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City commissioners approve shooting range/restaurant that serves booze
David Pescovitz 8:40 am Thu Aug 20, 2015
Daytona Beach, Florida commissioners approved a combination 12-lane indoor gun range and restaurant, that serves alcohol, to open in the city.
Owners Ron Perkinson and Edward Staudt say they have a plan to prevent drunk gunplay. From the Daytona Beach News-Journal:
If a restaurant customer orders an alcoholic beverage, his or her driver's license will be scanned by staff along with the licenses of everyone else at their table.
If the person drinking wanted to go to the gun range after eating, his or her license would be scanned again and the customer would be flagged as someone blocked from shooting because of the alcohol sale.
(Perkinson) said he'll keep a watch list for customers who could be trouble and he'll contact police when necessary. Perkinson said he'll also have access to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement database.
"New Daytona gun range will have restaurant with alcohol"
Excellent photo illustration by h2oscienceguy081.
Apple's head of security indicted in iPads-for-gun-licenses bribery case
Apple's Chief Security Officer Thomas Moyer was charged with bribery Tuesday after allegedly giving 200 iPads to local officials in exchange for concealed-carry gun licenses for Apple's security team. The Morgan Hill Times reports that others indicted included Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office Undersheriff Rick Sung, Capt. James Jensen, and local businessman Harpreet Chadha, also… READ THE REST
Kyle Rittenhouse released from jail after paying $2 million cash bond, with help from the MyPillow CEO
Kyle Rittenhouse — the Antioch, Illinois teenager who killed 2 people and severely injured another during after-curfew militia actions after a protest against police brutality in Kenosha, Wisconsin back in August 2020 — has just been released from jail after paying his $2 million cash bond. As Rittenhouse's lawyer tweeted: Mike Lindell is the CEO… READ THE REST
Gun stocks fall after news of coronavirus vaccine
On Monday, November 9, Pzifer announced that their trials of a coronavirus vaccine had been 90 percent effective. That's good news! But as Reuters reports, this news was a bummer for stockholders in firearm companies: Smith & Wesson Brands SWBI.O and rival Sturm Ruger & Co RGR.N fell more than 9%, while Vista Outdoor VSTO.N, which sells ammunition and a… READ THE REST
Here's the smart desktop warmer that safely keeps your coffee or tea at the perfect temperature
Simple solutions are almost always the best solutions. If you're cold, put on a jacket. If your car engine light clicks on, take it into the shop. And, if your coffee loses its piping hot bite…well, heat that baby up. Most of us are fans of the bold, burly sting of a fresh-off-the-brewer coffee at… READ THE REST
These 30 winter survival items will help you handle the cold all winter long
It happens every year – and it still feels like a chilly slap across the face each time. Winter rolls in…and you're uncomfortably reminded that the next few months will feel like something you just have to survive. However, there are ways to battle the elements. Assembled below are 30 surefire methods for assuring the… READ THE REST
This training bundle might be your ticket to a new career as a freelance writer
Lots of people think they can write. But a quick check of social media posts, blogs, and even some astonishingly mainstream media outlets prove that isn't always the case. Writing isn't easy. Writing well is even harder. And, writing well on a tight timeline is tougher still. But, if you've got the talent and ability… READ THE REST
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The Real Peak Complacency
Stocks are at record highs while volatility is at a record low. Which is another way of saying that investors aren’t as worried as they probably should be about the coming year.
That’s okay. Price corrections (with their attendant volatility spikes) are normal and natural ways for markets to teach overconfident investors a little humility. Think of them as the financial word’s forest fires, clearing out the underbrush of misconception, malinvestment, and hubris.
But there’s another area of Peak Complacency that is neither natural nor benign. And that’s cyberspace. Americans – and Europeans and Japanese – have moved most of their financial lives online just as hackers and other cyber-enemies get the upper hand. Recently:
Credit rating agency Equifax – apparently through its own incompetence – allowed hackers to access and presumably copy and sell “sensitive personal information” of 146 million Americans.
Online portal Yahoo upped the number of accounts that were hacked in 2013 to – get this — 3 billion.
The National Security Agency admitted that its state-of-the-art hacking tools were stolen by hackers and are now available for sale on the dark web.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) suffered more than 50 data breaches between January 2015 and December 2016, exposing “personally identifiable information (PII) of U.S. citizens.”
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database of corporate documents was hacked, leading to illegal insider trading that the SEC is still trying to unravel.
And then there’s bitcoin, where online exchanges are being hacked with apparent impunity and zero recourse for victims:
Cryptocurrencies: How hackers and fraudsters are causing chaos in the world of digital financial transactions (Independent) – There have been at least three dozen heists of cryptocurrency exchanges since 2011 and more than 980,000 bitcoins stolen, worth about $4 billion. Dan Wasyluk discovered the hard way that trading cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin happens in an online Wild West where sheriffs are largely absent. Mr Wasyluk and his colleagues raised bitcoins for a new tech venture and lodged them in escrow at a company running a cryptocurrency exchange called Moolah. Just months later the exchange collapsed; the man behind it is now awaiting trial in Britain on fraud and money-laundering charges. He has pleaded not guilty. Mr Wasyluk’s project lost 750 bitcoins, currently worth about $3m, and he believes he stands little chance of recovering any money. “It really was kind of a kneecapping of the project,” said Mr Wasyluk of the collapse three years ago. “If you are starting an exchange and you lose clients’ money, you or your company should be 100 per cent accountable for that loss. And right now there is nothing like that in place.” Cryptocurrencies were supposed to offer a secure, digital way to conduct financial transactions but they have been dogged by doubts. Concerns have largely focused on their astronomical gains in value and the likelihood of painful price crashes. Equally perilous, though, are the exchanges where virtual currencies are bought, sold and stored. These exchanges, which match buyers and sellers and sometimes hold traders’ funds, have become magnets for fraud and mires of technological dysfunction, posing an underappreciated risk to anyone who trades digital coins.
The obvious conclusion is that our bank, brokerage and bitcoin accounts aren’t safe from hackers and/or cyber-attacks that shut down settlement systems and power grids.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, for example, much of Puerto Rico is still without power, which means ATM machines aren’t working. See Puerto Rico is now a cash-only economy.
So physical cash – always a good thing to have on hand – is a crucial part of disaster planning. And precious metals in the form of small denomination gold and silver coins are if anything even more important, since who knows what a large-scale cyber event and the subsequent central bank money printing will do to fiat currency values.
Source:Dollar Collapse
A Quick Glance at Unemployment Rates For March
Productivity Measurement is Totally “FUBAR” Yet Certainly Overstated
The Debate Over CRM3
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Oxford Astra Zeneca Covid 19 Vaccine Shows Promising Signs For The Elderly
By possum52,
November 19, 2020 in Australia & New Zealand Cruisers
Aus Traveller
17 minutes ago, BRANDEE said:
Possum52 and Docker123
Seems like a pin has burst the balloon regarding AstraZeneca here in the US. Now there is much concern with Astra Zeneca's reliability. The NYTimes had an article "Astra Zeneca Faces Difficult Questions About It's Vaccine After Admitting Mistake".
Yes. They admitted that the protocol of administering a half dose followed by a full dose four weeks later had come about because of a mistake. (A fortuitous mistake I say.)
I wonder if there has been more criticism of the Astra Zeneca (Oxford) vaccine in the US than elsewhere because of possible competition with the American Pfizer one. Although the Pfizer vaccine was invented in Germany, it is probably perceived as American.
Edited November 28, 2020 by Aus Traveller
OzKiwiJJ
Yes, we've seen that news here as well. It will depend on how Astra Zenica handle it from here on. The accidental half-dose which gave better results needs to be tested more fully but many good things have come from accidental discoveries so it doesn't pay to discount it totally.
One of the articles I read made a pointed mention of the other two vaccines (Pfizer and ?? which I believe are being developed in the US) which made me wonder how biased that article was.
BRANDEE
35 minutes ago, OzKiwiJJ said:
The other company is Modera. That vaccine does not have to be stored at -70C but around regular refrigerator temperature. The US has 300miliion doses of Astra Zeneca on reserve and was expecting to start the end of December with some groups. I think Modera is a smaller company and can not produce as many doses as the other two companies.
South East Suburbs, Melbourne, Australia
1 hour ago, BRANDEE said:
Brandee, if broader trials are conducted with the half dose regime and have similar results, I will be happy with that. I tend to agree with Aus Traveller and OzKiwiJJ that the article in the NY Times could be a little biased and pushing the vaccines that are being talked about in the US. It sounds like the Pfizer vaccine will not be suitable for a fair percentage of the ppulation who are the ones who really need it - the elderly, those with pre-exisitng illnesses, pregnant women and children and Australian authorities will not us have it until it is proven it is safe for all age groups.
Edited November 28, 2020 by possum52
8 minutes ago, possum52 said:
Either the Astra Zeneca or Modera sound more logistical to be available for the majority of the world. The Pfizer vaccine would have to be administered at a hospital due to the temperature control. So many people are talking about not getting the vaccine at all due to the lack of trust and all the politics. I'm not sure what percentage of population have to get the vaccine for it to be effective in controlling/eradicating covid world wide.
At Thanksgiving Dinner this past Thursday my daughter in law' (researcher) said that my husband and I would be at the back of the line due to the fact that we already had it and probably have immunity to the current strain. My older son and his wife and twins all had it too. They all have high antibodies even though they got it early/mid March.(only my son got ill) Both the Pfizer and Modera vaccine is based on introducing covid recreated cells into the body to build up antibodies should a person come in contact. Similar to flu, pneumonia and many other immunizations. I asked her if they were going to administer a antibody test before giving a vaccine? She said it was being considered.
She was very impressed with all the current research and results , but not happy about the lack of time being given for clinical trials. Goes against her training and belief and she is very torn about giving the vaccine to her children.
LittleFish1976
7 hours ago, BRANDEE said:
From what I've read, the antibodies to covid exposure don't last very long - a matter of weeks or a few months so would only offer protection for that length of time. It is another part of the immune system that takes over from antibodies and gives longer lasting protection. They don't know yet whether this level of protection is afforded by viral exposure or if it can only be gained by vaccination.
8 hours ago, Aus Traveller said:
I'm pretty cynical about the amount of criticism I've seen in the US media about the Astra Zeneca/Oxford vaccine (despite the unfortunate nature of the difference in doses).
It's worth noting that neither Moderna nor Pfizer have signed up to the push (I think the WHO one) to provide vaccines without profit to poorer countries while the pandemic is still going. They haven't undertaken to sell the vaccine without profit during the pandemic.
Astra Zeneca on the other hand has signed up to that agreement and has been signing contracts to sell the vaccine much more cheaply than the two US-promoted ones.
The abc on-line news published an article on Saturday quoted an Australian 'vaccine expert' who lives New York who actually accused Astra Zeneca of 'embellishing the data'. That's a big accusation. But I see he works for an investment bank that funds the development of things like vaccines. Don't know if he has some skin in the game?
I think we're going to have to be cynical about what we read - there's a lot of background agendas to some of this publicity.
Also, just another piece of information - Astra Zeneca were testing at least one large group of participants weekly for covid whereas the other two (Moderna and Pfizer) only tested people who had symptoms sufficient to suspect they may have covid. Astra Zeneca therefore have data about whether their vaccine can halt the transmission of the virus and not just minimise the severity of illness/symptoms. This is really important because ideally we need to halt the spread so that the very vulnerable, who can't be vaccinated, are protected from getting it as we'll be able to one day wipe it out.
Sorry to go on - I'm really enjoying all the detail that's out there about all this stuff.
Kiwi Kruzer
Northern Gateway,, Auckland , N.Z.
As well as vaccine research , progress is being made in treatment..
NZ research helps make major breakthrough in Covid treatment
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/audio/dr-colin-mcarthur-nz-research-helps-make-major-breakthrough-in-covid-treatment/
By The Bay
Is this to quick?🤔
"Britain is set to approve the COVID-19 vaccine developed by BioNTech SE and Pfizer Inc next week and deliveries would begin within hours of the authorisation, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.
The first immunisations using the BioNTech and Pfizer vaccine could take place from December 7, the FT said, citing unnamed sources." Source: SMH today.
MMDown Under
42 minutes ago, By The Bay said:
In my opinion, yes.
9 hours ago, LittleFish1976 said:
After nine months, both my husband and I still have antibodies from our Covid in Mar/April. So do my 12 yr old grandsons..nine months and counting. We are all surprised considering what is being written in the papers.
Once upon a time you could believe what was written in the papers. These days not so much.
On 11/29/2020 at 10:37 AM, BRANDEE said:
Read recently that people re-develop anti-bodies after re-exposure to the virus - given there's been so much of it in the States, perhaps this has happened with your family? It'll be many years before they unlock all the secrets of this virus. Hope your vaccine roll-outs happen smoothly over there.
30 minutes ago, LittleFish1976 said:
You are right stating the mysteries of this disease. So confusing for the medical profession.
Looks like Moderna is ready to roll out a vaccine as soon as it is approved by CDA, but our governor still wants to have a panel of "experts" look at it first.. Still not 100% sure who will get it first, second etc.
The NYBlood Bank tests us every time we give plasma and so far always negative and always asked to hurry on back to give more. Wish more would donate..so easy.
Pretty much in isolation for 9 months and living in an area no longer considered a hot spot, but certainly could have been re exposed, if we were than we do have immunity. If you are exposed to a virus and your body produces antibodies to fight it so you do not get sick..it is immunity..almost like a vaccine. Our doctor said more and more people who had covid still have anti bodies for a much longer time than first thought..not sure why. I still won't take any chances, haven't eaten in a restaurant or shopped at a mall store since February. Can't believe they opened up gyms..but closed schools??
Just hoping the Thanksgiving weekend did not set NY back too much, there were plenty of people not following protocol. We have too many idiots who believe it is against their constitutional right to have to wear a mask.
3 minutes ago, BRANDEE said:
Yes, you're right about the immunity after exposure. What I've read is that people can develop T cell response to the virus after infection, which is the longer-lasting immune system response. Apparently the T cells spark the production of antibodies all over again if one is exposed to the virus again. As you say, just like a vaccine but I'm not sure if this always happens or only in some people (given the whole 'herd immunity by letting the virus run rampant' theory has been debunked by medical experts).
I see millions of Americans travelled, many by plane, during your holiday weekend. It would be a miracle if infection rates don't rise but I wish you well in NY.
Most places seem keen to vaccinate front-line medical staff first, as well as aged-care residents and staff - makes sense. Most of us will be well down the queue but as long as the vaccine is getting out into the community somehow and minimising the opportunities the virus has to take hold, the better.
The airports were packed during the Thanksgiving Weekend. A surge is expected in 10 days. Disgusting is all I can say.
Tonight on the news, they said the first group of seniors, 80 and over, would be in the first group of people who get the vaccine with health care workers. Each state governor can make their own rules.. I think that is going to cause problems..50 different minds that do not think alike..at all!
In Australia, the decisions on which vaccine will be used and who get the vaccination first, will be made by the Federal government. Therefore it will be consistent.
pully8
Whatever is decided hope it will be soon.
Well... the surge from Thanksgiving weekend is starting to happen..only 5 days and a big uptick is beginning here in NY. Local hospitals are beginning to get "full" again and that means some elective surgeries are being cancelled till ??? Asking people over 65 and at risk to stay in place.
This mornings newspapers article outlined a "possible" roll out of the vaccine in phases for NY.
(Our federal government will issue a guideline but the state governors have the last say to tweek the guidelines.)
Phase 1..Health care workers providing patient care and emergency services. Long term care facility workers and at risk long term care facility patients.
Phase 2..Police, firemen, national guard first responders. teachers, school staff and child care providers. Public health workers and workers who interact with public (pharmacists, grocery and transit workers. Other long term care patients and General population with high risk conditions.
Phase 3..People over 65 and people under 65 with health risks.
Phase 4..All other essential workers.
Phase 5..Healthy adults and children.
Also: The state's sequence could be suspended by new federal guidelines or updated data on vaccine side effects and levels of protection afforded to subgroups such as senior citizens.
Getting 330 million Americans over 3.8 million square miles to get vaccinated is going to be one of the greatest undertaking this country has ever seen. And considering we are a divided country..with our leader in denial...we sure have a big uphill battle.
NSWP
Batehaven, Australia
I have to relate this story, funny if it were not serious. On a social media site frequented by Princess Elite Cruisers, re priority in receiving the vaccine.
Quote: Princess Elite cruisers should get the vaccine first so as they can get back to cruising.
Alarming, I think the poster meant it.
Edited December 1, 2020 by NSWP
Docker123
Melbourne (Oz)
British authorities have approved the Pfizer vaccine for immediate implementation.
I would not be first in line with that sort of speed.
https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/health/uk-to-get-covid-vaccine-next-week/news-story/8e81665c6bcf4699acc5672d4eaf3871
Edited December 2, 2020 by Docker123
4 hours ago, Docker123 said:
I'm sure they're as safe as any vaccine - in other words, there will surely be some risks along the way but given the risk of infection and pressure on hospitals in both UK and US, I think the benefits outweigh any risks.
I'd have one tomorrow (preferably the AZ one but I wouldn't say no to this one.)
The expedited approval of the Pzifer vaccine is being questioned in Europe, and even commented upon by Dr Fauci. Basically concern of insufficient examination of the data.
Of course, one really big question to be addressed is are there any longer term — more than 3 months — consequences. Many meds are fine initially, but take time to develop negative side effects.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/03/europe-us-experts-question-uk-fast-track-covid-vaccine
Over 80's are in the priority group for vaccination in England. Stocks of vaccine already on way from the manufacturer in Belgium, vaxxing starts next week, according to uk media.
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Visiting New York In June – The Definitive Guide
Preetha M May 10, 2019
Home New York NYC Travel Guide Best Time To Visit NYC New York In June
With luminous skyscrapers, modern art and a melting-pot of cultures that call the city home, New York is more than just a glitzy dream. Hidden away in a blanket of snow, the summer finally gives way to tourists hoping to get acquainted with the City of Dreams from up close. The season witnesses a lot of colors and a celebratory mood that takes over the five boroughs. A walk through the sunny city may land you up at an impromptu block party or an outdoor concert in the park. With a lesser crowd to worry about, your trip to New York promises a good time and plenty of memories.
What makes New York in June Special?
New York Weather in June
New York in June : Top Experiences
New York in June : Events to Look Out For
New York in June : 5-7 days Itinerary
New York in June: Essentials
New York in June: Where to eat?
Tips for Visiting New York in June
After a spell of cold weather, New York in June makes way for a sunny respite. With the temperature rising day by day, this is the perfect time in the month to visit some parks, catch up on an outdoor concert and go for an excursion across the theatre district for a Broadway show or two. Before the summer vacation creeps in, June in New York is a relatively less crowded month and is also the right time to visit most of its attractions without facing a swarm of tourists. However, it is advisable to reserve well in advance to get easy access at all the must-visit attractions of New York!
New York in June allows you to experience pleasant weather throughout the month before it begins warming up for the summer. While August can get humid, the initial few days of summer range between 18 C to 26 C, making it an ideal time to visit the city.
New York in June: Top Experiences
A massive expanse of green in the midst of Manhattan, Central Park The iconic Central Park is buzzing with life during the month of June in New York. Considered as one of the most important public parks in New York, it occupies a sprawling 840 acres of land. There are several activities including fishing, camping as well as outdoor concerts that you can enjoy here in June.
June Timings
Open daily from 6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
Getting There ›
The World Trade Centre site now stands as a significant place to remember those who lost their lives on the fateful evening of 9/11. The site today is an 8-acre plaza with silver plates dedicated to the names of the victims along with a museum.
July Timings
Daily: 7:30 AM to 9:00 PM (Memorial)
Sun - Thu: 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM (Memorial Museum)
Fri - Sat: 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM (Memorial Museum)
Z180 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10007
Considered as one of the symbols of New York City, the Empire State Building and 86-floor observatory and wonder of the world. One can get a panoramic view of Manhattan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut on a clear day.
March Timings
Daily, 8:00 AM - 2:00 AM. The last trip is at 1:15 AM
20 W 34th St, New York, NY 10001,
Top of the Rock Observation Deck: Flexible Date Ti...
Empire State Building Observatory Tickets
New York Explorer Pass - 3 Attractions
One World Observatory Priority Entrance Tickets
Helicopter tours are the best way to make the most of your trip to New York. Gaze out at the skyline and the sprawling cityscape on an elaborate, 20-minute flight over some of the most iconic landmarks. Choose between a variety of flights that treat you to different New York experiences.
March Helicopter Tour Timings
9:00 AM -12:00 PM
Helicopter Flight Services Inc, Downtown Manhattan Heliport pier 6
New York Hamilton Tour : Young, Scrappy & Hungry
Walk through a three-hour tour of Hamilton’s New York to know more about the late colonial history and the revolutionary war that took place in New York City. The tour takes place at 10 AM every day and goes on by briefing you to the journey of what is today known as the USA.
Daily: 10 AM onwards
Trinity Church, Fraunces Tavern, New York
Circle Line NYC Landmarks Cruise
Hop onboard the Manhattan island cruise that takes you through a luxurious experience around Manhattan. Witness the five boroughs: Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx during the cruise and know more about the places with an experienced guide. The cruises begin from 10 AM onwards.
Daily: 10 AM, 12 PM & 1.30 PM
Pier 83, West 42nd Street , New York City
All Day Hop on Hop Off Ferry
Hop on Hop off Ferry + One World Observatory & 9/1...
Tenements, Tales and Tastes
A unique, one of its kind tour that allows you to explore the city and relish some of its mouth-watering cuisines along the way. Sample New York’s popular street food and explore its market-places with an experienced guide. Uncover some interesting ‘bytes’ with an authentic local experience like never before.
Starting time: 10.00 AM
The Fountain at City Hall Park , Broadway, Manhattan, NY,
The Great Food Tour of New York
The Original Brooklyn Pizza Tour
Chinatown Food Tour
Chelsea Market Food and Culture Walking Tour
New York Pizza Walk
Catch a Broadway Show
Visit the famous theatre district of the city to catch some breathtaking Broadway performances. With nearly 12 million people watching Broadway shows every year, its best to check the online schedules and book tickets to avoid sell-outs. Whether you’re into groovy musicals or thrillers, there’s something for everyone at Broadway!
May Timings
Timings Vary Depending On The Show & Availability
Theater District New York, NY
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Sea Wall / A Life
The Rose Tattoo
The Office! A Musical Parody
Derren Brown: Secret
David Byrne's American Utopia
Aladdin - Broadway 2 for 1 Offer
The Phantom of the Opera - Broadway 2 for 1 Offer
Chicago - Broadway 2 for 1 Offer
Wicked - Broadway 2 for 1 Offer
Sea Wall / A Life - Broadway 2 for 1 Offer
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical - Broadway 2 fo...
Frozen - Broadway 2 for 1 Offer
Derren Brown: Secret - Broadway 2 for 1 Offer
Come From Away: A New Musical - Broadway 2 for 1 O...
Mean Girls - Broadway 2 for 1 Offer
Ain't Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Tempta...
Come From Away: A New Musical
Sistas - The Musical
The Gazillion Bubble Show
Fiddler on the Roof (A Fidler Afn Dakh)
Perfect Crime
Drunk Shakespeare
Christmas Spectacular Starring The Radio City Rock...
A symbol of international friendship between France and the USA, today the Statue of Liberty has become an icon of New York. Located on the 12-acre Liberty Island in New York, the statue is an observatory apart from being a monument.
Daily: 11:30 AM onwards
Ferry Timings: 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (every 25–30 minutes approximately)
Observatory Timings: 8:30 AM to 4 PM.
Founded in 1870, the opulent museum is home to a vast collection of art and artifacts. These include a vast number of sculptures, paintings, and textiles from around the world. With 17 acres of history worth uncovering, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is definitely the place to be.
Sat to Thu 10:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Fri 10:30 AM to 8:00 PM
1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028,
New York in June: Events to Look Out For
Gay Pride NYC
Taking place on June 30, the annual gay pride the year celebrates its 50th anniversary. The citywide celebration of the LGBTQ community began in the year of 1969. Today the celebration includes a number of parties, rallies, exhibits, and events being commemorated in great fervor.
Governors Ball 2019
Date: From May 31 to June 3, 2019
Witnesses a line up of artists including Lil Wayne, Major Lazer, Florence, and the Machine, Charlie XCX and Lilly Allen. The concert carries an eclectic mix of genres and also provides a stage to the rising stars as well.
SummerStage 2019
Date:Starts from June 1, 2019
SummerStage is a highlighting summer concert that includes everything beginning from free concerts, dance parties, live theatre, ballet and also an outdoor opera series. With as many as 200 artists performing this year, SummerStage will be taking place in 17 neighborhoods across the city.
Coney Island Mermaid Parade
Deemed as the nation’s largest art parade, the Mermaid Parade is conceptualized entirely by Coney Island USA (a non-profit organization). Being held on the 22nd of June this year, the parade will be a celebration of 3,000 creative individuals from all over the five boroughs
Date: From May 31 to August, 2019
Spot the Central Park turning into a stage for the yearly Shakespeare in the Park, a series of classic Shakespeare productions. Revisit Hamlet, Cymbeline, and Romeo and Juliette underneath the starry New York sky. You may even spot your favorite celeb cameoing in one of these productions! .
BookCon
Date: Between June 1 and 2, 2019
The annual book expo convention invites bookworms from around the world to participate in panel discussions, book signings and special seminars that are conducted by renowned authors. The two-day celebration of books sees a jury of notable authors, with some including David Baldacci, Chuck Palahniuk, and Cassandra Clare.
NYC in June : 5-7 days Itinerary
5-7 Days in New York Itinerary
9/11 Memorial & One World Observatory
Late Evening
Top of the Rock | Empire State Building
Brooklyn Walking Tour
Day Trip to Niagara / Washington DC
Sightseeing Cruise
Food Tour in NYC
Shopping on 5th Avenue
NYC Essentials in June
Time zoneGMT-4
Country Code917 | 212 | 718
Socket Type A & B
CurrencyDollar ($)
New York enjoys a sunny hiatus from the frost-ridden winters in the month of June, so this is an ideal time to visit its parks! With temperatures ranging between 18 C to 26 C, New York is pleasant as compared to the coming summer months of July and August.
NYC Accommodation In June
Whether you’re a budget traveler or looking for a more luxurious stay, The Big Apple welcomes all travelers and has a host of accommodation to suit your budget –
Luxury Hotels - Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown, The Dominick, The Ritz-Carlton
Moderate Hotels - Pod 51 Hotel New York, Hudson New York, Hotel Pennsylvania
Budget Hotels - Central Park West, HI USA
NYC Packing List in June
Fune in New York is warm, so make sure to pack light clothes but also be prepared to encounter some untimely rains. With June being the high season in New York, you may also have to walk distances or wait in the queues — so its best to pick comfortable shoes that are preferably water resistant as well. Shorts, t-shirts as well as dresses are commonly sported by locals and will not be an issue at tourist attractions as well.
Getting Around New York in June
New York has an excellent public transport network and it is incredibly easy to get around on a daily basis. Being the most populated city in the world, fifteen million residents traveling across its five boroughs, it is almost impossible to lose your way in the city. The city’s iconic yellow taxis are available anywhere in the city, however reserving them for an emergency is advisable as the prices are a little steep for tourists. The New York Metropolitan Transport Authority that covers a total of 322 routes is an economical way to get around. However, if you’re in a hurry, the New York subway is the most convenient way to reach faster by avoiding traffic.
New York in June: Where to eat
Locals and tourists alike agree that New York is home to some of the most delicious varieties of steaming hot bagels. With a crunchy exterior and chewy insides, you can relish this scrumptious breakfast food with cream cheese, smoked fish and with an occasional topping or two on it.
Where to eat: Ess-a-Bagel
New York is synonymous to burgers, and burgers are an international favorite! So whether you’re into a king-sized extravagant burger or an old-school, humble looking dish — you can catch them at almost any local restaurant and pair them up with your favorite drink or sliders.
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If you’re the kind who like to indulge every once in a while, waffles are never a bad idea in New York! Whether you’re in the mood for sweet or savory, this popular street food is definitely something you shouldn’t miss out on.
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Black and white cookies
A half-an-half cookie iced with vanilla on one side and chocolate on the other are commonly available in New York delis or bakeries. Soft and pillowy, the center of this cookie is almost cake-like and it is lathered with a fondant icing to make it a decadent treat.
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Purchase tickets online for popular tourist attractions such as the Empire State Building to avoid long queues.
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"SPBH Book Club Vol. VII continues Blalock's investigation of stand-ins, or surrogates, with hot dogs acting as line, brushstroke, body part, and still life object. The bodied-ness of this food stuff has an uneasy, uncanny, relationship with the surface-less photograph, and this is a situation that the pictures exploit through humor and ickiness. The book itself is as much object as book with its contents in shifting orientation and the whole thing sealed shut with a sticker."—the publisher
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The Hereditary Estate
Photographs by Daniel Coburn. Text by Karen Irvine and Kirsten Pai Buick
Kehret Verlag
"The Hereditary Estate functions as a ten-year retrospective and as a conceptual work of art. Daniel Coburn's work investigates the family photo album employed as the visual infrastructure for the flawed ideology of the American Dream. Frustrated by the lack of images that document the true and sometimes troubling nature of his own familial history, the photographer set out to create a new archive, a potent supplement to the broken family album that exists in many families."—the publisher
Photographs by Iseo Nose
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If we abolish the dichotomy of the living and non-living, and regard all things in the world as living, moving beings, the sensations of us, who are alive, and the guise of the world, alive as well, meet, and from their interaction with each other, a “living form” emerges. A rare book that expresses the Morphology of Goethe, the Anthrosophy of Rudolf Steiner, in the form of art."—the publisher
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Elections in the UK: Europe is not the issue, but the consequence
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The 7 May elections in the UK, the most competitive in recent decades, are not mainly about Europe, but about other issues such as cuts (bigger or smaller, but cuts nevertheless) in public spending, taxes, public health and education, living standards and immigration. But they will have consequences for the EU if David Cameron remains in office, as he pledged there would be an in-or-out referendum in 2017 to decide whether to stay within or leave the EU. Nevertheless, he himself will campaign to stay in, but in a Union he will try to change.
The possibility of the UK’s exit, a Brexit, has caused much concern to Europe’s governments, which are generally wary of referendums and which already had to endure the uncertainty of the recent one in Scotland. Ultimately, the EU needs the UK –while the latter also needs the former, which provides it with more advantages than disadvantages, as expressed in reports that the government that commissioned them has tried to keep under wraps–. An exit would lead to a severe crisis in a Union that already has enough of them on its plate. Not least, the political crisis that has been dragging on in Europe for a number of years and which affects both its Member States and its institutions, with atomising electorates and the disturbing emergence of populisms of varied stripes.
Labour, led by the not excessively popular Ed Miliband, is against holding the referendum. Virtually tied in the polls with the Conservatives for weeks now, it has forged ahead in the past few days, although it also has to compete with the Greens, who support the consultation on Europe. The Lib-Dems, knowing that it will be inevitable to confront the issue if they are again in a government coalition with Cameron, favour the poll but under certain conditions: that the voting age be lowered to 16 (as in the Scottish independence referendum) and that all EU citizens resident in the UK be eligible to vote.
As noted by Denis MacShane, Minister for Europe under Tony Blair, in the recently published and very timely Brexit. How Britain Will Leave Europe (a title that can also be construed to mean in what state will Britain leave Europe if it goes, since the two go together), ‘Labour remains without a coherent EU policy, also because the left as a whole does not have one’. To stay in Europe, he adds, British politics needs those who believe in Europe but unfortunately ‘the faith has gone’ and the politicians with convictions all want Brexit.
If there is a referendum, ie, if Cameron continues in office, Britain could vote to leave the EU. A poll in February puts the outs (51%) ahead of the ins (49%). Today, according to the annual survey of British attitudes, the EU is at its highest level of unpopularity of the past 20 years. Nevertheless, others, such as the think-tank Open Europe, which has its own Brexit barometer, consider there is only a one in six likelihood of the UK departing, despite the outs currently being ahead in the surveys.
In the only seven-way televised debate so far, of prime ministerial candidates or party leaders, the European question failed to be a hot topic. It is former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair who has most spoken of the danger of “chaos” in the event of an exit from the EU. Far ahead of Europe, although evidently connected to it, is the issue that is currently muddying the debate in the UK (and elsewhere): curbing immigration. This has become the subject of conversation in all manner of setting, including discussions at the pub. Contrary to what was the case a few years ago, it is now debated quite unashamedly. That has been UKIP’s achievement, a party that is actually far more anti-immigration than anti-EU, in line with other right-wing populist movements throughout Europe.
UKIP has managed to force almost everybody else, including Labour, to propose measures to curb immigration and limit the access of immigrants –whether employed or not– to social benefits, as the EU Court of Justice has just ruled on a case in Germany. Despite the restrictions implemented by the current government, immigration to the UK from the EU has risen again, although non-Europeans continue to be more numerous. Net immigration is at over a quarter of a million, compared with the 50,000 cap the UKIP wants to impose. But the core of the EU –France, Germany and the European institutions– is determined in its opposition to curtail the right to the free movement of persons within the Union.
These elections can aggravate the profound change that has been taking place in the British political system since 2010 (making it more ‘European’). Nigel Farage’s UKIP can upset many things, not so much because of the seats it gains but because of the percentage of votes it takes (12% according to some surveys), especially from the Conservatives, because the effect will be to strengthen the Eurosceptic strand in the Tory party. Therefore, the elections can very well influence the issue of Europe.
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Recent News On Ferguson and St. Louis
Federal Probe Into St. Louis Police Department
St. Louis CBS Local News reports that as many as 25 St. Louis City police officers are under investigation for being hired to protect drug dealers. St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson says the involved officers are no longer on active duty as the investigation continues.
The Drug Enforcement Agency, FBI, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Circuit Attorney are all involved in the investigation that began in December. The investigation began when an off-duty police officer was shot in North St. Louis. The off-duty officer returned fire and the man he shot later turned up dead in a burning car.
In a press release by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, they state that they are unable to discuss details or findings before the investigation has concluded.
Ferguson Municipal Judge Resigns
Judge Ronald Brockmeyer
As a result of the Department of Justice’s investigation and report, Judge Ronald Brockmeyer resigned from the Ferguson bench. He is still assigned to hear cases in Florissant, Breckenridge Hills, Vinita Park and Dellwood. In the DOJ’s report on Ferguson, Judge Brockmeyer was accused of jailing impoverished defendants who were unable to pay fines.
CBS St. Louis reports that Judge Brockmeyer is facing his own legal problems, owing more than $170,000 in back taxes.
The Missouri Supreme Court has assigned Missiouri Court of Appeals Judge Roy Ritcher to St. Louis County Circuit Court to hear all of Ferguson’s pending and future municipal division cases. Judge Ritcher is also authorized to implement needed reforms to Ferguson’s court policies and procedures.
Ferguson City Manager John Shaw Resigns
At a meeting of the Ferguson City Council on Tuesday evening, the Council voted 7-0 to approve a mutual separation agreement with John Shaw. Such agreements are usual when an organization seeks a termination and the person wants to resign.
John Shaw oversaw city agencies that the Department of Justice accused of systematically discriminating against Black residents.
Shaw is the fifth person named in the Justice Department report to lose his job, joining Judge Ronald Brockmeyer; Ferguson Municipal Court Clerk Mary Ann Twitty; and two police department officials including one who supervised Darren Wilson, the officer who killed Michael Brown.
Circled: Mary Ann Twitty
Although Ferguson has a Mayor, the Mayor is mere window dressing. Ferguson Mayor James Knowles is actually part-time, earning less than $5,000 a year for the job. John Shaw was appointed by the city council to an indefinite term of office, and supervised all city departments, including the police department. It was Shaw who hired Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson in 2010, and Shaw who nominated Municipal Judge Brockmeyer.
According to the city charter, only the City Manager, who in this case was Shaw, has authority to hire and fire city workers, including the police chief and police officers.
Is Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson next? Maybe the next City Manager will make that decision for Jackson.
Posted on 03/11/2015, in Department of Justice, Potpourri and tagged 25 officers, drug dealers, federal investigation, Ferguson, John Shaw, Judge Brockmeyer, Mary Ann Twitty, Police Department, St. Louis. Bookmark the permalink. 89 Comments.
Mr. Militant Negro | 03/11/2015 at 1:25 am
Hey Jueseppi, thanks for the reblog, dear friend.
Mr. Militant Negro | 03/11/2015 at 10:58 pm
With this new notification system, I have no clue if I replied to this comment already or not. I hate Worstpress and it’s “upgrades.”
Jueseppi, you mean through the feed? I don’t use that. I get notifications via emails in which there are more than 1,500 in my in-box now. LOL! Word Press provides and makes changes for what they think is convenience sake, but there’s so much to decide from — and then they change it. I’m still disappointed in the change that eliminated the text box scroll for writing posts.
Quite a lot to digest here. Sounds as if the DOJ has uncovered tons of problems.
Glenn (freedom of movement) Robinson @getgln | 03/11/2015 at 1:54 am
Reblogged this on League of Bloggers For a Better World and commented:
Cleaning house, but we are still looking for justice – and reparations.
Glenn, thanks for the reblog, dear friend. Sadly, seeking justice is not free. Reparations? People will be tossed in the courts in civil actions for that, which will require hiring lawyers, paying filing fees and costs, etc.
Cleaning house, but we are still looking for justice and reparations.
At least some clearing out is happening. Sometimes reports are made and the response is lukewarm. I think the disapproving citizenry that has been pushing back is also helping to sustain this. A two-pronged approach from the people and the Feds. Now if only we could clean Congress up!
Clean up Congress? Is there enough Lysol?
I agree about the two-pronged approach. I can only imagine that now, Darren Wilson is sitting with his head in his hands asking, “Why did I kill Michael Brown?”
There are times when blood is spilled that it is like seed that grows into light.
It is just like that Xena. Michael Brown did not die in vain.
At this moment, it’s difficult to contain what satisfaction I do feel in seeing this unveiling of officials – it’s miniscule, but affects me, because Michael Brown never received justice. But for Michael Brown, this unveiling may not have come and the expense of more lives and injustices would continue with impunity by these officials. I hope others understand what I’m conveying here, there is no “bitter sweet”, there is a beginning and an end in everything, racism and bigotry is a travesty, fear will hold the reigns where justice for all members of society should rule. That reign needs to end.
That this happened is no consolation in having to force the rot up from the bottom of the barrel but I think it speaks to the decades of corruption that have permeated Ferguson, they’re being exposed to the world. They’re just not the only town in the USA with the same issues.
As to reparations, I understand what Glenn is saying, yet I also see this unveiling as a beginning toward reparations. It will be slow, not all will be recompensed in some way. The injustices go to the core of the human spirit of the people. Trust I feel will be the most difficult to accept, the hands of time will be the marker for the leap where all can and should feel safe. I am grateful to those who came forward to speak of the injustices, all who have been affected are a part of this change.
The DOJ will continue to monitor, this isn’t the end, I anticipate more to come forward in due time to yet expose others. The message that Ferguson citizens sent is one that should continue loud and clear, the power for change is in their hands. I pray that spirit will continue.
Pilcherje,
It’s good to see you.
I hope others understand what I’m conveying here, there is no “bitter sweet”, …
I totally understand.
I hope it was worth it, to protect and cover up for Wilson. Karma, sweet sweet Karma
racerrodig | 03/11/2015 at 10:40 am
I’m thinking somebody somewhere in Ferguson and the area thereabouts is holding his “I am Darren Wilson” wrist band and thinking “……….what the hell was I thinking ??”
Karma. In this case was reasonably fast compared to most places. They may not be charging DW, but he’s toast, as we say in the real world. He can start looking for that night security job with Fogen. Hell, they can go on a PR tour and tout “How to get away with it” since they did get away with murder.
After the 3rd seminar, they’ll be arrested for spilling the beans. I can see it now….
Fogen “…..ummmm, just say you were scared and uhmmmmm, he had you pinned”
DW “Right, then mention the guy was as strong as, well…. just to strong to handle”
Fogen “…like a Super Hero…..just like “The Hulk””
DW “Uhh, no, I said it was like wrestling Hulk Hogan, not…”
Fogen “No ! No ! No ! you said to say Super Hero and Hogan is a wrestler not a..”
DW “Hey dimwit, I know what I said, you’re lucky you didn’t hang yourself with your own
statements and….”
Fogen “You said The Hulk”
DW “……and that comment about what the police would say seeing you holding onto the
kid with that toy gun out and all, what a tool…..”
Fogen “……well, I couldn’t let ’em give his side of the story, just like what you said and…..
……uhmmmmmm, then, well, he’d didn’t answer my questions on who was doing
the break in’s and ummmmmm. well Shellie………see there was this……”
Yep…………..only a matter of time when Karma catches up……….and it won’t be pretty.
You’re a riot. Yet, what you say has a ring of truth and is serious.
Unfortunately, it’s just about time for Fogen to try the spotlight again. God forbid anything else that happens in this world that overshadows his sorry existence.
Soooooooooo, what happened to Samantha and that pregnancy ?? Maybe they’re setting new gestation records !! Yeah, that’s it………the 24 month term !!
I’ll call Guinness !!!!!
I hope this works! but Jr is whining & said to look to the skies tonight! the freak!
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What? Did he get a pilot’s license and plan on crashing a plane?
I’m thinking that maybe he signed up for that Mars trip.
LOL! You are so descriptive! And so right on!
that’s what I thought when chief Jackson, the lying, red-faced slob decided Mike’s body left dead on that august street for hours & 100 swat, shotguns & dogs was just not enough so he choose to denigrate Mike Brown & torture his family & community even more at his pressers.
Gronda Morin | 03/11/2015 at 5:20 am
I ditto the above statements. Holding those accountable is a first step. What now for all the businesses in the area that are now rubble. There is still unfinished business. Michael Brown’s family still needs the whole truth of what happened on 8/9/15 to be forthcoming. The area needs to be made whole. The residents of Ferguson deserve better. The value of buildings in the Ferguson area that were destroyed in the riots amounts to nearly $4.6 million. 17 buildings were destroyed at a level of being declared unsafe.
The lead detective in the Michael Brown case is a St. Louis County Police Department employee. Is it possible he is one who is under investigation? On 8/9 the Police Chief Jackson called the St. Louis PD and asked them to take over the investigation.
Jackson has got to go. IMO, that should have been the first thing that happened
I agree. From the onset of the protests when he decided to turn Ferguson into a military zone, to turning things over to another LE agency, it loudly declared that he is unqualified for his job.
he’s gone!!
The Generation Me | 03/11/2015 at 7:28 am
Reblogged this on TGM Millennials.
scrodriguez | 03/11/2015 at 10:22 am
Now we know exactly why Darren Wilson’s Name wasn’t released for two weeks they gave him plenty of time to scrub all of his social media accounts and e mail accounts look the mans supervisor is one of many caught up in this.
Consider Wilson came from Jennings PD which had a very similar history as they say if you sit in a barber shop long enough sooner or later you will get a hair cut.
Exactly. The JPD was shut down and disbanded. That alone says it all. If Wilson didn’t get all his e-mails scrubbed completely, it’s only a matter of time. Somebody may even have saved some of his filth and is sitting on them and may give them to someone who matters.
Wouldn’t that be just fine !! Just like Fogens My Space page where he brags about running over Mexicans. Soooooo, if some cool lowrider runs Fogen over, we’re even in my book.
Yeah, Sc. It also gave Wilson time to get the heck out of Dodge, as they say.
Gronda Morin | 03/11/2015 at 1:58 pm
BREAKING NEWS: CHIEF THOMAS JACKSON IS RESIGNING!!!
Haha! Thanks for the update. Without the man who appointed him, I suppose he saw the axe coming.
Thanks for letting us know, Gronda!
pilcherje | 03/11/2015 at 2:37 pm
So glad for this – and just got the alert on my phone. Here’s a trick question though…with these ‘heads rolling’, whether they resign or are fired, would their actions over the years, legally, be actionable? Wondering why they should ‘escape’ with their life for having, in the end, lived it in vain.
There is the possibility of a class action suit for the whole community. I like the Chicago law firm of Loevy & Loevy. Around 2001, Cincinnati was successful in instituting a class action suit and ended up with a successful resolution.
Re: Jackson’s resignation;
He will leave his post on March 19 with an undisclosed severance and a year’s worth of health insurance, according to a news release, and Lt. Col. Al Eickhoff will take temporary command while the city searches for a replacement.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ferguson-police-chief-20150311-story.html
Just a reminder, this will make the 6th resignation or termination since the DOJ released their report, but there were others who resigned before that. There was an officer who had pointed his rifle at protesters and also Darren Wilson.
Well, since some of those corrupt clowns are Going Down, we may as well all sing about it.
Well It’s going down….down, down, down, down, down
It’s going down……goin’ down, down, down, down, down
You’ve got one foot out the door, but you act just like a clown
Well he’s gone…….he’s gone, gone, gone, gone, gone
She’s gone……she’s gone, gone, gone, gone, gone
You put your head right up your ass, now there’s no way out at all
I said it all there
Well It’s goin down…….It’s down, down, down, down, down yeah……!
You’re going down……down, down, down, down, down oh yeah !
You’ve put your head right in the noose, and you jumped right off the porch
I think most. if not all of us, can relate to this song as well.
Twenty-five years and my life is still, trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination. I realized quickly when I knew I should
That the world was made up of this brotherhood of man, for whatever that means
And so I cry sometimes when I’m lying in bed, just to get it all out what’s in my head
And I I am feeling…..a little peculiar.
And so I wake in the morning and I step outside and I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs What’s going on ?? !! ??
And I say, hey hey hey hey I said hey, what’s going on ?? !! ??
ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
And I try, oh my God do I try I try all the time, in this institution
And I pray, oh my God do I pray, I pray every single day For a revolution
And I I am feeling……a little peculiar
And I scream at the top of my lungs What’s going on ?? !! ??
For a destination
For those who want to play along, the chords are A Bm D A
Racer, that is a song I sometimes sing at Karaoke. 🙂
What’s Up leaves a lot to the imagination and fits a lot of situations. My sons band was doing it back in late 2013 and it was great. Maybe when I’ll put a band together just to do some of these songs at protest marches and rally’s.
I can almost hear ya singing it……..and special guest vocalist…….a blogger with a heart of gold and the awards to prove it……………..Xena !!!
It’s a good song — a great sing along song!
I wish you the best in putting a band back together. You definitely have talent, brother.
“Maybe when I’ll put a band together just to do some of these songs at protest marches and rally’s.”
Great idea, Racer!
If I do………….it’s lifetime backstage passes for all of you !!!!!
deray mckesson @deray · 7m 7 minutes ago
Protest. Ferguson PD.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_3K5TXUsAAIwdW.jpg:large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_3LM7hUgAAbps-.jpg:large
#Ferguson pic.twitter.com/xH6VAYsyEK
— ₩e$t Florissant Ave. (@ThatsRacistAF2) March 12, 2015
Now, that’s funny. 🙂
I have a song for these guys, actually 2
I have nothing to do on this hot afternoon but to settle down and write you a line
I’ve been meaning to phone you but from old St. Lou hell it’s been a very long time
But I need a job A little old fashioned but that’s all right
Well I suppose you’re thinking I bet he’s sinking and he wouldn’t get in touch with me
Oh I ain’t begging or losing my head I sure do want you to know that I need a job
There ain’t a job that I won’t take
Remember them protest parties, the cops with karate the all day rock and roll shows
Them homesick blues and radical dudes haven’t left a mark on you, but I need a job
A little out of time but I don’t mind
But I ain’t forgetting that you were once mine, but I blew it without even tryin’
Now I’m eatin’ my heart out tryin’ to get a job out of you
Anyway, my coffee’s cold, I’m getting told that I gotta get back to work
So when the sun sets low and you’re home all alone
think of me and try not to laugh ‘cuz I need a job I got no money so I’ll call collect
‘cos I ain’t forgetting that you were once mine, but I blew it without even tryin’
Since I’ve been fired it’s hard to carry on listen to me
If you don’t get my mail, you know I’m in jail.
Ferguson police dispatchers would not confirm or deny the shootings to the Daily News, but other sources say that 2 police officers were shot in Ferguson.
I’m watching the documentary “American Denial.” It explores the power of unconscious biases around race and class.
The film is available on PBS at the following link until 5/24/2015.
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365422025/
Xena, I missed your notice about the documentary. Thanks for the link. I have to admit I was guilty of this myself as an older white registered republican even though my son alleges that I am becoming a flaming liberal. I genuinely believed our children, younger adults were much more open to diversity in their relationships. This video of young OU peoples singing this racist chant in fun burst my balloon of denial.
Hey Gronda! Awakening moments happen to those of us whose hearts are open to understand ourselves and others. I’ve personally found a sense of freedom in coming to terms with denial moments. Welcome to the club. 🙂
Deff gonna watch this, maybe it’ll help me understand what’s wrong w/ppl.
We can live for a thousand years and still not figure out what is wrong with people. The human heart is complicated and carries many motivations for how the “owner” behaves and thinks.
When I hear people argue that Blacks have not succeeded because of personal inabilities or mindsets, I think of comparing that to women in this country. Women were once oppressed; could not own property, could not vote, and till this day, we still fight for equal wages. So, when women say that they are discriminated against in employment, denied mortgages because of their gender, sexually harassed, etc., do we hear arguments in response that it’s their own fault and if they try hard enough, they can be “equal” to men in American society? No.
American history includes what was known as Black Wall street, a successful, independent, financially thriving community in Oklahoma. All of the work and successes went down the drain when a Black man was accused of raping a White woman, and Whites burned the town down.
There are other situations as well for when Blacks were ran off property that they worked hard to obtain.
Starting over from nothing is something that women and Blacks have experienced in this country and not because of anything they did but because of their gender and/or the color of their skin. People don’t realize that the marital laws in the states were legislated to give women rights of inheritance of marital property, and homophobes forget that it’s this marriage equality that is sought with same-sex marriage.
To say it another way, people don’t need a license to love each other. They need it so that the laws recognize them as part of the person they love. We find a similar concept in Civil Rights law, but whether it applies to individuals seeking to redress wrongs is up to judges just like going through nasty divorces, or the challenge of final Wills.
We are a nation that needs laws to correct wrongs that start in hearts, and that never, ever, changes hearts.
my friend & i were talking and i was saying that they’re ( racists, bigots, their apologist trolls & the officials who won’t use their authority to ensure equal justice ) are trying to make us give up by refusing to prosecute these child killers, unarmed ppl & other racist crimes. they want us to stop expecting justice so we might as well just get over it and move along.
it almost worked on me, but only for a moment.
Shannon, there are times when we need refreshing. Even soldiers are given leave. After we get that moment of pause, we come back stronger.
This morning on Fox TV, Judge Napolitano is blaming Eric Holder publishing the investigative report for creating the environment which caused the police shooting. From listening and reading different news sources, the shooter was not in the area of the protestors. So far, the police officers look like they will survive the shooting. It did not take long for the right to blame the administration.
Bill Taylor | 03/12/2015 at 10:35 am
the anger at police could not possibly have come from the FACTS that the police there have been abusing peoples rights for a very long time? that the abuse still continues to this day? that the police there still even last night were doing the “snatch and grab” thing that is illegal? and that at minimum one officer was there last night with no name plate on display………also FACT it was not a peaceful protesters that did the shooting, more likely some plant or outsider there trying to discredit the peaceful folks……and there was some fighting among the protesters last night which tells me some infiltrators were trying to cause trouble.
I hear you. I do not approve of violence and hope for full recovery of the injured cops, but there is an atmosphere in Ferguson that is not peaceful and trusting. That is why law enforcement came out with shields and dressed in riot gear.
Gronda. HA! So our government being transparent and releasing a report is responsible for some lunatic with a gun? I suppose that legalizing same-sex marriage is responsible for homophobes? Judge Napolitano should be ashamed of his assessment.
Angela Grant | 03/12/2015 at 11:38 am
Reblogged this on Failure to Listen and commented:
In Ferguson, sounds like an investigation just got started and should spread to other cities and towns in the USA.
Hey Angela! Welcome to Blackbutterfly7 and thanks for the reblog.
I’m still waiting on more facts to come out from the shooting of the two police officers. Thankfully both will survive their injuries, neither of the officers shot were from the Ferguson PD. The St. Louis Police Chief has called it an ambush but CNN is reporting that the shot came from over a football field length away. A 300′ shot from a pistol and hitting your intended target is almost impossible. The length of the barrel of the pistol makes them inaccurate at long distances. Even if the pistol was equipped with a special sight it would take an accomplished, expert shooter to make these shots.
I’m not ready to support an ambush as much maybe someone else was a target or it was someone who shot in the direction of the officers to stir up the crowd.
Bill Taylor | 03/12/2015 at 12:04 pm
words have meanings an ambush is when a shooter is hidden and WAITING for the target he has lured to come into range……with officers standing there all night long somebody shooting at them from a distance is NOT an ambush, nobody lured them into the area.
Exactly, ambush is far from an accurate assessment. I wouldn’t put it past some right wing group nor even the FPD to pull a stunt like this to stir up sympathy for them and anger towards the demonstrators.
This was an expert shooter. It is not an ambush. The right and the police union leader is already blaming the protestors without any evidence whatsoever. The problem is that I really have no faith in Ferguson to do even this right.
If the investigation looks about as aggressive as the desire to seek justice for Michael Brown, then we’ll all know it was staged.
Antonio French @AntonioFrench · 2h 2 hours ago
Former Ferguson judge resigns as prosecuting attorney in Florissant and Vinita Park
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/article_5272300e-022a-5970-aaff-d71758c23c56.html … via @stltoday
deray mckesson @deray · 3h 3 hours ago
Remember, this is a decentralized space. The clergy called the protest vigil tonight. That’s how it works. Many organizers in the space.
It would be “easy” for protestors to simply stay home tonight. In August we decided that our commitment to justice doesn’t take a night off.
And no, I’m not afraid to protest tonight. This type of fear simply takes up too much of space. I remain focused on the fight for justice.
Blackness in America is never a question of afraid or unafraid; it’s a matter of varying degrees of fear, as we are victims of state terror.
Prayer is not surrender, prayer is souls standing together. Tonight, we remember Mike, Kajieme, VonDerrit, Isaac, Antonio, LeDarius, Thomas.
Prayer Vigil. Ferguson. pic.twitter.com/MCSq7EWOr5
— deray mckesson (@deray) March 13, 2015
Sometimes, protest is standing together, acknowledging the trauma we face and reminding each other of the power of our love.
Ronald Brockmeyer resigned from his role as Florissant prosecuting attorney Thursday, the mayor said in a statement.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/judge-named-ferguson-report-quits-jobs-other-towns-n322616
“BRECKENRIDGE HILLS • Lawyer Ronald J. Brockmeyer resigned Monday from his job as prosecuting attorney in Breckenridge Hills, said Mayor Jack Shrewsbury.”
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lawyer-resigns-from-fifth-municipal-post-in-wake-of-doj/article_27edeed9-83ee-5bc1-8e15-f90e46310b59.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
Yahtzee, I think that Brockmeyer still holds one other position in yet another small town. Seems like in Missouri small towns, power and authority is in the hands of a few and simply recycles.
He’s also a defense attorney specializing in
TRAFFIC-SPEEDING
http://www.brockmeyerattorneyatlaw.com
Shannon, that man is a disrespectful cop-hater, but you won’t hear the bigots admit that.
ebrew79 | 03/13/2015 at 10:48 am
Reblogged this on Eric Brewton and commented:
Recent News On Ferguson. Great Writing By Black Butterfly 7.
Hey Eric! Thanks for the reblog. Yes, the entire area needs cleaning — they should make sure there are no termites in the cracks.
The rest of the political house needs to be cleaned in that entire area. Disband the PD, force out all judges and prosecutors, and force out Mayor Knowles.
Eric, I went to visit your blog and a message came up saying that your domain name has expired and I should tell you. 🙂
ebrew79 | 03/23/2015 at 6:50 pm
Thank You Xena, I’m currently writing at a new blog. IfISaidItIMeantIt.wordpress.com
Wow! You’ve been busy and based on what I read, it is very, very good. I didn’t see your twitter handle on the blog. Here is my handle in case you want to follow and then I can follow you back. @XenaBb7.
“The Shocking Finding From the DOJ’s Ferguson Report That Nobody Has Noticed”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-robinson/the-shocking-finding-from-the-doj-ferguson_b_6858388.html
Missouri; come on vacation, leave on probation.
(At least for Ferguson)
Hehe. We heard that about Missouri when I was a child. I can still remember some of the lyric changes to the song “Meet Me in St. Louie.” 🙂
I’m sure you’ve heard they arrested some shmuck for admitting he shot the cops in ferguson.
but I can’t stand to see that pig mc colluch on his stupid soap box talking about all the charges he’s facing. I wanna know why he didn’t have a lawyer & who’s repping him bcuz I’d like to see a zealous defense no matter what! the deck was stacked against him in that town & I believe him & just about everyone in that apartment complex who witnesses Mike’s murdered body lying there & subsequent police intimidation and violence on august 9th and onwards towards protesters, is probably suffering some type of trauma.
there’s one girl police shot w/a beanbag and who’s blind in one eye & another girl shot in the head and the police came and stole the bullet and “misplaced it” since!
none of those crimes have been addressed by police. in fact the girl who was shot in the head was still waiting & calling several days afterwards for the police to interview her!
I’m just grossed out & very suspicious about this guy who supposedly ‘admitted’ to shooting into the crowd. & want McColluch OUT OF THERE!! He needs to GTFOH!! He’s been a POS way before Mike’s murder & he’s now just a bigger POS who’s out & proud about it!
http://news.yahoo.com/police-announce-arrest-ferguson-police-shootings-175442302.html
http://news.yahoo.com/video/suspect-arrested-shootings-ferguson-police-195514179.html?format=embed
You were posting the comment as I was publishing the new post about the arrest. 🙂
Looking at McCulloch gives me a sick feeling in my stomach. However, two people were shot and whomever did it needs to be arrested and brought to trial. What I find hypocritical is that McCulloch and the St. Louis Police Chief are thanking the public for helping them make the arrest. They are thanking them for the videos and audios. However, when it came to the killing of Michael Brown, what the public saw and provided by way of audio and video was not considered and Wilson’s story took precedence.
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"Cannibals, Slaves, And Dead Children" – Catching Up With Pillars Of Eternity II At E3
Posted on June 15, 2017 | by Madeline Ricchiuto | Comments
I was able to sit down with a few members of the Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire team at E3 this year, to check in with how the game is doing now that the Fig fundraising campaign is over. Fans of Pillars and of Obsidian Entertainment will be excited to know that the game will be in it's alpha stage in the next two months or so, which means production is steadily moving onward. My meeting with game director Josh Sawyer and lead programmer Adam Brennecke did give some hints as to future updates we'll get on the game.
So far, the development team has been pretty quiet on the companions you'll have in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, while we do know that some companions from Pillars I will be joining the Watcher in Deadfire, there will be new faces. While Sawyer and Brennecke remained pretty evasive on the topic – it's apparently something we'll be hearing about soon – I do know that the companions and ship crew will require deeper interactions than were needed in the Stronghold, specifically Sawyer commented that"players said go deeper than in the stronghold and so we did" so I'm sure we'll be having plenty of deep interactions with our ship crewmates. He also hinted that "you can recruit companions as you go," which means we'll have some flexibility in terms of just who we have following us.
And while we will have ship combat, for the most part, that's made of random encounters and strategic playing, so no real steering of the ship is involved, though you do have to navigate between islands. You won't always be able to go in a straight line between islands on a chain, you'll have to navigate through the shallows and around to landing points. If you don't have a beach to land on, you can't land your boat there. Pretty simple in theory, right?
The development team, including the artists, have taken their time researching ships, terminology, different forms of ships to fit in with the different factions in Deadfire, and they have a field trip planned for research. According to Brennecke, several members of the art team are headed to San Diego in a month because "they have a pirate ship you can go out for a ride on."
Most of the interview focused on the exploration aspects of Pillars II as well as the gameplay balance the team is working on. Sawyer's favorite aspect of Pillars II was the size of the world, how open things are, and how customizable the game can be. Speedrunners will be happy to know that there are large parts of Pillars II that can be skipped. "When it comes down to it, we looked at the critical path and wanted to make sure we didn't impede the player unless there was a good reason to, and generally there really isn't," Sawyer said. Meanwhile, as the game focuses on exploration, like the original Fallout games and the Elder Scrolls series, most of the exploration is left up to the player. You have a fog of war on your game map that only covers the areas you have yet to explore, but as you go by islands, a question mark will appear that'll lead you to dungeons or treasure or quests, and it is up to you if you go chasing them down or keep focusing on the game's main questline.
And while you might get a slight bonus going for a multi-class build, that'll wear off quickly and you progress much slower through the skills of both classes. "You'll never be as good at a single thing as someone who single-classed that skill, but you do get access to both skill sets right from the start." And while there are some limitations, you can't be a Paladin for one god and a priest for another, that is mostly because the bonuses don't match up. Other than specific cases, you are free to multi-class and sub-class to your hearts content. Even if that heart is a ghost one.
And when it comes to Sawyer and Brennecke's favorite multi-class and sub-class combinations, one of highlights was the corpse-eater barbarian, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. As a corpse-eater barbarian, you have less rage to start with, which is one of the key aspects of being a Barbarian, but then "once an enemy is killed, you just sort of get in there and start digging in," which boosts that rage counter pretty well. "It's not an Obsidian game without cannibals, slaves, and dead children," Brennecke joked.
One of the many interesting factoids I was able to gather during the interview dealt with the creation of unique weapons in both games. Unique weapons in Pillars of Eternity were created "in a top-down sort of way" that meant the team decided how many unique weapons of which types they needed, added skills, and worked the fluff around them. With Pillars II, players will find that unique items come with more of a concept, that the skills and abilities were added after. Which is why there's a unique quarterstaff that is essentially a broom. Because the dev team thought that would be awesome, and you know what, it is. I absolutely love those small moments of randomness that games this massive seem to have. It really shows just how into the game the developers are, and that always comes across on the finished product.
And if there was one thing I walked away from this interview knowing, it was that this game is in the best hands possible, because the enthusiasm the development team have for the game, even after five years of development, is infectious.
But that's something you can tell just by reading the updates on their fig campaign blog.
About Madeline Ricchiuto
Madeline Ricchiuto is a gamer, comics enthusiast, bad horror movie connoisseur, writer and generally sarcastic human. She also really likes cats and is now Head Games Writer at Bleeding Cool.
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Absence of corporal punishment not to be blamed for disrespectful students
in All News / By: Kamal Haynes on June 27, 2019 at 6:50 AM /
Chief education Officer, Connie George.
The absence of corporal punishment in local schools is not to be blamed for the increased occurrences of students being disrespectful towards teachers and/or other authority figures.
This is according to Chief Education Officer, Connie George, who said there are no studies to indicate whether there is a correlation between corporal punishment and mannerly behaviour from students.
Notwithstanding the absence of any study, George said she believes a number of other factors can be blamed for what has been described as the stark difference in the behaviour of present-day students and those from ‘the days of old’.
“I was never disrespectful to my teachers but not because I got flogged or not because I feared flogging. On the other hand, there could have so many things competing for the parents time that they haven’t taken the time to do the right type of training and groundwork with their children as they should. So there are other things I would put way above the fact that people are fearful of flogging and it being removed while the discipline may have deteriorated,” George argued.
Bad upbringing from home
She noted that ill-mannered behaviour might be something that was learnt outside of the school environment.
“It comes with the absence of a home structure for some people where you have that ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ mentality and that everybody could have corrected a child and those kinds of things,” the chief educator reasoned.
She added: “Lack of respect could be the youthfulness of teachers. It could be a lot of things. In some ways, some teachers are very young and don’t carry the command they should. But my number-one thing would be the lack of respect comes from the home.”
Alternative measures of discipline
In the meantime, Georges said there have been no official reports of corporal punishment in schools since the introduction of Article 55 to the Education Act of 2004, which prohibits corporal punishment in schools.
George said that policy resulted in the Education Ministry finding alternative ways to discipline students.
“In my mind, that is a good thing because you’ll have a number of children who would react to different forms of punishment better than they would have to flogging,” said Georges who is a former classroom teacher.
“One of the things in the system right now that I am trying to push is positive behavioural management that you train children to do the right thing and not so much wait to reward (punish) the negative. We want to reward them for being good.”
Corporal punishment illegal but might still be unofficially practiced
While reiterating that corporal punishment should never be practised in local schools, the Chief Education Officer told BVI News: “I can’t say to you that flogging doesn’t happen in school where somebody may hit a child or something. But, it is not official.”
She continued: “It would not have been officially reported to me because they know the constitution and they know what it says. But I am sure there might have been one or two but no official reports of any kind of those incidents.”
The law’s ‘special exemption’ to flog student
Though corporal punishment in schools is unlawful, there are provisions in the law that permits the flogging of students under ‘special circumstances’.
This is found under subsection two of the aforementioned law which says: “Corporal punishment may be administered where no other punishment is considered suitable or effective, and only by the principal or deputy principal and one senior teacher appointed in writing by the principal for that purpose, in a manner that is in conformity with guidelines issued in writing by the Chief Education Officer.”
But, according to George, that has never been used.
During a meeting held by Education Minister Dr Natalio Wheatley on June 20, some educators had raised concerns about the lack of respect shown by students to teachers and adults. Stakeholders inclusive of parents and teachers responded by applauding in agreement.
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hit the nail on the head says:
Also the conditioning of children through the TV sitcoms where children are being disrespectful to parents and parents being children’s friend. Another culprit is reality TV displaying bad and rowdy behavior.
smh says:
And it is the parents who should be controling what children watch and do…Anyway, you say it, cut or do it…. It all is on the parents. Parents should use whatever means necessary to mold their children into responsible, respectful, caring humans. If it takes a cut ass, so be it.
granny says:
“spare the rod and spoil the child”
Just shows you have no idea what that bible quote means you idiot.
Hmm says:
No the absence of corporal punishment, capital punishment and a corrupt legal system that allows every case to go to the appeals court and get over turn for any nonsense is a the biggest part of reason why the youths are so willful and wayward.
Not to mention our Law makers around the world for the last twenty years allegedly have intentionally written our laws to be so vague and ambiguous thus tying up the legal system..
People like you are idiots
Weir D. Playne says:
TV watching is down in the last few years. The number one negative influence on students is social media and negligent parents. Back in the days children had toys that they could actually play with now they get phones and Ipads with access to the internet with little restriction. Some people get most of their information, news, entertainment from Facebook and Instagram. All kind of videos and pictures are shared on WhatsApp. If the parents dont have time to raise their children the internet will.
Bring back the cane for girls and boys aged 6 to 17
Bring back caning for girls and boys aged 6 to 17 I got it and it did me good
Richard stopford says:
Bring back caning bare bottoms included for evil children who mug and steal
Maybe the teachers should stop sending yhe grd one with lots of homeworks that also wrong because as the parents we end up spending less time with our kids while we busy doing the homeworks
All you idiots that think abuse is ok should go to h**l
Children live what they learn. A Child’s first role model are his parents.
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Corporal-Punishment/
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Share this Story: 5 diplomats who got sick in Cuba after possible microwave assault file $28M lawsuit against feds
5 diplomats who got sick in Cuba after possible microwave assault file $28M lawsuit against feds
Jim Bronskill
A man walks beside Canada's embassy in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, April 17, 2018. Photo by Desmond Boylan /THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP
OTTAWA — Five Canadian diplomats and their family members who became mysteriously ill while posted to Cuba are suing Ottawa for more than $28 million.
In a statement of claim filed Wednesday in Federal Court, the diplomats say the Canadian government failed to protect them, hid crucial information and downplayed the seriousness of the risks.
5 diplomats who got sick in Cuba after possible microwave assault file $28M lawsuit against feds Back to video
Global Affairs Canada acknowledges that nine adults and five children from diplomatic families have developed unusual illnesses in Havana, with symptoms including nausea, dizziness, headaches and trouble concentrating.
Global Affairs has said the government is trying to pinpoint the cause, stressing that the health and safety of diplomatic staff and their families are the priorities.
Speculation has focused on some kind of acoustic or microwave assault, unknown contaminants and even chirping crickets.
Officials have all but ruled out environmental factors, such as toxins in the air, soil or water, and no longer suspect a sonic attack is to blame.
In April, Canada announced that diplomats posted to Cuba would not be accompanied by dependants due to the ongoing uncertainty.
The statement of claim says that not only “were the diplomats prevented from considering the true risks of a Havana posting to their own health, but they were also denied the opportunity to protect their children, and must live with the knowledge that they may never fully recover.”
The allegations have not yet been tested in court.
A doctor is now working full time to provide advice and assistance to those who have continuing symptoms.
In their claim, however, the diplomats say Ottawa has “actively interfered” with their ability to seek appropriate medical care.
The RCMP is leading an investigation into the cause of the ailments, which also struck several American diplomats in Havana.
Canada has been working with the U.S. and Cuban authorities on the baffling puzzle.
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Home » News » Local » Queensland abortion legislation is ‘a horrible law, a total disregard for innocent human life’
Queensland abortion legislation is ‘a horrible law, a total disregard for innocent human life’
By Joe Higgins
Standing for life: Pro-life advocates gathered outside Parliament House last weekend.
Photo: Alan Edgecomb
BRISBANE Archbishop Mark Coleridge has questioned the integrity of the “so-called ‘conscience’ vote” when the Queensland Parliament voted to decriminalise abortion in a late-night extended session.
The bill, which passed Queensland Parliament by 50 votes to 41 on October 17, allows for abortions up to 22 weeks, and beyond 22 weeks with the approval of a second doctor.
These late-term abortions can now be undertaken for psychosocial reasons.
All MPs were given a conscience vote.
Archbishop Coleridge said the archdiocese reached out to tens of thousands of people to ask for their thoughts on this abortion legislation.
“We had more than 25,000 replies and 98 per cent of those were critical of the legislation, particularly around the ability to terminate babies until birth for social or psychological reasons,” he said.
“The strongest replies we received were from Labor electorates.
“The Premier’s electorate was the most vocal by a considerable margin.
“On social media, I noted that this conscience vote was tied to political expediency and personal opportunism, and that doesn’t help when you’re dealing with a matter of life and death.
“This was a so-called ‘conscience’ vote, yet only one Government MP voted against the bill.
“That seems remarkable to me when we’re debating laws that allow termination until birth for social reasons.
“Strangely, only one Government MP was uncomfortable with that; others – some of them Catholic – seemed untroubled.
“Seriously unedifying were the cheering and rejoicing in the chamber when the vote was decided.
“It seemed to me like dancing on the graves of unborn children who will rise up in judgement when the time comes.”
The bill specifies that doctors who are conscientious objectors must refer women to a medical practitioner who would perform an abortion.
The bill also created “safe access zones” of 150 metres around abortion clinics, which opened a new avenue of free-speech problems – particularly those about praying around the clinics.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said it was an “historic day” for Queensland.
“The Palaszczuk Government is proud to deliver on our election commitment to modernise and clarify the laws around termination of pregnancy,” she said.
No rights: “I don’t understand how Catholic politicians can disregard human life,”
Medical Guild of St Luke president Dr Terrence Kent disagreed.
Dr Kent called it a “horrible bill, a horrible law, a total disregard for innocent human life”.
“I don’t understand how Catholic politicians can disregard human life,” he said.
Other MPs held personal conscientious objections.
LNP Member for Hervey Bay Ted Sorensen revealed he was a “survivor” of an unwanted pregnancy during the bill’s second reading.
“If this law were present in those days, I would not be alive to speak on behalf of all of the babies who have the right to live – and I believe that I had the right to live,” Mr Sorensen said.
“I still believe that.
“I do not believe that some minister opposite can bring a bill to this house that says, ‘Terminate that pregnancy’.
“I feel that this bill we are debating today should be called ‘killing Ted bill’.
“That is the way I feel.”
Member for Bundamba Jo-Ann Miller was the only Labor MP to vote against the bill.
LNP Member for Clayfield Tim Nicholls, LNP Member for Currumbin Jann Stuckey and LNP Member for Chatsworth Steve Minnikin voted with Labor MPs to ensure the bill’s passage.
Katter Australian Party MPs and One Nation’s Stephen Andrew voted against the bill.
The bill passed its second reading 50 votes to 41, with one member absent from the chamber, before amendments were offered.
LNP MP Mark McArdle moved for a number of amendments such as lowering the gestational limit to 16 weeks from 22 weeks, and on requiring two doctors to consult in person, and mandated counselling for women.
Mr McArdle’s amendments were all defeated.
Another amendment to remove a conscientious objector’s obligation to refer a woman on to a doctor willing to do the abortion also failed.
Cherish Life Queensland condemned the Palaszczuk Government for the passage of the bill.
“… Fifty members of Queensland Parliament voted for state-sanctioned killing of unborn babies until birth,” a statement said.
“These MPs abdicated their responsibility to the most vulnerable in Queensland – the unborn and women.
“It’s a sad day when politicians go from kissing babies to voting for their destruction.
“These MPs should be ashamed for bringing in one of the most extreme abortion laws in the world.
“This has strengthened Cherish Life’s resolve to remove pro-abortion MPs at the next state election.”
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CIG to take over supermarket recycling collection
Junk depot in George Town
(CNS): The Department of Environmental Health has confirmed it will be taking over the collection of recyclable materials that the public leaves at supermarkets next month, after the private sector firm that has been operating the service announced it was pulling out. The DEH said that the recent request for proposals had only one bidder but government thought the proposal was too expensive and would therefore be taking on the job itself while another RFP is underway.
The sole bidder was Junk, co-owner Rolston Anglin confirmed. He spoke to CNS this week about the cost of recycling and the challenges posed by the size of the community, its lack of negotiating power and the need to ship materials to middlemen in the US.
DEH Director Roydell Carter said in the release that government was taking on the recycling as a temporary measure.
“The DEH will immediately step in to take over management of the various depots so customers can continue to deliver their recyclable materials to bins located at Foster’s Food Fair stores by the Airport, Strand, Countryside, and Republix as well as to Kirk Market, Hurley’s supermarket, and Chisholm’s Supermarket in North Side,” he said.
However, there will be some changes at the locations where the public drop their materials: there will now be separate bins for clean paper (including shredded paper, newspapers and magazines, boxboard and old corrugated cardboard), aluminum cans, and totes for glass and ceramics. Metal cans, such as food and pet food containers, can now be recycled at all of these locations.
But officials warned that government will not recycle all plastics as it said it was not viable.
The DEH will continue accept #1 PET plastics such as plastic drinks containers and #2 HDPE, which is things like milk jugs and detergent containers. These plastics can be identified by the numbers that are stamped onto the bottom of the plastic containers.
“Taking household and small business waste to be recycled helps divert waste out of the landfill,” said Jim Schubert, Senior Project Manager for the Integrated Solid Waste Management System (ISWMS). “It helps us all to play our part in the management of an ever-increasing amount of waste materials on the island.”
The government’s recycling project will be spearheaded by DEH Assistant Director of Solid Waste, Mark Rowlands, who asks that everyone please respect the depots by removing plastic bags, ensuring the recyclables are clean, and avoiding contaminating the bins with garbage or containers not currently being recycled.
“If everyone does their part, the costs for running the system will be minimised with a more efficient system,” he said.
The DEH hopes the costs of managing the programme itself will be less than the cost tendered by Junk. With a new RFP on the cards officials said Junk, along with any other interested parties, will have an opportunity to bid on the larger contract, which should be advertised by year-end ahead of government’s wider goals of a complete new waste-management strategy.
During a fundraising dinner this week, the premier revealed that once the tyres at the landfill have been removed, it will begin the much-anticipated mulching and composting programme to reduce the amount of green waste going into the landfill and generate a local source of fertilizer and soil cover.
Following an RFP, the developers behind the Ironwood Golf Resort in North Side are supposed to be taking the tyres.
The DEH said it would be developing further educational and promotional programmes to help customers understand the new system and to encourage the public to engage in recycling.
For more information, please contact the DEH’s office at 949-6696 or 949-8796 or dehcustomerservice@gov.ky.
Tags: Department of Environmental Health, Junk, recycling, Rolston Anglin, Roydell Carter
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Cayguy says:
Knowing Government and their waste disposal policies of old. Those bins will prolly all bedumped into the one Green garbage truck and added to the highest elevation point in cayman. Mt Thrashmore #donthavehighhopes
Government can barely get the garbage picked up – now they are going to take over the pickup of recyclables? Where will this be taken to? added to the dump maybe?
Stig of the Dump says:
The government here are excellent at recycling, particularly recycling the excuses they trot out all the time about the dump.
There is nothing the private sector can do that CIG cannot do much much worse for far more money.
Poor Ralston, better get back in on the next election so can fix this!
Lionfish says:
If government is taking over JUNK business…….then WHY the public drop trash dump site is not recycle trash???
What are the health and lawsuit economics for deliberately dumping carcinogens into an unlined, overcapacity landfill? How can the Health Minister and DEH Minister be the same inept person, and not found to be in conflict? Perhaps if he stood to be held personally liable for future cancer lawsuits we’d see more action on recycling and dump remediation.
So far not doing g a great job! I suspect it will all end up in mount trashmore soon enough, as I’m not sure who else has noticed but it’s piling up and overflowing at many of these collection points. Smells and attracting bugs, vermin and mosquitoes , not really what you want so close to a grocery store! Disgusting. But as per usual government modus operandum is do nothing if it doesn’t line MLAs pockets. Expect more mess people and say goodbye to any recycling on island D other than Dart.
It is ironic that corporate citizen DART does not volunteer to recycle Plastic #6 Polystyrene (PS), even at a loss. This product of their family’s creation, is one of the lightest and cheapest plastics, but contains Benzene, a known human carcinogen. Butadiene and styrene (the basic building block of the plastic) are suspected carcinogens. Decades of this stuff are leaching out of the unlined GT landfill into North Sound.
What are you going on about? At the date or your writing the collection is being done by a private company. So they are the ones that are allowing the piling up and overflowing. Nothing to do with government or MLAs pockets. Hopefully DoEH will do a better job and prove you wrong.
Great opportunity for DoEH to exit the commercial waste collection business, i.e. skip rental/emptying and grabber truck services. Turn these over to the private sector, some of whom have already started and are doing a much better job. Then mandate that ALL commercial entities MUST use a skip service. Competition will bloom and control prices.
If the private company is doing a better job than DEH then just use them. No one says you have to use DEH. See, problem solved. Except your problem is that the private companies are not better (or at least not cheaper when I checked for my skip; I didn’t switch from DEH as l find their service adequate for my limited needs). Your problem is trying to get government to force people to pay private company profits.
DoEH please ensure that there are clear signage indicating the types of materials for each container, especially plastics. For example, a milk jug may be #2 (recyclable) but I do not think the cap is.
Lets hope the CIG is better at collecting recycling than they are at moving wrecked Cuban boats… zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Well no more gambling money for somebodeeeee Debt ratio gone through the roof eh??? reasoning & guidance patna
Haha, they cant even fix the dump… just watch the “mess” they going make with this.
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According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.34 square miles (3.47 km2), of which, 1.26 square miles (3.26 km2) of it is land and 0.08 square miles (0.21 km2) is water.[9]
As of the census[3] of 2010, there were 542 people, 241 households, and 152 families residing in the village. The population density was 430.2 inhabitants per square mile (166.1/km2). There were 318 housing units at an average density of 252.4 per square mile (97.5/km2). The racial makeup of the village was 86.5% White, 2.6% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 0.4% Pacific Islander, 6.1% from other races, and 4.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.8% of the population.
There were 241 households of which 27.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.4% were married couples living together, 14.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 9.5% had a male householder with no wife present, and 36.9% were non-families. 31.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.25 and the average family size was 2.70.
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ZAWALONYJ, Josafat “Joe”
October 8, 1924 – December 21, 2018
We are saddened to announce the passing of Josafat “Joe” Zawalonyj in Cochrane AB, at the age of 94 years.
Joe was born on his family’s estate near Lviv, Ukraine where he gained his love of the land and it’s bounty. WWII took him from Agricultural College to the front lines. After the war he spent four years in Italy and then in Nottinghamshire, England where he met his future wife Mavis and their daughter Tia was born. In 1966 the family moved to Toronto , where as he had done in England, Joe worked on the construction of major highways.The family finally settled in Calgary in 1975.
Retirement gave Joe the time to pursue his passions. He loved his roses as much as the vegetables he grew and served to his family at weekly Sunday suppers he prepared. Joe sang in his church choir, was an avid Hockey and Soccer fan and loved to talk about politics! Joe and Mavis travelled extensively. But most of all, he enjoyed spending time with his family.
He was known for his kindness, generosity, and peaceful nature. Joe’s outgoing nature and ready smile will be greatly missed by those who knew and loved him. Joe is survived by his loving wife Mavis, his daughter Tia, grandchildren Matthew (Paige), Devin (Andrea), Cody, and great grandchildren Lily, Isabelle, Violet, and Emery.
Funeral Mass will take place on Monday, December 31, 2018 at 10:00 am at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 10 River Heights Dr. Cochrane, AB (South of the town center and east off Hwy 22 at James Walker Trail & River Heights Dr – next to Cochrane Toyota) Click here for Google map.
Interment will take place at the Cochrane Cemetery following the service Click here for Google map.
Following the burial, a Celebration of Joe’s Life will take place at McQuitty Hall at the Bethany Care Centre (1000, 32 Quigley Drive, Cochrane, AB) Click here for Google map.
All are welcome to attend.
Arrangements entrusted to Cochrane Country Funeral Home, Flo Simpson, Funeral Director – Ph: 403-932-1039.
View here the Photo Tribute played at the Celebration of Joe’s Life
On 29/12/2018 at 1:58 pm Betty and Ernie Trosch Said:
We are unable to attend the Funeral Service on Monday but please send our sincere condolences to Mavis and the family.
Betty and Ernie Trosch.
On 30/12/2018 at 10:15 am Myrna Arlene Pruden Said:
Joe was a good and kind man and we are happy that we had the pleasure of knowing him. Through the years, he gave us many good gardening tips. When the day lilies that he gave us bloom, we will always remember him.
We are thinking of you, Mavis and family, at this sad time. You can all take comfort for the wonderful care you gave Joe.
Myrna and Ed Pruden
On 30/12/2018 at 4:44 pm Marcia Wilson Said:
Our love to you and your Family, Mavis
Sincere condolences from Marcia, Gaynor,Dave, Wilson and Belle
On 30/12/2018 at 9:45 pm Maria Shysh Said:
Please accept our deepest condolences on the passing of Joe Zawalonyj. We remember him fondly from Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church. Memory Eternal – Vichnaya Pam’yat
On 05/01/2019 at 9:36 am Hollie Erickson Said:
I am deeply saddened to hear of “Joe’s” passing. He was such a kind and happy man. For many years Joe would bring us girls flowers, a smile and an occasional hug with his regular visits……we so appreciated his thoughtfulness. He loved to talk about where he and Mavis would go on their next cruise adventures.
Thinking of you Mavis and family during this sad time…… Every year when my Iris blooms I think of Joe and am thankful he gave them to me many years ago. He will be remembered.
Hugs to you all: Hollie Erickson
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A creative proposal from Thomas to Emma brought their Woodlands wedding day
Emma Moore & Thomas Fox
August 3, 2018 – St. Patrick’s Church & Fitzgeralds Woodlands House Hotel
Photos courtesy of McMahon Studios
Primary school teacher Emma Moore, and carpenter Thomas Fox had gone to primary school and secondary school together, but it wasn’t until after when Emma was working in Poc Fada Bar in Ballylanders that they started falling for each other. Tom was a regular customer and was always making Emma laugh. They had their first kiss after a couple of lemonades almost 10 years ago and the pair were inseparable ever since. This romance managed to blossom into a beautiful proposal.
Tom came in from work one evening with an envelope of photos with pictures of Emma’s two cats and two dogs with messages on a whiteboard beside them, with the last message being “Say yes”. He then got down on one knee, and gave Emma a ring box which he had made from a cut of a branch on his on his dad’s farm, with “Will you marry me?” etched onto the top of it. “Of course, I was delighted to say yes and was blown away by how much thought and effort he had put into it”, remembered Emma. With a wedding under way the date was set for August 3, 2018 with the ceremony held in St. Patrick’s Church Glenbrohane and the reception venue at The Woodlands House Hotel.
Emma’s uncle Canon Edmund Gubbins celebrated the couple’s wedding which made it extra special for them. For the drinks reception, Emma’s two cousins Jason and Edmond Gubbins and two friends Niall and Gill play some traditional music for the guests to enjoy while they sat out in the sun. The couple were very handy and did a lot of DIY work for their wedding which made it personal and memorable. They made their own mass booklets, a floral arch, painted messages on ballets, painted a ladder and had some pictures on it, decorated the church and even used Tom’s carpentry skills to make a LOVE sign from ballets. They made their won centre pieces from trunks of trees and table name holders from slate and timber and made a unique seating plan using the names of different flowers. Such a special touch was added to their beautiful day when Emma used a bouquet charm with a picture of her Dad in it to have with her for the day.
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“The Woodlands House Hotel Adare was such a pleasure to deal with. Elaina was so accommodating, easy to talk to and so competent at her job. She always made us feel so special like we were the only couple they had getting married even though they had five weddings in a row that bank holiday weekend. She accommodated us having our drinks reception outside providing us with some hay bales, cocktails, ice cream and plenty of finger food. It was a real party atmosphere! We had 299 guests at our wedding and the Woodlands were so efficient at dealing with this big number. Everyone raved about the standard of their meal and how generous they were with seconds. You cannot beat the Woodlands for quality and value. You know you will be treated exceptionally well when it is their family business and reputation. Thanks, so much Elaina, Conor, David and the Woodlands team you made our day so amazing!”
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PTAB Provides Guidance On The Impact Of SAS On AIA Trial Proceedings
On April 26, 2018, in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision SAS Institute Inc. v. Iancu, 2018 WL 1914661 (U.S. Apr. 24, 2018), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) provided guidance as to the impact of the SAS decision on AIA trial proceedings. See Guidance On The Impact Of SAS On AIA Trial Proceedings (“Guidance”). Starting now, the PTAB will proceed as follows for cases in the various stages:
Petition filed, but no institution decision yet.
The PTAB will issue an all-or-nothing determination instituting all claims or none.
When a trial is instituted, the PTAB will institute on “all challenges raised in the petition.” The phrase “all challenges raised in the petition” means that the institution decision will include all challenged claims and all petitioned grounds.
Trial already instituted on all challenges raised in the petition.
The PTAB will continue with the proceeding in the normal course.
Trial instituted on only some (but not all) of the challenges raised in the petition.
The PTAB may issue an order supplementing the institution decision to institute on all challenges raised in the petition.
If the PTAB issues an order supplementing the institution decision, the panel may take further action to manage the trial proceeding, including, for example, permitting additional time (e.g., granting extension to the parties, extending (on a case-by-case basis) the 12-month statutory deadline), briefing, discovery, and/or oral argument, depending on various circumstances and the stage of the proceeding.
Once an order supplementing the institution decision is issued, the Petitioner and Patent Owner are required to meet and confer to discuss the need for additional briefing and/or any other adjustments to the schedule. The parties are encouraged to work cooperatively amongst themselves to resolve disputes. Although a sua sponte order is possible in some cases, the PTAB warned that additional briefing and schedule adjustments might not be ordered if not requested by the parties. Of course, the parties have the option to agree to affirmatively waive additional briefing or schedule changes.
Scope of final written decisions.
The final written decision will address, to the extent claims are still pending at the time of decision, all patent claims challenged by the petitioner and all new claims added through the supplementation process.
The Guidance is not limited to IPRs but is applicable to all AIA trial proceedings, including post-grant review and covered business method review proceedings. The Guidance also signaled the possibility of future guidance in view of the PTAB’s continued assessment of the impact of the SAS decision. In addition, on Monday, April 30, 2018, the PTAB will host a “Chat with the Chief” webinar (noon to 1 p.m. ET) featuring Chief PTAB Judge David Ruschke to discuss the SAS decision and its impacts on AIA trial proceedings, and to answer questions.
Take-Aways
The PTAB’s Guidance provides much needed answers, but also leaves open questions. One answer that stands out is the guidance that the PTAB will address not only all challenged claims going forward, but all petitioned grounds, which in turn may have a resulting impact on the scope of estoppel. This practice may lead to longer institution decisions, however, in view of the number of petitions filed and the amount of grounds presented in those petitions every year, it is also possible for the PTAB to cut its own workload by issuing shorter institution decisions as soon as it finds at least one challenged claim that warrants institution. This practice may also reduce or eliminate the PTAB’s use of redundancy to exclude petitioned grounds from the institution decision and/or final written decision.
In terms of open questions, the Guidance’s language, stating the PTAB “may issue an order supplementing the institution decision” in those instances where trial has only been instituted on some, but not all, of the challenges raised in the petition, leaves unclear when the PTAB will issue supplemental orders and when it will not. And while it is clear that the parties are directed to discuss additional briefing and schedule adjustments, and notify the PTAB, when the PTAB does issue a supplemental order, it is unclear whether the parties can petition the PTAB to trigger a supplemental order. Petitioners or respondents who wish to have additional claims or petitioned grounds addressed should consider communicating with their panel to determine the best way to approach supplementation.
We expect the PTAB’s Guidance to evolve and the PTAB’s preferred practices to become clearer in the next several months as these changes are carried out.
For more information about the SAS decision, please refer to Brinks’ IP Alert Supreme Court Signals Full Steam Ahead for Challenging Patents in AIA Proceedings in Back-to-Back Oil States and SAS Institute Decisions.
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It was the end of the month of Ramadan when she finally told him why she wasn’t eating. He felt like an idiot, realizing it had only been during the day, and she was not actually anorexic. But why? Her father was—is—Egyptian—and a Muslim. She had never mentioned it; after all, they had only been dating for a few weeks.
What the fuck? He’s a camel jockey? he asked. Chester had a habit of saying whatever first thing came to his mind, usually jokes that were either inappropriate or nonsensical, a trait that Laila usually found endearing.
It’s not that important, she replied, looking away.
I thought you were fuckin’ Irish.
My mom is Irish, she said.
So shouldn’t we not be having sex? he asked.
Just not during the day, she answered. He loved the sound of her voice more than anything, perhaps because she used it so infrequently.
It was the first time Chester had been in any kind of relationship with a girl, unless you count Tanya, who gave him a hand job in eighth grade for walking her home from the pool when it was dark out. Laila slept in his bed at night. She had light freckles under her eyes that only Chester noticed, while lying next to her in bed under the harsh white light in his dorm room. He struggled to make conversation when they got breakfast together at the student commons on the Bartham campus. But he felt the more time they spent together, the less he knew her. She didn’t mind not talking.
Why are you still dating me? he asked.
Fuck if I know, she laughed. It was one of Chester’s favorite phrases.
The next summer, Chester wanted to move to Brooklyn to be with her, but he needed a job. He had found a room in Bed-Stuy, and though it was far from Laila’s mother’s in East New York, they were on the same subway line. It was a small room he sublet from a young black R&B singer, who raised the rent the day Chester moved in. Reluctantly, Laila suggested he meet with her father, who owned a restaurant.
She said her father absolutely could not know he was her boyfriend.
Mohammed was so civil that it was awkward. His voice sounded like a child’s and had a scratchy quality to it, which Chester immediately associated with Cheech and Chong. He contained himself, refraining from making any jokes. Later, Laila said he had done a good job. Chester, who was born in Kentucky but raised in Utica, upstate, had never been to Jersey City, where the restaurant was located.
Listen, my father is really weird, ok? she said. Don’t take anything he says seriously.
Chester wondered if she had said the same thing to her father about him. I hope he’s not going to cut my dick off, or something he thought.
On his first night at work, Mohammed approached him.
Chayster?
Yes sir? he said, nervously.
You cannot tell any of the others how much I am paying you, understand?
Sure, he said.
If they ask, just say that you don’t know. Johnny will be in soon to show you how to make the shisha.
What’s a shee-shuh? Chester asked.
You know, he said, gesturing toward his mouth, The hookah.
Oh, right. Chester sat down, away from the few customers who had shown up. They were watching a soccer game on a huge television, set to an Arabic channel. When Johnny came in, Mohammed took him aside quickly. Chester watched as they spoke rapidly in Arabic, while Mohammed pointed at Chester. Johnny looked serious, but as he approached Chester, a big smile snapped on to his long face, and he stuck out his hand.
He got back to the apartment around two-thirty, having had to wait forty-five minutes for an F train running on the A track. He called Laila but she said it was too late to go out. When he got back, his roommate, Jeremy, was up watching tv with another young black guy, who was a little pudgy, especially sitting next to Jeremy, who had a slim body-builder’s physique.
Hey man, Jeremy said, winking, You out partying?
Nah, Chester said, I just got back from work.
Oh, that sucks, Jeremy said. This is my friend, Emmel.
M L? Chester asked, As in King?
They looked at him, confused.
Uh, cool, nice to meet you, Chester said, and held out his hand to Emmel. Chester walked back to his room, where his bags sat on the bed, still packed. His room was hotter than outside, and he was sweat through the night.
Sunday morning his phone rang over and over again until he finally answered. It was Mohammed.
Chayster, can you come in this morning? I need someone for the soccer game today.
He got himself out of bed, took a cold shower and rode the A train and transferred to the Path, showing up at eleven-thirty to find the door locked and an unfamiliar girl standing outside with a melting carton of Baskin Robbins ice cream.
Hi, he said. Do you know where Mohammed is?
She smiled demurely and shook her head.
I’m Chester, he said, I just started working here.
She held out her hand, and said in a thick Russian accent, I’m Regina.
Mohammed arrived, fifteen minutes later, to let them in, then left immediately.
Do you want some ice-cream? Regina asked. No thanks, Chester said. He started cleaning. He fumbled with the large, bulbous, bottom section of the hookah under the water faucet, filling it and dumping it out, and then used a thin wire brush to clean out black gunk, which got all over his clothes. The heat from the open coal oven burned his back. Regina appeared suddenly behind him, with a plate of melting white and pink ice cream.
For you, she said.
Um, thanks, he said. She kept watching him, so he sat down at a table and ate the ice-cream. An old Arabic man stumbled in as he was finishing the ice-cream. Regina got up and went to take his order. He quickly got up to make the man’s hookah order, with the feeling that Mohammed was staring at him the whole time.
No one else came in that afternoon. Laila called around four, to ask what he was doing. I’m at your dad’s place, he said.
I thought we were going to hang out.
Well, he called me and told me to come in. Do you want to do something later?
Sure, she said.
Ok, I’ll call when I get back to Brooklyn.
When he got off the phone, Johnny arrived. He said nothing to Chester but looked at the hookahs, suspiciously. Many customers? he asked, as though it were Chester’s fault no one had been there all day.
As Chester was leaving, Mohammed approached him and handed him four twenties. So, you don’t tell anyone how much, right?
Sure, Chester said.
Who was that on the phone earlier?
It was Laila, he answered, wishing immediately he had lied.
Oh, did you have a question? Mohammed asked. You just ask me, ok?
Yeah, sorry, Chester said.
He left nervously, his skin heating up. He imagined Mohammed going after his balls with a bloody kitchen knife, and then stabbing Laila. God, he thought, What the fuck is wrong with me?
After working on Tuesday night—Are you ready for busy time? Mohammed had asked him—Chester got back to Bed-Stuy at five that morning and called Laila, knowing she wouldn’t answer. When he got back to his apartment, Emmel was asleep on the couch. Chester tiptoed back to his room and collapsed on his bed. He was covered in sweat. He couldn’t fall asleep. He got up and masturbated silently, watching videos on YouPorn.com at his small desk. Then he lay back down in bed, picturing Laila’s naked back turned to him.
Wednesday night, Laila stayed at his apartment and she asked him to do it to her from behind. Chester agreed, worried that his weight would crush her. He felt soft and stupid, looking at his reflection in the window, while Laila’s head was buried in the covers. He saw the shiny areas of scalp on his head, where his hair was receding; his head looked like two puzzle pieces. She came, which was rare, but he wasn’t able to. She wanted to go down on him afterward, but he said he was too tired.
He felt like talking. He told her that he was glad to be in New York with her, because he hadn’t made any plans for the summer, and he didn’t want to go back to Utica. His friends from high school, who he had been in a band with, weren’t coming back, and he realized that everyone had finally given up. She didn’t say anything.
Chester continued working at Al Boulos through June. He was the only white person ever there, besides two guys, Tommy and Mike, who joked around with Mohammed. Mohammed told Chester they were from the FBI.
Maybe you could talk to them, Mohammed said. Work in the FBI, eh?
Everyone else spoke Arabic, but they got used to Chester being around and spoke to him in broken English. He started getting the sense that Johnny didn’t like him. One night he picked up a hookah and the glass bottom fell off, shattering on the floor and spilling water everywhere. He was nervous, but Justin, an eighteen-year-old Pueto Rican dishwasher—who struck Chester as stereotypically gay—quickly helped him clean it up.
Is Mohammed here? Justin asked. Did anyone hear you?
I don’t know, I don’t think so, Chester stammered.
Justin finished wiping off the floor. Just don’t tell anyone, it’s okay, he said. Chester then realized all the Hookah’s were overfilled with water.
Later, at a hip café in the Lower East Side that made Chester uncomfortable, he told Laila that Johnny didn’t like him.
I’m pretty sure he purposely fucked up all the hookahs to screw me up, Chester said.
Well, you did take his job, she said. It’s not like he does anything with his nights off.
Chester hadn’t realized that. It made sense now. All the weird looks Johnny gave him. Staring at Chester while Chester was working. So how much does your dad actually pay them? he asked.
Almost nothing, she said. I think they make like two hundred, two fifty.
A week?
Yeah. They’re all illegal immigrants.
Oh, he said. Even the Russian girls?
I think the Russian girls were vacationing in New York and they ran out of money or something, so they’re trying to earn their way back, she said. I have no idea how he met them.
Man, your dad is so weird, he said.
You’re the one who wanted to work there. I don’t see why you have to complain about it all the fucking time.
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean that… he said.
Laila looked like she would cry. What’s wrong? Chester asked. I don’t understand why you never want to talk about your dad.
Never mind! Jesus! she raised her voice, and then, embarrassed, walked out of café.
One evening Chester was serving Mike and Tommy, the FBI agents. The two of them could have been twins, both overweight, same complexion, Tommy had hair and Mike was mostly bald. They both seemed to be laughing at him and Mike started asking him questions, did he smoke anything else out of those hookahs.
No sir, I’m drug free, Chester said.
They asked if he had a girlfriend and he responded yes, then quickly made up a girl’s name, remembering he couldn’t say anything about Laila.
You know Mohammed’s daughter, right? Mike asked. You ever screw around with her? Tommy laughed.
No way, Chester said. I barely know her. We just go to school together.
He walked away, so they wouldn’t see him turn red.
He called Laila when he was leaving work. He hadn’t seen her since he had stormed out of the café. He was worried about the FBI guys, but also thought she would find it funny.
Oh my god, I bet my dad made them do it, Laila said. What an asshole.
Are you serious? I don’t really get what the deal with them is anyway. Are they there because it’s an Arabic place, or because of all the illegal immigrants? I mean, they come every night, are they keeping tabs on the Arabs or something?
I don’t think so, Laila, said. If they were, they’re in the wrong place.
Yeah, Chester said.
Hey, do you want to smoke some pot? Laila asked.
No, he said, I’m around so much smoke there, the idea of more smoke is sort of nauseating.
Fine, she said.
The next Friday, after working at Al Boulos until four in the morning, Chester took the 2 train home instead of the C. He got off at Eastern Parkway and walked out in front of the Brooklyn Museum. He had loved the building; it was the only truly large and beautiful thing he had seen in New York all summer. He sat alone on the steps in front of the water fountain, staring across Washington Ave. He stayed until the sun rose, then walked home, a forty-five minute walk to his place in Bed-Stuy. He slept in until three the next afternoon. When he woke up, he checked his cell phone, but there had been no calls.
On Sunday night Chester was working again. Regina was there, sitting in the kitchen, reading a hard backed book with a Russian title. When she told him it was “The Da Vinci Code,” he rolled his eyes.
Around eight, after a steady three hours of serving shishas, Chester noticed that Laila was in the restaurant, talking to her father. They made eye contact, but she looked away quickly. Mohammed then looked at him. Later, Chester walked up to Laila, who was sitting at the front desk, greeting customers in Arabic.
Hey, he said.
Hi, she said. How are you, Chester?
He smiled at her feigned formalness, but she stayed straight-faced.
So why did you come in tonight? he asked.
Dad asked me to, she said. Then she looked over his shoulder and nodded to indicate he should look behind him. Suddenly frightened of Mohammed, he turned around to see Regina. Chester had been a little weirded out by Regina lately. She had been talking to him a lot, and staring at him while he worked. No girl had ever had a crush on him before, unless you counted Laila, and he didn’t really know how to deflect her flirtations.
Chester, Regina said, when do you get off work?
Um, not until late, he said.
Oh, she said, and looked at him with upturned eyes. He smiled at her. She didn’t move.
Well, what are you going to do tomorrow? she asked.
Chester noticed that Mike and Tommy were looking at him with big grins, laughing. He looked at Laila, but she still pretended not to notice. I’m not sure, he said.
This is my phone number, she said, if you would like to go somewhere together. She handed him a crumpled, sweaty piece of paper.
Oh, okay, he said. She smiled and left. Chester looked at Laila, then saw that Mohammed was talking to Tommy and Mike, and looked at her again, then walked away.
So what was that all about? Laila asked, surprising Chester from behind. He looked at her from the corner of his eye, still washing the bowl of a hookah.
Oh, so you’re going to talk to me now? he said.
Dad’s out for something. I’m going home. Have fun on your date.
Chester looked at his watch; it was only nine-thirty. Hearing Laila’s voice excited him. Spending the twelve-hour shifts in relative silence was difficult for him. She didn’t seem mad, but they’re last few phone conversation hadn’t gone well. She had completely withdrawn from him. The next day he thought about calling her, trying to see her, but he couldn’t do it.
Dad told me you quit, Laila said.
What? Chester yelled, I can’t really hear you. The signal is bad.
My father said you quit the job.
Oh, yeah, I mean, I didn’t really quit. I pretended like I was leaving New York. I don’t think he cared. I acted like that was the plan all along.
Are you leaving? she asked.
I don’t think so, no, Chester said. I’m not going home now, there’s only a month left in the summer.
How’s Jeremy? she asked.
I don’t know, I never really talk to him. He isn’t here that much.
Oh, weird, she said.
Yeah, he said. I feel better though. I felt like an asshole the whole time I was working for your dad.
She didn’t say anything.
It’s not your fault, I just felt weird working there. It was obvious no one wanted me there. It was stupid, he sighed.
Yeah, I know, she said.
Are you doing anything later? he asked.
I don’t know, she said.
Well, call me if you to hang out, he said. I gotta go.
Two weeks later Chester was out late, drinking with some friends from Bartham who were also spending the summer in Brooklyn. He took the G train home and got back around five. As he walked up the steps to his building he saw an unfamiliar figure below him, going through the garbage.
Hey! It was a woman who shouted at him. You live with Jeremy?
Um, yes, he said, stopping in the middle of the stairs.
I’m the landlord, she said. I thought I’d seen you around. Tell Jeremy he needs to talk to me. He’s been avoiding me.
Uh, ok, he said.
He hasn’t paid rent in two months, she said. And when I come by he doesn’t answer the doorbell. Do you know this? He owes me four thousand dollars. I don’t know how much you are paying. I’m starting the eviction papers though. I don’t mean for you, but you’re not on the lease, so I can’t do anything.
Jeez, he said, I’m sorry. I had no idea.
You tell him to talk to me, ok?
Ok, I will. Sorry ma’am.
It’s probably going to be okay, Laila said, she might just be crazy. You should just talk to Jeremy. Anyway, it takes forever to actually get an eviction, like at least a few months. All the laws favor the tenants over the landlords.
Okay, Chester said. He was sitting on the still hot sidewalk, around the corner of his building. I just got really nervous. Sorry it’s so late, I just didn’t know what else to do. It’s really good to hear your voice. Man. What the fuck man.
You’re going to be fine.
I know, but I already paid him for the three months and a security deposit. If he gets evicted I’ll lose twelve-hundred fucking dollars.
Well, if he’s not paying the rent, he’s probably not going to give you back the security deposit. The landlord sounds crazy anyway. Listen, do you want me to come over? I have some pot. I’m not really doing anything.
Really? It’s like five in the morning.
Yeah, I’d like to see you.
Uh, okay. Yeah, I could smoke some pot. Do you think it will be weird? I mean, I haven’t seen you for like a month really.
Do you want me to come or not?
Yeah, I do.
Okay, I’ll be there in a little while.
He lay back on his bed. He heard the front door open, and footsteps walk down the hall, and then Jeremy’s bedroom door shut. He sighed. He didn’t feel like talking to Jeremy at all. He no longer really felt like talking to anyone. He pictured Laila walking through the door, and though he couldn’t tell if he really wanted to see her, the thought of seeing her face made him smile. He had never figured out what the deal with her and her father was. Whenever he asked she would get quiet and annoyed. I wonder if I’ll ever know anything about her? he thought. He knew she was Irish, and Egyptian, which meant a lot more to him now than it had in October the year before. She likes me because I’m loud and act stupid, he thought. She never talks. It made sense, somehow. But what if trying to understand her would only drive her away?
Owen Byron Roberts
Owen Byron Roberts is a writer based in Brooklyn.
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By Rory Pelsue, Cat Rodríguez, and Ariel Sibert
DEC 20-JAN 21 | Theater
In October, as theaters remained dark for a seventh consecutive month and the content-starved internet feasted on memes to ready itself for the long, dry winter, a new performance-media company emerged from the sweat non-profit theaters drowned in while trying to stay afloat: Fake Friends was born, and so was a hybrid art form.
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We turn to international fiction for new voices, new worlds, and new perspectives. But beyond the new, there’s another feature that I find myself in dire need of right now: external gravity. This month we publish excerpts from two recent selections in Archipelago Books expansive map of world literature. The first story, “Igifu,” by Rwandan writer Scholastique Mukasonga, makes physical the weight of hunger (igifu) and shows how lack can become the center around which a family orbits. The second selection is an excerpt from Colombian novelist Tomás González’s Difficult Light. The novel consists of thirty three meditations on family and beauty, told by a painter looking up from the gravity well of grief. Both Mukasonga and González write with profound depth and make us question whether the center we’re wheeling around is really so central, so inescapable after all.
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We’re very excited to be publishing these two excerpts this month: one a much-anticipated reissue of a 1969 debut novel and the other a wondrously original vision that strikes at the very grammar of being.
JASON E. SMITH with Tony Smith
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Jason E. Smith’s Smart Machines and Service Work is being published this month as the fourth Field Notes book to be brought out by Reaktion Books in association with the Brooklyn Rail. Tony Smith, Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University and author of Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production: A Marxian Critique of the “New Economy,” among many other books, took the occasion for a meeting of the Smiths.
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Don’t Let the Iceberg Sink Your Titanic!
On June 15, 2017 June 14, 2017 By Libby RomfhIn Change Management
We’re all familiar with the typical project management triangle that balances time, resources, and quality.
For some of us, managing these come naturally. It’s as simple as making a to-do list, figuring out the right people to get in the room, putting a project plan together, mustering the resources, getting to work, measuring quality, and checking off milestones as you complete them. Before you know it, you’re done, project successful, pats on the back and promotions for everyone.
Do I hear you laughing?
Apparently Wilfried Kruger, who developed the Iceberg model, also thought this was over-optimistic and developed his iceberg model of change management. One of my favorite models, the Iceberg says that the project management triangle is just the tip of the iceberg and, just like an iceberg, the biggest part – and the part that will sink your magnificent, titanic change effort – is hidden beneath the waterline where you can’t see it.
Those unseen factors are those that lurk in the darkness inside every person involved: emotions, personal agendas, social skills, unconscious or immaterial objections. The squishy stuff, the stuff a project manager can’t muscle through.
Sounds scary, huh? It doesn’t have to be – for some of us, this is our favorite part of change management.
Four Types of People Hiding Under Your Iceberg
Kruger basically said there were four types of people hiding under the water:
Promoters, who feel positive about and will promote your change
Potential Promoters, who agree in principle but don’t think it will work
Opponents, who will come right out and tell you they’re against it
Hidden Opponents, who say of course they agree but…
He also proposes two approaches to managing these types:
Power & Politics, used to influence Potential Promoters
Perceptions & Beliefs, used to influence Opponents and Hidden Opponents
Kruger also proposes that Hidden Opponents are influenced by Issue Management (i.e. the traditional project management triangle).
Okay, that was pretty dry. Let’s look at an example:
Let’s say we’re rolling out an employee scheduling program to several hundred stores. Amongst those stores you’re going to run into:
People who used the same software at other companies, LOVED it, and can’t wait for you to roll it out. (Promoters)
People who think the manual scheduling they’re doing now sucks, and like the idea of a better program, but can’t picture a program that could schedule their employees as effectively as they can. (Potential Promoters)
People who don’t see the point of adjusting their work schedule every week. Why can’t I just write a schedule that stays the same every week, and just adjust for vacations? (Opponents)
People who tell their district manager that they will of course use the new program. But they just don’t have time to learn it this week. Or next week. (Or, if you pressed them, ever.) (Hidden Opponents)
You can see how, if you’ve scoped your project to create real change in how stores schedule employees (as opposed to scoping it as “roll out the scheduling program”), your success depends on getting all four groups on board. So how do you do that?
Here are some techniques I’ve used in the past that have worked:
Build on their enthusiasm and help them over any hurdles during the learning process so they can achieve mastery and advocate on behalf of the system ASAP.
Interview and quote them in store communications.
Sign them up to coach their peers during the conversion in their local area.
Reward them! No, not monetarily – with praise, recognition, leadership opportunities.
Potential Promoters
Demonstrate it in action, let them understand the end before they invest in the beginning.
Make sure they receive a lot of emotional support (probably from their supervisor) during the learning process because no one learns a new scheduling program in a week, and it may actually take them longer to write a schedule for the first month, while they’re solidifying their learning.
But once they’re on-board and see the results, they’ll be ok.
You may think these people are your biggest challenge but I haven’t found that to be so because at least they are open in their disagreement.
In my view, opponents need a lot of direct conversation.
Show them the WIIFM in a big way
Make sure they actually try it – and only their supervisor has the structural power to enforce their participation
Hidden Opponents
These people present the biggest challenge because you don’t know who they are until you’re almost done. They’ll agree to explore the new faster route that the GPS proposes and then persistently ignore the directions because “that’s not how we’ve always gotten there.”
The data will reveal your hidden opponents. If you have a system that everyone should be using, there must be some kind of data pattern that you can find to indicate someone who isn’t using it. If all else fails, you can survey everyone to ask whether they’ve completed implementation – hidden opponents are surprisingly transparent about their lack of participation.
Kruger’s model says to manage their Perceptions & Beliefs, and to talk to them about the time, quality, resources going into the change.
I’ve had some success managing their Perceptions & Beliefs by getting results with the other three groups, then use those results to influence them. Once they see that outspoken opponents are on-board, they’ll feel the pressure to change.
Another trick is to put them in charge of implementing the change – if they see that their success as a leader depends on successfully making sure that others implement the change, they will often come aboard because it’s stopped being about the change and has started being about their pride.
I like this model because it’s simple and easy to apply. Nothing is safe about managing the hidden dangers below the waterline, but once you know they’re there, you become more vigilant about watching for them.
What are your secret tricks for leveraging Promoters, Potential Promoters, Opponents, and Hidden Opponents during implementations?
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Various - Harsh Noise London #10: Raven Shifting Poles (Cassette)
Posted on 12.10.2019 12.10.2019 by Mezikazahn
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Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Created with "low-end" equipment and miniscule budgets, these films and videos convey an intimacy rarely encountered in the public cinema.
Robert Full, head of UC Berkeley's Poly Pedal Laboratory, researches insect locomotion in studies that capture centipedes and cockroaches running along treadmills at speeds up to 1, images per second. Full will appear In Person to describe how these motion studies have become the basis for 3-D computer models and the design of robots that move like insects. Ant City by Moss Paul F.
The improvisational quality of the narration delivered by Moss Schnee with his heavy Brooklyn accent reveals as much about human notions of organized society as animal ones.
Mark Thompson's astonishing Immersion , 7 minute excerpt captures a performance in which the artist places a queen bee on the crown of his head.
Over a period of about an hour, worker bees attracted to the queen slowly cover Thompson's entire head — his eyes, mouth and ears — hanging together in chain-like formations. In order to experience this "immersion" into the hum of the hive, Thompson maintains Buddha-like concentration and calm throughout. In each work the appearance of events is not taken at face value but used to examine perceptual, kinesthetic and cinematic experience.
The main character in this piece is the bloom of a wax vine, a house plant which has been with me since my mother placed it in the window of my childhood bedroom. The supporting role is played by my 9 th floor apartment in downtown San Francisco, where both my reels were shot. There are people in the apartment: me, two friends and my lover as a child with his parents in old photographs. There are people walking in the alley below. CB Untitled by Elizabeth Powers; unsplit 8mm, color, sound, 4 minutes Untitled uses the multiple image format of unsplit regular 8mm to document a landscape and explore the landscape of memory.
A solid moment, suspended within a space of constant vibrating activity. Tran; hand-cranked 35mm, color, silent, 1 minute Cinema suspended intermittently; suspended cinema.
MW "Effectively a conflation of the mutually exclusive projects of Muybridge and Marey, the Motion Studies are simultaneously intensely dynamic and absolutely static. Where Muybridge captures the object in motion and Marey represents the motion of the object, Wilson isolates these properties while displaying them simultaneously, implying temporality in single frames and objecthood as a function of duration.
On the surface it's about the changes taking place, over a two- year period, in an empty lot and a decrepit old building next to my house. Deeper down it's about the walls and windows between my interior and exterior selves, and how the fragile constructs of identity are etched, eroded, re-shaped and transformed by outside forces.
Richard; 16mm, color, sound, 8 minutes A collage of nature examining the details of flowers, leaves and a super-natural blue, black and purple forest. An exploration of nature and an amazingly versatile film stock, which sadly has been discontinued by Kodak.
The title refers to the abuse which has and continues to be leveled against the environment. Knott's house every evening of the year, between the hours of eight and ten. Then on those evenings on which food was available for the dog, in Mr. Knott's window, or some other conspicuous window, a red light would be set, or perhaps a green, and all other evenings a violet light, or perhaps no light at all, and then the man and no doubt after a little time the dog too would lift up his eyes to the window as he passed, and seeing a red light, or a green light, would hasten to the house door and stand over his dog until his dog had eaten all the food, but seeing a violet light, or no light at all, would not hasten to the door, with his dog, but continue on his way, down the road, with his dog, as though nothing has happened.
On the occasion of her fifteenth birthday, the story goes, Sadie's father, filmmaker James Benning, gave her an old Fisher Price Pixelvision camera the PXL and so provided her with both the inspiration and the means to make her first series of videos. These wistful, openly amateurish works were received with such instant critical and popular acclaim that Benning became a "star" almost overnight: ironically, she appeared to be successfully living out the very type of fantasy that countless misfit teens have entertained in their own most introverted, alienated moments.
But if the Cinderella qualities of Benning' s story, as it has so often been told, have an air of uncanny familiarity, this is perhaps not unfitting.
What these early works seem to offer might aptly be described as an art of transforming the mundane, a personalized scrapbook of scenarios which are at once surprisingly typical and astonishingly unique. Each of these films is involved in the negotiation of treacherous boundaries: between childhood and adulthood, masculinity and femininity, ordinary and extraordinary desires, between the "in here" and the "out there," they confront the thresholds which every individual encounters in his or her own life, but never in precisely the same way.
The setting for these works, Benning' s own bedroom in her parent's home, also appears as a deeply familiar one. In its capacity to provide the stage for the reveries and resentments which will give shape to our future social identities, the adolescent bedroom occupies a special place in the topography of our inner experience.
As we are reintroduced to this space through the dreamy eye of Benning's Pixelvision notably, a camera initially marketed by its manufacturer as a child's toy , we are reminded of how that intimate setting could also become the site of fantastic self-transformations. Where Benning's embrace of her own "outsider" status propels the personal inwardness of these films, it also evokes the sort of self-imposed isolation which seeks to re-imagine the world from the vantage point of its own privileged sense of separateness.
Subversively restaging pop music cliches and hackneyed Hollywood plots by using only the most everyday of props — Barbie dolls, fake mustaches, toy cars — Benning rescales the dimensions of these often oppressive constructs, bringing them literally closer to home and down to a level where they not only seem less powerful, but where they can become subject to her own playfully erotic manipulations.
To suggest that Benning's works exhibit a fascination with the plastic in mass produced, objectified fantasies is not only to point out their sharply critical interest in exposing what is superficial and hollow in the consumerist trappings of childhood, it is also to suggest that they reveal how the very substance in which our ideals of 4 Program Notes gender and romance have been stereotypically molded can become unexpectedly and gratifyingly malleable when it enters into the forge of the adolescent imagination.
While the candor and wit of these works have extended their appeal to a broad range of audiences, there also remains a degree of urgency in these pieces that will strike an especially familiar chord in gay and lesbian viewers.
The Utopian edge of Benning's revisionary imagination should not be blunted by our own nostalgia for "the limitless possibilities of youth," nor should her works be read as simply the documentary traces of a "passing phase. The difficulty of finding a positive identity for oneself in a world filled with violence is starkly revealed by Benning's youthful but already despairing voice. Recorded against a backdrop of pornographic images and phone sex ads, Benning portrays the innocence of female romance and the taboo prospect of female marriage.
Acting alternately as a confessor and accuser, the camera here captures Benning's anger and frustration at feeling trapped by social prejudices.
Addressing the camera with an air of seduction and romance, Benning allows the viewer a sense of her waitful angst and special delight as she comes to realize her lesbian identity. Throughout she uses small toys as props and examples, handling and controlling them the way we are in turn controlled by larger, violent forces.
The Judy Spots ; video, color, sound, 13 minutes These five short videos introduce Judy, a papermache puppet who ruminates on her position in society. Like Judy of the famous Punch and Judy, Benning' s Judy seems to experience the world from the outside, letting things happen to her rather than making things happen around her.
Before, my videos were a lot more about depicting something as it was happening. In relation to identity and sexuality as well as class dynamics, making tapes was a kind of celebratory or positive reinforcement, trying to make something that made me feel validated. And in relationship to the ambiguity of Taylor's gender, this split between the head being a cartoon and the body being real makes the audience more attuned to body language. Left to her own devices by a loving but over- taxed working mother and frustrated by her trained long-distance relationship with her self-involved father, she experiences an emotional isolation and pre-pubescent sexual confusion scarcely mitigated by the presence of a sympathetic gay man who rents a room in the house.
A sense of malaise and socio-economic construction prevails, exacerbated by peers who look askance at her tomboy androgyny. This initially distancing device is rapidly recuperated and normalized, paradoxically enabling Benning to ascend to a high lever of emotional engagement and psychological nuance.
This world, which itself could probably be diagnosed as more paranoid and schizophrenic than any "case subject" hospitalized in a mental institution, is made a part of Anne Robertson's completely personal, diaristic film-life-therapy-performance. This evening we will show extracts of her Five Year Diary, "a constant work of progress, as is every life. It was shot silent and has cassette sound.
It covers the period May 14 to September 26, Within is personal documentary; midway occurs the death of my 3-year-old niece Emily; the impact of her death is explored. My niece Emily was born April 25, She was a charming child, petite, constantly hugging everyone and telling us "I love you. My last film of her is on the porch, waving goodbye. She had begun to have convulsions when her blood sugar was low, and had been in intensive care several times, covered with monitors yet constantly asking to be held.
She came home again. July 16 th , , she awoke in the morning, asked for a glass of water, drank it, then died in her father's arms. Emergency medical technicians, then hospital personnel, worked on her for hours, but she could not be resuscitated.
The results of her autopsy: an enlarged heart, and evidence of a rare condition concerning blood sugar uptake. My sister is a pediatric nurse. I cannot talk to her about this film.
Her grief is so huge, it almost cannot be shared. San Francisco Cinematheque My grief was so immediate that it surfaced as absolute denial, and a psychotic breakdown.
I have been diagnosed as having a schizoaffective disorder. I was hospitalized for 17 days following the shot of the full moon, and sounds of my ravings then emerged to take up the daily camera again.
What had been ordinary diary, raps in my studio, friends, family, observations of the world, daily life, now all seemed to revolve around the loss of my niece, who was only 3 years old. I feared death and "blinking out like a lightbulb" or never having children of my own; I wished for a Paradise with gardens as beautiful as Emily was, our little flower.
As I gathered flowers for her ashes' interment, I heard her speak in my head, "Be sure to leave some pink and purple ones, because the bees love them. When my youngest brother Andrew died in at the age of 9, my father wrote a poem; it is in bronze on our family gravestone: On the morrow, in the sun, we will see you, hold hands, rife the morning star, and stand together on the high mountain top overlooking all. If my film succeeds, it is because grief is a common human condition, and the death of a child causes the ultimate grief, which you share.
Yet this is also the story of a mind's survival, using art as therapy. Carrying the camera through this time helped me transcend psychosis, and convey the sense of our darling little girl to you all. I give you my sense of loss, and a hope to see Emily again someday. It covers the period September 27, to January 29, Within is personal documentary; one of the themes is the impact of the death of my 3-year-old niece, Emily.
AR Melon Patches, or Reasons To Go On Living ; Super-8mm, color, sound on audiotape with live narration, 28 minutes Gradually, life-affirming images seeds, gardens, babies replace depressing images pills, smoking, drinking. Sound is of four children when very young, who are also in the film, and of joyous birds. She has been making films since She has been diagnosed as a manic-depressive, a conclusion she denies, preferring instead to think of herself as a typical anxiety neurotic of the obsessive-compulsive sort, with marked tendencies for fantasy, joy, and panic.
She is no longer a depressive, and film has been the cure. Her avocation is organic gardening, and this too has been a healing force for her. Her films total more than 45 hours running time; her gardens total more than 5, square feet.
She believes in Super-8, and art plus life as therapy Comprised of works whose reputation and influence is matched only by the infrequency of their public screening, the three-part series will feature films of long duration which intensify concentration of minute detail and the transformation of visual material over time. While Michael Snow's La Region Centrale contemplates nature's space and Ernie Gehr's Still contemplates urban space, tonight's film by Ken Jacobs explores and delves into the space of film itself.
The two met in New York in through their mutual friend, filmmaker Bob Fleischner. Jacobs was, at the time, an aspiring Action Painter, but he found himself equally drawn to the emergent form of the Happening, as it was then being pioneered by artists like John Cage, Jim Dine and Allan Kaprow.
In his early films with Smith Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice, Little Cobra Dance, Star Spangled to Death , Jacobs' emphasis was on capturing his "star's" manic capering in recognizably everyday settings: the empty streets of the Lower East Side, the rooftop of an apartment building on W. Aided and abetted by Jacobs' camera, Smith's very presence would turn these scenes of modern urban banality into stages for his own nomadic and irreverent brand of Performance Art.
Although this evening's film appears to mark a significant shift in Jacobs' concerns as a filmmaker, it is still possible to witness the continuing influences of both Abstract Expressionism and the Happening even within its more obviously structuralist interests in exploring the fundamental elements of cinema.
Tom, Tom begins and almost ends with the "primitive" film of the same name, re- presented each time in its entirety. The almost seventy-minute interim might best be described as an extended fugue state, in which the original film is obsessively rephotographed and subjected to a hypnotic array of temporal and optical manipulations. As we are encouraged to delve ever deeper into the physical details of these images which are themselves rephotographed from paper contact prints in the Library of Congress, it should be noted , we find ourselves crossing over the thresholds of figural perception entirely and entering into new territories of vision.
Where certain moments in the film will inevitably recall abstract painting, we are also reminded that abstraction, at its best, also allows us an unobstructed encounter with the sensuous materiality of its medium. There is something of the Happening to be discerned in the film as well, particularly in the ways that the film acts to disrupt our own ingrained habits of perception.
If Jacobs and Smith were interested in the possibilities of expanding the domain of art into the zones of the everyday, then this 9 San Francisco Cinematheque film might be considered as an attempt to shift that project into the interior realms of spectatorship itself. Watching the film, one begins to sense how Alice must have felt when she passed through the looking glass: Jacobs' hallucinatory reconstruction of this simply staged nursery rhyme inexorably begins to erode all of our conventional expectations about what film is and what it can do, where aesthetic experience begins and where it ends.
Jacobs demonstrates how unimagined worlds and fantastic dramas can be extracted from even the most apparently insignificant or unintentional detail, and as we reemerge from this adventure, we discover that it is difficult to look at our own everyday world in quite the same way that we did before.
Annette Michelson has suggested that this film occupies a special place in film history because it marks both the apotheosis and the end of a certain strain of cinephilia — that consuming passion for the movies which energized so many of the artists of the American Underground. Where it was the luminous enchantment of the filmed body i. And cinephilia will now assume the guise of meta-cinema. To love the cinema in the age of television, he suggests, is to love an absence, an unmoumable loss.
But as Jacobs' own comments on his film seem to imply, even in the deepest throes of an obsessive melancholia for a cinema long since dead, we will still find a vibrant, living drama in the very act of looking itself. Cine-recordings of the vivacious doings of persons long dead My camera closes in, only to better ascertain the infinite richness playing with fate, taking advantage of the loop-character of all movies, recalling with variations some visual complexes again and again for particular savoring , searching out incongruities in the story-telling a person, confused, suddenly looks out of an actor's face , delighting in the whole bizarre human phenomena of story-telling itself and this within the fantasy of reading any bygone time out of the visual crudities of film: dream within a dream!
A train of images passes like enough and different enough to imply to the mind that its eyes are seeing an arm lift, or a door close; I wanted to 'bring to the surface' that multi- rhythmic collision-contesting of dark and light two-dimensional force-areas struggling to edge for identity of shape Sitney, P.
New York: Oxford University Press, Willemen, Paul. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, Mixing autobiographical elements with performance, and idiosyncratic alter egos with an inquiry into the nature of 'self,' 'truth' and 'story,' they create multiple screen personae to exorcise demons and achieve psychic catharsis.
Muralist, Super-8 film and video maker Claire Bain will show her Super-8 opus Vel and the Bus, in which Vel suffers an identity crisis as a result of a bus accident; and two new videos, Jennifer! Anne McGuire's and Claire Bain's films and videos are avant-garde works that call for a radical redefinition of the function of the cinematic medium. Breaking narrative conventions while still telling stories, and focusing on visceral emotions while still expressing complex abstract thoughts, they deconstruct notions of what is acceptable representation.
The main thread of this distinctly different form of expression is also the most salient formal meeting point of the two artists: their conscious and physical presence in their work.
This uncompromised exposure of the artist's whole being isn't merely an ornamental addition to the visual texture, but is rather the raison d'etre of the artwork itself. By making their presence central to their work, the two filmmakers open up the filmic space for new content and challenge conventional representations of women on screen.
Claire Bain and Anne McGuire definitely make very "female" and "personal" films, but films which shatter one's very expectations of the female screen persona and personal filmmaking.
It is precisely because of the filmmakers' merciless cutting into their own psychic tissue and exteriorizing of their own fantasies, fears, obsessions, beliefs and drives, that their films come across as mind-blowingly direct and reflexive personal statements. At the same time, the displacement of the gap between the representation and its referent — because artist-and-actress both are and are not one and the same — make these films both more complex and more provocative.
As spectators we experience a good old Brechtian estrangement effect, where the familiar stretches its meaning, becomes uncanny and eventually has to be rethought.
A performance about the artist's experience in the aftermath of an accident. Simultaneously shot by three cameras. Vel first manifested herself in when a landlady gave me and my roommates a box of old clothes which included a pair of gray polyester pants, and a polyester shirt to go with them.
They were the same kind of pants that my mom wears, with an elastic waistband. I was inspired to put them on and become the type of stereotyped person that my mind associated with that type of clothing.
It was a middle-aged woman from middle America. It was me in ten years, if I had taken a different path through a parallel universe, stayed in New Mexico or been one of the people I saw in the grocery store. But many of my characters, Vel included, are much more than imitations of other people.
They are aspects of my own experience of identity, focused on and magnified into full- blown characters. They, like everyone, have much more dimension than whatever categories their outward appearance has, by social definition, placed them in.
Vel, for example, appears conservative, straight-laced and hick-like with her polyester clothes and southwestern drawl. But in Vel's raw aftermath of the Accident the camera reveals that Vel has her own share of wild fantasies, and in the end she finds healing in solitude and nature. CB Jennifer! She is the same age I was when Vel first appeared 10 years ago.
She is hip, New Edge, The-Mission-artsy-recent-grad-school-fartsy- knows-what-she-wants After that I was able to attend to all of the other pressing business — thank you Jennifer.
It is a collaboration between me and the machines used to make it. As Jennifer would say, "You can figure it out! No big mystery — it's just so familiar to me and I'm curious about how others see it.
CB 12 Program Notes Anne McGuire is an internationally recognized video artist whose works contain elements of impersonation and performance, personal exorcism and media critique, autobiography and humor. Her videos "employ genre conventions derived from popular culture variety show, talk show, rock video [and her] presence as a performer amplifies the sense of strangeness that lies at the heart of the familiar, creating a vertigo between form and content.
She got her BFA in film from the San Francisco Art Institute in , and since she has also been painting community murals and teaching art to children.
Her film work focuses on the formal and narrative characteristics of the medium in and of themselves and as setting for her characters, while her videos are primarily concerned with characterizations as a vehicle for personal expression, but also contain formal reflections. Currently she is raising funds to do a large community video project in her neighborhood, the Mission, that will involve residents in making their own videos in ways that expand on and depart from the usual narrative, documentary or TV forms.
La Region Centrale by Michael Snow, 16mm, color, sound, minutes. When Snow seems to say that there is no fusion of nature and the human, but an action that excludes us, he suggests the primal Canadian experience: the encounter with a hostile, alien landscape and a recoiling human 13 San Francisco Cinematheque presence.
This drama, a mythical one, is replayed through out the form of La Region Centrale. Certain landscape paintings have achieved a unity of method and subject. Cezanne for instance produced, to say the least, an incredibly balanced relationship between what he did and apparently saw.
He made sketches of what the machinery might look like, but the feat demanded the expertise of an engineer. Then in a filmmaker friend in Canada put Snow in contact with Montreal technician Pierre Abeloos. In approximately a year's time Abeloos developed the appropriate electronics and machinery. After innumerable trips into the wilds of Quebec, Snow was still unable to find the location he wanted. Paradoxically, he sought an area totally untouched by man and man-made devices — not even a telephone pole — yet a place which would be easily accessible by car for hauling the equipment and crew.
After resorting to maps and aerial photographs, Snow finally discovered the place he was looking for by helicopter — a mountain top with stones, boulders, surrounding hills and mountains, overlooking a lake — about one hundred miles north of Sept-Iles in Quebec. Abeloos designed the mounting device according to Snow's specifications for a movement in such a way that no part of the mount was filmed in the course of shooting, although at times its shadow was purposely recorded by the constantly moving camera.
Sets of axles on the machine mount permitted multiple kinds of movements simultaneously. Snow prescored the kind of camera movements he wanted to achieve. The options for movement were horizontal, vertical, rotational, zoom, and camera start, along with speed variables for each one. As Snow described the set up: 'Pierre [Abeloos] worked out a system of supplying the orders to the machine to move in various patterns by means of sound tapes. Each direction has a different frequency of an electronic sine wave assigned to it.
It makes up a layer of tones divided into five sections starting very high, about 10, cycles per second, down to about seventy cycles. Start giving our teachers some respect.
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We've noticed you're adblocking. I wanted this video to closely reflect the subject and lyrics of the song, more so than it has been done with past videos that might have been more metaphorical. It's a slightly dramatised look into the kind of upbringing I had, showing a fathers struggle with addiction and the impact it has on his family, especially his son. It was extremely hard to see the set of this video as it was like walking into a time capsule and since its release, I've only watched the videos a handful of times.
It is extremely real but that was the way I wanted it to once again start a conversation on these issues that many people have struggled with. What was the hardest song on 'Alien' to put together, and why? I don't think there was any song in particular that was most difficult to write. As all of the songs come from a pretty personal place, they all took a lot of energy and time to write. We tried different chorus', got opinions from a bunch of different people but eventually realised that we were over thinking it and reverted back to the original.
We thought that the chorus should "take off" when it kicked in but with the darker tone of the song, this low, monotonous version felt perfect, giving off that feeling of being numb to the pain. Looking back on 'Node', how happy are you with this album still, and what do you think that it's done for the representation of Northlane? I'm extremely proud of it looking back, considering the pressure we were under at the time. We recorded that album 5 months after I joined, most of it being written on the road.
What songs are you still really enjoying performing live from 'Node' at the moment, and why? They're a lot of fun and since Brendon's joined the band, he's brought new life to those songs live.
The UK has always felt like a second home to us and we always strive to come back with a bigger and better show than ever, this time is no different! There's also a different kind of energy with these new songs that I think will translate to something pretty special live. We can't wait to get back over there! The people are warm despite the weather , super loyal and love live music. I was lucky enough to play The Roundhouse supporting Parkway Drive for my first time and it will always hold a special place in my heart!
What else can we expect to see from Northlane in ? Then we're off to North America, heading back to the US for the first time in about 3 years! We get back home just before Christmas so we've really packed the end of the year out. Expect to see us just as busy in the New Year! We just wrapped up a short run of East Coast US shows. Always a good time playing shows in front of our dedicated fans who embraced a set comprised mostly of the new record.
Was there a particular song or moment that sparked the creative process for 'Six'? We knew as soon as we tracked it that we were on the right track to create something a little different, yet still keeping true to the foundation of the band. Why do you think that there was a big gap between this record and the last, or did it just happen in a much more natural way?
When we start to feel that itch things start coming together. It worked out exactly how it should have, organically. Can you tell us a bit about the themes and influences that run throughout 'Six'? We of course had the mind set that this record was meant to be a little different but each song flowed very well with what we were looking to accomplish. What was the hardest song on 'Six' to put together, and why?
In the end, I think they turned out great. How did you end up working with Josh Schroeder, and how would you say that he helped shape the album? Josh has always been a good friend and a hell of a producer. We all live fairly close to each other and having someone who has been able to share that growth coming up together really helps you feel at home in the studio.
How did the artwork for 'Six' come together, and what does it mean to you guys? We wanted something simple and clean. In hindsight there are most definitely a few things I would change, but all in all I think the simplicity of the artwork shows the maturity of the band. Less about how cool it looks and focused more on the content inside it. How did the music video idea for 'Stone' come together, and if possible, can you tell us about the lyrical content behind this rack in particular?
The vibrant fall colours with the dark setting of the early days as we get closer to winter. Looking back on 'Heavy Hearts', how happy are you with this album still, and what do you think that it's done for the representation of For The Fallen Dreams? It was my first record back with the band after a five year absence. What songs are you still really enjoying performing live from 'Heavy Hearts' at the moment, and why? We cannot wait to get back to the UK!
Our fans over the pond have always been some of our favourite to perform in front of. Looking forward to that section of the tour and the fish and chips that come along with it. What do you remember the most about coming to the UK for the first time? Being able to take in our surroundings was a very surreal experience at that time. What else can we expect to see from For The Fallen Dreams in ? We will be working on new music this winter and gearing up for a number of different runs in Our Story so far… Voidnaut is a metal band based in Athens, which was formed in by Kostas Krikos and Steve Venardo as a small project.
Interview with Kelly When did the first glimpses of 'Daydream Explosion' come about? Not exactly… we try to write all the time and put out an album every 2 years - ish. By about the 1 year mark after an album release we always get a bit restless and anxious about what is next. We started writing and put out an EP for our Patreon fans. The reception was awesome and we kind of took them as our starting point. Once that was out we decided it was time to launch an album preorder… then it was full speed ahead!
What made you want to release 'Everything' first, and can you tell us a bit about how this track in particular came together? I love that song. I thought it would be a good peek into what was to come. It was one of the later songs in the writing process. Luis had the music down and I kept putting off writing lyrics for some reason. I came home from somewhere in the middle of the day and heard Luis on the piano… and it hit him!
We sussed out the rest that night after putting our kids 2 and 5 yrs old to bed. So, how did you get to the album title 'Daydream Explosion', and what does it mean to you? And it sounds cool, right?
We read that there are some pretty intense lyrical themes inspiring this album. As always, you can expect an energetic, melodic and hooky delivery. Sometimes it can get a little pointy and rough around the edges but falls within the bounds of Dollyrots-style. Thematically we hit a lot of things this time around; partying, the end of the world, love, longing, frustration, reflection, gratuity and geeze AND put down the deposit.
Sadly my dad passed away 4 weeks before our flight and to hit our song goal 20 songs seemed impossible. I just wanted to curl up and cry, not go make peppy Dollyrots music, BUT we had no choice. So, like other times in life we put one foot in front of the other and made it happen. We look at music and art as a bit of a mystical thing… and we would put the kids to sleep each night and go out to our studio and try to grab ideas out of thin air. We never give up You've said that "the album creation was cathartic", so can you elaborate on that, and maybe how putting this album together has compared to anything else that you've done before?
Sure, the last 3 albums have come with a huge shift in life for us… as I mentioned above they were written and created while I was pregnant and then this one as I mourned the loss of my dad. Especially something artistic. I just had to start and get through it. By getting back to the thing I love to do I did feel a little better every day.
I also think it helped me tap into some deep feelings and emotions because of where my mind was at the time. This was our 6th full length album with John. He totally gets us and helps create the sounds we have in our minds. Noah Levy, a friend of his and now ours, stepped in for that role on this album.
John is kind of our George Martin. This time around there were a couple songs that were half-baked that we wanted to record. It has a Rockabilly, Swing, loungy sound that turned out to be one of my favourites. What was the hardest song on 'Daydream Explosion' to put together, and why?
I try to think back and forget a lot of the harder stuff. How did the album artwork for 'Daydream Explosion' come together, and what does it mean to you? Well, this is kind of tragic and perfect… Luis and I were in a car accident… back seat and got rear ended. Had to get x-rays, MRIs etc and are still dealing with the aftermath.
Totally an accident… huh huh huh. This is your first time working with a label in a very long time. With the rise in crowdsourcing around we felt like we should give it a shot.
Blackheart totally understood and we moved forward with our fans. We sent them some demos and they loved it. They understood that we needed to still keep our pre-order DIY thing going with our fans and gave us the space to do that while taking a lot of the production and distribution worry off our plate.
It was just the right choice for us and something fun and different to try. What else can we expect to see from The Dollyrots in ? Gonna have a lot of planes, RVs and Lyft rides in our future. That just gets us to Halloween. Story is… we never stop. We love hanging out with them! Interview with Jaret Congrats on celebrating your 25th anniversary as a band! What has this whole time been like for you, and how rewarding has it been for the band overall to be reflecting back on your career whilst putting out new music and being on the road?
It is kind of hard to explain. We have done so much, seen so much, and then there is the insane catalog of music. It has been pretty incredible. And something I never thought we would accomplish. How did the cover track 'Sometimes I Don't Mind' come together, and what did you find the most exciting about giving it the Bowling For Soup approach? This song came off an album that both the fans, and the band look back on with angst. But BFS wore this album out in the van.
And I always thought this song should have been huge. I sent the video to the singer of the band, Jason Navarro and asked what he thought. He said, "It's cute, Let it fly! You guys are doing a cover song every month for a year! The covers will be all over the place! From punk rock stuff that no one will recognise, to hit songs that will seem crazy for us to cover.
We have always had good luck with our cover songs. And in this world of streaming music, I just decided to embrace it! I am stoked for these things! You recently did a live version of Jaret Goes To The Movies as part of the 25th anniversary celebration! How did it go, and for readers who haven't checked out the podcast just yet, what can they expect from it? It was incredible! It was actually the second LIVE podcast. This one was Taimak from The Last Dragon. He was stoked about the format and fans of the band, the movie, and the podcast really had a blast!
I am hoping we can keep doing these for sure! The podcast itself is really fun. It is kind of like a radio morning show really! Only we talk about a movie that we watched that week, along with anything and everything else that we are thinking about! Touring wise, what have you been up to this year so far, and can you give us a couple of personal highlights from your time on the road? It is a busy year.
Co-headlining with Reel Big Fish at the moment. Our first leg, we had the band Nerf Herder on the tour with us. IT is pretty incredible to have a band that you have listened to for 30 years open for you!
So much fun! At this point in your career, how do you go about picking a setlist!? Well, there are certain songs that we HAVE to play. It can get difficult with short sets, because if we just played all the hits, it is like 45 minutes to an hour…And that is with no jokes! Which is the best part of our show to be honest. Rob coming into the band has been fun.
He comes up with songs that he wants us to play all the time. Keeps us in our toes and from getting in a rut! It's been ten years since the release of 'Sorry for Partyin'' Looking back on this album, what do you remember the most about putting it together?
We were in Austin for a month. It was like being in college! We had so much fun! We bought a barbecue grill and grilled every night. Worked long days and went to the same bar every night. I am stoked! Reading and Leeds was our first ever trip to the UK! So being there while celebrating 25 years is just amazing. We have some fun stuff in the works. I guarantee we will make headlines! Also, what do you remember the most from playing this festival for the first time?
I just remember an empty tent. And I thought, well, at least we got to come to the UK! We walked out on stage and there were people as far as you could see! Just bursting the tent! And we are still doing well in that relationship! What else can we expect to see from Bowling For Soup in ? Lots of USA shows. A cover song each month for free and original songs that will go straight to stream! All free! Then we come back to the UK in !!
It is busy, and I am old…But I still love it! Well in I was finishing up working on my book at by that point I had already been sitting in front of a computer screen for way too long and wanted to go out and see if what I was working on resonated with people in a live setting so I booked this 2 week long tour of the North East for these shows that were going to be a mix of reading from what would become the book and playing Against Me!
I asked Marc and Atom to come out and do the tour with me. Atom plays drums in Against Me! So we went out and did the tour and it was a lot of fun and as we were going I was like "this needs a name, we're a band, it's not Against Me!
The tour went great and after I suggested that we should try recording something just the three of us, because we were working really well together musically. So that following summer we went into Marc's studio and recorded like a dozen Mountain Goats covers, the Mountain Goats are one of my all time favourite bands. Recording the covers went really well too and I suggested that it would be rad to try recording an album of originals sometime.
I'm always working on songs and had been writing steady since the last Against Me! As was starting out we were all talking about working on a new Against Me! We laboured on like that for a little while under the premise that it was for an Against Me!
You know when Jason Newsted is on the outs and James and Lars are jamming with Bob Rock on the bass and they talk about the idea of Bob Rock just joining the band on bass? That's what happened here almost exactly, except we just kept running with the idea and it became its own band.
Touring wise, what have you been up to this year? That tour started off at SXSW which is always a spectacle of sorts. In May Against Me! Devouring Mothers just got back from an Australian tour a couple days ago and then up next Against Me!
It's been a busy and fun year. So, when did the initial vision for 'Bought To Rot' come about? I guess it was just a feeling of readiness that I had. They just had to go and had to go then or they were going to rot, the goodness was going to be lost. I didn't want that because I had worked so hard on them. I really had a strong and singular vision with the songs. I wanted to record them quick, track them live, and release them quick, and I wanted Bloodshot, a Chicago label in particular to release the album, and I wanted it to come out in November so I could throw a birthday party and have an excuse to go out on my birthday and I knew that this was what I wanted to do with , tour around playing the songs while working on a new Against Me!
It feels good to be uncompromising in vision. How did you get to the album title 'Bought To Rot', and what does it mean to you? Just what I said above. Like fruit and vegetables. You buy it, it sits there, if you don't eat it then it rots and you throw it away and all the goodness is wasted. I guess it's about wasted potential in general, so much wasted potential all around us and for what?
Also in being uncompromising with vision how does that effect the art? Wanting to release it how I wanted to release it, the sacrifices in commercialism that are made which curtail the potential reach of a project, I don't know if that makes sense, it's like here's another 14 songs to throw on the scrap heap of history, a lot of work went into them and then they're pressed on a record and it's all forgotten about eventually.
It's a very American feeling right now, rot. They're just phrasing it in a nicer way but I prefer my wording. I hate Chicago. I feel like this town was kind of jerky to me and not very welcoming when I first came here so I've made it a one person mission to damage the tourism industry here and dissuade people from ever visiting Chicago.
There's a running theme of displacement through out the album, questioning where you belong, trying to figure out your place in the world. A lot of references to hotels, places of refuge in transient living.
What are you supposed to do in a situation like that. You still have a right to exist and take up space. I don't know, the grass is always greener. How did 'Full Moon Fever' become such an influence for this album, and why do you think it has gone on to mean so much to you? Like I was saying how we recorded a bunch of Mountain Goats covers, well I had learned those covers when we were on tour with Green Day and I was kind of doing a character study on the Mountain Goats to be productive with down time on the road.
Well it was right after that when Petty passed away and I did that same thing with Petty after he passed, went back and learned a bunch of his songs, studied them, the way he would write and play. So that album had a huge impact on me as a kid. I realise that he was the same age as me when he recorded that album, 37 and it kind of got in my head, like that's what he did when he was 37, so what am I doing?
I wanted to test myself like he did. It goes a little deeper too though. I was sitting at home playing along to one of his records then and I was playing this old Jaguar that I never play because it's an antique and worth some money and I was like "oh this sounds so good like it could have been on the record" and then I slapped myself for being a dummy and realised I had bought the guitar off Stan Lynch who played drums in the Heartbreakers and that the guitar could very well have been around when they were recording all those seminal albums because it was that old and it was his and why not then?
But I started thinking how sad it must be to be a drummers guitar because you know then that you'll never be a guitar played on a record or played onstage and if you're a guitar that's got to be all you want in your existence and I realised how sad it was that Stan had never played the guitar because it was in perfect condition and had obviously never really been played since the 60s.
Then I bought it and stuck it under my bed and never played it either and that just played into the whole theme of the album, the idea that it was just rotting in its case under my bed. So I decided this was the album this guitar was made to be played on, this was what it had been created for.
Who produced 'Bought To Rot', and how would you say that they helped shape it? I mean there was no producer appointment ceremony, it's just kind of an unspoken thing. We're all pretty in line with the standards of tuning and timing when it comes to recording and we arranged all of the songs together before going into the studio.
Once we got there we all knew what we were supposed to do so the mics were set up and we were off to the races. I loved making this album. We did two songs a day. Every morning Atom and I would wake up and go run 6 miles then we would record all afternoon and into the evening really just going for perfect takes where nothing had to be corrected, it was all about the feel and running the songs until we just nailed one of the takes.
So satisfying. What was the hardest song on 'Bought To Rot' to put together, and why? Initially the intro and reintro before the 2nd verse had guitar soloing similar to what happens at the end of the song and I just couldn't figure out what to do with the soloing that was interesting enough for it to happen 3 times in a song.
So I was just sitting on the couch riffing when Ray, Marc's roommate walked by and said something like "Oh, just running some generic riffs? I realised that what I was doing was way generic and didn't need to happen so much, that just putting the solo melody at the end of the song made it more unique and palatable, it made it work. It was a slightly offhanded remark that provided the key in this situation. I guess I wanted to release it first just specifically because of the happy memories behind it and it was one of the first songs written for the album.
Against me! I was with someone special to me and we woke up that morning and then we all went and visited Bon Scott's grave, he's buried there. At the end of the road his cemetary's on there's a go-kart track, so after we hung out at his grave and said hello we went and rode go-karts, then we drove up to Freemantle and went to this incredible restaurant to have a Birthday dinner for James. Lots of drinks and laughs and after there was an amusement park across the street so we went and rode the ferris wheel and just ran around on the beach playing in the surf.
It was a really magical day and a great end to the tour, a great memory all around. Getting back on the plane the rest of the world was coming back into view and all the drama and hate in the news around Trump and it all just seemed like the apocalypse in motion and I felt guilty for having had such a great day but also I didn't want to feel guilty because I know how important it is to live a day like that to its fullest if you ever get the chance.
So I wrote that song to commemorate the memory. It seemed like a good first foot to start out on. I'm very genuinely excited. It was important to me that this album tour came to the UK and Europe. People had been asking about it online and I couldn't really explain how hard we've been working to make it happen and really it's thanks to teaming up with Frank Iero that we're able to. I respect Frank a lot and what he's been doing with his solo records and I think the pairing is really strong especially with Mobina Galore added to the bill.
I remember thinking that every older punk I saw must surely have been in one of the old UK punk bands I grew up listening to. It ends up being a much more lyrical, even sultry album although I'm still almost more intrigued by the partly-novel Strings 1 configuration. That's quite a distinctive ensemble. I thus found some of this material to be quite striking, and would be interested to hear more from a combination such as this — absent the ethereal pole which is obviously already played out for me.
Still, there's much to appreciate here, and from some new names. So this is actually the opposite of a followup to the previous Bohman-Northover pairing, and Thompson is less distinctive here than in much of his later work, but the addition of Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg still makes for a notable album. I was largely unfamiliar with Schouwburg although he'd e. One even ends up with the sense of a psychological fugue state at times, more so than the kind of Zen shift proposed by the CS quartet, in an album that does compete with North of Blanco for pure weirdness — even as it seems to run out of steam a bit, at least relatively speaking.
The result has a generally dramatic feel, including some lyric bits such as "chicken nuggets," but also develops a sort of surreal or dreamy vibe, sometimes more intricately in passages that I do find more intriguing , but sometimes seeming to be more of a spinning in place, i.
So the Brazilian album has a much more specific scope, but in some ways, a similar sense of drama, although likewise in fewer scenes Iwao had been cited as a Scarassatti instrument-making collaborator in the past, while it took me a moment to place Cyrino Koole was new to me, and I'd never really heard any of them before, although they do have various mutual collaborations documented online.
Figuring out who is making what sound can be quite a project for the intrepid Listen to Cyrino elsewhere, though, so as to have a fighting chance. What is inside or outside then? Another dispute
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TIFA WILL BOUNCE in Dissidia Final Fantasy NT!
It’s been confirmed that Tifa Lockhart’s chest will “bounce” in Dissidia Final Fantasy NT by the game’s director. You mean they’re not using the approved Final Fantasy VII Remake Tifa design?! Where is Square Enix’s Ethics Department?! The HORROR! Think of the CHILDREN!
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“Earlier this month, video game developer Square Enix released the latest trailer for the Final Fantasy VII remake, in which we finally got to see the updated version of martial artist country girl Tifa. But while Tifa’s reveal was a big moment, several fans couldn’t help noticing that her chest seemed quite a bit smaller than it was in the original Final Fantasy VII from 1997.
Final Fantasy VII Remake director and character designer Tetsuya Nomura has since said that Square Enix’s ethics department has decreed that Tifa’s chest needs to be “constricted” in the remake, but apparently such constraints aren’t being placed upon the character in arcade fighting game Dissidia Final Fantasy and its home-console version Dissidia Final Fantasy NT.
This week, it was announced that Tifa will be joining the game’s periodically updated roster, and the preview video shows her in her original Final Fantasy VII outfit, which lacks the black undershirt she sports in Remake. Applying real-world logic would suggest that would leave her chest less constricted, and Dissidia Final Fantasy director Takeo Kujiraoka is insinuating that that will be reflected in the game’s animation, telling Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu:
“I won’t say what ‘they’ are, but ‘they’ will bounce.”
It’s technically possible Kujiraoka was referring to Tifa’s earrings, but if that were the case, there’s really no reason for him to phrase the promise so coyly, and Tifa does appear quite a bit bustier in her Dissidia guise than she does in Remake.
Another visual throwback to the original Final Fantasy VII: The slot machine reels that spin when Tifa does her limit break attack.
Kujiragaoka hasn’t commented on why his game is seemigly being allowed more freedom in how it swings and sways than Remake is. It could have something to do with Dissidia being developed by Koei Tecmo’s Team Ninja, while Remake is being produced in-house by Square Enix, but Square Enix is also the publisher for Dissidia, and so theoretically the Square Enix ethics department should have plenty of clout regarding either game’s content. Whatever the reason, though, Tifa will be bouncing into Dissidia Final Fantasy on June 27, and Dissidia Final Fantasy NT on July 3.”
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7-Eleven Tops 70,000 Global Locations
IRVING, Texas — 7-Eleven Inc. reached a major growth milestone of 70,000 locations worldwide, making it the largest convenience store retailer in the world.
Now, customers can visit 7-Eleven in 17 countries and regions around the globe.
In 2019, 7-Eleven opened one store approximately every 3.5 hours. As it continues to grow, the company remains focused on its role as a good corporate citizen, addressing social and environmental issues important to customers and the communities in which they live and work, according to 7-Eleven.
"Over 93 years we've grown from a small local ice house in Oak Cliff, Texas, to a global and iconic brand that is 70,000 stores strong," said 7-Eleven President and CEO Joe DePinto. "That strength is due to a relentless focus on meeting the needs of our customers. We'll continue to place our customers at the forefront of all we do."
The first 7-Eleven store in India is expected to open later in 2020, bringing the chain's operations to 18 countries.
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History is important because WE ARE the past: we are the sum of all the events–good, bad, and indifferent–that have happened to us.
The only way we can understand who we are and how we got to be that way is by studying the past.
Similarly, the only way we can understand others is by studying their past..
Last, the definition acknowledges that culture influences our beliefs about what is true and false, our attitudes including our likes and dislikes, our values regarding what is right and wrong, and our behaviors. It is from these cultural influences that our identities are formed.
Life Experiences Thankfully, we can work through our “traumatic self” brought on by childhood events to create a healthy adult identity. Our positive life experiences also shape our identities. Overcoming difficult times through adolescence or adulthood can help us build resiliency in our sense of selves.
Historical identity is not simply “ethnocentric consciousness” but an expression of society’s “secondary memory.” The suppressed inner logic of the material side of social life finds support for self-assertion from the ideal, spiritual structure in successfully resisting the pressures of annexation.
Through history, we can learn how past societies, systems, ideologies, governments, cultures and technologies were built, how they operated, and how they have changed. The rich history of the world helps us to paint a detailed picture of where we stand today.
Why Study History? (1998)By Peter N. … History Helps Us Understand People and Societies. … History Helps Us Understand Change and How the Society We Live in Came to Be. … The Importance of History in Our Own Lives. … History Contributes to Moral Understanding. … History Provides Identity. … Studying History Is Essential for Good Citizenship.More items…
Identity formation has to do with the complex manner in which human beings establish a unique view of self and is characterized by continuity and inner unity. It is therefore highly related to terms such as the self, self-concept, values, and personality development.
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Put simply, your cultural identity is the feeling that you belong to a group of people like you. This is often because of shared qualities like birthplace, traditions, practices, and beliefs. Art, music, and food also shape your cultural identity.
Plot: The most important element. The sequence of events in a story. Without a plot, you have no story.
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The Past Teaches Us About the Present Because history gives us the tools to analyze and explain problems in the past, it positions us to see patterns that might otherwise be invisible in the present – thus providing a crucial perspective for understanding (and solving!) current and future problems.
Why Social Identity Matters Social identity allows people to be part of groups and gain a sense of belonging in their social world. These identities play an important role in shaping self-image.
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Every 15th of September, the small yet ecologically jam packed country of Costa Rica celebrates its independence day with parades and other festivities.
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The Celebrations in San Jose
If you happen to pass the central downtown area of San Jose on September 15th, you will see marching bands, dancers in traditional costumes and children dressed to the nines strutting their stuff with mom and dad. Costa Rica’s Independence Day celebrations spans the downtown area from Avenida Tres for about ten to twenty city blocks. The streets are blocked off, and prepared for the big show.
The Celebrations around the Country
The other cities, towns and provinces celebrate the 15th of September, also. Most of the celebrations are similar to the ones held at downtown San Jose, but some might include a Tope where horses dance in the street in the more rural areas. Others could incorporate different kinds of music based on the area. For instance, if you are in Limon, you might hear music that has more Caribbean roots, but you are likely to hear a different kind of sound in Guanacaste Province reflective of the more agrarian and cowboy lifestyles.
Costa Rica doesn’t celebrate alone on this day. Pretty much the entire group of Central American countries celebrates independence on the 15th. Independence from Spain occurred on the 15th of September in 1821 after the final battle of the Mexican War of Independence. The Costa Rican constitution was signed later on October 29th in the Capitol of Costa Rica at the time; Cartago, and the first elections took place in December of the same year.
For a time, Costa Rica was under the banner of the First Mexican Empire, and later it was a member of the United Provinces of Central America. Costa Rica then formally declared sovereignty in 1847.
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Beer and Wine Sales at UW Football and Basketball Games
Posted on July 10, 2017 by Keith Kelley in FrontPage Slider, Sports // 0 Comments
photo courtesy of UW Athletics Department
by staff–10 Jul ’17
University of Wyoming Athletics will offer beer and wine for sale to fans at home football and basketball games beginning this coming season. Beer and wine are being offered to enhance the game-day experience for fans, to heighten the pregame atmosphere in War Memorial Stadium and the Arena-Auditorium on game days by encouraging fans to enter the stadium earlier, to create a new revenue source for UW Athletics and to benefit from other positive effects that have been seen in other college athletic venues as alcohol sales have expanded the past several years.
Benefits of Beer and Wine Sales
Positive effects that the University of Wyoming is looking to create and that other universities have experienced from offering alcoholic beverages for sale in stadiums and arenas across the country:
∙Enhancing fans’ overall experience at sporting events
∙Encouraging fans to enter venues early and help create a great pregame atmosphere
∙Generating additional revenue for athletic departments
∙Creating a more responsible drinking environment
∙Reducing binge drinking
∙Reducing the amount of concealed alcohol entering athletic venues
Enhancing the Game-day Experience
Through fan surveys, many Wyoming fans have expressed their interest in purchasing alcoholic beverages at Wyoming Athletic events. In UW Athletics’ ongoing desire to provide its fans with the best entertainment atmosphere possible, it conducted extensive research to put a plan in place making beer and wine available on game days.
In order to make the first year of beer and wine sales as enjoyable as an experience as possible for fans, Wyoming Athletics has put the following plan in place for the 2017 Cowboy Football season in War Memorial Stadium.
For fans who want to be in an alcohol-free area on game days, Section AA on the west side of War Memorial Stadium will offer an alcohol-free section.
ID Screening and Wrist-Banding Stations
∙Create an easy ID screening and wrist-banding system. Each fan wishing to purchase alcohol in the stadium on game days will have their ID checked verifying legal age and will be provided a wrist band for that game.
∙An ID/Wrist-Banding station will be available in the Pepsi Pregame Zone in the Indoor Practice Facility. This station will allow fans to enter the stadium without having to go through an ID/Wrist-Banding Station at the stadium gates.
∙Other ID/Wrist-Banding stations will be available at Gates 1, 3, 4 and 6 inside War Memorial Stadium.
Selling Locations
∙Beer and wine will be sold inside War Memorial Stadium beginning two (2) hours prior to kick off – when stadium gates open.
∙There will be 12 selling locations within War Memorial Stadium (3 on Upper East Concourse, 2 on Lower East, 3 on Upper West, 1 on Lower West and 3 in South End Zone Beer Garden area)
∙The South End Zone Beer Garden area will provide fans a chance to enjoy drinks with their friends from a field-level location while still having visibility of the field during the game. (Due to bleachers being added in the south end zone for the Oregon game, visibility from the Beer Garden for that game may be limited.)
∙Each selling location will have two serving lines — one Cash Line and one Credit Card Line. There will be three staff members at each selling location.
∙Each individual may purchase 2 drinks (beer or wine) per transaction.
∙Each wrist band will have 4 pull-off tabs, allowing each patron to purchase a total of 4 drinks during one event. In the circumstance of a football game followed by a basketball game individuals will be permitted to obtain one wristband at the football game and a wristband at the basketball game. For a men’s/ women’s basketball doubleheader only one wristband will be permitted due to the short/condensed time frame of the back-to-back games.
∙Pull off tabs will be for beer or wine purchases once an individual enters the stadium or arena.
∙Beer will be poured using the state-of-the-art “Bottoms Up” draft beer dispensing system, which fills through the bottom of specially designed plastic cups. The “Bottoms Up” system offers extremely fast pouring and minimal foam in each pour while more effectively utilizing (less waste) the beer from each keg.
∙Sales of beer and wine will stop at the end of the 3rd quarter.
∙Information gathered on fans from scanners that are part of the ID/Wrist-Banding stations will be deleted at the end of each game and will not be retained by the University of Wyoming.
ATM Machines Being Added to War Memorial Stadium
∙For fans’ convenience, both UniWyo Federal Credit Union and Western States Bank will be installing ATM machines in War Memorial Stadium prior to the 2017 football season.
Products Offered and Pricing
∙There will be a variety of beer and wine available for purchase, including: Bud Light, Coors Light, Miller Lite, Blue Moon, Black Tooth craft beer (Black Tooth Brewing Co. of Sheridan, Wyo.) and , Snake River craft beer (Snake River Brewing of Jackson, Wyo.).
∙Beer and wine will be priced at $7 each. Craft beer will be priced at $8 each.
SafeRide and Local Taxi Companies Available for Transportation
∙SafeRide, the on-call public transportation service, will be available on game days to serve the needs of fans. Rides are offered to UW students, faculty, staff, and Laramie community members and visitors. During home football games, SafeRide will be located at Gate 1 (southwest corner) of War Memorial Stadium.
SafeRide’s service areas include the Laramie city limits. However, SafeRide will not pick up/drop off at specific locations within downtown Laramie. Riders wishing to be picked up/dropped off downtown will need to utilize the SafeRide office located at 3rd Street & Garfield. There is no on-board fare for utilizing SafeRide. Requesting a ride is simple. Call 307-766-7433 (307-766-RIDE) or request your ride through the Transloc Rider App.
∙Local taxi companies will also be available on game days, including Laramie Taxi (307-761-9891), Snowy Range Taxi (307-343-2323) and Yellow Checker Taxi (307-710-7177).
Rules Governing Beer and Wine Sales
∙Individuals must be 21 or older to purchase, possess or consume alcohol.
∙Patrons cannot bring their own alcohol into the stadium.
∙IDs must be checked and wristbands/hand stamps obtained before purchase of alcohol in the stadium.
∙Random ID checks may occur at beer and wine sales locations.
∙Each wrist band will have 4 pull-off tabs, allowing each patron to purchase a total of 4 drinks during one day. In the circumstance of a football game followed by a basketball game, individuals will be permitted to obtain one wristband at the football game and a wristband at the basketball game. For a men’s/ women’s basketball doubleheader only one wristband will be permitted due to the short/condensed time frame of the back-to-back games.
∙There will be no re-entry to the stadium once patrons have entered the stadium on game days.
∙Sales of beer and wine will stop at the end of the 3rd quarter (football and women’s basketball) and at the 10-minute mark in the second half of men’s basketball games.
∙For fans who want to be in an alcohol-free area on game days, Section AA on the west side of War Memorial Stadium will offer an alcohol-free section.
Pregame Tailgating Opportunities and Pepsi Pregame Zone
∙Tailgating opportunities for fans in designated areas surrounding War Memorial Stadium and the Pepsi Pregame Zone in the Indoor Practice Facility will still be offered for the 2017 Wyoming Football season.
∙Beer, wine and malt beverages are the only alcoholic beverages permitted in the open container areas on game days. No hard alcohol is permitted and no kegs are not permitted in tailgate areas.
∙Open containers will be permitted in designated open container areas beginning at 9 a.m. for all games scheduled to kick off before 4 p.m. and Noon for all games scheduled to kick off at 4 p.m. or later. Open container permits end at kickoff.
∙All tailgating activities are confined to a patron’s specific parking space(s).
∙Open containers may not be carried on or across public streets.
∙Violations of the open container permits may result in revocation of parking privileges and removal from the open container areas. Please observe any and all posted signage.
∙No Re-Entry Allowed: One change that will be in place for the 2017 season is once fans have entered War Memorial Stadium on game days if they choose to leave the stadium prior to conclusion of the game there will be no re-entry to the stadium allowed.
Entrance Lanes into War Memorial Stadium (Applicable to All Fans Attending Wyoming games.)
∙In 2017, stadium security will again be conducting bag checks as fans enter War Memorial Stadium.
∙In an effort to improve the speed of fans’ entrance into the stadium, designated lanes will be introduced this year at all entrance gates. There will be lanes for FANS WITH NO BAGS OR CLEAR PLASTIC BAGS and separate lanes for FANS WITH BAGS.
University of Wyoming Athletics looks forward to another exciting and successful season. We want all Cowboy and Cowgirl fans to have as enjoyable an experience at UW Athletics events as possible, while providing for a friendly and safe environment for fans of all ages.
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March 15th, 2015.
Teenager’s Tragic Soap Opera revealed as Western engineered farce.
The IS psyop has been exposed again after Turkish authorities arrested an IS facilitator they allege is an agent of the Canadian Intelligence Se vice (CSIS) The man, a Syrian named Mohammad Al Rashed, who purportedly went by the alias Dr. Mehmet Resit. was filmed helping facilitate the travel of three British teenagers Shamima Begum, Amira Abase, both fifteen and the sixteen year old Kadiza Sultana into Syria to join the (un) Islamic State group.
The IS group is now known to be receiving assistance from multiple Western nations. With elements of the US, Israel and Canada known to support the group and the support of the French and British can also be safely assumed if not yet completely proven.
Shamima Begum, Amira Abase, Kadiza Sultana: as they journeyed to Syria via Turkey.
Suspected spy from Canadian intelligence assists British girls join ISIS – Daily Sabah
http://www.dailysabah.com/politics/2015/03/12/suspected-spy-from-canadian-intelligence-assists-british-girls-join-isis
“Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said that an intelligence agent from a country that is a member of the anti-ISIS coalition had helped the three British girls join the group in Syria. While Foreign Ministry officials refused to comment on the nationality of the agent, security forces reached by Daily Sabah found the agent is suspected to be a spy working for Canada.”
Driven by Bitterness but Highly Credible
These claims are highly credible as proven by the response of the Canadian Government that they would “make no comment on National Security Operational matters” If the story had no basis in fact that would not be the case, they could simply deny all involvement, the content of the Canadian government response is an implicit admission of involvement.
Turkey has also faced highly credible allegations of supporting the IS group.
Serena Shim at the microphone for Press TV.
American Press TV journalist Serena Shim appears to have been murdered for her work exposing the Turkey IS connection and the US Vice President Joe Biden clearly caused severe anger in Ankara when he publicly blamed Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar for following what had clearly been Western policy in Syria of remove Assad at any cost using any allies no matter how criminal or destructive they might be. The people of Syria never mattered, ever. The Syrian government undoubtedly has and had huge shortcomings but the whole Syrian nightmare seems to have been triggered by the Israeli, Saudi and NATO desire to break the territorial contiguity of the “Axis of Resistance” in order to pave the way for an attack on Iran. When the initial gambit failed after the al Ghouta false flag chemical attack of August 2013. An old asset, the Sunni extremists , were used to keep the War on terror fraud alive and presumably carve out pro-US statelets in the areas under IS control in Iraq and Syria after the IS is defeated.
IS fighters being trained by US personnel, Jordan.
The whole IS operation in the middle east is clearly war for the sake of war against a manufactured and nurtured synthetic enemy, and they keep getting caught.
The Canadian Government of Stephen Harper, Outrageous Lies are a Persistent Habit
Between this revelation and the Ottawa manufactured farce of last October the total dishonesty and moral bankruptcy of the Canadian government and their Western cohorts has been completely exposed. There is a strong likelihood that the Canadian government is now in breach of their own new anti-Terror laws. Canadian PM Harper will live in history as a figure of infamy, and the Canadian people would do well to ask why are they doing this? Who does Harper really serve? It certainly isn’t the people of Canada.
Exclusive video of suspected spy from Canadian intelligence assisting British girls join ISIS
British girls were helped into Syria by spy from U.S.-led coalition | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/us-mideast-crisis-britain-schoolgirls-idUSKBN0M81O120150312
Turkey outs Canadian gov’t link to ISIS as revenge for Western finger-pointing – Non-Aligned Media
http://nonalignedmedia.com/2015/03/turkey-outs-canadian-govt-link-to-isis-as-revenge-for-western-finger-pointing/
Center for Security Policy | Why Did A Turkish Paper Target Canada for a Smear?https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2015/03/12/why-did-a-turkish-paper-target-canada-for-a-smear/
(pick which of the above stories was written by the pro War think tank?!)
Video shows ‘three UK schoolgirls in Turkey being helped on their way to Syria’ | Daily Mail Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2993519/New-footage-claims-three-British-schoolgirls-Turkey-fleeing-Syria-ISIS-jihadi-brides.html
BBC News – Syria girls: Man arrested ‘for helping British trio’
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31853002
What we know about ISIS-bound teens – World – CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/shamima-begum-amira-abase-kadiza-sultana-what-we-know-about-isis-bound-teens-1.2967193
Turkey detains suspect who may have helped U.K. teens join ISIS – World – CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/turkey-detains-suspect-who-may-have-helped-u-k-teens-join-isis-1.2992215
Spy accused of helping teens join ISIS claims he worked for Canadian intelligence – World – CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/spy-accused-of-helping-teens-join-isis-claims-he-worked-for-canadian-intelligence-1.2993716
Canadian spy said to be detained in Turkey for helping British teens join ISIS |
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/03/12/man-who-helped-british-girls-into-syria-may-have-connection-with-csis
Isis: Video shows ‘Canadian double agent’ helping runaway British schoolgirls join Islamic State
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/isis-video-shows-canadian-double-agent-helping-runaway-british-schoolgirls-join-islamic-state-1491849
Canada silent on alleged CSIS links to man helping girls go to Syria – The Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/video-shows-man-with-alleged-links-to-canada-spy-agency-help-girls-go-to-syria/article23447143/
Turkey says spy detained for helping British girls join IS – The Express Tribune
http://tribune.com.pk/story/852151/turkey-says-spy-detained-for-helping-british-girls-join-is/
Joshua Blakeney Discusses The CSIS-ISIL Scandal on Press TV – Non-Aligned Media
http://nonalignedmedia.com/2015/03/joshua-blakeney-discusses-the-csis-isil-scandal-on-press-tv/
CSIS operative linked to ISIS recruiting of British schoolgirls – Non-Aligned Media
http://nonalignedmedia.com/2015/03/csis-operative-linked-to-isis-recruiting-of-british-schoolgirls/
Ex-spy scurries to cast doubt on CSIS-ISIS link – Non-Aligned Media
http://nonalignedmedia.com/2015/03/ex-spy-scurries-cast-doubt-csis-isis-scandal/
US, Israeli Military Advisors Accused of Aiding ISIL Arrested in Iraq – Non-Aligned Media
http://nonalignedmedia.com/2015/03/us-israeli-military-advisors-accused-aiding-isil-arrested-iraq/
Agent arrested in Turkey for allegedly helping 3 British girls cross into Syria to join ISIS | Daily Mail Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2991628/Man-held-Turkish-authorities-helping-three-British-girls-cross-Syria-join-ISIS.html
Questions deepen about alleged Canadian spy link to ISIL teenage recruits – Brandon Sun
http://www.brandonsun.com/national/breaking-news/questions-deepen-about-alleged-canadian-spy-link-to-isil-schoolgirl-recruits-296253961.html
Aangirfan: JIHADI JOHN AND FAKES
http://www.aanirfan.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/jihadi-john-and-fakes.html
Joe Biden apologizes to Turkey. UAE – CNN.com
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/05/politics/isis-biden-erdogan-apology/
Biden apologizes to Saudi Arabia for saying it financed ISIS | Al Akhbar English
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/biden-apologizes-saudi-arabia-saying-it-financed-isis
Biden’s Omission | Al Akhbar English
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/biden%E2%80%99s-omission
Joe Biden Apologizes for Half Truth: Persian Gulf Regimes and Turkey are Responsible for Supporting ISIS and Al-Nusra | Global Research
http://www.globalresearch.ca/joe-biden-apologizes-for-half-truth-persian-gulf-regimes-and-turkey-are-responsible-for-supporting-isis-and-al-nusra/5406591
‘Freedom in jeopardy’: Nationwide protests in Canada as thousands denounce new anti-terror law — RT News
http://rt.com/news/240821-canada-protest-terrorism-bill/
Canada’s new backward-looking terror law: Walkom | Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/01/30/canadas-new-backward-looking-terror-law-walkom.html
Conservative government’s terror bill increases spy agency powers | Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/01/30/terror-bill-dramatically-increases-police-power.html
Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Anti-Terrorism_Act
Document:US Intel officials say Syria NOT responsible for chemical attack – WikiSpooks
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:US_Intel_officials_say_Syria_NOT_responsible_for_chemical_attack
Seymour M. Hersh · The Red Line and the Rat Line: Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels · LRB 17 April 2014
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
Axis of Resistance – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_Resistance
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Accessibility Game Review – Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon
by Josh Straub | Apr 2, 2013 | Reviews | 0 comments
It has been twelve years since Luigi first ventured into a haunted house to hunt ghosts. Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon gives players the opportunity to take up Luigi’s ghost hunting mantle again in this fun and relatively solid title for the 3DS. The good news is that for most disabled players this game won’t pose any problems. But there is one group with physical disabilities that should probably avoid this game completely.
Players with visual disabilities will be happy to know that there are some features in Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon that make it particularly accessible for their situation. The art style is overstated, which makes even the most subtle detail easy to see. As a result, even when a puzzle requires players to suck up pieces of wallpaper to reveal hidden doors, it is fairly obvious where these sections are because of the way Nintendo has presented the game visually.
Even more impressive is that fact that the mini-map is not so mini. It takes up the entire second screen on the 3DS, which by itself would make it easy to read. But combine that with the zoom slider that the developers have included, and you have a map interface that allows players with visual disabilities to see exactly where they are with ease.
And while it is true that the different types of ghosts are denoted by color, they all have distinct features and are all dealt with in relatively similar ways. You may have to take a few steps in order to make them vulnerable, but they all end up in the same place—inside the Poltergust 5000.
Players with auditory disabilities will have even fewer problems since, true to the Mario Bros. formula, Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon features very little verbal dialogue to begin with and don’t use sound to communicate anything important. The story is communicated by reading the blocks of large, legible text that appear whenever a character is speaking. Perhaps the only regrettable thing is that players with auditory disabilities may miss out on the adorable sound design, including listening to Luigi hum along to his own theme song when the action slows down.
However, the game loses almost all of its playability when looked at from the standpoint of fine motor disabilities. There are several instances in which players will have to use the D-pad and hold down the B button to make Luigi run. This means that the game must be played with two hands. Furthermore, players will have to aim the Poltergust with the X and A buttons while either using it to vacuum or blow away obstacles. This means that players must be able to use multiple fingers on either hand in order to progress through this game. Furthermore, if players hope to suck up pieces of the environment, they will have to pull one direction on the D-pad, fire the vacuum function, and hit the A button. All of this indicates that puzzles in Luigi’s Mansion also require precise timing.
But here’s the kicker. I encountered multiple versions of all of those barriers within the first five minutes of gameplay. The result was that after an hour, my fingers were so tired that I couldn’t go on. This is not to say that Luigi’s Mansion is completely inaccessible for people with fine motor disability. But the finger gymnastics are so taxing that it will require lots of perseverance to slowly progress through each level. Thankfully, the game is forgiving enough to make this possible.
Please feel free to leave comments below the article that address your particular accessibility challenges with this game. If you feel there is a major omission in this review, please feel free to e-mail dagersystem@gmail.com with the word “revision” in the subject line. Please include specific details regarding anything we may have missed. If necessary, we will update our review based on your feedback.
Overall Rating: Thoroughly Accessible
Visual Rating: Barrier Free
Fine-Motor Rating: Partially Accessible
Auditory Rating: Barrier Free
Released For: 3DS
GameInformer Score: 8.50
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The Bottom Line for Disabled Gamers: Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon
Disability Pros Cons
– The game uses an easy-to-see, overstated art style.
– The map takes up the entire second screen on the 3DS.
– The map can be zoomed in on.
– The different types of ghosts are distinguished by color.
– A few puzzles are helped by the ability to see fine detail.
– The game is forgiving enough that most of the barriers can be overcome with lots of perseverance.
– The game cannot be played with less than two hands.
– The game requires players to use multiple fingers on both hands.
– There are puzzles that require precise timing.
– There is no controller customization.
– The game practically has to be played while the system is stationary.
– The game does not rely on sounds to communicate anything important.
– It has a thorough set of subtitles.
– None.
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Eunuchs of the fourth estate: Sarah Palin and the press
Mark Judge Journalist and filmmaker
June 04, 2011 4:34 PM ET
When did the media become a bunch of girly men?
The latest dispatch from Sarah Palin’s Magical Mystery Tour reveals that our tough media are a bunch of pansies who get the vapors when a bus goes ten miles over the speed limit. Politico recently reported that Sarah Palin’s bus is “a rolling menace.” The evidence? Palin’s bus went 52 mph in a 35 mph zone. That’s, um, 17 mph over the limit. Also, they “flew right past a flashing sign informing them they were going 45 mph in a 35 mph zone.” They also ran a couple red lights as they were pulling into New York. Oh, and they did 70 on I-95. Journalists, reports Politico, describe the experience as “harrowing.”
This is a joke, right? My 80-year-old mother, when her neuropathy isn’t acting up, does 70 on I-95.
Over the last few decades, there has been a slow sea change in the media. In the old days of Hemingway, Mencken, Halberstam and Hunter Thompson, journalists were people who risked their lives. They drank too much. They were beaten up by life as part of their jobs. They sped and ran red lights. Hunter Thompson got his ass kicked by the Hell’s Angels, whom he was covering. Thompson made a joke that apparently didn’t go over too well — if memory serves, the Angels wanted a piece of the royalties from Thompson’s book, and Thompson told them to forget it. He woke up in his car beaten to a pulp. And say what you will about Ted Koppel — his sanctimony, his atrocious prose, his appalling salary — but the truth is that Ted was in Vietnam. He was with the soldiers on the ground. I can’t imagine Koppel reporting about the “harrowing” experience of GIs going ten miles over the speed limit.
Indeed, the Politico charge against Palin is so ludicrous, so pathetically unmanly, so downright feeble, that I’m tempted to think it’s a joke. But maybe not. Watergate changed journalism — since then, upper-class, Ivy League graduates have flocked to the profession. Increasingly, the job became filled by people who, to quote the immortal Marine R. Lee Ermey, couldn’t sound off like they had a pair. Increasingly, I noticed journalists getting gushing praise for the mildest sign of guts. Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone reported that the boys on the bus were agape when he actually played catch with candidate John Kerry in 2004 — “Look, Taibbi is tossing a football to the candidate! Amazing!” More recently, Luke Russert was praised as a grand and fearless inquisitor for asking a question anyone off the street would — “Congressman Weiner, is that your package in the picture that was sent to a 21-year-old woman?” One thing’s for sure: if that picture is of Weiner, he’s too much man to be a journalist.
Sarah Palin has torn the mask off of the media. The terrible, fearless press pack is filled with babies. And it has nothing to do with sex. I was born and raised in Washington, and learned early to admire Katherine Graham, the bold and legendary publisher of The Washington Post. Today some of the toughest journalists around are women: people like Ann Coulter, who routinely deals with death threats, Michelle Malkin, who has been to Iraq, and Laura Logan, who has been incredibly brave after suffering a violent assault in Egypt. But these folks are rare in journalism these days. Today the field is a cavalcade of the wussified: the GQ softness of Brian Williams, the emotive gush of Ann Curry, the crybaby hysteria of Chris Matthews. (Hardball? No, someone could get hurt!) Does a real man get a tingle up his leg?
Of course, the media could do a few things to help themselves cowboy up. They could hire more military folks to work for them. They could spend more time in war zones with the men and women who protect our freedom. They could, please God, put a moratorium on giving themselves self-aggrandizing awards every year. And they could think twice about filing silly stories about a tour bus running a red light in Manhattan — as well as refraining from the self-congratulatory aftermath, wherein they praise themselves for the “unforgettable” and “terrifying” experience of following Sarah Palin’s bus.
One of my favorite books is “Byline: Ernest Hemingway.” It’s a collection of Hemingway’s magazine and newspaper writing. One dispatch from the Spanish Civil War begins like this:
They say you never hear the one that hits you. That’s true of bullets, because, if you hear them, they are already past. But your correspondent heard the last shell that hit this hotel. He heard it start from the battery, then come with an incoming whistling roar like a subway train to crash against the cornice and shower the room with broken glass and plaster. And while the glass still tinkled down and you listened for the next one to start, you realized that now finally you were back in Madrid.
Oh, for such composure today.
Mark Judge is the author of A Tremor of Bliss: Sex, Catholicism, and Rock ‘n’ Roll.
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Mayor tells students how to run for office
DAN DOUCET, Evergreen assistant news editor
With three Pullman City Council positions available in the November election, the Pullman mayor and a city council member sat down with students to discuss how they can run for public office.
Mayor Glenn Johnson said there is a position available to represent each of the three wards in Pullman. While Fritz Hughes of Ward 2 is not planning to run for re-election, both Al Sorensen of Ward 1 and Jeff Hawbaker of Ward 3 are.
“Does that mean it’s going to be an insurmountable task? No,” Johnson said. “I think anytime you’re running for an election, anybody is up for grabs.”
There have been a number of WSU students who have run for and served in council positions, Johnson said. He said students interested in running should be looking to stick around and put a few years into the position because of the learning curve involved.
“Ideally, the person that wants to run for a city council position should not just be one that wants to pad their resume,” Johnson said.
While the city supervisor runs the city and the mayor acts like the city’s CEO, it is up to city council members to establish policy. Any person running for a position should be aware that public officials do not have privacy, Johnson said. Citizens can request public records on council members about anything from their cell phone communications to their financial backgrounds, he said.
“So just know, and that’s one of the things we try to train everybody, that you’re now in a different sphere,” Johnson said.
Nathan Weller, a current Pullman City Council member for Ward 2, said that not only having a strong social media presence, but also making face-to-face connections is important when gathering supporters.
“Much of our public want to see the people knocking on their door,” Weller said.
The first public office Weller ran for was county commissioner. He said his campaign team consisted of his friends and family, who put in time during late nights, after work and on weekends to create their own campaign materials, knock on doors and make phone calls. Weller said he did not end up winning that race, but later ran for city council, which he did win.
“As long as you have a real passion to do it, you can do it,” Weller said.
It’s important that anyone running for a position checks with the Pullman City Clerk to see which ward they reside in, Johnson said. Potential candidates must be at least 18 years old and have resided in Pullman for at least one year. The salary for city council members is $550 per month. Those who want to run must pay one percent of their salary in order to file for candidacy, Johnson said.
Those who are interested in running for a position can find more information and resources on the Association of Washington Cities website.
DAN DOUCET, Evergreen opinion editor
Students return to campus with more choices for in-person classes
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WSU alumna donates portion of business proceeds to Hilinski’s Hope
Whitman County confirms one death, 88 new COVID-19 cases
Pullman K-1 students return to school via hybrid model
Arts Commission cancels ArtFest for second year
City council approves $1.6 million road improvement project
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Greece says it will take two weeks to fix deporation system
Sokratis Apr 09, 2016 9 April 2016
Greece says it will take at least two weeks to fix the process of deporting migrants from the eastern Aegean islands to Turkey.
The country’s deputy foreign minister for European affairs, Nikos Xydakis, admitted as much at a press conference attended also by his colleagues from France, Italy, Malta and Portugal, as well as the foreign ministers of the Netherlands and Slovakia.
Deportations from Greece to Turkey have been temporarily halted as most of the 6,750 migrants in the Greek islands are applying for asylum and there is a lack of qualified officials such as translators to process the applications.
Most of the experts promised by the EU have not yet arrived.
French European affairs minister Harlem Desir is urging refugees from war-torn Syria and Iraq to follow legal procedures to seek asylum in Europe rather than risk their lives in the perilous sea crossing into Greece, which now leads only back to Turkey, since Balkan countries north of Greece have shut their borders.
Desir says France will welcome 200 refugees directly from Turkey “in the coming days and weeks.”
Greecesays
Austrian Defence Minister defends Greek borders policy
Two suspects arrested over attack on newspaper, ordered released
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Could Nazi Germany Have Captured Moscow?
Video Above: Army Research Lab Scientists... Tells Warrior About Engineering New Explosives
by Michael Peck
Key Point: Drive on Moscow, like Operation Typhoon, is a race against time.
After seventy-five years, the question remains so tantalizing: What if the Germans had captured Moscow in December 1941? Would the Soviet Union have collapsed or continued to fight? Would the Russian war machine have been so crippled that Germany could transfer its armies west to crush the Anglo-Americans, or would the Eastern Front continue to bleed the German armies dry?
As it was, German spearheads may have reached as close as ten miles to the Soviet capital, perhaps even glimpsing the spires of the Kremlin. Seizing Moscow may or may not have won World War II for Nazi Germany, but it certainly would have made the Third Reich’s defeat more difficult.
Drive on Moscow is a computer game of Operation Typhoon, the German offensive to capture the Kremlin. Available for the iPad and PC, it puts two players in command of the German and Soviet armies.
The map, divided into spaces like Risk, stretches from Bryansk and Rzhev in the south, to Kalinin and Kursk in the east and west, and then north to Moscow. The terrain offers advantages for both attacker and defender: a mixture of open country ideal for panzers, forests and cities that shelter Soviet infantry, plus rivers that hamper offensive operations.
The Germans start with all of their forces on the map, with about fifty infantry corps and assorted panzer and motorized infantry divisions. The Soviets start with fewer troops, but they get plentiful reinforcements over time, including elite Siberian troops trained and equipped for winter operations. Each unit is marked with one to six dots representing strength points, which denote how many times a unit fires during combat, and also how many losses it can absorb.
The mechanics of Drive on Moscow are simple and abstract. Players activate a single area at a time by clicking on it with a mouse or tapping a touchscreen. Once activated, all the units in that space can move or fight. Infantry can move one space and mechanized units two; the catch is that armor only moves two spaces if it travels along a road or railroad, which tends to channel the German advance along transportation lines.
Units that enter a space with enemy units must attack. The combat system is short and subtle. During combat, a unit fires once per strength point. Each infantry point has a 30 percent chance of hitting, while armor has a 40 percent chance. Elite units, which include some German panzer divisions and Soviet Guards armies, get a bonus when attacking, as do tanks assaulting foot infantry. Defensive terrain, such as woods, cities and rivers, reduces the number of hits inflicted. Each hit eliminates one strength point, and may also force enemy units to retreat.
Not only does armor have a greater chance of inflicting hits, but it also can achieve breakthroughs. If all defenders are eliminated, mechanized units can immediately move one or two additional space and attack again. More than firepower, it’s that blitzkrieg bonus exploitation and attack that makes the panzers so deadly.
Yet while this system reflects the superior firepower of tank formations, it also underscores their fragility. Units are eliminated when they lose all their strength points, and most German mechanized units have just one to three points, while German infantry corps and Russian armies have five or six. The panzers can dish out damage, but they can’t take it. Constant combat will inevitably blunt the sharp end of the German mechanized spearheads.
Supply is brutal. Units that are surrounded by enemy-controlled spaces can’t trace supply, which means they can’t move or attack unless a relief force reestablishes contact. Troops which remain out of supply lose strength points are eventually eliminated. However, the Germans do have air resupply early in the game to succor isolated units.
By far the most clever game mechanic in Drive on Moscow is how it treats the concept of time, which is the lifeblood of military operations. Each game turn represents 72 to 120 hours, or three to five days of real time. In theory, a player should be able to activate his armies until all of them have been used. But every time a player activates his armies in a space, between zero and eighteen hours of game time are considered to have elapsed (more time is consumed during bad-weather turns, reflecting the difficulty of fighting in mud or snow). Once enough hours have passed, the turn is over and a new turn begins. This means that during clear weather in the early part of the game, the Germans have time to activate most of their armies. But during bad weather, the Germans might only get a chance to move and fight with a few units before the turn ends.
Operation Barbarossa began with a bang in June 1941, when the Germans devoured Soviet troops, inflicting five million casualties in five months. It ended in Moscow in December 1941, when the Wehrmacht ran out of fuel, ammunition and food. Not only was there a shortage of supplies, but what supplies there were couldn’t be transported forward quickly enough over horse-drawn carts, destroyed Russian rail lines and severely inadequate truck capacity. Thus, in Drive on Moscow, a certain number of German mechanized units will be immobilized each turn to reflect fuel shortages. In addition, while the Soviet get replacements each turn to replenish depleted units on the map, the Germans only get a handful of replacements, especially for the vital mechanized units.
As if supply wasn’t bad enough, the cold Russian weather is coming, and General Winter takes no prisoners. The weather is clear when the game begins at the end of September. It turns to mud in October, which limits movement and mechanized breakthroughs. Mud becomes frost in November, which actually helps the Germans by freezing rivers and forests. December brings snow, which limits German but not Soviet movement and combat breakthroughs. Unfortunately, December is when the Soviets get their powerful Siberian reinforcements, just as the German spearheads are low on troops and supplies.
Drive on Moscow, like Operation Typhoon, is a race against time. Like a badly wounded tiger, the Germans are formidable, but their strength is slipping away with every passing day. The Germans must seize Moscow before they are crippled by bad weather, lack of supply and replacements, and massive Soviet reinforcements. If they can’t seize Moscow, they may be able to eke out a victory by taking multiple cities such as Orel and Kalinin.
The Soviets begin the game outnumbered, disorganized and badly positioned. But if they can hold on, the German advance will grind to a halt. Then the Red Army can conduct a counteroffensive in December and January, as Siberian tanks and infantry pound the depleted German forces.
Drive on Moscow can be played solitaire against the AI, but it also can be played human-versus-human over the Internet. It is a tense contest between two desperate armies fighting at the limits of their endurance.
Can you change history? Drive on Moscow gives you the chance to find out.
Michael Peck is a frequent contributor to the National Interest and is a regular writer for many outlets like WarIsBoring. He can be found on Twitter and Facebook. This article first appeared in 2016 and is reprinted here due to reader interest.
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Monday, July 18, 2016 – 10:30 – Tourism in the Halifax region has seen significant growth in the last three years, largely driven by an increase in leisure travellers. Visitation is up 4.3% for the first half of the year, benefiting local hotels, restaurants, transportation and retail businesses.
“With an economic value of the Halifax Tourism Industry estimated at approximately $1 billion, this translates to an increased value of approximately $22 million in the first half of 2016 alone,” said Jeff Ransome, Chairman of the Board, Destination Halifax. “This is also the third consecutive year of growth with the industry being up 10.4% since 2013.”
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642.9 Sidewalk Ramp and Curb Ramp Design Criteria
From Engineering_Policy_Guide
(Redirected from 642.2 Sidewalk Ramp and Curb Ramp Design Criteria)
ADA Standards Section 4.8.5
Standard Plan 608.40
1 642.9.1 Slope and Rise of Sidewalk Ramps
2 642.9.2 Curb Ramps
2.1 642.9.2.1 Curb Ramp Alignment
2.2 642.9.2.2 Flares on Ramps
2.3 642.9.2.3 Gutters
2.4 642.9.2.4 Landings
2.5 642.9.2.5 Types of Curb Ramps and Design Applications
3 642.9.3 Detectable Warnings
4 642.9.4 Side Streets and Driveway Crossings
5 642.9.5 Crosswalks
642.9.1 Slope and Rise of Sidewalk Ramps
When the running slope, or grade, of a sidewalk exceeds 5% it is a ramp. If the sidewalk is adjacent to the street or separated by a narrow planting strip, the sidewalk grade may be equal to the grade of the street and not be considered a ramp. Ramps typically occur on an accessible route leading to a facility or otherwise separated from the street.
The cross slope for all ramps is to be 1%, but a maximum of 2.0% is allowed by ADA standards. Although the maximum running slope of a ramp in new construction is 1V:12H (8.33%), as discussed before, all sidewalks are to be designed with the least running slope possible. In an alteration project if it is technically infeasible to meet the running slope requirement, every effort should be made to flatten the slope as much as possible and provide landings where necessary. Clear documentation of any exceptions should be kept in the project file.
The maximum rise in any run will be 30 in. Examples of various slopes and ramp lengths are shown in Figure 642.9.1.
Figure 642.9.1
A landing will be located at the top and bottom of all ramps and between segments that have a 30 in. rise. The landing will be at least the width of the ramp with a minimum length of 60 in. If a turn is required the landing must be 5 ft. x 5 ft. For example, a segment with a running slope of 1V:12H, or 8.33% will require a 5 ft. x 5 ft. landing every 30 ft. if it is part of a switchback access route.
A vertical rise greater than 6 in. will require a handrail. Handrails must be compliant with ADA standards, Section 4.8.5 (http://www.ada.gov/reg3a.html#Anchor-19425)
Edge protection will be provided on ramps and landings with drop-offs and shall have curbs, walls, railings, or projecting surfaces that prevent people from slipping off the ramp. Curbs shall have a minimum height of 2 in.
642.9.2 Curb Ramps
The design and construction of curb ramps require thought and planning. The curb ramp must be designed to meet the existing topographical and physical constraints, and the requirements for curb ramp slope, cross slope, landings and connection to the street.
Curb and sidewalk ramps will be designed in accordance with the standard plans, or varied to fit the needs at a particular location. Situations that do not fit the standard plans are to be identified on a field check. If a curb ramp differs from the standard plans, the ramp will be detailed on the plans. The exact location of the curb ramps and crosswalks for intersections will be shown on the plans.
The following criteria apply to all curb ramp situations:
Width - curb ramps in new construction will have a clear width of 5 ft., exclusive of flared sides. In an alteration, the width will be the same as the adjoining sidewalk or a minimum of 4 ft.
Cross slope - The cross slope on all curb ramps will be a minimum of 1%, up to 2.0% maximum.
Running slope - The least possible running slope will be used for all ramps. The minimum running slope for drainage purposes is 1%. In new construction, the maximum slope allowed by ADAAG is 8.33% (1V:12H). Consideration should be given to construction accuracy and future settlement.
Grade breaks - Grade breaks at the top and bottom of perpendicular curb ramps shall be perpendicular to the direction of ramp run. Grade breaks shall not be permitted on the surface of curb ramps, blended transitions and landings within the pedestrian access route. Surface slopes that meet at grade breaks shall be flush.
Landings - Curb ramps: A minimum 5 ft. x 5 ft. level landing with a minimum of 1% and no more than 2.0% cross slope in any direction will be provided wherever two sidewalks cross, or a turn may be required. Perpendicular curb ramps may require a pedestrian to choose a direction from a landing at the top of the ramp. Parallel curb ramps require a landing at the bottom so that a pedestrian can turn to enter the street. A diagonal ramp requires a landing at the top and a 4 ft. x 4 ft. clear space at the bottom protected within the crosswalk markings.
Detectable warnings, or truncated domes - Detectable warnings must be placed at all public streets and signalized intersections. They will be located at the bottom of each ramp a maximum of 5 ft from the curb face, or 6 to 8 in. from the curb face if the distance to the bottom of the ramp is greater than 5 ft. Additional information may be found in EPG 642.9.3 Detectable Warnings.
Islands and medians - Raised islands and medians in crosswalks will be cut through level with the street and include a level passing space of 5 ft. x 5 ft. The cut through width will meet the requirement of an accessible route. Median cut through length is to be 4 ft. min. Detectable warning will be provided at each entrance to the street.
Steps - Sidewalk ramps will be provided at locations where steps occur, such as at the ends of bridges having sidewalks across the bridge or at pedestrian grade separations.
Obstacles - No obstacles (grates, utility covers, etc.) should be within a ramp. If they cannot be avoided, they will have stable, firm and slip resistant surfaces, have flush transitions, and meet the change in level requirements. Storm drain inlets are to be designed outside of the ramp area, but located so to minimize water runoff or pooling of water at the bottom of ramps.
Parking - Curb ramps will be located or protected to prevent their obstruction by parked vehicles.
Crosswalk markings - Curb ramps at marked crosswalks will be wholly contained within the markings, excluding any flared sides. The minimum crosswalk is 6 ft.
Pay items - The designer will estimate the square yardage for curb ramp and include it with the estimate for sidewalks and the quantity will be shown on the 2B sheet(s). A separate pay item is included for detectable warnings since they are not required on all ramps, and in many cases, are required to be retrofitted on existing curb ramps.
See the Sec 608, Standard Plan 608.50 and EPG 642.8.4 for additional information.
642.9.2.1 Curb Ramp Alignment
The accessible route should be perpendicular to the curb being crossed to provide a level cut for wheelchairs and directional cues for the visually impaired. By placing curb ramps perpendicular to the curb, grade changes are at right angles that will allow all four wheels of a wheelchair to be in contact with the ground at all times. Curb ramps located at the tangent point provide the shortest pedestrian crossing. Alignment of curb ramps, crosswalks and raised islands is an important consideration in providing a safe crossing for the visually impaired.
For large radii, it is often not possible to both place curb ramps perpendicular to the curb and in-line with the pedestrian crossing. Ramps may be set back from the curb to provide a grade break that is perpendicular to the ramp slope and a landing or blended transition will continue to the curb. If the bottom of the ramp is more than 5 ft. from the curb, detectable warnings are placed at the back of the curbline. Parallel ramps are often useful in this situation.
642.9.2.2 Flares on Ramps
If a curb ramp is located where pedestrians may walk across the ramp, or the ramp is not protected by handrails, guardrails, or a permanent obstacle, and the landing or the sidewalk at the top of the ramp is 4 ft. or wider, the flared sides of the ramp will have a maximum slope of 1V:10H (10%). If, due to a technical infeasibility, the sidewalk is narrower than 4 ft., the maximum slope will be 1V:12H (8.33%). The sidewalk width, X in Figure 642.9.2.2, must be at least 3 ft. A parallel ramp may be more appropriate in some situations.
Vertical curbs or flares greater than 1V:10H are allowed where the pedestian path will not cross the ramp. Refer to Figure 642.9.2.2. Handrails are not required on curb ramps.
Figure 642.9.2.2
642.9.2.3 Gutters
The gutter slope is parallel to the ramp and perpendicular to the curb. Because the slopes of adjacent gutters and streets significantly affect the overall accessibility of curb ramps, the rate of change of grade between the gutter and the ramp imust not exceed 13% over a 2 ft. interval. The cross slope of the road or gutter surface immediately adjacent to the curb ramp must not exceed 5%.
The transition between the ramp and gutter is to be smooth and flush. For new construction, transitions from curb ramps to sidewalks, gutters or streets must be flush and free of abrupt changes. For existing locations where a smooth transition cannot be acheived, changes in level between ¼ in. and ½ in. must be beveled with a slope no greater than 1V:2H, and changes in level greater than ½ in. need to be removed or ramped. Maximum slopes adjoining a curb ramp must not exceed 1V:20H (5%).
It is improtant to ensure that water does not puddle at the curb opening. Where drainage crosses the opening and may enter the ramp, or landing area, a maximum 8.33% slope may begin at the face of the curb, resulting a ½ in. rise at the back of the curb in a 6 in. curb opening.
642.9.2.4 Landings
Landings at curb ramps allow people with mobility impairments to move completely off of the ramp and onto the sidewalk. They provide a level area for resting, turning, or reaching pedestrian signal buttons. The slope for all landings must be between a minimum of 1% for drainage and a maximum of 2.0% for pedestrian stability in all directions.
A minimum 5 ft. x 5 ft. landing must be provided wherever two sidewalks cross, or a turn may be required. Perpedicular curb ramps may require a pedestrian to choose a direction from a landing at the top of the ramp. Parallel curb ramps require a landing at the bottom so that a pedestrian can turn to enter the streeet. A diagonal ramp requires a landing at the top and a 4 ft. x 4 ft. clear space at the bottom protected within the crosswalk markings.
For retrofit projects, where geometric or right of way restrictions exist, the landing width may be reduced to 4 ft. MoDOT policy will be 5 ft. x 5 ft. to coincide with sidewalk widths and passing space. If landings are reduced below 4 ft., the reasons need to be documented. Please note that requirement for ramps differ from those of curb ramps in that ramps must have the same width as the approaching sidewalk and a minimum length of 5 ft.
642.9.2.5 Types of Curb Ramps and Design Applications
Curb ramps at intersections need to be designed on an individual basis. The location and type of the ramps are to be shown on the plans to ensure all details of the ramps have been taken into consideration and are constructable to MoDOT standards. Determining pedestrian pathways early in the design process is essential. The best ramp configuration for a given location may impact the location of utilities, traffic signals, light poles, storm drainage and other roadside features. It is recommended that the sidewalk and ramps be laid out early in the preliminary plans and in coordination with other roadside features.
There are a variety of curb ramp types. The pattern to be used depends on the location, type of street and existing design constraints. Curb ramps are normally categorized by their position relative to the curb line. The three most common configurations are perpendicular, parallel and diagonal. See EPG 642.3 Curb Ramp Applications and Standard Plan 608.50 for more details.
642.9.3 Detectable Warnings
ADAAG defines a detectable warning as “a standardized surface feature built in or applied to walking surfaces or other elements to warn visually impaired people of hazards on a circulation path.” Detectable warnings are provided on curb ramps at side streets and signalized driveways, such as at a mall or major outlet/discount store. Truncated domes are never to be installed on ramps for residential driveways.
Detectable warnings on walking surfaces are required to be truncated domes with a diameter of 0.9 in., a height of 0.2 in., and a center to center spacing of 1.65 in. to 2.35 in. in each direction. The truncated dome panel is to contrast visually with adjoining surfaces, either light-on-dark or dark-on-light. (Refer to Standard Plan 608.50). The preferred color contrast is red for concrete and yellow for asphalt surfaces.
The truncated dome surface area is a minimum length of 2 ft. covering the entire width of the ramp or curb opening, excluding the flare sides. The width of the truncated domes may be shortened by 2-3 in. on each side if recommended by the manufacturer for durability. The truncated domes are aligned on a square grid in the predominate direction of pedestrian travel to permit wheelchair wheels to roll between the domes. They are to be placed at the bottom of a ramp perpendicular to the path of travel, and parallel to the grade break, or 6-8 in. from the front of the curb depending on the type and location of the curb ramp.
On large curb radii, one edge of the truncated dome surface area may be placed at the back of the curb to minimize the distance of the other edge from the curb. If either corner of the detectabe warning is more than 5 ft. from the back of the curb the detectable warnings should be placed in a radial pattern 6-8 in. from the face of the curb.
Detectable warnings are also provided at cut-throughs in islands and medians. Where islands or medians must be less than 4 feet in length, the detectable warnings are to extend across the full length of the cut through, island or median. At islands and medians the detectable warnings are to be placed at the curbline.
Where truncated domes are placed at the bottom of a ramp, the path between the domes shall be parallel to the path of travel on the ramp. At a blended transition or on a landing, the direction of the path between the domes may vary.
Where a sidewalk crosses a railroad track, the detectable warning surface shall be located so that the edge nearest the rail crossing is 6 ft. minimum and 15 ft. maximum from the centerline of the nearest rail. The rows of truncated domes in a detectable warning surface shall be aligned to be parallel with the direction of wheelchair travel.
642.9.4 Side Streets and Driveway Crossings
A defined walkway is required across all driveways. The defined walkway will consist of a paved area 4 ft. wide, at minimum, with a cross slope of 1% (2.0% maximum) to meet ADA standards. It does not have to be marked, but will provide and accessible path between the adjoining sidewalks or ramps. The running slope will 5% or less, or at the same grade as the roadway. Where possible, keep the entrance and sidewalk at the same grade, eliminating the need for ramps. When designing these pathways across entrances, it will be necessary to adjust the approaches to the defined pathway to prevent bottoming out of vehicles transversing the defined pathway.
642.9.5 Crosswalks
Crosswalks are a critical part of the pedestrian network. A crosswalk is defined as “the portion of a roadway designated for pedestrians to use in crossing the street” and may be either marked or unmarked. However, marked crosswalks are the most effective and are recommended where there are traffic signals. Marked crosswalks provide warning to motorists and assist pedestrians, especially pedestrians with low vision, in maneuvering across the street. Marked crossings are delineated in materials or markings that provide a visual contrast with the surface of the street and meet, at minimum, the dimensions shown on Standard Plan 620.00.
Crosswalk placement requires balancing several goals that sometimes compete.
Curb ramps must be placed within the crosswalk.
When a diagonal curb ramp is at an intersection, a 4 ft. x 4 ft. clear landing space is provided within the crosswalk to allow persons in wheelchairs enough room to maneuver into the desired direction while maintaining a safe distance from moving vehicles.
The crosswalk lengths are kept to a minimum to limit the time to cross the roadway and the time people are in the crosswalk.
Setback of crosswalks are to be kept to a minimum to reduce out-of-direction travel and to provide good sight lines between pedestrians and motorists.
In some situations, signage may be warranted in addition to a marked crosswalk. For example, at non-signalized, high speed intersections, drivers do not recognize a marked crosswalk quickly enough to react to pedestrians in the crosswalk. In-roadway lights or pedestrian crosswalk signs are treatment that may be used to increase pedestrian safety. Another case is at signalized intersections with islands and free right turns where pedestrian crosswalk signs along with the marked crosswalk remind motorists to yield to pedestrains.
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Liz Markus
Running T-Rex with Auras 05
DIMENSIONS 24" x 18" MEDIUM acrylic on archival pigment print
Series of 10, 2020
Each work is uniquely hand-embellished by the artist
Signed and numbered by the artist on font
Liz Markus paints in series, allowing intuition and collectively gathered cultural influences to guide her process. Images are relayed to canvas through bold and colorful washes of acrylic paint, resulting in forms that are familiar yet liberated in their rawness. Simultaneously liquid and solid, subversive and reverent, Markus playfully explores the visceral undertones of American subculture. We are proud to present T-Rex with Aura, a hand-embellished series featuring three distinct images from Markus' ongoing exploration of the iconic mass-produced T-Rex costume.
Liz Markus has a forthcoming 2021 solo exhibition at The Pit (Los Angeles) and a current solo exhibition at Unit London. Previous solo shows have been held at Maruani Mercier Gallery (Brussels), Nathalie Karg (New York), White Columns (New York), and Loyal Gallery (Stockholm) among others. Selected group exhibitions include showings at Tripoli Gallery (East Hampton), Harper’s Books (East Hampton), Eric Firestone Gallery (East Hampton), and Canada (New York). Museum exhibitions include presentations at The Reece Museum (Tennessee) and Nerman Museum (Kansas City). Markus lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Framing options are black or white painted wood, ⅞” wide flat face and ⅞” deep, with UV acrylic glass. Prints are framed edge to edge.
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Court hears Orlando shooter Omar Mateen’s last text to wife
Pulse shooter, Omar Mateen text his wife ‘I love you babe’ after he shot dead 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida, according to evidence presented to a jury Wednesday.
Mateen’s wife, Noor Salman, is on trial in federal court for aiding and abetting her husband and with obstruction of justice, for lying to federal agents.
If convicted, she could get life in prison. Mateen was shot and killed by police after the June 2016 attack.
Pulse shooter, Omar Mateen text his wife, Noor Salman (left, in a court sketch on Tuesday) ‘I love you babe’ after he shot dead 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida, according to evidence presented to a jury Wednesday
Salman (left), is on trial in federal court for aiding and abetting Mateen (right) and with obstruction of justice, for lying to federal agents
If convicted, Salman (left) could get life in prison. Mateen (right) was shot and killed by police after the June 2016 attack
At 4.27am, during a standoff with police more than two hours after Mateen first opened fire inside the Orlando nightclub, Salman texted Mateen, twice asking, ‘where are you?’
The exchange happened about the time local authorities woke her up with a phone call, asking her to exit their apartment. The couple lived about two hours south of Orlando with their child.
‘Everything ok?’ Mateen replied.
The Orlando Sentinel reported from court that Salman responded, reminding her husband that he had work the next day. His mother, Shahla Mateen, was ‘worried and so am I,’ she wrote. Mateen responded: ‘You heard what happened’.
‘????’ Salman replied. ‘What happened?!’ As Salman texted, Omar Mateen’s mother called him twice.
He didn’t answer. ‘Omar call me … I am so worried,’ she said in a voicemail. ‘Please call me.’
By the time he and Salman were trading texts, as jurors saw earlier in the trial, Mateen had already gunned down club-goers throughout Pulse with an AR-15-style rifle, tracing a methodical and bloody path as wounded patrons fled, hid and called for help.
‘I love you babe,’ Mateen wrote in his last text message at 4.29am
Mateen shot dead 49 people (pictured) in the June 2016 attack on club-goers at Pulse nightclub
Jurors on Wednesday also saw evidence of Mateen’s online activity prior to the attack at the Pulse nightclub (pictured)
‘Habibi what happened?!’ Salman wrote, using an Arabic term of endearment. ‘Your mom said that she said to come over and you never did.’
‘I wish I knew,’ Shahla Mateen told jurors in her daughter-in-law’s trial Wednesday. ‘I wish I knew.’
According to the Sentinel, Shahla was emotional when she entered the courtroom.
Shahla said she called her son on June 11, after he left her home, to invite him to a Ramadan fast-breaking dinner at their mosque, according to the Sentinel.
She couldn’t reach him so she called Salman, who said her son would be asleep by then and she wanted to stay home with him.
In conversations with an Orlando police hostage negotiator, Mateen would later claim his attack June 12, 2016, attack was ‘triggered’ by the May 6 death of Abu Waheeb, an Islamic State leader in Iraq
Salman allegedly told Shahla that Mateen would be eating dinner at his friend Nemo’s house. He later told his mother the same thing.
But that evening Shahla saw Nemo’s mother at the mosque and told her that their sons were together. She was surprised when Nemo’s mother said he was out of state doing a medical school rotation.
‘I feel sad, embarrassed. I said, ‘He lied,’ Shahla said.
Shahla described her relationship with Salman as a ‘natural’ family relationship. She said her daughter-in-law loved spending time with the children in the family.
Jurors on Wednesday also saw evidence of Mateen’s online activity prior to the attack.
Prosecutors showed searches on his smartphone for the Islamic State group, violence in the Middle East, other acts of terrorism and places to get guns.
In conversations with an Orlando police hostage negotiator, Mateen would later claim his attack June 12, 2016, attack at Pulse nightclub was ‘triggered’ by the May 6 death of Abu Waheeb, an Islamic State leader in Iraq.
However, under questioning by Salman’s defense, FBI agent Kim Rosecrans said Mateen’s internet visits also included dating sites and a link about masturbation.
Those entries, defense attorney Charles Swift said, ‘don’t suggest Mateen was sharing his phone much with his wife.’
Prosecutors hope to rest their case by Thursday morning.
Her defense plans to call eight to 10 witnesses, and then the case will go to the jury.
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Fears disease found in rat urine spreading through filthy Australian streets and KILLING dogs
Fears contagious disease found in rat urine is spreading through filthy Australian streets and KILLING dogs
Two dogs in Melbourne have died after being infected by a bacteria in rat urine
Bacteria causes disease known as leptospirosis causing kidney failure in dogs
Rising rat populations in Sydney have also caused a a spike in dog cases in NSW
By Brett Lackey For Daily Mail Australia
Pet owners are being urged to watch out for signs their animal may be ill after two dogs recently died from a disease spread through rat urine.
The two dogs from the Melbourne suburbs of Ringwood and Bayswater contracted an infection known as leptospirosis which caused the animal’s liver and kidneys to shut down.
The bacteria that causes the infection, known as leptospira, is usually found in warmer areas of Queensland, however, there have been a number of cases recently in Sydney due to the city’s rising rat population.
The infection can be caught be humans and causes vomitting, fever, and renal issues.
Pet owners are being urged to watch out for signs their animal may be ill after two dogs recently died from a disease spread through rat urine (stock image)
A recent post on a pet minding page suggested the bacteria would be in Lillydale Lake but both Melbourne Water and Yarra Ranges Council has debunked that theory.
What is Leptospirosis?
Leptospirosis is a disease spread from animals to humans, caused by infection with the bacteria Leptospira.
The most common sources of infection are contact with infected animal urine and/or contaminated soil or water. Outbreaks may occur following periods of heavy rain or flooding.
Leptospirosis occurs worldwide, but is more common in tropical and sub-tropical areas with high rainfall. In Australia, Leptospirosis is most common in north-eastern NSW and Queensland.
The disease can cause vomitting and liver and kidney failure.
Most cases are mild but a small number can become serious.
There is a vaccine for dogs but there is no vaccine available for use in humans.
Treatment with appropriate antibiotics as early as possible in the course of the illness is recommended.
Yarra Ranges environment and infrastructure director Mark Varmalis said the council was aware of social media posts claiming that Melbourne Water had been testing water at Lillydale Lake for leptospirosis.
‘The council and Melbourne Water are not aware of leptospirosis in the water at Lillydale Lake, and this is not something Melbourne Water routinely tests for,’ Mr Varmalis told The Herald Sun.
He did, however, recommend dogs stay out of the lake especially after rain when untreated stormwater and run-off can flow into the lake.
The City of Sydney said earlier this year that an unprecendented number of construction and infrastructure projects were causing a spike in the city’s number of rats.
Officials said they were looking to cities overseas on how to best fight the problem.
‘An investigation will (now) look at different rat eradication measures used across the globe and whether they can be applied to our area,’ a spokeswoman said in a statement.
The City of Sydney said earlier this year that an unprecendented number of construction and infrastructure projects were causing a spike in the city’s number of rats (file image)
City of Sydney doubled the number of rat baiting stations in public areas to 860 in response to a recent outbreak of leptospirosis that killed a number of inner-city dogs.
The council has written to Sydney Trains, Property NSW and the NSW Land and Housing Corporation urging them to increase baiting and monitoring programs.
Businesses and residents have also been asked to properly dispose of food scraps and other waste.
Any pet owners who think their animal may be acting a ‘little off’ is urged to speak to their vet.
The infection can be successfully treated with intravenous antibiotics if caught early.
A vaccine is also available that vets can administer on a case by case basis.
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India Warns Of Risk To Planes As Wildlife Flourishes At Airports
Bird strikes are fairly common and can cause crashes.
Birds and other animals could present a greater threat to aircraft in India as the coronavirus limits human activity including wildlife management at airports, the country's aviation regulator warned Monday.
Many airports are near wetlands that attract large migratory birds, which pose a collision threat to aircraft. Meanwhile, a sharp reduction in aviation activity has given birds and other wildlife a greater opportunity to thrive, India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation said in a notice to airport operators.
"Many regular activities such as grass cutting, bird activity monitoring patrols, and dispersal measures may be limited given the current situation of reduced manpower and lower aircraft movements," the DGCA said.
To minimize the risk of collisions, airport operators should continue to monitor wildlife and not ease control measures, it said. "Particular attention should be given to increase of bird/wildlife activities as a result of reduced air traffic."
Bird strikes are fairly common and can cause crashes. The Federal Aviation Administration in the US said it received reports of 16,000 wildlife strikes in 2018, up from about 1,800 in 1990. Expanding wildlife populations, increased aircraft movement, a trend toward faster and quieter jets, and outreach to the aviation community all contributed to the jump, it said.
In 2013, a PT Lion Mentari Airlines Boeing Co. 737-800 aircraft hit a cow after landing in Sulawesi, and two years later a SpiceJet Ltd. plane skidded off a runway in central India after encountering a wild boar. In 2009, a flock of geese struck a US Airways plane, knocking out both engines. Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger managed to put the Airbus SE A320 down on the Hudson River and no one died, inspiring a Hollywood movie.
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Tarzan of the Apes/Chapter 1
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Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Chapter 1: Out to Sea
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31618Tarzan of the Apes — Chapter 1: Out to SeaEdgar Rice Burroughs
OUT TO SEA
I HAD this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
When my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much, and that I was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed the task the old vintage had commenced, and so he unearthed written evidence in the form of musty manuscript, and dry official records of the British Colonial Office to support many of the salient features of his remarkable narrative.
I do not say the story is true, for I did not witness the happenings which it portrays, but the fact that in the telling of it to you I have taken fictitious names for the principal characters quite sufficiently evidences the sincerity of my own belief that it may be true.
The yellow, mildewed pages of the diary of a man long dead, and the records of the Colonial Office dovetail perfectly with the narrative of my convivial host, and so I give you the story as I painstakingly pieced it out from these several various agencies.
If you do not find it credible you will at least be as one with me in acknowledging that it is unique, remarkable, and interesting.
From the records of the Colonial Office and from the dead man's diary we learn that a certain young English nobleman, whom we shall call John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, was commissioned to make a peculiarly delicate investigation of conditions in a British West Coast African Colony from whose simple native inhabitants another European power was known to be recruiting soldiers for its native army, which it used solely for the forcible collection of rubber and ivory from the savage tribes along the Congo and the Aruwimi.
The natives of the British Colony complained that many of their young men were enticed away through the medium of fair and glowing promises, but that few if any ever returned to their families.
The Englishmen in Africa went even further; saying that these poor blacks were held in virtual slavery, since when their terms of enlistmentexpired their ignorance was imposed upon by their white officers, and they were told that they had yet several years to serve.
And so the Colonial Office appointed John Clayton to a new post in British West Africa, but his confidential instructions centered on a thorough investigation of the unfair treatment of black British subjects by the officers of a friendly European power. Why he was sent, is, however, of little moment to this story, for he never made an investigation, nor, in fact, did he ever reach his destination.
Clayton was the type of Englishman that one likes best to associate with the noblest monuments of historic achievement upon a thousand victorious battle fields—a strong, virile man—mentally, morally, and physically.
In stature he was above the average height; his eyes were gray, his features regular and strong; his carriage that of perfect, robust health influenced by his years of army training. Political ambition had caused him to seek transference from the army to the Colonial Office and so we find him, still young, intrusted with a delicate and important commission in the service of the Queen.
When he received this appointment he was both elated and appalled. The preferment seemed to him in the nature of a well merited reward for painstaking and intelligent service, and as a stepping stone to posts of greater importance and responsibility; but, on the other hand, he had been married to the Hon. Alice Rutherford for scarce a three months, and it was the thought of taking this fair young girl into the dangers and isolation of tropical Africa that dismayed and appalled him.
For her sake he would have refused the appointment; but she would not have it so. Instead she insisted that he accept, and, indeed, take her with him.
There were mothers and brothers and sisters, and aunts and cousins to express various opinions on the subject, but as to what they severally advised history is silent.
We know only that on a bright May morning in 1888, John, Lord Greystoke, and Lady Alice sailed from Dover on their way to Africa.
A month later they arrived at Freetown where they chartered a small sailing vessel, the Fuwalda, which was to bear them to their final destination.
And here John, Lord Greystoke, and Lady Alice, his wife, vanished from the eyes and from the knowledge of men.
Two months after they weighed anchor and cleared from the port of Freetown a half dozen British war vessels were scouring the south Atlantic for trace of them or their little vessel, and it was almost immediately that the wreckage was found upon the shores of St. Helena which convinced the world that the Fuwalda had gone down with all on board, and hence the search was stopped ere it had scarce begun; though hope lingered in longing hearts for many years.
The Fuwalda, a barkantine of about one hundred tons, was a vessel of the type often seen in coastwise trade in the far southern Atlantic, their crews composed of the offscourings of the sea—unhanged murderers and cutthroats of every race and every nation.
The Fuwalda was no exception to the rule. Her officers were swarthy bullies, hating and hated by their crew. The captain, while a competent seaman, was a brute in his treatment of his men. He knew, or at least he used, but two arguments in his dealings with them—a belaying pin and a revolver—nor is it likely that the motley aggregation he signed would have understood aught else.
So it was that from the second day out from Freetown John Clayton and his young wife witnessed scenes upon the deck of the Fuwalda such as they had believed were never enacted outside the covers of printed stories of the sea.
It was on the morning of the second day that the first link was forged of what was destined to form a chain of circumstances ending in a life for one then unborn such as has probably never been paralleled in the history of man.
Two sailors were washing down the decks of the Fuwalda, the first mate was on duty, and the captain had stopped to speak with John Clayton and Lady Alice.
The men were working backwards toward the little party who were facing away from the sailors. Closer and closer they came, until one of them was directly behind the captain. In another moment he would have passed by and this strange narrative had never been recorded.
But just that instant the officer turned to leave Lord and Lady Greystoke, and, as he did so, tripped against the sailor and sprawled headlong upon the deck, overturning the water-pail so that he was drenched in its dirty contents.
For an instant the scene was ludicrous; but only for an instant. With a volley of awful oaths, his face suffused with the scarlet of mortification and rage, the captain regained his feet, and with a terrific blow felled the sailor to the deck.
The man was small and rather old, so that the brutality of the act was thus accentuated. The other seaman, however, was neither old nor small—a huge bear of a man, with fierce black mustachios, and a great bull neck set between massive shoulders.
As he saw his mate go down he crouched, and, with a low snarl, sprang upon the captain crushing him to his knees with a single mighty blow.
From scarlet the officer s face went white, for this was mutiny; and mutiny he had met and subdued before in his brutal career. Without waiting to rise he whipped a revolver from his pocket, firing point blank at the great mountain of muscle towering before him; but, quick as he was, John Clayton was almost as quick, so that the bullet which was intended for the sailor's heart lodged in the sailor's leg instead, for Lord Greystoke had struck down the captain's arm as he had seen the weapon flash in the sun.
Words passed between Clayton and the captain, the former making it plain that he was disgusted with the brutality displayed toward the crew, nor would he countenance anything further of the kind while he and Lady Greystoke remained passengers.
The captain was on the point of making an angry reply, but, thinking better of it, turned on his heel and black and scowling, strode aft.
He did not care to antagonize an English official, for the Queen's mighty arm wielded a punitive instrument which he could appreciate, and which he feared—England's far reaching navy.
The two sailors picked themselves up, the older man assisting his wounded comrade to rise. The big fellow, who was known among his mates as Black Michael, tried his leg gingerly, and, finding that it bore his weight, turned to Clayton with a word of gruff thanks.
Though the fellow's tone was surly, his words were evidently well meant. Ere he had scarce finished his little speech he had turned and was limping off toward the forecastle with the very apparent intention of forestalling any further conversation.
They did not see him again for several days, nor did the captain vouchsafe them more than the surliest of grunts when he was forced to speak to them.
They messed in his cabin, as they had before the unfortunate occurrence; but the captain was careful to see that his duties never permitted him to eat at the same time.
The other officers were coarse, illiterate fellows, but little above the villainous crew they bullied, and were only too glad to avoid social intercourse with the polished English noble and his lady, so that the Claytons were left very much to themselves.
This in itself accorded perfectly with their desires, but it also rather isolated them from the life of the little ship so that they were unable to keep in touch with the daily happenings which were to culminate so soon in bloody tragedy.
There was in the whole atmosphere of the craft that undefinable something which presages disaster. Outwardly, to the knowledge of the Claytons, all went on as before upon the little vessel, but that there was an undertow leading them toward some unknown danger both felt, though they did not speak of it to each other.
On the second day after the wounding of Black Michael, Clayton came on deck just in time to see the limp body of one of the crew being carried below by four of his fellows while the first mate, a heavy belaying pin in his hand, stood glowering at the little party of sullen sailors.
Clayton asked no questions—he did not need to—and the following day, as the great lines of a British battle-ship grew out of the distant horizon, he half determined to demand that he and Lady Alice be put aboard her, for his fears were steadily increasing that nothing but harm could result from remaining on the lowering, sullen Fuwalda.
Toward noon they were within speaking distance of the British vessel, but when Clayton had about decided to ask the captain to put them aboard her, the obvious ridiculousness of such a request became suddenly apparent. What reason could he give the officer commanding her majesty's ship for desiring to go back in the direction from which he had just come!
Faith, what if he told them that two insubordinate seamen had been roughly handled by their officers. They would but laugh in their sleeves and attribute his reason for wishing to leave the ship to but one thing—cowardice.
John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, did not ask to be transferred to the British man-of-war, and late in the afternoon he saw her upper works fade below the far horizon, but not before he learned that which confirmed his greatest fears, and caused him to curse the false pride which had restrained him from seeking safety for his young wife a few short hours before, when safety was within reach—a safety which was now gone forever.
It was mid-afternoon that brought the little old sailor, who had been felled by the captain a few days before, to where Clayton and his wife stood by the ship's side watching the ever diminishing outlines of the great battle-ship. The old fellow was polishing brasses, and as he came edging along until close to Clayton he said, in an undertone:
"'Ell's to pay, sir, on this 'ere craft, an' mark my word for it, sir. 'Ell's to pay."
"What do you mean, my good fellow?" asked Clayton.
"Wy, hasn't ye seen wats goin' on? Hasn't ye 'eard that devil's spawn of a capting an' 'is mates knockin the bloomin' lights outen 'arf the crew?
"Two busted 'eads yeste'day, an' three today. Black Michael's as good as new agin an' 'e's not the bully to stand fer it, not 'e; an' mark my word for it, sir."
"You mean, my man, that the crew contemplates mutiny?" asked Clayton.
"Mutiny!" exclaimed the old fellow. "Mutiny! They means murder, sir, an mark my word for it, sir."
"When?"
"Hit's comin', sir; hit's comin' but I'm not a-sayin' wen, an' I've said too damned much now, but ye was a good sort t'other day an' I thought it no more'n right to warn ye. But keep a still tongue in yer 'ead an' when ye hear shootin' git below an' stay there.
"That's all, only keep a still tongue in yer 'ead, or they'll put a pill between yer ribs, an' mark my word for it, sir," and the old fellow went on with his polishing, which carried him away from where the Claytons were standing.
"Deuced cheerful outlook, Alice," said Clayton.
"You should warn the captain at once, John. Possibly the trouble may yet be averted," she said.
"I suppose I should, but yet from purely selfish motives I am almost prompted to 'keep a still tongue in my 'ead.' Whatever they do now they will spare us in recognition of my stand for this fellow Black Michael, but should they find that I had betrayed them there would be no mercy shown us, Alice."
"You have but one duty, John, and that lies in the interest of vested authority. If you do not warn the captain you are as much a party to whatever follows as though you had helped to plot and carry it out with your own head and hands."
"You do not understand, dear," replied Clayton. "It is of you I am thinking—there lies my first duty. The captain has brought this condition upon himself, so why then should I risk subjecting my wife to unthinkable horrors in probably futile attempt to save him from his own brutal folly? You have no conception, dear, of what would follow were this pack of cutthroats to gain control of the Fuwalda."
"Duty is duty, my husband, and no amount of sophistries may change it. I would be a poor wife for an English lord were I to be responsible for his shirking a plain duty. I realize the danger which must follow, but I can face it with you—face it much more bravely than I could face the dishonor of always knowing that you might have averted a tragedy had you not neglected your duty."
"Have it as you will then, Alice," he answered, smiling. "Maybe we are borrowing trouble. While I do not like the looks of things on board this ship, they may not be so bad after all, for it is possible that the 'Ancient Mariner' was but voicing the desires of his wicked old heart rather than speaking of real facts.
"Mutiny on the high sea may have been common a hundred years ago, but in this good year 1888 it is the least likely of happenings.
"But there goes the captain to his cabin now. If I am going to warn him I might as well get the beastly job over for I have little stomach to talk with the brute at all."
So saying he strolled carelessly in the direction of the companionway through which the captain had passed, and a moment later was knocking at his door.
"Come in," growled the deep tones of that surly officer.
And when Clayton had entered, and closed the door behind him:
"Well?"
"I have come to report the gist of a conversation I heard today, because I feel that, while there may be nothing to it, it is as well that you be forearmed. In short, the men contemplate mutiny and murder."
"It s a lie!" roared the captain. "And if you have been interfering again with the discipline of this ship, or meddling in affairs that don't concern you you can take the consequences, and be damned. I don't care whether you are an English lord or not. I'm captain of this here ship, and from now on you keep your meddling nose out of my business."
As he reached this peroration, the captain had worked himself up to such a frenzy of rage that he was fairly purple of face, and shrieked the last words at the top of his voice; emphasizing his remarks by a loud thumping of the table with one huge fist, shaking the other in Clayton's face.
Greystoke never turned a hair, but stood eyeing the excited man with level gaze.
"Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass, don't you know."
Whereupon he turned and left the cabin with the same indifferent ease that was habitual with him, and which was more surely calculated to raise the ire of a man of Billings's class than a torrent of invective.
So, whereas the captain might easily have been brought to regret his hasty speech had Clayton attempted to conciliate him, his temper was now irrevocably set in the mold in which Clayton had left it, and the last chance of their working together for their common good and preservation of life was gone.
"Well, Alice," said Clayton, as he rejoined his wife, "if I had saved my breath I should likewise have saved myself a bit of a calling. The fellow proved most ungrateful. Fairly jumped at me like a mad dog.
"He and his blasted old ship may go hang, for aught I care; and until we are safe off the thing I shall spend my energies in looking after our own welfare. And I rather fancy the first step to that end should be to go to our cabin and look over my revolvers. I am sorry now that we packed the larger guns and the ammunition with the stuff below."
They found their quarters in a bad state of disorder. Clothing from their open boxes and bags strewed the little apartment, and even their beds had been torn to pieces.
"Evidently someone was more anxious about our belongings than we," said Clayton. "By jove, I wonder what the bounder was after. Let's have a look around, Alice, and see what's missing."
A thorough search revealed the fact that nothing had been taken but Clayton's two revolvers and the small supply of ammunition he had saved out for them.
"Those are the very things I most wish they had left us," said Clayton, "and the fact that they wished for them and them alone is the most sinister circumstance of all that have transpired to endanger us since we set foot on this miserable hulk."
"What are we to do, John?" asked his wife. "I shall not urge you to go again to the captain for I cannot see you affronted further. Possibly our best chance for salvation lies in maintaining a neutral position.
"If the officers are able to prevent a mutiny, we have nothing to fear, while if the mutineers are victorious our one slim hope lies in not having attempted to thwart or antagonize them."
"Right you are, Alice. We'll keep in the middle of the road."
As they fell to in an effort to straighten up their cabin, Clayton and his wife simultaneously noticed the corner of a piece of paper protruding from beneath the door of their quarters. As Clayton stooped to reach for it he was amazed to see it move further into the room, and then he realized that it was being pushed inward by someone from without.
Quickly and silently he stepped toward the door, but, as he reached for the knob to throw it open, his wife's hand fell upon his wrist.
"No, John," she whispered. "They do not wish to be seen, and so we cannot afford to see them. Do not forget that we are keeping the middle of the road."
Clayton smiled and dropped his hand to his side. Thus they stood watching the little bit of white paper until it finally remained at rest upon the floor just inside the door.
Then Clayton stooped and picked it up. It was a bit of grimy, white paper roughly folded into a ragged square. Opening it they found a crude message printed in uncouth letters, with many evidences of an unaccustomed task.
Translated, it was a warning to the Claytons to refrain from reporting the loss of the revolvers, or from repeating what the old sailor had told them—to refrain on pain of death.
"I rather imagine we'll be good," said Clayton with a rueful smile. "About all we can do is to sit tight and wait for whatever may come."
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Post by GeorgeC » October 28th, 2004, 10:40 pm
"Chuck Amuck" is basically a companion video to Chuck Jones' first autobiography of the same name. (Jones wrote two autobios, "Chuck Amuck" and "Chuck Reducks." Only "Chuck Amuck" has been reprinted recently...)
I haven't reviewed the video ever, and last time I saw it on a shelf was for rental in Chicago five years ago. To my knowledge, "Chuck Amuck" has never been released on DVD.
There is another documentary about Chuck Jones that's been released on DVD, though. It's "Chuck Jones: Extremes & Inbetweens - A Life in Animation." I don't know if this DVD is still in-print, but it was released in late 2003 so there's a chance copies are still available at a cheap price. This documentary was originally shown on PBS before its DVD release.
The advantage of this documentary is that it's more up-to-date and has a number of Jones' cartoons that I don't think are available anywhere else on DVD at the moment.
I wouldn't count on finding the DVD in most stores, though. You probably have to special-order it or get it online.
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Post by Ben » October 29th, 2004, 1:47 pm
Extremes And Inbetweens is still an "active" title, so ordering shouldn't be a problem.
I reviewed it for DVD Toons:
http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/101
The only two added cartoons were Feed The Kitty and Duck Dodgers In The 24th-And-A-Half Century - both included on the first Looney Tunes box set, I believe.
Chuck Amuck was a 50 minute TV special that got a VHS release, as you say. It's not on DVD, but was rumored, as our story on the main page said, to be included in the new LT boxed set.
I'm just onto disc three for the DVD Toons review, and no Chuck Amuck I'm afraid...
LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLL Volume 2
Okay...it's finally here!
While the extras don't add up to the rareness and wow factor of last year's first volume, the cartoons included, among them some of the most requested and all-time great WB titles, could be an even better selection.
This is a definite MUST HAVE for classic animation enthusiasts, as well as anyone who bought Volume One.
And the word is still the same - don't go for the half cut 2-disc edition, it's the FOUR DISC GOLDEN set that you want, and "th-th-th-that's all, folks!"
The exhaustive DVD Toons review:
I never understood why WB Home Video was pushing the Premiere Collection releases in the first place.
I mean it's almost like somebody at WB wants to sabotage the Golden Collection releases.
Sure, there's the rationale that some parents don't want to spend $50-$60 on a cartoon collection but half the Looney Tunes discs available (the good ones, anyway) are only available with the Golden Collections!
(The question inevitably comes up that if the Golden Collection is "too expensive" for families, why not lower the MSRP? I don't know about anybody else, but I didn't have problems finding the Golden Collection for under $50. Both Target and Wal-Mart had the Golden sets on sale for under $45 last year.)
The word got out fairly quickly last year about the differences between the Premiere Collection and the Golden Collection. Most animation fans on various websites and at Amazon.com made pretty darn sure that anybody visiting those sites was educated about the differences between the sets and urged fans to buy the Golden Collections.
Post by Ben » October 30th, 2004, 9:14 am
...and they're not even keeping to type this go around.
Last year it was the Premiere Collection - this year it's The Spotlight Collection Volume 2.
I think that actually tells you all you need to know about WB's handling of the lower, cut-priced deal.
Simple: Go for Gold!
Problem with some Looney Tunes Golden Collection V2 sets...
Post by GeorgeC » November 3rd, 2004, 1:24 am
There's a problem with some copies of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 2 sets out there.
Apparently some sets shipped with a replication error on disc 1. Instead of having cartoons on it, disc 1 has the out-of-print Warners/Tim Burton film "Mars Attacks" on it.
This has been reported by more than one person at the Golden Age cartoons site.
Persons having defective discs are urged to contact Warner Home Video for replacement discs or to exchange defective sets wherever they bought them.
The problem is apparently originated at a replication plant Warner Bros. uses for its DVD.
In a year where there have been many problems in several DVD titles (3-4 glitchy anime titles a month) and several major disc set releases (Ren & Stimpy "Uncut," Tom & Jerry Vol. 1), I guess these mix-ups do happen in 3's!
Darn... Now I've gotta check my set to see if disc 1 is OK!
Post by Ben » November 3rd, 2004, 4:55 am
Thanks for pointing that out George.
Luckily, my review copy was a-okay! Phew!
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Post by Special_Ed » November 7th, 2004, 3:00 pm
But, will any of these wrong movie on the wrong disc be worth money decades from now? I mean if everyone returns them that makes them rare. And how neat would it be to have Prince of Egypt on a disc that says Pinocchio?
Looney Tunes GC V3 might have the BEST extras yet!
Post by GeorgeC » July 19th, 2005, 2:37 pm
Look at this list of extras that were originally posted at CartoonBrew.com a
and http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/looney-dvd3.html
•"Philbert" - a rare 1963 TV pilot (Theatrical version)
•Private Snafu in "Gas" •Private Snafu in "Rumors" •Private Snafu in "Spies"
•"Point Rationing of Foods" (a rarely seen wartime short released 2/25/43)
• "The Bear That Wasn't" (the 1967 MGM Cartoon by Chuck Jones, based on the book by Frank Tashlin)
• THE BUGS BUNNY SHOW - "The Honeymousers" (Production #1822 telecast 7/24/62)
• STORYBOARDS (includes deleted scenes):
1. "Falling Hare"
2. "Porky's Party"
• FROM THE VAULTS:
1. "Sinkin' in the Bathtub" (1930 - first Looney Tunes cartoon)
2. "It's Got Me Again" (1932 - the first Warner Bros. cartoon nominated for an Academy Award)
• New Documentaries on:
1. Frank Tashlin
2. Black & White cartoons
3. Restoration of cartoons
4. Pepe Le Pew
5. The Bugs-Elmer-Daffy Trilogy
6. Looney Tunes Go To War
7. Birds Annonymous tribute
It's incredible!
I don't care for "The Bear That Wasn't" (most of the 1960s Chuck Jones' work is weak excepting "The Grinch"), but the documentaries and ESPECIALLY the Private SNAFU shorts are appreciated!
I'd like just the SNAFU shorts alone! I'm not chucking my SNAFU DVD since it's likely WB will NEVER issue a DVD of just the SNAFU shorts alone, but the copies of SNAFU on the set ought to be 5-8 times better than the condition of the public domain/private collector copies on the old Bosko DVD!
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Post by Ben » August 11th, 2006, 9:12 am
I can't believe we didn't have a thread open for this, but I think we've discussed LTGC releases before.
As mentioned on the main page, the list of cartoons and extras is out. Here's what I thought on some of the supplements:
"Bugs Bunny, Superstar" Parts 1 and 2 (1976 documentary)
Dang! Time to retire my old LD, but a lot of this release is made up of older toons that I doubt are restored. Would have been better to present the documentary footage in one lump as a 20-30 minute program in itself. This is mainly Termite Terrace home movie footage narrated by Orson Welles with around 8 or so toons spread through.
"Fifty Years of Bugs Bunny in 3½ Minutes" (1989 short)
Yah! Just what I asked for, though where is the one-hour documentary that preceeded this in TV airings?
"Friz on Film" (A new one hour documentary)
Now THAT'S what I'm talking about, though I'm a little Friz'd out at the moment after ploughing through the Pink Panther toon set!
Nice selection though. Less on the rarities this time, but plenty of alternate audio streams and featurettes!
Post by GeorgeC » August 11th, 2006, 2:40 pm
I was wondering WHEN they were going to get around to re-releasing Bugs Bunny Superstar!
Great program. Definitely a worthy extra. Hope they keep ALL the shorts on the release uncut... There's an infamous blackface scene in one of the Bugs Bunny shorts in the documentary that's cut out of all the broadcast releases of that short.
Post by Ben » August 12th, 2006, 11:41 am
Is it in the LD? I'll do a comparison when it comes out.
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Post by eddievalient » August 12th, 2006, 12:44 pm
So far, I don't have any of the Golden Collections (someday though...) but I know for sure I'll be getting volume four just to get the Speedy Gonzales disc, cause he's my favorite LT character. I probably won't be getting it the day it comes out though be cause that's the same release date as Gummi Bears, Ducktales and Rescue Rangers and those are going to wipe me out. I love Looney Tunes, but for me Disney always comes first.
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Tournament Showcases Athens Disc Golf Course
by Marilyn Estes June 12, 2013
There’s a lot of plastic being thrown around Athens these days, and it’s not just credit cards. Disc golf, or Frisbee golf, is a casual sport that’s seriously growing in the Classic City.
Saturday, June 15, 72 recreational, amateur and professional players will descend on Sandy Creek Park when Athens hosts its first Professional Disc Golf Association tournament since 2009. The Sandy Creek Sling is presented by Terrapin Beer Co.
Athens has hosted a number of highly regarded tournaments that disc golfers worldwide still talk about. Saturday’s tournament is part of the Georgia Super Six Series, Georgia’s longest running and largest statewide disc golf series. It’s also an opportunity to play Sandy Creek that disc golfers have long looked forward to.
“I decided to have a tournament to give players in the local community the chance to participate in a PDGA tournament and as a platform to showcase Sandy Creek Park to area players,” says tournament director Ryan Adams.
Athenians are also using the tournament as a platform to showcase Athens to the players and their friends and families. As part of the title sponsorship, Terrapin, which has two baskets on its patio for employees to play disc golf, is inviting all the players to the brewery after the tournament for some classic Athens relaxation. Several other local businesses are sponsoring tees at the event, encouraging the players and their companions to make an Athens weekend of playing at Sandy Creek and enjoying all the restaurants, shops and activities when they’re not on the course.
And for some players, it’s about a little local rivalry.
“It’s nice to make the Atlanta players come to us for once and enjoy our great course at Sandy Creek Park,” says Jason Hartley, captain of the UGA disc golf team. He’ll play his 18th tournament on Saturday at Sandy Creek.
In previous years, disc golf in Athens was played primarily by UGA students and small groups in town. Now, more Athenians are hitting the courses, from casual play with family and friends to recreational nights at Sandy Creek Park to up-and-coming players making a showing at out-of-town tournaments.
“We continue to expand our disc selection,” says Michael Costello, regional marketing specialist of Academy Sports and Outdoors, which has sponsored every disc golf event at Sandy Creek this year. “I think in general we’ve seen an increased popularity in the sport, as it appeals to a wide audience.”
Disc golf is a variation of regular golf. It’s played on designated disc golf courses where the “holes” are above-ground baskets that catch discs thrown from as far as 400 feet away. The drivers, mid-rangers and putters are the discs themselves. Like ball golf, the goal is to hit the basket in as few strokes as possible.
Founded in California in the 1970s by the modern inventor of the Frisbee, “Steady” Ed Headrick, the sport of disc golf has grown worldwide. The PDGA, based outside of Augusta, has over 57,000 registered members from more than 20 countries. The ease of the sport combined with its affordability—a disc can be purchased for less than $10, and most courses are less than $3—has made it popular for all ages and walks of life.
“Remember Othello, the board game?” asks Doug Porter, one of the designers of the Sandy Creek course. “Their slogan was ‘a minute to learn, a lifetime to master.’ That’s disc golf.”
Fortunately, most Athenians find they don’t have to master disc golf to have fun with it. In March, members of the Athens Disc Golf Club—open to anyone who plays disc golf in Athens—launched a recreational doubles night. Casual disc golfers and people who want to learn how to play meet at Sandy Creek on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. for the opportunity to hang out with new people and enjoy an evening at the park. One mom showed up on the first night to secretly brush up on the sport so she could try to keep up with her son. Local artist Lauren Williamson, who’ll be making her tournament debut on Saturday, brings her dog Dylan, a favorite among the disc golfers, to the course to find her discs. One night, a foursome got to witness Jason Hartley throw an ace (a hole in one).
“Straight down the middle with a touch of fade right into the chains,” says Hartley. “I believe I said something like, ‘That’s an ace!’ halfway there or so.”
Hartley takes the sport more seriously than the recreational set, having played 37 courses in six states in just over three years. After Saturday’s tournament, he’ll travel to Charlotte to play the Charlotte Amateur Championships. He also joined four other Athens players at the PDGA’s Hall of Fame Classic last month outside of Augusta.
“School is my current priority, but disc golf is a close second,” Hartley says.
Fellow Athens disc golfer Bryan Huff took second place in the Amateur Advanced Men’s division at the Hall of Fame Classic, leading two of the four rounds in a field of 70 and missing first place by two strokes. Competing in the pro division at Saturday’s tournament, Huff’s the only Athens player invited to next week’s inaugural Georgia Team Invitational in Lula, playing as part of an Atlanta team that will battle Chattanooga, Birmingham and Huntsville teams. The Athens Disc Golf Club intends to increase the number of eligible quality players, so that a full Athens team will be invited to battle it out in the future.
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Re: Lord of the Rings Adulation [Re: -Diana-] #390979 03/11/08 05:04 PM
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Yes that is tragic. His father is awful and then to let him be burned too! the only saving grace for the father, was that he realized to late his folly and it cost him his life.
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Re: Lord of the Rings Adulation [Re: Eng Culture Nicola Jane] #391000 03/11/08 05:24 PM
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Well on the burned part - at that point the father realized his loss and was traumatized by it - he really did want to honor his son. So at that point the father was insane yes, but he had realized what he'd done to his son and was sorry about it.
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Re: Lord of the Rings Adulation [Re: Lisa LowCarb] #391012 03/11/08 05:33 PM
I have to say I disagree with that interpretation! Sorry
I really do think his father was so bitter over losing Boromir and so belived that Faramir should have taken his place, that he trys to make him take his place.
However I do think your interpretation is both nicer and kinder than mine!
"Consult the Book of Armaments!!"
OK that was Monty Python. But I of course have a copy of the full LOTR trilogy sitting right here on my desk.
In the book, Faramir comes back barely alive and his father is completely overwhelmed by his sorrow.
"During all this black day Faramir lay upon his bed in the chamber of the White Tower, wandering in a desperate fever; dying someone said, and soon 'dying' all men were saying upon the walls and in the streets. And by him his father sat, and said nothing, but watched, and gave no longer any heed to the defence."
Denethor is so upset by his only remaining son dying that he completely gives up on the town around him to sit by his son's side.
Pippin is there too. He is observing the pair. "And as he [Pippin] watched, it seemed to him that Denethor grew old before his eyes, as if something had snapped in his proud will, and his stern mind was overthrown. Grief maybe had wrought it, and remorse. He saw tears on that once tearless face, more unbearable than wrath."
Denethor most definitely has realized his mistake and is completely overwhelmed by what he has done. It is this knowledge that makes his mind snap.
oh Ok I repent! but the film does not make that very clear. I am glad that the book does, because it is a shame that a man would even concieve such an idea.
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I guess that's what happens when you're a steward for all those years -- insanity.
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Re: Lord of the Rings Adulation [Re: -Diana-] #391324 03/12/08 03:15 AM
Well really Denethor was slightly driven insane by having used the Palantir - which was being used by the Dark Lord - for quite a while, to protect his kingdom. So it wasn't being steward, which had been going on for a thousand years. It was specifically that he was trying to keep his kingdom safe - which was no mean feat in those times, with the awesome threat. He had to resort to palantir use to try to keep that safety going. Then he sends out his favorite son for a hope at safety. That son dies. The he is getting desperate and he sends out his only remaining son - and the son is pretty much slain. It is sitting by his only remaining son's deathbed that his mind finally snaps. Which I think is quite understandable, all being told. And to be honest it's not even just the thought that his only remaining son is dead. It is the realization that it is HIS (Denethor)'s fault that everything has gotten to this point, and that it was all for nothing - that Gondor is about to fall. He hears all around him that Gondor is collapsing. So that is why he deliberately says that it's better for he and Faramir to be burnt alive than to go through what is to come.
It's very powerful symbolism. To me it is like the Sept 11 people jumping from the towers. They would rather take control of their destiny and die on their own schedule than sit there and await an inevitable end.
Re: Lord of the Rings Adulation [Re: Lisa LowCarb] #391577 03/12/08 10:38 AM
I know, I was just being comical with the stewardship thing. Despite all the fears for Gondor, I would imagine that the death of your favorite son alone can make someone do something so drastic.
I thought the actor who played Denethor did an excellent job. I don't remember his name but I did see him in another movie once. Somehow though, the actors lose some of their appeal when they are not wearing the costumes of LOTR. For instance, the guy who played Theoden looks so much like an ordinary guy but when he is dressed as a king, he seems so magnificent. It is just part of the aura of a good movie.
yes I agree Diana, Denethor was played excellently.
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Avoid the Law No More: Trapster Dies with 2014
December 3, 2014 By Jillian Koskie 4 Comments
Trapster began as a resounding success in 2007, so much so that they were acquired by Nokia’s mapping division in 2010. Unfortunately for both companies, this was at a time when there were very few apps that offered granular traffic and police activity details (by way of crowd-sourced information)… now tech leaders like Google have acquired technologies and apps like Waze. Reality has caught up with Trapster: they have laid off their staff, pulled their apps from all stores, and announced that service will cease for existing users at the end of 2014.
It’s been a long time coming: downloads dwindled (especially) once the app was forced to remove its DUI checkpoint reporting feature in 2011, and then involved themselves this year in a security coup that showed users of the app could track the movements made by other drivers.
Other features of the app allowed users to get the inside track on red light and speed cameras, but it doesn’t appear that avoiding the law carried enough appeal in the end.
Word has it that Trapster creator and founder Pete Tenereillo hasn’t given up all hope that Nokia will revive his baby –but it seems very unlikely to happen.
Are you sorry to see an app of this type go –or do you feel like it was unethical to begin with, and extinction was long overdue?
Jillian Koskie
Jillian Koskie is an experienced software developer, content writer, project manager and usability design expert. With over 17 years in these roles, Jillian has enjoyed applying her skill-set to assist clients and users across a wide variety of sectors including: legal, health, and financial services. Combining these professional opportunities with a love of technology, Jillian is pleased to contribute articles, opinions, and advice to numerous news outlets, websites, and publications.
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Magic Square Legends Peach Girl Review! (G1 Arcee)
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Prime Effect 4 [Fanfiction]
By Apollo-XL5 · Posted 2 minutes ago
CHAPTER XIX Rip-Claw stood in the Achilles's ready room in front of a large holo-screen, which came to life and she found herself face to face with Galvatron. "I received your message, Lord Galvatron. How can I be of service to you?" she said in a loyal tone. "I have been meaning to contact you, Rip-Claw, but have found myself continuously delayed due to our preparations." the Predacon Lord replied, earning a curious expression from the Femme. "Preperations, my Lord?" "I will be leading an attack against Omega in a bid to wrestle control of the Syndicate's forces for our own use. I was hoping to be already in battle, but the time it takes to ready our fleet has increased." Galvatron replied with an irritated tone. "I see, if you need any of the troops from here on Omicron, then I will see to it that you get them." Rip-Claw said back, gaining a confused expression from Galvatron. "No, that will not be required. I will in fact be sending more ships to help protect our interests on that colony. I did leave a message with Ser-Ket..." he said as a worried expression, while the Femme gave him a curious look. "I have received no message from my Sister." she cut him, which made Galvatron's worried look to increase in tone. "I thought Ser-Ket would have at least informed you of that, but then again she did seem to be somewhat out of character when we spoke." "When was that, my Lord?" Rip-Claw asked, her curiosity spiking at her Master's words. "Two days ago, you were busy torturing your Autobot prisoners at the time. She seemed to be showing a lot of compassion towards our enemies, which I found to be worrying. Tell me, have you witnessed any similar behavior from your sister?" Galvatron asked, earning a thoughtful expression from the Femme as she looked away for a moment. "As a matter of fact, my Lord, I have noticed a sharp change in my Sister's actions. Especially towards our current and final Autobot prisoner, who I am ashamed to admit has managed to resist all my methods of extracting information from him." The Predacon leader gave a slight smile in return, as he could not help but feel a certain respect towards anyone who could show such determination. "I see, that is quite an achievement from one of our enemies. But tell me, what exactly has Ser-Ket been doing that has you concerned?" "I proposed to my sister that while I spend my time inflicting tremendous amounts of pain to our prisoner, she would then appear as a sympathetic face who would slowly gain his confidence and that I would hope, in time would spill any secrets he was holding. But over the last two days, she has become increasing protective of him and openly ridiculed my efforts to break him." the Femme responded with concerned tone that was tinged with a touch of anger. "Well in that case, I suggest you take a closer look at your sister and report back to me with what you find. Can you do that?" Galvatron replied, before the familiar voice of Six-shot was heard in the background, making the Predacon leader turn away. "My Lord, heavy cruiser wings Gamma, Epsilon and Theta are nearing their positions. We need your presence in the CIC." "I will be right there, Six-shot." Galvatron said back before returning his attention to the Femme. "You have your orders, Galvatron out." he said before the screen went black, leaving the Predacon alone in the room as she activated her holo-tool. "Computer, unlock security cameras for Brig zero-one and give me a report on their current status." "Cameras are still active and can be viewed by anyone with access." the synthesized voice spoke back, earning a smile from the Femme. "Very good, now show me what has been recorded over the last few days." PRIME EFFECT 4 Quickstrike made his way down the corridor as fast and stealthily as possible, which would have appeared to have been a contradiction in itself, had it not been for the fact that the corridors were all but empty at this point. 'Where is everyone?' he thought while continuing to move forward, because apart from the two guards he killed when he escaped his cell, the Autobot had yet to encounter anymore and this bothered him more than he liked. 'Am I being played here? Did Ser-Ket merely act like she was going to help and is really in league with her sister after all?' he thought as he turned a corner, suddenly finding himself just a few yards away from three Terracons. The enemies had their backs to the Bot and had not yet noticed him, so Quickstrike hid inside the doorway of another room and peeked out at the soldiers. 'Well, that's just perfect. I want to go that way, and they happen to he blocking me.' he thought as he watched them. But before he could dwell on that thought any more, the lights in the corridor began to deactivate and activate randomly, gaining the Terracons attention and earning a smile from the Bot. 'I guess that answers that question.' he thought. And so Quickstrike moved out of cover and rushed the enemies, killing one with a shot to the head. As that one fell to the ground, the other two turned round and faced the Escapee. "Get him!" one shouted while the other leapt at the Autobot, his sharp claws bared. But Quickstrke simply fired several shots into the torso of the Terracon, sending him flying into the wall. "You'll pay for that!" the last soldier shouted as he started to change right before Quickstrike's eyes. 'Not again.' the Bot thought, the sight evoking memories of the last time he saw this and what happened then. The Terracon now in its beast mode immediately swung its razor sharp claws at the Autobot who narrowly dodged it and then aimed his pistol at the enemy's head. But then with almost lightning quick reflexes, the Terracon knocked the gun out of Quickstrike's hand and then punched the bot in the stomach which immediately winded him as he fell to his hands and knees. "Puny Autobot." the Terracon said with a humorous tone as he stood over the Escapee and readied his claws for the death blow. Quickstrike though noticed what looked like a combat knife on the floor to his right. 'That must have fell from the utility belts of the other two.' the Bot thought as an idea came to mind. Suddenly the enemy swung his claws down at the bot who fell flat onto his stomach, allowing the claws to swipe past his back by a mere few inches, earning a surprised look from the Terracon. Quickstrike the rolled on his side to his right and grabbed the knife, as the Con then lunged at him again. "You little s..." he said before being cut off by the sharp painful feeling in his chest, so he looked down to see the combat knife embedded in his chest and Quickstrike looking up at him as he knelt there. The Bot simply stared up into the Terracon's eyes as they glazed over, a second later and he was dead so Quickstrike let the body fall to the ground before removing the combat knife from his chest. 'Since my holo-tool/blade isn't working yet, this will come in handy.' he thought as he cleaned the blade on his leg and then connected it to his utility belt. The Autobot got to his feet and carried on down the corridor for a long moment before something caught his eyes and he stopped again. He was now standing in front or a door that he recognised from Ser-Ket's map so he tapped the control panel on it's right side, opening the door and making Quickstrike smile as he looked inside. 'Now that will most definitely come in handy.' he thought before entering the room. PRIME EFFECT 4 'Well, it is done.' Ser-Ket thought as she deactivated the computer terminal at her station, for the Femme had just made the changes to the ship's security protocols that would hopefully give Quickstrike the chance he would need to get to the shuttle-bay. And she had made sure that if anyone were to come upon the said changes, that she would not be implicated. So the Femme walked past the Terracons, whose attention remained firmly on their own work as they worked away at their terminals. 'I hope Quickstrike has had no problems so far.' she thought as she left the CIC and began walking down the corridor. 'I have tried to ensure that all the patrols will be diverted away from him as he makes his way to the shuttle-bay.' she thought while walking past two Terracons, who suddenly stopped and looked back at the Femme. And as she carried on, unbeknownst to what was going on behind her. One of the two then tapped his com-link. "Commander Rip-Claw, we have Ser-Ket in our sights. What are your orders?" "Just follow her and don't let her spot you, understand?" an agitated voice replied, earning a nod from the Con. "Yes Commander." The two Terracons then began following an unknowing Ser-Ket. Meanwhile Rip-Claw was still in the ready room looking through recordings of both Ser-Ket and their Autobot prisoner, and she was getting more and more agitated at what she was seeing. 'So I have what looks like suspicious footage of my sister, but yet none of it has the audio to further confirm it.' she thought while watching the pair as they appeared to be talking. "What are you two talking about?" Rip-Claw asked aloud with a frustrated tone. But suddenly as if someone had heard her, a holo orb materialized beside her and hovered there. "May I be of service?" it spoke, surprising the Femme. "What? Who are you?" "I am your personal VI, Captain. May I be of help to you?" it replied, earning a curious look from Rip-Claw. 'Stupid machine thinks I am the Captain. Well, I guess it could be useful.' she thought. "I wish to know what is being said on these videos." "Of course, Captain. I will just run the speech recognition program. This will take only a moment." the VI replied before a new feature appeared on the holo-screen, one that looked like subtitles. "Now that's what I wanted, thank you." the Femme said before focusing her attention on the screen and read the dialogue that appeared on the screen below both her sister and the Autobot prisoner. "...but...Quickstrike." the Autobot said. "What?" Ser-Ket replied. "My name is Quickstrike." the Bot said back, making Rip-Claw's eyes widen at what she read. 'She lied! She lied to me. My own sister.' she thought as her spark started burn with anger, clenching one hand into a fist while raising her other to her com-link. "Tell me, where is my Sister now?" she asked. "Commander, Ser-Ket is currently..." one of the Terracons replied before being cut off by the almost deafening sound of the alarms as they began blaring out down the corridors. "What in the Allspark is that?" Rip-Claw shouted as she tried to hear her soldier's voice over the noise. "She is...wait?" the Terracon replied with a worried but alert tone all of a sudden, which did not go unnoticed by the Predacon. "What? Explain..." "Commander, we had her in our sights. But suddenly the emergency lighting activated and now... we've lost her." "Find her!" Rip-Claw screamed as her anger flared up. "Yes, Sir!" the Terracon replied with fear in his voice before the transmission ended and the Predacon was left to her own thoughts again, though now they were burning like never-ending fires in her mind, until one thought broke through and made her eyes widen. 'I know what she is trying to do. My Sister, my dear Sister. You will pay for betraying us….for betraying me.' PRIME EFFECT 4 Ser-Ket moved at a brisk pace down another one of the many identical corridors that made up the Achilles, while making her way towards the shuttle bay. 'I could of sworn those Terracons were following me.' she thought as she neared her destination, thinking back to several minutes earlier before her modifications to the security protocols took effect. 'But they couldn't have surely, since no one would have been able guess what I had planned.' Once at the door, the Femme pressed the buttons on the control panel on its left side which opened the door and allowed her access. Ser-ket then locked the door open with her holo-tool and ran over to the nearest shuttle, hoping to get it ready for Quickstrike when he arrived. But just as she opened the hatch and prepared to climb inside, another voice gained her attention. "Ser-Ket! Ser-Ket, there you are." The Femme looked back to see Quickstrike as he joined her side, and she noticed that he looked better then he did earlier, though the bruises were still visible. "How are you feeling?" she asked, earning a smile from the Bot. "I'm feeling alright. That shot you had me take certainly helped. Thanks for that." "You're welcome, now I just need to get the shuttle ready for you and then you are free to leave." the Femme replied as she climbed on board the shuttle, but when she looked back at the blonde man looking back at her through the hatch, she saw a concerned expression on his face. "You sure you don't want to come with me?" he asked in earnest. The Predacon looked back, clearly taken back by his question with an expression that was part appreciative and the other saddened. "We have been over this, Quickstrike. You know why I can't go." she answered in a similarly sad tone. "Neither of you will be going anywhere." a familiar Female voice called out, gaining the attention of both of them as they looked back at the shuttle-bay's entrance. There they saw Rip-Claw in the company of several Terracons, who all had their weapons trained on the pair. "I think you will find it impossible to activate that shuttle, Sister, since I have placed the entire ship on lock-down." the older sister said with real disdain in her voice before looking at the Bot. "And you..., Quickstrike. You will tell me everything and that will just be the beginning of further hell for you." she said, earning a knowing look from Ser-Ket as she realised that her sister somehow knew everything. "I'll die first." the Autobot said as he reached for his pistol but stopped as the Terracons stepped forward with their guns trained on him. "If you are thinking of a kamikaze attack, then I would think again about that, since my soldiers are such very good shots." Rip-Claw said back before looking at her sister with a real pained and angry expression. "Before I hand you to Lord Galvatron for what you have done, I just want to know...why? Why have you betrayed us, and for an Autobot of all things?" "I di..." Ser-Ket began to say before Quickstrike cut her off as he took a step ahead of her. "Ser-Ket doesn't have to explain her actions to the likes of you." The Femme was again taken back by the actions of this Autobot, who even though she had gone through all the effort to get him out of danger, had suddenly placed himself between her and that same danger. 'He knows what they would do to me if the extent of my thoughts and worries came out into the open.' she thought as she noticed that the Bot had his hand behind his back and it was holding a grey metallic cylinder. "Isn't that cu..." Rip-Claw started to say back before her eyes noticed that Quickstrike was hiding one of his hands, as the other one was hovering over his hoisted pistol. "What do you have behind your back? I demand you show me now or..." the older Predacon said back in a slightly panicked tone and she signaled the Terracons, who took another step toward the pair. "If you insist." Quickstrike replied with a lopsided grin as he revealed his other hand and the object currently in it's grip. Rip-Claw's eyes widened as she recognised it, as did the Terracons and even Ser-Ket. "A detonator!" the older sister stated, earning a nod from the Bot who then pressed his thumb down on the red button on it's top. Meanwhile lights activated in the room that Quickstrike had found earlier, revealing it to be an armoury and munitions locker that had a timer connected to several drums of explosives that suddenly lit up and began counting down from five seconds on the clock. The second it hit zero, the room exploded into a massive fireball that expanded out and down the corridors, incinerating any Terracons that were unfortunate to get in it's way. The explosion also breached the ship's hull as civilians looked out of the windows of their homes to see a funnel of black smoke rise up from the side of the cruiser as it sat next to the command tower of Omicron city. Back on board the Achilles, the fireball was almost upon the shuttle-bay despite it gradually dissipating. Rip-Claw looked back to see the fiery glow getting ever closer to them through the open door of the bay, as Quickstrike pulled Ser-Ket into his arms and shielded her from the incoming explosion. "Close the door!" she shouted at the Terracon closest to the door's controls, who panicked as he turned and began hitting all the buttons on it. "It's not working, the door won't..." he managed to say before the fireball burst through the open doorway, engulfing him while throwing all the other Terracons, Rip-Claw included to the floor. A moment later and as the emergency lighting flickered on and off, all the enemies in the shuttle-bay were subdued and dazed as Quickstrike held Ser-Ket in an embrace before pulling back slightly and looking the Femme in the eyes. "You okay?" he asked in a gentle tone, earning a nod from female who then looked past him and noticed three of the Terracons slowly getting to the feet while reaching for their rifles. "Quickstrike, behind you!" The Autobot suddenly spun round with his pistol and killed all three, sending them onto their backs with smoking bullet holes in their heads. Quickstrike then got to his feet and held his hand out to the Femme, who looked up at him with a curious expression. "Come with me, you can't stay here now." he then said which made Ser-Ket simply stare at the Bot's eyes, noticing how sincere he was looking while holding out his held to her. What felt like a long moment passed before the Femme then reached up and placed her hand into his, who gently yet firmly clasped his around hers and helped Ser-Ket to her feet. "Let's go." he said with a slight smile, one that for some reason made the Predacon feel better, despite the situation they were both in and she smiled back and nodded. "Okay." she replied as the pair moved for the charred doorway, when suddenly Quickstrike felt something grab at his ankle with a vice-like grip. "Aggh, what the fuck!" he exclaimed as both he and the Femme looked down to see Rip-Claw lying on her front, her arm outstretched and gripped around his leg. "Neither of you will get of..." the injured Predacon started to say before being cut off by Ser-Ket who kicked her sister in the face, knocking her unconscious and causing her to release the Autobot. Quickstrike looked back at his new ally with a surprised expression. "Ser-Ket, that was..." "She deserves worse, but we don't have time. The other Terracons will swarm this area soon enough, so we should go." The bot nodded in return before picking up two rifles and handing the Femme one, and then the pair stood either side of the doorway as they readied themselves to move. "Okay, is there another way off the ship? One that isn't held up by the lock-down." "Yes, there is. The escape pods. They are on a different system that is not impaired by the security protocols, and should be on deck above us." Ser-Ket replied. "Good, let's go then." Quickstrike replied as they both walked out of the shuttle-bay, leaving Rip-Claw and what remained of her team unconscious on the floor. Once in the corridor which at this moment was empty, Quickstrike looked down both sides before looking back at Ser-Ket with a confused expression. "Which way?" he asked, making the Femme point to their right. "That way should lead us to a Maintenance tube that will get us to the deck below, don't want to be using the elevators now." "Good call..." he replied with a smile, earning a mirroring look from the Predacon that nearly made him blush. "...Alright, you lead the way and I will guard our rear." he added as the both started down the corridor, but not before hearing the sounds of footfalls approaching quickly from the other side of the corridor, as shadows could be seen on the wall going round the corner. "We need to hurry." Ser-Ket replied, earning a nod from the Autobot as he followed her down the opposite side of the corridor. And after running down what felt like a never-ending corridor, the pair came across what looked barely like a hatch in the floor ahead of them. "There, that's our ticket off this floor." she said before kneeling down next to it and opening a hidden control panel next to it, meanwhile Quickstrike kept lookout down both sides of the corridor. "Any idea how long this will take? Because we are don't have any cover here." he asked, while the Femme punched in a few key commands into the panel's keypad. "This should only take a minute, just keep you eyes..." Ser-Ket replied before she stopped and sniffed the air, it was something that caught the Autobot completely off guard as the Femme's face went serious as she looked back at him. "They will be here in moments, I need you to cover me. Can you?" she asked in a serious, but in no way insulting tone. "Sure, just let me know when you're done." Quickstrike replied in a mirroring way, before the Predacon looked back to her work. "To your right." she suddenly said just a second before a Terracon stormed around the corner of the corridor on his right, making Quickstrike raise his rifle and shoot the enemy dead. Then another and another and another followed the first, all which fell to the ground with bullet holes in their chests. The Autobot then glanced down to see that Ser-Ket had finished with the control panel and had turned her attention to the hatch, which now had a hand hold on either side of it. "Want a hand with that?" he asked as the Femme grabbed hold of the hatch and began to pull, before he turned his eyes back towards right hand side of the corridor, just as more Terracons appeared. "I've got it." she replied over the sounds of gunfire, a smile was present on her face as she looked down at the hatch. 'How cute.' she thought as she gripped the hand holds and pulled, opening the hatch in one go. "Now!" she exclaimed as the Autobot gunned down the latest wave of Terracons on the right side, he then looked down at the now open hatch and the cute looking Predacon Femme kneeling down beside it. An impressed expression was evident on his face as he smiled at her. "Wow you're strong." he said with a hint of shyness to his voice. "I know...are you worried?" she replied with a mischievous tone, one that again made the bot's cheeks heat up. "No...not at all." he said while almost stammering, which made the Femme smile. 'Yes, he is very cute.' she thought before spotting three Terracons approaching them from the other side of the corridor behind Quickstrike. So she equipped her rifle and fired a burst of bullets past the bot and into the enemies, felling them instantly. "Let's move." "Ladies first." Quickstrike replied which made the Femme smile again as she climbed down into the Jeffries tube, quickly followed by the bot who then closed the hatch behind him. It didn't take them long to climb down the almost claustrophobic Jeffries tube, as Ser-Ket reached the hatch that led to the next deck below her. She looked up to see Quickstrike's backside just above her as the bot climbed down the ladder. 'Nice ass.' she thought before keying another combination into the keypad that was next to the hatch, causing it to unlock and open. The Femme the dropped out into the corridor and found that it was empty, despite the emergency lighting flickering on and off. "It's clear, but watch the drop...it's higher than it looks." she said as Quickstrike dropped out and landed next to her, a confident smile on his face. "I've got it." he replied casually before equipping his rifle, the Femme simply shook her head as she does the same. "The escape pods should be just down here." she said back as they moved down the corridor towards another T-junction. "Just past this left tur..." the Femme added as she turned the corner and was met by a fist to the face, which made her stumble back a little disoriented. The another punch flew towards her, but this time Quickstrike blocked it and punched back, hitting the face of the Terracon who had ambushed her. But as the Autobot went to take on this enemy, he the felt a foot slam into his back as another Terracon revealed itself. Both bot and Femme tried to recover as they were surrounded by the two Predacon soldiers, who looked at them with discontent. "You okay?" Quickstrike asked as Ser-Ket felt her jaw. "I'm fine." she replied before being cut off by the Terracons. "Silence, you are both under arrest. As say he orders of Commander Rip-Claw." one soldier replies before tapping his com-link. "We have them, Commander. Right where you said they would be." "Good, hold them there until I arrive." an angry female voice said back from the other side of the link. Both Ser-Ket and Quickstrike glanced at each other. "Want to see your sister again?" the bot asked, making the Femme shake her head in response. "Not particularly." "Then let's get out of here." he replied, earning angry stares from the Terracons. "You will not..." one started to say before both Cons were suddenly made to defend themselves as the pair of escapees lunged at them. Quickstrike threw a punch, which one enemy blocked but he had no chance with the round house kick that then connected with his face, which sent him back into the wall. Ser-Ket meanwhile kicked the other in the face, before spinning around and back kicking him in the chest which made him stumble backwards. The Autobot had caught a glimspe of the Femme's attack and could not help but be impressed as he grabbed a punch from his opponent and countered by elbowing him in the face. 'Most impressive.' he thought while still holding onto his Terracon's arm, twisted it behind the enemy's back and then roundhouses him in the chest. Little did he realise, or maybe he should have but Ser-Ket too had secretly glimpsed him too and liked what she had witnessed. 'I bet he would be good to spar with.' she thought as she too locked her opponent in an arm-lock, and then broke that arm by slamming down on her shoulder armour. This caused the Terracon to cry out in pain, but he was quickly silenced by Ser-Ket who elbowed him in the throat and followed it through with a back fist, which knocked the Con out and sent him to unconsciousness as his body fell to the floor in a heap. "I'm done, how's yours?" the Femme asked as she looked back to see the Autobot throw his opponent to the floor and then kick him in the face, earning the same result. "Me too." he replied with a smirk, earning a smile from the Predacon. "Good, it's right around this corner." she added while gesturing to the left, so the pair walked around the corner to see the large round metallic hatches sticking out of the wall. "I just have to prep for launch and deactivate it's tracking beacon, wouldn't want my sister to be able to follow us." "Good call." the Bot replied as he watched her using her holo-tool. After a moment the hatch opened and revealed the spherical interior of the escape pod, which was quite small but still large enough for two persons. "Get in..." Ser-Ket said before looking over Quickstrike's shoulder and spotting Rip-Claw further down the corridor. "...Now!" the femme added as she pushed Quickstrike, who did what she said and climbed into the pod before she did the same. Her sister charged toward their position with Terracons following close behind, her face was one of rage as she grippes her weapon. "Stop them!" she shouted as more Terracons approached from the other side of the same corridor. But by the time both groups arrived at the escape pod hatch, Ser-Ket had already closed and locked it. "Get this thing open now!" the Predacon spat as the troops around her hurried and tried to open it. Inside the pod, Ser-Ket took control with the holo-interface while Quickstike watched. "Don't worry, they can't get in." the Femme said after noticing that the bot had glanced back at the hatch after hearing the Terracons banging on the other side. "Alright, so where do we go? I guess we're not going into space now?" "No, this escape pod doesn't have the power or fuel to make orbit. So it will just get us away from here." she replied as she typed on the holo-keyboard. "In that case..." Quickstrike said back as he leaned over the Predacon, surprising her a little. "Get us. as close as you can to these coördinates." he continued as he typed the numbers into the destination matrix, as Ser-Ket watched him curiously. "Where's that lead?" she asked. "There should be a hidden escape shuttle in that area, it was for VIPs." he said back, earning a nod from her before she retook control of the user interface. "Okay sit back down then, because we are out of here." the Predacon replied before pressing the flashing ignition button to her left, which made the pod shake as the engines powered up and fired. The force of the engine pushed the pair back into their seats as the escape pod launched out of the Achilles's hull, soaring through the sky dusk sky and into the distance as it left the Omicron colony behind. Rip-Claw just stood there, looking at the open space in front of her that moments earlier housed the very escape pod that her sister and their Autobot prisoner had just escaped in and gritted her teeth as her anger was now on verge of exploding. But she tried to restrain herself as she tapped her com-link. "I want that pod tracked now!" she spat as the Terracons around her watched with worried expressions, unsure of how their Commander was going to act. "I apologise, Commander, but it appears the pod's tracker has been deactivated." another Con replied over the link, which made the Femme clench her free hand extremely tightly. "Then use the ship's sensors, get a lock on it." she replied, before wating another moment for the CIC to answer. "Again we are sorry, Commander. It seems the damage from the armoury on the deck above you has severed one of the primary power conduits. We have lost control of the sensors." And it was with this answer that Rip-Claw completely lost it, as she suddenly grabbed the neck of the nearest Terracon and snapped it, The Femme then turned on another and severally beat him as the others recoile in fear at the sheer brutality their Commander was showing. "Commander! Commander, are you there?" the CIC asked worriedly before the Femme stopped and stood over the Terracon that was now slumped against the wall, it was barely recognisable due to it's face being so badly beaten. Rip-Claw though did not even flinch as blood stained on the knuckles of both her hands. "Get it all repaired...do it now!" she then stated in a voice so angry that it sounded somewhat shaky. "Yes, Commander,...of course sir." the CIC replied in fearful voice as the Femme looked over at the Terracons standing away from her. "Take him to the Medi-Bay and leave me...Now!" she spat, gaining a universal nod from the Terracons who fearfully helped up their unconscious comrade and retreated away from the Predacon. Who simply stood there and looked down at her bloody hands in complete silence. PRIME EFFECT 4 Ser-Ket and Quickstrike walked through the dense foliage of what looked like a forest in the black of night, the only light they had to illuminate their path was from the torches that they had equipped to their utility belts. The pair had walked for almost an hour after their escape pod had crash landed a few kilometers behind them. Quickstrike had used his holo-tool, which was now fully active to give them the direction of the escape shuttle that he said should still be available to use. Ser-Ket though had noticed that the bot was now starting to look tired as he began to stumble through the greenery. "I think we should stop and rest, there is no way the Rip-Claw will find us, so we should be safe….at least for tonight." she said as she walked closely behind the Autobot who kept his eyes on both his holo-tool and the forest before them. "I'm okay, Ser-Ket, just a….little…. out of breath." he said before suddenly falling to his hands and knees. "Quickstrike!" the Femme shouted as she rushed to his side, the concern in voice evident as she placed her hand on his shoulder. Ser-Ket could feel Quickstrike physically shaking as he breathed heavily, his entire body was close to collapse. "I felt fine fifteen minutes ago, but now I feel like I like road-kill all of a sudden." the Bot replied as he looked at the Femme, he could see how concerned she was for him and that lifted his spark. "I guess that shot you gave me has lost it's effect." he added, earning a nod from Ser-Ket. "That would be my guess…" she replied as she looked down at his holo-tool screen. "Your map says we are still half a day's journey from your escape shuttle, we won't make it now. So I say we rest up and head off when it is lighter." the Femme added as she looked at the map again. "Your holo-tool is detecting a cave about one hundred feet away, let's go." Ser-Ket then helped Quickstrike to his feet and together they made their way through the forest until they came to a cliff-face and found the entrance to the cave, which was dark and not at all inviting. "This will do." Ser-Ket said as they walked out of the cool night air and into the rocky interior until they reached a dead end, which was evident by the natural rock-like wall that greeted them. So the Femme helped him to sit down and they removed their survival backpacks that they took from the escape pod. The fPredacon opened hers and took out a rolled up sleeping bag which she then laid out next to the Bot. "Okay, you should wrap yourself up and get some sleep." she said in a caring tone, Quickstrike nodded and then climbed into the sleeping bag. Once settled in, he looked up at the Femme with a curious look. "What about you?" "I will let you rest and take the first watch, you can take over for me once you feel up to it." Ser-Ket replied as she held her rifle and looked down at him. "So…sleep well and I will wake you in a couple of hours." "If there is any trouble…" the bot began to say back before the Predacon cut him off. "If there is, then you won't need me to wake you up. Now go to sleep." Quickstrike sighed as he nodded in return, silently surrendering to the Femme and he lied down on his side and closed his eyes. Ser-ket then turned away from the sleeping Bot and focused her attention on the cave entrance, as she leaned against the cave wall. 'Well here I am, on the run from my own people with a member of the very people who mine are now at war with. And yet….' she thought as she looked back at the now fast asleep Quickstrike, noticing how cute he looked as he slept. '…I feel more relaxed here, than I ever did with them.' She sighed as she looked back out of the cave as the breeze slowly increased, rustling the leaves of the trees outside and wondered what was next for the pair and if they were going to be able to escape the inevitable wrath of her Sister and the other Predacons.
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New-York, May 10th 1789.
If a white horse, which your Servant was on the day I travelled with you from Bladensburg to Baltimore, has recovered of his lameness, and you have no particular predilection for him, I should be glad, as he is so good a match for the one I had of Mr Prescott, if you would sell him to, or swap him with me.1
Mrs Washington, with a nephew of mine (Mr Lewis) will, I expect be in Bladensburg on the morning of the 13th, on their way to this place, when the matter may be effected, if agreeable to you—If it is by way of exchange, which would be more convenient to me than to pay the cash, it will be for the horse on which Mr Lewis will ride, and which will be either one of his own of which I know nothing, and therefore can say nothing—or one of my chariot horses now 7 years old this spring—spirited and good—but by an accidental stroke of his hind foot against the cock of his foreshoe (in a mud hole) a day or two before I left home, was rendered unfit for the journey and left—but now is, I am informed, quite well.
If it is for cash only you would part with your horse I must give what you shall think a horse of his age (which I was told was 10 or 11) is worth, and will pay your draught upon me at this place for the amount.
I feel the necessity of making an apology for offering to buy without knowing you were disposed to sell, and shall rely on your goodness for an excuse. I am Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant.
G. Washington
1. Campbell replied to GW’s request in a letter of 18 May which has not been found, agreeing to the sale of the horse and setting a price of 35 guineas. See GW to Campbell, 31 May 1789. The money was to be carried to Campbell by William Hunter of Alexandria, who was returning from New York. On 3 June Tobias Lear wrote to Clement Biddle, GW’s agent in Philadelphia, that the “President will thank you to put into the hands of Mr Wm Hunter Junr of Alexa. thirty five Guineas, for him to deliver to Mr John Campbell of Bladensbg (on his way to Alexa.) in payment for a Horse sent by Mr Campbell to the Presidt. The reason of giving you this trouble is because the Presdt desired me to inform Mr Campbell that he would receive the money by Mr Hunter: but Mr H. leaving this place before I had an opportunity of delg it to him, and understanding that he will be several days in Phila. the Presidt tho’t best to have the money deld to him there—There is a Balce due from Mr H. to the Presidt and perhaps he will be desirous of paying the 35 Gs to Mr Campbell without receiving them from you; but this would not be agreeable to the Presdt for he engaged to send the money by Mr Hunter. You will please to let the Guineas be sealed & directed to Mr Jno. Campbell” (ViMtvL).
“From George Washington to John Campbell, 10 May 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-02-02-0186. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 2, 1 April 1789 – 15 June 1789, ed. Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987, pp. 256–257.]
From Washington to Campbell [23 March 1757]
All correspondence between Washington and Campbell
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Community Government Submits Response to Rubashkin Filing
Government Submits Response to Rubashkin Filing
By David Stern
Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 8:36 pm | י"א אייר תשע"ו
NEW YORK -
Sholom Rubashkin reads through evidence during his trial. (AP Photo/Andrea Melendez, Pool)
A day before the court-ordered deadline, the government filed a lengthy and sharply worded response on Thursday to the merits brief submitted in March by attorneys for Sholom Rubashkin. In that legal filing, Rubashkin asked for a new sentencing hearing in light of startling revelations.
In the 112-page filing, the government repeatedly insists that Rubashkin’s request for a new sentence should be denied, as should his requests for discovery or an evidentiary hearing.
A legal observer who has followed the Rubashkin case for many years but is not affiliated with his defense team, told Hamodia that, “I have seen my share of strongly worded legal briefs over the years, but this is unusual. They are clearly very much on the defensive.”
In their merits brief, the Rubashkin legal team, headed by Gary Apfel, an attorney in Los Angeles, and Stephen Locher, an attorney in Des Moines, Iowa, submitted what it described in the court papers as overwhelming evidence that the prosecutors wrongfully interfered in the Agriprocessors bankruptcy proceedings, intimidating potential buyers and thereby substantially decreasing the ultimate sale price. In addition, they charged that, at Rubashkin’s sentencing, the prosecutors knowingly presented false testimony to conceal the impact their actions had on the loss incurred by the victim bank – thereby misleading the judge into laying the blame on Rubashkin and sentencing him to 27 years in prison.
This evidence included detailed notes from a meeting between prosecutors and the bankruptcy trustee, in which prosecutors imposed precisely the restrictions they later denied to the court as having imposed, a powerful affidavit from Trustee Sarachek supporting Rubashkin’s position, as well as a long list of other supporting affidavits.
“What is telling about the government’s response isn’t as much what they say, but what they don’t say,” says the legal observer, who read the entire brief and spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case. “The government doesn’t even address the Sarachek affidavit, or many of the other new pieces of evidence. Nor do they really respond to the crux of the argument made by Rubashkin’s lawyers. ”
In their response, the government alleges that Mr. Rubashkin “shamelessly omits dispositive facts – and furtively relies upon documentary evidence without telling the Court the government disclosed the evidence … in advance of sentencing.”
“This is a typical example of the pot calling the kettle black,” says the legal observer. “The government is in fact closing its eyes, refusing to even acknowledge the reams of new evidence that the defense was able to obtain on its own – that should have been provided by the government – and then accusing the Rubashkin lawyers of omitting evidence. In reality, what they refer to as ‘dispositive facts’ don’t even directly relate to the arguments made in the merits brief.”
The government response came amid an outpouring of support for Rubashkin from across the legal spectrum. More than one hundred leading American legal experts signed a letter calling on the U.S. Attorney of the Northern District of Iowa to “act to address new troubling evidence of prosecutorial misconduct that has emerged in connection with the prosecution and sentencing of Sholom Rubashkin.”
Rubashkin now has thirty days to respond to the government’s brief. His attorneys declined to comment on the case.
This article appeared in print on page 1 of the May 20th, 2016 edition of Hamodia.
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Regional NY Mail-In Voting Deluge Fuels Uncounted Ballots, Confusion
NY Mail-In Voting Deluge Fuels Uncounted Ballots, Confusion
Monday, July 27, 2020 at 5:45 am | ו' אב תש"פ
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -
Stickers reading “I Voted” rest on a voting machine set up inside a polling station for New York’s primary election at Yonkers Middle/High School, June 23, in Yonkers, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
New York’s quest to keep voters safe from COVID-19 by letting them vote by mail in the June primary has led to big delays in tabulating results, concerns about disenfranchisement — and questions about whether there will be an even bigger mess in the fall.
Election officials say it will take them until early August to finish counting a tidal wave of absentee ballots that overwhelmed a system which typically handles only around 5% of the vote. About 1.8 million New Yorkers requested mail-in ballots for New York’s primary.
Voting ended June 23, but the results of many races, including two closely watched congressional primaries, are still unknown.
A bigger problem than the delays, though, is that thousands of votes cast in good faith are getting invalidated during the counting process, candidates and good-government activists say.
Some ballots are being knocked out because voters forgot to sign and date them; others because envelopes lacked postmarks that would indicate whether the ballot was dropped in the mail in time to beat the voting deadline.
President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Kayleigh Mcenany, in a press conference this week lambasted New York’s vote counting as an “absolute catastrophe” and a reason to question voting by mail.
Candidates and voting rights groups, including the Brennan Center for Justice, are pushing state lawmakers to fix procedural problems now so the issues don’t repeat themselves in the general election in November, when even more people may try voting by mail.
New York City elections officials have refused to release statistics on the number of invalidated votes. But Suraj Patel, a Democrat locked in a close primary race with U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, said 30% of mail-in ballots received in the Brooklyn part of the congressional district were being rejected.
“This election and New York’s response, including the Senate and the Assembly, is providing Donald Trump with a blueprint to game the November elections unless they act,” Patel said.
The plan to let voters cast ballots by mail was hatched hastily and announced in April as the coronavirus outbreak was killing hundreds of people a day in New York City and its suburbs.
In the midst of the crisis, the state never provided extra funds to prepare election workers who would be handling mailed ballots or to hire extra staff to count them.
Many voters who applied for absentee ballots didn’t get them until the last minute, leaving them wondering whether they should vote in person or try the mail and potentially miss a deadline to have the envelope postmarked by June 23.
Compounding that problem, the state’s attempt to make things easier for voters by giving them postage-paid return envelopes backfired: The U.S. Postal Service doesn’t usually put postmarks on that kind of metered mail, and while its policy is to add the postmark to mailed ballots, it admits it failed to do so on some envelopes.
Candidates and activists are now claiming in a lawsuit that thousands of properly cast ballots mailed in on time were invalidated because they lacked postmarks.
The state Board of Elections said it’s too early to know how many ballots didn’t make it out to people in time, or were discarded because the Postal Service failed to postmark them.
“It’s very unfortunate that the Postal Service was unable to fully carry out what they have acknowledged was their responsibility in postmarking the mail,” said state board of elections spokesman John Conklin.
A spokesperson for the Postal Service said it is addressing the issue.
Five states — Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington and Utah — have conducted all elections by mail for years with relatively streamlined systems, while 21 other states allow localities to opt into mail-in elections, according to National Conferences of State Legislatures.
Common Cause New York Executive Director Susan Lerner called it “unacceptable and unfortunate” that so many absentee ballots are being disqualified.
“Right now an absentee ballot can be discarded if a cautious voter puts tape on their envelope to make sure the ballot doesn’t fall out,” she said.
Her group wants lawmakers to allow voters to request absentee ballots earlier and allow election workers to start counting absentee ballots sooner after Election Day.
Lawmakers could revamp a system widely viewed as outdated. By Thursday evening, the state Senate passed bills to accept absentee ballots received by June 24, ensure voters fearful of catching COVID-19 at polls can vote by mail in November, and give absentee voters a chance to fix deficient ballots.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has voiced support for lawmakers tweaking the state law that lays out the time period when absentee ballots can be accepted.
But it’s unclear whether New York will allow election workers to count all ballots lacking a postmark, including those received days after Election Day. Patel, Maloney and other candidates have called for Cuomo to update his executive order to protect June 23 primary voters from disenfranchisement.
And lawmakers plan to hold a hearing in August on how election workers have handled the spike in absentee ballots.
“We’re studying the issue from a system-wide point of view. And any changes we can make, we will,” Cuomo said.
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What Gender Pay Gaps Look Like Worldwide
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• Our World In Data crunches the numbers behind gender pay gaps across the globe, finding that — even though those gaps have shrunk over time — there is still a wide chasm of economic inequality.
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In this entry we present data and research on economic inequalities between men and women. Here is an overview of some of the points we cover below:
All over the world men tend to earn more than women.
Women are often underrepresented in senior positions within firms, while at the same time they tend to be overrepresented in low-paying jobs.
In many countries men are more likely to own land and control productive assets than women.
Women often have limited influence over important household decisions, including how their own personal earned income is spent.
Differences in pay capture differences along many possible dimensions, including worker education, experience and occupation. When the pay gap is calculated by comparing all male workers to all female workers – irrespective of differences along these additional dimensions – the result is the ‘raw’ or ‘unadjusted’ pay gap.
Cross-country data on the unadjusted gender pay gap is patchy, but the most complete source in terms of coverage is the United Nation’s International Labour Organization (ILO). The following visualization presents this data. You can add observations by clicking on the option ‘add country’ at the bottom of the chart.
The estimates shown below correspond to differences between average hourly earnings of men and women (expressed as a percentage of average hourly earnings of men), and cover all workers irrespective of whether they work full time or part time.
As we can see: (i) in most countries the gap is positive; and (ii) there are large differences in the size of this gap across countries.
Read the full article about what gender pay gaps look like worldwide at Our World in Data.
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The Haribon Foundation
Haribon Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources, Inc. is a membership organization committed to nature conservation through community empowerment and scientific excellence.
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About The Haribon Foundation
A Haribon member introducing children to the Philippine Eagles living near their home. In General Nakar, Quezon Province.
Haribon transforms every individual into a biodiversity champion.
Haribon advocates biodiversity conservation through building constituencies, empowering communities and applying multi-disciplinary research.
What is Haribon?
The name Haribon was coined from Haring Ibon or the Philippine Eagle. It was so named because the existence of the king of birds is a perfect barometer of the state of our forests.
Haribon is the Philippines pioneer environmental organization. Haribon practically gave birth to the Philippine environmental movement. Hatched in 1972, the organization, and the individuals it trained and nurtured were instrumental in the formation of other environmental organizations in the country.
The niche of Haribon – developed over 40 years of scientific excellence and socio-economic research – is biodiversity conservation. The Foundation’s natural and social scientists continue to work with people from all levels of governance to develop sustainable resource management strategies.
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City of Norcross to Host Italian Car Day on Saturday, October 14
Family-friendly automotive exhibition to include marque awards, raffle and silent auctions, dealer new car demos and more
Norcross — Celebrating the 21st year of Italian automotive style, the upcoming Italian Car Day in downtown Norcross is an exhibition of the finest, exotic Italian cars and motorcycles!
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The event, held on Saturday, October 14 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. in Lillian Webb Park, includes a car show with marque awards, a raffle and silent auction, Italian new car dealer demos and vendor merchandise on display. This year, the event will welcome the wonderful and innovative French cars for the first time!
Italian Car Day, held on Saturday, October 14 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. in Lillian Webb Park, includes a car show with marque awards, a raffle and silent auction, Italian new car dealer demos and vendor merchandise on display.Catch a glimpse of Italian cars such as the Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Fiat, Lamborghini, Lancia, Maserati, DeTomaso Pantera and more. Along with owner-judged balloting, the car show will has also added new "People's Choice" awards. Spectators can participate in voting for "Best Modified", "Car I Would Most Like to Drive Home", "Best Original Unrestored Car" and Kid's Choice "Hottest" award. Event patrons are also invited to enjoy all the amenities of downtown Norcross including its dinning merchants.
"We look forward to hosting Italian Car Day in downtown Norcross," said City of Norcross Mayor Bucky Johnson. "We invite car enthusiasts and families alike to come out and enjoy seeing all of the exciting Italian cars along with all that historic downtown has to offer."
The Italian Car Day is free to attend and visitor parking will be available in area parking lots and designated streets. Visitors are invited to enjoy lunch at all downtown historic Norcross restaurants. For more information, visit www.aplacetoimagine.com.
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AAC 17
AAC 17 BLACK POWDER COATED STEEL SIERRA SI1001
With its clean, curved lines and slim, symmetrical legs, About A Chair AAC 17 retains the same minimalistic qualities as the rest of the family. Designed with functionality and versatility in mind, the four legs are positioned under the seat at a rounded angle to frame the upright, organic shell for optimal comfort and stackability. The legs are available in chrome and powder coated finishes, while the shell comes in diverse colour and upholstery options, allowing a multitude of design combinations that make this series so flexible.
Size: W58 X D50 X H78
Frame: STEEL POWDER COATED BLACK
Shell: POLYPROPYLENE
Upholstery: SIERRA SI1001
Glider: STANDARD GLIDER
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AAC 17 CHROMED STEEL - STEELCUT 190
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AAC 17 WHITE POWDER COATED STEEL - HALLINGDAL 116
AAC 17 BLACK POWDER COATED STEEL - STEELCUT 190
AAC 17 BLACK POWDER COATED STEEL - REMIX 133
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AAC 17 / Designer
Hee Welling is a Danish furniture designer who founded his own studio in Copenhagen in 2003. Welling has received a number of design awards, including the Bo Bedre Award (Denmark), Good Design Award (USA) and has been nominated as the Danish designer of the year in both 2013 and 2014. Welling is the son of a cabinetmaker, and his fascination with production techniques, materials and machinery was fired as a child. He went on to study at The University of Art and Design in Helsinki, and received his master’s degree in furniture design from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (where he is also now a design tutor). His design ethos is centred around the idea of creating technically accomplished products that can reach a wide audience. His work is characterised by a great sense of proportion and quietly elegant looks. For HAY, Welling has designed the About A series and the Hee Chair, Lounge Chair and Bar Stool.
AAC 17 / INSPIRATION
CPH 25 ROUND
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CONTOUR PLACE MAT
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London Bridge Hospital
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We are a partnership of leading consultants specialising in Orthopaedics and Sports Injuries. Each consultant subspecialises in knee, hip, spine, shoulder, hand, wrist, foot, ankle, pain management, rheumatology and sports injuries. Located within 31 Old Broad Street our patients have immediate access to state-of-the-art imaging; with rapid assessment, investigation, diagnostics and treatment. If surgery is required we operate at London Bridge Hospital giving patients renowned orthopaedic care in the very best possible facilities.
A ‘Centre of Excellence’
London Sports Orthopaedics has achieved designated ‘Centre of Excellence’ status for meniscal transplantation by Hospital Innovations and a Vivostat ‘Centre of Excellence’ for the use of biological glues in knee surgery.
We are a Surgical Visitation Centre for Conformis, training other surgeons from around the UK in the specialist techniques for implanting custom-made knees.
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Diagnosing and treating patients with multiple and complex conditions, where a subspecialised team approach is key to success.
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Offering patients cutting-edge treatments, which have been pioneered by our experts and that aren’t readily available elsewhere.
Achieving exceptional treatment outcomes for patients, including shorter recovery times, with less pain and better return-to-play to their favourite sport.
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Our clinical care is supported by our Research & Outcomes Centre, which enables us to offer patients unrivalled pre & post-operative functional assessments, using state-of-the-art testing equipment. This enables us to provide patients with a tailored programme of post-operative physiotherapy rehab, and allows us to measure each patient’s speed of recovery. It also ensures that patients only return to sport once they are actually ready and safe, reducing the risk of repeat injuries.
Sports Orthopaedics Research Foundation
In addition to our clinical care, we have a Research Foundation, which aims to push the boundaries of surgical excellence and to educate future musculoskeletal specialists through the training, education, audit and research.
The Sports Orthopaedics Research Foundation is an independent charity established in 2010 and registered with the Charities Commission, and it is strongly supported by the specialist consultants from the London Sports Orthopaedics practice.
Our consultants are renowned for being leaders in their field and pioneering innovative new treatments – many of whom hold academic and clinical positions in some of the UK’s leading teaching hospitals. Some of our latest treatments include:
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Custom-made knee replacements
Meniscal repair and meniscal transplantation
ACL reconstruction, including the use of allografts and biological augmentation
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Meet the London Sports Orthopaedics team
Mr Ian McDermott,Consultant Knee Surgeon
Mr Henry D.E. Atkinson, Consultant Lower Limb Surgeon
Mr A Mark Phillips, Consultant Hand and Wrist Surgeon
Miss Verona Beckles, Consultant Upper Limb & Trauma Surgeon
Mr Daoud Makki, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Mr Suresh Chandrashekar, Consultant Foot & Ankle Surgeon
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Dr Simon Paul, Consultant Rheumatologist
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“I had lots of medical assessments without a firm diagnosis. Coming to London Sports Orthopaedics and finally getting a definitive diagnosis and treatment plan was such a huge relief. The level of care and support I received along the way was excellent – my colleagues at work know exactly where to go should they have a sports injury themselves now!”
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Sial: Heatwave’s most anticipated band of Static Shock Weekend 2019
By linseymcfadden in Uncategorized on February 13, 2019 February 13, 2019
After much delay, it’s finally that time of year again – Static Shock weekend. With the four-day long multi-venue festival fast approaching, we’re looking at this year’s lineup in anticipation of what’s to come. One of the band’s we’re most looking forward to seeing this year is Sial.
Sial, a hardcore punk band from Singapore, sings in the indigenous language of the indigenous minority, Bahasa Melayu (Malay), issuing an inherent act of defiance to their highly capitalist colonial society.
While Singapore has multiple official languages, with Malay being one of them, English remains most prominent, making Sial’s name, language and the very essence of their sound saturated in pure rebellion.
Singapore was colonized around 1819 and remained as such until 1963, not becoming an independent republic until 1965, of course the history of their colonial society is much more complex than that, but as someone that is neither Singaporean or an expert in Singapore’s history, I’ll leave the telling of it to the Singaporean people.
There have been a slew of bands in the west over the last several years to take heavy influences from Japanese d-beat bands. Like them, Sial has taken obvious notes from bands like Disclose and Gauze, in addition to the typical UK/US influences we see in modern hardcore.
However, Sial seems to have created their own original sound, instead of relying exclusively on their influences to create their brand. They perform with an intense ferocity – This is fast-paced, high-energy raw punk to its core.
To outsiders like us, Singapore is known for its fancy hotels and resorts and property-buying billionaires – a group that even we Londoners look at with extreme ire, as we look around and see the empty centrally located real estate that’s further driving up the cost of living for those of us struggling to survive.
Our esteemed head honcho often goes to Singapore for work, where she typically lives off of rice and goes on epic adventures in search of beer, due to the extremely high cost of goods in the country.
While we obviously can’t fully understand what Singapore’s indigenous population has gone through, especially considering the British were their primary colonisers, those of us struggling to get by can certainly empathise and encourage bands like Sial to carry on in their statement of protest.
While Static Shock Weekend tickets are already completely sold out, this isn’t a band you want to miss. I highly suggest posting yourself up on the event page and lurking for someone selling a Saturday evening ticket. If you can’t scrounge yourself up a ticket, you can check out their Self-Titled LP, or better yet, pick up a copy for yourself from London’s La Vida es un Mus Discos.
For those of you that have already scored tickets, Heatwave’s editorial squad will definitely see you there!
-Linsey McFadden
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Roads Become Rivers: Nearly 4 Million Chinese Evacuated Or Displaced From Flooding
An aerial photo shows the extent of flooding in Guzhen Town of Lu’an City in eastern China’s Anhui province on July 20. Tang Yang/Xinhua via AP hide caption
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First China was hit by the novel coronavirus. Now it is dealing with the worst flooding in more than 20 years across vast swaths, from its southwestern interior to its east coast.
Zeng Hailin is one of an estimated 3.7 million people displaced or evacuated because of floods in China largely since June.
He lost his job in a uniform factory in Zhejiang province because of the coronavirus pandemic, so he returned to his hometown a few hours away, in Anhui province. His troubles didn’t end there. In July, weeks of torrential rain led the small river near his house to overflow.
One night, he woke up in a panic.
“The water was suddenly up to my chest,” he remembers. “I could not lift my mother out of bed. I could barely walk because the ground turned to slippery mud.”
Zeng Hailin stands in front of his dilapidated home. During flash flooding in his Anhui village last month, he evacuated his 80-year-old mother by floating her out in a plastic washbasin. Emily Feng/NPR hide caption
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Zeng eventually put his bedridden 81-year-old mother in a large plastic wash basin to float her to a rescue boat.
He now lives in a classroom in the local public school while waiting for new housing. His mother is staying with other relatives.
The Ministry of Emergency Management estimates that nearly 55 million people from 27 provinces have suffered from record-setting floods. More than 40,000 houses collapsed; at least 158 people are dead or missing.
The country’s Water Resources Ministry says at the worst point in mid-July, 433 rivers rose to dangerous levels. Some broke through dams or overflowed their banks, flooding nearby villages like Hekou in Anhui province.
Tang, a life-long resident of Hekou village, said flooding that reached above her ankles only started occurring in the last decade. Amy Cheng/NPR hide caption
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“The road in front of our house became a river. We were stuck in our house for days with only some bread, water and instant noodles,” said Tang Anfeng, a resident of Hekou village just outside the city of Hefei.
Like almost all the others in her village, Tang’s home is now surrounded by submerged fields and damp furniture, a layer of scummy water covering her lost vegetable harvests.
She points to a dark swath of mildew growing on her wall that nearly reaches the ceiling — a reminder of how high the water rose on three separate occasions in July.
Tang, in her 60s, says this part of Anhui has seasonal flooding every year, but only in the last decade has the water risen above her ankles. “Whenever it rains too much, they release the water from the dams. But the water floods our village and we suffer,” she says.
Tang Anfeng, a Hekou native, explains how the local government releases excessive rainwater behind dams to relieve pressure. “The water floods our village, and we suffer,” she said. Amy Cheng/NPR hide caption
In 1958, authorities began building the first of nine dams and diversion barriers near Hekou to regulate seasonal flooding by collecting runoff into reservoirs. Today, the dams provide hydropower and drinking water to nearby cities as well. But during extreme rains, authorities are forced to suddenly release the water.
“There’s a decision of basically not how much the rivers will flood, but where the rivers will flood,” says Brian Eyler, who studies China’s river management at the Stimson Center, a think tank.
China as well as other countries with significant waterways, including the United States, will face greater flood risks and engineers will increasingly have to make a calculus about where to release water or risk a dam collapse.
Chao Lake, one of the largest freshwater lakes in the country, sits squarely in Hefei, the capital city of Anhui province. Brigades of local workers and volunteers fortified the rim of the lake with sand bags last month and put up warning signs on the perimeter because of this season’s dangerously high water levels. Amy Cheng/NPR hide caption
“Climate change predictions all around suggest that storms are going to be more intense into the coming years,” says Eyler. “We are living in places where the rivers have been engineered to allow us to live there. But the engineering is not able to cope with nature, and so nature is getting the best of us.”
Heavier seasonal rain is also causing a rethink of water management policies in China’s water-adjacent cities, some of which also flooded this summer because of record rainfall. Experts like Yu Kongjian, a prominent landscape architect and professor at Peking University, say an overreliance on “gray infrastructure,” or nonabsorbent materials like concrete and man-made systems like sewage pipes, to rapidly urbanize fails to be resilient when confronted with floods.
In 2014, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development released national guidance for cities to maximize natural drainage techniques, including constructing rooftop gardens and using permeable building materials — a project nicknamed building “sponge cities.” The country wants to bring 20% of land in 658 cities up to “sponge city” drainage standards by the end of this year, at an estimated annual cost of 400 billion yuan ($57.5 billion).
Hekou villagers enjoying a moment of reprieve from farm work right before a thunderstorm. Amy Cheng/NPR hide caption
“The whole idea of ‘sponge city’ is to retain water, clean water, and recharge the aquifers. It’s about using nature to regulate water and treat stormwater as resources instead of dumping it into the ocean,” Yu said. “It’s not just a way to deal with floods, but a holistic idea of how to create an ecological infrastructure so that water will be the main factor.”
The initiative is still in its early stages. Nineteen of the 30 pilot sponge cities still reported overwhelmed sewers and canals in 2017. “People who don’t work in urban planning or hydrology may have the wrong perception of the sponge city project. They may think sponge cities are a Superman [solution] that could deal with everything,” says Faith Chan, an urban planning expert.
Still, Yu remains an optimist. “It will take time, but ‘sponge city’ is the main way that any levels of government [in China] should try as an alternative to the gray infrastructure.”
Heavier rainfall means a precarious existence for the 450 million Chinese residents who live along the mighty Yangtze River or its many tributaries.
Those living downstream in Anhui, mostly in sparse, rural communities, know this hard truth: “If the dams don’t release water and flood us, even more people will be doomed,” explains Li Huanian, a resident of Hekou village.
Farmer Ma Youxi herds his water buffaloes into the water. During the flooding last month, Ma says the dry land on which he stood was completely submerged. Emily Feng/NPR hide caption
Farmer Ma Youxi recounts the sudden flood in July that enveloped his home in Hekou village as he takes his water buffaloes out for a swim. “We only know when the dams release water when the water enters our homes. There is no heads up,” he complains.
Ma barely rescued his sheep. He points to his herd of water buffalo — luckily, they float naturally.
Amy Cheng contributed research from Anhui.
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Popular sites like Mangatraders and other websites alike form a large community of readers online who can read through their favorite manga scans and scalations for free on websites like Manga Fox, Manga Volume, etc. It is a kind of public community resource to explore, enjoy, and review hundreds of high-quality free manga on the web. It is like a treasure hunt for manga lovers and obsessed fans. You can find like these many other popular sites, just like Mangatraders, that will provide you with the same services.
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All the scanlators or raw providers can share their work on this platform and contribute their releases to the release forums. The goal of this website is to provide a fun and fair community where everyone can freely express their opinions on the manga releases and push them to make their community more massive and more robust. The plan is to make these user groups very active by making available to them direct download links of full volumes and the latest chapters.
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This is yet another community-oriented site just like Mangatraders, based on forums and is, to date, the most popular and successful scalation listing and download cum community site. It has always been the first place for the audience to search for the latest raw, translations, and scalations of popular Shounen jump mangas like Bleach, Naruto, and one piece. It had become one of the most searched places for weekly mangas by 2007, and so due to its gradually expanding customer base, the site had to go for a complete commercial re-launch on a forum software vBulletin.
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If you want to access and read manga online for free, this website, just like Mangatraders, can be the perfect spot for it. You can watch the entire latest anime series for free, and the layout and website design are quite impressive.
You will find no difficulty in searching for your favorite series because they are all well organized and categorized according to all sorts of filters like old, new, famous, or non-popular. It is a community forum where you are free to share your opinions and reviews about your favorite or hated manga novels and series without much community restrictions.
MangaReader
This is the best place for fans to download and read free manga online and find all the latest releases. Do you know what the best thing about this website is? You do not even need to sign in or register for free access! Even here, the manga comics are sorted and classified into different genres, for instance, romance, horror, drama, science fiction, crimes, adventure, and a lot more.
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Another great substitute for Mangatraders is this website, where you will never fall short of the grand collection of manga series that are also available in different genres like school life, action, fantasy, science fiction, and a lot more. Do you know what the unique thing about this website is?
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Even here, you will find a lot of different genres like crime, comedy, action, etc. and you can easily create a free account to track your favorite themes and bookmark your favorite comics. The site is easy to use, and you will find a variety of resources.
MangaFreak
Just like Mangatraders, this site allows you access to the most liked and popular manga comics online and provides for free sign up and registration to be a part of its community. The homepage of the website showcases all the recent releases and provides you with browsing options through the entire list of manga options available. This website, due to its user-friendly interface, will enhance your experience on the platform even more.
MangaGo
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MangaPanda
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If manga comics are your forever favorite, then look no further. This manga comic website will give you instant, easy access to the most extensive options of manga comics in every genre possible without charging a single penny.
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The mangas have been arranged alphabetically on the website for the better convenience of its users. You can locate the best-picked ones in almost no time. You can also search for a variety of manga titles by merely entering the names in the search bar.
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Bato.to
If you want an exceptionally well categorized and user-friendly site to explore all your unique manga collection without putting in much time or effort, at absolutely no charge, this website like Mangatraders is your best friend.
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No matter whichever genre you are in love with, you will find many choices in almost every genre. The website has no security issues at all and is entirely trustworthy among its large number of users.
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One major disadvantage of this website is that the free resources are not of as good quality as the paid resources, and the current releases are made available only after a week of the release. A free fourteen days trial is made available to you so that you can check the quality of the website for yourself. But if you want access to their Premium content, paid memberships are the only way.
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Shaji K S
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Praveenlal K
liaison psychiatry
Dementia clinic in general hospital settings
KS Shaji1, Thomas Iype2, K Praveenlal3
1 Department of Psychiatry, Medical College, Thrissur - 680596, Kerala, India
2 Department of Neurology, Medical College, Thiruvanatha Puram, Kerala, India
3 Principal, Medical College, Thrissur - 680596, Kerala, India
Background: There is a need to develop specialised dementia care services in developing countries.
Materials and Methods: We used the existing infrastructure of a general hospital to start a weekly dementia clinic.
Results: We were able to support home-based care, even in patients with advanced disease. This new service gave us opportunity to train clinicians and researchers interested in dementia.
Conclusion: It is feasible to start weekly dementia clinics using existing infrastructure in developing countries. Networking of such centres can generate a database capable of guiding service development.
Keywords: Carers, dementia, developing countries, liaison psychiatry
Shaji K S, Iype T, Praveenlal K. Dementia clinic in general hospital settings. Indian J Psychiatry 2009;51:42-4
Shaji K S, Iype T, Praveenlal K. Dementia clinic in general hospital settings. Indian J Psychiatry [serial online] 2009 [cited 2021 Jan 19];51:42-4. Available from: https://www.indianjpsychiatry.org/text.asp?2009/51/1/42/44904
Dementia is an emerging public health problem in developing countries. However, it remains a hidden problem due to low levels of public awareness. There are no specialized services for older people in most of these countries. General practitioners are not trained to identify and manage dementia as the undergraduate medical curriculum has very little emphasis on geriatrics and dementia.
We started a monthly dementia clinic at the local primary health centre in October 1999 to provide services for cases identified during research undertaken by the 10/66 Dementia Research Group. [1],[2],[3] However, such services may be more feasible in general hospitals than in primary care settings. Clinicians with expertise in dementia care are mostly attached to general hospitals, which are often located in urban areas. The public awareness about dementia may also be better among the more literate people living in the urban areas.
So we started a new dementia care service in a general hospital using the existing infrastructure. This paper describes socio demographic and clinical details of the patients who availed this new out patient service and our experience in running it. The assessment and management of these patients will also be described.
We started a weekly Dementia Clinic at Medical College, Thrissur, in the South Indian state of Kerala in April 2002. Consultants from the department of neurology (TI) and psychiatry (SKS) lead the service. Diagnosis of dementia was made according to DSM IV criteria. [4] Additional diagnostic criteria were used for diagnosing dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), [5] and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). [6] A trained clinician, administered instruments like Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), [7] Everyday Abilities Scale for India (EASI), [8] Clinical Dementia Rating scale (CDR) [9] and Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) [10] to all patients. Following this initial assessment, we gave the caregiver the option of bringing the patient to the clinic for follow up or to come without the patient. The main aim of Dementia Clinic was to support home-based care. The follow up data of patients recruited in the year 2004 was examined to assess the acceptance of this new service.
The study recruited all new cases attending the dementia clinic at Medical College, Thrissur, from April 2002 to February 2004. A total of 202 patients were screened during this period and 137 of them (78 males, 59 women) received a diagnosis of dementia. Their mean age was 67.4 years (range 38 to 89), and the mean age of onset of dementia was 65.6 years.
The main subtypes of dementia were Alzheimer's disease (36.5%), Vascular Dementia (27%) and Dementia with Lewy Bodies (9.5%). Eleven patients (8%) had treatable causes. There were two cases each of meningioma, vitamin B 12 deficiency, neurosyphilis, normal pressure hydrocephalus and one case of subdural haematoma.
Fifty-eight (42.3%) patients had the onset of dementia before the age of 65 years. The main subtypes in both pre-senile and senile onset subgroups are given in [Table 1]. A quarter of patients in both the groups had Vascular Dementia.
Caregivers and family members took part in out patient sessions providing information and education about dementia. We trained caregivers to expect, anticipate and report symptoms. Patients with BPSD were particularly considered for pharmacological and or non-pharmacological interventions. Patients and/or their caregiver were followed up at regular intervals. This weekly clinic functioned as a drop-in clinic, where they could come earlier for follow up, if needed.
The patient/caregiver follow up improved over years. Those patients who came for follow up had a mean follow up of 207 days (range 4 to 461 days). Fifty percent of the patients recruited (51/102) had a follow of more than 90 days. All our patients were cared at home by the caregiver.
Dementia clinic provided opportunities for training undergraduate students and doctors undergoing postgraduate training in internal medicine. It also gave us opportunity to train researchers in the use of instruments like Geriatric Mental State examination, [11] Community Screening Instrument for Dementia, [12] NPI and CDR.
We are now providing specialized dementia care services through the weekly dementia clinic. Though clinic based, this new service is able to support home-based care to a great extent. Even when patients are unable to come for follow up visits, the caregivers are encouraged to attend the clinic. This allows the specialist inputs to continue even during late stages of dementia. Out-patient dementia care services in developing countries will have to take up this extended responsibility of supporting home-based care of people with advanced disease. This is important, as institutional care is neither available nor affordable to most families. The need for such a service was evident from the eagerness of caregivers to make use of this new service.
Dementia care is in its infancy in most developing countries. Development of specialized services such as dementia clinics in general hospitals can be a good starting point. Such services should also aim at generating a useful database, capable of guiding service development. Dementia clinics can provide a setting, wherein clinicians and researchers interested in dementia can undergo further training. There is a need for many such centres to train clinicians in dementia care.
Availability of trained manpower makes detailed assessments possible. We identified many subtypes of dementia using standard definitions. The frequency of vascular dementia and other reversible causes of dementia merits further study. Reversible and treatable dementias may indeed be more prevalent in low-income countries. Future research needs to address this possibility.
Networking of these centres will allow exchange of useful information between clinicians engaged in dementia care. Geriatric Psychiatry speciality section of Indian Psychiatric Society is in the process of setting up a National Network of Dementia Clinics in India. This national network is expected to facilitate dementia research and guide service development in the country.
It is feasible to start specialized dementia care services in general hospitals utilizing existing infrastructure. With caregivers as partners in care, such clinic-based services can extend considerable support to home-based care, even in the late stages of the illness.
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K S Shaji
Department of Psychiatry, Medical College, Thrissur - 680 596, Kerala
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A Very English Scandal, BBC1, review: Finale was a masterpiece of dark farce and controlled anger
If one event summed up the callousness and hypocrisy of certain sections of the British establishment even more perfectly than […]
By Jeff Robson
Russell T Davies, writer of the BBC’s Jeremy Thorpe drama, has a new project (Photo: BBC)
If one event summed up the callousness and hypocrisy of certain sections of the British establishment even more perfectly than the plot to kill Norman Scott it was the trial of Jeremy Thorpe – and a motley array of associates – which followed.
The final part of A Very English Scandal recreated it in all its tragicomic seediness. And after a middle episode which I thought strayed too far into Carry On… territory – this was a plot that, for all its ludicrousness, led to a man having a gun pointed at his head – writer Russell T Davies and director Stephen Frears were right back on form, expertly balancing black farce with moments of unexpected poignancy. And a controlled anger at a system which closed ranks round one of its own.
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This was perfectly illustrated in the opening scene, when Scott (Ben Whishaw), still traumatised after the attempted murder, voiced his certainty that his ex-lover Thorpe was behind it. He had his head banged against a wall for his pains, by a detective appalled that he dare say such a thing about an MP and a gentleman.
But when the rest of the plotters began to talk to the police – and the papers – it became clear he would have his day in court. Hugh Grant’s Thorpe, faced with the consequences of his callous desire to have Scott “got rid of” did what any politician would do – brazen it out in public and use his friends in high places to blacken Scott’s name.
Grant was as excellent as ever, vividly conveying the sheer effort Thorpe put into appearing by turns upbeat and impassive to the world’s press; his genuine gratitude to the loyalty of his long-suffering wife (Monica Dolan); and his absolute ruthlessness and determination to ensure his reputation was preserved whatever the collateral damage.
A key element in this was hiring razor-sharp barrister, and fellow Oxford alumnus George Carman (Adrian Scarborough) to tear into the prosecution witnesses, exposing Scott’s chequered past. I’ve felt the portrayal of Scott, focusing too much on his weakness and attention-seeking, has been the series’ other main flaw. But his response to Carman’s character assassination was a triumph of writing and acting, as a flawed but cruelly used man gave an inspired, impassioned plea for all those exploited then cast aside by the powerful.
The summing-up by trial judge Sir Joseph Cantley (Paul Freeman) only added to his torment – even forty years on, its prejudiced, one-sided pomposity takes the breath away (a celebrated sketch by Peter Cook that accompanied the closing credits skewers it better than I could ever hope to). I won’t reveal the verdict, but you can probably guess.
In any case, this was more than a courtroom drama. It was a superb portrait of an age and of two fascinating men who, in their different ways, embodied it. All concerned should start making room on their shelves for the Baftas.
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Air bridges: questions raised over quarantine policy as dozens of countries are deemed low risk
The policy has been mired in chaos and confusion since it was introduced less than a month ago
By Jane Merrick
July 2, 2020 12:00 pm
Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, introduced the quarantine policy for travellers after the peak of coronavirus (Photo: Reuters)
Less than a month after the government introduced its quarantine plan of forcing all travellers into the UK to isolate for 14 days, the policy is mired in chaos.
It didn’t have an auspicious start – there were questions over why the quarantine was being enforced just as the outbreak in the UK was receding, and not imposed in early March when the number of infections were taking off.
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Ministers explained that the scientific reason was because a quarantine on arrivals at the height of an epidemic are a waste of time because infections are high everywhere.
Yet since it was introduced in early June, there have been problems with enforcement, with Border Force and police having few powers to track down those who refuse to isolate. The confusion raises questions over whether the quarantine policy has been worth it.
The government is poised to introduce its traffic light system of air bridges, with a number of “green” countries where Britons can travel to and from without isolating on return.
Those arriving to the UK have been told to quarantine for two weeks (Photo: Reuters)
It is reported that as many as 75 countries deemed to be low risk from coronavirus could be exempted from the quarantine when the air bridges are finally unveiled on Friday, including Turkey, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand.
There has been a delay in the announcement due to some of those countries, including the hugely popular tourist destination of Greece, refusing to introduce reciprocal arrangements – meaning there would be no benefit to British holidaymakers who would have to spend two weeks confined to indoors.
‘Public health impact’
What’s more, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has suggested in the Commons that the delay to the air bridges announcement – the policy had been due for review on 29 June – is partly the fault of Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who has said she wants to take time to consider the “public health impact” of air bridges.
Scotland is almost through its coronavirus outbreak, with several days of no new deaths and Ms Sturgeon saying the nation is “not far away” from eliminating the virus.
Air bridges effectively abandoned as UK prepares to scrap 14-day travel quarantine rules for up to 95 countries
As such, the Scottish government is keen to keep it that way, and to ensure maximum precautions are in place for travellers into Scotland.
If the reports are accurate that 75 countries will be on the list of air bridges, then it suggests that ministers in London are looking to all but nullify the quarantine policy, by the back door.
There may be “red” countries where infections are higher than in the UK, but this would effectively be a hardened version of the existing Foreign Office travel advice, which changes according to risk.
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Vikingaheimar (Viking World)
Visit an exact replica of a Viking ship
Vikingaheimar (Viking World) is the home of the Viking Ship Íslendingur (the Icelander). Built in 1996, the Icelander is an exact replica of the famous Gokstad ship, a remarkable archaeological find of an almost completely intact Viking ship, which was excavated in Norway in 1882.
Captain Gunnar Marel Eggertsson was inspired to build a replica of this beautiful ship based on his own background as a shipbuilder and sailor. He copied the original nail for nail. In the year 2000, with a grant from the Leifur Eiríksson Commission of Iceland, he sailed from Iceland to New York, a journey of 4200 nautical miles. His voyage brought world-wide attention to Leif Eiriksson's and Bjarni Herjólfsson's discovery of America, dated, according to the Icelandic sagas, to 1000 A.D.
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New Impeachment Evidence Shows Competitors of Biden-Burisma Were Swindled Amidst Russian-Ukraine Energy Plot Risking International Security
Swindling Biden-Burisma Competitors Out of a Half-Billion-Dollars in Hawaii Provides New Impeachment Evidence Proving Russian-Ukraine-American Cover-ups Risking Allies’ Energy Supplies and International Security is Not Trump’s ‘Conspiracy Theory’ or ‘Undue Influence’
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Honolulu, HI (1-10-2020)— New impeachment evidence justifying Trump’s alleged ‘quid pro quo’ with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky carries severe implications to international security and energy geopolitics as the Biden-linked Burisma Co.’s leading competitor in Ukrainian energy and banking, the Vitoil-Armbusinessbank conglomerate, was infiltrated and swindled by at least two ‘Deep State’ FBI/CIA drug-dealing ‘informants’ engaged with Hawaii government officials in undermining Burisma’s-competitors’ half-billion dollar luxury development called the Waikaloa Highlands Project (“WHP”) in 2017-18.
New impeachment evidence arising therefrom solidly affirms Trump’s official justification for the alleged ‘quid pro quo’ to seek competent prosecution against organized crime in the Ukraine, requiring scrutiny of the Bidens in defense of U.S. National Security interests and protecting Western allies in the EU and Middle East.
Related covert actions and the Hawaii land theft scheme evidences a criminal enterprise involved in murder, drug-trafficking, and cover-ups in the Burisma-favoring flow of oil from Russia and the Ukraine to Germany and beyond.
The Vitoil-Arch Limited-Armbusinessbank enterprise is owned by Ukrainian-Armenian brothers, Valery and Vitale Grigoryants. They represent the main Trump-backing banking and energy group in the Ukraine competing against the Burisma/Russian/German gas syndicate alleged to be the West’s greatest security risk, even more than Iran.
This new impeachment evidence proves the so-called ‘Deep State’ conspiracy operates criminally internationally censoring intelligence to destroy Trump’s presidency and Western alliances. This evidence began to surface when two drug dealers were arrested and then found to have played central roles in swindling the Grigoryants’ companies out of millions of dollars while sabotaging a 14,000 acre land deal in Hawaii involving a U.S. military weapons clean-up on and around an affordable housing project.
Undisclosed Links Between Hawaii and the Russian-Armenian-Ukrainian Villains
Quickly forgotten by the media in 2018, Trump exploded at a NATO summit when openly opposing the Russian-Putin-Burisma-Obama-administration’s alliance to pipe oil and gas through the Ukraine to Germany and the EU enriching the Bidens while damaging the Grigoryants and the international ‘balance of powers.’
Questions arising from the geopolitics and economics of Western security alliances and reliance on cheap energy central to the Ukrainian revolution and banking scandals increased in December 2019 with the arrest of Paul J. Sulla, Jr., of Hilo, and the extradition from Moscow to Armenia of Sulla’s accomplice, Stefan Martirosian. These facts brought new impeachment evidence to light. Sulla and Martirosian, both drug dealers and informants for American intelligence agencies infiltrated and sabotaged the Grigoryants’ WHP luxury development on the Big Island of Hawaii. Their first act was to steal its most valuable commercial lots. Then the drug dealers sabotaged, with complicit Hawaii government officials, the entire project that was valued at more than $500 million.
‘Mug shot’ of Paul J. Sulla, Jr.
Sulla, who has multiple connections to the CIA according to court records, is best known for trafficking the new designer LSD called “DMT” or “ayahuasca.” He is considered to be the nation’s leading trafficker of the Cass I narcotic hallucinogen. The promotion of that enterprise has created the ‘rave culture’ and the “Dark Enlightenment” impacting bewildered and ‘wayward’ seekers of spirituality and personal identity across the Western World today.
Few realize that Sulla’s enterprise is backed by U.S. data mining mogul and Silicon Valley’s intelligence industry guru, Peter Theil. More financial backing comes from Jeffrey Bronfman, the co-successor to the massive underworld spun by the Seagram’s family fortune.
Given that clout, the ‘hoasca enterprise’ extends the CIA’s 1960s MKULTRA Program to the latest advances in transhumanism, and the greatest extent of artificial intelligence emerging at Johns Hopkins, New York University, Harvard, Stanford, MIT and elsewhere. Much of this is detailed in the newly released book, The Ayahuasca Death Cult: The Psycho-Spiritual Delusion (Medical Veritas, 2020). Therein, Sulla plays a cohesive role in the widespread villainy.
Sulla’s enterprise, that uses “hoasca church” names similar to Bronfman’s operations in Hawaii, Canada and New Mexico, manufactures and distributes the contraband in violation of the Bronfman-finance U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Gonzales v. O Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal, 546 US 418 – Supreme Court 2006. Therein, the ruling required church shipments to enter the U.S. from Brazil exclusively under DEA license for bonafide religious purposes only, not organized crime.
Stephan Martirosian and his partner Remington Chase,
In 2014, according to Environment Hawaii investigator, Patricia Tummons, Sulla established a relationship with fellow drug trafficker and claimed CIA informant, Martirosian.
“We were involved in a consortium that started in 2014, when the lava was coming down the hill,” Sulla told Tummons.
Sulla, with Martirosian’s complicity, infiltrated the Gregoriants’ WHP while Sulla was secretly working for Deep State interests with corrupt County officials. Sulla, an attorney, extended his undermining by sabotaging another initial investor and fellow Armenian cocaine dealer, Michael Miroyan. Martirosian had already stolen $50 million from the Grigoryants’ by the time he connected with Sulla. The cocaine trafficker diverted half of the Grigoryants’ $100,000,000 WHP seed money to co-produce a number of Hollywood films with fellow cocaine trafficker and FBI informant Remington Chase. That placed four drug dealers in the middle of the Grigoryants’ advancing wreckage.
At the time of this writing, Martirosian was serving jail time in Armenia, and Miroyan is still suing Sulla and his governmental accomplices in Hawaii for his lost millions.
Sulla appears behind Hilo attorney Brian DeLima who maintains conflicting interests, and should have disqualified himself.
On December 4, 2019, Sulla was indicted by the State of Hawaii for forging a different County of Hawaii deed to steal a different $1 million property in the drug capital of Hawaii, Pahoa. That crime duplicated the deed-forgery theft-scheme damaging the Grigoryants that is the subject of this report.
According to public records, County officials hired Sulla to do the dirty work for the “consortium.” After learning Martirosian, and his partner Remington Chase, and Miroyan too, were each compromised by drug arrests and risked bad press, Sulla set Martirosian and the Grigoryants up for their fall.
It appears that Sulla conned or extorted Martirosian to further defraud the Grigoryants. Pressured by possible exposure and millions in financial damage, Martirosian consented to the consortium’s demand to “donate” 11.7 acres of more than 700 rezoned for the development, to be used to exclusively (supposedly) to satisfy state and federal affordable housing requirements.
Little did Martirosian know he was being set up to go down, and take with him Trumps wealthiest supporter in the Ukraine, and primary opposition to Burisma–the Grigoryants’ and their entire Hawaii investment. . . .
To read more about the Putin-Burisma-Biden-Obama Oil involvements, and “Neglected Intelligence on the Impeachment Proceedings” CLICK HERE.
To read an “Executive Summary” detailing the facts in the Waikaloa Highlands Project land heist and defrauding of the Gregoriants, CLICK: Waikoloa Highlands Heist Exec. Summary.
To read the final segment, The Hawaii Government’s Waikoloa Highlands Heist, CLICK HERE.
Dr. Leonard Horowitz and Sherri Kane
Leonard Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., D.N.M. (hon.), D.M.M. (hon.), is the author of twenty two books, including the prophetically titled Death In The Air: Globalism,Terrorism and Toxic Warfare that came out three months before 9-11-01. That book deals with biological and energy weapons being used for population control. His three American best-sellers include: Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola–Nature, Accident or Intentional? that was largely responsible for prompting explosive interest in vaccination risks and biological warfare; Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse, that revealed the original Solfeggio musical scale secreted for millennia; and Healing Celebrations: Miraculous Recoveries Through Ancient Scripture, Natural Medicine and Modern Science in which Dr. Horowitz presents his protocol for administering prevention and speedier recoveries. His text, The Book of 528: Prosperity Key of LOVE, has prompted a revolution in the music industry improving recording artistry and music therapy with the use of C=528Hz(A=444Hz) tuning that produces “medicinal music.” Dr. Horowitz’s documentary, UN-VAXXED: A Docu-commentary for Robert De Niro won five international awards, including “Best Film – 2016” in London and Geneva competitions.
Sherri Kane is America’s gutsiest investigative journalist, news commentator, psycho-social analyst, and political activist, specializing in uncovering what predators do to women, children, and even animals. She exposes human and animal rights violators, child sex traffickers, and human slavery networks, several involving high ranking government officials.
You may recall the Gulf Oil Crisis, maybe even the extensive coverage Jesse Ventura and TruTV gave to the “Conspiracy Theory” implicating Halliburton, BP, and TransOcean in the intentional explosion and environmental devastation in the Gulf of Mexico. Ms Kane sourced the story and appears on the segment.
Sherri wrote the foreword to Dr. Horowitz’s music-industry-transforming book, The Book of 528: Prosperity Key of Love, and co-produced and is co-starring in Dr. Horowitz’s controversial docu-comedy PHARMAWHORES: The SHOWTIME Sting of Penn & Teller, winner of the 2010 Accolade Award for “Uniqueness in Documentary Film-making.” That film heavily influenced online video production for thousands of subsequent Internet producer. Sherri also stars in Dr. Horowitz’s latest documentary, UN-VAXXED: A Docu-commentary for Robert De Niro that won five international awards, including “Best Film – 2016” in London and Geneva competitions. Ms. Kane also co-wrote Space Pearl Harbor, reviewed in the 39-minute news program seen HERE.
Ms. Kane is the Vice President of Medical Veritas online journal, has published works in newspapers, magazines and many websites, and has been interviewed worldwide including on Al Jazeera’s A9 Turkey, The Veritas Show, the BBC’s Talk Radio Europe, Late Night In The Midlands, WAC Connecticut, LA Talk Radio, and many others. She co-hosts the Hollywood Spin series of film reviews with Dr. Horowitz viewed on RevolutionTelevision.net and Vimeo’s Revolution Television Channel.
For their work together exposing devil-doing operatives in the media, Dr. Horowitz and Ms. Kane were christened “The HOROKANE” by Alma C. Ott, exposed in this article.
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Earth’s Magnetic Field may be reversed! What is causing it?
July 21, 2020 by Suryapratim Ray
Polar reversal is imminent as the South Atlantic Anomaly exploits weak Earth’s magnetic field
Earth’s magnetic field is now a big concern for many scientists as this is not the first time that it is shifting. A polar reversal is imminent and the planet’s magnetism is losing its strength. The magnetic field of our planet provides a protective layer that keeps us safe from the harmful cosmic radiation and high-energy emissions of the Sun. The South Atlantic Anomaly is one of the most dangerous ones out there.
For the research study, the group of scientists focused on a specific region in the magnetic field known as the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA). This region normally spans over South America to Africa and has been identified as the weakest point in Earth’s magnetic field.
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Earth’s magnetic field is getting weaker every day
This is a very important discussion about the Earth’s magnetic field because it is a point of concern to space vehicles too. Satellites that pass under the SAA get more exposed to radiation compared to other parts of the magnetic field. The problematic, unpredictable behavior in the South Atlantic region causes technical disturbances in Earth’s orbiting satellites and spacecraft, which has left experts baffled.
The region is a scientist-to-scientist discussion, some of whom wonder where it comes from, and whether it could signify the field’s complete weakening and even an imminent pole reversal. The magnetic field on Earth protects our atmosphere from the solar wind, a stream of charged particles coming from the sun. The geomagnetic field is not constant in force and direction and is capable of flipping or reversing itself.
The South Atlantic Phenomenon is a region that extends from Africa to South America, where the magnetic field on Earth slowly weakens. The SAA has been growing for the past 50 years. Due to the expansion of the weak point in the magnetic field, some scientists speculated that it could trigger a polar reversal soon.
The South Atlantic Anomaly May Go Back Far Longer Than Anybody K #Science #HRS https://t.co/HgI1tp5ur4 pic.twitter.com/WKTEvzV2kK
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The scientists have learned that volcanic rocks showed varying levels of magnetic field direction, suggesting that they were affected by the presence of the SAA. The scientists presented their findings in a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
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Mossberg 500 is series of pump action shotguns that share the same basic receiver and action but vary in barrel length magazine capacity and bore size. Manufactured by O.F. Mossberg & Sons, Mossberg shotguns provide value for money and as a result are the best selling shotguns in the world, with their production numbers second only to Remington 870. The 500 series comprises of the following models; 500, 505, 510, 535, and 590. Produced to military specifications and renowned for their durability and dependability, these shotguns are versatile because of their interchangeable barrels which allow the owner to switch the gun’s use depending on the particular task being undertaken.
First introduced to market in 1961, Mossberg 500 pump action variants are based on the same basic design and share a number of features such as dual action bars and single locking lugs which are used to keep the breech in place. Other features include the magazine tube, which is placed underneath the barrel and secured to the receiver by screws. Although the shotguns’ sights vary from model to model, most of the guns come with a drilled and tapped receiver to facilitate the installation of a scope base or a sight to the rear. The shotgun’s original scope is mounted on the barrel which means the scope is situated over he receiver but remains on the barrel when the barrel is removed.
The Mossberg 500 series is designed for use in harsh conditions where it can easily get dirty such as hunting and recreational use, beneficially, the shotgun is made in such a way that it is easy to clean and maintain.
Interchangeable barrels
All the guns in the 500 series feature interchangeable barrels, although this depends on the magazine capacity of the particular gun. A five-shot barrel will not fit into a gun with a seven shot tube for example. The barrel is removed by simply loosening a screw at the end of the magazine tube.
Magazine Capacity
The 500 series comes in a variety of designs, with the main difference being the magazine configuration. A basic model will come fitted with a six-shot magazine tube that holds five 2.7 inch shells. The shotgun is also available with an extended magazine tube that holds seven rounds.
The normal finishes of the guns in this series feature an anodized aluminium alloy receiver as well as a polished barrel. Other models feature a matte black painted receiver and a blued barrel, other models come with barrels designed to look parkerized, such as the 590 series. In addition, Mossberg also offer models with camouflage designs. Stocks on the guns are usually made of wood or composite, with the composite finish usually matching the rest of the gun. There is also a special edition model that comes with a highly corrosion resistant silver Marinecoat finish called the Mariner; this model features the black composite stocks.
Model 500 Variations
The Mossberg 500 series features a number of variants that cater for a wide range of uses, although the ability to easily change the barrel means the owner can use one shotgun for a variety of applications by swopping different types of barrels. The two main categories that this series falls under are special purpose models and field models.
Special Purpose Models
These models are manufactured for use within the army, law enforcement and defence industries and will come with specific designations such as tactical, mariner among others. Special purpose models come fitted with shorter barrels and may have extra specialty parts such as fiber optic sights or adjustable stocks for extra rounds.
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Available with a variety of barrel lengths and finishes, field models are the basic sporting models for use in waterfowl hunting, game, or turkey hunting and the like. Most of the field model guns are smoothbore models that have choke tubes and vent barrels that can easily be changed, or slug models with rifled or smooth cylinder bore barrels as well as scope and sight bases.
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DUSHANBE CLAIMS ANTI-DRUG SMUGGLING SUCCESS AS RUSSIA INCREASES MILITARY PRESENCE
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 2 Issue: 194
October 19, 2005 04:00 AM Age: 15 years
Dushanbe’s efforts to stem the flow of narcotics through its porous borders have
been highlighted by the authorities in an attempt to reassert Tajikistan’s domestic
security credentials. Yet, despite these moves by the regime itself, security
officials continue to seek international help for Tajikistan’s security burden, and
in particular demonstrate their reliance upon potential Russian military assistance
in the event of a crisis. In this sense, it was entirely consistent for Tajikistan’s
Ministry of Defense to announce the imminent deployment of a Russian air group in
Dushanbe, apparently bolstering Tajikistan’s fragile security arrangements.
The air group itself will be deployed at Hisor airport in the settlement of Ayni,
outside Dushanbe, and will consist of six Su-25 fighters and 12 Mi-24 and Mi-8
helicopters. A Tajik Ministry of Defense spokesman confirmed details relating to the
scale of the deployment: “It is expected that the staff of the Russian air group
will be accommodated there on a permanent basis and amount to up to 1,000 servicemen
and civilian experts.” The air group in Hisor will form part of the Russian military
base in Tajikistan. The Su-25 fighters currently remain at Dushanbe airport, but the
helicopters have already been transferred to Hisor. It is clear that the air group
is developing out of the need to provide air support for the 201st Motorized Rifle
Division (MRD) based at Dushanbe. The increased air assets and support staff
underscore the importance of the 201st MRD in Russia’s provision of
emergency crisis support to its neighbor. These developments must be understood in
the wider context of recent patterns in bilateral security arrangements between
Russia and Tajikistan, which have witnessed the gradual transfer of control over
patrolling the Tajik-Afghan border back to the Tajik border guards, while Moscow has
secured a long-term presence in Dushanbe for the 201st MRD. Russian planners are
equally aware that the Tajik border guards lack air assets and, in the event of a
major anti-drug operation or an incursion into Tajikistan’s southern region by
militants, such air support would be vital and could only realistically be supplied
from Russia. (Interfax, October 14).
Rustam Nazarov, director of the Tajik Drug Control Agency, believes that Tajikistan
is making progress in the campaign to counter drug trafficking. However, he also
recognizes the need for improved regional coordination among the relevant drug
control agencies. “There are things that we cannot make public loudly. It is more
difficult to come close to the leaders of drug groups after information has been
made public. It is not them who directly deal with the transit of drugs.
Unfortunately, sometimes we learn about the detention of our nationals from the
media. I understand that everyone wants to brag about his success. But it would be
more effective to detain drug dealers without making it public and telling
colleagues in neighboring countries instead to discover the drug ring,” commented
Nazarov. In fact Nazarov is currently lobbying for enhanced coordination throughout
the CIS,
utilizing the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) (Avesta, October 14).
Nazarov has been particularly angered by Russian media reports that the situation on
the Tajik-Afghan border has deteriorated since the withdrawal of Russian border
guards from Tajikistan. According to Nazarov, Tajik security agencies, in close
cooperation with Russian border guards, detained 28 Afghan drug couriers and seized
over 400 kilograms of drugs in 2004. In contrast, 31 Afghan drug couriers have been
detained and more than 600 kilograms of drugs seized in the first six months of
2005, the difference being that the Tajik border guards now work solely in
cooperation with domestic security agencies. He also said that the number of
detained drug syndicates with regional ties had increased compared with 2004.
Moreover, the transit of drugs into Russia and Europe through this route (across the
Tajik-Afghan border) also had implications for other Central Asian states.
has been and is seizing the largest quantity of drugs among all the Central Asia
countries combined,” he asserted (Avesta, October 13).
Meeting in Dushanbe in October, the Drug Control Agency asserted that some progress
is being made in this area and released new data, albeit designed for public
consumption. Tajik special services found and destroyed over 2,500 hemp plants
during the “Poppy 2005 Operation,” and during the first nine months of 2005 more
than 700 kilograms of drugs were seized (126.5 kilograms more than the same period
last year). Heroin seizures totaled 407 kilograms, (200 kilograms more than last
year). Some 105 attempted drug smuggling incidents were foiled, and 68 criminal
cases were brought against 80 people that were sent to court. Tajik and foreign
security structures carried out 35 joint operations resulting in the seizure of
985,215 kilograms of drugs.
Tajikistan is undoubtedly making concerted efforts towards tackling the soft
security issues confronting its weak and under-financed security agencies. It will
demand real assistance, internationally and will also require greater regional
coordination as Nazarov emphasized. Russia appears interested in exploiting the
Tajik-Afghan border situation for political purposes, using it as a way to
criticizing U.S. efforts to strengthen security in the region. Nazarov must convince
his counterparts within the CSTO to do more to facilitate regional cooperation
against illegal drug trafficking. In this challenge he deserves Western support.
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Japan considers offering COVID-19 vaccines for free to all residents
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Freddy Freeway
Sep. 3, 2020 06:42 am JST
Perhaps first actually making an effective vaccine would be a good idea before contemplating this policy.
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John Beara
Anti-vaxxers are as ignorant as anti-maskers, and a danger.
ReasonandWisdomNippon
We could find a cure for cancer, covid19 and they would still have something negative to say.
Even though all residents would benefit, even though payments made by the government affected all residents including foreigners... always something negative to comment about on an article that should be good news, you will benefit as well if you live here.
Id wait myself as testing has been rushed and results are not in. And I certainly don't trust this government to make a decision with populations health having anything to do with their decision making process. Also time is on my side as "Municipalities will be in charge of offering the vaccinations, the sources said." And after seeing the months it took for everyone to get ¥100,000 I guessing it will take months to roll out this one.
divinda
Its not exactly "free", we all pay for government expendetures in the end.
But they probably need to make it free since the government also intends to exempt drug companies from any damage claims if the vaccines end up causing people permanent health problems, death, or are just ineffective. Seriously, drug companies will have NO LIABILITY and the government intends to pick up the tab if there is a problem. Read about it here: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13675845
So drug companies can skirt testing, fudge results, and make faulty products without worry of any public lawsuit. And again, we all pay for it in the end.
yaga537
COVID-19 vaccines are controversial , some say we need to develop it immediately, while others are cautious about unintended side effects and its effectiveness because of the rush in clinical trials. I'm not an anti-vaccine person, so I think I'll try if it is free.
I won't take it myself, but I have no problem with my tax dollars being used to pay for the vaccine for whomever wants it.
A free, voluntary program is the way to go.
Everybody wins.
A few points, usually it takes about 10 years for the Health Department to OK any new drug, I know it's urgent but that's a huge reduction in protocol. The government didn't want mass testing due to cost but find the money to vaccinate the whole population? If it works great I will do it, but my hesitation is due to as far as I know results haven't been verified completely and the virus has mutated. It's a political decision not a medical one, thus my vexation over this vaccination.
The virus can mutate
Peter Neil
No, everybody does not win. Your neighbors will have to pick your tab for hospitalization if you need it. Hospitalization for Covid-19 is expensive.
Let's think beyond our owns noses.
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kwatt
I just worry about side-effect/after-effect of the vaccine, so I would not take it soon. I would wait and see for a short while, though I take seasonal vaccine every year, so far no problem.
Is this a question? The cost of the vaccine vs. the cost of the economy crashing even further? It's a no brainer!
savethegaijin
@Peter Neil
*No, everybody does not win. Your neighbors will have to pick your tab for hospitalization if you need it. Hospitalization for Covid-19 is expensive.
Let's think beyond our owns noses.*
They don't care about others whatsoever. I wouldn't even bother.
Michael Machida
I would not take it for the first year. If there are survivors, then I might take it.
Jeff Huffman
". . . considers . . ."
Why do they even need to consider?
If efficacious vaccines exist, everyone should be immunized for free. Check that: I guess if you are making pot fulls of money, you should pay.
Tom Jj
I'm not keen to get it at all. If I need to as a requirement for work, I'd rather wait. I'm in no rush to get it. Look at the 1976 Swine Flu vaccine that was rushed and pushed causing widespread neurological issues. I understand the need to get a vaccine ready quickly, but rushing might not always be a good thing. I'd honestly rather not get it all.
Guinea pigs for the world! We need to stand up and say "We ain't having it" !
i@n
Good thing most antivaxxers are vaccinated.
Pity on their kids though, they're the ones who might pay for the ignorance of their parents.
Please educate yourselves for the sake of the kids.
my maker gave me a strong body. keep that poison for yourself!
tooheysnew
we should try Anything to get people’s confidence back & the economy up& running again - even if it only has a placebo effect
El Rata
No thanks! You guys go ahead, this thing was rushed, corners were cut and zero liability given to big pharma.
El Rata! I agree!
vic.M
JJ Jetplane
As an American, I am jealous of something like this. I can only shudder when I try to think how much it will cost back home.
You guys can test it for me first!
virusrex
Because thinking how to distribute something that will have a very high demand just before beginning to do it always turns out fine, right?
Id wait myself as testing has been rushed and results are not in.
For any vaccine released next year the testing time is enough to do it in a completely normal, non-rushed, routinely way, the same for any other drug and vaccine already available.
That is a terribly misrepresentation of the system, companies have complete liability the same as with any other service, the difference is that they don't have to defend against a particular (that in many cases needs to prove cause-effect for any damage, something that in many cases is scientifically impossible) the cases are decided automatically in favor of the person with the claim as long as he can demonstrate is is rationally possible (not even likely) the damage could have been caused by the vaccine.
Meanwhile the government keeps doing vigilance on the vaccine to make sure it is as safe and effective as the company says (search for ワクチンの国家検定) not only with epidemiological studies but with actual laboratory work to corroborate it on every single lot of vaccine put on the market.
The confusion is thinking that just because a particular cannot directly sue the pharmaceutical company it means it is free of consequences, that is not the case, with the system in place the company have to defend against the whole country if anything is found to be at fault, from taking the vaccine out of the market in the least important penalties to heavy consequences if scientific malpractice is found.
No, without any lawsuit from a particular, instead the companies go directly to be investigated by the government even with criminal charges.
"Letting" the government do something that is objectively and scientifically best is just the minimum anybody would have to do, even if for example someone thinks hospitals just kill sick people without curing anybody it is easy to prove this is not the case, not opposing that the government build those hospitals is hardly something that anybody would need to even say.
A few points, usually it takes about 10 years for the Health Department to OK any new drug,
Sorry but that is nonsense, a pharmaceutical patent do not last more than 10 years, and the companies have to patent anything that will be tested extensively (so before beginning clinical trials, and most of the time before even beginning preclinical ones) If approval would take 10 years there would be no point in developing absolutely anything, by the time it can be put on the market anybody could just make a generic and sell it dirt cheap because they would need to invest nothing in research.
The reality is that clinical trials require about a year, with phase III the longest (with about 6 months), any drug that began phase III in July can be ready and approved on January next year, several of the vaccine candidates for covid19 have done just that.
The government didn't want mass testing due to cost but find the money to vaccinate the whole population?
Why would the government need to think about cost? that is something the pharmaceutical companies invest, it does not cost absolutely nothing to the government to let them do the necessary trials, and the phase III trials are precisely that, testing in literally thousands of volunteers and have them under vigilance for months.
my hesitation is due to as far as I know results haven't been verified completely and the virus has mutated.
That is because the trials have not finished, it is illogical to expect final results when the testing is still ongoing. And the virus mutating is irrelevant. Yellow Fever Virus mutates also constantly since it is an RNA virus, nevertheless the vaccine has been safe and effective for decades without needing any change. Not all mutations means change in antigenicity.
Goodlucktoyou
There is no solid evidence of mask effectiveness.
vaccines are rushed, not fully tested and no legal responsibility.
although these are only the known short term effects, and nobody knows the long term damage, can you imagine 120 people all having headaches? Cold chills? Fatigue?
everybody will be forced back to work totally knackered and a splitting headache.
Samit Basu
@JJ Jetplane
It's free for all Americans. https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/covid-19-vaccine-be-free-us-official-says
BTW, news is circulating that the coronavirus vaccination will start in late October/early November in the US.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-nyt-covid-19-vaccine-20200902-kb7axfbvdngobjairzpngjs2q4-story.html
CDC tells states to prepare for COVID-19 vaccine by late October or early November
Yrral
Trump fake election vaccine
There is perfectly good epidemiological evidence for their efficacy.
On the other hand there is absolutely no experimental proof of direct effect on transmission of covid19 from washing hands, does that mean its ok not to do it?
Anything put on the market next year has no reason to be rushed, and companies have a much higher standard of legal responsability, since they will have to defend against a much more powerful adversary than any particular that has no realistic way to prove of causative relationship.
Because you know the long term effects of covid19? with what time machine?
What do you think has more likehood of producing those, a vaccine that exposes the body to one or two proteins at the microgram dose or a viral infection that does the same with a couple of dozens proteins, some made specifically to mess with your immune system, and in doses reaching gram scale (a million times more)?
You can get sick days for pure symptoms in your diagnosis, any supposedly side effects of the vaccine have no reason to be excluded.
virusrex is getting thumbs down for using rational explanations.
Northernlife
Think I will wait dont want to be anybodys lab rat...
Tokyo-Engr
As I am old enough to remember the Swine Flu vaccine debacle in the U.S. in 1976 I will wait and see how it goes before I take the vaccine. I am not an "anti vaxxer" but I would like to see how a vaccine is developed and then decide for myself after this rolls out.
Even on JT you're 3 in the hole on that one, PSmith. Heck, even Northernlife's not gonna take it.
drlucifer
The government aims to have as many people as possible receive the vaccine since the virus is characterized as being very contagious and having a high risk of causing severe symptoms to people infected with it, the sources said.
But the governments approach to testing doesn't support what is written herein.
1glenn
I remember when the polio vaccine came out in the US in 1955. Children were lined up with their parents for blocks, waiting for the shot. I think the shots at that time were also free.
Sounds a more substantial offer than the tax payers' money-wasting cheapo Abenomasks, but if it's an offer I can refuse, I'll take a rain check until a few million have been inoculated first with no adverse effects. The frantic quest for a miraculous vaccine seems to reek of a rushed job for political advantage and economic expediency. Caveat emptor!
Noriyon73
Do anti-maskers and anti-vacciners believe that a little chlorine in the "gene pool" is good for the survival of the swimmers? In Japan and most of the countries in the world there is freedom of choice. Several countries will require lines of people. Get the vaccine asap or just wait. It is okay in a free country like Japan. But, just remember to wear the mask and social distance, please. Thank you.
But, just remember to wear the mask and social distance, please.
Social distancing is a joke in Japan.
carpslidy
Think my family will skip the first year.
Malaria kills millions every year despite that there is still no vaccine.
Why are pharmas the world over not developing a vaccine for
malaria neither are governments of the powerful nations and the WHO
pushing for vaccine development, Why ?
If half the effort put by gov'ts and pharma to develop a vaccine
for covid-19 was put in developing a malaria vaccine I am sure one could have
been developed a long time ago. Is the lack of interest due to the fact
that malaria is prevalent mostly in poor third-world countries and the pharmas
don't see reaping a windfall from their investment or there is a sinister plot to
control the explosion of the world population in poor 3rd world countries.
Vanessa Carlisle
virusrex: For any vaccine released next year the testing time is enough to do it in a completely normal, non-rushed, routinely way, the same for any other drug and vaccine already available.
It is not nearly enough time. Enough time would be years of trial and there is no way to cram that all into months because the passage of time is literally part of the safety testing. We cannot have people developing ailments months or years after the jab, but its quite possible if a new vaccine is declared safe in just a few months. If any vaccine is so approved it won't be like other drugs or vaccines. It will be UNPRECEDENTED.
Go to pubmed and search for "malaria" and "vaccine", you will see literally hundreds of reports about things that have been done and are being done to develop it. You can even just go to wikipedia and get a really good idea about why there is no good vaccine yet.
The amount of resources used for developing a covid19 vaccine is just a drop in the bucked compared with what is being used for malaria. The problem is that parasitical diseases do not respond well to vaccination, as simple as that.
Every year increasingly elaborated and complicated processes are tried so the vaccine actually works this time, they are tried in cell cultures, in animals and even on limited clinical trials, unfortunately with low efficacy or with safety problems. For science this actually helps developing a lot of useful technology but for the specific purpose of preventing malaria controlling the vector is still a much more efficient way to do it.
for Covid019 there is no need to do extraordinarily complicated things, a vaccine can be produced by any of the already developed methods and if it is safe and effective then that is the end of the problem.
Is the lack of interest due to the fact
That is nonsense, there are a lot of effective vaccines against diseases mostly present in tropical countries, yellow fever, rotavirus or Japanese encephalitis for example, your confusion comes from thinking every disease can easily be controlled by someone putting on a lab coat and doing experiments for a month. It is not that easy.
Do you know what measure has been proved as very efficient to control the population of a country? increasing the standards of life and the health services so children can become healthy adults without problems, parents that can count on their children surviving don't feel the need to have big families as an insurance for the future.
Nothing sinister about that.
mountainpear
And what you don't remember is the 40, 000 infants and children that got very sick, the 51 that got paralyzed or the 5 that died in The Cutter Incident, which was from polio vaccinations in that very year. And the company that made the botched and rushed vaccine got off scot free for what they did, which included ignoring Dr. Bernice E. Eddy's warnings and findings that showed the vaccine was botched.
Why don't you remember this? Oh yeah. No big pharma cash used to spread that news.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernice_Eddy
bokuda
The government is ruining my main source of entertainment
Cannot criticize and blame Japan if they start doing the right think to do.
Bjorn Tomention
Prove 100% it works, it is safe, it does not create problems further down the road, then you could perhaps use it on everyone who wanted it, but forcing something on everyone that is not even proven to work, be safe or effective is criminal, stupid and what you would expect from the loones who sit in governments all around the world.
Only things that enter my body are with my consent !!
It is not nearly enough time. Enough time would be years of trial and there is no way to cram that all into months because the passage of time is literally part of the safety testing.
No phase III trial ever takes years to complete, not for vaccines nor for other drugs, Phase III is the standard that any new pharmacological company has to do to be able to put something on the market.
Phase IV is the one that takes years, but apparently you ignore that it begins AFTER the product is in already in use by the general population. There is absolutely no need to cram this into months because for everything else this is is done after the product is in the market. 6 months is a perfectly acceptable amount of time and what is used for lots of things that are right now available.
If any vaccine is so approved it won't be like other drugs or vaccines. It will be UNPRECEDENTED.
What would be unprecedent and irrational to expect a special case for this vaccine just because, specially because the disease itself has not been studied for long term complications. It is thousands of times more likely that the natural infection give problems a few years in the future than the vaccine.
Of course you could easily produce a source that prove that phase III are impossible to finish inside a year, but that would require that to be true, fortunately that is not the case, you are just mistaken. Ignorance is a terribly thing to base your opinion.
And what you don't remember is the 40, 000 infants and children that got very sick, the 51 that got paralyzed or the 5 that died in The Cutter Incident, which was from polio vaccinations in that very year.
Because the exception to the rule that vaccines can be safe and effective somehow proves that any new vaccine will inevitably be also another one? that is nonsense. Specially because your example is the basis for very stringent protocols for the testing of vaccines.
A much more useful explanation https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1383764/
Rushing ifor vaccine or treatment of anykind is an accident waiting to happen and science with negative results. I wait a few years and see the aftereffects before thinking of getting this.
Agree with most other posters, you'd have to be truly foolish to accept a COVID19 "vaccine" at this stage. The sheep will jump up and down and beg for this poison though
geronimo2006
Yes. It will be unprecedented. But the real reason they can develop vaccines much faster is because of other factors such as funding, technology and the ability to test the vaccine easily because the virus is rampant in some countries. Yes. The first people who get it (doctors, etc.,) will be taking it before the normal completion of stage 3 trials. Yes. There will be a very slight risk. But, by that time the relevant authorities will have enough data to know with high enough confidence the efficacy and safety of the vaccine. In this situation, it should not take months for bureaucratic decisions to be made because doctors, elderly etc, will die. That's why they will release it to select few. The average person will not get the vaccine for some time after, and by that time all results will be very clear on safety. By that time, if you still think side effects are worse than the virus, think again.
jeancolmar
This would be a most sensible policy once the vaccine in proven and ready for distribution.
Ego Sum Lux Mundi
I fear they will force this on us by denying access to the marketplace, travel, or even the ability to work unless we take their poison. People are going to have to make some hard choices in the months ahead.
Virusrex, why don't you just come out and admit you're paid either directly or indirectly by a member of the pharmaceutical industry to come on this forum for the specific purposes of convincing people to take a COVID-19 vaccine and discredit anyone who's suspicious of the push for mass vaccination or questions the safety and efficacy of forthcoming COVID-19 vaccinations, or points out some of the fines imposed on pharmaceutical companies for faulty products and deceptive business practices?
Basically? because it is not true, my interest is in correcting false, mistaken, incorrect information that some people like to repeat for who knows what purposes.
Why would I try to use logic on antivaxxers that are actually proud of being anti-scientific, anti-reason and anti-logic? I do not intend to convince anybody about anything. But I am still free to correct mistakes and lies, specially when involving public health, where they can mislead people into irrational choices because of imaginary fears.
I do not discredit anybody, if they do it themselves by endlessly using information that can be proven false I cannot be held responsible. I mean, questioning is not wrong, but deciding right now that there can be only bad vaccines no matter what because of reasons that are not even real is simply mistaken. It is in the best interest of whoever reads this to point out the mistakes, even if that makes the people repeating those mistakes seem always wrong.
I have never said that vaccines are perfect and never ever they had any trouble, my point is that those are the exceptions and not the rule (and specially not the absolute rule). I actually made also my point that bad actors do have liability and can be punished by doing unacceptable things contrary to what some posters thought just because a particular cannot sue them.
It's clear that you only ever post on topics related to pharmaceuticals and have no interest in anything else on this site.
I only correct people on what I know about, it is not my fault that it became very common for people to repeat mistakes and lies about the pandemic, masks, vaccines etc. If I do not correct people on sports or cooking has no importance because not a single thing I write depends on people having to trust me. I could be a victim suffering paralysis from a vaccine or the president of a vaccine company and nothing in my replies would become less valid. Antivaxxers like too much to use ad hominems when they are proved wrong and cannot defend their mistakes, I prefer to disprove bad arguments no matter who use them. If you think anything I wrote is false you are free to prove it so, or you can just write imaginary things about me for no real benefit, it is your choice.
If you like to repeat mistakes because you have strong opinions about something you ignore completely it is also your right, I prefer to base my opinions on knowledge.
sir_bentley28
I'm all for vaccinations and all the medications and that razz! But this is getting out of hand. If they have the vaccine to give out free to all people, then why are they still reporting that so many people are still getting it and dying from it? This shows that Japan is putting the horse UNDER the carriage! They're not sure of what they're doing, so I don't even know what they'd be injecting me with! So to that, good people, I'd say no thank you.
@kyronstavic Thank you. Your post should be a sticky on every virus related post commented on by the usual suspects.
BeerDeliveryGuy
And I certainly don't trust this government to make a decision with populations health having anything to do with their decision making process.
While the reasons may not be altruistic, the government has a strong incentive to ensure the health of the population.
Sick citizens means less working tax payers, more burden on the healthcare system, more handouts, less economic activity, etc.
Do the hustle
Considering? It should be free and mandatory!
Ricky Kaminski13
Reading the comments above we are witnessing a real time Darwinian event. Pro-vaccination people and the anti-vaxers will both be nodding at this statement at the same time.
Psychology will explain later. Quite remarkable really.
@sir_bentley28: Exactly! How is there even a single new COVID case in Japan when they already have the vaccine? Silliness beyond words.. Like you said Japan has no clue what they're doing and those here most willing to take a vaccine are the most devoted Japan and Abe supporters lol. smh
Britlover
Sep. 3, 2020 12:19 pm JST
What vaccine???? The one in the future (maybe), that has been created, trialed and... well, you get the picture. There is NO long term effective vaccine against ANY corona virus.
Its simple really, why would I want to rush to inject my kids with a poorly tested vaccine WHEN THEY HAVE A 0% chance of dying or becoming seriously ill.
"Since there are no data from the trials showing the effectiveness or the degree of side effects depending on the age or health conditions of those vaccinated, some government officials have been opposed to differentiating the financial burden among people." ???
How about "Since there are no data from the trials showing the effectiveness or the degree of side effects depending on the age or health conditions of those vaccinated, some government officials have been opposed to using the population at large as guinea pigs"?
Jaymann
Hilarious - I won't be bothering with a shot UNLESS it is free. simple as
It doesn't seem plausible that it could be confirmed safe to mix with other vaccines that are changed yearly. Could you imagine taking the flu vaccine and the covid19 vaccine? It's kind of like a leaky vaccine speedball.
Good. All vaccinations should be free to residents of any country.
Slickdrifter
Either you like this news story or not. I say good on Japan!
Come November, a vaccine will come and be ready for distribution according to CDC. Then the vaccine will only get better as data comes in as we go into 2021. This will end at some point COVID-19 and it will be brought under control.
Will the vaccine work? Or the various vaccines work? Maybe it will, Maybe it won't.
Its bio warfare. Doing nothing about it and not trying these potential vaccines will cost more loss of life.
For me its an acceptable plan rather then doing nothing and waiting for heard immunity to take place. I've lost two people dear to me because of this Chinese engineered virus. I would volunteer to try the vaccine.
Total in Japan cases 69,001 +609 Recovered 58,428 Deaths 1,307+11 as of today in Japan.
Japan is doing something right. I have confidence in Japanese hospitals and Japanese Doctors.
Especially the Uni hospitals in this county. More so over than my own country.
longtimenosee
Agreed. Anti-vaxxers get thousands killed every year by not getting flu-shots.
n1k1
This case is highly contentious because of the scare campaign going on, the rush to bring vaccines to market much faster than ever before, the lack of evidence that COVID-19 is any more dangerous than the flu for the vast majority of people, and the ridiculous limits that have been placed on our civil liberties, rights tot associate freely and freedom of movement that are way out of proportionate the threat
You are obviously confused. COVID19 is as dangerous if not more as the flue is. That is how you should see things. The limits placed are there for a reason. To have the hospitals running and keep the economy running.
The vaccines will not be mandatory. You are welcome to have your chances with the virus itself.
The problem though is you really should stop posting things like "faulty products" and "bad practices" without knowing virtually none of the details involved. You might actually prevent someone taking a medication without even consulting a doctor.
The content on your link doesn't contradict @virusrex.
Except it does and virusrex pretty much admitted it. He literally said no phase III testing takes years, as in none. Zip. Zero. And I showed a link that says that in fact, plenty do.
Of course that is not directly on point that some do only take 6 months as he says, but, who here is going to be satisfied that in this rush to get a corona vaccine, an effort which has failed for decades, that 6 months is enough time and jab their kids with it? If the Cutter Incident does not give one pause to reflect on what can happen when a vaccine goes from phase III to mass use in about one year, nothing will. Doctors, scientists and corporations screw up on their own. They screw up more when working together to get new products mass produced for the first time. Its an old, well known, obvious pattern. Anyone ignoring it is a fool. Anyone convincing us to ignore it is on the take, a troll or again, a fool.
But you have to go through HELL to claim harm from a vaccine. In the end it will all be an incredible amount of wasted time and energy, you'll be subject to heavy character assassination / accused of child abuse & negligence, loss of income due to time away from work. Even if you win you won't be able to get your child back once they've been injured.
Can you blame them ? I wouldn't let you anywhere near children. If you still haven't vaccinated your children go see a doctor / psychiatrist and at least talk about the subject.
All kids with the exception of very few are routinely and regularly getting shots of all sorts of vaccines.
If vaccines are really what they claim it to be surely the antivaxxers can present abundant evidence of its ill effects, no need to make something up
Ashley Shiba
Before giving out a vaccine to all of Japan why not ramp up the testing and try and eliminate this virus, and so, we can get on with life.
Immunological and serological studies show that most people develop no symptoms or only mild symptoms when infected with the new coronavirus, while some people may experience a more pronounced or critical course of the disease. Note: Patients are asked to consult a doctor.
https://swprs.org/on-the-treatment-of-covid-19/
Last week, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the government wants to secure vaccines for all citizens by the first half of 2021 as part of a set of measures against the virus
First half of 2021...just in time to declare Japan is " safe " to host the Olympics. Such an amazing coincidence.....but surely that played no role in Abe govt rush to purchase and make plans to distribute a totally unproven , non existent vaccicne and exempt its maker from liability.
Naw, I’ll pass for now.
Exactly! Anyone with critical thinking knows that vaccines don't work and this is all a political stunt by Abe to promote the Olympics. Thankfully the world isn't silly enough to actually believe the J government propaganda about these non-existent vaccines and pseudo-science.
Dear Antivaxxers ,
Lucky for your C19 isn't ebola. If it were you would have begged for the kind of response we have seen these last 8 months from science and big pharma.
Yes it is about choice. Informed choice based on science.
Yooki Imada
Whether it is a choice... or the science...or the aftereffects... isn't assuring to know that the community you belong, and the people you are with... have all been vaccinated?
Isn't the very daunting effort to develop this vaccine... all for the common good...and not purely for profit and/or the benefit of big pharma?
I would not even want to get 6ft-near someone (masked or not) who has not been vaccinated. Just pure selfishness to even think of opting out.
Otherwise, please put a sign out... on yourself... front and back.... to let other people know you have declined getting the vaccine.
I miss two info.
if vaccination will be at voluntarily basis.
why article did not mentioned Russia as first country in world with official vaccine against covid.
Whatsnext
Just because it's free doesn't mean you should put it in your body.
Dont let the bullies force you to take this like they force you to wear a mask.
I am very hesitant to be given this vaccine.
Reason 1: This virus is mutating very quickly, therefore by the time vaccine is created then made in large quantity and then distributed to clinics and hospitals, it would have mutated to a point that the vaccine is ineffective, but you still run all the risks of side effects.
Reason 2: People who have allergies. Has it been tested enough so that it can be said that it is safe to take and will not cause a anaphylactic shock?
Reason 3: They are rushing this vaccine, no one knows what side effects it will have, and what percentage will be severely affected. Like Russia, entire population are guinea pigs.
Should we not?
We certainly should not be accepting a rushed dodgy vaccine!!
Does anyone remember the new influenza drug called Tamiflu a few years ago? Some kids started hallucinating and attempted to jumped out of the window? Obviously they didn't do enough testing with that either before they started giving it to everyone...
Hank Standerford
I hear a lot of people abroad and here in japan saying they won’t take it. What happens if they decide to chip your health card for those who have received and deny access to places such as airports, hotels, amusement parks, restaurants, concert events etc?would you still say no to the vaccine?
I would and will say no to this vaccine. But then again I can live quite happily without all those conveniences and attractions you listed. Others will no doubt crumble if threatened with the denial of access to such privileges.
gabrial888
Good thing. I like the government's thinking on this. I'm all for it. Glad to know I'm not living in an unfeeling capitalist society.
The virus has not mutated enought during this whole year to make serum therapy ineffective. That means a vaccine would at least last as long if not for life. Anaphylactic shock is a risk that people with allergies will always have, testing the vaccine endlessly would not reduce it, you have to see a doctor to get vaccinated for this reason, he is the one that decides if you can be vaccinated or not if you have allergies.
Government is not just covering the cost of getting the vaccine, they will also cover liability risks, will compensate for health problems that may arise by getting it
Excellent point ! They are starting in October correct ?
I meant think about it ... what if a virus is a weapon ? Say what you will but I really think Russia's response to the pandemic is actually very close to perfect ! Bravo !
rgcivilian1
A government panel of health experts, however, has indicated the difficulty of developing an effective vaccine.
Yes, that is correct, thinking that the vaccine is useless just because the virus mutates is a mistake born from not knowing even basic biology. Many vaccines against RNA viruses confer protection for long time. It is important to make this clear and not let people get the wrong idea.
Yes it is about choice. Informed choice based on science
Yes, that is why I am opting out.
Considering Covid19 is nowhere near as dangerous as initially thought, it would be crazy to take a vaccine that hasn't gone through the usual testing.
That is not a worry for a vaccine released next year, which are the ones that Japan is making dealings to acquire, 6 months of phase III is perfectly usual.
Anti-vaxxes out in force on the down votes, you also think the world is flat?
Why can't you change "considering" into something less ambiguous like "I think" or some other reason real or fiction. That way is easy we can just vote down. This way unless replied it stays there like it is the god given truth. Why ? Why do have to do this.
I am not an anti-vaxer. Every year I take the latest flu shot, and I have taken every shot my doctor has ever recommended. Like a lot of others when I was in the military I was administered vaccines for diseases that are very rare, and which the public almost never takes. That said, I am suspicious of anything being pushed by a CDC controlled by Trump's idiots, rather than by scientists. If Trump pushes a vaccine for release in two months, I am very tempted to wait and see if there are any negative effects.
Does anyone remember the new influenza drug called Tamiflu a few years ago? Some kids started hallucinating and attempted to jumped out of the window? Obviously they didn't do enough testing with that either before they started giving it to everyone..
Yes some children who have caught influenza appeared to have hallucinations after taking tamiflu. It could have been the medicine but it could also have been the virus or some other context related. It is yet to be seen.
Yes if the virus c19 or flue finds it's way into the brain you can expect behavioral changes perhaps even death; and another reason why I think our chances for immunity with a Phase 3 passed vaccine are actually much better compared to immunity obtained via infection with the actual virus.
That said, I am suspicious of anything being pushed by a CDC controlled by Trump's idiots, rather than by scientists.
The CDC is not controlled by idiots it is controlled by scientists. This is a public knowledge and fact.
https://www.cdc.gov/about/leadership.htm
> If Trump pushes a vaccine for release in two months, I am very tempted to wait and see if there are any negative effects.
I don't think Trumps cares that much. But if it makes you feel better to wait for negative effects that is fine too.
Maybe the best evidence against antivaxxer claims would be you, the antivaxxers yourselves.
Unless you were children of antivaxxers also, chances are all of you underwent the regular recommended barrage of vaccines when you were kids.
Are all or most or even a few of you suffering from some kind of disability now as a result of said vaccines?
Im quite sure there were none or you would have posted about it already.
TTTokyo
I am perplexed when the Japanese ethics in high places, with regard to vaccines, in view of past phytosanitary and industrial scandals, having affected thousands of people (many countries), not to mention the race for the vaccine which will generate interest in the billions. Did we already forgot the nuclear plants btw..In another article, I read that a Japanese group wants to buy (already, wow, in this case they can act quick) the manufacturer Aztrazeneca .., not to mention the current hysteria for stock market investments for pharmaceutical companies (especially in Europe) .. kinda "deja-vu"..again a bubble that will make others left behind. 99% of the mass media (guess who owns and control them) do not talk about the countries which have used chloroquine for decades (largely proven after the war), and which have come out the best, and for cheap, as if by chance, it can be understood , given the millions received by the .. lobbyists of .. pharmaceutical cartels .. whose shareholders are shareholders of these .. media lol.
Just pure selfishness to even think of opting out.
Arguably a good point too. Just a gut feeling but If the vaccines were rolled out in Africa and India first I think half of the "no thank you" posters here would be OK. The other half I don't know maybe then they will not trust those reports , because big pharma this and that.
Just out of curiosity , at what point you would consider having the vaccines ? What kind of information comming from whom would make you change your mind ? How would you verify ? Who will you trust ? Who needs to produce it ? What makes you think that the manufacturing won't fail 3 years later because of a simple human error ? What makes you think the medicine you are currently taking is OK ?
Anyone please give a scenario where you find western medicine OK and useful
Why can't you change "considering" into something less ambiguous like "I think" or some other reason real or fiction.
I use "think" when I am referring to my own personal opinion. But in this case I am referring to a well established fact, that Covid19 is nowhere near as dangerous as initially thought. Neowave's posts made this very clear, but unfortunately those posts were deleted. And considering this fact...
Anyone who has no serious immune issues has no valid reason to worry about Covid19, and has no reason to risk their health on poorly tested vaccines...
David Michael Lockard
Please consider international frameworks other than anything co-led by the WHO particularly if you are concerned about the entire population of a nation.
Good ears will perk at talk of effective vaccines.
But it is not well established fact neither the vaccines are poorly tested.
It is quite dangerous. It cost lives around the world. It crushed almost every first world country economy.
The vaccines are tested to reasonable level. Expecting perfect is crazy. Fine tell me have you ever been vaccinated ? Are you ever planing to get vaccinated ? And Why ? What makes a vaccine thoroughly tested for you ?
n1k1Today 10:42 pm JST
The danger was that stupid govts led by idiot leaders panicked and created mass hysteria and they shut down most business which screwed most economis, the virus itself is no where near as damaging as the stupidity of the reactions to it by the govts who locked down 90% of its citizens, more people died from stress related problems, suicides, heart attacks and other problems than died from this scamdemic itself. The virus is not as dangerous as the over reaction to it and the resulting carnage left in its wake.
Simple precautions , common sense, hygiene and awareness are your greatest tools in combatting the virus, not closing down the economy and throwing many into economic and financil turmoil and making them unemployed damaging the economic future of the country for generations to come, its crazy over the top behavour.
When you see diggers loading carcasses in trucks, when you see people on youtube crying why there isn't anyone helping burry his dead sister , government or not you panic. Not really idiotic in my eyes.
Simple precautions , common sense, hygiene and awareness are your greatest tools in combatting the virus, not closing down the economy and throwing many into economic and financil turmoil and making them unemployed damaging the economic future of the country for generations to come, its crazy over the top behavour
Or a vaccine and experience of unprecedented significance for our children battling the next pandemic that might just not be as mild or god forbid even man made.
First of all nothing works 100%. Nothing is 100% safe either. And by nothing I mean even medication approved decades ago and even medication that worked for you personally 10 years ago.
No one in their sane mind can predict that at a given moment in time a medication will not create or trigger problems down the road for each an everyone.
No one is nor will be forcing anything. I am almost certain.
Jonathan Prin
For vaccines, the probability of success ranges from 7% for non-industry-sponsored candidates to 40% for industry-sponsored candidates. Latter source : wikipedia
GoodlucktoyouSep. 3 08:37 am JST Anti-vaxxers are as ignorant as anti-maskers, and a danger.
Yes. That's why no one wears one during invasive surgical procedures.
No thanks. I do not want an insufficiently tested vaccine for a disease that has a 0.1% mortality rate overall (probably a 1% rate in my age group, but so what). Plus, as we learn more about the condition every day, better treatments are coming out all the time.
Somebody's paying...the buddies of oyajis.
Sure you won't have the choice in the type of vaccine as it will be the one sponsored by them through brown enveloppes.
That is of course assuming no long term effect of the infection is found in the years to come, something that is not a certainty.
The solution again would be not to risk anything with a vaccine properly tested, which includes all the ones that Japan has shown interest in procuring.
ake bono
Japan considers offering COVID-19 vaccines for free to all residents..., Abe says all citizens
Anybody see a problem with that?
Nah we good, brah! Whatever they're injecting people with they have not proven that it actually works with astounding results (recovery). Usually in the field of science, if they're offering a vaccine for free, its usually still in the trial phase. So they use the term "free" to attract "experimental subjects" when they want to move on from experimenting on animals to humans.
Don't be sheep!
We still don't have a vaccine for the 1st SARS virus back in 2003 (17 years now).
There are literally dozens of vaccines against SARS, all giving excellent results in preclinical trials, the only reason none advanced to human clinical trials is because there is no economic nor ethical justification to test a vaccine for a disease that have not a single patient per year.
They did animal testing with ferrets that showed a great immune response producing antibodies (which would have been FDA approved and good to go). But when they were exposed to the live SARS virus they overreacted with high inflammation, organ failure and died.
And in other trials with ferrets, mice, rats, etc. No such thing happened, this is common for any kind of drug, having one failed candidate and 100 successful ones. This is just a bad misrepresentation.
Now we are skipping animal testing and going straight to 'healthy' human trials.
No, of course not, all vaccines candidates already finished the preclinical trials, which is precisely animal experimentation. From where can anybody get that false idea?
FDA is even willing to approve at 30% 'effectiveness'. I have a feeling those Japanese health experts will take a hard look at the data first and reactions in other countries before making it FREE for you and your kids.
As long as something is safe and effective it can always be approved, if other vaccines that have higher efficacy appear the ones with less value will stop being sold and produced.
Any country can wait for as much as they want, but it is not rational to spend a few more years waiting for a phase IV to finish, only to find out the natural infection has more side effects on a long term while the economy of that single country that waits without reason goes down.
'Vaccine expert' Bill Gates (BFF with Dr. Anthony Fauci) says "NONE of the vaccines at this point appear like they'll work with a single dose". So are we ready at least 2 or more injections per year? (they believe that the antibodies wear off so it will now be an annual vaccination)
Yes, the same as many other vaccines, that have some usefulness with a single dose, but are much better with two doses, and no, antibodies are just one single part of the immune system, recent articles have proved that memory cells are able to mediate long lasting immunity, those same cells have been stimulated with vaccine candidates so there is no reason to expect a yearly vaccine (and specially not one with two boost for year, that is nonsense)
The current US population is about 330 million so 500 million - 330 million leaves 170 million for newborns, travelers, immigrants, etc. It'll be $$ red panty night $$ for Moderna for sure.
Shame on people that get profits from saving lives and economies, if people could just make money by spreading fear like antivaxxers do, right?
Fluzone influenza vaccine has an accepted "FDA approved" death rate of 0.6% (page 11 of package insert that very few people read before injecting - I am guilty of that):
Did you forget to mention that this vaccine is used for people at advanced age? and that this death rate is on the same level from people without any vaccination?
You know this vaccine is not made to protect them from all the other conditions that they have right? why did you expect them to die less than non-vaccinated people? They do die less from influenza of course.
when you start digging into the data surrounding SARS COVID-19 you will see that we do not need to live in FEAR: https://swprs.org/facts-about-covid-19/
Sorry but your source of information has been characterized as a conspiracy theorist source, with many falsehoods and mistaken information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Propaganda_Research
It has been proved repeatedly to promote false information regarding many kinds of topics, it is not a source that can be trusted.
mukashiyokatta
There WILL NOT BE a vaccine! Was there one for Zika? Was there one for SARS? Was there one for Ebola? No, no, and no. Vaccines are pieces of Big Pharma PRODUCT.
antibodies are just one single part of the immune system, recent articles have proved that memory cells are able to mediate long lasting immunity,
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT and 18,664,286 have recovered from COVID-19 WITHOUT a vaccine. Because they can produce antibodies themselves naturally. Memory cells can and are able to produce long lasting immunity EVEN when the antibody count drops BUT mainstream media once again will have you believe that IS NOT THE CASE so you will need to be injected as antibody count drops 3-4 months later.
Especially for people at that advanced age (seniors) to whom Fluzone is heavily marketed to.
Not so sure about the saving lives and economies though. Maybe better peace of mind.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/the-impact-of-vaccines-on-mortality-decline-since-1900-according-to-published-science/
They cite all their sources but I'm sure you will continue to character assassinate people in their organization.
Some vaccines have some effectiveness while others do not. Every vaccine is different. Some have live viruses while others do not. Some use chicken, insect, cow cells to grow the viruses while others may use aborted fetal tissue.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/27/health/chicken-egg-flu-vaccine-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
I make no money in having these discussions nor will I ever. Just see SO MUCH CENSORSHIP and CONTROL of the NARRATIVE BY BIG PHARMA & their DRUG / VACCINE COMPANIES which you believe can do no wrong, are absolute angels of society and do no harm to anyone. You did mention however there are risks involved but downplay them as if they are minimal.
Vaccines in the US are liability free for the companies since 1986. You cannot sue them for injuries to you or your family. Instead the US government pays out in vaccine court leaving the Vaccine producer whole. WIN-WIN for the vaccine company.
H.R.5546 - National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986
https://www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/house-bill/5546
NVIC's co-founders worked with Congress on the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, which acknowledged that vaccine injuries and deaths are real and that the vaccine injured and their families should be financially supported and that vaccine safety protections were needed in the mass vaccination system.
COVID-19 Symptoms across the population:
"About 80% of all people develop only mild symptoms or no symptoms. Even among 70-79 year olds, about 60% develop only mild symptoms. About 95% of all people develop at most moderate symptoms and do not require hospitalization." https://swprs.org/studies-on-covid-19-lethality/#hospitalizations
They cite CDC data. Are you saying that CDC data is incorrect? How about ny.gov or nyc.gov? They've cited their data as well. State provided data is false?
Also sorry but Wikipedia? It is now strictly controlled by special interests to maintain the mainstream narrative. Especially for anyone that speaks out against "Big Pharma can do no wrong" narrative.
https://sharylattkisson.com/2019/05/wikipedia-is-broken-controlled-by-special-interests-and-bad-actors-says-co-founder/
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Be prepared to explain to Nigerians who approved subsidy, Senate tells FG
Posted by jordanfm on December 30, 2017
Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru yesterday said that the landing cost of petroleum products that should be sold in the pump without under-recovery should be N171.40, but that President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that the corporation should maintain all the parameters to ensure that it is sold at N145 per liter. Dr Baru, who disclosed this to State House correspondents after Jumat service at the Presidential Villa, Abuja also said that the corporation has tamed the fuel scarcity in the country. However, despite the efforts of the Federal Government to reduce the hardships the petroleum products has caused Nigerians, it is still sold at N250 per liter in different parts of the country. Speaking on the current situation of petroleum scarcity, Baru said, “I’m happy to report that we have tamed the monster that reared it’s head as a result of the rumored price increase about three weeks ago. “Fortunately that rumour instigated a lot of marketers to be very greedy and they decided that their fellow citizens should not enjoy the Christmas holiday and new year with ease and decided to profiteer starting by hoarding and diversion of the products. “At the beginning, I did address the press, telling the world that we have sufficient products that will last us 30 days through the new year into January but because the marketers wanted to inflict harm and pains on fellow citizens, they decided to hoard products, divert them and in some cases even smuggle products out of the country.
“This has been tamed by the actions we took and I personally led the war around Abuja and other teams led the war in Lagos and other parts of the country. “As of this morning (Friday), I have gone round the Abuja metropolis and I have seen that the queues have reduced significantly to almost normal level and few motorists that I heard speaking on morning programmed concerning what I have seen said they have not spent up to 30 minutes to fuel their car. “So the monster has been tamed in Lagos, the situation has been brought into normalcy as far as two days ago and we are also aching the same thing in all other cities. “I promise that we have sufficient products that will last us for the next 30 days and we keep bringing in 50% over and above our normal consumption into the country. And vessels have been lined up. “At the moment I have eight vessels discharging products at various ports around the country. So Nigerians should enjoy the new year and that Mr. President’s directive and guidance which has been very helping has been executed and normalcy has returned. “Those marketers that have hidden products in odd locations you better bring them out and sell to the public at N145 per liter maximum. If NNPC sold it to you at N133.28, you have sufficient margin within that ambit to be able to supply and sell to the public at maximum N145 per liter. “The NNPC are selling at N143 per liter so you should be able to sell at N145 per liter. If you go above that, the regulator, DPR and PPPRA with the support of law enforcement agencies particularly the civil defence, will make sure that the products are confiscated and given free to the public. “This is the directive that we are working on by Mr. President and is being executed to the later. Bring them out and sell these products, we don’t have any shortage and we are making massive loadings. On the true position of subsidy because Nigerians are confused whether the product is subsidized going by the fact that the federal government said it has stopped the payment of subsidies only to realize according to the Vice President that the NNPC is subsidizing petroleum products to the tune of N26 per liter, he said they were obeying the directives of the President. He said, “Do you want me to remove subsidy? What I am saying is that the landing cost as should be sold in the pump without under-recovery should be N171.40, however Mr. President has directed that we should maintain all the parameters to ensure that it is sold at N145 per liter. “And that is why we are selling at depot at N133.28.” Meanwhile, the Senate yesterday lampooned the federal government, alleging that it was at the moment, subsidising the pump price of PMS, to measure up to N171 landing cost of the product per litre officially regulated at N145 per litre .
Speaking yesterday, Chairman, Committee on Petroleum Resources ( Downstream), Senator Kabiru Marafa has however vowed that the Senate would stop the illegal subsidy regime which according to him was not in any way appropriated for . Senator Marafa who noted that the NNPC and other stakeholders in the sector will have to explain to Nigerians how they arrived at the alleged subsidy payment more than a year after its stoppage, said, “At our slated investigative public hearing on the sector next week Thursday, NNPC and other stakeholders should be prepared to explain to Nigerians who approved the subsidy for them and who appropriated it? “There is complacency in the sector and sharp practices that must be stopped. They want to take us back to subsidy regime that has never been beneficial to ordinary Nigerians across the country . We cannot go back to such scam called regime which robbed the country N10 trillion between 2006 and 2016.” Marafa who noted that transparency in governance which the government started with in 2015 must be strictly adhered to as far as sales and importation of fuel is concerned, said that while the previous government swaped exported crude for imported refined PMS, the present government has been using a more transparent model of direct sale of crude oil and direct purchase of refined product .
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Straussians, Founders, and the Faith
Nov 24, 2013 | Reviews
Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy: A Conservative Critique
by Grant Havers.
Northern Illinois University Press, 2013.
Hardcover, 256 pp., $37.
Grant Havers’s study of the Straussian persuasion may be too relentlessly honest to win applause from mainstream political or academic journals. It avoids those clichés that accompany widely publicized works dealing with Leo Strauss and his epigones. Even more outrageously, Havers makes no secret of his orientation as a Protestant Christian and a high Tory in the English or Canadian tradition. He rightly points out that with the exception of me, he may be the only person to have examined Straussian hermeneutics in a book-length study “from the right.” Also like me, he mocks the journalistic endeavors to depict Strauss, who was a self-identified Cold War liberal, as some kind of reactionary or neo-fascist.
Havers approaches his subject as someone who is keenly interested in theology as well as in the history of political thought. In an earlier book he examined the Christian idea of charity, in its American Protestant form, as a shaping power in the oratory of Abraham Lincoln. Havers’s work on Lincoln’s rhetoric did not receive the attention it richly deserved, possibly because the author wrote neither as a defender of Lincoln’s policies during the Civil War, nor as a critic of Lincoln’s re-founding of a America as a more egalitarian society. The proud descendant of devout Scottish Presbyterians who settled the Canadian prairies, Havers regards Lincoln as someone who invoked the biblical sensibilities of his ancestors and the cultural world they inhabited, even if his forefathers lived north of the American border and were English monarchists. He interprets Lincoln not as a forerunner of an American world-democratic mission but as the Southern traditionalist Richard Weaver did, namely as a public speaker who appealed to moral authority. Lincoln tapped effectively into deeply ingrained religious principles in arguing against slavery (without insisting, as Havers points out, on political equality for the manumitted slaves).
Havers takes to task Strauss and his disciples for omitting from their discussions the specifically Protestant roots of the American republic. Havers is especially focused on Michael Zuckert and Thomas Pangle, who among Strauss’s students have worked perhaps hardest to identify the American founding with John Locke, who is presented in these accounts as a secular-minded materialist. Havers finds an abundance of passages in Strauss and in Straussians like Pangle, Zuckert, and Walter Berns to substantiate his argument that integral to the Straussian project is an attempt to dissociate Anglo-American constitutional liberalism from any Christian reference point. The one subgroup of Straussians who do recognize Christian and classical elements in the American founding and are grouped around Harry Jaffa and Claremont University, are from Havers’s perspective, also suspect. Although Jaffa does pay homage to religion, this recognition is only intended to justify a secular, universal mission imposed on the American state: “In short Jaffa has no objection to religious passions if these are dedicated to democratic causes.” In summing up this “Western” Straussian or Jaffaite attitude to religious revelation, Havers explains: “Unlike the Christian traditions of the Old World, the leveling effects of [Jaffa’s] American religion have created a uniquely egalitarian Christianity that Jaffa draws upon in order to press the argument that America is the chosen nation that must spread equality far and wide.” Although Havers tells us American Protestantism produced a religious disposition that is unique to the New World, he also hastens to add: “far from being the ‘universal nation,’ however, America is grounded in a faith tradition that is historically specific to a radical Protestant heritage, one that is not easily reducible around the globe.”
Two axial points define Havers’s critique of the Straussian persuasion. One, Strauss and his school, by ascribing what is good in the American republic to either vestigial classical sources or generic “modernity,” are ignoring the impact of Christian belief systems on early American politics. Although Havers fails to mention Barry Shain’s cogent studies on the formative value of Calvinism for early American communities, he ends up making much the same argument as Shain about the missing link in the Straussian authorized version of the American founding. He explains that most Straussians (but the Jaffaites less frequently than the others) antiseptically remove from their preferred American political tradition any religious or sectarian elements. And Havers is entirely on target when he stresses the cleaned-up version of “pagan antiquity” that Straussians favor. This goes back to Strauss’s rationalist interpretations of Plato and other classical thinkers, minus such disfiguring warts of Greek and Roman societies as infanticide, the degrading slavery, and the regular practice of exterminating one’s enemies. Straussians may cite as counterevidence Paul Rahe’s massive work on republics ancient and modern, which documents the low opinions about ancient political societies held by the American founders. But Rahe only suggests somewhat parenthetically that the founders believed Christianity was primarily responsible for the improved human condition since antiquity. Further, he brings up this frequently pronounced negative judgment among the American founders mostly to stress the modern, Lockean nature of the American founding, in accordance with prescribed Straussian hermeneutics.
The second axial point is announced at the beginning of the book when Havers explains: “Although I do not doubt that Strauss and his students sincerely believe in the highest principles of what they take to be liberal democracy, they usually reinvent this tradition as a modern version of ancient Greek civilization in order to press their message that Anglo-American civilization is a universal tradition that has existed at least in principle since Plato and Aristotle. As a result they misrepresent the very historical and philosophical underpinnings of this tradition.” Since my own fingerprints may be found in the formulation of this second objection and since my name is prominent among those who for Havers “associate true conservatism with an unabashed appreciation for the historical differences that separate people,” perhaps I should make clear where I stand here.
Like HaversI would never deny there are moral absolutes that all civilized societies try to maintain. (Whether Western “liberal democracies” still observe these principles or guides, however, is very much open to question.) But I don’t imagine any more than Havers that some universal political wisdom is embodied in that form of “liberal democracy” that Straussians believe the U.S. now embodies in practice. Is gay marriage, feminism, or a largely unqualified universal suffrage, for instance, one of the ennobling principles of the present American dispensation being celebrated by Straussians? Equally questionable is whether early Americans would even recognize their “principles” as being operative in what the U.S. has become since the eighteenth century, or whether American leaders before the victory of liberal internationalism would have thought the regime they valued was universally transferable. When it comes to the Protestant Christian and Hebraic roots of early American society and the effect of those roots on the later American republic, Havers’s statements seem for me self-evident. Most pertinently, I share his view that Straussians are obsessed with denying the obvious when it comes to dealing with religious influences. The fact that devout Catholics, including learned Catholic clergy, pore rapturously over Straussian texts that teach that anyone who counted for anything in Western political thought was a secularist or a secularizer, may be an even more glaring oddity. And since this conclusion is often produced on the basis of arbitrary readings of “secret writings,” this gullibility among Catholic and other Straussians is all the weirder.
There are, however, two points on which I stand closer to Strauss than to my loyal associate in many tasks, Havers. Strauss may be right when he suggests that it is possible to embrace sincerely a religious tradition entirely on the basis of faith or because it belonged to one’s ancestors. Although Strauss may have gone too far in denying that “philosophy” can be squared with ancestral custom or the Western religious tradition, it is hard to fault him for defending (however inconsistently) the “ancestral.” Therefore when Strauss claimed his strong attachment to his Jewishness flowed from an ancestral tie, one should not accuse him of improperly or dishonestly describing his sentiment. One may also ask, as I do in my book, whether Strauss was not trying to trivialize religion by underlining the distance between faith and reason. But merely pointing out this gulf does not disparage religion. Affirming it is entirely consistent with certain Protestant theologies. Luther, who was certainly no religious skeptic, went as far as Strauss (and in much earthier language) in underscoring the metaphysical distance in question.
Further, I find nothing objectionable about Zuckert’s depiction of Locke as a religious skeptic trying to appeal to religionists (and particularly to English Levelers). Havers may assume that Zuckert has this all wrong because he reads too much Lockeanism, and therefore secularism, into the American founding. And we know there were American founders, like James Wilson, who mistook Locke for a devout Christian and someone who in his confessional loyalty was like themselves. But the Straussians may have gotten Locke right. Straussian observations about Locke’s feigned religious faith, which is on display in On the Reasonableness of Christianity and the two Treatises, is exactly how I understood Locke while reading him in college fifty years ago. Zuckert is correct when he asserts that Locke cites the High Anglican theologian Richard Hooker in the Second Treatise as window dressing or to prove the opposite of what Hooker had meant. In any case it is hard for me to imagine how one could read Locke’s use of theological authorities in any other way than Zuckert does.
Having caviled perhaps too much, it behooves me to end this review by noting the originality and polemical vigor that is evident in Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy. No study of the history and hermeneutics of the Straussian school of political theory would be complete without reading Havers’s latest monograph. Unlike most of Strauss’s books and those of his disciples, Havers writes like a dream, and I remain impressed even after having seen most of his work by his fresh, muscular prose. A final recommendation: A professor wouldn’t necessarily receive low evaluations for assigning this book to undergraduates.
Paul Gottfried is a columnist and former Horace Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College.
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From insights to action: Gender equality in the wake of COVID-19
Authors/editor(s): Ginette Azcona, Antra Bhatt, Jessamyn Encarnacion, Juncal Plazaola-Castaño, Papa Seck, Silke Staab, and Laura Turquet
The impacts of crises are never gender-neutral, and COVID‑19 is no exception.
This publication summarizes data, research, and policy work by UN Women’s Policy and Programme Division on the pandemic’s impact on women and girls, including the impact on extreme poverty, employment, health, unpaid care, and violence against women and girls. The publication also brings into focus the paucity of gender data and calls for greater investment and prioritization of data on the gendered effects of the crisis.
The report draws on the UN Secretary-General’s policy brief on the impact of COVID-19 on women, UN Women’s “Spotlight on gender, COVID-19 and the SDGs”, UN Women thematic policy briefs focused on COVID-19, as well emerging data from UN Women’s rapid gender assessments. New estimates on extreme poverty by sex and age presented in the publication are the outcome of a UN Women–UNDP collaboration with the Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures at the University of Denver.
Report (PDF, 1.2MB)
References (PDF, 175KB)
Poverty pullout (PDF, 49KB) | Poverty pullout in Spanish (PDF, 64KB) | Poverty pullout in French (PDF, 64KB)
Technical note (PDF, 224KB) | Technical note in Spanish (PDF, 220KB) | Technical note in French (PDF, 243KB)
Annexes (Excel, 636KB)
Subject area(s): COVID-19; Domestic violence/interpersonal violence; Economic empowerment; Ending violence against women and girls; Gender data gaps; Gender statistics; Health; Poverty
Resource type: Assessments
ISBN/ISSN: 978-92-1-005339-6
UN Women statement, International Migrants Day 2020
Child Marriage and Early Unions in Humanitarian and Crisis Settings in Latin America and the Caribbean
Orange lights take over Latin America and the Caribbean as a call for the elimination of violence against women
Statement: Rebuilding better together to end AIDS for women and girls
UN calls for "zero tolerance" policies on violence against women and increased funding for women's organizations
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Staying home? It’s a good time to organize the house.
Mom and dad are now working from home instead of the office. Students aren’t attending classes in person, but rather online. The house has become noisier, messier and more chaotic — and household routines that used to anchor us to sanity have been totally upended thanks to directives that grew out concerns over the spread of the new coronavirus.
With so much chaos in the outside world, managing the chaos at home is now more important than ever. And with the need to keep spaces neat and organized, it’s a great time to tackle clean-up projects at home that have been put off.
First, get motivated to get organized, says Cathy Bates, founder of Practical Solutions (psorganizing.com), a personal organizing business based in Redlands that serves most of Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
“It’s a matter of people having more time right now to get organized,” she says, adding that reducing the amount to manage and clean up makes life easier and less stressful for everyone.
Start by identifying or creating enough personal work and school space for each family member. Reimagine your home and its spaces, especially if you have a small home.
The family of Katie Koentje, owner of the Orange and San Diego counties market for the NEAT Method (neatmethod.com), a nationwide home organizing and virtual organizing company, could be the poster family for current work-from-home/school-from-home situations. Koentje and her husband are both working from home, homeschooling a 5-year-old and also entertaining their toddler.
NEAT organizers nationwide have postponed in-person client appointments but are offering virtual organizing help online. Koentje says the goal of the NEAT Method is to make spaces more functional and reduce stress, and to “turn chaos into calm.”
Koentje says it’s important to designate a specific work or schooling space for each individual in the home and to create a daily routine and schedule.
Pick a spot or multiple locations, and make sure the areas are set up for success for each person. Wall plugs, computer chargers and school supplies should be nearby and accessible. If you have elementary school-aged kids, categorize, contain and label supplies like markers, scissors and glue. Put them in a shoebox or bag and label them, or use a craft cart to contain and organize needed supplies.
Also make sure to keep the mounds of paperwork under control, says Koentje. “Paper flow can be overwhelming, printing things, worksheets and all that. Create ‘to do,’ ‘pending’ and ‘completed’ folders to organize projects, papers and kid crafts. Manage it nightly during clean-up time. Contain and eliminate clutter.”
Each family member also should share their weekly schedule and ask, “What does the next day look like?” says Koentje, adding that it’s important to discuss who has important phone calls, where the calls will be taken and when a family member needs quiet time. “Creating a daily checklist of what needs to be accomplished or a daily schedule helps, especially if people are sharing space. Let the times be fluid but set a goal for what you want to accomplish in the day.”
Here’s another idea from Bates to help manage work-at-home spaces: designate the dining room table as a shared work space and set up a computer workstation there.
“Get creative. Most of the time we eat at the kitchen table anyway. Use the dining table as a community desk,” she says. “Have everyone in the house use moveable crates or a laundry basket for your supplies, books and things you need. Take it to the dining room table to work, and then take it back to your bedroom when you’re done.”
Post a sign-up sheet where family members can reserve the table or the designated shared workspace and let the others know when they need to be quiet.
Also take note of what the area behind the computer looks like and what’s visible behind you if you’re having FaceTime or video chat meetings while working at home, says Bates. “People are starting to clean up the areas behind their desk.”
If the home has only one dining table that’s tabbed as a work or school space, it will need to be cleared off at the end of each day. Koentje suggests incorporating a clean-up time at the end of each day. “Get everything out of sight and out of mind. On Friday, clear it away for the weekend. Being able to clean that up at the end the day is critical for our sanity. It’s mental organizing,” says Koentje.
Aside from managing work and school spaces at home, it’s also a good time to take on household clean-up projects that everyone in the family can help complete. One project is to clear out clutter and get rid of unwanted items around the house. Create a charity donation pile of unnecessary, unused or unwanted items. Toss out or recycle items that are broken, old and unusable.
“It’s a great time to donate and drop off things for people in need. And you are clearing out your stuff,” Bates says.
Koentje suggests tackling home clean-up or organizing projects in small, attainable stages. “Start with an area that’s driving you crazy the most. Don’t think, ‘I’m going to organize my kitchen.’ Think, ‘Today I’m going to organize my utensil drawer or I’m going to organize my Tupperware. Pull it all out and match the lids.”
Or, she adds, go through the kitchen junk drawer or towels and kitchen linens.
“Take everything out, toss what needs tossing, categorize and organize by category: toss, move to elsewhere in the house or donate. Do it in small stages or if you’re on a roll, do a few,” Koentje says. “Put a box of things to donate in your car since you’re not really driving as much now. Store it in there. Charities will want books and supplies.”
Finally, Bates advises families stuck at home to take advantage of the downtime and enjoy each other’s company. “Take these moments that we are together, and don’t focus that we are all on top of each other. Take time to enjoy each other and play a game.”
Marni Jameson: Home fills so many roles these days
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DAVID CAMERON AND THE CENTRE GROUND
The Observer asked a number of commentators whether David Cameron’s speech to the Conservative Party conference last week, in which he staked a claim to the centre ground of politics, will reshape the political landscape. Here’s my response. All the responses (including ones from Michael Heseltine, Shirley Williams, Rob Ford and Stefan Collini) are in the Observer.
There is nothing new in ideological clothes-swapping. Under Tony Blair, New Labour won three successive elections with the help of “triangulation” – stealing one’s opponents’ policies so as to occupy the ‘middle ground’. Blair borrowed the idea from Bill Clinton. In the age of Corbynista Labour, David Cameron and George Osborne have in turn stolen it.
But whereas New Labour symbolised a fundamental shift in the character of social democracy, the Tory move is far more opportunistic. The strength of the Conservative party has always been its flexibility, its willingness to cut its ideological cloth according to political needs. Even that most ideological of prime ministers, Margaret Thatcher, was far more pragmatic than is often acknowledged.
If the Tories’ new strategy reveals no major shift in ideology, it does expose a paradox of contemporary politics. Occupying the middle ground might appear democratic, shaping policies according to public desire. Yet the rush over the past two decades by parties of all hues to occupy the middle ground has coincided with greater public disengagement with politics. The more parties have politically cross-dressed, the less their views seem to have been heard.
Why? Because, in reality, it is an approach that has shrunk the political sphere and eroded the democratic process. Instead of emerging organically from a particular vision of what society should be like, policies are arbitrarily stitched together as means of appealing to particular constituencies. And so, the electorate’s ability to choose is diminished. This is why, right across Europe, large sections of the public have rejected mainstream middle ground parties in favour of populists, of both right and left.
Occupying the middle ground may prove electorally appealing. It may also prove a Pyrrhic victory.
Photograp by Rupert Hartley/Rex Shutterstock
by Kenan Malik on October 11, 2015
Categories: Britain, Politics • Tags: british politics, centre ground, conservative party, david cameron, new labour, tony blair
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cobrunstrom
Centrism is barren relativism. The assumption that elections are always won from “the centre” has led to many on the soft left to simply pack up their tents and shift further to the right every time they lose an election. Policies once thought extreme can become “centrist” simply as a result of an even more extreme possibility appearing on the horizon.
Oddly enough, I can’t think about centrism, without reflecting sadly and fondly on Charles Kennedy.
https://conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/left-right-and-centre-belated-thoughts-on-charles-kennedy/
Paul Braterman
The only thing centrist about this Government is the labelling.
Jon-Erik Stubbings
Surely no one with any intelligence is going to fall for it. It’s like King Leopold II saying that his Belgian colonial agents were in the Congo to help the Africans! Cameron – and Gove for example, perpetuate the policies of Thatcher/Reagan etc. i.e unfettered unregulated free markets – survival of the fittest Capitalism – privatise everything and hope that ‘competitiveness’ will work it’s magic for the common good – and then they have the cheek to bemoan the consequences!
35 years of these policies have resulted in rising inequality and reducing social mobility. Almost everything in society with power money and status attached to it (except professional football perhaps) is dominated by people from the 6% who went to private schools. Even acting and indie music – never mind positions like Prime Minister and Mayor of London (who’s in line to succeed there? – yes – more Old Etonians). Unfortunately it does seem that you can get away with saying one thing and doing the exact opposite. At least when Tony Blair claimed to be moving New Labour to the right he actually did it – while with Cameron’s Tories it really is cynical opportunism. Even the gay marriage legislation in the last parliament was window dressing – it was only passed in the teeth of opposition from most Tory MPs – because of the votes of Labour and the Lib Dems.
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LAUREL-RAIN SNOW CREATIONS
We have miles to go before we sleep…
BOOKS – I-III
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Excerpt from Interior Designs:
When the alarm went off, I was not ready to jump out of bed. I groaned, turned over, and glared at the clock.
Why did I have to wake up so early, anyway? I was my own boss. I could certainly change those hours for myself and for Caroline, too. Or maybe she could start at 8:30 and I could meander into the office an hour later.
But then I remembered Meadow. School would not be out for another couple of months. Since when had I been marking time this way? Once upon a time I used to revel in each day and look forward to the moments with Meadow. Or had I?
Maybe the secret in my life was how much I had always hated the obligations and the pretense. Maybe I, too, wanted to be a slacker, or even run off to the city to experience life. Perhaps I would like to find myself, too. Enjoy decadent nights and love affairs.
Well, I had done that part, anyway. That thing with Zach, who, by the way, hadn’t called me back. I’d left the message for him days ago. What was up with that?
Before I could allow myself to go there, though, I stumbled out of bed and into the shower. I could already hear Meadow stirring in her room. Sometimes she actually read or watched TV in there before she came to my room.
I enjoyed the time to begin the day without the pressure.
When had I started feeling stressed and pressured by my own daughter?
Guilt slid over my shoulders along with the shower spray. It sluiced across my body and covered me like a thin skin of doubt and shame. In moments like these, my mind traipsed along memory pathways again, and I was back there, plotting evil with Miranda Templeton. And that had turned out very badly.
An excerpt from An Accidental Life reveals two characters, moving slowly toward one another, cloaked in their individual fears.
Autumn slipped toward winter, its days beginning with that hideous, low-hanging fog that characterized this part of the valley. But Melody woke in the mornings feeling something akin to happiness. Taking her large mug of coffee over near the tall side windows, where she had set up a little table and wicker chair, she would spread out the newspaper. Reading, sipping her coffee, and occasionally glancing toward the guesthouse, waiting for the first sign of Hugh so she could invent some excuse to saunter on over.
Since their first encounter a few months back, the two of them had established a more or less regular routine. One or the other would initiate contact, they would chat for a bit, and then they would end up in bed. Melody still felt wonder when she reflected on their moments together. What an unlikely pairing they were.
She felt the heat rising in her face as her thoughts raced backward and she quickly fanned herself with the front page of the paper. Despite all the passion the two of them generated, however, she sometimes walked away afterwards wondering who Hugh Kincaid really was…They never really talked about anything substantive. Oh, they had shared the superficial biographical sketches. He knew that she had been in Haight-Ashbury in the sixties and on the road for awhile in the seventies. He knew about the trust fund that had brought her this house. She knew that he’d retired from a state job as an engineer, that he loved photography as art, and that he had been married once…But had no children.
Her brow furrowed as she tried to focus on the newspaper. Her thoughts refused to cooperate, continuing instead to ramble in Hugh’s direction. She realized that she wanted to know more. And she was even willing to share more of herself. The realization surprised and worried her at the same time. What did it mean?
In this excerpt from Chasing Stardust, Colin (the bad boy) meets Carly (the bad girl).
At sixteen, Colin looked much older than he was. His muscles were hardened by his compulsive workouts at the gym; he went there to escape the control of those in authority, especially his mother. Everyday, he checked himself out in the mirrors, flexing his muscles, taking his measure, so he knew that he looked every inch the Bad Boy. And he could tell that she wanted him, just by looking at her tight little walk as she tried to pass him by.
“Hey!” He reached out, lightly touching her arm.
“I’ve been watching you,” he continued, grinning charmingly, and running his other hand through the rakish curl that hung over his forehead.
“Are you some kind of creep?” She stared back at him boldly, but she didn’t seem offended at all.
“Yeah, right,” he laughed, matching her steps with a shorter stride.
He headed in the opposite direction, just so the two of them could walk side by side. “I’m Colin…Colin Winslow,” he offered suddenly, grinning again, and then blatantly stubbing out the cigarette on the wall.
Her eyes widened at his open gesture of defiance. And then she laughed. “Oh, I’m supposed to be impressed by how bad you are,” she laughed, and then stared straight at him as if wondering just how cool he really was. And then, as if satisfied, she grabbed his arm and leaned in toward him. “I’m Carly Santos,” she purred.
He didn’t need any more information than that. He’d heard the guys talking about this new girl, this Carly Santos; she was supposedly as wild as he was. She’d even been in the juvenile detention center a couple of times already. He also knew that she was only fourteen and a freshman. But despite that obstacle, there was no way that he would let this one get away.
They walked silently for awhile until they reached the chain-link fence surrounding the campus. “Got another cigarette?” She reached out, slipping her hand into his pocket. As she retrieved the pack, she let her hand linger there over his chest, slightly stroking him while gazing into his eyes. Her eyes seemed backlit, burning with a flame that could not be extinguished.
He grabbed her hand, and then held it while he flicked the lighter, leaning in to connect with the tip of the cigarette.
The gesture reminded her of a scene from a movie. She inhaled, and then blew the smoke into little rings, showing off, hoping he would be impressed.
He lit his own cigarette, and they silently smoked, leaning against the fence, barely touching.
As she ponders the negative memories from the past, Karen Kendall makes a choice to focus on the good in her life in the moment. Excerpted from Miles to Go.
She could still remember very clearly the times when she had known she was about to be moved from a foster home. The foster parents would be distant, walking around the house, carefully avoiding her, not looking at her directly. Then would come the apologetic “We need to talk,” followed by the gathering together of her things in those large, black trash bags. That was the worst! So humiliating, to have everything that was yours, usually so little, bagged up together into three or four giant trash bags. Sometimes she would come home from school and find that her things had been packed already. That would be the clue to a terse and hasty departure. And sure enough, within the hour, the social worker would appear in the inevitable county car, cheerfully greeting her, as if they were going on an adventure, and, usually without any explanations, she’d be off to the next home.
Sometimes there would be no foster homes and she’d have to stay in the children’s shelter, with impersonal staff. In some ways, this was better. At least they didn’t pretend to want her, didn’t show her that false welcome.
Now, breaking into a slow jog, Karen turned the corner onto 24th Street; she stayed on this course for a little while and then doubled back. As she reached Donner Way again, she reveled in her enjoyment of this street, centered by a grassy strip, punctuated by large trees. Arriving at the front door marked “2445,” she stomped her feet slightly, then removed her sneakers. She glanced up at the brick façade and took in the dark green shutters alongside each window; her eyes trailed upward to the top floor…Hers and Ashley’s…And she inhaled gratefully. She had something great right now and she mustn’t spoil it by these negative memories! Even though she still didn’t feel as if she truly belonged in this new life, she continued to wake up each day, here in this home, greeted by Rainbow, who was warm and loving…What more could she ask?
Web of Tyranny
For the first few seconds of every day, before reality hit, she felt her body floating in a cloudy tangle as she came up from her dreams. Beautiful dreams of sunny days filled with music, ice cream and lots of laughter. She could still remember a time when her days had been like that; she’d been much younger then, granted the indulgences of early childhood. Those moments usually happened in the warm, cozy rooms at Grandma’s house, when she’d had a feeling that everything would work out somehow.
But she was not at Grandma’s today, and as she tossed aside the heavy tangle of sheets and blankets, she knew she wouldn’t be going to Grandma’s again any time soon. Father had other plans for her. Her summer days would be full of farm chores, beginning in the early hours of the day and ending only when the last box of fruit had been emptied and the last peach had been cut and placed on the trays. In the shed, with its overhang that shielded from the hot summer sun, the smell of ripening fruit made her gag, but she had to stifle the urge. Otherwise, she could end up with a far worse punishment than cutting fruit all day.
Margaret shuddered as she recalled some of those punishments.
Embrace the Whirlwind
She hadn’t trusted in the myth of “happily ever after” for a very long time, but despite herself, she had believed that he was going to be the love of her life. After all, the two of them had been hanging out pretty regularly now for a couple of months. He came to the roadhouse where she worked, usually right after he finished up with his construction crew, and they had fallen into the habit of leaving together after her shift ended. But tonight had been different, right from the start.
First of all, he had barely acknowledged her presence when he got there. Still, she had tried not to take it personally, telling herself that he was just catching up with the guys. But then he’d started flirting with some of the other girls who had come in halfway through the night. Toward the end of her shift at the roadhouse, she had watched Buck walking out with that little twit, the one who had been hanging all over him all night long, and she could see the handwriting on the wall: he was moving on.
She had struggled along anyway, trying to pretend that none of it bothered her, until finally she was able to leave for the night. She headed toward the parking lot, and after she climbed into the old beat-up pickup truck, she huddled up inside for a few minutes wishing she could somehow disappear. She wished she could close her eyes, and then, once she opened them again this whole day would have magically turned out to be nothing but a dream. A nightmare, of course, but just a dream all the same! The humiliation of it all! She could still see the faces of the others as Buck had turned on his heel and walked out that door with someone else.
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“These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.” ― Robert Frost
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Sightseeing in San Diego
By Graham BishaiIn FROM OUR RWS, SIGHTSPosted October 31, 2019 0 Comment(s)
Content originally written for the Let’s Go: USA & Canada Guide by our researcher-writer, Graham Bishai.
300 Mission Blvd.; Belmont Park open S-Th 11am-11pm, F-Sa 11am-midnight
Take a stroll down the Mission Beach Ocean Front Walk to experience the classic boardwalk beach San Diego-style, complete with ice cream, volleyball nets, an amusement park, and lots of sand and waves. Zip on a rental scooter or bike down the promenade alongside families and surfer dudes here for the sun. At Belmont Park, do the classic beachfront amusement park thing: ride the rollercoaster, rock climb, play mini golf, or win big at the arcade. It is a beach, after all, so grab those trunks and get in the waves that lazily roll into the sand. Or you can be lazy, and bask in the laidback, happy contentment of the San Diego coast. Watch surfers catch waves as the sun dips down below the Pacific horizon, leaving behind a grapefruit sky.
Gaslamp Quarter
4th to 6th Ave. between Broadway and Harbor Dr.; https://www.gaslamp.org/; establishment hours vary
In the center of downtown San Diego lies the heart of the city’s nightlife, food, and arts life. These sixteen-odd neighborhood blocks are filled with Victorian-era architecture that today houses sleek boutiques and bistros. This place is fun sunup and sundown—during the day, many of the best nightlife spots masquerade as cafés and restaurants, popping with hungry crowds. You’ll hear a chorus of chatter can be heard all day until late into the night, as friends laugh over drinks and strut the streets in style. Such a sophisticated cosmopolitan stretch might seem out of place in this notoriously chill Californian beach town, but the San Diego vibe is still there, from the friendliness to the food. Just swap out the typical taco truck grub and canned beer for bougie tacos on a plate with a craft cocktail, and there you have it.
Establishment hours vary
2920 Zoo Dr.; (619) 231-1515; zoo.sandiegozoo.org; open daily 9am-6pm, check website for hours up to three months in advance
With over 650 species at the San Diego Zoo, you’ll really have the lion’s share of creatures to see here. It’s one of the most famous zoos in the world, and you will see why when you revel in the commanding yet endearing presence of the elephants, or laugh at the fact that flamingos are a thing. Learn about rhino conservation, resist the urge to bear hug the pandas, and experience the giraffes’ graceful gait. There’s lots of attractions beyond just looking at animal exhibits—take the aerial tram for a bird’s eye view from one end of the zoo to the other. Learn about a species at the Keeper Talks, or pet a pygmy goat at the Petting Paddock. There’s more to take in here than one could reasonably do in one visit, so don’t go on a wild goose chase trying to see everything.
Admission $54; guided bus tours throughout the day; wheelchair accessible
Graham Bishai
Graham left behind the stressed-out chaos of Cambridge for the laid back life on the West Coast. A refreshing change of pace, he assumed, until the line for coffee on his first morning took 2 mins longer than he’s used to, and the Northeast nasty jumped out. Starting in Vancouver, Graham meandered south, toning his calves being a pedestrian on San Francisco’s hills and by navigating the monstrosity that is Los Angeles using just his feet and public transit (only resorting to Uber twice!) Graham’s love for the West Coast life only increased as he sat by the Puget Sound in Seattle, sipped kombucha in the crunchy cafes of Portland, climbed into a waterfall in Yosemite and stayed in an abandoned opera house in Death Valley. By the time he hit upper 80s sun of San Diego, buff calves and sun tanned, the words “West Coast, Best Coast,” almost slipped out of his mouth. Identity crisis looming, he figured it was time to go home.
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‘Shucks’ I thought, ‘he is only 30 yards away’........I lowered the muzzle of my 45 colt chambered ‘92 Rossi leveraction so the sights would cover his left shoulder knuckle, knowing the big 350 grain LBT slug would total it at 1500 fps and rip thru the front third of his body wreaking everything and exit his right back ribs. He would fall instantly, roll over on his back, and be dead immediately. The shot went exactly where I aimed and the 120 pound whitetail ran for over 150 yards before expiring...!
Once while carrying a Super Blackhawk in 44 magnum loaded with 250 grain Keith slugs at over 1400 fps I shot a small 20 lb. Javelina right thru the heart smashing ribs and lungs and such. She ran 80 yards screaming. When she turned on her back trail and started popping her teeth I head shot her to be sure and that did the business. Cast Iron animals?
No....these examples and others I have had just show us that life is a strange thing....and the will to live and/or fight, makes a big difference even in animals. Arizona has some strange and ugly country...but it also has some strange and beautiful country. In the high northern part of the state some of the finest elk in the U.S. live there, it is gorgeous land. They might not be the largest elk in America, though you can find some monsters...but they are some of the best eating you can find.
Three years ago I was lucky to get an antlerless elk tag. This makes me happy because the cows always taste better than the bulls especially in the rut season, as far as I’m concerned...and elk meat is some of the finest game meat ever. I shot a good sized elk cow around 300 pounds on the hoof....the bullet was a 350 grain Speer flat tip .458 slug, from a 45-70. Entering the center chest missing the spine but clipping the main vein, it traveled the entire length of her body crossing over and exited just before the back hind quarter. The exit wound was the size of a baseball...the damage inside was immense. She never even shuddered, showed no sign of being hit other than for dust coming off her chest at the shot, only reaction was she began to run in very high gear.
She ran more than a hundred yards and suddenly folded up dead before she hit the ground. The blood trail was incredible...she practically bled out before she went down. I used some of the meat the following June at the Shootist Holiday making a very special meal with it for almost 100 people.. many folks wanted the recipe, so it went over well. At this year’s Shootist Holiday...all the elk meat was gone, so I had to use prime beef...no one asked for the recipe... Hummm...interesting.
Then there are the animals that are not hit that hard, go down quickly and die just as fast as if a hand grenade exploded inside them. There are so many factors involved, and it is usually a combination of many factors that contribute to the swiftness or lack of it in harvesting an animal. Not just the one or two we always blame or credit...That is: our accuracy or the load’s accuracy....which comes down to the same thing. There is so much more to it.
So lets take them one at a time, but remember it is almost always a combination of factors that leads to a quick kill or a slow one. Lets rule out inaccuracy...not that it isn’t important, it’s just well known...hit in the wrong place and you have problems, no matter the load. That’s why good reloaders and hunters work at finding the best load for the firearm they are going to use. And why I always push Paco’s Rule....one round fired in practice for every yard of distance you might chance a shot on live game with that gun and load...if it’s two hundred yards, then that’s 200 practice shots from the muzzle out to 200 yards, minimum. You want to be an excellent shot.. it’s learned, not a born talent.
So finding the best load and being able to accurately use it, is called, ‘working at it’. And we will say that is our base line and is covered very well. That brings us to one of the biggest problems...not understanding the bullet we use, it’s abilities and it’s short comings.
CAST BULLETS are probably the most misunderstood slugs for many folks when hunting. I was out one day with my beloved 3 screw 30 Carbine/Ruger single action...we were playing the velocity game and I was pushing a round nose hard cast 60 grain 30 caliber cast slug at well over 2000 fps from the 7.5 inch barrel. When a small desert rat jumped out of some brush and took off straight away from me. I whacked him with that load and he rolled and tumbled for several feet got up and ran like crazy. We found him a long way off and cut him open to see what happened. There was a thin wound line directly thru him but no disruptive damage. Muzzle energy for the load was around 550 ft.lbs, but it was meaningless for a number of reasons. The bullet was round nosed, a taper to a small round nose at that....it was very hard so it wouldn’t foul the bore at that velocity and pressure, so there was no expansion...the animal gave little or no resistance so the bullet slipped right thru. It’s a combination of factors that happens many times with large animals and larger cast slugs also....
I have hunted extensively with 358 caliber cast slugs from the 38 special and 357 magnums to the 35 caliber rifles like the 35 Remington, 356 Winchester Big Bore, 358 Win, 35 Whelen, 9.3mmX62mm (rifle round I used in Africa that is .366 caliber) and a 358 Norma Magnum. I like the 35s obviously...and now I am using the 356 GNR on the Ruger Blackhawk....357 on a 41 magnum cartridge case.
The 358 caliber exemplifies the problem with cast bullets. Where a 44 or 45 caliber cast bullet can have a large nose diameter and doesn’t have to expand that much to kill cleanly...the 35s can only have so much of a flat nose before they become cylinders like wadcutters. Also too much of a flat nose and the range of the .358 becomes limited. Wadcutters for example, cast hard and pushed at good velocities kill well at short range...but they are losing energy and velocity at an alarming rate in comparison to tapered and round nose designs.
I have taken a number of deer and several black bears...and a few hogs with 357 magnums loaded with Keith designed 173 grain cast bullets. And they will harvest well, but you have to be good at what you are doing...even the very fine LBT design which improves on the Keith design, especially with heavier slugs and broad flat noses...you need the know the gun and the load and it’s abilities all the way out to the furthest distance you would use it on live game.
For me on smallish bears and deer and hogs that is 100 yards or so max. I now use the 200 grain LBT from Cast Performance and push it at top velocities...way above the handgun velocities. Out of my rifles. But it is still a cast bullet and it acts differently on smallish and medium small animals. Unless a spine or brain is hit, animals are not generally going down quickly. A 160 grain JHP or JSP .358 bullet from a handgun at top velocities...like 1500 to 1800 fps thru a deer's ribs is going to explode the lungs and everything in between the entrance and exit of the bullet. Personally I like a heavier jacketed bullet like the 180 grain XTP or Remington scalloped HP, I know they have a better chance of exiting the animal. The Sierra 170 grain JHC Sports Master Power Jacket is also in this class...destruction of internal tissue is the name of the game. And if the animal is smallish and soft like a deer there is very much less resistance to the bullet as it passes thru the animal, so with hard cast bullets internal tissue destruction is lowered substantially. Yes, a lung and or heart shot deer is going to die with any bullet...but harvesting cleanly and quickly is the ethical sportsman’s responsibility. So we have to do the best we can....
By the vary nature of cast bullets we need hardness to resist fouling...hardness chosen for the velocity level we are going to use. A heavy cast bullet of BNH 14 to 15 hardness and velocities to 1200 or more fps will not foul much (using slow powders like Blue Dot and 2400 etc) and even give some expansion in medium game animals...if the caliber is 41/44/45 colt....and the bullet is a flat nose design it will be a good killer and penetrator. Push the bullet in the high 1300s or into the 1400s and fouling will start...but expansion will almost double and it’s killing power is exponentially raised.
So I practice with hard cast bullets, but the ones you use on game should be softer...they may foul but your only going to shoot upwards of three or four....in the rifles they have to be some what harder but the velocities are higher so the disruption is still there.
When cast bullets expand in a substantial animal they don’t look like the classic jacketed mushroom if they are recovered. As the cast slug is passing thru the animal the 360 degree leading edge of the mushroom that’s forming is also coming off in particles ...wearing the bullet down as it were. But the revolutions per minute are so high that these particles of lead are traveling out and away from the wound channel, and they cause much damage in their own right.
So there is a balance we must reach between the weight/resistance of the animal, the velocity of the bullet and the hardness of the bullet. Testing your loads in very wet newsprint...very very wet newsprint not stacked too tight, will show you how your bullets will react. I have found if the newsprint is dry or even just damp, you get a false reading...even rocks will nearly expand in dry paper at the right velocity.
What do I do for the cast bullets I use on game....I take 19 pounds of Magnum Shotgun shot...any size pellets, which ever is cheapest...mag shot has 6% antimony, into that I mix 1 pound to 1 and a 1/4 pound of 95% plumbers tin in a twenty pound pot. I keep the pot up as hot as it will go and the mold hot also. Don’t believe the old wive’s tale that bullets should be cast shiny and at as low a temperature as possible. Frosty bullets have less voids and fill out much better...you open the mold and drop them right into a bucket of water, if they sizzle they are tempering. You need a depth of 8 to 10 inches of water. This tempers the bullets harder...they come out near 20 on the Brinell scale...BUT...they will expand in medium size animals. I practice with wheelweights or scrap tempered...
So the Mag shot bullets are really 1 part tin to 18 or 19 parts lead, and that is soft. But the antimony and tin bond in the lead, and make an alloy that will temper exceptionally hard. Resists fouling but still expands well...you can have your cake and eat it too. But remember cast bullets don’t kill like some jacketed bullets do. In Virginia when we lived in the wilderness, state law allowed the taking of any deer (really any animal) that was damaging farm property. Small whitetails up to 150 lbs tops on the hoof were everywhere, and they are crop eating animals. I probably averaged 20 plus deer a year for over five years. We fed a lot of needed folks back then. I used cast bullets most of the time.
It was the exception when one was shot with cast handgun bullets, that they fell in feet from the gun. With heart and heavy lung shots with 40 caliber cast slugs, 50 to 80 yards was the average run. Some went further, some shorter. My favorite load back then was 260 grain Keith over 18.5 grains of 2400 in 45 colt cases....from single actions. Except for very long lengthwise body shots, rarely did one of those slugs stay inside a deer. It was heavy treed terrain, and ranges to the animal were rarely over 50 yards. Cast handgun bullets are effective...if they are flat nosed, heavy, loaded heavy and put in the right place...but they are rarely lightning killers.
JACKETED BULLETS were on the market in those days from the late 1960s thru the mid 1970s...but they were no great shakes. Speer had a 180 grain .358 bullet for rifles...and loaded heavy in 38 special cases (for the shorter length) and fired from a rebuilt Winchester 32-20 into 357 magnum. I was most likely getting 1600 fps...it was a pig killer supreme. We had many feral pigs in Va. But it would just punch right thru those little deer with little expansion. But Speer had a 146 grain HP and another just like it that was 160 grain soft point. The jackets were a little longer than ½ jacketed and the nose was Keith in design and very soft lead. From my Rugers and S&W N-Frame 357 magnum handguns, I was pushing these with very heavy loads of 2400. They killed deer like an explosion. The same design bullet made by Speer was in .429 also...and did for the 44 magnum in handguns what the 357 bullet did. The 44s came in 225 HP and a 240 grain soft point.. nice bullets. Excellent killers of medium sized game when loaded well.
But load these bullets to 2300 to 2400 fps from the Marlin 444 and they gave ugly wounds near the surface, with little penetration on animals like big hogs. I learned this the hard way when I whacked a 300 pound plus boar with the 225 Speer at well over 2400 fps from the Marlin 444 levergun on the point of his shoulder. I shot him from my back porch, we had hundreds of acres of trees all around the house...he was 40 yards tops, from the gun. He took off to my surprise, but the wound bled well...after waiting about fifteen minutes I went after him...almost an hour later I nailed him with a shot to the back of his head...that bullet took a good portion of the head off. I learned that day different jacketed bullets are made for certain velocities and certain animals....
Another example today is the Hornady 350 grain .458 round nose and the Speer 350 grain flat tip. The Hornady bullet was designed as a light weight bullet for the 458 Winchester magnum, at velocities 2500 to 2600 fps...it has a very stiff jacket and at 2000 fps from a 45-70 it will work well on very large animals like large elk, moose, grizzles...etc.. But will just punch thru smaller game. The Speer 350 is a lighter jacketed round, it works very well in the loading tubes of 45-70s and at 2000 fps will perform very well on small elk, large mule deer, and average bears...certainly well on hogs.
Speer’s Number 13 Reloading Manual page 416 states the 350 grain .458 flat tip bullet can be used on the big bears of the north. I have never hunted the big bears, I can’t comment on that...but if I do I’ll stick to the Hornady 350 round nose. I file a small flat on the nose so it can be loaded in the tube of the levergun. The 350 grainers can be loaded to 2000+ fps and they are deadly when used as they were designed. So what bullets are for deer in the 45-70s? All the better bullet makers make 300 grain hollow points and soft points...for the 45-70 for deer sized animals up to small elk, hogs and black bears. But again these bullets can be pushed to fast for some big animals, and you can get shallow wounds.
Most times your reloading books will tell you what jacketed bullet is good for what sized game. The bullet manufacturers spend a lot of time and money on these books...unfortunately many reloaders don’t read the text, they just use the reloading data. But even with the books recommendations on any bullet, I test them...there is always a possibility that the box you buy came from a lot that for some reason came thru stiffer or softer than normal. If back 30 years ago I had tested that 225 HP 44 at 2400 fps in wet newsprint, I would have found out quickly it wasn’t the velocity/bullet combo for tough pigs. The bullet that will come apart at rifle velocities might be wonderful at handgun velocities...only testing will tell.
With all of the fine rifles now on the market, chambered in pistol calibers pushing handgun bullets to velocities four and five hundred fps faster than they were maybe designed for...testing is important...if not imperative. This is especially true for the light weight bullets for the caliber....what happens to the 170 grain 41 mag bullet when it is jacked up to 2300 to 2400 fps from a Marlin levergun...what happens to that wonderful 180gr 44 magnum deer bullet when it goes from 1600+ fps to 2400 fps from one of the leveraction 44 magnum rifles? Hornady makes a very fine .452 JHP at 250 grains rated for the 45 colt chambering at 800 to 900 fps. Out of my Rossi rifle I’m sure I can push it way past 2000 fps....what will happen if at that bullet hits a big hog’s shoulder at that hyper velocity? In the ribs of a whitetail it sure would explode the lungs and bring him down quickly...but suppose the only shot offered is a butt shot. I seem to get a lot of those with deer. That bullet at that velocity will give a butt shot deer a gut shot response because that’s where it will come apart, and if the animal gets away, it’s a long suffering death....
So why don’t they fall...even when it seems they are hit hard. Wrong bullet...wrong velocity...misunderstanding of the way cast bullets kill...on top of that we also have all the old bug-a-boos like inaccurate loads, bad shooting on our part...the wind, the weather...the signs of the moon...goodness. The only way to beat it is practice and testing...hey it’s hard work but I think all of us are up to it.....
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Alive Tonight Song Lyrics & Translation
In the dark of the desert
I saw a man with a sign, it said
People get ready, cause it's all over
It's all gonna end tonightI got a feeling we're gonna be alright
But if this is the last time we ever see the daylightWe are, we are, we are alive tonight
We are, we are, we are alive tonightYou wanna get a reaction
You want everyone to listen to you
You're just living in a prediction, and that don't
That don't make it true, no
I got a feeling we're gonna be alright
We are, we are, we are alive tonightNobody knows what become of tomorrow
Nobody knows til the lights go out
Nobody knows who to fight or follow
There's only one thing I know right now
We are, we are, we are alive tonight
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Alive Tonight lyrics !!!
Grace Potter Lyrics
Something That I Want
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Nobody's Born With a Broken Heart
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Traffic TNG version by Zelda12343
TV » StarTrek: The Next Generation Rated: K, English, Humor, J. Picard, Data, Words: 282, Favs: 3, Follows: 1, Published: 7/26/2012
Title: Traffic, TNG version
Summary: A holodeck malfunction leaves several characters stuck in
Character(s): Data, William Riker, Jean-Luc Picard, Worf, Deanna Troi
Pairings: None
Genre(s): Humor
Rating: K
Warnings: I'm terrible at characterization. I want honest feedback regarding it.
Other notes: I was traveling this summer, and wrote this while stuck in traffic in Cairo. Not the most fun experience. Hey, at least I had time to write two drabbles! Speaking of which, if you look, there's a reference to my Avengers drabble in which the characters are faced with the same situation.
"This is a fascinating simulation," Data declared.
He and the rest of the senior officers had been forced by yet another holodeck malfunction to be in an early 21st century car on a highway in what would at the time be known as bumper-to-bumper traffic in New York City of the early 21st century.
"We are getting to experience a totally obsolete ritual of transportation," Data continued. "This was considered a major annoyance during the 21st century."
"I can see why," Riker groaned from the back seat, where he watched a Honda Pilot crawl by.
"This is something we could not experience in our normal lives," Data was still prattling on.
"Mr. Data," Picard snapped. "That will be quite enough."
"Captain, you appear to be under a great deal of stress," Deanna piped up from another back seat.
"Who wouldn't be?" Riker asked her with a sigh. "This is torture."
"A dishonorable form of torture," growled Worf. "Then again, all torture is dishonorable."
Author's note: Bad as it sounded? Hopefully not. Let me know in a review!
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Air Force Staff Sergeant Dylan Elchin
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Air Force Staff Sgt. Dylan Elchin served in special operations as a JTAC Qualified Combat Controller with the US Air Force in the 26th Tactical Squadron. He was a recipient of the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Army Commendation with Valor, and many other medals. Dylan was one of four U.S. service members killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province in November 2018. He was a 2012 graduate of Hopewell High School in Beaver County. Dylan was considered family by almost everyone around him. He genuinely made a positive impact in some way, shape, or form with anyone who crossed his path.
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Submitted by Ron Bogolea, Dylan’s grandfather
Dylan was born June 11, 1993 and grew up as a young boy in Brighton Twp, PA. Dylan was just like any other kid in the neighborhood who you’d see playing outside. Dylan was a happy, fun-loving person who liked to make others laugh. As a Boy Scout he loved the outdoors and roughing it. Scouts taught him about honoring our country and our flag.
In eighth grade when Dylan saw the Twin Towers fall on 9/11, his life was forever changed. His attitude was that he wanted to “protect the ones he loved.”
During his early teens he read many books about Navy Seals, Rangers, and special operations in the armed forces. While in his senior year of high school, he enlisted in the Air Force with hopes to be a JTAC Combat Controller. Dylan trained for over a year and was the only one of the 30 to pass the muster of his recruiter who had been training him. Combat Controllers are a very elite unit with a 2 year training program, where 85-90% do not complete the course. We were very proud when Dylan made it through. Three years into a 4 year enlistment, Dylan still had not been deployed. He re-upped his enlistment for 6 more years just so he could get his JTAC certification so he could be deployed. Dylan was killed in action defending our freedom on November 27, 2018 along with three other service members when their vehicle hit an IED in Afghanistan.
Dylan was a warrior in combat and responsible to bring all home safely. He served in special operations as a JTAC Qualified Combat Controller with the US Air Force serving with the 26th Tactical Squadron. He was a recipient of the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Army Commendation with Valor for saving the lives of American soldiers while exposing himself to heavy machine gun fire and RPG attacks, Air Force Commendation Medal, Air Force Combat Action Medal, Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and the NATO Medal.
We will always celebrate our memories of Dylan remembering stories from his service brothers about his jokes and pranks he would play and the way he kept his team focused and lighthearted.
Submitted by Patrick Doyle, Dylan’s comrade
Amongst the team, Dylan was a big character guy. While he wasn’t the biggest in physical size, he always carried that big belly laugh, contagious positive attitude, and was always smiling. Even as a new guy, always getting the worst jobs, he kept the spirits of his teammates up with that quirkiness he had.
Dylan loved sports… well, watching them that is. He was always in tremendous physical condition and he trained relentlessly and looked like he would be quite an athlete; however, hand to eye coordination was not his strong suit. In one instance, Dylan was playing outfield for our squadron softball team. There was a lazy pop fly to him, and instead of using his glove to catch the ball, he tried to use his chest. Everyone got a good laugh out of that, even Dylan, but you never saw him in the outfield again. Even though Dylan was not the best at sports, he always showed up to play. To him it was more than just a game, it was about spending time with his brothers and teammates. A couple of days before a mission, after a Thanksgiving dinner in Afghanistan, Dylan played a football game with the Special Forces unit he was attached with. Dylan somehow managed to jam his finger in an easy pick-up football game, again just another performance of his superb athletic ability. Dylan held his head up high, and trucked on through the game, and his next mission. This just further reinforced the dedication he had with being a good teammate, and the importance of team camaraderie.
As young guys on the teams, Dylan’s teammates remember him making a great impression on them. He was a phenomenal shot, and all around good at his job. The character trait that really stood out, was humility. Amid being great at his job, he would never brag. Instead of telling others how well he performed his job, he showed them; as well as helped the new guys develop their skills.
In Dylan’s first deployment he ended up in an area that turned into quite a hotspot. For his first mission on the deployment, the Taliban had recently overthrown Ghazni City and Dylan’s team went in on a crisis response mission. For several days, they were involved in multiple close range, 30m or less, engagements. Fights went on for days on end and Dylan’s team says he continued to crush it and clear white space, and never quit until the area was secured and his team was out safe. Dylan was a tough dude. His truck took an RPG and after getting his physical cleared, was right back at it.
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Exhibition visit: Hur Shan — new, playful, and portable revelations at Gazelli Art House
by Philip Gowman posted 3 Apr 2013 3 Dec 2017 updated 3 Dec 2017
“You said my work wasn’t very portable,” smiled Hur Shan as we chatted at the opening evening of his two man show at Gazelli Art House. “Well, take a look!”
It was true. I had said precisely that in my notice of the current exhibition, The Tainted, at Gazelli Art House in Dover Street. In the past, Hur has focused on very site-specific work: installations which look as if an archaeologist has been at work, chipping away at the plaster in a wall to reveal a priceless artefact embedded beneath the surface. Sometimes the revealed treasure is a coin or two; or a blue and white Joseon dynasty vase, or a Silla dynasty gold crown. There was one of these installations at Gazelli, and this time the treasure in the plasterwork were some tea bowls by contemporary ceramist Jung Jeom-kyo (정점교). Hur had visited his studio and secured one or two of the rejects from the kiln, because one feature of a master potter’s work is that only a fraction of the output from the wheel and over make their way to the sale room: most of the work is destroyed as not approaching the required level of perfection.
And although this particular work looks as if it might have to be destroyed at the end of the exhibition, it is in fact portable. The main part of the work – the gash in the wall which reveals the hidden treasure embedded in the plasterwork – is created offsite, fixed to the wall and plasterboard is placed around it. It will be taken away at the end of the show for re-installation elsewhere.
But it’s still not what you or I would call portable. And so we come to Hur’s opening comment to me. Because his latest work is to recreate this archaeological-style work in bronze and stainless steel, and hang them on a wall. Yes, the resulting work is heavy and you wouldn’t want to move it once it’s hung, but it’s definitely something that looks as if you could pick it up and take it home.
In fact, I initially thought that the silver and bronze coloured work that greets you as you come up the stairs to the upper floor was made out of clever paint effects. But it is a lot more substantial than that: a solid piece of stainless steel at least half a centimetre thick, which has been welded onto a gash in the wall which is in face a sculpture cast in bronze.
And elsewhere was a similar work created entirely from bronze. Hur has been working in bronze for a while now, as a separate strand of work. In fact, the first time LKL came across Hur’s work in this medium was at Gazelli this time last year in his group show entitled Bodhi. In that exhibition he had made some highly portable work – little pieces that almost looked throwaway.
For The Tainted, Hur has created a much more traditional free-standing bronze sculpture: Hur’s banana leaf piece stands tall against the Dover Street window on the upper floor of the exhibition. The banana leaf, sometimes used to wrap glutinous rice in Korean cuisine, was regarded as being particularly exotic in Joseon Korea, coming as it did from far-off places. And coincidentally, the shape of a banana leaf echoes the shape of the gash in the plaster in Hur’s archaeological installations.
Downstairs, just inside the entrance, was a twist on one of Hur’s trademark works. At past shows he has presented what looks like a pillar that is an integral part of the structure of the room; the pillar is either fractured in some way, or has been chipped away at to reveal a hidden object. This time Hur made played a joke on his audience by tying a knot in the pillar. Structurally as useless as his broken pillars, but equally as playful.
Hur’s work can be seen at Gazelli Art House, 29 Dover Street, until 5 June, along with some beautiful and fascinating wood sculptures by Italian artist Aron Demetz, who represented Italy at the Venice Biennale in 2009.
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Artists: Hur Shan (허산)
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Texas Country’s Jordan Robert Kirk to Play The Blue Light in August
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Texas Country's Jordan Robert Kirk is set to perform at The Blue Light in Lubbock on Thursday, August 29th at 9 p.m., according to their website.
It's the next generation of Texas Country musicians, including his full band with Dan Patterson. This will be a powerful follow-up to his participation in Prairie Nights to Neon Lights: A Celebration of West Texas Country Music on Thursday, August 22nd at The Cactus Theater.
Both these shows are ramping up to a special television event on PBS: The incredible Ken Burns Documentary coming to PBS beginning September 15th.
It's an important series, and a study of country music history like none other. It's been carefully researched, and we can look forward to watching just how country music has really grown to become America's music.
You can follow this link for more information about the show at the Blue Light, located at 1806 Buddy Holly Avenue in Lubbock.
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Labor Day and the war on workers. (1/149)
We celebrate Labor Day every year with barbecues and picnics, rarely remembering that the holiday was born in the midst of tremendous labor struggles to improve working conditions. In the last century, 16-hour workdays and 6- and 7-day workweeks led to terribly high injury rates in the nation's mines and mills. Thousands upon thousands of workers died, caught in the grinding machinery of our growing industries. Today, despite improvements, thousands of workers still die in what has been described as a form of war on the American workforce. This commentary reminds us of the historical toll in lives and limbs that workers have paid to provide us with our modern prosperity. It also reminds us that the continuing toll is far too high and that workers who died and continue to die in order to produce our wealth deserve to be remembered and honored on this national holiday. (+info)
Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Campylobacter among attendees of the Washington County Fair-New York, 1999. (2/149)
September 3, 1999, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) received reports of at least 10 children hospitalized with bloody diarrhea or Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection in counties near Albany, New York. All of the children had attended the Washington County Fair, which was held August 23-29, 1999; approximately 108,000 persons attended the fair during that week. Subsequently, fair attendees infected with Campylobacter jejuni also were identified. An ongoing investigation includes heightened case-finding efforts, epidemiologic and laboratory studies, and an environmental investigation of the Washington County fairgrounds. This report presents the preliminary findings implicating contaminated well water. (+info)
When throughout the year is coronary death most likely to occur? A 12-year population-based analysis of more than 220 000 cases. (3/149)
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have suggested that there is an increase in cardiac events in the morning. Fewer data relate cardiac events to months of the year and season. METHODS AND RESULTS: We analyzed all monthly death certificate data from Los Angeles County, California, for death caused by coronary artery disease from 1985 through 1996 (n=222 265). The mean number of deaths was highest in December at 1808 and January at 1925; the lowest rates were in June, July, August, and September at 1402, 1424, 1418, and 1371, respectively. December and January had significantly higher rates than would be expected from a uniform distribution of monthly deaths (P=0.00001). The percent of yearly coronary deaths was defined by the quadratic U-shaped equation [percent=13.1198-1.5238(month)+0. 0952(month(2)), where January=1, February=2, etc]. When monthly deaths were plotted by year, there was a decrease from 1985 through 1996. Monthly mortality correlated inversely with temperature. During the months with the highest frequency of death (December, January), however, there was an increase in deaths that peaked around the holiday season and then fell, which could not be explained solely on the basis of the daily temperature change. CONCLUSIONS: Even in the mild climate of Los Angeles County, there are seasonal variations in the development of coronary artery death, with approximately 33% more deaths occurring in December and January than in June through September. Although cooler temperatures may play a role, other factors such as overindulgence or the stress of the holidays might also contribute to excess deaths during these peak times. (+info)
A hazard of Christmas: Bird Fancier's Lung and the Christmas tree. (4/149)
A lady with alveolitis due to her budgerigar developed recurrent symptoms when exposed to allergen left on her artificial Christmas tree. (+info)
A prospective study of holiday weight gain. (5/149)
BACKGROUND: It is commonly asserted that the average American gains 5 lb (2.3 kg) or more over the holiday period between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, yet few data support this statement. METHODS: To estimate actual holiday-related weight variation, we measured body weight in a convenience sample of 195 adults. The subjects were weighed four times at intervals of six to eight weeks, so that weight change was determined for three periods: preholiday (from late September or early October to mid-November), holiday (from mid-November to early or mid-January), and postholiday (from early or mid-January to late February or early March). A final measurement of body weight was obtained in 165 subjects the following September or October. Data on other vital signs and self-reported health measures were obtained from the patients in order to mask the main outcome of interest. RESULTS: The mean (+/-SD) weight increased significantly during the holiday period (gain, 0.37+/-1.52 kg; P<0.001), but not during the preholiday period (gain, 0.18+/-1.49 kg; P=0.09) or the postholiday period (loss, 0.07+/-1.14 kg; P=0.36). As compared with their weight in late September or early October, the study subjects had an average net weight gain of 0.48+/-2.22 kg in late February or March (P=0.003). Between February or March and the next September or early October, there was no significant additional change in weight (gain, 0.21 kg+/-2.3 kg; P=0.13) for the 165 participants who returned for follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: The average holiday weight gain is less than commonly asserted. Since this gain is not reversed during the spring or summer months, the net 0.48-kg weight gain in the fall and winter probably contributes to the increase in body weight that frequently occurs during adulthood. (+info)
The effects of successful intervention on quality of life in patients with varying degrees of lower-limb ischaemia. (6/149)
OBJECTIVES: to assess the quality of life after successful intervention among patients with varying degrees of lower-limb ischaemia in comparison with healthy controls and the respondents>> degree of sense of coherence. MATERIALS AND METHODS: one hundred and twelve patients and 102 healthy controls were assessed for quality of life (Nottingham Health Profile) and sense of coherence. MAIN RESULTS: successful angioplasty or surgical intervention led to an improved quality of life at 6 months, in particular with regard to pain, sleep, physical mobility, hobbies and holiday and to a level similar to healthy controls in sleep, social isolation, paid employment and family relationships. It remained at a significantly lower level than that of healthy controls with regard to pain, emotional reactions, physical mobility, energy, housework, hobbies, holidays, sex and social life. Critical ischaemia patients did not reach the same level of quality of life as the claudicants or the healthy controls. CONCLUSION: successful treatment for chronic limb ischaemia improved the quality of life significantly, more so in claudicants than in patients with critical ischaemia. The degree to which the quality of life improved was associated with the patients>> sense of coherence and their ankle pressure. (+info)
Poison exposure in children before Passover. (7/149)
BACKGROUND: Extensive cleaning of homes in Israel before Passover may result in increased exposure of children to cleaning substances. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the potential danger of Passover cleaning to children, and to study the risk factors in order to identify areas for prevention. METHODS: All cases of poison exposure in Jewish and Arab children under the age of 15 years reported to the Israel Poison Information Center during 1990-95 (n = 5,583) were analyzed for the 6 weeks before and 6 weeks after Passover. Poison exposures in Jewish children < 15 years old were studied in seven pediatric emergency rooms for the 2 weeks before and 6 weeks after Passover (n = 123). RESULTS: The IPIC data showed a highly significant 38% increase in the average weekly poison exposure rate for the 2 weeks before Passover compared with the remaining 10 weeks. Data recorded by the pediatric emergency rooms showed a twofold increase in cleaning substance poisoning during the 2 weeks before Passover compared with the following 6 weeks. The rise in exposures to cleaning substances was observed among children from secular, religious and ultra-orthodox families. In these exposures, the substance was found in open containers in 70% of cases. CONCLUSIONS: The extensive cleaning of homes among Jewish families in preparation for Passover poses the danger to young children of cleaning substance poisoning. Increasing public awareness, closer observation of children, and keeping these substances in closed containers should increase children's safety during this annual cleaning. (+info)
Relationship between suicide and holidays. (8/149)
Employing the vital statistics from January 1, 1979 to December 31, 1994 in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, we investigated the relationship between suicide (ICD 9 code, El15) and days of the week. In one day 1.97 males and 0.98 females committed suicide on average. On Saturdays the number of suicides per day was the smallest. On Mondays it was the highest. When the days were classified into (1) a holiday, (2) the day before a holiday, (3) the day after a holiday (4) the day both before and after a holiday and (5) others, the rate of suicide was the lowest in the days before a holiday. In the days after a holiday, however, the rate was the highest. The same tendency was also noted when the subjects were classified into several subgroups from the viewpoint of ages, seasons or calendar years. The time relation of holidays seemed to have something to do with the intention to commit suicide. (+info)
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After visiting the area:
Huge parts of the ice cap are covered by water. Lakes. Ponds. No way to reach the recovery site by land- or snow-vehicle. Maybe with an amphibious craft. Or by helicopter. Even landing with a snow-plane seems to be almost impossible. A float-plane might do…
The average temperature has to drop as soon as possible to turn Greenland’s surface back from water to ice and snow.
Very bad news after promising talks with a possible sponsor.
The requests from potential sponsors and the media are piling up again. Companies who are willing to support the salvage turn up. If financial security for the project is found, Dieter Herrmann is once again ready to take over the management of LSR. First talks take place.
Work on the “Lost Squadron Recovery” project (LSR) has to be temporarily suspended. Dieter Herrmann and other “heads” of the rescue project have to turn to other, urgent work. The supporting foundation to LSR is no longer active and de facto dissolves. Dieter Herrmann successfully continues to maintain constructive contact with the authorities in Greenland.
January / February 2009: A total of around 200 participants are taking part in the first and second WinterCamp at Schönhagen Airport (www.edaz.de). It is bitterly cold, a few centimetres of snow on the ground. Exactly right fror training purposes. People sleep in tents, the catering has been announced as “very simple”, but finally turns out to be quite nice. Participation in a winter camp like this is a requirement for all those who want to work in Greenland.
March 2009: The supporting foundation (association for the recovery of historical vehicles, etc.) is given a new board. The Annual General Meeting is at Kassel Airport. Elected are Frieder Weisse, Willi Horka and Sebastian Rothammel. The resigned club directors have thereby their hands free to manage the project “Lost Squadron Recovery”.
April 2009: The AERO in Friedrichshafen is one of the most important trade fairs for general aviation. With the support of the federal states of Brandenburg and Berlin, our project runs a stall to provide informations on the project “Lost Squadron Recovery”.
August 2009: At the end of August members of the supporting foundation met for an extraordinary meeting. After a series of setbacks in project planning, not all members of the board elected in March 2009 have been re-elected. The new association consists of Martin Franke, Oliver Buß and Willi Horka (in alphabetical order). After the changing at the top of the board, one of our sponsors joines in again and would like to be part of the rescue project again.
September 2009: On September 26, two employees of our planning group give a lecture on our project at the invitation of the Technik-Museum in Speyer (www.technik-museum.de). Local media reports that the interest seems to be great. If we can inspire listeners in Speyer, we are certainly able to win more supporters for our rescue project.
March 2008: Safety first! The world leading company for safety equipment, a company named DRÄGER (www.draeger.com) will support the recovery project with safety products and services.
December 2008: Visit in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. In Nuuk a brief meeting with the Prime Minister, a visit to the Chamber ‘s plenary chamber and long talks in the Ministry of the Environment. Shortly afterwards the document is handed out to us, which defines how and under which conditions we’re allowed to recover the aircraft. A few days later, the so-called area allotment is issued, which precisely specifies the area in which we have the right to do our work.
February 2007: Another trip to Tasiilaq/Greenland. Travellers this time: Marion Althaus, Kay Andersson and Dieter Herrmann. Means of transport are evaluated, hotels contacted. Officials renew their guarantee for supporting the project.
March 2007: Two members of the foundation (Manuel Brux and Oliver Buss) travel to the west coast of Greenland. They check transport routes for equipment and contact authorities.
September 2007: Hellgeth engineering (www.hellgeth.de) is a company that refits and overhauls track vehicles of the type „Hägglunds BV 206″. Hellgeth will support the recovery project with Hägglunds at very special conditions.
September 2007: Third meeting at Schönhagen airfield. This time „our” chefs take care of catering. A significant test for their work in Greenland. And it works perfectly. The project groups work on their plans for the various tasks lying ahead: recovery, conservation, transport, maintenance, provisioning the camp.
February 2006: The equipment needed to melt the cavern around the buried planes will be provided by KÄRCHER (www.kaercher.com). They will support the project with know-how and technology.
April 2006: The company for equipment for outdoor activities, VAUDE (www.vaude.de), will provide tents, clothes and other gear at very special conditions.
May 2006: „Lost Squadron Recovery” is represented with a counter at the ILA (Internationale Luftfahrt Ausstellung / International Air Fair) in Berlin. The stand is supported by Motorpresse Stuttgart. (www.motorpresse.de). Thousands of visitors gain information on the recovery project.
September 2006: Second meeting of Members of the association on the airfield of Schönhagen, again with strong support by the operating company. Meanwhile the association counts about 400 members.
September 2006: The working clothes for the actual recovery will come from Sweden. FRISTAD (www.fristads.se) will supply us with overalls made especially for Arctic regions.
March 2005: An information evening with press in attendance with financial help and the staff of „Berliner Flughäfen” (Berlin airports) (www.airport-berlin.de) attracts 200 visitors at the airport of Berlin-Schönefeld (SXF).
September 2005: Meanwhile the association has 250 members. The first annual plenary meeting takes place at the airfield of Schönhagen (EDAZ), south of Berlin. Members set up project groups that start planning the different tasks to be tackled in Greenland.
October 2005: Meeting with the CEO of the Swiss watch maker FORTIS (www.fortis-watch.com) in their German branch. FORTIS will support the recovery works. Conditions will be agreed on later.
February 2004: Realising that a salvation project of that size needs a legal platform, nine people meet to set up a registered association. The „Verein zur Bergung historischer Fahrzeuge e.V.” (Association for recovering historical craft) is founded. The association is recognised and legalised by the German authorities. The group of founders decides to name the salvage project „Lost Squadron Recovery”.
May 2004: First journey to Tasiilaq/Greenland for research. Allan Greisen, Kay Andersson (later a member of the association’s board) and Dieter Herrmann have talks with he chief of the county, mayor and leading members of the tourism organisation (www.eastgreenland.com). All these meetings are absolutely positive. The people of East Greenland will support the project. Their hope is that media interest will boost and support tourism.
June 2004: First possible sponsors are contacted. A company named GESAT (www.gesat.de) is among the first to support the recovery project. GESAT will take care of the satellite communication to and from the recovery site in Greenland. Kässbohrer Ltd. In Laupheim/Germany is visited. The promise is made to provide a PistenBully (www.pistenbully.com) at very special conditions.
Autumn 2003: Lasse suggests a meeting with Allan Greisen. Allan lives not far away in Odense/Denmark, is a professional scuba diver, did a lot of work in Greenland, worked on the recovery of the first P-38 and localised the planes again in 1999. The meeting takes place half way between Lasse and Dieter in Flensburg/Germany.
Spring 2003: First meeting with Lasse Rungholm. Dieter Herrmann and Marion Althaus meet at Lasse’s house near Aarhus in Denmark. Lasse confirms he didn’t succeed in building a recovery project, passes all the available documents to Dieter and wants to lead his recovery crew from now on. He provides a lot of information concerning the aircraft, their position and the situation in Greenland.
1999: Rumours say that the Danish group gave up. Reason for that: Lasse Rungholm could not manage to find sufficient funding for the project.
1995: First phone call between Lasse Rungholm and Dieter Herrmann. Lasse confirms his plans to get the planes out and recommends to gain more information from his Internet site (www.lost.dk). (Page not existing any more) Dieter is still planning to produce a TV documentary. Lasse explains: „The highest bidder gets the rights to do TV work at the recovery site.” Dieter is not amused at all, temporarily gives up the TV project but watches the planned recovery from a distance.
1994: First contact between Dieter Herrmann and members of the recovery crew from two years ago.
1992. Dieter plans a TV documentary on further possible recoveries. The Americans suggest to get in touch with Lasse Rungholm. Lasse is a Danish lawyer, pilot and adventurer. He is planning to recover the remaining Lightnings.
1992: After a long effort and many disappointments a group of Americans make it: The first Lockheed P-38 „Lightning” is recovered from the ice of Greenland.
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Steph Curry Debuts Apparel Line With Under Armour
By Loud Radio On Dec 2, 2020 0
As previously reported, Stephen Curry landed his own line through Under Armour called the Curry Brand. Now, the line has officially been released.
Earlier this week, the Golden State Warriors star and the apparel giant debuted the Curry Brand, which is a new division similar to what the Jordan Brand is to Nike. Via Steph’s Instagram, he posted a commercial about his new venture and the message behind it.
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“We have a shared goal of unlocking play for kids, so that became a natural place for us to focus,” Curry said in a press release.
“I grew up doing a lot of things to give back to the community with my family—and continue that now—while Under Armour has done so much to support athletes around the world.”
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The 32-year-old also debuted a logo for his brand, which features his stylized initials with a “high wing” meant to represent the hand gesture he makes after hitting a three-point basket.
The line includes face masks, shoes, sweatpants, hoodies and more. Browse for yourself, here.
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Life isn't easy in feudal Japan... especially since the aliens landed and conquered everything! Oh sure, the new health care is great, but the public ban on the use of swords has left a lot of defeated samurai with a difficult decision to make concerning their future career paths! This is especially..
Tada Banri, a newly admitted student at a private law school in Tokyo, found himself completely lost after the opening ceremony, trying to find his way to the freshman orientation. At that moment, he ran into another lost freshman from the same school, Yanagisawa Mitsuo, and they hit it off at once...
Gakusen Toshi Asterisk (Sub)
Long, long ago, an epic catastrophe, known as Invertia, caused a complete change in the world's power balance. In the years following this disaster, a group known as the Integrated Enterprise Foundation rose to power. In addition to this massive change, a new breed of humans born with amazing physic..
Grisaia no Kajitsu
Mihama Academy is a prison-like school built to preserve "fruit" that has fallen too far from its tree. It is home to five female students who each have their own reasons for enrolling in the academy and live their life idly within the walls of Mihama. One day, Kazami Yuuji—the institute's fir..
Gintama' (2015)
Gintama is back and better than ever! Featuring aliens, time clocks, and the fondling of breasts! Gintama is an anime based around humor and references; it shall blow your mind with questions of how it has not gotten copyright strikes! Now prepare for the 4th wall to be broken, and to cry your eyes ..
GATE S2
Second season of the Gate anime. Adapts Enryuu-hen, and Douran-hen arcs...
Guilty Crown (Sub)
The story takes place in Tokyo in 2039, after the outbreak of the "Apocalypse Virus" during what became known as the "Lost Christmas" of 2029. Since then, Japan has been under the control of the multinational organization called GHQ. Ouma Shu is a 17 year-old boy who mistakenly obtains a rar..
In August of 20XX, a portal to a parallel world, known as the "Gate," suddenly appeared in Ginza, Tokyo. Monsters and troops poured out of the portal, turning the shopping district into a bloody inferno. The Japan Ground-Self Defence Force immediately took action and pushed the fantasy creatures ba..
Gakusen Toshi Asterisk 2nd Season
Second cours of Gakusen Toshi Asterisk...
Gakuen Mokushiroku: HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD (Dub)
A mysterious, lethal disease is on the loose worldwide, resulting in a catastrophic death rate of humanity, and the increasing rise of attacks, caused by the living dead.In Japan, several high school students and a school nurse have banded together to escape Fujimi High School shortly after it was a..
Goblin Slayer (Sub)
A young priestess has formed her first adventuring party, but almost immediately they find themselves in distress. It's the Goblin Slayer who comes to their rescue—a man who's dedicated his life to the extermination of all goblins, by any means necessary. And when rumors of his feats begin to ..
Gakuen Mokushiroku: HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun (Sub)
High school student Chiyo Sakura has a crush on schoolmate Umetarou Nozaki, but when she confesses her love to him, he mistakes her for a fan and gives her an autograph. When she says that she always wants to be with him, he invites her to his house and has her help on some drawings. Chiyo discovers..
Guilty Crown (Dub)
God Eater (Sub)
The year is 2071. Humanity has been pushed to the brink of extinction following the emergence of man-eating monsters called "Aragami" that boast an immunity to conventional weaponry. They ravaged the land, consuming almost everything in their path and leaving nothing in their wake. To combat them, a..
Great Teacher Onizuka (Sub)
Onizuka is a reformed biker gang leader who has his sights set on an honorable new ambition: to become the world's greatest teacher... for the purpose of meeting sexy high school girls. Okay, so he's mostly reformed.However, strict administrators and a class of ruthless delinquents stand between..
Garo: Honoo no Kokuin (Sub)
The story of the anime begins when the king's adviser launches a witch hunt, which endangers the Makai Knights and Makai Priests, who are supposed to protect people. A Makai Priest who has been condemned to die at the stake gives birth to a child, Leon Lewis. The child is rescued by his father, a Ma..
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu
For decades, the Galactic Empire has been locked in an interstellar war with the Free Planets Alliance, a conflict that involves thousands of spaceships and millions of soldiers on both sides. Two new commanders enter the conflict with great hopes: Imperial Admiral Reinhard von Lohengramm and the FP..
Grisaia no Rakuen
The story picks up immediately after the events of Grisaia no Meikyuu, with Kazami Yuuji having been detained for suspected involvement with an international terrorist organization, lead by Heath Oslo, that has managed to enter Japan's borders with a devastating new weapon of mass destruction in han..
Goblin Slayer (Dub)
Grand Blue (Sub)
Among the seaside town of Izu's ocean waves and rays of shining sun, Iori Kitahara is just beginning his freshman year at Izu University. As he moves into his uncle's scuba diving shop, Grand Blue, he eagerly anticipates his dream college life, filled with beautiful girls and good friends. But thin..
Gokukoku no Brynhildr (Sub)
When he was a child, Murakami was infatuated with a girl he called Kuroneko. She insisted on knowing about aliens and having met them, but no one believed her, even young Murakami was skeptical. One day, she decides to show him the aliens, but an accident occurs and Kuroneko dies while Murakami is l..
Gakusen Toshi Asterisk (Dub)
Grappler Baki
Baki Hanma is a young fighter who yearns to follow in the footsteps of his father, Yujiro, and become the strongest fighter in the world. Through that he trains tirelessly and fights constantly to hone his skills and develop his body to achieve these goals. Many intense battles lay ahead of Baki as ..
Girls und Panzer (Sub)
You may have heard of kung fu, but the girls at Oarai High School practice gun-fu - really, really BIG 75mm gun-fu, in fact. It's called Sensha-do, and it's the martial art of operating armored tanks! They take it seriously too, and since winning the national Sensha-do championship is such a huge de..
The year is 1924, the place, Saubure, a small European country neatly tucked beside the Alps...Kazuya Kujo has been studying abroad at the prestigious Saint Marguerite Academy, where urban legends and horror stories are all the rage. Most Kazuya ignores but the story of the Queen Berry, a mysterious..
Shuuichi Kagaya is what one would consider an average high school student, but sometimes, he turns into a monster. He doesn't know how or why he got his abilities, only that he would prefer no one knows about them. One night, he finds a building ablaze with a girl trapped inside. Deciding to save he..
GATE (Dub)
Off-duty Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) officer and otaku, Youji Itami, is on his way to attend a doujin convention in Ginza, Tokyo when a mysterious portal in the shape of a large gate suddenly appears. From this gate, supernatural creatures and warriors clad in medieval armor emerge, charging th..
Gakuen Babysitters
After their parents are killed in a plane crash, Ryuuichi and his younger brother Kotarou are taken in by the chairman, who they never met before, of an elite academy. Ryuuichi becomes the school daycare's new babysitter...
Gundam Build Fighters (Sub)
Sei lori is a young man who dreams of joining the 7th Gunpla Battle World Championship, aiming to follow in the footsteps of his father to become the best Gunpla fighter in the world. There's just one problem: he has poor battle skills. Sei can build high performing Gunplas, but he can't control any..
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My 2020 and 2021 Safaris
Drum roll! It's that time of year again when I release the details of my upcoming safaris for 2020 and 2021. If you are thinking of going on safari next year or the year after, please read on....
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Simply Splendid Tanzania
It always takes me a week or so to reflect on a safari in Tanzania before I can really wrap my head around what I've just seen. So much happens in a day on safari there that it's hard to pick out just a few highlights.
Category: Wildlife
Like many homes across Australia at the moment, our household has been caught up in the frenzy of Lion King Ooshie collectibles as part of the promotion by Woolworths to coerce us all to buy more groceries from them. My kids are nuts about them, as are most of the kids at school, it seems. Never mind they are plastic rubbish that will end up in the ocean as turtle food in the not too distant future. To the kids they are pure gold! I took our youngest, Shep, to see the new Lion King movie a week ago and it really did live up to expectations - both his and mine. The movie is in the process of making billions of dollars through The Lion King franchise, but what is Disney doing to help conserve lions in the wild?
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The Mysterious Afrotheria
Category: Africa
If I asked you which of the following animals were most closely related to African elephants, which ones would you say?
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Amazing Green Season Tanzania Safari
Always wanted to go to the Serengeti but just can't afford peak season prices? Well here's an offer you don't want to miss!
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The Report that Should Be Breaking the Internet
All week I've been trying to write this blog, ever since the release of the UN IPBES' report. In case you missed the story, in between the birth of Harry an Meghan's baby Archie or the Australian Prime Minister Sco-Mo getting egged, it's really quite a big deal. So big a deal in fact, that it's given me writer's block. One million species are now at risk of extinction. One. Million. Species. (Take a look at The Guardian's summary if you'd like a good run down). That's not just tigers and polar bears and rhinos. We're talking across the board. In short, two in every five amphibians are at risk of extinction, a third of corals and populations of key crop pollinators are crashing. There's been a whopping 82% decline in mammalian biomass across the planet. We've done an almighty job of destroying the health of the ecosystems on which we (as a fellow species) depend. As a conservationist and as a parent, I find this sickening.
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The Ultimate African Reading List
Decades ago when I was dreaming of a future life in Africa after my first safari in Zimbabwe, books about Africa were my saving grace. Classics like Jane Goodall's "In the Shadow of Man" and Dian Fossey's "Gorillas in the Mist", Iain Douglas-Hamilton's "Among the Elephants" and Mark and Delia Owens' "Cry of the Kalahari" all made what seemed like an impossible dream within my reach - and I have these authors to thank for helping on the path to becoming a zoologist working in Africa and a published author of my own books on Africa (signed copies of 'Dry Water', 'Elephant Dance' and 'Planet Elephant' are all available on my website). Their stories made me see what was possible and swept me away into the magic and raw beauty of Africa's wild landscapes.
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What's the best place to go on safari in Africa?
Every first-time traveller to Africa asks the same question: Which country offers the best African safari?
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News From Across Africa
Being a roving zoologist is the best job in the world but it's not all bush glamour. Sometimes it's hard office grind too. 2019 kicked off with a whole lot of time spent at my desk entering the data from last year's Akagera Elephant Project, Rwanda, painstakingly analysing photos and videos, trying to work out who was who in Akagera's elephant population. We have now identified 40 of Akagera's approximately 100 elephants with clear photos showing ears, tusks etc, and the process will continue this December as another group joins me in the field. I'll be running a workshop for Akagera's community guides to enable them to fully participate in the research as part of their day jobs guiding tourists in the park, and if all goes to plan, I'll also be taking on a Rwandan student from the University of Rwanda. Guides in the park are already contributing to the project and have access to the existing elephant database. If you would like to participate in the Akagera Elephant Project this year, there is only one spot left for a single person so you need to claim it now. To register your interest in next December's field season (2020), please drop me an email.
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Shant Ashdjian, MD, MS, FACOG
Dr. Shant Ashdjian is a board-certified physician and a Southern California Permanente Medical Group practitioner specializing in obstetrics and gynecology at the Downey Medical Center. Dr. Ashdjian has previously served in admissions-related roles with Georgetown University and conducted research in the fields of infertility and urogynecology.
BA, University of Southern California
MS, Georgetown University
MD, Rosalind Franklin University Chicago Medical School
Intern, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Resident, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Chief Resident, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Fellow, American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology
USC Southern California Twin Project
National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine and Law
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In Conversation with the Advertising Pro who Trained under a Spanish Michelin-Star Chef
I visited Lovefools for the first time a year ago, for a friend’s birthday, and fell in love! Lovefools is a community-style dinner experience in a cozy little bungalow, tucked away in a narrow Bandra lane, in Mumbai. If you’re looking for an offbeat dining experience in Mumbai, this is it. The décor makes you feel like you’re at an intimate dinner party in someone’s living room, and the 8-course meal means you’ll be there for at least three hours, if not more.
The super cozy and inviting Lovefools dinner space
When I visited for my friend’s birthday, I happened to be on a specific religious fast where I couldn’t eat any vegetables. I knew there wasn’t going to be anything for me at this dinner, but when Chef Sarita Pereria told my friend she’d ensure a customized 8-course meal for me (taking my many dietary restrictions into account), I was shocked. I couldn’t eat potatoes, onions, garlic, ginger, or any leafy vegetables, including fresh basil, chilies and lemongrass. How was this going to be possible? But it turned out to be one of the best meals I’d had in Bombay. What did I get? Almond and pear soup, sundried tomato, black olive and mascarpone ravioli, mango and tofu dumplings, and orange and coffee sourdough bread, among other things. It was an 8-course meal, with Italian, French, Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese, Middle Eastern, and Spanish dishes.
I decided to catch up with Sarita, and learn more about her journey setting up her own culinary venture!
What made you want to become a chef?
I actually had a solid career in advertising! But I always had a passion for cooking. In fact, I had converted my mom’s kitchen into an experimental studio, where I would try out new dishes; I never repeated a dish! My husband and I would often have arguments because he’d want me to make something he had really enjoyed a few months ago, and I would never want to repeat a recipe! For years, my friends and family would push me to make the career switch. But I never had the time to study or the luxury to go away to culinary school, while juggling my advertising career. So I started buying cookbooks by professional chefs and learning techniques in my mom’s kitchen.
How did you finally decide to make the switch? You said you’ve never been to culinary school…
I applied for a course at Le Cordon Bleu and was almost about to pay up the enrolment fees, when I came across a Harvard lecture series by Nando Jubany; he runs a Michelin star restaurant, serving up Catalan fare, an hour from Barcelona. His lecture was focused on the science of emulsification – mixing water and oil molecules. I can’t really put a finger on it but something about his lecture, his way of teaching, and his passion for food really resonated with me. Interestingly, his lecture wasn’t even in English. But as they say, passion has no language! I really connected with what I saw on screen. So on a whim, I wrote to him (knowing full well I had never been to culinary school or stepped foot in a professional kitchen) and asked him if I could work with him for a few days. He replied a few weeks later inviting me to come train with him for a few months!
The chefs at Can Jubany, Spain
Wow! What were the next few months like, training at a Michelin-star restaurant?
Can Jubany is located in a small Catalan town. There was only one Airbnb listed there! That’s how tiny it is. The next few months were exhausting and exhilarating in the best possible ways. The restaurant has its own organic farm, so we would pluck fresh vegetables and cook them the same day. All the other chefs came from small Spanish villages with population sizes of 120 people; none of them spoke any English, and it was a male-dominated kitchen. I would try to use Google translate when I could, but we weren’t allowed phones in the kitchen, so it wasn’t always as easy.
We would work long shifts from 9am-2am. Nandu also has a huge catering business, so sometimes our shifts would go from 2am-5pm. We would cater for over 8000 people at stadiums across Barcelona, and Nandu expected us to plate up each of those dishes with as much perfection and precision as the ones we’d serve at the restaurant. Those few months were unlike anything else I’d ever experienced!
Sarita during her training in Can Jubany
What are some of the biggest lessons you took back from your time in the Can Jubany kitchen?
So much! The most important lesson I learned was to be exceptionally perfect with everything you do. Nandu had this madness for perfection, for hygiene, for the plating being absolutely spot-on. His philosophy was: “If people are spending their money on it, then everything is important.” Every single chef who worked there brought so much dedication to the kitchen. I had never seen this kind of work ethic before, and that’s what I wanted to bring back with me to India. The other thing that really struck me was the way we perceive fine dining. Nandu always emphasized that as chefs, we should let our food constitute the fine dining experience, not the ambiance. Such a simple and obvious philosophy, yet grossly ignored around the world!
All the chefs in training at Can Jubany 🙂
So from Can Jubany to Lovefools… what was that journey like?
I moved back to India three years ago, excited about starting something of my own. But what did I want to start? What was my signature style? What drove me? After a few months of soul searching and looking for spaces in Goa, I finally found this amazing space in Bombay, in the bylanes of Bandra. Initially, I used it to host a few dinners for friends, who brought some of their friends along. I experimented with courses and cuisines, trying to find my approach and niche – sometimes serving 18 courses, sometimes 26! I continued hosting community dinners for friends, until my ideas became more distilled.
Over time, I realized that flavors were the biggest driving force for me, more than cuisines. They break boundaries and can be reinterpreted across cultures. And so the idea of Lovefools was born! The concept of community dining with 12 strangers was coincidental, thanks to my friends bringing along their friends for my initial dinners.
What can someone expect from a Lovefools experience?
It’ll be a community dinner with 11 other people. Of course, you’re welcome to sign up with friends. The idea is to curate an 8-course menu you haven’t seen before! I’m also trying to research and innovate with new flavor combinations, so I try to test out at least 1-2 edgy dishes every dinner to gauge my diners’ reactions. I generally get a sense from the group beforehand of their dietary restrictions, their cuisine preferences and their openness to experimental dishes, and curate the menu accordingly. So whether you’re vegan or Jain or have certain allergies, we’ll take care of it! In fact, it gives me more of a challenge 🙂
One of Sarita’s favorite dishes – a zucchini roll with parmesan cracker
What are you excited about in the kitchen? What motivates you?
I’m always looking for ways to push people’s palettes, to get them to like something different. How do I get people to like blue cheese? Can I introduce exotic cuisines such as Scandinavian to the Indian audience? How can I add flavor to vegetables while also preserving their taste? These are the kinds of things I’m thinking about, and that keep me excited in the kitchen!
Let’s do a quick rapid fire!
Favorite ingredient? Lemon and basil
Favorite cuisine? Japanese (tepenyaki) and Scandinavian
Favorite restaurant in Bombay? Salt Water Café
Favorite place you’ve traveled to? Copenhagen
Favorite Indian cuisine? Anything from Kerala
Favorite dessert? Eclairs
Next cuisine/technique you want to experiment with? Japanese. I really want to go work in Japan for a few months, they are crazy about perfection and food, a deadly combination!
Food is one of my favorite things to experience when I travel. Given that I’m vegetarian, and don’t eat egg either, I have to look doubly hard to ensure I have a true, local experience when it comes to food. Lovefools was one of the most amazing dining experiences I’ve ever had. In one sitting, I tasted Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese, Vietnamese, Middle Eastern, and Thai. I’m a big fan of offbeat experiences, and so, I had to write about Sarita’s story.
*This post was not sponsored by Lovefools, and all opinions are my own. It was just a story I really wanted to share 🙂 Thanks to Sarita, for sharing the photos in this post.
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A former NSA official said the agency has "more resources" for surveillance than the average user can ever hope to defend against.
William Binney doesn’t have a membership card to the small group of which he’s a part — people who have spoken out against the National Security Agency, and been left relatively unscathed — but at least he has the next best thing, a valid passport.
The former National Security Agency official, who spent three decades of his life in espionage — and is said to have been one of the reasons why Edward Snowden took and handed thousands of classified documents to journalists two years ago — still talks about his time in the intelligence community.
“The biggest threat to US citizens is the US government,” said Binney in a Reddit “ask me anything” session.
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Are you ready for Richard Armitage in November and December?
Omission made inexplicably from Legenda 102 yesterday — Armitage Agonistes is celebrating a Blogiversary! Give her some love.
Ahoy, England, Wales, and Ireland, we hope you’ll be inside, safe, and dry.
Source: Richard Armitage Confessions
Guylty’s talked about it, this “confessor” talked about it, I’ve talked about it, briefly — that weird, edgy feeling I get when something’s happening in Richard Armitage’s career and the reports and news and pictures and comments and fan sighting accounts are flying fast and furious. It’s an interesting variation on or combination with this attitude — the perception that things used to be better or at least easier when the fandom was smaller. We look back to when things were under control.
I’m sort of on both sides of this particular dilemma. I sympathize with the negative response to the “it’s too much” feeling, but I still remember “before The Hobbit” very clearly, and even then, although the information stream was smaller, and perhaps apportioned in more easily digestible pieces, so maybe it was quieter, there really was no control. Information still appeared suddenly and when it wanted to, though it was more likely to appear at certain points, and certain people had it first because they were awake or at their computer screen when it materialized, while others were disadvantaged. There was too much of it sometimes and not enough at others. Before the announcement of The Hobbit, that information always followed the schedule and needs of the UK television audience, because Armitage was on UK TV, and the UK was where he most likely to appear in the flesh, not least because he lived in London. We sat at our screens and hoped some UK fan was downloading or capturing or screencapping or listening or whatever and we praised those people effusively for the labor that went into the sharing. We still do; it’s a worldwide effort, following the guy’s media around. And, as the late Anna said, when one of us meets him, really, all of us meet him and when he smiles for a candid with one of us, he’s smiling at all of us. I’m pretty sure he is aware of how social media work.
Now the information stream seems to be following a decentered worldwide schedule that’s designed to meet the needs of Warner Bros., which is friendlier to US audiences, but much less convenient for the UK and still sometimes leaves Australia and New Zealand out of the loop. Then again, sometimes New Zealand knows something first because Jackson is there. And Richard Armitage lives at least some of the time in New York, which influences what happens when and where as well. The decentered schedule definitely increases the effect of the edginess, the feeling that information could come out of nowhere all of a sudden from an unanticipated direction. That’s what they want us to feel, and we feel it. And I’m definitely on the other side of the dilemma in that regard, because I am one of the people looking for that information and, however reluctantly, one of the people creating the buzz effect via rippling. I don’t scour the web aggressively every waking moment of my life, because I’m still working fifty hours a week, approximately, and I have appointments that can’t ever be moved, like class meetings, where my tech is firmly off. But I do have different information sources that alert me to new developments, and I look at them several times a day. I’m even sometimes looking for the new information in my dreams; I wake up suddenly and think, “Something’s happened!” That bugs me. When Richard Armitage follows me into my dreams, that’s wonderful, but when unfounded anxiety that I’m going to miss something … I mean, given the activities of my colleagues, how would I ever miss anything? … when unfounded anxiety that I’m going to miss something follows me into my dreams, that’s entirely another matter.
To be honest, I and several others think the media rush around Armitage will be comparably smaller this year, and that promotion will center more heavily on Orlando Bloom, Lee Pace, and Evangeline Lilly. I agree with that sentiment. But Thorin (like Bilbo) is still a major player in this film and as we saw from the Hobbit live event announced for next week, Richard Armitage is going to be on the stage in New York City, a central promoting location. Martin Freeman will not be anywhere. I don’t wish to jump to conclusions about the significance of that; perhaps Freeman has other obligations.
If you’re looking for a list of the seven best tips about how to avoid the edgy feeling, like the ones published in US women’s magazines, this post will disappoint you. This problem — preoccupation with Armitage or the news about Armitage — has been known to us since early on, and we have speculated that the only way to get rid of it entirely would be to go cold turkey and turn off the computer. Doing that may be difficult or near impossible for those of us who have to work with a browser open, although software has been written to prevent one from self-destructive surfing or social media sites and enhance productivity (that link is an example, not an endorsement). I think a lot of us have developed techniques for dealing with this — deciding not to go on Twitter, for instance, or only engaging the tumblr stream at certain times of day.
So, no, I don’t have any list of best solutions to that problem, but I wanted to reflect on the source of the edginess, at least briefly. I understand the discomfort, because I feel it too. I just wonder where it’s coming from. What do you guys think?
There’s the wanting to know quickly, wanting to know first, issue. Not wanting to see something after everyone else has, and after every other thought about it has been expressed. This matter has occasionally motivated me to make judgments before I’m entirely ready. This might make you stay more tuned into media than you really want to be, and thus edgy if you can’t get away.
There’s the whole matter of liking the boutique or “best kept secret” fandom matter as opposed to a fandom that’s becoming more of a mass thing. You might feel uncomfortable with the fact that the media stream indicates a larger fandom and one with different tastes than you. I personally like the larger fandom, though it has its irritations (such as the fact that every generation of new fans has to go through particular stages on particular questions). Tumblr in particular causes one to have to sift through a lot of at times irritating repetition.
Perhaps a corollary — tumblr has its own culture, and the social media around Armitage apart from the BNFs are becoming more and more anonymous as he gets more and more fans. So there’s the whole thing of finding oneself in a sphere that’s ever more unpredictable, and in which one’s own speech is harder to make either heard, or to be universally intelligible. That could make one nervous.
There’s, of course, information overload. Just too much. As the confessor says, “too much happening at once.” And particularly, hype in advance of the actual product, something that turned Agzy way off last December.
And I was also thinking about the extent to which, if Armitage functions in one’s life as a stimulant, like caffeine or sugar, there’s the matter of crash afterwards when you don’t have it. Three hours of constant bombardment and then it wears off, and one’s sympathetic nervous system is simply shot.
Does anyone feel these things, or others?
Are we ready for the next rush of information? Got our filters in place? Gonna enjoy it? Gonna hide from it till it dies down? Wanna share your survival suggestions?
~ by Servetus on October 27, 2013.
Tags: fans, marketing, Richard Armitage, the hobbit
73 Responses to “Are you ready for Richard Armitage in November and December?”
I had an anxiety attack just reading this ( including my name up in lights). As someone who morphed into a reporter, I have something to say about this – but more to learn. I’ll be back. I, too look forward to a good discussion about this. Wish some of the Tweeters & Tumblrs would jump in, too. C U later.
Perry said this on October 27, 2013 at 10:24 pm | Reply
it’s a journey for all of us 🙂
Servetus said this on October 27, 2013 at 11:04 pm | Reply
In answer to the title….NO
Answering the last five in order…
2. NO, no effective filter yet produced, you’re in or you’re out.
3. YESNOYESNOYESNOESYENOEINOEJHNOSENFWPOEIGJPWEJG
4.yes, quietly, under the comforter, in the back room, in the dark.
5.If you know enough to be on this site or any of the other wonderful RA sites..IT’S TOO LATE FOR YOU…But you can throw yourself in front of the RA train and save a friend.
CarlyQ said this on October 27, 2013 at 10:39 pm | Reply
We were talking by Perry about the whole question of the role of the “fan” in marketing and it sort of emerged that our personal definitions of what a fan is diverge a little. There are fans (I would be one) who are so hooked into the information stream that it’s hard to avoid certain kinds of jolts — I wonder if that’s true of the “average” fan, though. Stats suggest that there are a lot of people who come here only on the weekend and aren’t watching hour by hour …
I think I’m not a ‘fan’ that marketing would be geared to. I think I’m almost still a lurker. I’m like Arkie, I have a couple of places I go for info and even then I am sometimes uncomfortable with the sheer volume.
CarlyQ said this on October 28, 2013 at 1:13 am | Reply
you’r ethe fan the marketers are most curious about — the lurker who says nothing or not very much.
Servetus said this on October 28, 2013 at 2:00 am | Reply
Speaking of marketing is Perry (?) and I think one other usual commentator here that is in NYC going to try and go to the Armitage premier?
I am so ready. But then again, this year there was less Hobbit hype – apart from the 200 interviews with RA (so I was told by RAnet), let alone other cast members. Last year I think it was January, eleven months, not 2 months or 4 months before movie release (!) there was this trailer, with first sight of Thorin. Please don´t ever do that again, WB.
Was thinking about your anxiety that blogworld in this secluded community was more fun when regular episodes of tv series had Mr A. Now eons of time pass before there´s another public appearance of him. On the other hand, he is in the most expensive movie of late and he drifts along nicely on the tidal waves of the Jackson&WB enterprise´s promotion pr machine, which is larger and sürprisingly more exciting than I have ever seen before. Although, by Dutch standards, the 7/23hrtwittering by Spooks´ characters was unheard of.
violetsframework said this on October 27, 2013 at 10:52 pm | Reply
according to the research that KatharineD did based on RichardArmitageNet and other sources, *this* is the week last year that everything went crazy. My archives support that. Yes, there was publicity before that but November and December there was something every second.
https://meandrichard.wordpress.com/2013/10/13/promoting-thorin-richard-armitages-whirlwind-journey/
of course we had all the vlogs last year and not many this year.
re — Armitage’s position: I think the confession isn’t really about how the confessor feels about Armitage or his respective situation compared to three years ago; it’s about his/her perception of how her reception of the publicity stream is affecting her and that’s what I’m talking about here. I assume that most fans are happy that Armitage is either moving on to bigger and better things or to things that put him on the path to what he wants to do professionally and personally. I can’t say I’ve run across anyone yet who admits to begrudging him his presence on the Jackson / TH / WB playbill.
Advise from the owner of a Chronic Brain Disorder…in order not to have a seizure (I’m being serious here, well sort of) choose 2 or 3 blogs and follow them. It is not important to be first in Infowonderland. Someone is always going to be ahead of you in line. As Serv said most of this stuff is going to be regurgitated over and over and then someone is going to regurgitate it again. I’ve chosen to pick Serv, Perry, Guylty and Kathy70. That pretty much takes me around the world. I’ve got London, Oz, NYC and America covered. I’m not saying you have to pick them (yes I am if you are smart!)…;) I just saying. Don’t go into brain overload. We still have the 3rd movie…..lovies! Arkie Oh, don’t forget my blog(s)…. ;P
TheArkenstone said this on October 27, 2013 at 10:58 pm | Reply
Glad I’m on your list 🙂
I dropped out for Tokyo last year. There were people who wrote to express their frustration, but it was at an inconvenient time, I had grades I had to finish, the datastream was such that I’d have had to go to my office to get a secure connection, and then the burnt time … just couldn’t do it.
I also think many of us suspect that the promotion of the third movie’s going to be the true tidal wave. Time will tell …
Arkie – thanks 🙂 I feel honoured to be one of your preferred choices!
guylty said this on October 28, 2013 at 12:06 am | Reply
Don’t panic: nothing is happening. This is static, noise. The last news was the “Into the storm” release date, a movie shot more than a year ago. We are fed bits and scraps: the Todd Garner technique, “buy the dvd” promos, maybe a new photoshoot is coming up, even the Strike Back interview is being spread like jam on bread. Those who enjoy a good internet connection and can afford it have seen a few minutes of Richard’s new work, in the extended version, ten minutes in a year. There are no hard facts. The old quiet times, which I didn’t witness, were IMO more interesting.
movie said this on October 27, 2013 at 10:59 pm | Reply
Om, who is panicking? Did I say I was panicking? Did I say anyone else was?
I guess Perry said she was having an anxiety attack. OK.
That was my attempt at being funny….sorry.
emoticons are always helpful 🙂
I guess it’s a matter of perspective. There weren’t many hard facts pre-Hobbit either, and many of the ones that seemed especially solid have been contradicted by new information. One reason that people are getting so wild about the the EE is that we’ve seen more of Armitage “in the wild” in the last three days than we did in his entire career up to now — even if we “only” saw him working.
With “hard facts” I mean: June 2010 – June 2007: Strike back (6h main character looking (beautifully) himself) Spooks 7/8/9 (24h main character looking (most emphatically beautifully) himself) Moving on (45m main character looking himself) Robin Hood 2/3 (26h main character looking (gloriously BDSM) himself) Miss Marple (2h co-protagonist looking (devilishly) himself). If we include May and April 2007 we also have Miss Mary Lloyd (80m main character looking himself) and George Gently. Not to mentions all the audio books.
OK — I’d refer to that as “work that’s appeared.” I think that’s been a fairly common complaint, that we saw more of his work before he started the Hobbit sequence. I don’t think that’s what the confessor is referring to. She didn’t say, I wish I could see more work and less hype. She said, the stream of stuff is making me wish for the “quiet old times.”
Emoticons… with the mail, I know how to conjure them up, but here… my first language were hieroglyphics.
they work the same way here — : + ) without a space automatically turns into a smiley face 🙂 . You can also type “j/k” (Internetspeak for “just kidding”).
If there were some kind of categorization of fan intensity levels, I think I’d rank my attention a 6 or 7 on a scale to ten. I’m ok (for the most part) with catching up on whatever is new on my own time. I don’t have to be in the first rush. It’s actually very convenient to have so many blogs to help cast perspective on news, pictures.
If it’s out, it’s out, right? It’s not going to go away, so I can process it all at my leisure. But I don’t want to be too late either if it’s something of particular interest as I like to join in on the conversation here and there. 🙂
trudystattle said this on October 27, 2013 at 11:11 pm | Reply
it’s an interesting question of you how one ends up being in that position of “having to be in the first rush”. I think a lot of bloggers who start off that way end up in the “wanting to know first” category at least for a while — I know that I have wavered. I always knew I didn’t want to be an aggregator, so I don’t blog everything i find — just the stuff that affects me in some way.
As far as blogging goes, when the flood hits,I think i’ll be OK passing up on things – not needing to be first on everything- because if it’s not me, someone else will have it shortly anyway- even if it is me, someone else will have it shortly. Yet I feel the pressure that there are now some followers who get their first news from me or Crystal or Serv – even though I frequently get it from twitter.
I have the flexibility, because I have my own business, to respond to notifications or periodically check twitter, and then stop and post if I want to.Most of the time.
Richarding is my new smoking substitute. I used to stop and smoke in between every task. I switched to solitaire and now I stop and check twitter, my blogging email, my WP notifications, a drag at tumblr. A new addiction for an old one.
Richarding has also affected my sleep cycle -which was already screwed up because I had to be up at 4 a.m. to be in contact with oversees clients. Now I’m still getting up at 4 to see what news there is – Armitage news, not real news.
Did anyone notice that this New Yorker *didn’t* see the NY Times review of Strike Back? Serv posted it. The irony!
I’m more concerned about receiving the information overload as a fan, not as a blogger. I would like a little less and wish it came more slowly.
I may have to set some boundaries for myself because of a new work project that’s taking off, and that , once I’ve written and prepared it, will require me to be out of the office for big chunks of time.
And I still have a prescient feeling, really strong, that a new role is going to be announced right in the middle of all this.
Revisit this when it becomes necessary.
Perry said this on October 28, 2013 at 1:30 am | Reply
I’m super ambivalent about the crowdsourcing of news — I think it’s a great idea, but I’m worried that the centralized repository of stuff is becoming no longer viable because it’s just too much work — and my development as a fan was due to those “libraries” of Armitage lore much more so than to reading discussions or looking at pictures.
Peggy saw the NYT piece, not me — she just told me about it. I read the NYT once a day and I wasn’t really planning to cover new reviews of SB initially — another thing I just slid into.
I think it makes sense that any employer who has a new role for Armitage would want to announce it in the context of the Hobbit stuff. Piggybacking. That’s what happened last time (Into the Storm announced in atmosphere of ComicCon — only no ComicCon this year). Synergy for Hobbit, too — here’s Richard Armitage, star of our film and of the upcoming work ______.
OTOH I wonder what will happen if that doesn’t happen. There are a lot of really frustrated sitting on the edge fans right now around just this issue. Guess we’ll see. Least we know it’s not 50 Shades :).
This is an issue worthy of another 100 comments. It bugs me constantly -but I’m solid in my belief, and it’s bolstered by the comment from one of his interviewers ( NY Moves) and your thinking as well. This is the right time.
I agree, and I wish for him a dramatic announcement that makes everyone fall out of their seats almost as much as I wish for him a role of any kind that he’s been dreaming about for years and / or extremely excited about.
It doesn’t matter so much for me, though — after thinking about this for years I don’t think his role choice in *that* sense has much impact on me. I’m looking for this consistent palette of things he builds into the roles.
For him, I hope it’s a role he really wants. What you said. That comes first.
For me, I hope it’s a good dramatic role.
I have a feeling what he wants and what I want are the same – though I don’t care if it’s a small indie or TV.
I forgot to take my phone to work the other day, so wasn’t able to access social media for about 10 hours, and you know what, it was fine. I survived. But by giggly I’ll not forget it come December!
billiepops said this on October 27, 2013 at 11:24 pm | Reply
I think one thing that protects me is my “dumb phone,” which doesn’t get Internet.
This is a recurring subject that I struggle with at the best of times. I was just joking to Obscura that I am a split personality – with a number of tumblr blogs on the one hand, and my presence in blogworld on the other. When it comes to tumblr, I am 100 percent with the “confessor”. Today is such a day – with the discussion of the Strike Back trailer, the on-going giffing from the Hobbit EE, and an Italian RA interview coming out. I think the “noise” the confessor is referring to is the constant re-blogging of the same stuff over and over (of which I am guilty, too, of course), with added comments (guilty), and lots of squeeing (guilty). I, too, feel that it is almost too much, and leads to oversaturation, really. And no, that does not mean I begrudge RA his success or that I do not want this fandom to expand. To me it does, however, feel like watering down the essentials.
I have long given up trying to be first with any sort of news. (Although I actually happen to have a piece of vague news right NOW that is straight from the horse’s mouth – but I am not yet sure how and where and when I shall post that.) Others are faster than I, have better technical skills for giffing than I, and have a blog that aims to be a news blog. I am pretty happy to read and then have ample time to form my response, rather than give an immediate reaction. Excluding the emergency *ooof*s, of course, because there I *can* give a first response because it is within the area of my expertise for which I do not need extensive research.
In answer to your questions – despite all of the above, I am ready. I am tempted to say that this is all exercise for the *real* rush that is about to start. And yes, I think I *will* enjoy it. My survival strategy is concentration on my two platforms – tumblr and WP. I will (continue to) resist boards and twitter, because particularly the latter is too fast-paced for me.
This blog, too, was supposed to be meta-Armitage — Armitage as mirror for Servetus — but somewhere along the way I got involved in propagating news. About which I am ambivalent. It’s an ongoing record, though, so it aims to be an honest reflection of what i feel at any particular moment (even though there’s always stuff I don’t or can’t say).
I suppose that the Typ Sozialpädagogin would say, “when it stops being fun, take yourself away.” It’s such a platitude, but I do hope it goes without saying. On the other hand, I understand exactly how difficult that might be.
Servetus said this on October 28, 2013 at 12:16 am | Reply
Sozialpädagogin? *rofl* Well, I was not far off with my fictional interpretation of RA as therapist last week then. Consider his message to his fans: “If it stops being fun, then it must stop altogether.” Yes, uncle Richard, I will bear that in mind 🙂 Now can you please give me my drugs, I am on cold turkey.
Jokes aside – you, Richard and the imaginary social worker are right. And I have a couple of in-built self-preservation mechanisms that kind of make me avoid the noise when it gets too much. It’s called “family” 😀 – and “travelling”. I’ll be off-comms for a couple of days next week, travelling into the wilds of Ireland. I strangely look forward to being less present in Armitageworld, and I know that I will feel reluctant to get back into it once I am back… And that is not a reflection on anybody in particular here or on tumblr, just the realisation that I need down-time every once in a while.
that’s how I feel about work. At least I’ve always been in the position that when it was a choice between doing stuff that was required for work and Richarding, till now, I’ve made the right choice. Having to think in depth about something entirely unrelated is a really good curative.
I am off this morning for coffee with friends who are moving to Florida. We are having face to face conversation with no phones no computers. They have no idea who RA is. They have not seen TH. I will be okay. Really.
Will you recruit them for the Army? Is that why you are so calm? *ggg*
guylty said this on October 28, 2013 at 12:30 pm | Reply
2 would be more interested in Evangaline and 1 would be more interested in Ian and in his age group. I am the only one drooling over RA.
TheArkenstone said this on October 28, 2013 at 3:00 pm | Reply
The avantgarde!
guylty said this on October 28, 2013 at 3:16 pm | Reply
We had a wonderful time! I will miss the Eva girls with all my heart.
Orcrist and I once said, “When golf quits being fun, we’ll put our clubs on Ebay.” I would hate to think I had to start thinking about an opening bid for your blog.
no, when this blog goes, there won’t be a sale. It will just end. Whenever that happens.
Servetus said this on October 29, 2013 at 7:06 pm | Reply
What Italian interview?
http://microlina.tumblr.com/post/65259704733/richard-armitage-interview-in-italian-best-movie
Thanks Guylty and Serv.
guylty said this on October 28, 2013 at 1:41 am | Reply
I don’t care about being the first to discover anything, but I admit to “just checking” about RA news at least twice a day, and more lately. My particular obsession is wondering what his next project will be. Then, in no particular order of magnitude: why is his hair so long, what he is being offered (if anything), what has he turned down, what is he doing to pass the time while he is not promoting, if he is roaming the streets of NY, where are the candid shots with fans? You know, really important stuff like that. -:+) smiley face continues to elude me, but I am smiling, honestly.
Kathy Jones said this on October 28, 2013 at 12:43 am | Reply
I think the “first” impulse is really augmented if you’re blogging or have a site of some kind or are tweeting — you want people to come back to your site and that’s one way to accomplish it.
I totally get those priorities.
I have struggled a bit with overload in the past couple of weeks. I find that I do need to limit my exposure from time to time. I think that I’ve come to realize that I can’t, and don’t actually need to be on the cusp of breaking news…it’ll still be there when I get there – thanks to all of the people who are able and enjoy staying at the “front line”. (This is no doubt a symptom of my chosen area of study, where even hot news is more or less old news 🙂 )
obscura said this on October 28, 2013 at 1:33 am | Reply
I have similar issues, as you know. Why rush to write about things that have been written about for hundreds of years …
the thing is, too, there will always be someone who is standing right there — it’s very rare now for us to find out things much later (as happened occasionally even three years ago). he has enough fans now for that to be the case, and the newer fans are much more digitally adept than the legacy fans are these days. Of course, at the beginning, he had a group of unusually technologically together fans, too.
Could even be classified as ancient… : ) But you’ve “dug up” some really interesting news to me!!! Okay, I’ll stop now…*hangs head*
I can understand both sides of this too and my stance on it changes from day-to-day, week-to-week. I recently went on a week long vacation with very limited internet access. I didn’t really miss the activity of fandom while I was gone (until I got back & had to play catch up!), though I did miss Richard, and I feel that I have been missing him a lot lately within the hustle and bustle of keeping up with the news of him. does that make sense? but then on the other hand, the EE stuff, the audition especially, made me feel connected to him in a way that felt very raw and personal, and I savored that. I *think* I look forward to all that is to come, but I know I will be attached to the computer when I should be taking care of other things; the pitfalls of being an active “enthusiast” 😉
kelbel75 said this on October 28, 2013 at 1:37 am | Reply
Yeah, the EE extras really gave us a much better idea of how he might be as a person (even if he’s working) than we’ve ever had. That stuff *really* lifted the veil and, I think, settled at least one really longterm burning question or at least provided definitive data to do so.
I’m sure if i had a family they’d be being neglected right now.
I will let everyone else find out the info and see it when I get to it. I am just to busy with work and school, those two have to come first. Right now I am listening to music and reading to make sure I get my daily dose of music in for the day. If I have to play catch up then so be it. Last year in November when we got hit with info it took me till after Christmas to get caught up.
katie70 said this on October 28, 2013 at 2:01 am | Reply
there’s someone with a healthy sense of self 🙂
My RL just seems to be there front and center and right now don’t leave time for much else. Homework always seems to be lurking around and there me trying my hardest for an A. We do have the whole week of Thanksgiving off from work (school) and college too, so I may have time there. I spent today cooking for Sunday dinner, Mondays supper and something to take for a couple days to work.
So much to say here. Living in Australia, I’m always ahead or behind on news, and have been on both ends of late.
Being fairly new to fandom, I’ve experienced the rush of finding some apparently new piece of information and passing it on to those (Perry, mostly) who have the means to put it out to a large audience. It appeals to my innate ferreting instincts to unearth some new intel, rather than some need to be an acknowledged news hound- in the case of the Strike Back review I passed on to Perry yesterday, it was fascinating to get up this morning and read what unexpected paths the comments discussion had wandered down.
I had a discussion with fellow Aussies Mezz and Bolly recently that news, or an interesting new article, can break while we’re asleep and the discussion thread seems to have run it’s course by the time we arrive. On the other hand, I was heartened that though I missed the initial announcement of the upcoming live event, a couple of thoughtful people had emailed me to be sure I didn’t miss the news.
I do feel somewhat anxious about the upcoming wait between the release of DOS in cinemas in other countries, and the date we will get it here. I’ve seen comments from annoyed people who wish to remain unspoiled for the AUJ EE DVD, and are having to stay away from their regular haunts like tumblr for another week or so. That was going to be me, and then some, as the DVD doesn’t hit here until 20th Nov, but by the good graces of iTunes, I was able to experience the first rush of new images with others worldwide.
There is no way the new movie will be moved forward to accommodate my needs, so I’ll have to decide what I can bear to read and view in advance. Do I wish to read reviews, especially ones from my fellow RA fans, ahead of seeing the movie for myself? No, I don’t- but I know myself well enough to know it’ll be hard to resist having a peek.
KatharineD said this on October 28, 2013 at 2:21 am | Reply
I should add that I marathoned the EE extras, watching about 85% in one sitting- starting at the beginning, and just immersing myself. It wasn’t a need to be one of the first to have seen it all, but I do find all those extras very engrossing, so it’s hard for me to stop. I did feel more than somewhat overloaded by the end,though!
Australia is really disadvantaged on the whole “first news” part, I have to say. Good for you for hanging in there.
If we can just remember to click the comment notification buttons, even late entries to comments can regenerate a discussion. I forget all the time, and,having commented early, go back a few hours later and see that I’ve missed the most robust parts.
I’m so over the anxiety & the über excitement over new news. I did that the last few years which peeked for me shortly after all the global premieres. Tokyo was BLISS following the live streaming w fellow fans. The movie was a huge disappointment for me and I desperately needed a break from all the cRAzyness. (Until the DVD release and new interviews) It feels we’ve grown as a fandom like a big fat lady 🙂 still cozy & generous! It probably will keep growing but I don’t think we’ll feel the change ever as acutely as the past year.
Fanny/iz4blue said this on October 28, 2013 at 6:43 am | Reply
I think Frenz felt that way, too — like the movie itself was a disappointment. i didn’t feel that way but i shut off the spoiler stream relatively early last year and I’m doing it earlier this year.
I’m planning to repeat what I did last year but without any expectation of the movie, I like his interviews far too much and relish public appearances. I haven’t kept up w most of the new movie promo in so far I don’t even know it’s abbreviation by hard 🙂
Fanny/iz4blue said this on November 1, 2013 at 11:30 am | Reply
somehow the print interviews aren’t a problem. I’ve stopped watching the TV spots though.
Servetus said this on November 1, 2013 at 5:45 pm | Reply
Am I worried that I’ll feel the need to turn off this year too? Sure, I’m already feeling antsy about the Nov 4th event. I think a big part of my feelings is that although I blog about Richard, I almost ever blog about current news. I’m more like a hyena picking at the bones once the first wave has already hit. European fans like me are usually asleep when good news hits, so we don’t usually get to be on the front line, we react rather than act.
Then again, maybe I just don’t enjoy the avalanche. I loosely follow Benedict Cumberbatch’s career because the flow of info is exhausting. There’s no time for contemplation, by the time you see a new pic there are 5 others to grab your attention.
Not to worry though Richard and RA fans, Agzy will be here waiting, outside the eye of the storm, a fangirling port you can sail back to after the publicity madness 😉
AgzyM said this on October 28, 2013 at 1:18 pm | Reply
I regret to admit that I didn’t read all the comments preceding mine – sorry – bad commenter here. I apologize if I cover old ground or am repetitive. :} But I’m kind of ambivalent about the whole thing. It’s like my feelings about Twitter; if I were independently wealthy, I’d spend a couple hours a day on Twitter, have a rip-roaring good time, and only my buttocks would suffer, because I stinkin’ love Twitter. It’s a good time. However, once I’m on, I forget to do other things like eat, respirate, feed my dog. These are important things. So I have to limit my Tweeting. (dammit)
I suspect I’ll come up against the same wall in regards to the Hobbit onslaught. I joined this party (RA-wise) in January, so I missed the last movie madness completely – was in India for all of December and spent November working my arse off and getting ready to go – didn’t see AUJ until almost February! Unthinkable for such a Tolkien fan, but there it is. And I didn’t even know RA until January. So… this will be a first. I’m bracing, but joyfully. I’m ready for more lusciousness and a new project announcement(?) and the EE (haven’t seen yet) and the new movie (YES) and good lord do I think about patting his buns (wait, how did that make it in this post?) and I think I should stop typing now.
Christine said this on October 28, 2013 at 2:10 pm | Reply
If I were a scholar (oh wait) I’d track pre and post-December 12 fans of Armitage for their reactions.
I read the post very late yesterday evening, but had to sleep before I could think about it, because I was so exhausted being overkilled reading a whole weeks stuff yesterday. The most forward looking thing on the EE DVD was the audition, and I got it, don´t have to wait until I get my copy. Thanks to all the lovely ladies for all the efforts they make to keep us so well informed.
Last year I missed all the hype because I was not armitaged before the Hobbit release. I liked RA very much, had seen most of his stuff on TV or DVD (and I really cried when Lucas died), but I was not thrilled by the man himself, only loved some of his characters.
Rereading The Hobbit, watching PJ´s vlogs twice fascinated me, though Thorin was not my favourite character. But when I first saw the movie Thorin´s arrival at Bag End strucked me totally. The gaze of this amazing blue eyes went straight to my heart. My daughter feeled ashamed sitting besides me and forced to hear my sighs. Coming home I felt “what is wrong with you?” After lurking for a couple of years on several forums I decided to join the AA finally. And some lucky coincidence brought me to this blog and some others, too.
So I`m not prepared in any way to protect from brain disorder (maybe it´s already to late 🙂 ), fortunately my job circumstances work for me: no private Internet use allowed, no Internet option on my handy (I´m oldfashioned, don´t use a smartphone), much of working overtime… Besides I follow Twitter and Tumblr at home only occasionally.
I guess, in Germany there won´t be a big hype anyway: Yesterday I looked for the preview at our nearest multiplex cinema and they don´t even mention RA in the cast, all the old ones from LOTR, so ignorant… Probably I´ll be the only one in the 600 seats-cinema who is RAddicted. A piece of tape over my mouth should do it as preparation 🙂
Forgive me if I´ve lost the thread a bit, I can´t express my thoughts eloquently, still wondering is it my lack of fluent English or is it just being dumbstrucked most of the time when reading this blog.
utepirat said this on October 28, 2013 at 7:00 pm | Reply
There was some news today that there will be a festive premiere of TDOS in Berlin …
Wow there is so much here. I have google alerts for anything on Richard and of course I look to Serv for more plus I have a few other spots but I realize that it is next to impossible to be first on anything so I just wait and look. I am still picking up stuff here and there but I agree it is a madhouse at times. I agree really that this time around it may not be as much of Richard because this middle film isn’t but the third film is the true big one for Thorin and for Bilbo. So both might be getting a bit of a break here. Of course Martin has a new series he is involved with or will be so maybe that is why he isn’t listed for the big Fan Event.
I’ve been the route of the fan who looked for everything and anything at one time back when LOTR was being done. Everyone involved with Musings was looking and it was exhausting. Most of us do work and you just can’t do it all. I feel for the UK fans really because they’ve watched Richard go from being theirs really to being somewhat worldwide and it may seem now like he is leaving them behind. He has reasons for being in NYC of course and that move isn’t likely to be permanent but with TH and Into the Storm his time is split plus all the photoshoots so he is very much an International Man now.
I don’t see any way to solve this except to hang on and ride the wave. When all is said and done at the end of these three movies we will see where that leaves us. Richard has said many times that he doesn’t feel that anything is really going to change. I’ve always wondered if he truly believes that. I mean I am not sure that he is ever going to be a “huge” star but I do think that his work in TH is going to bring him more work than before. At least I hope it will. If it does then this media circus will continue and so will the fandom. If it doesn’t then it is entirely possible that some of this will die down. True fans will remain as we know but this sort of thing always has the “fans” who are temporary too. The gaps in news will be longer certainly if business is slow and we’ve already seen some impatience with that. That is for another discussio though.
I am just amazed at the work that all of you have done. I know I couldn’t do it even half as well. I know that we all thank you truly for every little bit of blog and news you have given us and all you continue to teach us. So onto November and December.
Peggy Kincaid said this on October 29, 2013 at 2:52 am | Reply
[…] But I always used to be on pins and needles, to enjoy being on pins and needles! I tried to stay there, to develop my capacity to live in that space, and I was largely successful. That I felt that way, wanted to feel that way, for over four years points, I think, to the centrality that Armitagemania has played in keeping me not just sane and moving but also the kind of happy that I have been since it struck. DopArmitage, as Calexora used to say. I always wanted to know the next thing, and I wanted to know it quickly, which meant that I was constantly looking for it, and then sharing it. That was more true this summer, as I got involved in tracking web ephemera around The Crucible, than it ever was before. What had been occasional spates of live blogging that lasted 24-48 hours around particular events turned into a months-long involvement. The more I did that, the more I wanted to do it, and the more I wanted to do it, the more I wanted there to be other people around doing it with me. Still, the fact that other people were around also heightened the aggravation factor for me, at times unbearably (and, no doubt, vice versa) or destructively. […]
Armitage assessment, or: Fandom, life, and stuff | Me + Richard Armitage said this on November 11, 2014 at 1:35 am | Reply
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Parents complain that pediatricians, wary of COVID, shift sick kids to urgent care
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 23 2020
A mom of eight boys, Kim Gudgeon was at her wits’ end when she called her family doctor in suburban Chicago to schedule a sick visit for increasingly fussy, 1-year-old Bryce.
He had been up at night and was disrupting his brothers’ e-learning during the day. “He was just miserable,” Gudgeon said. “And the older kids were like, ‘Mom, I can’t hear my teacher.’ There’s only so much room in the house when you have a crying baby.”
She hoped the doctor might just phone in a prescription since Bryce had been seen a few days earlier for a well visit. The doctor had noted redness in one ear but opted to hold off on treatment.
To Gudgeon’s surprise, that’s not what happened. Instead, when she called, her son was referred to urgent care, a practice that has become common for the Edward Medical Group, which included her family doctor and more than 100 other doctors affiliated with local urgent care and hospital facilities. Because of concerns about the transmission of the coronavirus, the group is now generally relying on virtual visits for the sick, but often refers infants and young children to urgent care to be seen in person.
“We have to take into consideration the risk of exposing chronically ill and well patients, staff and visitors in offices, waiting areas or public spaces,” said Adam Schriedel, chief medical officer and a practicing internist with the group.
Gudgeon’s experience is not unusual. As doctors and medical practices nationwide navigate a new normal with COVID-19 again surging, some are relying on urgent care sites and emergency departments to care for sick patients, even those with minor ailments.
That policy is troubling to Dr. Arthur “Tim” Garson Jr., a clinical professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Houston who studies community health and medical management issues. “It’s a practice’s responsibility to take care of patients,” Garson said. He worries about patients who can’t do video visits if they don’t have a smartphone or access to the internet or simply aren’t comfortable using that technology.
Garson supports protocols to protect staff and patients, including in some instances referrals to urgent care. In those cases, practices should be making sure their patients are referred to good providers, he said. For instance, children should be seen by urgent care facilities with pediatric specialists.
Referrals for children have become so prevalent that the American Academy of Pediatrics came out with interim guidance on how practices can safely see patients, in an effort to promote patient-centered care and to ease the strain on other medical facilities as the peak of flu season approaches. The academy recommended that pediatricians strive “to provide care for the same variety of visits that they provided prior to the public health emergency.”
The academy raises concerns about unintended consequences of referrals, such as the fragmentation of care and increased exposure to other illnesses, both caused by patients seeing multiple providers; higher out-of-pocket costs for families; and an unfair burden shifting to the urgent care system as illnesses surge.
“I think this is all being driven by fear, not really knowing how to do this safely, and not really thinking about all of the sorts of consequences that are going to come as flu and other respiratory illnesses surge this fall and winter,” said Dr. Susan Kressly, who recently retired from her practice in Warrington, Pennsylvania, and authored the AAP guidance.
Fear is not unfounded. More than 900 health care workers, 20 of them pediatricians and pediatric nurses, have died of COVID-19, according to a KHN-Guardian database of front-line health care workers lost to the coronavirus.
For the Edward Medical Group, referrals are a safe way to treat patients by using all the resources of its medical system, Schriedel said.
“We can assure patients, regardless of COVID-19, we have multiple options to provide the care and services they need,” he said.
Besides urgent care referrals and virtual visits, doctors have been given guidelines on how to safely see sick patients. That might mean requesting a negative COVID test before a doctor visit or having staff escort a sick patient from the car directly to an exam room. Also, a pilot program is underway with designated offices taking patients with a respiratory illness that could be flu or COVID-19.
It is a balancing act with some risks. In August, friends sent Kressly screenshots of parents’ online message boards from states such as Texas, Indiana and Florida that were seeing a summer spike in COVID-19 cases. Mothers felt abandoned by their pediatricians because they were being sent to urgent care and emergency departments. Kressly fears some patients will fall through the cracks if they are seen by several different providers and don’t have a continuity of care.
Also, there’s the expense. Bryce’s case is a good example. Gudgeon reluctantly took him to an urgent care facility, worried about exposure and frustrated because she felt her doctor knew Bryce best. His exam included a COVID test. “They barely looked in his ears, and we went home to wait for the results,” she said, and got no medicine to treat Bryce. The next day, she had a negative test and still a fussy, sick baby.
Urgent care facilities across the country are reporting higher numbers of patients, said Dr. Franz Ritucci, president of the American Board of Urgent Care Medicine. His clinic in Orlando, Florida, is seeing twice as many patients, both children and adults, as it did at this time last year.
“In urgent care, we’re seeing all comers, whether they are sick with COVID or not,” he said.
Meanwhile, ERs are seeing far fewer pediatric patients than usual, said Alfred Sacchetti, a spokesperson for the American College of Emergency Physicians and the director of clinical services at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Emergency Department in Camden, New Jersey. Although adult emergency room visits have largely returned to pre-COVID levels, pediatric visits are 30% to 40% lower, he said. Sacchetti suspects several factors are at play, including fewer kids in daycare and school with less opportunity to spread illness and people avoiding emergency rooms for fear of the coronavirus.
“You see parents looking around the department and if someone clears their throat, you can look in their eyes and see the concern,” Sacchetti said. “We reassure them” that the precautions taken in hospitals will help keep them safe, he added.
Gudgeon considered taking Bryce to an emergency room, but she felt increasingly uncomfortable both with the thought of exposing him to another health care facility and the cost. In the end, she called an out-of-state doctor she had seen often years before moving to Illinois. That doctor phoned in an antibiotic prescription, and Bryce quickly improved, she said.
“I just wish he didn’t have to suffer for so long,” Gudgeon said.
Kressly hopes doctors become more creative in finding ways to provide direct care. She likes the “Swiss cheese” approach of layering several imperfect solutions to see patients and offer protection from COVID-19: screening for symptoms before the patient comes in, requiring everyone to wear masks, allowing only one caregiver to accompany a sick child and offering parking lot visits for sick kids in their cars.
Most important is good communication, Kressly said. Not only does that help the patient, it can also help protect the doctor from patients who may not want to admit they have COVID symptoms.
“We can’t create this barrier to care for uncomplicated, acute illnesses,” Kressly said. “This is not temporary. We all have to creatively figure out how to get patients and families connected to the right care at the right place at the right time.”
This article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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