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SWAMP REPORT
Team Trump Peddles Pardons
They say everybody has a price, and it appears that President Trump is selling off “Get Out of Jail” cards to anyone connected to the campaign. An intense investigation by the New York Times (five different reporters are on the byline) reveals that Trump lawyer John Dowd discussed pardoning both Michael Flynn – the guy who promised Russia that Trump wouldn’t impose real sanctions against them – and Paul Manafort – currently charged with money laundering. The talks went so far to cause Dowd to wonder why Flynn accepted a plea deal because he told Flynn’s lawyer that “the president had long believed that the case against Mr. Flynn was flimsy and was prepared to pardon him.”
I bet ProgressOhio knows why: no one trusts Trump, who is infamous for throwing even his closest friends under the bus whenever it suits him. Manafort is apparently hanging on to that hope of a pardon though, since he hasn’t accepted a deal…or maybe what he has is too good for Trump to double-cross him.
Lawyers to Trump: No Way
The best and brightest are finding any excuses to avoid the Trump trainwreck. What used to be considered the highest honor or lucrative opportunity (depending on what type of lawyer one is) – working for the leader of the free world and richest country on Earth – has become the sinkhole everyone wants to avoid. Five large law firms have passed up working for Trump, publicly citing unspecified “business conflicts” while privately trashing POTUS as difficult to work with (understatement much?) and a reputation damager. Trump is so desperate that after one of his lawyers, Dowd, left last week, is elevating some guy no one’s heard of and who doesn’t seem to have ever practiced this type of law before.
UTERI WATCH
“ProgressOhio Slams DeWine for Spending Millions Defending Unconstitutional Laws”
Attorney General Mike DeWine just keeps finding ways to waste taxpayer money so he scores some cheap political points, the latest being his defense of Ohio’s blatantly unconstitutional Down syndrome ban. ProgressOhio’s Monica Moran called Mike DeWine’s history of spending millions of your dollars to defend laws that take away a woman’s right to choose and will inevitably be overturned “blatantly irresponsible” and “on the wrong side of history” in this segment of NBC4’s You Paid For It.
The New York Times exposes how these lawsuits are all part of a larger plan to take away a woman’s right to choose.
Millions March for Their Lives, Declare #NeverAgain
Millions of people across the country and tens of thousands in Ohio marched for their lives on Saturday demanding common sense gun reform and an end to the culture of complacency that has gripped lawmakers for decades. While conservatives are spending time attacking high school kids for their college applications, others are demanding changes that will help them be safe in school again.
Fair School Funding? Not In Ohio, Experts Say
Did you see all the news about Ohio being ranked second in the nation for equitable school funding and mumble to yourself “wait…what??? That doesn’t seem right…”? Well, you’re not alone. The Ohio Education Policy Institute also thought that seemed pretty fishy, and did some of their own research. Turns out, because the way Ohio funds charter schools is so convoluted, the methodology that works for almost all the other states doesn’t work for us.
Unsurprisingly, the more accurate method didn’t push Ohio to first; we dropped all the way to 32nd.
Professionals Stand Up, Organize
As teachers strike across the country after years of no pay raises, cuts to benefits, and larger classroom sizes, there’s yet another thing they’re done with: not being treated as professionals. As lawmakers have slashed education budgets, it’s become clear that they value the incredible work done by teachers less and less. So teachers aren’t just striking for pay; they’re striking for dignity and respect.
Cordray Offers Solutions To Opioid Crisis; DeWine/Taylor Continue Personal Jabs
Former Attorney General and candidate for governor Richard Cordray outlined a plan to help Ohio deal with the current opioid crisis. If elected, he would declare a “state of emergency,” protect the Medicaid expansion, increase local government funding (remember its been slashed since Kasich took office), and expand adoption and foster services. These all sound like critical first steps to address one of the biggest issue facing everyday Ohioans.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Mary Taylor continued their attacks against each other, this time getting a little more personal. Team DeWine’s first ad called Taylor a “slacker” who is “unfit and unqualified” to be governor, which was a reference to Taylor paying $1,039 to the state in 2011 after it was discovered that a state airplane went out of its way three times to drop her off and pick her up at an airport six miles from her home.
According to The Columbus Dispatch Taylor responded by saying that “[she’s] done all of this while fighting through the hell that has been my sons’ fights with addiction. What have you been doing, Mike DeWine, besides handing out ice cream and recipes and building a revisionist history of your own record?”
The Latest House GOP Sex Scandal
Ohio Rep. Rick Perales was accused this week by his GOP primary opponent, Jocelyn Smith, of “forcefully kissing and choking” her during a span of time when the two were exchanging sexually oriented texts, according to Dayton Daily News. Smith has asked Perales to withdraw from the race, threatening to make public further ‘sexts’ between the two. Ironically, Perales is rumored to be seeking a leadership position in the House.
Oops, Renacci ‘Forgets’ About $50k
Here’s a quick recap on what Congressman Jim Renacci failed to report (so far), courtesy of ohio.com
Filed no disclosure report for Jan. 1 to June 30, 2008, his first period as a registered lobbyist;
Reported “No Contributions” for July 1 to Dec. 31, 2008, when he’d given two $2,300 contributions and a $12,500 contribution to campaign funds supporting Arizona U.S. Sen. John McCain’s presidential bid and $7,900 to Ohio Republican Party committees;
Filed no report for Jan. 1 to June 30, 2009, when he’d given $1,000 to LaTourette for Congress;
Reported “No Contributions” for July 1 to Dec. 31, 2009, when he’d given $500 to Portman for Senate, $375 to the Stark County GOP and $2,400 to his congressional campaign;
Reported “No Contributions” for Jan. 1 to June 30, 2010, when he’d given $15,050 to his campaign.
The issues listed here, along with the #BlueWave democrats are seeing around the country, are leading many to believe that this congressional district could be in play.
Progressive Action Calendar
4/ 5: OH12 Weekly Protest Rally (And Lunch)
4/7: Move To Amend Ohio Network 6th Annual Gathering
4/7: Voter Engagement Training With Ohio Voice
March 17 – 23, 2018 March 31 – April 6, 2018
Cronies, Creeps & Clowns, Ohio Week in Review
Ohio Republicans Party Like It’s 2006
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Snagging Cables Solved With Cabro Eaziroll
Tuesday 26 June 2012 PDF Print
Jim Condon, a working Electrician for most of his life has developed a cable unrolling and rolling system called Cabro Eaziroll. The unique device overcomes problems caused by the constant tangling of electrical cables during installation, something which has resulted in many years of frustration for Jim.
With no available solution on the market, Jim set his mind to work in search of the answer to his problem. After a period of trial and error, the Cabro Eaziroll system was born. The innovative cable rolling and unrolling device is based on a free running feed roller, assisted by a frictionless cable guide roller. This setup totally eliminates the issue of cables working loose and wrapping themselves around the main support bar.
Cabro Eaziroll can replace unprofessional and unsafe make-shift devices such as bars or brooms held in a vice. The result is that Electricians can now rely on a professional solution to a real problem. They no longer have to suffer frustrations in climbing up and down ladders, scaffolding and access platforms numerous times a day, wasting valuable time untangling electrical cables.
The recently created company also prides itself on doing its bit for Britain. Cabro Eaziroll are committed to having the device manufactured in the UK by an approved ISO 9002 Company; adding to the number of manufacturing operations who are re-establishing themselves in The UK; putting the pride back into Britain.
Cabro Eaziroll has a suggested RRP of £199.00 and will be available to buy from professional trade outlets at the end of June 2012. Sean Morton, former Branch Manager of CEF Hexham, (newly promoted to a much bigger store in South Shields) stated "It looks, robust and extremely high quality, but more than anything, I'm really impressed with the way the cable rewinds itself, unlike other types on the market - put me down for an initial order of five!"
CEF Northern Group has since invited Cabro Eaziroll to demonstrate the unit at a forthcoming managers meeting in Newcastle, where it is hoped other Branch Managers will follow Sean's lead.
For further information or stocking enquiries please visit: www.cabro.co.uk or email
Jim Condon: jim@cabro.co.uk
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Cabro Eaziroll Prevents Snagging Cables
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New Lake District Pornstar fit for a queen
Monday 12 November 2018 PDF Print
The Lake District August 2018 - The Fizzy Tarté, one of the Lake District’s most infamous cocktail bars, known for its quality drinks, luxury handmade patisserie and distinctive, yet relaxing environment, has just launched a brand new cocktail menu.
The cocktail bar which has received immensely positive feedback over the two years of production have spent the last 9 months working how they can raise the bar once more and put the Lake District on center stage for Cocktails.
Huge anticipation has surrounded the new menu as the Fizzy Tarté is known to have worked with some of the best mixologists from across Europe. Their aim is to take their cocktails to the next level whilst keeping them as exciting as ever and at the quality you would find at cocktail bars in cities such as London, New York & Dubai
Guests can expect the promise of the absolute freshest ingredients, homemade syrups, and only the best, tried and tested spirits. However, this new launch also promotes three new and unique cocktail experiences found nowhere else.
Refined and improved classics are welcomed back for those who like to enjoy their traditional favourites, and a brand new list of Made en Maison cocktails look to bring a new era of fun and sophistication to the cocktail menu. And last but not least, the Top Tarté cocktails - a blend of show-stopping presentation filled with pure excitement and imagination. Speaking with Bar Manager Kris Grobelny at the Fizzy Tarté he is so confident about this new range of cocktails that he said “our Top Tarté Cocktails are a new level for the Lake District and particularly the TT Pornstar Martini cocktail is unbelievably delicious, so good in fact that I would say it’s fit for a queen”.
Together with CEO Stephen Hargreaves, General Manager Tamas Nagy and Nathan Larkin, the owner of ‘Speak in Code’ - they say “We’re creating something exceptional and showing the rest of the UK that Cumbria has talent in the world of cocktail making. Guests will be able to take a seat, experience true showmanship service and take a sip of an exquisite drink. They are also trying to push the customer experience in new directions and through the use of QR codes allow the customer to discover for themselves more about their own drink as well as others that may be on the menu.”
For those who enjoy a tipple or a slice of indulgence, as well as bespoke cocktails, the new menu will also be offering a new selection of wines, champagne, prosecco, and patisserie. All of which can be enjoyed outside on the new, open terrace or inside the bar. As usual, the Fizzy Tarté will remain a high-class, modern, and sophisticated environment with excellent service.
‘The Fizzy Tarté is a luxury establishment specializing in bespoke cocktails, champagne and afternoon tea in the heart of Bowness on Windermere.’
If you would like more information about this topic, please call Sarah Hendry at 015394 44245 or sarah.hendry@hargreavesenterprises.com
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Cocktail video of the TT Fizzy Tarté
The Top Tarté Fizzy Tarté Cocktail
Pornstar Cocktail fit for a queen
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Sport Management in the Middle East: A Case Study Analysis
Mohammed Ben Sulayem (Editor), Sean O'Connor (Editor), David Hassan (Editor)
School of Sport
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › peer-review
Ben Sulayem, M., O'Connor, S., & Hassan, D. (Eds.) (2013). Sport Management in the Middle East: A Case Study Analysis. Routledge.
Ben Sulayem, Mohammed (Editor) ; O'Connor, Sean (Editor) ; Hassan, David (Editor). / Sport Management in the Middle East: A Case Study Analysis. Oxford : Routledge, 2013. 200 p.
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Home > Useful information > For schools and colleges > Guidance: disruption to exams
Guidance: what schools and colleges should do if exams or other assessments are seriously disrupted
This joint contingency plan is in place to deal with any major disruption that may affect exam candidates.
What schools and colleges and other centres should do if exams or other assessments are seriously disrupted
Updated 1 October 2020.
We have updated this document to include links to Covid 19 related contingency, health and support pages published by the Department for Education, Welsh Government and government in Northern Ireland. We have not however, updated this document in other ways as the overall ethos still applies. You will need to make sure you are aware of your specific responsibilities for local and national school preparations and contingencies and advice from relevant public health bodies.
1. Contingency planning
You should prepare for possible disruption to exams and other assessments and make sure staff are aware of these plans.
When drafting contingency plans, you should consider the following guidance:
1.1 Covid specific guidance:
Guidance for schools Covid-19 from the Department for Education in England (subject to frequent updates as the situation changes)
Responsibility for autumn GCSE, AS and A level exam series from the Department for Education in England (updated 18 September)
Action for FE Colleges from the Department for Education in England (updated 18 September)
Public health guidance to support autumn exams from the Department for Education (published 29 September)
Education and childcare: coronavirus from Welsh Government
Covid-19 - guidance for school and educational settings from Department of Education in Northern Ireland (published 29 September)
1.2 General contingency guidance
‘Emergency planning and response’ from the Department for Education in England
‘Opening and closing local-authority-maintained schools’ from the Department for Education in England
‘Exceptional closure days’ from the Department of Education in Northern Ireland
‘Checklist - exceptional closure of schools’ from the Department of Education in Northern Ireland
‘School closures’ from NI Direct
Opening schools in extremely bad weather - guidance for schools from the Welsh Government
‘Procedures for handling bomb threats’ from the National Counter Terrorism Security Office.
2. Disruption to assessments or exams
In the absence of any instruction from the relevant awarding organisation, you should make sure that any exam or timetabled assessment takes place if it is possible to hold it. This may mean relocating to alternative premises.
You should discuss alternative arrangements with your awarding organisation if:
the exam or assessment cannot take place
a student misses an exam or loses their assessment due to an emergency, or other event, outside of the student’s control
JCQ Joint Contingency Plan for the Examination System in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
3. Steps you should take
3.1 Exam planning
Review contingency plans well in advance of each exam or assessment series. Consider how, if the contingency plan is invoked, you will comply with the awarding organisation’s requirements.
3.2 In the event of disruption
Contact the relevant awarding organisation and follow its instructions.
Take advice, or follow instructions, from relevant local or national agencies in deciding whether your centre is able to open.
Identify whether the exam or timetabled assessment can be sat at an alternative venue, in agreement with the relevant awarding organisation, ensuring the secure transportation of questions papers or assessment materials to the alternative venue.
Where accommodation is limited, prioritise students whose progression will be severely delayed if they do not take their exam or timetabled assessment when planned.
In the event of an evacuation during an examination please refer to JCQ’s ‘Centre emergency evacuation procedure’.
Communicate with parents, carers and students any changes to the exam or assessment timetable or to the venue.
Communicate with any external assessors or relevant third parties regarding any changes to the exam or assessment timetable.
3.3 After the exam
Consider whether any students’ ability to take the assessment or demonstrate their level of attainment has been materially affected and, if so, apply for special consideration.
Advise students, where appropriate, of the opportunities to take their exam or assessment at a later date.
Ensure that scripts are stored under secure conditions.
Return scripts to awarding organisations in line with their instructions. Never make alternative arrangements for the transportation of completed exam scripts, unless told to do so by the awarding organisation.
4. Steps the awarding organisation should take
Establish and maintain, and at all times comply with, an up-to-date, written contingency plan.
Ensure that the arrangements in place with centres and other third parties enable them to deliver and award qualifications in accordance with their conditions of recognition.
Take all reasonable steps to mitigate any adverse effect, in relation to their qualifications, arising from any disruption.
Provide effective guidance to any of their centres delivering qualifications.
Ensure that where an assessment must be completed under specified conditions, students complete the assessment under those conditions (other than where any reasonable adjustments or special considerations require alternative conditions).
Promptly notify the relevant regulators about any event which could have an adverse effect on students, standards or public confidence.
Coordinate its communications with the relevant regulators where the disruption has an impact on multiple centres or a wide range of learners.
4.3 After the exam
Consider any requests for special consideration for affected students. For example, those who may have lost their internally assessed work or whose performance in assessments or exams could have been affected by the disruption.
5. If any students miss an exam or are disadvantaged by the disruption
If some of the students have been adversely affected by the disruption, you should ask the awarding organisation about applying for special consideration.
Decisions about special consideration, when it is or is not appropriate, is for each awarding organisation to make. Their decisions might be different for different qualifications and for different subjects.
JCQ’s guidance on special considerations
6. Wider communications
The regulators, Ofqual in England, Qualifications Wales in Wales and CCEA in Northern Ireland, will share timely and accurate information, as required, with awarding organisations, government departments and other stakeholders.
The Department for Education in England, th e Department of Education in Northern Ireland and the Welsh Government will inform the relevant government ministers as soon as it becomes apparent that there will be significant local or national disruption; and ensure that they are kept updated until the matter is resolved.
Awarding organisations will alert the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and the Central Applications Office (CAO) about any impact of the disruption on their deadlines and liaise regarding student progression to further and higher education.
Awarding organisations will alert relevant professional bodies or employer groups if the impact of disruption particularly affects them.
7. Widespread national disruption to the taking of examinations / assessments
The governments' view across England, Wales and Northern Ireland is education should continue in 2020/21 with schools remaining open and that examinations and assessments will go ahead in both autumn 2020 and summer 2021.
As education is devolved, in the event of any widespread sustained national disruption to examinations or assessments, national government departments will communicate with regulators, awarding organisations and centres prior to a public announcement. Regulators will provide advice to government departments on implications for exam timetables.
We will update this page with any further relevant links as necessary should national disruption occur.
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Home In the media Students on trial as they learn the rule of law
Students on trial as they learn the rule of law
HUNDREDS of high school students gathered at the University of Southern Queensland last week to learn the rule of law.
District Court Judge Alexander Horneman-Wren SC was a guest speaker at the Living the Law conference, which brought together 260 Legal Studies students from across southern Queensland. For Downlands College Year 12 student Jaime Colley the conference was a chance to gain insight into the many different aspects of the rule of law.
“It’s a brilliant opportunity for people to see the wide scope of options that are on offer – I’m using it to increase my knowledge and decide on my own future career,” she said.
Miss Colley said she particularly enjoyed Judge Horneman-Wren’s presentation and how he used examples of direct relevance to young Australians.
“It was interesting to hear about the impacts of time on the law, particularly when it comes to technology,” she said.
USQ’s School of Law and Justice head Professor Reid Mortensen said it was an honour to host the gathering of legal expertise and young enquiring minds.
“Law plays an integral role in Australia society – it is one of the most important institutions we have for organising the way we live with each other,” Professor Mortensen said.
“Events such as this increase students’ interest in the legal profession and provide an understanding of why law is fundamental to our way of life.”
The students received a masterclass on different areas of law, including human rights law and criminal law.
The conference was a joint initiative between Downlands College, St Joseph’s College, USQ and O’Neill Family Law.
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Juicy and (Somewhat) Certified, Grade-A American Beef
Following the United States’ seven-point Ryder Cup thrashing at the hands of the Europeans, several reports of discordance on the American side surfaced. The first came from the lips of Patrick Reed, who threw captain Jim Furyk under the bus for sitting him twice during the team sessions and not pairing him with Jordan Spieth at any point. “For somebody as successful in the Ryder Cup as I am, I don’t think it’s smart to sit me twice,” Reed told a New York Times reporter an hour after the conclusion of the tournament. The defending Masters champion claimed that Furyk was swayed by Spieth, who had no desire to play with him. “The issue’s obviously with Jordan not wanting to play with me,” Reed said. “When it comes right down to it, I don’t care if I like the person I’m paired with or if the person likes me, as long as it works and it sets up the team for success. He and I know how to make each other better; we know how to get the job done.”
When asked about the quote, Spieth defended his captain and explained that the pairings were a team decision. Other players were not nearly as diplomatic when they heard the comments, including one who anonymously told the New York Post the following day that Reed was lying and had begged Furyk to play with Tiger. “I feel so bad for Jim because he was an unreal captain,” the player said. “He would have run through a wall for all 12 of the guys. Unfortunately, there were only 11 players that would have returned the favour.”
The Reed drama was not the only report of American turmoil at the Ryder Cup, although it was the only corroborated one. On Monday, The Sun reported that close friends Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka needed to be separated in the European dressing room on Sunday evening after nearly coming to blows. The following day, The Sun doubled down on that report with another story about how Furyk had planned to use the two big hitters as a power duo in all four of the American matches. But his plans, and all optimism for the American side going into the week, were undone on the flight over to Europe when DJ and Koepka allegedly got into a row over Paulina Gretzky. Both reports were purportedly confirmed by unnamed insiders—one who went so far as to say the initial argument poisoned the American dressing room for the week—but were vehemently denied by Koepka and his agent. “There was no fight; there was no argument,” Koepka told the media. “He [DJ] is one of my best friends. I love the kid to death. We talked on the phone Monday and yesterday, so tell me how we fought? . . . It’s just laughable.”
A Cockeyed-Hawkeye Blurb
The Iowa Hawkeyes were disqualified from the Marquette Intercollegiate last week after being involved in one of the more bizarre and convoluted rules snafus you will ever read about.
Iowa freshman Gonzalo Leal was tied atop the leaderboard going into the 12th hole, a blind, downhill par-4, when he hit an errant drive to the right that he suspected would be lost. Leal hit a provisional and ultimately found two balls in the distance, one that he believed to be his provisional ball and one that he believed to be the drive of his teammate, Lucas Becht. That discovery led Leal to suspect that his ball had landed in a nearby hazard. Unsure of what to do in the situation (his provisional ball would not be in play if his original shot was in the hazard), the freshman invoked Rule 3-3, a two-ball provision that allows a player to hit two balls in uncertain situation and receive an official ruling after the round. Leal hit both balls onto the green and Becht also found the green with his approach shot. But when the teammates arrived at the green they noticed that all three balls were Leal’s. It turns out, somehow, that the ball Becht struck for his second shot was, in fact, Leal’s provisional ball and that the ball Leal had hit for his second was his original tee shot. Both players finished the hole. Becht dropped, re-hit his shot and putted out, while Leal, thinking that he could now just solely play his original ball, abandoned his provisional ball and completed the hole with his first. In doing so, Leal finished the hole with neither the provisional or dropped balls he had declared upon invoking Rule 3-3, and that was enough to earn him a DQ. “By hitting his original ball, he actually hit the wrong ball,” said Iowa head coach, Tyler Stith. “And since he didn’t correct the mistake and abandoned the other ball, he had no score for the hole and was disqualified.” Already minus one of its five players due to illness and unable to post four official rounds, Iowa was also disqualified from the event. The result drastically dropped the Hawkeyes from 14th in the country to 49th overall. Ouch!
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Trick Shot of the Week
Holy moly! This is some ridiculous hand-eye coordination for a 10-year-old. At that age, most of us were struggling to just get the ball in the air!
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Shank of the Week
Pulling off a T.C. Chen with your driver is impressive enough, but losing distance as a result is just simply remarkable. Kudos!
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Readers Realm
Chapter 419 – Set Off
Skysoul Institute
Inside Li Xingyun’s yard
“Boss Nie Li, Gu Bei, and Lu Piao, you’re finally back!” The moment they saw Nie Li, the people of the Demon League all teared up. These past few days had been extremely sullen for them.
Nie Li frowned when he saw the bitter expressions of his Demon League and Heavenly Path League comrades. “What happened?”
“It’s like this…!” Li Xingyun began explaining what’d happened during the past few days.
He kept his brows knitted as he said in a solemn voice, “I think there’s something fishy going on with Li Yufeng. He suddenly gained so many experts out of nowhere. There’s definitely someone behind him, but I don’t know who it is!”
Nie Li frowned. “He suddenly gained a lot of experts?” Could it be Long Tianming?
From his perspective, it was mostly likely Long Tianming. That guy had always been shrouded in mystery. Even Nie Li couldn’t see through him.
According to the Dragonseal Family hierarchy, Long Tianming wasn’t the son of the first wife. But he’d still been able to climb up to the Sect Master’s position back in Nie Li’s previous life. That wasn’t something easy to do. There must be something deeper.
Long Tianming had only shown a small portion of his power. Nie Li still didn’t know how much more Long Tianming has concealed under his sleeves.
It looked like he’d have to deal with Long Tianming soon. But the current him didn’t have enough strength to do that.
Nie Li spoke after pausing, “If we move out, then Li Yufeng will probably move to intercept us. We don’t have enough trump cards to use against them. I thought about it a little. Gu Bei, Lu Piao, Li Xingyun. For now, you guys should handle the matters inside the Skysoul Institute. I’ll make a trip to the town at the edge of the Endless Wilderness!”
Gu Bei, Lu Piao and Li Xingyun exchanged glances and asked, “Do you want someone to go with you?”
“I’ll be fine!” Nie Li smiled as he shook his head, “Don’t forget, I’m already at the pinnacle of the Heavenly Star Realm. On top of that, I have a God-level growth rate Demon Spirit. Even if I encounters a Heavenly Axis Realm expert, I’ll also be able to handle them. But even if I can’t, I can still escape.”
Gu Bei considered his words, then nodded. “Alright then, be careful.”
Nie Li smiled. “Rest assured. There won’t be any peculiar dangers in that place!”
Lu Piao also considered those words, then excitedly added, “It’ll be best if we can kidnap a Dao of Dragon Realm expert. That way, our strength will be greatly enhanced!”
Nie Li said, “I’ll go ahead and scout the area.”
Recruiting members of the Sky Origin Divine Clan was still an issue. Those people were extremely cautious in choosing masters. They wouldn’t sell themselves so easily to someone they couldn’t trust. Price was secondary: fifty or sixty thousand spiritual stones. But even if it was higher, Nie Li could still afford it.
Li Xingyun nodded. “Alright. Nie Li will scout the area.” After all, this wasn’t something that could be settled in just one or two days.
After their discussion, Nie Li made his preparations to head out.
Suddenly, a figure rushed in and ran straight into Nie Li.
Nie Li immediately caught the person who’d stumbled. It was Long Yuyin.
Her clothes perfectly outlined her impressive figure. When they bumped into each other, Nie Li became distinctly aware of the softness of her chest. He couldn’t help feeling a little awkward. Long Yuyin was blushed red and her chest heaved. Anyone would find it hard to look away.
Long Yuyin had walked straight into Nie Li.
“Cough cough…” Li Xingyun, Gu Bei, and Lu Piao coughed and turned their faces away.
Nie Li laughed awkwardly, “Why are you here?”
Long Yuyin looked at him with a resentful, yet nervous expression. “Master, you’ve returned and you didn’t send anyone to inform me!”
She didn’t know where to put her hands.
Li Xingyun, Gu Bei, and Lu Piao opened their eyes so wide they almost fell out. Was she still the same Long Yuyin? That rumored tigress? The contrast was too much.
Nie Li smiled. “I just got back. I didn’t get a chance to inform you.”
Long Yuyin raised her head and stared at him with bright eyes. “Is Master going out again?”
Long Yuyin looked at the outline of Nie Li’s face. She didn’t know why, but her heart rate quickened a little. While Nie Li was gone, she’d sent quite a few people to check on when he’d be back. She didn’t know why, but his image often flashed through her mind. Too many things were going through her head. She thought about when Nie Li had lashed her three times. She could never forget about that. She could still feel that burning sensation.
Before, she hated Nie Li so much that she’d gnash her teeth. But she no longer hated him anymore. However, those three lashes were imprinted into her memory.
“Yes, I’m going somewhere.” Nie Li knew that lies wouldn’t work. Long Yuyin had probably already guess it.
“Can I go with you?” Long Yuyin looked at him with a hopeful expression. She didn’t know why, but she knew her heart would be agitated if she went another day without him.
Nie Li shook his head, “It’s just a short trip, and I’ll be back soon. I can go by myself!”
Long Yuyin pouted and felt a little unresigned.
Nie Li looked at her solemnly. “So now you’re not going to listen to your own master!”
Long Yuyin finally shook her head, then nodded. “Alright then.”
“I’ll leave Long Tianming to you. Pay attention to every single one of his moves.” Nie Li looked at Long Yuyin and continued, “I feel that Long Tianming is someone sent from the Demon God’s Sect, although I have yet to find any solid evidence!”
“Someone from the Demon God’s Sect?” Long Yuyin was confused.
“Yeah.” Nie Li nodded.
Why would Nie Li suspect that Long Tianming was someone from the Demon God’s Sect? Long Yuyin was curious. However, Nie Li wasn’t someone who’d shoot without aim. He’d already put his words down. He must have noticed something.
“I’ll have someone watch Long Tianming.” Long Yuyin nodded seriously. If Long Tianming really was from the Demon God’s Sect, then it’d be a severe problem! After all, Long Tianming wasn’t just a successor of the Dragonseal Family, but also a competitor for the Sect Master’s position of the Divine Feathers Sect!
“Yeah, just keep a close eye on him. You don’t have to do anything else. If anything, wait for me to return.” said Nie Li.
“Okay, I understand.” Long Yuyin nodded again.
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Arabinose content of arabinoxylans contributes to flexibility of acetylated arabinoxylan films
A.M. Stepan, A. Hoïje, H.A. Schols, P. de Waard, P. Gatenholm
Arabinoxylans (AX) from rye were partly debranched by chemical hydrolysis methods, and AXs differing in arabinosyl substitution were acetylated using chemical methods. The resulting materials are film forming, and these films underwent molecular structural analysis and were tested for their material properties. The composition and structure of the modified polymers were determined using high performance anion exchange chromatography and two dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance; it was shown that all free hydroxyl groups (of both xylose and arabinose) were acetylated. Further characterizations were done by dynamic mechanical analysis and thermo-gravimetric analysis to evaluate the thermal behavior of the material. The observed glass transition temperatures (Tg) increased with a decrease in arabinosyl substitutions. The thermal degradation temperatures were all close to 380°C. The mechanical properties were characterized with tensile tests of the films. Tensile tests showed that the strain at break, which reflects the flexibility of the material, was significantly higher at higher arabinosyl substitution levels. The elastic Young's modulus was not significantly affected, although a tendency was seen toward a less stiff material at higher arabinosyl substitution. The ultimate strength of the materials was remarkably high in all cases, around 60 MPa, with little difference between them. Considering these properties, a great potential is foreseen in the application of acetylated arabinoxylans as packaging films and as matrix for composites
https://doi.org/10.1002/app.36458
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Stepan, A. M., Hoïje, A., Schols, H. A., de Waard, P., & Gatenholm, P. (2012). Arabinose content of arabinoxylans contributes to flexibility of acetylated arabinoxylan films. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 125(3), 2348-2355. https://doi.org/10.1002/app.36458
Stepan, A.M. ; Hoïje, A. ; Schols, H.A. ; de Waard, P. ; Gatenholm, P. / Arabinose content of arabinoxylans contributes to flexibility of acetylated arabinoxylan films. In: Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 2012 ; Vol. 125, No. 3. pp. 2348-2355.
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Gender and discourse
Tim Kurz, Ngaire Donaghue
Michelle Ryan, Nyla Branscombe
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Kurz, T., & Donaghue, N. (2013). Gender and discourse. In M. Ryan, & N. Branscombe (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Psychology (pp. 61-80). Sage Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446269930.n5
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Rates and risk factors of injury in CrossFit: A prospective cohort study
Sebastian Moran, Harry Booker, Jacob Staines, Sean Williams
Sports Injury Prevention Group
BACKGROUNDː CrossFit is a strength and conditioning programme that has gained widespread popularity since its inception approximately 15 years ago. However, at present little is known about the level of injury risk associated with this form of training. Movement competency, assessed using the Functional Movement Screen (FMS), has been identified as a risk factor for injury in numerous athletic populations, but its role in CrossFit participants is currently unclear. The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of injury risk associated with CrossFit training, and examine the influence of a number of potential risk factors (including movement competency).
METHODSː A cohort of 117 CrossFit participants were followed prospectively for 12 weeks. Participants’ characteristics, previous injury history and training experience were recorded at baseline, and an FMS assessment was conducted.
RESULTSː The overall injury incidence rate was 2.10 per 1000 training hours (90% Confidence Limits: 1.32 - 3.33). A multivariate Poisson regression model identified males (rate ratio [RR]: 4.44 ×/÷ 3.30, very likely harmful) and those with previous injuries (RR: 2.35 ×/÷ 2.37, likely harmful) as having a higher injury risk. Inferences relating to FMS variables were unclear in the multivariate model, although number of asymmetries was a clear risk factor in a univariate model (RR per two additional asymmetries: 2.62 ×/÷ 1.53, likely harmful).
CONCLUSIONSː The injury incidence rate associated with CrossFit training was low, and comparable to other forms of recreational fitness activities. Previous injury and gender were identified as risk factors for injury, whilst the role of movement competency in this setting warrants further investigation.
Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness
https://doi.org/10.23736/S0022-4707.16.06827-4
Published - 1 Sep 2017
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Moran, S., Booker, H., Staines, J., & Williams, S. (2017). Rates and risk factors of injury in CrossFit: A prospective cohort study. Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, 57(9), 1147-1153. https://doi.org/10.23736/S0022-4707.16.06827-4
Rates and risk factors of injury in CrossFit : A prospective cohort study. / Moran, Sebastian; Booker, Harry ; Staines, Jacob; Williams, Sean.
In: Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, Vol. 57, No. 9, 01.09.2017, p. 1147-1153.
Moran, S, Booker, H, Staines, J & Williams, S 2017, 'Rates and risk factors of injury in CrossFit: A prospective cohort study', Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 1147-1153. https://doi.org/10.23736/S0022-4707.16.06827-4
Moran S, Booker H, Staines J, Williams S. Rates and risk factors of injury in CrossFit: A prospective cohort study. Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness. 2017 Sep 1;57(9):1147-1153. https://doi.org/10.23736/S0022-4707.16.06827-4
Moran, Sebastian ; Booker, Harry ; Staines, Jacob ; Williams, Sean. / Rates and risk factors of injury in CrossFit : A prospective cohort study. In: Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness. 2017 ; Vol. 57, No. 9. pp. 1147-1153.
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France to Reopen Cultural Institutions as Germany Contemplates Extended Lockdown
French President Emanuel Macron today announced a two-phase reopening of France’s cultural institutions, while the German parliament is expected to vote to lengthen lockdown in Germany, according to Artnet News. The split reflects the uncertainty that continues to surround the handling of Covid-19 in Europe and globally.Citing culture as “essential to our lives as free citizens,” Macron in a televised address said that French art galleries, bookstores, record shops, and libraries will be allowed to reopen November 28. Larger institutions, including museums, monuments, and theaters, will reopen December 15. A 9 p.m. curfew will remain in place indefinitely; exceptions will be made for theatergoers on their way home, who will be asked to show their tickets if stopped by the police. The curfew remains a bone of contention, with arts professionals in many fields noting that it bites into evening programming.Germany is expected to extend its lockdown, which was begun November 2, at least to December 20, and to tighten restrictions in some areas. Under the original lockdown rules, galleries were treated as retailers and ordered to close Though no information is yet available regarding cultural institutions specifically, German vice chancellor Olaf Schulz acknowledged that artists and performers may receive benefits in December. It is additionally expected that bridge loans into 2021 will be offered to cultural institutions.Speaking yesterday to Berliner Morgenpost, culture minister Klaus Lederer was vague on the subject of museums and galleries reopening. “I would be very pleased if we could at least create the possibility for children and young people to visit a theater or a cultural institution,” he said. Meanwhile, in the UK, which officially left the European Union on January 31, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a “toughening” of the tiered reopening system expected to be implemented on December 3. Under the system, in areas deemed to be Tier 3, or at the highest risk, museums and galleries will remain closed. Tier ratings are to be announced on November 26.
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Original by Motul rider Alexandre Bispo is doing his second Dakar in a row riding his trusty KTM he calls Elo. Last year he had to give up at the fourth stage. After an ambitious start to the 2021 race, we met up with him in the bivouac.
Alexandre, how is your Dakar so far?
For the last five days, we’ve had a real human adventure. Since the first stage, I teamed up with fellow rider Sara Juglas. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to compete beyond the fifth stage as we didn’t reach the bivouac in time, which is a bit of a disappointment as I had high hopes of finishing the event.
This is your second Dakar. What made you come back?
Obviously, we wanted to do better than last year. Last year we had to abandon our adventure after the fourth day. This year we did one better, so we definitely succeeded. Also, I really wanted to return to the “Original by Motul”. It’s a very human category, and it’s really resonated with me.
We heard you spent the night in the desert. What was that like? Did you get any support?
Yes, due to our late departure times, we aimed to drive to the bivouac during the night, but we encountered many dunes. Those are tricky to navigate in broad daylight, let alone in total darkness. So we decided to spend the night in the desert. We (Sara and I) got support from a medical truck from ASO who brought us a tent and some food. Unfortunately, upon our return to the bivouac, too much time had passed, and we weren’t allowed to retake the start the next day.
What does an average day look like in the Original by Motul category?
In the morning, we get up early, have breakfast, and pack up our things. We hand over our bag and our case to the truck driver who will take it to the next bivouac. We do the day stage, and when we get back we always find that the organisers have already set up everything: our mats, tents, and cases are already in place. All of the toolboxes have been prepared for us to get started on our bikes. Immediately after our return, we get started on maintaining our motorcycles. We always hope for a routine service, but sometimes you have to do some serious repairs. We try and help our fellow Original by Motul riders. We grab some food, go for a massage, and then some much-needed sleep.
How’s the camaraderie with the other riders?
That’s the strength of the Original by Motul category. Apart from the language barrier I have with some of the riders, it’s all one big family. I get along really well with the other French or Spanish-speaking riders. In a situation like this, you create a bond with your fellow riders that is so unique. This really is what it’s all about.
Dakar is definitely a mental challenge. What keeps you going?
When I was nine, I suffered from leukaemia. I spent two years in and out of hospitals. I’m riding this Dakar for a charity called Imagine for Margo. I want to set an example for these kids who suffer and are battling cancer. Apart from raising awareness, I’m also hosting a fundraiser to support them. Having this in the back of my mind helps.
Any advice for riders thinking about joining the Original by Motul field in 2022?
I think it’s imperative to get as much time on the bike as possible to prepare for it. Maybe try some rally competitions or raids if you already haven’t. On top of that, the best advice I can give any newcomer is to talk to someone who has done the races in this category a few times already. Their advice is priceless.
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By Editor on March 2005 in Arts & Entertainment
by Sarah Mankowski, photo by Kurt Johnson
I’m sorry – I didn’t recognize you with your clothes on,” I apologized as the Brew City Burlesque girls waved me down at Anodyne Coffee Roasters . . . actually, that wasn’t the case at all. I instantly spotted Miss Chassy Dee Luxe and Ophelia Knightly sitting in the middle of the room as afternoon coffee-quaffers milled about. Maybe it was Chassy’s neon green jumpsuit, or perhaps Ophelia’s Veronica Lake hairstyle. Either way, Miss Trixie Van Tassel and their manager, Cookie, joined us shortly afterward and we began to delve into what drew them into the world of burlesque. In typical Milwaukee “zero degrees of separation” fashion, Chassy’s friend, Billy Boy Brad, a local rockabilly DJ at the now defunct Reed St. Station, wanted to start something, so she contacted her friend Ophelia. Trixie saw their flyer and was the only one who showed up for the auditions. Miss Cookie started hanging with Miss Trixie around Christmas and, because she is more confident offstage and not quite comfortable in pasties yet, became their manager. Another member, Sophia Vegas, is on hiatus at the moment, but they have an official doorman called “Dick”, whose last name is unprintable. The group definitely has a feminist edge to it — showing that women can be strong, sexy and funny at the same time. “I’m not Avril Lavigne, but I don’t care because I’m having fun,” said Miss Trixie. Brew City Burlesque has gotten a great response, especially from full-figured women who come to their shows and enjoy being photographed with the BCB-ers. On the other hand, there have been some “nasty and seriously uncalled-for comments,” described Trixie, from people who ogled a particular picture included with a recent OnMilwaukee.com BCB feature. “People think we are strippers,” she continued, and the group explained how they have lost venues because of this misconception. The bottom line, according to BCB, is strippers do it for the money, but burlesque performers put what they earn into their costumes. “Stripping is strictly no frills, whereas we’re all about the frills,” Ophelia stated. What the two genres share is a “no touching” rule. “First and foremost,” Trixie said, “we are performers and we are ladies — don’t stuff dollar bills into our panties.” When the going gets tough, the tough get going. As Chassy explained, any negative criticism simply “drives us to work harder to challenge beliefs.” Although the group is in desperate need of “more theater-based people who are open to new ideas,” Chassy cautions potential BCB hopefuls, “It takes a certain mentality to hold your own in a performance. You have to be strong, self-confident, and not afraid to take a chance and show the world what you’re made of.” Moreover, Trixie feels the main idea to keep in mind about Brew City Burlesque is that “it doesn’t matter what kind of body type you have; it’s all about your own idea of beauty.” 36-24-36? Not everyone is going to measure-up. Attitude, charisma, and how you present yourself also figure in, with each lady putting forth equal amounts of effort. The group feels that burlesque somewhat resembles performance art, so they try to come up with stuff that is both sexy and funny–whatever tickles their fancy (no pun intended). In addition to more traditional holiday-themed pieces, they perform mock stripteases and bawdy comedy in the tradition of Benny Hill. Gender bending? Well, why not? Even Shakespeare did that. In their “Fever” number for the UWM Drag Ball, a Project Q benefit, the girls wore whiplash mustaches and goatees, revealing red ruffled bras & bottoms underneath their tuxedoes. Even though these boundary-pushers are taking a break after doing three gigs in one month, they are busy fixing costumes and rehearsing twice weekly. Look for them in the near future on the Fox 6 Wake Up Show. The girls are also hoping to schedule performances with The Jezebels (Chicago-based), and local groups such as the Uptown Savages. For more (or less), call Trixie at 899-6985 or visit www.brewcityburlesque.iwarp.com. Editor’s Note: (Tickle your own fancy by picking up a copy of Rachel Shteir’s “Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show” (Oxford, $30). It will put you in touch with burlesque of the American persuasion)
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Charles Ignazio Mistretta
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Obituary of Charles Ignazio Mistretta
Charles Ignazio Mistretta, 78, of Vineland, New Jersey, passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday, February 19, 2020 surrounded by his loving family.
At an early age Charles started working on his Grandfathers farm (next door to his house) before and after school every day he could. He often said that his Grandpa taught him more about real life and what to expect when he moved up the ladder of life of manhood.
There were many other side jobs while he attended high school (which he graduated from) but always said that school didn't teach (at that time) how to survive after high school, if you do not pursue higher education.
Two weeks after graduation, Charles landed a job in Philadelphia with a large retail food broker. In 2 years went up the ladder and was promoted to District Supervisor for all of Southern NJ and parts of Pennsylvania. Charles stayed with the Broker for 10 years. He was offered a position of Sales Manager at Progresso Foods. This position transferred him to Rhode Island. This too was a great learning experience. Due to personal reasons, he needed to move back to Vineland, NJ with his three young children.
He went from food to waste management. Whatever career Chalie pursued, he excelled. In 2004, he won the Top Shop Award for Waste Management of South Jersey. While working at Waste Management, Chalie was very involved with the city he loved: Immaculate Conception Parish, Cumberland County Improvement Authority, Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce, Solid Waste Advisory Council to name a few. In 1995, Waste Management of South Jersey gave him an award for Outstanding Community Relations.
Chalie was very involved with East Vineland Little League as a Coach, Treasurer and even cooked spaghetti and crabs. When he was coach with his friends Charlie Buck and Dan Chinnici, their team Caterina captured the Farm League Title, winning all 18 games played.
Chalie loved being with his family, friends and cooking. He was not always good about sharing his recipes. Let’s not forget his love of fishing. He had some great catches: 41 3/4 pound striped bass, 39 pound striped bass, 13 pound 1 oz. Flounder, 14 pound 15 oz weakfish and many more. Chalie belonged to the Highland Anglers fishing club, where he was Fisherman of Year in 1987, 1991 and 1993.
Chalie is survived by and dearly missed by his loving wife, Edwina (Powers) Mistretta of 48 years; his three children of whom he was very proud; daughters Annice and John Fanelli, Susan and Kent Taylor, son Charles I. Mistretta II; grandchildren, Vivian Fanelli, Pamela Fanelli (Arnold Mead), Melissa Fanelli (Phil Colaneri), Nicole and Michael Collins, Janine and Eddie Alicea, Charles III and Brianna Mistretta; Great grandchildren, Adrianna Capone, Santino Fanelli, Shawn Guadalupe, Lucas Mead, Chase Collins, Angelina Alicea, Juliana Colaneri, Delaney Rae Mistretta, Leilani Colaneri, Aiden Collins and Dillon Collins. He is also survived by his beloved sister, Lorraine Ciro and her sons Vincent and Maria Ciro and Anthony and Jeanette Ciro, his favorite Aunt Angie Marino, Uncle Sal and Aunt Carol Stabile and his many cousins. He is predeceased by his father, Sam Mistretta, mother, Vivian Mistretta and brother-in-law, Giovanni Ciro.
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Angelina Jolie’s Dating History Involves More Than One Attached Man, Regardless of What She Says
Fans might need been fast to note that Brad Pitt’s current acceptance speech didn’t embrace a point out of his kids. He shares all of them together with his ex-wife, Angelina Jolie, however Jolie’s newest claims are garnering much more consideration. In a current Marie Claire interview, Jolie insisted that she was by no means concerned with a married man and would by no means get entangled with one. Team Jen followers had been outraged. It’s all however confirmed that Jolie’s relationship with Pitt started when he was nonetheless married to America’s sweetheart, Jennifer Aniston. While Pitt and Jolie’s relationship might be her best-known tryst, Pitt isn’t the primary concerned man she’s been linked to.
Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thorton’s relationship timeline
is questionable
Jolie and Billy Bob Thorton met on the set of Pushing Tin in 1999. In the flick, Jolie performed Mary Bell, whereas Thorton took on the function of Russell Bell. The movie, that additionally featured Cate Blanchett and John Cusack, is usually forgotten by all however film aficionados, but it surely gave rise to Jolie and Thorton’s relationship. There was one catch although, Thorton was engaged to Laura Dern. Jolie, who on the time was just lately separated from her then-husband, Johnny Lee Miller, was reportedly romantically concerned with Timothy Hutton, in accordance with In Style.
Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton | Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection by way of Getty Images
The following 12 months they had been married in a Las Vegas ceremony
and set out on their life collectively. The world was shocked by their wedding ceremony, however
nobody was extra shocked then Dern. Dern was fairly outspoken in regards to the state of affairs
again in 2000, in accordance with ABC News,
she stated, “I left our house to work on a film, and whereas I
was away, my boyfriend bought married, and I’ve by no means heard from him once more.”
In all equity, Thorton wasn’t
married when he connected with Jolie, however he was sharing a house with somebody,
and the pair had been allegedly headed in direction of marriage. Sure, she could not have
slept with a married man on this state of affairs, but it surely feels like she was as shut
as she may presumably get to that situation.
Angelina and Brad Pitt went public shortly after his divorce
Whether or not Jolie
and Pitt consummated their relationship earlier than he left Aniston remains to be up
for debate. The pair, nonetheless, did meet on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
Pitt was, in each method doable, nonetheless very a lot concerned with Aniston on the
time. Pitt and Aniston married in July 2000 in a star-studded ceremony. Their
life collectively appeared fairly lowkey, however they had been repeatedly photographed
collectively throughout the 5 years their marriage lasted. The pair introduced their separation
in January 2005. Aniston formally filed for divorce in March of the identical
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt | Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic
Shortly after saying their break up, Pitt was noticed on a seaside with Jolie. He additionally appeared in a W Magazine unfold together with her and accompanied her on a visit to undertake a baby in April 2005. By 2006 Jolie was pregnant. They married in August 2012, however Jolie filed for divorce in August 2016.
While Aniston moved on with a string of relationships and even remarried, followers remained livid for her. She’s seemingly over it, however followers gained’t be forgetting the truth that Jolie break up up Aniston and Pitt. In reality, followers are so immersed within the narrative that many imagine that Pitt and Aniston will rekindle their relationship now that Jolie is out of the image.
Is Angelina Jolie relationship anybody now?
Jolie and Pitt’s divorce was a battle. The pair spent a
lot of money and time hashing out custody agreements, and an
insider has claimed that Jolie resented Pitt for pressuring her into getting
married within the first place. According to the insider, Jolie by no means supposed
to marry Pitt, as she had married twice earlier than and battled difficult divorces
up to now. Now that she’s gone via a divorce that included a custody
battle, she’s not eager on leaping into romance once more.
While Jolie is reportedly relationship round, she hasn’t been immediately tied to anyone particular person. It appears to be like just like the Maleficent star is trying to maintain issues quiet and peaceable for now. She’s a bit busy with work, anyway. Jolie is at the moment filming The Eternals, the Marvel studio providing starring Jolie, Salma Hayek, and Kumail Nanjiani. Who is aware of, although, she could discover her subsequent love curiosity on a film set. It wouldn’t be the primary time she’s ended up with a co-star.
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PACE Center Mainstage Theater & Rehearsal Spaces
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At Parker Arts, our mission is to make the arts accessible to the community – including local theater groups, regional orchestras, high school or college productions, concerts and a wide range of other productions. Because our goal is to help create and present art, we offer our space and services at very reasonable rates.
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The Mainstage Theater seats up to 534 people, with excellent sightlines and acoustics. Seats in the back row are just 75 feet from the 41’ wide proscenium stage, which features a motorized orchestra pit that can be adjusted to meet your specific needs. The theater, which opened in 2011, features the latest in theatrical lighting, sound and rigging systems. Also available are an orchestra shell and dance flooring. Control includes intercom, cue light and paging systems and can adapt to the special needs of each event. We also have video monitors to assist with viewing the stage.
Rental includes three technicians, one each for lighting, sound and stage.
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In addition to a dedicated theater space, users of Parker Arts stages have access to multiple adjoining spaces (when available) that can be configured to meet the unique needs of your performance – including rehearsal space. These include a 3,000 square foot event room, public art gallery, dance studio, creative studios, media lab, kitchen, four multi-use classrooms and a conference room. There is an additional rental charge for use of these facilities. Outdoor spaces include a spacious terrace, a charming amphitheater and Harmony Park – an interactive musical outdoor playground. On-site catering is available for performance-related events such as opening-night receptions and cast parties.
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Past Life Therapy: It’s Contribution to Psychology and Holistic Medicine
I. Introduction To Past Life Therapy
A. Buddhism
The Buddhists have a concept that life is an illusion and illusion is born out of ignorance. Thus acts of wrong doing are born out of ignorance. The world operates by divine power and law, not by divine command (McDowell and Stewart 1982). Their spiritual goal is freedom of the soul from worldly attachment and passionless peace. Nirvana is the sanskrit word for this ultimate goal in spirituality. There is no personal God, but only truth that lies within our heart. To experience this truth, one must heal the five conflicting emotions of jealousy, greed, ignorance, anger, and fear. Meditation is one way to heal the emotions as well as knowledge of the self from past life times. Detachment from these conflicting emotions leads to enlightenment and evolution out of the illusion of ignorance to experience the ultimate reality.
B. Hinduism
The Hindu concept of the universe is by understanding that from the creative, destructive, and neutralizing forces in the universe evolve the principles of akasha, prana, and creative mind. Akasha is the substance in all matter, prana is the force that moves through matter, and the creative mind is from which the universe was created (McGill 1979). All these principles are contained in the human body which has seven levels of consciousness called chakras which lie within the spinal column. There is a universal law of action and reaction called karma. It is our inheritance which is brought forth from former life times that shape our fate and destiny. Tendencies to act according to certain patterns established by reactions from the past are known as samskaras. Vansanas are memory traces which form this pattern (Woolger 1988). The Hindus are very aware that experiences from past life times create a large part of our psychological make-up. With this concept comes atman or individual soul and brahman or cosmic soul. There is a reservoir of stored-up energy at the base of the spine called the kundalini with a symbolic representation called the sleeping serpent. In order to reach the highest level of consciousness, the individual soul must unite with the cosmic soul by unleashing this reservoir of energy at the base of the spine and ascend it upward to the top of the brain. This energy eventually reaches the superconscious state called samadi, the ultimate freedom from the cycle of birth and death as well as liberation from all miseries and bondage (Ballentine, Rama, and Hymes 1979).
II. Detailed Discussion
A. Einstein’s Theories
Albert Einstein has described two basic theories which the universe has evolved from. These theories are now accepted as universal truth. The knowledge of these truths has been understood in Buddhism and Hinduism.
1. Theory of Relativity
This theory states that light when slowed down condenses into matter and returns to light when it speeds up. Thus matter is only transformation of energy evolving from its source which is light. Energy cannot be destroyed, but only transformed. Matter is governed by laws because of the polarity in its structure, but light has complete freedom. Relativity also applies to the energy within the nervous system, which is our soul, that condenses into a physical body at birth and returns to light at death.
2. Unified Field Theory
This theory states that everything in existance has an energy field because of the structure of the atom. The electron in an atom gives matter an energy field. The energy around a human being is known as the spiritual body. Light is pure energy but matter is energy with form. If the energy within the nervous system is understood as light, then it is indestructible and capable of living in another body.
B. Psychology
Psychology is becoming a rapidly changing field today because medical science is finally beginning to understand that it is as important to heal the mind as well as the body. This opens up to a whole new concept in psychology called transpersonal psychology in which there is a recognition of a spiritual component in the mind. To understand why past life therapy is so valuable to healing the this will be explained through the anatomy of the brain, altered states of consciousness, parapsychology, and psychological changes from past life therapy.
1. Anatomy of the Brain
The central nervous system consists of the brain and spinal cord which acts as a messenger throughout the body for all the input of stimuli from the environment. Reactions from stimuli are understood from biological, intrapsychic, and social/behavioral viewpoints in psychology. The brain has a right hemisphere which is the subconscious, a left hemisphere which is the conscious, and an area between them called the corpus callosum which acts as a filter. The conscious contains short term memory and accepts 12% of known facts, the filter or critical part of the mind accepts 10% of known facts, and the subconscious contains long term memory and accepts 78% of known facts (Kappas 1987). These percentages indicate how much of the brain is actually used in mind power. Functions of the left and right brain are represented like this:
Left=logic, reason, mathematics, reading, writing, language, analysis, and physical
Right=recognition, rhythm, visual, imagery, creativity, synthesis, dreams, symbols, and emotions
The nervous system is equally as important in understanding the mind because we react to the environment through our senses of smell, taste, sight, touch, and sound; the body is involved in all these senses becoming a vehicle for the mind. This explains how the nervous systems branches out (Shone 1985):
Central nervous system=brain and spinal cord
brain=central core, limbic system
cerebrum=left and right hemispheres
Peripheral nervous system=autonomic system (to sympathetic system) and somatic system (to parasympathetic system)
2. Altered States of Consciousness
Brain waves influence states of consciousness which are measured by electrical charges emitted by the brain. Relaxation lowers the brain waves and allows the subconscious mind to open up and access memories.
There are four altered states of consciousness that are represented like this: Wave Frequency
cycles per second Situations of occurrance Beta 13-50 Normal waking alertness Alpha 8-12 Meditation, hypnosis Theta 4-7 Emotional stress, deep meditation Delta 1-3 deep sleep,infant sleep Hypnosis and meditation are both altered states of consciousness because they induce relaxation and lower brain waves. The only difference is that hypnosis is able to resolve conflicts within the mind and meditation is not.
3. Levels of Consciousness
Eastern psychology states that there are seven levels of consciousness within the nervous system and our energy field. These levels of consciousness are nerve plexus which branch out from the spinal cord into the peripheral nervous system. The nerve plexus are represented like this:
Sacral coccygeal plexus=earth, smell, and red (kundalini)
Hypogastric plexus=water, taste, and orange
Solar plexus=fire, sight, and yellow
Cardiac plexus=air, touch, and green
Pharyngeal plexus=ether, sound, and blue
Brain=magnetism, thought, and purple (pituitary gland)
Crown area=universe, energy field, and white (pineal gland) These nerve plexus or chakras are also known as energy centers. Within every human being there is a psychich connection to the universe through these energy centers which vibrate at a certain frequency radiating color in the energy field. The ego or identity originates from the base of the spine which is the first energy center of self-mastery. Once the emotionas are healed, then the thoughts are able to transcend to the area of the heart where the feeling of love and wholeness is found. This becomes the path to universal consciousness and wisdom as energy transcends up the spine (White 1979).
4. Parapsychology
By understanding the human energy field, it brings us into another area of psychology called parapsychology. Psychic energy is indestructible and survives death of the body. Psychic energy from deceased humans will occasionally stay earthbound and attach themselves to other people’s energy fields instead of returning to the light. This attachment of psychic energy from deceased humans to other humans is known as spirit attachment or posession. Spirit attachment can influence a person’s behavior and emotions often resulting in problems such as chemical dependency, anger, prolonged grief, fears, depression, moodiness, low energy, violent behavior, or suicide (Fiore 1987). Subscious releasement of spirits will heal these emotions and change behavior. Often spirits have an attachment to people because of a karmic situation from a past life time although there maybe other reasons contributing to the attachment.
5. Psychological changes from Past Life Therapy
There are so many beneficial psychological changes from past life therapy. Hypnotherapy is a modality used in past life therapy which is a process that detached the conscious and allows the subscious to access memories. The hypnotized subject remains in rapport and responsive to suggestions. This is done by overloading the mind with message units to focus on relaxation. The filter between the right and left hemispheres becomes unblocked and repressed memories can be accessed. Fearful and painful emotions caused by repressed memories due to trauma are eventually released. Through this process the will becomes strengthened, self-esteem is increased, and latent abilities are brought out. Four techniques used in past life therapy are progressive relaxation, guided imagery, concentration, and healing the emotions. Painful and fearful emotions are described as a color in an area of the body with a size, shape, and an expression of them. A tool of light such as a laser beam, star of light, etc. is used to dissolve the painful and fearful emotions described in a symbol such as a frozen block of energy. These frozen blocks of energy can follow us through many life times recreating simular experiences until we become aware of our need to change consciousness. Through our awareness of the inner light we can dissolve the frozen block os energy allowing us to be free of victim consciousness and increasing our spiritual strength (Long 1993). Past life therapy eliminates fears, chronic pain, depression, anger, gried, chemical dependency, co-dependency, and helps certain psychotic disorders which have been only treatable with medication such as schizophrenia, manic depression, and multiple personalities.
C. Holistic Medicine
The concept of holistic medicine brings more theories concerning the mind and healing. The mind contributes to creating and healing illnesses. Eastern medicine has a concept of energy blocks within the physical body and with past life therapy it is obvious to see how these blocks are created by the mind. Thus all illnesses are caused by energy blocks within the mind which decreases the energy level and immune system response. Increases in psychic energy from past life therapy improves the immune system and health. The mind and body are interrelated so the mind has to heal for the body to heal (Weiss 1992). This brings new awareness that there is a subconscious reason for everything including a terminal illness (Denning 1987). The subconscious mind contributes to the creation of a terminal illness when a person wants to die or fears death. It is important for these concepts to be understood for a true healing to occur.
D. Conclusion
Past life therapy loosens the rigidity of the intellect and opens the door to a new experience of reality. Transformation becomes a process of coming to a place of peace and harmony within the self that is attained by experiencing the primordial essence from which we have become separated. Regression therapy touches the deepest part of our essence, the lost part of our soul that is redeemed through oru love and acceptance (Lucas 1993). This raises the level of conscious to become centered in love and caring for others. Feelings of separatesness become recognized as an illution and one can experience the ultimate reality. Past life therapy is becoming recognized as one of the most powerful tools for inner transformation in psychology today. This powerful tool for the transformation of human thought is our connection to the universe which will eventually raise the consciousness of all mankind.
Works Cited:
Ballentine, Rudolph MD, Alan Hymes MD, and Swami Rama 1979,
”Science of Breath”, Honesdale, Pa.: The Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy
Denning, Hazel M. PhD 1987
”Dialogue with Cancer”, The Journal of Regression Therapy II 2:93-99
Fiore, Edith PhD 1987
”The Unquiet Dead”, New York: Ballantine Books
Kappas, George 1987
Hypnosis Motivation Institute, 12 hour video course on hypnosis
Long, Coletta, PhD,
clinical psychologist specializing in past life therapy, personal interview, Austin, Texas June 5, 1993
Lucas, Winafred Blake PhD 1993
”Regression Therapy: A Handbook for Professionals”, Crest Park: Deep Forest Press
McDowell, Josh and Don Stewart 1982
”Understanding Non-Christian Religions”, San Bernadino, Ca.: Westwood Publishing Co.
McGill, Ormond 1979
”Hypnotism and Mysticism of India”, Glendale, Ca.: Westwood Publishing Co.
Shone, Ronald 1985
”Advanced Autohypnosis”, Great Britian: Thorson Publishers Ltd.
Weiss, Brian MD
”Through time into Healing”, New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc.
White, John 1979
”Kundalini Evolution and Enlightment”, New York: Paragon House
Glossary:
chakras:
sanscrit word for junctions of nerve plexus extended out from the spinal column considered to be wheels of psychic energy
karma:
sanscrit word for natual law of cause and effect which governs matter; psychic inheritance brought forth from former life times which shape our fate and destiny
karma:
sanscrit word for passionless peace and freedom of soul from worldly attachment.
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Leaving Safe and Finding Strength on 100 Summits in Japan
Susan Spann
The inspiring memoir of a middle-aged woman who challenged herself to climb one hundred Japanese mountains in a single year, even after an aggressive cancer threatened to derail her dream.
After more than forty years of living "safe and scared," California attorney and mystery author Susan Spann decided to break free by climbing one hundred of Japan's most famous mountains, inspired by a classic list of hyakumeizan peaks. But when an unexpected cancer diagnosis forced her to confront her deepest fears, the mountains of Japan became the setting for an even more transformative journey from pain and fear to a new life fueled by hope, confidence, and strength.
This immersive, inspiring, and witty page-turner captures the terrifying lows and breathtaking highs of a woman's journey from timidity to confidence, cancer to healing, and regret to joy, as she breaks the mental and physical chains that once prevented her from living out her dreams. Susan chronicles her journey with an insightful, often humorous eye for not only her travels across Japan, but the culture, food, nature, and obstacles she encountered along the way, and complements her honest and vivid prose with breathtaking personal photographs.
Globe Pequot / Prometheus
Pages: 360 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-1-63388-592-9 • Hardback • August 2020 • $26.95 • (£20.95)
978-1-63388-593-6 • eBook • August 2020 • $23.50 • (£17.95)
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, Biography & Autobiography / Women, Travel / Asia / Japan
Susan Spann is a former attorney and the author of the Hiro Hattori mystery novels. She has a degree in Asian Studies from Tufts University and a lifelong love of Japanese history and culture. A California native, she is currently living in Tokyo and planning her next adventure.
“As a climber, people assume I’m drawn to adventure tales: the gritty, bloody, hang-it-off-the-edge type pursuits. However, what has become more interesting to me is the story of what I call a ‘No Barriers Life’ –that is, a life highlighted by a mindset of embracing and harnessing challenges to drive forward. Climb is a fabulous exemplar. Spann’s journey is a tremendous reach into uncertainty amidst a cancer diagnosis, and ultimately her summits become a reward far more than the tops of the mountains she attains.”
–Erik Weihenmayer, mountaineer, best-selling author, and founder of No Barriers
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NNPC spends N1.6bn on repairs of pipeline
By Tukur Muntari
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it had spent over N1.6 billion on the repairs of the vandalised pipeline between Kaduna and Kano in 2016.
The NNPC Group Managing Director, Mr Maikanti Baru, disclosed this when he paid a courtesy visit to Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje on Tuesday in Kano.
Baru was in Kano to inaugurate loading operations at the NNPC depot following the repairs of the vandalised pipeline.
He said the company had also expended about N2 billion to provide security for the pipelines within the last one year.
He said it was unfortunate that the company had to spend the money to rectify the pipeline after the illegal activities of vandals.
“These are funds that would have been invested for providing other essential services.
“With the repairs of the vandalised pipeline, I am happy to tell the governor that the line is now 100 operational,”he said.
He disclosed that following the repairs of the pipeline, the company had been able to transfer over 20 million litres of AGO into tanks of Kano and Kaduna refinery in addition to 40 million liters of diesel to Kano depot.
“All these would not have been possible without President Muhammadu Buhari’s support to the NNPC.
He urged the state government to support the company by ensuring that arrested suspects were appropriately prosecuted to deter others.
“We should ensure that apprehended vandals are appropriately prosecuted and kept away from larger community for good.
The governor, represented his Deputy, Prof. Hafiz Abubakar, commended NNPC for repairing the facility and relaunching loading operations at the depot.
“This is an important economic milestone and dividend of the change mantra because it is coming at the heals of our celebration of 50th anniversary as a state created on May 27, 1967,” he said.
He assured that the state government would give NNPC the necessary support to ensure provision of adequate security to the pipeline.
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20 February 2013 Sergei Grishin
The Cypriots whose National SAMBO Federation has recently received recognition from the Cyprus Olympic Committee, is actively preparing for the first competition in SAMBO for the country of the continental scale. We remind you that from 11 to 15 of April in Cyprus, namely in Limassol, the European Championship among boys and girls, juniors will be held.
Limassol is situated in southern Cyprus and is the second largest city in the country. It is located on the Bay Akrotiri cost so the youth will certainly manage not only to compete but also to bathe in their spare time out of SAMBO. Here April’s average temperature is 20 degrees and water warms up to the mark of 18 degrees Celsius.
The organizers have been preparing for the main Old World Tournament among youth long ago, FIAS representatives got off the ground 2 months before the start. In mid-February Dmitry Maximov, Sports Director FIAS arrived to carry out an audit in Limassol.
The main job of Sports Director of FIAS was the inspection of a gym, hotels and official meetings in Cyprus. The organizers will provide SAMBO delegations with accommodation in 3 comfortable 3-star hotels. Sports arena where the Championship will be held was named after Spyros Kyprianou – a prominent Cypriot statesman who was the President of the country for 11 years of XX century.
Sports Palace named after Spyros Kyprianou was built in 2007. It is designed for competitions and trainings of weightlifters, representatives of combat arts, squash and gymnasts – both artistic and modern rhythmic. Number of spectators who can enjoy this sports event at the same time amounts to 6,500 people.
Dmitry’s business trip appeared to be multilayered. The chief man in sports in FIAS, and in combination the double world champion in SAMBO held several seminars for the athletes of the Cyprus club. As a result, young people learnt new SAMBO knowledge and skills and Dmitry had an active rest from his core activity. So in this regard we should remind a popular expression: “the best holiday – is a change of activity”.
Dmitry Maksimov spent the official part of his visit in the capital of Cyprus – Nicosia. He managed to meet and hold talks with Mr. Pambosom Stylianou, the President of Cyprus Sports Committee and Mr. Christos Hristodulidisom, his advisor in charge of the development of combat arts in Cyprus. Cyprus senior people in sports and combat arts have promised full support in the organization of the European Championship and full support in the development of SAMBO in Cyprus.
One of those “changes of activity” is considered to be Dmitry Maximov’s visit to the Russian-speaking radio of Cyprus Russian Wave Radio where he gave an interview in a live broadcast for all Cypriot fans of combat arts. SAMBO has been developing in Cyprus for 10 years already and has already had its fans here who are interested in this kind of PR-events, especially when the main character is not just a famous athlete but a man who still continues to work in SAMBO.
There is support of sports authorities in Cyprus, the future Continental Championship organizers are working hard, SAMBO fans are waiting. Little time left to wait. Just two months left until those who are able to come to Cyprus, will enjoy SAMBO in the modern Sports Palace named after Spyros Kyprianou. And those who stay at home, will spend three April evenings at their computer screens as the final of the competition will be broadcasted live on the official website of FIAS.
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Stanhope attacks Smyth in question time, but where are the reporters?
Would anybody care to explain to me why ACT Chief Turnip Jon Stanhope’s verbal attack on former opposition leader Brendan Smyth in question time today has received so little media coverage?
The lead story on 2CC news for most of the afternoon was Jon Stanhope calling Brendan Smyth a slime ball who enjoys being in the gutter and subsequently being reprimanded by the speaker of the assembly Wayne Berry MLA. 2CC reported that Brendan Smyth was disgusted by the outburst.
This was question time, and all of the news outlets had reporters at the assembly today, so why has there been no mention of this outburst on the television news bulletins? I’m not sure about ABC Local Radio but as there is so far nothing on their news website about it I don’t think they’ve covered the story, and I’m almost certain that RiotACT would have covered it if the story had appeared on ABC Local Radio’s news bulletins…so what’s going on? Why has such an unusual (for the Legislative Assembly at least) and newsworthy event gone unnoticed by so much of the local media?
Here is a copy of the transcript from proof hansard, the PDF will be replaced with the final version of weekly hansard at the end of the week.
MR STEFANIAK: My question is to the Chief Minister. Chief Minister, where were you on the night of 17 January 2003 when the head of the Emergency Services Bureau was trying to get in touch with you, and what were you doing?
MR STANHOPE: I have to say that I was interested in the contribution that the member for Tuggeranong, Mr Smyth, made to the no-confidence motion last week, in which he dwelt very much on this subject, comfortable as Mr Smyth is with the selling of innuendo, of scuttlebutt and of slime.
MR STEFANIAK: Answer the question.
MR STANHOPE: Well, it is not that simple, actually. It is a question in relation to which one really should provide some context around the degree of comfort that Mr Smyth has in getting into the gutter, the slime— Mr Slime Ball from Tuggeranong. He loves it down there in the gutter.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Refer to the member by his name, please. Withdraw that and refer to the member by his name.
MR STANHOPE: I refer to Mr Smyth as Mr Smyth and—
MRS DUNNE: Mr Speaker, he still hasn’t withdrawn.
MR SPEAKER: Withdraw it.
MR STANHOPE: I withdraw it; I was withdrawing it. But it of course does not change my opinion of the member at all, and he knows it.
MRS DUNNE: Mr Speaker, this is entirely disorderly. When a member is asked to withdraw, they have to withdraw, and that’s it— simpliciter, without embellishment.
MR SPEAKER: He has withdrawn.
MR STANHOPE: Mr Smyth is comfortable down there in the gutter. He likes it there, down with the cigarette butts and the dog turds and the wasted life. That is where he is comfortable, and of course it is one of the reasons that his colleagues tipped him out a few months ago— because he really does not have the maturity or the standing or the quality that befits a leader.
MR SPEAKER: Come to the subject of the question, Chief Minister.
MR STANHOPE: I spent that evening with my wife, Robyn, in company with two other people, the reputations of whom or the professions of whom some of course might have a particular issue with. I think it was to these particular points that Mr Smyth was going, of course— the quality, the calibre and the nature of the people and who it was that I might have spent that particular evening with. I spent it with my wife and with a magistrate of the ACT Magistrates Court, and his wife, and— forgive me my sins— with a Catholic priest, the parish priest of St Matthew’s, Page. Mr Smyth, of course, was not looking for an answer that bowled me as actually spending an evening with a magistrate of the Magistrates Court of the ACT or with the parish priest of St Matthew’s, Page. Mr Smyth had other ideas. Mr Smyth has been out there spreading innuendo and slime and slurs and outrageous suggestions— as he did when he put in an FOI request for all of my wife’s travel documents on the one and only occasion when my wife has accompanied me on a spouse-accompanied trip. This is the man who thinks it is appropriate behaviour for a Leader of the Opposition to requisition all of my wife’s travel documents. This is the man that the other Liberals are comfortable with on their back bench.
MR STEFANIAK: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker, under standing order 118A.
MR STANHOPE: Who among you thinks that is appropriate behaviour—
MR STEFANIAK: Pull him in, would you?
MR SPEAKER: Come back to the subject matter of the question.
MR STANHOPE: of a member of your particular party? This is the scuttlebutt. This is the innuendo. This is the slime—
MR SPEAKER: Come back to the subject matter, Chief Minister.
MR STANHOPE: that your colleagues engage in. Which one of you has suffered your spouse or partner having all of their private documents FOIed in relation to any travel involving you in your official capacity— who of you? It is the most shameful behaviour by a despicable little man!
MR STEFANIAK: Mr Speaker, I have a supplementary question. Chief Minister, thank you for that explanation— in the 30 seconds that you gave it; I will disregard the rest. Why until now have you been so reluctant to advise the people of Canberra what you were doing when you should have been following the fires closely? Why did you not advise us before now?
MR STANHOPE: Because it was none of your business.
MR STEFANIAK: It has taken you four years.
MR STANHOPE: Because it was none of your business, and it is still none of your business. I only answer today because of the slime that is being perpetrated and spread around Canberra by this colleague of yours— the innuendoes, the doublespeak, the slime, the attacks on my wife and the requisitioning of her travel documents: freedom of information requests in relation to every document associated with her private life and her behaviour. This is what the Liberal Party in this place has reduced itself to. He kept it up last week in the no-confidence motion. You all sat around, all relaxed: “Funny; chuff, chuff; let’s be part of this innuendo”— this slur, this campaign against my wife and my marriage, this suggestion that there was something untoward about my behaviour, which you have gone on and on with.
MR SMYTH: You refused to answer the question.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Smyth!
MR STANHOPE: Because I have a private life that is absolutely none of your business. You have run a four-year campaign about my private life. The questions that you have pursued in relation to my whereabouts on that particular night, on that evening, and the persons in whose company I spent the evening have had a single purpose. It is absolutely and utterly despicable— utterly despicable. Of course, then it was followed up by Mr Smyth and his freedom of information requests— that he has requisitioned: his demand for tabled documents— in relation to my wife’s private life and business.
MR STEFANIAK: Mr Speaker, I raise a point of order, again under standing order 118A.
MR SPEAKER: I think the question was “why haven’t you told us up until now?” I think the Chief Minister is trying to tell you.
MR STANHOPE: To the point where I have to say this. I am loath to involve my wife in this; she will be appalled, and perhaps disappointed, that I have breached her privacy in relation to this. But since Mr Smyth conducted his campaign against my wife and her travel, my wife refuses to travel with me. She is not prepared to have her private life and her private affairs submitted to the political point scoring and nastiness of Brendan Smyth. My wife will no longer travel with me because of Mr Smyth’s requisitioning of her personal travel documents, her personal affairs and
her expenditures when she travels on official business with me. That is what Mr Smyth has done. I apologise to my wife for breaching her privacy in this way. It is appalling. I am absolutely appalled that this paragon of virtue— this citizen of Tuggeranong, this pillar of society— thinks that that is appropriate behaviour. It is not. On the night before the fire, I was with my wife, with a magistrate of the ACT Magistrates Court and with a Catholic priest.
MR STEFANIAK: Why didn’t you tell us before now?
MR STANHOPE: Because it is none of your business— because it is none of your business. It is none of your business what I was doing.
MR STEFANIAK: No-one is going to blame you for being with your wife, for goodness sake.
MR STANHOPE: I explained at the time. I said, “I was in my electorate at dinner.”
MRS BURKE: You did not.
MR STANHOPE: Yes, I did.
MS GALLAGHER: Yes, on the north side of Canberra.
MR STANHOPE: My colleagues remember. I was in my electorate on the north side of Canberra at dinner. But that was not sufficient! That was not sufficient! It just excited the dirty mind of Mr Smyth. That just excited the dirty mind, because I would not say I was at dinner with my wife— because it was none of your business. It was not relevant that I involve my wife in this place. Oh, no— a four-year campaign of innuendo, scuttlebutt, doublespeak and plain gossip. Of course it all gets repeated back to me. It is a small town. It is a small place, this. It all gets reported back to me— everything that Mr Smyth says as he goes around town: the destruction of my reputation and that of my marriage and my wife. It is all out there. He is out there talking about it. He is talking it up. I can go and get statutory declarations and affidavits from those to whom Mr Smyth has told this story. That is what we have come to. It was a matter of principle. It is none of your business. My wife is not part of this job.
MRS BURKE: It’s the community’s business.
MR STANHOPE: It is not. Mrs Burke, tell us more about the sexual harassment matter. Come on.
MR STEFANIAK: Oh, here we go. Let’s get grubby, Jon.
MR STANHOPE: Let’s get grubby? Let’s get grubby!
MR STEFANIAK: You are accusing him of it and now you are doing it.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR STANHOPE: I am respecting Mrs Burke’s privacy. Give us the lurid details, Mrs Burke. (Time expired.)
It even continued in to the next question…
MR GENTLEMAN: My question is directed to the Minister for Territory and Municipal Services. I understand that recent criticism of ACTION is misguided, as patronage levels are through the roof. Can you inform the Assembly how many passengers have voted in favour of ACTION by using the new network?
MR SMYTH interjecting—
MR HARGREAVES: Mr Smyth, I challenge you to tell in public what you told your Liberal Party branch about me. I challenge you in public because I would like you to give me a photocopy of your house because I will have it for you.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Hargreaves, come back to the subject matter.
MR HARGREAVES: I certainly will. You just do it and I will take you on.
Considering that the “answer” provided by Jon Stanhope actually answers a question about his whereabouts prior to the 2003 Bushfire, one does have to wonder why at least that bit was of no interest to the local media, if the name calling of Brendan Smyth wasn’t of interest to them.
I am still perplexed as to why Jon Stanhope doesn’t think his whereabouts is the business of his constituents, and I can only assume that, had he been forthcoming with these details, Brendan Smyth would never have tried to work it out by using Freedom Of Information…in fact I’m sure that Mr. Smyth and the Liberal Party would have tried many other ways of working it out before FOIing travel documents of Mr. Stanhope’s wife.
More questions, why is it that Mr. Stanhope can find enough money to erect a statue of the late disgraced Whitlam government minister Al Grassby, but needs to make businesses in Civic pay a levy for the general upkeep of the area…a job which would normally be considered a government responsibility? And why is this kind of levy going to be charged at a varying rate depending on the “rateable” value of their property…surely if this must happen then it should be charged at a flat rate and not be an addition to land tax by another name?
What a peculiar place that Legislative Assembly is.
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Gardasil in Italy: Fighting new medical conditions
August 23, 2019 By admin 5 Comments
By Simona from Rome, Italy
Our Battle after Gardasil
This story started when my daughter Chiara was 13 years old, now she is 18. She used to be a very good athlete with symptoms from Hashimoto’s thyroiditis with high levels of anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies. These were already known much before receiving the HPV vaccine.
She was really a good athlete and Hashimoto’s did not stop her from participating in the World Championship Karate in Caorle where she had the first place twice. In 2010, she took the brown belt. Apart from Karate interest, Chiara’s other hobbies included painting, singing and practicing all kind of sports. That was Chiara’s profile before Gardasil.
Chiara’s story after Gardasil is as follows:
Chiara received the first HPV vaccine Gardasil injection in March 2013. It was about ten days before her menstrual cycle. Afterward, she was sick for three days showing nausea, headache, stomach-ache, and faint.
In April 2013 she was again sick for five days but the doctor said that could be just a strong menstrual syndrome.
In May 2013 she received the second shot and she was sick again for seven days.
During June 2013 she stayed sick for ten days.
In July 2013 she started to suffer from osteochondritis (a joint condition whereby a variable amount of bone and its adjacent cartilage loses its blood supply and go to necrosis) at her astragalus (ankle) so she had to stop practicing any sports. At the same time, her pains likely due to menstrual syndrome continued and the gynecologist suggested to treat her with magnesium salts.
On September 2013, she received the third shot and she started to have seriously strong stomachaches, likewise an acute allergic reaction. She was subjected to endoscopic investigations, but the results were all negative. To relieve the high acidity, she was treated with proton-pump inhibitors and she followed a strict diet without milk and derivatives, but unfortunately no beneficial was obtained.
In December 2013 she started to experience vasovagal syncope’s associated with strong stomachaches, headaches, and insomnia.
In January 2014 she was hospitalized for ten days, the endoscopic exam was repeated, and the medical doctors diagnosed eosinophilic esophagitis (a sort of allergic inflammatory condition of the esophagus) and low levels of vitamin D.
In February 2014 she started to take a vitamins D, B1, B6, B12, and selenium. She felt better but, the heavy pain, insomnia, and syncope episodes did not stop.
In the 2013-2014 school year, she had to miss more than 90 classroom days due to the pains and syncopes.
In July 2014 the endocrinologist/gynecologist suspected endometriosis and therefore she was treated with a contraceptive (Claire), but NMR did not reveal anything.
Although Chiara met several medical doctors only one, a gynecologist, suggested her problems likely to be related to the received Gardasil treatments. All of the other medical doctors to which we reported about this idea without any knowledge decided to treat us as mad people.
I have read several scientific articles, and among them, I have been impressed with the one authored by Lloyd W. Phillip (Gardasil Syndrome). That led me to think I should have finally comprised what happened to Chiara.
Actually, she is continuously taking selenium, magnesium, vitamin D, B1, B6, B12, melatonin, and probiotics. Although all the celiac tests were negative we discovered that a celiac like diet and low level of histamine inducing food seems to have some beneficial effects.
The gynecologist changed her contraceptive with a more potent one to stop the menstrual cycle flow and since then she suspected that Chiara could suffer from endometriosis.
In September 2018 due to very strong abdominal pain and syncope’s she was hospitalized and investigated by laparoscopy that excluded any endometriosis but the diagnosis was that she suffered from a strong and unusual pelvic varicocele
She is doing better, although some alternating periods, she is having on the average one syncope episode per moths, less pain and a higher number of human normal days.
The syncope episodes seem to be related to the menstrual cycle, in particular, the worse days are those overlapping with ovulation and menstruation days.
In the last two years, she was finally able to go to school for two consecutive weeks. Now she can eat without vomiting, she can study, sleep and have some fun with her friends. Meeting her friends for a day out was nearly impossible.
During the past years, Chiara has been subjected to 4 surgical operations (September 2014, May 2016, September 2018 and January 2019) to the ankle to resolve the osteochondritis. Each time for at least 3/4 months she had to use orthopedic crutches and post-operative rehabilitation.
Six years have already passed since the Gardasil treatment and the strong headache, dizziness, osteochondritis, Hashimoto’s, articular and abdominal pains are still there. Moreover, she is still under a strict diet that prevents her from taking milk derivatives and food containing gluten
The syncope episodes are less frequent after a cycle of intravenous treatment with a cocktail containing glutathione, vitamin C and folic acid
This is my daughter’s story and I wrote it to bring you about the injuries that Gardasil could cause. I hope our experience could help any of you to make the best decision and deeply investigate before subject your son to any HPV vaccine.
Above all, I hope Chiara and all the other survivors of new medical conditions after HPV vaccinations find treatments to help them get their normal lives back.
Filed Under: G / S Italy, Gardasil / Silgard Injuries, Italy Tagged With: Gardasil, Italy, new medical conditions
Helen Lobato says
Hi Simona,
I hope your daughter Chiara continues to improve and totally agree with your recommendation for Lloyd W. Phillips and his work on Gardasil Syndrome. His research explains the syndrome induced by Gardasil so well.
regards Helen
Rachel west says
This bad is killing and injuring teens all over the world. They have been sued so many times in vax court. I am sorry fir your situation ta
So sorry for this injury.
Please look into the toxic effects of folic acid. Folic acid is synthetic and should be replaced by folate. If she has a MTHFR mutation which most of us do folic acid will build up in her already toxic system. Please see Dr Ben Lynch’s book Dirty Genes. Also look into detoxing with TRS or another zeolite. These vaccines are full of heavy metals that must be removed for healing. Best wishes to you.
Patrick Jordan says
I regret that this happened to Chiara and wish all of the best for her recovery. There is an idea that Hashimotos is from a virus due to dust mites that have been active when the relative humidity gets above 40% when the breed. You might consider the homeopathic remedy based on the HPV shot to see if there might be relief from that. I have not heard of eosinophilic esophagitis outside of the effects of the rubella virus from the MMR shot so I find the association with the HPV shot something to be investigated. Cheers
Simona says
Yes I know we used Prefolic
Gardasil: Conversion disorder? I don’t think so!
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The Kilburn Manifesto: our challenge to the neoliberal victory
The Guardian, by Stuart Hall
The crisis in the global economic system triggered by the banking collapse of 2006-08 has precipitated a new moment in the evolution of global capitalism. But its novelty is not generally understood.
Some previous crises, most famously the great crash and depression of the 1930s, produced radical social change: the welfare state and New Deal, as well as the rise of fascism. In the past five years protest groups such as Occupy have appeared, and resistance to austerity has grown. Yet there has been no rupture in the system or its governing ideology. Indeed, elites have used the crisis in Europe and north America to advance the neoliberal project, as unrelenting attacks on living standards, the NHS and the welfare state in Britain show.
The disintegration of the British postwar settlement was the central project of one of the new right’s most politically divisive figures, Margaret Thatcher. Her funeral last week was designed to install her as the emblem of a unified nation, and set the seal on three decades of work by three political regimes – Thatcherism, New Labour and the coalition – to fundamentally reshape Britain. As David Cameron told the BBC: "We are all Thatcherites now." Thatcher is dead, long live Thatcherism.
What is new about this phase of capitalism? Its global interconnectedness, driven in part by new technologies, and the dominance of a new kind of finance capitalism mean that, while a crisis of this system has effects everywhere, these effects are uneven. So far the Bric countries seem relatively unscathed, while the impact of economic devastation has spread from Asia and Africa into Europe.
The breakdown of old forms of social solidarity is accompanied by the dramatic growth of inequality and a widening gap between those who run the system or are well paid as its agents, and the working poor, unemployed, under-employed or unwell.
The crisis has revealed a new, international and ethnically diverse super-rich. The Sunday Times Rich List is topped by two Russian oligarchs and an Indian billionaire. They live a life totally divorced from and almost unimaginable by ordinary people, fuelled by an apparently unstoppable appetite for profit.
Neoliberalism’s victory has depended on the boldness and ambition of global capital, on its confidence that it can now govern not just the economy but the whole of social life. On the back of a revamped liberal political and economic theory, its champions have constructed a vision and a new common sense that have permeated society. Market forces have begun to model institutional life and press deeply into our private lives, as well as dominating political discourse. They have shaped a popular culture that extols celebrity and success and promotes values of private gain and possessive individualism. They have thoroughly undermined the redistributive egalitarian consensus that underpinned the welfare state, with painful consequences for socially vulnerable groups such as women, old people, the young and ethnic minorities.
Corporate exploitation of cheap labour, natural resources and land has worsened the crisis in the developing world. Environmental degradation, poverty, disease pandemics, poor education, ethnic divisions and civil wars are paraded as inevitable postcolonial failures and provoke the old powers to intervene to safeguard the conditions for capitalist accumulation.
The neoliberal victory has reasserted the powers and position of the dominant classes. But this victory was not inevitable. No social settlement is permanent, and this one was fought for, from the coup in Chile and the defeat of the miners in Britain to current attacks on workers’ rights and the benefits system. There is more than one way out of the current catastrophe. There is always an alternative.
Today – Wednesday – the founding editors of Soundings, the new left journal first published in 1995, launch a manifesto that will attempt to outline ways forward. Over the next year we and our collaborators will, in a series of monthly instalments, examine different aspects of the current crisis and try to frame a more systemic set of questions than is usually asked. We do not offer policies but alternative approaches and demands that we hope will contribute to the broader debate that is the environment in which policymakers operate.
New Labour’s collusion with the neoliberal project – through an agenda of privatisation, outsourcing and the marketisation of the public sector – has left the party unable to draw a clear line with the coalition. Having driven forward many of Thatcherism’s gains under Tony Blair, it is constrained by timid leadership, by a lack of clear vision and new ideas.
Outside party politics new social movements, including environmental, anti-cuts and feminist groups, have not come together sufficiently with the old, defensive organisations of the working class to produce the coalition that might make them an effective political force. Yet there are indications of how such a compromise might work, for example in the short era of Ken Livingstone’s GLC and the radical experiments under way in Latin America. By contrast, turmoil in the Middle East shows us what happens when democratic demands are not met, while in Europe resistance to austerity is twinned with the revival of fascism.
This is no time for simple retreat. What is required is a renewed sense of being on the side of the future, not stuck in the dugouts of the past. We must admit that the old forms of the welfare state proved insufficient. But we must stubbornly defend the principles on which it was founded – redistribution, egalitarianism, collective provision, democratic accountability and participation, the right to education and healthcare – and find new ways in which they can be institutionalised and expressed.
All of us who oppose the current direction, whether from inside or outside party politics or other organisations, must invent. We must set about disrupting the current common sense, challenging the assumptions that organise our 21st-century political discourse. We hope our manifesto will open a dialogue with a new generation shaped by different political experiences. This is a moment for challenging, not adapting to, neoliberalism’s new reality, and for making a leap.
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January 2012, Jeb Corliss, the world’s most recognized wingsuit pilot, miraculously survived a terminal velocity wingsuit accident at Table Mountain, South Africa. For the first time ever, you will get to hear what really happened and witness never-before-seen angles from this tragic accident.
Because of his accident, Jeb endured painful operations and physiotherapy in order to get to his next mission: to fly through a narrow crack in the Jianglang Mountains in China’s Zhejian Province, which is only 60 feet (18m) wide at the top and 15 feet (4.5m) at the bottom. "Flying Dagger” gives an up-close and personal insight into the career and achievements of Corliss in the lead up to this spectacular flight. This film is an inspiring story about redemption, a man’s journey to face his demons, to fulfill his dreams and strong determination to make them a reality.
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Uruguay Tactical Analysis: Tabarez builds a platform but is it enough?
Uruguay have already qualified for the knockout stages of the 2018 World Cup. They will face Russia in the final group game to determine who will top Group A.
Suarez the Poacher
Two banks of four
Vecino out — Torreira in
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Another 1-0, another host of unanswered questions for Uruguay.
Oscar Tabarez’s side have progressed to the next stage comfortably but unconvincingly, winning both fixtures despite the fact they appear to have the potential to produce something altogether more entertaining.
Of course, the group stages are about qualifying for the knockout rounds and nothing more. But if they’re to progress once the tournament reaches the business end, then Uruguay might need a little more guile, imagination, and creativity to go with their defensive grit.
James Nalton has a look at the tactical thinking behind Uruguay's approach and looks for areas in which they could improve.
So far in the World Cup, star forward Luis Suarez looks somewhat out of sorts. However, he still had the striker’s instinct to get on the end of a Carlos Sanchez corner to give his side the win against a disappointing Saudi Arabia.
The number nine’s link-up play has at times been wasteful but then he also made two key passes in the previous game.
Many of the flicks he does on the turn, looking to his strike partner with his first touch, have failed to come off; but his more considered passing has led to some good combinations, but they have been too rare.
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Some sluggishness against Saudi Arabia in Rostov-on-Don was due to the searing heat but, despite appearances, Suarez can still produce bursts of hard work and skill and these can be the moments which win games
While Edinson Cavani toils around him, tasked with dropping back to defend as well as contributing in attack, Suarez lurks and no one lurks quite like Suarez.
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The Uruguay setup is built around two banks of four and then relies on the magic of Suarez and Cavani up front. But to what, or to whom, do they turn if that magic doesn’t arrive?
The current system uses full backs who exercise caution. This is in contrast with the other sides covered so far in this series who use them almost as extra attackers. It’s very much a back four for Uruguay.
There is some balance, however. Martin Caceres will naturally be more defensive than Guillermo Varela and this contrast is replicated in the wide midfield positions where a combination of central midfielders and industrious defensive wingers have been used on either side.
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Tabarez rotates in this area of the pitch and has already changed the wide personnel from one game to the next.
The manager didn’t seem keen on using Giorgian De Arrascaeta, who is more of a playmaker, out wide. He replaced him with Cristian Rodriguez from the bench in the opening game against Egypt and then in the starting lineup for the second match.
Rather than introduce De Arrascaeta from the bench against Saudi Arabia, he instead looked to Diego Laxalt who plays as a left wing-back in a 3-5-2 for Genoa so fits the position well.
When watching this formation from the back of the Rostov Arena, it looked like it was crying out for a number ten — De Arrascaeta — to sit behind the strikers. However, this would involve a system change from Tabarez to something like a 4-4-2 diamond which he’s unlikely to do.
Cavani will continue to be relied upon to drop into the hole and the only chance of some help will be if De Arrascaeta plays wide in defence but drifts centrally in attack.
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One change Tabarez could make which would add an extra dimension while not altering his system would be to replace Matias Vecino with Lucas Torreira.
Torreira complimented Rodrigo Bentancur when he arrived on the pitch in the previous game and is nippier than Vecino in defence while also being a good passer. These two traits would combine to allow for quicker service up to the strikers.
In just over half an hour on the pitch against Saudi Arabia, Torreira made three interceptions, played one key pass and even had a shot on goal. He also boasted a better pass success rate with 90% of his passes coming off. Vecino had managed none of these things
This would be an easy change for the manager to make. He could even rest Bentancur, who has been the standout player in Uruguay’s midfield so far, for the knockout stages.
The final group game against free-scoring Russia looks set to be Uruguay’s first real test and it could bring the best from them.
How do you think Uruguay will fare against Russia? Let us know by commenting below.
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Know Your Zionist Enemy – Ashton Kutcher
October 26, 2017 By rebelvoiceblog
Christopher Ashton Kutcher was born on 7th February, 1978 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to a Catholic family with Czech/Irish ancestry. He entered the Hollywood A-list with his part in the sit-com, That 70’s Show which catapulted him from relative obscurity as a model to where he sits today, as a major name and influencer in La La Land.
Kutcher has since decided to use his public position to fight for the Israeli corner on more than one occasion. He is a Zionist stalwart who attempts to avoid the spotlight for his support for the rogue state and it’s illegal colonial squats.
Needless to say, Zionist organisations love him. Kutcher has become a poster-boy for US Zionism. He is regularly quoted in an attempt to whitewash Israeli crimes against humanity.
Like a number of the Hollywood elite, Kutcher has embraced the Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism. He has become so engrossed in this discipline that he is now a regular visitor to Israel and has stated, ‘Israel is near and dear to my heart… coming to Israel is sort of coming back to the source of creation – trying to get closer to that. And as a creative person, going to the source of creation is really inspiring. And this place has been really inspiring for me – not only on a spiritual level, but also on an artistic and creative level.’
It appears that Ashton Kutcher is content to ignore the brutality of the Zionist state in its oppression of the people of Palestine. As a ‘creative person’, it is no surprize that he can come up with myriad excuses to justify his lauding of the vile political entity known as Israel.
When Kutcher paid a visit to the Tomb of the Patriarchs, in Hebron, and Joshua’s Grave, in Nablus (known to colonial squatters as Shechem), he was met by Colonel Avi Gil who is commander of the Ephraim Brigade. Gil presented Kutcher with the brigade’s baseball cap which he was photographed wearing later to a baseball game.
The Ephraim Brigade is based in the Occupied West Bank and controls the area surrounding the cities of Qalailyah and Tulkarm. They are also responsible for protecting any nearby colonial squats, declared illegal under international law. Kutcher is apparently ignorant of this fact or else simply doesn’t care.
It can be seen that Kutcher is firmly wedded to the idea of Zionist occupation of the remainder of Palestine. Whilst some Hollywood celebrities are vocal about their support for the conduct of Israel and its moves to annex all of Palestine, Kutcher is different. He speaks with a soft voice on the Zionist menace, offering mealy-mouthed platitudes on peace and harmony, all the while giving apparently unconditional backing to all that Israel is and all that Israel seeks to do. He gives every impression of being a snake-in-the-grass.
Ashton Kutcher once visited the illegal Zionist squat known as Gush Etzion in a shameful charade designed to lend credibility to those squatters who have taken up unwarranted residence there.
The following is taken from the Zionist blog, The Muqata:
‘Celebrity US actor, Ashton Kutcher is visiting Israel these days, and he took time out of his busy schedule to visit…Gush Etzion!
Under the initiative of project “Mashiv HaRuach” which deals with strengthening the values of Zionism, Kutcher visited the community of Efrat, listened with great interest to a historical review of the community and the Gush Etzion area, dined at a Glatt Kosher restaurant, and even dipped in a local natural spring “Mikva” no less than 151 times! (151 is the numerical equivalent “gematriya” of “Mikva”)
The project’s director, Rafi Even D’aan briefed Kutcher and (sic) the history of settlement in Gush Etzion and spoke to him at length about the region’s Jewish history. Rafi told Kutcher about the establishment of the new Jewish settlements after the Six Day War and explained the spiritual and historical significance of Gush Etzion.’
“Mashiv HaRuach” is a project of the Israel Center of the OU (organization of Jewish communities) and hosts every year about 30 thousand IDF soldiers to help combine and strengthen the values of Zionism and the IDF.’
In the final piece in this article, we can hear Kutcher voice his words, from the last meme, during a visit to Israel. He waxes lyrical about the Zionist state, conveniently forgetting all the horror that said Zionist state is responsible for. He has also financially invested a considerable sum in the Israeli IT sector, thus helping to finance the continuing oppression of the Palestinian people.
Ashton Kutcher is seemingly beyond redemption. He has fully declared for Israel. He is an avid supporter of Airbnb (the company that lets out rooms in illegal squats), even going so far as to defend them when a female protester from the anti-war organisation, CODEPINK, stepped on stage during one of his talks to promote the company. Kutcher’s slimy words to that brave Jewish objector would make a slug shudder.
There can be no doubting Ashton Kutcher’s Zionist credentials. He is a well known personality who has become a menace to all in Palestine by his complicity in the rogue state of Israel. He should not escape the cold spotlight of public displeasure.
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JillyBean
He is now married to Ukrainian Jewish actress Mika Kunis. So he would have a deeper interest in Israel (or at least Jewish history in Palestine) because of his children, aside from Kabbalah.
It’s just a shame he remains ignorant of the genocidal and ethnic cleansing of the land for a bunch of European migrants.
Reply October 26, 2017 at 2:04 pm
I do wonder how ignorant he really is. Perhaps he is making too much money to care.
Erna Lund
Increasingly we are experiencing shamefully the selfish behaviors of Hollywood/entertainment’s seamy side–thus Krutcher will say/do anything for attention–Spotlight– as we see other actors,producers, politicians–with No/little moral backbone!!
True. Hollywood is increasingly being viewed for the immoral monster that it truly is. It’s no coincidence that it’s also a Zionist centre of propaganda.
So, if they’ve been so “successful at making peace with their enemies”, why are they now threatening military action against Iran?
Why do they military jets flying over Syria? Why are they treating Palestinians like prisoners?
I’m sorry, but that is just a big, fat load of kosher bullshit. They do not make peace with their enemies. They are the enemy of the world.
They get a rock thrown at them and they retaliate with 100 missiles, and then they have the audacity to say they are victims, or they are defending themselves. What a load of crap.
Seventy years after the holocaust they think they’re still entitled to some compensation. What about the compensation to all the US troops who went over there and liberated the jews from the concentration camps? The holocaust is past-history. Stop making every generation pay for the holocaust!!!
Israel needs to stop being such a leech on this planet. They got the land they wanted through the Balfour agreement, but now they think they’re entitled to more.
They think they have a right to dictate a no-boycott policy. If people want to boycott Israeli products, that is OUR right to do so. Everything seems to go in Israel’s favor. They want this, they want that. They whine about their rights being infringed upon, yet they have no qualms about infringing on everyone else’s rights.
Anti-zionism is not the same as anti-semitism. They need to stop confusing the two.
I don’t hate jews. I just hate zionism and anyone who thinks their rights take precedence over mine.
I think that the world is slowly wakening up to the truth about Israel and Zionism. Pity it’s taking so long though.
Reply October 27, 2017 at 12:15 pm
what a cunt, I doubt he could even be allowed to join the idf..so weak and stupid is he..I hope he dies but doubt he would die for Palestine..which is what ‘israel’ is
Brendan Holleran
Do you feel that you enhance your point by using the word ‘cunt’ ? Not as far as I am concerned as it is insulting to women. It is meant to devalue and demean woman and I find it objectionable.
Pissed off Canadian
Ashton Butcher sold his soul to the zionist demons a long time ago.
Reply October 27, 2017 at 9:39 am
Mohamed El Ela
If you’re Black don’t ever join the IDF terrorist army…. smh poor people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujElkSqQJQg&feature=shar
mywartoo
Sad to think that this no-talent will continue to age while his greatest claim to fame was as a dumb kid in a middle-class American sit com. That’s all he is. I don’t recall any other role he’s played. Certainly nothing of note.
Here’s a reminder of one of the Hollywood elite who whitewash the actions of the rogue state of Israel by their business and social interests there.
Reply August 28, 2018 at 3:12 pm
Mike Barry
Zionism RRRRRRRAWWWWWWWXXXXXXXXXXX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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simdimdim on 26 July 2016 at 5:03 PM said:
She’s a real bitch! Die for me, sister. DIE!
farkhanplanet on 28 July 2016 at 7:34 PM said:
the type of imouto i realy hate………
Hitting is fine, but NOT on the head! either one.
farkhanplanet on 30 July 2016 at 8:22 AM said:
she’s not just hitting but also kicking his face……..
blahto on 26 July 2016 at 5:12 PM said:
…….. Seriously??
kai66001 on 26 July 2016 at 5:16 PM said:
I like imouto type of character but Maya is really annoying…. =_=
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Raufgar on 26 July 2016 at 6:36 PM said:
Hmmm, annoying…
Crimson Nanashi on 26 July 2016 at 8:01 PM said:
im guessing Aya wanted him to sleep in the room she was in and thats why he was kicked. she knows’s she is losing the fight for his affection since he chose Elena’s room instead of hers
Reaper Phoenix on 26 July 2016 at 8:33 PM said:
He should just stay at the dragon-kin’s village! Less hassle.
Izumi on 26 July 2016 at 10:39 PM said:
seriously getting irritated by aya every single time.. he should just leave her next time..
leave her out of the story already, she’s not needed..
she’s just annoyingly destroying the mood for everything..
Colin Farrar on 27 July 2016 at 11:27 AM said:
Yeah, he seriously needs to set some boundaries with his sister because her kicking every time she misunderstands something is total bullshit. And the fact that he doesn’t say anything about it is bullshit too. Her behavior is simply unacceptable.
KuRuuRuu on 27 July 2016 at 12:16 AM said:
Thanks for the chapters~
Lol~ you’ve know that you will get that kick no matter which one you choose~
sfcipher on 27 July 2016 at 7:30 AM said:
He should use the slave collar on her……
Unnamed on 27 July 2016 at 10:19 PM said:
Now I really think that the most fatal mistake that the author of this WN have ever made was introducing Aya into this WN and made Seiji told her about parallel world.
To be honest, I really hate Aya to the point that if she suddenly die, I would say “So what? Is she that important to the story?”.
And if my little sister violently kick/punch me without any good reason (same like Aya did), I’ll not tolerate and counter with full force instantly for sure.
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Authors That Would Make Bad Writing Infinitely Better
As a manipulator of the English language myself, I hold several beliefs dear to my heart. They are as follows:
1) If you are over the age of 12 and still cannot successfully distinguish when words should have apostrophes (confusing “it’s” and “its,” “your” and “you’re”), I cannot respect your education. Why are you stupid?
2) If you can’t write something nice, don’t write anything at all. I’m not talking about pleasant or polite; I’m referring to “nice” writing as the opposite of writing that is bad, boring, poorly written, wrong, pointless, confused, frustrating, or Rick Perry.
Yeah, I know. It’s radical. Of course, not as radical as Rick Perry. But let’s face it: there is some literature/film/music that simply should have been penned by someone other than the original author. In some cases, aforementioned art is a slice of brilliance that got tarnished in the current writer’s incapable hands; in other cases it is an unsalvageable failure whose only option is to get worse so as to become presentably heinous.
In fact, may I make a few suggestions?
by Terry Pratchett*
We’d all like this series so much better if Ms. Meyer’s attempt at a love story about a girl next door (translation: exposition on How To Have A Dysfunctional Relationship) had relatable and quirky characters with different fonts for every time they spoke. P-rad knows exactly how to make a totally impossible instance (Death playing Santa Claus? Criminals becoming post-men? Women in the army and not in the kitchen?) plausible, insightful, and funny — qualities which are all completely lacking in the hands of its current author.
Miley Cyrus’s memoir, Miles to Go
I haven’t read the original, but here is what I imagine it will read like, “My daddy is the only reason I’m famous. My brother croakmoans uncomfortably horny music to an audience that hasn’t got boobies yet. My boyfriend is way too old for me. I like drugs.” Are you attached to any of these characters? Do you care if the melancholy wit of Lemony Snicket creatively kills them off? Me neither. Just add a narrator who regularly urges you to stop reading, a meaninglessly depressing end,** and illustrations by Brett Helquist, and we’ve got ourselves acceptable piece of literature. It might even be appropriate for children, unlike everything else about Miley. Which brings us to:
Face it. She’d sing it better. Adele’s been so angsty lately (trying to set fire to the rain and all. She must be so frustrated) I’d like to see her getting down and shaking those God-given gifts. We know that when a Jay-Z song is on in Adele’s taxicabs, you better believe she puts her hands up.
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by Tara Gillespie
If you think about it, it wouldn’t be too different: My Immortal (the world’s worst fanfiction) and Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams are both mostly about sex/mostly wrong about sex. But if our favorite “goff” wrote it, we’d have the added pleasure of trying to decipher what words were behind the awful spelling in addition to laughing at his concept of penis envy and her concept of orgasm. Maybe she’d throw in some Harry Potter references*** along with her My Chemical Romance worship, extensive description of fishnets, and use of the phrase “passively frenching.” On the negative side, there will undoubtedly be a morbid amount of it’s/its confusion, but on the plus side, as far as we can tell, Tara wasn’t on cocaine, unlike Freud.
by Tommy Wiseau
Oh hai: it’s another artist who lacks command of the English language. Be honest with yourself — you don’t watch Glee for its**** gripping storyline. Having America’s most multi-untalented artist write/direct/produce/star/fornicate in the musical TV show can only make it more interesting. You know you want more of the writing that made Tommy’s masterpiece, The Room, so fantastic — what better way than to sit down with a bowl of popcorn to a fusion of pop culture featuring quotable magnificence such as, “You ah tearing me apaht, Wachel!” and “I did NAHT hit on Kurt. I did NAHT.” Best of all, we get to hear more of his wonderfully attractive accent/speech impediment as applied to music. Which, of course, he’ll arrange and sing entirely by himself.
Unfortunately for you, I have no suggestions on how to improve your terrible English paper. And so, I leave you with the immortal words of Dr. Seuss:
You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes,
You have heinously read all Sir Twattingworth spews.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose
(Just as long as it sounds like Erman Shmavenues).
*Another soul who understands the beauty in a footnote. All I want for Christmas is his semen in a petri dish with the reproductive cells of Bristol Bacchus. Bristol, dibs on being godmother.
**I’m all for realistic children’s literature, but I was really attached to Uncle Monty. And did anyone else develop a phobia of Lachrymose Leeches in Lake Michigan?
***Godwin’s law of NU: the longer a conversation continues between two NU students, the more likely a Harry Potter reference becomes.
****Did you see that apostrophe? No, you didn’t, because it does not belong there. It belongs in the first sentence of that paragraph.
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Girl Talk at Congress Theater
Gillis gets his mashup on at the Congress Theater
Girl Talk. Say the name and you’ll invoke either confused stares (you mean when two girls have a conversation?) or swoons. For all those who are sane and awesome, the primary response is definitely swooning and awe. And at his concert Saturday night at the Congress theater, good old Gregg Gillis, a.k.a. “Girl Talk,” did not disappoint his loyal legions of followers.
Lessons learned at Girl Talk:
Gregg Gillis truly is a god among men.
Sitting through the first two opening acts was worth it just to hear Gregg push buttons on a keyboard. There are very few people who can legitimize the pushing of buttons as a talent, and he is one of them. Girl Talk played a bunch of his newer mixes from “All Day,” but kept things lively by not just using samples the audience would have heard before. Instead he mixed things up, keeping the dance party fun and bumpin’. (In many cases, quite literally bumping. But I’ll get to that later.) His remix of “Shout!” was probably one of the best things ever — the sold out theater thought nothing of crouching onto the disgusting, beer-covered floor and “gettin’ a little bit softer now.” Nothing would have made me touch that floor unless Girl Talk commanded me to. Also, for those with some PITTSBURGH PRIDE, there was a quality remix of Black and Yellow that personally melted my heart. (Girl Talk is a Pittsburgh native, suckas. Interestingly enough, so is Christina Aguilera.). Gregg even whipped out some classics, like a mix of “Jesse’s Girl” with “BUT I’D RATHER GET SOME HEAD” thrown in. Good stuff.
We assume that the same person who did Kanye's "All the Lights" video was also responsible for Girl Talk's lighting
The visual elements were also sick. The constantly changing lights behind Gillis on stage were absolutely insane. (Also a quick shoutout to the opening act who had a scene from The Room incorporated into one of his songs.) The audience was frequently barraged with artillery raining down from the sky — balloons, confetti, etc. — which only made the show even more fun and chaotic.
Overall, Girl Talk kept things funky fresh and superb. His ability to make hipsters flail their arms and dance wildly instead of headnodding is unchallenged. Ain’t no party like a Girl Talk dance party.
Grow a pair. Or pregame harder.
The only problem with Girl Talk concerts, quite honestly, is the crowd. Back in the good old days, when Gregg was performing at smaller venues in Pittsburgh — Mr. Small’s, this is your shoutout — the crowd was fun and goofy. If you wanted to climb on stage with your friends, it was pretty easy. Everyone respected your dance space. One time, on stage, Girl Talk announced he wanted Taco Bell. So he got some — and then upon leaving, bouncers handed out burritos to everyone. Girl Talk had ordered Taco Bell for everyone in the audience. Nowadays, it’s not as personal of an atmosphere. As a chica barely over five feet, I can (and do) get my shit wrecked by pushy high schoolers, which, while embarrassing, is mostly just annoying.
Sweaty-bastard overload
The crowd at the Congress was particularly rowdy. Getting to the front row basically required a willingness to never let your feet to touch the ground, instead simply being pushed violently from side to side. It was a feeling similar to being hit with tsunami waves simultaneously from all sides. So that was unfortunate. This phenomenon leaves the audience members with two options: either accept the imminent crushing of infinite sweaty bodies, or push back. Or a perfect compromise: go to the side a wee bit, still dance intensely, but avoid being elbowed in the face about twenty times. And then just go to town and not give a crap about who you hit with your own elbows. It’s a dog eat dog world out there, people.
Prepare to get extremely sweaty, pushed around by high schoolers who think they are cool and moshers who are a little desperate for human contact. Did I get sweaty? Yes. Did I have drinks spilled on me? Yes. Was it fucking awesome? YES.
–Alison Decker
Tags: Alison Decker, All Day, beer-covered floor, Black and Yellow, Christina Aguilera, Congress Theater, dance party, Dwombos, Girl Talk, God among men, Gregg Gillis, Jesse's Girl, Mr. Small's, Pittsburgh, shit-faced and obnoxious highschoolers, Shout, Taco Bell, The Room
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Is Clickjacking a real security vulnerability?
As I understand it, this is how an attacker would exploit clickjacking:
Create a new website malicioussite.com which includes my site in a frame, but overlays malicious input fields or buttons over the HTML elements of my site.
Send out phishing emails to get users to click on the link that goes to malicioussite.com rather than my site (or use some other technique to distribute the phishing link).
Users enter data into or click on the malicious elements.
Savvy users would either not click the link, or notice that the address bar is incorrect. However, plenty of people would probably not notice.
My question is this: Can't the attacker achieve the same thing by using malicioussite.com as a reverse proxy? All the steps above would be the same, except that malicioussite.com would forward the requests to my site and then insert an extra <script> tag in the HTML response to run the malicious code and add the malicious HTML elements. The X-FRAME-OPTIONS header wouldn't help in that case because there are no frames (and the reverse proxy can strip it out anyway).
The attack relies on the user not checking the address bar, so if the attacker can implement the same attack in a different way that can't be defeated, why bother with X-FRAME-OPTIONS or other clickjacking protections?
NathanNathan
This is a very interesting question.
First of all, let's start with your scenario: A user visiting website www.evil.com which is a reverse proxy that loads www.good.com and modifies its content. Congratulations! You've just re-invented a classic MiTM attack, but a very poor one. Visiting evil.com means that your browser won't send good.com cookies, which means that your reverse proxy won't be able to act on behalf of the user. To fix this, now you'll have to trick the user into logging in to your reverse proxy with his good.com. Congratulations! You've re-invented an attack with a fake landing page.
The scenario you're describing has nothing to do with clickjacking, and we actually employ clickjacking protection for a very different reason: With clickjacking, an attacker would trick an authenticated user into performing some action. Even if the user is visiting evil.com, unlike your proposed scenario with a reverse proxy, his request is still sent to good.com along with the cookies containing his session ID. Thus, the action will be performed within the authenticated user's session.
Does that sound familiar? Yes it does, because that's how a CSRF attack works, but the only difference is that, with CSRF, the action is performed programatically.. except for one little thing: Clickjacking defeats anti-CSRF mechanisms. With clickjacking, the action is performed within the user's browser, by the user himself, and inside the legitimate page (loaded within iFrame).
So, in short: Your proposed attack is indeed plausible, but we use anti-clickjacking to defeat completely different attacks. For that, yes, clickjacking is indeed a real, distinct security concern.
AdiAdi
And isn't CORS (Cross Origin Policy) a way to prevent the reverse proxy from doing what it is doing in your scenario? – Jeroen Mar 23 '15 at 5:07
@Jeroen-ITNerdbox Not really. When the user visits evil.com, he will be presented with a full version of good.com loaded entirely from evil.com. All requests, including the first request loading the page itself and then any subsequent requests, are going to evil.com from the user browser's point of view. No client-side protection can prevent this. The only way this can be protected is by informing users to check the address bar for https://good.com – Adi Mar 23 '15 at 5:13
@Adi thanks for your answer. In my mind, I was picturing the scenario where the user was not already logged in when they clicked the phishing link. (In our apps, session timeouts are set to 15 minutes as per PCI DSS, so it's likely that the user wouldn't be logged in already). If the user was already authenticated, then I agree that the reverse proxy attack wouldn't work. – Nathan Mar 23 '15 at 5:45
@Nathan In that case, then the attacks is almost meaningless. Any unauthenticated action you can get the user to perform can be done programatically without the user and from the comfort of your own computer without launching any attack. Unless there's a specific button on some website and you want as many users as possible to click that button (usually ad-clicking fraud). In that particular case (unathenticated user performing an unauthenticated action), you're correct to assume that a reverse-proxy-aided attack and a clickjacking attack are quite similar, if not essentially the same. – Adi Mar 23 '15 at 5:53
@Nathan In that case, it's actually a lot better to just host a fake version of good.com on evil.com itself without reverse-proxying at all. This way, you can just grab the username/password without injecting any scripts in the page and possible alerting the user. Another benefit of avoiding reverse-proxying is that you, the attacker, won't have to interact with the server, and your evil.com won't appear on good.com's access logs. I honestly cannot think of a reason why reverse-proxying is beneficial to an attacker in a way other easier attacks aren't. – Adi Mar 23 '15 at 6:21
The original question is right to point out that for the purpose of phishing or stealing credentials, clickjacking doesn't give an attacker any significant advantage over a reverse proxy or a simple fake version of the target site. In each case, the browser's address bar is the only real way for the user to catch the ruse.
This was clarified in some of the comments on the accepted answer, but I thought it deserved its own dedicated answer, because most of the risk profiles that people are considering with respect to this vulnerability are cases of unauthenticated users revealing their credentials via phishing, not cases of already-authenticated or always-unauthenticated users being tricked into performing actions.
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Key Chinese banker throws Milan sale into jeopardy
By Oliver Fisher - 20 March 2017, 18:02
An interview with a leading Chinese economist has thrown Milan’s sale into further doubt.
Pan Gongsheng is the head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) and vice governor of the Chinese central bank, and criticized the exportation of capital, a procedure necessary for Yonghong Li to acquire the Rossoneri.
“Last year Chinese firms bought lots of football clubs overseas. If these purchases help improve the standard of Chinese football, then I think that’s a good thing,” Pan is quoted as saying by the Shanghai Securities News on Monday.
“But is that what’s really happening? A lot of Chinese companies already have high levels of debt and then borrow another large sum to make overseas purchases. Others pretend to be investing but are actually just moving their assets.
“Overseas mergers and acquisitions can sometimes resemble a rose with thorns, you must be careful and you must do your due diligence.
“These deals can be like clasping a handful of sand at the beach, it looks like you’ve got it in your grasp but at the last moment it slips through your fingers.”
China has been against the exportation of capital for some time now, something which has reduced confidence in both investors and clubs potentially targeted by Chinese investors, including Milan.
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Lithuanian youth protest of the Soviet Union
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1 2019-01-09T15:35:54-08:00 Lithuanians meet with Vice President Gerald Ford 3 plain 2019-01-09T15:37:10-08:00 1974
1 2019-01-28T21:31:41-08:00 Anti-communist protest at Daley Plaza no. 2 3 Chicago Lithuanians protest the imprisonment of Viktoras Petkus, a Catholic dissident of the Soviet Union and member of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group plain 2019-01-28T21:33:51-08:00 Lithuanian Research and Studies Center 1975
1 2019-01-11T21:04:55-08:00 Gorbachev protest 3 plain 2019-01-11T21:23:23-08:00 Lithuanian Research and Studies Center 41.8842, 87.6303
1 2019-01-09T15:17:04-08:00 Simas Kudirkas with Congressmen Ralph Metcalfe and Robert P. Hanrahan 2 plain 2019-01-09T15:18:13-08:00
1 2019-01-11T21:07:18-08:00 Gorbachev protest (no. 2) 2 plain 2019-01-11T21:25:11-08:00 Lithuanian Research and Studies Center 41.8842, 87.6303
1 2019-01-28T21:25:16-08:00 Protest at Daley Plaza no. 3 2 plain 2019-01-28T21:25:43-08:00 Lithuanian Research and Studies Center 1975
1 2019-01-09T15:21:08-08:00 Lithuanian delegation meets with Mayor Richard J. Daley 2 plain 2019-01-09T15:21:47-08:00 Lithuanian Research and Studies Center
1 2019-01-09T15:27:42-08:00 Lithuanians meet with Mayor Richard J. Daley 2 plain 2019-01-09T15:28:12-08:00
1 2019-01-28T21:34:43-08:00 Anti-communist protest at Daley Plaza no. 3 2 plain 2019-01-28T21:35:08-08:00 Lithuanian Research and Studies Center 1975
1 2019-01-29T12:43:39-08:00 "Lithuanian still occupied" stamps 2 plain 2019-01-29T12:44:02-08:00 Lithuanian Research and Studies Center
1 2019-01-15T17:48:02-08:00 Protest of the Soviet Union organized by the Lithuanian Youth Congress 2 plain 2019-01-15T17:48:31-08:00 Lithuanian Research and Studies Center
1 2019-01-31T16:33:37-08:00 Lithuanian Independence Day 1 gallery 2019-01-31T16:33:38-08:00
1 2019-01-31T16:24:31-08:00 the Slavic Reference Service be82ca4f62ca2bb2ee1fbe396f179dfd34f1d9c4 Jaunimo Kongresas (Youth Congress) the Slavic Reference Service 1 gallery 2019-01-31T16:24:31-08:00 the Slavic Reference Service be82ca4f62ca2bb2ee1fbe396f179dfd34f1d9c4
1 2019-01-15T17:49:24-08:00 Political cartoon created by the Lithuanian Youth Congress 1 plain 2019-01-15T17:49:24-08:00 Lithuanian Research and Studies Center
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15501. Basis of strong change of hybridization-induced magnetic ordering between CeSb and CeTe
Kioussis, Nicholas G., Cooper, Bernard R., and Wills, John M.
A sharp change in the nature of the magnetic ordering has been observed on going from CeSb to CeTe, both of which have NaCl structures with a small decrease in lattice parameter. This is an interesting example of the way in which hybridization of partially delocalized f electrons with band electrons gives rise to highly unusual magnetic properties which show great chemical sensitivity. In the present paper we apply our previous ab initio treatment of hybridization-induced effects to investigate this striking change in magnetic behavior. We have performed self-consistent warped muffin-tin LMTO band calculations treating the Ce 4f states as resonance states that are constrained to be localized. Compared to CeSb, the anion-derived p bands in CeTe sink well below the Fermi energy, thus strongly changing the band-f hybridization. We have calculated the hybridization dressing of the crystal-field levels and the anisotropic two-ion exchange interaction and compared them with those calculated for CeSb and with experiment. A strong decrease in the two-ion interaction explains the drastic change in observed magnetic behavior between CeSb and CeTe.
Campus Tesim:
15502. Panellus stypticus: geographically separated interbreeding populations
Bermudes, David and Petersen, Ronald H.
Utilizing matings of single-spore isolates of collections of Panellus stypticus from far eastern USSR, New Zealand, Japan and eastern North America, the geographic range of interbreeding populations was ascertained to include all these locations. Culture bioluminescence and basidiome taste differed across this range, apparently independent of sexual compatibility.
15503. High-Resolution Mapping Of Two Large-Scale Transpressional Fault Zones In The California Continental Borderland: Santa Cruz-Catalina Ridge And Ferrelo Faults
Legg, Mark R., Kohler, Monica D., Weeraratne, Dayanthie S., and Shintaku, Natsumi
New mapping of two active transpressional fault zones in the California Continental Borderland, the Santa Cruz?Catalina Ridge fault and the Ferrelo fault, was carried out to characterize their geometries, using over 4500 line?km of new multibeam bathymetry data collected in 2010 combined with existing data. Faults identified from seafloor morphology were verified in the subsurface using existing seismic reflection data including single?channel and multichannel seismic profiles compiled over the past three decades. The two fault systems are parallel and are capable of large lateral offsets and reverse slip during earthquakes. The geometry of the fault systems shows evidence of multiple segments that could experience throughgoing rupture over distances exceeding 100?km. Published earthquake hypocenters from regional seismicity studies further define the lateral and depth extent of the historic fault ruptures. Historical and recent focal mechanisms obtained from first?motion and moment tensor studies confirm regional strain partitioning dominated by right slip on major throughgoing faults with reverse?oblique mechanisms on adjacent structures. Transpression on west and northwest trending structures persists as far as 270?km south of the Transverse Ranges; extension persists in the southern Borderland. A logjam model describes the tectonic evolution of crustal blocks bounded by strike?slip and reverse faults which are restrained from northwest displacement by the Transverse Ranges and the southern San Andreas fault big bend. Because of their potential for dip?slip rupture, the faults may also be capable of generating local tsunamis that would impact Southern California coastlines, including populated regions in the Channel Islands.
15504. Synthesis and characterization of new rhodium-carbene and new iron-carbene complexes
Ryan, Matthew
Our group has previously developed a new method for the preparation of ruthenium indenylidene olefin metathesis catalysts. The new method is based on the reaction between ruthenium starting materials and specially designed derivatives of propargyl alcohols (e.g., 1-(3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-1-phenylprop-2-yn-1-ol). In an effort to study the chemistry of these organic precursors with starting materials of other transition metals, reactions between our propargyl alcohol and [RhCl(PiPr3)2]2 dimer were investigated. These studies led to the synthesis of new rhodium vinylidene, allenylidene and η5-indenyl complexes, which were characterized by 1H, 13C, and 31P NMR spectroscopy and high resolution mass spectrometry. X-ray crystal structures of the vinylidene and η5-indenyl complexes were also obtained. The η5-indenyl complex was obtained by adding HCl(aq) to the vinylidene compound. This represents the first synthesis of a rhodium η5-indenyl complex from a propargyl alcohol precursor. The formation of the η5-indenyl molecule suggests that a rhodium-indenylidene complex was generated along this pathway. However, isolation of any related rhodium indenylidene complex has been elusive. One of our long-term goals is to prepare an olefin metathesis catalyst based on iron, an abundant and innocuous transition metal. As a step toward this goal, we decided to test whether our organic precursor can be utilized to synthesize iron indenylidene complexes. Since Fe(CO)2(P(OMe)3)2 is isolobally analogous to a carbene H2C: fragment and since [Fe(CO)2(I)(PR3)2]-Na+ complexes are known to react with propargyl alcohols to afford vinylidene complexes, the reactions between [Fe(CO)2(I)(PR3)2]-Na+ (where R is OMe) and 1-(3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-1-phenylprop-2-yn-1-ol were studied. Preliminary results related to the characterization of these reactions' products using FT-IR, 1H-, 13C-, and 31P-NMR and in some cases 2D-NMR are presented herein. One of the products is the putative diallenylidene complex Fe(CO)2(PR3)2(allenylidene)2 (where R is OMe). Additional research focused on reactions between [Fe(CO)2(I)(PR3)2]-Na+ and the labeled form of our organic precursor is underway in our laboratory.
15505. No Tease Ya
Fitak, Linda
ABSTRACT NO TEASE YA A GRADUATE TELEVISION COMEDY PILOT SCRIPT By Linda Susan Fitak Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting No Tease Ya is a single-camera, half-hour TV comedy series, with a one-hour pilot, for streaming on Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon. The setting of the show is my home town of Elmhurst, Queens, in New York City. Having grown up in a Cuban family, surrounded by other Cubans, as well as Puerto Ricans, Columbians, and other Hispanics, in an Irish and Italian-American environment, I wondered what it would would happen if a band of Cubans took over the back room of my favorite pizzeria, Elmhurst Famous Pizza, to start their own dysfunctional news broadcast. What ensues is a zany combination of classic TV slapstick, such as I Love Lucy, the equal-opportunity political incorrectness of South Park, and the broad unpredictability of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In order to expand the appeal of the series to both the U.S. industry, where any Hispanic, bi-lingual, multi-cultural show is in high demand, and the South American market, I provide here a Spanish version of my Pilot show, as well as the English version.
Cinema and Television Arts
15506. Pilot plant distillation unit
Kamel, Saad Mohamed
The detailed design of a pilot plant distillation unit is presented in this project. Brass was selected as the primary material of construction for the required components. The pilot plant consists of the following :units: a 50 liter reboiler vessel, a 4 inch diameter by 4 foot long packed column, a 16 square foot condenser, a 20 liter receiver, and a steam heat reboiler having 3 square feet of heat transfer area. The column may be ;packed with raschig rings or multi-turn helices as desired. The required utilities are: 50 p.s.i.g. steam, cooling water circulated at 30 p.s.i.g. with a temperature of 35°F, and a 110 v. AC supply.
15507. Analysis of the trees at California State University, Northridge
Knell, Matthew
The purpose of this study is to investigate the environmental suitability of the trees at California State University, Northridge by analyzing their water use and native climate, together with other considerations such as whether they are native to the South Coast bioregion. Using a geographic information systems (GIS) analysis of all the trees on campus, a table of their frequency was compiled. Using these data, their native habitats were mapped and used to investigate their mean annual rainfall amounts relative to Northridge as well as how much warmer or cooler their mean annual temperatures are than Northridge. In addition, other important factors, such as biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions, whether the trees provide shade, and whether they are native to this region, were investigated. Using all of these factors, trees were rated according to how beneficial they are for campus using three scales. The trees tended to be rated as moderately suitable in all three rating scales.
Geography and Environmental Studies
15508. Latinas In Higher Education: Contributing Factors In Latina Students' Academic Success At A Four Year Public Institution
Alonzo, Nancy
The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences of Latina students in higher education in order to identify what factors have contributed to their academic success. Despite the significant body of research that exists on the experiences of Latinas in higher education, there is limited literature focusing on what contributes to the academic success of Latinas pursuing an undergraduate degree at four-year public institutions. Thus, I am interested in identifying the contributing factors of the persistence and ultimately graduation of Latinas from institutions of higher education. By conducting twelve semi-structured interviews and two focus groups with Latina students in their senior year at a four-year institution, the study examined their shared experiences through a critical race theory lens. There are two primary research questions associated with the study; these are: 1.What are the factors that contribute to the persistence of Latina students attending a four-year public institution of higher education? 2. What are the institutional resources in place that provide support to Latina students while they pursue their undergraduate degree? The findings of the study can then provide an insight in what can be done to support Latina students during their baccalaureate attainment journey.
15509. Macrophage and Mesenchymal Stem Cell Responses to Breast Cancer Cell Secretomes in the Pre-Metastatic Niche
Meade, Kayla
Metastatic spread of tumors in the breast account for over 95% of cancer-related deaths. Before cancer cells can survive in distant microenvironments, the tissues must be primed and acquire tumor-permissive properties. The primary tumor communicates with the pre-metastatic niche through the release of factors that recruit cells, such as mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and macrophages (MACs), to this new environment to aid in its remodeling. However, very little is known about the cell-cell communication that occurs during priming of the pre-metastatic niche. To address this, we use in vitro and in vivo methods with metastatic/non-metastatic mouse and human breast cancer cells (BCCs) to evaluate how these secretomes affect MAC polarization and MSC recruitment. We demonstrate that secretomes from metastatic BCCs promote tumor-permissive environments within the mouse lung and brain tissues, with evidence of MSC-MAC crosstalk only occurring in the brain. To support our in vivo data, we show that secretomes from metastatic BCC-educated MSCs reduce pro-inflammatory MACs and monocytes in vitro. Finally, bioinformatic analysis of secreted factors up-regulated in metastatic mouse BCCs indicated that LCN2, and associated genes, have poor prognostic significance when altered in breast cancer patients. These results indicate that MSCs may serve as an intermediate of tumor cell-induced reprogramming and priming of the pre-metastatic niche, suggesting a possible therapeutic target to inhibit this crosstalk and improve overall patient outcomes.
15510. The structure of intellect model : an investigation of its usefulness in language instruction
Parker, Gwendolyn Young
The Structure of Intellect model, developed by J. P. Guilford and enhanced by the work of M. N. Meeker, presents a new concept of intelligence. Through Meeker's work with the Structure of Intellect (SOI) model there exists the potential for employing the model in the schools as an aid in classroom instruction: for diagnosis, for the basis of structuring individual lessons, and for remediation. This paper is a preliminary investigation of the diagnostic and prescriptive potential of the SOI model. Two classes of eighth grade students were used as subjects. One class, randomly selected, received supplemental exercises based on SOI abilities. It was hypothesized that this class, the experimental group, would achieve higher in language areas as measured by the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills subtests in Reading Vocabulary, Spelling, and Language Mechanics than the group whose language instruction did not include exercises designed to strengthen SOI abilities. At the end of a 12-week period, a post-test was administered and scores for the two groups were compared using independent t. No significant difference was found between scores for the two groups at the .05 level.
Educational Psychology and Counseling
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Gina Prince-Bythewood Says The Fight Scenes In ‘The Old Guard’ Are A Balance Of Action And Emotion
Posted July 10th, 2020 by Jax Motes
THE OLD GUARD (L to R) KIKI LAYNE, Director GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD Cr. AMY SPINKS/NETFLIX © 2020
Gina Prince-Bythewood is the first Black woman to direct a big-budget comic book movie– Netflix’s new original release ‘The Old Guard’. The movie follows the exploits of a covert team of unkillable, immortal soldiers, led by Andy (Andromache of Scythia, played by Charlize Theron). The group welcomes a “new” recruit, KiKi Layne as Nile Freeman, who doesn’t realize just what she is. ‘The Old Guard’ is described as “a gritty, grounded, action-packed story that shows living forever is harder than it looks.”
And Prince-Bythewood says cutting together the fight scenes was a balance between action and emotion. As she told Variety:
“The best action scenes are those that are character-driven and have emotion to it. Nile is completely freaked out. She’s been kidnapped and shot in the head. She’s scared, angry and wants to be free. On the opposite side, you got Andy who has this new immortal at the worst time, but she’s gonna test her. She’s gonna see what she’s got and is coming into the fold.
“You have two women. Let’s showcase the fact that Nile is a Marine. Andy on the flip side knows every single fighting style throughout centuries. She’s the best fighter in the world. Nile can’t even punch Andy and throws out her martial arts training and goes back to the streets. Until she gets that one cheap shot and for a moment, it changes. You see how despite getting her arm broken, she doesn’t give up which says a lot about her character.
“I needed the actors to be doing this. I don’t want to have to be cutting away. I wanted to see them and see the story in their faces. I wanted to showcase their skill and athleticism which is something we don’t always get to see with women. I didn’t want it to be sexualized and look like a catfight. These are warriors and they are going toe to toe with one another. I wanted to keep most of it at eye level. Because we wanted it to have a grounded. I wanted to feel those slams against the wall and I wanted to feel the punches. And I wanted to be able to read what was going on in their faces.
“It took a long time [to cut] because we were trying to find that balance between showcasing the fight and build the emotion in the story.”
The cast also includes Matthias Schoenaerts as Sebastian “Booker” le Livre, Marwan Kenzari as Yusuf “Joe” Al-Kaysani, and Luca Marinelli as Nicolo “Nicky” di Genova, with Chiwetel Ejiofor as their enemy Copley, Harry Melling as Merrick, and Veronica Ngo as Quynh.
Prince-Bythewood was previously attached to helm another big comic movie, ‘Silver & Black’ for Sony, a part of the universe of movies based on Spider-Man characters. That film was put into turnaround, but maybe if ‘The Old Guard’ proves successful, that could encourage Sony to revisit that or to enlist Prince-Bythewood to helm another of its Spidey-verse flicks.
‘The Old Guard’ is now streaming on Netflix.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Jax Motes
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When Billy Was a Dog (HB)
Author(s): Kirsty Murray
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If you can't have a puppy, maybe the next best thing is to be a puppy. 'Can I please, please, please have a dog?' asked Billy.'Would you walk it every day and wash it if it got dirty?''I would, I promise!' said Billy.Billy wants a dog. He really really really wants one.Billy's parents aren't so sure. So one morning, Billy takes matters into his own paws.A gloriously funny, warm and true story from the creators of Puddle Hunters.
CBCA Shortlist 2020:Book of the Year: Early Childhood
CBCA Review:A great read, blending a relatable story with enchanting illustrations to create a book with universal appeal. With Billy unable to own a puppy he does the next best thing and decides to be a puppy with some laugh-out-loud results. The author and illustrator have worked closely to produce familiar scenes (the dilemma of owning a pet) and make the characters appealing and believable. The illustrator has mixed charcoal, watercolour and gouache to depict Billy, his family and where they live. Facial expressions and body language portray the characters’ range of emotions and feelings. The bright, appealing front cover image immediately attracts and engages young readers. The book’s well balanced layout includes high-quality designed pages, text and illustrations and endpapers that tie in beautifully to the story. Young readers will identify with the important themes of family, perseverance and responsibility adding meaning to the story. Dialogue is convincing and believable with repetition of the word ‘Woof’ inviting participation. Elements of humour present in both the text and illustrations. The heart-warming ending provides a solid, satisfying resolution to a highly age appropriate story.
Kirsty Murray is a multi-award-winning author of more than 20 books for children and young adults. Her works include eleven novels as well as non-fiction, junior fiction, historical fiction, speculative fiction and picture books. Kirsty is an ambassador and advocate for many reading and writing initiatives and has been a writer-in-residence in schools and universities around the world. She loves books, libraries, bookshops, readers, writers, puddles, puppies, and stories - especially stories about kids. Karen Blair is an award-winning illustrator of twelve picture books. She has collaborated with some of Australia's leading children's authors. Karen is also a primary art teacher and her characters are often inspired by her students and her own two children. She loves to help tell stories that explore the joy of discovery and play in the outdoors and the special relationships in children's lives.
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Author : Kirsty Murray
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Reading Level : Early Childhood
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Sound Barrier: Der Müde Tod (1921) & The Seventh Seal (1957)
June 11, 2017 PH Leave a comment
We’re breaking the Sound Barrier rules again. Or bending them slightly. Once more, the new-release film we want to discuss in this episode is actually silent. It’s the theatrical re-release of Fritz Lang’s Der Müde Tod (Destiny, 1921), so we decided to pair it with Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957). This means that today we are talking about two critically acclaimed films in which young people play games with death.
We’ll be talking about faith, symbolism, storytelling and Max von Sydow’s handsome face. Enjoy!
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Spione (1928): DVD/Blu-ray review
November 23, 2014 PH 1 Comment
Spione (1928)
Spies are cool. Spy films are really cool. Spione, Fritz Lang’s epic high-octane espionage thriller from 1928, is exceedingly cool. This a sexy, dreamlike movie, heavy on the action and light on logic, which both anticipates and outpaces such noir favourites as The Big Sleep (1946). In fact, if you watch all two-and-a-half hours of this film without getting regular memory jolts of Hawks, Welles, Hitchcock and the whole pantheon of Lang’s future colleagues, I’d be hugely surprised.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. This is German Lang, not Hollywood Lang – and Spione is all the richer, and stranger, for it. Spione mashes up pulp fiction and lurid newspaper headlines with early film serials and adds in a twist of the fantastic and a dash of technolust. It’s a powerful brew.
“Throughout the world, strange events transpire …” runs the opening intertitle and that’s all the backstory you’ll get, folks. In a nameless country, a mysterious kingpin dispatches mercenaries and thugs to steal documents and sabotage treaty negotiations. The disruptive villain, Haghi, is played by Rudolf Klein-Rogge, fresh from a similar role in Dr Mabuse, Der Spieler (1922), as a dangerously fascinating, if chilly, creature. It’s typical of this grand, sprawling movie that he’s not just a criminal mastermind but a banker too (boo-hiss) and a clown (say what?). Just go with it. And there’s no doubt whose side we want to be on, though, despite the best counter-espionage efforts of our upright-but-anonymous leading man Willy Fritsch, who goes by the digits No 326. The link between the two men is Sonja, a lethally blonde femme fatale, an employee of Haghi’s who falls for Mr 326: a seductive, dishevelled performance by Gerda Maurus.
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2014: Pordenone post No 5
October 8, 2014 PH 4 Comments
Die Nibelungen (1924)
We have passed the halfway point of the Giornate now, but some would argue we have taken the long route round. Because Wednesday night was epic, you’d have to agree. Tonight we witnessed all five hours of Fritz Lang’s towering, geometric monument to mythic nationalism, Die Nibelungen (1924). And arguably, grandeur was the order of the day: from a spot of early morning swashbuckling to mist-covered mountains and a trip to the opera.
Waking to grey skies and a slick of drizzle on the pavements can only mean one thing here in balmy Pordenone. To merrie Englande! To Ye Olde London Towne, in truth, for The Glorious Adventure (J Stuart Blackton, 1922) – and I have a feeling that the cleansing flames that purged in the spider cave in Tuesday night’s Pansidong are about to smite these half-timbered streets. Do I spy Nell Gwyn and Samuel Pepys in yon King Charles II’s court, as well as carriages and banquets and taverns and bodices aplenty? Of course I do, but while this film’s only concession to realism may have been to cast a real-life aristo (Lady Diana Manners) in the lead role of Lady Beatrice Fair, it’s really far better than it sounds. Of course, the reason that The Glorious Adventure is on the schedule, and the reason it is notable, is that it was shot in Prizma Color – it’s a full-colour silent, of sorts. And while the colour work does have its flaws (mostly “fringing” on movement) the skin tones are realistic, and despite the limited spectrum the shades of dresses, fruit and foliage are mostly rich and clearly defined.
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It’s a touch hokey in plot, with an earl hiding his true identity from his childhood sweetheart due to “an excess of chivalry” and such like. But the fight scenes are strong, particularly a clash of swords in The White Horse early on, and Victor McLaglen makes a memorable villain as heavy Bulfinch – more memorable than the real villain Roderick (Cecil Humphreys) for sure. And when the fire comes, the Great Fire of London that is, it’s really quite something: with pools of molten lead around St Paul’s Cathedral, and silhouetted timbers framing the rich reds and yellows that signal destruction. Sarah Street points out in her notes for the film in the Giornate catalogue that the fringing may actually enhance the effect of the flames – the perfect marriage of content and form. A veritable British triumph then, so can we have the Italian weather back now?
Midweek #GCM33. What with a late night Chinese 'spirit' film and early morning Prizmacolor feature I have now upgraded to 'doppio' espresso.
— Sean Kelly (@sdklly) October 8, 2014
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Frau Im Mond: DVD and Blu-ray review
August 24, 2014 PH Leave a comment
Frau Im Mond (1929)
This is a guest post for Silent London by Peter Baran. You can follow Peter on Twitter at @pb14.
Frau Im Mond is one of the first silent movies I saw as an adult. And despite its audacious special effects I can honestly say Fritz Lang’s rocket opera was not my gateway drug to silent film. Instead I saw it to justify the décor of my recently redecorated flat. I wanted to hang an attractive film poster above my stairs; for quite some time it was going to be Metropolis, until I saw the poster for Frau Im Mond, and its iconic rocket. As a science-fiction fan, and a film buff, how could I resist this picture? However, it seemed like cheating to have a poster of a film I hadn’t seen hanging above my stairs. So that is why I saw Frau Im Mond six years ago, having bought the previous Masters Of Cinema DVD release.
Now it is back, re-released in dual format Blu-ray and DVD, and seven minutes of additional footage have been added to the film, which brings the running time up to a handsome two hours and 49 minutes. As with the recently reconstituted Metropolis, Lang takes his time but doesn’t waste a minute. It is just that for much of the film each minute could have been thirty seconds shorter, and the plotting gets in the way of what the film promises. While Frau Im Mond is a notable film in both Lang’s filmography and in the history of science-fiction cinema, it is also way too long and ponderous – considering its wonderful potential.
Written by Fritz Lang’s wife Thea Von Harbou, and based on her novel of the same name, Frau Im Mond is one part conspiracy thriller and one part science-fiction tale. And that almost equally splits the running time, with the first hour and 20 minutes being a convoluted runaround between a professor, venture capitalists, enemy agents, a fiancée and a sparky kid. The rocket from the poster – and the justification for this being the first “scientific” science-fiction film – finally appears at one hour 18 minutes and the film does pick up considerably at that point, if only to give us some effects and even better Aran jumpers.
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Dr Mabuse, der Spieler (1921): Blu-Ray & DVD review
October 28, 2013 PH 2 Comments
Dr Mabuse, der Spieler (1921)
A “monumental film” as epic as the most far-fetched fantasy saga, but firmly grounded in the streets of Weimar Berlin, this first instalment of Fritz Lang’s Dr Mabuse trilogy is, simply put, a whole lot of movie for your money. A supernatural tale intertwined with social commentary, a crime film on a majestic scale, Dr Mabuse, der Spieler represents four and a half hours of contradiction and excess. It’s brilliant.
First, acquaint yourself with the structure: this is the first film in the trilogy, but it’s two films, released a month apart. The first film is called The Great Gambler: an Image of the Age, the second, Inferno: a Game for the People of Our Age. Each has six acts and runs for around two hours. It’s a tale of rise and fall, at heart, but a messy business at best. Together the two films form a complete story, but the second part of the trilogy, Das Testament des Dr Mabuse, would appear in 1933 and the third, Die 1000 Augen des Dr Mabuse, in 1967. The source for the first two films at least was the serialised Mabuse novels of author Norbert Jacques. This is pulp mystery fiction with a touch of class; Lang takes a few steps in the direction of his Hollywood film noir future with these slick stories of criminal twists, unexpected turns and moral compromises in a bleak urban setting.
Those subtitles for the two individual films should give you an inkling that this was intended to be, and was received as, a film that documented its own bewildering era. The cracks in the fractured, dysfunctional Berlin society where Mabuse and his seedy accomplices dwell are the symptoms of the national postwar crisis. That Mabuse is a charismatic, malevolent leader who leads his victims to commit terrible acts, even to destroy themselves, bodes ill for the future. The pace of the plot, the melting certainties and doubtful identities, speak to the fears of those baffled by the mechanisation of the age. This is a film driven by speeding trains, racing cars, guns and screaming mobs: modern phenomena as frightening to many as Mabuse’s mass hallucinations.
Like the film itself, Dr Mabuse is a man of many disguises. Publicly a psychoanalyst, he is privately a gambler at the card table, a hypnotist who transforms people into pawns, a bingeing alcoholic and an arch-criminal with a network of underling felons reaching across the continent. That “Spieler” subtitle translates variously as actor, player and puppeteer. Played by Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Mabuse enthrals the audience. His deeds are evil, but there is endless fascination in watching him at work: the casual arrogance of a conman who sends memoranda to his criminal colleagues on banknotes, of a villain who fails to collect a towering gambling debt, because his eyes are on a grander, bloodier prize, of a boozer who condemns his assistant’s drug use.
Mabuse’s nemesis is a dogged man of the law, the state prosecutor on the trail of a gang of card cheats who stumbles upon by chance on a more sinister criminal organisation. Bernhard Goetzke plays Inspector Von Wenk as a slightly desperate individual, a Weimar gumshoe who throws himself recklessly into the hunt for Mabuse – in one stunning setpiece, he faces the villain down over the card table, and manages to resists the full force of the doctor’s hypnotic power. Von Wenk goes solely by his surname in the source novel, but Fritz Lang honours him with the same first name as the novel’s author, Norbert Jacques. It’s a hint, perhaps that the law will eventually reign supreme in the anarchic, shifting world of Dr Mabuse. Hold on tight for an all-guns-blazing finale.
There are women, of course. Norwegian star Aud Egede-Nissen is the nightclub dancer Cara whose love for Mabuse rules her every move, from her seduction of his latest mark (played by the man who would become her husband, Paul Richter – Siegried in Die Nibelungen) to her ultimate downfall. Her performance, especially at the climax of the first movie, is particularly moving. And the little-known Gertrude Welcker dazzles as a bored countess seduced by the thrills of the Berlin nightclubs, and the underworld that controls them.
Dr Mabuse is a film to savour – if you know your silent Fritz Lang, you won’t be surprised that it’s a rare frame you don’t want to freeze, to relish the grandeur of the upper-class interiors, the moodily lit street scenes or the disconcerting multiple exposures in the mad scenes. On this new Blu-Ray presentation, as you ponder the beauty of it all, you’ll want to take a listen to the excellent audio commentary by David Kalat. Among many interesting insights into the movie, Kalat argues staunchly that Lang was no Expressionist. You may waver in your agreement with this thesis, but what’s for sure is that on the evidence of Mabuse Lang knew when to drape his sets in Caligari-esque chiaroscuro lighting, and when to leave well alone. The abstract Expressionist artworks that transform the Count’s mansion into a palace are refigured as a gothic nightmare when he loses his sense. The contrast between the two cinematographic treatments of the jail cell setting here is heartbreaking: the crisscrossing, swerving bars of darkness almost seem a comfort when we return to the same scene in crisp, unforgiving sunlight.
It’s a rich text for sure, and Kalat drops more than a few clues in his commentary as to how you may want to view Mabuse from a 21st-century perspective. It’s a game of chase-the-parallel. Does Herr Doktor equate to a gangster, a terrorist, a capitalist or a banker? The devil perhaps, is not in the detail, but in Lang’s expertly drawn grand scheme. This is a story of the very rich and the very poor, and a man who found a way to exploit both groups. From his blind counterfeiters toiling in a slum workshops, to the society chumps he cheats at cards, Mabuse is bleeding everyone dry. The really terrifying idea is not that villains exist, after all, but that the circumstances exist in which they can thrive.
Dr Mabuse, der Spieler is released by Masters of Cinema on DVD and Blu-Ray in the UK on 28 October 2013. The two-disc set features a sparkling modern score by Aljoscha Zimmermann played by a small ensemble, three featurettes, audio commentary and a booklet of images and text from the archive. This is a Blu-Ray transfer of an existing 2K restoration. Order the Blu-Ray from Movie Mail.
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Die Nibelungen (1924): DVD & Blu-Ray review
Who needs to wait for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit? Fritz Lang’s five-hour, two-part Die Nibelungen (1924) is the king of all fantasy epics. Burning palaces, bloody fight scenes, dragons, cloaks of invisibility – this beast has it all, and it’s breathtakingly beautiful as well.
Available for the first time ever on home video, Die Nibelungen still has the power to take your breath away, so we can only imagine how imposing this magnificent saga was for audiences in the 1920s. The first part is called Siegfried and follows our eponymous hero’s outlandish adventures. Early on, he slays a dragon, then bathes in its blood, rendering himself impervious to harm (about from a small patch on his back that was covered by a falling leaf and failed to absorb the blood). Thus super-charged, Siegfried sets about becoming a king of kings, rich beyond compare having won the Nibelungen’s wealth, but doomed, equally, because the treasure is cursed, you see … The second part, called Kriemhild’s Revenge, features his (spoiler) widow seeking vengeance for her husband’s death.
Visually, Die Nibelungen is consistently mind-blowing. The camera is largely static, but the vast, intricately decorated sets, shot from extreme perspectives and filled with massive crowds in extravagant costumes will throw you into a trance. These films are never dull to look at, and sometimes, as when the light falls in elegant slivers through the forest on to Siegried and his horse, or the northern lights dance above Queen Brunhild’s castle, they are simply exquisite. If you’ve seen Metropolis, that will give you some idea of the boldness, and magnitude of Lang’s vision here. This is a strangely modernised, stylised update of the story’s Wagnerian sources, and because it is all shot on sets rather than location (even the forests), Die Nibelungen looks like a fantastical stage play magicked into three-dimensions. And the special effects are meticulously realised, from the mechanical dragon to a “wipe” superimposition that turns the treasure-bearing dwarfs to silently screaming stone. The only time you’ll lose concentration is when you’ll start wondering: “How did they do they that?”
What you see on these discs is the end result of a restoration process bringing together several different camera negatives, fixing damage and replacing missing title cards. This release also replicates the golden tinting thought to have characterised the films’ original release, which soaks lushly into Carl Hoffmann’s high-contrast Expressionist photography (there’s a detailed note on the tinting in the booklet that accompanies the discs). The Blu-Ray HD transfer is excellent, so you’ll want to watch this on the best, biggest screen you can get your hands in and let yourself be swept away by all its glory. Turn up the sound too: frequent Lang-collaborator Gottfried Huppertz’s original orchestral score is available here in stereo or 5.1 mixes and nothing less bombastic or densely textured would do.
That said, it’s an awful lot to swallow in one sitting, and the acting here is of the chest-clutching, hair-pulling grand style. Paul Richter as Siegfried is a notable offender. And the scene in the first film in which Siegfried uses his magic to help his ally “subdue” his wife in the bedroom is unpleasant to modern eyes for an entirely different reason. The illuminated Gothic intertitles are very grand, but the English subtitles are sometimes hard to read because they have been translated so literally: “Invincible be he who is the dragon-slayer!” The second feature also suffers from having a less well-structured, eventful plot than the first, too, relying on endless fight scenes between the noble Burgundians and feral Huns rather than Siegfried‘s gorgeous flights of fancy. Don’t despair though: its flaming finale, and Rudolf Klein-Rogge’s grotesque Attila, are well worth putting in the hours for.
These are two big, big films, with lots to impart to us about Lang’s film-making style, about German nationalism and myth-making in the 1920s (they are dedicated “to the German people”), and more besides. So it’s valuable that this release comes with one of Masters of Cinema’s characteristically thorough booklets, containing essays from Lotte Eisner and Tom Gunning, some words from the director and a note from British film legend Michael Powell, as well a Geoffrey O’Brien poem, all of which will help you to explore and appreciate Die Nibelungen‘s strengths. There’s also a German-language (with subtitles) documentary, The Heritage of Die Nibelungen, which will bring home to you just how ambitious these films are, and also, what a gruelling experience it was for the actors.
Die Nibelungen will demand your time and attention both – but it is terrifically enjoyable, exciting stuff. This is a hugely welcome and well-considered release of an important epic.
Die Nibelungen is released on DVD and Blu-Ray in the UK on 29 October 2012. It’s available to pre-order from all these places: Amazon (Blu-ray) http://amzn.to/OBRaWG (DVD) http://amzn.to/V7bo9T; HMV (Blu-ray) http://bit.ly/V7bJt4 (DVD) http://bit.ly/Oaal9X; The Hut (Blu-ray) http://tidd.ly/3c624f16 (DVD) http://tidd.ly/8272fa65; Play (Blu-ray) http://tidd.ly/2e952f6 (DVD) http://tidd.ly/88bde1b8
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Giorgio Moroder presents Metropolis: DVD review
July 5, 2012 PH 2 Comments
Moroder’s Metropolis
The mediator between the head and hands must be the heart, and so the popular affection for the 1984 revamp of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis has finally led to a 2012 DVD release. It’s 85 years since this film was made, but 28 years since it was made over by Giorgio Moroder – so will the original film or its renovations have dated more?
On the face of it, we really don’t need Moroder’s Metropolis on DVD. This may be the version that turned a generation of film fans into silent movie buffs, turning the fledgling early-80s silent film renaissance into a mainstream movie moment, but surely we’ve moved on since then? We’re still waiting for many silent classics to appear on DVD, but among those that are available there are some absolute beauties: masterpieces of restoration, with audio commentaries, informative notes and sensitive, sometimes even historically accurate, scores. In this country, many such DVDs and Blu-Rays have appeared on the Masters of Cinema imprint, part of the Eureka Entertainment group that has released Moroder’s Metropolis.
Most salient of these releases is The Complete Metropolis, the almost-full restoration of Fritz Lang’s film: a product of skill, patience and the great fortune to find the missing footage in an archive in Buenos Aires. At a stroke, the movie was rehabilitated: no longer a grand mess, a gorgeous design pocked with plotholes. Simultaneously, Moroder’s idiosyncratic restoration was rendered obsolete.
But silent film fans don’t fear obsolescence. It’s our stock-in-trade. Nor are we averse to the first faltering steps towards new technologies. We embrace part-talkies, Pathécolor, Polyvision and undercranking. Moroder’s Metropolis should be viewed in this spirit. Would we restore a film this way again? No, but what will they think of our “state-of-the-art” digital restorations in 2040? Very little, perhaps, particularly if those digital copies become obsolete themselves, incompatible with new projection technology.
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Moroder’s Metropolis – coming soon to a cinema near you?
August 23, 2011 PH 4 Comments
Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis (Kino Video)
UPDATE APRIL 2012: Eureka Entertainment has announced a UK DVD release of Moroder’s Metropolis for 23 July 2012
For some people, the Complete Metropolis will never be enough. They want more. To be precise, they want Pat Benatar. And those people are about to be very, very happy.
Inexplicably to many of us, Kino Video is following up its recent release of Fritz Lang’s restored, almost-full-length masterpiece with a DVD/Blu-Ray issue of the version that musician Giorgio Moroder made in 1984. If you don’t know this cut, believe me, it’s not for the purists. For a start, it’s only 80 minutes long. Moroder ran the film up to 24fps, sped it up some more by removing the initertitles and replacing them with subtitles, tinted the film and added a contemporary rock soundtrack. Yes, Freddie Mercury, Bonnie Tyler, the aforementioned Benatar and Adam Ant are all there – if the 80s revival is real, this should be a smash hit.
But there’s more, there’s going to be a theatrical release too. Kino is planning a limited release for the Moroder Metropolis, starting with midnight screenings at the Landmark Sunshine cinema in New York City, on 14 and 15 October 2011 and visiting other US cities over the following two months. The US DVD/Blu-Ray release should make its appearance on 15 November.
The thing is, the Moroder Metropolis is more than just a cult favourite. For a great number of people, it was their first introduction to the world of silent cinema – or at least the first silent film they really enjoyed. And heck, lots of people like the music too. It may not be an authentic silent film experience, but the other versions of Metropolis kicking around when it was made were hardly the real deal either. The film had been heavily cut on its release – so much so that Lang himself refused to watch it – and was languishing in an archive unloved for years. There was still a lot of footage missing, and as now, the intended frame speed was a mystery. So you could argue that Moroder did the film more good than harm, and that we wouldn’t have the subsequent loving restorations without the work he did to make Metropolis popular.
We know that London is home to hundreds of fans of what we call “cult cinema”, the weird and wonderful stuff that is at the heart of the Scala Forever programme, or on show at film clubs all over the city. So I’m assuming we will see some screenings of the Moroder Metropolis in our neck of the woods. It seems like a natural next step doesn’t it? Particuarly if the demand is there.
Would you like to see the Moroder Metropolis on the big screen here in London? Are you keen enough to book a ticket to New York? Or is this travesty a crime against cinema that is best forgotten? Let me know what you think.
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Metropolis at the Rio Cinema, 19 March 2011
February 18, 2011 PH 2 Comments
It’s back! You may have thought that Metropolis (1927) was dead and buried for 2011, but no – you still have the opportunity to catch the restored, longer “complete” Metropolis on the big screen. The independent Rio Cinema in London’s groovy Dalston is screening Metropolis on a Saturday afternoon in March. So if spring has still failed to spring by that point and you fancy hiding away from it all, let Fritz Lang’s vertiginous sets and glamorous robot lady ease your seasonal pain.
You may have seen the neon blue lights of the Rio before. It really is a very elegant cinema, and although the current curved facade dates back to the 1930s, there has been a cinema on that spot since 1909. So it’s a fine vintage.
And if you need any persuading that Metropolis is a must-see film, try this slideshow from Salon magazine that attempts to chart how far its influence has spread.
The Complete Metropolis screens at 1.30pm on 19 March. Tickets are available here.
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The Association Between Family Flexibility, Food Preoccupation and Body Image Among Crystal Abuser Women
Masoumeh Rahmatizadeh 1 , * , Anahita Khodabakhshi Koolaee 2
1 Department of Clinical Psychology, Elmo Farhang University, Tehran, IR Iran
2 Departments of Clinical Psychology, Social Welfare & Rehabilitation University, Tehran, IR Iran
* Corresponding author: Masoumeh Rahmatizadeh, Department of Clinical Psychology, Elmo Farhang University, Bagherpour Rue, Ayat Ave, Narmak, Tehran, IR Iran. Tel.: +98-9127216093, E-mail: [email protected]
How to Cite: Rahmatizadeh M, Khodabakhshi Koolaee A. The Association Between Family Flexibility, Food Preoccupation and Body Image Among Crystal Abuser Women, Int J High Risk Behav Addict. 2012 ; 1(3):126-131. doi: 10.5812/ijhrba.7503.
International Journal of High Risk Behaviors and Addiction: 1 (3); 126-131
Published Online: November 26, 2012
Revised: September 10, 2012
Accepted: October 2, 2012
DOI : 10.5812/ijhrba.7503
Background: Methamphetamine (MA) is a highly addictive stimulant which has destructive effects. There is also evidence that methamphetamine use in some females, partly is due to their desire to lose weight. The purpose of this study was to determine the association between family flexibility, food preoccupation and body image among crystal abuser women.
Objectives: This study tried to evaluate whether food preoccupation, body image and family flexibility affect on crystal abuse in women.
Patients and Methods: Eighty crystal abuser women were chosen with convenience sampling and they responded to instrument of body image (Fisher), family flexibility (Olson) and food preoccupation (Tapper) questionnaires.
Results: There is a significant association between family flexibility and food preoccupation (P < 0.01) and also other variables; there is no significant association between family flexibility and body image, body image and food preoccupation (P > 0.05). Also, family flexibility is prediction of food preoccupation (P < 0.01).
Conclusions: These results emphasize that the components of eating behaviors (e.g. food preoccupation) and family flexibility can be considered in therapeutic interventions (prevention and treatment) for women to crystal withdrawal.
Women Drug Abuse Methamphetamine Body Image
Methamphetamine, a stimulant colloquially known as ‘crystal meth’, ‘crank’, ‘ice’, ‘chalk’ or ‘Tina’, is a highly addictive substance which can be snorted, smoked, ingested orally or rectally and injected. Amphetamine is powerful a psycho-stimulant which directly affect the autonomic and central nervous systems even in small amounts (1). Data from neuroimaging studies, neuropsychological testing, and psychiatric evaluation indicates that heavy use of MA contributes to a variety of psychiatric pathologies, including psychosis, mood disturbance, suicidal ideations, anxiety, hostility, psychomotor dysfunction, deficits in cognitive skills, and, in extreme cases, paranoia, hallucinations, and delusion (2). Immediately after ingestion of MA, users experience a number of highly desirable sensations, including a sense of euphoria caused by an elevated level of dopamine. Other desirable sensations associated with MA include increased productivity, heightened attentiveness and curiosity, hyper sexuality, decreased anxiety, and increased energy. The euphoric feelings vary in intensity and duration, depending on the route of administration, with smoking or intravenous injecting leading to intense, but brief, euphoria and with oral ingestion or snorting leading to a slightly less intense, but more long-lasting (2). Previous findings showed that Substance use disorders often co-occur with eating disorders in female populations (3). Substances associated with eating disorders include alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, cocaine, heroin and amphetamines (4). Higher use among girls is consistent with other researches reporting gender differences in methamphetamine use. In a review of publications on methamphetamine over the past 30 years, Dluzen and Liu found that women tend to begin methamphetamine use at earlier ages, appear more dependent on it, but also respond better to treatment than do men. Methamphetamine use appears to be associated with depression in women, and women seem more committed to the drug, whereas men are more likely to use other drugs in the absence of access to methamphetamine. There is also evidence that methamphetamine use in some females, partly is due to their desire to lose weight (5). In a study focusing on gender differences in drug use history among a broad cross-section (n = 350) of former clients from a large publicly funded treatment system, Brecht et al. found that initial methamphetamine tendency in females to lose weight is five times more than males (36% vs. 7%) (6). Patients with bulimia nervosa are also more likely to report illicit drug use, particularly amphetamines, barbiturates, marijuana, tranquilizers and cocaine (4). Because of an emphasis on diet and impotence in different social levels, factors associated with weight loss such as a body image require more attention (7) Body image is a ‘‘multifaceted psychological experience of embodiment’’ which encompasses evaluative thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and behaviors related to one’s own physical appearance (6) and body image can be influenced by factors such as physical growth, individual interactions with social environment, accidents, injuries (8). On the other hand, the prevalence of body dissatisfaction is a major concern, because defects and mental disorders such as low self-esteem, depression, social anxiety, eating disorders, sexual disorders and diseases are associated with body deformity (9). The most popular approach among people for negative body image is weight loss (10). Overestimation of weight among normal weight adolescents and accurate perceptions of weight among overweight adolescents were associated with higher rates of eating behaviors disorders. In normal weight adolescents, use of all three substances (tobacco, binge drinking, and cocaine) was associated with each disordered eating behavior (11). On the other hand, according to the results of psychological researches, diet can lead to food preoccupation and food deprivation, therefore, food Preoccupation is characteristic of those diets to lose weight. It is important for several reasons. First, it is believed to impair performance on a range of cognitive tasks. Compared to nondieters, dieters have been shown to display impaired performance on tests of reaction time, sustained attention and immediate free recall (12). According to Johnson and Bedford, foods preoccupation starts early in life and does not change as one ages. Many weight concerned middle age women could have developed food preoccupation in their youth while young weight-concerned women have not fully developed an eating problem (13). Cognitive food preoccupation can also lead to excessive eating or emotional eating. This type of eating is not as severe as binging but can also lead to obesity. A research performed on the eating disorder population has found that cognitive factors such as cognitive distortions, cognitive food preoccupation, and cognitive avoidance of emotion are all underlying factors which are strongly associated with development and maintenance of an eating disorder (14). Also, the important role of family as the primary educator of social values, in the development of eating disorders should not be ignored (7). In family systems theory, the effects of dynamics within the family have been shown to be as a significant risk factor for developing anorexia nervosa. Among these components, the component of flexibility has an important role; “family flexibility is the amount of change in its leadership, role relationships, and relationship rules” (15). The results suggest that the transactional characteristics of an anorexic patient’s family organization include enmeshment, rigidity, overprotectiveness, and lack of conflict resolution and interactions avoiding conflicts (16, 17). In fact, several researches and studies have been performed on the factors which affect addiction as social, economical as well as cultural factors, despite the fact there is a gap in the study of precursor psychological and personality factors affecting addiction, so it was tried to pave a new way to this subject in this study.
This study tried to evaluate the association between food preoccupation, body image and family flexibility in crystal abuser women.
3. Patients and Methods
3.1. Participants and Plan
This study was conducted in 2011 in Tehran. Eighty crystal abuser women volunteers from addiction treatment centers were chosen. Age ranged from 15 to 40 years. Inclusion criteria were as follow:
1) Being a crystal abuser or used crystal as main substance with another opiate or nonopiate.
2) Without any severe mental and physical illnesses.
3) High school level as the minimum level of education.
4) Time of use for at least 6 months.
The participants responded to the questionnaires knowing that their information would be remained confidential.
3. 2. Measurements
3. 2. 1. Food Preoccupation (12)
Questionnaire began with a series of 26 statements relating to thoughts about food. Of these, 3 were designed to assess thought frequency, and 23 for emotional valence of thoughts, answers could be either positive (9 items), negative (9 items) or neutral (5 items). Participants were asked to rate the extent to which they agreed or disagreed with each statement on a 5 point scale (‘completely disagree’, ‘disagree a bit’, ‘neither agree nor disagree’, ‘agree a bit’, ‘completely agree’. Four items were reverse scored. The alpha coefficients for thought frequency, positive statement, negative statement and neutral statement were reported as 0.87, 0.81, 0.80, 0.73. Validity of this instrument in community sample of 30 people of crystal abuser women was obtained by the author as follow: for thought frequency, positive statement, negative statement and neutral statement is 0.79, 0.76, 0.71, and 0.73. The Food Preoccupation Questionnaire could be a useful tool for exploring links between food-related cognitions and behavior (12).
3.2.2. Body Image
Body image was designed by Fisher in 1970. This questionnaire is a 46-item self-report questionnaire. Responses were rated on a 5-point Likert-type scale, ranging from 1 (completely disagree) to 5 (completely agree). The Cronbach alpha reliabilities is 0.84.
3.2.3. Family Flexibility
This questionnaire was inspired by Circumplex Model of Olson (15) which is made by Shakeri. Questionnaire is a series of 16 statements, Responses were rated on a 5-point Likert - type scale, ranging from 1 (completely disagree) to 5 (completely agree). The Cronbach alpha reliabilities is 0.89. In many researches Olson’s family flexibility questionnaire is used to determine family flexibility value (18).
3.3. Procedure
All participants completed 3 questionnaires, including Body Image, Family Flexibility and Food Preoccupation questionnaire. Then data collected was analyzed with SPSS-16 software. Inferential statistics, Pearson moment correlation, correlation matrix and regression were used to analysis data.
Is there a significant association between family flexibility and body image in crystal abuser women? For responding to this research question, a Pearson correlation coefficient was conducted on the data, the results are displayed in Table 1 and Table 2, which shows that correlation coefficient between body image and flexibility is not significant (r = - 0.07, P < 0.01). The second research question was “Is there a significant relationship between body image and food preoccupation?”
Table 1 General Characteristics of Crystal Abuser Women in Percent
Age Group, y
26 - 30 26.2 61.2
31 - 35 18.8 80
36 - 40 20 100
High school 46.2 46.2
Diploma 38.8 85
Baccalaureate degree 7.5 92.5
Master’s 7.5 100
Single 30 30
Married 35 65
Divorced 30 95
Widowed 5 100
Abbreviations: F, frequency; CF, cumulative frequency
Table 2 Correlation Matrix Between Family Flexibility with Food Preoccupation and Body Image
Family Flexibility
Food Preoccupation
Body image -
Family flexibility -0.07 -
Food preoccupation 0.09 -0.32 a -
aP ≤ 0.01
Our findings suggest that correlation between body image and food preoccupation was not statistically significant (r = 0.09, P < 0.01). The third research question was” Is there a significant association between family flexibility and food preoccupation?” The correlation coefficient between two variables flexibility and food preoccupation represents a significant negative relationship between them (r = - 0.32, P < 0.01). The fourth research question was “Does the family flexibility predicts food preoccupation and body image in this group?” The regression test for each predictor was separately used to predict food preoccupation and body image from family flexibility which its results are displayed in Table3.
Table 3 Summary of the Regression Model of Family Flexibility on Food Preoccupation in Crystal Abuser Women
Regression 2.54 1 2.54 9.15 0.006 0.32 0.093
Residual 21.70 78 0.28
Total 24.24 79
Abbreviations: df, Degree of freedom; F, one way analysis of covariance; MS, mean of squares; Sig, significance; R, regression coefficient; R2, coefficient of determination; SS, Sum of Squares
As shown in Table 3, (F = 9.15, R = 0.32, P < 0.01) family flexibility accounted for 9.3% of the variance in food preoccupation. Standardized regression coefficient (Beta) is reported in Table 4; the family flexibility (β = 0.324, P < 0.01) was significantly related to food preoccupation, there are multiple associations between family flexibility and food preoccupation, and the 9.3% of the variance of food preoccupation variable is explained by family flexibility.
Table 4 Standard Regression Coefficient of Family Flexibility on Food Preoccupation in Crystal Abuser Women
βeta
Fixed - - 3.83 - 12.66 0.006
Family flexibility - 0.32 0.093 - 0.021 0.324 - 3.02 0.006
Abbreviations: B, unstandardized regression coefficient; R, regression coefficient; R2, coefficient of determination; t, Student’s t – test
As shown in Table 5, the family flexibility (F = 0.398, R = 0.07, P < 0.05) was not significantly related to body image, the model has not the ability to predict variance in body image. Because of this inability to predict and explain, that it is not required to report standardized regression coefficient (Beta).
Table 5 Summary of the Regression Model of Family Flexibility on Body Image in Crystal Abuser Women
Regression 305.78 1 305.78 0.398 0.53 0.07 0.005
Residual 59895.0 78 767.88 - - - -
Total 60200.80 79 - - - - -
Abbreviations: df, Degree of freedom; F, one way analysis of co-variance; MS, mean of squares; R, regression coefficient; R2, coefficient of determination; Sig, significance SS, Sum of Squares
This study was designed to evaluate the association between food preoccupation, body image and family flexibility in crystal abuser women. Family flexibility did not have a significant correlation with body image. The finding of present study is against previous findings which had been performed in this filed such as; Binnenghaven et al. found that Family functioning has a significant relation with body image and body dissatisfaction of daughters (19). In addition, social and cultural variables and family structures many influence body image as well as family functioning does. The result from second question showed that body image did not have a significant association with food preoccupation. According to Park and Beaudet, women below 45 years old who were identified as concerned about their weight were less likely to be preoccupied with food compared to women in the 45 to 64 age group when self-perceived weight, self-esteem and selected socio-demographic characteristics were controlled (13). Because using methamphetamine has devastating effects on their appearance, and since the participants in this research were in the early stages of treatment, it seems, they have compared themselves with the time when they used substance and they have not paid attention to emphasis of researcher to compare with pre-use days and they had a good evaluation of their appearance at that period. Also, effects of obesity and overweight on food preoccupation and body image appear when the weight considered as an unchangeable factor (13, 20). Because some people are reluctant to food intake shortly after taking the substance, then weight is dramatically decreased (1, 2, 5), so that association between food preoccupation and body image was not significant. The results from third question showed that the family flexibility had significant correlation with food preoccupation. Different models and empirical works developed the hypothesis of a disturbance family functioning in eating disorders and behavior of abuse or substance dependence (20). Several studies show that families of patients with eating disorders show a lower adaptability and family cohesion (18, 21-23). Vidovic et al. found that 76 patients with eating disorders had less cohesive and flexible families and also their communication with their mothers was impaired (16). Family conflicting situations are predictors of risk of alcohol or drugs dependence in adolescence (18). Family inability to modify in different situations, leads to family rigidity. So, family responses to stress in stereotypical and inappropriate ways and uses old patterns to deal with new situations. Therefore, all family members participate in futile interactive model and each member plays a role in the preservation and continuation of this disorder, so that, the disease symptoms has an important role in maintaining balance in family (24). It can be argued that flexibility in transitions between stages in the family life cycle, especially during adolescence, have a significant role in shaping eating disorder behaviors. The results from fourth question showed that family flexibility accounted for 9.3% of the variance in food preoccupation, but was not significantly related to body image. Studies have shown associations between poor family functioning and higher depressive symptoms, less academic success, more high-risk behaviors, and more disordered eating behaviors in adolescents. Few studies evaluating the association between family functioning and youth weight and behaviors of potential relevance for weight status have mainly shown poor family communication (25) and lower family functioning (26, 27). Findings of previous studies (25-27) indicate associations between higher family functioning and positive health behaviors (e.g., fruit and vegetable intake, family meals, breakfast consumption, physical activity) and fewer unhealthful behaviors (e.g. sedentary behaviors) in adolescents. The current study indicates that family functioning may be a small, but relevant, correlate of adolescent weight and weight-related health behaviors. Girls with higher family functioning had a lower risk for substance use and disordered eating among other adolescents in previous research (28, 29). According to Berge et al. control behavior, communication, affective involvement, affective expression, and coherence about values and norms seem to be the most relevant dimensions of family functioning. Control within the family describes the process by which individual family members influence or balance each other (20). Effective communication, positive affective expression, and social involvement indicate the extent and the quality of interest in which family members have with each other and the way they express it. The degree of coherence within the family about socially transmitted values and norms also seems to be associated with body image–related problems, impaired functioning in the domains described above can be either a trigger or a result of body image–related problems (20, 23, 26). The process of developing an eating disorder would potentially have a negative influence on family communication and would challenge values and norms. Controlling behavior by family members might be initiated to prevent patients from further damaging their health, and involvement will possibly become more negative. Reciprocal effects are equally imaginable. A controlling family environment with negative communication styles and negative expression and involvement, together with discrepancies on values and norms within the family, might be risk factors for the development of body image-related problems (20). Family functioning seems indeed to play an essential role in body image-related problems (17, 20, 26). However, confrontation of early models of family in the investigation empirical family led to contradictory results, in fact, in some studies there are no significant differences between families of patients with eating disorders and control families, (18, 30, 31). So it can be argued that these results are in concordance with our results which the level of family flexibility is a predictor of food preoccupation, while it is not a predictor of body image. This means that previous research has concluded conflicting findings regarding these associations. Based on these results and previous researches, it is suggested that women’s awareness of the harmful effects of crystal would prevent them to use substance as impotence drug, hence the media has critical role in community awareness. Also, one of the factors which influence substance use is family, therefore family awareness and parent training to increase flexibility is an important role to prevent drug use. One of the limitations of this study is lack of required testing for crystal abuser.
Thanks to all patients who participated in this study.
Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Methamphetamine (MA) is a highly addictive stimulant which has destructive effects. There is also evidence that methamphetamine use in some females, partly is due to their desire to lose weight. The purpose of this study was to determine the association between family flexibility, food preoccupation and body image among crystal abuser women.
Please cite this paper as: Rahmatizadeh M, Khodabakhshi Koolaee A. The Association Between Family Flexibility, Food Preoccupation and Body Image Among Crystal Abuser Women. Int J High Risk Behav Addict. 2012; 1(3):126-31. DOI: 10.5812/ijhrba.7503
Authors’ Contribution: All the two authors were engaged in the design of the study. The first author was also responsible for data collection and analysis. Anahita Khodabakhshi was Supervisor.
Financial Disclosure: None declared.
Funding/Support: This study was a part of the M.A. thesis project of the first author, coded as 2065948.
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Correlation Between Hypertension and BMI in Children Over Five Years of Age
Parsa Yousefichaijan 1 , Mina Karimi 2 , Gholamali Fatahibayat 1 , Yazdan Ghandi 1 , Ali Khosrobeigi 2 , *
1 Clinical Research Development Center, Amirkabir Hospital, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran
2 Students Research Committee, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran
* Corresponding Author: Students Research Committee, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran. Email: [email protected]
How to Cite: Yousefichaijan P, Karimi M, Fatahibayat G, Ghandi Y, Khosrobeigi A. Correlation Between Hypertension and BMI in Children Over Five Years of Age, Nephro-Urol Mon. Online ahead of Print ; 11(2):e91905. doi: 10.5812/numonthly.91905.
Nephro-Urology Monthly: 11 (2); e91905
Published Online: May 20, 2019
Received: March 30, 2019
Accepted: May 10, 2019
DOI : 10.5812/numonthly.91905
Image Credit: 91905
Background: The prevalence of hypertension and obesity is on the rise in children. Both hypertension and obesity are of the most important factors in the development of cardiovascular diseases.
Objectives: Given the importance of hypertension and obesity in children, this study was conducted to determine the incidence of hypertension and obesity in children and investigate the relationship between these two variables.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 994 children over five years of age admitted to the Children’s Clinic of Amirkabir Hospital in Arak, Iran. Blood pressure was determined by observing the standard blood pressure measurements based on children’s gender, age, and height. The BMI of children was determined based on available charts.
Results: Of the 994 children entering the study, 51.1% were male and 48.9% were female. The mean age was 7.49 ± 2.38 years. The prevalence of obesity was 10.5% and the prevalence of hypertension was 7%. Based on BMI, the prevalence of hypertension was 19.2% in obese children and 4.1% in normal-weight children (P < 0.001).
Conclusions: The condition of hypertension in children is significantly correlated with their obesity.
Children BMI Blood Pressure
Hypertension (HTN) is becoming a common medical problem in general and pediatric populations. Recent studies showed that the prevalence of HTN is on the rise in children (1, 2).
Some studies estimated that the prevalence of HTN is 2% - 5% in the pediatric population and it is a common chronic disease in children. Hypertension in children may be essential or secondary to another disease (such as renal disease or endocrine disease). However, secondary hypertension is more common in children (3, 4).
HTN is an important risk factor for the incidence of cardiovascular disease as an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Recent studies show that the increased prevalence of hypertension in children is associated with increased cardiovascular risks among adolescents and adults. Pediatric hypertension can cause progressive organ damage and severe complications including heart, brain, kidney, and eye damage (5-7).
Nowadays, along with the increased cardiovascular disease, overweight and obesity have become epidemic, representing major public health problems worldwide (8, 9).
Given the importance of hypertension and obesity in children, we measured the incidence of hypertension and obesity in children and studied the relationship between these two variables.
This cross-sectional study was conducted on 994 children at Amirkabir Hospital, Arak, Iran. The children were enrolled in the study based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The data on birth weight and the type of neonatal feeding were also recorded. Height, weight, and blood pressure were measured for all children. Blood pressure was measured based on standard methods using the Citizen digital blood pressure monitor (REFCH-311B) (10). If blood pressure was higher than normal, it was measured again after 48 - 72 hours and then recorded. It should also be noted that children with hypertension were referred to pediatric nephrologists.
Blood pressure of less than the 90th percentile based on age, gender, and height was considered normal, between the 90th and 95th percentile indicated pre-HTN status, between the 95th and 99th percentile showed HTN grade I, and greater than the 99th percentile plus 5 mmHg denoted HTN grade II (10).
The inclusion criteria included all children over five years of age with no kidney problems and other chronic illnesses. The exclusion criteria were patients who did not cooperate in measuring blood pressure and children who had secondary hypertension.
The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Arak University of Medical Sciences with ethics code IR.ARAKMU.REC.1396.108. Written informed consent was obtained from the parents of all children.
The data collected through checklists were analyzed by SPSS version 22 software using descriptive statistics for basic information and the chi-square test for qualitative variables. The quantitative variables were analyzed using the independent sample t-test, chi-square test, and Fisher exact test. The values of P < 0.05 were considered significant.
The overall mean age of the sample was 7.49 ± 2.38 years consisting of 51.1% boys and 48.9% girls. The details are summarized in Table 1.
Table 1. General Characteristics of Children
No. (%) or Mean ± SD
Female 486 (48.9)
Gestational age
Pre-term 34 (3.4)
Term 958 (96.4)
Post-term 2 (0.2)
Birth weight, kg 3.275 ± 0.507
Breast milk 923 (92.9)
Formula milk 71 (7.1)
Age, y 7.49 ± 2.38
Weight, kg 26.05 ± 11.14
Height, cm 122.26 ± 16.19
The prevalence rates of systolic HTN and diastolic HTN (including HTN grade I and II) were 3% and 5.8% in the general pediatric population, respectively. Moreover, the prevalence of overweight and obesity in the children was 13.2% and 10.5%, respectively (Table 2).
Table 2. Blood Pressure (BP) and BMI Status in Children
Normal 936 (94.2)
Pre-HTN 28 (2.8)
HTN grade I 22 (2.2)
HTN grade II 8 (0.8)
Normal 895 (90)
HTN grade II 20 (2)
HTN 70 (7)
Underweight 122 (12.3)
Overweight 131 (13.2)
Obese 104 (10.5)
Furthermore, the study showed that the prevalence of HTN had a correlation with birth weight. The prevalence of HTN was higher in children fed with formula milk than in children fed with breast milk. The prevalence of hypertension was 19.2% in obese children and 4.1% in normal-weight children (P < 0.001) (Table 3).
Table 3. Blood Pressure Correlation with Feeding, Birth Weight, and BMI
BP Status
Pre-HTN
HTN
Feeding, No. (%) < 0.001
Breast milk 841 (91.1) 28 (3) 54 (5.9)
Formula milk 38 (53.5) 17 (23.9) 16 (22.5)
Birth weight, mean ± SD 3241 ± 484 3514 ± 679 3555 ± 537 < 0.001
BMI, No. (%) < 0.001
Underweight 114 (93.4) 0 (0) 8 (6.6)
Normal 591 (92.8) 20 (3.1) 26 (4.1)
Overweight 102 (77.9) 13 (9.9) 16 (12.2)
Obese 72 (69.2) 12 (11.5) 20 (19.2)
Both HTN and obesity in childhood have relationships with HTN and obesity in adulthood. Furthermore, some studies have shown that HTN and obesity in childhood have a relationship with cardiovascular disease in adulthood. Therefore, understanding the relationship between blood pressure status and BMI status is very important to reduce the risk factors of cardiovascular disease (11, 12).
The recent study aimed to investigate the association between blood pressure and BMI among children over 5 years of age. The results of this study showed that blood pressure had a significant correlation with BMI.
Similar to our study, Basiratnia et al. reported that there was a significant relationship between BMI and hypertension in children and that both SBP and DBP significantly increased with obesity (13). He et al. found that the prevalence of HTN was 19.4% in obese children and 7% in non-obese children (14). Similar to our results, Falkner et al. found that SBP and DBP increased in children with increasing BMI (15).
Another study conducted by Madruga et al. showed a direct relationship between the waist-to-height ratio and the incidence of hypertension in adolescents (8). Kuwabara et al. in a five-year cohort study reported that obesity increased the risk of HTN (16).
This study had some limitations. Some of the parents did not cooperate in the study and did not return for blood pressure measurement of their children. Therefore, these children were excluded from the study.
5.1. Conclusions
According to the results of the current study, it seems that the prevalence of hypertension was higher in the obese population than in the normal-weight population of children over five years of age. Therefore, overweight and obese children should be more closely monitored for their blood pressure and should begin weight loss treatment as soon as possible. Furthermore, this study showed that the prevalence of HTN was more in children fed with formula milk than in children fed with breast milk.
However, these findings require more evidence from further investigations. Similar studies at different centers are proposed to help these patients. Moreover, similar studies are needed to investigate the effect of formula milk on blood pressure.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the Research Committee of Arak University of Medical Sciences (grant number: 2722) for financial support. This work was performed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Medical Doctor by Mina Karimi at the School of Medicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran.
Authors' Contribution: Study concept and design: Parsa Yousefichaijan, Gholamali Fatahibayat, and Yazdan Ghandi; acquisition of data: Mina Karimi; analysis and interpretation of data: Ali Khosrobeigi; drafting of the manuscript: Ali Khosrobeigi; critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Parsa Yousefichijan; statistical analysis: Ali Khosrobeigi; study supervision: Parsa Yousefichaijan.
Conflict of Interests: None.
Ethical Approval: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Arak University of Medical Sciences with ethics code IR.ARAKMU.REC.1396.108.
Funding/Support: The Research Committee of Arak University of Medical Sciences (grant number: 2722) financially supported this study.
Patient Consent: Written informed consent was obtained from the parents of all children.
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Politics, Popular Culture and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
What is the relationship between politics and popular culture? How is popular culture a prism through which to understand the political dynamics of the 2011 Egyptian revolution? What does popular culture reveal about political dynamics that may otherwise be hidden from view?
This seminar seeks to explore dimensions of the 2011 Egyptian revolution through an examination of popular cultural texts – including songs, graffiti, cartoons and films – curated in an on-line digital archive: egyptrevolution2011.ac.uk. This archive seeks to create a greater understanding of the significance of the 2011 uprising and its aftermath for everyday Egyptians as well as the relationship between politics and popular culture in a revolutionary context.
Introduction: Lucia Sorbera (The University of Sydney)
Nicola Pratt, Visiting Professor (Warwick University)
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Sally’s Cafe and Bookstore – New Book on the Shelves – #WWI drama – The Dandelion Clock by Rebecca Bryn.
Delighted to welcome Rebecca Bryn to the Cafe and Bookstore with her new release, The Dandelion Clock, on pre-order for September 5th.
About the Dandelion Clock
Bill, a farm boy brought up in a village on the Duke of Buccleuch’s Northamptonshire estate, is plucking up his courage to ask his sweetheart, Florrie, to marry him. Florrie has given up her dream of being a dancer to bring up her siblings and protect them from their violent, sexually abusive widowed father. For her, marriage to Bill is love, escape, and protection: a dream to be clung to.
When war breaks out in August 1914, Bill and Florrie’s dreams are dashed – Bill is sent with the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars, a yeomanry cavalry regiment, to fight in Gallipoli, Egypt, and Palestine taking with him a horse, Copper, volunteered for service by the 7th duke’s young daughter, Lady Alice. Bill makes promises before he leaves: to marry Florrie if he survives and to bring his beloved warhorse, Copper, home safe to Lady Alice.
While Bill fights Turks and Germans in appalling conditions, Florrie fights her own war with rationing, poverty, the loss of her menfolk, and her father’s drunken temper. As the war proceeds, fearful and with her resilience faltering, her feelings of self-worth plummet, and she turns to her dandelion clocks for reassurance. ‘He lives? He lives not? He loves me? He loves me not?’
When Bill returns to England six months after the armistice in 1918, both he and Florrie have been changed by their personal journeys. Has their love survived five years apart and the tragedies they’ve endured? Can Bill keep his promises to Florrie and Lady Alice?
A heartbreaking story of lovers torn apart by the Great War. An insight into the military history of the 1914 1918 war in Egypt as fought by the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars and the Queen’s Own Worcestershire Yeomanry – some of the ‘PALS brigades’. At first thought, ‘not real soldiers’ by the regular army, the Royal Bucks and the Worcester Yeomanry fought with great courage and suffered huge losses. In fact, the Worcesters sustained more losses than any brigade in any war, and the PALS earnt the respect of all those who fought. Although Military Fiction 1914 1918, it is a story inspired by real people and based on real events that doesn’t forget the role of women in the Great War or their need for a WW1 romance.
An early review for the book
Lesley Hayes 5.0 out of 5 stars A man determined to keep his promises. A novel you will never forget. Totally compelling and unmissable. 26 July 2018
Rebecca Bryn has a consistent flair for scouring out your heart with her painfully honest accounts of heartbreak, loss and courage in the face of unspeakable horror, as I first discovered when reading Touching the Wire. I therefore should have known when I was gifted a copy of The Dandelion Clock that I would read much of it in tears, held to the insistent narrative by an aching empathy for all the people who came so vividly alive within its pages – only for some of them to become even more memorable by their tragic deaths. So often it was impossible to know what the eventual outcome for Bill and Florrie might be.
My grandfather came back from the front at the end of the First World War a changed man, so I was told. He took to drink and regularly beat his wife when he was drunk – something for which some of his seven children never forgave him. He would never talk about his experiences and unfortunately died of lung disease related to having been gassed in the trenches when he was only 63. I was 8 then, too young to know the questions to ask to unlock his trauma. Reading The Dandelion Clock answered some of those questions and renewed my connection with my grandfather, as well as bringing it home to me that many of those boys sent off to war were the same age as my three grandsons shortly going off to university.
Rebecca Bryn’s descriptions of place and of the appalling conditions suffered are masterful. Let me give you some examples: ‘September, and a crescent moon hung in a Turkish sky and shone on dead men.’ ‘He shivered. The moaning of the wind in the trenches wailed like the tortured souls of dead men.’ ‘Rolling, turf-covered downs bejewelled with wild flowers…’ ‘The sin of war spread out across the world to engulf him.’ There is page after page of descriptions that took my breath away, brought further tears, and made those foreign landscapes utterly real.
But not only is this a novel that focuses on the hardships, loss and love between comrades-in-arms in appalling circumstances. It also speaks of the experiences of the families left behind to wait, often in ignorance, for brothers, sons and sweethearts who might never return. Bill is a man determined to keep his promises – to Lady Alice whose horse, Copper is as precious to him as anyone, and who he is determined to bring back to England at the end of the war; and to the two very different women who capture his heart.
Poor Florrie – the woman he is promised to – suffers the fate typical of so many working class women at that time, locked into unrelenting servitude in a family with a brutish, abusive father, trying to survive and scrape a living while her brothers endure the terrors and wounds to mind and body inflicted by war. My heart felt full of sadness for her, and for the impossibility of her life. Would her relationship with Bill survive?
Towards the end of the novel Bill turns to the last remaining of his comrades and reflects on the experiences of the past four years. “Best not to dwell on it,” he says. “It’ll send you mad.”
Rebecca Bryn has been brave enough to dwell on it, and to offer us the opportunity to immerse ourselves for a while on the shameful, pointless ‘sin of war’ as Bill describes it. Read this book because you will rarely read another that moves you in quite the same way. Some books are good. This one is great. The author’s best to date. Totally compelling and unmissable.
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About Rebecca Bryn
Rebecca lives near Britain’s smallest city, St Davids, in the far west of Wales with her rescue dog, rescue husband and twenty very sheepish sheep. Surrounded by stunning coastal and moorland scenery, she also loves to paint. She inherited her love of stories from her grandfather, who told stories with his hands: stories with colourful characters and unexpected endings. Her fascination with what makes people who they are, and the belief that life is many shades of grey, informs her writing.
Her main genre is historical fiction/ historical romance but I also write mystery and dystopian.
Her first novel, The Silence of the Stones, set in mystical West Wales, is woven around injustice, perjury and revenge and delves into the damaged psyche.
Her second novel, Touching the Wire, a story of the women of the holocaust, was awarded ‘Best Historical Thriller of 2015’ by Christoph Fischer, a respected histfic author.
Her third novel, Where Hope Dares, is a chilling story of the fight of good over evil, courage and unbreakable love, and is set in a future our present is unerringly shaping. It was voted into the ‘Read Freely Top 50 Indie Books of 2015.’
A fourth novel, On Different Shores, is set in the 1840s and is inspired by the true story of the ‘black sheep’ of her family who were transported to Van Diemen’s Land for murdering one of Lord Northampton’s gamekeepers. it is Book One of three of the series ‘For Their Country’s Good’.
Book Two, Beneath Strange Stars, chronicles Jem and Ella’s voyages to the colonies and Ella’s cntinuing efforts to reach her lover.
Book Three, On Common Ground, takes Ella further from Jem as she is forced to put herself forward for marriage to save her son. Will the ill-fated lovers ever cross paths again?
The Dandelion Clock, inspired by real events, is set in Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine, and England. Two lovers torn apart by the Great War 1914-1918. While Bill and his beloved warhorse, Copper, fight the Central Powers in North Africa, Florrie fights her own war at home, struggling to bring up her siblings with her abusive father, poverty, and rationing. Can Bill keep his promises to bring Copper home and marry Florrie. Can their love survive the changes the war and five years apart bring?
A Native American Indian proverb reads, ‘Don’t judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.’ Rebecca has based her life on this tenet: it is certainly core to her writing. ‘We may not condone what a person does, but sometimes we can understand and maybe come to forgive.’
Rebecca’s own motto is ‘The only thing written in stone is your epitaph.’ If you have a dream, follow it!
You can enjoy the previews of Rebecca’s books: https://rebeccabrynblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/free-previews
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Thank you for visiting today and it would be great if you could spread the word about Rebecca’s latest book, especially as it is at a special price until September 5th. Thanks Sally
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32 thoughts on “Sally’s Cafe and Bookstore – New Book on the Shelves – #WWI drama – The Dandelion Clock by Rebecca Bryn.”
Patrick Jones on August 21, 2018 at 3:06 pm said:
Reblogged this on The Linden Chronicles and commented:
Another great read from Sally!!
Thank you Patrick.. great to see you… hugs x
Rebecca Bryn on August 21, 2018 at 6:51 pm said:
Thank you for sharing, Patrick.
mariacatalinaegan on August 21, 2018 at 5:48 pm said:
Fascinating. I like European war history.
With all the research that you did for The Bridge of Deaths had you thought about writing another WWII drama? xx
I find war history fascinating too. The research for The Dandelion Clock really opened my eyes to the conditions the men, mules, and horses endured in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine.
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Thanks for sharing Catalina..hugsx
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Wow. Great article!
Delighted to have your books on the shelves Rebecca..
My pleasure. Thank you for having them.
robbiesinspiration on August 21, 2018 at 7:42 pm said:
This is such a sad sounding book, Sally. War is a truly terrible thing.
Smorgasbord - Variety is the Spice of Life. on August 21, 2018 at 11:15 pm said:
It is Robbie…and with such devastation to generations afterwards. My mother who never knew her father even in her 90s would talk about how that left its mark on her mother and her early childhood. hugs xxx
As one of my reviewers quoted ‘The sin of war reached out to engulf him.’ My grandfather’s promise and the fact that war changed him is the thrust of this story. The effect of that promise has been very far reaching and has affected generations of my family. I am firmly of the opinion that leaders who want to wage war should be locked in a room together and left there until they understand one another or starve, and I don’t really care which. Conscription must have been terrible, and I can’t imagine how those young men must have felt.
You are right, Rebecca. And how their wives and children felt.
authorsarahstuart on August 21, 2018 at 8:20 pm said:
dgkaye on August 21, 2018 at 11:20 pm said:
Oh this does look good, I must add to my TBR. ❤
Smorgasbord - Variety is the Spice of Life. on August 22, 2018 at 12:02 am said:
Great thanks Debby.. ♥
It’s only 99p/99c until September 5th. 🙂 I hope you enjoy it.
I picked up Touching the Wire while I was there 🙂 Thank you. 😉
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Thanks for sharing Frank and terrific review.
franklparker on August 22, 2018 at 9:01 am said:
Reblogged via ‘Press This’ and included my own review.
Thank you, Frank. A lovely review xx
I have shared in the Cafe Update on Friday Rebecca as Frank is an author on the shelves too. xx
Check out what’s new on the shelves of Sally’s Cafe and Bookstore from this post on the Smorgasbord Invitation blog
Thanks for sharing Don…
Darlene on August 22, 2018 at 9:48 pm said:
This book sounds fascinating. Thanks for bringing it to our attention, Sally.
It does sound interesting Darlene.. hugs xxx
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Let’s Go to the Amusement Park!
Summer is approaching many places around the world! Some are dreading the upcoming season, and others are counting down for their summer to begin. As students are winding down from exams and studying, they can only anticipate their free time with their friends. As many may already have their whole summer vacation scheduled with endless activities, keep in mind the thrilling rides that you could only find in amusement parks!
These three amusement parks found throughout Korea would be great to add to your summer activities:
Everland was founded in 1976 as a resort near Seoul, located in Yongin and consisting of three areas: Caribbean Bay, Everland, and Home Bridge. Although Everland was known before as Farmland, it still is a frequently visited location. Everland features a water park, a zoo, and a few restaurants. When heading into Everland, an average ticket costs around 54,000 won ($66 USD). Everland is also home to a few rollercoasters known as T-Express, Dragon Coaster, and the Rolling X-Train.
The T-Express is made out of wood and is said to be the 4th steepest, 9th fastest, 4th tallest, and 6th longest rollercoaster in the world; fairly great rankings for a ride! It was founded on March 14th of 2008, making this ride about 11 years old.
Dragon Coaster was founded in 1987. You may find this ride in the Magic Land area of the park. Recommended for anyone with kids!
Rolling X-Train was founded in the summer of the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympic Games. It's gone through a few name changes, such as the Double Loop and as the Corkscrew.
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Seoul Land was founded in 1987 in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi-do Province with over forty rides, movie theatres, and seasonal festivals! With five different areas to discover, appealing to any age. Tickets vary by age and the time of day, the highest price being 44,000 won and the lowest being 31,000 won.
Adventure Land
As the name indicates, you will find yourself going through many adventures with shooting galleries, remote-controlled boats, and rollercoasters all waiting to be discovered! Rides include the TicTok Train (a cute clock shaped ride for children), the King Viking (a pirate ship that swings into the sky) and the Flume Ride (a steep slope passing through water and falls).
Another region in Seoul Land for the little ones with many decorations of different characters and fun rides, including the Turning Mecard Go! Bumper Car, the Arpo Swing (a spinning octopus ride), and a Musical Carousel where you can ride on musical instruments!
Many will enjoy this region of Seoul Land so much that they would find themselves saying “Let’s come back tomorrow!” The main rides for both children and adults can be found here, even hosting an optical illusion house. With rollercoasters known as the Black Hole 2000, giving your ride a twist and tumble; the Double Loop Coaster, a thrilling double loop roller coaster; and Sky X, a 50m fall from a cable.
Samchulli Hill
An area for all seasons, Samchulli Hill makes every visit faultless. It includes a pool, a snow sled, haunted houses, and an archery range as well as the exciting Top Spin, a ride that makes seven spinning loops in the air!
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LOTTE WORLD
Lotte World is known as the largest indoor amusement park with four different floors, divided into districts that represent countries. Founded July 12th, 1989 in Sincheon-dong, Songpa-gu, Lotte World is open all year long despite any holidays. With beautifully-themed musicals matching every season, it’s a sight no one should miss.
There are two different passes to explore Lotte World; a Universal Pass and The Park Pass, both passes varying by age and time of day.
Universal Pass: Gives access to both the Lotte World park and the Folk Museum.
Adult pricing ranges from 46,000 won up to 57,000 won while pricing for teens and children is between 35,000 and 50,000 won.
Park Pass: Gives access to the Lotte World park only.
Adult pricing is between 43,000 to 54,000 won, and teens and children's tickets are 34,000 to 48,000 won.
Infants passes cost an average price of 14,000 won for both Universal and Park passes.
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With summer right around the corner come many changes in wardrobe, moods, and the chaotic changes of our daily life routines. Don’t leave the thrill of amusement parks out of your summer plans, whether you attend any of these located in Korea or visit the one in your town! Be prepared for the excitement and thrills your heart will endure. Summer is approaching quickly but it will leave faster, remind yourself to stay hydrated and have fun!
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Obama Claims That His Father Served In WWII
Posted on June 1, 2011 by stevengoddard
Obama’s father was born in 1936. He was nine years old when WWII ended. He must have served in the infantry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama,_Sr.
h/t to Dave G
55 Responses to Obama Claims That His Father Served In WWII
Latitude says:
He’s a mess…..
But it seems to go with the territory
I really, really, really hate to defend this scumbag. But I’m fairly certain he meant to say his maternal grandfather who did indeed serve in WWII.
“Dunham, the man whom Barack Obama would one day call Gramps, was a 26-year-old supply sergeant stationed near the English Channel with the U.S. Army Air Forces when the invasion of Normandy at last began. Six weeks later, he crossed the Channel, too, and followed the Allied front across France. A year later, he was on track to fight in Japan when the atom bomb sent him home instead.”
Still, I liked the infantry joke!
They must have forgotten to put the word “grand” on the teleprompter.
I had not thought of that!
Mike Davis says:
Probably Special Forces, Green Beret at that age!
PhilJourdan says:
Uh, oh! Mr. Teleprompter is going to get a good tongue lashing from the administration!
Justa Joe says:
He also said that his Grand Father presumably on his mother’s side helped liberate Auschwitz, which was “liberated” by the Red Army. The sad thing is that he said that before he was elected, but people still voted for him even though the statement demonstrates dishonesty and a basic historical ignorance.
For some reason all Donks embellish their personal and family histories. Hillary, Biden et al have all pulled these types of stunts.
Hillary blew it when she told that tale about being under fire, corkscrew landing, thing in Bosnia. Then went on to claim, over and over, that Chelsey was at the WTC at 9/11, even though Chelsey was saying it wasn’t true at the same time.
In Hilliary’s mind a lot of things are true that have NO basis in reality!
No, had Hillary blown it we would never have mey Monica!
suyts says:
lmao!! Very nice Gator!
I doubt that very much Gator but I get it, HAHAHA!
Tourist in Chief says:
Quite the whopper. But there is little about this guy that is straight up. He could have slipped too, remembering a true father, not Obama Sr., who apparently had no interest in his “son”.
Frank Marshall Davis was old enough, but no mention of service. And commie slimebags would have avoided service.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Marshall_Davis
Speaking of Vets this Joe Romm character is certifiable. Between Romm & Jimmie Death Trains Hansen I’m starting to think that warmist are all just frustrated science fiction writers.
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/05/27/208187/memorial-day-2030/
LibertyAtStake says:
Eh … what’s a little fibbing when there’s a cult of personality to build? (Rule #1 from the Leftist’s political handbook)
d(^_^)b
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“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
It is obvious that he meant his grandfather.
The real issue here is that when this website continues to call him a liar when the mistake is abvious, then the credibility of this website is very questionable. You only hurt your own cause by continuing your own lie. It is true that the rabid fans will be impressed with your article. However, you turn off people of normal intelligence.
It seems that once a news outlet adopts a cause, the truth no longer matters.
But could he see Alaska from his house in Hawaii?
Perhaps his purported grandfather is his father, and his mother is an unknown black woman. This would explain how his sister (pretending to be his mother) was happy to leave him with “the grandparents” and how she so swiftly recovered from her supposed labour.
(Hey, if Andrew Sullivan can theorise …)
Amino Acids in Meteorites says:
Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim,
lighten up. There’s this invention called laughter. Look it up on the internet. You could use a little of it. Or do you also need a teleprompter in front of you telling you when to laugh?
sunshinehours1 says:
I worry that Obama doesn’t even know what year it is too.
He signed the Buckingham Palace guest book with 2008 last week.
Oh please, Jim: Where does this website “call him a liar”? Because it doesn’t, that makes you the fibber.
The implication is that he lied. A legitimate, honest website would not state that Obama Claims That His Father Served in WWII. A legitimate, honest website would state that Obama mistakenly referred to his father serving in WWII when he meant his grandfather. Of course, this would not be very newsworthy and it would not result in a lot of idiots defaming the person who happens to be tha President Of The United States of America. Obama is wrong on CO2 warming the planet, but the best way to promote the truth is to be truthful and honest. Stupidity should not be used to fight stupidity. And, dishonesty is just not a good policy.
Sorry, I meant to say “*don’t* press the red button”
glacierman says:
Yes, the MSM is always open minded and corrects mistatements inadvertently made by people all the time……………..
……………..as long as they are liberals.
Anyone else gets worked over the coals. I suppose you are spending alot of your time informing them how dishonest they are and asking them to correct the “mistatements”.
Obama claims that he is a Muslim
Liberals are so used to the media carrying their water, Jim actually thinks a website should put words into the POTUS’s mouth that he didn’t say, just so he doesn’t look bad.
Yes, this is how a statement by the POTUS should be reported:
“A legitimate, honest website would state that Obama mistakenly referred to his father serving in WWII when he meant his grandfather.”
If your goal is to protect him and get him reelected. Which is the primary function of MSNBC, NBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, Huffpo, NYTs, …..
And his wife said he’s from Kenya
Being that there is no raised seal of the State of Hawaii on his “birth certificate” maybe………..
But I digress…………… or do I?
Ohhhh, and look what happened on Sesame Street!
Kenya said: “Welcome home Senator Obama”.
Doh!
Kenyan Ambassador Admits Obama Was Born In Kenya
DOH!!!!
It’s just a joke, right?
Something is seriously wrong with Jim….
…he believes everything he sees on the internet
It’s funny Jim….
..if they hadn’t cut Biden’s tongue out, we’d be laughing at him too
Jim, I disagree. Much hay is made when conservatives misspeak or make gaffes. So much so, it allows the left to characterize conservatives as intellectually inferior. From Ford’s bumbling, to Quayle’s spelling, to Bush’s verbiage to Palin’s inability to answer inane questions, the left go to town. No one steps up to say they misspoke or meant to say this to understand that, they just vilify. Its past time to respond in kind. They no know boundaries nor possess an ounce of civility.
ever notice that liberals just “miss speak”………….
and conservatives are dumb as a stump trained mule
Yeh, I notice it a lot. The fact is, conservatives don’t hold a candle to the libs when it comes to gaffes. It’s just that they play conservatives up so much. And silently letting the stuff pass doesn’t do the trick. It is what allows the libtards to paint us as redneck anti-science numskulls. So, I’m all for fighting fire with fire.
The 57 United States of America.
Marc Blank says:
The dishonesty of Obama-haters is pretty much without bound. Granted, some liberals did the same with W, but that doesn’t excuse it. I really wish this site would stick to climate skepticism rather than descending into crass political partisanship; it doesn’t exactly help the case that skepticism is about the science…
Squidly says:
Dishonest? .. dishonest? .. really? .. It would be nice if the libterds would just take a little glance once in a while at this POS that claims to be POTUS and see just who has been dishonest. You know, you can tell when the Obewon is lying, his lips are moving. I have yet to hear an honest word come from his mouth. Obama is nothing more than one big lie, from start to finish. He has made the old peanut farmer look pretty good at this point. What a fricken joke. I just find it hard to believe (or perhaps hard to swallow) that there are so many stupid people in this country that bought in to his bullshit. Unbelievable…. … but, I am doubting that it is going to happen a second time. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
Squidly – let’s be honest. Obama did say he wanted higher gas prices – and we got em (in the end, with no KY). So not EVERYTHING he says is a lie. Just 99.99% of it.
Phil, you have a very good point, you just have to watch out for what he does say.
Might I also remind you “under my system of cap and trade, energy prices will necessarily skyrocket …. all in the name of CO2 and AGW ……. there’s a little bit of climate for ya pal….
I will have to agree with you however, Steven should keep this to climate, at least it doesn’t get my blood boiling quite as much. However, that being said, if you want to debate Obama, his Czar’s and administration, I would be more than happy to oblige, be forewarned, I come armed with ample ammunition (figure of speech just so you know and don’t go off claiming I am inciting some sort of radical violent takeover of the world). Friendly advice; stick to the science yourself.
P.J. says:
Classic picture:
But I don’t like shrimp. How do I get mine?
How about Tacos?
Ok, I was poking fun with the birth certificate comments, but Doh!
An international expert on scanners and document-imaging software filed a 22-page criminal complaint with the FBI, charging that the long-form birth certificate released by the White House is criminally fraudulent.,,,,,
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=305705
The claims seem valid?
The real issue here is that when this website continues to call him a liar when the mistake is abvious
He IS a liar. It does not matter if he stubbed his toe, added an e to potato, or just wanted to slip one by. It is a lie. The real issue is why anyone would want to try to define what the meaning of a lie is (or is is). newspeak on parade folks! Lie like a rug, do not even correct yourself – let the bots go out and spin it for you.
If you have a D after your name, the bots line up in defense. Look at Slick Willy.
The implication is that he lied. A legitimate, honest website would not state that Obama Claims That His Father Served in WWII. A legitimate, honest website would state that Obama mistakenly referred to his father serving in WWII when he meant his grandfather.
Wrong. A legitimate honest website would say he incorrectly claimed his father served. An honest website would not say he meant his grandfather since they are not psychic. just the obamabots apparently.
face it – he embellished, got caught and now the spin begins. All because he cannot admit he is wrong.
dangreene says:
His grandfather DID serve in WWII. I call it a slip of the tongue.
He, we know. He liberated Auschwitz. /sarc
Bob Buntin says:
Why not forgive the mistake by allowing the benefit of doubt that he meant grandfather?
It is obvious he could not have meant father. And his grandfather was more of a father figure than his real father. We should allow similar mis-speaking by Quayle, Bush, Palin, and others. Shouldn’t we?
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Slovak art is more individual,
GREAT political events and historical milestones are natural subjects of artworks and cultural projects – but it seems that sometimes time plays a crucial role.
Martin Piaček: The first meeting of Jozef Tiso and Adolf Hitler, 13.8. 1939. (from the cycle Biggest Embarrassments of Slovak History, started in 2007). (Source: Courtesy of Martin Piaček)
Events more than a thousand years old, like the coming of evangelists Cyril and Methodius to the territory of present-day Slovakia in 860 or the developments of the Great Moravian Empire as a whole, are more common and satisfactory topics for artists than the events that formed Slovak history only a few decades ago – the November Revolution of 1989, also called the Velvet Revolution.
It toppled the communist regime of then-Czechoslovakia and started a course of events that led to its split into two countries and to its transformation into a parliamentary democracy with a market economy.
The question, however, remains: how has this break-through historical point been mirrored in Slovak art and culture? More generally, how has Slovak art and culture developed since then from the point of view of political and social engagement? Starting from the point of disgust at the “obligatory” engagement and distortion of perception, as well as strict “communist party lines” and unification, how does this art depict the reality that 40 years of totalitarian regime firmly established?
As the 25th anniversary of the revolution – November 17 – neared, The Slovak Spectator approached some of the art and culture theoreticians, researchers, organisers and reviewers with questions about the happening of November 17, and also regarding the political and social motifs in art and culture.
Visual art theoretician, and chief-editor of the Profil súčasného výtvarného umenia / Profile - Contemporary Art Magazine Jana Geržová; theatre dramatic advisor, manager and organiser of the Divadelná Nitra theatre festival Darina Kárová; and Katarína Mišíková, film theoretician at the Department of Audio-visual Studies at the Film and TV Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts offered their views.
Art vs active real life
“With a certain exaggeration, we could say that art, which was in opposition to the official state doctrine of socialist realism, had already developed such active forms that later found their fulfilment, or even culmination, during the November events,” Geržová answered.
She referenced Ján Budaj, one of the leaders of the November Revolution, who founded back in the 1970s, a Temporary Society of Intense Survival where he fought – together with artists, and also environmentalists – against the authoritarian rule of the communist party, trying to open the eyes of the public and rouse them to civic disobedience. The supreme ambition of these protests was to break the limits between art and life.
“What happened in the streets of Slovak towns in November 1989 could be seen as collective happenings that exceeded the ambitions of unofficial artists, as it was also thanks to them that the regime collapsed,” Geržová wrote, mentioning also the famous march from Bratislava to the Austrian town of Hainburg on December 10, 1989, organised by Ladislav Snopko (who would later become Culture Minister) and Martin Bútora (later the Slovak ambassador to the US) that made history as a large civic happening under the name Ahoj Európa / Hello Europe.
“Unlike other historical events during the previous regime, the image was rather a forced political order when the communist party took artists as hostages (like the portrayals of the Slovak National Uprising, liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Red Army and others), and the events of November remained free of this historical devaluation,” Geržová said.
“The November events and the Velvet Revolution are not – or rather, hardly ever – frequent subjects of theatre productions,” Darina Kárová opined. She noted as one of the few the performances in Stanica Žilina – Záriečie, the Chamber Theatre in Martin or in the City Theatre in Žilina, as well as the Malá scéna / Small Stage STU in Bratislava. The Theatre Institute organised a competition for the best expert study on the revolution’s 20th anniversary, and the Divadelná Nitra Association launched a project called Nitra’89 – Memory of the Region.
“The quantity of artwork surrounding the theme of No-vember 17 corresponds with the relation of Slovak citizens to this event – it is luke- warm,” Kárová continued. “It is manifested mostly on anniversaries. This is connected with overall scepticism in society and the scepticism from applying the revolution’s ideals in practice. However, many works and activities have appeared just now, on the 25th anniversary.”
“The events of the Velvet Revolution were pictured sur-prisingly rarely in Slovak cinematography,” Mišíková wrote. “In feature films, they play a part in stories of two films which come to terms with the transformation of society in a grotesque stylisation.”
These are It’s Better to Be Wealthy and Healthy Than Poor and Ill (Lepšie je byť bohatý a zdravý ako chudobný a chorý) by Juraj Jakubisko from 1992 which can be perceived as quite a direct, unaffected reflection on the euphoria and chaos of this period, Mišíková wrote, adding that Rivers of Babylon by Vladimír Balco from 1998 captures the end of the communist regime rather on the backdrop of the ensuing start of the “Mafia-style capita-lism” and the Mečiar’s era.
In the documentary cinematography, Zuzana Piussi dealt with November 17 in her movie “Men of Revolu-tion” which brings not just a subjective evaluation of these events by selected “men of the revolution”, but also an interesting confrontation between the past expectations and the current disillusions.
Social engagement of art
As for the social and political issues and their reflection in Slovak visual art, Geržová said that several young art historians are systemically exploring how the specific political situation reflects in visual art creation.
“Generally, it is stated that after 1989, art became de-politicised; not just in the sense that the authoritarian regime which had been forcing the ideological obedience of artists fell, but mainly because politically engaged art was abused by the former regime. Even if art became politically neutral after 1989, this doesn’t mean that artists have resigned from criticising politics,” Geržová wrote.
She commented on the 1990s, overshadowed by the autocratic rule of Mečiar, which did not generate politically engaged art, but rather civic activities initiated by artists.
“Real political activism was preferred to the aestheticisation of politics,” she explained. “The situation only changed after turn of the century, when we can see in the generation of younger artists not just individual, but also collective activities reacting to the topical situation in politics, society and culture, the output of which is, however, a specific artwork.”
As a model artist, Geržová suggests Jana Kapelová whose works are an example of the functioning connection between social engagement and activist art; or Martin Piaček’s cycle of statues Biggest Embarrassments of Slovak History. As a good example of an individualist way to tackle the past, she pointed to the recent exhibition on the Slovak National Uprising in the Kunsthalle Košice by Martin Piaček and Radko Mačuha, stressing the “obligatory”, rather than mandatory approach to this historical event.
In the theatrical world, Kárová also mentions a marked aversion of artists towards political issues after 1989.
“This is surely connected with the experience from the previous regime when political issues were strongly dictated by culture,” she noted, adding that a certain loosening came after more than 10 years. Kárová cited the play Tiso in the Aréna theatre in 2005 as the first important act of political theatre, with alternative or regional theatres following suit (Potôň, SkRAT, City theatre Žilina). The international project of Divadelná Nitra festival, Parallel Lives – The 20th century through the Eyes of Secret Police, also brought artworks trying to tackle this phenomenon. “However, most Slovak theatres are still awaiting such a transition from an elite theatre into a socially engaged one,” she summed up.
“One of the tendencies of the post-November 17 Slovak film is a certain apolitical nature, or avoiding social or directly political themes – maybe in reaction to 40 years of “engaged art”,” Mišíková opined. “This deflection then resulted in a common perception that Slovak film resorts to private or esoteric issues and doesn’t reflect the present times. With the growing volume of films produced, this has been gradually changing, and the spectre of genres that handle political or social themes is also enhanced.”
Mišíková mentioned Zuzana Piussi and Robert Kirchhoff in documentaries. In feature cinematography, film-makers have been coping with the heritage of communist past in retro- or historical dramas, capturing the connection between business and politics or the impact of economic transformation of society on human, specifically family, relationships.
To commemorate - or not to commemorate?
“It is important to commemorate November 17,” Geržová concluded, “but building monuments creates the threat of later mythologisation and mystification of the past. It is important for the younger generation of artists – who didn’t experience the November Revolution – to search for their own way to the past from personal motivation to learn about the past and understand it.”
“Thematising November 17 in cinematography can seem, due to the importance of this historical break, as insufficient,” Mišíková summed up.
“If we compare the situation with other post-communist countries, for example Romania, where 1989 became one of the crucial motifs of the Romanian new wave, it is justified to ask whether there is sufficient social demand for film reflection of the November 17 events,” she said. “If not, the anniversary itself will not increase this demand. The era when films were created on the occasion of various anniversaries ended with the end of state monopoly on cinematography,” she concluded.
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Three MPs do not apologise for derogatory remarks
Two MPs stand by their statements regarding Islam; one MP says he has already apologised for his comparison with Jews.
L-R: Mazurek and Mizík in parliament on February 1, refusing to apologise. (Source: TASR)
Two ĽSNS members who called Islam cruel, disgusting and an inhuman political system, and chair of OĽaNO-Nova movement Igor Matovič who likened the political situation faced by opposition MPs to that of Jews in concentration camps, did not apologise on February 1, as requested.
Matovič (OLaNO-NOVA), Milan Mazurek and Stanislav Mizík (both People’s Party Our Slovakia/ĽSNS), whose remarks were made in parliament, were supposed to do so at the beginning of the parliamentary session’s second day. The MPs thus face a penalty of €1,000 each, the TASR newswire wrote.
Matovič did not attend the parliamentary debate, excusing himself for the absence. Mazurek and Mizík made appearances in parliament, however, they did not apologise for their statements on Islam, claiming that they stand by them. They addressed a mocking apology to Speaker of Parliament Andrej Danko (Slovak National Party/SNS), who filed the motion against them. They called him an advocate of Islam and apologised to him if he felt affected by their comments on Islam.
Deputy Speaker of Parliament Andrej Hrnčiar (Most-Híd) rebuked the ĽSNS legislators. “You’ve misused your time for apologising by defending something you were supposed to apologise for,” said Hrnčiar, who was tasked with leading the session.
Chairman of the parliamentary Mandate and Immunity Committee Richard Raši (Smer) stressed that the comments made by the two MPs affected many people. “You were expected to say sorry in a decent manner today, but you misused the time for your propaganda,” Raši noted, as cited by TASR. “You avow to follow Christianity, but you’ve violated many Christian principles. You are spreading hatred and extremism.”
He also said he would summon the Mandate and Immunity Committee because of Mazurek and Mizík and propose the highest financial fine (€1,000) for them.
Danko does not intend to react to the LSNS legislators. His spokesperson, Zuzana Čižmáriková, told TASR that he is glad they came to parliament without an insignia promoting their party; however, he does not consider their appearance in the chamber an apology and it is now up to the Mandate and Immunity Committee to take steps against them.
Matovič was supposed to apologise for comparing the political situation faced by opposition MPs in the parliament to that experienced by Jews in concentration camps. He claims he has already apologised directly during his appearance in the chamber at the time he used this comparison.
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Illinois graduate student sues student government over closed-door meeting
January 1, 1970 September 5, 2018 Ryan Tarinelli
A student government member at Northern Illinois University is suing the student government body after his fellow representatives conducted a closed-door meeting to decide whether to impeach the student government’s vice president.
Leon Kincaid, a graduate student at NIU, filed an open meetings lawsuit against the Northern Illinois Student Association Senate earlier this month, arguing senate representatives violated the state’s open meeting law, despite the student representatives’ justification that the association is a private entity.
“Public bodies exist to aid in the conduct of the people’s business and the people have a right to be informed as to the conduct of their business,” reads the lawsuit. “Access to public records promotes transparency and accountability at all levels of government and is crucial to democracy.”
Kincaid is a Student Association Senator and on the Student Conduct Board, according to his biography on NIU’s Student Association website. His attorney could not be reached for comment.
In November, the senate held a nine-hour closed session to discuss the possibility of impeaching Student Association Vice President Reggie Bates, who was charged with neglect of duty earlier that month, according to the lawsuit. During the meeting, Bates was found guilty on two specifications but was exonerated of the charges by a 14-21-5 vote that was closed to the public.
A day later, the Northern Star, the student-run newspaper at NIU, published an editorial criticizing the decision to close the session. The editorial, which is cited in the lawsuit, reported that student representatives justified the act by arguing that the senate is not a public body and is thus not subject to the open meetings law.
Illinois’ Open Meetings Act defines a public body as any “legislative, executive, administrative or advisory bodies of the State,” and ensures those meetings are open to the public. In the editorial, student editors argue that the student senate acts as an advisory board to NIU, a state institution, and participates in the shared governing process.
According to the open meetings law, there is a exemption that would allow public bodies to close meetings when they would endanger personal privacy or constitute an “unwarranted invasion” of privacy. The law also states that the exemptions for open meetings “shall be strictly construed against closed meetings.”
Even if a student government meeting does fall under the exemption mandated in the open meetings law, student editors argued the law still does not exempt student representatives from holding a public vote. Timothy Brandner, SA Sergeant at Arms, told Northern Star reporters that the senate did not hold a public vote over the vice president’s impeachment because people raised concerns that senators could face retaliation.
“How else are public officials, who claim to represent students in the shared governance process, supposed to be held accountable?” reads the editorial. “SA elections are held openly, it meets openly, its members speak openly, it votes openly and it shares its budget openly, but now it wants to close its doors.”
The lawsuit points out that the university’s student government oversees a budget of more than $6.5 million and acts as a public body by providing a number of student services, which includes a university bus system, a physical therapy clinic and a student legal department. But without action from the court, the lawsuit argues the senate will continue to claim private status and violate open meetings law.
The lawsuit asks for the court to require the student senate to pay a civil penalty between $2,500 and $5,000 for violation of the state’s open meetings act.
Student journalists at the University of Central Florida faced similar restrictions when they were not allowed to enter a student government hearing that would decide if a student body presidential candidate violated campaign regulations.
KnightNews.com, a student-run news organization, sued the university and requested a temporary injunction that would provide them with immediate access to the hearings. The lawsuit argued that student body statute requires student government meetings to be subject to Florida’s state record law, and the hearings have been historically open to the public. The court did not grant the injunction.
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The Battle of Killiecrankie: Scotland’s Most Haunted Battlefield
The site of the Battle of Killiecrankie is said to be the most haunted of Scotland’s battlefields. The anniversary of the Battle of Culloden is said to be marked by the visitation of the ghostly soldiers who died there. Culloden is the site of the last Jacobite Battle and the last battle fought on British [...]
The Battle of Killiecrankie: Scotland’s Most Haunted BattlefieldCh_Ka51tj42020-10-15T18:32:58+00:00
Janet Douglas: Witch, Poisoner or the Grey Lady of Glamis?
As Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis was led towards the waiting pyre on that fateful day on July 17th, 1537, her eyes must have fallen upon one in the gathered crowd. Her young son, John Lyon, 7th Lord of Glamis, stood between his captors. Perhaps he called to his mother. Perhaps he hung his head in [...]
Janet Douglas: Witch, Poisoner or the Grey Lady of Glamis?Ch_Ka51tj42020-10-15T17:54:16+00:00
Cardinal Beaton: The Haunted Realm and Restless Spirits of Two Lovers Seperated in Death
Cardinal Beaton was a man of many properties, during his lifetime. Many of these were acquired due to his position in the church. However, these were dangerous times to be lining your pocket with your parishioners’ silver. After all, the Reformation was a powder keg waiting to explode in Scotland. His own actions were to [...]
Cardinal Beaton: The Haunted Realm and Restless Spirits of Two Lovers Seperated in DeathCh_Ka51tj42020-10-15T19:00:58+00:00
Haunted Saint Andrews Cathedral: Saint Andrews Cathedral and the Chamber of Corpses: From Friendly Friars to Sinister Spectres
Few places in the world can claim to have as many restless spirits as haunted Saint Andrews Cathedral. From Medieval times, Scotland has celebrated the Feast Day of its Patron Saint, Saint Andrew, on the 30th November. According to legend, some of Saint Andrew’s bones were carried across the ocean by a Greek monk named [...]
Haunted Saint Andrews Cathedral: Saint Andrews Cathedral and the Chamber of Corpses: From Friendly Friars to Sinister SpectresCh_Ka51tj42020-10-16T17:09:30+00:00
Haunted Scottish Highlands: Culloden Battlefield
Drummossie Moor, otherwise known as Culloden Moor, is a cold, desolate place. A relentless cold wind tugs at the flags which delineate the battle lines on the site of the last pitched battle to be fought on British soil. It is a cold wind which seeps deep into your bones. Or is it the wind [...]
Haunted Scottish Highlands: Culloden BattlefieldCh_Ka51tj42020-10-16T18:06:36+00:00
Haunted Scottish Highlands: The Handless Wraith of Rait Castle
When it comes to dark history, Rait Castle has it all: a tale of forbidden love, two feuding families, a banquet treacherously planned with murder in mind, a betrayal, a massacre and a ghost known as the ‘Wraith of Rait’. The ruined remains of this 14th Century building are a fine example of a Hall [...]
Haunted Scottish Highlands: The Handless Wraith of Rait CastleCh_Ka51tj42020-10-16T19:08:43+00:00
Bring out the Dead! Or Brick them up Alive! Black Death in Edinburgh!
Plague! What could be a more chilling, bloodcurdling cry in Scotland during medieval times? Not even advancing armies could inspire such dread as the approaching doom of Bubonic Plague or ‘the Black Death’. The best ghost stories always involve dark deeds and dreadful deaths and it is small wonder that Edinburgh is said to [...]
Bring out the Dead! Or Brick them up Alive! Black Death in Edinburgh!Ch_Ka51tj42020-10-17T19:35:22+00:00
Spectral Terrors in Edinburgh’s Tolbooth Tavern
Edinburgh's Tolbooth Tavern is said to be haunted. From the outside, No.167 Canongate looks impressive. A huge clock overhangs the archway over Tolbooth Wynd and it is obvious that the five-storey high building is one of the Canongate’s oldest remaining constructions. Building the Tolbooth Tavern Edinburgh's Tolbooth Tavern was built in 1591 and should [...]
Spectral Terrors in Edinburgh’s Tolbooth TavernCh_Ka51tj42020-10-17T19:38:33+00:00
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South Africa open to holding Lions tour in United Kingdom
South Africa are open to “all options” to play the British & Irish Lions and are willing to travel to the United Kingdom to make sure the series goes ahead, director of rugby Rassie Erasmus said on Monday. The Lions are scheduled to tour South Africa for eight matches between July 3 and Aug. 7
European rugby competitions to go straight into knockout rounds
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Wales fullback Liam Williams to miss Six Nations opener after three-match ban
Wales fullback Liam Williams will miss their opening Six Nations match after being handed a three-game ban following his red card in Scarlets’ defeat by Cardiff Blues last week in the PRO14. The 29-year-old will miss Ireland’s visit on Feb. 7 after he was sent off for diving into a ruck and making contact with
Women’s Six Nations postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic
The Women’s Six Nations has been postponed until the spring or summer as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the world’s sporting calendar. The tournament normally follows the same calendar as the men’s competition which will start on Feb. 6 in Rome with Italy vs. France. England, the reigning champions, are the only professional team
England prop Sinckler to miss Six Nations start after swearing at referee
Bristol Bears and England prop Kyle Sinckler is to miss the start of the Six Nations after being banned for two weeks from rugby for swearing at a referee. Sinckler has been banned from playing rugby until Feb. 9 which would rule him out of England’s opening game against Scotland on Feb. 6. 1 Related
France seek safety assurances from England, Ireland before Six Nations
The French government said it needs guarantees from England and Ireland that it is safe for the national rugby union team to travel for Six Nations matches during the COVID-19 pandemic. French sports minister Roxana Maracineanu said France’s opener against Italy in Rome on Feb. 6 had been cleared. 1 Related France are then scheduled
European Champions Cup, Challenge Cup suspended due to COVID-19 pandemic
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France chief Bernard Laporte hopeful Six Nations can go ahead despite COVID-19 concerns
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Six Nations, European tournaments in doubt amid French government fears over COVID-19
The French sports ministry has recommended that European rugby union games against British clubs be postponed amid the COVID-19 crisis in a blow to the Champions and Challenge Cups as the Six Nations competition also appeared threatened on Saturday. The Ministry of Solidarity and Health informed the French National Rugby League (LNR) and European Professional
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RFU concerned Women’s Six Nations may not be completed amid pandemic
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Former Ireland captain Paul O’Connell has joined Andy Farrell’s coaching team as forwards coach, Irish Rugby said in a statement on Thursday. O’Connell, who was capped 108 times and captained Ireland to their 2014 Six Nations triumph, will take up the new role immediately, with Simon Easterby switching his focus to defence. Since retiring as
Davidson to become first woman to referee a men’s Challenge Cup rugby match
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Police investigating racist post targeting Dragons winger Hewitt
Police in Gwent, Wales, have said they are investigating after a racist social media post was aimed at Dragons winger Ashton Hewitt after their 20-3 defeat by the Scarlets in the PRO 14 on Friday. The club said it was “disgusted” by the “abhorrent” racist post and had reported the matter to the police. “Officers
British and Irish Lions trip to South Africa in doubt over COVID-19 concerns
The British and Irish Lions will discuss this month whether to visit South Africa as planned later in the year because of concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lions are scheduled to play eight matches in South Africa, including a three-Test series against world champions the Springboks, starting on July 3 in Cape Town. But
France’s Ntamack to have surgery, could miss Six Nations start
France fly-half Romain Ntamack faces several weeks on the sidelines, and could miss the start of the Six Nations, after suffering a double jaw fracture that requires surgery, the 21-year-old said. Ntamack suffered the injury in Toulouse’s Top 14 victory over Bordeaux Begles on Sunday. He was substituted with around 12 minutes remaining. “Following a
South African clubs to face PRO14 teams in Rainbow Cup ahead of 2021 Lions tour
South Africa’s preparations for the British & Irish Lions tour next year have been given a significant boost after it was confirmed their four major franchises will compete in the Rainbow Cup against PRO14 clubs. The competition will get under way on April 17 next year and see the Bulls, Lions, Sharks and Stormers, who
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· Published May 15, 2020
Report: NFL to incentivize teams to hire minority coaches under new Rooney Rule proposal
By Matt Johnson
Jan 29, 2020; Miami, Florida, USA; Kansas City Chiefs defensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy at Super Bowl LIV press conference at JW Marriott Turnberry. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
The NFL has drawn criticism in recent years for the lack of opportunities across the league for minorities to become head coaches and general managers. Now, coming off a year where a person of color filled only one coaching vacancy, the NFL reportedly has big plans to try and change things.
When team owners hold a virtual meeting next week to discuss various league matters, they will reportedly hear a proposal that could help incentivize teams to hire minority candidates into prominent roles.
NFL could offer incentives for hiring a minority candidate
The NFL drew plenty of criticism this offseason when Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy, who helped design the NFL’s best offense didn’t receive an opportunity to become an NFL head coach. On Tuesday, NFL owners could vote on a proposal that would have likely changed that.
According to NFL Media’s Jim Trotter, a proposed resolution to change the Rooney Rule would create an incentive for teams to hire a minority head coach. If an organization hires a person of color to become their head coach, they would move up six spots in the third round of the NFL Draft before his second season as coach.
If an NFL team hired a person of color to become the team’s primary football executive, commonly referred to as the general manager, they would move up 10 spots in the following year’s draft. A club would receive a compensatory pick following the fourth round if they hired a minority candidate to be the quarterbacks coach, a position often viewed as a stepping stone to becoming a head coach.
The proposal could go even further if it is approved. Under the new rule, a team would move up 16 spots in the third round if they hired a minority candidate to be their head coach and also hired a minority candidate to be their general manager.
The NFL wants to turn around numbers that many within the league find alarming. Specifically, only two of the league’s 32 general managers are held by a person of color.
Creating more opportunities for minority coaches
Many around the league recognize that more and more head coaches are making the transition from offensive coordinator to head coach. The NFL is being tailored for scoring points and with teams seeking the brightest offensive minds with experience designing a game plan, coordinators often hold preference for head-coaching vacancies. Notably, 24 of the most recent 33 hires have been coaches on the offensive side.
As a result, per NFL.com, the NFL is considering eliminating a rule that allowed teams to block assistant coaches from interviewing for coordinator gigs with other clubs.
In one final measure, the league is exploring an adjustment to the Rooney Rule that would double the number of minority candidates a team interviews for a head-coaching vacancy.
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BREAKING: US Will Not Commit to Limiting Missile Defense Program in Arms Control Talks With Russia, Blinken Says
Pope Francis Sees Putin as 'Only Man' to Defend Christians Around the World
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The upcoming meeting between Pope Francis and Russian Patriarch Kirill will not only be a historic religious event, but could also have major benefits to Christians around the world, the French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche reported.
In an attempt to defend Christians in the Middle East and other parts of the world where they're being persecuted, Pope Francis wants to ask Russian President Vladimir Putin for help.
According to Pope Francis, Putin is "the only one with whom the Catholic Church can unite to defend Christians in the East."
"It's important to join efforts [with Russia] to save Christianity in all regions [of the world] where it's oppressed," Russia's Metropolitan Hilarion said*.
With the help of Putin, Pope Francis hopes to reach out to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani and even the Chinese government elite and work out a plan to help Christians in these regions.
© Sputnik / Sergey Guneev
Putin's Meeting With Pope Francis Being Planned
In regards to China, Francis said he hopes to establish political contact between Beijing and Vatican since the two parties have never had official diplomatic relations, the French newspaper said.
On February 12, Pope Francis will meet Russian Patriarch Kirill. The high-profile meeting will start a rapprochement between the Catholic and the Orthodox Churches after the 1054 Schism.
The two churches split in 1054 — in what is often called the "Great Schism" — following protracted disputes over Rome's supremacy over the whole Christian community, which compounded more strict theological disagreements.
The meeting will take place in Cuba, at Havana's airport, where Francis and Kirill will talk and eventually sign a joint statement.
*EDITORIAL: An earlier version of this article incorrectly attributed the quote from Le Journal Du Dimanche.
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German defense spending
Bundeswehr to Invest $59Mln in New Afghanistan Bases Despite Potential Troop Exit, Reports Claim
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The German Armed Forces, Bundeswehr, continues to invest in military facilities in Afghanistan and plans to allocate nearly 50 million euros ($59 million) for the construction of bases, despite a possible withdrawal of troops in the foreseeable future, Der Spiegel reported on Friday, citing internal Bundeswehr documents.
German Lawmaker Brands NATO ‘Security Risk for The World’
Over recent days, as NATO celebrates its 70th anniversary, Germany has taken flak from US President Donald Trump and his Vice President Mike Pence for missing a 2 percent spending target of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence. However, in Germany, not only the increase of spending but the alliance’s very existence is seen critically.
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Bundestag Deputy Chairperson Wolfgang Kubicki has called on Germany's foreign minister to declare the US ambassador to Berlin persona non grata. In a Facebook post, Kubicki said that US envoy Richard Grenell has interfered in Germany's internal affairs.
NATO Consensus: Italian Journo Explains How Europe is Selling Independence to US
During the recent NATO summit, Donald Trump called Germany out for its hypocrisy, Italian political observer Daniele Pozzati told Sputnik, stressing that Berlin and Paris are playing both sides with Moscow by regularly extending anti-Russian sanctions and reaping the benefits of energy deals with the country.
US Envoy Bashes Germany for Reluctance to Boost EU Security
The United States is putting the squeeze on NATO ally Germany in a bid to get Europe's richest country to ramp up its defense outlays and is staking on a conservative “resurgence” in Europe.
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De Blasio’s “New Normal”: NYC Gun Violence Skyrockets, 125 shootings, Worst in 25 years
Written by: Pamela Geller
Cuomo and de Blasio have destroyed this once-great city.
NYC shootings continue to surge — and cops warn it may be the new normal
By Tina Moore, Larry Celona and Aaron Feis, NY post, June 22, 2020:
Bullets are whizzing around New York this month at a rate not seen in nearly a quarter century, according to the NYPD — and police sources warned that the recent run of gunplay may be the new normal.
Through the first three weeks of June, which came to a close Sunday, city streets echoed with 125 shooting incidents, Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri told The Post on Monday.
“We have to go back to June of 1996 to get a worse start for June,” said LiPetri. “That is a telling stat.”
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Twenty-four years ago, Rudy Giuliani was mayor and, while the city had made strides in tamping down crime, Gotham still saw 2,938 people shot and 984 murdered.
Although overall crime citywide remains down 2.5 percent for the year, shootings, already trending up this year, exploded in June.
From Monday, June 15, through Sunday, there were 53 shooting incidents across the city, the highest mark for a single week since Mayor de Blasio took office.
The last time the city recorded that many shootings in a week was around July 4, 2012, according to police sources.
But to find a nonholiday week — which tends to be quieter — with that many shootings, the department had to look all the way back to 2005, according to LiPetri.
“This weekend we also saw real challenges out in our streets in terms of gun violence,” said de Blasio in a press briefing, remarking on the blood-soaked stretch that included 24 people shot citywide on Saturday.
Article posted with permission from Pamela Geller
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Bratislava's VW plant to make Škoda Octavia
CZECH carmaker Škoda Auto is planning to expand production of its successful Octavia model to Bratislava.
"Thanks to the increasing demand for Octavias, we are looking for unused production capacity that will enable us to respond to the enormous interest of our clients," said Detlef Wittig, the chair of the Škoda Auto board of directors.
Škoda is a member of the Volkswagen group and the biggest carmaker in Central Europe. It currently produces Octavias in Mladá Boleslav in the Czech Republic, the SITA newswire wrote.
Škoda Auto spokesman Evžen Kauspopf was not able to specify when Bratislava would start producing Octavias.
"The volume of production will be set on the basis of demand and the capacity of the plant," he said.
But a spokesperson for the Bratislava plant, Vladimír Machalík, said producing Octavias at the Volkswagen plant is not yet a sure thing.
"The final decision about the future production portfolio will be made in November 2007 at the earliest," he told the Sme daily on October 3.
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Culture Shock: Wanna buy a house? Caveat emptor
The most widely recognised symbol of business chicanery in North America is the used car salesman. With his brillcream, coffee breath and sweat-stained check jacket, this simple peddler was raised to the status of an epic swindler largely by American novelists. From John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath to John Updike's Rabbit novels, the American consumer has been stripped of his naiveté. These days, you have to be pretty stupid to be taken in by a used car salesman.
Buying real estate from private vendors in Slovakia is a chancy business, as all manner of rogues and sly types are laying snares for the unwary.
illustration: Igor Lyskov
In Slovakia, the equivalent of the used car salesman may be found in the real estate market, which is teeming with characters who would be instantly recognisable to a Steinbeck or an Updike. We're not talking about established real estate agents, but about the twitchy characters who lurk on the fringes of the trade - those who put terse ads for real estate in local tabloids and want to know how big a deposit you can put on the property tomorrow.
Unfortunately, Slovak writers have not exposed these swindlers in the way they deserve, leaving even the most jaded of home buyers vulnerable to their low cunning. So my wife and I, having spent five exhausting months trying to buy a house in this country, decided to follow in the footsteps of American literature and attempt a brief catalogue of the wiles of this new breed - the Slovak Wheeler-Dealer.
Ten years after communism ended, no one still has any idea how much real estate is really worth. As a home buyer, you will thus meet with many vendors who have fatuously over-valued the worth of their property.
Armed with a small loan, my wife and I began looking in April for a modest house near Bratislava that would allow us to commute by bus to work in the city. An ad in the local paper Avizo listing a "newly reconstructed family house" in the nearby village of Stupava for 1.3 million Slovak crowns ($30,000) caught our attention.
'The house' turned out to be a rough flat in a crumbling three-storey building. A ten-by-three metre patch on one wall of the building had been freshly painted to indicate the extent of the dwelling for sale. An large Romany family was waiting for us in the doorway as we walked slowly down the mud driveway.
"Is this the house for sale?" I asked. "Yep," answered a large woman, dragging heartily on a cigarette. Behind her, children writhed on the concrete floor of the flat. "Hmm," my wife rejoined, "and where is the yard you mentioned in the ad?" "Over there, where I do the laundry," said the woman.
She pointed at a patch of oily gravel where a well-fed dog was busily engaged with a child's diaper.
On the way back to Bratislava, we decided not to make an offer on the house - it wouldn't have been fair to the dog.
2. Forgery
Home buyers can also expect to meet with real estate 'agents' who are little more than crooks. Always check with the business register to make sure the firm you are dealing with really exists, and contact the National Association of Real Estate Agencies (NARKS) to find out what reputation the company commands.
We answered a promising ad for a little house in Svätý Jur, about 12 kilometers to the north of Bratislava. This time, a real estate agent was on hand to give the tour - a moustachioed smoothie in a dirty shirt who gave us a hand-printed business card identifying himself as "V. Vojtech - agent" for the "Avis Group."
We liked V. Vojtech's property, an aging, water-damaged two-room dwelling with "possibilities" selling for 1.2 million crowns, and eventually made an offer of one million. V. Vojtech beat us up another 50,000 crowns, and then told us to be present at Café Max in Bratislava's Old Town one week hence to meet the owner and sign a contract.
To our disappointment, no one showed up at the Café Max rendezvous.The owner later called us and told us why - V. Vojtech had forged his real estate credentials, he said, and in fact had no license to be an intermediary in the sale. The reason we had been prevented from meeting each other before was that V. Vojtech had been trying to pull a fast one, telling the owner we had offered only 900,000, while maintaining to us that the price was over a million - leaving V. Vojtech to pocket the remaining 150,000 crowns.
Belatedly, we checked the business register and found that the Avis Group did not exist.
3. Fibbery
Never, never believe what anyone tells you about real estate in Slovakia. Always check with the local municipal office, and get the advice of a good property lawyer.
We returned to Stupava in July, this time to look at a "garden with bungalow - a do-it-youself gem!" The garden was absolutely beautiful - set above the Borinský Kras valley and surrounded by conifer trees. The owner was a retired policeman, whom we met as he was watering his flowers in the morning sunshine.
"Yes sir," he said, turning off the hose and straightening slowly, "it's a beautiful place alright. Me and the missus are getting too old to come out here, but for young folk like yourselves, this would be an ideal set-up."
The owner went on to tell us how we could build a second storey on the house, a tiny two-room bungalow with no gas, electricity or water connection. My wife asked him how quickly he thought the utilities could be hooked up - "next two,three months, ma'am" - and whether the property was zoned as a residential site. "Of course - just look around you, everyone's building."
Of course, when we visited the local municipality office, we discovered that no plans were in store to hook up utilities to the area, and that the house was not zoned as a residential property, nor was it likely to be. Were anyone to begin building a second storey on that miserable hutch, they would either be fined heavily by the town or be forced to tear down what they had started. "Look, when the town is trying to make money selling residential lots itself, why would it re-zone private lands that are competing for real estate buyers?" a town official reasoned.
The owner and his wife invited us over for wine and sandwiches to discuss a purchase contract, but it was not a happy interview, especially since "Me and the Missus" had taken us for easy marks who could be hustled into a stupid move. "That official you talked to is a liar," the owner thundered. "Give me his name and number, and I'll sort him out."
I wonder if he ever called.
4. Incompetence
The most common problem you may meet with in buying real estate privately is simple incompetence - many vendors have no idea of what the law says, and only a dim grasp of the legal status of what they're selling. So, to save yourself time, make sure you see the ownership papers (list vlastníctva) on any property you're thinking of buying before you do anything else.
The closest we came to clinching a deal was in the beautiful village of Borinka, about 20 kilometers from Bratislava in the Small Carpathians. A trolley-bus driver was selling a 50 year-old house for 980,000 crowns, a very fair price given the location and the size of the dwelling.
Around this time, my wife gave birth, and my father, mother, aunt and uncle came to Slovakia to see the baby. They, too, got caught up in the Borinka project, and one day ventured out there to give the house the once-over (my uncle is an architect). Unfortunately, they were heard speaking English by one of the neighbours, a boozy Bacchus who makes glass figurines for a living. Nothing would do but they must join the fat glass maker for a few shots of home-made wheat liquor and admire a collection of his works - mostly oversized phalluses with a few large-breasted female torsoes for variety. The man's hospitality was so warm that my father had to be helped onto the bus, and my uncle refused to leave Borinka at all.
From the beginning, though, the whole Borinka deal had a bad feel, and it wasn't just a question of burdensome hospitality. The true locations of the houses and properties in the village were slightly different than had been drawn on the official village registry map, and some buildings did not officially exist at all - such was the case of our intended purchase. Apparently, people had been setting property boundaries pretty freely for over a century, meaning that no one really knew what land belonged to which owner.
Closing our eyes to these dangers, we sat down with a lawyer and the owner of the house to write up a contract. It was then that we discovered that the man did not actually own the land on which his house was built - the 'list vlastníctva,' or property deed on the lot, was registered jointly in the names of three other people.
The owner urged us to buy the house anyway, saying that we could doubtless come to an understanding with the rightful owners of the lot, but we were too discouraged to continue. Amazingly, the owner claimed never to have known he didn't own the land, and accused us of duplicity in backing out after we discovered the facts.
5. Other forms of wildlife
One Sunday morning, a month after the bitter Borinka business, we summoned our last reserves of courage to go looking for a house. A "fully-insulated cottage" near Borinka this time, for just over a million crowns.
We borrowed a car and drove out in the autumn sunshine, feeling that our luck might finally have changed. Our directions led us on to a charmingly narrow road through the forest, past meadows and lakes and over wooden bridges whose timbers leaped in their frames... until we reached a sign saying "Road Out." Beyond, the road wasn't just 'out' - it was gone entirely, having been carried away with large chunks of woodland during flash flooding in 1998.
We drove home deep in thought. My wife called the owner of the cottage and asked if it in fact lay beyond the 'road out' sign - if it was, in fact, inaccessible. "Yes," was the surly answer. So why, my wife asked, had the owner not simply told us that and saved us the trip? Surely common courtesy dictated such a move?
"You - you should teach me about courtesy, you CAMEL!" was the reply.
Ah, well. It looks as if there's a little work to do before Slovakia joins the EU.
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Mečiar: In top form, he's a hard man to ignore
Sunday, April 25: Former Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar appears on the private station TV Markíza to discuss his presidential ambitions, as well as a host of sensitive topics left over from his almost six years in power. At the conclusion of the show, known as "Na Telo," the two Markíza reporters approached Mečiar to shake his hand. Somehow, their microphones were left on, and captured the accolades of the interviewers.
"You were very energetic today, Mr. Mečiar," said reporter Soňa Bullová. "You played it very well," added Vladimír Repčík.
Mečiar, in fact, played his Markíza grilling with the skill and charisma that kept him at the top of Slovak politics from 1991 to 1998. He looked like a different man from the manic, self-pitying character who crooned a song to viewers on his last television appearance after being voted out of office in September last year. His eyes were caged, his replies voluble and comprehensive, his smile derisory. He was in top form, and left one doubting whether this was the same Mečiar whose authoritarian brand of politics made Slovakia a pariah among western democracies.
So, does Mečiar really stand a chance of winning the presidency during direct elections on May 15? According to the latest polls, the answer is no. With 24% support, he trails Košice mayor and SOP party boss Rudolf Schuster by 12 points, and unless Mečiar can make converts of the voters who shunned him seven months ago, Schuster will win by a comfortable margin.
But that verdict, of course, relies on the accuracy of the polls, and more crucially, on Slovak voters turning out in sufficient strength to lift Schuster to the presidency.
Last September, over 84% of Slovak voters turned out to elect a new government. That splendid showing won the praise of international observers, and sparked not a little pride among Slovaks themselves. The danger now is, however, that voters will not show up in the same numbers to elect their president - that they will feel they have already done their democratic duty and now can safely ignore politics for a season.
A recent programme on TV Markíza underlined all too clearly that ordinary people have only the faintest idea of who is actually running for president, and only slightly more interest in the elections themselves. This bodes ill for Schuster and well for Mečiar, for the supporters of Mečiar's HZDS party have always been conscientious when it came to showing up at the polls. If, as it appears likely, Schuster and Mečiar finish one-two in the first round of presidential voting, with neither capturing more that 50% support, then both advance to a second round run-off where the biggest vote-getter takes the presidency. And if the same people who stormed the polls in 1998 neglect their duty in 1999, Mečiar stands a very real chance of winning.
A Mečiar victory would not be in Slovakia's best interests, to put it mildly. One could expect amnesties to be issued in the first few days in the Kováč Jr. kidnapping and marred 1997 referendum cases, and then at least three and a half years of executive stalemate with the current government, including ministerial and diplomatic appointments.
Even if he does not win, however, Mečiar has changed the face of the presidential race just by entering it. Before Mečiar announced his candidacy on April 9, voters had a choice between Schuster, who is supported by the coalition government, and independent candidates like former actress Magda Vášáryová and former President Michal Kováč. Vášáryová, in fact, has 18% support, and would have been Schuster's main rival had the pugilistic Mečiar not thrown his hat in the ring.
But by joining the race, Mečiar has turned it into a referendum on himself - on whether or not people want him back after booting him out of power last year. He has thus neatly scuppered the chances of the other independent candidates, since people who don't vote for Mečiar are now less likely to "waste a vote" on anyone not likely to defeat the former Prime Minister.
Win or lose, Mečiar is back - that much was clear on TV Markíza last weekend as he fielded the ill-prepared and impertinent questions put to him by reporters Bullová and Repčík. He's back, and only a solid turn-out on May 15 will send him packing. And even then, as a loser, he will have done more to influence the course of elections than any of the other candidates.
He's a tough man to ignore.
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Liar liar (Dubbed in Czech) - Wackey Jim Carrey's latest flick shows him at his outrageous best. Carrey plays a lawyer who lies his way to victory and money but neglects his son who wishes that his father would always tell the truth. After that, Carrey can't stop telling the truth even if it's best he keeps his mouth shut. (Klamár, Klamár)
Double team* - Jean-Claude Van Damme takes on the Russian mafia in this formula action flick. If you like the genre, then it delivers - stunts get riskier and the kicks more devastating, while the plot remains simple (kill the bad guys). Watch out for a surprise appearance by the NBA's most famous cross-dresser. (Nebezpečny Tandem).
Ghosts of Mississippi* - An action thriller laced with latent political undertones as the black residents of Mississippi search for justice and equal rights amid the enveloping presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Starring Whoopi Goldberg, Alec Baldwin and James Woods and directed by Rob Reiner. (Dúch Minulosti)
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead* - Gary Fleder, puts on a rockabilly gansgter flick strongly influenced by Quentin Tarantino's runaway hit "Pulp Fiction." Top Mobster Andy Garcia wants to get out of the trade, but is lured to spearhead one last trick. Look for the black comedy typical of this sprouting genre. (Čo Robit v Denveri, Keď Človek Nežije)
French kiss* - Meg Ryan tries to regain the humor that won her accolades in "When Harry Met Sally" by playing an American woman in Paris trying to win back her love. The movie has its moments but Ryan whines way too much. Throw in a bizarre French accent from Kevin Kline and sentimental sap - stay home. (Francúzky bozk).
Relic*- A series of brutal murders in Chicago's natural science museum remain unexplained. Penelope Ann Miller as a biologist and Tom Sizemore as a young policeman team up to solve the mystery. What they find is a terrifying mutant that has enslaved its victums below the museum. A science fiction thriller based on the Douglas Preston novel. (Relic).
Film Legend: (*) - Original Version (D) - Dubbed (SC) - Slovak/Czech (ET) - English Titles
Film schedules can change according to demand. Call 145 for a preview of the day's movie schedule.
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Charles old Fezziwig! Bless his heart; it's
Charles old Fezziwig! Bless his heart; it’s
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Charles Dickens was a legendary writer of the 19th century. He was deeply affected by poverty when his father was imprisoned when he couldn't pay his debts, which greatly influenced some of his greatest works. He started writing novels at a young age. In 1843 he published one of his most famous works A Christmas Carol. This story tells the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miser who thinks Christmas, a humbug, who changes his ways over the visits of 3 spirits. Past, Present, and Future. The Ghost of Christmas Past showed Scrooge things that happened to him in Christmas' Past. One of the many experiences that Scrooge had with Past was where Past shows Scrooge his younger self at school. His younger self is described as "Poor boy. He lived inside hishead . . . alone . . ."(Scene 5, Act 1) by Scrooge himself. This then causes Scrooge to want to talk to the boy he saw at his window. "There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol outside my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that's all." This represents that Scrooge realizes that after looking at himself as a boy he realizes that being a child can be harder than it seems. A later vision that Past showed Scrooge was his little sister Fan during the encounter with the Schoolmaster. "Schoolmaster. What's this? Fan. Pardon, sir, but I believe that you've forgotten to say your goodbye to my brother, Ebenezer, who stands still now awaiting it . . . She smiles, curtsies, lowers her eyes. pardon, sir."(Scene 5, Act 1) This exchange between the two reminds Scrooge of how much he loved her. "Oh, my dear, dear little sister, Fan . . . how I loved her."(Scene 5, Act 1) This is Scrooge saying to Past how much he really loved her. Then when Past showed Scrooge his old master Scrooges reaction was "Why, it's old Fezziwig! Bless his heart; it's Fezziwig, alive again!" (Scene 5, Act 1)This shows that Scrooge respects, and still respects, Fezziwig."He is the best, best, the very and absolute best! If ever I own a firm of my own, I shall treat my apprentices with the same dignity and the same grace."(Scene 5, Act 1) This also shows that Scrooge was going to treat his apprentices as best as possible. "No, no. l should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now! That's all!"(Scene 5, Act 1) This means that Scrooge is now regretting not treating Cratchit how he should have. Then in a later Christmas Scrooge's girlfriend breaks up with him. But, not before saying "Please. You may—the memory of what is past half makes me hope you will—have pain in this. A very, very brief time, and you will dismiss the memory of it, as an unprofitable dream, from which it happened well that you awoke. May you be happy in the life that you have chosen for yourself . . ."(Scene 5, Act 1) She is addressing the changes in Scrooge's younger self and how he now only wants for himself. Scrooge then says to the woman after she leaves "To exited woman Fool. Mindless loon. Fool . . ." (Scene 5, Act 1)He says this as if she made a mistake leaving him. The Ghost of Christmas Present showed Scrooge many different things in different places. One of said places, is the Cratchit home. In the Cratchit home, they are having Christmas dinner with each other. Scrooge then takes a particular interest in one of Cratchits many children, Tiny Tim, who sadly has a disease. Scrooge asks the spirit "Scrooge. Spirit, tell me if Tiny Tim will live.Present. I see a vacant seat . . . in the poor chimney corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die."(Scene 3 Act 2) This means that if Scrooge does nothing different than what he normally does, Tiny Tim will perish. Scrooge then responds with "No, no, kind Spirit! Say he will be spared!" (Scene 3 Act 2) Him saying this means that he obviously would rather Tiny Tim to not die. Bob Cratchit, who works for Scrooge, starts to toast him. " Mr. Scrooge . . . His glass raised in a toast I'll give you Mr. Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast!" Even though Scrooge doesn't do anything to help Bob and his family except give him a job and pay him a short supply of money, Bob still toasts to Scrooge and his health. Then Present takes Scrooge and takes him to his Nephew Fred and his wife. He brought Scrooge there so he could see how other people think of him and his opinions on Christmas. "It strikes me as sooooo funny, to think of what he said . . . that Christmas was a humbug, as I live! He believed it!" (Scene 4 Act 2) Basically, Fred is saying that he thinks it's funny how Scrooge thinks that Christmas is a humbug. " I mean to give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not, for I pity him." (Scene 4 Act 2) In this statement, Fred is saying how he will always be giving the Scrooge the chance to come dine with him and his family because he pities him. He pities him for the fact that he will always be alone for years to come. Then, after Scrooge and Present leave Fred's home, Present stops Scrooge and shows him Man's Children. "Hear those chimes? In a quarter hour, my life will have been spent! Look, Scrooge, man. Look you here. Two gnarled baby dolls are taken from Present's skirts." (Scene 4 Act 2) This is basically Present showing Scrooge Man's Children. "Present. They are Man's children, and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. The boy is Ignorance; the girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for I see that written on his brow which is doom, unless the writing be erased." (Scene 4 Act 2) This is basically a warning from Present to Scrooge saying to beware, specifically, Ignorance. Because if he doesn't change and stop being ignorant, he will face doom in the future. The last Ghost that Scrooge faced was the Ghost of Christmas Future. Future would show things that would happen in many Christmases to come. One of those things was when a couple people looted Scrooge's home and sold his things. "Who's the worse for the loss of a few things like these? Not a dead man, I suppose?" (Scene 4 Act 2) This statement was spoken by one of the people who took Scrooge's things. It basically means that it won't harm anyone to take his things. "They'd have wasted it, if ithadn't been for me." (Scene 4 Act 2) The same person is saying how she had done a good thing by taking that specific item, because if she didn't it would have been wasted by him wearing it during the funeral. "Scrooge. OOoooOOoooOOOoooOOOoooOOoooOOoooOOOooo! He screams at them. Obscene demons! Why not market the corpse itself, as sell its trimming??? Suddenly Oh, Spirit, I see it, I see it! This unhappy man—this stripped-bare corpse . . . could very well be my own. My life holds parallel! My life ends that way now!" (Scene 4 Act 2) Scrooge gets extremely mad at these people for selling that persons things. He then tells the spirit that he realizes that the body that is shown could be his own. And that if nothing changes this will be his future. Then all of a sudden he is the Cratchit home after Tiny Tim has passed. "You made the arrangements today, then, Robert, for the . . . service . . . to be on Sunday." (Scene 4 Act 2) This is obviously Mrs. Cratchit asking Bob if he made arrangements for the funeral on Sunday. "And when we recollect how patient and mild he was, we shall not quarrel easily among ourselves, and forget poor Tiny Tim in doing it." (Scene 4 Act 2) Bob is explaining that they should not fight easily and forget Tiny Tim because of all the fighting. Then as the final thing that Future shows Scrooge was his grave. "Future points to the gravestone. Marley appears in light well U. He points to grave as well. Gravestone turns front and grows to ten feet high. Words upon it: Ebenezer Scrooge: Much smoke billows now from the grave. Choral music here. Scrooge stands looking up at gravestone. Future does not at all reply in mortals' words, but points once more to the gravestone. The stone undulates and glows. Music plays, beckoning Scrooge. Scrooge reeling in terror Oh, no. Spirit! Oh, no, no!" (Scene 4 Act 2) This is when Future and Marley (Scrooge's old business partner) point at the gravestone which reads Scrooge's name implying that his death isn't that far away. Scrooge then starts begging Future to spare him and let him change his fate. "Spirit! Hear me! I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I would have been but for this intercourse. Why show me this, if I am past all hope?" ,"Assure me that I yet may change these shadows that you have shown me by an altered life!" (Scene 4 Act 2) Scrooge is begging to get Future to give him another chance, which Future grants, by trying to convince him that he has changed. Scrooge has gone on a journey for the better. He saw visions of Christmas' Past, Present, and Future. These events have changed him for the better since, he learned how ignorant he was to other people's feelings. This is shown when he wakes up and the events that pass. "two misers turned; one, alas, in Death, too late; but the other miser turned in Time's penultimate nick." (Scene 5 Act 2) This is Marely expressing how Scrooge changed his ways in time and how he is a much better person. "Oh, I didn't tell you? Yes, I've written the precise address down just here on this . . . Hands paper to him Bob Cratchit's house. Now he's not to know who sends him this. Do you understand me? Not a word . . . Handing out money and chuckling"(Scene 5 Act 2} This is Scrooge buying the biggest turkey he could find and giving it to the Cratchits anonymously. He then tips the butcher and the boy who got the butcher to come. And such Scrooge has changed over the many events that passed that night for the better.
Charles old Fezziwig! Bless his heart; it’s specifically for you
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Regis secures second victory in two weeks
Back in the ring just 14 days after adding a third victory to his unbeaten professional record, Nottinghamshire boxer Regis ‘The First’ Sugden made it four out of four at Mansfield Civic Centre on Saturday 26 October.
The Suggy’s Gym 24-year old, who made the switch to pro boxing in May 2019, not only stepped up at short notice to help local promoter Matt Scriven but also moved up a class to take on William ‘Warby’ Warburton, whose own record includes 25 wins, 6 by KO, and who has only ever been stopped three times.
“With Warby defeating the number 8 ranked British Super Welterweight Jason Welborn and other unbeaten prospects, on paper this had all the makings of a tricky fight for us,” said Suggy’s Gym head coach Dean Sugden. “But Regis proved once more that, unlike most others in his profession, he’s always searching for opponents who will test him.
“Rather than pick up guaranteed wins and stoppages against zero-win opponents, he only wants real fights and is determined to keep his contests interesting. His elder brother Chad has already created a considerable amount of interest and excitement about how far he can go but now Regis has emerged as a serious contender too.”
From the outset, Regis went about his work with a level of confidence, skill and strength beyond that shown in his three previous contests. When William came out in the second round to try and upset his rhythm, the Newark boxer turned up the heat, using his defensive skills to put his opponent under pressure with some big body shots and leaving the Lancashire man with no alternative but to open up and try to stop the onslaught.
After landing some big head shots that left the more experienced Warby reeling, Regis continued to pile on the pressure through the third and fourth rounds, making things look relatively straightforward. But well aware of just how dangerous an opponent he was facing, he kept his patience even as he kept up the pressure, ensuring there was only going to be one winner at the end of every exchange and ultimately of the fight.
Once again, the army of fans and followers who travelled to Mansfield to support its local hero was rewarded with the sight of Regis’s hand being raised as referee Kev Parker scored the contest 40-36, with all four rounds in the Newarker’s favour.
“I was delighted that Regis stepped up at such short notice to help the show,” said Matt Scriven. “When I offered them William Warburton, they agreed to the fight without any hesitation which says a lot about Regis himself and about the whole team’s confidence in his ability.
“Regis boxed brilliantly tonight – to have such a quality prospect on the show was great and I’m really looking forward to working with them again in the future.”
“Chad and Regis are both considering their next fight options at the moment,” added Dean. “A massive homecoming was on the cards for them on Saturday 14 December but Chad has now received a couple of big fight offers. We’re currently considering these and will be making a final decision over the next few days, with a view to making an announcement very soon.
“These are exciting times not only for Suggy’s Gym but for Newark Amateur Boxing Club too. Its young members are enjoying a great deal of success – they all look up to Chad and Regis and know that if they work hard they can follow in their footsteps and become professional boxers themselves.”
bbbofc, Featured, mansfield civic centre, newark, nottinghamshire, october 2019
Outstanding success for FIGHTMAX: SUPERSTAR FIGHT LEAGUE’s first show
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December 29, 2020 stvkrh905 2 Comments
Bailey Montgomery was well on his way to an engineering degree when he decided that the call to stay in baseball was just too strong.
Montgomery, a 2015 Vincennes (Ind.) Lincoln High School graduate, was heading into his last season as a player at Western Illinois University in the spring of 2019 when he decided to change his major to General Studies with a Mathematics minor, which allowed him to graduate and pursue a coaching path.
“It’s what I was passionate about,” says Montgomery. “I couldn’t leave the field.”
At 24, Montgomery has been a volunteer coach at Butler University in Indianapolis since August 2020 after serving as hitting coach for the summer collegiate Lafayette (Ind.) Aviators in 2019 and hitting/outfield coach and recruiting director at Wabash Valley College in Mount Carmel, Ill., in 2019-20.
Montgomery places an emphasis on developing relationships with players.
It’s really something I’ve been trying to hang my hat on,” says Montgomery. “I know how important it is at my age that I build trust with the guys. I want the guys to know I truly care about their development and their individual plan.
“Understanding that individual person is so huge.”
The Butler staff is headed by veteran Dave Schrage with full-time assistants Matt Kennedy (hitting coach and recruiting coordinator) and Ben Norton (pitching coach).
Montgomery enjoys listening to Schrage’s stories and soaking up his diamond wisdom.
“It’s something different everyday,” says Montgomery. “Coach Schrage and Coach Kennedy have given me so much freedom. They’ve allowed me to grow as a young coach.”
Montgomery has some keys as a hitting coaching.
“It’s about making everything repeatable and letting them know what we expect from each guy to make our offense as complete as we can make it,” says Montgomery. “We keep it simple and get them to be confident in what they need to do.”
Kennedy and Montgomery have Butler hitters keeping journals that allow the coaches to follow the process and learning methods for each player.
“There’s not one way to skin a cat,” says Montgomery. “It’s understanding where they’re at.
“Being able to manage people is ultimately going to define how successful they are.”
Butler wrapped up two months of fall practice — which included individualized work and intrasquad scrimmages — in October.
“We had a tremendous fall,” says Montgomery. “We maximized the time with our guys.”
All students left campus after Thanksgiving and are not expected back until late January.
To keep the Bulldogs on track, there have been Zoom calls.
The 2021 season is due to begin Feb. 19. The Big East Conference will go to four-game weekend series. As of now, Butler will be allowed to keep the non-conference games now on the its schedule.
During the Christmas break, Montgomery has stayed in Indianapolis and conducted lessons for players middle school age and younger (the NCAA is not currently allowing camps or lessons with high schoolers).
“I’m getting as many hours in the (batting cage) as I can,” says Montgomery.
Born in Evansville, Ind., Montgomery grew up in Vincennes. He played on Cal Ripken League teams coached by father Ross Montgomery until age 12. When Bailey played travel ball for the Indiana Redbirds at 13U and 14U, Jay Wolfe was the head coach and Ross Montgomery helped.
Montgomery’s 15U, 16U and 17U summers were spent with the Indiana Nitro, coached by Eric Dill and Kris Dill.
At 18U, Montgomery got a taste of college baseball atmosphere with the Jeremy Johnson-coached Evansville Razorbacks.
At Lincoln, Montgomery for a coaching staff led by Brandon Pfoff with Tim Hutchison, Chris Clements and Andy Pinkstaff as assistants.
“We were competitive on a daily basis,” says Montgomery of the Vincennes Lincoln Alices. “It got me ready for the competitive environment at Wabash Valley.
“Coach Hutchison (who is now head coach at Vincennes Lincoln) was and is a great mentor for me as well. We have daily conversations. We’re always throwing ideas off each other. He has a growth mindset.”
Montgomery hit .352 (31-of-88) at WVC for Warriors head coach Rob Fournier in 2016 and 2017 (a season that finished with a third-place finish at the National Junior College World Series) before coming back to coach.
“Coach Fournier is one of the best recruiting guys I’ve ever seen,” says Montgomery. “He’s helped me with the evaluation piece, conversations with recruits and things to look for.
“I’ve learned the value of relationships (with contacts and recruits). I’m thankful for those conversations.”
Through his experiences, Montgomery counts himself as a big advocate for junior college baseball.
“It’s continuing to grow,” says Montgomery. “It’s an awesome environment if you’re a guy looking to grow and develop.”
Montgomery, a righty-swinging first baseman, played played two seasons at Western Illinois (2018 and 2019), appearing in 88 games (77 starts) and hitting .296 with two home runs, 43 runs batted in and a .991 fielding percentage with 317 putouts and just three errors.
Ryan Brownlee (now assistant executive director for the American Baseball Coaches Association) was the Leathernecks head coach.
“Coach Brownlee is just passionate about what he does,” says Montgomery. “Handling relationships is what he does really well. He gets his players to buy in.”
While he was still playing, Montgomery was able to serve something of a behind-the-scenes look at being a coach from Brownlee with access to scouting reports and some recruiting communciation.
During his collegiate playing career, Montgomery spent summers with the Hannibal (Mo.) Cavemen (2016), Irish Hills (Mich.) Leprechauns (2017) and Quincy (Ill.) Gems (2018). He was going to return to the Lafayette (Ind.) Aviators as manager in 2020, but the season was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ross and Robin Montgomery have three children — Brittany, Bailey and Jade. Jade Montgomery is a softball pitcher/first baseman at Eastern Illinois University.
Bailey Montgomery is a volunteer assistant baseball coach at Butler University in Indianapolis. (Butler University Photo)
Bailey Montgomery, a 2015 Vincennes (Ind.) Lincoln High School, is a volunteer assistant baseball coach at Butler University in Indianapolis. He also played and coached at Wabash Valley College and played and graduated from Western Illinois University. He was a hitting coach for the 2019 summer collegiate Lafayette (Ind.) Aviators. (Butler University Photo)
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Veteran baseball coach Tyner gains new perspective
November 20, 2020 stvkrh905 Leave a comment
Matt Tyner still carries a fervor around the diamond.
It just shows itself in a different way.
Tyner, who began his college baseball coaching career at Butler University in Indianapolis in the early 1990’s and also guided early Indiana Bulls travel teams during the summer, is heading into his fourth season at Towson (Md.) University.
At 62 and in a year where he lost his wife, Tyner has a different perspective.
“I’m pretty intense as a competitor,” says Tyner. “As you age you don’t lose your intensity, it becomes a different kind of focus. I’m a little more cerebral. Yelling and screaming might have worked in the ‘90s. That doesn’t work now. You have to think about who you’re talking to.
“Hopefully I’ve calmed down. As you mature, you go from thinking it’s your team to how can I serve the kid? Or how can I share the information I’ve learned in my 40 years in the game?”
Tyner’s Towson coaching staff features associate head coach Miles Miller and assistants Tanner Biagini and Danny Pulfer.
It’s a horizontal relationship. Tyner lets his assistants take their strengths and run with them.
“I’m not ego-driven anymore,” says Tyner. “We can all learn something from each other and coaches and kids benefit.”
Coaching friends — like Tony Vittorio — are quick to point out when Tyner might lose sight of what his job is.
“I’m a father first and a coach second,” says Tyner. “I don’t have just one son, I have 38 his year. I’m older than all my coaches, so I have more even more sons.”
Tyner was a standout in Decatur, Ill., playing for Ray DeMoulin (a bird dog scout for the Cincinnati Reds who allowed Tyner to try out at 15) at MacAthur High School and Lee Handley (who played in the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers systems) as American Legion manager.
After Tyner went undrafted by Major League Baseball, a coin flip was used to decide where he would venture to play college ball. Heads meant he’d try to walk on at the University of Miami (Fla.). Tails would send him to Arizona State University.
The coin came up heads. Tyner went to Florida, made the Hurricanes roster and played on College World Series teams in 1978, 1979 and 1980, earning Baskin Robbins Player of the Year honors in that final season.
At Miami, Tyner was around coaching legends Ron Fraser and Skip Bertman. The young outfielder marveled at how the two baseball minds could anticipate what was going to happen in a game.
“How did they do that?” says Tyner. who refers to Bertman as a walking baseball encyclopedia. “I hovered closed to him. His sixth sense was incredible.”
Fraser called them the “Miami Greyhounds.”
“I felt I was on a track team,” says Tyner. “That’s how much we ran. We were in shape.”
Before the current 56-game spring limit in NCAA Division I, Miami typically played more than 100 games counting fall and spring.
Selected in the ninth round of the 1980 MLB First-Year Player Draft by the Baltimore Orioles, Tyner played for the Miami Orioles in 1980.
In 1981, he enjoyed his best offensive and worst defensive season. The parent Orioles had decided to move Cal Ripken Jr. from third base to shortstop and decided to make Tyner into a third sacker. But the hot corner proved pretty hot for him and he made 20 errors in 51 games at third for the Hagerstown Suns.
Fans down both baselines let him know about it with a group of ladies on the third base side pointing out the places where the ball struck the “human dartboard.” Hagerstown spectators donned hard hats on the first base side in case of errant Tyner throws.
His roommate on the road was pitcher Julian Gonzalez. During a game in Salem, Va., after Tyner committed his third error, Hagerstown manager Grady Little came to the mound. Gonzalez told the skipper that his roomie had to go.
There was a bus accident the first weekend of season. The vehicle landed on its side.
“I felt something pop in my back way down low,” says Tyner. “24 hours later I couldn’t move. I missed over 30 games that summer.
At the plate, Tyner was locked in, hitting .301 with 31 home runs and 113 runs batted for the Suns in 1981.
After that, Tyner went back to the outfield where he vied with Drungo Hazewood for the unofficial title of best arm in the Orioles organization.
He would go on to belt 79 home runs in 365 games, playing for Hagerstown in 1981 and 1983 and the Charlotte O’s in 1982 and 1983. Multiple surgeries for bone chips in his right elbow put and end to Tyner’s pro career.
“I put my arm through a little bit of abuse,” says Tyner. “I was a quarterback and pitched in high school. Who knows what I did? It didn’t fail me for five more years. At Miami, I had a really good arm.”
Besides Little, his minor league managers were John Hart, Lance Nichols and Mark Wiley.
Little later managed the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers. Hart became a successful front office man for the Cleveland Indians and Atlanta Braves and as a TV analyst.
Tyner calls Hart the quintessential manager-type manager.
“He was a true professional guy,” says Tyner of Hart. “He’s let you do what you needed to do. Grady Little was more hands-on. They were both pretty successful in their own way.
“I got lucky. I played so some great managers and coaches.”
In spring training games with the Orioles, Tyner shared the dugout with current manager Earl Weaver and future managers Joe Altobelli and Ray Miller.
“I’m not sure it gets much better than that,” says Tyner.
It was while coming to Indianapolis to finish his degree at Concordia University that Tyner connected with Butler head coach Steve Farley and began coaching for the Bulldogs. The first go-round, he was on Farley’s staff from 1993-97.
A relationship with the Bulls led to the press box and stands that are there to this day.
At the time, Dave Taylor was president of the organization and Craig Moore was head coach of the 17U team. Tyner started out with the 15U squad.
After coaching four years at Butler making $325 per semester, Tyner decided it was time to make money for his family — wife Laura, daughter Lindsay and son Matthew and got into communication sales and real estate.
Lindsay Dempsey, who is worked as a Registered Nurse, is now 36, married with two children and living Switzerland. Matthew Tyner, 33, is married and a finance and operations manager in Indianapolis.
When Matthew became a teenager, the Bulls approached his father about coaching a new 13U team with Jeremy Guler. The next year, Matt Tyner and Jeff Jamerson coached their sons Matthew and Jason on the 14U Bulls.
“We had top-shelf athletes way ahead of their time,” says Tyner of a team that featured future pros Lance Lynn (Brownsburg), Tommy Hunter (Cathedral) and J.B. Paxson (Center Grove). “It was fun to watch them play.”
Since Matthew was not at that elite level, he switched after that at played for the Indiana Mustangs based out of RoundTripper Sports Academy in Westfield, a facility run by Chris Estep. Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Famer Dave Alexander was there to help. He covered the costs for many Mustangs activities.
“He imparted so much baseball knowledge on these kids,” says Tyner of Alexander, who was integral current baseball fields at Purdue University as well as Indianapolis Bishop Chatard High School, where Matthew Tyner played for Trojans head coach Mike Harmon and graduated in 2005. “What a treat that was.”
A few years later, Matt Tyner got the itch to coach baseball again. This time Farley could pay him a living wage and he went back to work at Butler in August 2007. Pendleton Heights graduate Jason Jamerson was a Bulldog senior in 2009.
Farley took Tyner to his first American Baseball Coaches Association convention in 1994. There he got to meet up again with Fraser and Bertman and soaked up the baseball know-how.
“They made me feel like a king and there was one great speaker after the next for 2 1/2 days,” says Tyner. “As a coach you can’t be everything to everybody. But I’m going to use this nugget and I’m going to use that nugget.
“That’s money well-spent.”
In the summer of 2010, Tyner was offered the head coaching position at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky. Knights athletic director Scott Wiegandt had been a Triple-A Louisville teammate of Tracy Woodson, a former big league third baseman, Fort Wayne Wizards manager who was then Valparaiso University head coach.
Farley, Woodson and University of Indianapolis head coach Gary Vaught gave Tyner their endorsement.
“We made some serious strides in that program,” says Tyner, who coached then-NCAA Division II Bellarmine to 26-26 and 27-23 marks in 2011 and 2012 with a Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title and an appearance in the regional tournament championship game against the Grand Valley State University the second year.
Brandon Tormoehlen, now head coach at Brownstown (Ind.) Central High School, was on Tyner’s coaching staff.
Woodson became head coach at the University of Richmond (Va.) and called Tyner to be his recruiting coordinator and hitting coach. It was a post he held for four seasons.
“We had some pretty strong offensive teams,” says Tyner of his time with the Spiders.
Then Towson reached out and hit Tyner was an offer to be the Tigers head coach.
“The first two years at Towson was a challenge for all of us,” says Tyner, who saw his teams go 13-42 in 2018 and 14-39 in 2019. “We are process-driven and not results-driven. Took awhile for those entrenched in a different system to get it.
“Last year was their chance to shine.”
Indianapolis native Laura Anne Tyner passed away Feb. 10 in her hometown and Matt took a leave of absence at Towson. Matt and Laura were wed in 1983. She taught children with special needs and spent 20 years in real estate management.
With former Butler and Purdue University assistant Miller running the team, the 2020 Towson Tigers went 7-8 before the COVID-19 shutdown.
Tyner went down to see the team play in the opener of a weekend series in Miami. It turned out to be a pitchers’ dual. The Hurricanes held on for a 2-1 Feb. 28 victory. Freshman catcher Burke Camper just barely missed a home run in the top of the ninth inning.
“It was a game for the ages,” says Tyner. “It was unbelievable for me to watch and be a part of.”
A few days later, it was decided between Tyner and Towson athletic director Tim Leonard that the coach would come back to the program in mid-March.
“I needed baseball more than baseball needed me,” says Tyner, who got back in time to see the season prematurely halted with the campus being closed and all classes going online. He came back to Indianapolis.
When things opened back up, players were placed in summer leagues. This fall, the Tigers worked out with social distancing and other COVID precautions.
“It was the most competitive for all of us since I’ve been here,” says Tyner. “We have a chance to be pretty good (2021).”
Towson is a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. The Tigers are not fully-funded. There are 6.2 scholarships available and the NCAA Division I limit is 11.7.
“God love the AD and president of this university (Tim Leonard and Dr. Kim Schaztel),” says Tyner. “They’ve done a phenomenal job of keeping us afloat.
“They don’t come any better.”
Matt Tyner was introduced as head baseball coach at Towson (Md.) University prior to the 2018 season. (Towson University Video)
Matt Tyner, a former Butler University assistant and coach with the Indiana Bulls, is heading into his fourth season as head baseball coach at Towson (Md.) University in 2021. (Towson University Photo)
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Riggs shares prep, college, pro experiences with next generation
November 3, 2020 stvkrh905 1 Comment
Like many Indiana boys, Eric Riggs’ athletic focus growing up in Brownsburg, Ind., was basketball.
His father, David Riggs, was on the 1962 Evansville Bosse state championship team and earned a letter on the hardwood at the University of Evansville in 1966-67. The Purple Aces were NCAA Division II national champions in 1963-64 and 1964-65.
David’s father Walter Riggs and uncle Clarence Riggs are both in the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. Both graduated from Evansville Central High School and Evansville College.
Walter Riggs, grandfather of Eric, coached Evansville Central to an IHSAA state runner-up finish to Lafayette Jeff in 1948.
Eric Riggs, who is 6-foot-2 and played on Steve Brunes-coached Brownsburg High School teams that went 20-5 and 24-3 in his junior (1993-94) and senior seasons (1994-95), accepted a basketball scholarship to the University of Central Florida.
Playing Knights head coach Kirk Speraw, Riggs started in 22 of 30 games and averaged 11.4 points and 3.1 assists per game as a freshman in 1995-96. UMass and Marcus Camby knocked UCF out of the 1996 NCAA tournament.
Then Riggs turned his attention back to the diamond.
In his 16U, 17U and 18U summers, Riggs played travel baseball for the Indiana Bulls — the first two years with Jeff Mercer Sr. as head coach and the last with Bret Shambaugh.
The switch-hitting infielder had played baseball at Brownsburg for head coach Wayne Johnson and assistants Craig Moore and Mick Thornton. Big league pitcher Jeff Fassero came in to help the Bulldogs during the off-season.
“(Johnson) was a players’ coach,” says Riggs. “We were pretty stacked in our senior class. We had a lot of guys play at the next level (including Brian Stayte, Mark Voll and Joel Martin).”
Junior Quinn Moore, youngest son of Craig, was the mound ace in 1995 and went on to play at the University of South Alabama.
During a basketball recruiting trip to the school near Orlando in the spring of 1995, Riggs met with UCF baseball coach Jay Bergman near the end of the program’s 29-game win streak.
“He was very positive,” says Riggs of Bergman. “Coach Moore had been in Coach Bergman’s ear to let me walk on.
“(Craig Moore) was very instrumental in my baseball career. I just kind of played it. Basketball was my first sport.”
“I had never played year-round baseball. I wanted to find out what that was like. I ended up getting a partial baseball scholarship.”
Before he knew it, Riggs was batting ninth and starting at second base at the NCAA D-I level.
From 1996-98, Riggs amassed a career average of .362 with 49 doubles and a .573 slugging percentage. As an all-Atlantic Sun Conference first-team shortstop in 1998, he hit .394 with 26 doubles, 154 total bases and 64 runs scored.
Selected in the fourth round of the 1998 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the Los Angeles Dodgers, Riggs was one of 10 UCF players picked from a 41-21 team. Two of those — pitcher Mike Maroth (Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Cardinals) and outfielder Esix Snead (New York Mets) — reached the majors.
In the winter of 2000-01, Riggs played a few months in Queensland, Australia, before returning to the U.S. and the Dodgers. He was with that organization for eight years (1998-2004, 2006), getting as far as Triple-A in 2003, 2004 and 2006.
In three seasons, his roommate was David Ross (who went on to be a 14-year big league catcher and is now manager of the Chicago Cubs).
“He’s a natural leader,” says Riggs of Ross. “Being a catcher that was his state of mind. He managed the pitching staff well.
“He was just a solid baseball player. Once he got his chance (in the majors), he showed them what he could do as a catcher and hit a little bit.”
Riggs also played Double-A ball for the Houston Astros in 2005 and was briefly with the independent Schaumburg (Ill.) Flyers at the beginning of 2007 before finishing up his pro career that year in Double-A with the Miami Marlins.
In 10 seasons at all levels, Riggs played in 1,050 games (with 500 appearances at shortstop, 235 at second base and 216 at third base) and hit .264 with 78 homers, 217 doubles, 459 RBIs and slugging percentage of .406.
Steve Farley, then the Butler University head coach, brought Riggs on as a part-time volunteer coach in the spring of 2008.
“Steve gave me a chance to see what coaching at that level was like,” says Riggs. “He was a very, very smart baseball man. He was great to learn from and watch work.
“I had a blast.”
Riggs also had the opportunity to pick the baseball brain of Butler assistant Matt Tyner, who had played the University of Miami (Fla.) for Ron Fraser and in the Baltimore Orioles system. After Butler, Tyner was head coach at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky., a University of Richmond (Va.) assistant and head coach at Towson (Md.) State University.
With a change in his full-time job in 2009, Riggs changed his focus to coaching his sons. Eric and wife Trisha have four sons. Bryce (16) is a sophomore at Noblesville (Ind.) High School. Twins Blake (13) and Brooks (13) are seventh graders at Noblesville West Middle School. Beckett (8) is a third grader at Noble Crossing Elementary School.
The three oldest Riggs boys have had their father as a coach with the Indiana Bulls. Eric was an assistant with Bulls teams Bryce played on from age 8 to eighth grade and he is now head coach of the 13U White team as well as a board of directors member. The 12-player roster (pitcher-only players become a thing in the high school years) includes Blake and Brooks.
The team played in two fall tournaments and plans to ramp up preparation for the 2021 season of 11 tournaments with 50 or more games in January. His assistants include Brandon Inge, J.J. Beard and Kyle Smith. Former MLB third baseman/catcher Inge (Detroit Tigers, Oakland Athletics and Pittsburgh Pirates) go back to their Cape Cod Baseball League days in college with 1997 Bourne Braves.
Kevin O’Sullivan (who went on to coach the 2017 national championship team at the University of Florida) was the Bourne head coach. The ace of the pitching staff was left-hander Mark Mulder, who was the No. 2 overall pick in the 1998 MLB Draft and went on to win 103 games in nine Major League Baseball seasons with the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals.
When he can, Eric also helps coach the Noblesville Millers travel team that includes Beckett.
“I’m using what I’ve learned from players and coaches I’ve been around,” says Riggs. “I want to pass that to kids to make them better people and baseball players.”
Riggs, 44, is also a sales pro for BSN Sports with college and high school clients. He says uniform trends at the high school level tend to revolve around what catches a coach’s eye on the college scene. If they like the Vanderbilt look, they may wish to replicate in their school colors.
The Riggs family (clockwise from top left): Eric, Bryce, Trisha, Brooks, Beckett and Blake. Eric Riggs, a 1995 Brownsburg (Ind.) High School graduate, played pro baseball for 10 years and now helps coach his boys with the Indiana Bulls and Noblesville Millers travel organizations.
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DePauw graduate Quinn takes over at Clinton Central
October 21, 2020 stvkrh905 Leave a comment
Andrew Quinn is bringing his baseball knowledge and enthusiasm in Michigantown, Ind., as the new head baseball coach at Clinton Central Junior-Senior High School.
Quinn, who turns 26 in December, was a right-handed pitcher at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., for four years (2014-17) and an assistant coach at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Ind., for two seasons (2019 and 2020).
He is also a lead instructor at RoundTripper Sports Academy in Westfield, Ind., where he gives pitching and hitting lessons and will coach at 14U Indiana Mustangs travel team next summer.
The IHSAA Limited Contact Period for baseball ended Oct. 17. Quinn worked with a few players each Friday, showing them the fundamentals of playing catch and giving them a chance to field ground balls.
Many players were not available since they were involved in football or others were getting ready for basketball season. The dead period lasts until Dec. 7.
Jeff Pittard, the father of Quinn’s former DePauw teammate, Reid Pittard, has committed as a part-time assistant. Other coaching candidates are being considered.
Quinn says he gets a sense that the Bulldogs will be a senior-heavy team in 2021. Among that group of left-handed pitcher J.T. Holton, an Indiana University Kokomo commit.
The new coach recently reached out to youth leagues in Michigantown and Kirkland to build a relationship with future Clinton Central players.
A full-time substitute teacher at the school, Quinn is looking into getting his transition to teaching license. He earned his DePauw bachelor’s degree in Communications. He also holds a personal trainer certification from the National Academy of Sports Medicine.
A native of Chesterfield, Mo., Quinn played at St. Louis (Mo.) University High, where he was an all-state pitcher as a senior in 2013.
Quinn was brought to DePauw by then-DePauw head coach Jake Martin (head coach at his alma mater, Wabash, since the 2017 season).
“Coach Martin drove all the way from Greencastle to St. Louis to take me and my parents to dinner and drove back in the same day,” says Quinn. “He obviously cared a lot about me and his program.
“He made it very clear about how he wanted to do things.”
As a DePauw Tiger, Quinn took the mound 48 times (24 as a starter). He was honorable mental all-North Coast Athletic Conference as a junior and second team all-NCAC as a senior while also serving as team captain.
During his four years (the last three playing for head coach Blake Allen), DePauw made the NCAA Division III tournament twice and posted the most victories in a four-year record (98) in the history of the program which dates back more than a century.
Allen is a St. Louis native, which helped Quinn relate to the coach.
“He’s super, super passionate,” says Quinn of Allen. “He knows his stuff.”
Allen spent two stints covering five years at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., where he learned from highly-respected Commodores head coach Tim Corbin.
“(Allen) got the best out of everybody on the team,” says Quinn. “He was really good at understanding the mental side and getting us to lock into that.”
Allen had DePauw hitters in an attacking mindset and Mike Hammel and Jack Thompson both set the school record for home runs in a single-season at 13 in 2017. The ’17 Tigers hit 46 bombs as a team.
As a college freshman, Quinn took a Baseball History class. He is familiar with the old Polo Grounds in New York, where the dimensions were short down the foul lines and deep to center. He looks at the Clinton Central field and is reminded of that image.
“Our center fielder has to be very quick,” says Quinn. “He’ll have a cover a lot of ground.”
He’ll be asking his pitchers to throw a lot of strikes, keep the pitch count down and work to all parts of the strike zone.
Quinn also plans to take a page out of Hall of Famer Bob Gibson’s book.
“Gibson said that with every pitch, act like you meant it to go there,” says Quinn. “Don’t get frustrated. Get the ball back and get ready for that next pitch.”
Clinton Central is part of the Hoosier Heartland Conference (with Carroll of Flora, Clinton Prairie, Delphi, Eastern of Greentown, Rossville, Sheridan, Taylor and Tri-Central).
HHC teams play each other twice with many home-and-home weekdays series.
The Bulldogs are part of an IHSAA Class 1A sectional grouping with Frontier, Rossville, Sheridan, South Newton and Tri-County. Clinton Central won its lone sectional title in 2005.
Quinn is engaged to DePauw graduate Emily Matthews, who went through the excellerated nursing program at Marian University in Indianapolis. The couple’s wedding is slated for September 2021.
Andrew Quinn, a DePauw University graduate, has been hired as head baseball coach at Clinton Central Junior-Senior High School in Michigantown, Ind. After playing four seasons at DePauw, he was an assistant coach for two years at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Ind., and is a lead instructor at RoundTripper Sports Academy in Westfield, Ind., and is a 14U travel coach for the Indiana Mustangs. (Wabash College Photo)
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Purdue Fort Wayne right-hander Madura experiences growth
August 20, 2020 stvkrh905 Leave a comment
It was not the way he would have scripted it, but Mike Madura saw positive gains when the COVID-19 pandemic halted the 2020 baseball season at Purdue Fort Wayne and sent him home to Munster, Ind.
Unable to get to a gym, right-handed pitcher Madura worked at home and added strength and weight to his 6-foot-6 frame. He now tips the scales at about 205.
While coronavirus did not make an internship with the Northwest Indiana Oilmen practical for the “Passport to Success” points required by Purdue Fort Wayne for his Business Economics and Public Policy major, Madura was able to pitch for the Midwest Collegiate League team for the second straight summer.
On Sunday, Aug. 16, he threw eight shutout innings of two-hit baseball with eight strikeouts and two walks as the Oilmen beat the DuPage County Hounds in Game 2 of the MCL championship series. It was a must-win situation since DuPage had taken Game 1.
“It was awesome that atmosphere at Oil City Stadium (in Whiting),” says Madura of his 99-pitch outing. “I trusted my preparation.
“I had playoff experience. I pitched in Game of the semifinals (in 2019) and that definitely helped.”
Madura pushed his two-year mark with the Oilmen to 10-0. He was a starter and part-time reliever in 2019 and was strictly used as a starter in 2020 with Chris Cunningham as manager and Matt Pobereyko as pitching coach.
Playing summer ball so close to home allowed Madura to continue working on his physical gains while also taking two summer courses. He is on pace to graduate from PFW in the spring. He plans to go to Fort Wayne this weekend and classes — some in-person and some online — are to begin Monday, Aug. 24.
The spring of 2020 marked Madura’s first with the NCAA Division I Mastodons. He made four mound appearances (all in relief) and went 0-0 with a 4.60 earned run average, 10 strikeouts and five walks and 15 2/3 innings.
It was the first season at Purdue Fort Wayne for head coach Doug Schreiber and pitching coach Brent McNeil.
“It’s awesome,” says Madura of playing for Schreiber, whose resume includes 18 years as head coach at Purdue in West Lafayette. “He’s got a lot of experience in Division I baseball.”
McNeil leads a pitcher development program that allows hurlers to work based on what their body is telling them.
“Listening to your arm, he really preaches that,” says Madura of McNeil. “Something I like about our program is recovery and sprint work.”
The Dons use Jaeger Sports J-bands, Driveline PlyoCare Balls and also sprint up to 60 yards to help with recovery and conditioning.
“It helps keep your legs in shape,” says Madura. “It helps with recovery by getting the whole body going.
“We don’t run long distance at all. We’re trying to be more explosive.”
This summer, Madura regularly threw his fastball (he has a four-seamer and two-seamer) at 87 to 89 mph and touched 90 a few times. Using a high three-quarter arm slot, he also employs a “circle” change-up and tosses a slider.
“It has more of a slurve action on it,” says Madura. “It’s a two-plane break.
“It depends on what I’m trying to do in that at-bat — get it over for a strike or, if I’m trying to put a guy away, I’ll throw it harder.”
Born with two webbed fingers on his left hand, Madura had surgery at about 2. His parents — Mike and Sherrie — bought him baseball gloves for a righty or a lefty and he ended up using the former though he does many everyday tasks with his left hand.
Madura was born and raised in Munster. He played his earliest organized baseball at the Hammond YMCA. From 7 to 9, he played both at Munster Little League and for the traveling Schererville-based Pro Style Rockers. Then came a few summers with the Sports Works Stars. That team was coached by his father — also known as Mike.
The student-athlete who turns 22 in October is the sixth in a line possessing that name. When he was younger, it was easier to keep him and his father straight by referring to Big Mike and Little Mike. But the younger Madura — sometimes known as Michael — was 6-3 entering high school, 6-5 leaving it and grew an inch since going into college.
Is being tall an advantage?
Madura sees it as one.
“I have a lot more leverage on my pitches,” says Madura. “There’s a downward angle.
“It makes it that much harder on a hitter.”
Michael Madura was with the Northwest Indiana Hurricanes (father Mike as an assistant coach) at 12U and 13U.
Madura closed out his high school summers with the Hammond/Indiana Chiefs, playing for head coach Todd Iwema at 14U and 15U and organization founder Dave Sutkowski at 16U and 17U.
Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Famer/geometry teacher Bob Shinkan coached Madura with the Munster High School Mustangs and also had him as class aide.
“Coach Shinkan’s an awesome guy,” says Madura, who admired his ability to have fun while also getting his point across when it was time to get serious.
Madura played for the Chicago Suburban Baseball League’s Hammond Lakers (with Anthony Spangler as general manager) in the summers at Hammond’s Riverside Park before and after his freshman year at Central Michigan University.
He redshirted there at CMU in 2018, transferred to South Suburban College in South Holland, Ill., and pitched in 2019 while completing his associate degree in Business Administration at the junior college. On the mound, he logged 42 innings in nine appearances (eight starts) and went 0-5 with a 4.29 ERA, 18 strikeouts and eight walks for the Steve Ruzich-coached Bulldogs.
Michael Madura is one of IT project manager Mike and nurse Sherrie Madura’s four athletic children. Tiffany (27) played volleyball at Olivet Nazarene University. Trisha (25) was a at Davenport University. Michael also played basketball until his sophomore year in high school. Kylie (14) is a volleyball and softball player at Munster High.
Mike Madura, a 2017 Munster (Ind.) High School graduate, is a 6-foot-6, 205-pound right-handed pitcher at Purdue Fort Wayne. He is 10-0 over the past two summers with the Midwest Collegiate League’s Northwest Indiana Oilmen. (Purdue Fort Wayne Photo)
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Clinton Central, Bowling Green State grad Scott experiences ‘emotional roller coaster’ in first year as baseball coach
August 15, 2020 stvkrh905 2 Comments
Jeffery Scott saw the lessons that can be learned from baseball from the time he was a kid playing in Frankfort, Ind., to when he was winding up his playing career at Bowling Green (Ohio) State University.
It was with the Danny Schmitz-coached Falcons that he decided he wanted to become a coach.
While working on a degree in Sport Management with a minor in Marketing that was achieved in 2019, Scott soaked in information from veteran Schmitz and the other BGSU staffers.
“Coach Schmitz is an old school type of coach,” says Scott. “He has a lot of knowledge about the game. I was able to talk with him everyday and learn stuff.
“I talked with him and the rest of the coaching staff on what to expect. He’s been really good influence on me baseball and life-wise.”
Before his senior year, Scott worked at Grand Park in Westfield, Ind., and made a determination.
“If I don’t get to play baseball anymore I’d like to stay around the game,” says Scott. “I’d like to be making an impact and sharing my knowledge.”
He wanted to prepare young men for life and to face adversity like you face in baseball.
Scott, who was a catcher and outfielder at Bowling Green State for three seasons (playing in 127 games and starting 114 from 2017-19), made a visit to the University of Northwestern Ohio in Lima as a senior and talked with Racers head coach Kory Hartman and his staff and signed on as a graduate assistant. He expects to earn his Masters in Business Administration (MBA) next spring.
“It’s been a really good experience,” says Scott of his time so far with the NAIA-member program. “One of the things that drew me here is that it’s close to Bowling Green State. (Hartman and company) were open to me getting what I want out of this program — to form who I am as a coach.”
Since being at UNOH, a member of the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference, Scott has absorbed drills and procedures and also enjoyed camaraderie with coaches who like to hang out, fish and hunt together.
The Racers staff currently counts Hartman, Scott and associate head coach Aaron Lee and two graduate assistants with pitching experience will be hired.
With NAIA’s COVID-19 pandemic-related decision to cancel fall sports, Northwestern Ohio baseball coaches are sorting out what fall will look for the Racers. Students are supposed to be back on campus for face-to-face classes Sept. 14.
“Right now, we’re in a gray area,” says Scott, who turns 25 this month. “We’ll have to figure things out.
“We hope to get together once or twice a week as a team.”
The 2020 UNOH season came to a halt because of the pandemic on March 8 with the Racers at 8-12.
Back at Bowling Green State, the NCAA Division I program went on the chopping block.
Baseball was reinstated through the efforts of Schmitz and other baseball alumni.
“It was an emotional roller coaster for me,” says Scott. “I didn’t know where baseball is headed with the COVID stuff and (colleges and universities) were cutting sports — not just baseball.”
Schmitz was put in charge of alumni outreach at Bowling Green and former Falcons pitching coach Kyle Hallock, whom Scott knew well as a catcher, was named head coach.
“I tip my cap to Danny Schmitz,” says Scott. “I’m sure he reached out to a lot of the alumni. He has made an impact on a lot of people’s lives.”
Bowling Green State baseball has produced many successful people, including those who went on to the pro diamond, including 19 major leaguers. Among that group are current Miami Marlins third baseman Jon Berti and former big leaguers Orel Hershiser (who won a National League Cy Young Award and helped the Los Angeles Dodgers to a World Series win in 1988), Nolan Reimold, Andy Tracy and Roger McDowell.
“It was special to see them step up, donate some money and keep the program,” says Scott.
Frankfort (Ind.) Little League is where Scott got his first taste of organized baseball. Around the same time he also played with a group of local youngsters called the Frankfort Slam. That team was coached by Rodney Smith, Jason Forsythe and at various times, Kent Scott (Jeffery’s father) and Jamie Bolinger (Jeffery’s stepfather).
Kent Scott is employed in Federal-Mogul Powertain in Frankfort.
Jamie Bolinger, who is retired military, works for Lafayette (Ind.) Transitional Housing Center’s Homeless Services.
Maleta Bolinger (Jeffery’s mother) is a registered nurse in Kokomo, Ind.
Shealynne Bolinger (Jeffery’s 19-year-old sister) is finishing up schooling to be a veterinary technician.
Scott and girlfriend Shelby Weaver have been together about nine moths. They also dated in high school. Her son Eli is almost 1.
After spending his 12U summer with the Muncie-based Indiana Wildcats, Jeffery Scott played six travel ball seasons with the Indiana Bulls.
At 13U, he was coached by John Rigney and Rick Hamm. Brothers Todd Miller and Adam Miller led his team at 14U and 15U. Tony Cookerly, Sean Laird and Jim Fredwell coached his team at 16U. Quinn Moore and Dan Held was in charge at 17U. He played briefly at 18U before going to summer school at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C., where he spent a year and a half before transferring to Lincoln Trail College in Robinson, Ill.
Kevin Bowers was and still is head coach for the junior college Statesmen.
“He welcomed me in with open arms mid-year,” says Scott of Bowers. “He made me feel a part of the family. I still talk to him quite a bit. He’s definitely been one of my favorite coaches.
“He was genuine, truthful and transparent. He brings in a lot of talent to Lincoln Trail and gets them to where they want to be.”
Though mostly a catcher in the summers, Scott was a shortstop and pitcher at Clinton Central High School in Michigantown, Ind., playing for Bulldogs head coach Eric Flickinger. He also played football for Mike Quick and Justin Schuhmacher and wrestled for Austin Faulkner.
Jeffery Scott observes catchers during a baseball practice as a graduate assistant coach at the University of Northwestern Ohio in Lima. Scott was a catcher at Bowling Green (Ohio) State University. He is a graduate of BGSU and Clinton Central High School in Michigantown, Ind., near Frankfort. (UNOH Photo)
Jeffery Scott is a 2019 graduate of Bowling Green (Ohio) State University, where he played three baseball for three seasons (2017-19). The graduate of BGSU and Clinton High School in Michigantown, Ind., is a graduate assistant baseball coach at the University of Northwestern Ohio in Lima. (Bowling Green State University Photo)
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Confidence grows for Butler left-hander Graziano
July 31, 2020 stvkrh905 Leave a comment
Joe Graziano has learned lessons in confidence during his baseball career.
The left-handed pitcher built up a sense of determination that took him to weekend starter in his third season at Butler University in Indianapolis.
Years before, a surge of assurance had helped Graziano make the transition from the freshmen team to varsity as sophomore at Lake Central High School in St. John, Ind.
Graziano credits Butler head coach Dave Schrage for giving him the courage to advance as a Bulldog.
“He wants to get the best out of you,” says Graziano of Schrage. “He definitely helped me settle in by instilling that confidence in me.
“I feel like I was ready to throw pretty well.”
As a Butler freshman in 2018, Graziano made 13 mound appearances (four starts) and went 3-0 with a 4.70 earned run average, 17 strikeouts and seven walks in 23 innings.
Primarily a mid-week starter in 2019, the lefty appeared in 15 games (seven starts) and went 4-4 with a 4.09 ERA, 36 strikeouts and 17 walks in 44 innings.
The Bulldogs were 8-7 and coming off a March 11 victory against Saint Joseph’s (Pa.) in Port Charlotte, Fla., when the team found out the 2020 season had been halted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We were sitting at the pool,” says Graziano. “We thought we were coming back in two weeks.
“We were optimistic.”
It soon turned out that the rest of the campaign was canceled and student-athletes were sent home.
Graziano went back to northwest Indiana having gotten into four games (all as a starter) and went 1-1 with a 4.67 ERA, 15 strikeouts and 10 walks in 17 1/3 innings. His first start was on a Saturday and the rest came on Sunday.
“I worked all fall to get there,” says Graziano of his role. “I finally got it. I really liked pitching on the weekend.
“Everyone’s locked in and there’s a little bit of pressure.”
When the 2020 shutdown happened, Graziano had already secured an internship and was looking to find a baseball team for the summer.
A double major in Finance and Risk Management, Graziano is doing his internship with Chicago-based Aon and pitching on weekends with the Midwest Collegiate League’s Northwest Indiana Oilmen.
“Butler business school requires two internships,” says Graziano. “That’s 240 hours. You also take a class, write a paper and do interviews.
“It’s kind of a lot.”
For his first internship, Joe is on the clock online at his house in Schererville, Ind., from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. He is upstairs while his mother, Roxanna, does her sales job with U.S. Steel, is in the basement.
When Joe is done with his internship duties, he does his band and weighted ball work and heads across the street to Autumn Creek Park to play catch with younger brother Joshua.
At 21, Joe is two years older than his brother. Joshua is enrolled at Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis. Their father, Joseph, is a manager at the BP Whiting Refinery, which is very near where Joe is in his second stint with the Oilmen.
The summer right after he graduated from Lake Central in 2017, Joe appeared in seven Northwest Indiana games (five starts) and went 3-1 with a 1.16 ERA, 39 strikeouts and six walks in 31 innings.
“It was the first time I faced college hitters,” says Graziano. “I was playing with kids out of The Region. We were finally on a friendly surface and can be teammates.
Manager Adam Enright, a Munster (Ind.) High School and University of Southern Indiana graduate, also worked closely with Oilmen pitchers.
In 2020, he is being used strictly as a reliever.
“I didn’t want to rush back into it,” says Graziano. “I’m pitching 2-3 innings at a time. I want to build my stamina and pitch count back up.”
The 6-foot-2, 185-pound southpaw took off about a week off when the 2020 spring season shut down then began training, lifting weights and throwing while reaching out to the Oilmen.
“I want to keep my spot when I get back to Butler,” says Graziano.
The Oilmen are managed by Chris Cunningham. Graziano spends most of his time with pitching coach Matt Pobereyko.
“I’ve been trying to take in as much information as possible,” says Graziano. “He’s been teaching me this forkball/splitter. I have pretty big hands.
“I like how (Pobereyko) thinks on the mound. You’re better than the hitter. Never lose confidence. I definitely like Po’s mentality.”
In the summer of 2019, Graziano pitched for the Coastal Plain League’s Fayetteville (N.C.) SwampDogs.
It was a struggle at first.
“I started doing well toward the end,” says Graziano. “I got a lot better out there. I had a little adversity and I battled through it.”
Fayetteville was managed by David Anderson.
Lefty Graziano was with the Prospect League’s Lafayette (Ind.) Aviators in 2018. There, he enjoyed living with a host family and got to play with Butler teammate Connor Schultz.
“You make a lot of new friends in summer ball,” says Graziano, who played for a Lafayette team managed by Will Arnold. Future Butler assistant Jake Ratz was also on the Aviators coaching staff.
Ben Norton is Butler’s pitching coach. He has taught Graziano a slider and helped instill confidence.
“He’s helped me develop into a great pitcher,” says Graziano of Norton. “He helps everyone
“If you struggle, he’s not going to give up on you.”
At Lake Central, three-year letterman Graziano went 20-7 (with a pair of perfect games), including 8-4 against Duneland Athletic Conference opponents. As a senior, he went 6-3 with a 2.11 ERA, 84 strikeouts and 13 walks in 60 innings and helped the Indians to an IHSAA Class 4A Munster Sectional title.
He was all-DAC, all-area (Northwest Indiana Times) and Academic All-State.
Jeff Sandor was LC’s head coach for Graziano’s sophomore and junior seasons. Mike Swartzentruber took over the program in his senior year.
“(Sandor) is the craziest coach I’ve played for and one of the best coaches I’ve played for,” says Graziano. “He was tough on guys. But he had to be be. He demanded that level of play.
“You knew what you had to bring to the table.”
Graziano says Swartzentruber’s strength came in team building.
“Swartz was more calm than Sandor,” says Graziano. “We all knew what we wanted to do. We had a lot of good players. Swartz did a good job of bringing the team together.”
At Lake Central — a school with about 3,300 students — it is not uncommon for close to 100 players to try out for baseball. The high school is fed by three middle schools — Clark, Grimmer and Kahler].
“There’s a lot of competition,” says Graziano, who came through Grimmer. “You feel bad when your friends don’t make the team. The school is so big.”
While the rivalries among the middle schools is fierce, they become one team at LC.
While at Lake Central, southpaw Graziano used a curve ball that was “a little loopy and slow” that fooled many high school hitters.
When he got to Butler, he left the curve for a slider that has a tighter spin and has more horizontal than vertical break.
From his three-quarter overhand arm slot, Graziano also throws a tailing four-seam fastball and a “circle” change-up.
“It’s really good against righties,” says Graziano. “It has depth and tails away.”
Born in Munster, Ind., Graziano spent the early part of his life in nearby Hammond before settling in Schererville.
While playing for the Schererville Shock — coached by Dan Bosold and Dave Lopez — he made close friends. Among those are current Purdue players Ben Nisle and Bo Hofstra as well as Jarrett Lopez (who went to Purdue Northwest).
Grazing played for Apex Baseball in the summers leading into his last two years in high school. Marc Escobedo was the head coach. Brett Summers was his pitching coach/instructor.
“(Summers) always helped me,” says Graziano. “He was always patient.”
Graziano also enjoyed his time on the basketball court. At Lake Central, he played for head coach Dave Milausnic whom he salutes for getting the Indians ready for their demanding schedule.
“Our senior year, we didn’t have a big superstar,” says Graziano. “(Milausnic) had us prepared for every game.
“I was the point guard as a senior. I was calling the plays and handling the ball a lot.”
Joe Graziano, a graduate of Lake Central High School in St. John, Ind., has pitched three baseball seasons for Butler University in Indianapolis (2018-20). The left-hander was a weekend starter during the COVID-19-shortened 2020 campaign. (Butler University Photo)
The summer of 2020 is the second for Joe Graziano on the Midwest Collegiate League’s Northwest Indiana Olimen. He played for the Whiting, Ind.-based team in 2017, right after his senior year at Lake Central High School in St. John, Ind. He has pitched three seasons at Butler University in Indianapolis. (Northwest Indiana Oilmen Photo)
Joe Graziano, a graduate of Lake Central High School in St. John, Ind., has pitched three baseball seasons at Butler University in Indianapolis. The left-hander was a weekend starter in 2020. (Butler University Photo)
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Batesville, Louisville graduate Britton drafted by Blue Jays
June 12, 2020 stvkrh905 Leave a comment
Zach Britton might have to wait to put on a uniform and stride to the plate in a professional baseball game for the first time.
But he is ready for that to happen.
Britton, a lefty-swinging outfielder/catcher at the University of Louisville, was selected Thursday, June 11 in the fifth round (No. 136 overall) of the 2020 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the Toronto Blue Jays.
The 2017 Batesville (Ind.) High School graduate has two years of college eligibility remaining with a extra year being granted by the NCAA when the COVID-19 pandemic caused the 2020 season to be stopped in mid-March.
But he came out of high school with 21 college credits thanks to Advanced Placement classes, took summer classes prior to his first year at Louisville and during two collegiate summer league seasons (2018 with the Newport Gulls in Rhode Island and 2019 with the Orleans Firebirds on Cape Cod) and finished his Sport Administration degree this spring.
“I feel confident that I’m going to sign with the Blue Jays,” says Britton, who has been consulting with area scout Nate Murrie. “I’m excied to start my career with them.
“I’m a winner. I’m a guy who plays the game hard.”
With no live baseball at the moment and the 2020 Minor League Baseball season in doubt, Britton awaits his next move.
“It’s a waiting game,” says Britton, 21. “I’ll see what (the Blue Jays) tell me to do.”
Before the 2020 season was stopped, Britton was hitting .322 with one home runs, 12 runs batted in and an NCAA Division I-leading 12 doubles in 17 games (all starts) for a 13-4 team.
In what turned out to be the final game, left fielder Britton batted No. 3 and went 3-of-5 and plated three runs against Chicago State on March 11.
After the shutdown, Britton spent a few weeks training in Florida then came back to Batesville and has been there ever since.
Always a left-handed hitter since he began organized baseball at 5 or 6, Britton grew up big leaguers with lefty swings like Ken Griffey Jr., switch-hitter Chipper Jones and Chase Utley.
“I definitely watched those guys coming up,” says Britton. “I took pieces of their swing and tried to put it into mine.
“I like to think of myself as a professional hitter with a good approach. I like to use the whole field and hit the ball where it’s pitched. I’m not going for home runs and I’m never swinging out of my shoes. I take what the pitcher gives me and I know the situation.”
Britton played for head coach Dan McDonnell at Louisville.
“He’s a very intelligent baseball mind,” says Britton of McDonnell. “He knows what it takes to win. He knew what I had to do to get into pro ball and one day become a big leaguer. He helped me tremendously along the way.
“He taught us how to be professional on and off the field and to be accountable. He does a good job of running a team and a program.”
Eric Snider is the Cardinals hitting coach.
“We’ve worked together a lot the last few years,” says Britton of Snider. “He’s been a tremendous help to me.
“He’s always a guy I can talk to and learn from in terms of the swing.”
Britton played four varsity baseball season at Batesville — two for head coach Alex Davis and two for current Bulldogs head coach Justin Tucker.
A 2017 Rawlings-Perfect Game Honorable Mention All-American and three-time all-conference selection, Britton hit .553 with six homers, 16 doubles, 27 RBIs and 41 runs scored as a Batesville senior.
Chosen as a catcher for the South in the 2017 Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association North/South All-Star Series, Britton did not play because he was already enrolled in summer school at Louisville.
He’s been mostly an outfielder in college. So where does he play as a pro?
“Wherever they want to develop me, I’ll be happy to do that,” says Britton.
After playing in local leagues, Britton began travel ball at age 10 with the Indiana Prospects. He was with the Indiana Nitro at 11 and 12 and then the Indiana Bulls from 13 until he went to college. Sean Laird and Dave Taylor were among his Bulls head coaches.
Zach is the son of Barry and Debbie Britton and has two older siblings. Half brother James served in the U.S. Marines and played football at Franklin (Ind.) College. Half sister Devin played volleyball at Anderson (Ind.) University.
Zach Britton, a 2017 graduate of Batesville (Ind.) High School and 2020 graduate of the University of Louisville, was selected in the fifth round of the 2020 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the Toronto Blue Jays. (University of Louisville Photo)
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Brebeuf, Butler graduate Haddad applying talent with Yankees
June 9, 2020 stvkrh905 1 Comment
Radley Haddad has built a skill set that he uses to help the New York Yankees as a coaching assistant and bullpen coach.
Haddad is educated on everything from pitch design to game planning. He sits in on hitter’s meetings. He speaks the language of analytics and translates it into terms that players can understand.
Once a game starts, he’s in the bullpen to assist pitchers in geting ready.
The Yankees have newcomers for 2020 at pitching coach (Matt Blake) and catching coach (Tanner Swanson).
Haddad has been in the organization since 2013. He was signed by the Yankees as a non-drafted free agent and was a catcher is the system until 2016, when he served as a player-coach at Staten Island in preparation for a minor league coaching assignment.
But an opportunity came with the major league club and Haddad has been on the Bronx Bombers staff since 2017. He can use his knowledge to help Blake and Swanson with their transition.
“Where those guys will want or need help, I’m there to fill in the gaps,” says Haddad, a graduate of Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory High School (2008) and Butler University (2013) — both in Indianapolis. ”A lot of my time will probably be spent on game planning.”
Radley and wife Arielle, a Franklin, Ind., native who he met at Butler, moved from Manhattan to New Jersey in January. It’s a 20-minute drive to Yankee Stadium.
Being close year-round has made it easy for Haddad to get to know the ins and outs of the team’s analytics department.
Hadded earned a Finance degree at Butler. His familiarity with regressions, progressions and algorithms allows him to work with weight averages and other analytic concepts.
“You need to have some experience in some upper level math,” says Haddad. “You don’t have to be a genius. It’s math and it’s computers and being able to write codes.
“(Players) are very open to what we’re trying to do. Kids coming from college programs are more up with technology and buzzwords and they understand the value. We’re all trying to accomplish the same thing. Sometimes you just have to use different verbiage.”
Haddad notes that 29-year-old right-hander Gerrit Cole, who signed as a free agent in December 2019 and likely would have been tabbed by manager Aaron Boone as the Yankees’ Opening Day starter had the 2020 season started on time, has embraced analytics during his career.
“He’s really smart guy and cares about his career,” says Haddad. “He applied what they gave him in Houston. He used the information presented to him.
“We’re trying to parlay off of that and make him just a tick better.”
With Haddad being close by, he’s also been able to catch area residents Coleand righty reliever Adam Ottavino during the current COVID-19-related shutdown. Some of those sessions happened in back yards. The Stadium was just recently made available.
Players and staff are literally spread across the globe and have stayed in-touch through group texts and Zoom calls. Sharing of Google Docs has allowed coaches and other pitchers to keep up with their progress.
Yankees bullpen coach Mike Harkey makes sure they have what they need, including a catcher, so they can stay on track and be ready.
Haddad likes the way Gerrit puts it: “I will keep the pilot light on so I can fire it up.”
As of this writing, Gerrit is in a starting rotation mix that also features Masahiro Tanaka, J.A. Happ, Jordan Montgomery, Jonathan Loaisiga, James Paxton and Domingo German.
Fireballer Aroldis Chapman is the Yankees closer. Besides Ottavino and Chapman, the bullpen includes Zack Britton, Luis Cessa, Chad Green, Jonathan Holder, Tommy Kahnle and Tyler Lyons.
Haddad moved with his family to Carmel, Ind., at 10. He played travel baseball with the Carmel Pups. They were in need of a catcher so Radley put on the gear and fell in love with the position.
“I loved everything about it,” says Haddad, who was primarily a catcher at Brebeuf, two seasons at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C. (2009 and 2010), and two at Butler (2012 and 2013). “I liked the mental side, being involved in every pitching and calling games. I liked working with all the pitchers and seeing how guys can manipulate the ball.”
John Zangrilli was a frequent spectator at Carmel Pups games and is now Greyhounds pitching coach on a staff led by Matt Buczkowski.
Zangrilli was head coach at Brebeuf when Haddad was there and had a major impact.
“He was the most beneficial person in my baseball career,” says Haddad of Zangrilli. “He taught me about being a real baseball player and taking care of business.
“That meant doing things the right way, paying attention to details.”
It was also the way you treat people. It was more than baseball, it was life skills.
Zangrilli was at Radley and Arielle’s wedding in 2018.
Haddad earned honorable mention all-state honors at Brebeuf. He helped the Braves to an IHSAA Class 3A No. 1 ranking and a Brebeuf Sectional title while hitting .494 with 38 runs scored as a senior.
Playing time at Western Carolina was limited and Haddad decided to go to Butler, where he started 89 games in his two seasons.
NCAA rules at the time required players transferring between Division I school to sit out a transfer season. That’s what Haddad did when he went to Butler, where Steve Farley was Bulldogs head coach.
“Steve was a great guy,” says Haddad. “He welcomed me. He didn’t have any stigma about who I was and why I was leaving a school. He knew I wanted to get on a field.
“He’s a good man who taught people how to live the right way.”
Though he doesn’t get back to Indiana often, Haddad stays connected to central Indiana baseball men Zangrilli, Farley, Chris Estep, Jay Lehr and Greg Vogt.
During his high school years, Haddad played travel baseball for the Indiana Mustangs which operate out of Estep’s RoundTripper Sports Academy in Westfield.
Lehr is a long-time baseball instructor based in Hamilton County.
Vogt, a former Carmel Pups teammate of Haddad, runs PRP (Passion Resilience Process) Baseball out of Finch Creek Fieldhouse in Noblesville.
“We played together or against each other our whole lives,” says Haddad of Vogt. “He’s done a great job of building a program he believes in.”
Bob Haddad Jr., Radley’s father, is Chief Operating Officer at Harrison Lake Country Club in Columbus. Radley’s mother, Lauren Schuh, is remarried.
Radley (30) has two younger brothers — Griffin Haddad (28) and Ian Schuh (20).
Grffin is an assistant athletic trainer for the Green Bay Packers. He went to Brebeuf for four years, earned his undergraduate degree at Texas Christian University and his master’s at the University of Michigan.
Ian spent one year at Brebeuf and finished high school at Carmel. He is at South Dakota State University with his sights on being a conservation officer.
Haddad was featured on the Robertson Training Systems podcast in January.
Radley Haddad, a graduate of Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory High School and Butler University – both in Indianapolis, is entering his fourth season on the coaching staff of the New York Yankees. In 2020, he is a coaching assistant and bullpen coach. (New York Yankees Photo)
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11 confirmed COVID-19 cases linked to Vaughan sports facility; 8 businesses charged
Bryann Aguilar Web Content Writer, CP24
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Published Saturday, November 28, 2020 5:20PM EST
TORONTO -- York Region says 11 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been linked to an indoor sports facility in Vaughan, and eight businesses were charged and fined Saturday for violating public health protocols.
In a public notice, York Region Public Health said the cases were traced back to two soccer games played on Nov. 11 and Nov. 15 at TRIO Sportsplex and Event Centre, in the area of Teston Road and Highway 400.
A group of 20 to 25 people attended the two events, and while they wore masks during the game, health officials said they did not put them on in the changing rooms.
Of the 11 people who were diagnosed, eight are from Toronto. The other three are from the regions of York, Simcoe-Muskoka and Peel. All are being advised to self-isolate for 14 days.
"In the interest of transparency, we prefer to actually post any information on clusters that we think would be of interest to the public," Dr. Karim Kurji, York Region's medical officer of health, said in an interview with CP24 on Saturday.
Those who attended the games are being told to monitor their symptoms as the risk of exposure is high, health officials said.
"What this does is it highlights the importance of being so careful when we go to places like the gyms and also being very careful in changing rooms in particular when you're playing indoor soccer."
Kurji noted clusters like this show there is evidence that there is a potential for COVID-19 transmission in gyms and sports facilities.
Last week, York Region Public Health notified the public of six cases tied to fitness classes held in a studio in Aurora.
On Saturday, 145 new COVID-19 cases were reported in York Region.
While cases in the area seem to be plateauing, Kurji said they are still teetering.
"We haven't actually seen the reduction that I was hoping for," he said.
"We should be seeing those reductions anytime now, given that we've been about 10 to 12 days after we went into the red zone. So, we need to remain vigilant."
York Region is in the red-control level of the province's COVID-19 tiered framework for restrictions.
Officials pleaded with the province not to place the region in the lockdown level with Toronto and Peel, saying they are confident that current restrictions are enough to control the spread.
Inspectors from the Ministry of Labour and members of the COVID-19 enforcement task force, which include York Region Public Health inspectors, bylaw officers and police, are conducting an enforcement blitz in the region this weekend to make sure businesses are complying with protocols.
On Friday, they inspected 439 establishments, issuing charges under the Reopening Ontario Act and Section 22 of the Health Protection and Promotion Act to six businesses.
"Today, they've been busy, and they've been laying charges," Kurji said.
The focus of Saturday's inspections were big box and grocery stores. In a news release, York Region said inspectors visited 172 establishments and eight businesses were charged.
They include Vaughan Mills Shopping Centre, Costco at 7077 Kennedy Road, PHO 72, Yong He All Day Breakfast, Sam's Congee Delight, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Lowe's in Vaughan, and Majaz Lounge.
"We believe that we've taken all the precautions that we need to take," the doctor said.
"And we are hopeful that we don't actually move into the lockdown zone."
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Donor conception, IVF — April 13, 2016
IVF and the single woman: modern revolutionaries
It was six years ago that a relationship break up, a law change, and a ground-breaking doctor culminated in my life taking a change of path I could never have imagined: into single motherhood.
I was in my late thirties and my long-term partner and I were about to start IVF after over a year of trying to fall pregnant naturally. Fertility treatment, as anyone who has undergone it will tell you, is painful and stressful and more than anything, you have to want it bad.
While I desperately wanted to become a mother, my partner was less keen, and we ended up splitting. I was devastated and terrified at the prospect of never having children.
That’s where the law change and the revolutionary doctor come into the story. In Victoria, the law had just been changed to allow single women access to the donor sperm program.
My doctor sorted out my fertility issues, and just like that, I become amongst the first group of single women to deliberately become single mothers thanks to IVF and a sperm donor.
The idea of becoming a single mother didn’t scare me. I grew up in a single parent family and we are a happy, close family. Anyway, I was just so thrilled that I was finally going to become a mum – even though I didn’t have a man.
After three embryo transfers I became pregnant with my first daughter, and 21 months later, she was joined by a sister.
Of course – as every new mother will tell you – the reality of motherhood is often very different from a Johnson & Johnson commercial. Being a single mother to two kids is utterly exhausting. Twenty-four hours a day, every single day of the year, I am everything – breadwinner, cook, housekeeper, nurse, sole point of comfort and encouragement.
“I don’t know how you do it” is something I hear frequently. It is difficult, no doubt about it, but as with so many things in life, it’s a case of swings and roundabouts. There are some really crappy bits about being a single parent (the relentless exhaustion and the constant weight of financial pressures being two of the big ones), but there are also some amazingly wonderful bits.
I love that at the end of a busy day, my daughters and I can sit on the couch in our pyjamas with toasted cheese sandwiches and call that dinner. I love that the kids can sleep with me when they want. But most of all I love that feeling of being a little team working it all out together.
Someone once said to me that women like me revolutionaries. It was flattering – and absolutely true. I was one of the first single women in Victoria to legally conceive a child through IVF using a sperm donor.
While so many men and women before us saw single parenthood as something to be avoided, something that would ruin their lives, we marched right into it with courage and a determination to create the lives we wanted without being reliant on a man.
There are some who will think we are foolish or selfish for depriving a child of a father, and if some shock jocks are to believed, we should all be scared of this Brave New World, where men are no longer required for anything, not even reproduction! Time will tell us how much of this is true, but for the moment I know only this to be true:
My daughters are being brought up surrounded by love, with the support of a large network of extended families and friends. And they know how much they are loved and wanted, because of what their mum did to have them with her.
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BRISTOL LABOUR: PAPERING OVER THE CRACKS
Victory for Labour in all four Bristol wards at the general election – alongside bad defeats in South Gloucester target wards Filton and Bradley Stoke and Kingswood – just about managed to PAPER OVER THE CRACKS emerging along CLASS LINES in Bristol. A closer look at Labour’s victorious results reveals A DIVIDE emerging between WEALTHY INNER CITY WARDS now occupied and gentrified by the middle classes and the city’s neglected WORKING CLASS SUBURBS.
Could Labour’s historic coalition between organised labour and the progressive middle classes be falling apart in Bristol? For example, in South Bristol, Labour romped home in Southville, Windmill Hill and Bedminster grabbing TWO THIRDS OF THE VOTE. However, in the working class wards of Filwood, Hartcliffe and Withywood and Hengrove and Whitchurch Park Labour reputedly TRAILED IN BEHIND THE TORIES.
This pattern was somewhat repeated in Bristol North West where Darren “Dipshit” Jones LOST BADLY in working class Avonmouth and Lawrence Weston while he RACKED UP VOTES in middle class Westbury-on-Trym, Stoke Bishop and Henleaze. However Dipshit can point to some glimmers of light in that ultra-Corbynite stronghold Lockleaze remained unfaithful to him as did key working class estate Southmead.
Another story altogether unfolded in Bristol West, however, where working class communities with a larger mix of immigrant and black voters in wards such as Easton, Eastville, Hilllfields and Lawrence Hill, stayed with Labour to deliver Thangam Debbonaire a THUMPING MAJORITY – the largest of any Bristol MP – to continue her vendetta against the left wing of her party.
What all this means for the future and for Bristol is open to interpretation. Especially as many people who voted Labour at the general election are telling us that they only LENT THEM A VOTE to keep the Tories out and they’ll VOTE DIFFERENTLY at next year’s local elections.
All to play for in the mayoral elections in 2020, then. (306)
This entry was posted in News and tagged Bristol, Bristol North West, Bristol South, Bristol West, Filton and Bradley Stoke, General Election, Kingswood, Labour Party, Mayoral Election 2020 on February 17, 2020 by thebristolblogger.
THE HISTORY PERSON
It looks like “Little Read” Olivette Otele, Bristol University’s new high-profile woke diversity hire brought in to foghorn A HARMLESS LIBERAL VERSION OF THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY at us, is going to be very good value indeed. One of Little Read Olivette’s first moves was to announce on Twitter that she wanted “to put together a list of UK based black scholars 1/ historians with a PhD in History or PhD students. 2/ working on the history of slavery, memory, memorialisation and legacies of the past (Atlantic, Transaharian, Indian Ocean).”
Unfortunately her request didn’t go down too well with some chippy WHITE ACADEMICS who felt left out of the ELITIST WOKE HISTORY PARTY. But they had no reason to worry because Little Read soon returned to Twitter to explain, “I’m told that as identity is fluid, ONE CAN CHOOSE TO BE BLACK. So white born can choose to be black and non white born can choose to identify as black as in political blackness.”
So that’s all right then. Anybody white can just pop on a black identity like A PAIR OF UNDERPANTS every morning when they get dressed and become a black scholar. Who knew being a black scholar was so accessible these days? Indeed WHAT THE FUCK IS BEING BLACK ANYWAY if we follow Little Read’s advice to its logical conclusion?
And yes, before you ask, we are paying Little Read handsomely to educate our young people in this deranged drivel. Happy days.
This entry was posted in News and tagged Black scholars, Identity, Olivette Otele, Slave trade, Twitter, University of Bristol on February 12, 2020 by thebristolblogger.
AGILE STILL FRAGILE?
An exciting Counts Louse agile workspace. Admire the colour scheme;
ignore the cost?
An expensive SEVEN YEAR FIASCO of ‘agile working’ continues unchallenged at Bristol City Council. There’s still NO EVIDENCE that the council’s plan to buy the Temple Street Lubianka for £18m and expensively refurbish the Counts Louse at a further cost of £16m while selling off council offices across the city has delivered any savings.
Alongside the pricey property arrangements came a ‘Workplace Programme’ promoting HALF-BAKED TECH SOLUTIONS and fashionable MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY NONSENSE. This claimed the council could create money-saving “new agile working environments” for their workforce by issuing staff with laptops, smart phones and tablets and promoting home-working and mobile working to save money.
The expensive plans, put together by UNACCOUNTABLE MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS, originally came with promises of £60m of savings by Max Wide “Boy”, one of the many execs who have rolled in through THE COUNCIL’S REVOLVING DOOR over the last few years to scrounge a six-figure salary. Wide Boy arrived in 2013 and departed out again in 2016 leaving a £30 million agile working-shaped DEBT in his wake.
Fast foward three years and the ‘Agile Working’ fiasco continues. A recent report to councillors on the latest AGILE WORKING FAILURE in adult care – where the implementation of tablets and tech on the advice of consultants has belly-flopped – explains, “there still isn’t a clearly defined and available benefits document for the Agile Working Project”.
In other words after seven years of forking out HUGE SUMS OF MONEY on the advice of management consultants procured by high-earning council directors, no one HAS MEASURED THE COST EFFECTIVENESS of their ‘agile working’ strategy. Consequently the obvious conclusion that cutting back staff and giving those that remain a tablet will NOT SAVE ANY MONEY is still yet to be reached.
Although any targets for rewarding failure among council execs and their management consultants continue to be exceeded.
This entry was posted in News and tagged 100 Temple Street, Adult care, Agile working, Bristol City Council, City Hall, Max Wide on February 11, 2020 by thebristolblogger.
WALSH’S WHISTLEBLOW JOB FLOP
More problems for Bedwetter Walsh emerge as his useless HR department is UNCEREMONIOUSLY DUMPED from managing whistleblowing matters at the council. Responsibility for whistleblowers now sits with the Chief Internal Auditor as bosses’ and councillors’ trust in their OVERPAID HR MANAGEMENT CLOWN and his MALFUNCTIONING DEPARTMENT evaporates after a series of highly avoidable mishaps.
The new arrangements arrive after staff REPEATEDLY told council bosses and councillors that they had NO TRUST in the whistleblowing process under the bizarre management of Bedwetter who’s hobbies appear to include targeting whisleblowers for the sack.
It’s now general knowledge around the Counts Louse that this useless lying fruitbat was working at Wakefield Council in a senior HR role when six whistleblowers were PAID £1MILLION IN COMPENSATION after being FIRED and placed on a register of POTENTIAL SEX OFFENDERS for trying to expose CHILD ABUSE in Wakefield children’s homes.
How much longer can this dangerous fool survive in Bristol?
This entry was posted in News and tagged Audit Committee, Bristol City Council, Chief Internal Auditor, Director of HR and Workforce, John Walsh, Wakefield Council, Whistleblowing on February 9, 2020 by thebristolblogger.
COUNCIL’S BEDWETTING PAEDO PROTECTOR BREAKS HIS OWN RULES
Friend to any passing paedo and DANGEROUS ENEMY of decent social care workers everywhere, John “Bedwetter” Walsh, the council’s weirdo Director of HR and Chief Mayoral Arselicker, is at it again. His latest wheeze is TO EXPLAIN AWAY to gullible councillors his authorisation of the continued employment – ON £1,500 A DAY – of his executive colleague and the Reverend’s best buddy, Colin “Head Boy” Molton.
Despite Head Boy being REPLACED as Head of Growth and Regeneration in the autumn by his former colleague, another regional development bureaucrat, Stephen “Preening” Peacock, Head Boy CONTINUES TO WORK FOR THE COUNCIL ON A HUGE WEDGE. This bizarre arrangement was first described as “a sensible period of handover between Colin and Stephen to ensure a smooth transition and to maintain momentum with major projects” but more recently it has been slightly rebadged as “remain[ing] involved in a small number of projects for a short while to make sure there is a smooth transition.”
How long is a “short while”? AND HOW MUCH WILL THIS “SHORT WHILE” COST COUNCIL TAX PAYERS? Bedwetter finally made himself available to the council’s HR committee in December – two months after he PERSONALLY AUTHORISED this generous arrangement at a cost to us, so far, of around £66k – to explain all. However, two key problems emerged from Bedwetter’s HR Committee appearance.
Firstly, the item was EXEMPT, meaning the public, paying for this EXECUTIVE THEFT, will not be told anything about this carve up by two public sector managers with a dubious relationship to truth, honesty and the rules. Secondly, Bedwetter’s ‘verbal report’ conveniently leaves NO PAPER TRAIL and NO ACCOUNTABILITY for a decision that puts large sums of public money into an individual’s pocket for no coherent reason.
Bedwetter’s dodgy ‘verbal report’ also ignores the Bundred Report, expensively prepared for the Reverend in 2017 to explain how to run a council lawfully and competently. The report demanded that “REPORTS rather than PRESENTATIONS to be used as the basis of discussions and decisions”.
Why, then, is Bedwetter deliberately breaking his own council’s rules to help line Head Boy’s pockets with our cash? Rules that he’s paid handsomely to uphold.
This entry was posted in News and tagged Bristol City Council, Colin Molton, Executive Pay, Head of Workforce, HR Committee, Interim Director Growth and Regeneration, John Walsh, Stephen Peacock on February 7, 2020 by thebristolblogger.
NO-ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR CREATIVE HUB SO GET YOUR FUCKIN’ HEDGE CUT
The city’s PUBLICLY FUNDED West Bristol creative set were out in force for the opening of Channel 4’s Public School Hub (surely ‘Creative Hub’? Ed.) on 15 January.
What a great opportunity for our wealthy self-styled creative cognescenti to post their dull photos to Twitter and joylessly gush about ‘diversity’ from an UPMARKET OFFICE PARTY that you weren’t invited to.
The thrills, spills and excitement were led by ‘Mr Diverse’ himself, the Reverend Rees, who took to Twitter to ramble on about planks and city partners and allege that a whole NINE PER CENT of Channel 4’s staff were working class!
Although that won’t include the keynote speaker, Channel 4’s Chief Exec, Alex Mahon, educated at St Margaret’s, a fee paying school in Edinburgh or her new ‘Head of Bristol Hub’, Sacha “Daddy’s Boy” Mirzoeff. Sacha, we learn, got his start in broadcasting when he bagged a place on “THE HIGHLY COMPETITIVE MANAGEMENT TRAINING SCHEME AT THE BBC.”
Coincidentally at the time that daddy, Edward Mirzoeff CBE, was head of documentaries at, er, the BBC!
This entry was posted in News and tagged Alex Mahon, BBC, Channel 4, Creative Hub, Diversity, Edward Mirzoeff, Launch, Marvin Rees, Sacha Mirzoeff on February 6, 2020 by thebristolblogger.
BRISTOL LABOUR MPs ‘EUPHORIC’ AT ELECTION DEFEAT
Bristol’s Labour MPs have reportedly been overjoyed at their Party’s defeat in December’s General Election.
“I have been euphoric,” said Bristol North West MP Darren ‘Dipshit’ Jones, “Corbyn and his fantasy of a fairer, more equal society is over. And I kept my job! It was my best Christmas for years,” added the Tony Blair fanboy.
Smiling from ear to ear, Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy agreed … “It was a very Merry Christmas. Labour’s annihilation was wonderful. We have been desperate to get rid of Corbyn for years. Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of ourselves, the media and the entire Establishment he was still hugely popular with the members and the general public. We couldn’t budge him and we were desperate.
“Then, last year, (Deputy Leader) Tom Watson explained to me that Aleister Campbell and Peter Mandelson had a brilliant plan. We were to force Corbyn to back a second EU referendum against his wishes. This would then guarantee that we lost millions of working class voters and would be obliterated at the next General Election. We could then blame it on Corbyn!
“It was a brilliant plan, pure genius … And it worked like clockwork! The prospect for democratic change is now well and truly over,” she laughed.
Elsewhere, in Kingswood, Tory MP Chris Skidmore celebrated another victory … “I see this as a complete mandate,” he said. “When I return to Parliament in the new year I am going to give it my all. I will once again devote every ounce of my energy to knocking seven shades of shit out of the poor, the sick and the disabled. As for those idle British workers, those c#*ts are gonna get it with both barrels.”
“I’m gonna kick the living f#cking crap out of them, I swear on my life.”
This entry was posted in News and tagged Alastair Campbell, Bristol, Bristol East, Bristol North West, Chris skidmore, Darren Jones, EU referendum, General Election, Jeremy Corbyn, Kerry McCarthy, Kingswood, Labour Party, Peter Mandelson, Tom Watson on February 5, 2020 by thebristolblogger.
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Melissa Sue Anderson, right, portrayed Mary Ingalls in the 1970s NBC TV show "Little House on the Prairie."
The real reason Mary Ingalls went blind
If you watched "Little House on the Prairie," chances are you remember the story of Mary Ingalls.
The television show and popular book series drew on the real-life experiences of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Mary, Laura's sister, went blind as a teenager after contracting scarlet fever, according to the story. Now a team of medical researchers are raising questions about whether that's true.
Dr. Beth Tarini, one of the co-authors of the paper, became intrigued by the question as a medical student.
"I was in my pediatrics rotation. We were talking about scarlet fever, and I said, 'Oh, scarlet fever makes you go blind. Mary Ingalls went blind from it,'" recalls Tarini, who is now an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Michigan. My supervisor said, "I don't think so."
Tarini started doing research. Over the course of 10 years, she and her team of researchers, pored over old papers and letters written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, local newspaper accounts of Mary's illness and epidemiological data on blindness and infectious disease in the late 19th century. What they found was intriguing.
In Wilder's unpublished memoir, "Pioneer Girl," there is no reference to Mary having scarlet fever the year she went blind. (She did have scarlet fever when she was much younger.) "She never says scarlet fever. She never says rash," Tarini says, pointing out the rash is a telltale sign of scarlet fever.
Digging deeper, when researchers looked at epidemiological data from the time, they saw that most cases of blindness attributed to scarlet fever were temporary. In addition, newspaper accounts of Mary's illness report "severe headaches" and one side of her face being partially paralyzed.
Finally, and perhaps the most important piece of evidence, in a letter Wilder wrote to her daughter, Rose, right before her book "By the Shores of Silver Lake" was published, she makes reference "some sort of spinal sickness". The letter also mentions that Mary saw a specialist in Chicago who said "the nerves of her eyes were paralyzed and there was no hope."
Diagnosis by these disease detectives: viral meningoencephalitis, which causes inflammation of the brain and the meninges, the membrane that covers the brain. In severe cases, it can cause inflammation of the optic nerve that can result in a slow and progressive loss of sight.
It may not be the biggest bombshell to hit the medical world, but to "Little House" fans, the question remains: why did Wilder change her sister's illness to scarlet fever? The study authors believe it could be because Wilder and her editors thought scarlet fever would be more relatable to her readers. Scarlet fever is mentioned in other books from the period, including "Little Women" and "Frankenstein."
But there is also an important wider medical lesson we can learn from this research. Today, about 10% of people infected with strep get scarlet fever, says Tarini. It is easily treatable. But because the cultural reference to scarlet fever is so ingrained in our culture, people assume it is very dangerous. "People read as children that scarlet fever makes you go blind," says Tarini. "Parents look concerned ... so I have to debunk it in the office."
The study was published Monday in this week's edition of the journal Pediatrics.
Post by: Jennifer Bixler - CNN Medical Executive Producer
Filed under: Brain • Children's Health • Eyes • Living Well • Offbeat
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Best episode was the one where Laura took Nellie and threw her in the mud. Hands down one of my favorite moments from TV growing up as a child.
JoyfulNana
My favorite episode is when the Olsen's have moved into the city. A storekeeper wants to sell Mrs. Olsen some cream to take care of the "crows feet" around her eyes. Mrs. Olsen tells her that they are not Crows Feet, but Laugh Lines. The storekeeper tells her that nothing is that funny! I love that one!!!
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RichardSRussell
Geez, I still remember that, too. One of my favorite lines as well.
badpatient
i think i remember that too. seemed out of character for her, but ...
Yeah well Mary still turned out fine, married a nice guy had a baby. Oh but that baby died in a fire and Mary was again stricken with grief. Poor lovely Mary. They don't make good TV like that anymore.
This is about the real life Mary. She did not marry or have a baby.
@Sheri-What is it with you trying to correct everyone who are simply joking around about the characters? Here you go: YES, SHERI, WE ALL KNOW THE ARTICLE IS ABOUT THE REAL MARY. Are you happy now?!
Proofreading please? It's "poured", not pored. 😉
123elle
You are wrong. "Pored" is correct. At leastcheck with a dictionary before you spew your ignorance in public.
1 [pawr, pohr] Show IPA
verb (used without object), pored, por·ing.
to read or study with steady attention or application: a scholar poring over a rare old manuscript.
jmax
No, "pore" is the correct word here.
determined2bfit
wow, swing and a miss!
Shatner
What part of Elle's definition are you all missing? You all got majorly p'wned.
skytag
I figured out a long time ago that it's worth spending a few seconds with Google before correcting someone on the web. 😉
maxedison
Let me guess, Jimmy Joe Jim Bob...you're a non-denominational imbecile...where does the "Christian" part come from??
Christina: Proofreading indeed. Use of a question mark is incorrect.
Not a word I use a lot, but I'll bet I've used it wrong. 'Poured' somehow sounds correct-er. ;>
It's good to point these things out, but of little use to get worked up about them. We ALL misuse/spell something wrong. Or say a phrase wrong. In my 60's, I find so many words I've been misspelling, that I didn't even realize. Yay, spellcheck!!!
And the next time I use 'pored over', I'll have forgotten this little lesson and will probably spell it wrong.
10 years research.... wow!! sad
The article didn't say it was all they did for 10 years. They do stuff like this on the side in their spare time.
You are the stupid one. This is fascinating research done without pay on an important work of literature and a historically valuable book. Researchers often go back and find out the truth behind literary characters, but somebody like you would not ever go one step out of your way for knowledge. You are what is known as a low achiever.
AGeek
"historically valuable". Ok, I'll bite. The cause of blindness was CLEARLY wrong and is a significant bit in the book. Are you willing to now bet that the rest of it is accurate? Really? On what basis? As a historic record, it's now rubbish. A mix of fiction and non-fiction. It needs to be relegated to the fiction section of the library shelves.
That's usually where historical fiction is found.
please research the term historical fiction. Moron.
TKramar
Just because they lacked knowledge about some things, it doesn't invalidate the rest of the book. Ignorance isn't quite the same as "making stuff up". If you think you see a red ball, and it's actually a blue one, that doesn't make your perception invalid.
Glitzyglitter
I just have to know. What the eff does this have to do with anything going on in the world today? I mean, this is really a stupid thing to be featured on a headline. There are more serious things going on in the world. Sure it was a great show. It's loved by generations still. But this is something that's just not acceptable to take the place of things that really matter. It's not fair to hide the real things that are important and happening now from the public over a very silly research.
Joe Unger
You're over-reacting. This story isn't stopping anything important from happenning. Most people won't even read it. Stay calm.
Displacedmic
i bet you spent more time writing your silly little diatribe than i did reading the article...it's the internet – there's no shortage of space. if a link doesn't sound interesting, don't click on it.
How hard is that?
It seems that you are O.K. with people believing that Scarlet Fever makes you blind when there is no basis in fact to support that. By trying to determine what the true cause was, they were able to put some fears to rest for those who get Scarlet Fever. The more we know about health risks the better we are able to respond to events in our lives.
Beeeeecaaaauuuuse, they have now debunked an old wives tale and have left the human race juuuuuuust a little bit more enlightened and knowledgeable about this big 'ol scary disease ridden world. So, next time a helicopter parent comes spinning in out of control with a child exhibiting Scarlet Fever symptoms they can rest a little easier knowing that little Johnny isn't going to go blind after all. Isn't that worth having one less stressed out soccer mom in the world?
The story is a fishing expedition. An attempt by TV execs to gauge the popularity of LHotP to see if they can respin it for cash.
I had such a crush on Melissa Sue Anderson back in the day......and looking at her photo on her book, she still looks great.
Arick
A lot of really important scientists are posting here. I can only imagine the disease you geniuses are curing with your time.
They should cure our nation's most widespread affliction – apathy.
Think about all the mouths you could feed if you were working and donating the money to charity instead of posting on CNN!
There is no cure for stupidity.
There must be another Democrat scandal to cover up.(Menendez) Why else would CNN grace US with a Mary Ingalls blindness study.
Perhaps because there are other things in the world to cover than politics and not everything interests everyone. I think this is really interesting. If you don't want to read an article, then just skip it.
You NAILED IT! How long before the lefty kool-aid drinkers figure it out???? Never!
If somebody were to publish a nice Valentine's Day article about kittens and rose petals and rainbows, some bitter right-winger would find a way to turn it into a slam against Obama and the Democrats. Give it a rest, guys, you're not making friends.
Mary Single
MJ you are a dick! Really hope nothing makes you go blind (snicker-snicker).
PaddingtonPoohBear
Amen to that Richard!
The American pioneers and settlers who were pushing West went through amazing hardships to make a new life for themselves during the early 19th century.
Dealing with disease when medicine was still primitive was yet another issue they had to deal with.
They have my respect!
Conspiracy Alert! Another shocking bit of bashing from the far right. You guys are pretty consistent when it comes to staying away from reality...
TMoney
Good to know. Still, I had such a massive crush on Melissa Sue Anderson.
Jesus Christ. File under, "GET A LIFE!"
Years ago, a friend with seizures was prescribed Dilantin. At the doctor's office, I wanted to know, "Does it make your gums rot?" The doctor was surprised, and said yes, how did I know? I read it in Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Mr. Kesey did work in a mental hospital, however, and I guess he must have learned it there.
Hope your "friend" is ok. I always bring my friends to the doctor with me. haha!
Prophet Maximization
Mary could have come up with practices to offset the disease.
Is it just me, or has CNN basically turned into a middle-school newspaper?
For someone who doesn't like this article, you seem to be the one with the most time on your hands to post comments.
A wide range of stories for people with a wide range of interests.
Not including you, evidently.
jamespinsky
It may have turned into a middle school newspaper, but the sad truth is that CNN is simply catering its information to its largest demographic. The media isn't changing America. America has insisted the media report what it does. After all, it all boils down to revenue. We have no one to blame for this other than ourselves.
On that note, I find it pretty interesting that someone questioned this urban legend. Too many folks, with good intentions, simply accept what they read or hear as the truth. Here, we have a simply for noteworthy tale of a person questioning information about an extremely popular American book series and television show, and following it to its logical conclusion.
I say bravo.
The only disappointing information associated with this article is the childish remarks from many readers.
Shatner Blows
The sooner you realize the world does not revolve around you, the better. Did CNN send you an urgent news alert to your shoe phone about this story? No, they didn't, so get over yourself already.
The real DANGEROUS illness for teens and college age kids is Bacterial Meningitis which can spread quickly in dormitories and other close living quarters and can be quite lethal to young people. Patients often end up in isolation units in ICU and can suffer permanent, debilitating side effects including nerve damage.
The real tragic part is that it's preventable with a vaccine. I'll admit the vaccine is a bit on the expensive side, but considering it's just a little north of $100 I'd say it's worth the investment to be better safe than sorry.
Even more sad is thinking any disease is preventable by a vaccine...
No. I would have been blind by age 14 if that were true.
I like corn.
Hard pore corn?
Kat D.
Don't you mean "hard pour corn"?
My mother went blind in her left eye from having scarlett fever as a kid... she wore glasses alll of her life... she was out of school for a whole year because she was so sick... i think it probably was true.... my mom also lived on a farm.. . family wasnt rich or anything and did what they could to get by....
Well then,
The article debunks that your mother had scarlet fever. She had viral meningoencephalitis. She's fortunate that it was only in one eye.
Calpurniabunt
My Grandmother had Scarlett fever as a young girl and she lost her sight in one eye as well.
I thought she went blind from a fire. How did I get that? I was around seven or eight when she went blind and I was convinced I was going to go blind too. I slept with the light on for years. Totally traumatized me.
You do realize that this article is about the real life Ingalls family, and the incident you refer to is from a fictionalized TV show?
don't you believe everything you watch?
There was a Mary Ingalls who went blind when living in Walnut Grove, Minnesota. She then went to the School for the Blind in Vinton, Iowa and resided the rest of her life in DeSmet, South Dakota. She died in 1928 when visiting her sister Carrie.
For the ungrateful people here who think this was a waste of time / money / opportunity to cure cancer: A) why did you bother to read it. B) I'm sure this was not the only thing this group of ambitious people were working on. Sometimes in addition to all the serious work its fun to have side projects. C) Science doesn't occur in cancer curing leaps and bounds. Science is in fact indifferent. It is about the details, the nuances, and getting things right. Eventually all those things come together and we stand on the shoulders of giants. Now you can go back to criticizing ambitious scholarly people in between your Doritos break and commercials.
iceman4
dr. beth tarini needs a life. Take that little house passion and cure an illness or something
Burrito23
My god, libs think TV is real!
sam stone
when did this become about politics pen-de-jo?
Actually this is not just about TV but real life. Get a grip she did go blind.
Name*harrypalm
@Sherri-Do you realize she is joking around?!!
To find out why research like this is important, look no further than the actor who portrayed Pa Ingalls. Michael Landon COULD have spent his final months in the company of friends and family. Instead he spent it frantically ramming around the world in search of some kind of miracle cure for his cancer and had to associate with the worst kinds of charlatans and quacks. Sometimes the best service that science can provide is to point out what DOESN'T work.
i think strep causes MUCH more havoc than they give it credit for, even today. messes up your blood sugar.
Revcarrie
Laura Ingalls Wilder is a cousin of my family on my father's side. I had read the books as a child but got really interested in the family when the truth showed up in my genealogy. Mary never did marry and lived with the younger sister Carrie until her death. There weren't any "adopted children" in the family either as is depicted in the T.V. shows. I was interested in this article because my own mother was said to have had scarlet fever as a child resulting in heart problems and breathing problems as she aged.....however.....she also had CMT Muscular Dystrophy which is inherited from her father's side of the family so who knows what the entire truth is there either... without someone researching it out with today's knowledge. I personally am glad someone picked up this task of researching Mary's illness and the truth.
It's not a waste of time and money of you're a pediatrician who's sick of Helicopter Moms coming in, freaking out because their kid has Scarlet Fever, thinking the kid is going to go blind due to some #(%@ing hack writer who can't be bothered to at least cite a legitimate cause for the blindness. Or because they believe a non-medical book should actually be taken as rote medical information. There are FAR too many acutely stupid people on this planet, so research like this is necessary to combat that stupidity.
Don K Bauls
I heard it was a failed lasik surgery attempt by Doc Baker.
Joseph Bahri
The picture above which accompanies the article seems unusually "modern". In Little House on the Prairie, I do not ever remember seeing presents/gifts wrapped in such fancy, glossy, colorful paper with ribbons and bows. In Walnut Grove, they were usually wrapped in plain brown paper from the Oleson"s Mercantile. So has the picture been "photoshopped"?
Why do we need to distort the simplicity of the period?
You're a special kind of paranoid, huh?
Robert Sands
Isuspect that the presents pictured were from a Christmas. or other celebration, on set. Not a part of the production.
My wife is a big fan of the books and show. Years back we had friends who went to the house where Laura Ingalls Wilder lived, they saw pictures etc, and the book is not really at all like the story other then the mother, father, children's names. I already knew she didn't go blind from scarlet fever it was just easier for the show, also it was even more primative then the show, the father had a long beard, hardly smoked, Michael Landon was a chain smoker you know, and there are some other things. That's why it's based on the books, not a complete retell.
NotCinderell
They also attribute her blindness to scarlet fever in the books, too, though.
claudiat
Mary never got married in real life. She died after several strokes few months after her mother. What caused her blindness was high fever. What really caused the fever we will never know , but it says in the books that they even cut her beautiful hair to lower her fever. There was no tylenol in those days and was common for people to die, go blind or deaf after a high fever. The last thing she saw was the beautiful eyes of her sister Grace. Laura became her eyes and because of that she learned to narrate and we have the little house books as legacy. Mary went to college for the blind and learned many things . She was always considered the smartest of the family.
Are you mentally challenged? You obviously just didn't bother to read the article?? Now, they DO know what it was. It right there ^ in the article you apparently didn't read, but just scrolled past in order to comment.
My son got scarlett fever a few years ago and I was totally freaked out that he would go blind!!!.....becaus that is what happened to Mary Ingalls.........perhaps I should sue for mental anquish lol
Odd to think of Frankenstein and By the Shores of Silver Lake as "from the same period." Frankenstein was published in 1818, By the Shores of Silver Lake in 1939. The book was set around 1868, but that's still well after Frankenstein.
the criddler
All I remember, is Little house on the prairie sucked. it was 4th grade mandatory reading assignment , i was a 10 year old boy, the last thing i wanted to do was read about a family of girls from 1800s...if that summary is wrong, i dont care, it was so boring I dont even want to know.
moviesimissed
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Uh, lolwut, Ms. Bixler? "Frankenstein" was published in 1818, "Little Women" in 1868 and "On the Shores of Silver Lake" in 1939.
Way to go Shatner.......I needed a good laugh........
The Laura Ingalls books are a treasure. It shows a part of our history and are read everywhere in the world. It should be mandatory read in elementary school. Laura's 65 year old memory was fabulous but when in doubt she would ask her sisters. Her role model was her dad and if you read little house on the big woods you will see. He was a great man.Her mom was an ex school teacher wich accounts for the high education her daughters received in spite of the hardships. The boy died before two,so dad encouraged the girls to be independent and strong as any boy.
ZoeyKay
There were still bigger risks back then. Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing as a result of scarlet fever when she was a baby – or at least that's how the story goes.
I actually thought the same thing when I read this article. "But...but...what about Helen Keller?" I looked up the Wikipedia article on Helen Keller, and according to that article, the fever she had was described by doctors at the time as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain". A little more googling led me to the conclusion that the doctors of Keller's time weren't positive of exactly what she had and could only describe the symptoms, and that the diagnosis of her blindness possibly being caused by scarlet fever actually came later. What is notable is that the only symptoms they describe seem incompatible with scarlet fever. No mention of a rash, either, and no mention of a sore or red throat (scarlet fever is what happens if you don't treat a strep throat infection with antibiotics). The only symptoms that they mention were stomach upset and a "congestion of the brain." While strep infections can certainly cause stomach upset and occasionally brain swelling, so does meningitis. Either way, it's inconclusive, but Helen Keller could have had meningitis as well.
If I lived out in the middle of nowhere in Minnesota in the 1800's, bored out of mind with nothing else to do, I would probably end doing things my Mother warned me about that would make me go blind too.
mb2010a
Shatner...you were a late bloomer.
so i was watching Sponge Bob and it dawned on me that Sea Sponges can talk. So I set out to do this research, took diving lessons, rented a vessel and coordinated several dives with some local divers to perform this study on how sea sponges communicate and language they speak...............................REALLY people. it's a feaking TV show.
Archie Mando
So they spend 10 years researching whether a teen age girl's blindness back in the 1800's was caused by scarlet fever or not. Really? 10 years?
That is so true. Back then people sometimes died of the common cold. It is crazy to waste the time and money on this research.
interesting, but scarlet fever can cause meningitis, which can then cause the vision to deteriorate over time. so it still really could have been originated from scarlet fever.
Apparently in the old days a lot physical side effects of an illness were attributed to scarlet fever. I had an uncle who was totally, Bruce Willis style, bald. The family story was that he went bald after contracting scarlet fever. Browsing the web I find that hair loss can occur in concert with a high fever, but it is temporary. Love those family stories.
Contrary Mary
I debunk this article in its entirety! I was from a family of 12 and 8 of us got Scarlet Fever. I was left with crossed eyes and wore glasses most of my youth. My eyes eventually uncrossed and I have been fine ever since. So I know first hand that Scarlet Fever can cause eye problems.
She blamed it on Scarlet Fever because nobody knew what viral meningoencephalitis was back then.
I loved that show and the books. The books were directed towards children and scarlet fever was probably easier to pronounce than the disease that really affected Mary. Children are not going to question the validity of an illness and the things that are a result of a particular illness. The books and shows were based on her life so not every aspect of them is true. Some parts are made up to make the story more interesting. I think it is also true that Mary never married so Adam Kendall is also made up just like the scarlet fever.
It was my favorite show as a kid, glad to know.
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Wear Your Soccer Jersey to Help At-Risk Children
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Bring Your Kit to Work Day, scheduled for June 14, is an initiative to help raise awareness for the 150 million children around the world living on the streets. Participants are encouraged to wear a soccer jersey for the day and share a photo on social media, asking others to do the same.
In 2016, pictures and videos of 5-year-old Murtaza Ahmadi wearing a Lionel Messi jersey made from a plastic bag while playing soccer in Afghanistan went viral on social media.
Unable to afford a real Messi jersey, Ahmadi’s brother made him a blue-and-white Argentina jersey out of a plastic bag with “Messi” and “10” written on it in marker.
Six-year-old Afghan boy Murtaza Ahmadi met his hero Lionel Messi before Barcelona's friendly in Qatar. https://t.co/suQcoTooqM pic.twitter.com/zQ7RSTa6zF
— Sky Sports PL (@SkySportsPL) December 14, 2016
The world’s fervor and passion for soccer, proudly displayed via one’s jersey, is being utilized not only as a symbol for celebration, but also as a means for change. Bring Your Kit to Work Day is an initiative created by NYC Footy founder Tarek Pertew to help raise awareness for the more than 150 million children around the world living on the streets.
Scheduled for June 14 in conjunction with the first day of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, Bring Your Kit to Work Day asks participants to wear a soccer jersey to work, post a photo on social media, and encourage others to do the same. Former and current professional athletes, including David Villa, Alexi Lalas, Tiki Barber, Ingrid Silva, Charlie Davies, and Jay Williams, will be supporting the efforts.
“Bring Your Kit To Work Day” on June 14th is a campaign to raise awareness and funds for the 150 million children surviving on the streets around the world. I’ll be supporting the cause by wearing this Italy jersey (one of my favorites) I exchanged with @gianlucazambrotta_official at the ‘09 Confeds Cup. @stuholden @alebedoya @carlilloyd @ddwyer14 @jozyaltidore @mauriceedu, join me by sharing what jersey you’ll be wearing on June 14th. Please share within 24 hours or donate to @istreetchildusa and don’t forget to tag 3 friends to do the same. #BringYourKitToWorkDay
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“A soccer jersey has a lot of symbolism with street children; they’ll be playing with a jersey on, but no shoes,” Pertew says. “Just like people wearing pink for Breast Cancer Awareness, we hope to build a campaign where people wear soccer jerseys to raise awareness for this cause.”
The mission is in collaboration with Street Child United, an organization that aims to harness the power of soccer to “protect, respect, and support homeless and street-connected children” around the world, including the 500,000 American children impacted by a broken home, abuse, addiction, or being forced to live or work on the streets.
Working with organizations that assist homeless and street-connected children, Street Child United creates participatory events—including the quadrennial Street Child World Cup—to aid those in need. Through their partnerships and events, the organization supports homeless and street-connected children to build a life away from the streets.
“We are so out of touch with how children are surviving around the world and this is an opportunity to raise some of that awareness,” Pertew says.
In association with Save the Children, the 2018 Street Child World Cup took place from May 10-18 in Moscow. More than 200 children representing approximately 20 nations enjoyed soccer tournaments, a Model United Nations participatory Congress, and a festival of arts.
Street Child United’s efforts have already paid dividends and resulted in change, with Team India receiving a government commitment to birth registrations for millions of street children across the country, a government resolution enacted in Pakistan to protect 1.5 million street children in the nation, and a safe space soccer field built in Rio de Janeiro.
“We want as many people as possible to be wearing a jersey on June 14,” Pertew says. “There are loads of great benefits if it happens.”
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Smart Hospital and Unified Data
TEAMS trend research: Medical 2025 — Part III
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- Smart hospitals are based on fluid communication, sharing goods and services and the combination of new information communication technologies, robotics and intelligent transport.-
Technology has influenced many aspects of our life. Today’s healthcare system is also affected by these technological improvements which help the patient to experience both, inside their facilities, and out through a keen focus on connectivity, communication, and access to information.
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Life expectancy on the planet is increasing. According to a report from the United Nations Population Information Network, the increase will raise more through 2050. This will affect the hospital of the future. With technological advances, the hospital sector aims to manage clinical, financial and operational information to increase the efficiency. For that reason, the concept of Smart Hospital is getting enormous commercial interest. According to the forecast, in the time between 2018–2023, the global Smart Hospital Market will proliferate. Over 25% of CAGR, and is expected to reach 62 USD billion by the end of the forecast period.
With this market pressure, new approaches are evolving to provide people with better care. For instance, patient monitoring systems, computer-assisted surgical systems, 3D mapping, cross-sector telemedicine, robotics, artificial intelligence.
- The notion of Smart Hospital is to create a single IT environment and balance clinical outcome, supply chain efficiency and strong patient/provider experience via technology.-
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Unified data is one of the key tools to create a smart hospital environment. This tool enables the capture, storage, management and analysis of information. Health data is growing drastically, the reason why the potential for unified data is leading to better outcomes.
The advantages of unified data create an opportunity for detecting diseases early. It allows managing specific individual and population health, as well as detecting healthcare fraud more quickly and effectively. According to McKinsey, big data analytics can help to save more than $300 billion per year in U.S. healthcare.
No more paperwork
The hospital of the future is characterized by increased connectivity and transparency. By digitizing many of the analog processes, great improvements in terms of efficiency and reliability will be visible. Unified digital health records are already available today and will further advance, giving medical personnel extended insights into the patients’ health history, and will not only streamline medical procedures but also admirative tasks in the hospital.
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Further implementation of IT-services will improve patient flow management, payer analytics, clinical decision support, and medication administration. While regulatory hurdles and big questions like data protection, veracity and interoperability need to be overcome, we will eventually see wide adoption of those new digital technologies.
The potential of technology helps healthcare to a better outcome. Moreover, it creates smart environments to enable health tracking and receiving a better health service. The purpose of unified I.T. environments is to improve and optimize the existing processes and open new opportunities for the health sector.
-The digitization of health-data is enabling new forms of diagnostics and treatment. Unified access to health data will revolutionize communications between doctors and patients and will fuel collaboration of specialists from different fields.-
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The amount of data collected in healthcare enables doctors, researchers, and nurses to improve the quality of their work drastically. Not only will they have better access to the newest insights in research, new forms of treatment and diagnostics, but they will also have digital tools that will enable them to actually use that information.
Similar technologies that allow companies like Amazon to know what you want before you buy it, and to suggest relevant products will slowly but steady move into the healthcare sector.
Digital assistants will monitor patients to detect future illnesses at an early stage, will suggest possible approaches and relevant information when treating complex diseases and recommend specialists for further treatment. Like Google has given access to cartographic material of our planet, we will see similar tools that provide us increasingly detailed access to our body. The design of these tools will define how safely and reliably patients will interact with these services. Furthermore, design will play the main role in creating trust in such disruptive technologies.
Positive clinical experience
Healing and recovery are complex and multi-layered processes that aside from the traditional medical treatment are influenced by wellbeing and relaxation. More attention will be paid towards a comfortable atmosphere and pleasant user experience.
Reduction of disturbing and stressful environments will reduce stress and anxiety in the patient while to benefit patients and staff. Medical equipment and tools will represent a high level of professionalism and quality on one hand while creating a sense of familiarity and personality on the other hand.
Automation and robotic assistance
In order to drive down healthcare expenses, we will see increasing automation of simple tasks, including the use of lab-robots to automate the processing of samples, or hospital logistic-robots assisting staff in the delivery of meals or other goods. On the other hand, we will see surgical robots enabling surgeons to perform more complex operations. Paired with extended or augmented reality visualization new forms those technologies will expand human capabilities in terms of accuracy and reliability. The progress in healthcare will not be about replacing people and their profession, but about empowering them through technology.
This is the last chapter of three-chapter research that we, at TEAMS Design, conducted to discuss future trends in the health care industry and how design can help to build new possibilities. If you would like to get the complete report or more insights about our research, let’s get in touch!
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Bermuda revisited
Melissa Twigg finds an island brimming with fresh life almost a year on from the America’s Cup.
By Melissa Twigg | 7 May 2018
Sport can have an enormous impact on a destination. As anyone who has wandered around London’s pre-Olympics Stratford or Cape Town’s pre-World Cup Greenpoint can attest, the right event can build essential infrastructure and allow an entire city – or in this case an entire island – to blossom into a hub of creativity.
Bermuda has flourished since the America’s Cup arrived on its shores last summer. Once maligned as a pretty but old-fashioned backwater, famous for English afternoon teas in the sweltering sun and retirees strutting about in brightly-coloured shorts, today’s Bermuda is fast becoming one of the globe’s premiere yachting destinations. And where the international boating crew leads, culture often follows, with galleries and museums popping up like rainbow-coloured sweets around the island.
I arrived in Bermuda on what should have been a cool midwinter’s day with a few preconceptions in place. I expected intense prettiness, and I got it. Bermuda is uniformly beautiful – think idyllic bays peppered with sail boats, pink and yellow colonial-era towns, and coral sand fringed with palm trees. Everything is sumptuously manicured, from the magazine-worthy roadside verges to the perfectly-crafted rum cocktails.
This feast for the eyes didn’t surprise me. But what I wasn’t expecting were world-class marinas dotted around every corner and one of the most dynamic cultural scenes I have experienced on a tropical island. Bermuda’s new energy is attracting the international jet-set, with recent guests including Princess Anne, King Juan Carlos of Spain and even Larry Ellison – who had a casual security team of 12 checking that his rib was secured when he visited for the Cup.
“AC 35 really helped increase the awareness of Bermuda as not only a vacation destination but also a sporting one,” says Diarmaid O’Sullivan, the general manager of local luxury hotel the Hamilton Princess. “This weekend, for example, Bermuda is host to the ITU World Triathlon Series with several hundred elite athletes competing.”
Tourism has increased to the island every quarter since last June, and the demographics are far younger than they once were – shaping the entire identity of Bermuda, which was once regarded as a place reserved for honeymooners and retirees. New York’s glossy set has also fallen back in love with the place – perhaps helped along by the island’s micro-climate. A mere 90-minute’ flight from the Big Apple, it was a balmy 24C in December, while New York was snowing.
Hamilton Princess
I spent the weekend at the Hamilton Princess, the bubblegum pink grande dame of the Bermuda hotel scene, which shimmers like a birthday cake on the outskirts of the town of Hamilton. Bermuda’s smartest hotel since 1885, it has rose-filled gardens, infinity swimming pools overlooking Mark Twain’s house, soothing spas and colonial-style verandas.
It also has one of the most extraordinary collections of art I have seen in a private hotel. Work by Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst and Banksy casually lurk in the lobby while a Rene Magritte sits inconspicuously next to the cash point. In new-fangled, arty Bermuda, this is far from unusual. There are galleries dotted around Hamilton, while the Bermuda Art Centre at Dockyard on the far western tip of the island is housed in an old-fashioned boatyard. Inside are all types of contemporary art, from experimental textile wall hangings to traditional watercolours.
Yachts moored in Bermuda during America's Cup. Photo: ACEA 2017 / Photo Ricardo Pinto
The America’s Cup has also prompted an update of the islands boating capabilities to an extraordinary extent. People have been sailing to Bermuda for centuries, but over the last two years, the 21-mile island has become home to some impressive marinas. “In order to ensure that the island’s facilities were up to par for AC 35, several marinas underwent extensive upgrades in order to accommodate the superyachts that visited,” explains O’Sullivan. “This infrastructure now ensures that Bermuda is well-positioned to continue to welcome them to the island.”
The brand new 60-berth Princess Marina at the Hamilton Princess can host an impressive range of vessels, from 30-foot pleasure boats to superyachts spanning 600 feet. And the full-service hotel marina offers other frills beyond the necessities – think room service to your boat, high-speed wifi and even on-board massages.
Then there’s the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club; established in 1844, it was the 20th Royal Yacht Club in the world and is now one of the oldest in the hemisphere. Since the Americas Cup, it has grown to 130 berths and can accommodate yachts up to 150 feet. And then there is the brand new Caroline Bay Marina, the island’s largest luxury yacht marina. A Ritz-Carlton Reserve will be arriving there next year offering swanky residential properties for those who wish to make this resort their home.
And who wouldn’t? In just one year Bermuda has gone from retiree retreat to sleek Silicon Valley favourite – all thanks to the America’s Cup.
Matthew Baily
By Dominique Afacan | 24 April 2018
Superyacht captain Matthew Baily is excited to be heading back to his native Australia to charter Oneworld.
Kelvin Murray
By Dominique Afacan | 24 September 2017
Kelvin Murray of EYOS Expeditions recalls a recent adventure on board Hanse Explorer.
Indonesia’s remote and remarkable islands
By Dominique Afacan | 27 July 2018
Yacht owner Dominique Gerardin on the far-flung region that captured his heart.
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Book: Why Loiter?
September 14, 2014 Matter Leave a comment
Book by Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade.
Reviewed by Mustansir Dalvi
Why Loiter? discusses the conventions and changing notions of women in the public realm. Reviewed here by Mustansir Dalvi, the book challenges regressive social structures that deter women through a notion of respectability.
‘Why Loiter’ is transformative book. It makes a case for the ‘Bombay Girl’ to be on the streets of Mumbai on her own terms. Its authors, Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade look at freedoms compromised by a civil society that thrives on the presentation of respectability. This book is the result of three years of research called ‘the Gender and Space Project’ that the authors helmed. The project charted, though socio-ethnography, space mappings, and urban studies the various ways women inhabit public space in Mumbai. Their findings are uncompromisingly awkward for a city that prides itself on being liberal. The public realm in Mumbai poses a gauntlet of challenges for half of its rightful inhabitants. You are recommended to read this book with one finger firmly placed in its copious endnotes that encompass eighty-odd pages. They offer an abundance of appendices, notes and comments that enhance the appreciation of their research and validate several counterintuitive claims about living in Mumbai.
By Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade.
The research challenges the myth of safety that most of Mumbai’s denizens either take for granted or essentialise, as ‘in Bombay a single woman can return home at two in the night in complete safety.’ Such assertions have been bandied about for decades now. While this is probably ‘literally’ true, the authors show how this truth is mediated by a variety of conditions. So, a woman may move freely in the city, only if, etc.
It is in unravelling these many etceteras that ‘Why Loiter?’ is perceptive and challenging. Mumbai, while benign (or neutral), at least in the public realm, is actually ‘value’ laden; constantly putting its women (and men) under a panopticon of continuous surveillance that one may evade, or conform to.
How easy it is to be spotted as out of the ordinary, and how difficult it is to function, once one has been perceived as such. Eyes are always on the street looking out for those ‘not like us’ and there are so many of ‘them’. The authors demonstrate the difficulty of ‘the unbelongers’ to use the city normally and freely. The list of oddballs on the street, who are whetted by the silent city every time they step out is inclusive and top-lined by one single group: ‘all women’. To conform, and so to have open access to public space, Mumbai’s every woman must be (or appear to be) ‘young, able-bodied, Hindu, upper-caste, heterosexual, married or marriageable.’
There is an entire semantic of respectability she must construct each time she leaves her home. She must be (or appear to be) neutrally middle-class- ‘not-lower-class, not-Dalit, not-Muslim, not-lesbian, not-disabled’. On Mumbai’s streets, every woman must dress modestly and preferably be escorted by (an equally respectable looking) man. She must be healthy, freely mobile, sexually inert and, most importantly, have a good reason for being out of doors. She must never loiter.
This is the crux of the book. The authors question the assertion that a woman may not remain in the public realm without purpose. If spotted as such, she would be perceived as having a dubious provenance, or would be putting herself at risk and the city would need to exert itself to keep her safe. Her risks are twofold: the first is from assault (to her modesty or respectability), the second (perhaps more insidious) that she may herself do something disreputable or immodest. Every woman (and every man) enters public spaces in Mumbai with this knowledge.
The authors narrate several instances from Mumbai’s contemporary past to show what happens when women seek to occupy the same space as men in the same way. Part of the problem is that some women themselves have bought into the respectability rubric and at times even perpetuate it. Otherness is not restricted to gender- women are equally prone to perceive deviance in ‘other’ women. In one instance, liberal and well educated women, who freely patronize a ticketed park weekdays, avoid venturing there on weekends because ‘those people’ come to the park. Here, ‘those people’ mean Muslim women and children. Thus, those dispossessed, those of inconvenient religions or castes, easily distinguished by their appearance are marked, if not isolated. Women identified by caste, class, age, (dis)abilities, sexual orientation or ambiguities each have their own minefields to cross in a city that clearly does not offer any concessions, and prefers (as much as possible) that they were not on the street at all.
The city is not designed (nor has it grown) with any consideration for women. Nowhere is this more visible than in the lack of public conveniences. The authors provide a disturbing, though obvious, insight into what a woman in a public space has to do to find a toilet she can use. There are so few to start with. Mumbai is, for the bursting bladder, a ‘Minimum City’. Those that exist may be completely unusable, while most are designed as supplements to male amenities, requiring sophisticated gymnastics to use in a hygienic way. If freedom in society is to be equated with freedom to pee, then women are the least free of all.
‘Why Loiter?’ is about the ultimate freedom a woman demands in an urban space: the freedom to do exactly what a man is allowed to do. Mumbai, the progressive city, denies this just by being what it is. Perhaps the most important liberty a megalopolis should offer is the choice to do nothing. To loiter. To have fun. To be a flaneur, to go walkabout, to regard the city and its life as it happens, with no purpose in mind at all. The problem is, if you are not some kind of useful cog, you are a deviant, and a surveillance obsessed society will not accept this. It is difficult enough for men in Mumbai to loiter without being seen as vagabonds.
For ‘Bombay Girls’ Phadke, Khan and Ranade, the normalization of loitering is central to citizenship- a fundamental to be reclaimed, to deny them this is to deny them equal rights. They ask, in the words of Susan Faludi, not to be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness. Here is the ultimate irony, then: in Mumbai, every woman still needs to manufacture (the authors evoke Foucault) a ‘disciplined body’ just to be acceptable on its streets. To achieve unconditional access in a true sense, however, would require a patriarchally enmeshed society to transform itself from the inside out, beyond both gender and ‘otherness’ to make Mumbai ‘aamchi’ for all.
Mustansir Dalvi:
Mustansir Dalvi is Professor of Architecture at Sir J. J. College of Architecture. He graduated from Sir J. J. College of Architecture, in 1986. He has post graduate qualifications in Architecture and Indian Aesthetics from the University of Mumbai. He joined Sir JJ College of Architecture as Professor in 2003 and has been teaching there since.
He is the present Chair of the Board of Studies in Architectural Education of the University of Mumbai and former Chairman Navi Mumbai Centre of the Indian Institute of Architects.
In his writings and talks, Mustansir Dalvi critically observes Mumbai’s urbanity and charts the semiotics of its contradictions. He is particularly interested in the development of Bombay’s architecture during its emergence as a vibrant metropolis.
Title: Why Loiter?
Authors: Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Reviewed By: Mustansir Dalvi
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IRS Announces New July 15 Tax Deadline For Expats, Trusts, Estates And Corporations, Includes June 15 Estimated Payments Fix, By Ashlea Ebeling, Senior Contributor | FORBES.COM| Apr 9, 2020,06:54pm EDT
… Notice 2020-23 confirms get … until July 15 to file and pay federal income taxes. …
Supreme Court seems reluctant to unbind ‘faithless electors’ who could ‘create chaos’ in presidential contests – Justice Clarence Thomas even invoked a character from “Lord of the Rings” to make a point. By Pete Williams | NBCNEWS.COM | May 13, 2020, 4:04 AM CDT / Updated May 13, 2020, 12:51 PM CDT
The justices of the Supreme Court seemed reluctant Wednesday to tamper with the system America uses to choose its president, based on their comments during oral arguments over the workings of the Electoral College.
The issue in the two “faithless elector” cases is a simple one: Are the 538 presidential electors free agents, or must they vote in accordance with the election results in their states? If they are free to vote as they wish, a small group of them, or even a single one in a tight contest, could decide who wins.
Opponents of the existing system hope that the legal battle will spur the states to adopt changes that they say would make elections more responsive to the public.
The issue is a simple one: Are the 538 presidential electors free agents, or must they vote in accordance with the election results in their states? If they are free to vote as they wish, a small group of them, or even a single one in a tight contest, could decide who wins the White House. …
… In more than half the country, electors are required to obey the results of their state’s popular vote and cast their ballots accordingly. The problem of “faithless electors” who disregard the popular vote outcome has not been much of an issue in American history, because when an elector refuses to follow the results of a state’s popular vote, the states usually throw the ballot away. But can the states do that?
[Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard law school professor arguing for the electors] has said he hopes the cases will eventually lead to a change in the Electoral College, either through a constitutional amendment or by encouraging more states to adopt a system in which they would assign all of their electors to whoever wins the nationwide popular vote for president.
Fourteen states have already agreed to do so. An interstate agreement to make the change would take effect once the participating states represent at least 270 votes, the minimum number needed to be elected president. [SEE BELOW: National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)]
But after Wednesday’s argument, it seems unlikely these cases will modify the system or spur calls for changing how the Electoral College works.
The court will likely issue its decision by July.
1960 United States presidential election in Alabama (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
The 1960 United States presidential election in Alabama, was held on November 8, 1960, as part of that year’s national presidential election. Eleven Democratic electors were elected, of whom six voted for Harry F. Byrd and five for John F. Kennedy.[1]
In Alabama, voters voted for electors individually instead of as a slate, as in the other 49 states. There were 22 electors on the ballot, 11 Republicans and 11 Democrats. Voters could vote for up to eleven candidates. As a result of a state primary, the Democratic Party had a mixed slate of electors, five being pledged to Kennedy and the remaining six being unpledged.[2][3] The highest vote for a presidential elector was 324,050 votes for Frank M. Dixon, who was unpledged; the highest vote for an elector pledged to Kennedy was 318,303 for C. G. Allen, and the highest vote for a Republican elector was 237,981 for Cecil Durham, which was lower than the vote for any Democratic elector.[2] As a result, six unpledged electors and five electors pledged to Kennedy were elected. All six elected unpledged electors cast their vote for Byrd.[4]
Varying methods have been used to break down the vote into Kennedy and unpledged votes. One method is to take the 318,303 votes as Kennedy votes and the 324,050 votes as unpledged votes, giving a total much higher than the actual votes cast.[5] Another is to take the 318,303 votes as Kennedy votes and the remainder (5,747 votes) as unpledged votes.[6] A third is to split the 324,050 in the proportion of 5⁄11 to 6⁄11, giving 147,295 votes for Kennedy and 176,755 for unpledged electors.[7] In all cases Richard Nixon has 237,981 votes. If the last method were used, it would mean that Nixon not only won the popular vote in Alabama, but won it nationally.[3][7]
National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The compact is designed to ensure that the candidate who receives the most votes nationwide is elected president, and it would come into effect only when it would guarantee that outcome.[3][4] As of March 2020, it has been adopted by fifteen states and the District of Columbia, although it is suspended in Colorado.[2] Together, they have 196 electoral votes counting Colorado, which is 36% of the Electoral College and 73% of the 270 votes needed to give the compact legal force. Certain legal questions, however, may affect implementation of the compact.
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Even in a public health emergency, governments still have the duty to protect our rights. Yet since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, we have witnessed countless attempts by state and local agencies to infringe upon Texans’ civil liberties.
Since the onset of the pandemic, the ACLU of Texas has been monitoring government responses to the health crisis closely, and we have acted quickly to protect civil rights and civil liberties while also upholding evidence-based guidance from public health experts. Specifically, we have aggressively acted on behalf of people whose rights and health are at heightened risk, including protections for voters, people in the criminal legal system, and those seeking access to critical abortion care.
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Victory: On April 15, a Texas court ruled that all registered voters in Texas qualify for voting by mail due to the COVID-19 health crisis.
On April 2, [the ACLUTexas] and … partners joined a lawsuit seeking guidance from the court to declare that all registered voters, under Texas law, qualify to request a mail-in ballot as a result of the COVID-19 public health crisis.
Texas Supreme Court puts expansion of voting by mail on hold – The state Supreme Court’s order comes one day after a state appeals court had allowed the expansion to stand while a legal case was appealed. by Alexa Ura | TEXASTRIBUNE.ORG | May 15, 2020
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday temporarily put on hold an expansion of voting by mail during the coronavirus pandemic.
Siding with Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Supreme Court blocked a state appeals court decision that allowed voters who lack immunity to the virus to qualify for absentee ballots by citing a disability. That appellate decision upheld a lower court’s order that would have allowed more people to qualify to vote by mail. The state’s Supreme Court has not weighed the merits of the case.
It’s the latest in an ongoing legal squabble that in the last three days has resulted in daily changes to who can qualify for a ballot they can fill out at home and mail in.
Federal and state courts are considering legal challenges to the state’s rules for voting by mail as Democrats and voting rights groups ask courts to clarify whether lack of immunity to the coronavirus is a valid reason for people to request absentee ballots. A resolution to that question is gaining more urgency every day as the state approaches the July primary runoff elections.
Paxton asked the Supreme Court to intervene the day after a state appeals court let stand a ruling from state District Judge Tim Sulak that susceptibility to the coronavirus counts as a disability under the state election code and is therefore a legally valid reason for voters to request absentee ballots.
The appeals court rebuffed Paxton’s efforts to block voters from requesting absentee ballots under those conditions while the case was making its way through the courts.
But the Supreme Court’s Friday decision means that order will remain blocked while the appeal of the case moves forward.
Coronavirus in Texas: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says bring back sports and let fans in the stadiums – Our staff is closely tracking developments on the new coronavirus in Texas. Check here for live updates. by Texas Tribune Staff | TEXASTRIBUNE.ORG | May 15, 2020
Texas reports 45,198 cases and 1,272 deaths
[4 p.m.] Texas reported 1,347 more cases of the new coronavirus Friday, an increase of about 3% over the previous day, bringing the total number of known cases to 45,198. Three new counties reported their first cases Friday; over 85% of the state’s 254 counties have reported at least one case.
Harris County has reported the most cases, 8,817, followed by Dallas County, which has reported 6,837 cases. See maps of the latest case numbers for each county and case rates per 1,000 residents.
The state has reported 56 additional deaths — the second-highest increase since the state started reporting coronavirus death counts. Harris County reported five additional deaths, bringing its total to 193 deaths, more than any other county.
As of Friday, 1,716 patients are known to be hospitalized in Texas. That’s an increase of 68 patients from Thursday. At least 645,992 tests have been conducted. — Mandi Cai
Dan Patrick pens op-ed saying sports should return with fans in the stadiums
[11:15 a.m.] Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick thinks sports fans should be able to attend games as long as some guidelines are in place, he wrote in a Friday opinion piece for The Dallas Morning News.
“Let’s end all this talk about playing in empty stadiums,” Patrick wrote. “Let the games begin with fans in the seats.”
UPDATED: Alvin, Pearland, Friendswood ISDs to honor seniors despite school closures, By Morgan Slutzky | COM | 4:44 PM May 14, 2020 CDT | Updated 6:27 PM May 15, 2020 CDT
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in America, difficult decisions have been made in school districts nationwide. After Gov. Greg Abbott’s April 17 executive order officially canceling in-person school in Texas for the rest of the academic year, one challenge in particular has been how to handle canceled commencement ceremonies for seniors in the class of 2020. …
… Alvin ISD initially planned to have a virtual ceremony in May and hold outdoor ceremonies in July, but according to the district website, with the governor’s announcement approving outdoor ceremonies after June 1, AISD has decided to move its graduation ceremonies to June and cancel the planned virtual event. Pearland ISD is set to have in-person graduations at Pearland ISD Stadium on June 2-4 and has no plans to host a virtual ceremony. …
This Mysterious Childhood Illness May Be Linked to Coronavirus, By Amanda Arnold (@aMandolinz) | THECUT.COM | Updated May 13, 2020
Over the past few weeks, a small but growing number of children have been hospitalized with a mysterious illness that may be linked to the coronavirus. As of Wednesday, more than 100 children in New York, many of whom also tested positive for coronavirus or its antibodies, appear to have fallen ill with what doctors are calling “Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome.” Fourteen other states and at least five countries in Europe have also reported cases. The syndrome appears similar to Kawasaki disease, a rare childhood illness that causes inflammation of the blood vessels, and, in rare cases, it can be life threatening. So far, at least three children have died. Here’s everything we know.
What is the mysterious illness? According to the New York City Health Department, the most common symptom of pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome (PMIS) is a temperature of 100.4 degrees F or higher that lasts for several days. However, children with the syndrome have exhibited a number of other symptoms, including irritability, abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, rash, red or pink eyes; an enlarged lymph node on one side of the neck; red lips or tongue; and swollen hands and feet, which may also be red. Per NBC New York, the state health department is working alongside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop national criteria to help state health departments in the rest of country identify and monitor the illness. …
Is there a link between the syndrome and the coronavirus? Medical professionals worldwide are investigating a potential link between PMIS [Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome] and coronavirus. In the U.K., at least 12 children have required urgent care due to symptoms linked to the coronavirus, many of whom have been confirmed to have the mysterious illness. Health officials in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and France have also reported a rise in cases resembling toxic-shock syndrome and Kawasaki disease. …
… “Even though the relationship of this syndrome to COVID-19 is not yet defined, and not all of these cases have tested positive for Covid-19 by either DNA test or serology, the clinical nature of this virus is such that we are asking all providers to contact us immediately if they see patients who meet the criteria we’ve outlined,” New York City health commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot told the Times in a statement. …
COVID-19 at least 10 times deadlier than typical flu, analysis finds, By Brian P. Dunleavy | UPI.COM | May 14, 2020 / 1:01 PM / Updated May 14, 2020 at 10:56 PM
COVID-19 causes at least 10 times more deaths than typical seasonal influenza, according to the authors of an analysis published Thursday by JAMA Internal Medicine. …
… [D]ifferentiating between 0.1 percent — the death rate for the flu — and 1 percent — the death rate for COVID-19 — means little to the general public, but when you say that 100,000 people will die from the flu compared to the 1 million people who will die from COVID-19, then people start to take notice,” Kevin S. Harrod, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told UPI. …
… As many as 50,000 people in the United States die from the flu annually, according to CDC estimates. …
…To compare, the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University indicate that, through Thursday, nearly 1.4 million Americans have been infected with the new coronavirus, while nearly 86,000 died.
The Johns Hopkins data is based on reporting of confirmed cases of COVID-19 and deaths attributed to the disease from county and state health departments across the country.
Public officials, however, continue to liken the impact of COVID-19 with that of seasonal influenza, authors of the new analysis wrote.
For the week ending April 21, researchers calculated that COVID-19 deaths for the week were 9.5-fold to 44.1-fold higher than the peak week of counted influenza deaths over the past seven winter seasons in the United States. …
… This is not something people should be panicking about,” Dr. Liz Whittaker, a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health’s allergy, immunology and infectious diseases committee, told the Guardian.
“So far, from what we understand, this is a rare complication in the pediatric population that they believe is related to Covid-19,” New York State health commissioner Howard Zucker told the Times. “We are following it very closely.”
‘I Wish I Could Do Something for You,’ My Doctor Said, By Mara Gay | The New York Times | May 15, 2020
[AS WRITTEN BY MARA GAY]: The day before I got sick, I ran 3 miles, walked 10 more, then raced up the stairs to my fifth-floor apartment as always, slinging laundry with me as I went.
The next day, April 17, I became one of the thousands of New Yorkers to fall ill with COVID-19. I haven’t felt the same since.
If you live in New York City, you know what this virus can do. In just under two months, an estimated 24,000 New Yorkers have died. That’s more than twice the number of people we lost to homicide over the past 20 years.
Now I worry for Americans elsewhere. When I see photographs of crowds packing into a newly reopened big-box store in Arkansas or scores of people jammed into a Colorado restaurant without masks, it’s clear too many Americans still don’t grasp the power of this disease.
The second day I was sick, I woke up to what felt like hot tar buried deep in my chest. I could not get a deep breath unless I was on all fours. I’m healthy. I’m a runner. I’m 33 years old. …
…I am one of the lucky ones. I never needed a ventilator. I survived. But 27 days later, I still have lingering pneumonia. I use two inhalers, twice a day. I can’t walk more than a few blocks without stopping.
I want Americans to understand that this virus is making otherwise young, healthy people very, very sick. I want them to know, this is no flu.
Even healthy New Yorkers in their 20s have been hospitalized. At least 13 children in New York state have died from COVID-19, according to health department data. My friend’s 29-year-old boyfriend was even sicker than I was and at one point could barely walk across their living room. …
MIKE: My first quarantine show was March 13. I drew a metaphorical analogy to the 14th century Black Plague in terms of the social after-effects it wrought.
Now it’s looking like measles or scarlet fever, leaving permanent life-shortening organ damage. With some recurrent herpes thrown in.
Newly reopened South Florida seen as an emerging coronavirus hot spot, By Alexander Nazaryan, National Correspondent | Yahoo News
Federal officials responding to the coronavirus pandemic are concerned about the rapidly rising number of cases in Palm Beach County, Fla., according to an internal Trump administration document reviewed by Yahoo News.
The document, a May 15 daily interagency update on the nation’s coronavirus response circulated by the Department of Homeland Security, notes new areas of concern for coronavirus. It was provided to Yahoo News by one of its recipients under the condition that that recipient not be identified.
“As most states have begun phased re-opening, several COVID-19 hot spots continue to emerge,” the notice says. Three counties are then listed: Palm Beach; San Bernardino County, Calif.; and Marshall County, Ala.
“Palm Beach County, FL reported a 71% increase in new cases the last 7 days compared to the previous 7 days,” the document explains. “The state authorized Palm Beach County to begin Phase 1 of reopening on 11 May, which includes the reopening of barbershops, salons, restaurants, and other businesses.” …
… Marshall County, Ala., the document says, “reported 217 cases in the last 7 days, a 517% increase over the previous 7 days. Marshall County is home to several poultry plants and the meat packing industry accounts for 8% of the county’s employment. On 11 May, additional businesses were reopened.” …
…Florida was one of the first states to reopen, at the urging of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who had also been slow to close his state, effectively waiting for permission from Trump to do so. DeSantis’s faltering and confusing response to the coronavirus made him among the nation’s least popular governors, according to a national survey conducted in April.
Lockdown protesters shout ‘be like Sweden’ — but Swedes say they are missing the point – “The Swedish strategy is very much relying on the individual’s trust in the state,” one Swede told NBC News. By Karolina Modig | NBCNEWS.COM | May 15, 2020, 4:13 AM CDT
Known for its socialized health care, progressive tax system and liberal social policies, Sweden rarely finds cheerleaders among conservative commentators and activists in the United States.
But on homemade placards at anti-lockdown protests in the last month, an unusual slogan has been spotted: “Be more like Sweden.” …
… According to the Swedes, however, American admirers of their approach are confusing their own beliefs with what is a prudent and carefully planned public health policy. …
… The Swedish Public Health Agency’s strategy is based on trying to slow the spread of the virus as much as possible, not on keeping the economy going. The Swedish economy, heavily dependent on the global supply chain, is suffering just as much as many other countries. The decision to keep schools open was about freeing up health care workers to deal with the pandemic, not to stimulate the economy
For Swedish entrepreneur Vendela Ragnarsson, it is irresponsible to apply a strategy that Swedish authorities introduced as a proactive measure to slow down the spread of the infection to a different country and situation. …
… “You run the risk of sacrificing a large proportion of low-income earners and others who do not have adequate health insurance,” she says. …
Will empty middle seats help social distancing on planes?, By John Walton | COM | 22nd April 2020
As more countries mull lifting Covid-19 lockdowns, airlines are examining what flying might look like as travel restrictions start to be relaxed. Carriers are haemorrhaging money and it’s very much in their interests to get planes back in the air. Passenger confidence will be one of many hurdles to overcome, however, with many worried about keeping a reasonable distance from their fellow travellers.
Several airlines are exploring the idea of keeping middle seats empty, to avoid passengers sitting directly beside each other. …
… Removing the unloved middle seat option would lead to a hearty hooray from the travelling public. Sit by the window and you get a view, plus a bulkhead to snooze against. In an aisle seat, you can pop to the toilet or stretch whenever you like. The middle seat has no such benefits, unless you’re one of those people who strikes up conversations with their seatmates.
But would blocking middle seats actually help us maintain proper social distancing and if so, how long could airlines keep doing it? Is it a realistic option beyond the very short term? …
…Planes are very much not set up for social … Billions of dollars have been spent in recent years in particular to fit as many people as possible into smaller spaces. For example, when the big wide-body, twin-aisle, twin-engine Boeing 777 started flying in the 1990s, most of them had nine seats per economy row on long-haul flights. Today, almost all airlines flying the plane – whether long-haul with the likes of Emirates or short-haul within Japan – have 10 seats, meaning narrower seats and narrower aisles. …
…LIFT Aero Design’s Daniel Baron points out that there are a number of other measures that airlines can use to try and make travel safer. “Let’s not forget that cabin air circulation is on par with operating theatres,” he says. “A combination of pre-flight screening, thorough cabin sanitising, smart seat assignments and masks will likely be the way forward in the short to medium term.”
… Delta Air Lines has changed the way it boards aircraft, and is now boarding them strictly from the rear to the front, so passengers sitting at the back don’t have to pass those sitting at the front. The airline is also boarding fewer people at a time to improve physical distancing of passengers.
Many airlines are also cancelling or reducing inflight food and beverage service to reduce interactions on board: Southwest is serving individual cans of water rather than its usual full drinks round, for example. Some airlines are offering to-go bags in the gate area instead.
What went wrong with the media’s coronavirus coverage? And can we do better?, By Peter Kafka | VOX.COM | Apr 13, 2020, 7:10am EDT
… Much of the mainstream media amplified [the] slow and muddled reaction to the rapidly spreading virus. Since alarming reports about Covid-19 began to emerge from China in January, the media often provided information to Americans that later proved to be wrong, or at least inadequate.
For instance: While President Trump has been correctly pilloried for describing the coronavirus as less dangerous than the flu, that message was commonplace in mainstream media outlets throughout February. And journalists — including my colleagues at Vox — were dutifully repeating exhortations from public health officials not to wear masks for much of 2020. …
… [I]t’s worth looking back to ask how the media could have done better as the virus broke out of China and headed to the US.
Why didn’t we see this coming sooner? And once we did, why didn’t we sound the alarm with more vigor?
If you read the stories from that period … you’ll find that most of the information holding the pieces together comes from authoritative sources …: experts at institutions like the World Health Organization, the CDC, and academics with real domain knowledge.
The problem, in many cases, was that that information was wrong, or at least incomplete. Which raises the hard question for journalists scrutinizing our performance in recent months: How do we cover a story where neither we nor the experts we turn to know what isn’t yet known? And how do we warn Americans about the full range of potential risks in the world without ringing alarm bells so constantly that they’ll tune us out? …
… Journalists have been doing crucial reporting about what the US government got wrong as the pandemic advanced, and what US leaders could have done to prepare America. They provided analysis that put the news in context. And they have also provided important on-the-ground dispatches from places around the world that have been devastated by the disease — often at great personal risk — starting at its epicenter in Wuhan, China.
But when it came to grappling with a new disease they knew nothing about, journalists most often turned to experts and institutions for information, and relayed what those experts and institutions told them to their audience.
And given that the Covid-19 coronavirus is brand new, even the best-meaning experts and institutions gave conflicting information, some of which now has proven to be inaccurate or up for debate. That includes National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci, who is now the most trusted official in the federal government when it comes to the Covid-19 response, but as late as February was calling the risk from coronavirus “minuscule” and warning people to worry instead about “influenza outbreak, which is having its second wave.” …
… Laura Helmuth, who was the health and science editor at the Washington Post and recently left to become editor-in-chief of Scientific American, says acknowledging gaps in knowledge is crucial but not easy.
“One thing that science journalists have been getting better at is not just saying what we do know, but what we don’t know,” she says. “But most journalists aren’t accustomed to doing that.”
… Mainstream journalists who know how to read and understand academic research reports are a select group and have been for decades. Many midsize newspapers once employed dedicated science journalists, but those jobs have been dwindling for years. …
… In some cases, the screaming was there, but you had to work to hear it. You wouldn’t find it in a headline or the top of a newscast, but if you absorbed the whole thing, you’d find news that would scare you into some kind of action.
My sort-of come-to-Jesus moment started on February 27 when I listened to Times reporter Donald McNeil on the paper’s Daily He said the worst-case scenario was a repeat of the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed 50 million people worldwide and at least 675,000 in the United States.
In that version, McNeil said calmly: Everybody in the US would “know somebody who dies.”
It’s most gripping in audio form, but I want to pull out a section here:
Donald G. McNeil Jr. – Some big chunk of the country — 30, 40, 50 percent — are likely to get a new virus when it blows through. And if you don’t get it in the first wave, you might get it in the second wave.
Michael Barbaro – And 2 percent lethality rate of 50 percent of the country. I don’t want to do that math. It’s really, really awful.
McNeil – It’s a lot of people. It means, you know, you don’t die, 80 percent of people have mild cases. But you know somebody who dies.
Barbaro – That’s pretty horrible … Okay. Now, the best-case scenario.
McNeil – The best-case scenario is one of these drugs works, and basically everybody gets sick next year, but everybody who is hospitalized gets a drug that keeps them from dying and keeps them from going into deep, deep, deep respiratory distress. And we have the equivalent of a bad flu season. And then everybody says, ‘Oh, the media, they blew it out of proportion again.’ You know, it’s all ridiculous. And, you know, I get blamed.
That was enough for me — sort of. I didn’t change my plans to travel to Los Angeles the following week, but I did start assuming that the rest of my spring plans were going to be up in the air. And I told my family that we should start buying food — not in panic, but slowly. And I wondered how The Daily’s millions of listeners would respond.
Program Eligibility by Federal Poverty Level for 2020
FROM HEALTHCARE.GOV: Federal Poverty Level (FPL): The 2020 federal poverty level (FPL) income numbers below are used to calculate eligibility for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). 2019 numbers are slightly lower, and are used to calculate savings on Marketplace insurance plans for 2020.
How federal poverty levels are used to determine eligibility for reduced-cost health coverage: Income between 100% and 400% FPL: If your income is in this range, in all states you qualify for premium tax credits that lower your monthly premium for a Marketplace health insurance plan.
The Federal Poverty level in California for a family of four is $103,000, according to this chart from com.
MIKE: Think about that, and the overall ramifications on health and opportunity. And what about other states?
Ramifications:
Executive pay disparity with workers
Impact on public health, the economy, and more.
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Strawberry Shortcake Rum Fizz From NYC Mixologist Anthony “Professor” Baker
By Stef Schwalb
The hospitality industry has taken a huge hit due to COVID-19, but just as they always have, bartenders find ways to connect with their clientele—and we couldn’t be happier about it. During these dark days of self-isolation, one bright spot is that it’s an ideal time to learn new skills like leveling up on the art of crafting cocktails. That’s where mixologist Anthony “Professor” Baker is making his mark.
Pre-pandemic, Baker and the team at Momentum Mixology were running in-person events, classes, and various collaborations providing unforgettable experiences for attendees. Now as we wait for life to resume to some sort of normalcy, Baker has been leading a host of cocktail classes through Cozymeal, some spirits brands, and more—sometimes focused on one spirit (like tequila or vodka), one cocktail (like margaritas or mimosas), or one genre (like holiday)—and they’re booking up fast. He’s also dishing out plenty of knowledge daily in his Instagram updates. Baker, who’s worked at top city spots like RedFarm, The Grill, and as the Drinks Tournant at The Aviary NYC, has also collaborated with Liquor Lab and created a shoe brand designed specifically for bartenders call “Isshoes.”
This season, he’s keeping his bar stocked with Coconut Cartel Dark Rum, Hardy’s Cognac, fresh lemon juice, Cointreau, Fever-Tree club soda and ginger beer, and organic honey. One of the special drinks Baker created for the upcoming holidays, which he also teaches in class, is the Strawberry Shortcake Rum Fizz. “Originally, this cocktail started off as a summertime ‘Strawberry Shortcake’ Mojito, but now that autumn and winter months are right around the corner, I decided to convert it into a much more fulfilling cocktail,” says Baker. “To be honest, with ingredients like egg white and heavy cream, I think this particular marriage of flavors is more befitting of a fizz than a mojito. Although the gin is mostly associated with fizzes, these strawberry and cake flavors go much better with aged rum. The Fever-Tree club soda’s clean, super-bubbly character stretches the cocktail perfectly without adding any other unnecessary layers of mineral flavor. It’s a delightful cocktail to enjoy for the upcoming cold season.”
Strawberry Shortcake Rum Fizz recipe + preparation
1 whole strawberry, muddled
0.75 oz Agave nectar
1.5 oz fresh lime juice
2 oz heavy cream
1.5 oz Coconut Cartel Rum
2 oz Fever-Tree club soda
Method: Into a shaker, muddle 1 whole strawberry, crack 1 egg, and add the egg white. Then add the agave, lime, vanilla, cream, and rum, followed by ice. Shake for 3 minutes (yes, 3!). Wait 2 minutes, then top with club soda. Garnish with a thin slice of strawberry.
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Vintage Track: Archers of Loaf “Wrong”
Dated tracks delay the flood. I enjoy reaching back in the collection to find that one song that grabs me so tightly that it makes it impossible to jump back in the now. These moments help to give validation to my growth as a listener. While my musical interests wonder as new introductions are made, it is these reconnections that help to maintain my sanity. These tracks provide simple reminders to slow down and appreciate. Reengaging with an old favorite is a powerful escape. These experiences breed a certain level of intimacy that offers tremendous moments of reflection. As my head begins to sink slowly under the water I find a moment to breathe and show my admiration for “Wrong” by 1990s indie rock cornerstone, Archers of Loaf.
This song was just one piece of their magnificent debut release Icky Mettle. This album was recorded in the band’s home of Chapel Hill, NC and released in 1993. This record is a solid collection of songs painted by the heavy fuzz of distortion. While an argument can be made for each of the thirteen songs on this record it is “Wrong” that garners my full attention.
This song mesmerizes me because of its dedication to simplicity. Singer, Eric Bachmann’s lyrics are both straightforward and easy to absorb. The line, “I’m just being honest, it’s the least I could do” sticks and provides a courage cry for those trying to break it off. Strong rhythms of distortion ring out and can easily remind the present day listener of bands like Yuck and Surfer Blood. This track is meant for repeat listens and can serve as a confidence builder for those who might be sinking because of someone else. Get a lift on Tuesday and check out a song and a band that influenced some of the best current indie rock projects.
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The Celebration of Virgen del Carmen
Threads of Peru celebrates ancient weaving traditions in a contemporary context by including them in modern, fashionable items. While this may be innovative in a global sense, the combination of the ancient and the modern is common in Peru. For example, every July the streets of Paucartambo come alive for a few days in a colorful celebration for the Virgen del Carmen.
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She is the patron saint of Paucartambo, a sleepy Andean village where white colonial buildings line the cobblestone streets and church bells ring. This vibrant celebration reflects how Christianity was adopted and molded with pre-Columbian Andean beliefs. The Virgin, known affectionately in Quechua as “Mamacha Carmen,” is not just a Christian figure, but also the Pachamama, or Mother Earth. During the procession of Mamacha Carmen, where a brass band plays soulful tunes and people shower her statue with flower petals, dancers in known as Saq’ras precariously lean from balconies as they represent the devil trying to waylay the virgin. Twelve comparsas, or dance troops, make their way through the streets showing off colorful Incan and colonial costumes. Finally, the event culminates with spectacular fireworks and the dances of the guerreros, or warriors, where good triumphs over the evil demons yet again. La Virgen del Carmen has been declared the patron saint of mestizo peoples and folk dances, and Pope John Paul II blessed the statue in 1985.
There are several different stories about the origins of the festival, including one about a young woman who found a beautiful talking head, which she brought to the village. As people gathered around her, rays of light shone from the head and it was honored with prayers and a wooden body. Another story claims that a Peruvian count discovered a miraculous rock with the likeness of the Virgin on it. He sent a painter to recreate the image on canvas, and it was then brought to Paucartambo and honored on the feast day.
Much like the way this celebration reflects the meshing of old cultural practices with modern perspectives, Threads of Peru hopes to keep ancient weaving traditions alive on a global, contemporary scale!
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What?s the first thing that comes to mind when you think about black males in the United States?
That?s the question social entrepreneur Trabian Shorters would like more Americans to ask themselves.
?I?d follow that question with another: Is it good? ? Because too often, the first thing people conjure up in their minds is an outdated, negative stereotype,? says Shorters, founder and CEO of BMe Community, a network of all races and genders committed to building better communities across the U.S. inspired by black men.
Shorters contends that defining any group by their challenges is the definition of ?stigmatizing? them and can cause you to relate to them in prejudiced ways that blind you to their contributions.
?BMe?s work is not about saving black men,? says Shorters who also is co-editor with Ben Jealous of the book ?Reach ? 40 Black Men Speaking on Living, Leading and Succeeding.?
?It?s about recognizing black men?s everyday contributions to the well-being of society; and building America?s future based upon positive values that we all share. In the distorted dialog about race we forget that we all value good schools, safe streets, a strong economy and a healthy environment. The 18,000 members of the BMe Community do their part every day to secure those blessings for others.?
Shorters suggests a few steps that could lead to a change in perspective about black men.
??Know the facts: There are far more black males in colleges than in prisons. Black men serve this country in uniform at a higher rate than all other men, according to the U.S. Army. The rate of business creation by black males has been growing at nearly twice the national average for more than a decade, according to the U.S. Census. According to the National Institutes of Health, black men who live with their children are the most likely to bathe, dress, diaper and interact with them daily. Also, black men who do not live with their children are the most likely to still maintain contact even after remarrying.
??Update the narrative: Shorters and others connected to BMe Community, including Ben Jealous, Russell Simmons and philanthropic leaders across the country, believe that a more consistent and authentic portrayal of black men?s love for creativity, community, commerce and country will inspire progress.
?People only remember the statistics that reinforce what they already wanted to believe, but meaningful stories and experiences have the power to change minds,? he says. ?That?s why we?re spotlighting an abundance of untold stories through our book, events, web content and community-enriching activities that people of any race or gender can join in.?
??Make use of our assets: President Obama recently said that investing in young black men isn?t charity; it?s lucrative.
?The president is absolutely correct about the necessity to value all people and invest in black males as assets,? says Shorters, who, as vice president of the John S. & James L. Knight Foundation, consulted in the formation of Obama?s My Brother?s Keeper Alliance for boys and men of color.
?BMe actually goes a step further than the White House on this subject in that we don?t believe it?s a matter of closing gaps. There are 33 countries better at math education and 26 better in science education than the US, according to a 2015 Pew Report. If black boys caught up to white boys, then we would all be 26th in the world together. Black boys need to be focused on excellence; white boys do, too, and each and all children deserve the opportunity to pursue their greatness.?
(*Trabian Shorters is co-editor with Benjamin Jealous of the 2015 bestselling book ?Reach: 40 Black Men Speaking on Living, Leading and Succeeding? and he is founding CEO of BMe Community, a national network of all races and genders committed to building better communities across the U.S. In 2015 Ashoka inducted him into a global fellowship of the world?s leading social entrepreneurs.
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Today, October 10th of the year 2001, marks the launch of Tom and Jerry Online version 4. I've added new features, new images, and new information. I hope that you enjoy this new design. By the way, I have changed all html pages so if you bookmarked the pages chances are that they won't work.
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With a new month comes some new news. I am announcing today, October the first 2001, that I'm am going to redesign this site. So what does it mean to you, well, I'll be changing a lot of file names so if you have certain pages bookmarked, chances are they won't work after the redesign. Don't worry, you can still get to the site by going to www.tomandjerryonline.com. I don't know when I'll implament the new design, know that it will be in the next couple of weeks though.
September 11, 2001. Black Tuesday. I'm sorrowful beyond the capacity to say anything.
On August 28-29, 2001, I added more information to the Character Pages. There are some new additions don't have any pictures associated with them. But the information is all there, though there are still a few character bios that I haven't done yet. I'm also debating whether or not to redesign the site, I like the current design and all, but I think it's time for a change. I don't know when I'll change the design, but I'm just forewarning you.
Last night, August 21, 2001, I went to my mail box. Inside was my monthly Wizard magazine. What relevance does a comic book magazine have on Tom and Jerry and this site? Well, this month featured an article entitled "110 Greatest 'Toons" and they listed Tom and Jerry as number #15, though I think they should have gotten a higher number.
The updates just keep coming!!! I got some news for you Gamers out there. There is a new game coming out for Game Boy Advanced. It's done by NewKidCo. It will be called Tom and Jerry, The Magic Ring. It's Street date is Oct 28, 2001. So today July 27, you get to see some of the screen shots.
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Register now for the Second TopRail Forum to be held on 17 May 2019 in Naples, Italy
Theme of the event: The Attractiveness of Rail Tourism
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The second UIC TopRail Forum, jointly organised by UIC, FS (Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane Group) and FS Foundation entitled “The attractiveness of Rail Tourism” will be held in Naples on 17 May with a technical visit on a historical train from Naples to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Pompeii on 18 May.
TopRail is a UIC project dedicated to the field of Rail Tourism at international level. The approach is very broad encompassing different areas: train-cruises, panoramic trains, railway heritage, etc. www.toprail.org
After several years of workshops and internal meetings, the TopRail member group has decided to open its activity to the public and get in touch with the rest of the stakeholders interested in the business opportunities derived from rail tourism. That is why in 2018 the first TopRail Forum took place in Barcelona. After the success of the first TopRail Forum, UIC is organising the second edition in collaboration with Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane Group to be held at the National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa (Naples).
TopRail Forum was created with the aim of establishing itself as the international event of reference for Railway Tourism in its broadest sense. The business vision will be very present and is intended to be the meeting point of all the actors involved: from the railway industry (operators, manufacturers) and the tourism industry (tour operators, wholesalers) to international, national and regional policy makers, to the final customer.
In this second edition, the programme will consist of a single intense day of morning and afternoon sessions, complemented on Saturday by a journey on the historical train to the UNESCO site of Pompeii.
The attendees will learn about the latest news in this special type of tourism at global level from the handful of representatives from different parts of the world. The event will feature presentations from operators, tour operators and institutions at the highest level willing to share ideas about the future of the different tourism experiences linked to the railway through two round tables. Likewise, there will be appropriate moments to encourage networking among the participants.
The programme of the second UIC TopRail Forum is regularly updated at this address:
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Lyublena Dimova, Research Project Manager, European Travel Commission
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Catherine Russell ‘Alone Together’ LP/CD (Dot Time) 4/5
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Catherine Russell releases her brand new album, ‘Alone Together’, marking her first release through Dot Time Records, and her seventh solo album.
Much has been made of Russell’s lineage – and rightfully so – the daughter of vocalist and musician Carline Ray who held degrees from Juilliard as well as the Manhattan School of Music, and her father, Luis Russell, the pianist/composer who also served as Louis Armstrong’s musical director. But Russell’s path to solo success was still a lengthy one and while guesting as lead vocalist for the Earl May Quintet release ‘Live At Shanghai Jazz’ (2000), it still wasn’t until 2006’s ‘Cat’ (World Village) that Russell took centre stage. Prior to ‘Live At Shanghai Jazz’, Russell spent over twenty years providing backing vocals – in the studio and on stage – for renowned artists including Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Steely Dan and David Bowie.
Now newly signed to Dot Time Records, the jazz, soul and world music label showcase a dynamic roster of contemporary artists from around the world. In the seven years since its inception, Dot Time can boast releases from US violinist Zach Brock, British vocalist Ola Onabule, Polish jazz from the Marcin Losik Trio amongst many others. The addition of Catherine Russell to their line-up certainly makes for a perfect combination – her now famed interpretations of jazz classics and standards has garnered such critical acclaim that ‘Alone Together’ can only come with high expectations attached.
With guesting horn players Evan Arntzen (saxophone), John Allred (trombone) and Jon-Erik Kellso (trumpet), ‘Alone Together’ features long-time collaborators making up the core band including guitarist and the project’s musical director Matt Munisteri (Holly Cole, Dan Levinson), pianist Mark Shane (Lars Erstrand, Molly Ryan), bass by Tal Ronen (Dani Benedict Trio, Melechet) and drummer Mark McLean (Jamie Cullum, George Michael).
Over the course of ‘Alone Together’, Catherine Russell breezes through these thirteen interpretations with the confidence and poise as if they were her own – soaring with the upbeat swing of ‘Errand Girl For Rhythm’ and the lush take on ‘How Deep Is The Ocean?’. Another notable highlight is the bluesy ‘When Did You Leave Heaven?’ featuring the perfectly understated use of the string section comprised of Dana Lyn, Eddy Malave and Marika Hughes, and the masterpiece that is ‘Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby?’, which I didn’t think I could appreciate as much when not being a serenade from the suave Tom Cat (from Tom & Jerry).
‘Alone Together’ proves to be a triumphant collaboration for the team of Dot Time and Catherine Russell and here’s to many more.
Catherine Russell ‘Bring It Back’ CD (Jazz Village) 4/5
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Simon's Goal Lifts Notre Dame Hockey Over Northern Michigan, 3-2
NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Sophomore left wing Dan Carlson and senior right wing Brian Urick ended goal slumps early in the first period while junior center Ben Simon again came through with the decisive goal late in the third period, as the Notre Dame hockey team defeated visiting Northern Michigan, 3-2, in the first game of their best-of-three Central Collegiate Hockey Association playoff series Friday at the Joyce Center Fieldhouse.
The Irish can win the playoff series with a victory in Saturday night’s game, with a game scheduled for Sunday night if necessary (both at 7 p.m.). The four winners of the quarterfinal round will advance to Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena for the CCHA semi-finals on March 12 (with the final to be played on the 13th). Notre Dame (19-12-5) improved to 12-1-3 at home, with Friday’s exciting game featuring just four penalties between the teams, creating a CCHA Tournament record for fewest combined penalty minutes (6:00 by NMU, 2:00 by the Irish).
Northern Michigan (19-13-5) tied the game thanks to a goal by senior center Brad Frattaroli late in the first period and a shorthanded score in the closing moments of the second period by junior left wing Tyson Holly. Sophomore Dan Ragusett made 31 saves in the losing effort.
Irish senior Forrest Karr made 18 saves and has allowed three or fewer in goals in 18 of his last 19 games. Karr made a memorable sliding save in the final minutes, when Frattoroli launched a shot from the right side of the middle slot. Karr had been hugging the far post and slid quickly to his left before kicking his legs out to cover his left side of the net, with the puck clanging off his pads for one of Karr’s most athletic saves of the season.
Urick set up the winning goal, after collecting the puck in the Irish end and leading a rush down the right side. Urick then zipped pass through the slot for sophomore left wing Chad Chipchase, who smacked a one-timer at the far side. Ragusett was there for the save but three Irish players-Urick, Simon and junior defenseman Nathan Borega-each were in position for the rebound opportunity. Urick went flying through the crease while Simon sailed in from the far side and slapped the puck into the right side of the goal (17:27) for his 17th goal of the season, before circling around the net and skating to the left boards for the celebratory team hug (Borega was waiting on the right side of the crease if the streaking Simon had failed to knock in the loose puck).
Carlson opened the scoring just 1:19 into the game, for his seventh goal of the season and first in the last 15 games (ending a 36-shot drought). NMU junior defenseman Kevin Schmidt tried to keep the puck in the Irish zone near the point, but Carlson batted Schmidt’s shot away before pouncing on the loose puck and racing down the right boards. Schmidt tried hacking from behind as the speedy Carlson skated into the slot. Ragusett stood his ground but extended his right leg at the far post as the patient Carlson waited before firing a shot between the goaltender’s legs for an early 1-0 Irish lead.
Urick made a stellar play on the second Irish score, providing the Irish captain with his first goal in nine games (ending a 37-shot drought). The play began in the Irish end, when a pass from NMU sophomore right wing Fred Mattersdorfer sent a pass into the middle that was too far behind Frattaroli. Urick collected the puck at the far boards and slanted to his right while passing through the mid-ice faceoff area.
As Urick neared the NMU zone, the Wildcats had four players lined up on their blueline but could not keep Urick from an open shot. Simon skated in front of Urick and headed out to the right, drawing junior defenseman Lee Ruff with him while also occupying Holly (who was stationed near the boards). Ruff turned too late as Urick split the gap between Ruff and sophomore defenseman Doug Schmidt, who flailed his stick in vain as Urick broke into the clear. With NMU senior center Buddy Smith unable to get into the play from the left side (after a line change), Urick had avoided the NMU foursome and lifted a backhanded shot over Ragusett’s right shoulder for Urick’s 15th goal of the season and the 56th of his career (11:25).
Frattaroli scored his eighth goal of the season at 16:57 of the opening period, on a play set up by Holly’s pass to Mattersdorfer in the NMU end. Mattersdorfer carried the puck all the way into the slot before dropping a pass to his left. Frattaroli skated onto the puck before one-timing a shot into the far right corner of the net, with Karr guessing wrong as he looked for the low stick-side shot.
Holly capitalized on a shorthanded situation for his 12th goal of the season, with 0:22 left in the second period. Irish freshman center David Inman skated back to the puck and nudged it in the opposite direction before attempting a pass back into the NMU zone. But Inman skated past the puck and his stick never made contact. The lefthanded Holly alertly took the puck at the Irish blue line and slanted in from the right before holding the puck and beating Karr with a low forehand shot inside the far left post (19:38).
NOTES: Notre Dame’s last 11 goals have come from nine different players: sophomore RW Ryan Dolder, senior LW Aniket Dhadphale (2), Inman (2), freshman C Brett Henning, Chipchase, sophomore RW Matt Van Arkel, Carlson, Urick and Simon … Simon has factored in 10 of Notre Dame’s 19 game-winning goals this season (3 GWG, 7 GWA), plus game-tying goals vs. Michigan and Michigan State S the Irish are 15-2-3 when scoring first, 12-1-2 with a first-intermission lead, 13-7-4 when outshooting the opponent, 19-7-5 when holding the opponent to 0-3 goals and 16-3-4 when Simon has at least one point S
AROUND THE CCHA: In other CCHA playoff action Friday, regular-season champion Michigan State trailed No 8 seed Lake Superior 1-0 midway through the second period before taking a 2-1 lead and then scoring with 1:27 left in regulation for a 3-2 win (LSSU’s Jayme Platt had 36 saves in the loss) … No. 2 seed Michigan rallied for a 3-2 win over No. 7 seed Bowling Green (Bobby Hayes’ fourth goal of the season tied the game with 9:00 left while Dave Huntzicker’s shorthanded won the game with 5:29 left) … two of the CCHA’s top scorers-BG’s Dan Price and Adam Edinger-each had an assist but failed to scored (UM’s Dale Rominski also had a SHG, tying the game in the first period) … No. 3 seed Ohio State posted a 4-2 win over sixth seed Ferris State, behind goals from four different players and 23 saves by Jeff Maund.
NORTHERN MICHIGAN (19-13-5) 1 1 0 - 2NOTRE DAME (19-12-5) 2 0 1 - 3
1ST: ND 1 .Carlson 7 (unassisted) 1:19;
ND 2. Urick (unassisted) 11:25;
NMU 1. Frattaroli (Mattersdorfer, Holly) 16:57.
2ND: NMU 2. Holly 12 (unassisted) 19:38.
3RD: ND 3. Simon 17
(Chipchase, Urick) 17:27.
SHOTS: NMU 5-7-8/20; ND 13-7-14/34.
SAVES: NMU (Ragusett) 11-7-13/31;
ND (Karr) 4-6-8/18.
POWER PLAY: ND 0-for-3, NMU 0-for-1.
PENALTIES: ND 1 for
2:00, NMU 3 for 6:00.
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In workout of the power under UP Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University UP regulation no. 15 of 2001 read with section 10 subclause 1, the Government of Uttar Pradesh is pleased to propose Sri Raghveo Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Ji as lifelong President of this University on September 27, 2001. The Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University was established to provide higher & professional education to persons with disabilities. this University, Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya Ji, who himself is a blind person came forward with missionary zeal to establish the University for persons with disability.
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Asia Equities: Looking Beyond the Coronavirus
March 2020 / INVESTMENT INSIGHTS
Volatility may provide longer-term investors with opportunities
Eric C. Moffett, Portfolio Manager
We remain constructive on the long‑term prospects for Asia ex‑Japan equities despite the short‑term disruption and uncertainty created by COVID‑19.
Timely policy responses from China and other Asian countries support our positive long‑term outlook, although market volatility may persist for some time.
We believe the Asia ex‑Japan region continues to offer good opportunities for longer‑term investors in top‑quality companies with strong earnings potential.
Despite the short‑term disruption and uncertainty created by the new coronavirus (COVID‑19), we remain constructive on the long‑term prospects for Asia ex‑Japan equities. We expect timely policy responses to the outbreak from China and other Asian countries, cyclical recoveries in the global auto and semiconductor industries, and continued monetary and liquidity support from central banks, supporting our positive longer‑term views. While market volatility may persist until we see clearer indications that the coronavirus outbreak is coming under control in China and in other regional COVID‑19 hotspots like South Korea, meaningful corrections to quality Asian stocks due to COVID‑19 fears may provide longer term investors like ourselves with good opportunities.
In mid‑January, investors were confronted by the coronavirus (COVID‑19) outbreak in China that has since spread to a growing number of other countries. The full impact on global and regional economies is still unclear. This will remain the case until we have a better idea of the duration and severity of COVID‑19 in each country and the extent to which it is disrupting global supply chains.
Just as the news from China on containing the outbreak was starting to improve, the rising number of cases in South Korea and Japan has complicated the outlook for the region considerably. Korea and Japan both play an important role in Asian supply chains, and quarantine restrictions in these countries could delay China’s own efforts to return to normal by restricting imports of key intermediate goods, especially electronic components.
Timely Policy Response From China
China was quick off the mark in early February with policy measures to support the economy. We are hopeful that China’s policy support measures should be enough to reverse much of the damage to the economy from COVID‑19, although their impact may not be felt until the second half of the year. We believe that Beijing will do all in its power to avoid a hard landing for the economy, since maintaining social stability is of paramount importance to Xi Jinping and the Chinese government.
In early February, the Chinese authorities announced a package of 30 financial measures intended to both support the economy and alleviate some of the pressures from the coronavirus. China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China, cut short term interest rates by 10 basis points and injected RMB 1.2 trillion of liquidity into the banking sector. These early measures were aimed at relieving some of the immediate financial stress by ensuring ample liquidity in money and credit markets and by providing interest rate subsidies and loan forbearance for companies and mortgage holders in temporary financial difficulty. Development and policy banks, such as the Export‑Import Bank and Agricultural Development Bank, pledged to increase their lending support to the economy. Wuhan, the city at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, was granted RMB 300 billion in loans from the central government. A number of provincial and local governments in China announced financial measures in support of their local economies.
We believe that Beijing will do all in its power to avoid a hard landing for the economy…
Allowing for a policy‑driven recovery in the second half, the negative impact on China’s full year GDP growth in 2020 may ultimately prove limited. Meanwhile, China economists are in the process of lowering their 2020 growth forecasts, typically by around 0.5% to 1.0%. From recent speeches, it is clear President Xi Jinping still wants to achieve China’s long‑term target of doubling the country’s 2010 per capita GDP by 2020, a target popularly associated with China becoming a “moderately prosperous nation.” Following recent benchmark revisions to historical GDP data, growth this year needs to be around 5.6% to achieve Xi’s goal and provide a political victory. This may look difficult now, but it could still be possible given additional policy stimulus.
SARS May Be An Imperfect Guide
For investors in Asian equities, the key point to note is that although COVID‑19 may present a bigger economic shock than Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), it nevertheless will be a one‑off event. As such, the impact on China and other Asian economies should start to reverse once the outbreak dies down and policy support kicks in later in the year. We believe a temporary drop in economic activity in the first half of the year should not have a lasting impact on Asia’s positive long‑term economic performance. Since the 1980s, Asia ex‑Japan has contributed a rising share of global GDP growth, a trend we expect to see continue (Fig. 1).
Following the peak of SARS cases in 2003, equity markets bottomed and began to rally ahead of better economic news once it was clear that the outbreak was coming under control (Fig. 2). A similar sequence of events was initially expected for the coronavirus in 2020, although the subsequent spread of COVID‑19 to more countries is a new factor for markets to digest.
There are also a number of key differences between circumstances today and those prevailing at the time of SARS. Above all, China is a much more important growth driver for Asia and the global economy than it was in 2003, when a strong global upswing helped cushion China against the negative impact of SARS via strong demand for Chinese exports. Today, global growth is more subdued. The Chinese economy is also more consumer and services oriented than in 2003, implying greater regional sensitivity to reduced tourism, transport, travel, and entertainment expenditure. Share prices in these sectors have already adjusted to the COVID‑19 shock.
Asia Stands Out in a Low Growth World
(Fig. 1) Asia Ex-Japan as percent of World GDP Growth
As of December 31, 2019.
Source: World Bank/Haver Analytics.
The bigger uncertainty today lies with the disruption to global supply chains following Chinese factory closures after the Lunar New Year and the strict domestic travel and quarantine restrictions. The “supply side” aspect of the coronavirus shock via widespread factory closures was absent in 2003. At this stage, it is not possible to gauge the full extent of potential supply chain disruptions in industries like semiconductors and autos. Recent surveys suggest that perhaps 70% of factories in China will have restarted by early March, though not all will be operating at normal capacity as returning migrant workers will face two weeks quarantine.
Recent surveys suggest that perhaps 70% of factories in China will have restarted by early March…
Asia ex‑Japan Earnings
Besides the economic uncertainty created by the coronavirus, there is uncertainty over the short‑term earnings outlook for Asia ex‑Japan. While the region had disappointed on earnings relative to developed markets in recent years, the earnings outlook prior to the coronavirus outbreak had improved, supported by a recovery in margins and greater capital expenditure discipline. The consensus estimate for earnings growth in 2020 is currently about 16% (FTSE Asia ex‑Japan index as of February 25. See Fig. 3). While the aggregate number will be revised down as analysts adjust their estimates for COVID‑19, the share prices of many of the stocks likely to be most affected have already fallen a long way. As such, they may be less sensitive to future cuts in analyst earnings estimates for 2020, a potential investment opportunity.
Asian Investors Should “Look Across the Valley”
Our advice to investors is to “look across the valley” of short‑term disruption and weak economic data due to the coronavirus. Keeping to our long‑term, fundamentally driven approach to investing in Asia, we prefer not to be swayed by short‑term market dislocations such as COVID‑19. With this in mind, we are not likely to make major changes in our Asian equity strategies. Given our bottom‑up focus on fundamentals, however, we are comfortable taking positions in China and other Asian markets that we feel have sold off excessively on the negative investor sentiment arising from the coronavirus outbreak.
Our advice to investors is to ‘look across the valley’ of short-term disruption and weak economic data due to the coronavirus.
The long‑term case for investing in Asia ex‑Japan has not changed. Overseas investors remain very underweight in China, the world’s second largest economy and the most successful in Asia. China’s contribution to global growth is expected to remain significant as it continues to outpace developed economies. Over the medium term, we think China can continue to successfully transition its economy, striking an appropriate balance between growth stabilization and financial deleveraging. China’s focus on greater self‑reliance, encouraging companies to move up the value chain, and the shift towards domestic consumption are long‑term positive growth drivers for the region.
Asian Markets Before SARS and Now
(Fig. 2) MSCI AC Asia ex Japan index and number of new cases.
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
As of February 21, 2020.
Sources: MSCI (see Additional Disclosures), China Health Authority, data analysis by T. Rowe Price.
We favor cash‑generative companies in Asia that show they can continue to grow market share and compound their earnings regardless of macroeconomic or trade policy uncertainties. As a result, our portfolio tends to have a natural bias toward domestically oriented businesses that are expected to benefit from the strong growth in Asian disposable incomes. We still intend to keep a close watch, however, on developments in U.S.‑China trade relations and their potential impact on company earnings.
Chinese Fiscal Policy to Drive Regional Growth
China’s fiscal policy is likely to drive 2020 growth in the Asia ex‑Japan region. Implementation of fiscal policy support—such as additional infrastructure investment financed by local government special purpose bonds—has to wait until the outbreak has been contained enough for factories and the construction sector to resume activity. Other Asian countries are likely to use their available fiscal policy tools to protect their economies against COVID‑19. Singapore and Hong Kong have introduced expansionary budgets, and South Korea is expected to follow suit with a fiscal package of around 0.5% of GDP.
Asia EPS growth in 2019 and 2020
(Fig. 3) Contribution by country to Asia ex-Japan regional EPS growth
Source: HSBC Global Research.
Based on FTSE Asia Ex-Japan Index.
However, much remains uncertain about the impact of COVID‑19 and policy responses. As a result, equity markets in Asia and elsewhere are expected to remain volatile in the months ahead. After their recent correction, valuations in Asia ex‑Japan equity markets appear reasonable relative to past history and to developed markets, if not cheap.
We believe the Asia ex‑Japan region continues to offer good opportunities for longer‑term investors in top‑quality companies with strong earnings potential. Many of the stocks that we favor have been supported by strong domestic demand trends that should not be impacted by the coronavirus beyond the short term and are also less vulnerable to a resumption of China‑U.S. trade tensions.
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Hulu Live TV Review – Everything You Need To Know
This article will provide you with a complete Hulu Live TV Review.
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Hulu is one of the most popular IPTV services available today. In Q1 of 2019, the company claimed that it already has 28 million U.S. subscribers. It added 3.8 million new subscribers, outpacing Netflix’s 1.74 net additions by more than half in the same period.
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Free trials for this plan are available for new and returning subscribers too.
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For such monthly cost, Hulu offers one of the most affordable plans in the market today. However, it can rack up when subscribers decide to have add-ons.
For example, to access HBO, a $14.99 monthly add-on fee is required. There’s a separate price for Cinemax ($9.99), SHOWTIME ($10.99) and STARZ ($8.99).
Those subscribed to the Hulu + Live TV plan can enjoy the Enhanced Cloud DVR feature (up to 200 total recording hours) and unlimited screens for $9.99 each.
Spanish language streaming and on-demand content from Spanish networks are also available through the Español add-on for $4.99 a month.
If these additional networks and features don’t mean so much to you, you can choose to stick to the standard Hulu plan for less than $6 a month.
The user interface has been updated in October 2019 to make menus easier to read, improve accessibility to each feature, and keep navigation more user-friendly. I used to complain about the text’s visibility on the interface but now, the changes have greatly improved the design.
The live TV grid guide is a feature that I enjoy the most. It categorizes shows based on sports, news, movies and kids plus the recent shows and channels that I’ve watched.
As a heavy channel surfer, it’s a feature that appeals to me a lot. It also lets users plan their recording up to 14 days ahead so they won’t miss their programs.
Plus, there’s the picture-in-picture mode so users can continue watching a streaming show while scrolling through other content on the menu.
In terms of the Hulu app on mobile, there was nothing to complain about. It was easy navigating through the features, browsing shows, and even accessing the My Stuff section that allowed me to manage my DVR storage without a hassle.
Streaming and Picture Quality
It’s only recently that Hulu has started offering shows in 4K streaming but only on the Firestick, Chromecast Ultra, Apple TV (5th generation or later) and some select devices. However, as of this writing, the shows are also limited to Hulu Originals only.
I find this really necessary if you want to optimize your viewing experience. It’s a good deal for a very affordable monthly subscription fee. And if you’re watching live TV, the best resolution and cloud DVR recordings you can get is 720p/60fps HD even on a Firestick.
As long as you maintain a stable bandwidth, you’re sure to get a decent picture and streaming quality with Hulu. I found no issues with this when testing the service for weeks now.
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Exclusive to Hulu + Live TV subscribers, the cloud DVR recording functionality allows up to 50 hours of storage capacity.
The quality of the recording, in my opinion, is pretty decent, and I found no bugs during multiple tests. The downside? Users have to upgrade to the Enhanced Cloud DVR add-on to fast forward through the ads.
On the other hand, paying an additional $9.99 for this feature comes with 200 hours of storage too so there’ll be more shows to record.
I tried creating a Kids Profile to restrict access to some content and it worked perfectly fine. Hulu’s parental control is an easy-to-use feature that keeps kids safe from watching adult-related content on the streaming service.
The ad-supported plan may be very cheap but this can be frustrating to most subscribers who switched to cord-cutting in the first place. Ads are a big source of revenue for Hulu, which retains between 30 percent and 50 percent of ad revenues that it distributes.
The Hulu (No Ads) plan does not really mean that all programs are ad-free too. As explained in their website, some shows still contain ads due to streaming rights rules.
Thus, fans of Grey’s Anatomy, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and How to Get Away With Murder have to contend with short ad breaks before and after each episode. Still, there are no ads in the middle of the shows.
If you’re not using compatible devices to stream Hulu, you can use the classic Hulu app to access the streaming library from Apple TV (2nd and 3rd generation only), select LG TVs, Roku models, Samsung, VIZIO and Sony TVs, and TiVo. The downside, however, is that you won’t have access to live TV and some add-ons offered.
Your streaming activity is actively tracked by your Internet Service Provider, app/addon devs, and government through your identifying IP address.
Based on my experience with Hulu, I’d say that the service is good enough to cut the cord.
The Hulu + Live TV plan is reasonably priced and can match other streaming services’ features. What I would want to see in the coming year is a huge improvement in the number of 4K content not limited only to its original programs.
It would also be great to increase the cloud DVR storage since YouTube TV already offers an unlimited space to its subscribers.
Overall, Hulu is great for those looking to enjoy VOD. While the Live TV option also works great, it may be more expensive than most want to pay.
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How to Bike from Milwaukee to Waukesha
A downtown-to-downtown trek is an easy ride, a lot of fun and surprisingly interesting.
By Jeramey Jannene - Jun 21st, 2016 03:45 pm
Milwaukee-Waukesha Route
With all the intra-region fighting that takes place in metro Milwaukee, you’re forgiven for thinking it’s nearly impossible to ride a bicycle from Milwaukee to Waukesha. If Milwaukee can’t get regional transit right, how could it possibly get regional bicycling setup? But in fact, going from downtown Milwaukee to downtown Waukesha is a simple 20-mile ride with almost the entire ride coming on paved trails.
Why make the ride?
It’s unheralded, but downtown Waukesha has a rapidly improving bar and restaurant scene. It’s chic and easy to dismiss the suburbs culturally, but the craft beer selection my fiancee and I encountered in downtown Waukesha was just as good as anything you would find on E. Brady St. The farmers’ market was active, there is some semblance of an emerging retail environment and we ate at several places that are all worthy of recommendation.
So how to get there?
From the Oak Leaf Trail on the lakefront in downtown Milwaukee, the street grid presents a number of options to get to the Hank Aaron Trail at S. 6th St. and W. Canal St. I prefer to take the direct route along Michigan St. to approach the trail from the north. The official Hank Aaron Trail route and to-be-completed Lakefront Gateway project would have you go through the Historic Third Ward on E. Chicago St. and into Walker’s Point along W. Freshwater Way to approach the trail from the south. Either way, you need to get to Canal St.
Once you’re on the paved trail that runs along W. Canal St. it’s smooth sailing until S. 94th Pl. The trail weaves through the Menomonee River Valley before you have to cross Canal St. just west of the 35th Street Viaduct. From there you’re riding on an old railroad corridor through the gorgeous Soldiers Home complex (worthy of a stop) and west into West Allis. You’ll go through the Wisconsin State Fair grounds before having to exit the trail at S. 94th Pl. Once the Zoo Interchange work is complete, you’ll be able to continue on here and much more of Waukesha County will become easily accessible (and you can then skip the following part of the directions).
Leaving the trail for 94th Pl., you’re entering the on-road portion of the ride caused by the Zoo Interchange work. This stretch is a bit hilly, and mixed with traffic, but is thankfully quite short. You’ll take Schlinger Ave. to S. 98th. St., veering south before you end on W. Greenfield Ave. Greenfield is the busiest street of the ride, but thankfully bicycle lanes have been added. Continue west on Greenfield over the large hill (and highway) to S. 108th St. Before going a half mile south on 108th St., you’ll come to a railroad bridge, which marks the eastern end of the West Allis Cross Town Connector trail. This paved trail will take you west into Waukesha, and will in the coming years be extended east to 92nd St. History buffs will note that its built atop one of the many former interurban corridors that whisked riders in and out of Milwaukee until 1951.
Following the trail, you’ll officially be on the New Berlin Trail and in Waukesha County when you cross 124th St. This part of the ride isn’t nearly as scenic as others, but it’s straight and relatively flat. Trailside Cycle, a bicycle shop, is located where the trail intersects with Calhoun Rd., should you find yourself needing air in your tires or Gatorade. After roughly eight miles, the trail ends near Waukesha Foundry and becomes Lincoln Ave. You can stay on Lincoln until it terminates in E. Broadway. Follow Broadway northwest less than a mile and you’re in downtown Waukesha.
What to do when you get there?
Depending on the day of the week, you might find a range of activities taking place, from live music to a farmers’ market. You’ll want to replace those calories you just burned with some beer. We enjoyed stopping at Bernie’s (try the duck confit), the rooftop at Taylor’s People Park (same owners as Taylor’s in Milwaukee), bantering with the friendly bartenders at House of Guinness, the beer and endless pizza options at Magellans, and the newly-opened Daylee Public House.
For the ride back, a number of options located just off the Hank Aaron Trail present themselves including TomKen’s in West Allis (wings, chicken and more chicken) and Oscar’s on W. Pierce St (burgers and a great back patio). The ride back also feels a lot easier, as you’re heading slightly downhill towards Lake Michigan for nearly the entire route.
While it seems at times like we live in different worlds, you’ll find a bike ride from Milwaukee to Waukesha worth the trip.
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6 thoughts on “Eyes on Milwaukee: How to Bike from Milwaukee to Waukesha”
This is a really great ride and downtown Waukesha was better than I expected.
Route suggestion-94th to Schlinger Ave, then south onto S. 105th street, at Washington go west through tunnel, continue on Washington until 121st street then go south into Greenfield Park to hook up with the New Berlin.
@Casey (#1), AFAIK, Schlinger is closed under I-894 (though maybe you can sneak through on a bike somewhere) so getting to S. 105th isn’t that direct right now, hence Jeramey’s detour on Greenfield Ave.
I commute on this path 2x – 4x a week and can attest to the value that the paved trails bring.
Thanx Rich!
Everything’s great (especially suggested alternative route through Greenfield Park) except for Greenfield Ave. I’ve almost been hit multiple times by cars exiting 894 who clearly aren’t looking for pedestrians.
DonL says:
Waukesha Native here. Couple of other suggestions for places to eat/relax if you make the trek out here: 1) 225So Mi Famiglia on South St in downtown Waukesha, one of the very few restaurants in the area featuring a certified gluten-free kitchen separate from the regular kitchen (lots of gluten-free pasta and flatbreads available), and 2) halfway into the NewBerlin trail (at Calhoun) you can stop at Senior Luna’s for a margarita and chips to break up that relatively boring stretch of the trail.
Jim Hahn says:
Great piece. Here are some additional suggestions when downtown: Rochester Deli – often a WISN A-List winner for best sandwich shop and free wifi; Spring City Wine House and Crush Wine Bar have great atmosphere and libations; Meli Bar and Restaurant – Mediterranean fare in elegant decor; Farmer’s Daughter Collection- connected to Crush features southwest Native American jewelry, rugs, art, etc.; Reaching Treetops Yoga – low cost classes in aerial yoga is super fun and a good stretch after biking; People’s Park – rooftop as mentioned is great; second-hand resale shop run by and benefiting the Brain Injury Resource Center of WI always has cool finds. Downtown Waukesha is a gem – and Friday Night Live with outdoor stages and music will feature a “Latin Infusion” stage starting in July, often with free Salsa lessons! 🙂
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Should Cyber Security Researchers Pay For The Shadow Broker’s Exploit Dump?
Posted by Emily Love | May 31, 2017 |
Cyber Security researchers are today discussing the pros and cons of paying for a dump of exploits currently held by a notorious hacking group called The Shadow Broker’s. If these exploits get into the wrong hands they could be used to steal credit card information, login credentials or take control of a computer remotely.
This debate on how to deal with #ShadowBrokers that @hackerfantastic and @x0rz have spawned is interesting to observe.
— nex (@botherder) May 31, 2017
It is unclear how the Shadow Broker’s acquired the exploits. It has been speculated that an NSA operator left it on an insecure remote server. An exploit is a piece of code used to abuse a flaw in a system or software. The hacker can then install malicious code known as malware onto the vulnerable system.
The issue produced a lot of debate on Twitter with people offering arguments for and against paying for the exploits.
Kevin Beaumont, a UK based security researcher said that the prospect was a new low for infosec.
If InfoSec vendors fund Shadow Brokers ($20k per monthly subscription) leaking Nation State tools I think it's a new low for InfoSec.
— Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) May 30, 2017
Beaumont tweeted that the situation amounted to the infosec community paying a ransom for stolen goods.
Alan Woodward, a Security Advisor, stated that paying The Shadow Broker’s “would encourage further such thefts, and so I’m afraid as much as I’d like to see what they have to say, I think it’s a poor idea.”
Some have said that paying for The Shadow Broker’s dump would be supporting terrorism.
Others have argued that the purchase would offer a chance to patch, or fix, the problems before the exploits could be used for criminal purposes.
Mathew J Schwartz tells us that “[the] Goal of crowdfunding by security researchers is to prevent future wannacrys.” This is something that would be welcomed by all the people who were inconvenienced by WannaCry. The WannaCry worm infected machines across the globe and crippled organizations such as the NHS (National Health Service), in the UK.
Dan Goodlin tweeted that the the best argument is that the purchase of exploits by whitehats devalues the exploits, therein rendering it little to useless to other, possibly more malevolent buyers.
Joe Harris, Creator of the Threat² CTI Model, tweeted his preferred solution to the issue.
According to The Shadow Broker’s, to obtain access to the dumps yourself, you have to purchase 100 ZCash (close to $20,000) and send the money to the The Shadow Broker’s z_address, making sure you include your email address. If you correctly follow these steps, on July 1st, you will have received an email with a link and a password to the dump of that month.
Wow, Shadow Brokers is launching a monthly subscription service for new NSA data dumps. ? https://t.co/kIRCJSoC0q pic.twitter.com/TqtCMGZDcC
— Mustafa Al-Bassam (@musalbas) May 16, 2017
According to a Shadow Broker’s article, the subscription service will provide subscribers who pay a fee of $20,000 per month with:
Web browser, router, handset exploits and tools
Select items from newer Ops Disks, including newer exploits for Windows 10
Compromised network data from more SWIFT providers and Central banks
Compromised network data from Russian, Chinese, Iranian and North Korean nukes and missile programs
Matthew Hickey, a hacker and Cyber Security Expert, acknowledged the debate, the divided opinions and set up a pole to find out if people thought crowd funding was a legitimate solution.
Is a KickStarter project to pay Shadow Brokers subscription ($20k) and then perform analysis on it and responsible disclosure a good idea?
— Hacker Fantastic (@hackerfantastic) May 30, 2017
Steve Lord suggested a patreon was made.
Hickey tweeted that he had made a patreon and would go ahead with collecting funds to pay the subscription fee.
We (@x0rz and me) have decided to attempt to crowd source the funds and buy the @shadowbrokerss exploits – details https://t.co/xLkgIgomg7
Joseph Cox, who covers hackers for Motherboard, summarised the plan to crowd source the money to pay the subscription fee.
https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/869865948127404032
On April 14th, 2017, the The Shadow Broker’s released an exploit kit known as Fuzzbunch, similar to Metasploit, which contained zero days such as EternalBlue. A zero day is a vulnerability or exploit that is unknown to the vendor or is unpatched. Eternalblue was utilized by the WannaCry worm to infect machines across the globe and cripple organizations such as the NHS (as mentioned briefly earlier), thus forcing them to deny requests.
Hickey added to the arguments for:
Just by having this fundraising present distracts other criminals from attempting to buy the tools as they would not retain monetary worth.
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, Assistant Professor at New York University Tandon, commented that the future as imagined in cyberpunk culture is happening right now.
Crowdfunding to buy nation state exploits from an anonymous group using untraceable cryptocurrency. The future got real cyberpunk real fast. https://t.co/DQeyaJloX8
— Brendan Dolan-Gavitt (@moyix) May 30, 2017
One unanswered question is why didn’t The Shadow Broker’s auction the FuzzBunch framework? Aren’t exploits effecting a popular operating system, i.e Windows, more useful than ones affecting a system infrequently used by the masses? After all, Windows is more often to be found on the average user’s computer. Is the motive something other than monetary gain? Maybe, maybe not. In the end, the cards will all play out and we may get to see the repercussions of these much sought after exploits.
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Cheesemaking in Nepal under threat unless pastoralist traditions are revived
BY AASTHA UPRETY
Nepal’s Langtang Valley is known for many things, from its remarkable Himalayan landscapes, to its status as the origin of the country’s beloved yak cheese. Cheesemaking, which has a unique history in the region, relies on milk supplied by yak herders. However, the traditional practice of herding is slowly disappearing. As Langtang, a popular travel destination, deals with a volatile tourism industry reeling from the effects of COVID-19, reviving pastoralist traditions might hold the key to building a more resilient community, economy, and environment.
A herding group moves their camp and animals between pastures in the Upper Langtang Valley. Photo: Austin Lord
People in the Langtang Valley, located in north-central Nepal, have traditionally enjoyed a few different types of cheeses. One of these is chhurpi, a type of tangy Himalayan yak cheese that is famous for being rock-hard. But in the early 1950s, Swiss development workers backed by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization came to the valley and began a project to try something new: European-style cheesemaking in Langtang.
When they arrived in this rural region, livelihoods were focused on pastoralism and farming. Yak herding was common, and milk was used and consumed within families and exchanged on a small scale. After observing herders in the region, Swiss dairy experts thought that new forms of cheese production could be a good way to use the surplus milk produced by yaks in the summer, when monsoon rains sustain lush pastures and increase the animals’ milk production. Thus, they spearheaded a plan to build a facility in Langtang that would produce a new type of cheese using Swiss techniques. As Gyalbu Tamang, a cheesemaker in Langtang, describes in an essay for the Nepali Times, at first this effort was largely met with suspicion and reluctance from local yak herders, who did not want to give away their milk to foreigners imposing a largely externally-developed plan on the community. Swiss workers would sometimes “break into herders’ huts and confiscate the milk,” Tamang told the Times.
These mixing tools, used for stirring vats, were originally brought by the Swiss and are still used in the cheese factory today. Photo: Austin Lord
After the Swiss were able to persuade the village’s Lama, or religious leader, to support the initiative, locals also agreed, and the Europeans’ pet project took hold. Swiss workers and Langtang locals started producing a new yak cheese, much softer than chhurpi, in the newly built facility. The taste was unfamiliar to the people of Langtang, who slowly became accustomed to the cheese after the Swiss regularly gave away free samples. Despite its contentious origins, eventually this cheese became popular among locals and was sold to tourists visiting the valley, transported to Kathmandu, and distributed throughout Nepal. It is now enjoyed across the country and known for being made in the Langtang region.
The original cheese factory, which was built in a town called Kyangjin Gomba, is still in use today and operates mostly in the summer months. There are seasonal facilities located in nearby pastures as well as a handful of factories in other towns throughout the wider region. Many of the facilities still use the cheesemaking tools that were given to them by the Swiss decades ago. These old-fashioned tools are used in tandem with newer technologies for monitoring the cheesemaking process and ensuring hygiene.
The 2015 Nepal earthquake, which caused major destruction throughout the country, also had a debilitating impact on the Langtang Valley and its cheesemaking economy. The earthquake triggered landslides throughout the region, with unimaginable devastation in Langtang Village, one town in the valley. There, a massive avalanche took around 300 lives—a majority of the population—and wiped out the municipality’s infrastructure. Since then, recovery efforts throughout the valley have slowly but surely rebuilt homes, guesthouses, and even the cheese production center in Kyangjin Gomba, which was destroyed in the earthquake.
The earthquake was “a chance for us to breathe new life into cheese-making in Langtang,” Gyalbu Tamang told the Nepali Times. The Swiss Embassy donated to rebuilding efforts, and the cheesemakers were able to negotiate with the Nepal government’s Dairy Development Corporation, which oversees rural milk production, to set a higher selling price for yak milk. The extra income from the higher selling prices helped some farmers invest more in their yak herds following the tragedy. While this now-popular cheese is relatively new and introduced by a foreign entity, production and consumption on a larger scale caught on because it incorporates a very traditional part of Langtang culture: yak herding. Many yak herders in Langtang sell their surplus milk to the cheese factory, bringing in earnings far higher than they did decades ago. According to the Nepali Times, over 60 farmers supply milk to the cheese factory in Kyangjin Gomba. While it took some time to catch on when it was first established in the 1950s, factory cheese production is now a part of herders’ livelihoods and an option for many of them.
A couple of herders Mheme Rinzin and Ibi Tsopki begin the morning milking cycle outside their huts in Chadang in August 201. Photo: Austin Lord
However, while cheese production throughout the region surrounding Langtang was on the rise in 2020, the practice of yak herding is declining and at risk in Langtang. This long-term trend may eventually force the local cheesemaking facilities to consider new options for sourcing milk. Austin Lord, a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Cornell University who has studied and lived in Langtang, explained to GlacierHub the main reasons for the decline. The earthquake was one direct factor—the disaster killed 27 yak herders as well as 400 yaks, and struggles during the recovery process led several herders to retire. Lord also explained that many yak herders are simply aging out of the profession and there are few herders from younger generations that can replace them. Yak herding is a laborious profession—herders spend nearly 10 months of the year travelling between pastures and camping with their yaks, enduring rain, snow, and cold temperatures. Young people from Langtang are instead attending school in cities like Kathmandu, spending less time at home, and opting to work in other industries, like tourism.
Tourism is the largest industry in Langtang and the basis of the majority of peoples’ livelihoods. In 1976, about two decades after the first cheesemaking facility was established in Kyangjin Gomba, the Nepal government established Langtang National Park. This was the country’s first protected area in the Himalayas, and the designation helped tourism skyrocket. By the 2000s, tourism was the largest industry in Langtang, far surpassing herding. Langtang is a popular spot for trekking through valleys, enjoying views of the mountains, seeing glaciers, and experiencing Himalayan culture—including buying and tasting the famous Langtang cheese. Many people in Langtang own guesthouses and hotels or lead treks throughout the region.
Signs help guide tourists, who come from across Nepal and the world, through popular trekking routes in Langtang. Photo: Amy the nurse
Tourism, while dominant, can also be a volatile industry. Chhime Tamang, a trekking guide and guesthouse owner in Langtang, spoke to GlacierHub about the dearth of tourists due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The same thing happened following the 2015 earthquake. Tamang recalled the feeling of watching the news coverage of Langtang after the earthquake and lamenting not only the immense tragedy and loss of the situation, but also the impact it would have on tourism in the area. When tourism is low, locals are forced to dip into their savings, rely on local products instead of buying from Kathmandu, and sometimes grow food on their own. Right now, in the midst of the pandemic, Tamang said local residents are wondering “how to survive [and] waiting for the day [that tourism goes back to normal].”
While tourism is far more lucrative than yak herding, it depends partly on recognizable cultural symbols like yak herding to survive. The volatility of the tourism industry might provide an opportunity for yak herding to flourish again, according to Lord. Yak herding is not only a viable economic livelihood, but also a valuable part of community identity, and young people in Langtang have become increasingly interested in preserving their cultural heritage in the wake of the earthquake. This cultural heritage also includes language and religion—many in the area speak a regional dialect of Tibetan, along with Nepali, and practice Tibetan Buddhism.
Another concern for communities in Langtang is climate change, a major threat across the Himalayas. Anushilan Acharya, a research associate at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), explained to GlacierHub that glaciers throughout Nepal have been melting rapidly in recent decades. This can cause flooding and erosion in the short term, and water shortages in the long term. As glaciers continue to retreat, water shortages are expected to stunt grass growth and lead to less milk production from yaks. The effects of climate change are also leading to more unpredictable landslides, which threaten yaks and herders, and a decrease in arable land, including pastures for yaks to graze on.
A glacier in Langtang valley. Photo:Andrew and Annemarie
According to Lord, the impacts of climate change on yak herding are especially concerning because of the ecological knowledge that herders possess, which emerges from their close relationship with the land. “These days, there are fewer people who live in and move through the landscape in a sustained way, as people used to,” Lord told GlacierHub. He reassured that there are, however, young people who are slowly “rediscovering the landscape and trying to learn about their environment in new ways.”
According to Acharya, as disappearing glaciers reshape renowned landscapes and more frequent landslides threaten trekking routes and villages, the tourism industry will suffer as well. This could destabilize the tourism-based economy even further, but the Langtang community can adapt by diversifying their sources of income. Despite the threats that yak herding faces, the livelihood could still play an important role in the overall response to climate change. A revival of yak herding, traditional agricultural practices, and sustainable cheese production could not only help avoid overreliance on tourism, but also revitalize the connections between culture and nature and equip locals with invaluable ecological knowledge. Langtang has shown incredible resilience throughout recent history, from adopting cheesemaking to recovering in the wake of the earthquake. The full effects of numerous cultural and environmental changes remain to be seen, but are not irresolvable. The adaptability of the people of Langtang and their close connection with their environment suggest that they may well find ways to respond to the newest challenge
This article was first published in State of the Planet.
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Coal industry asks for financially beneficial rollbacks amid coronavirus
By Rebecca Beitsch - 03/20/20 12:22 PM EDT
Coal companies are looking to the White House and Congress to roll back a number of fees paid by mining companies, arguing the coronavirus will exacerbate difficult financial times for the struggling industry.
In a letter to President Trump Donald TrumpGiuliani used provisional ballot to vote in 2020 election, same method he disparaged in fighting to overturn results Trump gets lowest job approval rating in final days as president Fox News' DC managing editor Bill Sammon to retire MORE and congressional leaders first reported by Reuters on Thursday, the National Mining Association asked lawmakers to decrease payments to a trust fund for those with black lung disease and “suspend or reduce” the fees paid to the government for mining on federal land.
“Even before the recent crisis, the coal industry was struggling to recover from a series of disabling public policies,” Rich Nolan, president and CEO of the National Mining Association, wrote in the letter dated Wednesday, according to Reuters. “The fuel security provided by coal reserves at power plants offers resiliency to a system that is bracing for uncertainty, and it is imperative to keep these plants online.”
The coal industry is just one of the fossil fuel industries angling for assistance due to the virus. The Trump administration recently said the U.S. would buy 30 million gallons of domestically produced oil as the industry tanks amid financial fallout from both the coronavirus and a trade war between Saudi Arabia and Russia, two major oil producing nations.
Coal companies have been under financial pressure in recent years, struggling to stay afloat as utilities turn to cleaner forms of energy and financial institutions increasingly vow not to fund fossil fuel projects.
Democrats have repeatedly argued the Trump administration should not prop up the industry, and renewed that call after the National Mining Association letter surfaced.
“The coal industry is taking advantage of the country’s current circumstances to advocate for policies that are completely unrelated to the current crisis,” Reps. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Matt Cartwright Matthew (Matt) Alton CartwrightHouse Democrats pick Aguilar as No. 6 leader in next Congress Democrats to determine leaders after disappointing election The Hill's Campaign Newsletter: Election Day – Part 4 MORE (D-Pa.) wrote in a letter to House and Senate leaders on both sides of the aisle.
“It is disappointing that the coal industry is advocating for policies that would not help the tens of thousands of sick, retired, and out-of-work miners that need immediate help and the communities that are still recovering from the legacy of environmental damage caused by the coal industry," they added.
While other industries have asked for direct financial assistance, the coal industry's proposal would scale back regulatory actions that they argue pose a financial burden.
The industry asked to pause or limit the royalty payments it turns over to the federal government for mining on federal lands — fees that put nearly $527 million in the Treasury last year.
The letter also asked to reduce payments the industry must make to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund to 2019 levels after Congress increased that tax by $220 million for this year. The fund provides monthly payments and medical benefits to former coal workers who have contracted the disease.
Additionally, the mining association asked lawmakers to temporarily cut in half the coal industry's payments to the Abandoned Mine Land Fund, which helps clean up mines that may be structurally unsound and risk polluting groundwater. The association argued that with $2.2 billion in the bank, the fund can withstand a drop in revenue.
The National Mining Association argued the industry will also need increased access to credit to stay afloat.
“Under pressure from environment groups, financial institutions have divested from carbon-intensive industries, specifically coal, over the last decade, leaving very limited options available to the coal industry,” the group wrote.
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Jaguar, the iconic British brand loved by those that crave the finer things in life have done it again with a new competitively priced-sports saloon that was just last week, launched into the UAE market by Al Tayer Motors.
Al Tayer Motors is the official UAE importer for Jaguar and Land Rover alike and has been tasked with launching this new model which saw media and car fanatics join together last week at the Four Seasons Resort Dubai for a glittering launch event.
The XE is the latest addition to Jaguar’s award-winning range which comprises of the XF, XJ and F-Type respectively.
The XE, with a starting price of AED 169,000 redefines the concept of the sports saloon and Jaguar think it’s a game changer.
“The Jaguar XE is one of the most exciting products to be launched by the brand in recent times and we strongly believe this car will drive Jaguar to the top of the competitive sports saloon segment.” Managing Director of Jaguar Land Rover Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan said, speaking at the event itself.
So what’s so special about this new Jag and is it really just a warm up act for the launch of the all-new Jaguar XF later in the year?
This new car is lightweight, streamlined and is undoubtedly luxurious but what’s more important is that it actually is an outstanding ride. It’s all testament to company founder Sir William Lyons’ vision that ‘The Car is the closest thing we will ever create to something that is alive’.
The Jaguar XE, with its turbo-charged, direct-injection 2.0-litre four-cyclinder engine (and that’s just to start) certainly sounds as if it’s alive. If that isn’t enough however, customers who demand even more superior performance (and let’s face it, it is the UAE) can opt for the Jaguar XE S which boasts an exhilarating engine note from idle right up to the redline, sharing its 340 PS supercharged 3.0-litre V6 with the lightweight F-TYPE sports car. It’s responsive and gosh is it quick! doing 0-100kmh in 5.1 seconds (0-60mph in 4.9 seconds).
The Jaguar XE is the first model developed from Jaguar Land Rover’s new modular vehicle architecture. The long 2,835mm wheelbase and low-seating position enable perfect proportions and truly streamlined profile, a profile that has become synonymous with the Jaguar brand. It is also the only vehicle in its class to use an aluminium-intensive monocoque making it both extremely robust yet lightweight.
Of course what looks pretty on the outside needs to also be pretty on the inside and Jaguar certainly haven’t scrimped on the interior, It’s comfortable, spacious and made-up of luxurious materials and the perfect finishing touches that we have come to love about Jaguar craftmanship, in-fact it’s so beautiful it’s unlike anything else in its sector. There i a new InControl Touch infotainment system which takes centre stage with an innovative 8-inch touchscreen which allows for fast and easy access to all manner of functions. This car also has some of the most advanced driver assistance systems in the world with All Surface Progress Control which allows for the XE to electronically gain traction in seconds, ideal for use on low-grip surfaces such as snow-covered roads (admittedly not something we see in the UAE).
This car, the new Jaguar XE is the stiffest, most aerodynamic Jaguar saloon car ever built and we love it.
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Trump reportedly plans to withdraw nearly half of US troops in Afghanistan
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The Republican Senate leader, Mitch McConnell, said a hasty withdrawal would “hurt our allies and delight the people who wish us harm”.
“The consequences of a premature American exit would likely be even worse than President Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq back in 2011, which fueled the rise of Isis and a new round of global terrorism,” McConnell said.
Some analysts suggested however, that it is unclear whether the orders will be implemented as fast as Trump would like in order to secure his legacy on ending America’s “endless wars”, and that it would have only symbolic significance weeks, or even days before Biden enters the White House on 20 January.
There was agreement however that the reported Trump plans do not represent the “conditions-based” withdrawal the administration outlined in its February deal signed in Doha with the Taliban.
The former defence secretary, Mark Esper, was abruptly fired after reportedly resisting an accelerated timetable for withdrawal, saying conditions for withdrawal had not been met by the Taliban.
“The Taliban in Doha tell anyone who cares to listen that the US promised to hand over control of Afghanistan to them so they do not really need to negotiate – the Afghan government delegation will have to surrender to them,” Michael Semple, a former EU envoy to Afghanistan, said.
He added: “The Taliban are bound to exploit any further troop withdrawal to boost their victory narrative. They can tell their own troops, and those of the Afghan government, that the US withdrawal is not conditional on Taliban stopping fighting, because the US has OK’d the Taliban capture of Kabul, which is what they are working towards.”
“It just doesn’t make sense,” Semple, now a professor at Queen’s University, Belfast, added. “Nobody wants to put the Taliban back in power, but the Taliban are pushing very hard to get back in power, and they are arrogant enough to think that they can sweep the lot.”
Laurel Miller, a former acting US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said much would depend on how any withdrawal orders were implemented.
“I would want to know the effects on military operations in terms of base closures, and what does it mean in terms of air power,” Miller said. “And I would assume that [the defence department] is going to try to hedge this through use of contractors, and maybe even some creative accounting about what counts as the number of troops deployed in Afghanistan versus in the theatre more broadly.”
Andrew Watkins, a senior analyst on Afghanistan at the International Crisis Group, said he had been told by US officials that there would still be a “full counterterrorism and offensive strike capability across the country, even at a headcount of 2500”.
“Politically, we are so close to the inauguration of the Biden administration that the impact this reduction may have made, say a year ago, could just breeze past most of the actors on the ground, as they wait to see what comes early next year,” Watkins said.
“Certainly, the Taliban will view the additional drawdown favourably, but they have already sharply changed their tune [from aggressively victorious to conciliatory] in the days since the US election results became more clear. That suggests they may continue to hedge, to wait and see what Biden will do – rather than take Trump’s order as a “green light” for any drastic action.”
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Brunei-born MMA fighter on the cusp of title fight Tiffany Teo has been guaranteed a title shot at ONE Championship. All she needs to do is win her next fight.
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Tiffany Teo, the Brunei-born MMA fighter we reported about back in October, is closing in on a life-altering moment.
If the 28-year-old wins her fight against India’s Pooja Tomar this Friday at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, her target of becoming a world champion at ONE Championship will almost be a reality.
Tiffany will get a shot at the vacant women’s strawweight title. But only if the referee raises her arm after the final bell of her bout during Friday’s ONE: Immortal Pursuit event.
“I think Tiffany Teo is a world class athlete,” ONE chief executive office, Chatri Sityodtong told The Scoop during a press event on Wednesday.
“She’s a very well-rounded mixed martial artist. If she wins this fight, she will get an automatic title shot for the strawweight title.”
Not so much a fork in the road but more like a Jason Momoa-sized trident piercing the sea bed. However, unlike the huge flop that was the Justice League, ONE Championship are The Avengers of the Asian MMA scene — top dogs in their category.
Tiffany’s life will change but her mentality has not.
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Tiffany Teo (R) declared the winner over Rebecca Heintzman-Rozewski during a MMA bout at Singapore Indoor Stadium. Photo: Courtesy of ONE Championship
Although another ONE champion, the Canadian Angela Lee, competes under the Singapore flag because her father was born there, Tiffany could be the first fighter from the island-state to earn a title bout at ONE — a huge source of pride for the Singapore-headquartered MMA promotion who have placed a huge emphasis on the positive influences of their super-athletes.
She’ll not only be positioned as a role model for women but for Singaporean male fighters as well.
“Yes, [I know about her]. I’ve talked to her a couple of times. She’s a good fighter,” says Singapore MMA star Amir Khan.
Khan is trying to forge his own legend at ONE and is, according to CEO Chatri, “two or three fights away” from his own title shot. His highly-anticipated clash with Australian Adrian Pang is the co-headlining event on Friday.
“I feel proud for [Tiffany] her,” Khan says. “I mean she’s a Singaporean. And I always want another Singaporean to succeed. If she can make her dream come true — I would love to see that.”
When we spoke to Tiffany a few months ago, she said she was ready to fight for a championship belt.
If it happens, you won’t have to listen too hard to hear cheers of support from neighbouring Brunei.
You might even see a few firm fist bumps of approval from her friends at Busiido Martial Arts Academy in Kiarong.
“It is heartwarming to have fans [from Singapore and Brunei] supporting and rooting for me,” Tiffany says.
“It doesn’t make me nervous. I did everything within my means to prepare for the fight. All the hard work is done during the camp.
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America’s Got Talent 2016 winner: Grace VanderWaal
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12-year old singer-songwriter, Grace Vanderwaal, who stunned audiences with her talent and ukulele, won America’s Got Talent 2016.
VanderWaal, from the New York city of Suffern, beat contenders The Clairvoyants and mentalist duo Thommy Ten and Amelie van Tassa. The top 10 included five musical acts, but also a contortionist, a juggler, a comedian, and magician Jon Dorenbos.
‘We are all going to remember when we saw Grace sing live for the first time,’ said Simon Cowell.
‘I was pretty comfortable sharing my own song, because I try to make my songs to help people and make people relate to them,’ she told USA Today. ‘I don’t think of them as my personal diary reading out loud on a stage, (but as) me trying to hold someone’s hand. My songs flow out of me. It was like something that was inside of me and I didn’t even know, and it just came out in the way of a song.’
Stevie Knicks also praised Vanderwaal, saying, ‘I have been watching this show from the beginning, I have to say she reminds me a lot of me in a lot of ways. We sing very similar… We like to be weird and quirky and we like to be a little different… and not like anybody else.’
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Why financial regulation must also rebuild trust
Saint-Paul, Corsetti, Hassler, Guiso, Sinn, Sturm, Vives, Devereux, 21 March 2010
Public distrust of bankers and financial markets has risen dramatically with the financial crisis. This column argues that this loss of trust in the financial system played a critical role in the collapse of economic activity that followed. To undo the damage, financial regulation needs to focus on restoring that trust.
Is there a signalling role for public wages?
Sánchez, Pérez, 20 March 2010
Do public sector wages have an influence on private sector wages? This column presents new evidence from the Eurozone in the 1990s suggesting that the relationship changes over time and across countries. Within a particular year, however, public sector wages play a “signalling role” in influencing private sector wages.
Europe’s macro mess: Dysfunctional diversity that gets the job done
As the debate over a European Monetary Fund continues, this column argues that Germany’s enthusiasm for the new fund lies in its desire to impose fiscal discipline on countries it didn’t want in the Eurozone in the first place. The EU is not Germany and despite its dysfunctional diversity, the avoidance of a currency crisis in Greece shows that it works.
How Europe should harness market forces to deal with sovereign credit risk
Hoffmann, 20 March 2010
If a European Monetary Fund does happen, how would it work? This column proposes a European Sovereign Insurance Scheme to sell bond insurance on EMU members' sovereign debt. In good times the insurance fees would allow the EMF to build up a capital cushion. In bad times, the EMF could use these funds to facilitate an orderly unwinding of the default – while imposing tough conditions.
How the IMF thinks
Chwieroth, 19 March 2010
Jeffrey Chwieroth of the London School of Economics talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about the evolution of economic ideas at the International Monetary Fund, drawing on his book, ‘Capital Ideas: The IMF and the Rise of Financial Liberalization’. They discuss changes in IMF thinking about capital controls, the Tobin tax and macroeconomic policy – as well the possibility of IMF intervention in Greece. The interview was recorded in London on 16 March 2010.
Migration in Latin America: Answering old questions with new data
Castelletti, Dayton-Johnson, Melguizo, 19 March 2010
The economic effects of immigration are often controversial. This column introduces the preliminary findings from a new database on immigration in Latin America and the Caribbean. While immigrants do not seem to displace domestic workers, they are often working in sectors unsuitable for their skills. Better policy could help the destination countries as well as the immigrants themselves.
Neuroeconomics, neuroscience, and the bounds of rationality
Carrillo, Brocas, 18 March 2010
Why do people persistently make seemingly irrational decisions? This column introduces neuroeconomic theory, which uses neuroscience and neurobiology to try to shed light on the black box of human decision-making.
In defence of one IMF
Suominen, 17 March 2010
Discussions over a European Monetary Fund have gained momentum over the last week. This column argues that regionalising the IMF is sub-optimal. But discussions over a European Fund offer an opportunity for a complementary fund, which can offer a reference for Asian countries.
Don’t split up the banks: Outlining a new regulatory architecture
Micossi, 16 March 2010
Policymakers and commentators have suggested that large banks should be broken up. This column argues that such an idea risks the very existence of a global financial system. It outlines an alternative framework in which deposit insurance should be covered by banks not taxpayers, banks should not be guaranteed a bailout, and regulators should be mandated to step in when the warning signs begin.
How bank credit-market funding helped spread the global crisis
Raddatz, 15 March 2010
How did a seemingly small shock to the US financial markets manage to spread so far, so quickly? This column argues that the heavy reliance on short-term wholesale funding is to blame. It follows that the discussions of regulatory reform should focus on the risks associated with the liability structure of banks.
Towards a European Monetary Fund
Gros, Mayer, 15 March 2010
Europe was caught totally unprepared for the pressure on public debt that followed the global crisis. This column outlines a proposal for a European Monetary Fund with which, it argues, the EU would be much better prepared to face these difficult times.
Shipping out the best beer: Why export prices increase with distance
Görg, Halpern, Muraközy, 14 March 2010
Why are the prices of exports higher for countries that are further away – even when transport costs are excluded? This column suggests that this is partly because firms choose to ship out their best quality goods, just like a brewery with its “export” brands.
Greece: It's not all tragedy
Burda, 13 March 2010
Greece’s recent deficit-cutting budget was met with planned strikes and protests in the streets. This column argues that the painful fiscal adjustments could turn out to be a good thing for Europe’s political integration, but the region has to take the next step and set up a European Monetary Fund.
Why are married women less risk-averse investors?
Bertocchi, Torricelli, Brunetti, 13 March 2010
Does marriage make people less averse to risk? This column argues that this is the case for women, but not for men. But married women's different attitude towards risk has fallen over time as the prevalence of marriage in society has faded. For women who work, marriage makes no difference.
Do higher cigarette prices deter smoking?
Kostova, Ross, Blecher, Markowitz, 12 March 2010
Do higher cigarette prices deter smoking? This column finds that policymakers in developing countries could reduce cigarette consumption by youths by raising taxes. A 10% increase in the price will reduce youth cigarette demand by 18.3%.
Policies to encourage entrepreneurship
Lerner, 12 March 2010
Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School talks to Vox about the policies that governments employ to encourage venture capital and entrepreneurial activity, drawing on the findings in his book, Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed – and What to Do About It. The interview was recorded in London in January 2010.
Underappreciated benefits of the Eurozone
Mongelli, 11 March 2010
Why would countries share a single currency? This column introduces a new CEPR Policy Insight and argues that some aspects are missing in the current debate on the merits of the EMU. Benefiting from monetary union is a matter of time, perseverance, and seizing opportunities.
The long wave of government debt
Scott, 11 March 2010
The high levels of government debt have raised concern among policymakers and commentators. But this column argues that markets have financed much larger levels of debt than are currently predicted for the UK and US. Given the enormous financial shock these economies have experienced, they might actually be better off with high debt for a long period of time.
The political resource curse
Brollo, Tabellini, Nannicini, Perotti, 10 March 2010
Is the discovery of natural resources necessarily a good thing? Examining data from Brazil, this column finds that a 10% windfall in government revenues leads to a 12 percentage point increase in corruption and a 3 percentage point reduction in the probability that politicians have a degree. The chance that an incumbent is reelected raises by over 4 percentage points.
A 4% inflation target?
Leigh, 09 March 2010
Olivier Blanchard, the IMF’s Chief Economist, recently broached the idea that central banks should target an inflation rate of 4% during the good times to leave more room for nominal rate cutting during bad times. This column supports this view, presenting new research showing that a higher inflation target could have halved the output loss of Japan during its “Lost Decade.”
Antidumping: Much ado about nothing?
Vandenbussche, Zanardi, 08 March 2010
The global crisis has raised fears that governments would engage in a protectionist spiral. This column argues that, while countries have by and large kept their promises not to raise barriers to trade, antidumping has crept up. Far from being a “small price to pay”, the new tough users of antidumping laws such as Brazil, India, Mexico, Taiwan, and Turkey have 5.9% fewer annual imports as a result.
Eichengreen, O'Rourke, 08 March 2010
This column updates the original Vox columns by Barry Eichengreen and Kevin O’Rourke comparing today’s global crisis to the Great Depression. The three previous columns have shattered all Vox readership records with over 450,000 views. This latest edition covers up to February 2010 showing that, while there is cause for optimism, there is no room for complacency.
For a fair treatment of trade finance under Basel III
Auboin, 07 March 2010
Trade finance is an essential facility for world trade. But this column argues that the safe, short-term, and self-liquidating character of trade finance has not been properly recognised under the Basel II framework and the proposed revised rules ("Basel III") seem to raise additional hurdles to trade finance. Both trade financiers and regulators should strive to avoid this.
The political limits to globalisation
Acemoğlu, Yared, 07 March 2010
Is globalisation inevitable and irreversible? This column argues that globalisation is a policy choice. It examines the relationship between military expansion and international trade flows, finding that increased nationalist and militarist sentiments are negatively associated with trade. A 10% increase in military spending between 1985 and 2005 is associated with a reduction in the trade share of GDP of around 2%.
Social networks and the massive migration within China
Jin, Chen, Yue, 07 March 2010
What determines mass migration within countries? Examining data from China – the biggest internal migration experience in human history – this column finds that migrants from the same village tend to cluster at the same destination for the same occupation. This pattern is driven by social networks within villages that reduce the moving costs for future migrants, such as the risk of not finding a job.
Why policymakers need to take note of high-frequency finance
Olsen, 06 March 2010
Why should high-frequency finance be of any interest to policymakers interested in long-term economic issues? This column argues that the discipline can revolutionise economics and finance by turning accepted assumptions on their head and offering novel solutions to today’s issues.
Argentina all over again? Lessons for Europe
de la Torre, Levy Yeyati, Schmukler, 06 March 2010
The fiscal crisis in several European countries has led many commentators to suggest novel solutions, including a holiday from the euro. This column examines the much-cited example of Argentina and argues that such ideas look better on paper than in practice. What these countries need is a “good old bailout” – conditional on “getting the house in order”.
Consumer reactions to exchange rate and trade price shifts: New evidence from online book retailing
Clark, Vincent, Boivin, 06 March 2010
How much of a change in exchange rates is required to redress global imbalances? This column presents new evidence from online bookstores suggesting that neither shoppers nor retailers react to price differences across borders. This implies that realignment of cross-country consumption levels may require large and persistent exchange rate changes.
Measuring management practices
Van Reenen, 05 March 2010
How important are management practices in driving the performance of firms and the productivity of nations across Asia, Europe and North America? John Van Reenen, director of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics, talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about CEP’s research programme on the economics of management and productivity. The interview was recorded in London in February 2010.
Ageing populations and productivity
van Ours, 05 March 2010
Ageing populations are a concern for many developed countries, with increasing dependence on the working population expected. Despite this, there is relatively little research on how productivity changes with age. This column argues that while older people do not run as fast, there is no evidence of a mental productivity decline and little evidence of an increasing pay-productivity gap. The negative effects of ageing on productivity should not be exaggerated.
Employment protection legislation and the financial crisis
Leonardi, Pica, Messina, 04 March 2010
How do financial crises alter the effects of employment protection legislation? This column argues that firms with insufficient access to credit are even less able to rationalise their costs by switching from labour to capital – reinforcing the negative effects on productivity. But policymakers should also consider that, in countries with less-developed financial markets, employment protection provides insurance against labour-market risk.
Why Europe should reject a new Glass-Steagall Act
Sinn, 04 March 2010
A return of the Glass-Steagall Act has been suggested by US policymakers and commentators as a way to reduce risk in financial markets. This column argues that the legacy of separate commercial and investment banks actually made the crisis worse. Europe should not follow these proposals but should instead concentrate on strengthening the capital reserves of its banks.
The US fiscal stimulus: Less than what you might think
Aizenman, Pasricha, 03 March 2010
The crisis led to significant fiscal stimulus efforts by the US government to offset the downturn. But this column argues that, properly adjusted for the declining fiscal expenditure of the fifty states, the aggregate stimulus was close to zero in 2009. While a net decline was avoided, the stimulus did not raise aggregate expenditure above its predicted mean. This can explain the anaemic reaction of the US economy to the alleged “big federal fiscal stimulus”.
New evidence on the effect of bank loans and credit standards on Eurozone output
Cappiello, Protopapa, Kok, Kadareja, 03 March 2010
How important is credit availability to the real economy? This column examines evidence from the Eurozone and suggests that a change in loan availability has a positive and statistically significant effect on GDP. This provides support for the policies taken by central banks to alleviate pressures on the banking system.
Natural resources and development strategy after the crisis
Brahmbhatt, Canuto, 02 March 2010
How important are primary commodities for economic development? This column suggests that primary commodity prices are likely to ease over the next five years. Nevertheless, commodity revenues will remain high, raising challenges that, if not addressed, can harm long-run development. With good governance, however, such revenues can also be a valuable resource to help accelerate overall development.
Is the New Deal in banking a guide for today?
White, 02 March 2010
Where do the real causes of the global financial crisis lie? This column argues that that a dispassionate examination is needed in order to properly reform the banking system. As the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 illustrates, a mad dash for regulation where special interests can manipulate popular outrage is a recipe for cooking up the next financial disaster.
When will the Fed raise interest rates?
Coibion, Gorodnichenko, 01 March 2010
How long will US interest rates remain so low? This column argues that estimates using the 1993 Taylor rule are concentrating on the output gap, whereas in reality the Fed places much greater emphasis on output growth. Using an updated Taylor rule, this column favours the market view that rates will rise towards the end of 2010.
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REMARKS OF H.E. RAILA ODINGA AT THE ODM WOMEN’S LEAGUE MEETING;
KAJIADO, OCTOBER 8, 2020:
I am delighted to join you for this meeting of the women wing of our party, which could not have come at a better time.
We meet against the background the coronavirus pandemic that has tested our limits as a country and also showcased our potential.
Throughout this pandemic; Kenyan women proved their staying power, battling the virus while keeping our families and our economy going at the same time.
Throughout this period, our women sustained our livelihoods through micro and medium enterprises and sheer hard work and determination, waking up early to get to the farms or the markets and getting produce ferried to consumers in distant places.
They ensured supplies of basic foods remained steady especially from rural areas to the urban centres while at the same time taking care of children who had been freed from schools and keeping them safe.
I want to take this opportunity to pay sincere tribute to our women. They proved in no uncertain terms that they are the mainstay and life blood of our economy and our nation.
This is therefore a good moment to gather and reflect on women and the role our party can play to address issues affecting them. As the women wing of our party, we expect you to make the country know, by both action and words, that Women issues are ODM issues.
We are talking of inclusion of Women in the Mainstream Economy, Poverty Eradication among our people in general and women and youth in particular, Gender Based Violence, Women’s Education and Health and Women and Leadership. In more specific terms, we are talking about Murder, Rape, Brutal Physical Abuses, Harmful Practices, the denial of opportunities for the advancement of women and other vices that our society has accepted as normal.
In recent times and particularly during this Corona pandemic, we have witnessed brutal killings of women, which are taken as business as usual.
These happen at a time when in the political arena, the economy, and in social lives, women continue to face everyday systemic hardships that include exclusion, discrimination, physical and emotional violence, threats of, and actual death, sometimes at the hands of family members and boyfriends.
This year alone, our country has witnessed a number of tragic and violent crimes against women and helpless children. We are told that the key contributing factors to the violence within domestic relationships are depression, drug abuse and economic instability.
And then there are women raising their children on their own because the fathers of their children have disappeared. How do such women force the fathers of their children to take responsibility?
These are matters we expect our women wing to speak out strongly and boldly and rally the nation on.
It is important that as a party, we put the cries of these women on top of our agenda.
We expect you to ensure that our country and its institutions do not hide and bury cases of sexual harassment and the abuse of women in the workplace or any other places and organizations that are headed by men.
But we must also speak out for the boy-child. Society does not come with a finely separated playbook on what is for women and what is for men especially at youth stage. Sometimes the lines get blurred.
It is therefore important that we also have conversations around boys and men in our country so that we build a cohesive society that understands what the issues of the sexes are; a society that listens to each other’s experiences and expectations across the gender divide.
It is my expectation that our women’s wing can be able to take it upon itself to explain to our members and the country the aspirations in our Constitution with regard to women’s empowerment, the headwinds that the aspirations have ran into and our current attempts to address the stumbling blocs through the BBI process.
It is also my expectation that this important wing of our party will play an important role in explaining to our people the opportunities in the BBI process to benefit women and promote their participation in the economy and the labour market.
The BBI process also has clear proposals on youth empowerment and employment programmes with a strong bias in favour of young women.
Because of the headwinds that our current constitution has ran into with regard to women empowerment, the BBI process is picking up the lessons learnt to usher in a regime that is fully conversant with the women’s agenda and how to realize it in practice, not theory.
The BBI seeks to usher in a country that knows and understands the plight of young women and girls who live in extreme poverty in rural areas, and are excluded from economic advancement, education and decision-making.
Our ultimate goal is to give birth to a nation that goes beyond organizing gender sensitization workshops, setting up gender desks, giving women handouts and signing pledges and declarations on women’s empowerment.
We are keen to create a nation that delivers results for women and I am counting on you to ensure it happens.
I thank you and wish you fruitful deliberations.
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IOCL to lay Rs 10 bn pipeline to evacuate products from Paradip refinery
By Nirmalya Behera | Bhubaneswar | Last Updated at April 30 2018 22:54 IST
For evacuating products from its Paradip refinery, Indian Oil Company plans to lay a 330-kilometre pipeline from Paradip to Haldia via Somnathpur (in Balasore).
The IOCL board has given the first stage approval for the project, which is likely to be developed in two stages. In the first stage, the detailed engineering will be done. The pipeline project will see an investment of Rs 10.81 billion and out of it Rs 7.22 billion will be invested in Odisha.
“The products HSD (high-speed diesel), motor spirit and kerosene will be evacuated from the Paradip refinery for delivery at the oil depots”, said P C Choubey, executive director, South Eastern Region Pipelines (SERPL), Bhubaneswar.
IOCL's 15 mtpa capacity refinery at Paradip is spread over an area of 3,345 acres with an estimated cost of Rs 345.55 billion. The refinery can process 100 per cent high sulphur and heavy crude oil to produce various petroleum products like petrol and diesel of BS-IV quality, kerosene, aviation turbine fuel, propylene, sulphur and petroleum coke. It is also designed to produce Euro-V premium quality motor spirit and other green auto fuel variants for export.
Odisha is set to become the first state in eastern India to have all the pipelines in the hydrocarbon chain ranging from crude oil to petroleum products, LPG and natural gas.
IOCL, under the aegis of South Eastern Region Pipelines (SERPL), Bhubaneswar, intends to lay 356 kilometres long first natural gas pipeline in the eastern part of India from Dhamra Port to Haldia and Paradip for the dedicated supply of natural gas to Paradip and Haldia refineries for captive consumption. The proposed pipeline will be built at a cost of Rs 13.45 billion.
Similarly, IOCL will also have two more product pipelines for transportation of petroleum products like high-speed diesel, motor spirit, superior kerosene oil from the Paradip refinery.
It has already commissioned its Rs 18 billion Paradip-Raipur-Ranchi pipeline (PRRPL) for evacuation of products from Paradip refinery while it has started work for laying of its Rs 23.21 billion Paradip-Hyderabad pipelines.
On the transportation of LPG, IOCL is set to commission its proposed Paradip-Durgapur LPG pipeline latest by August this year.
Since 2009, IOCL is also running the Paradip — Haldia crude oil pipeline system to transport oil from Paradip to Haldia and Barauni refineries.
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Trip Report: YELLOWSTONE
By Richard Jirik
HIKE 09/16/2006 MOD
TRIP REPORT: YELLOWSTONE BACKPACK ...by Richard Jirik
Mike Budig's annual fall Yellowstone backback trip in 2006 blazed new territory : the Gallatin Range in the northwest corner of the national park.
Four hardy members of the WMC accompanied Mike on this adventure: Mike Roundy, Naval Apolin (a native of Peru), Jaynee Levy, and myself. We were to meet Mike in West Yellowstone on Saturday morning, September 16th . However, due to inclement weather forecast for that weekend, we elected to drive up Saturday afternoon, after the brunt of the storm had passed. This change in plans came in the absence of any response from Mike, despite a mounting number of messages left on his cell phone. Maybe Mike needs a new cell phone provider, or to turn his phone on ?
After a relatively peaceful albeit chilly night in a Forest Service campground just outside of West Yellowstone, the four of us arrived in that tourist haven and met Mike at the prearranged restaurant, exactly 24 hours later than our prearranged time. . Seems he had arrived there a day or two before us, and had hunkered down in his cozy truck-mounted RV at the end of a dead end street while waiting out the rain.
Following a hearty breakfast we drove up to the Mammoth Hot Springs backcountry ranger office, where we picked up our backcountry permit. After watching a bull elk threaten some tourists right outside the Mammoth visitors center, who evidently came too close to his harem, we headed back down the Grand Loop Road to the Glen Creek trailhead about five miles south of Mammoth Hot Springs.
Our proposed route was a large loop that would take us west through the Gallatin Range to its namesake river, and then east back through the range to the main park road, a distance of 40+ miles. The route seemed simple enough, except for one detail-the NPS-designated grizzly bear management area that encompasses most of the Gallatin Range. Within the management area cross country travel is prohibited, i.e., hiking is restricted to designated trails, and camping prohibited. All of the limited NPS campsites are located peripheral to the management area. Thus, we had to plan on crossing the rather extensive management area each way in a single day, as per Park regulations. That meant for two very long days of hiking of 15+ miles per day, ... and conversely two relatively short travel days. There was no alternative. And what if we encountered a problem that delayed or prevented us from passing through the management area in a day ? Well...
The trip was relatively uneventful until we broke camp in the Gardner river valley the morning of the second day, when we planned to pack across the bear management area. Perhaps mesmerized by the fall colors, the scenic vistas of the Gallatin Range to the west and Electric Peak towering to the north, and the clear blue sky as a backdrop, we initially experienced some difficulty in finding the main trail. Ultimately locating a trail that appeared to be well worn and paralleling the river, in apparent agreement with the map, we myopically trekked up the valley. However, the absence of any yellow NPS trail markers nailed on the trees should have given us pause to question our complacency. Upon reaching a designated campsite as the valley narrowed, Mike's map conveyed the bad news. We had missed the trail heading up the Fawn Creek drainage, where we wanted to go, and were now about two miles farther north. We could only surmise that we had been traveling on a heavily used game trail.
Despite having lost over an hour, going cross-country through the management area ( a Park Service no no!) to intersect our trail was not an option, so we backtracked and eventually managed to relocate the Fawn Pass trail, assisted by the two GPS units we had previously been neglecting. It was during one of those GPS breaks, while in a long clearing, that we experienced our first and only grizzly bear sighting of the trip. The lone (male ?) bear wandered into the clearing several hundred feet in front of us, and began moving in our general direction. As we were downwind from him, initially he was unaware of us. At about 40 (?) yards he evidently detected our scent, and stood up on his hind legs to get a better view. Having confirmed our presence, he bolted off into the forest, never to be seen again. The accompanying photo, snapped by fearless Naval, was the only bear picture we could muster. The rest of us were too busy keeping a keen eye on Mr. Bear as he approached. To underscore the rarity of grizzly bear sightings in Yellowstone, it was only Mike's second grizzly encounter in the Park during the 20-odd trips he has led there.
Our trek over the Gallatin Range via the Fawn Pass trail that day was long (17+ miles) and tiring. Nevertheless, we were rewarded with some great vistas, and saw a multitude of elk, including several bulls in rut. And even if we couldn't see them, bugling elk could be heard frequently. We arrived at the second night campsite along the Gallatin River at twilight, and prepared dinner in the dark.
Day three was more of a rest day, and we slept in after the demands of the previous day. A few of us hiked west down the Gallatin River valley in the morning via the Bighorn Pass trail, and then backtracked to camp in the early afternoon. We backpacked east along the Bighorn Pass trail to another campsite about two miles up the Gallatin. That night Mike entertained us with tales of past WMC trips in Yellowstone that he had led.
The weather looked threatening when we awoke the next morning, as a storm system began to move in. It rained a little as we marched toward Bighorn Pass at the crest of the range. There we briefly enjoyed some stunning views, and then continued on down Panther Creek, hoping the rain would hold off until we reached two of our vehicles at the Indian Creek campground. We saw and heard more elk, and passed a number of bison along Indian Creek. Most of us spent that night at the Mammoth campground, in the company of a number of elk that move into the Mammoth area from the high country in the early fall. The following morning, as we drove down to Canyon Village for a little sightseeing, the higher elevations were mantled with up to several inches or more of fresh snow. We had beaten the storm but just barely---a fortuitous ending to another memorable Yellowstone backpack.
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Cutty Sark Teams Up With Caskstrength.net for Special Release
March 28, 2013 – For the first time in its 90-year history, Cutty Sark is releasing a special edition of its blended Scotch whisky in partnership with a whisky web site.
Joel Harrison and Neil Ridley of Caskstrength.com have been working on an A-Z series of Scotch whiskies, starting with single cask releases from Arran and BenRiach distilleries. They selected Cutty Sark for the “C” expression in the series, and worked with Cutty Sark Master Blender Kirsteen Campbell to create a bespoke blend released for Cutty’s 90th anniversary on March 23.
500 bottles of the “Caskstrength and Carry On” Cutty Sark will be available exclusively through Master of Malt at a price of £34.95 ($53 USD). All of the bottles have been signed by Campbell, Harrison, and Ridley, and the first 100 will include a special
Caskstrength and Carry On” bag and a copy of “The Daily Cargo” newspaper produced by Harrison and Ridley.
Tasting notes for this expression.
Links: Cutty Sark | Caskstrength.net | Master of Malt
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