of the month and closed at Rs.5,145 for a gram. The highest and lowest rates that the yellow metal hit for the month were Rs.5,311 per gram and Rs.5,072 per gram, respectively.
Gold Rate Trend in Madhya Pradesh for April 2020 to June 2020 (per gram of 24 karat gold)
Factor April May June
Highest Price Rs.4,757 per gram on 26 April to 28 April Rs.4,833 per gram on 18 May and 19 May Rs.4,988 per gram on 30 June
Lowest Price Rs.4,158 per gram from 1 April to 20 April Rs.4,646 per gram on 2 May Rs.4,767 per gram from 12 June to 15 June
Trend Incline Incline Incline
Change 14.50% 2.12% 3.93%
Quarterly Gold Rate in Madhya Pradesh from April to June:
On 1 April 2020, the price of gold in Madhya Pradesh was at Rs.4,158 for a gram and remained steady over the next 20 days. This was the lowest rate that the yellow metal hit for the month. The coronavirus outbreak across the world was the main reason for the prices to increase. On 30 April, the price of gold was at Rs.4,761 for a gram, seeing a 14.50% incline over the course of the month.
In the month of May, the prices of gold opened at Rs.4,699 per gram and closed at Rs.4,799 per gram. The tensions between China and the US was the main reason for the prices to increase. Gold saw its prices increase by 2.12% in May.
In June, the prices of gold saw an incline of 3.93% as the price of gold opened and closed at Rs.4,799 and Rs.4,988 respectively. The increase in the number of coronavirus cases and the stimulus measures that were introduced ensured that the prices increased.
Gold Rate Trend in Madhya Pradesh for January 2020 to March 2020 (per gram of 24 karat gold)
Factor January February March
Highest Price Rs.4,216 per gram on 9 January Rs.4,410 per gram on 25 February Rs.4,531 per gram on 7, 8, and 9 March
Lowest Price Rs.3,985 per gram on 1 January Rs.4,132 per gram on 7 February Rs.4,116 per gram on 18 March
Trend Incline Incline Decline
Change 4.86% 4.28% -2.46%
Quarterly Gold Rate in Madhya Pradesh from January 2020 to March 2020:
In January, gold prices in Madhya Pradesh opened at Rs.3,985 per gram for 24 karat gold and closed at Rs.4,179 per gram for the same. The lowest price was also on the first day of the month and the highest was a week later at Rs.4,216 per gram for 24 karat on 9 January. The trend was an overall incline of 4.86%. This was driven by several political effects that had an impact on stock markets around the world, which increased the safe-haven appeal of precious metals like gold. The US-China trade war which had been simmering for months seemed to be coming to a head but was soon overshadowed by the US-Iran conflict. News of an epidemic in China, called the coronavirus, shook Chinese markets, all of which contributed to investors turning their backs on equities and looking more towards gold as an investment.
In February, gold opened at Rs.4,179 per gram, which was the same as the last day of January. It closed at Rs.4,358, with the highest being in the last week of the month at Rs.4,410 per gram and the lowest being Rs.4,132 which was in the first week of the month. This can be attributed to the coronavirus spreading like wildfire across countries, shooting down stock markets in its wake. Although there was a temporary dip in prices due to China’s central bank injecting an economic boost through a monetary policy and stimulus which boosted the stock markets, this was only temporary as prices of gold went back up as the coronavirus continued got worse, continuing to bring stocks down in its wake. The overall trend this month was on an incline for gold at 4.28%.
In March, the trend of gold was completely different from that of the previous two months. There was a steep decline in prices to –2.46% with the lowest price being Rs.4,116 in the third week of March and the highest price being in the first and second weeks of March which was at Rs.4,531. The announcement of the World Health Organisation that the coronavirus was now a pandemic had stoked fears of a global recession which led to a temporary spike in gold prices, but this soon plummeted as investors started liquidating assets and choosing to have cash in hand instead of even equities or safe-haven investments. Physical trading of gold and online trading in bullions also dipped as lockdowns spread in almost every country in the world, further contributing to the dip in prices of gold in March in Madhya Pradesh.
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Gold as an investment in Madhya Pradesh
When it comes to a safe investment option, Gold is considered to be one of the least riskiest of trading commodities in any market, whether regional or global. In Madhya Pradesh too the yellow metal is considered an investment option that is lower on risk factors, primarily based on the fact that it is highly affordable and culturally significant as mentioned before. Most families find this metal auspicious such as weddings and Dhanteras season. Also families involved in marriage exchange gold ornaments as a tradition especially for the bride and the other female family members. Investors in this part of the country also find it an integral part of their investment portfolio along with stock market and mutual fund investments. Investors have various options for gold trading through gold contracts and physical gold.
Physical Gold: If you are buying gold in Madhya Pradesh, you have a variety options. This includes buying gold coins from jewelers as well as banks who offer products that are variegated in prices based on individual’s investment requirement and budget. Gold ornaments include chains, anklets, earrings, amulets, nose rings and rings which serve both as an investment along with being an accessory. Gold statues of gods and goddesses are also popular in Madhya Pradesh, with their demand peaking during festivals and religious processions during Akshaya Tritiya and Ganesh chaturthi. Gold in banks are slightly more expensive. But then again you have the advantage of gold that is certified and checked and you can be assured about the purity.
Market Trade: In this state one can purchase gold through the markets, with gold being traded in the National Multi Commodity Exchange, National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange and the Multi Commodity Exchange. This is apt for individuals willing to purchase gold in bulk, with the minimum trading limit being set at 1 kg in general. It's a viable option for people who are well aware of the gold market and all that affects it.
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Centre To Propose Lower GST Rate
The Centre is planning to submit a proposal requesting the government to double the rate of tax on gold under the Goods and Service Tax bracket. This will in return allow the GST council to set low GST rate. GST council will be held this Thursday in which government will point out the benefits of this proposal. The government defence is that the profit from gold consumption will provide enough cushion to set lower GST rate. They further stated that following this rule, GST can be set lower than 20%. This proposal is made based on a previous proposal committee headed by Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor last year. It is noteworthy that currently gold and other precious metals are taxed around 1% to 1.6%. Whereas, a major percentage of goods and services are taxed at 27% appropriately.
Gold eases off from a fresh 9 day high
Gold did not sustain over 50 DMA barrier and is now extending its retreat from a 9 day high as a result of a broad US dollar recovery. Gold dropped down by 0.18% at $1,242 after having posted a fresh 9 day high at $1,248.Gold tends to benefit in a low interest rates environment as it is a non-interest paying investment asset. The gold market is now waiting for an update from Fed Chair Yellen about the Federal Reserve rate hike this year.
Gold Prices Slide Slightly Again
Gold prices fell slightly on Wednesday amid strong dollar rates. Spot gold decreased by 0.1 percent to USD 1,248.53 per ounce at 0928 GMT, down from the one-week high of USD 1,258. April futures of gold in the US fell by USD 3.60 per ounce to USD 1,250.70.
The dollar gained around 0.1 percent on Wednesday, dragging gold prices down. Experts expect gold to rally around on the back of expectations of a higher inflation in the US, and negative rates in Japan and Euro zone.
Silver, in the meanwhile, rose by 0.1 percent to USD 16.95 per ounce, after achieving an 11-month high of USD 17.23.
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Hannah Adams, 14, was last seen in the 10400-block of Oak Gate in Surrey on June 29. (Photo: Surrey RCMP)
UPDATE: Surrey RCMP say missing 14-year-old girl has been found
Hannah Adams, 14, was reported missing on Monday
UPDATE, Thursday, July 2: Police say Hannah Adams has been found
Surrey Mounties need help to find a 14-year-old girl who was reported missing on Monday.
Hannah Adams was last seen at 9 p.m. on June 29, in the 10400 block of Oak Gate in Surrey. She has not been heard from since.
She is Indigenous, five feet tall, about 95 pounds, and has long black straight hair and brown eyes. She was wearing wearing a black Adidas T-shirt, blue Nike runners, a dark blue jacket and grey leggings.
Staff Sergeant Joe Johal said police and family “are concerned for her health and well-being.”
Police ask anyone with information to call the Surrey RCMP at 604-599-0502, or Crime Stoppers, if they wish to remain anonymous, at 1-800-222-8477 or www.solvecrime.ca, quoting file number: 2020-98732.
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Lava A82 with 5-inch display and 1GB RAM launched at Rs. 5,299
Best Tech Guru Team June 2, 2016
The Indian manufacturer, Lava has launched a new smartphone dubbed as Lava A82. The entry-level smartphone is priced at Rs. 5,299, however, it is now available at discounted price of Rs. 4,549 exclusively on Tata CLiQ.
The Lava A82 comes with a 5-inch (854 x 480 pixels) FWVGA display and is powered by 1.2GHz quad-core MediaTek processor, paired with 1 GB RAM. It bears 8 GB of internal memory, expandable up to 32GB with microSD and will run on Android 5.1 Lollipop, which is later upgradable to Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
The A82 sports a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera with LED flash too. It is backed by a 2000mAh battery and offers connectivity options like 3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, and GPS.
The Lava A82 will be offered in White, Blue and Gold color variants. Last week, the company launched the IvoryS 4G tablet at Rs. 8,799.
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Meizu Pro 6 leaked in press renders; to launch on April 13
Best Tech Guru Team April 8, 2016
Meizu is all set to launch its next flagship smartphone, Meizu Pro 6 on April 13. And as it happens in most of the cases, its press renders got leaked by a Chinese website.
The leaked image shows the rear panel of Meizu Pro 6, which is inline with the previous leaks. From the image, the smartphone seems to have metal body, but the most interesting feature of the smartphone is its rear camera. The rumored 21 MP rear camera has laser autofocus assist module located inside the LED flash ring.
The Meizu Pro is is said to come in two variants, one with 4GB of RAM and 64GB internal storage, and another with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. It is expected to sport a 5.7-inch display that is powered by 2.5GHz Helio X25 deca-core chipset. It could also bear a fingerprint sensor integrated into the physical home button.
Just two days ago, Meizu launched the M3 Note in China.
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Georgia runoffs to determine Senate control
Joseph R. Biden claimed the White House for Democrats this weekend. Whether he will be able to get much accomplished depends on what happens in two months in Georgia.
Two Senate runoff elections are slated for Jan. 5, and they are expected to determine whether Republicans will keep control of the chamber, and the ability to derail Mr. Biden’s plans, or whether Democrats will take control.
“Now we take Georgia, then we change America,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, said in the minutes after Mr. Biden declared victory.
Although Mr. Schumer pointedly highlighted what’s at stake, it’s not clear whether his nationalizing of the race helps the Democrats in the state race.
Political analysts said they expect the two Democrats, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, to try to avoid getting too deep in the politics at the national level, where Mr. Biden will be choosing his Cabinet members and plotting his first moves after four years of President Trump’s executive actions.
The two Republican incumbents, Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, are likely to make the Democrats sweat each Biden move by demanding to know whether Mr. Ossoff and Mr. Warnock support the incoming president.
“Now, more than ever, we NEED to keep the Senate in Republican hands,” Ms. Loeffler said in a Twitter post after Mr. Biden’s declaration of victory. She said she and Mr. Perdue are “the last line of defense against the radical left.”
The Democrats are likely to counter with the same accusations of corruption they fired at the Republicans in recent months.
“It will probably be the exact same campaigns we saw in the general election, with the same messaging: socialists versus crooks,” said one veteran Georgia political operative.
That framework worked for Mr. Perdue in the general election — just not by enough. He led Mr. Ossoff 49.8% to 47.9% as of Sunday afternoon, putting him just shy of the 50% threshold that would have avoided a runoff.
The other race featured a larger field, including two high-profile Republicans, Ms. Loeffler and Rep. Doug Collins, who battled each other, split the party’s vote and allowed Mr. Warnock to emerge with the most votes at 32.9%. Ms. Loeffler was second with 25.9%, giving her the right to face off against Mr. Warnock.
The two races have quickly fused into one.
Ms. Loefler and Mr. Perdue are portraying themselves as a package deal, and so are the Democrats, who have set up a joint fundraising operation.
Andra Gillespie, a political scientist at Emory University, said she expects the elections to become a battle over who can mobilize base voters better.
“Given the near parity of Democratic and Republican voters in the state and the fact that turnout will decline in January, whichever party has the best GOTV operation wins,” she said.
Georgia is one of a couple of states that require a candidate to win a majority of votes in order to be declared the winner.
The state has had two other Senate runoffs. The last one was in 2008, when Sen. Saxby Chambliss, a Republican, was held below 50% in the general election. Barack Obama was at the top of the Democratic ticket, and nearly 3.8 million people voted.
For the runoff, just 2.1 million voted.
Mr. Chambliss kept about 66% of his support, but his Democratic opponent lost nearly half of his supporters, delivering an easy win to the Republican.
Of course, the stakes weren’t so high in that election. Democrats were guaranteed control of the Senate, though the Georgia seat could have given them a 60-vote filibuster-proof majority.
Georgia now looks decidedly different from what it did in 2008.
For one thing, Mr. Biden appears to have won the state — the first time a Democrat has carried it in a presidential election since 1992.
Republicans went into elections last week with 53 Senate seats. As of Sunday, they were guaranteed to control 48 and were expected to win two other elections where vote-counting was slow.
If they prevail in those races, they will have 50 seats and the two Georgia seats in question. A Republican win in even one of the Georgia races would give the party control of the chamber.
If Democrats win both Georgia races, then presumptive Vice President Kamala D. Harris, as president of the Senate, would break any tie votes.
With those stakes, national interest groups that didn’t give the races in Georgia more than a nod during the general election are now expected to pour tens of millions of dollars into the campaigns.
The full panoply of Democratic groups, fearing their investment in Mr. Biden may be hampered by a Republican-led Senate, is leaning into the race. They include gun control groups, Democracy for America and causes championed by the likes of Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
Democracy for America, which advocates for government-sponsored health care, was an early supporter of Mr. Warnock but now backs Mr. Ossoff, who campaigns as more of a moderate.
“Victories for Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in their respective Senate runoffs would not only underscore the political revolution that has taken place in Georgia this year, it could save President-elect Joe Biden’s agenda from the brick wall of obstruction that Mitch McConnell is hoping to construct in the United States Senate,” said Charles Chamberlain, chair of Democracy for America.
Jeffrey Lazarus, a political science professor at Georgia State University, said he doubts the two Democrats tack far left over the next two months.
“Georgia isn’t a very liberal state in the aggregate, so the idea of winning votes by invoking prominent names in the progressive movement doesn’t play the same way down here as it does in, say, Massachusetts,” Mr. Lazarus said.
He said he does expect the Democratic candidates to wrap themselves in Mr. Biden, who has a reputation as a centrist.
Still, he said, it’s an uphill climb for both.
“I’m skeptical of Democrats’ chances in the runoff,” he said.
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Summer Baseball Program Overview
Question – When can I start my summer?
Answer – The Merrimack Valley Small Diamond traditionally concludes prior to the end of July and games are traditionally played only on weekdays. Baystate teams can play into early August and games will be played throughout the week, including weekends. In fact, successful Baystate teams will participate in weekend tournaments and makeup games are often held on weekends. District teams will continue to play until eliminated, so a District team can be eliminated as early as the first or second week of July. Conversely, so long as the team continues to wins, they can continue through Districts, Sectionals, States, Regionals through to the World Series which concludes in the second half of August.
Question – When a team is eliminated early in the District tournament, what happens after the District tournament?
Answer – In certain situations, players can play in the Baystate tournament or the eliminated team may elect to enter other local tournaments.
Question – What should a family that goes away most weekends and may only be able to make a few of the games and practices do?
Answer – Andover Little League expects a full commitment regarding games and practices. If a player can’t make such a commitment, then the player should decline the spot so that another deserving player can participate. A similar commitment is expected for Baystate teams. The Merrimack Valley Small Diamond League is a good alternative for players seeking a less competitive option requiring lesser time commitments.
Question – Does a player need to play on club team to make a Little League District team?
Answer – No.
Question - What are eligibility requirements to play on a District team?
Answer – All players that play in the Andover Little League spring baseball season are eligible. Players must register for the summer baseball season.
Question – When are the District teams selected?
Answer – The selection meeting will be held during the first week of June. Team rosters will be announced shortly thereafter.
Question - If a player makes a District team in a prior year, do they automatically make team next year?
Answer – No. Players are selected each year and do not receive an automatic selection by virtue of playing on a prior year’s team.
Question - What if my child does not make a District team?
Answer – Andover Little League provides every player an opportunity to play summer baseball. Other alternatives include the Baystate Tournament and the Merrimack Valley Small Diamond League. While your son or daughter may not be selected for a Baystate or District team, they will have an opportunity to continue to practicing and develop in the Merrimack Valley Small Diamond League games.
Question - How many kids will be on each team?
Answer – Approximately 14 players will be selected to each team.
Question - Are there any alternates for the Districts teams?
Answer – No
Answer – District team sizes will vary based on the preference of the Head Coaches. Baystate and Merrimack Valley Small Diamond teams will vary based on registration numbers and number of coaching volunteers.
Answer – Due to rostering rules and play requirements imposed by Little League, there are no alternates.
Question - How are District teams selected?
Answer – Selections by spring coaches based on evaluations by the same coaches in the spring.
Question - Can a younger player play up on an older District team?
Answer – Yes, on rare occasions younger players will have an opportunity to play up; however, older players will be given deference when players are considered close in demonstrated skills and abilities.
Question - Can an older player play down for a younger District team?
Question - When do Districts practices and games likely start?
Answer - Little League usually allows practices to begin for summer ball on June 15. This is a practice that is governed by Little League International. Practice schedule is at the discretion of the Manager. More than likely, the District teams will begin practicing while the spring season is still being played. Districts games are expected to start as early as the last week of June.
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Bloy and Perry's Principles of Criminal Law by Mike Molan, Denis Lanser and Duncan Bloy pdf
Bloy and Perry’s Principles of Criminal Law by Mike Molan, Denis Lanser and Duncan Bloy pdf free download
Bloy and Perry’s Principles of Criminal Law by Mike Molan, Denis Lanser and Duncan Bloy pdf free download. The three years since the publication of the third edition of this book has seen a significant amount of government activity in the areas of criminal justice, but very little by way of legislative reform of the substantive criminal law.
In this period, the Crime Sentences Act 1997, the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 have all made appearances to varying degrees of critical acclaim. The legislation that may yet prove to have the most impact on the substantive law is the Human Rights Act 1998, with the majority of provisions having come into effect on 2 October 2000.
This book therefore endeavours to reflect judicial decision making in this period, together with proposals for reform of the criminal law contained in various publications, such as the Law Commission, Consultation Paper on Fraud and Deception (1999) and the Home Office, Consultation Paper on Reforming the Law on Involuntary Manslaughter (2000), and raises the question of whether or not the nation needs a criminal code. It does not focus on the procedural or sentencing areas of the criminal law as these are rarely, if ever, dealt with in detail as part of a university level criminal law syllabus.
Duncan Bloy would like to thank his co-authors who have undertaken the vast majority of the work associated with the revision of the text. He also wishes to thank Cara Annett at Cavendish Publishing for her forbearance over the last few months. Mike Molan and Denis Lanser would like to extend their thanks to Cara Annett and Sonny Leong at Cavendish Publishing for encouraging their involvement in this fourth edition. Mike would like to thank Alison for taking care of business so that he had the time to do the writing and Denis would like to thank Melanie for all her support and assistance.
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Posted on: March 19th, 2010 at 6:23 am by Elie
One of our favorite movies here at Boogie HQ is Stand by Me, and we are stoked to see it again on the big screen. The eighties classic – starring River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Wil Wheaton, Jerry O’Connell, and Kiefer Sutherland – will be the midnight feature at the Sunshine Cinema this weekend.
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Huawei FreeBuds Pro review, Better than Apple Airbuds? Better Alternate for Android-user
Paulami Das
Sunday, 27 September 2020, 02:44 pm EDT
Huawei has notched things up in the battle of the noise with its brand new FreeBuds Pro, the latest addition to its collection of wireless earbuds. The all-new earbuds were uncovered on Thursday in a virtual stream along with the company’s FreeLace Pro wireless earphones. Both products provide an enhancement in terms of sound quality and overall functionality. Although is it possible to compare FreeBuds Pro and Apple’s AirPods Pro? Why not, let’s check it out.
FreeBuds Pro Vs. AirPods Pro: Sound Quality And Connectivity
Wireless earphones have made it big in the market although not all of them have reached the benchmark because they need to provide both enhanced sound quality and strong connectivity to the gadget. Huawei’s FreeBuds 3 (the Pro’s predecessor), offer impressive sound, good active noise cancellation, and a stable connection for music. FreeBuds Pro is more updated. Nonetheless, Apple’s AirPods have provided users with advanced wireless listening experiences.
Let’s Take A Look At Noise Cancellation
Huawei announced that the FreeBuds Pro (and FreeLace Pro) are the first-ever “true” wireless stereo earphones to support dynamic active noise cancellation. The earphones can probably recognize the surrounding environment noise and you can swiftly change between three noise-cancellation options: general, cozy, and ultimate. As per its own lab tests, Huawei stated that the FreeBuds Pro has a noise-cancellation capacity of up to 40dB, which is an industry-leading number.
You can also program it to allow in the surrounding noise, so you don’t have to take them off to hear what’s going on. Additionally, you will also get a voice mode, which still decreases surrounding noise and an awareness mode that picks up everything. On the other hand, AirPods Pro uses exterior and interior microphones to identify the sounds and “anti-noise” to cancel them. The active noise cancellation setting also showcases a transparency mode to let in surrounding sounds.
Design & Other Main Differences
Let’s talk about design. Both of the earbuds look alike. Both the earbuds have silicone ends that are properly placed over the enlarged speaker, with a straight piece that sits over the ear, but that part on the FreeBuds Pro is larger. Also overall they are quite smaller when it comes to size than AirPods Pro. What’s fascinating is that the new pair of buds look distinct from the previous FreeBuds 3. Whether this is an artistic or practical change, Huawei seems to be following Apple’s example here.
AirPods Pro operates on the high-excursion Apple driver and high-dynamic-range amplifier, on the other hand, Huawei’s FreeBuds Pro depends on an 11mm dynamic driver. The AirPods Pro consists of dual beam-forming microphones, an inward-facing microphone, dual optical sensors, a force sensor, and accelerometers to detect motion and speech. while FreeBuds Pro uses a sensor that operates on bone vibrations to help better recognise the user’s voice and make clearer phone calls. It is also able to connect to two smart devices at the same time. The AirPods Pro can do something similar, but only with Apple devices.
Huawei is yet to confirm the device’s price in North American. Although, Huawei’s earbuds will be available in October in Europe, priced at €199, roughly $235 or C$310.15. To compare, Apple’s AirPods Pro costs $249 and C$329.00 in the U.S. and Canada, respectively. Ultimately Huawei is the better alternative for Android users.
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It Will Never Be Enough: France Suggests Even if Brexit Deal is Agreed, They Would Veto it
Oliver JJ Lane
A top figure in the French government accused British negotiators of being duplicitous in talks and suggested the nation could use its veto to kill any deal they didn’t deem in their interest, seriously knocking expectations in London and Brussels that an agreement was on the verge of being signed.
Reports and speculation in European media in recent days suggested a Brexit deal could have been agreed late this week, although without clear indication of who would have surrendered to who and on what issues in order to make such an unlikely breakthrough possible. Yet claims emerging on Friday now suggest that talks were not actually going so well, and could be torpedoed at the last minute by the French government in a bid to protect their own interests.
Clément Beaune, France’s European affairs minister who The Times described as being close to, and speaking for, French president Emmanuel Macron, clearly laid out how dissatisfied the French appeared to be. Beaune said:
If there were a deal that isn’t good which in our evaluation doesn’t correspond to those interests, we will oppose it.
Yes, each country has a veto, so it’s possible. France, like all its partners, has the means of a veto. We must make our own evaluation, of course, of this deal, that’s normal. We owe that to the French people, we owe it to our fishermen and to other economic sectors.
I want to believe we will have a good deal, but to get a good deal you know it’s better to be frank, and to say our interests We have been very clear, sometimes the Brits a little less so, about our interests.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex (C), flanked by the Mayor of Boulogne sur Mer, Frederic Cuvillier (R) meets with different representatives of the fishing port during a visit on the preparations ahead of the end of the Brexit transition period on December 31, 2020, in Boulogne sur Mer, France on December 3, 2020. (Photo by CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
That Beaune specifically cited fishing is critical: whether a deal would be signed at all may depend on whether French fishermen can still land large catches in British waters. As things presently stand, British fishing boats land just nine per cent of English Channel cod and stand to gain much of that if Britain leaves without a deal — a matter of massive concern to France and symbolic to British Brexiteers of a full and true Brexit with repatriated control of the nation’s waters.
Indeed, the Daily Telegraph reports European negotiators have suddenly added a series of new demands into talks in recent days, even as an agreement was allegedly close on previously established grounds. It is claimed this sudden change in approach from Europe is down to French demands. The paper notes remarks from a British source that the new demands following French lobbying were “unacceptable”.
The ultimate result of this change in approach was that the chances of getting a deal at all were “receding”. Talks will continue through the weekend.
It may be viewed as reasonably ironic that the French government is so dissatisfied with the state of talks, given the European Union’s top Brexit negotiator is a veteran French politician, Michel Barnier.
One Month to Go! Brexit Talks Flounder on Eve of Final British Withdrawal https://t.co/IRpTCCO7t7
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 30, 2020
If France vetoed any deal that came forward in the coming days, it could lead to two outcomes. Most likely would be Britain leaving the European Union without a deal at the end of 2020 — in less than four weeks’ time. Less probable — given the UK government has already strongly rebuffed the possibility, and doing so would seriously damage Boris Johnson politically at home — is the transition period being extended into 2021, allowing talks to continue.
If a French veto did indeed lead to Britain leaving the European Union fully and without strings attached — as would be the case in a so-called no deal Brexit — the event would have a certain resonance with when the UK first joined the Union, or the Common Market as it was then known. While the UK finally joined in 1973, that was after France had vetoed Britain joining twice — in 1963 and 1967.
France, holding the door shut in the 1960s and then — possibly — slamming it closed behind Britain in 2020. In international relations, some things never change.
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Ernst Calls Out Braley: How Can You Pledge Bipartisanship When You Threatened Neighbor Over Chickens?
Jonathan Strong
A placid debate between GOP state senator Joni Ernst and Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley became heated in its closing minutes as Braley lunged at Ernst with attacks over the “Koch brothers” and Ernst swung back by asking how Braley could possibly claim bipartisanship when he is in a colorful feud with his next door neighbor.
Braley, who had carried a hard edge in his remarks throughout the debate, began the frenetic closing minutes by alleging that Ernst had told wealth donors at a “secret meeting” set up by conservative philanthropists Charles and David Koch.
Ernst then addressed Braley directly, saying, “Congressman Braley – you’re not running against these other people, you’re running against me. I am a mother, I am a soldier, and I am and independent leader. You’re being funded by Tom Steyer, who is a California billionaire extreme environmentalist. So remember, please, that you are running against me.”
“I realize that. And, Sen., President Obama’s name is not on the ballot. And I’m not going to owe President Obama anything on election day, you’re going to owe the Koch Brothers everything,” Braley responded.
A few minutes later, after Braley had attacked her over minimum wage issues, Ernst brought up a colorful feud between Braley and his next-door neighbor, who just this week announced in an interview with Breitbart News she will be voting for Ernst after decades of pulling the lever for Democrats.
“Congressman, you threatened to sue a neighbor over chickens that came onto your property. You’re talking about bipartisanship. How do we expect as Iowans to believe that you will work across the aisle when you can’t walk across your yard?” Ernst asked.
Braley, who was visibly shaken, said “That’s just not true. It’s just not true. I never threatened to sue anyone. It’s not true.”
Braley has admitted to bringing a formal complaint about four chickens owned by his neighbor, Pauline Hampton, but denied he threatened to sue her over the issue.
However, a contemporaneous email about the complaint quoted Braley telling a lawyer for neighborhood board of directors that he was demanding action that would “avoid a litigious situation.”
Prior to the more colorful moments of the debate, the two candidates sparred on Social Security, the war against the Islamic State (ISIS), and environmental issues.
On immigration, Braley pressed Ernst to urge Speaker John Boehner to bring the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill to the House floor. Ernst refused, saying she opposes “amnesty.”
“I do support bringing a lot of these illegal immigrants – there’s 11.5 million of them – I believe in bringing them forward, but not granting them amnesty. We have five million people waiting in line right now to receive United States citizenship, and we need to honor that commitment to those five million people,” Ernst said.
Despite that the bill would have afforded citizenship to millions of illegal aliens, Braley insisted it did not comprise amnesty.
“Sen. Rubio and Sen. McCain did not vote for amnesty. Amnesty is when you break the law and there are no consequences. That’s why they voted for this bill. It has real, serious, tough consequences, including an admission that you broke the law,” Braley said.
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Premas Biotech SARS-Cov-2 vaccine candidate moves ahead for animal trials
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The four-week placebo-controlled, blinded and randomised tests to be conducted in mice, will seek to evaluate safety in the rodent model and examine immune response by dose titration. Premas Biotech plans to administer the test across different dose amounts, including human doses. The company has successfully completed the manufacturing process for the VLP (virus like particle) vaccine candidate, which includes three surface antigens from SARS-CoV-2.
“We are excited that we have been able to manufacture and characterise the VLP containing three main proteins from SARS-CoV-2 virus. We are now moving ahead for animal trials using mice to analyse the safety and immunogenicity of the candidate. We believe it will be the first case of a triple-antigen VLP administered to an animal for SARS CoV-2,” said Prabuddha Kundu, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Premas Biotech.
The data and findings of this study are expected in about six weeks.
Describing the initiation of animal studies as an important milestone in the company’s vaccine development efforts, Dr Nupur Mehrotra, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Premas Biotech, said, “These animal trials will be crucial in testing the safety and efficacy of our vaccine candidate, and pave the path for our goal to enter first in human (FIH) trials. ”
Premas Biotech, which is working on the development of the Covid-19 vaccine through proof of concept approach in collaboration with its US partner Akers Biosciences, has already established a manufacturing protocol and initiated large-scale production studies for the vaccine candidate.
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Flix & Kicks - Music & Movies in the Park
Flix & Kicks 2020 - Movie & Concert Series in the Park
The City of Brighton will be hosting its popular Flix & Kicks concert and movie series beginning July 16. All series events will be held at Carmichael Park, located at 650 Southern Ave. Out of COVID-19-related health and safety precautions, the City will be incorporating several extra measures to keep attendees safe. To allow for social distancing, the seating area will be divided into individually-marked square spaces, with 10 feet between each space on all sides. A maximum of eight people from the same household will be allowed in each square. Social distancing and face coverings will be required for individuals over the age of two years old and without a disability. Hand sanitizer and face coverings will be available at a sanitizing station that will be located near the check-in area.
One ticket is valid for one 10X10 space for the event that will accommodate up to 8 people from the same household.
Reserve Your Space
July 16 HomeSlice at 7 p.m. (Dance/Wedding Band)
July 23 Jumanji: The Next Level at dusk (PG-13)
July 30 Chicano Heat at 7 p.m. (Tejano)
Aug. 6 Abominable (PG)
Aug. 13 The Fever at 7 p.m. (Dance/Wedding Band)
Aug. 20 Toy Story 4 (G)
Aug. 27 Cadillac Grip (Blues and Funk)
Sept. 3 Poltergeist (1982) (PG)
Sept. 10 Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts at 7 p.m.
Sept. 17 Trolls World Tour (PG)
Sept. 24 Frozen II (PG) Register here
To help keep everyone safe, the City asks attendees to follow state social distancing guidelines for outdoor events, including:
Maintaining six-feet of distance from those of other households
Washing your hands frequently, especially after touching shared surfaces
Wearing a face covering
Staying home if you’re experiencing COVID-19-like symptoms (i.e. fever, shortness of breath)
The shows are free to the public, but all attendees are required to register ahead of time through Eventbrite since space is limited. Registration is available the Friday prior to each concert/movie. Upon arrival, attendees must check-in at the on-site check-in booth. Park restrooms will be open to the public, in addition to a porta-potty and two hand sinks in the general vicinity. Attendees are encouraged to bring blankets, lawn chairs, picnics, bug spray and other amenities.
Please note: The events are subject to cancellation at any time.
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828). Can't Anyone Untie Us? (¿No hay quien no desate?), 1797-1798. Etching and aquatint on laid paper, Sheet: 11 7/8 x 8 in. (30.2 x 20.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, A. Augustus Healy Fund, Frank L. Babbott Fund, and Carll H. de Silver Fund, 37.33.75 (Photo: , 37.33.75_PS9.jpg)
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828). Can't Anyone Untie Us? (¿No hay quien no desate?), 1797-1798. Etching and aquatint on laid paper, Sheet: 11 7/8 x 8 in. (30.2 x 20.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, A. Augustus Healy Fund, Frank L. Babbott Fund, and Carll H. de Silver Fund, 37.33.75 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 37.33.75_transp5012.jpg)
Can't Anyone Untie Us? (¿No hay quien no desate?)
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
In 1799 Francisco de Goya y Lucientes announced the publication of The Caprichos, eighty etchings and aquatints whose satiric, imaginary subjects offered scathing critiques of the characters, institutions, and values of early modern Spanish society. The prints are among the most influential images in European art. They also demonstrate Goya’s mastery of the aquatint technique, with which he created the velvety dark tones that amplify the etchings’ mysterious quality.
Each plate has a poetic or aphoristic caption, but the images alone—filled with animals, witches, goblins, and unenlightened people from all levels of society—convey a range of human failings and vices. In the selections on view here, Goya skewered vanity, sycophancy, forced marriage, and ignorance, with imagery that has continuing relevance. In The Chinchillas, for example, two figures with closed eyes and padlocked ears—one holding a rosary and the other a sword, both dressed in heraldry-emblazoned straitjackets—open their mouths to passively receive ideas fed to them by the other figure, who wears donkey ears symbolizing ignorance.
The Brooklyn Museum’s The Caprichos is a rare set of “trial proofs,” early impressions made by the artist before the officially published edition.
This text refers to these objects: 37.33.75; 37.33.41; 37.33.50; 37.33.55
PORTFOLIO/SERIES Los Caprichos, Plate 75
ARTIST Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828
MEDIUM Etching and aquatint on laid paper
Place Made: Spain
DIMENSIONS Sheet: 11 7/8 x 8 in. (30.2 x 20.3 cm) Other (Plate): 8 9/16 x 6 in. (21.7 x 15.2 cm) Image: 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. (19.7 x 14 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS European Art
Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper
STATE Trial proof
CREDIT LINE A. Augustus Healy Fund, Frank L. Babbott Fund, and Carll H. de Silver Fund
RIGHTS STATEMENT No known copyright restrictions
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CAPTION Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828). Can't Anyone Untie Us? (¿No hay quien no desate?), 1797-1798. Etching and aquatint on laid paper, Sheet: 11 7/8 x 8 in. (30.2 x 20.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, A. Augustus Healy Fund, Frank L. Babbott Fund, and Carll H. de Silver Fund, 37.33.75 (Photo: , 37.33.75_PS9.jpg)
IMAGE overall, 37.33.75_PS9.jpg., 2019
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