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Keep Your Fingers Crossed!
Grace Dunn, Staff Writer
I have been dancing since I was six years old. It quickly changed from an after school hobby to a full-time, competitive sport. At my dance studios’ national talent competition this past year, we were on stage waiting for the awards to be announced. When the announcer said that my team’s tap number had won we all jumped up, ran to center stage, and accepted our first place trophy!
Grace Dunn at Saturday dance practice.
Some people at Out-of-Door participate in dance outside of school. Dance classes can either be recreational or competitive depending on the amount of time the student has available, money they’re willing to spend, and ultimately their passion for the art.
I am involved in competitive dance. Usually, people don’t really understand what that means. That basically means I am on a team that works with an instructor to perfect dance routines, and take those routines to competitions around Florida. Some dance studios in the area are The Movement Dance Company, Soul Studios, Jump Dance Company, and Powerhouse. I take classes at The Movement Dance Company.
I dance four nights a week from 6:30-9:30 p.m. This rigorous schedule could be equally compared to other sports teams practice hours. Although some people don’t look at dance and consider it a sport, the physical toll it takes on dancers proves them wrong.
Elise Raimon at dance competition
“I’ve been a competitive dancer for six years, and from that time I’ve learned what it means to be a part of a team and to work hard no matter the situation.” says sophomore Elise Raimon.
“Dance takes a lot of time and dedication. I dance six days a week, with a five hour practice on Saturday.” says sophomore Gracie Schlotthauer.
The dance club, run by Dr. Ellen Zitani, is the only opportunity for dance training at ODA. Dance club takes place after school.
Most high schools have a dance team that accompanies the cheerleading squad. However, ODA only has a cheer squad.
Gracie Schlotthauer kicking back
“I think cheer is a great alternative to dance! You learn a good sense of rhythm and an efficiency of learning choreography.” says junior Brianna Carney.
Many think ODA should go further than a cheer squad. Those who love the traditions of dance, believe that a dance team at Out-of-Door would boost other arts at our school. For instance, the dancing in the musical, dancing on the cheer squad, and even rhythm and tempo in music classes.
School dance teams generally perform at football and basketball games. Also, some teams have their own recitals. For example, the Lakewood Ranch Silver Stars have an annual show that exemplifies the team’s progress throughout the year.
“A great memory from my dance team was just performing and feeling the rush of excitement with everyone as we worked together to create an amazing dance.” says junior Brianna Carney.
Think dance might be for you?
A dance team may be on its way.
Out-of-Door will be hiring a new theater director for next year. This new addition will be taking the responsibilities that Ms. Evans usually has involving the the theater. The hope is that this person will also be teaching acting and dance classes during the school day. Hopefully, students will be able to grow and thrive as dancers inside of school.
Grace Dunn, Editor
Grace Dunn, the Senior Editor for The Bolt, is a member of the graduating class of 2020. Her passion for journalism stems from her love of layout and design,...
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Vote Jeremy Corbyn to Save the UK in 2017!
29/04/2017 Adrian Chan-Wyles (PhD) - Political Commissar Leftwing Political Analysis Leave a comment
Communists and Socialists quite rightly criticise and condemn the Labour Party for its history of co-operation with capitalism and the Bourgeois State. This is an appropriate dialectical approach designed to shake Labour out of its apathy, and guide it in a leftward direction. However, across the range of Communist and Socialist viewpoints, whilst Labour is condemned, generally speaking, Jeremy Corbyn – a known Socialist – is considered the only viable alternative to further Tory destruction, or Liberal Democrat duplicity. Many Comrades are calling to support Jeremy Corbyn, but not necessarily the Labour Party. The point of this is that Jeremy Corbyn possesses the ideological wherewithal to pull Labour back to left, and in so doing, re-invigorate the NHS and the Welfare State, whilst working to break the habitual link between the UK and US imperialism. This will put an end to British troops (and British weaponry) killing innocent foreigners in the name of US capitalism. The anti-Union laws will be repealed, the elderly will nolonger have to pay for their care, and the odious ‘Academy’ system replaced with proper schooling. Jeremy Corbyn has a firm reformist foundation to support his political vision, as the British people have already successfully carried-out the most difficult of Revolutionary actions – voting to get-out of the rightwing, anti-Socialist European Union (EU). It has been incessant EU directives from Brussels (via Washington and Berlin), that have decreed the privatisation of ALL nationalised industries and Socialised medical system – a move that has included the dismantling of ALL welfare systems. Notice as these public services have been taken away from the people, the tax-burden of the people hasn’t reduced, but rather massively increased. This money has been used to finance illegal wars, and bail-out the greedy bankers that caused the recent recession. Jeremy Corbyn has the ability to put Britain back on its own two-feet independent from the US and EU. This is why Communists and Socialists will be voting for Jeremy Corbyn in the 2017 UK General Election! Join this progressive movement and help sweep Theresa May’s Tory Government into the dustbin of history.
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Who Are Christian Bale And Jonathan Majors’ ‘Thor 4’ And ‘Ant-Man 3’ Villains, And How Might They Shake Up The MCU?
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During Disney’s Investor Day event, Marvel Studios confirmed Christian Bale and Jonathan Majors’ villainous roles in Thor: Love and Thunder and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quatumania, respectively. While Majors’ role of Kang the Conqueror was rumored already, Bale’s role has been more illusive, but now, we know that he’s playing the menacing Gorr the God Butcher, who has arguably done more damage to Thor’s life than any other villain. But if you’re not familiar with the comics, these names probably sound pretty random, so here’s a quick rundown on these two new characters and what their arrival could mean for the future (and past) of the MCU.
Gorr the God Butcher
Exactly like it says in his name, Gorr‘s whole deal is murdering gods for failing the mortal beings who look to them for protection. Armed with an ancient symbiote sword, All-Black the Necromancer, a vengeful Gorr has spent centuries murdering the deities of the Marvel universe throughout time and space. After being introduced in 2012’s Thor: God of Thunder by writer Jason Aaron, Gorr has wreaked significant havoc on Thor’s life that’s still reverberating in the comics today. Specifically, Gorr’s justifiable hatred of the gods resulted in Thor becoming “unworthy,” which led to Jane Foster wielding Mjolnir and becoming The Mighty Thor. Considering that Natalie Portman has confirmed that she’ll be wielding the hammer in Thor: Love and Thunder, it sounds like the fourth film will pull from Thor’s epic encounter with Gorr.
As for Gorr’s implications on the MCU, the character has recently been tied to Venom, which could get interesting. He’s also manipulated time in his quest to kill all of the gods, and messing with the very fabric of reality seems to be a major theme in the Phase 4 slate of films. That’s exactly in the wheelhouse of Major’s villain.
Kang the Conqueror
Despite being one of the “smaller” pieces of the MCU, the third Ant-Man movie will introduce Kang the Conqueror, who has long been a Thanos-level threat to the Marvel universe in the comics. A master traveler of time, Kang has no qualms with altering reality in his quest to rule the universe. While his backstory is enough to make even the most hardcore comics fans go cross-eyed, Kang is believed to be the father of the Fantastic Four‘s Reed Richards. We now know that the classic team is making its MCU debut, thanks to Spider-Man: Homecoming director Jon Watts, so it’d be safe to assume that Kang’s presence won’t be contained to Ant-Man 3 as the MCU presumably changes while colliding with the “multi-verse” that either opened from the events of Avengers: Endgame or will be soon when WandaVision hits Disney+. Either way, Kang’s sure to be at the center of it, and the MCU will look dramatically different when the dust settles.
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Phuket | Carrier Offers Half-Price Tickets
Carrier Offers Half-Price Tickets
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PHUKET: Pacific Leisure (Thailand), a preferred agent for Lauda Air, has announced that the carrier is offering a 50 percent discount on one-way and round-trip business class seats between Thailand and Europe in celebration of its expanded flight service. The special offer applies to business class seats on Lauda Air flights originating at Phuket or Bangkok. The discount, however, does not apply to child or infant passenger bookings. Tickets must be issued by November 30 and are valid for one year from the date of travel from Phuket or Bangkok. Under its new winter schedule, the airline serves Phuket with twice-weekly flights and six flights into and out of Bangkok. For additional information, call Pacific Leisure on 232511/9.
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UPDATE: Khaosod English removed a story on Covid-19 tests for those seeking visa extensions and replaced it with the article “Immigration backtracks on plan to require Covid-19 test for visa extensions.” They say the previous report sparked uproar among expats and immigration police spokesperson has since apologised for the misunderstanding.
Confusion reigns today over whether Covid-19 tests will be required for visa extensions. While The Phuket News spoke with an immigration official who said “no… you don’t need a Covid-19 test to extend your visa or apply for a work permit”, Khaosod English wrote an article headlined “Covid-19 test will be mandatory for all visa extension”.
The Thaiger also contacted a respected visa agent who said Covid-19 tests are, indeed, now required for applying for both visa extensions and work permits, even renewals.
The Thai Immigration Bureau has not made any official announcement regarding Covid-19 tests. Talk about Covid-19 tests for foreigners was brought up after a rule was published in the Royal Gazette last month, officially adding Covid-19 to a list of dangerous diseases, prohibiting those infected with any of the listed illnesses from entering the country.
Immigration Police Bureau spokesperson Archayon Kraithong told Khaosod English that proof of a negative Covid-19 test will be required for visa extensions, regardless of how long a foreigner has stayed in Thailand. On the other hand, Phuket immigration deputy chief Nareuwat Putthawiro told The Phuket News that Covid-19 tests will not be required for visa extensions or work permit applications.
“We do not require any medical documents for an application to renew a visa, because there are few foreigners’ movements outside Phuket. Most of them live and work in Phuket, and have done so before the new wave of Covid-19… So they do not have to worry about it. Everything is still the same.”
Medical exams are currently already required for most work permit applicants (including tests for Syphilis and Elephantiasis). A visa agent told The Thaiger that Covid-19 tests have been added to the medical examination requirements for work permit applicants. But, on the other hand, Phuket immigration says they DO NOT require Covid-19 tests for work permit applicants.
“We have not received any notices about Covid-19 requirements for processing applications to renew visas. If we do receive any such orders, we will let the public know.”
It isn’t the first time there has been conflicting statements coming out of different officials, in different immigration offices on different days.
SOURCES: Phuket News| Khaosod English
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Visitors to Phuket from “highest risk” areas must show Covid-19 test results
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People arriving Phuket from the “highest risk” areas are required to take a swab test by the staff at emergency operation centres (EOC) or show the test result document endorsed by the EOC staff made within 72 hours of their arrival. The revised order is effective from now until January 31, according to the Phuket Governor.
Those people who are on a brief business trip to Phuket need to show certificates from their employers describing the reason and necessity of their trips. If they want to leave their accommodations, they have to make a request to the EOC and clearly explain the reason as well as the time and destination. Visitors are also asked to avoid going to the community areas to avoid crowded gatherings.
It is noted that the revised order by the governor has not been officially promoted by the Phuket office of the Public Relations Department. However, all visitors are still asked to register online via the Mor Chana contact tracing application and via www.gophuget.com according to the order re-issued on Friday.
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The road less travelled – trekking to the Kalim Viewpoint
There are two well known ways to get from Kathu to Kalim or Kamala – one is across the Patong Hill, and the other is much longer, through Srisoonthorn and along the coastal road from Surin the Kamala (very scenic too).
But there’s also another way. Also very scenic but will take you about 2 hours through dense forest although there is a well-worn walking track. The track will take you from Kathu up to the Kalim Viewpoint. From here you can head back to Kathu along a different path, or down into Kalim, near Patong.
Starting about halfway down Soi Namtok in Kathu, you head up a nondescript road past the Flying Hanuman zipline attraction, although there’s no sign at the entrance to the soi (below). About the first kilometre is paved but then becomes increasingly ‘agricultural’ as you get higher into the hills, heading towards the Kalim Viewpoint. There’s also a small temple on the way up.
PHOTO: The start of the trek, a small soi off Soi Namtok – Google Maps
It will take around 2 hours to trek up to the Kalim Viewpoint. The walking is quite strenuous and you’ll need to be wearing the right shoes and take plenty of water – there’s no 7/11s on the way! As you get nearer the top, to the viewpoint, the track becomes less drivable although the track is still quite open and easy to follow. If you’re feeling a bit lazy you can take a motorbike about halfway up the road until you’ll need to proceed on foot from there.
From the Kalim Viewpoint you can see across Kalim to Patong Bay and the land that stretches along the bay south of Patong Beach. From the top you can either make your way down to Kalim or another exit along the Kalim-Kamala Road, just near the Iguana Beach Club.
You can also head back another way to Kathu, a longer return track that skirts around the top of the Kathu Waterfall. A lot of that track gets very narrow and parts of it are up and down the hills, some of it very steep.
The views are amazing and you get to see a vast swathe of Phuket, still very close to popular locations like Patong, Kamala and Kathu, but untouched by any civilisation.
You’ll need to be in reasonable health to take on the trip but, just to go up to the Kalim Viewpoint and back, or down into Kalim, should take around 5 hours in total. On a scale of 1 – 5 for difficulty, we’d rate it a 3. An easy trek for experienced people but will need a bit of planning if you’re not an experienced trekker.
Even on a hazy day, as it was today, the views were amazing. But best to start off early morning when the weather is cooler. Well worth the time for the views and the opportunity to see more of Phuket, away from the bars and beaches.
Thanks to BT for the pics and information.
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Trump tells unpaid TSA agents not to admit how unsecure airports are because of his shutdown
President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to silence the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel from admitting that our airports are less secure because of the government shutdown.
When a man carried a gun successfully through a TSA checkpoint earlier this month and boarded his plane to Japan, it set off alarm bells over just what could become common if the government shutdown continues to drag on as TSA agents continue to stop coming to work because they are not being paid.
Trump’s shutdown is entering its fifth straight week, and hundreds of thousands of federal workers are not being paid, resulting in many call outs from employees so they can try to find other work to pay the bills.
Earlier this month, national TSA employee union president Hydrick Thomas warned that such call outs “will definitely affect the flying public.”
According to CNN:
The impacts could compound the longer the shutdown lasts, union officials say. Those manning the security checkpoint can be demoralized by the lack of pay, or exhausted and less sharp from covering extra shifts, according to union officials who are also employed by TSA. With insufficient staff, managers may open fewer security lanes, causing lines to grow longer and move more slowly. New recruits cannot be hired or trained without funding.
“The loss of officers, while we’re already shorthanded, will create a massive security risk for American travelers since we don’t have enough trainees in the pipeline or the ability to process new hires,” Thomas said in a statement on Monday.
Trump claims to want a wall because it will somehow stop terrorists (it won’t), but the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil occurred on September 11, 2001, because terrorists were able to bring box cutters aboard multiple planes and hijack them.
Without proper security personnel, it’s only a matter of time before potential terrorists are able to sneak weapons on planes because there are not enough TSA agents to process passengers effectively.
But the Trump administration would rather the public not be informed of just how unsafe airports are becoming because of the shutdown, which is why TSA’s deputy assistant administrator for public affairs, Jim Gregory, sent an email to TSA management telling them not to talk about call out data and to insist that airports are perfectly secure.
“You can engage with media and address topics that touch your workforce such as how they are doing overall but there are some areas you can’t address,” the email says according to a CNN report. “Do not offer specific call out data at your airport. You can say you have experienced higher numbers of call-outs but in partnership with the airport and airlines you are able to manage people and resources to ensure effective security is always maintained.”
“We consider call out numbers to be sensitive and are not releasing them publicly because we believe adversaries could use the information to exploit perceived vulnerabilities,” Gregory said, admitting that people who want to kill us can exploit the government shutdown to get past security or rather, the lack thereof. “Additionally, call out numbers don’t tell the whole story since it’s more about whether FSDs are able to properly staff checkpoints. Regardless, we want to ensure people know security will not be compromised at TSA and we will maintain security standards.”
But it’s already being compromised, and winter is the slowest travel time of the year. What’s going to happen when summer arrives and Trump’s shutdown drags on for the months or years he has warned it will last? More TSA personnel are going to quit because working for no pay is slavery and does not keep food on the table or a roof over their kids’ heads.
It’s that simple. And potential threats are going to take advantage of that regardless of whether or not TSA agents reveal specific call out information. Callouts have already doubled compared to last year and will undoubtedly rise as the shutdown continues.
Trump’s little temper tantrum is making Americans less safe at airports across the country, and any terrorist attack by plane because TSA did not have the personnel to do their job is on him, and him alone. Trump should be concerned about the terrorists who are going to board planes, not the non-existent ones he claims are crossing the border.
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See Or, Before It’s Gone!
There is only one more weekend to see Or,! Yes, just one. You do not want to be among the people who miss the show the Portland Monthly called “a witty, bawdy, frothy Restoration-era spy thriller in the vein of Tom Stoppard”. The reviews for this show have been stellar, though personally you had us at “bawdy, spy thriller.” Get your tickets before this one is gone!
And it’s never too late to become a Member, which would get you access to closing weekend of Or, opening weekend of The Realistic Joneses, NT Live’s Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch, PETE’s All Well, and a Bloody Sunday reading. That’s over $130 worth of programming for only $29.33…and that is just October!
So…what are you still doing reading this blog? Get to clicking!
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October 5 – October 11, 2015
This is a week of change at Third Rail as we move from one play to another! This weekend is your last chance to see Or, – the story of Aphra Behn that covers “the thoughtful and the madcap, the silly and sublime, the sociologically resonant and the fancifully theatrical” (Oregon Artswatch).
Or, is a spirited romp that also has a lot to say about the complexity of sex, gender, and being one of the first woman writers ever. Portland Mercury
The show has been winning over audiences for weeks, but you have just a few chances left to see what all the raves have been about!
Then, on Sunday, after the final performance of Or, we will transform the theatre once again into the set and setting for our next show, The Realistic Joneses. Much more information about this production will hit this space in the coming weeks. For now, know that we are thrilled to bring you a show about which the New York Times said, “Plays as funny and moving, as wonderful and weird as The Realistic Joneses, by Will Eno, do not appear often on Broadway. Or ever, really.”
But you better get your tickets to see Or, before it closes. Because THAT beautiful set is coming down Sunday! So what are you waiting for? Get clicking!
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October is shaping up to be an exciting month at Third Rail. Honestly, all of the months are exciting here but we really do believe October is going to be particularly special (and you can tell July we said that!). Why will October be so notable?
Closes October 10
So, we start the month with the last two weekends of this wonderful production. If you have not yet seen it, you are missing a truly excellent play about one of the first female playwrights, written by one of the great modern female playwrights, and starring two of Portland’s greatest female actors. It’s not too late to start your Third Rail October with us by seeing Or,!
Opens October 23
Not two weeks later, we open our next show, The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno – who wrote last year’s hit, Middletown. Directed by Company Member Rebecca Lingafelter and starring Company Members Michael O’Connell, Kerry Ryan, and Darius Pierce, along with guest artist Dana Green, who you may remember from her Drammy-nominated work in Gidion’s Knot. This is an hilarious and deeply human play that will gracefully and humorously grab the baton from Or,.
PETE: All Well
October 27 – November 1
Following the success of The Bylines: Meant to Be, October also bring us our second Wild Card! PETE: All Well looks to be a unique immersive experience: a sound-installation which will envelop audiences in the pitch black world of an icebound ship. Featuring a soundscape by PETE’s resident sound designer and Third Rail Company Member Mark Valadez, each performance will be limited to 25 audience members who will experience the piece from the comfort of their own hammock. With only 25 hammocks available each show, you’ll want to make sure you reserve your tickets as soon as possible.
October also sees the beginning of perhaps our most anticipated NT Live screening ever – Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Our Hamlet engagement began with four scheduled screenings which sold out so quickly that we have already added four additional showings. Get tickets while you can, they certainly won’t be around much longer.
Bloody Sunday Reading (MEMBER ONLY EVENT)
As is true every month, we’ll also have a Bloody Sunday reading of a show we are considering for future production. Bloody Sunday readings are Members Only events and a unique way to peek inside the Third Rail process. In fact, October is going to be one of the best possible months to become a member – for under $30, you would have unlimited access to two Main Stage productions, a Wild Card production, and NT Live’s Hamlet – over $130 in programming! So the only question left is…
What are you waiting for?!?
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September 28 – October 4, 2015
Let’s see what’s happening this week in the land of Third Rail – a land, incidentally, to which you are always invited.
We are headed into our third week of Or, performances! If you have not yet seen the show, this is the weekend to do it. We close next week, so you have to see it this week in order to have time to recommend it to people after falling in love with it!
This is also an interesting week in The Realistic Joneses process. We have a production meeting, which is where the director, all of the designers, and the production manager come together to continue the discussion about the design of the show. Generally, at this point, the discussion is largely about how to finish implementing the designs and adjustments based on what has been learned in rehearsals. Then, at the end of the week, we have our first stumble through of the show. A terrifying and exciting moment for the actors, this will be the first time that we run the show on its feet from beginning to end.
It is lovely having two shows at these different phases working under the same roof! Hopefully, we’ll see you under that same roof soon, too!
Or production meeting stumble through The Realistic Joneses
The Realistic Joneses Cast and Creative Team
While Or, continues to delight audiences currently, our next show is Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses. But who, you ask, will be working on that show? Who are the artists bringing this profound and hilarious show to life? Whose work will I be seeing when I get to the theatre? Well…you have a lot of questions, but we do know the answers. And here they are:
The show is being helmed by Company Member Rebecca Lingafelter! A talented and distinguished actor, director, and producer, Rebecca is an invaluable Company Member of Third Rail, as well as a founding member of the Portland Ensemble Theater Ensemble (PETE). So, in addition to seeing her directorial work in The Realistic Joneses, you will also see her when you attend PETE’s Wild Card production of All Well.
Our Sound Designer will be Company Member Mark Valadez! We are always delighted when we hear Mark’s thoughtful work during our productions. He is also the resident sound designer for PETE. So, his work will be heavily featured in All Well. Joining Mark at the design table is PETE’s resident costume designer, Jenny Ampersand. We’re thrilled that Jenny’s work will grace our stage for The Realistic Joneses, her first Third Rail design. Look for more information about our design time here as the rehearsal process continues…
Michael O’Connell (John) has appeared in over a dozen Third Rail productions, including Drammy-winning performances in The Lying Kind and Recent Tragic Events. He also starred in last season’s production of Will Eno’s Middletown. A Third Rail Company Member from the beginning, we are always eager to see him on our stage.
Kerry Ryan (Jennifer) became a Third Rail Company Member in 2013, and performed with us in A Bright New Boise. She has spent the last ten years holding membership with Imago Theatre, Theatre Vertigo, and the Anonymous Theatre Company. Now, she is bringing her unique and wonderful talent to our stage for the second time!
Darius Pierce (Bob) is a recent Company Member, having joined early in 2015. He is a co-founder of the Anonymous Theatre Company and was previously a longtime member of Theatre Vertigo. Now, he’ll be speaking Will Eno’s exceptional words again after joining the cast of last year’s Middletown.
Dana Green (Pony) has a resume far longer than we have room for here. In Portland, she’s performed at Portland Center Stage in Othello and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; at Profile Theatre in Dead Man’s Cell Phone; and here at Third Rail in Gidion’s Knot. We could not be happier to have her back on the boards with us.
All four cast members and the director of The Realistic Joneses are past Drammy recipients. Not too shabby…
These extraordinary artists are hard at work on this extraordinary script. In just a few short weeks, you – our extraordinary patrons and supporters – will be in for (you guessed it) an extraordinary night of theatre.
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Or, Dramaturgy
Here at Third Rail we’ve enjoyed the services of two magnificent dramaturgs, Brian Myers and Ellen Walkley, for several years. They’ve been with us since 2011 when they took over managing our NT Live program, and took over dramaturgical duties from Larkin Sackett (who ran off to a little school called Columbia University to pursue her MFA) during Sweet and Sad. They both hold PhDs from UC Berkeley, and we are blessed to have their incredible brains in the rehearsal room. Brian and Ellen tend to tag-team our seasons, each taking the lead on alternating shows, so we asked Ellen to write up a bit of information about our upcoming show Or, by Liz Duffy Adams:
Or, looks ripe for the easiest of a dramaturg’s job—researching historical references—but it is less immediately yielding to the more difficult task of finding the heart of the script. Charles II was indeed fond of exclaiming “Odd’s fish,” for example, but his visit to Aphra in debtor’s prison is pure fiction. Aphra spied, London burned, the plague raged, Charles returned and theaters reopened, but this play is not dependent on a precise chronology.
Adams directs us in many ways to the play’s essence. In her stage directions, she states that the play is set during the Restoration “but plays off the echoes between the late 1660s, the late 1960s and the present.” These echoes are evident in the diction, which is often anachronistic; “kinky,” “It girl,” “quickie,” and “nostalgia queen” are not words likely heard in Charles’ court. Echoes between the 1660s and 1960s are also found in the background of the play, unfolding as it does in the midst of an unpopular war and the loosening of sexual morés. The pastoral lyricism of Aphra’s speech about Arcadia and Nell’s restatement of that speech in contemporary terms matches the joys of Arcadia with the expectations of the Age of Aquarius.
But Adams suggests that this combination of destruction and hope can be found in any age. Her primary interest is in a “subculture that can look incredibly naïve, but is exactly what gives us hope.” The advice that Nell gives Aphra could work as well in the present as it does in the 1660s:
Nell: We are lucking to be alive right now. This is our utopia, and it’s never going to end.
Aphra: How lovely it would be to believe that.
Nell: O, just choose to believe it, that’s what I do.
Aphra Behn Brian Myers Charles II dramaturgy Ellen Walkley Or UC Berkeley
We’re in the last full week of September (already!?!) and there are still two ways to join us at the theatre before we turn the page into October.
First – Or, is in full swing and audiences are having a fantastic 90 minutes! There’s poetry, espionage, laughter, sexy times, and cross-dressing (in both directions…)! The Oregonian says:
[Maureen] Porter, with lovers literally tugging at her sleeves to hit the sheets, gracefully centers the sexual shenanigans… [Amy] Newman and Damon Kupper, playing multiple parts, make impressive character transformations… You just wish plays had a replay button…
We hope you’ll join us for the “shenanigans” and if you’re a Member, you can hit a “replay button” by seeing the show for free as often as you’d like!
Second – On Sunday, we are offering another Bloody Sunday play reading. Join us for a reading of a play that is under consideration for production… and tuck into some nibbles and morning-appropriate cocktails. This is a Members only event. If you want to attend, and get unlimited access to any Third Rail event, you can become a Member at any time!
We’re also in the midst of rehearsals and production meetings for The Realistic Joneses, which opens in just about a month. Whew! Here at Third Rail World Headquarters, we’re keeping the good times rollin’!
Amy Newman Damon Kupper Maureen Porter Or review The Oregonian The Realistic Joneses Third Rail Membership
Or, Opens Tonight!
Join us on tonight, September 18, for the Opening Night of Or, by Liz Duffy Adams and help us kick off our Main Stage productions for the year.
A dazzling, word-fueled, seductive romp Or, ricochets across the stage with playful, sexy wit. Set over the course of one night in the life of playwright Aphra Behn against a background of a long drawn-out war and a counter-culture of free love, the 1660s look remarkably recognizable in this neo-Restoration comedy.
The show opens today and runs through October 10. See you soon!
Aphra Behn Opening night Or
The Realistic Joneses First Read
As Or, prepares to open this Friday, our Members joined us for our first read of The Realistic Joneses. This was the second opportunity for Third Rail Members to be a part of the production experience from the very beginning.
We were introduced to the project by Third Rail Artistic Director, Scott Yarbrough, who explained how we’ve come to produce our second play by the brilliant Middletown playwright, Will Eno. Yarbrough will be involved in this production as a kind of Tom Hagen figure (consigliere) to the Don (director) a la The Godfather – his words (more or less). The Don, in this case, is Third Rail Company Member Rebecca Lingafelter. While Lingafelter has been seen several times on the Third Rail stage, this marks her first time as a Third Rail director.
The night progressed with beautiful and evocative design presentations from the creative team. It is a rare privilege to witness these creative minds transform words on a page to a vivid physical universe. Finally, we were treated to a reading of the play by the cast: Michael O’Connell, Dana Green, Darius Pierce, and Kerry Ryan. It is at once a touching, hilarious and deeply human play sure to be a must see this Fall. Watch this space to follow this production’s development over the next month, and be sure to book your tickets! Performances begin October 23rd and run through November 14th.
Dana Green Darius Pierce Kerry Ryan Michael O'Connell Portland theater Rebecca Lingafelter Scott Yarbrough The Godfather The Realistic Joneses Third Rail Membership Tom Hagen
The season is in full swing! And if there is one season that really knows how to swing, it’s Fall. We have two productions in rehearsal, so the building is overflowing with Third Rail theatre.
On Monday, we have first read for The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno. This is always an exciting evening. We get our first look at design ideas for the show and our first listen of the play read by the full cast. If you attended the first read of Or, then you know how great an opportunity this is to begin your relationship with the show and to meet other Members and Company Members. First reads are Members’ only events!
Then, of course, we have Or,! This week, Or, will be in previews. Previews are an invaluable step in preparing a show. After the weeks of rehearsals, this is our chance to add the final, vital element of any live performance – the audience! A play in front of an audience is a different creature than a play in the rehearsal room. In previews, we have a chance to experience, experiment, and expurgate as we move towards opening the show.
Which is exactly what is happening this week! September 18th is opening night of Or,! There’s no need to tell you why you should join us for opening night, but we will because that’s what we do here in “This Week at Third Rail”. You can be among the very first people to see this hilarious and thought-provoking show! Starring Company Members Maureen Porter and Damon Kupper, and Third Rail favorite Amy Newman, Or, is sure to tickle your funny and thoughtful bones. See it with the unique energy of opening night and then celebrate with us afterward!
With our increase in programming, they’re all big weeks around here. But this one is a particular joy. In one week, Members can see the beginning of our process for The Realistic Joneses and the beginning of our run of Or,. So…we’ll definitely see you at the theatre!
Amy Newman audience Damon Kupper fall Maureen Porter Opening night Or preview rehearsal The Realistic Joneses
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Masked Rider Suit Actor Verne Troyer Dies at 49
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Kristopher Sosa
Masked Rider suit actor Verne J Troyer dies at the age of 49.
Verne Troyer, famous for portraying Mini-Me in the Austin Powers film series, has died at the age of 49. He was also the stunt actor for Ferbus from Masked Rider.
His publicist release this full announcement about his death:
“It is with great sadness and incredibly heavy hearts to write that Verne passed away today.
Verne was an extremely caring individual. He wanted to make everyone smile, be happy, and laugh. Anybody in need, he would help to any extent possible. Verne hoped he made a positive change with the platform he had and worked towards spreading that message everyday.
He inspired people around the world with his drive, determination, and attitude. On film & television sets, commercial shoots, at comic-con’s & personal appearances, to his own YouTube videos, he was there to show everyone what he was capable of doing. Even though his stature was small and his parents often wondered if he’d be able to reach up and open doors on his own in his life, he went on to open more doors for himself and others than anyone could have imagined. He also touched more peoples hearts than he will ever know.
Verne was also a fighter when it came to his own battles. Over the years he’s struggled and won, struggled and won, struggled and fought some more, but unfortunately this time was too much.
During this recent time of adversity he was baptized while surrounded by his family. The family appreciates that they have this time to grieve privately.
Depression and Suicide are very serious issues. You never know what kind of battle someone is going through inside. Be kind to one another. And always know, it’s never too late to reach out to someone for help.
In lieu of flowers, please feel free to make a donation in Verne’s name to either of his two favorite charities; The Starkey Hearing Foundation and Best Buddies.”
Source: Variety, Verne J Troyer’s Official Facebook
Related Topics:Masked Rider, Verne J Troyer
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Ontario places Toronto and Peel Region under lockdown. Here's what you need to know
TORONTO -- The Ontario government will shutter most non-essential businesses, including gyms and personal care services, and will prohibit sit-down service in restaurants in two of the province’s COVID-19 hot spots as they grapple with a rise in infections.
Toronto and Peel Region have been placed in a lockdown, which is the province’s final category of the COVID-19 tiered framework that guides restrictions.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford made the announcement late Friday afternoon on the same day the province’s total number of lab-confirmed COVID-19 infections surpassed 100,000.
“I know these past few months have been extremely difficult,” Ford said. “COVID fatigue is setting in on all of us. But I've seen
the strength of our people and it's up to each and every one of us to determine our future to write the next chapter of our history.”
As well, the regions of Durham and Waterloo have been moved to the fourth category, the “red zone,” of the province’s five-tier framework.
MORE: Where does your region stand in Ontario's colour-coded COVID-19 framework?
The new measures come into effect on Monday.
Officials have said that regions will remain in their zone for a minimum of 28 days. This means that Toronto and Peel will be under lockdown until at least Dec. 21.
"The situation is extremely serious and further action is required to avoid the worst case scenario,” the premier said.
“We cannot put in-class learning at risk, we can’t risk widespread outbreaks in our long-term care homes, we cannot risk overwhelming our hospitals. To protect our most vulnerable and protect what matters most we have to get the community spread under control.”
Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams said that while there is no order mandating residents not travel between coloured-region, residents should really limit travel to essential purposes.
“We are all in this together,” he said. “You're responsible in your area, but also for the areas outside yours, because we know it affects the whole system.”
“We are going to be trusting and confidence that the public will do the right thing.”
Here’s what you need to know about the new lockdown measures:
Public events and social gatherings
All indoor organized public events and social gatherings are prohibited, with the exception of gatherings with members of the same household.
Outdoor gatherings have been restricted to 10 people, as long as physical distancing can be maintained.
Places of worship will be restricted to 10 people indoors and 10 people outdoors. This applies to religious services, weddings and funerals.
The restrictions would effectively mean worshipers in those regions would be prevented from praying inside and would instead have to travel to another region or attend services virtually.
Publicly-funded schools in Ontario and child-care centres will remain open under the lockdown, however post-secondary institutions will be open for virtual instruction only.
There will be exemptions for clinical training and trades, where in-person instruction is required.
Restaurants, bars and clubs
Indoor and outdoor service is prohibited at food establishments in lockdown regions. Takeout, drive through service, and delivery is permitted. This includes the sale of alcohol.
Retail and other businesses
Non-essential retail stores and some retail outlets have been restricted to curbside pick-up or delivery. This includes retail stores in malls.
Yorkdale Shopping Centre, Square One Shopping Centre and Scarborough Town Centre say they are extending their operating hours this weekend to "safely manage an anticipated increase in visitors." The malls will now be 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Square One and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Yorkdale and Scarborough Town Centre on Saturday and Sunday.
Essential businesses such as grocery stores, convenience stores, hardware stores, supply stores, alcohol stores, pharmacies will remain open and be limited to 50 per cent capacity.
Gardening centres and motor vehicle establishments will be open by appointment only.
Customers are required to stand two metres away from each other while in line at any of the businesses listed above.
Personal care services, such as hair salons, are closed. Casinos, bingo halls and gaming establishments, cinemas (except drive-ins), and performing arts facilities are also closed.
Sports and fitness centres
All indoor sports facilities and fitness centres will close, including indoor courts, pools and rinks. Outdoor sports and fitness classes will be limited to 10 people.
Indoor sports, including training, has been prohibited.
Community centres and other multi-purpose facilities will be allowed to open for certain activities such as child care.
All meeting spaces and event spaces will be closed with the exceptions of court services, government services, and mental health and addiction support services (with a maximum of 10 people).
When would a region go into lockdown?
The government also provided information on what officials will be looking for before deciding if a region should be moved into a lockdown, although the thresholds are admittedly vague.
As of Nov. 20, regions will be moved into a lockdown if they see “adverse trends” after entering the “red” zone. This includes:
• Increasing weekly case incidents and/or test positivity
• Increasing case incidence and/or test positivity among people over the age of 70.
• Increasing outbreaks among vulnerable populations or congregate settings
• Hospital and ICU capacity at risk of being overwhelmed
• Public health unit capacity for case and contact management at risk or overwhelmed
This information was previously left blank from the government’s tiered framework.
Changes to the red zone rules
The province also announced some changes to the red zone restrictions.
Indoor public gathering restrictions have been reduced to five people, while 25 people can still get together outdoors as long as physical distancing is maintained.
What supports are in place for businesses?
The province also said it will be doubling the funding available for businesses struggling amid the pandemic to $600 million. According to officials, the money would help support eligible businesses that are “required to close or significantly restrict services due to enhanced public health measures.”
Eligible businesses will be able to apply for a grant to help purchase personal protective equipment, as well as property taxes and energy rebates.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford Ontario walks to his press conference during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto, Friday, November 20, 2020. Ontario is moving the COVID-19 hot spots of Toronto and Peel Region into lockdown starting Monday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Freedom Caucus: Just Say No to Omnibus Spending Bill
Alex Nitzberg
Posted: Mar 22, 2018 11:30 AM
Wednesday evening the text of the over two-thousand page, monetarily massive omnibus spending bill funding over $1 trillion dollars in government spending was released.
Conservative House Freedom Caucus members opposing the legislation have issued a letter calling for President Trump to oppose it as well.
The letter, viewable in this tweet from Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), asserts that the spending bill betrays the will of many of the voters who elected Republicans to the legislature.
“The policy proposals outlined in this $1.3 trillion spending bill are in stark contrast to the commitments that we, along with the vast majority of our Republican colleagues, made to the American people during the last election,” the letter says.
Mentioning specific issues with the bill’s contents, the letter notes that Planned Parenthood funding will continue: “The bill fully funds grants that will go to Planned Parenthood.”
The letter also says that the funding for border protections is insufficient and will not bring to fruition what the voters were promised: “This bill does not provide adequate funding for border security. $1.5 billion will be minimally effective in delivering not just our promise, but your promise, to build a wall and keep our country secure.”
And something else that will surely frustrate conservative voters: “Sanctuary cities also continue to receive federal funds.”
The letter also asserts that the bill fails to advance the attack on Obamacare:
“The bill does nothing to further our promise to provide Americans relief from Obamacare. We must continue to reduce burdensome regulations in the healthcare marketplace, return to free market principles, and empower consumers. This bill fails on all three fronts.”
The document also attacks the legislation, saying that, “The bill includes the ‘Fix NICS’ proposal, which provides a pathway for unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats to revoke, without due process, the rights of American citizens to keep and bear arms.”
“The American people elected us not to buckle, but to deliver,” the letter declares.
Rep. Justin Amash succinctly summed it up Wednesday evening: “One bill. 2,232 pages of big government.”
On Wednesday evening The Hill reported that some in the Freedom Caucus had plans to introduce amendments to alter the bill.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R) brought a measure of levity to the situation, tweeting a comical condemnation, “a pox,” upon the whole of Congress including Democrats and Republicans:
“Shame, shame. A pox on both Houses - and parties. $1.3 trillion. Busts budget caps. 2200 pages, with just hours to try to read it.”
He also pointed out that the voluminous text is so lengthy that even after two hours it hadn’t fully printed yet: “FYI- The 2200+ page, budget-busting Omnibus has been printing for two hours in my office and still isn’t done.”
For his part, President Trump appears poised to place his signature on the bill if it passes through the House and Senate. Wednesday evening he tweeted the following:
“Got $1.6 Billion to start Wall on Southern Border, rest will be forthcoming. Most importantly, got $700 Billion to rebuild our Military, $716 Billion next year...most ever. Had to waste money on Dem giveaways in order to take care of military pay increase and new equipment.”
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December 1, 2020 December 6, 2020 by Transatlantic StorytellingLeave a comment
Ball State Sports Link, in partnership with Cardiff Met Sport Broadcast, presented its feature-length documentary, Transatlantic Storytelling 2020, with a world digital premiere June 30.
Direct links can also be found through each program’s social media accounts — @bsusportslink, @MetBroadcast and @CMetSportTV.
The initial release of the documentary, produced entirely by students from Ball State’s Emmy award-winning Sports Link program, streamed live on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the project’s official website, www.transatlanticstorytelling.com.
Following the June 30 digital premiere, the documentary will then be edited into a second cut, released for linear television stations and film festivals — along with additional digital platforms — in both the United Kingdom and the United States.
“We’re excited for the initial release June 30,” said Zach Roy, a Ball State student who is the film’s executive producer and director. “It’s certainly been a challenge to put this together after coming home to a global pandemic. Thankfully, our team has been able to virtually come together, edit remotely and craft something we are all proud of.
“Traveling to Wales to create this documentary was an experience and a story in itself. The many relationships we built will last a lifetime. The whole project is something I will never forget.”
The groundbreaking documentary features seven exclusive stories, with 22 different interviews, and stunning visuals from throughout Cardiff and Wales.
Sam Gordon is the fastest man in Wales, owning multiple records and sprinting towards the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Though always smiling, the elite runner’s surge into the spotlight hasn’t come without setbacks.
Jenny Nesbitt represents Great Britain and Wales as a talented distance runner. But, as a teenager, the world class athlete faced serious threats to her success
Harrison Walsh, who after a horrific rugby injury ended his promising career, shifted his focus. Now, the world-record holding thrower is aiming for the 2021 Paralympic Games.
Will Godwin is a student at Cardiff Met, who started his athletic career as a triathlete and rower until two freak accidents changed his life.
Sam Pearce, the Cardiff Met student and captain of the cricket team, is also on the verge of a professional career in one of the world’s most popular sports.
Lydia Hitchings, a student in Cardiff Met’s School of Art and design, grew up playing netball. Now, a professional player, she has a goal of playing in the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Dr. Christian Edwards is the men’s soccer coach at Cardiff Met and guided his team to the 2019 UEFA Europa League. Six months later, he collapsed on the pitch.
Transatlantic Storytelling is an immersive learning, global storytelling project between students at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana and Cardiff Metropolitan University in Cardiff, Wales.
Ball State students collaborated with Cardiff Met students on identifying, developing and producing feature stories on Welsh athletes.
While on the ground in Cardiff, Wales, for 12 days in late February to March, students worked together to capture footage, scenes and interviews with the athletes.
In 2019, Ball State and Cardiff Met agreed to a five-year understanding which recognizes the mutual benefits of an educational partnership, which in part will lead to collaboration, opportunities and faculty/student engagement.
Additional Media Information:
For media outlets, tv stations and other platforms wishing to air the documentary at no charge, please contact Joe Towns from Cardiff Met (JTowns@cardiffmet.ac.uk) or Chris Taylor from Ball State (ctaylor@bsu.edu).
Additional information, including student blogs, athlete blogs, photo galleries and video can be found at www.transatlanticstorytelling.com.
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By hzero on Thursday, June 25, 2020
The 2020 World Hepatitis Day is very much approaching and it is a day set aside to create awareness about the viral disease which has killed many people silently as compared to COVID 19. On Tuesday 28 July 2020 which is the Hepatitis Day there will be different Media events all over the world to …
By Hepatitis Zero on Saturday, April 4, 2020
The Hepatitis Zero Nigerian Commission along with other partners like Lolytee, Mike Omotosho Foundation in Lagos State, Nigeria stretched out its hands to the poorest of the poor, the homeless and the widows to help prepare them for the lockdown due to the COVID-19. The FG had recently just passed out the information that Lagos …
By Hepatitis Zero on Tuesday, February 11, 2020
The President of the Nigerian Commission, Dr. Mike Omotosho has once again proven himself a visionary leader. The world’s smallest book on hepatitis; Achieving Zero Hepatitis has been written and compiled with the sole aim of awareness creation. It is said that one book gets into the hands of at least 20 persons hence the …
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The Nigerian Commission under the leadership of Dr. Mike Omotosho has not laid down the vaccine vial. It is true that the Hepatitis Zero Week has long been over where over 50,000 hepatitis screenings and vaccinations were given accross the 36 states of Nigeria but the City of Abuja still sees a wave of selfess …
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On Friday July 26, Hepatitis B Awareness campaign was held in Warri, as part of efforts to sensitize people of the inherent dangers of the disease, how to prevent it as well as get cure. Rotarian Bridget Ideji who is the second female President of Rotary Club of Warri, stressed the need for people to …
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In commemoration of the 2019 Hepatitis Zero Week, the World Eradication Project on Hepatitis, Nigeria Commission organised a free hepatitis test for people in different locations across the state’s capital . The Kwara State outing was a ripple effect of the launch done in Abuja by Dr Mike Omotosho, president of the Nigerian Commission. In …
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First Lady of Lagos State receives Hepatitis Zero Nigerian Commission
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Best Final Countrown Covers
Back in 1986, Europe introduced their biggest, and most famous hit, "The Final Countdown". It was more cheesy than the moon, more synthesized than the oil in my car and its corniness represented everything that made the 80s so damn awesome. The 5 minutes and 11 seconds of sheer greatness have since transformed the song into a cult classic. Even today, The Final Countdown can be heard in various movies, tv shows, at sporting events and is often used as a ringtone. We've decided to look at various covers, ranging from bad to very bad, of The Final Countdown tunanana.. tunananana..
Editor's Note: Because no cover will ever capture the epic nature of the original "Final Countdown", we will not list any pros in this article.
Cons: Come on! No lyrics? Are they heading for Venus? Will they stand tall? We'll never know.
Cons: This one is kind of creepy, it's got a dance beat but the singer sounds like he belongs in a prison.
Vision Divine
Cons: As generic as the band and this comment.
Furillo
Cons: I'd rather have Paul Anka sing this. Yes, the Paul Anka.
Cons: We're not sure that they're taking the finite nature of the countdown very seriously.
Operacion Mutante
Cons: We would rather have these terrorist wannabes finish their game of online Halo than perform this cover.
Norther
Cons: The singer sounds like a pissed off cockroach.
Cons: See the above comment, replace "cockroach" with "Skeletor on acid".
Kazookeylele Cover
Cons: Ukuleles, kazoos and pianos... oh my. I'm sorry but i can't possibly hate on this one and that in itself is a con.
Beatmania Remix
Cons: I think i just had a seizure.
The "It's so Bad it's Good" Cover
Cons: It's so bad, it's good. It's the Final, Final Countdown.
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Apparently, someone has just as much free time on their hands as I do, here's a compilation of 20 covers.
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Groundbreaking study: uterine transplants
Women suffering from uterine factor infertility (UFI) cannot carry a pregnancy because they were born without a uterus, have lost their uterus, or have a uterus that no longer functions. A recently announced research study by the famed Cleveland Clinic will perform uterus transplants in 10 women with UFI, breaking new ground in the United States.
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Pelvic girdle pain is associated with disability, depression, reduced quality of life and higher prevalence of sick leave both during and after pregnancy. It includes pain in the rear of the pelvis and at the joint where the pubic bones meet at the front. But new research says it can be reduced. The secret? Pre-pregnancy exercise.
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7. Business leaders invest in renewables
Most of the green electricity consumers expect that the extra price they pay somehow leads to concrete results, i.e. to changes that would not have taken place without their purchase. The same expectation is also clearly expressed in the (draft) texts of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol: It views the market not only in terms of individual consumer choices about suppliers or contracts but expects the market can in aggregate change global GHG emissions.
For unorganized consumers, it is very difficult -if not impossible- to make sure that this really happens. But if we speak with one voice, the situation is very different. And this is what EKOenergy is about.
Our most visible tools to bring 'change' are the EKOenergy Environmental Fund and the EKOenergy Climate Fund. (The first climate project will be announced soon). But there is more: Our positive approach stimulates volunteers and consumers to take an active part in the energy revolution. Our efforts also lead to new projects, on top of the projects financed by our Climate Fund. More about all this in the following chapters of this newsletter. Or via facebook and Twitter.
In November 2013, floods forced the operator of the Pamilo power plant to suddenly release large volumes of water to the Pielisjoki River in Eastern Finland. The water wiped out spawning nests of the Saimaa landlocked salmon downstream of the power plant.
Although the power plant is not related in any way to EKOenergy, EKOenergy's fish experts immediately contacted Vattenfall. A first concrete result of our contacts with Vattenfall is a river restoration project to restore spawning areas of the endangered landlocked salmon.
Last week, a helicopter dropped spawning gravel to the restoration area, which is not accessible in any other way.
Click here for more information and for a video of the restoration activities.
The annual Helsinki World Village Festival (May 24 & 25) switches to EKOenergy. With more than 400 activities and concerts and 85.000 visitors, this is one of the main festivals in Finland.
The supply of EKOenergy is facilitated by the company Festivaalisähkö (Finnish for "Festival Electricity"). The company is considering to automatically supply EKOenergy to all the festivals it is working with. Thumbs up!
Vera Szabadkai from Budapest joined the EKOenergy team as part of a "Work trial practice" organized by the Finnish Employment Service.
"I am glad to work on a motivating project with a European scope. EKOenergy is a very forward-thinking enterprise I'm glad to contribute to. Apart from working with renewables, it also enables me to use my connection to Hungary, and to learn and settle in my new home, Finland."
Trainees and volunteers remain a corner stone of EKOenergy's structure. In the last 3 months, over 150 trainees and volunteers applied for a place at the EKOenergy secretariat. At least 5 of them will join us in the coming months.
For the current staff, trainees and volunteers at the Secretariat, see the Contact Us page of the website.
Bellona Saint-Petersburg organized a thesis competition about renewable electricity. The main prize was a visit to a series of renewable power plants in Northern Europe, and a visit to the EKOenergy Secretariat (!).
178 young researchers from 59 Russian regions submitted a paper.
The winning researchers, Anna Gentova, Dmitry Grinko and Stepan Konakov visited us on May 12 and 13. They wrote papers about wave energy, wind energy and combined (hybrid) systems. Read more about their papers on the EKOenergy website.
We thank Juha Tuominen, director of the wind energy company Tuulisaimaa, professor Jero Ahola of the Lappeenrannan University of Technology and Kim Fyhr, Public Affairs Manager at Fortum for their interesting contributions to the Finnish part of the program.
The Wiesbadener Kurier wrote an article about our volunteer Elea Kunz and her experience at the EKOenergy Secretariat in Helsinki.
"Many consumers are not sufficiently informed about how they can use their electricity contract to contribute to climate protection. I find it interesting that EKOenergy works on that: through the EKOenergy label and through the focus on consumer information, EKOenergy gives households and corporate consumers the opportunity to bring about positive changes."
The paper version was published on May 8. Click here for the online version.
"Because the interests of companies with large carbon reserves on their balance sheets are no longer aligned with other businesses, business leaders must think carefully about the source of their electrical power. In a world with falling energy prices, we need to invest in the technology that will sustain our companies, not ones that will cost the earth", Alison Kemper and Roger Martin in the Guardian.
“We have a duty to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow and therefore addressing the real issues around man made climate change is a key part of that,†said Morten Vestberg, communication manager for the LEGO Group in Energy Digital magazine. “By doing so, we move towards our goal of positive impact, reduce our energy use, cut operating costs, and ensure we are a business fit for the future.â€.
Picture: Vindenergi Danmark
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Stories About Marathon Walking Commuters Receiving Benevolent Donations of Cars Are Actually Terrible
These stories aren't heartwarming. They highlight systemic, persistent injustice that goes unaddressed.
We've heard this story before and we'll hear it again. Because the core problem is never solved. Photo: AL.com
Maybe you’ve noticed the new genre of feel-good viral story going around: Someone — usually a black man — is forced to walk an insane distance, at least a dozen miles, to get to work. But then someone else — his boss, GoFundMe — saves the day by buying him a car.
First there was James Robertson, Detroit’s “Walking Man,” whose 21-mile roundtrip walking commute to his factory job in suburban Detroit caught fire in 2016. This week, the man whose story people can’t stop sharing is Walter Carr of Birmingham. When his vehicle broke down and he had to walk 20 miles to his new job at a moving company, Carr’s boss gave him a Ford Escape.
Heartwarming, right? No. It’s really not.
The work ethic and determination of these men is stunning, but don’t paint their stories as triumphs of the American spirit. When we hear about desperate, exhausting commutes to jobs far away from home, we’re being confronted by the reality that in places like Birmingham and Detroit, employment is out of reach unless you have the means to own a car.
Birmingham ranks last — dead last — in transit access to jobs among the 50 largest regions in the country, according to a 2014 analysis by researchers at the University of Minnesota. For the average resident, only 3 percent of the region’s jobs are within reach of a one-way transit trip in under 60 minutes. If you don’t have a car in Birmingham, your options for gainful employment are vanishingly small.
Dig into the story a little bit and there are other red flags. For example, Carr was picked up by police because he was walking (while black), and the officers took him out for breakfast when “his story checked out,” reports Carol Robinson at the Birmingham News. What appears as a friendly interaction in the article began as an instance of racial profiling, where Carr had to prove his worth as a human being.
Most people probably wouldn’t have shown as much grit as Carr. Why should they? In a more humane world, people wouldn’t have to make impossible choices between risking your life on a marathon commute and holding down the job you need to survive.
Filed Under: Alabama, Job Sprawl, Promoted
Man Walks 21 Miles to Commute Each Day Because of Detroit’s Awful Transit
A piece in the Detroit Free Press about 56-year-old factory worker James Robertson and his 21-mile round-trip walking commute to the Detroit suburbs is going viral this week. It is both an amazing story of individual perseverance and a scathing indictment of a failing transportation system. Robertson’s total commute is actually a 46-mile round-trip, split between different […]
Dreamy Routines: Some of Our Readers’ Best “Commuter Idylls”
Some of you have some fabulous commutes. Rather than watch the stress-filled minutes and hours tick by stuck in traffic, you go outside, get exercise, and connect with your community. I’ve had the pleasure of reading many of your commuter tales over the last few days, since we launched our Commuter Idyll contest. It’s our […]
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When we saw that Washington’s news-traffic-weather radio station, WTOP, was holding a “Commuter Idle” contest for the worst commute in the DC area — and rewarding it with $1,000 in gas money — we couldn’t resist. We went looking for the best “Commuter Idyll” — the trips to work that made people happy, got them fresh […]
Trapped By Car Dependence: Stories From Commute-Battered Americans
Meet Darren Flenoy, a Bay Area security guard who lives 40 miles from work. Gas costs him about $500 a month. His car payment is another $500. On top of that, he spends $80 per month on insurance and $180 on tolls. In total, Darren’s commute costs him half of his monthly income. He must […]
Detroit Riders Share Their Transit Horror Stories
Detroit’s transit system is in crisis. The region’s fractious transit network was highlighted last year by the story of James Robertson — “Detroit’s walking man” — whose one-way, 23-mile commute consists of two bus routes and 10-plus miles of walking. The Detroit region has been struggling to create a unified city-suburb regional transit agency for the last few years. Next […]
Racial Shifts Are Changing the Transit Landscape
By Angie Schmitt | May 30, 2019
Mostly all white suburban counties that once rejected transit are now diverse and on the verge of embracing it.
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Confident or Conceited?
Abby Jackson, Social Media Editor|January 30, 2015
Teenage girl from Adams weighs herself on a scale
Confidence: some people are blessed with it, and some people lack it. Just log on to any social media site, and there will be a multitude of photos of seemingly perfect models. Girls today obsess over their body image and their weight, sometimes leading them to adopt unhealthy eating habits.
When people talk about “body issue” problems, they focus mainly on “bigger girls” and the problems they have, but many people ignore skinny girls and how they receive heat for being “too skinny”. Telling someone to “eat a burger” or to “put some meat on your bones!” is just as rude as telling someone not to eat or to go to the gym.
The world of Tumblr, a blogging site, is all about boosting self-esteem and making everyone feel accepted. If, however, girls and boys appear to be happy with the way they look, people on the site don’t always react in the best way. They sometimes will criticize this confident person simply to make others feel better. Making people feel bad about how they look is never okay, even if the person seems completely confident in him or herself.
The people of this site preach about being happy and being nice to everyone, but when it comes to seemingly perfect people, the “be nice to everyone” rule suddenly doesn’t apply. People forget that skinny people get just as much hate for being too skinny as bigger people get for being overweight. Emma Woolf, author of An Apple a Day and The Ministry of Thin, was once anorexic. She was constantly told to “put some meat on her bones.” Guilting people into eating because they’re too skinny is just as bad as telling a fat person not to eat anything. Everyone has a different idea of perfection.
Singers have been addressing this issue as well. Singer Nicki Minaj takes the stance of bashing skinny girls in her hit song, “Anaconda”,whereas artist Meghan Trainor sings about how everyone is perfect in their own way in her song, “All About That Base”.
When overweight people are down on themselves about their weight, they are told “men like something to grab onto!” While having curves is great, having no curves is okay too! Once you become “comfortable with yourself, your life will become easier,” said senior Robin Daniels, but then added, “It’s an easy thing to say, but a hard thing to do.”
Glamour Magazine challenged their readers to go a full day without having a single negative thought about their body. Ninety-seven percent admitted to having at least one body hating moment.
Being confident in your own skin is difficult, and how you express confidence shouldn’t matter. If people are happy with their appearance, no one should be able to take that away from them. “Work with what you have-however much or little you have,” said junior Jack Walsh.
Once people decide, “I like myself and that’s what matters,” a world of possibilities opens up. “Everyone is fab and fierce, no matter what!” said Junior Dylan Genouw.
Fat-shaming is unacceptable and is slowly stopping, but skinny-shaming is increasingly happening as well. No matter what size pants a person wears, it in no way determines their self worth. Learn to love everyone for who they are and not for how they look. If everyone stopped caring so much about how others dress and how much they weigh, the world would be a much better place.
Accepting your own body – thick, skinny, curvy or no curves – loving who you are makes people the happiest. We come in all shapes and sizes and that is the beauty of it all.
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Early Fantasy Football Sleepers
Tyler McDonald
Detroit Lions wide receiver Kenny Golladay (19) pushes Green Bay Packers free safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix (21) during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Rey Del Rio)
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Training camps are to begin soon, which is exciting for football fans, as it means the season is that much closer. With the new season comes the highly-anticipated fantasy football campaign. The best way to get the edge in your league is with “sleepers”. The term ‘sleepers’ are players outside the elite and given superstars, but could be primed for a breakout year. Here are some players to keep in mind as fantasy sleepers:
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QB Derek Carr, Oakland Raiders
Despite a down year, Derek Carr still managed to finish in the top 20 among fantasy quarterbacks. He finished with a career-high in passing yards and had the second-best QBR of his career. This will be his second year under head coach Jon Gruden, who has a track record for mentoring productive quarterbacks in his system.
The biggest addition for the Raiders was in All Pro WR Antonio Brown. The addition of Tyrell Williams will be a solid compliment to Brown, as it gives Carr a true core to work with. Pay attention to Carr on the waiver wire if he’s not drafted in the later rounds.
Image source: JC Ruiz Photography
RB Derrick Henry, Tennessee Titans
Derrick Henry has top-end speed with great size, making him a versatile back to run in between the tackles. The Tennessee Titans addressed the interior of their offensive line in the offseason with the free agent acquisition of Rodger Saffold and by drafting Nate Davis.
Last season, Henry finished as the RB16; finishing 3rd in rushing touchdowns. Last season was also the first time Henry was given a higher volume of carries and saw him eclipse the 1,000-yard mark. Hitting that mark again should be no problem for the coming season, as he should see his workload increase.
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RB Derrius Guice, Washington Redskins
It’s a gamble to claim that Derrius Guice will be productive when we have yet to see him take the field. Just recently, Guice tweaked his hamstring, only adding to his risk. He will likely fall to the later rounds in fantasy drafts, making him a valuable bench asset.
If Guice suits up and plays week one, he will playing behind a rookie quarterback in Dwayne Haskins. The Redskins will rely on their run game, and Guice could see his value increase over time.
WR Kenny Golladay, Detroit Lions
The Detroit Lions had an impressive offseason by improving their defense and adding another weapon on offense in TE T.J. Hockenson. With that, Kenny Golladay is coming into his third season and is ready for a big year in fantasy football.
His receptions and yards more than doubled last season in comparison to the year prior. He finished as the WR21 in 2018 and is only going to get better. He will finish in the top 15 among fantasy wide receivers with top 10 upside.
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WR Mike Williams, Los Angeles Chargers
After only reeling in 11 receptions in his rookie year, Mike Williams managed to haul in 10 touchdowns in just his second year; 5th among wide receivers. Based on his 43 total receptions, that’s roughly a 25% touchdown rate as a WR2.
The Los Angeles Chargers boast one of the most complete offenses in the NFL. It will be difficult to focus on Williams when there are other threats in Keenan Allen and Melvin Gordon to pay attention to.
Image source: Pro Football Focus
TE Evan Engram, New York Giants
With the departure of Odell Beckham Jr, the New York Giants are going to need to find another target to lean on. Evan Engram offers that to this offense. He is one of the better receiving tight ends in the game and should absorb some of the lost targets from Beckham Jr. After Saquon Barkley’s stellar rookie season, defenses will load the box to force Eli Manning to dump the ball. As a result, this opens up the passing game to give Engram more opportunities.
Although Engram saw a dip in production last season, he still finished as the TE12 in fantasy. His average yards per reception saw an increase, which is promising for things to come.
Featured Image: lionswire.usatoday.com
Tyler McDonald is a student at Ringling College of Art and Design, where he is studying and pursuing a degree in film. He began his writing career with The Athletes Hub.
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Garroting Throats and Hailing Satan
Recently pro-choice “keep your laws off my body” protestors in Texas were serious about aborting the unborn.
So much so that putting their hands, in a violent way, on anyone who tried to put laws on their bodies was apparently considered a justifiable form of hand-to-hand combat.
Supporters of Texas state senator Wendy R. Davis, the woman Barack Obama praised for her filibuster of a vote on abortion legislation that aimed to save the lives of fetuses over the gestational age of 20 weeks, threatened Texas representatives, including pro-life Jonathan Stickland and his staff.
The protestors vowed that if the right to destroy babies, agonizing death or not, over the age of 20 weeks was not upheld (btw, it was not), normally peace-loving pro-abortion types would respond with their usual measure of tolerance by seeking out and garroting pro-life throats.
Lest we forget, many abortion advocates are of the Mini Cooper-driving/Coexist/PETA ilk, unless of course the right to scald, slice, or suction the unborn to death meets with opposition. Then all bets are off. If conflict arises, the pick-a-daisy-for-peace/Patchouli incense-burning crowd turns into ‘face pummeling‘ barbarians who openly express heartfelt wishes for innocent women to be raped.
Plus, judging from what went on in Austin, Texas last week, in lieu of a live appearance from Moloch, it appeared that pro-choice advocates were of the mind to take to the streets to exercise their First Amendment right to free speech and religion by drowning out prayers being offered for the preservation of life with chants of “Hail Satan!”
“Hail Satan” or not, in response to that and other unseemly threats, while the proceedings were taking place members of Stickland’s staff were convinced it would be wise to take the necessary measures to ensure personal safety by carrying licensed, concealed handguns.
Wait, what? Handguns? Conceal and carry?
What if the president who tweeted that he ‘stood with Wendy’ for her brave stance on behalf of slaughtering the unborn were to find out about the guns? Isn’t he the guy fully dedicated to the safety of all children? What if toddlers holding up signs saying things like “If I wanted the government in my womb, I’d f— a senator” were accidentally shot by pro-lifers protecting themselves from the minions of hell manifested on the steps of the Texas State Capitol?
Either way, thus far, Barack Obama has been known to personally congratulate friends on their multifaceted love-related accomplishments by phoning up people like sexually promiscuous contraceptive-demander Sandra Fluke, out-of-the-closet NBA dribbler Jason Collins, and geriatric lesbian same-sex marriage activist Edie Windsor.
For those he considers friends, correction is never offered, by telephone or otherwise.
Therefore, although he is usually concerned, first and foremost, about the safety of innocent Americans, for some reason Barack Obama has not felt moved to dial up the rowdy individuals demanding the right to kill babies. Nor has he requested that in the future they represent his radical pro-choice policy stances by comporting themselves as living examples of love, kindness and mutual respect.
And about that shocking invocation of Satan being shouted out by rabid pro-choice activists? Well, we already know that the former community organizer’s favorite author, Saul Alinsky, dedicated Obama’s favorite tome Rules for Radicals to the same entity that the women hailing Satan were giving public honors.
Based on the Alinsky precedence, there’s really no reason for the president to admonish crowds of enthusiastic abortion supporters for participating in what anyone other than him would consider inappropriate prayer and supplication.
Most importantly, because the president has never been shy about inserting himself into state-level politics (think Arizona immigration law), or local news for that matter (think Henry Louis Gates Jr.), the only conclusion one can come to is that Barack Obama is expressing his opinion on Texas’s SB5 with his silence.
Thus, by saying nothing, Obama sent a message that he is of like mind with the grace-confronting group who forced cherubic toddlers to hold up crudely drawn pictures of wire hangers.
Suffice it to say that it’s likely Barack Obama agrees that, henceforth and in perpetuity, whenever the right to execute the innocent is obstructed it would be perfectly acceptable to abandon the peacetime tactic of quietly slaughtering 3,000 babies a day and take up arms against those who want to stop the shedding of innocent blood.
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Home A & E No Spoilers Here: “GoT” Season Six Premiere Review
No Spoilers Here: “GoT” Season Six Premiere Review
Jeremy Levine
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Just kidding. Full spoilers ahead!
Jon Snow remains dead, Doran and Trystane Martell have been murdered by the Sand Snakes, Cersei doesn’t (immediately) flip out after Myrcella’s death, Arya, now blind, is still training with the Faceless Men, Daenerys will be brought to Vaes Dothrak to live out her days, Sansa and Theon escape Winterfell with help from Brienne and Podrick and Melisandre is secretly an old woman. Did I mention spoiler alert?
We are now in the midst of what could be considered the most important annual cultural phenomenon of the past five years: the newest Game of Thrones (GoT) season. Like the white walkers’ possessed corpses, countless legions of fans rose from the death-like purgatory that is life without GoT to watch the first episode of season six, “The Red Woman.”
“The Red Woman” follows the conventions of most GoT premieres; it is not one of the most exciting episodes in the show’s history, spending most of the time resolving cliffhangers from the end of the past season rather than pushing the story in new directions. This is not to say the episode was bad or even mediocre. Despite not being particularly epic in and of itself, the season six premiere built the scaffolding necessary to construct a thrilling season as a whole.
I will break down Game of Thrones’ myriad characters into three broad groups: the ruling families in the three southernmost kingdoms (the Lannisters, Martells and Tyrells), those associated with Daenerys in Meereen and the Dothraki Sea, and the Stark children (mostly scattered across the north, with Arya in Braavos).
Impending war looms over the three southern kingdoms. Myrcella’s poisoning drives Jaime to promise Cersei “everything they’ve taken from us, we’re going to take back and more.” Ellaria Martell and the Sand Snakes assassinated Doran for refusing to wage war on the Lannisters. While the Tyrells are technically allied with the Lannisters, their allegiance remains conditional on good Lannister behavior. Cersei’s backhanded tattling on Sir Loras and Margaery to the High Septon, and their resulting imprisonment in season five, certainly won the Lannisters no favor. Although the Tyrells’ position is unsure, war certainly seems inevitable between the Lannisters and Martells.
Daenerys’ future lies in the hands of a Dothraki Horde across the Narrow Sea. Ser Jorah and Daario Naharis pursue her diligently. Tyrion and Varys preside over the unruly city of Meereen with the help of Grey Worm and Missandei. Of the three groups I mentioned, “The Red Woman” reveals the least about the futures of Daenerys and company. The only truly new information is that Daenerys will be taken to Vaes Dothrak. However, hearing Tyrion discuss ruling — with Varys’ “little birds” feeding him information — can make any fan’s hair stand on end; his clever competence is refreshing after Daenerys’ struggles with the city.
Unlike Tyrion’s several rises and falls from grace, there has been very little fortune for the dwindling Stark family throughout Game of Thrones. “The Red Woman” provides the Starks some much-needed relief. Sansa and Theon escape Winterfell and Ramsay Bolton’s hunters, finally uniting with Brienne and Podrick. A faceless man (she had the face of a woman, so shouldn’t George R. R. Martin call them faceless people?) challenges Arya to fight with sticks as Arya sits blindly begging. The faceless man beats Arya severely but leaves saying, “See you tomorrow;” Arya’s training has not been totally abandoned. Bran and Rickon remain MIA, probably pushing farther north.
While Rickon’s relevance (past, present and future) in HBO’s saga is hard to discern, Bran and Arya’s supernatural training will certainly make them powerful, extremely viable players later in the series, perhaps even within this season. Their extraordinary trials at such young ages (in the TV show Arya is 12, Bran is 10), their natural predisposition to magical abilities, their Stark heritage and the simple fact that they have survived this long implies that they will play integral roles. When the newly empowered Stark children discover that some of their brethren still live — considering that they are totally unaware of this now — watching them reunite and join forces may be breathtaking.
And now, full circle, we return to the implausibly dead Stark child: Jon Snow. It cannot be permanent. A group of loyal Nights Watch men, under Ser Davos, took and protect his body, we have seen people raised from the dead in GoT before, and Melisandre sees Jon Snow fighting in the flames. The episode’s conclusion reaffirms that Melisandre possesses at least some magic, even after her missteps with Stannis. We have seen the Red Priest of Thoros raise men from the dead before. Resurrection exacted a heavy toll on the priest, but what more does Melisandre have to live for? The removal of her brooch, rapid aging and melancholy expression were the acts and appearance of one who has lost faith.
Let HBO’s classic plot twist serve to remind fans that things are rarely as they appear in George R. R. Martin’s universe. Look forward to a season of shocks and surprises about characters we thought we knew. My prediction: Sansa wins it all in the end (minus most/all of her family).
I can’t explain why I think Sansa will win it all because it’s my secret theory.
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Twitter looks at crashing Microsofts TikTok party
Over the weekend it was reported that social media firm Twitter has held initial talks about a possible deal to acquire TikTok’s US operation, something that Microsoft has spent weeks negotiating — both with TikTok parent ByteDance and the White House. With a market cap 50 times the size of Twitter’s, Microsoft has much deeper pockets and is still very much the front runner. TikTok’s US operations could end up being valued at more than Twitter itself, raising financing concerns, but The Wall Street Journal noted that the firm’s smaller size would mean it would face less antitrust scrutiny. Twitter’s share price is up 15.6% and pre-pandemic, the firm had been delivering a regular profit, although it slumped to a billion dollar plus loss in the three months to the end of June.
Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella has already discussed a potential deal with President Trump, who has set a deadline of 15 September for TikTok to end its US operations unless it is acquired by “a big company, a secure company, a very American company.”
European markets are up this morning as Chinese industrial data came in better than expected overnight showing some encouraging signs that recovery could be on its way back to pre-pandemic levels. Leading the way is the commodities-heavy FTSE100 buoyed by oil giants BP and Royal Dutch Shell after Saudi Aramco made upbeat comments about a rise in energy demand from Asia.
Earnings season is going better than anticipated
The three major US stock indices continued pushing higher last week, with the S&P 500 now within 1% of its record high and the Nasdaq over 11,000 points for the first time in history. US stocks had a muted end to the week, however, as the monthly government jobs report showed the economy added 1.8 million jobs in July, below the number added in both June and May. Based on the companies that have reported so far, Q2 earnings season has gone better than anticipated. FactSet analysts had projected an earnings decline of 44%, but have revised that to 34%.
It was the Dow Jones Industrial Average that led the way last week, adding 3.8% to take it within 4% of where it started the year. The Walt Disney Company and Boeing were two of the week’s biggest winners, adding 11.1% and 7.6% respectively. The Nasdaq Composite’s gains were tempered on Friday, as it fell 0.9% while both the Dow and S&P 500 eked out positive days. Illumina was the day’s biggest loser, as the $52bn market cap biotech company closed the day 10.9% down after missing earnings expectations and reporting that many of its customers’ operations remain closed due to the pandemic.
S&P 500: 0.1% Friday, 3.7% YTD ( 2.5% last week)
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 0.2% Friday, -3.9% YTD ( 3.8% last week)
Nasdaq Composite: -0.9% Friday, 22.7% YTD ( 2.5% last week)
BoE forecast less severe than expected Covid impact
In the UK, both major stock indices made substantial gains last week, with the more internationally focused FTSE 100 up 2.3% and the FTSE 250 up 4.1%. On Thursday, the Bank of England forecast that the UK economy will contract by 9.5% this year, below the 14% it had projected in May, although it predicted the recovery will be slow. This resulted in GBP strengthening and actually slowed down the gains of the foreign-earning FTSE 100 in comparison to its more domestic mid cap counterpart.
In the FTSE 100, online real estate service Rightmove, turnaround specialist Melrose Industries and Hikma Pharmaceuticals were the week’s biggest winners, with all posting double digit gains. At the bottom end, Diageo fell the furthest, sinking 10.2% after reporting that its profits and sales have plunged during the pandemic. The company also held firm on its dividend payment, at a time when many other companies have been cutting back on payments to shareholders.
In the FTSE 250, gambling firm William Hill enjoyed the best week, adding almost 30% to its market cap, while insurer Hastings Group and retailer Pets At Home also made 20% plus gains. Shopping center operator Hammerson suffered a particularly rough week, falling by more than 20% after reports that it is in talks to raise cash, including selling off a division, as tenants continue to withhold rent.
FTSE 100: 0.1% Friday, -20% YTD ( 2.3% last week)
FTSE 250: 0.8% Friday, -19.5% YTD ( 4.1% last week)
Barrick Gold: While the price of gold has soared from $1,500 an ounce at the start of the year to more than $2,000 now, many gold miners have ridden that wave to even greater heights, as the higher price greatly expands the profit margins they are able to generate. Barrick Gold, a $51bn market cap New York-listed miner, has added more than 55% to its share price in 2020. The firm reports earnings today, where the impact of the pandemic on production is likely to be one focus of analysts. Currently, 12 Wall Street analysts rate the stock as a buy or overweight, seven as a hold and one as an underweight.
Marriott International: Hotel giant Marriott has been directly in the pandemic firing line, with both business and pleasure travel at a near standstill worldwide. The company’s share price is down 38.1% year-to-date, although it mounted something of a comeback last week, rallying 11.9%. Recovery in booking numbers in markets where economic reopenings are more advanced — such as Asia — and plans for handling the surging US case numbers, are likely to be key parts of the firm’s earnings call today. Wall Street analysts overwhelmingly favour a hold rating on the stock.
Tencent Music: Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) group is a New York-listed music streaming company that was formed as a joint venture between Tencent and Spotify. The firm has hundreds of millions of active users in the Chinese market, including 120 million paying subscribers. As with many other streaming services, the pandemic has helped boost TME stock, which has added 36.5% in 2020. The company is aiming to convert more of its listeners into paying subscribers, by putting some releases behind a paywall, which it says has yielded encouraging results. TME reports its latest quarterly earnings this morning.
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One pandemic impact that is likely to continue is the weakening of the US dollar. Economic downturn, trillions of dollars of government spending and near-zero interest rates are all combining to put pressure on the world’s main reserve currency. A weaker dollar has several potential effects on investors. American firms that do business abroad benefit from a favorable translation of overseas earnings into US dollars, so firms that are well diversified globally tend to do comparatively well. On the flip side, a weaker dollar makes imported goods more expensive for American consumers — which, among other things, affects retailers’ margins. Gold has also rallied over the past month while the dollar’s value has fallen.
Another asset class that traditionally does well when the dollar is weaker and US interest rates are low is emerging markets, as it makes the higher bond yields and growth potential that those markets offer more attractive compared to the US market. Whether that will be the case this time, given the devastation the pandemic has unleashed upon many emerging markets, remains to be seen.
Crypto corner: New York approves 10 cryptoassets for sale and trading
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The regulator approved Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Litecoin (LTC), Binance USD (BUSD), Gemini Dollar (GUSD), Pax Gold (PAXG), and the Paxos Standard Token (PAX) for sale and trade. It also greenlit the same coins for custody as well as XRP and Ethereum Classic (ETC).
The news means any entity based in New York state may now conduct its business in the aforementioned cryptoassets for their approved purposes. However, any company wishing to use the cryptoasset must inform the NYSDFS first. It also has the authority to remove any of the tokens from its list at any time.
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Star Trek Adventures Goes Beyond the Final Frontier
I am a big Star Trek fan, and have been for most of my life. I watched the TV shows, watched the movies, played the video games, and read the books. One of my favorite Christmas gifts was a stuffed tribble that I still have. The one thing missing from my nerdy collection of Star Trek gear was a tabletop RPG. I knew that one existed, made by Last Unicorn Games, but by the time I started getting interested in tabletop games, that game was already difficult to find. Even if I had been able to find it, that specific game also had a reputation of being nigh unplayable. I was still willing to give it a shot anyway until two years ago. That’s when I saw a pre-order for the new Star Trek Adventures game by Modiphius Entertainment go up.
I fell in love with the game, sight unseen. Not only did it seem like exactly what I was looking for, the special five hundred dollar collector’s edition came in a giant Borg cube box. Clearly, these people knew who they were marketing to. I kept my sanity and did not buy the Borg cube special edition, but I did buy the PDFs eventually, and started running a game. And while it didn’t meet my initial wild hopes for the game, it’s more than adequate as a Star Trek game and a very good game on it’s own.
Even just looking at a picture of it, I want it.
At its most basic, the mechanics of Star Trek Adventures is a dice pool system. Before each challenge, the GM (game master) decides which combination of Attributes (Control, Daring, Presence, Fitness, Insight, or Reason) and Discipline (Command, Conn, Security, Engineering, Science, or Medicine) you have to roll and the difficulty of the task. To succeed, you must roll d20s (twenty sided dice) under your Attribute+Discipline and have more or equal successes to the difficulty. For example, let’s say you are trying to fly a shuttle through an asteroid belt. The GM says that would require a Control+Conn roll at a difficulty of 1. Looking at your stats, you see that your Control 10, and your Conn is four. Added together, that is 14. You would roll two twenty sided dice, trying to get at least one roll under 14.
Now, there will be times where the difficulty is higher than the number of dice you roll to start with. The difficulty might be four, and you only ever start by rolling two d20s. Fortunately, there are multiple ways to increase the number of dice you can use and the number of successes you can get. One of the first things you can do is have specific Focus. Focuses represent fields where your character has studied or has an edge in a certain skill, and they make it so that whenever you roll under your Discipline, you get two successes. Going back to our previous example, if your character had the Focus of Small Craft, they would get a bonus to their successes if they were flying a shuttle and rolled under their Conn score of four.
Another way you help improve your odds is by buying more dice using Momentum. Momentum is a pool shared between all the players and allows them to buy more dice, re-roll dice, and create situations more favorable to the players. There are a limited number of ways to refill the Momentum pool, and not all of them will always be available. One option that is always open to players though is giving the GM Threat. Threat acts as a Momentum pool for the NPCs, allowing the GM to ramp up certain challenges, or create difficulties where none existed before.
This push and pull between the Momentum and Threat pools can create very interesting situations, as the players sometimes have to budget their Momentum for maximum effectiveness. The GM meanwhile can always make the situation more perilous as long as he has Threat. These pools help really nail the sort of rising tension that you get in episodes of Star Trek.
Another element that the game takes from the TV show and brings into the playing experience is the idea of the extended task. In Star Trek they are always racing to fix the engines, discover a cure for a disease, remove mines from the hull of the ship, etc. Extended tasks are also a good way to help keep the entire crew on their toes. Thanks to the omnipresent communicator, there is no real danger in splitting the party and having them all attempt different tasks at the same time. Extended tasks help put everyone on a time limit and keep the game going.
Of course, none of this really matters a great deal if you don’t have a ship to travel the galaxy in. Fortunately, Star Trek Adventures has that covered as well. To build a ship, first the party must select a base frame. These can range from the well known like the Galaxy class or the Constitution class, to the more obscure like the Akira class. After selecting a frame, the players can then choose a mission profile for their ship, as well as different refits and talents for their ship. This allows for a good variety of customization and lets players really feel like this this their ship and not one taken from a movie or television show.
As I’ve hinted at in the previous section, one of the best things about this game is how much attention it pays to making the experience seem like Star Trek. Even the book itself has the LCARS computer aesthetic from The Next Generation. Once you get into the rules, you’ll see that all the examples come from specific episodes of Star Trek. I went back and checked a few times and could even find the exact scene that they were referencing. Small details like that add to the immersion aspect of the game.
Another way the game adds to the immersion is in its character and stat generation. The primary method of character generation is through the Lifepath system, which allows players to pick their species, home planet, relationship with parents, and the general arc of their Starfleet career. This allows characters to have very natural and believable backstories, and the stats generated are very well rounded. In Star Trek Adventures, characters need to be well rounded, as they never know what sort of roll the GM may call on them to make.
Another trait that sets this game apart from others for the better is the ability to switch the attributes you use during your roll. To do so, all you need to do is tell the GM what attribute and discipline combination you want to use, and why it would apply to this situation. If the GM approves, you can make the roll. Going by our previous example, you could use the Control+Conn roll. However, if your Daring is higher than your Control, you could ask the GM if you could fly the ship manually. If they agree, you now have a much better roll chance. Very few RPGs allow you to change what dice you get to roll on the fly like that.
Now, perhaps your character gets injured or has to remain on board the ship because they need to perform some task. Not to worry, as one of the other great things about this game is the ‘supporting characters’. Supporting characters bridge the gap between non-playable character and full PC. They have their own stats and fill roles that the PCs can’t quite handle. Supporting characters can also level up, increasing their abilities, and turning them from (in Star Trek terms) red shirts to mauve shirts. In some cases they could even become full fledged characters of their own. This gives the player the ability to always be doing something in game rather than sitting around and waiting.
As much as there is to praise about this game, there are several flaws in it. The most obvious flaw is what attracted me to the game in the first place: the incredibly strong connections to Star Trek. While other Trekkies like me will understand the book quickly, people unfamiliar with the setting will be scratching their heads. This becomes particularly evident in a few of the pre-published adventures, where some plot elements and characters that I consider common knowledge were in fact obscure trivia to most non-fans of the franchise. I had to stop and explain to some players what certain things were or how certain concepts worked. The rulebook itself didn’t help, as it assumed the reader would already know what a self-sealing stem bolt was.
Furthermore, even looking for those concepts in the core rulebook is at times a herculean task. There are rules for mechanics, but the explanation of what those mechanics do or how they impact gameplay doesn’t come till over a hundred pages later. The biggest example of this occurs when Extended tasks are first mentioned on page 91, but their full explanation and breakdown aren’t covered until you reach the GM section, on page 282. In addition to having rules scattered across the book, the first three chapters are just lore and world building. The history of the Federation, Starfleet’s goals, the history of Starfleet…it goes on like that for over seventy pages. I’m no stranger to RPGs frontloading their lore but generally speaking, you want to have at least a basic explanation of how character creation works and what the basic dice roll is within the first thirty pages.
Perhaps the game’s worst example of confusing rules and too much fluff is the section on ‘social combat’. The social combat section comes before the the rules on actual combat and is about five pages long. These pages describe the different actions you can take in ‘social combat’ and what the results of them might be. However, there is no description of how the social combat actually works mechanically. Reading through a second and third time, I realized that there actually weren’t any rules for ‘social combat’. It is five pages of disguised fluff. Good fluff, but fluff nonetheless. The fact that it takes two or three re-reads to realize this is not a point in this game’s favor.
In spite of the confusing rules and poorly organized books, Star Trek Adventures is still worth playing. Once you get past the initial hurdle, it’s quite a fun game. The Momentum and Threat pools are fun mechanics to use and play with. The Lifepath system is one of the most fun character creators I’ve used in a while, and the supporting characters make sure that no one is ever bored during game play. But most of all, Star Trek Adventures is a good licensed Star Trek game. Modiphius Entertainment continues to support the game with more books and a ‘living campaign’ that promises to keep updating. All in all, I highly recommend this game to anyone who wants to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Images Courtesy of Modiphius Entertainment
David is a dental hygienist by day, gamer by night. He enjoys making character sheets when bored, and re-reading the same book for the twentieth time.
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Delta Sky Club Access Price Increases as Much as 56 Percent For Guests as of January 30, 2020 — Plus…
Citing continued ongoing investments in order to provide an elevated experience for members, Delta Air Lines has announced that the cost to access Delta Sky Club airport lounges will increase for guests from $29.00 to $39.00 per visit effective as of Thursday, January 30, 2020 — which translates to an increase of almost 34.5 percent…
…but if SkyMiles are instead used for the payment of a guest to have access to a Delta Sky Club for one visit, the redemption rate will increase from 2,500 SkyMiles to 3,900 SkyMiles — which is an increase of 56 percent.
Also effective on the same date is that Delta Sky Club access will no longer be available on the Gold Delta SkyMiles credit card and Gold Delta SkyMiles Business credit card.
Although the aforementioned rate increase for guests to access Delta Sky Clubs per visit applies to the Platinum Delta SkyMiles credit card and Platinum Delta SkyMiles Business credit card:
Delta Sky Club Executive Members — including Lifetime Members — will continue to be able to bring up to two traveling companions or a spouse or partner and children younger than 21 years of age, complimentary; plus two additional guests at the specified per-visit rate. This policy applies to guests of existing Delta Sky Club Lifetime Members, as Lifetime Memberships are no longer available for purchase
Delta Sky Club Individual Members will continue to be able to bring up to two traveling companions or a spouse or domestic partner and children younger than 21 years of age at the specified per-visit rate.
Past Membership Rate Increases
Membership rates for annual access to Delta Sky Clubs increased effective as of Tuesday, January 1, 2019, with passes for single visits no longer to be available effective as of Thursday, November 15, 2018.
In this article which I wrote back in November of 2016, the following membership options — payment plans of 12 monthly installments requires a one-year contract and initiation fee — included unlimited access to 251 Delta Sky Clubs and partner lounges amidst a price increase which became effective in 2017; and the rates for 2019 are highlighted in dark red type:
Executive Membership You can guest up to a maximum of two people per visit at no additional charge — which is your best option if frequent guest access is important to you. The rate for one year is:
2016: $695.00, 110,000 SkyMiles or $59.99 per month
2017: $745.00 or 70,000 SkyMiles or $65.00 per month
2019: $845.00 or 84,500 SkyMiles — which is an increase of $100.00 or 14,500 SkyMiles per year — or $75.00 per month, as specific monthly rates have not yet been announced
Individual Membership You can guest up to a maximum of two people per visit at the rate of $29.00 per person per visit — which is your best option if you typically travel alone and rarely need guest access. The rate for one year is:
2016: $450.00, 70,000 SkyMiles or $39.99 per month
2019: $545.00 or 54,500 SkyMiles — which is an increase of $50.00 or 7,500 SkyMiles per year — or likely $50.00 per month, as specific monthly rates have not yet been announced
More Restrictive Changes in Policies to Access Sky Clubs
As I wrote in this article on Friday, October 21, 2018, customers must be flying as a passenger on an airplane operated by Delta Air Lines or its partners in order to gain access to Delta Sky Club airport lounges. Partner airlines include airlines which are members of the SkyTeam alliance, Virgin Australia, Virgin Atlantic, Gol and WestJet. The access policy varies based on the way you and your guests access Delta Sky Clubs, as detailed below:
Delta Sky Club Individual or Executive Members
Members and their guests may only gain access to the Club in conjunction with same-day ticketed air travel on Delta or its partner airlines.
Delta Sky Club Members will no longer have access to Air France, KLM Crown or Virgin Australia partner lounges.
Delta Reserve Credit Card Members from American Express
Card Members will continue to have complimentary access when traveling on a Delta flight or a Delta-marketed and Delta–ticketed flight operated by WestJet.
Card Members traveling on other partner airlines can access the Club for an exclusive per-visit rate of $29 per visit.
Card Members can bring up to 2 guests for an exclusive per-visit rate of $29 per person, provided the Card Member and their guests are traveling on a Delta or partner airline.
Platinum and Gold Delta SkyMiles Credit Card Members from American Express
Card Members and up to two of their guests must be traveling on a Delta flight to access the Club for an exclusive per-visit $29 rate, per person.
Platinum and Centurion Card Members from American Express
Card Members can bring up to 2 guests for an exclusive per-visit rate of $29 per person, provided their guests are traveling on a Delta flight.
Diamond, Platinum and Gold Medallion Members have SkyTeam Elite Plus Status and will continue to receive complimentary access to partner lounges when traveling on a SkyTeam international flight or a SkyTeam domestic flight connecting to or from a same-day international flight.
Delta One passengers will continue to have access to international lounges upon their departure or connecting flight.
Learn more about access and guest policies.
Not much notice seems to have been given for the latest price increase for guests to access Delta Sky Clubs.
A reader of The Gate was so outraged about the news pertaining to the changes to the more restrictive access policies of the network of Sky Club airport lounges that he sent to me an e-mail message to please call to your attention to them; so I can only imagine how much angrier he must be after reading about the increase in prices for membership to Delta Sky Clubs — especially as rates had already increased effective as of Sunday, January 1, 2017, which is only two years ago…
…but he will get no sympathy from competitors, as American Airlines announced similar policy changes to its Admirals Club airport lounges, through which both rates will increase and access will be more restrictive. United Airlines also announced that access to its United Club airport lounges will be more restrictive as well. Even though this latest news from Delta Air Lines comes as absolutely no surprise, I have to admit that I must have been asleep while earning my Master of Business Administration degree during the class which apparently teaches that a company must exactly follow the lead of its competitors in order for it to be successful. After all, why bother taking the time to come up with anything original on your own?!?
I offered my reasons in this article which I wrote on Monday, October 19, 2015 as to why I personally would not pay $59.00 for a one-time visit to a Delta Sky Club — but that is just my opinion, and that is no longer an option as of today…
…but then again, the Delta Sky Club at Concourse B at the international airport which serves the greater Atlanta metropolitan area is certainly very nice; and you can see 70 photographs of it at its grand opening in this article I wrote on Thursday, September 22, 2016.
Although these policies will adversely affect many people, some will welcome the aforementioned changes, as they see them euphemistically as ways of the reduction of crowds in Admirals Clubs. This comment which was written by Donald Osborne — who is a reader of The Gate — pertaining to the more restrictive change to access to Delta Sky Clubs is one example of that mindset: “I’m good with that. A dramatic reduction in the crowds in the Sky Club is much more important to me than the one or two times a year I might visit a Delta lounge when flying another airline. Delta is smart in this policy. They know that the most loyal flyers will like it and those who fly frequently fly non-Sky Team airlines but use the lounges anyway won’t. There’s no real incentive to make them happy so I get it.”
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2 thoughts on “Delta Sky Club Access Price Increases as Much as 56 Percent For Guests as of January 30, 2020 — Plus…”
r m a h says:
if you have a delta one ticket, domestic or int’l, does it get you access to the sky clubs at departure airport, arrival airport, both, or neither? thanks!
I know that a Delta One ticket for either domestic or international flights grants complimentary access to a Sky Club prior to the qualifying flight at the departure airport, r m a h; but I do not know whether access is granted after the flight at an arrival airport:
https://www.delta.com/us/en/delta-sky-club/access
I can try to find out specifically for you…
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Koalas Are Picked Up In A Car Packed From Teens
Unfortunately, ghastly bushfires keep on spreading crosswise over Australia, leaving a large portion of a billion creatures dead and pulverizing everything in its way.
Fortunately, there are numerous mind boggling individuals out there who are taking a chance with their lives to spare however many creatures as would be prudent, including these youngsters who set out to spare the helpless koalas who were in most need of assistance.
The video underneath shows a vehicle stacked up with koalas following 19-year-old Micah and 18-year-old Caleb saved the best number of as they could on Kangaroo Island and conveyed them to security.
The pair have quite recently made sense of how to spare very nearly 20 koalas, including six transients and two mothers who were with their infants.
The adolescents have shockingly observed fire-hand exactly how terrible the harm as of now is. They said that 60 percent of the koalas they saw have effectively consumed to death. The teenagers are finding support with their consideration and plan to discharge them over into the wild once the flames have ended.
Unfortunately, half of Kangaroo Island is thought to have been pulverized by the flames, and an expected 20,000 koalas have as of now passed on.The video beneath shows a vehicle loaded up with koalas following 19-year-old Micah and 18-year-old Caleb spared the greatest number of as they could on Kangaroo Island and carried them to security.
The pair have just figured out how to save almost 20 koalas, including six vagrants and two moms who were with their infants.The teens have unfortunately seen fire-hand just how awful the damage already is.
They said that 60 percent of the koalas they saw have already burned to death. The teens are getting help with their care and plan to release them back into the wild once the fires have ended.Unfortunately, half of Kangaroo Island is thought to have been destroyed by the fires, and an estimated 20,000 koalas have already died. The video was originally posted to Reddit with the caption: “Amid the terrible bushfires in Australia, my cousins went out and saved as many koalas as they could. Good on ’em.”
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AD1 Global Purchases Another Hotel Near Disney Orlando
Hollywood, FL, September 20, 2017 –(PR.com)– AD1 Global, a hotel investment, acquisition and development company announced today the purchase of the Quality Inn Royale Parc Suites Orlando by Choice Hotels, located at 5876 W. Irlo Bronson Hwy in Kissimmee, Florida.
"This investment presented a unique opportunity to acquire another hotel in a fantastic location,” said Daniel Berman, AD1 Global President. “The property has many of the attributes that appeals to the demand-drivers’ specific to this market.”
Orlando welcomed 68 million visitors in 2016, which was a record, and Florida governor Rick Scott recently announced that the state was on track to break all previous visitor records in 2017.
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The e-money license granted to Ripple’s partner by the Central Bank of the Netherlands will allow the payment platform to continue working across the EU regardless of how Brexit may change the remittance market in Europe after the current negotiations between officials of the UK and EU.
Overall, this is part of the company's strategy to expand from its Amsterdam office and bring onboard more financial institutions in Europe as customers.
The company aims to provide solutions with faster and more transparent payments to European banks and other financial institutions that take part in funds transferring across Europe.
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A study of ants provides information on the evolution of social insects
One of the great puzzles of evolutional biology is what induced certain living creatures to abandon solitary existence in favor of living in collaborative societies, as seen in the case of ants and other social, colony-forming insects. A major characteristic of so-called eusocial species is the division of labor between queens that lay eggs and workers that take care of the brood and perform other tasks. But what is it that determines that a queen should lay eggs and that workers shouldn’t reproduce? And how did this distinction come about during the course of evolution? Evolutionary biologist Dr. Romain Libbrecht has been considering these problems over the past years and in cooperation with researchers at Rockefeller University in New York City has found a completely unexpected answer: one single gene called insulin-like peptide 2 (ILP2), which is probably activated by better nutrition, stimulates the ovaries and triggers reproduction.
“It may seem almost inconceivable that just one single gene should make all the difference,” Libbrecht pointed out. The researchers drew their conclusion from a comparison of 5,581 genes in seven ant species in four different subfamilies that differ from each other with regard to numerous characteristics. But in one thing are they all alike: there is always a greater expression of ILP2 in the brain of reproductive insects. Queens thus have higher levels than workers. A further finding indicates that this peptide is found only in the brain, where it is produced in a small cluster of just 12 to 15 cells.
Division of reproduction and brood care as the basis of social colony formation
It is postulated that the origins of social behavior in insects are to be found in wasp-like ancestors that alternated between reproduction and brood care phases. A female wasp would lay an egg and take care of the larva until it pupated. However, these two phases were separated and their associated duties assigned to different individuals, namely queens and workers, during the evolution of eusociality.
Libbrecht and his colleagues in New York City investigated the ant species Ooceraea biroi to determine the molecular mechanisms underlying this division of labor. O. biroi is a small species of 2 to 3 millimeters in length that originated from Asia but has spread throughout the tropics. The insects live in underground passages, attack the nests of other ant species, and feed on their brood. The unusual thing about the O. biroi species is that there are no queens, only female workers. However, every female worker can reproduce through parthenogenesis. This means that a female produces another identical female — the insects in effect clone themselves. And they always follow a specific cycle: all female workers lay eggs during an 18-day period, after which they spend 16 days gathering food and feeding the larvae. The cycle then begins once again.
This cyclical behavior is comparable to that of the solitary wasp-like ancestors and is controlled by the presence of larvae. When the first larvae hatch at the end of the reproductive phase, their presence suppresses ovarian activity and triggers brood care behavior. When the larvae begin pupation at the end of the brood care phase, ovarian activity is scaled up and foraging scaled back. “What we did was break this cycle,” explained Libbrecht. The researchers synthesized the peptide ILP2 and injected it into the ants. This caused the ants to lay eggs in the presence of larvae.
Libbrecht used a brood substitution approach to investigate what happens when larvae are introduced into the colony during the reproductive phase and, conversely, when they are removed during the brood care phase. “What we see is that gene expression in the brain changes in both phases and the ants change their behavior and physiology accordingly. This response, however, happens at a faster rate if we confront egg-laying ants with larvae.” The insects then stop laying eggs and start to care for the brood. “This does make sense. It is, after all, important for survival to quickly start feeding the larvae,” he added. This experiment also revealed that the expression of ILP2 in the brain changed quickly and significantly in response to the change in social conditions.
From asymmetry in nutrition to asymmetry in reproduction
The researchers also considered the relevance of nutrition, which is known to be of importance when it comes to the differentiation between queens and workers. A large quantity or a good quality of nutritional protein favors the development of female larvae into queens. In colonies of the species O. biroi, a small proportion of the ants are so-called intercastes. These insects are slightly bigger, have eyes, and are more reproductive. Because of this, they can be compared to some extent with normal queens. The probability of a larva becoming an intercaste increases if it receives better nourishment. Fluorescence imaging shows that these intercastes have more ILP2 in their brains than normal workers.
“Something comparable may well have taken place in the case of the ancestors of eusocial insects,” Dr. Romain Libbrecht suggested. “Perhaps a minor asymmetry with regard to nutrition of larvae led to asymmetry in the reproductive behavior of adults developing from those larvae.” The assumption that the division into queens and workers might therefore have commenced with one single difference is supported by experiments conducted in a total of seven different ant species.
Further research is to be undertaken to determine whether the findings also apply to other social insects and how ant colonies as superorganisms control the overall supply of nutrition.
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Books > History > Architecture > Origins of the Urban Development of Pondicherry According to Seventeenth Century Dutch Plans
Origins of the Urban Development of Pondicherry According to Seventeenth Century Dutch Plans
by Jean Deloche
The modern plan of Pondicherry shows a large town in gridiron plan which obviously was extended to its present form through controlled urban development.
Some Indian scholars consider that the town was built according to the principles of the ancient Hindu treatises of architecture, particularly the Silpa Sastra. French historians, on the other hand, feel that the plan should be considered as an achievement of << the French mind >>. In fact, the Dutch plans of Pondicherry dated 1693-1694, preserved at the National Archives at The Hague, show that the orthogonal street pattern of the town is a creation of the Dutch.
The Plans of 1693 show that, in Francois Martin's settlement, the streets or lanes were following an irregular pattern, without any shape or symmetry, whereas, in the plans drafted in 1694, during the Dutch occupation, one finds the design of a large new town, with a very regular geometric layout, rectangular blocks of houses, separated by Straight streets, intersecting at right angles. This great urban project of the Dutch Company was adopted by the French who systematically carried out the extensive straightening out of streets into a planned grid, during the first half of the 18th century.
To which structure does the geometry of the local settlement correspond? Who is at the origin of this settlement layout? To whom goes the credit for the extension of this orthogonal street pattern with large rectangular building block and its strict enforcement to bring about this unique urban character of today's Poncherry?
The answers given to this question by most historians do not take into account the contribution of the Dutch sources, particularly the plans of Pondicherry dating from the end of the seventeenth century (1693-1694), preserved in the National Archives at The Hague, The Netherlands (collection Leupe, code VEL), which throw considerable light on the original of the urban development of this place and deserve a thorough analysis.
These documents may be classified into two categories. The first ones concern the French trading post they occupied in 1693. The second ones relate to large scale design they had for the new development of the town.
In the first division we find four sets of cartographic documents (with detailed legends).
In VEL 1094, are 3 plans:
One, entitled The district of Podecheri, is a kind of diagram showing the different settlements of the territory;
The other two, The fortress Podecheri and The siege of Podecheri, indicate, on the one hand, the coastal strip where the two stands, on the other jhand, the fort and the main buildings erected by the French.
In VEL 095, we find another plan, The siege of the city and the fortress Podechery, 1693, giving a very detailed representation of the town at the time of the siege and showing all the different constructions, gardens, fields, and especially the streetwise distribution of the local castes and craftsmen.
In VEL 1096, is a rough situation-plan of the settlement made after a report by local spies (two topas), with drawings of the main buildings and gardens, entitled Situation of the village of Podechery and the French fortress.
Finally, in VEL 1099, Plan of the fortress Poedechery without the outer works, as it was at the time of the conquest, 30th November 1694, we get a unique plan of the fort, showing the constructions erected by Francois Martin, with all the structures separated by partitions, from the Director's residence to small storerooms and toilets.
These different plans, showing the topographical substratum and the natural features of the surroundings, give us much new information on the French settlement in Francois Martin's time which is not found in French sources and is invaluable.
In the second class of documents are represented the designs made by the Dutch Company for the development of the town, measured and mapped on 20th November 1694 by Jacob Verbergmoes:
VEL 1098, Plan of the fortress and town Poedechery as it is currently being built (with instructions on how to renovate the place), shows the detailed new settlement layout of the town. It is a dichotomous spatial organisation (on the one hand, the fort and surroundings, on the other hand, the Indian establishment), considering the river as the backbone of the new urban area, and using the orthogonal street pattern with rectangular building blocks.
And VEL 1097, Plan of the fortress and town Poedechery with the surrounding villages and rivers, is a large plan which delineates the territory acquired by the Dutch from Raja Ram, the Maratha ruler of Senji, and includes the town "currently being built", a reproduction, on a smaller scale, of VEL 1098.
A Scientific Representation of the Town
All these plans appear to have been made with care and a relative accuracy, especially the last two which have been drawn on a scale of 100 Rhenish rods (1 Rhenish rod =3,76 m), but if we want make a rigorous study of the different elements found in them, particularly of the components of the old town, we have to locate them on a modern plan and produce a scientific representation of these land surveys. Now, since the surveyors of the seventeenth century could not determine precisely the alignments, even if they made correct measurements (the layout of the streets could only be approximate), we need reliable landmarks in order to superimpose the old plans on modern ones.
For the eastern part of the place (the so called Ville blanche), thanks to the works by Jouveau-Dubreuil who several plans preserved in the Archives des Colonies (Paris) and compared them with modern plans, and who, moreover, made excavations at the entrance of the 1750 fort (which originally surrounded Francois Martin's barlong), we know the exact location of many constructions of this period. Using these data, Friar Faucheux made a large plan of the fort area.
This document will be used here as a basis for the drawings and, since the dimensions of Francois Martin's fort did not change until it was demolished, we well make the Dutch representations of the fort coincide with the one given by Friar Faucheux in his plan. This will allow us to find the correct alignments of the streets and the building blocks of the Ville blanche.
For the rest of the town, to the west of the lowland and north of the Uppar river, Friar Faucheux gives only a few distinguishing landscape features, which can be found in the summary plans prepared by him for M.V. Labernadie's book on Le vieux Pondichery. We will again follow these landmarks, particularly the properties owned since the end of the seventeenth century by the religious communities (Jesuits, Capuchins). Thus we will be able to give a correct representation of the Pondicherry in the days of the Dutch.
With these solid points of reference we can start analysis of the plans, after giving a short presentation of the physical setting and an outline of the origins of the settlement.
(It should be notedthat, in the original plans, the various features of the settlement are distinguished by different numbers corresponding to identical numbers in long keys or legends outside the drawings, listing and explaining each conspicuous object. To be perfectly clear, in our presentation of the same documents, we have reproduced these captions these captions (in a simplified form) on the plan itself, opposite each landmark. Sometimes the surveyors have noted down the French names of some of these features in the legends; they are written in italics in our text. Lastly, in our figures, the details given on the military constructions made the siege of the town, such as batteries, soldiers' encampments, observatories, etc, have note been included, since they have no relevance in our study).
Physical Setting
All along the East coast of India, an extensive sandy barrier occurs, backed by a more or less continuous line of tidal lagoons or creeks surrounded by marshy tracts or swamps. In Pondicherry, it stretches out even across the two tributaries of the deltaic Senji River (Ariankuppam and Chunambar rivers), forming lagoons parallel to the shore, especially at the mouth of the former, where there is the largest area of shallow water, surrounding an island named Tengattittu.
To the north of this delta, behind the sand dunes of the shore, there was a belt of grassy and swampy lowlands, a succession of marshes fed by small streams, alternating with cultivated upland. It is near the mouth of the main brook called Uppar, which flows into the Ariankuppam lagoon, that the town originated.
In this area, the natural conditions for a human settlement varied from east to west.
First, these were the sand dunes along the shore, on a higher level and facing the sea, forming a healthy environment which represented a good setting for a group of permanent houses and a community.
Then, behind this elevation, a lower area with rivulets and ponds, unhealthy because of stagnant waters, which could be used as gardens or rice fields.
Finally, to the west, there was a slightly higher tract, also covered in places by large marshes, which was suitable for groves and fruit trees, but also for dwellings.
Early History of the Settlement
Until the arrival of the Europeans, it remained a small town, where there were mainly straw huts and a few brick houses owned by fishermen, weavers and trading castes. Named Pudecheira in the map by Samson d' Abeville dated 1664, called Poule Cere by Gautier Schouten (1658-1665), it was occupied by Danes, who built a house used later by European visitors. The first Frenchman to settle in that place was Bellanger de I' Espinay who arrived there on February 4, 1673.
From this year until 1693 when it was taken by the Dutch, the French, under the command of Francois Martin, managed to set up a factory in this locality, to build a fort, magazines, stores, to attract craftsmen (weavers, painters, merchants, etc). and succeeded, in spite of the difficulties, in making of this small village a fairly large and prosperous settlement. The detailed history of this expansion is well known, as it is described almost day by day by Francois Martin himself in his fascinating Memoires. But there is no cartographic representation of the town for this period in French archives and we don't know how the different parts of the settlement were joined together.
The Dutch plans allow us to have a clear idea of what was, at that time, the nature of the trading post, and particularly its degree of urbanisation.
Acknowledgments 7
A scientific representation of the town 11
Physical setting 12
Early history of the settlement 13
I. Pondicherry in 1693 15
Pondicherry territory at the time of the conquest 15
The eastern settlement on the sandy bar 17
The median lowland and the western tract 19
The fort barlaong 23
Houses near the fort 27
Distribution of the Indian population 28
Concluding remarks 31
II. Pondicherry under the Dutch (1693-1699) 33
Pondicherry territory after the conquest 33
Planning of a new town 36
Realization 39
Plates: Photographs of original plans 45
Works cited 53
Index 55
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Avalon Enterprises is the newest of the Big Three Megacorps but is the largest of the three. Clan McDowell originally grew the corporation through a mix of opportunism and ruthless adventurism. Founded in London in the late 21st century Avalon Enterprises took advantage of the chaos surrounding the imminent economic collapse of the Anglo-American Federation to stake their claim as people who could ‘get what you need.’ As traditional supply lines began to fracture McDowell started to make deals within the new Union Government and with suppliers in Union City itself to provide much needed medical provisions to counter the collapsing medical infrastructure of the AAF. To this day rumors abound making the early McDowells out to be nothing more than smugglers who somehow managed to carve a niche for themselves supplying medical care to English aristocrats, a rumor strongly denied by the McDowells and their retainers.
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In 2103 Sir Alistair McDowell negotiated the entrance of the British Commonwealth into the Union with the rest of the AAF following merely months after. Gaining rewards from both the Crown and from the Union Government the new Lord McDowell began expanding his corporation’s influence into Union City itself.
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Hammond, Peter J. and Sun, Yeneng (2020) The one-way Fubini property and conditional independence : an equivalence result. Advances in Mathematics . 107487. doi:10.1016/j.aim.2020.107487 (In Press)
Hammond, Peter J. (2020) Roberts' weak welfarism theorem : a minor correction. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) (1308). (Unpublished)
Chichilnisky, Graciela, Hammond, Peter J. and Stern, Nicholas (2020) Fundamental utilitarianism and intergenerational equity with extinction discounting. Social Choice and Welfare, 54 (2-3). pp. 397-427. doi:10.1007/s00355-019-01236-z
Hammond, Peter J., Qiao, Lei and Sun, Yeneng (2020) Monte Carlo sampling processes and incentive compatible allocations in large economies. Economic Theory . doi:10.1007/s00199-020-01318-5 (In Press)
Chichilnisky, Graciela , Hammond , Peter J. and Stern, Nicholas (2019) Fundamental utilitarianism and intergenerational equity with extinction discounting. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) (1238). (Unpublished)
Hammond, Peter J., Qiao, Lei and Sun, Yeneng (2019) Monte Carlo sampling processes and incentive compatible allocations in large economies. Working Paper. Coventry: Department of Economics, University of Warwick. Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS), 2019 (1229). (Unpublished)
Mongin, Philippe (2019) Interview of Peter J. Hammond [pre-print]. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) (1190). (Unpublished)
Mongin, Philippe (2019) Interview of Peter J. Hammond. Social Choice and Welfare . (In Press)
Chichilnisky, Graciela, Hammond, Peter J. and Stern, Nicholas (2018) Should we discount the welfare of future generations? : Ramsey and Suppes versus Koopmans and Arrow. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) (1174). (Unpublished)
Hammond, Peter J. (2018) Allocation mechanisms, incentives, and endemic institutional externalities. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) (1162).
Hammond, Peter J. (2018) Allocation mechanisms, incentives, and endemic institutional externalities. In: Trockel, Walter, (ed.) Social Design : Essays in Memory of Leonid Hurwicz Studies in Economic Design. Studies in economic design . Cham, Switzerland : Springer, pp. 175-186. ISBN 9783319938097
Hammond, Peter J. (2017) Designing a strategy-proof spot market mechanism with many traders : twenty-two steps to Walrasian equilibrium. Economic Theory, 63 (1). doi:10.1007/s00199-016-0970-7
Hammond, Peter J. and Sun, Yeneng (2016) The one-way Fubini property and conditional independence : an equivalence result. Discussion Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Department of Economics. CRETA Discussion Paper Series (22). (Unpublished)
Hammond, Peter J. (2016) Designing a strategy-proof spot market mechanism with many traders : twenty-two steps to Walrasian equilibrium. Working Paper. Coventry: Department of Economics, University of Warwick. Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (WERPS) (1108). (Unpublished)
Hammond, Peter J. (2015) Catastrophic risk, rare events, and black swans : could there be a countably additive synthesis? Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (TWERPS), Volume 2015 (Number 1060). (Unpublished)
Hammond, Peter J. (2013) Extending the original position : revisiting the Pattanaik critique of Vickrey/Harsanyi utilitarianism. Working Paper. Coventry, UK: University of Warwick, Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (TWERPS), Volume 2013 (Number 1008).
Hammond, Peter J. and Zank, Horst (2013) Rationality and dynamic consistency under risk and uncertainty. Working Paper. Coventry, UK: University of Warwick, Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (TWERPS), Volume 2013 (Number 1033).
Hammond, Peter J. and Traub, Stefan (2012) A three-stage experimental test of revealed preference. Working Paper. Coventry, UK: Department of Economics, University of Warwick. CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Volume 2012 (Number 72).
Hammond, Peter J., Liberini, Federica and Proto, Eugenio (2011) Individual welfare and subjective well-being : commentary inspired by Sacks, Stevenson and Wolfers. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Dept. of Economics. Warwick economics research paper series (TWERPS), Vol.2011 (No.957).
Hammond, Peter J. (2011) Laboratory games and quantum behaviour : the normal form with a separable state space. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Dept. of Economics. Warwick economics research paper series (TWERPS), Vol.2011 (No.969).
Anderson, B., Hammond, Peter J. and Ramezani, Cyrus A. (2010) Affine models of the joint dynamics of exchange rates and interest rates. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol.45 (No.5). pp. 1341-1365. doi:10.1017/S0022109010000438
Hammond, Peter J. and Sempere, Jaume (2009) Migration with local public goods and the gains from changing places. Economic Theory, Vol.41 (No.3). pp. 359-377. doi:10.1007/s00199-008-0400-6
Hammond, Peter J. and Sun, Yeneng (2008) Monte Carlo simulation of macroeconomic risk with a continuum of agents : the general case. Economic Theory, Volume 36 (Number 2). pp. 303-325. doi:10.1007/s00199-007-0279-7
Hammond, Peter J. (2008) Isolation, assurance and rules: can rational folly supplant foolish rationality? Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick, Department of Economics. Warwick economic research papers (No.842).
Hammond, Peter J. (2008) Beyond normal form invariance: first mover advantage in two-stage games with or without predictable cheap talk. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick, Department of Economics. Warwick economic research papers (No.835).
Hammond, Peter J. (2007) Competitive market mechanisms as social choice procedures. Discussion Paper. [Coventry]: University of Warwick Economics Department. Warwick economic research papers (No.804).
Hammond, Peter J. (2007) History : sunk cost or widespread externality? : second Arcelli lecture at the University of Piacenza, April 2007. [Coventry]: University of Warwick, Department of Economics. (Warwick economic research papers).
Hammond, Peter J. and Sun, Yeneng (2007) Monte Carlo simulation of macroeconomic risk with a continuum agents: the general case. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick, Department of Economics. Warwick economic research papers (No.803).
Hammond, Peter J. and Sun, Yeneng (2007) Characterization of risk: a sharp law of large numbers. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick, Department of Economics. Warwick economic research papers (No.806).
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19 Sep 2019 — 6 Jan 2020 at the Upper Belvedere Museum in Vienna, Austria
Josef Ignaz Mildorfer. Courtesy of Upper Belvedere Museum
To celebrate the 300th birthday of Josef Ignaz Mildorfer (1719–1775), the Belvedere is honouring the Baroque painter with an exhibition as part of its IN-SIGHT series, to take place in the autumn of 2019.
In this tercentenary year, the Tyrolean native will be accorded his first monographic show.
The exhibition focuses on three key aspects of his artistic work: his rare battle scenes, his role as a professor of painting at the Vienna Academy of Arts, and his commissions from the clergy, aristocracy, and the bourgeoisie.
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Newsletter article OVEC December 13, 2020
The fight for justice has never been won at the ballot box alone. Resistance against the status quo is not uncommon in Appalachia; from the Mine Wars to the Red for Ed strikes, West Virginia has been center stage in pivotal regional events. Bleak and seemingly-unwinnable battles are not unique to this state or its history. Rather, they are the norm. Resistance moving forward means learning from our collective past. More
Issues: Climate change, Health, Legislation, Pollution, Social justice
Newsletter article December 13, 2020
The book released earlier this year by West Virginia University Press, I’m Afraid of That Water: A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis, was profiled in the October edition of GREEN. This collection of stories from the 2014 Elk River chemical spill and ensuing water crisis highlight the importance of protecting the quality of the water supply. More
Issues: Water
Newsletter article WV Citizens for Clean Elections December 13, 2020
We saw the impact that increased access to the ballot box had on voter participation, and we cannot allow that to be taken away. Thanks to your support, we were able to accomplish a lot this year, despite the obstacles that came about due to COVID-19. Here is a quick recap: More
Issues: Clean elections
Newsletter article WV Rivers Coalition December 11, 2020
On Wednesday, the Joint Legislative Rulemaking Review Committee met to debate updates to the human health criteria in our water quality standards. This committee meets before the regular session to review, amend and vote on recommended rules for the full Legislature’s consideration. More
Issues: Legislation, Water
Do you know where your food comes from? Do you know who grew it? How many fossil fuels were consumed to produce, process, transport, and store the food that sits on your shelf? At the center of these questions lies irreversible impacts to our environment, and at the same time, changing the answer to these questions personally does not solve the issue. More
Issues: Climate change
“Elections and the Environment” Webinar at 12:00-1:30, West Virginia Rivers Coalition Virtual Holiday Shindig at 7:30pm More
Issues: Legislation
Newsletter article West Virginia Highlands Conservancy December 10, 2020
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has granted a stay of the actions of the United States Army Corps of Engineers in its approvals of stream and wetland crossings by the Mountain Valley Pipeline. This means that construction on stream crossings has to stop until the appeal is decided. More
Issues: Pipelines, Water
Newsletter article Solar United Neighbors December 10, 2020
As a new year approaches, it is important to know that 2021 may be the last year for homeowners to take advantage of the federal Energy Investment Tax Credit (EITC) for solar installations. The tax credit is stepping down -- from 30% in 2019, to 26% in 2020, to 22% in 2021. Unless Congress takes action to extend the EITC, it will expire altogether for residential solar installations in 2022. More
Issues: Renewable energy
Newsletter article Friends of Blackwater December 10, 2020
Are you trying to learn more about and better understand the climate change options and opportunities that 2021 will present? So are we. More
Newsletter article WVEC October 30, 2020
Join Us Virtually at Our Annual Meeting to Talk About the Future of West Virginia’s Environment
This edition of our newsletter is focused on our annual meeting coming up on Thursday, November 12 from 6:00 -8:00 pm. This will be our first annual meeting that will be held virtually, but we are expecting an engaged audience and a lot of good discussion, like we have had in the past during our in-person meetings. More
Issues: WVEC event
Newsletter article WV Rivers Coalition October 30, 2020
Register for the Virtual Watershed Symposium, November 5-6
If you are a member of a watershed organization, or are interested in protecting your local watershed, then you won’t want to miss the Virtual Watershed Symposium. More
Newsletter article October 5, 2020
Thursday, October 22 “Climate Generations” Webinar — Register Now!
YOU ARE INVITED to attend a free, live, expert-led webinar -- on Thursday, October 22, from 6-8 PM USET – titled "What Do We Tell The Kids -- and What Are They Telling Us? -- Generational Perspectives and the Climate Crisis." More
WVEC Member Group Profile: Mountain Lakes Preservation Alliance (MLPA)
Mountain Lakes Preservation Alliance was started in 2013 to bring the facts to the public, and local governmental bodies. We described the permanent environmental damage that is occurring due to the construction of these unnecessary pipelines being built on the backs of electric utility ratepayers when the majority of the gas will be exported for corporate profit. More
Issues: Energy, Oil and gas, Pipelines
Newsletter article WVEC October 5, 2020
New Member of Our WVEC Team
Hi everyone! My name is Hannah King and I was recently hired as the Outreach Coordinator and Interim Lobbyist for the West Virginia Environmental Council. More
A new book on the 2014 West Virginia drinking water crisis
“I’m Afraid of That Water: A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis” was published this spring by West Virginia University Press. It’s a collection of oral histories collected in interviews following the 2014 Elk River chemical spill which became a nationally recognized disaster when it polluted the largest public drinking water system in West Virginia. More
Issues: MCHM, Pollution, Water
DEP Stormwater General Permits – Back Door Back Sliding
The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) administers the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program in West Virginia for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In doing so, the DEP writes Stormwater General Permits that provide standards for construction and operation activities across the state that could poison or pollute water resources. More
Issues: Pollution, Water
Newsletter article Solar United Neighbors October 5, 2020
Southeast West Virginia Solar Co-op Launches
Nonprofit group Solar United Neighbors (SUN) is excited to announce the launch of the new Southeast West Virginia Solar Co-op to help area residents go solar. More
A Citizen’s Guide to Climate Change
This week, the newly formed West Virginia Climate Alliance released A Citizen’s Guide to Climate Change. This colorful publication outlines the science of why our planet is warming, the impacts of climate change, and potential solutions for addressing the climate crisis. More
Newsletter article OVEC October 5, 2020
Affected by Pipeline Development?
OVEC is collaborating with Drs Caretta and Carlson at WVU on the research project titled “Supporting community capacity-building against extractive interests through place-based visual and narrative inquiry.” More
Issues: Coal, Mountaintop removal, Oil and gas
Newsletter article OVEC September 2, 2020
Petrochemical Industry Pulls New Recycling Stunt
The petrochemical industry has a new marketing stunt in the works. A process, dubbed chemical plastic recycling, is a new technological innovation in waste management, but it isn’t exactly what most people thought was happening when they put that plastic out on the corner or in that little blue bin. More
Most Recent Alert: December 3, 2020
Urgent Action for Water Quality Standards – Act by 12/9
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== Powers and Abilities ==
[[File:Nabu's_staff.png|thumb|200px|Nabu, finding a way to heal Duman]]
Nabu is not specialist. He is a wizard from Andros. His weapon of choice is a magic staff which seems to amplify his magical power. His known powers include:
*Nabu is not a Specialist. He is a wizard from Andros. His weapon of choice is a magic staff which seems to amplify his magical power. His known powers include:
*Flight - Briefly shown in S3 episode 18 and again in S4 episode 19.
*Invisibility - Shown in S3 episode 21.
*Short range teleportation - Shown in S3 episode 22 and again in S4 episode 4.
*Energy blasts - Shown in S3 episode 18
*He can detect and, to some extent, analyze magic powers.
==Gallery==
''See also [[Nabu/Gallery]] ''
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The Black Willow's Tears (Cinelume)(under the alias of 'Ophir')
Aisha (engaged), Unnamed parents, Teredor (would-be father-in-law), Niobe (would-be mother-in-law)
Nabu is a character from the Winx Club series. His first appearance was The Tears of the Black Willow. He's Aisha's love interest.
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2.4 Winx Club 3D: Magical Adventure
Nabu is a wizard from Andros. He was from a wealthy family, and had an isolated childhood similar to Aisha's. Because he had no friends to play with, he spent most of his time learning battle tricks from his security guards. In addition, he has studied many different magic spells on Andros, thus his prodigious skills in spellcating.
When a marriage was arranged between him and Aisha, he initially didn't want to marry her and ran away from home. Later, he decided he wanted to find out what Aisha was really like, and so began to secretly keep an eye on the Winx girls for a while.He appeared as Ophir first,then told Aisha his real name in the end of the episode The Wizard's Challenge.
Nabu's robes when he was first seen
Nabu is first mentioned at the end of episode 9, when Aisha sadly reports to her friends that her parents have set up a marriage for her. Nabu first appears at the end of episode 12, where he finally finds Aisha.
He later returns in episode 18, where he listens to a conversation between the Winx girls until Stella reveals his hiding spot. Later in the episode, he decides to offer the Winx his assistance in fighting Valtor, who plans to steal a magical item at the museum. Nabu doesn't want to reveal who he really is, so he tells the Winx that his name is Ophir. The Winx let him come along on the mission, even though they are not sure if they can trust him. However, when Valtor threatens Aisha/Layla, Nabu gets in the way and is captured by Valtor. The Winx are forced to give Valtor the magic box he came to steal in order to save Nabu.
Later, when the Winx went to the Golden Kingdom to obtain the Water Stars, Nabu was a stow away on their ship. Aisha discovered him, and since the group were not sure if they could trust him or not due to their previous encounter, they put shackles on him. During the mission, Nabu and Aisha get to know each other a little better. Nabu helped the Winx fight off the guards of the Red Tower, and was the only one who didn't get knocked out. Riven showed up shortly afterwards, and he and Nabu get into a fight due to Riven misinterpreting the situation and mistakenly believing that Nabu was trying to steal Musa from him. Sky and Timmy break up the fight, and the misunderstanding is cleared up. When the Trix later attack the group while the Winx (except Bloom) are inside the crystal labyrinth, Nabu at one point easily defeats Darcy.
After having obtained the water stars, the Winx invited their boyfriends to a dance club and Aisha asked Nabu to come along. However, Nabu was forced to leave when his security guards showed up to bring him home. When he meets with Aisha again near the end of the episode, he explains the situation and finally reveals his true identity. He tells Aisha that he has fallen in love with her, and apologizes for lying to her. Aisha and Nabu meet each others' parents, who have realized that they shouldn't have tried to make their kids follow a tradition that went against their wishes. However, they are also pleased that destiny brought them together anyway, but decide that a marriage can wait. The episode ends with the Winx welcoming Nabu into the club.
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In episode 25, Nabu only has a short cameo appearance at the end.
In episode 26, he joins the Winx and Helia on their mission to Andros to save the other specialists from Valtor. When they get there, the group decides to split up in order to save the specialists. While Tecna, Stella, Musa, and Bloom are fighting the elements, Nabu, Aisha, Helia and Flora find the real Specialists locked up in a prison cell. After freeing the specialists, Aisha and Flora go ahead to fight Valtor while Nabu and Helia stay behind with the specialists, catching up with the others later.
After the battle is over, and everyone is celebrating at Lake Roccaluce, Nabu and Aisha are shown having their first kiss.
The Secret of the Lost Kingdom
In the movie he is, for a split second, seen dancing with Aisha at the celebration party on Domino.
Nabu and Aisha in Season 4
In this season he proposes to Aisha, which she accepts, even though they have an arranged marriage. So even if she didn't accept, she would have to anyway.
When he and the other Specialists show up to help the girls fight the Wizards of the Black Circle in episode 7, it is Nabu who saves Roxy from being absorbed by the Black Circle using his magic. However, during the fight, Nabu's magic is useless against Ogron.
When Diana shows up in Episode 18, Nabu recognizes the sleep inducing pollen she uses to knock out the people in the Frutti Music Bar, and tells the Specialists to hold their breaths for as long as they can. Once Diana has left, Nabu uses his magic to weaken the magical roots she used to tie up the Winx, allowing them to regain their strength and transform. Nabu and the Specialists go to the Gardenia park to confront Diana, but Diana easily takes out most of the Specialists, only Nabu being able to put up a fight due to him being the only one with magical powers. Nabu manages to resist Diana's attacks, but is unable to do anything but watch as Diana and the Amazon fairies kidnap the Specialists and take them away to Diana's kingdom.
When the Winx show up, he is clearly worn out from the fight against Diana, and informs them of what happened. Nabu apologizes for letting the Amazon fairies take the Specialists away, and admits that he's not as powerful as a Major Fairy such as Diana.
When the Ethereal Fairies appear in the next episode, Nabu seems to recognize their powerful magic and comments on how awesome it is. He joins the Winx as they go to the Amazons to rescue the Specialists. When the Amazon Fairies show up, Nabu asks the Winx to distract them while he goes off to Diana's castle to save the Specialists. It is unclear what exactly happened to him while he was searching for the Specialists, but he was somehow injured and captured by the Amazon fairies.
At the beginning of the next episode, Aisha is clearly concerned about Nabu as his condition seems to be worse than the others, and demands to know what Diana did to him. Diana simply chains Nabu and the other Specialists to the wall, and orders the jungle itself to help capture Bloom, Stella and Tecna who had gone off to search for the source of Diana's power.
After they have been captured, and Bloom awakens Sky expresses concern for Nabu as he was the only one who had not yet regained consciousness at that point. Bloom and the other fairies quickly combine their Sophix powers to break the chains, and Bloom uses her powers to heal Nabu. When the Amazon fairies return, Nabu uses an illusion spell to distract them while the Winx knock out the Amazon fairies, allowing them all to escape the castle.
Nabu asleep, as Sky Gives him his scepter
In Episode 24 he makes an attempt to cure Duman's illness after Sibylla's fairies had failed. He realized that the reason they were unable to do anything, was because they didn't know what the cause was. He soon finds out that the cause of the illness was that Duman's magical energy had gotten unstable. However, soon after this discovery, Duman transforms into a monster and attacks the other specialists, and ends up capturing Nabu. Riven ends up chasing down Duman, and manages to save Nabu.
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The specialists end up having to fight Duman, who blurts out Ogron's plan to capture the Earth fairies. Nabu manages to defeat Duman, and he and the other specialists go to warn the fairies, but arrive too late. Nabu decides to close the shadow abyss, despite Aisha/Layla's warnings. Nabu succeeds in closing the abyss, but uses up all of his energy and passes out shortly afterwards. Aisha/Layla attempts to use the last gift of destiny to revive him, but Ogron takes it from her and wastes it on a flower. It is unknown if he died because Aisha attemped to use the last gift of destiny on him, or he is in a deep slumber as Queen Morgana said. After the final battle with the Black Circle Morgana tells Aisha that she will watch over him, until he wakes up. There is a possibility he will return in Season 5.
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Nabu and Aisha in a middle of a fight
Nabu appears to be alive in this movie (despite his death or coma in Season 4).
He helps the specialists and the Winx fight the Trix and the Ancestral Witches.
Nabu, finding a way to heal Duman
Nabu is not a Specialist. He is a wizard from Andros. His weapon of choice is a magic staff which seems to amplify his magical power. His known powers include:
Flight - Briefly shown in S3 episode 18 and again in S4 episode 19.
Invisibility - Shown in S3 episode 21.
Creating illusion copies of himself - Shown in S3 episode 21 when he used it to counter Darcy's illusion trick and again in S4 episode 20 to distract Diana's warrior fairies.
Short range teleportation - Shown in S3 episode 22 and again in S4 episode 4.
Energy blasts - Shown in S3 episode 18
He can detect and, to some extent, analyze magic powers.
See also Nabu/Gallery
Nabu's name was derived from that of the Babylonian God of Wisdom and Writing and the Patron of the Scribes of Babylonian Mythology, Nabu. He is the son of Marduk, the Supreme God of the Babylonians, his sacred city was at Borsippa and was associated with the planet Mercury, with the reed pen and the clay table as symbol.
Nabu is not technically one of the Specialists since he did not attend Red Fountain.
Nabu is not considered to be dead. Morgana states that she will watch over Nabu when he wakes up. Nabu is seen in the Magical Adventure which came after Season 4, although it is not known precisely on which part of the timeline of the Winx Club history do the events of the film occur.
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No matter how you look at this Tragic Case, Paedophile comes to mind right away. 12 months is surely too Lenient. Yes, one more point, Culture, there is one Law in Ireland, Irish Law, but Sources inform me Sharia Law is rampant under the Radar here, this must be stopped. 13 years old and giving birth to a baby; this child was married by Sharia law standards and this is not acceptable. We must Protect Innocent children. We need to Protect our Laws and people need to be Aware, there is one Law in Ireland and let us Abide by the Law.
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A young woman wept as her husband was jailed for a year arising out of an investigation that followed her giving birth to their first child when she was aged 13 and their second child the following year.
Since then they married when she turned 18 and had a third child together.
“Her view is that she never viewed herself as a victim and was not going to help the investigation but he made admissions himself,” defence barrister Ray Boland said.
Sergeant James Buckley said a social worker reported the case when she became aware of the second baby in 2015.
“She was 12 or 13 when the first baby was conceived and 13 or 14 the second baby was conceived,” Sgt Buckley said.
Her husband is now 25 and she is 20 and they are living together with their three children. The young mother was taken into care for a period when she was a teenager when these matters came to light and her own parents reared the infants.
She made no complaint against her husband but the prosecution had DNA tests carried out to prove his parentage of the two babies.
He pleaded guilty to defilement of a child under 15 by having sexual intercourse with her, one charge related to 2013 and another related to 2014. Each charge carried a possible penalty of life imprisonment.
Mr Boland BL suggested that the young woman would suffer if her husband was imprisoned.
Both parties were born in Ireland but their own parents are non-nationals. They cannot be identified.
Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said: “I am going to have to take an objective view. This man was five years older than the complainant. He had a sexual relation with a 12 or 13-year-old.
The age difference is not entirely significant. Her age is profoundly significant.
“The court has to take a serious view. It is not socially acceptable, it is not legally acceptable, it cannot be countenanced.
“The behaviour is too wrong. It cannot be countenanced by a court institutions. I accept it would be a very difficult case to prove and the plea is a very significant matter.
“Their circumstances now are completely different — they are of age now, they can marry or not marry and society would not get involved but in view of the age which was spectacularly low (at time of offences) I will measure a sentence at 12 months,” Judge Ó Donnabháin said.
Mr Boland had said in his submission to the court: “I know it is a very unusual case but I don’t think that any specific or general deterrent be effected. It would have an adverse effect on the person who is the victim in the case.”
The case was dealt with yesterday at an in camera hearing of Cork Circuit Criminal Court.
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Washington DC and Exodus
I understand that an earthquake rumbled up Washington DC today. Let’s see… isn’t there going to be a hurricane later in the week?
Holy Moses! When do the frogs and locusts arrive? Will the reflecting pool on the Mall turn to blood?
Is someone standing outside the White House or the Capitol or the Supreme Court shouting “Let my people go!”?
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Peggy R says:
Obama won’t have his plan ready b/c of the earthquake. Or the earthquake is another reason the economy won’t get better. We’ll hear both in time.
NonSumDignus says:
I felt it here in Western Pennsylvania Father.
Rose in NE says:
LOL, Father! My nephew works in DC. He says it was a bit scary and that the phones aren’t working properly, but it was not a big deal. He’s a structural engineer, so I imagine he’s going to be a bit busy checking on bridges and so forth.
Semper Idem says:
I also felt it in the area north of Pittsburgh. My bed was shaking, and it woke me up. Friends of mine who live in Akron felt it.
UncleBlobb says:
But the LORD hardened Obama’s heart.
benedetta says:
Rock n roll in New York State.
Scary here in MD, Father. I’ve never, ever felt anything like that before. The whole house shook and shook hard, I really thought it would begin to crack and collapse. It lasted long enough for hubby and I to rush to an interior hallway and hit the deck. It lasted so long! Long enough for a fervent Hail Mary and an act of contrition. There doesn’t seem to be any widespread damage or injuries, thanks be to God.
Charles E Flynn says:
A CNN report stated that pinnacles fell from the National Cathedral:
Earthquake Rocks Virginia, DC, NYC.
Banjo pickin girl says:
I felt it in Columbus and reported it to the USGS. It rocked my chair a little. I thought at first I was lightheaded. Then California memories returned.
Varda says:
Oh, that was scary! I am in Falls Church VA about ten minutes from DC and it lasted at least 30 seconds and seemed like it came in two waves, the sescond worse than the first. When it didn’t stop I ran to my basement accompanied by three scared cats and just started to pray. We had one last year that was the first I had ever experienced and I found it scary but it was nothing compared with this. Some stuff fell off the book case and pictures are askew but nothing bad.
markomalley says:
They’re reporting that the Washington Monument is leaning: http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/aug/23/picket-fnc-reports-washington-monument-may-be-tilt/
Suburbanbanshee says:
We had a foreshock here at 1:50 or so, and a ton of people in the building felt it and went outside. But I didn’t feel it a bit. (I specialize in not feeling earthquakes unless I’m stretched out on the ground or floor. Also in sleeping through fire engine noise, SWAT teams, and gale-force windstorms. But I’ll wake up if I smell fire a long way away.)
Re: MD earthquake, I believe that historically MD is known for having a lot of longitudinal roll to their earthquakes, which makes ’em last longer and feel stronger. It was in that earthquake history book by Simon Winchester.
Here meaning “southwest Ohio”.
Frances M says:
It was far-reaching; I felt it in Weddington, N.C. – just south of Charlotte. I thought I was back in California!
I am compelled to put on the record that my snarky thoughts about O followed my understanding of reports that no one has been seriously injured or killed and that, aside from some minor damage, no buildings had been felled, etc.
We did not feel this in Illinois, near St Louis. We used to be in DC and can imagine an overly cautious response by safety authorities and fed agencies. I can imagine the fear, though, as we have had quakes roll past like a train coming through the house.
Stay safe folks!
dirtycopper says:
As I sat in my office [in a fortress like police department] watching things sway to and fro, it occurred to me that it has been way too long since my last confession. Suffice to say that I will be addressing that presently.
Well, at the Children’s Hospital, which is a stone throw from the Mall, they kicked us out for half an hour or so, but no, they did not let us go…
DomesticaEcclesia says:
I’m between D.C. and Baltimore. Our whole house shook but nothing broke or even fell. In hindsight it was definitely an interesting experience. At the time, home by myself with a 5 year old, 3 year old, 2 year old and sleeping 5 month old and with a sprained calf muscle, I was a bit panicked.
I’m not ranting about the end of the world, but I guess with the moral depravity of our country at the moment, it likewise shouldn’t be a surprise that the earth would reflect the state of human affairs.
I still marvel that Fox News seemed to think its viewers would be concerned about the politicians to keep repeating that the capitol had been evacuated. I mean, I know if there was any catastrophic event, my first concern would be for the millionaire politicians!
Nothing here in ATL.
Mother in law is in Richmond, just east of the epicenter (which was in Mineral VA acc. to the USGS).
Have been trying to call but can’t get hold of her. (She’s probably playing golf and didn’t even notice, but I’ll still feel better when we touch base.)
They originally reported it as a 5.8 but have upgraded to a 6.
I was reading Ratzinger’s “The Spirit of the Liturgy” (for the second time) by my pool when the tremors hit. Actually, I was on the third chapter, when he discusses the meaning of the Seat of Moses in the Synagogue when the earth shook…yes, the Lord speaks to us now…
There was also earthquake activity in SE Colorado! Amazing, two areas on the same day.
JaneC says:
Some of my neighbors here in North Carolina felt it, but I didn’t notice. We live near a military base and our house is frequently shaken by their artillery practice, plus I am a native Californian from a very seismically-active area. I’m used to ignoring a little window-rattling.
Brian K says:
We felt the VA earthquake here in Johnstown PA.
We just took our oldest son off to start college on Friday at Christendom College in Front Royal VA. Their classrooms were evacuated due to the severe shaking down there today, but classes resumed shortly thereafter. Our son was in astronomy class when it hit. The professor was talking about the fact that the Jesuits invented most of the science behind modern seismology right when the earthquake hit.
Gregorius says:
Here in Emmitsburg, MD all the fire alarms went off and we had to evacuate into the streets. However, no buildings damaged. I got texts from my brother, on the eastern shore, my sister, outside of Baltimore, and my aunt, in Pittsburgh. News reports say it was felt as far away as Toronto. Needless to say I will be heading to confession the next time it is available.
Cornelius says:
I was in the Pentagon when it hit. thought it was an attack.
momravet says:
I’m about 81 miles east of DC and 100 miles NW of the epicenter. Didn’t know what it was at first, the noise was a strong rumble, like a semi driving right outside the window. The whole house shook and the couch that I was sitting on slid back and forth. My son was outside standing by his truck and the truck shifted around, too. However, it only lasted for a few seconds. We were fortunate. The last earthquake in Virginia that was this strong was a 5.8 in Pearisburg, Virginia in 1897 (think today’s event beat the record).
Sorry, 81 miles west of DC.
Felt slightly in MA………
Felt it here in Charleston, WV but I thought it was either the contractors doing something weird or I was having some kind of vertigo attack.
Felt by some here in Boston, but not by me. Report from family in central NJ – definitely noticed there!
Here in Springfield VA about 15 miles from the Pentagon. It’s my 48th birthday today and my elder son’s 10th birthday. Veddy, veddy interesting experience but no damage here.
Makes me feel as if this whole ball of wax could just go piffle. And, you know, one day, it will.
eulogos says:
Almost everyone in my office here in Endicott, NY felt it. A common description was that it felt as if someone had grabbed the back of our chair and was shaking it back and forth. I actually at first looked around to see if someone was there. Perhaps not very dramatic compared to what can happen, but the first earthquake I have ever felt any of. I am very glad to hear no one got hurt. I have children in Baltimore that I was a bit worried about.
Susan Peterson
inIpso says:
The insurance agency I work for evacuated… but as soon as we got back the phones went off the hook with people wanting to add earthquake coverage to their home insurance policies… HAHA!
DelRayVA says:
I was at the “Shake IT Up” conference in the Washington, DC Convention Center. Ceiling tiles started falling on the crowd while the CIO of NASA was talking. We evacuated the building, and I just kept going all the way home at that point.
ipadre says:
“Can you hear me now!” God
I went to church to pray tonight, and saw that, from the large crucifix over the altar, Our Lord’s entire right arm had detached itself and fallen to the ground during the earthquake earlier in the day!
Washington National Cathedral Damaged by Quake, by Tom Barkley.
MissOH says:
I am in MD just north of DC and it was interesting. I was dropping off forms at our daughter’s Catholic school and at first I thought they were doing something to the roof. With the hurricane approaching this weekend and the various issues roiling around DC (and Annapolis) I wonder if these are wake up calls to remind us who is in charge.
Getting my hair cut in C’ville. Big rumble like a jet plane but it kept getting louder, actually saw the walls vibrating and felt it in the floor. Everyone in the salon ran into the parking lot. I had asked my husband earlier if we could go over to St. Thomas Aquinas to say the Chaplet. So glad I’d mentioned it before the quake, if you know what I mean. We had an aftershock about 8:00 PM. Kind of unnerving.
DebbieInCT says:
Felt it up here in the office in Stamford, CT. A very curious feeling of both swaying and vibrations, that after several seconds had everyone standing up in their cubicles wondering “Why is the building shaking?” By the time somebody answered “earthquake” it was all over.
gambletrainman says:
To some of you who ask (and know the answer before you ask), according to private revelations (which don’t necessarily HAVE to be believed), God will send a warning before disaster strikes. And, apparently, not too many people will listen, and continue “doing what coms naturally”. This quake was God whispering to us. How much longer before He takes a 2×4 to wake us up? The report originally said it was a 5.8, then it was upped to 6.0, then down to 5.9, and the last I heard was 5.8. I live 20 miles below Richmond, so, I got quite a dose. I have a cousin in NC who has seen quite a few of these in Japan while in the military, and she says it’s false to think you will be safe under a table. The same thing as them telling us when we were kids that we would be completely safe from an A-bomb attack by hiding under the desk. Think about it. What if you were to go under a table, or bed, or another object, and that object were to fall on top of you? I don’t know if I would trust a cellar. What if the building collapses and you are trapped? I can see if it were a tornado, then, yeah, the cellar would be safer, but an earthquake? Supposedly I could be safer being outside, but there is a 50-year-old dogwood tree in the back, and telephone and electric wires in the front. The utility pole is directly across the street from me, and wires leading to the sides of the houses on either side of me, as well as wires to one side of my house. All I can say is that I trust in God’s mercy, and ask Him to protect me.
I’m sorry to report that in Ashburn VA, we had damage. YUP. My velvet Elvis painting was all shook up.
By the way, Irene looks as though she will be around the VaBeach area Saturday or Sunday with possible winds of up to 75/85MPH. (down from 125/135 before hitting landfall). If the earthquake loosens anything, the winds may easily take things out. I think we ALL need confession.
pm125 says:
Local news channel reported that at 6:30 AM, a 2.2 occured near Albany, NY.
Two friends in Western Mass, in sandy Connecticut River valley towns, experienced the VA quake. One was at home watching porch rockers rocking, glasses clinking, and a pond that bubbled at the shore. The other was the secretary at church, whose chair was shaking. Two different towns.
Joshua08 says:
A 5.9 is a moderate quake. It was a surface one. It was felt as wide as it was, despite its comparatively small size, because of the Eastern part of the US having less falts and softer sediment. In California a 5.8, or even a 6.5, will not be felt as widely. The faults acts as barriers
It is still not anything all that notable, other than the overeaction by many offices.
Someone said their local news channel reported a 2.2? That must be a mistake. That is like reporting that Joe Schmoe stubbed his toe. A 2.2 is so tiny that it is not even measured the same. It is so small that the Moment Magnitude Scale that is used breaks down (Richter scale died in the 1970’s)
What is interesting for a Californian transplanted east is that on the Modified Mercalli scale the same size earthquake gets a much larger magnitude in the East. Hence a 2.4 in California today rates a 1, the lowest on the Mercalli scale. But the 2.2 in NY got a 5 on the Mercalli scale, the same as the 5.3 today in Colarado. The 5.8 in VA got a 7 on the Mercalli, which is bizarre to me. The Mercalli scale tries to be more comprehensive. It takes in more than the raw energy released, and takes into account shaking time, how many people felt it, etc. It turns very subjective. The same size earthquake in California would probably get a 5 or a 6 depending on where it hit.
It is amazing how the buildings (far weaker in the East for this) soil and merely experience of people factors into the Mercalli scale and the exaggerated attention this earthquake gets
s i says:
I can see it now – the MSM headlines tomorrow (per another blog post):
Massive Quake Hits Washington DC. It’s Bush’s Fault
Obama Saves DC from Certain Destruction.
Obama “Not much damage, but it would have been MUCH worse if I wasn’t president.”
iudicame says:
I live in northern Virginia and was in the kitchen when it hit. The dog started howling immediately. The initial effect was the violent rattling of the basement sliding door – I thought this was a home invasion and headed upstairs to fetch my pistol. But, it continued to roll – now every window shaking and the floors and walls, a LOUD rumbling sound – it felt like someone was jack-hammering the adjacent street but 20 times more violent. In the 20 seconds of trembling I was baffled – What the hell… I’ve been in a few really scary situations before and this quake frightened me. I put credence in the notion that God warns us in manners similar to this event.
http://www.fatimaondemand.org/en/
Lori Pieper says:
Here in the Bronx, I was in bed resting my injured foot and working on my laptop. I felt my sixth-floor apartment bedroom swaying gently back and forth – a little like “rock-a-bye baby in the treetop.” I got up, injured foot or no injured foot, to put on my shoes and go downstairs and outside, but by the time I was up, it was over. I didn’t even here anyone else on our floor come out of their doors.
But I could sure tell you some things about the other earthquake I was in; the Big One — the Good Friday earthquake in 1964 in Anchorage, Alaska. I was seven years old and due to make my First Communion the next day. My Dad was stationed at Elmendorf Air Force base, but we were living off base. We were in our car and driving to Holy Family Cathedral in Anchorage for the Good Friday services.
I remember my head suddenly rising almost to the roof of the car and falling back to my seat a few times. My Dad thought there was something wrong with the car, but had to keep going until he could find a place to turn off the road. I was talking to my Mom on the phone tonight about today’s little earthquake, and she remembered quite a few other things about those moments: the plate glass window of the JC Penney building imploding as we drove by and people running everywhere in fright. We immediately had to drive back home to see if my little brothers were all right – a neighbor was babysitting them. My Dad had great difficulty driving around the holes in the road. We had no electricity for several days and only the battery-operated radio to depend on for news. The sewage system was damaged and they had to bring drinking water around in a truck. I remembered how worried I was whether the Easter Bunny could still make it to our house (he did). Yes, I was probably more worried about that then I was about missing my First Communion – which I finally made in May.
I’m just as happy that the second earthquake of my life was no big deal!
PostCatholic says:
Damaged buildings include the National Cathedral and the Mormon Temple here in DC, but not the White House or Capitol or Supreme Court. So if God is unhappy with the government, she’s shaking the wrong houses.
We didn’t feel anything in Kentucky and we are right near one of the Big Ones (New Madrid Fault). If and when it slips, then goodbye Memphis, Saint Louis, Paducah and a bunch of other river towns.
Now I’m hearing from my co-workers that they felt it in downtown Atlanta.
Also some reports from friends in Gainesville (GA) that they felt it there.
I was working from home, and we live right next to a RR track, so I didn’t notice a thing. I probably thought it was just a freight train shaking the house (which it does from time to time, if the train hits the resonant frequency of the ground. We’re on sand and clay pretty close to the river – if the Big One hits here we’ll probably just slide right in.)
Oh, well, I missed all the excitement.
My mother in law is fine, although she was certainly alarmed. The thing that she and my niece in Richmond both reported was the noise – apparently a lot of audible rumbling in addition to the shaking. But they were quite close to the epicenter – she lives well west of Richmond, almost to Goochland, so they were only about 40 miles away. No damage to her house, though.
DisturbedMary says:
I didn’t feel it. I was on a NYC bus which simulates 5.9 jolts as a usual part of the ride.
I did wonder whether there would be a tsunami warning on Martha’s Vineyard. : )
PaterAugustinus says:
I felt it just south of Columbus, Ohio. Not strong enough to produce any visible or audible shaking and jostling, but I certainly felt it, sitting in my chair.
@PostCatholic: I often hear people remark on the supposed “irony” of God shaking up the religious buildings and areas of predominantly religious people first, while skipping over Bourbon Street, the Government buildings, etc. The conclusion these people draw, is that IF the calamities are a message, they only reveal that the Progressivists must be on the right track, and that God is mad at right-wingers.
In reality, we know why this is, from God Himself: “For the time is now come to begin the judgment, starting with the household of God. And if first at us, what shall be the end of them that believe not the Gospel of God?” (1st Peter 4:17)
Because those called by the name of Christ are supposed to take the lead in their society, and because the wickedness of godless ideologies and moral bankruptcy only succeeds when the people of God have failed in their duties, the judgment begins with us, and we must take the first share of the blame. We must be the first to hear God and respond to the sound of His voice. Therefore, I am never surprised when I hear that the Churches and the God-fearing folk in the poor and rural areas are the first hit. That’s what we signed up for.
I hope Christian folk will start taking the hint, and will realize that our present guilt involves more than just our personal lives and private decisions. To the extent that we are not being proactive in helping the culture around us – making very principled choices about the culture and politics we support (even in such small activities as what television we watch or which judges are elected) – we have very public sins, for which to give account.
And, by the way, also @PostCatholic: God Himself has told us that He is the Father, from whom all Fatherhood derives its name. Now, it may be accurate in the “apophatic” sense (i.e., in the “via negativa” of theology) to say that God is beyond gender. In human terms, He is. But, a typical mistake of rather feckless people, is to assume that just because some fine exception to a norm may exist, it therefore invalidates the norm. The fact is, that God may be beyond human concepts of gender, but yet the human concepts of gender are a shadow of spiritual realities. It’s not so much that God isn’t masculine, as that the masculine sex does not exhaust or fully reveal what God is. Masculinity represents the active force, which sows outside of itself and acts with initiative. It corresponds to the Divinity. Femininity represents the passive force, which is fecund and cultivates the seed, rearing it up in the name of the active principle. It corresponds to creation, and every dependent creature, therefore, is feminine in a sense… including men. But, to the extent that men manifest this masculine principle (which is why fatherhood – physical and spiritual – is restricted to their gender), their masculinity is a shadow of Divinity. Hence, when describing God, there is one gender, which is eminently suitable to describing Him: the Masculine. God may not be a man, but He is certainly the archetype of all masculinity, of which manhood is a shadow.
It’s really not that difficult a concept: even Pagans and Taoists (and others) were happy to refer to “Father Sky” or the “Heavenly Father,” as contrasted with “Mother Earth.” Ouranos is masculine, Gaia is feminine. So, while it may seem cute and clever to snub “Judaeo-Christian Tradition” in this way, really this kind of puerile thinking amounts to a willful ignorance of perennial religious principles, which have long been obvious to all people with two spiritual thoughts to rub together.
From good ol’ St. Beatus of Liebana’s Commentary, which probably got it from somewhere else:
“And there were voices and thunders and lightnings, and an earthquake.” [Rev. 8:5]
“Voices and thunders and lightnings” are the preaching of the Church, but the persecutions that the Church suffers generally are the “earthquake”, because she always suffers tribulation where she preaches.
MyBrokenFiat says:
PaterAugustinus – wow.
You, my good sir, deserve not just one cookie for your brilliance, but a heaping box of Oreos, double stuffed, and a gallon of milk… chocolate or strawberry if you so desire.
I love that description! Thank you.
Catholictothecore says:
We in Ontario, Canada, just outside of Toronto, felt the effects of the Earthquake in Virginia yesterday, a Tornado today, in fact its pouring cats and dogs as I’m writing this, and did you say Hurricane Irene later this week? Any more natural disasters left to talk about? Lord, have mercy on us. Amen.
PaterAugustinus, your rebuke of PostCatholic for using “she” for God ais a little misplaced. I’m sure you were angered beause he was being flippant (as he so often is), but there are things in your reply, historically as well as biblically, that an orthodox Catholic and a good historian of religion can take issue with.
First, your contrast between the Heavenly Father God and the Earth goddess as principles recognized even by pagans is way too sweeping. It is true that the earth is a goddess (Gaia), but not all goddesses are earth goddesses. You have forgotten that ancient religions had many sky goddesses: the Greeks had Hera, the Queen of heaven and goddess of the air, Selene, the moon goddess, Iris, the goddess of the rainbow and divine messenger of the gods. The Egyptians had Nut, goddess of the sky, and there are many others. Many religions have both a sky god and sky goddess. Fecundity and birth does often play a role in the lives of goddesses, but for some, like Diana, the virgin huntress, with her bow and arrows, it does not. The mythological imagination can very readily see active feminine principles.
Second, you are definitely right in saying that the masculine sex does not exhaust who God is. Which is why the Old Testament does not hesitate to employ language that speaks of a feminine /maternal aspect of God, especially in Isaiah: “Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you” (Is 49:15); “As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; And you will be comforted in Jerusalem.” (Is. 66:13). The Hebrew word most often used for God’s compassionate love is rahamin or “womb-love.”
Third: Our three latest Popes have actually spoken a great deal about the theme of the maternal nature of God. I have written about this here:
http://subcreators.com/blog/god-as-father-and-mother/
I have explored John Paul I and am planning to publish my first post on John Paul II in a day or two. I think everyone should study what these Holy Fathers have to say.
PaterAugustinus: Thanks for your thoughtful message. I personally do not believe in a god of either gender, and certainly not in one that codes its message in plate tectonics and natural disasters instead of language. I didn’t mean to insult yours particularly, I more or less typed that without a lot of thought given to the gender of a deity.
Your reply was helpful to me. I’ve often wondered how sophisticated and intelligent people reconcile large-scale natural disasters with their faith. Thank you for the time you took explaining your beliefs to me.
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Pres. Obama has promoted abortion 241 times. Do you want him to choose two more Supreme Court Justices?
If re-elected, Pres. Obama would probably get to nominate two more Supreme Court Justices.
Think about that.
No vote at all is a “yes” vote for Obama.
Now read this from Life News:
President Obama’s Abortion Record: Promoting Abortion 241 Times
Dear LifeNews.com Readers,
We truly appreciate the generous response from LifeNews readers to help us with our campaign to educate and inform people about President Barack Obama’s pro-abortion record.
The election is now down to the final two full weeks before Election Day.
We know many of you are spending countless hours telling voters about the differences between President Obama and Mitt Romney on abortion.
Mitt Romney has campaigned on a pro-life platform — overturning Roe v. Wade and appointing the right kind of judges to reverse that horrible case, de-funding the planned Parenthood abortion business, stopping taxpayer funding of abortions, signing pro-life laws that will continue providing legal protection for unborn children, and doing everything possible to reverse and repeal pro-abortion Obamacare.
But President Obama continues to ad dto his pro-abortion record: Did you know he has taken 241 actions to promote abortion or destroying human life via embryonic stem cell research?
These actions range from bill signings to speeches, and the include major appointments and placing pro-abortion judges on the Supreme Court and other important courts. Many of them involve using your tax dollars to pay for or promote abortion or pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood. 241 times! Virtually every month President Obama has been in office, he has done something to promote abortion.
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Yesterday in our religious education class I was speaking to the fourth graders about forming a good conscience and obeying God, about discerning how our conscience guides guides us in our choices, and that God has given us free will. One of the choices for discussion was voting. The children, all boys as it happens, seized on this as an opportunity to talk about which candidate they would vote for. It got very raucous very quickly, so I had to shut it down. I wanted to tell them how it might have been very different for them personalky if their candidate had his way.
Angie Mcs says:
I shudder at thinking about four more years. The justices sit for their rest of their lives, and bring their philosophies with them. Two more justices chosen by Obama ( and something tells me they would be approved in this climate of PC) will leave us a lasting trail of his ideology that would remove any hope of balanced, reasonable outcomes. His final gift to the nation.
Timothy Ephesus says:
I do not want Pres. Obama to choose our Supreme Court Justices, but the election of a different presidential candidate does not mean we get Catholic (in wisdom) Supreme Court Justices, or even pro-life Justices. (One could presume that any man less demented might make better choices.)
Father, I hear what you are saying, but I respectfully disagree with this misleading and often used slogan. Not voting is simply not voting. Obama might win because someone did not vote for the candidate who is deemed most likely to beat Obama (Romney in this election). Not Voting is not morally the same as voting for Obama, or the same as saying ‘yes’ to Obama being in office. Not voting is laziness, or it is saying ‘no’ to all the candidates available.
Voting is not going to change this society. Show me a candidate that gives truly sufficient sufficient guarantees for the protection of the rights of God and of souls, for the true good of individuals, families and of society, according to the love of God and Catholic moral teaching… and I will vote for them in heartbeat.
[Given the stakes, I think your approach is ill-advised at best. If the incumbent wins by a narrow margin in your state and the electoral votes go to him, then I think we’ll all remember your position and give you a big “Thanks for nothing, pal.”]
frjim4321 says:
Well, Romney was pro-choice before he was “pro-life,” and aside from nominating justices for SCOTUS presidents don’t have much power to end elective abortions anyway; and in the unlikely event that Roe-Wade would be overturned (a long shot) elective abortions will still take place.
We’ve already seen Ryan flip-flop over elective abortion in the case of rape and incest (vice presidential debate). So, just as LFN inflates and exaggerates the President’s record on choice, the “pro-life” rhetoric of Romney and Ryan isn’t to be trusted.
Frankly, yes I do want to see President Obama nominate the next two supreme court justices. The court needs to be brought back to the center. Citizens United was a devastating blow to democracy, and without a truly democratic system of government it is unlikely that the dignity of human life will enjoy any greater degree of recognition in our society.
I respectfully reject the logic inherent in single issue voting, particularly when advocates of an issue which on the face would tend to be preferable cannot be trusted to tell the truth.
JKnott says:
To Timothy Ephesus: Colin Donovan and Father Mitch Pacwa, had a whole program last week on the very point you are addressing. Basically, they did a very nice job addressing the many concerns of Catholics who are considering not voting, and also related answers to the current election.
Father Pacwa made the statement that if a Catholic does not vote, and an unworthy candidate is elected, it would constitute a mortal sin!
I was looking to see a link for the show but I have included a paper in this link. It might be worth your while seeing if you can find it. http://www.ewtn.com/vote/voting_faq.htm
Realistically, no candidate is the perfect practicing Catholic able to right all wrongs.
Colin Donovan pointed out that to stand on a principle that one considers personally above all, is a mark of pride and does not contribute to the common good.
Romney is not the Pope but he is certainly far more moral and pro-life than the evil of Obama.
This is not a normal election. Romney will eliminate the mandate against the Church as well as taxpayer funded abortions here and overseas. That in itself should be enough to give us reason to put on the armor of God, and engage in this spiritual warfare, fully expected by the grace of our Confirmation.
Thank you JKnott. I am aware that I may not vote for an “enemy of religion or liberty” (a man against our Faith). I am aware that I am permitted to vote for a “lesser evil”. (You would be incorrect to state that I am morally required to vote for the “lesser evil”. Prudentially there are good arguments, but it is not a moral requirement.) I am aware that failure to vote out of neglect is sinful. The link you provided does not conflict with these points.
I would be interested in looking more into the program you mentioned if you could provide a link.
Timothy Ephesus, Thank you for asking. The program aired on Oct. 14, Tues. Oct. 16, Thurs. Oct. 18
Catholicism & Voting
EWTN Theology Roundtable features Colin Donovan and staff discussing Church teaching on Catholic voting responsibilities.
http://www.ewtn.com/tv/prime/theologyroundtable.asp
I’m afraid I haven’t been able to find it on YouTube as yet. It may go up a little later in the week.
chcrix says:
Jknott. The following is not directed at you but at certain quotes in your post. I do however rely on the accuracy of your post.
Stuff and nonsense.
“Colin Donovan pointed out that to stand on a principle that one considers personally above all, is a mark of pride and does not contribute to the common good. ”
So…those who vote on the basis of perceived abortion policy are indulging in their pride at the expense of the common good? Perhaps Mr Donovan ought to think through the implications of what he says before he says it.
“Romney is not the Pope but he is certainly far more moral and pro-life than the evil of Obama.” I disagree. The warmongering of Romney cancels his so-called ‘pro-life’ credentials.
“This is not a normal election.” Once again, I disagree. This is exactly the kind of election the rigged “two party” system is intended to produce and has produced for decades. It gives the illusion of choice with the actuality of no significant changes in the policy of government.
“Romney will eliminate the mandate against the Church as well as taxpayer funded abortions here and overseas. ” Want to bet? Perhaps he will fiddle with the first one – but then so has Mr. Obama. I seriously doubt the second. Remember Obama Care is Romney care.
RomeontheRange says:
Dear Fr. Z.,
Could I ask you to read Timothy Ephesus’ post, above, and give it a considered reply? With all Christian love and greetings to him, I very much regret his stance in this matter and hope that something (or someone) can change his mind and the minds of others who think as he does. I believe you are 100% correct when you write
and I hope you will continue with other posts on this theme between now and election day. I do not mean to accuse Timothy of anything — far from it. But his orientation seems to me to be exclusively toward the preservation of what he sees as his own moral purity, without a sufficiently balanced regard for the practical consequences of the action (not voting) he contemplates. Is it not an offense against charity to refrain from giving needed practical help to one’s fellow citizens? And I wonder, too, if we do not each owe our country our vote, as a means of making good on the Lord’s commandment to “render unto Caesar.”
I know a good many people who aren’t planning to vote because they are thinking along lines like Timothy’s, and I can’t help thinking that they are are in danger of falling into a kind of political Quietism. I read a bit about Quietism a few years ago, and recall that it was recognized as a heresy by Holy Mother Church and suppressed.
Thanks, Father.
PS. Timothy, I hope you recognize that none of what I’ve written above is aimed at you personally. You simply have been the first in this thread to articulate (very clearly, I might add) an attitude with which I have been at issue for some time. RoR
No worries RomeontheRange. It would not hurt me to get set straight by Fr. Z, or to have my post made an example of… especially if what I have written is being understood as “quietism”!
mamajen says:
Well, I hope that all of the Catholics who plan to sit on their duffs live in solidly red or blue states where it won’t hurt the outcome. Fr. Z recently shared a quote on his FB which sums up the matter nicely. I don’t know how any Catholic can reconcile giving Obama four more years whether by voting or stubbornly refusing to do so. I know otherwise good Catholics who have threatened to sit out every election at least since W ran the first time, because there wasn’t a candidate good enough for them. This attitude is nothing new, and it disgusts me every time.
p.s. Father Z, I was wondering if you could perhaps link to that election prayer you posted a while ago so it would be easy to find and use daily?
Sissy says:
“Voting is not going to change this society. ”
Timothy Ephesus, this is cynical and suggests you have given in to despair. If the last four years prove anything, it is that voting does indeed change society. And if Obama is elected, our society will continue to change for the worse. We are not helpless, and our efforts do have consequences, for ill or for good. Voting does not result in a perfect result, and never will. But that doesn’t mean it does not good at all.
czemike says:
I am amazed by the lack of logic displayed on this topic! Those on the political right claim that a non-vote is a vote for Obama; on the left they scream that a non-vote (or vote for the Green Party) is a vote for Romney. A vote for a candidate is a vote for that candidate; a vote for nobody is not a vote for any candidate. If you are going to assert that my non-vote supports a given candidate, then please explain why that non-vote supports only one candidate and not all possible candidates.
More serious is the assertion that not voting could be a mortal sin. A quick refresher: for a person to commit a mortal sin (1) the act has to objectively be a mortal sin, (2) the actor must know that it’s a mortal sin, and (3) with sufficient reflection and clarity of mind we commit the act anyway. How does a non-vote meet these conditions (please back up all three points if you care to defend this position)?
Saint Thomas — and others — assert that it is the right of a people who are oppressed by a tyrant to rise up and overthrow that tyrant. That said, those carrying out the overthrow must (1) must be reasonably able to achieve success in the overthrow, (2) accept the penalties that come with a failure to achieve the overthrow, (3) must be able to maintain law and order and see to the needs of the people if they succeed with the overthrow, and (4) must be reasonably certain that not acting will result in worse conditions than if they attempt the overthrow (in short, it’s just war theory of the internal variety). Given the conditions we face in this country it is my personal opinion that (1) a force capable of overthrowing the government would be morally justified in doing so, and (2) the men in power are so well protected that no attempt to overthrow them will be successful without enormous collateral death and evil far exceeding leaving the men in power alone.
That leaves the ballot box as the only theoretical way to change the government. If you believe the elections are being conducted in a fair manner then I will agree that you have the obligation to vote. I, however, believe this election was rigged from the beginning. Regardless of who wins the election, Roe v. Wade will not be overturned, authentically pro-Life judges will not be appointed to the bench, the foreign wars of against terror will not be ended, so-called gay “marriage” will not be outlawed or overturned, oppression of the poor and middle class through inflation and taxation will not be abated, and society will be no closer to recognizing Christ as their Social King as well as their Savior and Eternal King.
It makes no practical difference whether Romney or Obama wins: the system itself is immoral and illegitimate at this point. I consider voting to be as much an endorsement of this criminal regime and morally culpable as taking part in non-Catholic “worship” which is why I will not be voting for President.
Texana says:
Timothy Ephesus
Thank you for your post! Choosing Obama over McCain in 2008 because he would end the war in Iraq and take care of the poor through Obamacare was encouraged by many priests and bishops. 54% of Catholics justified voting for evil to end a greater evil. Rather than thinking we can save the nation by voting for Romney who does advocate abortion and same-sex marriage, why can’t Catholics vote with their own souls in mind–vote for what God would find pleasing. Remember when the Israelites asked God for a king like all the other nations had? He gave them what they wanted and it wasn’t pretty! God bless your efforts, Timothy!
Timothy Ephesus, you might find this interesting:
“In the Catholic Tradition, responsible citizenship is a virtue, and participation in political life is a moral obligation. This obligation is rooted in our baptismal commitment to follow Jesus Christ and to bear Christian witness in all we do.” Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, para. 13.
Sissy, I think you were mislead by my comment. Please see the linked article to understand what I meant. http://anonisnowhere.blogspot.com/2012/03/weight-of-your-vote.html
wmeyer says:
I don’t know how any Catholic can reconcile giving Obama four more years whether by voting or stubbornly refusing to do so. I know otherwise good Catholics who have threatened to sit out every election at least since W ran the first time, because there wasn’t a candidate good enough for them. This attitude is nothing new, and it disgusts me every time.
Amen, amen. And confusing a rationale with logic doesn’t make it any better. History shows that in most cases, those who abstain or vote a third party aid the incumbent in achieving a second term. Head in the sand blather can’t alter that reality.
While it may be argued that failing to vote against Obama is not, per se, a mortal sin, one must also recognize that foreseeable outcomes (see my point above) alter the point of view. If we can foresee that abstaining or voting a 3rd party is more than likely to give Obama a 2nd term, then I posit that we can see such actions as mortally sinful.
Timothy Ephesus, czemike, and Texana: is the deliberate failure to perform a moral obligation, after you have been informed of that moral obligation, a sin?
I think that not voting for President in this election is foolish.
If you wait for a perfect candidate you will contribute to the decline of this nation.
Texana asked: “why can’t Catholics vote with their own souls in mind–vote for what God would find pleasing.”
I’ll bite, Texana. Which candidate are you endorsing in this post? Which candidate do you believe has found favor with God?
Agreed. But we don’t even have an acceptable candidate in this election. Our choices are a candidate who will masochistically take pleasure in slowly and painfully killing what morality is left in society and the other who will dispassionately put two bullets to the head of that morality. A vote for either Romney or Obama is a vote for the Culture of Death (as is a vote for the Green Party and the Libertarian Party). How is it foolish to disavow the whole system and not vote?
But we don’t even have an acceptable candidate in this election.
Objectively false. The case has been made, again and again, for those with eyes to see, and ears to hear.
How is it foolish to disavow the whole system and not vote?
Again, that has been explained again and again. As Santayana said, those who will not study history are doomed to repeat it.
frjim4321, I am pleased to see we are in agreement. Uncommon.
czemike, is it your contention that the HHS mandate requiring everyone to pay a sur-charge for abortions (due to begin in 2013) will continue under President Romney? On that issue alone, it is worth voting for Governor Romney.
Sissy: what makes you think Romney will remove that mandate? It’s possible that he will make that directive, sure.
It’s also possible that Obama and Biden will make full conversions, appoint Father Z’s as their personal chaplain, and serve as altar boys at his Masses as well (once they learn the Latin).
The former is only slightly more likely than the latter.
frjim4321, I am pleased to see we are in agreement. Uncommon. wm.
Actually it happened about four times in a row three weeks ago.
czemike, Romney has made a public commitment to cancel the mandate, and he can do that with an EO.
As to the conversion of Obama and Biden, you would be betting heavily and naively against history.
frjim4321, I know. I’m getting worried…. ;)
czemike: Romney will not only win the Presidency, but the Republican party will also regain both Houses of Congress. Not a single Republican voted for Obamacare. President Romney will have no choice but to get rid of the mandate (and I believe he fully intends to do so). We have two choices: vote for Obama and the absolute certainty of having the HHS mandate forced on us OR vote for Romney and hold his feet to the fire to keep his promise to get rid of Obamacare. Those are the only two choices. I’m voting for a sure thing when I vote against Obama….I’m voting to get him out. We’ll worry about what Romney does or doesn’t do after we get rid of Obama. We KNOW for sure what Obama is going to do. So, let’s stop that first.
“Romney has made a public commitment to cancel the mandate, and he can do that with an EO.”
Are we to believe this as fervently as our pro-abort opponents believed Obama when he said that passing FOCA would be his top priority?
“Not a single Republican voted for Obamacare.”
Sorry, Sissy… this isn’t true.
Are we to believe this as fervently…
We can listen to the candidates and reach our own conclusions about whom we can believe. Your only logical alternative is to believe nothing you hear from any candidate, and that path is useless. Your responsibility as a citizen does not vanish because you decide the two candidates are unbelievable. And again, to abstain is to fail in your responsibility.
Names?
czemike: who are the Republicans who voted for HR3200?
Romney can stop the HHS mandate with an EO on his first day in office, which he has promised to do. Obama would have needed an act of Congress to get FOCA. Romney doesn’t. Look, if you support Obama, that’s your right.
czemike, the rino list (which certainly would be trumpeting the names of any turncoats) reports no Republicans voted for it. http://www.rinolist.org/2010/08/list-of-republicans-that-voted-for-healthcare-reform/
They also provide a link to the government’s own voting report.
wmeyer, no Republican voted for HR3200, as we both very well know. I suspect czemike knows it, too.
I don’t think either of you are voting for the same candidate, however. ;-)
acardnal: Probably not. I can’t vote for the most pro-abortion man I have ever heard.
wmeyer and Sissy: While I forgot it was a committee vote, Olympia Snowe voted for it when her vote against it could have killed the bill in committee.
czemike: Snowe is the most notorious of the RINOs, and even she voted no on the floor. Committee votes are of much less interest.
Olympia Snowe and her Maine counterpart Susan Collins are RINOs.
czemike, sorry, that committee vote was unfortunate, but it was miles away from being a vote for final passage of the completed bill…..not even close. So, again, no Republican voted for HR3200. And the next Congress is even less likely to go along with Obamacare, as we are likely to have a majority in both Houses. Romney will have no choice in the matter, not that I suspect him of lying. I think he is quite sincere when he says he wants to repeal it. A vote for Obama, on the other hand, is a vote for the HHS mandate.
More views of what will happen if Romney wins
http://www.therightscoop.com/obama-rally-whats-the-worst-a-president-romney-could-do/
JKnott: The really scary thing is that these people vote!
JKnott: thanks for that. Now I know why I’m voting for Romney; my husband is making me!!! LOL. Have you ever noticed that the women who are most exercised over retaining the “right to abortion” are of an age where they aren’t likely to ever get pregnant?
JKnott: ROTFLOL. That was hilarious! I cannot even respond right now because of all these stupid, ignorant people’s comments.
PA mom says:
Our choices are a candidate who will masochistically take pleasure in slowly and painfully killing what morality is left in society and the other who will dispassionately put two bullets to the head of that morality.
I am certain that the Democratic Party feels quite relieved not to need to worry about such hyper-concern/rationalizing in their members.
The man was governor of Massachusetts FOR FREE. He donates 30% of his income. He obviously loves children and family life. He was a pastor of his church. He has run a very moral campaign against a person who has accused him of greed, dishonesty, distain for others and destruction of livelihoods and lives.
In response, Romney firmly states his case again, firmly corrects his opponent that he does not get to decide both campaign agendas, and states his case yet again. He treats Obama with respect, allowing him to state his case, and even call him a liar on national television four times, without any evidence of hatred developing.
He is living “turn the other cheek”, and “correct gently” and “winning the opposition with love.”
WHAT MORE DOES IT TAKE?
PA mom, well said. The people who wish to vote for Obama, however, do not yield to logic and reason. And certainly not to moral positions.
PA mom said speaking of Romney, “The man was governor of Massachusetts FOR FREE. He donates 30% of his income. He obviously loves children and family life. He was a pastor of his church. He has run a very moral campaign against a person who has accused him of greed, dishonesty, distain for others and destruction of livelihoods and lives.”
Excellent points!
What I have found particularly disturbing the last two years is how little our Vice President, a “catholic”, has given to charity. Not much. Bleeding heart? I don’t think so. He has free housing, free transportation, free security, etc. AND yet he gave less than 2 percent of his AGI ($379,178) to charity in 2011 ($5,350) and about the same in 2010. Shameful!
If you don’t believe me, go here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/04/18/president-obama-and-vice-president-biden-s-tax-returns-and-tax-receipts
At least Obama gave 14 percent in 2011 to charity.
acardnal: Our household AGI is a small fraction of Biden’s, yet our donations are about 2/3 of his. And I feel badly that we have been unable to do better.
“[Romney] was governor of Massachusetts FOR FREE.”
Where he supported pro-abortion, pro-gay-“marriage”, and the forefunner to ObamaCare.
wmeyer: You said “Snowe is the most notorious of the RINOs, and even she voted no on the floor. Committee votes are of much less interest.”
I find it hard to believe you’re being serious here. Snowe could have killed the whole bill by voting against it leaving committee (her vote broke the tie). Who cares how she voted in the end when her vote wasn’t enough to kill the bill!
Mr. Romney’s latest word on the subject (embedded here):
http://christiannews.net/2012/10/17/romney-releases-new-television-ad-underscoring-support-for-abortion-contraception/
czemike, you can complain about Romney all you want. But you only have two choices: vote for Obama or vote against him. You have a moral obligation to vote. You have a moral obligation to do what you can to help reverse course that this president has led us down. Hold your nose if you must, but voting Obama out of office is really the best you can do at this point. Let’s work on Romney later.
Since Mr. Romney promotes actual abortion in some cases, it seems likely that he uses ‘contraception’ loosely to include abortifacients. If so, is he as likely to guarantee the availability of abortifacients as president as he said he would be to guarantee ‘contraceptives’ were he again governor?
“Promotes”?
I do not quite see how “responsible citizenship” and/or “participation in political life” = a moral obligation to vote for abortion advocate A in preference to abortion advocate B
Or does that fail to do justice to what is being asserted? If so, what is being asserted?!
Venerator-seriously. He doesn’t “promote”abortion. Allowing the continuance of it in extremely rare instances is the polar opposite of what we are currently facing.
Last thing I have to say. Don’t debate me, ask God. Really. I did last time, knowing almost nothing about Obama, but that everyone seemed so infatuated with him. I asked for a sign, and I got it. I read an article in some woman’s magazine about Mrs McCain, where it told of how she adopted their last child from Mother Teresa’s nuns. I figured, if they would say yes to Mother Teresa, that was all I needed to know.
If ‘wishes to guarantee the availability of’ is not the same as ‘promotes’, what is it?
Expansion vs contraction. Perhaps not a theological theory, but it clarifies it for me.
I’ve commented before that politics is not religion, and it is fatal to get them confused.
One thing that political conservatives seem to be unable to comprehend is the concept of “incrementalism”. Brick by brick, as you might say in another context. :-)
If you wait for a candidate sufficiently “pure” to satisfy an absolutist position, you will be waiting forever. You get the best candidate you can, hold his feet to the fire, and then get a better candidate.
In the situation we have here, we have a choice: (1) an amoral abortion absolutist who has viciously attacked our Church, has no respect for the Constitution or the rule of law, and has already indicated that he will have “more flexibility” in a second term to resort to even more radical governance; (2) a man of more traditional moral positions and demonstrated respect for laws, who says that he has undergone a conversion wrt abortion after being the governor of a very liberal state some time ago. He was not my preferred candidate, and I’m not sure I trust what is the rough equivalent of a “jailhouse conversion”. BUT – with a pro-life majority in the Congress we can hold his feet to the fire, given that he presumably wants a second term.
The choice seems very clear to me. Besides, we believe in conversion, right? :-)
Where is there a clear commitment to scale back to “extremely rare instances” as a salami-tactic step to abolition (or reduction to ‘double-effect’)?
Well, we have a clear commitment from Romney to re-implement the Mexico City Accords and to support defunding of PP. We have a clear commitment to reverse the HHS mandate immediately, and to support Congressional repeal of Obamacare. We have a vastly improved chance of getting decent SC appointees. And all of that is better than the future we are guaranteed under a second Obama term.
Inaction is a deliberate choice to ignore evil. In this case, refusing to actively vote Obama act is just a tacit way of supporting him. Silence is assent, and inaction is an act of omission.
Southern Catholic says:
Please do explain this statement, instead of just spouting what the liberal media tells you.
The court is at the center, 4 liberals and 5 conservatives with one of those that mostly sides with the liberal. Frjim you can’t serve two gods, but it seems you are hell bent on worshiping the liberal politics.
Were there to be a pro-life majority in Congress, would they be likely to do anything about a more flexible Mr. Obama (should he continue to be ‘Occupier in Chief’)? Would they be able, or unable to do so? Has whatever sort of majority there now is in the House done everything it could have done to restrain (etc.) Mr. Obama? If not, why not?
A refusal to support evil, is a refusal to support evil, whether a greater or a ‘lesser’ evil.
Incidentally, ‘Qui tacet’ may also have gone off line… :)
It is not about saving the nation, people. It is all about saving your souls!
Well, thank you, Texana. I appreciate you trying to save my soul. Since our Catholic leaders are urging us to choice the “lesser evil”, perhaps you can find time to save their souls, as well.
But what do you mean by “evil”? It’s unclear from your proposal.
It seems that how you are defining “evil” is “an evil candidate”, or perhaps “a candidate who supports, even in part, something evil.”
I think we need to cut to the chase here: “evil” = “abortion”, that evil and that sin which we all are trying to oppose.
Looking at it that way, by sitting home and refusing to vote for a candidate who has committed to oppose abortion-promoting legislation and reinstate policies which discourage abortion, you are refusing to vote for an actual reduction of “evil” – a decrease in the actual number of babies slain by the abhorrent practice, even if it is not eliminated entirely. Therefore, you are failing to support the elimination of some abortions.
By so doing, you are also refusing to challenge (by the only means possible to us as individuals) the policies of the incumbent, who is in full-throated support of abortion for any reason and no reason, and even declined to oppose the killing of babies who somehow manage to survive an abortion. (Unless, of course, you subscribe to the ‘seamless garment’ theory of one of our posters here, who believes that ‘social justice’ will somehow magically reduce the number of abortions.)
AAM: Thank you for that post. I can’t understand how any faithful Catholic can seriously think it’s ok to sit home waiting for the perfect, pure candidate to come riding up like Sir Galahad while the rest of us are laboring to free our country from imminent disaster.
Let’s simplify this: more babies will die under Obama’s policies than under Romney’s.
acardnal: game, set, and match.
Sissy,
I understand where they’re coming from — but the place to get the best bang for your ideological buck is in the primaries.
Probably the most ideologically “pure” of the major Republican candidates was Santorum. He wasn’t able to get sufficient support to prevail, and I wonder how many people who are now complaining about Romney’s insufficient credentials on abortion actually sent money to or worked to get Santorum on the ballot or TV or mailings in their state.
But even if you knocked yourself out and gave substantial sums to Santorum, the reality of the primary process is that one candidate prevails. As I said, Romney wasn’t my preferred candidate, but he’s the one we’ve got. (Santorum, by the way, has endorsed Romney.)
acardnal,
Exactly. A good and memorable summary.
AAM, I didn’t support Romney in the primaries, either. He was my last choice. But, I think I sold him short; he has impressed me since winning the nomination. But even if I still disliked him, I could never just sit idly by and take a chance on Obama winning a second term. There is too much at stake.
Katheryn says:
I can’t even look at my Facebook page right now… People are making fun of Romney with Obama’s comment about bayonets and horses and all I want to do is scream
“HOW DOES THAT MAKE IT OKAY TO KILL BABIES!?!?!? “
Oh, the political commentary on FB is polarized, to say the least. Of course, most of my FB friends are well to the right of the soup spoon, since they are mostly hunters, dog trainers, and such like folks. The only liberals I’ve ‘friended’ are the musicians, who sadly tend to be both (1) very liberal and (2) incredibly ignorant on practical matters, including politics (as well as such essentials as how to change a tire or run a chainsaw). Guess it goes with the territory – my mom is a professional dancer and possibly the most politically naive person that I know. Fortunately my dad’s vote cancels hers out!
I occasionally try to talk sense with some of my liberal FB acquaintances, but on the subject of Obama they are completely indoctrinated (and completely unhinged). It’s like trying to reason with a lunatic who thinks he’s a poached egg (to crib from C.S. Lewis).
Yeah, musician here, lots of liberal friends. I just want to see funny cat videos and baby pics on FB.
Save the babies!
Agree on the videos, but funny dog videos are good too :-)
My personal fave: Ultimate Dog Tease
I can pray for you but I cannot save your soul. That is up to you and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Texana, I always appreciate prayers.
Johnno says:
Why the ‘voting for the lesser of two evils’ mentality is stupid.
http://youtu.be/4R4KtYVF-74
8 Years ago, people are told to vote for the lesser of two evils to prevent greater evil from winning
Things get a little worse.
4 years ago, people are told to vote for the lesser to two evils to prevent a greater evil from winning.
This year, people are again encouraged to vote for the lesser of two evils to prevent a greater evil from winning.
And you bet things will get worse. Not as worse, but worse none the less.
Next election, people will again be encouraged to vote for the lesser of two evils, because we absolutely again cannot let a greater evil win…
And the next election after that, people will again be encouraged to vote for the lesser of two evils, because we absolutely again cannot let a greater evil win…
What’s that definition of insanity again? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?
Eventually, things get a little worse and a little worse and a little worse, until one day you wake up to find that the greater evil is already accomplished and you helped it all along. It was just willing to be more patient than you were.
You know why all these evil people have won and why America and the world in general is so evil? Because those evil people didn’t compromise! They stuck to their principles unerringly. They were patient, and every time they gained a little more ground and a little more ground and a little more ground, knowing their their opponents (ALL OF US!) Were willing to compromise and settle for always electing the lesser of two evils. All they had to do was wait and keep at it.
Sorry Fr. Z, I’ll have to agree with those that have said enough is enough and are no longer going to compromise. This isn’t just an American thing. The same pattern is happening in democracies worldwide. When time comes for me to vote. I will not choose the lesser of two evils. I’ll go with the one that has no evil, even if their chances of winning are niche. But I’m going to keep voting for them and encourage others until inevitably we weather the storm and grow and come out on top.
If there is no such party then I will exercise my right not to vote. Because enough people not voting will also send a message to certain parties about what principles they ought to care about if they want our votes for next time. I’m going to obey God to do only what is right even in the face of grave circumstances and let Him worry about the long term solution. That’s all He expects of us. Your method has never worked, and the mess America and the world is in is due to that ‘lesser of evils’ attitude. You may vote however you strategically feel is best, and I understand why you would and respect your right to. But I believe you will not accomplish much in the long run, and it is the long run you ought to worry about, rather than the short one. That’s what the progressives concentrated on, and that is why they are winning, and we are losing. The children of darkness are more cunning than the children of light.
A drastic change is needed. You might say, “well, we’ll take the short term victory now and worry about changing course next election.” That won’t happen Father Z. I bet if there ever is an election next time we’d be back here again with you encouraging American Catholics to vote the lesser of two evils because we can’t let greater evil win. And the same will be true for Canada, and Europe and the world over…
acardnal:
Let’s simply this:
-Under Obama, babies will die, guaranteed.
-Under Romney, you hope fewer babies will die, but there’s no guarantee.
Simplifying further:
-Your voting methods over the long term for a progressively lesser evil will always result in more babies dying, guaranteed.
-Taking a different course of long term strategy to avoid the lesser evils altogether will hopefully result in fewer babies dying to no babies dying, but there’s no guarantee.
Though as Alan Keyes pointed out…
– Obama has trouble getting his greater evils passed due to opposition from Republicans.
– Romney will have less resistance getting lesser evils passed because he is Republican, and the Democrats will always settle for lesser evils to take what they can get.
-So which situation is really the lesser of two evils anyway?
chantgirl says:
FrJim4321 says- “I respectfully reject the logic inherent in single issue voting, particularly when advocates of an issue which on the face would tend to be preferable cannot be trusted to tell the truth.”
Fr. Jim, with all due respect, how can you trust a man who is vehemently supportive of killing innocent children, and forcing Catholics to pay for it against their consciences? How does such a man deserve any trust whatsoever?! If the single issue we are talking about here is the murder of millions of innocent human beings, how does that not take precedent over anything else? How can a man who supports killing babies be trusted to uphold anyone’s rights? Romney is not 100% pro-life, and not my favorite candidate, but he is leagues better than Obama when it comes to abortion. We have a genuine holocaust going on here, and we need to at least apply a turniquet if we can’t achieve a full-blown cure right now. For goodness sake, what issue can possibly be more important to you?
Sorry, that should be “take precedence”.
pmullane says:
Can I offer another perspective?
We in the UK have 3 mainstream political parties that are entirely and in lockstep united in their support for the gravest evils of modern society, that is unlimited abortion and the promotion of unnatural faux marriage. Catholics are forced, through taxation, to pay for abortion, IVF, ‘gender reassisgnment surgery’ (the mutilation of bodies) and other abhorrences. Our government gives money to NGO’s that advicate for the destruction of marriage and the killing of children here and abroad. This has all happened because people lost their moral sense and progressivists have managed to influence society. Faithful Catholics ceded so much ground and have failed in their duties towards their brothers and sisters. I would love to have a Mitt Romney or a Paul Ryan anywhere near elected office in this country but its so unlikely as to be fanciful. And if you, faithful Catholics of America, by your high handedness allow Obama a second term in office, this too will be your future, because you will have proved that the votes are there if you give away enough free stuff and promote the destruction of life and of marriage, but the votes are not there amoungst pro life and pro marriage people. If a candidate has to so perfectly match your standards before you vote for them, then you’ll find the general tenor of candidates drifting away from your positions, towards the positions of those who are willing to compromise a little.
Elections are a bellweather of the times they are held in, if you want a candidate that reflects your views, you need to spend the four years between elections working hard to convince other that your positions are right. No point in waking up one November every 4 years and complaining that nobody thinks the way you do, you need to change the culture in between times. Many people in America are doing so, and from my perspective are doing so a lot more effectively than we are here. Vote for the best guy on the ticket (Romney/Ryan by a mile) then do everything you can to change the culture so that you can vote in an even more perfect candidate next time.
Final thought, Romney may not be perfect, ok, but if he wins 2 terms its likely that faithful, practising, orthodox Catholic Paul Ryan will be running for president in 2020. Surely another reason to vote for this ticket?
Imrahil says:
I have said that I do not mind clergy politicizing when they have a clear, irreproachable moral cause to do so; and even defended that as necessarily included in the freedom of religion.
But that is supposing they have an irreproachable moral cause to do so. Now according to the information stated it is vitally clear that to vote for Candidate Romney is no moral obligation; and then a clergy should not say so and even throw the threat of moral sin around (the case of mere laziness excepted). Also, whatever may be said about scolding others for their sins, I do not think it will help the political debate to scold them for things done in accordance with their conscience, a conscience that in this context cannot be proven to be ill-informed.
Ethics of “let’s do good and may God sort it out (Max Weber’s “Gesinnungsethik”) does have, in other contexts at least, the benefit of being also the most effective forms of Practical Ethics (Verantwortungsethik). The point is that incrementalism also works other way, and – if I may even say it – human experience points rather to the contrary than “we will get a better candidate next time”.
(And if I just say it, while it is immoral nonsense to speak of abortion as a right, we might remember that we are still technically and juridically speaking of tolerating evil. Hence it is at best misleading to say “the State kills so and so many millions of babies”. The principal sinner is, sorry ladies, the woman in question; and while there is a moral confusion about many things, still I do not think the moral confusion is as yet so big that the woman in case wouldn’t in most cases have an actual call of conscience not to kill her unborn child. The very amount of pressure to render it acceptable speaks for that.)
Another thing: I would not personally think of voting as rendering Caesar his due. Rendering Caesar his due is taxes, military service, obedience to positive law where meant to be morally binding and acceptable in conscience, singing the national anthem, and the sort of thing. Voting is a militant action of fighting for the Kingdom of Christ; it is giving God His due. (That can be done by a temporal retreat from the lesser important target to attack with full force the more important.) Giving Caesar his due is being ruled, not ruling (even by marginal participation).
But that’s rather personal feeling and of course I accept also the other way…
All that being said, if I were an American citizen… but that’s mingling into foreign affairs, isn’t it? Let it be put this way: I would not choose the action I defended in this comment. [Also, it may be said that I assumed the assertion that Candidate Romney is a lesser-but-an-evil by hypothesis; I have neither authority nor knowledge to judge on the matter.]
Citizens United was a devastating blow to democracy, and without a truly democratic system of government it is unlikely that the dignity of human life will enjoy any greater degree of recognition in our society.
The Citizens United decision is overrated. It merely permits what was being done before indirectly to be done now directly.
JonPatrick says:
Well said pmullane.
If I may add another perspective, it is that perhaps we expect too much out of our politicians. While I will vote for Romney I have no illusions that he is sincerely committed to pro-life policies based on his record here in Massachusetts. I suspect his main focus will be in turning the economy around and trying to undo the damage of the last 4 years. At least he may nominate more conservative supreme court judges than Obama would. However we are living in the world, a world that is not our ultimate home, and once that always has and always will have different values from God’s values. Working within the political system has its limitations as we will always come up against these compromises that are made because politicians are of the world. Our focus needs to be on trying to save souls by how we live our lives and by working withing our families and our communities, both within the church as well as our neighborhoods.
So while I will vote for the lesser of 2 evils, as well as 2 ballot questions here in Mass which are probably more important (given that Mass is sure to go for Obama anyway) one is to allow doctor assisted suicide, the other is to legalize medical marijuana.
Johnno
Thank you for your heartfelt contribution!
With respect to Texana, Johnno, I’m going to follow the guidance of my Bishop, Fr. Z, and yes, even Fr. Jim.
Here’s what my Bishop has to say on the matter:
http://www.vacatholic.org/documents/BishopsElectionStatement2012.pdf
Texana’s concern for my soul notwithstanding, I’m going to be guided by my Catholic leaders. Others can “lean on their own understanding” as they see fit.
Others can “lean on their own understanding” as they see fit.
Bearing in mind, however, that one of the things which distinguishes us from the Protestants is that we recognize the teaching role of the Magisterium. TO be Catholic and ignore the guidance of bishops and priests is surely to endanger your soul, Texana.
Which candidate supports no evil or hasn’t done any evil, Johno? The fact is they all are sinners, none of them are perfect. I’m waiting to hear who this good candidate is from people that say we shouldn’t vote for either candidate.
At any rate, only four candidate have a possibility of winning, because only four are on enough ballets to win the 270 electoral votes needed to win. Besides Obama and Romney, the only other two that could win are Jill Stein and Gary Johnson. Both are just as “evil”, if not worse then Romney and Obama for what they support.
wmeyer said: “one of the things which distinguishes us from the Protestants is that we recognize the teaching role of the Magisterium”
Speaking as a former protestant, AMEN! The last thing I am interested in is “free-lancing”. I’m grateful for sound guidance and godly instruction from holy priests like Fr. Z and my Bishop.
Thank you JonPatrick. I often envy America insofar as it still has polititians willing to stand up for the truth. I feel it would be a great shame to let the perfect become the enemy of the good.
They are all sinners, as are we. Each of them has flaws, as does each of us.
The damage of the last 4 years, as mentioned by JonPatrick, has been huge, and will take tremendous effort to reverse. The harsh reality is that our government is out of control, and spending as though money had no meaning. Of course, to a Keynesian, that’s pretty much the case. What Romney can’t campaign for with any chance of winning is to make serious and deep cuts, not to increases in spending, but to actual spending.
Increasing taxes on the rich may sound pretty to some, but mathematically, it’s a poor joke. They do not have enough money–even if all were confiscated–to make even a tiny dent in our fiscal problems. Harping on this is one of the more heinous lies in which Obama has persisted.
Dear @Southern Catholic,
the point is that we are not talking about sinners; indeed sins as such do not even enter the question. Would Ex-Governor Schwarzenegger in some position reenter politics, he should not be called down on the charge of adultery. He should be even praised for the nowadays rare thing of, after being dumped for adultery, wanting back to his wife.
We vote not on moral refinement; we vote on plans, programs, and convictions. And while it is generally known that all men (save two) are sinners, there are a great amount of men who are entirely right on their convictions (known as the capital-C Catholics; I simplify, something regarding the completeness of even their information must be taken into account; but as a good simplification this will go). It should not be asking too much if we ask that some among them have enough education to put forth an entirely fine program.
I do not know whether Candidate Romney has such a program; I do not know (though, judging from hearsay, it seems to me the most probably variety) that if he does not while some of his fellow-Primary candidates did; I do not know whether there has been such a problem at all. But
[Just saying: The problem of not having a party to speak for the Catholics did arise in Germany in the 1870s. The result was that they founded a party of their own, the Center, and gave it massive support from official Church side.]
But… the thing should not be dismissed as unrealistic; because it cannot. It would mean surrendering before even seeking chances to fight.
Aconservative Congress is key
Imrahil, there is no way we could have a Catholic Party in the US right now. Catholics in this country are deeply divided about social issues and governing strategies. It would be ugly, to say the least, to try to form a cohesive party. The Bishops can’t even agree with each other. It would be a huge scandal to see Catholics at each others’ throats over every single social issue of the day.
Timothy Ephesus, a conservative congress is very important, but without a veto-proof majority, we still need a conservative President. Besides, presidents can funnel a lot of money to immoral things by executive order (Mexico City policy and embryonic stem cell research), so we still need a conservative President.
Southern Catholic:
I am not American, but we face the same issues here in Canada. Our own Conservative leader recently forced his own party to throw out the personhood debate that would’ve brought the issue of abortion to the forefront. Our own Conservative Prime Minister vowed during the election to never bring up the abortion issue. Every other party is so pro-abortion, it’s ridiculous. Nothing will change. As the old saying goes… “The Liberal Values of today, will be the Conservative values of tomorrow.”
I don’t expect politicians to be perfect moral individuals themselves. However, I do demand that their policies be moral. Or at least that they will try their damnest to fight for these issues even if they fail. There is a limit to how much evil I will allow them to get away with. Maybe they might favor homosexual tolerance. But if they favor or do nothing against Abortion, then that is unacceptable. Period.
I fully understand the dilemma you and other Americans are in. All your current candidates suck. You did have a chance to have a great man, Pon Paul run for President, but dirty tactics in the GOP that threw democracy out the window didn’t allow him to go through, because he was against things that both major parties were obligated to hold for the sake of a shadow government. I would have recommended the Libertarian position, but Gary Johnson is not strictly Libertarian and he is pro-abortion and pro-homosexual. Were he to only hold those opinions as his own personal evils and left it out of government hands like Ron Paul would’ve, then he’d be more electable. But he will not, so he is also evil and unelectable. Sadly your only options are :vote Romney, or not vote in protest and let them know why you take that stance, or find a lesser known party, I’ve heard some mention a Constitutional party in certain States who favors a return to strict Constitutional principles. They will not win in the current climate, but perhaps you can support them with the outlook of a long term solution. Similarly there is a small Christian party in Canada, but they are out of my area so I cannot vote for them.
Only you can decide for yourself how best to vote. But if someone else chooses to vote in a different way or to not vote, then I believe you can also understand their dilemma. The other option of course is a nation-wide revolt. But thus far not many have the courage to stand up to the vast Assyrian Horde and the wall of Jericho that is the powerful U.S. Establishment State and the banking interests behind it. But keep this up and sooner or later we will lose permanently. Perhaps it is time that the remaining faithful Catholics became more stubborn in the face of the enemy and refused to play their game. This can be done peacefully.
If I were in the U.S. I’d personally hope that Catholics would as a bloc not vote for anyone out of protest and made this statement loud and clear to the press and the Republican party. And if Obama wins and tries to force the HHS mandate, that Catholic organizations would together simply be civilly disobedient. Throw federal money out. Refuse to pay the fines and face the harsher penalties and remain stubborn in the face of jail time. Let them persecute us, freeze our bank accounts and property under the unconstitutional NDAA. Maybe even kill us. Of course it’s all easy for me as a single man with nothing to lose to say this. So I can understand if others with family or employees to look after etc. would prefer to avoid all this. I do not have an answer as to what you should do. I can only say what I think is the better strategy for the sake of our souls and to demonstrate to the world the evil that it does for the sake of sexual pleasure.
If we can weigh the lives of children on the scales between Obama and Romney and vote based on that. Then surely some of us can weigh their lives on the scales with regards to different short-term to long-term strategies. It is abhorrent either way that we must do this. But it is not immoral for Catholics to vote or not vote if they intend to seek a different strategy than the two-party ouroborous that we are forced to remain inside of.
Another strategy that is too late to implement now, is that Faithful Catholics form together to begin another grassroots third party. One that is strictly Catholic and continuously vote for them year after year, city by city, State by State, letting the biological solution work over the long term, trusting in God to aid us in this long term quest where we throw ourselves wholly at His providence, just like the King of Israel did rather than just take the ‘choice’ offered by the invading Babylonians to fight and die or surrender and become slaves. After doing so, an Angel of the Lord wiped them out in a single night. THAT is a strategy I’m going to follow if enough Catholics can do so. So vote how you can now, and I recommend spreading that idea around for the next election time and throw off the yoke of the immoral 2-party system for a divine solution and a third way. The devil doesn’t need you to always choose the greater evil. He is perfectly fine if you pick the lesser one. So do as Lewis said, and pick the option the devil doesn’t tell you about. Follow God. And if there is no solution presenting itself. Begin one! There is always hope. But hope only works so long as someone is willing to take that narrow path that is open to them while the gates are still open. So it’s best not to delay for too long.
Dear @Johnno,
we’ve been prophecied that we won’t come to end with the cities of Israel until Our Lord cometh back to Judgment.
There’s always emigration.
Wasn’t this why America was founded in the first place?
Complete nonsense. If you live in a state that Romney will definitely win, like Kentucky, then not voting is a vote for Romney. If you live in hellhole, like New York, that Obama will win, then not voting means you don’t want to participate. If you live in a swing state where voting can make a difference, then not voting means dropping out of the charade our masters put on to titillate us.
You did have a chance to have a great man, Pon Paul run for President…
Dr. Paul has had some terrific ideas, but he has also demonstrated clearly on a number of occasions that he may have one or two screws loose. In general, the Libertarian party has had a history of running people for office whose world view was… interesting. (I’m trying to be charitable.)
I would credit many of Dr. Paul’s ideas and principles to his being a good student of economics. And I would say that our present woes owe much to the widespread ignorance among voters of that same science.
We live in a Republic in which the people are supposed to choose representatives for government. If neither candidate bearing an R or a D is one who represents you, I see no moral problem with voting for a third party candidate that represents you. This is, in fact, the responsibility of a representational government. I have both the right, and the moral duty to oppose both candidates for president, not because they are imperfect, but because their words and their actions both support the same intrinsic evils. We have the experience of the rabidly evil agenda under Obama, but I would propose that Romney’s words and actions are radically evil. I will vote, there is no excuse not to. I don’t know if the elections will be rigged, if dead people or people who are not citizens will vote. All I know is I have a duty that extends beyond presidential candidates to vote. I will take the time to obtain a sample ballot, review all candidates for all offices and judiciary positions and proposed amendments, and I will vote. Sitting out the election is not responsibility, it is simply laziness or despair. There’s always hope.
Johno,
I thank you for you in depth post, however I take issue with this statement, “You did have a chance to have a great man, Pon Paul run for President. While he should be commended for trying to pass the Sanctity of Life Act multiple times, he voted against an Act that would make it a crime to transfer women into another state to get an abortion. So he seems to be as pro-life as Romney when it comes to these issues(meaning he filp-flops a lot). He also has stated that he accepted that gays had the right to marriage.
Lets also address Libertarianism, which in the American sense is free market policies and the expansion of social liberties(socially liberal). This political position conflicts with Catholic morality because a) the expansion of abortion rights, gay marriage, euthanasia, etc and b) the regulation of the economy solely by the laws of the free market(CCC 2425). So I can’t justify voting Ron Paul or Gary Johnson over Mitt Romney when it comes to which is supporting less evil.
Well dear @Cathy, I think the representative element within the American Constitution is meant to be represented in the House of Representatives, which has its name for a reason…
Dear @Southern Catholic, someone here mentioned prudence. If you want any chance of success for the pro-life-movement, then – as far as can be done without actual lying and in honestly answering questions when posed – then the only thing which can look towards any success is doing one’s best to exclude from the debate the abortion-after-rape, abortion-or-mother-dead, abortion-or-mother-seriously-injured questions.
To understand me right: we will not conquer by watering down what also is irrefutable truth; but there is no realistic chance either to do so by exhaustive investigation whether those who have, at any rate, publicly joined our flag really do hold all this flag stands for.
And an important thing is also: we have an actual moral confusion about the said issues, and great masses think that abortion is justified after rape, as opposed to a mother’s death or serious injure. That renders it more or less impossible in a democracy to change law on that.
On the other hand, we do not have such a moral confusion about abortion in general. About this, we have a lot of political correctness to protect an opinion noone really holds (viz. its justifyability).
If neither candidate bearing an R or a D is one who represents you, I see no moral problem with voting for a third party candidate that represents you.
Cathy, history teaches us that a third party vote is likely to benefit the incumbent, rather than the challenger. Can you see that giving Obama a second term would be a moral problem? If so, then you must be able to see that contributing to that outcome would be a moral problem for any voter who chooses a third party candidate.
Cathy said: “I see no moral problem with voting for a third party candidate that represents you.”
That’s the problem, Cathy. That 3rd party candidate is not going to represent you. You might as well cast a write-in for yourself or for Pope Benedict XVI. It might feel morally satisfying to you, but it’s just another form of refusing to take action. You are fooling yourself that you are voting, when you are really just going through the motions and faking it. It’s still an act of omission, because you had a chance to eliminate a 100% evil candidate and refused to do it.
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Q 5: What is the ruling of Islam on reciting Qur'an before the Jumu`ah (Friday) Prayer using microphones? When a person objects to this act as not related in the Sunnah, they accuse him of preventing the recitation of the Qur'an. What about the Ibtihalat (religious hymns) (Part No. 2; Page No. 496) heard on microphones shortly before the Adhan (call to Prayer) of the Fajr (Dawn) Prayer? When objecting to this baseless act, it is said that it is a good deed aiming at awakening the people for the Fajr Prayer.
A: There is no evidence supporting that such acts were committed during the lifetime of the Messenger (peace be upon him) or any of his Sahabah (Companions). The same goes for the Ibtihalat heard before the Fajr Prayer through microphones. These two acts are Bid`ah (innovation in religion) and every Bid`ah leads to misguidance. It is authentically reported that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Whoever innovates something in our affairs, which is not in harmony with the principles of our religion, that thing is to be rejected. May Allah grant us success. May peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and Companions.
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Galaxy sculpture
Galaxy is a sculpture made by Karl Theiss and François Schuiten at the request of Michel Wittamer to remember the year when Michel presented original comic artwork in his gallery Avenue Louise (Brussels).
The sculpture is made in bronze, dodecahedron in rosewood. The mechanism drives the two openwork shutters, which can be completely drawn back into the hemisphere, at the same time the dodecahedron turns on itself. Height: 57 cm diameter sphere: 33 cm.
Galaxy shows the cosmos, star shapes and mythological figures in the history of mankind. François Schuiten worked two and a half years on its design, together with Karl Theiss and Liège smelters to produce this interlaced mysterious object of symbolic images. Eight copies were cast in bronze, which allows the sculpture to be considered an original work just like Rodin, Caesar or Giacometti.
“The prototype was made of wood by Karl Theiss who I worked for years onwards”, says François Schuiten. “We had already, for example, imagined a meteor rail together. Michel Wittamer asked us to create a single object; We sought to innovate in the symbolic signs, finding a dating bridge between sculpture and drawing, somewhere in a new cosmic dimension. Galaxy is a sphere inspired by old world maps but hollow and inhabited by an inner landscape that is discovered by operating a tangled network of structures. This is an intriguing object. The artistic intention is to open the mind to fiction and fantasy story. ”
The artist considers Galaxy as “a sweet madness.” Karl Theiss and François Schuiten have wandered hundreds of hours to create this “object that serves no purpose.” With the only reward at the end of this imaginary journey the pleasure of seeing their dreams cast in bronze.
8 bronze copies were made and cast in bronze. Signed and numbered from January to August.
One copy was sold on an auction in 2011 for 20.000 euros 1). Another copied was offered by a gallery for again 20.000 euros 2)
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Bharatbhai Bhimabhai Bharwad Vs. State of Gujarat and Others
[Criminal Appeal Nos. 1162-1163 of 2019 arising out of SLP (CRL.) Nos. 3204-3205 of 2019]
R. BANUMATHI, J.
2. These appeals are preferred against the order dated 26.02.2019 passed by the High Court of Gujarat at Ahmedabad in Criminal Misc. Application Nos.3528 of 2019 and 3529 of 2019 and order dated 07.03.2019 -
"On note for speaking to minutes of order dated 26.02.2019 in R/CR.MA/3529/2019" in and by which the High Court declined to interfere with the order passed by the trial court granting bail to respondents No.2 and 3-accused No.1 and 2 and further relegating the appellant complainant to approach the Sessions Court on the alleged breach of condition of bail and for imposing the appropriate conditions.
3. The father of respondents No.2 and 3-accused No.1 and 2 were loaned money by the father of complainant-Bharatbhai Bhimabhai Bharwad and due to grudge about the transactions, on 10.01.2019, the complainant-Bharatbhai and the witnesses were abused. On 10.01.2019 at 15:30 hours, Kishanbhai respondent No.2-accused No.1 inflicted sword blow on the head of Ajitbhai (brother of complainant) and when Ajitbhai tried to save himself by lifting his hand, his left hand palm was cut. Alpeshbhai-respondent No.3-accused No.2 also dealt sword blow on the chest of Ajitbhai and when prevented, the blow caused injuries on his right hand elbow. Ravibhai-accused No.3 has dealt indiscriminate blows of stick on the complainant and caused injuries to him. Shaileshbhai-friend of complainant also sustained injuries on both of his hands. On the complaint lodged by the complainant, FIR was registered in Crime No.02/2019 at Viramgam Rural Police Station under Sections 323, 324, 326, 307, 504, 506(2) and 114 IPC.
4. Respondents No.2 and 3 and other accused were arrested on 16.01.2019 and were remanded to judicial custody on 17.01.2019. The respondents No.2 and 3-accused No.1 and 2 filed bail application which was allowed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Viramgam vide order dated 06.02.2019. After considering the arguments and also the materials placed before the court, the learned Additional Sessions Judge observed that prima-facie case is made out against the accused and gravity of offence has to be taken into consideration. However, the learned Additional Sessions Judge granted bail on the ground that the injured Ajitbhai was discharged from the hospital on 24.01.2019 and other injured witness-Shaileshbhai was also discharged from the hospital and that weapons allegedly used in the commission of offence have been recovered and also the statements of important witnesses are recorded. The trial court also observed that accused are young, having no criminal antecedents and that they are permanent inhabitants of Sokli village and their presence can easily be secured and on those findings, granted bail to respondents No.2 and 3 inter alia by imposing various conditions.
5. Challenging the order granting bail to respondents No.2 and 3, the complainant-Bharatbhai filed Criminal Misc. Application No.3528 of 2019 before the High Court. The High Court observed that though the appellant had raised other grounds challenging the grant of regular bail and has also restricted his arguments to the effect that there is breach of condition of bail. Pointing out that the appellant-complainant has restricted his arguments to the effect that there is breach of condition of bail, the High Court relegated the appellant to the Sessions Court to raise the objection on the alleged breach of condition and imposing the appropriate conditions.
Learned counsel for the appellant then filed an application before the Registrar "Speaking to minutes in respect of common order dated 26.02.2019 passed in Criminal Misc. Application No.3528 of 2019 and 3529 of 2019" inter alia contending that the offence is very grave and that the appellant has challenged the very exercise of discretion in granting bail to the accused and therefore, prayed to circulate the "speaking to minutes" to the Hon'ble Judge in respect of the order dated 26.02.2019 which came to be dismissed vide order dated 07.03.2019.
6. We have heard Mr. Abhishek Singh, learned counsel for the appellant and Mr. Sushil Kumar Jain, learned senior counsel for respondents No.2 and 3 and perused the impugned orders and other materials on record.
7. Placing reliance upon Anil Kumar Yadav v. State (NCT of Delhi) and Another (2018) 12 SCC 129 at paras (17-18), learned counsel for the appellant has submitted that while granting bail, the relevant considerations like; nature of seriousness of the offence; the impact of grant of bail that may make on the prosecution witnesses; likelihood of his tampering the evidence and others aspects should be taken into 5 consideration. It was submitted that due to the attack by respondents No.2 and 3, injured Ajitbhai has lost the use of his right thumb and four fingers of his left hand are immobilized which shows the gravity of offence and seriousness of allegations.
It was further submitted that though the petition was filed before the High Court under Section 439(2) Cr.P.C.- the provision meant for cancellation of bail, the appellant in fact has challenged the very exercise of discretion in favour of the accused, in view of gravity of the offence and the nature of injuries sustained by Ajitbhai. It was submitted that though the learned Additional Sessions Judge referred to the prima-facie materials showing involvement of the accused, has erroneously exercised the discretion in granting bail to the accused and the appellant challenged the arbitrary exercise of discretion and this was not taken note by the High Court. Drawing our attention to "speaking to minutes", the learned counsel submitted that in view of the grounds raised in the "speaking to minutes", the High Court should have afforded an opportunity to the appellant to speak to minutes in respect of order dated 26.02.2019.
8. Learned senior counsel for respondents No.2 and 3 submitted that the appellant having restricted his arguments only to the effect that there was breach of condition of bail and while so, the appellant is not justified in challenging the order dated 06.02.2019.
9. Though the application has been filed before the High Court under Section 439(2) Cr.P.C. i.e. an application for cancellation of bail, by perusal of the grounds raised in the application, it is seen that the appellant has raised grounds challenging the exercise of discretion in granting bail to respondents No.2 and 3 under Section 439 Cr.P.C. and that the order granting bail is unsustainable in law. In effect, the application filed was only challenging the order of grant of bail on the ground that it was an arbitrary exercise of discretion. The Court while granting bail should exercise its discretion in judicious manner by taking into consideration the relevant facts as held in State of U.P. Through CBI v. Amarmani Tripathi (2005) 8 SCC 21.
10. It is well settled that the consideration applicable for cancellation of bail and consideration for challenging the order of grant of bail on the ground of arbitrary exercise of discretion are different. While considering the application for cancellation of bail, the Court ordinarily looks for some supervening circumstances like; tampering of evidence either during investigation or during trial, threatening of witness, the accused is likely to abscond and the trial of the case getting delayed on that count etc.
Whereas, in an order challenging the grant of bail on the ground that it has been granted illegally, the consideration is whether there was improper or arbitrary exercise of discretion in grant of bail. The appellant has challenged the very grant of bail on the ground of arbitrary exercise of discretion ignoring the relevant materials to be considered in the application for bail. Since the High Court proceeded under the footing as if the appellant had filed the application only for cancellation of bail for which, the consideration is different, the impugned order is liable to be set aside and the matter is remitted to the High Court for consideration of the matter afresh.
11. In the result, the impugned orders of the High Court dated 26.02.2019 and 07.03.2019 are set aside and these appeals are allowed and the matter is remitted to the High Court for consideration of Criminal Misc. Application Nos.3528 of 2019 and 3529 of 2019 afresh. The High Court shall proceed with the matter as if the application challenges the order of grant of bail and proceed with the matter in accordance with law.
...............................J. [R. BANUMATHI]
...............................J. [A.S. BOPANNA]
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Federal Court Rejection of Corporate-Backed Lawsuit Is A Win for Working People
A federal court has rejected an attempt by corporate-backed forces to illegally obtain reimbursements of legally collected collective-bargaining fees.
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By AFSCME Staff · Tuesday, December 04, 2018
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A federal court has ruled in favor of working families and against wealthy special interests in Danielson v. AFSCME Council 28, a case out of Washington state.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on Nov. 28 tossed out a lawsuit against Council 28 that would have required the affiliate to return so-called “fair share fees” that were lawfully collected before the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 27 ruling in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31 banned these fees nationwide.
For four decades prior to the Janus decision, all workers, including nonmembers, chipped in to cover the cost of negotiating collective-bargaining agreements, which all workers in a bargaining unit benefit from. They did so under then-applicable laws, which is why the lawsuit against Council 28 has no merit, according to the ruling.
AFSCME President Lee Saunders praised the ruling, noting in a statement that “the facts and the law have always been on our side.”
The ruling “marks a big win against corporate interest groups – the same forces behind the Janus v. AFSCME case – who continue to try and manipulate our nation’s judicial system to rob working people of their freedom to improve their lives,” he said.
While the courts sided with working people this time, the wealthy, corporate-backed special interests behind this lawsuit are bent on using our nation’s judicial system to try and weaken working people’s ability to stand together in strong unions.
But public service workers know why it’s important to have strong unions. Despite such attacks, Saunders said, “We will never quit fighting to make our communities stronger in Washington and across the country.”
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Plate XLI
Arrows of Southern California and Arizona
FIG. 1. SHAFT of reed. Foreshaft, a rod of hard wood inserted into the end of the . shaft, which is tapered down and seized with sinew. Head, of jasper inserted into a deep notch in the end of the foreshaft and held in place by diagonal lashings of sinew and mesquite gum. Feathers, three, seized at the ends with sinew. Shaft, 261/2 inches; foreshaft, 7 1/2 inches.
Cat. No. 11783, U. S. N. M. Moki Indians, Arizona. Collected by Bureau of Eth nology.
NOTE.—The Moki Indians are of Shoshonean stock, live in pueblos, and use the Mohave type of arrows.
FIG. 2. SHAFT, of reed. Foreshaft, a rod of hard wood inserted into the end of the shaft and seized with sinew. Head of chalcedony, triangular, inserted into a "saw cut" at the end of the foreshaft, and held in place by mesquit gum laid on so as to form an unbroken surface between the foreshaft and the head. The end of the foreshaft is seized with sinew. Shaftment ornamented with a band of red and a spiral band in black. Nock, cylindrical. Notch, U-shaped. Feathers, three, seized with untwisted sinew. Length, 37 inches.
Cat. No. 1796, U. S. N. M. Mohave Indians, Southern California. Collected by Edward Palmer.
NOTE.-To the right of this example is shown a shorter type of feathering and ornamented shaftment by the same tribe.
FIG. 3. SHAFT, rod of hard wood. Head made from a piece of an old pair of scissors inserted into the split end of the shaft. Feathers, three, lashed at the ends with sinew. Nock spreading, and notch a long deep incision. Length of arrow, 25 inches.
Mohave Indians.
NOTE.—This arrow, though accredited to the Mohave Indians, belongs to a much more northern type, and if properly labeled by the collector shows the effect of com merce and migration.
FIG. 4. SHAFT, a rod of hard wood. Shaftment daubed with bands of red paint. Feathers, three, fastened at the ends with sinew.' The nock is cylindrical. The notch, parallel sided. Foreshaft short, of hard wood, inserted neatly into the end of the shaft and daubed with brown paint. Head, of bottle-glass, inserted slightly into the foreshaft and held in place by a diagonal seizing of sinew. Total length, 34 1/2 inches.
Cat. No. 128431, U. S. N. M. Yuma Indians. Collected by Col. James Stevenson.
FIG. 5. SHAFT, of reed. The shaftment is ornamented with two bauds of red paint connected by longitudinal stripes. Feathers, three, seized with sinew. Nock, cylindrical. The sides of the notch are made parallel by cutting into the reed on either side and splitting out a little piece. The point and foreshaft of this arrow are one, made of a piece of hard wood inserted into the reed-shaft and seized with sinew, and at the other extremity sharpened to a long tapering point. Length of shaft, 2 feet 1 3/4 inches; foreshaft, 12 inches.
Cat. No. 76176, U. S. N. M. Cocopa Indians, Mexico. Collected by Edward Palmer.
FIG. 6. SHAFT, of reed. Foreshaft, square bit of mesquite wood inserted into the end of the shaft and seized with sinew. Feathers, three, lashed with sinew at the ends. Shaftment ornamented with a band of rod. This specimen is rudely made, showing a degenerate art. Length of shaft, 28 inches; foreshaft, 10 inches.
Cat, No. 9072, IT. S. N. M. Yaquis Indians. Collected by Edward Palmer.
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Something new is coming.
December 1, 2010, 8:25 am by Bob Goulais
And it will blow your mind. December 15, 2010.
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Racism on the TTC
November 17, 2010, 8:03 am by Bob Goulais
“Circle the wagons. The Injuns are comin’.”
Those seven words set off a cascade of feelings like a row of neatly placed dominos, toppled one after another.
My experience yesterday took place on the TTC. The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) has to be one of the most diverse environments in the city. From TTC employees to TTC riders – an Anishinaabe can get lost among the beautiful brown faces. It’s certainly not the place where one would expect to encounter an overtly racist comment – from a TTC employee no less.
But there I was – rushing to get to work and running a little late. I bound down the stairs at Yonge-Bloor Station just missing the southbound subway. I have about a minute before the next train arrives so I walk down to the end of the platform.
I stroll briskly down the platform thinking about the Billy Joel interview I had just heard on the Howard Stern Show. Needless to say, I’m in a great mood.
As I cross the half-way mark down the platform, I hear two things. First, I hear the train nearing the station behind me. Second, I hear the laughter and carrying on from two uniformed TTC platform monitors. These are the guys in the big burgundy TTC coats and the reflective safety singlet. They are responsible for my safety and well-being.
Then I hear those seven words, from the white guy to his buddy, in a faux-southern drawl of a cowboy:
“Circle the wagons. The Injuns are comin’.” Then some laughter from the two men.
My immediate reaction was to smile and keep walking. Then I make the realization of what I experienced. Racism.
As I make the realization – I have to make the choice. Do I shrug it off and keep walking? Or do I stop, cause a scene and make a complaint? I am already late for work. So I decide to shrug if off. After all – he was just trying to be funny. We are subject to racial humour everyday – on TV, film even the aforementioned Howard Stern Show. Besides, he was carrying on with his TTC buddy – who is laughing in hysterics.
I get on the train.
As the subway door closes, it immediately starts gnawing at me. I regret my decision. I’m riding the train looking at all those around me. All those beautiful brown faces – who probably didn’t hear what I heard. I’m thinking they are probably subject to their own forms of racism and everyday comments. As I pass station-to-station, those thoughts and feelings fill my chest.
I should have said something.
But isn’t that always the case? I’ve experienced similar situations and comments in the past. Sometimes I choose to address it and correct it. Other times, I’m consumed by my own conflict and fear. Sometimes I’m just not brave enough to say something. Sometimes I’m more concerned about the offenders… getting them in trouble, or fired and what-not.
Later that morning, I arrive at Queen’s Park for the Louis Riel Day commemoration. Ironically, the ceremony takes place in front of an official monument commemorating Ontario’s participation in the Northwest Rebellion and the various battles against the Métis resistance. Speaker after speaker talk about racism, stereotypes and inequality. A young Métis woman speaks about the shame that is still harboured in her family for being Aboriginal. I’m so moved by her words, I blurt it out my experience to my friend Saga and then to her colleague Tamar.
At first there is laughter. But then the stark realization of what it is. They are mortified over the incident. The fact that it was a TTC employee demands that it should be reported. Unfortunately, I chose to leave hurt, beaten, regretful, angry… a victim among a sea of victims.
Those seven words, uttered for comedic affect, have such a profound effect. Quite different from the seven words that we should all be living by: Love, Respect, Bravery, Honesty, Humility, Truth, Wisdom. These are those gifts provided to us by the Seven Grandfathers.
Racism is alive and well. Those of us in the minority are well aware of it. Even in a multi-cultural environment of the great city of Toronto. Deep in the bowels of the TTC – is an ugly monster that so many choose to ignore.
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For Canada, the UN Declaration remains "aspirational"
November 12, 2010, 4:57 pm by Bob Goulais
It’s a two-drink minimum at the Canada’s “Aspirational Bar”. Today’s Special: Aspirational + Non-Binding.
Today, Canada announced it is endorsing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. Sounds tasty. But without a plan to implement it, it likely won’t be served.
Sure it’s a nicey, nicey announcement. It probably made for a good photo op for Minister John Duncan and officials from the United Nations. But once again, Canada left First Nations out of the process. Our Great White Father didn’t offer First Nations a table or even a seat at the bar. We are once again looking in from the cold with their “No Indians Allowed” sign, illuminated outside.
The Government of Canada’s position all along was that the declaration is not compatible with our current Constitutional framework – meaning we still have the arbitrary and unilateral Indian Act, and Canada’s legislators are not willing to secure First Nations with a seat at the table when it comes to developing public policy.
When it comes to aspiring to something higher, Canada really has a long way to go.
Now that the government has endorsed the declaration, and has set the proverbial Aspirational Bar, it’s time for a proactive plan on achieving those aspirations. Canada needs an implementation plan on how it will implement the articles in the declaration. We need to call on Canada to convene a First Nations-Crown Gathering to begin this work in earnest.
However, implementing the right to self-determination, self-government, language, culture nationhood and citizenship are near impossible tasks for a Conservative government that pulled the plug on Kelowna and killed a $160 million investment in languages.
We need to take the Crown-First Nation relationship back to formula. By amending the Constitution and implementing the Treaties.
Canada needs to work with First Nations to firmly establish self-government as a legitimate third-order of government. First Nations need to have a seat in developing a new framework to implement the treaties and find new and sustainable means of funding First Nations governments.
But perhaps we have to start somewhere a little further down the Aspiritational Bar menu.
A significant part of the UN Declaration is the rights to land and inclusion in resource development. First Nations should not only be consulted on activities that affect their rights, but have a seat at the table in decision-making and sharing in the bounty of resource development. Perhaps Canada can start there and clarify laws surrounding the duty to consult on resource matters.
Come in from the cold, my friend. Have a seat at the Aspiration Bar. But given Canada’s aspirational approach, those First Nations who have been placed their order of free, prior and informed consent – will be left high and dry.
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Uncovering Shielded Minds
In this video, a group of students from southern Ontario embark on a eye-awakening journey as they visit First Nation communities in northern Ontario. Led by Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, the students visited communities in Georgian Bay, Manitoulin Island and the north shore of Lake Huron. They conclude their trip with a visit to the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec.
I enjoyed the scene when the students expressed their frustration over the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the lack of First Nations tour guides and proper context of the artifacts held there. Earlier in the film, at the start of their trip, Karihwakeron Tim Thompson provides excellent oratory on the Hiawatha wampum and it’s significance. When they visit the museum, they are faced with that same belt with such minimal labelling, context and displayed behind glass.
In my favorite scene, without prompting, the students become irate over a plaque that describes the residential school experience: “But for other graduates, the pain of sexual abuse and cultural loss has overshadowed good intentions and practices.” They complain to the museum also citing the exhibit which outlines a simplistic and narrow view of the residential schools.
Their experience and stories they have learned in just one week led them to action.
Shielded Minds: A Documentary from Joshua Kelly on Vimeo.
Tags: Aboriginal, Aboriginal awareness, Anishinaabe, Anishinaabe culture, First Nations, Residential Schools
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Honouring our Ogitchidaa
Veteran Tom Eagle
It’s overwhelming to see so many friends and family, Anishinabek and Canadians alike, paying tribute to veterans today. Many of you wrote a little something on your Facebook status update or took part in a Remembrance Day ceremony somewhere.
Today, I’m really happy to see folks honouring their family members who served by name. So many times, we forget that our warriors and veterans are individuals – men and women with kind Spirits who give their all in the service of our nation.
Our people volunteered in incredible numbers. Entire First Nation communities enlisted, often times, giving up their Indian status to meet their obligations. Military service may not have been compulsory for the Anishinaabeg but it was an obligation. When our ancestors signed the treaties, we gave our word to be loyal allies of the Crown. That manifested itself during the War of 1812, both World Wars, the Korean War and into modern times.
We can’t even begin to imagine what it is like to take up arms and serve their people in such hostile conditions. To face their own mortality so unselfishly. To see their comrades and friends meet their end before their own eyes.
All veterans return wounded in some way or another. If not in body, but in Spirit. They return with little fanfare, little pension, sometimes to nothing at all.
Today is a day where our veterans are honoured for a few hours. However, much more should be done to respect and care for our wounded warriors beyond November 11.
The Government of Canada must begin to address the issue of adequate pensions for those who return wounded but may not qualify for full-service pensions. The government must address First Nations veterans who did not receive equitable compensation for their service. The government must enhance support and benefits for those those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. They are our walking wounded.
As Anishinaabeg, we are taught to honour our Elders everyday. We honour our veterans every weekend in pow-wows and traditional gatherings right across our territory. That honour should be extended to our effort in advocating for these issues, responding to their needs, and caring for those Ogitchidaa who served for all of us.
In memory of Nelson Lewis, Gilbert Richardson, Francis Pegahmagabow, Tom Eagle, Ray Rogers, Ernie Debassige, Emery McLeod and Edward Commanda.
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November 8, 2010, 2:19 pm by Bob Goulais
I feel refreshed! My blog has been freshly upgraded to the latest
version of software. I had a good ole time last night customizing the
code, incorporating additional Facebook interfaces and adding the
latest spam-ware to my website. I really enjoy all the technological
stuff. It’s quite cerebral and keeps me busy.
I’ve been dedicated to using all open source code. I don’t make
anything new, however, I do try to keep developers in the loop of any
challenges I’m having or how things could be improved. However, I’ve
been working more and more with Mac and getting use to the Mac OS X
operating system. This certainly seems to be a contradiction. But I
haven’t had any crash or critical errors, which tends to happen when
you’re multi-tasking about twenty different pieces to the same pie. I
like the integrated functionality to all the Apple products. The
whole world seems to be moving towards MacBook, Iphone, Ipods and
Ipads. I may not be a full convert yet, but someday I may work
towards integrating Apple functionality into my site at some time.
Holy Chief’s Salary, Batman!
October 19, 2010, 7:18 am by Bob Goulais
Chief Clarence Louie
Okay, we get it. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (and those inclined to bear witness to their truths) don’t like First Nations’ exemption to taxation. They seem to have a stubborn, pre-disposition to not understanding the basis in law to First Nations’ treaty and aboriginal rights. They simply don’t want to hear, much less understand, that the right to taxation is based on our nationhood. As a Nation, our governments and our citizens should not be subject to the taxation of another nation.
Nobody really takes exception that a foreign dignitary, living in Canada, is exempt from taxation. No one needs to debate it – it’s just how it is. But the CTF (and those inclined to bear witness to their truths) can’t accept the concept of indigenous nationhood.
They apparently don’t like First Nations people making good money, either.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (and those inclined to bear witness to their truths) would rather focus their media attention on addressing the minority of First Nation Chiefs with high salaries, rather than the hundreds of Chiefs that are elected to lead their communities with little financial incentive to do so.
Perhaps, the CTF want you to think that First Nations are better off than they really are. That the crisis of poverty isn’t that bad. That this latest bit of evidence is endemic of an estimated $8 billion dollars of Indian Affairs budget being wasted on a small minority of people in First Nation communities. This fortune is limited to Chiefs, consultants and lawyers who own lakefront estates and a three car garage for our Farraris, supped-up pick-ups and a 1200-cc Formula 1 snowmobile.
Wrong on all accounts, Batman.
Those 30 First Nations who pay their Chiefs this level of salary indeed have a very good reason. These communities are well on a course to economic success. Chances are their elected leaders are integral to that transformation. These Chiefs not only run a First Nations administration, they likely run a complex organization with numerous corporations, businesses, self-government arrangements, land claim settlements and casinos. In turn, this leads to local investment, higher community revenues, lower unemployment and the development of significant economies.
First Nations in these categories do a lot to enhance the local, regional and national economy. They contribute to broader tax base. Ultimately, these communities reduce the burden of First Nations from taxpayers to their own communities. The CTF totally missed that argument.
The modern, successful Chief is not only a community leader but a successful Chief Executive Officer. CEOs of that calibre are often paid more than Premiers. In fact, it is not heard of to pay CEOs a half-million or more.
I would like to hold up just one shiny example. Chief Clarence Louie of the Osoyoos Indian Band in BC is a trusted advisor to the government on aboriginal economic development. When it comes to First Nations, he is always held up as someone who is anti-establishment. He doesn’t make a living going from meeting to meeting. In fact, he is a rare a fixture at Assembly of First Nations (AFN) assemblies. Some may not agree, but he speaks candidly about raising First Nations people out of victimization, laziness and professes the need for motivation.
I would hasten to guess that he is one of those in the top 30. If not, it’s even a better point.
The CTF (and those inclined to bear witness to their truths) want people to think that First Nations are corrupt and unaccountable. The CTF want people to think that Chief Louie and others are getting paid under-the-table, undertaking clandestine activity without the knowledge and consent of the community. Feeding them like mushrooms underground.
The CTF don’t want you to know that, on average, Chiefs and Councils are elected every 2 years unlike a Premier who is elected ever four years. The CTF won’t point out that First Nations must provide an annual, government-approved audit in order to receive ongoing government funding. They fail to mention that if an audit is not acceptable or it shows that finances are being mis-managed – there is a process for the government to take over the finances of a First Nation. The CTF won’t mention the findings of the Auditor General, who in 2002 states that First Nations continue to carry an overwhelming reporting burden for every single program dollar flowed to them. They also neglect to mention this all this information is available through the INAC website.
Chief Louie is one of the forward-thinking leaders that keep their books open to their membership. The Osoyoos Band Council owns a winery, a golf course, a four-star resort among other ventures. Chief Louie and his Council hold annual general meetings every year. They provide copies of audited financial statements to their members. They even have workshops teaching their grass-roots members how to read a balance sheet and audited financial statements.
This is happening more and more in First Nations. My community of Nipissing First Nation also holds an annual general meeting with specific presentations about band finances. Financial statements are provided to any member who asks or attends these sessions. As such, I know for a fact that my Chief’s salary is a little better that the national average – which is about right given her level of responsibility and accountability.
The CTF fails to point out that even the average salary for a Chief may not be incentive enough to bring in the top talent – young, educated leaders who can make a difference, and lead their communities and people out of poverty.
For example, if I wanted to run for Chief, I’d have to take a pretty significant pay cut. That $60K pay cheque isn’t much of an incentive for me or to many other young professionals such as accountants, lawyers, MBA, poli-sci or public administration grads who would like to make a difference in their own community.
I used to get upset reading CTF’s one-sided propaganda. Not for what they say, but what they infer. How they live to rile up their followers, those “inclined to bear witness to their truths”. Like a Jedi mind trick, a wave of a pen, a CTF news release generates plenty of stereotypical, often-times, racist feedback. Don’t just read the Globe and Mail or The Province article – click into the “Comments” section and scroll down and read the hundreds of comments.
Today, I just take it as another example of contemporary stereotype that widens the gap between First Nations people and all Canadians. Another example that will lead to further hate by those not willing to understand First Nations and our circumstances. The CTF may not be racist – but judging by the strength of their mind-trick – they certainly contribute to the problem.
As for comparing Chiefs to Premiers, why not compare apples to apples. What would a Premier be making if he was exempt from taxation? Round up or round down. What would a Premier make if he was a First Nations person and claiming a tax exemption? Round up or round down. What if he or she has two dependants and a spouse who is paying alimony? Can he or she claim all fourteen extended family living in an unfinished bungalow without running water? Are all our Ferraris tax deductible if they are paid for by the Band? How much does Iraq’s ambassador to Canada pay in personal income tax?
Hey CTF guy… how much to you make?
Either way, all your figures are make-believe.
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Greetings from Jamaica
October 10, 2010, 3:30 pm by Bob Goulais
“We’re Jammin’. I want to jam it with you. Jammin’. I hope you like Jammin’ to.”
It’s another beautiful day in Montego Bay, Jamaica. We’re having a great time, listening to some Bob Marley, swimming and snorkelling. I thought I’d take some time to describe the experience we’re having this Thanksgiving weekend.
The villa is even more beautiful than the pictures we’ve seen. Lots of space, great outdoor area, panoramic pool, sitting area and our own private beach. We’ve had our last couple of meals in the outdoor dining area. There’s a refreshing, cool breeze coming off the ocean. Not too hot… in fact just right.
The staff here are phenomenal. We have our own hostess, chef, housekeeper, groundskeeper and driver. They take really great care of us. In fact, I think we’re going downtown this afternoon just for the heck of it.
In the villa, there is only myself, Deborah, Fiona, Joe, Fiona, baby Matteo, Savannah and Gloria, friends of Joe and Fiona. So a nice small family, enjoying each other’s company for the ultra-long weekend. Matteo is so cute and such a good boy. I like making him laugh. And, boy, he Loves the pool.
Yes, I think we’re having turkey-lurkey for dinner. But it might be marinaded turkey breast on the barbeque. We’re having our dinner on the beach tonight. Hope sand doesn’t get into my food.
Nothing couldn’t be better unless you were all here with us.
“Let’s get together and feel alright.”
Tags: Jamaica, Montego Bay, Thanksgiving, vacation
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Top 100 Canadian Singles
October 3, 2010, 4:44 pm by Bob Goulais
(Playing: New Orleans Is Sinking — The Tragically Hip. Wild in the Streets — Helix. Wendy Under the Stars — Odds)
I’m sitting at the computer writing some risk assessments for work. Bringing a file or two up-to-date. I’m also writing a new Blog entry and listening to some tunes. I’m multi-tasking.
(Playing: Somewhere Down The Crazy River — Robbie Robertson)
I’m back at home and listening to Canadian music. For all you non-Canadians, there isn’t really a whole lot to choose from, but certainly, there is some great music. We all know the greatest exports from Canada are Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, The Guess Who, Rush and The Band. But we also have Odds, Tragically Hip, Alanis Morrisette, Colin James, Arcade Fire, Sloan, Red Rider… and so many more. Lots of great music, history and memories.
(Playing: This Flight Tonight — Nazareth. So She’s Leaving – The Trews. Song Instead of a Kiss — Alannah Myles)
For the past few weeks, I’ve been anticipating the release of the definitive list of the Top 100 Canadian Songs, that will be published in a book by author and music nerd Bob Mersereau. Bob polled about 800 musicians, music executives, managers, promoters, retailers, music fans (and of course, journalists) to compile his book, The Top 100 Canadian Singles.
Here is Bob Mersereau’s Top 10:
1. The Guess Who — American Woman (y)
2. Neil Young — Heart Of Gold (y)
3. The Band — The Weight (y)
4. Bryan Adams — Summer of ’69 (y)
5. Leonard Cohen — Hallelujah (y)
6. Steppenwolf — Born to Be Wild (y)
7. Gordon Lightfoot — If You Could Read My Mind (n)
8. Bachman Turner Overdrive — Takin’ Care Of Business (y)
9. Ian and Sylvia — Four Strong Winds (y)
10. Anne Murray — Snowbird (n)
(Playing: Subdivisions — Rush)
Here is my Top 10 list (and where they fit in Bob M’s list)
1. Needle & The Damage Done — Neil Young (73… far, far too low. Shame.)
2. Up Where We Belong — Buffy Ste. Marie (didn’t make his list)
3. The Weight — The Band (3… perfect assessment, Bob)
4. You Learn — Alanis Morrisette (didn’t make his list)
5. New Orleans is Sinking — The Tragically Hip (14… not bad, should be higher)
(Playing: Turn Me Loose — Loverboy. White Hot — Red Rider. Roller — April Wine. Rock Star — Nickelback. Black Black Heart — David Usher. What Does It Take? — Honeymoon Suite. Suzanne — Leonard Cohen. Sunny Days — Lighthouse. Into the Mystic — Colin James. One Thing — Finger Eleven. Mama, Let Him Play — Doucette
6. Limelight — Rush (didn’t make his list)
7. Underwhelmed — Sloan (20… once again, kinda low)
8. No Time — The Guess Who (91… way too low)
9. Wheat Kings — The Tragically Hip (87… way too low)
10. The Kings —This Beat Goes on/Switchin’ To Glide (72… at least it made his list)
Here is the rest of Bob M’s list of the Top 100 Canadian Singles (and whether or not it is in my I-Tunes/I-pod):
11. Joni Mitchell — Big Yellow Taxi/Woodstock (y)
12. Rush — Tom Sawyer (y)
13. Blue Rodeo — Try (y)
14. Tragically Hip — New Orleans Is Sinking (y)
15. Gordon Lightfoot — The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (n)
16. Leonard Cohen — Suzanne (y)
17. Tom Cochrane — Life Is A Highway (y)
18. Guess Who — These Eyes (y)
19. Gordon Lightfoot — Sundown (n)
20. Sloan — Underwhelmed (y)
21. The Band — Up On Cripple Creek/The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (y)
22. Maestro Fresh Wes — Let Your Backbone Slide (y)
23. The Diodes — Tired of Waking Up Tired (n)
25. Rush — The Spirit of Radio (y)
25. Crowbar — Oh What A Feeling (n)
26. Rough Trade — High School Confidential (n)
27. Martha and the Muffins — Echo Beach (n)
28. Stampeders — Sweet City Woman (y)
29. Arcade Fire — Wake Up (y)
30. Barenaked Ladies — If I Had $1,000,000 (y)
31. Robert Charlebois — Lindberg (n)
32. The Pursuit Of Happiness — I’m an Adult Now (y)
33. Ugly Ducklings — Nothin’ (n)
34. Sloan — Coax Me (y)
35. Rush — Closer To The Heart (y)
36. Teenage Head — Picture My Face (n)
37. Guess Who — Shakin’ All Over (n)
38. Five Man Electrical Band — Signs (y)
39. Blue Rodeo — Lost Together (y)
40. Ron Hynes — Sonny’s Dream (n)
41. Men Without Hats — The Safety Dance (n)
42. Rheostatics — Claire (n)
43. Lighthouse — One Fine Morning (n)
44. A Foot In Coldwater — (Make Me Do) Anything You Want (y)
45. Corey Hart — Sunglasses At Night (y)
46. Loverboy — Working For The Weekend (y)
47. Trooper — Raise A Little Hell (y)
48. Parachute Club — Rise Up (n)
49. Alannah Myles — Black Velvet (y)
50. Terry Jacks — Seasons In The Sun (n)
51. Malajube — Montreal —40C (n)
52. Neil Young — Cinnamon Girl (y)
53. Alanis Morissette — You Oughta Know (y)
54. Feist — 1234 (n)
55. Arcade Fire — Rebellion (Lies) (y)
56. k.d. lang — Constant Craving (n)
57. Neil Young — Rockin’ In The Free World (y)
58. Michel Pagliaro — Lovin’ You Ain’t Easy (n)
59. Bruce Cockburn — Lovers In A Dangerous Time (n)
60. Tragically Hip — Bobcaygeon (y)
61. Joni Mitchell — A Case of You/California (n)
62. The Demics — New York City (n)
63. Bryan Adams — (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (y)
64. Tragically Hip — Ahead By A Century (y)
65. Blue Rodeo — Five Days In May (y)
66. Hank Snow — I’m Moving On (n)
67. Harmonium — Pour un instant (n)
68. Steppenwolf — Magic Carpet Ride (n)
69. Sloan — Money City Maniacs (y)
70. Celine Dion — My Heart Will Go On (y)
71. k—os — Crabbuckit (n)
72. The Kings —This Beat Goes on/Switchin’ To Glide (y)
73. Neil Young — Old Man/Needle and the Damage Done (y)
74. Jean Leloup — 1990 (n)
75. Payola$ — Eyes Of A Stranger (n)
76. Blue Rodeo — Hasn’t Hit Me Yet (y)
77. Bachman Turner Overdrive — You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet (y)
78. Bruce Cockburn — Wondering Where The Lions Are (n)
79. April Wine — You Could Have Been A Lady (y)
80. Teenage Head — Let’s Shake/Somethin’ On My Mind (y)
81. Joni Mitchell — Help Me (n)
82. Trooper — We’re Here For A Good Time (y)
83. Lighthouse — Sunny Days (n)
84. Jean—Pierre Ferland — Le petit roi (n)
85. Bryan Adams — Cuts Like A Knife (y)
86. Stompin’ Tom Connors — The Hockey Song (n)
87. Tragically Hip — Wheat Kings (y)
88. Gilles Vigneault — Mon pays (n)
89. Spirit of The West — Home For A Rest (n)
90. New Pornographers — Letter From An Occupant (n)
91. Guess Who — No Time (y)
92. Mashmakhan — As The Years Go By (n)
93. Neil Young — Hey Hey My My (y)
94. Paul Anka — Diana (n)
95. Daniel Lanois — The Maker (n)
96. The Spoons — Nova Heart (n)
97. Beau Dommage — La complainte du phoque en Alaska (n)
98. Ron Sexsmith — Secret Heart (n)
99. Bryan Adams — Run To You (y)
100. Wintersleep — Weighty Ghost (n)
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Balls, Bags and more…
September 26, 2010, 8:00 am by Bob Goulais
WHAT’S IN THE MEATBALLS? – We had a wonderful, early dinner at the Vietnamese Noodle Soup Restaurant at Times Square in Richmond Hill. You’ve got to Love and appreciate a restaurant that has such a simple name. You probably don’t even need a menu. Just sit down and a fellow would bring you just that… Vietnamese Noodle Soup. I so thoroughly enjoyed the steak and meatballs, I had to ask the proprietor: “exactly what is in the meatballs”. Apparently, only asian spices, beef and beef tendon. Mmm, mmm, good. Deb has a spicier version for her chicken noodle bowl. The red pepper broth reminded me of Thai tom-yum soup. It’s nice to try different places. In this particular neighbourhood of Richmond Hill and Markham, one could probably try a new Asian restaurant every single day of the year. Soup, dim sum, buffets, bakeries, barbeques, steak houses, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Asian fusion… I’m Lovin’ it all.
ALL HER BAGS ARE PACKED – My sweetheart, the Duchess of Thornhill is leaving Stately Way, the official residence tomorrow. She’s heading to Kingston for two weeks. It will be longest we’ve been apart since last spring. How will I cope? How will I make it through? I’ll probably gorge myself on guilt-free junk food. That always makes me feel better. But when she comes back and I’ve gained 20 pounds, she’s probably won’t approve. At least I’ll have the dog to keep me company. Those of you who know me, know how thrilled I am about that. Some of the things I’ll miss the most: singing to her every morning, opening the car door for her, and telling her how beautiful she is everyday. Although, I suppose I can do that by telephone. Lots can be accomplished on the phone.
NO TIME TO UNPACK – When she returns Deborah and I will be travelling to Montego Bay for a little romance and ‘R and R’. Looking forward to our long weekend adventure to Jamaica. We’ll be staying in a gorgeous private beach villa, complete with our own kitchen staff, car and driver, private pool and private beach. We’re looking forward to travelling with our gracious hosts, Joe, Fiona and little Matteo. Such generous and beautiful people. Snorkeling, reading on the beach, tennis and some fun in the sun. Oh yeah, Baby!!
FACEBOOK – I tried to get Facebook “Places” going today, but my device doesn’t seem to want to load it. I’m Loving all the new functionality of the service. Today, Facebook launched the new service that can share to other users where you are, and where you’ve been. Just in case you want other people to know you are at Winners or Cassis. During our walk today, I was just telling Deb that I haven’t been on Facebook all that long. For the longest time I resisted joining, instead trying to develop, program and code my own server and database. It’s a great, geeky hobby to have, but it takes a lot of time and patience. When I seen everybody and their grandmother had a Facebook profile and sharing notes better than I can, I was a bit miffed. So I decided to join the Facebook revolution. For my website and blog, I resorted to a open source app and a mainstream server. I hope to do a redesign this winter and write a little more often.
MUNICIPAL ELECTION – Who exactly are we going to vote for in the municipal election? Suburban elections seem pretty dull. There is a lot going on in the Toronto election, but it seems there is very few issues herein Thornhill-Markham. Nobody seems to be courting our vote here. We’ve had a couple of people come door-to-door to leave junkmail but not enough to get any information from.
THE TOWN – okay, more than half-way through the year and I don’t have a clear favorite for the Academy Awards. However, I may have a personal favorite. Yesterday, Deb and I seen The Town, starring and directed by Ben Affleck. We really enjoyed the film and a couple of time I caught myself holding my sweetheart’s hand a little too tight. A couple of twists and turns and some pretty good characters. It’s a pretty quiet time for movies, but I was glad we went and seen this one. Critics seem to enjoy the film as well. You never know what Oscar time will bring.
And how was your week?
Tags: Asian Food, election, Facebook, Jamaica, Markham, movies, municipal election, The Town, Thornhill, Travel
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Business Companies 04 Jul 2017 28 per cent GST on watches could increase risk of smuggling: Titan
Business, Companies
28 per cent GST on watches could increase risk of smuggling: Titan
Published : Jul 4, 2017, 8:26 pm IST
Updated : Jul 4, 2017, 8:26 pm IST
Titan has also witnessed around 50 per cent jump in its sales during Akshaya Tritiya.
The company opened 11 Titan Eye Plus stores in FY 2017-18 so far.
New Delhi: The incidence of 28 per cent tax on watches under the GST regime is one of the highest in the world that could increase the risk of smuggling, Tata group firm Titan has said in a quarterly update.
"At 28 per cent, India has one of the highest tax rates for watches in the world, consequently increasing the risk of smuggling of watches into the country," Titan Company Ltd informed BSE.
However, the company has ruled out any price increase immediately.
"While the GST rate of 28 per cent will increase the effective tax incidence on watch division, we do not expect prices to go up because of input tax credits available now," the company said.
The company has a range of watches including its own brands such as Titan, Sonata, Fastrack, Xylys, Nebula along with licensed brands such as Police, Tommy Hilfiger, FCUK, Kenneth Cole, Anne Klein, Helios and Zoop in India.
Besides, Titan has also witnessed around 50 per cent jump in its sales during Akshaya Tritiya (AT) period in the first quarter of this fiscal. It has a successful gold exchange programme in June 2017 resulting in "an exceptional growth on topline for the division".
"The year started off for the division with a great AT, with 50 per cent growth over previous year's Akshaya Tritiya period as well as a very successful gold exchange programme in June 2017," it said.
However, the company also added that in the first quarter, there was a strike of jewellers for 15-20 days, hence "the base for Q1 FY 2017-18 is also more favorable to that extent." The company has also welcomed 3 per cent GST imposed on the jewellery segment by the government and said: "It should not create any disruption in sales as well as gold exchange."
The group has added two more Tanishq stores in FY 2017-18 so far. In the eyewear segment, its Titan Eye Plus retail format made a healthy growth during the quarter but its sunglass business witnessed a "significant slowdown, pulling down the overall performance of the division". The company opened 11 Titan Eye Plus stores in FY 2017-18 so far.
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Schnitzel is back: Wienerstube ready for return to Basalt rather than Aspen
Scott Condon
scondon@aspentimes.com
Even the old coffee mugs will be there on opening day next spring.
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One of the original signs from the Wienerstube will be brought back when the restaurant is resurrected in Willits Town Center.
A wait to be seated sign that appears to be from the 1960s is part of the old relics that will be relocated to the new Wienerstube.
Nemanja Ilic, left, and Vladan Djordjevic, will reopen the Wienerstube Restaurant at Willits Town Center in Basalt. They are displaying original signs from the former Aspen restaurant, which closed January 2011.
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The Wienerstube Restaurant will once again serve schnitzel, bratwurst and other authentic Austrian cuisine but in Basalt rather than Aspen.
Vladan Djordjevic and Nemanja Ilic are teaming to reopen the venerable restaurant, which operated in Aspen for 45 years but closed in January 2011. The building where it rented space was demolished to make way for the Aspen Art Museum. Then-owner Harald Neuweg wasn’t able to find an affordable alternative site.
The new Wienerstube, the “Stube” to many fans, will open in a 3,000-square-foot space on Market Street in Willits Town Center, between Capitol Creek Brewery and Mezzaluna and across the street from The Temporary, a venue for music, film and plays.
“It’s a great story to tell about how an Aspen icon found its way downvalley,” said Tim Belinski, the local representative for the Willits developer.
The Stube won’t be resurrected in name only. The new owners have many of the relics from the old restaurant’s interior.
Djordjevic was part of the team credited with restoring the Wienerstube’s Austrian flavor. He came with chef Harald Neuweg to Aspen from Coral Gables, Florida, in April 2008. Neuweg bought the restaurant in September of that year.
The Wienerstube celebrated its demise with a three-night blowout in January 2011 but Djordjevic kept the dream alive of resurrecting the restaurant. He remained in Aspen in the restaurant business, most recently as a partner in Aspen Over Easy, a popular breakfast joint that closed this fall after a six-year run. Ilic, owner of the Little Mammoth steak house in Snowmass Village, shared Djordjevic’s passion to reopen the Stube.
It’s not right to have a ski resort without a Bavarian-influenced restaurant, Ilic said. Vail and other resorts all have one, he noted.
The Stube won’t be resurrected in name only. The partners have original signs from the restaurant, including what appears to be a vintage 1960s sign telling patrons to wait to be seated.
They have the stained-glass windows that separated the dining room from the entry. They have wood paneling from the walls. They even have original coffee cups.
Neuweg shipped all the items to Florida, where they have been in storage.
“I helped load all the stuff,” Djordjevic said. “We’ve got almost everything.”
The restaurant is reopening with his support and blessing.
“While I wish Wienerstube could have remained in Aspen I am very happy and excited you are opening it in Basalt,” Neuweg wrote in a letter to the new partners. “With the rental prices a bit out of control, I do understand your decision.”
They asked Neuweg to help them with the opening next spring. He said he is digging up the old menus, wine lists, artwork and pictures to be returned to their rightful place.
Several members of the Stube’s kitchen staff worked at Aspen Over Easy and the partners hope to bring them back. Servers will wear dirndls, the traditional dress worn in Austria, South Tyrol and Bavaria that were a staple of waitresses at the Stube for most of its history.
In addition to reviving most of the Stube’s menu, they will display high-quality steaks and other dry meats that diners can select for cooking. German and Austrian beers will be served in Das Boot steins.
The community table, where individuals can join for company and conversation, will be brought back. And one of the loyalist customers at the Wienerstube, Klaus Obermeyer, will receive a special welcome. Djordjevic said Obermeyer, who celebrated his 98th birthday earlier this month, was given lifetime free breakfast some years ago. That will be reinstituted, he said.
The restaurant will go into a vacant space that has never been built out. Ilic said he looks forward to creating the kitchen, wine bar and dining room from scratch. They intend to open in spring, definitely for the summer season.
Djordjevic said they searched for a space in Aspen.
“It’s my town. I love it, but the rent is too expensive there,” he said.
Willits is relatively new, has a vibrant feel and continues to expand, he added.
Belinski said Market Street is evolving into the second restaurant row at Willits Town Center. That’s helped attract new retail shops.
“It’s the new wave of Willits energy,” he said.
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QBs Make The Difference, And Friday Before The Rams
Darren Urban/Word From The Birds
azcardinals.com
Sports, and the NFL, like to talk about windows.
Actual glass is not what we're speaking of here. It's the window of opportunity. Like the one the Rams may have closing now, or the one just now opening for the Cardinals, and it's because of the quarterback. Kyler Murray is on his rookie contract, and will be for at least a few years. That's when a team can use that salary cap space that will eventually go to the QB – in this case, Murray – and use it elsewhere to bolster the roster and in theory, create a stronger team.
(If a guy is truly a franchise QB, like how Kyler is trending, he'll get paid and your team still will be good, assuming good coaching and smart front-office moves. The cap should not be an issue.)
But the Rams might be in a different spot. Jared Goff has been a good QB but there is room for debate that he is a franchise player. But he got that kind of contract, and that – along with big deals for Aaron Donald, Todd Gurley, Brandin Cooks and, sooner than later, Jalen Ramsey – will make it much harder for roster-building going forward.
That brings us to Sunday, when the Rams visit State Farm Stadium. No one is claiming the Rams are going away. But they are in a tough spot. They have not been the same team has last season, and there are a lot of theories. (I think that if Gurley was still Gurley, the Rams would be fine, but he is not, for whatever reason, whether it be him or the offensive line.) The 49ers are trending up, the Seahawks are the Seahawks and it sure feels like the Cardinals are in position to make a big step forward in 2020 with the right roster dynamics.
It also feels, even with a Super Bowl appearance under Goff's belt, that the Cardinals are in a better spot at QB.
-- It became a punchline for a time, that Kliff Kingsbury and Sean McVay were friends, in large part to the naysayers who were incredulous that Kingsbury would get a shot at an NFL head coaching job when he did. But Kingsbury, with five games left, has indeed shown that he had an excellent offensive mind, just like his guy McVay. Maybe they are friends, but it's because of the connection to the game. "He can talk some football now," Kingsbury said of McVay, and I immediately thought of what a self-description that was for Kliff himself.
-- Back in 2015, the Cardinals ended up with a pretty interesting three-pronged group at running back. Andre Ellington was the starter to begin the season, with veteran Chris Johnson helping out. Then Ellington got hurt, and Johnson took over, with help from a rookie special teams ace named David Johnson. The Cardinals are back to having an interesting three-pronged running back group again. The question now is whether Johnson will end up back as that third guy. It seemed impossible at one point, but now, it's hard to not consider every single option.
-- Another thing to consider, which I pointed out elsewhere: How much is Kliff Kingsbury actually going to use a second back, not to mention a third? Chase Edmonds had 11 touches in Cincinnati as a second guy to Johnson. But in the other 10 games this season, the second Cardinals running back has averaged just 3.2 touches per game.
-- Players get contractually what the market calls for, and they should. But this game, and the situations of Johnson and Gurley, bring into the spotlight of the big contracts for running backs again. Running backs are important in this league, and some are more valuable than others. It's not the skill level but the length of time for greatness that's so hard to predict.
-- With five games left, the Cardinals are averaging 4.96 yards per rushing attempt. That would be a franchise record. The current best is 4.87 yards a carry, set back in 1960.
-- The last time Johnson and the Cardinals played against the Rams at home, Johnson caught a touchdown pass from Larry Fitzgerald, so maybe a memorable play is in the offing again.
-- The last four outings for the Cardinals -- who had dominated the Rams for a number of years prior -- have been ugly. Twice, the Cards have been shut out. The collective score has been 130-25 Rams since McVay took over as head coach.
-- A player gambling on NFL games? It's definitely a wow. To be honest, I hadn't seen Josh Shaw since he went on IR Aug. 25. On a one-year deal, he was unlikely to return next year anyway. Still, gambling on NFL games as an NFL player, injured or not, is still wild to see. Judy Battista tweeted the last case anywhere similar came back in 1996, with a Ravens backup QB named Jon Stark, who was investigated for it.
-- The bye apparently was so helpful, Kingsbury might be faced with the pleasant task of coming up with seven healthy inactives Sunday. Only defensive lineman Jonathan Bullard (foot) has been less than full practice this week, and he's at least in there on a limited basis.
-- I enjoyed this collective back-and-forth between Murray and the media this week when it came to discussion about the bye.
How did it feel to have a break with the bye week?
"I didn't like it."
What did you do during the break?
"I watched football."
Does it get you out of the rhythm, or …
"I just don't like it."
Are you not going to like the downtime of the offseason, or is this an in-season thing?
"I think it's in the season."
So you'll be OK having some downtime when the season's over, right?
"Yeah. I'm not really focused on that though."
The focus now is on the Rams.
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Morrall, who led Colts to 1969 Super Bowl, dies
Longtime NFL quarterback Earl Morrall, who filled in for an injured Johnny Unitas during the 1968 season and was named the league's Most Valuable Player for leading the Colts to the Super Bowl, died on Friday in Florida.. He was 79.
By By Peter Schmuck and The Baltimore Sun
Ravens Q&A with Mike Preston
Baltimore Sun columnist Mike Preston answers Ravens questions from readers.
By By Mike Preston
William K. McCardell, USF&G executive
William Kenneth "Mac" McCardell, a retired United States Fidelity and Guaranty insurance executive and World War II veteran, died of congestive heart failure March 31 at the Stella Maris Rehabilitation Center. The Mays Chapel resident was 92.
By By Jacques Kelly and The Baltimore Sun
Baltimore Colts once called Towson's Campus Hills home
On the cusp of Super Bowl XLVIII, one Campus Hills resident would like to see his neighborhood memorialized as the community where several football greats — Johnny Unitas, Alan Ameche, Gino Marchetti and Joe Campenella — called home when they were a part of the winning Baltimore Colts team in the 1950s.
By By Jon Meoli and jmeoli@tribune.com
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Tom Matte, Ron Swoboda and Gino Marchetti are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for Jan. 5-11
By By Mike Klingaman and The Baltimore Sun
For Towson football, a long journey to respectability
Rob Ambrose has led Towson to three straight winning seasons and to Saturday's Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) national title game in Frisco, Texas.
By By Childs Walker and Edward Lee
Joe Flacco joins the 20-interception club
Believe it or not, Joe Flacco joined select company in 2013, doing something that all-time greats such as John Elway, Dan Marino, Brett Favre and Peyton Manning all did at least one point in their career. Heck, even the great Johnny Unitas pulled it off, but Flacco will have to do it a few more times to match him.
By By Matt Vensel
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Quintin Dailey, Jean Ratelle and Lefty Driesell are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for Dec. 22-28
Towson doesn't fear jet lag in FCS semifinals
The Towson football team has already set benchmarks that will be difficult to match or exceed in future years: a single-season record of 12 victories, two NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoff wins and the program's first-ever appearance in the tournament semifinals.
By By Edward Lee and The Baltimore Sun
Catching Up With ... Former Colt Sam Havrilak
A dentist in Parkville, Havrilak tends patients' chompers with the same hands that once passed, caught and cradled the football for the Colts. Every day finds him tackling a host of problems, from fillings to crowns to extractions to root canals.
Catching Up With . . . former NFL defensive lineman Roger Brown
A restaurant/sports bar in Portsmouth, Va., where Roger Browns lives bears his name. Brown, a onetime 300-pound All Pro defensive tackle, also owns establishments in Williamsburg and Newport News. On the menu is a club sandwich called the "Fearsome Foursome," a nod to the nickname given the celebrated defensive lines on which Brown played in both Detroit and L.A.
Ravens on TV -- Viewers weigh in on telecast of epic game and other matters
There was lots of mail on the Fox telecast of the Baltimore Ravens' epic win Sunday over the Minnesota Vikings.
By By David Zurawik
Alabama QB A.J. McCarron named 2013 winner of Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award
Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron was named Monday morning as the winner of the 2013 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, presented annually to the top college quarterback in the nation.
By The Baltimore Sun
Towson's veteran offensive line tries to pave the way for an FCS tournament victory
Towson's offensive line that serves as a foundation for the No. 7-seeded Tigers (10-2), who will tangle with Fordham (12-1) in the second round of the Football Championship Subdivision tournament Saturday at 1 p.m. at Johnny Unitas Stadium.
By By Edward Lee
The Sun Remembers: Dec. 1-7
Craig Candeto, Jim Traber and Bobby Boyd are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for Dec. 1-7
Effort to build statue of Lenny Moore gains steam
Effort to honor former Colts running back Lenny Moore with statue picks up steam.
By By Nicholas Fouriezos and The Baltimore Sun
Hall of Famer Ogden poised to become legend
A little less than four months after Jonathan Ogden was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the lineman who was the Ravens' first-ever draft pick in 1996 will return to Baltimore to give another podium speech when he is inducted into the Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation's Hall of Legends.
Towson vs. James Madison college football preview
Towson has no shot at a third straight Colonial Athletic Association championship but can fortify its resume for an NCAA tournament berth with a win over James Madison.
Catching Up With . . . Former Colts linebacker Dennis Gaubatz
Dennis Gaubatz, 25, the former LSU star immediately became the defensive signal caller for a team that would win an NFL championship and three division titles in the next four years.
Baltimore athletes remember being 'dazed,' 'shaken' on weekend of JFK's death
Some sports stopped when John F. Kennedy was shot, but the NFL — and two local high schools — played on.
By By Mike Klingaman
Five finalists for Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award announced
The list of finalists for the 2013 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award has been cut from 30 to five, the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Educational Foundation announced today.
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Torrey Smith, George Shaw and Vinny Testaverde are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for Nov. 10-16
2013 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm field cut to 10
10 quarterbacks left in race for 2013 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award
By By Molly Geary
Winning on road becoming habit for Towson football
Road games are supposed to be difficult. Try telling that to the Towson football team.
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Bert Jones, Brooks Robinson and Debbie Meyer are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for Oct. 20-26
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Lil Shelton, Eddie Murray and Boog Powell are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for Oct. 13-19
More mature West points No. 3 Towson football in right direction
The Terrance West of old would have reacted to a pair of fumbles with a few choice words directed at anyone who happened to be nearby.
Catching Up With . . . former Terp/Packers safety Tom Brown
For 38 years Tom Brown has had their ear, in part because he has two Super Bowl rings and a resume to back him up. Green Bay's second-round draft pick in 1963, he initially spurned the Packers — then the NFL champions — to play baseball instead. An All-American at Maryland, where he led the Atlantic Coast Conference in hitting (.449), he was wooed by the Washington Senators who dangled a $12,000 bonus.
With toughness, Ravens QB Joe Flacco has grown into team leader
Sometimes, I get a little tired of extolling the Ravens front office for its uncanny ability to identify talent, but it¿s hard not to do that whenever Joe Flacco steps to the microphone for one of his podium sessions at the Under Armour Performance Center.
By By Peter Schmuck
Each week, Baltimore Sun columnist Mike Preston will answer questions from readers about the Ravens.
Towson defensive end Ryan Delaire finds a new edge at new school
Ryan Delaire, a junior defensive end, can expect a lot of attention, especially from No. 19 New Hampshire (1-2 overall, 0-0 Colonial Athletic Association), which will visit No. 3 Towson (5-0, 1-0) on Saturday at noon at Johnny Unitas Stadium.
Catching Up With ... former Baltimore Colts LB Ray May
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Catching Up With former Baltimore Colts lineman Dan Sullivan
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The Sun Remembers: Sept. 1-7
Cal Ripken Jr., Bailey Howell and Johnny Unitas are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for Sept. 1-7
Towson using 2012 postseason snub as motivation for 2013
High expectations surround Towson, which was picked to finish second in the conference behind Villanova. A third consecutive CAA title is the first priority.
Gilman squeezes by Good Counsel 20-14 in ESPN High School Football Kickoff Classic
The Falcons took a 14-0 lead in a little over three minutes and while the youth continued to show at times, the Greyhounds settled down to make critical plays late and come away with their first win over Good Counsel in three years, 20-14, in the season opener for both teams at the ESPN High School Football Kickoff Classic at Towson University's Johnny Unitas Stadium.
By By Katherine Dunn and The Baltimore Sun
Gilman football prepares for 2013 kickoff against Good Counsel
Gilman coach Biff Poggi should patent his formula for producing winning football teams.
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Art Donovan wasn't from here, but he epitomized Baltimore
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Ray Lewis to be enshrined in Ravens' Ring of Honor on Sept. 22
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Baltimore issues first Code Red heat alert of the year
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Matt Rambo leads South to 28-24 victory in Under Armour Classic boys game
The South bombarded the North with a game-seizing onslaught that held up to give the South a 28-24 victory.
By By Ryan Hood and The Baltimore Sun
North surge knocks off South, 18-16, in Under Armour Lacrosse Classic girls game
A small piece from the rivalry in this year's NCAA women's lacrosse championship found its way to Towson's Johnny Unitas stadium, the site of Saturday evening's Under Armour Lacrosse Classic.
By By Seth Boster and The Baltimore Sun
Three Boys' Latin 'brothers' reflect on the past at Under Armour game
Colin Heacock, Mac Pons, Ben Pridemore will play for the South team in the All-America Lacrosse Classic at Johnny Unitas Stadium -- where the Lakers lost to Loyola in the MIAA A Conference title game in May
By By Glenn Graham and The Baltimore Sun
Under Armour All-America game 'more about fun' for McDonogh girls
Four Eagles standouts, who never lost in high school careers, will represent South team in the eighth annual event at Johnny Unitas Stadium on Saturday
Lacrosse Q&A with Gilman attackman Max Greene
All-Metro second-team pick will play on South team in Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Classic on Saturday at Johnny Unitas Stadium
Lacrosse Q&A with Severna Park midfielder Morgan Torggler
Two-time All-Metro first-team selection set to finish high school career Saturday in Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Classic at Towson University
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Congressional Gold Medal for Famed Merrill's Marauders Awaits President's Approval
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From September 24 2020 Stars and Stripes:
Stars and Stripes | By Wyatt Olson
House lawmakers approved a bill Tuesday that would award the Congressional Gold Medal to members of the famed Merrill's Marauders of World War II.
The Senate passed a version of the bill late last year, and supporters say they expect President Donald Trump will sign the legislation.
The Marauders were named for Brig. Gen. Frank Merrill, who led the Army unit as it fought behind Japanese lines in Burma during the war.
The Congressional Gold Medal would recognize the extraordinary service of the nearly 3,000 men of the 5307th Composite Unit, as the Marauders were formally known.
The unit was tasked with capturing the Myitkyina airfield in northern Burma, which they did on May 17, 1944, after a 1,000-mile trek over the Himalayan foothills, through jungles and enemy resistance. Disease, exhaustion, malnutrition and the enemy winnowed them down to a handful by the time they seized the airfield.
"I feel like I'm floating on air," Robert Passanisi, a 96-year-old Marauder veteran, said in a statement after the bill passed Tuesday evening.
"It has been a long journey, and we've had to struggle through three congressional sessions to obtain this great honor," said Passanisi, who emerged as the Marauder's spokesman and historian as the years have passed.
"My one regret is that only eight of us are alive to enjoy this historic honor," he said.
The House passed the bill one day after the 77th anniversary of 2,000 volunteers from the Caribbean and United States boarding the SS Lurline on Sept. 21, 1943, in San Francisco to ship out to New Caledonia. There, another 1,000 veterans from South Pacific battles joined them to head to a mission in Burma that not even they fully understood.
Some individual members of the Marauders have in the past received the Congressional Gold Medal. Second-generation Japanese-American soldiers, known as Nisei -- some of whom worked as translators with the Marauders -- were presented the medal in 2011. Members of the Office of Strategic Services, which was the forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency, were given the medal in 2018. OSS members were among the Marauders.
But as an overall unit, Merrill's Marauders had been overlooked for what is perhaps the most prestigious award bestowed to civilians.
Jonnie Melillo Clasen, daughter of Vincent Melillo, a Marauder who died in 2015 at age 97, has spearheaded the effort for congressional recognition of the Marauders' role in the war, which was tantamount to a suicide mission given what they faced.
She has served as an informal liaison to the still-living Marauders and their families after the group of surviving veterans grew too old and too few to maintain an association and plan reunions.
It was her father who first sparked the idea of seeking the Congressional Gold Medal for the 5307th.
After reading a newsletter about Roy Matsumoto, a friend of his who was among the Nisei awarded the gold medal in 2011, Melillo said to his daughter, "Why can't we get this for the rest of the guys?" Clasen told Stars and Stripes Wednesday.
"And I thought, well, why not?" she said.
Passanisi and fellow Marauder veteran Gilbert Howland, 96, visited Congress three times during the current session to seek support from lawmakers of both chambers.
"It is a great honor for me and our unit," Howland said in the statement. "We all volunteered and came together as a team to complete our mission. I wish all those men were alive today to receive this honor.
"I fought in WWII, in Korea in the Pork Chop Hill sector and did two combat tours in Vietnam. But the worse fighting I experienced was in Burma with Merrill's Marauders."
With so few Marauders alive, supporters of the medal legislation have pressed ahead with a sense of urgency.
Twenty-eight were alive in 2016 when the first bill was introduced in the House; only eight now remain.
Marauder veteran Lester Hollenback, of Deltona, Fla., was the most recent loss, dying in July at age 97.
Noting that the Nisei medals were not presented until a year after they were approved, Clasen said she hoped for a faster timeline.
"We've already lost one, and we're just hoping we don't lose any more," she said.
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I would say it was a great honour, but Tony Blair has one.
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That Bastard Stillwell had doctors turning Marauders out of hospital beds to go back into action while that had malaria and dysentery and typhus
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Goldbricker said:
Their mission was similar to the Chindits. He ran them into the ground as well until at the end there were very few fit to fight.
Ruckerwocman said:
It is a great honor for me and our unit," Howland said in the statement. "We all volunteered and came together as a team to complete our mission. I wish all those men were alive today to receive this honor.
He should go in the 'Ally' thread. He sounds absolute nails.
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Combat Infantryman's badge 3rd award (only some 230 recipients WW2/Korea/Vietnam)
Postwar ''Trust'' trooper (88th div @ Trieste)
Jungle warfare instructor in Panama (JOTC) before Korea and after
Korea in both 25th and 7th divisions
South Vietnam with MAAG as an advisor and 1st Infantry division
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Joseph Stilwell - Wikipedia
It would appear he was a tw@t of the highest order.
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A recent case from Montgomery County, MD illustrates vividly many of the concepts typically taught concerning armed self-defense and the use of deadly force. The facts below come from media reports and are thus not independently verified.
On December 20, 2015, Mario Perez, his son and girl-friend came to a holiday get together at the home of Frank Trujillo in Montgomery County, Maryland. At home with Mr. Trujillo was his wife and two children, ages 8 and 4. Trujillo was the Vice President of a local construction company. Perez had worked at the company where the two became friends. Trujillo had invited his friend over for the evening for dinner and drinks and to stay over until the morning.
Perez was a big guy. A football player in high school, he enlisted in the Marine Corps after graduation. He outweighed Trujillo by some 50 pounds and was into MMA fighting according to Mr. Trujillo. In the course of the evening, Perez consumed a substantial amount of alcohol. The toxicology report would peg his blood alcohol content at between 0.22 and 0.28 percent. This amount of alcohol is roughly equivalent to a 200 pound man drinking in excess of two six packs of regular beer over a short period of time. At this level of intoxication Perez’s judgement and reasoning would have been radically diminished. Indeed, at slightly higher blood alcohol levels, such as 0.30 percent, unconsciousness is likely.
Perez may indeed have had an alcohol problem, having been previously convicted of driving under the influence at least twice before. In fact, Trujillo had been a character witness for him at one of his trials. According to Trujillo, a discussion concerning a work matter turned into an argument during their holiday get together. Perez became agitated. The situation escalated to the point where Perez threatened to kill Trujillo and his family. Trujillo’s attempts to deescalate the situation failed. He left Perez, retrieved a handgun, and stood outside his children’s bedroom door while his wife tried to call 911. According to Trujillo, Perez charged him and Trujillo shot him once fatally in the chest.
Police arrested Trujillo on first degree murder charges. He was initially held without bail for more than a week. He was released on bond December 29, 2015. Prosecutors then sought a first degree murder indictment from the grand jury arguing that Trujillo escalated the situation by retrieving his gun, that he should have simply called the police and that he should have retreated from the confrontation. After hearing Trujillo’s testimony, however, the grand jury refused to indict, essentially finding that he acted in self-defense.
This case illustrates numerous concepts involved in the use of deadly force in self-defense. There are five inter-related elements necessary to justify use of deadly force in self-defense: Innocence, imminence, proportionality, avoidance and reasonableness. They are well illustrated here. Of these five elements, the overriding one here and in most cases is reasonableness. Thus, you may use deadly force to stop what you reasonably believe to be an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm to an innocent person. Let's analyze this case under the five elements set forth above.
Innocence. Perez was the aggressor, he threatened Trujillo’s life and the lives of his family. Trujillo and his family were innocent.
Imminence. Trujillo could reasonably believe the attach was imminent. He testified that Perez was charging him after threatening to kill him and his family. In fact, Perez charged a man holding a firearm.
Reasonableness. Trujillo could reasonably conclude that Perez was capable of causing death or serious bodily harm. Perez outweighed him by 50 pounds, had been a Marine and studied MMA. Significantly, Trujillo knew Perez was a trained fighter. Reasonableness includes what you know about an assailant, including their training and their violent nature. Generally, you are not privileged to use deadly force against an unarmed attacker. The exception is where there is a disparity of force. Typical examples of disparity of force include a big guy attacking a smaller guy, a man attacking a woman, a healthy person attacking an infirm person, or a trained fighter attacking an untrained person. Here there was a disparity of force both in terms of size and training and Trujillo was aware of these facts. These facts justified Trujillo’s use of a deadly weapon.
Avoidance. Maryland is a duty to retreat jurisdiction, which means that before using deadly force a victim must retreat from the threat if he can do so safely. Despite the prosecutor’s statement to the contrary, retreat was not an option here. First, Trujillo was in his own home where there is seldom a duty to retreat. Second, he had protectees in the house he could not leave alone with Perez nor marshall them to safety while under attack. Third, there is never a duty to retreat if it cannot be done safely. The situation as described by Trujillo appeared to escalate very rapidly. Retreat was not an option. Likewise, faulting Trujillo for not calling the police at an earlier stage of the confrontation, is simply Monday morning quarterbacking by the prosecutor. It is likely that it was not until he realized how dangerous the situation was that Trujillo understood he had to take action. Had he tried to call the police without having armed himself, he likely would have been beaten to a pulp before he could have told the 911 operator what was happening. Under the circumstances, Trujillo did what he could to avoid the situation by leaving Perez, getting his firearm, and standing watch outside his children’s door.
Proportionality. Trujillo shot Perez once, which stopped him. You are only allowed to use enough force to stop the attack. Anything in excess, is not self-defense, but a crime. With the threat stopped, Trujillo ceased using force.
Under the circumstances of this case, the grand jury concluded that Trujillo acted in self-defense. A win for Trujillo? Not really. Trujillo lives in anti-gun Maryland and in anti-gun Montgomery County. Trujillo spent a week in jail for defending his family. He was charged with first degree murder. The prosecutor alleged he premeditated the crime of murder by retrieving the tool that saved his life and the lives of his family members. He had to hire a lawyer for presumably thousands of dollars, and he may very likely face a civil action by Perez’s survivors for wrongful death. And now he has to live with the psychological scars of having had to kill someone he trusted enough to invite into his home, not to mention the social stigma of having killed someone. This case illustrates vividly not only the various legal concepts involved in using deadly force in defense of self and family, but the toll that choice may take on your life.
How would you handle a similar situation?
This case challenges us to consider how we might prepare ourselves to exercise our right to self-defense. Obviously the need for tactical tools and skills, such as a gun and good marksmanship, cannot be separated from the need to know the law. Arsenal Attorneys works with firearms instructors to develop self-defense seminars combining the law, practical skills and decisionmaking in emergencies. Watch for our upcoming seminars.
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Traditional Inn built in 1712, with Restaurant and en suite B&B. Free WiFi and car parking. Open daily with A la Carte menu Fridays and Saturdays and ...more
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Located just 12 miles from Canterbury, Goss Hall Bed & Breakfast offers free WiFi access and free onsite parking. With a garden and a terrace, the property is 30 minutes' walk from Sandwich. Featuring garden views, each room includes a TV with satellite channels, a seating area, and tea and coffee making facilities. The en-suite or external private bath or shower rooms include a hairdryer and free toiletries. Goss Hall Bed & Breakfast also offers meeting facilities and a shared lounge. An array of activities can be enjoyed on site or in the surroundings, including fishing and golfing. Overlooking the seafront, Princes Golf Club is just 10 minutes' drive away and the Royal St George Golf Course is also nearby. Sandwich Railway Station is just 5 minutes' drive away. Guests can explore the Sandwich and Pegwell Nature Reserve, just 8 minutes' drive from Goss Hall.
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Harriet House Bed & Breakfast is a 10-minute walk along the River Stour from the very heart of beautiful, historic Canterbury. This well-established 4-star bed and breakfast offers charming en suite rooms and free parking. Comfortable and well furnished, all rooms have en suite shower rooms, flat-screen TVs, mini-fridges and tea/coffee. The Harriet House Bed and Breakfast is just 650 metres from Canterbury West Railway Station and less than a mile from the shops, restaurants and museums of Canterbury's city centre, as well as the historic Canterbury Cathedral. A full traditional English breakfast is freshly cooked and served to order in the sunny breakfast room and conservatory. Breakfast includes meat from an award-winning local butcher, free-range farm eggs, waffles and pancakes. Breakfast is served from 08:00 until 09:00. Lighter buffet options are also available and vegans, vegetarians and those with special dietary needs can be accommodated by prior request. All guests are given their own keys and are free to come and go as they please. There is a private car park at the rear of the property, with free parking for guests.
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Home to a beautiful 12th-century chapel and gardens, Greyfriars Lodge is set within the very centre of historic Canterbury. Stunning Canterbury Cathedral is just 3 minutes' walk away, and you can enjoy free Wi-Fi, elegant rooms, and continental breakfasts. Light and freshly furnished, every room at Greyfriars has a TV as well as a mini fridge for guests to make use of. All the rooms also include an en suite bathroom. Canterbury's bustling high street is only a minute's walk away, while Canterbury East Rail Station is 10 minutes away on foot. In less than a 5-minute walk, guests can reach the Marlowe Theatre and Canterbury Roman Museum.
39 London Road, Canterbury, CT2 8LF
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59 London Road, Canterbury, CT2 8JY
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This family-run bed and breakfast is a Grade II listed, Regency building situated in a magnificent quiet square, 300 metres from the seafront and dire...more
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Nelson Crescent, Ramsgate, CT11 9JF
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Amadis bed and breakfast is situated in the village of Blean, on the A290 between Canterbury and Whitstable. A bus stop is 100 meters from the propert...more
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Victoria Parade, East Cliff, Ramsgate, CT11 8DT
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Situated on Ramsgate's East Cliff, this Comfort Inn features a beauty salon, a gym, a sauna and ample free parking. Some of the rooms have sea views a...more
Situated on Ramsgate's East Cliff, this Comfort Inn features a beauty salon, a gym, a sauna and ample free parking. Some of the rooms have sea views and a balcony. Free WiFi is available throughout. This Grade II Victorian building boasts panoramic views across the English Channel, just 1 km from Ramsgate Royal Harbour. The en-suite air-conditioned rooms at Comfort Inn Ramsgate have tea/coffee making facilities and an arrival welcome pack of biscuits, tea, coffee, hot chocolate and bottled water. There is a well-stocked bar with live music on every other Friday, and a restaurant where traditional cuisine is served. In the mornings, a Continental breakfast is served, although English breakfast is available at a additional cost. The Comfort Inn Ramsgate is a 10-minute walk from the town center.
Upper Harbledown, Canterbury, CT2 9AX
Less than 3 miles from the historic centre of Canterbury, this luxury B&B enjoys a rural setting within its own oak woodland. It offers en suite rooms...more
Less than 3 miles from the historic centre of Canterbury, this luxury B&B enjoys a rural setting within its own oak woodland. It offers en suite rooms with free Wi-Fi and plenty of off-road parking for all guests. Full English breakfast is available every morning and includes free-range bacon and sausages from the property's own pig farm. Tea and coffee making facilities are provided in all the rooms. Guests staying at the Oakside Lodge can enjoy walking in the woodlands stretching to the ancient Blean Forest. Bird watching is a popular activity in the area, where visitors can hear the sound of the nightingale in its natural surroundings. Oakside Lodge is only a 5-minute drive from Canterbury West Railway Station, offering connections to London Central within less than an hour.
Church Lane, Ripple, Deal, CT14 8JH
Set in Deal, 5 km from Deal Castle, The Plough Inn Ripple offers accommodation with a garden. All rooms boast a flat-screen TV with cable channels and...more
Set in Deal, 5 km from Deal Castle, The Plough Inn Ripple offers accommodation with a garden. All rooms boast a flat-screen TV with cable channels and a private bathroom. Both free WiFi and private parking are accessible on site. All guest rooms at the inn are equipped with a seating area. All units will provide guests with a wardrobe and a kettle. Guests can dine in the in-house restaurant, which specialises in Local cuisine and also offers vegetarian options. You can play darts at The Plough Inn Ripple. Sandown Castle is 8 km from the accommodation, while Walmer Castle is 3.8 km away.
Ramsgate Road, Broadstairs, CT10 1PN
Located in the beautiful town of Broadstairs, Yarrow Hotel features a restaurant, bar and free WiFi. Free private parking is available on site. Each r...more
Located in the beautiful town of Broadstairs, Yarrow Hotel features a restaurant, bar and free WiFi. Free private parking is available on site. Each room is equipped with a flat-screen TV. Extras include free toiletries and a hairdryer. There is a 24-hour front desk at the property. The property also has a spa area which includes a Jacuzzi, steam room and sauna. There is a range of holistic and beauty treatments available as well as a hair salon. London Gatwick Airport is 84 miles away.
Tothill Street,, Minster, CT12 4AU
With 24-hour check-in, the Holiday Inn Ramsgate Minster is 6 miles from the beaches of Margate. Close to Kent International Airport, there are 4 golf ...more
With 24-hour check-in, the Holiday Inn Ramsgate Minster is 6 miles from the beaches of Margate. Close to Kent International Airport, there are 4 golf courses within a 10-mile radius. Air-conditioned rooms at the Holiday Inn Express Ramsgate feature powerful showers and internet connections. They also have flat-screen TVs, hair dryers and tea/coffee making facilities. International dishes are served in the Art Deco Great Room, where 270-degree windows offer stunning countryside views. The bar and lounge serves light snacks and shows live news and sport. The Ramsgate ferries are 5 miles from the Holiday Inn and the King George VI Memorial Park, overlooking the Channel, is a 10-minute drive. Free parking is available for guests.
11 & 12 Orchard Street, Canterbury, CT2 8AP
The Black Horse Inn offers bed and breakfast in the heart of historic Canterbury, just 5 minutes' walk from Canterbury West Train Station. The propert...more
The Black Horse Inn offers bed and breakfast in the heart of historic Canterbury, just 5 minutes' walk from Canterbury West Train Station. The property has a garden and sitting room, and offers free WiFi to its guests. On street parking is available a few minutes walk away from the property. Rooms at The Black Horse Inn have en suite facilities with power showers. Each room has a flat-screen TV and tea and coffee making facilities, and the sitting room also has a Freeview TV. A complimentary full English breakfast is offered, as well as a continental selection, which includes cereals, toast and jams. The bed and breakfast is just off St Dunstan's Road leading straight to the centre of the city, so there are numerous cafés and restaurants within a 10-minute walk. Canterbury Cathedral is just 13 minutes' walk from The Black Horse, and the Marlowe Theatre around 9 minutes. The city is within easy reach of the Eurostar terminal in Ashford, and the cross-channel ferry and shuttle services in Dover and Folkestone, all of which are around 30 minutes' drive.
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Education Studies and English BA (Hons)
This course is a great choice if you are thinking of going on to do a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) after your degree but don’t yet want to commit to primary or secondary level teaching.
You’ll get a very good grounding in the key National Curriculum subject of English Literature and learn about key educational ideas and theories, gaining a wide knowledge of key educational ideas and theories, major literary periods and genres, and the use of language.
In addition, you will have the opportunity to choose units which are of particular interest to you and which will have relevance for your future career.
During your degree you will have the opportunity to explore the role of language in society, contemporary and historical notions of childhood and children, study the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, the philosophy of education and choose from a range of English and Education Studies options and a dissertation based on your interests and your future career plans.
Apply Via - UCAS
Course Level - Undergraduate
UCAS Code - XQ33
Campus Location - Bedford Campus
Start Dates - Oct
Attendance - Full-time | Part-time | Part-time day
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Education Studies and English with Professional Practice Year - BA (Hons)
This course has the option to be taken over four years which includes a year placement in industry. Undertaking a year in industry has many benefits. You gain practical experience and build your CV, as well as being a great opportunity to sample a profession and network with potential future employers.
There is no tuition fee for the placement year enabling you to gain an extra year of experience for free.
*Only available to UK/EU students.
Education Studies and English with Foundation Year - BA (Hons)
A Degree with a Foundation Year gives you guaranteed entry to an Undergraduate course.
Whether you’re returning to learning and require additional help and support to up-skill, or if you didn’t quite meet the grades to pursue an Undergraduate course, our Degrees with Foundation Year provide a fantastic entry route for you to work towards a degree level qualification.
With our guidance and support you’ll get up to speed within one year, and will be ready to seamlessly progress on to undergraduate study at Bedfordshire.
The Foundation Year provides an opportunity to build up your academic writing skills and numeracy, and will also cover a range of subject specific content to fully prepare you for entry to an Undergraduate degree.
This is an integrated four-year degree, with the foundation year as a key part of the course. You will need to successfully complete the Foundation Year to progress on to the first year of your bachelor’s degree.
Why study a degree with a Foundation Year?
Broad-based yet enough depth to give you credible vocational skills
Coverage of a variety of areas typically delivered by an expert in this area
Gain an understanding of a subject before choosing which route you wish to specialise in
Great introduction to further study, and guaranteed progression on to one of our Undergraduate degrees
The degrees offering a Foundation Year provide excellent preparation for your future studies.
During your Foundation Year you will get the opportunity to talk to tutors about your degree study and future career aspirations, and receive guidance on the most appropriate Undergraduate course to help you achieve this; providing you meet the entry requirements and pass the Foundation Year.
Learn from a teaching team of Education Studies tutors with extensive school teaching experience and English tutors with strong research and publishing profiles
Study key educational ideas and theories and core areas in the history and theory of literature
Develop your understanding of theories of education and literature the role of language in society, and the sociology of childhood and education
Gain school experience, either within the course itself or through the community volunteer programme
Explore creative writing, language and linguistics, 19th century and 20th century literature, gender and culture, Gothic literature and American, Irish and world literatures
Benefit from a degree providing an excellent progression route to a PGCE, without the need to commit to either primary or secondary level teaching
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Early Child Psychology (EDC054-1) Compulsory
Language, Identity And Society (ENG001-1) Compulsory
Narratives Of Childhood (EDC048-1) Compulsory
The Inclusive Society (EDC053-1) Compulsory
Ways Of Reading (ENG006-1) Compulsory
Comparative Education (EDC043-2) Compulsory
Shakespeare And His Contemporaries (ENG007-2) Compulsory
Creative Writing (ENG006-2) Optional
Deschooling (EDC061-2) Optional
Developing Teaching Practice (EDC063-2) Optional
Eighteenth-Century Literature (ENG016-2) Optional
Families And Communities (EDC066-2) Optional
Language, Ideology And Power (ENG008-2) Optional
Medieval Literature (ENG013-2) Optional
Poetry And Poetics (ENG010-2) Optional
Renaissance Literature (ENG014-2) Optional
Restoration Literature (ENG015-2) Optional
Romantic Literature (ENG017-2) Optional
The Lifelong Curriculum (EDC067-2) Optional
The Professional Workplace (EDC064-2) Optional
Victorian Literature (ENG018-2) Optional
Children'S Fiction (ENG007-3) Compulsory
Dissertation (EDC207-3) Compulsory
Dissertation (English Literature) (ENG014-3) Compulsory
Philosophy Of Education (EDC163-3) Compulsory
Children And Young PeopleS Wellbeing (EDC204-3) Optional
Children, Young People And The Media (EDC212-3) Optional
Gender And Culture (ENG010-3) Optional
Gothic Literature (ENG013-3) Optional
Modern British And American Literature (ENG018-3) Optional
Modern Irish Literature (ENG021-3) Optional
Perspectives On Pedagogy And Behaviour (EDC210-3) Optional
Postmodern British And American Literature (ENG019-3) Optional
Representations Of Disability (EDC209-3) Optional
Research In Action (ENG023-3) Optional
World Literature (ENG022-3) Optional
There is a range of assessments used on the course which has a progressive learning and assessment strategy that moves students from diagnostic and formative assessment in the first year (Level 4) to summative assessment in the second and third years (Levels 5 and 6), this approach encourages the development of independent learning skills. Written assessments include essays (the main form of written assessment), reviews and portfolios. Essays at Level 4 are short and focused (usually 1,500 words) but at Levels 5 and 6 the length increases and at Level 6 essays are typically 3,000 words long. Essays and portfolios not only develop subject specific skills, such as the ability to use appropriate critical terminology and to apply various theoretical approaches, but more generic skills such as the ability to gather, sift and organise material independently, to access electronic data and to word process the work. The length of essay required each year increases, as do the expectations of the tutors in terms of writing, presentation and argument. The final written assessment is the 9,000-word dissertation; you will devise your own research question and will be fully supported by a dissertation tutor throughout the process. Presentation assessments including oral presentations and poster presentations (working individually or with a group) assess your verbal communication and your ability to structure and disseminate your work in a live context. Examinations can either take place in class (a phase test which focuses on a single text or question) or at the end of the academic year when students may sit seen and unseen exams of various lengths and difficulties which increase each year. Exams identify your level of attainment and ability to answer a question under exam conditions, drawing on the theories and texts that you have encountered during the unit. Tutorials are offered before each assessment is due and you will be encouraged to complete a self-assessment form for each assessment, identifying your own strengths and weaknesses. Tutors provide detailed feedback for all assessments and this, together with your own self-assessment, forms the basis for future work.
We will consider you as an individual and take into account all elements of your application, not just your qualifications. We are looking for breadth and depth in your current studies and enthusiasm for the subject you wish to study.
UCAS Tariff Points
At least 80 points with 64 points from 2 A level passes at C or above
At least 80 points with 64 from Merit Merit in two BTEC Subsidiary Diplomas or one BTEC Diploma
At least 80 points with Merit Merit Pass in the BTEC Extended Diploma
A completed Access to Higher Education Diploma Equivalent qualifications such as Irish Leaving Certificate, OCR Nationals, International Baccalaureate and CACHE Level 3 awards.
You can work out how many UCAS points your qualifications are worth with the UCAS tariff calculator
Contact the Admissions Team for additional guidance on whether the qualifications you currently hold or are taking would be suitable for entry.
E: admission@beds.ac.uk
As a general guide, to apply for a place on an undergraduate course (BA/BSc) at the University you need to have completed your high school education and have the required English qualification.
We have students from all the European Union member countries so we are quick to make decisions on most qualifications. See your country page for more details
Check Your Country page to confirm that your local qualifications are suitable or contact your International Admissions Team
How will this course improve my career prospects?
The Education Studies and English course prepares you for a number of professions including work in the following fields:
Teaching (following further study) in the following sectors:
Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
Welfare and health services
Further study: The following are on offer at Bedford campus and at other institutions:
PGCE Secondary Education English
PGCE Primary Education
PGCE Key Stage 2/3 Middle Years
Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language
MA English Literature
MPhil or PhD in either English or Education Studies
The full-time standard undergraduate tuition fee for the Academic Year 2020/21 is £9,250 per year. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees. You can also apply for a maintenance loan from the Government to help cover your living costs.
See www.gov.uk/student-finance
The University of Bedfordshire offers a number of scholarships and bursaries to help you finance your studies.
See www.beds.ac.uk/scholarships
The full-time standard undergraduate tuition fee for the Academic Year 2020/21 is £9,250 per year. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees.
The full-time standard undergraduate tuition fee for the academic year 2020/21 is £12,350 per year. A prompt payment discount is available if you pay the full Year 1 fee before or at registration. There are also special scholarships available.
See www.beds.ac.uk/intfees
Gateway Building
Gateway Building Front
Gateway Building Interior
Campus Gym
Campus Library Entrance
The Gateway Building located at the entrance of the Bedford campus holds a wide range of facilities including the main reception, student information desk, a café on the ground floor, large lecture theatres as well as a range of study rooms & breakout spaces on all floors.
Part of the University's 'greening of the campus' initiative, the £25m investment in the Gateway includes a number of sustainable and low carbon technologies such as rainwater harvesting. The project team are aiming towards a BREEAM sustainability rating of 'excellent'.
The Bedford Campus Centre holds the large 280 seat professional theatre on the ground floor and the 80 seat studio theatre on the first floor as well as a box office just inside the entrance where students, staff and the wider community can get tickets for the variety of student performances that are held by our School of Media & Performance
Also on the ground floor is the main campus café which offers a wide variety of tasty food & drink and is a great social space for meeting friends and group working.
Bedford Campus Accommodation
The University guarantees accommodation to all new students.
Choose from Liberty Park's en-suite study bedrooms or the Student Village which offers standard rooms with shared bathroom facilities, and en-suite rooms with a private shower. All have fully-equipped kitchens.
Our rooms are on-campus and have easy access to the town centre and train station.
Sports Science Labs
Our specialist labs give students a fantastic environment to develop their research skills and expertise, where a student can explore the biology of an elite athlete who could be performing simultaneously within the sports hall.
Few Sport Science courses in the country offer students such unique discipline leading research experience and skills, alongside intimate access to world leading researchers within their field. Students are regularly offered the opportunity to be involved within discipline defining Sport, Health and Exercise Science research
Our state-of-the-art laboratories are purpose built for research and teaching in the fields of exercise and nutrition science. This includes specialised equipment and facilities for assessing human health risk and delivering exercise and diet interventions for health promotion.
Campus Theatres
Set within the Campus Centre is a 260 seat professional theatre on the ground floor with industry-standard lighting, media desk, roll-down screen, full backstage comms system and large dressing rooms with en suite showers. On the first floor there's also a well-equipped 80 seat studio theatre.
Our theatres welcome new and existing audiences to see a range of student work including contemporary dance, theatre and performing arts; holding regular performances. The performance facilities are designed to emulate professional working conditions.
Aspire Gym - Bedford
The Aspire Gym has state of the art cardiovascular equipment with smart phone compatibility.
There is also an extensive range of fixed resistance machines and a small free weights area.
Teacher Education Centre
The teacher education centre is set out over a number of blocks on campus containing realistic mock classrooms for students to learn and train within.
As part of this our Forest School also provides the opportunity for teachers to be trained in outdoor learning and the educational benefits of outdoor play.
We have a long-established history in teacher training and education with over 500 partnerships with schools, colleges and other organisations.
Sports Hall & Fields
The sports hall is an integral space in the School of Sport Science and Physical Activity, complementing discipline leading Sport and Exercise Science and modern biological analysis laboratories, all co-located on the Bedford campus.
The sports hall is proud to host all Bedfordshire Bulls students' sports matches as well as national standard sporting events including British University College Sports championships – one of the few indoor sporting venues in the county to host prestigious tournaments all year round.
The facility also plays host to a number of University promoted Get into Sport activities which are open to all University students and staff.
Alongside the large sports hall the campus is surrounded by sports fields and a multi-use games area for the University's Sport and Physical Education degree students.
Bedford - Location
The Bedford campus is located just outside the centre of town within easy walking distance. For students and staff travelling by train we also run a free regular bus service from Bedford Station to the Campus. Bedford has excellent transport links to the rest of the UK as it sits between the M1 and the A1. The town connects by train to Luton (20 minutes) and London (40 minutes).
Application for most full-time undergraduate and foundation courses is via the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).
We expect to receive UCAS applications between 1 September and 15 January for courses starting in the following academic year, but may consider applications received after this date should places be available.
Please contact admission@beds.ac.uk for further details.
All UK schools and colleges are registered with UCAS to manage their students' applications. Advice on how to submit your UCAS application is available from your school or college.
If you are not at school or college (including mature students) you should apply independently via UCAS
EU students applying for a full-time undergraduate degree at the University of Bedfordshire should apply via UCAS or direct using our admissions form
International students applying for a full-time undergraduate degree at the University of Bedfordshire should apply direct using our admissions form or via our representatives in your home country
You can also apply online
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Staffing gaps and significant personnel changes at the State Department have raised concerns about the direction of U.S. foreign policy, especially amid public statements by President Donald Trump concerning American alliances and positions on issues around the world. Ambassador Cameron Munter invites Ambassador Nicholas Burns to share his insights and ideas, including on timely topics such as the U.S.-Russia relationship following the re-election of Vladimir Putin, Transatlantic relations and changing perceptions about the future role of NATO, and a possible meeting between President Trump and his North Korean counterpart on nuclear nonproliferation and security.
Ambassador Burns was Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs under President George W. Bush. Prior to that assignment, he was also U.S. Ambassador to NATO. Currently, Burns is the Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and also director of The Future of Diplomacy Project.
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January 29, 2019 Bend Nest » Kids In Action
Local gymnast claims state and regional titles
By Caitlin Richmond
Being upside down runs in the Ali family. Janae Ali went to college on a gymnastics scholarship, and turns out, the flipping genes got passed down to her kids. Her oldest child, Rohan, who is 10 years old, made it clear from an early age that gymnastics came naturally to him.
"At a year and a half he was climbing park benches and doing a jump turn or jumping off the bed," Janae said. "He was a very springy, spinny kid."
When Rohan was just 4, Ali's parents enrolled him in his first gymnastics class. Six years later, Ali still loves it. He practices almost every day, for a total of 15-20 hours a week at OOA Gymnastics in Bend. He and his siblings are all homeschooled (one of his brothers is also a gymnast), which allows their family more flexibility and gives Ali and his brother more time for practice.
Ali is a multi-time state gymnastics champion. He has won the all-around title and/or event titles at every level he has competed. He also has a regional title where he also placed 2nd and 1st in all events for 2018.
"It took a little convincing, but I wanted to keep doing gymnastics," Ali said. "I love that I get to compete, and I spend four days a week at the gym with my friends. I really like all the twisting and flipping."
At each meet, there are six events in which Ali can compete— rings, pommel horse, vault, floor, parallel bars and high bar. He is a level 7 compulsary gymnast right now, which requires that he compete in every event, with a specific routine that he and all the other gymnasts at that level perform for each event.
"My favorite events are the rings, because I'm really good at those, and the pommel horse," Ali said. "The high bar doesn't come as naturally to me, so I'm not as good at that."
"Sometimes I don't want to try a skill because I'm afraid I might get hurt, but if I know I can do it I just go for it." —Janae Ali tweet this
Something else Ali likes is seeing his friends from other cities at competitions. Because the number of boys competing is relatively small, Ali gets to know his competitors quite well, and even considers one of them among his best friends.
"Usually either I get first or Austin gets first or we tie," Ali said. Even though he likes placing well at meets, he does wish there were more competitors rather than the same people every time. Ali considers himself pretty driven, and knows that if a new competitor arrived on the scene it would mean a challenge for him.
While gymnastics isn't Ali's only interest, he knows he's not done with it yet. One of his goals is to get a state championship at every level, which means he has three more state championships to work towards. So far, he has won an all-around title or an event title at levels 4, 5 and 6, and he is in the process of finishing up level 7.
"I have 63 medals—more than my mom!" Ali exclaimed. "I have them on a hanger in my room and I see them every time I walk past. Sometimes they make me think about what I have accomplished, like the particular event or if I did something in the meet to win one."
Medals aren't his only motivation though— Ali also likes knowing he has mastered a skill and can do it as well as he possibly can.
"The coaches will push him to learn a new skill, and once he knows he can do something, he's unstoppable," his mom said.
Ali has been lucky so far in this high-injury sport, but making sure he continues to stay injury free is always on his mind, especially while he's practicing.
"Sometimes I don't want to try a skill because I'm afraid I might get hurt, but if I know I can do it I just go for it," he said.
When he needs a little motivation from his coaches, they usually give him free time to do his favorite activity — flipping and jumping on a trampoline or into the foam-filled pit at the gym.
Even though Ali has his eyes on the prize when it comes to gymnastics, that doesn't stop him from pursuing his other hobbies. He taught himself to play piano on an iPad and has progressed to playing on an actual piano. He also likes to play soccer with his friends and will probably take up that sport after gymnastics. Many of his skills learned from gymnastics will translate well, but if he ever gives up gymnastics there is one thing he will have a hard time finding in other sports.
"My favorite thing about gymnastics is that my feet are hardly on the ground and I get to be upside down," Ali said. "It changes your perspective."
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BDIC Unveils New Products/ Expands into Home Offender & Law Enforcement Monitoring Market
November 01, 2017 10:30am Comments
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 01, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (OTCQB:BDIC) Blow & Drive Interlock Corp (BDIC) based in Los Angeles, California has just announced its newest products to hit the market in Early 2018. There was plenty of excitement during the unveiling and demonstration of BDIC's Home Alcohol Monitoring Device. The Handheld device with a camera and GPS/WIFI & live streaming allows those in Judicial and Probation departments to monitor offenders who are required to stay sober from alcohol while on probation.
Traditionally, courts use probation to offer a criminal offender conditional relief from a potential jail sentence. If the offender meets regularly with a probation officer and complies with court-mandated benchmarks of good behavior for a fixed period of time, they escape a harsher sentence the court would otherwise impose. Courts in some US states charge offenders fees to help defray the costs of running a probation service. This is called "offender-funded" probation.
State & Local officials turn to criminal offender monitoring companies like BDIC because they are facing genuine financial hardship. With BDIC's new home alcohol monitoring system, BDIC can offer courts, counties, and municipalities criminal offender monitoring services without asking for a single dime of public revenue. In return BDIC has the right to collect fees from the probationers it supervises.
The second amazing new product BDIC unveiled today was its 4G LTE Live-Streaming Video Body Worn Camera for Law Enforcement.
Most body cameras are their own standalone device. They can record police interactions from a 12-hour shift, typically, onto an internal storage device that an officer carries around on their uniform. At the end of a shift, they go back to headquarters to upload the data.
There's one major disadvantage to this uploading setup. If some significant police interaction is going on, such as a deadly hostage scenario, the police supervisors calling shots at headquarters are basically flying blind. Officers on the scene can report what they're seeing, but those body cameras aren't really doing anything to help the situation at hand.
But now with BDIC's 4G LTE Live-Streaming Video Body Worn Camera, Law Enforcement Personnel on the scene can transmit a live feed from their body cameras to headquarters allowing police decision makers access to real time information about what each officer is seeing.
This innovative body-camera streaming system transmits live video, audio, and GPS location in real time, day or night, to a police command or dispatch center, while simultaneously recording and retaining video in the camera itself. BDIC's new Body Worn Camera has the benefit of increasing the safety of police officers in the line of duty by giving headquarters real-time situation awareness and the ability to make immediate critical assessments and decisions to aid officers in the field
The body camera weighs about 210g and provides up to 32 GB of memory & 5-megapixel recording. It also offers infrared technology for night recording, multiple resolution settings, pre-and post-recording capabilities, and many additional features to aid officers in obtaining high quality video recording.
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BMW X6: TECHNICAL DATA
BMW X6BMW X6: TECHNICAL DATA
Here you can find the technical data of the BMW X6.
TECHNICAL DATA OF THE BMW X6.
BMW X6 xDrive40i
BMW X6 xDrive30d
1,320/1,615
Luggage capacity min. (seats up or roof down) in l
Luggage capacity max. (seats down or roof up) in l
Trailer load (unbraked) in kg
Trailer load 8% (braked) in kg
Trailer load 12% (braked) in kg
Engine power in kW (PS) at 1/min
Engine torque (Nm) at 1/min
CO2 combined emissions in g/km
BMW X6:
Fuel consumption in l/100 km (combined): 11.5
CO2 emissions in g/km (combined): 263
The values of fuel consumptions, CO2 emissions and energy consumptions shown were determined according to the European Regulation (EC) 715/2007 in the version applicable at the time of type approval. The figures refer to a vehicle with basic configuration in Germany and the range shown considers optional equipment and the different size of wheels and tires available on the selected model.
The CO2 efficiency specifications are determined according to Directive 1999/94/EC and the European Regulation in its current version applicable. The values shown are based on the fuel consumption, CO2 values and energy consumptions according to the NEDC cycle for the classification.
For further information about the official fuel consumption and the specific CO2 emission of new passenger cars can be taken out of the handbook of fuel consumption, the CO2 emission and power consumption of new passenger cars, which is available at all selling points and at https://www.dat.de/angebote/verlagsprodukte/leitfaden-kraftstoffverbrauch.html.
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The Bears/Eagles game has the most significant home/away effect this weekend in the NFL
We've reached the first playoff weekend in the NFL and I'd have to say it's kind of boring on a whole when looking at any advantage based on the location of the game. Gone are the days of Florida teams like Tampa Bay or Miami that can beat Philadelphia or New England respectively at home, but then lose to Chicago by 38 points and Minnesota by 24 points respectively on their next road match. Although none of these teams reach traditional statistical significance (p<0.05) when looking for a difference in their performance home vs. away, there are some interesting trends to observe in these data.
For the past several years I've been keeping track of how many points on average a team scores (offense) versus how many points they give up (defense) over each game of the NFL season, noting whether those games were played either home or away for each team. [Beats playing softball as a hobby]. By using exactly 16 games worth of scores collected from this season and last to find the average, I tabulate predicted scores each week based on the average of what a team's offense normally scores versus what the opposing team's defense normally allows at that point in the season. For example, later today Houston's offense, which is scoring on average 25.13 points per game, is playing Indianapolis' defense, which on average allows the other team to score 21.50 (graph below). I would expect Houston to score around 23 points based on the average of these two numbers, and Indianapolis scoring about the same based on the opposite comparison.
Predicted scores for week 18 based on season averages for points scored (offense) and allowed (defense) for each NFL team.
By calculating the score based on only season averages, all but one of the games this weekend are predicted to be within one point. As you might have guessed, there are many factors that can affect the final score, with one of those being where the game is played. To try to calculate this location affect, I've used the predicted score based on a 16 game average as my standard for that week and anything scored above and below is recorded as a number. Staying with the previous example, if Houston scores 27 points today, their offense would have scored 3.69 points above what they were expected, while the Indianapolis defense would have allowed 3.69 points more than expected. We can separate these above/below metrics for each game by location (home or away), and then compare the distributions using a simple t-test.
Given below are the NFL teams (separated into sides) playing this weekend ranked by the probability of observing this location effect by random chance using a t-test (last column). The average amount of points an offense has scored or a defense has allowed over the last 17 weeks is given in blue, followed by the average amount of points over/under from this metric that particular team has scored/allowed at home and away games. I also include the median over/under for all games this season. Chicago and Philadelphia sides appear in 3 out of the top 5 slots in this ranking.
Teams and sides ranked by significance of home/away effect.
The team-side with the lowest p-value based on location effect is the Chicago defense, that on average allows 17.69 points per game for the season, but holds it's opponent to 5.6 points less than this metric when playing at home. I've attempted to account for this location effect in my predicted score by multiplying it by the p-value and then adding this to the predicted score. So for the Chicago defense, I take -5.6 (home effect) times 0.05294 (t-test p-value) and add it to 17.69 (allowed season average) to come up with 12.38 predicted allowed points after adjusting for location. Finding the mean of opposing offense/defense season averages with the location adjustment will give the predicted adjusted scores for each team. As you can see below, two of the games this weekend switched predicted winner after accounting for this location effect.
Predicted scores for week 18 with and without location adjustment
I'll try to write more on the Chicago/Philadelphia game tomorrow but I'm struggling as is to get this out before the first playoff game. I'm sure this post is riddled with all kinds of grammatical errors but I'm posting as is to get it in before Houston/Indianapolis.
-Michael Edwards, Bioinfo Solutions LLC
* Microsoft Excel for Mac 2011 and JMP Pro ver.14 were used to collect, analyze and display NFL data.
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Clinical Trails
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Thriving commercial ecosystems will help universities to keep making an impact beyond Covid-19
Throughout 2020, the life sciences sector has been in the limelight. In the effort to overcome COVID-19, the sector has put into action an unprecedented global application of expertise. The deployment of great minds, public and private investment and advanced research, development, testing and manufacturing resources has seen one of the world’s most advanced, complex and safety conscious sectors moving at a pace that would be unheard of just several years ago.
The same sector that has delivered at pace to tackle COVID-19 will continue to do so for other challenges and difficulties in healthcare, like cardiovascular medicine and repairing the nervous system. The approaches that have helped to respond to COVID-19 apply just as well to other complex life sciences challenges.
As with potential COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, many of the most promising and impactful means of addressing other major challenges in healthcare are likely to emerge from leading research-intensive universities. As with COVID-19, that’s because those challenges require active ecosystems that nurture interdisciplinary, innovative solutions.
Universities like (UCL) are ideally situated to foster those ecosystems for major health challenges. They do this by combining world-leading research, real-world health partnerships, entrepreneurial expertise, funding and specialist support.
The research environment and community at UCL is regularly recognised as one of the world’s best for multidisciplinary research. That research environment also benefits from a range of partnerships with hospitals and health institutes that are focused on delivering patient care in the heart of a busy, global city, including Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
For some researchers, that enables them to split their time between the clinic and their research, helping to inspire new ideas and new innovations, and put technology into action.
Researchers with innovative ideas can tap into a supportive funding environment that helps them to explore the commercial potential of their innovation, and the impact it could potentially make at scale. At UCL, for example, multiple routes exist for funding early stage innovation, such as the UCL Technology Fund and Apollo Therapeutics, a fund dedicated to supporting the translation of new therapies into impactful products.
Dr Anne Lane, CEO of UCL Business (UCLB) the commercialisation company at UCL, sees a connection between the skillsets and approaches that delivered rapid innovation in 2020 to tackle COVID-19, and the ability to tackle other global challenges:
“One of the reasons that it was possible to deliver COVID-19 interventions like the UCL-Ventura breathing aid so rapidly was because of the ability to combine the talent of UCL’s researchers with a wider ecosystem that helps support proof of concept early stage innovation.
“Researchers can use insight from their own experiences with patients to put their research into action and begin making a real impact, and then seek funding for its development into a commercial solution. It also enables innovation to be trialled and improved more quickly.
“The same certainly goes for other therapeutic priorities too, including some of the universal and incredibly complex health challenges like neurodegenerative diseases and cardiovascular medicine.
What we add at UCLB is the experience to help researchers understand their innovation and IP, to protect it and to identify the right routes to take in order to make the biggest possible impact.”
Echopoint is a UCLB spinout that is developing new technologies to address unmet needs in the precision diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. It utilises breakthrough fibre optic technologies, demonstrating how innovative researchers can take technologies originally developed for one sector – in this case, telecommunications – and use it to tackle medical challenges too.
The scale of the market for Echopoint’s technology is enormous. WHO identifies cardiovascular diseases as the number one cause of deaths globally, with around 17.9 million lives lost each year.
Glialign, another UCLB spinout, is developing a pioneering ‘off-the-shelf’ nerve replacement to help repair damaged nervous systems.
Nerves connect the body’s muscles, organs and spinal cord to provide sensation and movement. When nerves are cut, if they do not sufficiently regenerate to close the gap where they were cut, it can result in a poorer recovery that can result in muscle loss, control and feeling, with the potential for severe pain and lifelong pain.
Glialign’s EngNT solution helps regenerating nerves to bridge those gaps by providing columns of living growth guides, using therapeutic cells and a natural gel material.
While tackling very different therapeutic areas, Glialign and Echopoint have both been supported by UCL’s ecosystem to progress from research to early stage ventures with the ability to make a big impact on the lives of patients.
Dr Anne Lane sees this type of ecosystem, as crucial to generating impactful life sciences innovation:
“The importance of stimulating multidisciplinary research environments and thriving commercialisation ecosystems cannot be understated. It’s been incredibly important for spinouts like Echopoint and Glialign, who are tackling some of the most pressing challenges in health, but also across UCLB’s portfolio.
“We were all proud at UCLB to celebrate our fourth NASDAQ listed spinout this year, all in the field of gene therapies.
“Something they each have in common is that key team members are innovative, problem solving researchers working in a world-leading university closely connected with hospitals that are delivering patient care, embedded in ecosystems that help to support, fund and drive forward great innovation.
“The ingenuity, invention and resilience that this period has demanded of all of us working in this sector will see further invention, ingenuity and then investment in new approaches to tackling other global health challenges too.”
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What to Buy (and What to Skip) to Prepare for Coronavirus
The World Health Organization has officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and if you’ve been hoping you can ignore coronavirus and it’ll just go away without affecting you or your family in some way, that’s looking less and less likely. But that isn’t to say you need to buy a deep freezer and build a storehouse in your backyard. So where should you begin, and how can you approach preparation without driving yourself up the wall?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has offered up guidance on how to prepare for an outbreak near you, including making a plan with your family, practicing good health and hygiene habits, and checking in with vulnerable people in your community. They also have instructed people in at-risk groups (like the immunocompromised, the elderly, and those with chronic health conditions) to stock up on supplies like nonperishable foods.
Since things are moving quickly, it’s not a bad idea to stock up a bit before the virus hits your area, since social distancing (which can include limiting your visits to, say, crowded supermarkets and pharmacies) is such a helpful preventive measure, and you may need to self-quarantine with limited notice. In case you do have to hole up for a while, here’s what you may need to make it, well, suck less — based on advice from experts and folks who’ve actually been in quarantine.
There’s already been a run on toilet paper and paper towels — for good reason.
A sensible grocery list
“It’s about stocking your pantry in a smart way, but also cooking with the stuff you already have in the house,” says Dawn Perry, a food writer who’s currently working on a pantry cookbook. Here’s her quick-and-dirty rundown of what you may need, including staples and flavor boosters so you’re not just stuck eating black beans out of a can:
Dry grains: Rice, quinoa, oats, cornmeal (for polenta).
Beans: dried or canned.
Tinned fish: tuna, tasty cans of smoked sardines, or mackerel.
A couple varieties of nut butter and tahini.
Flour (you can add water, salt, and a leavening agent like baking soda or powder to make biscuits, tortillas, and crackers).
Onions (they keep for weeks when stored in a cool, dark place).
Potatoes.
Boxed cereal.
Hardy veggies: broccoli, celery, carrots, and kale (they stay fresh for a long time in your fridge).
Bananas (when they start to turn, freeze for smoothies or bake into banana bread).
Frozen peas (add to soups and pastas).
Frozen sausage (just one link can go a long way in adding flavor to a dish).
Bag of frozen shrimp.
Sliced bread (pop it in your freezer, will last a long time).
Taste boosters: soy sauce, mayo, ketchup, fruit jam, Dijon mustard, Parmesan cheese, olives, capers.
No matter what is happening — pandemic or regular day — “it’s prudent for every household to have basic essentials on hand to care for a minor emergency, such as a cut, burn, or insect sting,” says Brad Uren, MD, assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. (And while you should, of course, seek medical care if you need it, for minor issues you can treat at home, it’s preferable not to visit a health care facility right now if you don’t have to.) A standard first aid kit will have what you need.
Extra supply of needed medication
Make sure you have a few weeks of vital medications on hand, says Uren. Mail-order pharmacies, which often dole out 90-day supplies when available, may be an option for certain people, depending on what type of medication they’re taking and insurance, he says. If you’re having trouble making this happen (insurance doesn’t always make it easy), get on the phone with a pharmacist.
OTC meds and other symptom treatments
Should you get sick, you’ll want to have the right supplies on hand to treat your symptoms, says Aaron Reddington of the survival blog the Simple Prepper. Make sure you have things like a thermometer, OTC fever reducers (acetaminophen and ibuprofen), sports drinks for rehydrating, and the bland foods you want when you have no appetite, like crackers, he says.
Hygiene stuff
There’s already been a run on toilet paper and paper towels — for good reason. “While everyone has reacted and bought toilet paper and paper towels, unfortunately, I think you need to roll with the punches and buy some as well,” says Reddington. “It would be terrible to be stuck in your home for weeks without any, and while it may sound ridiculous [to stock up], worst-case scenario is that you have extra,” he says.
We also tend not to buy other personal hygiene products until just before we run out, adds Todd Sepulveda, the editor of Prepper Website and the host of the Prepper Website Podcast. Check to make sure that you have the hand soap, shampoo, toothpaste, and bodywash you need, he says. If you get a period, then pick up some extra tampons or pads — or go for something reusable such as a menstrual cup, like the DivaCup, or period underwear, like Thinx.
Grab an extra box or two. You’ll want to make sure you’re always sneezing and coughing into a tissue, says Uren. Then, throw it away — don’t stuff it in your pocket to reuse later.
A healthy perspective
Take comfort in the experience of Rebekah, 35, who has been under a government-mandated quarantine in her home in the Guangdong province in China with her husband and children since January 21. “As soon as we realized the seriousness of the situation here, my husband purchased food staples, like rice, flour, and oil to help get us through in the event that supplies became limited,” she says. “After about the first two weeks veggies, fruits, bread, and other fresh foods were back in stock and we have not experienced any shortages of food or supplies,” she says.
Games and craft supplies
If you have kids and their school gets closed, prepare to keep busy during a quarantine. “We haven’t lacked anything physical but have had to draw on all our powers of creativity to keep ourselves and them entertained,” says Rebekah. Card games, board games, crafts, making blanket forts, building block towers, and riding scooters around the living room are some activities that bring fun into their daily lives. Even if you don’t have kids, think about ways to keep yourself occupied. “If people have to be quarantined for a while, they might get bored of Netflix and surfing the internet,” says Sepulveda. He recommends making sure you have books to read and supplies for hobbies at the ready so you can stay entertained and engaged.
“Unless the water from your faucet is not already safe, you don’t need to buy bottled water.”
An office work-from-home plan
Not all jobs can be done remotely, but even some of the ones that theoretically can still might not be set up for actual WFH success. Emily, who’s in the creative industry, has been in voluntary quarantine from working at her New York City office for nearly two weeks after coming home from a trip to Italy. She remains symptom-free, so she can go about her day as she chooses (still doing so responsibly, of course, so as not to put others at risk). But working from home has been a huge challenge. “There’s no structure in place and no way to collaborate with co-workers who aren’t in quarantine,” she says. “People keep asking me how my ‘second vacation’ is going. It’s not a vacation,” says Emily. To ensure things go more smoothly, talk to your supervisor about making a telecommuting plan; and think about how to set up your workspace and your own approach to work to maximize your productivity.
A pet carrier
Emily has resisted stocking up on special items — except for one: a cat carrier. Should she need to leave her place for some time, she’ll be able to bring her cat along without trouble or worry.
Supplies You Can Skip:
Water. “Unless the water from your faucet is not already safe, you don’t need to buy bottled water,” says Sepulveda.
Hand sanitizer. Yes, an alcohol-based hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol is recommended. However, these are nearly impossible to find right now, and you don’t need to stress yourself out searching. “Hand sanitizer can be used if soap and water are not available, but it is not necessary,” says Uren.
Masks. Unless a medical professional has ordered you to wear them, hoarding masks (and sanitizer) can put others at risk. “If these critical supplies are not available to the people providing one-on-one bedside care, it could increase the risk of spread of infectious diseases in the community,” says Uren.
A final note: Buy only what you need. Remember that we have a responsibility as citizens to think about everyone else, too. Maybe buying a few weeks’ worth of toilet paper is okay, but you don’t need 200 extra rolls. Save some for others who also want to be comfortable should they have to hole up at home for a while.
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Underground storage tank (UST) systems are utilized at fueling stations for storing and dispensing petroleum products, mostly gasoline and diesel fuel. Tanker trucks transport these petroleum products to individual fueling stations where it is loaded into onsite USTs. The fuels are then pumped from the USTs to fuel dispensers via underground piping infrastructure.
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When a release occurs from a UST system in Nevada, characterization and remediation activities must be performed under the direction of a Nevada Certified Environmental Manager (CEM) with oversight from the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP). The Fund will reimburse up to $1 million (minus a 10% co-payment) in corrective action costs to address a release. Additionally, the Fund will provide another $1 million in coverage to satisfy third party damage claims, if such claims are applicable. To receive coverage from the Fund, an application must be submitted to and approved by the Fund.
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New England Patriots vs. Arizona Cardinals : Patriots keep playoff hopes alive with 20-17 win over Cardinals
The Patriots’ rebound began with an objective line remain to end the principal half and finished with one more enormous win to keep alive their season finisher trusts.
Nick Folk kicked a 50-yard field objective as time lapsed, and New England mobilized in the subsequent half to beat the Arizona Cardinals 20-17 Sunday.
James White scrambled for two scores for the Patriots (5-6). It was the second time this month that Folk hit a very late match dominating field objective. His 51-yarder beat the New York Jets 30-27 on Nov. 9.
Cam Newton battled, completing 9 of 18 for 84 yards and two interferences. Yet, New England dominated the match regardless of getting done with 179 yards by exploiting botches by the Cardinals (6-5).
“I’d rather have an ugly win than a pretty loss,” Newton said. “We didn’t play our best game offensively. But when we needed it, we got the job done and that’s all that counts.”
New England’s safeguard was strong all through, holding Arizona’s highest level offense, which entered the game averaging 414 yards, to 298 yards.
The Patriots had a significant objective line remain before halftime and furthermore had a 53-yard the opening shot return by Donte Moncrief — raised from the training crew on Saturday — to set up their first score of the game.
Kenyan Drake scrambled for 78 yards and two scores for Arizona.
Kyler Murray completed 23 of 34 for 170 yards and a capture. Murray had 31 hurrying yards and was held without a score relax this season. Be that as it may, he said he wasn’t restricted by his ongoing shoulder injury.
“I didn’t adjust anything,” Murray said. “I wasn’t going to play if I couldn’t be myself.”
Following 10-0 early, New England utilized a turnover in the second from last quarter to take its first lead of the game.
Confronting third down, Murray’s pass expected for DeAndre Hopkins was avoided at the line of scrimmage by Adam Butler and caught by Adrian Phillips at the Arizona 31. Six plays later, White scored on a 1-yard race to make it 17-10.
“Today we really made sure that no matter what we’re gonna pressure this guy, we’re gonna bring it after him,” Phillips said of Murray. “We’re not just fixing to let him run around.”
Following a Patriots’ punt, Arizona tied it up again in the final quarter on a 1-yard TD run by Drake with 8:02 leftover.
A promising drive by New England was then stopped when Dre Fitzpatrick caught Newton’s short pass expected for Damiere Byrd with 4:37 leftover.
Arizona got an opportunity to start to lead the pack, yet Zane Gonzalez missed wide right on 45-yard field-objective endeavor with 1:47 left.
Newton’s dash of four sequential games without a capture attempt finished only three plays into the Patriots’ initial drive.
Cardinals linebacker Jordan Hicks was unblocked on a rush and hit Newton as he tossed, permitting Markus Golden to concoct the simple pick.
Arizona took over on the New England 23 and utilized a 19-yard pass from Murray to Andy Isabella to set up a 1-yard TD run by Drake two plays later.
The Cardinals expanded their lead to 10-0 in the second quarter when confronting fourth-and-2 on the 7, White found the end zone on a choice pitch from Newton.
Arizona seemed to broaden its lead not long before halftime on a 8-yard score pass from Murray to KeeSean Johnson. Be that as it may, an audit demonstrated Johnson’s knee was down before he crossed the objective line.
The Cardinals took the plunge on fourth-and-1, however Drake’s shown was held back to Akeem Spence and Ja’Whaun Bentley as time lapsed.
“It’s an unfortunate turn of events,” Murray said. “Obviously we get points right there, we put ourselves in a better situation. I didn’t see anything wrong with the play call. We just didn’t execute.”
OFF THE BOARD
Heavy weapons specialist Olszewski seemed to give the Patriots the lead right off the bat in the second from last quarter when he handled Andy Lee’s short punt and returned it 82 yards for a score. The score was invalidated, however, after newbie Anfernee Jennings was required an unlawful bushwhack block.
New England headed to the Arizona 4 after the punishment, however needed to agree to Folk’s 22-yard field objective to tie the game at 10.
Cardinals: Defensive lineman Zach Allen left the game in the second from last quarter.
The Cardinals have the Los Angeles Rams next Sunday.
The Patriots visit the Chargers on Sunday for their first of two successive games in Los Angeles.
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Film & Video Production Hub
Around the world, the film and video production industries are recognised as important economic drivers, not only through direct job creation, but also the diverse downstream value chains they create and inspire.
Buffalo City Tourism recognises the important role a vibrant and successful local film and video production industry has to play in our overall tourism promotion strategy, and we look forward to working with local filmmakers to position Buffalo City as a film production hub.
Positioning Buffalo City as a film and video production hub
According to the Department of Trade and Industry, film and video production contributed in excess of R6-billion to the economy last year, creating over 9 000 direct jobs in the process.
This represents growth of over 200% over the past five years alone, which indicates that the industry is not only maturing, the economic impact is widening.
Equally importantly, the film industry also plays a critical role role in the development and promotion of local and regional tourism.
A highly visual medium, film is an excellent platform with which to showcase a region’s natural resources and local attractions. It is also an exceptionally powerful communicator of heritage and indigenous knowledge, and as a platform to share information and insights about specific cultural and regional identities.
Whether feature films, documentaries or TV series – regardless of the format, visual stories open up new windows to our world, develop new voices and help us find and harness new audiences.
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While the South African film production industry is currently heavily centred around Cape Town and Gauteng, our region brims with potential:
Our seascapes are among the most scenic in the country.
Our landscapes offer the most dramatic diversity – from beautiful beaches and dense forests to stunning safari experiences
Vibrant nightlife and urban lifestyle destinations
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Vibrant artistic community
Rich storytelling tradition (our region brims with fantastic stories begging to be told!)
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Define the agreement with UEFA, fix the budget, build the new stadium and build a young team: these are the four cardinal points that Elliott wants to reach before selling AC Milan. For this reason, it is no coincidence that the hedge fund has always denied any rumours about possible negotiations with other subjects, such as Arnault or Daniel Kretinsky.
However, the young team does not exclude some exceptions. According to Corriere della Sera (via Calciomercato.com), the Rossoneri CEO Ivan Gazidis approved of the move for Zlatan Ibrahimovic last January (when he preferred to remain at Los Angeles Galaxy) and then in the summer of the move for Croatian midfielder Luka Modric, who did not want to leave Real Madrid in the end.
However, going back to the giant Swede, there is still a chance to see him in Italy again. According to Corriere dello Sport (via Calciomercato.com), Bologna is ready to offer him a one and a year half contract until June 2021 with a total salary of 8 million euros net. Just as he had brought Drogba to Montreal Impact, Saputo wants to gift Ibrahimovic to Mihajlovic, who has already trained him at Inter when he was Mancini's assistant.
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De (autor) William Lazier, Jim Collins
en Limba Engleză Hardback – December 2020
From Jim Collins, the most influential business thinker of our era, comes an ambitious upgrade of his classic, Beyond Entrepreneurship, that includes all-new findings and world-changing insights.
What's the roadmap to create a company that not only survives its infancy but thrives, changing the world for decades to come?
Nine years before the publication of his epochal bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins and his mentor, Bill Lazier, answered this question in their bestselling book, Beyond Entrepreneurship.
Beyond Entrepreneurship left a definitive mark on the business community, influencing the young pioneers who were, at that time, creating the technology revolution that was birthing in Silicon Valley. Decades later, successive generations of entrepreneurs still turn to the strategies outlined in Beyond Entrepreneurship to answer the most pressing business questions.
BE 2.0 is a new and improved version of the book that Jim Collins and Bill Lazier wrote years ago. In BE 2.0, Jim Collins honors his mentor, Bill Lazier, who passed away in 2005, and reexamines the original text of Beyond Entrepreneurship with his 2020 perspective.
The book includes the original text of Beyond Entrepreneurship, as well as four new chapters and fifteen new essays. BE 2.0 pulls together the key concepts across Collins' thirty years of research into one integrated framework called The Map. The result is a singular reading experience, which presents a unified vision of company creation that will fascinate not only Jim's millions of dedicated readers worldwide, but also introduce a new generation to his remarkable work.
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Tel Veh: Wine, Turkish Coffee and Mediterranean Hospitality
by Borderstan.com June 27, 2012 at 10:00 am 1,140 0
With breakfast, Turkish food, a coffee and wine bar, Tel Veh is from the Agora owners. (Jane Alonso)
Borderstan welcomes new contributor Jane Alsonso. She will be writing about food and drink as Alonso’s passion for food and spirits leads her on frequent excursions into Borderstan’s land of bars and restaurants. Email her at jane[AT]borderstan.com
For months now, I’ve been watching construction crews prepare for a new business in the street level space of my apartment complex at 401 Massachusetts Avenue NW. With the opening of Tel Veh on May 24, the mystery of what will greet me at my doorstep every day has been unveiled.
Tel Veh was exactly what I was hoping for — a relaxed wine and coffee bar where I can kick back at the end of a long day at work or meet a friend for a casual breakfast. The key word is “relaxed.” Unlike many DC restaurants with an attitude (and a dress code), Tel Veh seems to aim to please the locals who live and play in the neighborhood.
In case you are wondering, “Tel Veh” is a Turkish term for the residue left at the bottom of a coffee cup.
Tel Veh has been brought to life by the same team — owner Latif Guler and chef Chassan Jarrouji — as the popular Agora on 17th Street. (See Sarah Lipman’s Sunday in the Mediterranean at Agora.)
Despite living in Turkey for a brief period many years ago, this phrase was new to me… but then again, I am not a coffee drinker.
This is a shame, because Tel Veh offers many types, including (not surprising) Turkish coffee along with cappuccinos and lattes. The restaurant opens at 7 am for breakfast, offering croissants, bagels and muffins along with a quality cup of joe.
What I do like to drink is wine… and Tel Veh has a vast selection to choose from, with over 300 bottles and 48 by-the-glass choices. The quantity is all the more impressive given the restaurant’s small size (only about a dozen tables). If you are not sure what to choose, request the help of the restaurant’s sommelier, who steered me to an excellent bottle of pinot noir during a recent visit.
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the homemade cocktails — while waiting for a friend at the bar, I ordered a Moscow Mule (Grey Goose Citron, lime and ginger beer) served to me by a friendly bartender who turned out to be (ironically) Russian. It was beautifully balanced and presented.
By comparison to the drink list, the dinner food menu is a bit limited, but the selection is likely to expand as the restaurant grows its customer base in the coming months. The flat bread pizzas and charcuterie platter are solid choices to help soak up all that wine and vodka.
Perhaps the biggest selling point for Tel Veh is its gorgeous presentation — the floor-to-ceiling windows and elegant woodwork evoking nautical themes (note the ropes!) create a space that makes you want to linger. I’m looking forward to getting to know Tel Veh in the coming months.
Tel Veh: The Details
Where Am I Going: 401 Massachusetts Avenue NW (corner of 4th and Massachusetts),
When Am I Going: Monday through Sunday, 7 am to 2 am. Breakfast offered from 7 am to 11 am. Lunch 11 am to 3 pm. Dinner served from 5:30 pm to midnight; bar remains open until 2 am. Happy Hour drink specials offered Monday through Saturday, 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm.
Paycheck Pain: Breakfast items cost under $6. Sandwiches priced at about $11. Dinner small plates priced $15 and under.
Say What?: It can be quite loud during the evenings, especially if a large group is in the small space. But it is generally quiet during the day or later in the evening after the drinking crowd leaves.
What You’ll Be Eating/Drinking: Wine, cocktails, coffee, sandwiches and Mediterranean-inspired small plates and tapas.
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Pell Costs Explode
Obama administration officials confirmed on Thursday that unexpectedly strong demand for Pell Grants would sharply increase government spending on its primary need-based student aid program, requiring an extra $18 billion over the next three years. While such shortfalls are common in programs like Pell — which act like entitlement programs and expand to meet students’ need — this dwarfs previous gaps.
Administration officials and Democratic Congressional aides played down the significance of the budget-busting Pell numbers, expressing confidence that lawmakers would find a way to fill the gap without damage to other education programs or other administration priorities. The biggest question mark for many college officials: whether the extra dollars to keep Pell whole in the short term would threaten the $80-plus billion that the White House and Congressional Democrats hope to direct to Pell, community colleges, and other priorities in a pending student loan reform bill.
No, the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act won’t be threatened, Hill staff members said. But they and administration officials were tight-lipped about how they might come up with the extra funds to close the projected shortfall. "We’re working with Congress on options," a White House official said on background, but he declined to say what they were.
Congressional negotiators agreed this week on a compromise spending bill for education and other programs for the current 2010 fiscal year, and while that legislation is still pending in both houses of Congress, undoing that agreement to try to find $18 billion for Pell seems unlikely. A second broad spending bill, this one for defense programs, is expected by year’s end, and federal budget experts say it may include some funds designed to promote jobs and boost the economy. Since lawmakers concluded that $40 billion in Pell Grant funds deserved a place in the economic stimulus legislation they passed in February, it is certainly conceivable that they might make the same decision a second time.
The Pell funds could be added to the emergency supplemental appropriations legislation that Congress typically considers each spring between annual budget cycles, usually to fund disaster relief, expanded military operations and other unexpected costs. Or administration could hold off and seek to close the shortfall in President Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget and an appropriations bill in the 2011 budget cycle that will begin next spring.
The Associated Press first reported on the Pell shortfall Thursday; word of the gap leaked out after a highly unusual meeting last week involving Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Peter Orszag, the president’s budget director, and the chairs of the House and Senate education and appropriations committees.
The White House staff member attributed the booming costs of the Pell program (which administration officials foreshadowed when they released a revision to their 2010 budget plan in August, projecting growing Pell spending) to the traditional boom in the number of students going to college in a down economy, and to greatly increased eligibility for the grants because individuals’ financial situations had worsened and the maximum grant increased to $5,350 this year.
"Across the board, a lot of government programs of aid and assistance are stressed" during an economic downturn, the White House aide said.
But as some higher education analysts point out, the vast expansion of the Pell program is unlikely to be a temporary phenomenon. Jason Delisle, who directs the federal education budget project at the New America Foundation, wrote on the foundation’s Higher Ed Watch blog Thursday that with the planned expansion of Pell Grants in the student loan reform bill, Congress and the administration are not just facing a $32 billion price tag for Pell in 2011 (double 2008’s $15 billion); they are looking at spending $30 billion a year permanently starting in 2012.
So even if the White House and Congressional Democrats dig themselves out of the current Pell hole in one of the forthcoming appropriations bills, that may be only a temporary fix.
"[T]he cause for concern isn’t really a ‘shortfall.’ " he writes. "It is the $30-plus billion annually for Pell Grants as far as the eye can see. Many people will surely cheer such a large funding commitment to the program, but budget hawks will no doubt bristle at these figures, which to them, show a spending program out of control."
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Tottenham Look to Sell Eight Players to Help Fund Fresh Crop Of New Signings
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White Hart Lane boss looking to conduct major clear-out.
Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is ready to offload as many as eight members of his White Hart Lane squad according to the Daily Express.
Read more Tottenham Hotspur news.
The Argentine has seen his White Hart Lane side steady the ship of late after a topsy-turvy opening months of the campaign and it appears the former Southampton manager has had enough time to run the rule over his Spurs squad and will look to cash in on those he deems surplus to requirements.
One player who looks close to leaving north London is full-back Kyle Naughton who is set to join Swansea City in a £5m deal, Liberty Stadium boss Garry Monk no doubt keen to spend the funds accrued from the sale of Wilfried Bony to Man City.
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PO Box 947, Ross, CA 94957 | Tel: (415) 454-5310
About Cedars
Cedars Programs
Suzanne Joy
Suzanne Joy has been a Board member of Cedars Family Association since 2011. Suzanne has served as the President of the Cedars Family Association Board since 2016. She previously co-owned a music entertainment company with her husband Gary, and currently works in education. Their daughter, Amey, is a resident and artist at Cedars. Suzanne's extensive experience includes working as a Direct Support Professional, volunteering as Training Director for Tahoe Special Olympics, Member of the Lake Tahoe Community College Disability Resource Center Advisory Board, Community Advisor for People First of Lake Tahoe, and as a Sidewalker for Kids and Horses Therapeutic Riding Center.
Chuck Greene
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world” -- Gandhi
40 years of nonprofit management experience as co-founder of World College West, Executive Director of the Volunteer Center of San Francisco, The Richard and Rhonda Goldman Fund and the Goldman Environmental Prize.
Has been an Interim Executive Director for 11 Bay Area nonprofits and Cedars Executive Director for the past 8 years.
Graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and Harvard Business School, and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
Cheryl White
Associate Executive Director
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” - Rumi
Over 25 years of professional experience in developmental services in both service provider and regional center settings
Happily “fell into” working with individuals with disabilities one summer
Sue Sherer
“The problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them" - Albert Einstein
Happily ditched mathematics for accounting at University of Iowa.
Actively involved with the Human Awareness Institute and has an ability to connect with people and compassionately listen.
Just returned to Cedars after taking a year off to explore the world and is even more committed than ever to find ways to use her strengths to give back.
Natasha Annenkova
Program Manager, Community Connections
"Per aspera ad astra"
College Professor, University of Cherkasy, Ukraine
Far Eastern Shipping Company,Vladivostok, Russia
English as Second Language Instructor
Stacy Anderson
Associate Director of Residential Services
"Let the world change you, and you can change the world"
BSW from Belmont University in Nashville TN
Started as a Direct Support Professional at Cedars in 2012
Loves camping and backpacking Big Sur, the Lost Coast, and the Yuba River
Yasmin Boroumand
Client Services/Senior Program Manager
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” -- Maya Angelou
Working for non-profits has turned Yasmin into a renaissance woman!
National Task Group trainer for workshops on Fundamentals of Intellectual Disability and Dementia
Most boring and yet interesting job was a graduate student, cataloging over 10,000 US government documents.
Denise Colwell
Asst. Program Director, Cedars Textile Arts Collaborative
Hands and Earth/Senior Program
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." -- Booker T. Washington
Was hooked on Cedars in 1982, and has been with Cedars ever since
Volunteers regularly for several other non-profits
Avid swimmer and hiker
Kellie (PK) Lennon
Program Manager, Cedars Fine Art Studios
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." - Khalil Gibran
BA in Theater Arts from California State University, State Dominguez Hills
Takes her work home with her, to a farm filled with rescue horses, dogs, goats, and a donkey.
Active in multiple animal rescues, veterans services, and CERT (Community Emergency Response Teams).
Jeanne Lipson
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” -- Dalai Lama
Joined Cedars in May, 2015 after a decade of community service.
Was Vice President at Charles Schwab & Co. with experience in marketing, project management, strategy and analysis.
BSBA in Economics from the University of North Dakota and an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Susan Loesch
"To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, to draw closer, to find
each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life". - James Thurber
Midwest born, raised and schooled in SF Bay Area, designer of things, marketeer, communicator, professional photographer and presumptive author
Earlier career started in Silicon Valley, primarily in Telecommunications industry
Listen more. Talk Less. Count blessings and it really is all about love
Kaeb Menker, MSHCA
Director for Residential Health & Wellness
“It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.” ―Dalai Lama
Over 15 years of experience working with the underserved population, program administration, and system development.
Graduated from University of California, Berkeley in Microbial Biology and MS in Healthcare Administration from Cal State University, East Bay.
Born and raised in Ethiopia, loves the wilderness, cooking random and exciting foods, and spending fun times with his wife and kids.
Katherine (KC) Newberry
"Love. Love is all you need" - The Beatles
Over 15 years experience in Strategy & Analysis at Kaiser Permanente
MBA and MPH from UC Berkeley
Mother to eight year old daughter, Claire
John Pope
Facilities and Organizational Safety Manager
“Hope is a verb with sleeves rolled up” -- David Orr
Owner at John Pope Construction Inc.
Marin Council BSA – Vice President of Properties
Enjoys Mountaineering
Rodric (Rob) Robinson
Director of Residential Services
“Being of service to these incredible people for over twenty years has been such a remarkable blessing that I am reminded of each and every day.”
Previously Health Services Manager at The Cedars of Marin
Worked as day program instructor at ARC
Cedars Lifer/Deadpan Humorist/Father of three/Cycling Enthusiast/Lover of many music genres
Dorreen Roth
"Make good choices and return to home with honor.”
Certified Mediator, Fresno Superior Court
Special Olympics Northern California, Law Enforcement Torch Run Director and Volunteer Coach
Producer and Co-Founder, Stages Program Inc., Health Educational Films
Lauren Sockler
Director of Cedars Textile Art Collaborative
“Coming to Cedars was like falling off a horse into a bed of four leaf clovers.” — Marie Tappendorf
Previously worked at UC Berkeley Extension Marketing Department
Taught High School English
BA in English from Rutgers University and Single Subject Teaching Credential from Dominican University of California
Gallery Manager, Artist Within
"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud." -- Maya Angelou
Has been involved with helping people with special needs for over twenty years in both community and education settings.
Worked for Barnes and Noble where she planned several community events and ran a children's book club.
Enjoys quilting and reading in her spare time.
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Since 1919, Cedars has been inspiring individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to lead creative, productive, and joyous lives.
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WHO regional director highlights three focus areas for South-East Asia
in Featured, Food & Drink, Health, Southeast Asia
Progress on food safety has brought benefits including greater food security and more stable livelihoods to South-East Asia, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) director of the region.
In a speech to mark World Food Safety Day, Director Poonam Khetrapal Singh said the area has played a key role in accelerating action to tackle food safety issues in recent years.
Every year nearly 600 million people fall sick and 420,000 die globally because they consume food contaminated with bacteria, viruses, parasites, toxins or chemicals. The WHO South-East Asia Region is particularly affected, accounting for around 150 million illnesses and 175,000 deaths, costing nations an estimated $95 billion in lost productivity.
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“Since 2015 almost all member states have assessed existing foodborne disease surveillance and response capacity and identified priority actions. With WHO support, in 2018 member states carried out a multi-country simulation exercise to test foodborne disease outbreak coordination and communication. Foodborne diseases are an increasingly acute risk, especially given the transnational and global processes on which food production and consumption rely,” she said.
A new Framework for Action on Food Safety was recently adopted to harmonize standards and build on achievements countries made under the 2014 to 2018 strategy on food safety.
Three points of focus
Singh identified three priority areas including strengthening food safety-related governance and regulations.
“By ensuring food safety legislation and standards are regularly reviewed and updated, national authorities can better identify and address gaps and emerging risks, while also aligning national legislation and standards with international requirements.”
She added there was a need for countries to avoid duplication and ensure responsibilities are well defined and carried out. Though most countries have harmonized national standards with Codex standards, several gaps persist, such as definition of private sector responsibilities and quality of information collected and used for risk assessments.
Second was scaling up foodborne disease surveillance and emergency preparedness, said Singh.
Thanks to the 2014 to 2018 strategy, each member state has established event-based surveillance while a few now have indicator-based surveillance.
“As countries accelerate their efforts, they have great potential to strengthen the provision of reliable epidemiological analysis, especially to identify the source of outbreaks. To do that, access to laboratory resources should be scaled up, and the investigative capacity of key focal points enhanced,” said Singh.
The final area was improving communication with a focus on emergency response, using tools such as the International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN).
Singh said all member states are participating in the platform, with some applying it at the sub-national level.
“Still, greater coordination between national INFOSAN and International Health Regulations focal points would strengthen the mechanism, for which regional simulation exercises – similar to that undertaken in 2018 – will be an important capacity building measure.”
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Source: Food Safety News
Tags: Food and DrinkfoodborneGovernmentHealthInternational Food Safety Authorities NetworkNationSoutheast AsiaWHO
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2019-20 Media Releases, News
Brooks Bandits (AJHL) move to top of CJHL Top 20 rankings
Bandits boast 44–game regular season winning streak and are lone unbeaten club in 132–team CJHL
CALGARY, Alta. – About as hot as you can get, the Brooks Bandits (AJHL) have moved to the top of the table in the latest Canadian Junior Hockey League Top 20 rankings announced Thanksgiving Monday.
Dating back to last year, Brooks has won 44 straight regular season games, including going 11-0 to commence the 2019-20 campaign.
The Bandits have not tasted defeat in AJHL regular season play since back on November 27, 2018.
Selected at No. 2 nationally in the weekly tabulations, as selected by an independent scouting source, are the Penticton Vees (BCHL), who boast a solid an 11-1 record.
Another AJHL squad, in the Sherwood Park Crusaders, sport an 11-1 mark through their first dozen outings and sit at No. 3 in the country.
Next at No. 4, you have the 12-1 Battlefords North Stars (SJHL) while the surging Powassan Voodoos (NOJHL), who are 11-1 and winners of nine straight, were tabbed at No. 5 in the rankings.
Rounding out the Top 10 this week are the 2020 Centennial Cup-host Portage Terriers (MJHL) 6th; the Thunder Bay North Stars (SIJHL) 7th; Timmins Rock (NOJHL) 8th; Titan de Princeville (LHJAAAQ) in 9th and College Français de Longueuil (LHJAAAQ), who were slotted 10th.
2019–20 CJHL Top 20 Rankings (As of Oct. 14)
2. Penticton Vees (BCHL) (1)
6. Portage Terriers (MJHL) (3)
7. Thunder Bay North Stars (SIJHL) (NR)
8. Timmins Rock (NOJHL) (14)
9. Titan de Princeville (LHJAAAQ) (15)
10. College Français Longueuil (LHJAAAQ) (19)
11. Swan Valley Stampeders (MJHL) (11)
12. Coquitlam Express (BCHL) (20)
14. Carleton Place Canadians (CCHL) (12)
15. Burlington Cougars (OJHL) (17)
16. Salmon Arm Silverbacks (BCHL) HM)
17. Toronto Patriots (OJHL) (NR)
18. Edmundston Blizzard (MHL) (HM)
19. Blind River Beavers (NOJHL) (16)
20. Summerside Western Capitals (MHL) (NR)
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“Fortunately he’s in great physical condition as an athlete,” Mullen said. “You just have to take it slow and build up. At the end of the week, we’ll see how many reps we think he has in him for this game.”
Mississippi State’s issues extend beyond Jiles, though. The Bulldogs have yet to put together a complete game offensively and defensively.
Mullen hopes the week away from the field helped solve some of those issues.
“Games always happen a little faster for young guys than practice does,” Mullen said. “With everything happening that fast it's 'Can I still block everything out and just worry about executing this play?'”
Overall, the Bulldogs are 5-3 under Mullen after the bye. Mississippi State has won two in a row against Auburn. It hasn’t won three straight since 2000.
“It’s a great challenge for our guys,” Mullen said. “We’ll come out and respond having the bye week done the right way.”
Contact Michael Bonner at mbonner@jackson.gannett.com. Follow @MikeBBonner on Twitter. Like Michael Bonner Clarion-Ledger on Facebook.
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Widowmaker: 1974 Yamaha TZ750A for Sale
by tad · September 1, 2015
As is so often the case in motorsports, the power generated by Yamaha’s four-cylinder TZ750 racing machines far outstripped their relatively primitive handling. Putting the 140hp of a modern sportbike into a twin-shock, spindly-framed motorcycle with bicycle-skinny tires was a test of the most skilled reflexes and, combined with the vicious powerband of a two-stroke, made these professional-grade motorcycles in every way.
This was the bike to beat during the 1970’s and even newer bikes from Kawasaki and Suzuki couldn’t reliably compete with the TZ. Powerful, reliable, and eventually even nimble, the TZ750 was ridden by men brave enough to hang on while the Yammie dragged them, kicking and screaming, to victory.
Interestingly, while the bike is listed as a 1974 TZ750, the 750 was actually introduced in 1975 and featured a sleeker look that eventually included a monoshock rear suspension that made the power more controllable and the bike overall less terrifying to ride. The early bikes were reportedly built up from a pair of liquid-cooled 350 twins to make the TZ700, which is supported by the seller’s mention of the “347cc” stamped into the side of the engine.
From the original eBay listing: Yamaha TZ750A Road Racer for Sale
Engine and Frame Number: 409 – 000191.
This motorcycle was imported to the USA (Los Angeles) in the first batch of (95) TZ750A models for the 1974 racing season, per the Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. Shipping Invoice No. A-1547.
It was initially raced by Denny Fox and Bill Betts and entered by Syl Kulaga of the “Twin K” Sport Center in Mt. Clemens, Michigan.
The Yamaha has since been stored in temperature controlled conditions for more than 30 years.
Matching numbers are stamped on the Engine and Frame, as shown in the pictures 23 & 24.
The Cylinder Barrels have the following identification cast on the rear: “40900” on the Left side and “347cc 409000” on the right.
The Mikuni 34SC carburettors are lightly stanped L38 on #1 and B3X on the other 3.
The tires are Goodyear Motorcycle Road Racer 3.25-18 & 3.75-18.
The Yamaha was restored using the TZ750A Parts List and is original in almost every detail except for the following:
1) The troublesome original exhaust pipe support band has been replaced by a compression spring and bracket design, which is shown in many of the pictures. The original support band is available with the motorcycle (Part Number 409-14715-02).
2) The front brake flexible hoses do not have a matching appearance.
The fairing, fuel tank, seat, front fender, frame, swing arm and attaching black parts have been professionally painted to the highest standard.
However, this is not a 100% restoration because some of the replacement metric fasteners are “non-Yamaha” and a few of the components are not perfectly plated. Also, the screen has some lower area imperfections which are concealed by it’s installation inside the fairing.
The rubber grips on the footrests, handlebars, gear and brake levers and the seat cover are intentionally left unrestored to give the Yamaha a “previously raced appearance”.
So while you won’t be taking this to the track without some work to get it running, it is otherwise impressively clean for a 41 year old motorcycle that was designed to do one thing and one thing only: go really fast. Racing motorcycles are generally not designed to look good up close and are used ruthlessly by teams and riders to win races, and the life span of most racebikes is very short. Considering that hard life, this bike looks beautiful and although it has been on display for most of its life, it was originally used in anger, and many race fans will pay shocking prices to get this close to such a legendary race bike.
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1977 Yamaha TZ750 D OW31
Is it street legal when can I look at the bike
It would sell a lot faster if you put new tires on it, those are the baldest tires I have ever seen!
Obviously converted to a track bike.
Do you still have the original parts to make it street legal again?
tad says:
You know, sometimes it’s hard to tell if you guys are kidding or not…
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Australian Prime Minister refuses to visit climate-affected Torres Strait communities
The Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has refused an invitation to visit the climate-affected homes of a group of indigenous Torres Strait Islanders who are bringing a human rights complaint against their government.
In an email reply last month, Morrison declined the personal invitation to see for himself the effects of climate change on the low-lying islands, as did the Minister for Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor.
A representative from the group, Kabay Tamu, contacted the PM in September and personally delivered the invitation to Australia’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, where he was addressing a global summit on climate, rights and human survival.
Tamu is one of eight islanders from four different islands threatened by rising seas. In May this year, they lodged a world-first complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland, over the threat to their human rights posed by their government’s climate failure.
Reacting to the news, another complainant Yessie Mosby said: “We’re very disappointed the Prime Minister will not visit our communities. Just like those battling bushfires on the mainland, our islands are on Australia’s climate frontline.
Mosby said the group of complainants was hoping Australia would scale up climate action in its next Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) required under the Paris Agreement in the lead-up to COP 26 in 2020.
“We’ll wait and see what Canberra declares in coming months, as will our fellow islanders across the Pacific.
“This is not a problem for another country to sort out. Bushfires, floods, droughts, extreme heat and in our case rising seas – this is the reality of living in Australia now,” he added.
In their letter to the PM, the islanders described how rising seas are threatening homes, swamping burial grounds and washing away sacred cultural sites.
With the steady erosion of coastlines, islanders are witnessing communities being inundated, infrastructure damaged, sea walls and flood defences breached, fresh water wells contaminated and plants and crops spoiled.
About the complaint
The complaint asserts that by failing to take adequate action to reduce emissions or to build proper adaptation measures on the islands, Australia is failing its legal human rights obligations to Torres Strait people. These are the rights to culture, the right to a family and the right to life, under the first global United Nations treaty, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The complainants are Yessie Mosby and Nazareth Warria of Masig (Yorke Island); Keith Pabai and Stanley Marama of Boigu; Nazareth Fauid of Poruma (Coconut Island); Ted Billy, Daniel Billy and Kabay Tamu of Warraber (Sue Island).
The public can support the islanders’ claim and petition to the PM at: ourislandsourhome.com.au
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Home > Interoperability > Developers Want More Than What the Network of Networks Will Offer
Developers Want More Than What the Network of Networks Will Offer
by Brian Murphy | July 21, 2020
Carequality is not what the world needs, but it’s what the world has.
The effort to build TEFCA’s Common Agreement is on course to deliver more of what the world already has rather than what it needs. Independent and third-party developers have been clamoring for better access to data for many years. By “better,” they usually mean more consistent and computable discrete data. They also prefer connecting to the largest possible number of data holders so they can reach the largest possible number of users. The Common Agreement may not offer much help on either count.
A TEFCA-compliant network could soon enable a connection to more patient data from around the country than any other single network. Providing a single place to get credentialed and to access data from any provider or payer in the U.S. would seem to be a developer’s dream – but for a few issues.
Healthcare stakeholders should push the Common Agreement process more forcefully toward API-based access to connected data sources.
Not all developers — or industry participants, for that matter — completely understand what the Common Agreement could do. Independent developers increasingly expect API-based access to data sources. So far, the general arc of the effort has been to mimic Carequality, a document-centric set of exchange rules favored by EHR vendors and widely available to their customers. While this architecture builds on an accepted approach, it does not advance the technology basis for healthcare data exchange.
Developers would be more enthusiastic about a TEFCA-compliant network if it were a bit less document-centric. Not all developers are willing — or able — to process, interpret, and otherwise extract computable data from both CDA- and non-CDA-compliant documents, especially if the source is an organization they never interacted with in the past. The variability of document implementations makes it hard to scale as the developer connects its application to more new organizations. It may seem inevitable that the Common Agreement process will eventually produce an API specification, given the enthusiasm about API-based development and integration generally, but there is no rush.
Health IT vendors should advocate for a single on-ramp for all forms of healthcare data exchange.
According to its original ambitions, TEFCA would replace or provide an alternative to the many existing exchange networks with a single “on-ramp.” Too often, the developer must enroll its customers and users in multiple different networks — EHR vendor networks, public and private HIE networks, eHealth Exchange, public and private health ISPs, Carequality, CommonWell, dedicated and specialized HIT vendor networks — depending on the user group, required data, and functionality needed.
Developers, perhaps unrealistically, like the idea of writing an application once and scaling it across as many users and organizations as they can attract. The current trajectory of the Common Agreement — essentially, coexistence with other networks — could improve the status quo on the margins by expanding the number and variety of network participants. But it is not on track to provide a single place for developers to get themselves and their users credentialed.
One response to “Developers Want More Than What the Network of Networks Will Offer”
John L. Burch, Lawence KS says:
Fully agree. The “data quality problem” — which is first and foremost the lack of patient-centered longitudinality and only secondarily (but still critically) a matter of non-harmonized, heterogeneous data — is the main barrier to the emergent SaMD industry. As long as software developers have to be responsible for collecting and curating (or not!) the data ingested by their apps, the SaMD market and the huge unmet needs it will address will remain a dream.
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‘Relationships Education can be delayed’, Govt tells schools
Schools will be allowed to delay teaching sex and relationships lessons until next year, the Department for Education (DfE) has said.
Relationships Education is set to become compulsory in primary schools from September, along with Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) in secondary schools, but the DfE has now said schools may postpone teaching it until the summer term begins in April 2021.
Following lengthy school closures during the COVID-19 crisis, schools will be given more time to consult with parents about the curriculum to ensure the content is age-appropriate and takes into account the religious background of all pupils.
LGBT teaching
Statutory guidance states that schools must consult with parents, but many have been unable to do so due to the difficulties brought on by the coronavirus outbreak.
The PA news agency reports that a letter to schools from the DfE now says they may take a “phased approach” to introducing the subjects. It suggests beginning with lessons on mental health and wellbeing, but says that schools which have already consulted with parents may begin as planned from the beginning of September.
Relationships Education will see children as young as four learning about “different types” of relationships, which could include homosexuality, transgenderism and same-sex marriage, while RSE would include teaching on “sex, sexual health and sexuality”, with LGBT teaching deemed “integral” by the Government.
Legal duties
Responding to the news, The Christian Institute’s Education Officer John Denning said: “It is a legal requirement that schools consult parents before writing their policy on the new approach to Relationships, Sex and Health Education. But of course, schools have rightly had to focus on other things in recent months.
“This is a very welcome move from the Government to make sure schools that haven’t yet consulted will still be able to fully take parents’ views into account and fulfil their duty to provide RSE that is appropriate to pupils’ religious backgrounds.”
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The Rock And Karen Gillan Are Rocking Awesome New Costumes In Jumanji 3 Image
Published: Mar. 25. 2019 8:56 AM
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was a massive hit, so a sequel wasn't exactly a huge surprise. However, considering the major ways the film updated the premise of the original Jumanji from over 20 years earlier, it was far from clear how the third Jumanji film would differentiate itself. While we still don't have many of those answers, we do know one thing, our heroes will end up in new costumes in the upcoming film, and that's something. Check out Dwayne Johnson and Karen Gillan's new outfits in the image below.
Shooting our new #JUMANJI with my partner in crime @karengillanofficial and if we look like two extremely awkward teenagers in love while trying to manage our insane superpowers in our JUMANJI universe ~ that’s because we are. Absolutely love working and getting absurdly awkward with this gal. #RubyRoundhouse aka #KillerOfMen #DrSmolderBravestone #AwkwardTeenLove ?????? #JUMANJI THIS CHRISTMAS ???? @hhgarcia41
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While new costumes might not be massive breaking news, it would seem to tell us something about the new movie. A recent image of the cast from Karen Gillan had shown the main cast in the same clothes that they wore in the first film. It's unclear if this image was actually from the new movie or the previous one, but either way, it implied that we'd be getting the actors in the same outfits we got before. Although, it did promise things were not as they seemed, so perhaps this was part of the reason. When we actually saw the characters in the new film, they would look a little different.
Since they're playing video game avatars, it would make sense that the characters would end up in the same clothes, and it's possible they may start out that way, but at some point things will change, as the Rock's Instagram picture reveals.
Based on the outfits, it looks like Jumanji 3 may be taking our characters into a colder environment, as they're clearly dressed for keeping warm. Even Ruby Roundhouse as left her Lara Croft inspired shorts and crop top behind for fuzzy boots and long sleeves.
Shifting the setting of the new Jumanji from the tropical jungle to something colder is certainly one way to change things up. The "ice level" is a tried and true element of many great video games, so it would certainly be fitting to have the video game inspired Jumanji 3 use the idea as part of its premise.
The Rock's comment on his Instagram post also appears to confirm that Jumanji 3 will continue the story of the romance between the characters of Spencer and Martha. The teenagers inhabiting the two video game avatars began a relationship in Welcome to the Jungle and it seems the pair are no less awkward even though some time has passed since they got together.
Jumanji 3 is filming right now with a release date already set for this December. It will once again go up against the newest Star Wars movie at the box office, though that battle wasn't a major problem for Jumanji the last time around. With a fan base already looking forward to this sequel, it seems highly likely another big box office hit is on the way.
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Evaluating the Fungibility of Information Power
Over the weekend, I had a Twitter conversation with the always stimulating infosec blogger Krypt3ia on the subject of hard and soft power. Krypt3ia has a new post on his site that grew out of the conversation. While I would encourage you to read the whole entry (there are shades of some of Timothy L. Thomas's recent work on China, Russia, and information warfare), I would like to build off of one of the more interesting parts of the post:
Finally, I would also put it to you all that the battle space is much
different today than it has been in the past. Not only do we have the
digital landscape, but said same digital landscape, that makes it easier
to steal, also makes everything more interconnected. By interconnected,
I mean that it is far easier to effect large changes to companies by
the automation that we all have in place today to speed up our
transactions. Today it is far easier to quickly make instant trades, and
effect the bottom line of a company for the better or worse as well as
steal data in minutes that in the past, would have taken days, weeks, or
months to ex-filtrate from a company via conventional HUMINT means. In the scenarios run on trades on the markets, you can see how one
alleged “fat finger” incident can have a large scale and rippling effect
on the whole economies of states, never mind businesses individually.
So, once again, the battle space has changed greatly because of
the interconnected-ness of things. It seems that the matters of state
now more than before, can be changed through the soft power of the
digital attack or manipulation. This is what I mean by “soft power” or
perhaps the term I mentioned above “Covert Soft Power”, attacks that we
are seeing now, and are having trouble truly attributing to
nation-state, corporate, or individual actors are having larger and
larger effects on our economy, our policies, and our long term viability
as nations, companies, or groups.
One of the classics of the neorealist literature on force is Robert Art's article "The Fungibility of Force." Art argues that force, expressed roughly as a state's power for physical coercion, has ripple effects on other issues. The United States has historically benefited economically from its ability to protect the Persian Gulf, and the core of the deal made with Saudi Arabia has been one of economic benefit for the physical protection of the regime. This, in part, is what helps a single family dominate a country that Middle East watchers have perpetually predicted would be ripe for revolt. Barry Posen has also argued that military control of "commons"--air and sea lanes of commerce--underpins the US' current strategy of primacy. Force is also "fungible"--it can be utilized in a variety of ways and be exchanged for a multitude of political "goods." But despite being fungible, force is often tremendously costly to actually employ. Hence we should not confuse the shaping power of force structurally for force necessarily equaling an ability to create certain political effects in domestic political systems. The US, for example, can use force to shape the Persian Gulf security architecture in an attempt to thwart Iranian ambitions. This requires military investments in naval warfare systems, basing architecture, and military deployments. But the bluntness of force in use is infamous. You cannot guarantee, say, that an OPLAN for an invasion and occupation of iran or even devastating standoff strikes would result in Iran changing its system of government to American liking or giving up its nuclear program.
Hence states often search for indirect routes to benefit from military force or substitute it for other forms of decision. Indirect forms of coercion seek to shape national-level outcomes as opposed to regional or systemic outcomes. These can take form of compellence and coercive diplomacy. Compellence can involve discrete force but coercive diplomacy involves the threat of force integrated with economic pressure and psychological operations directed against enemy leadership targets. But coercive diplomacy itself has something of a mixed track record in recent years, and economic statecraft, while undoubtedly the root of all power--political and military--also is not necessarily a very efficient means of coercion. Let's not mince words--economic coercion can completely destroy a state's basic standards of living, as the Iraq sanctions did. But without positive sanctions (a suitable carrot), strictly negative measures often fail to convince states to change their behavior. The Iraqi sanctions were forged in a political climate that desired the removal of Saddam Hussein from power. Limited uses of force or coercion cannot hope to succeed if tied to total outcomes. And even if we perceive our aims to be limited, they may not be limited to those we hope to coerce. The Iranians see a "surge" capacity for nuclear mobilization as intimately tied not only to their means of power projection but also to their basic survival as a political entity.
Covert power is a "grey area" of statecraft not really well-covered in policy literature. As I noted in a previous entry, low-intensity warfare and covert operations can look alike at the lowest tactical margin. One interesting question that Kryp3ia raises in his discussion of Chinese and Russian (as well as non-state) cyber power and digital espionage is whether covert power is similarly "fungible" in the way Art argues that conventional military power is. For example, can states leverage proxy power, subversion, espionage and long-range cyber-reconassiance, the use of information warfare, or private force to shape outcomes in the way that an overflight of TU Backfire Bombers might? Plenty of decisionmakers seem to think so.Queen Elizabeth I saw subversion and divided loyalties as a mortal threat to the defense of the realm, and created a domestic intelligence apparatus to root it out. Robert Kaplan has written about Iran's use of covert power as a force multiplier in the Middle East. In the 1950s, many saw Communist psychological operations as a mortal threat against open societies, discussing them in terms similar to how some talk about cyber warfare today. Carl Schmitt attributes fear of Communist subversion as an explicit motivator for coup plotters against De Gaulle. Covert operations also have demonstrated the ability to change a domestic set of political relations. Political warfare altered the political composition of the Guatemalan and Iranian governments and augmented a conventional NATO strategy for the defense of Europe through the construction of stay-behind networks and a means of secretly intervening in domestic politics.
There are some advantages to the use of covert or paramilitary power as a means of power projection. The United States has, through the fine-tuning of the joint special operations community since the debacle of DESERT ONE, created an apparatus that compresses integrated logistics, advanced technology, and raw human strength into paramilitary war machine. It is useful for "reaching out and touching" J.D. Salinger-like reclusives holed up in air-gapped compounds in the suburbs of Abbotabad. These kinds of operations also create a dilemma for the target state. They take place in a murky realm populated by spies, criminals, and arms smugglers, proving that difficulty of attribution is not just a cyber problem. Moreover, even in the case of attribution it is hard to see what recourse is often open to target states. It was obvious to any intelligent observer that the United States, facilitated by Pakistan and a host of other partners, was funneling arms and money into Afghanistan during the 1980s. But what could the Soviets really do about it? The problem, however, comes when states expect covert ops, espionage, or discrete force to work as a standalone effort without being tied to a sound policy.
This brings us to the intersection of information and covert power. The postwar science of cybernetics is the backbone for our understanding of information power. Cybernetics--the science of communication and control---is about information as a feedback mechanism. Claude Shannon's idea of information theory is based on the idea that information is a signal, or a "difference that makes a difference" as Gregory Bateson artfully puts it. Whereas first-wave cybernetics looked at closed systems that adjust their internal states to preserve a set value (like a thermostat that adjusts a room's temperature) based on negative feedback from the environment, second-order cybernetics and complexity theory have looked at how information causes systems to shift to new frames of reference.
Thus, information warfare pioneers like Dorothy Denning and Martin Libicki have looked at information warfare in ways that draw from Shannon's mathematical theory and cybernetics. To Denning, information warfare involves operations that target or exploit information resources. Information resources consist of containers
(information media that contain forms of data), transporters (objects and
communication systems that transport information from one location to another),
sensors (humans and machines that extract information objects and the
environment), recorders (objects that place information in containers), and
processors (people and objects that manipulate information). In Denning's theory, you gain advantage by increasing the value of your own information resources while degrading the other side's ability to use theirs. Martin Libicki has a taxonomy of information warfare targets and methods that also are useful for thinking about the subject: the physical (hardware), syntactic (machine operating software) and semantic (the content of the information exchanged). You can drop a bomb on a command or control node and physically destroy it, certainly. You might also compromise a system through various cybernetic means, or you could, through military deception, attempt to prevent your opponent from utilizing information available to him.
While it may seeem like physical and syntactic information methods are particularly powerful, the power of strategic deception should be not be underrated. In 1944 and 1945, the Soviet Union utilitzed maskirovka on a massive scale to carry out Operations BAGRATION and AUGUST STORM, completely destroying the German and Japanese armies in Belorussia and Manchuria. The former laid bare the German heartland to the ravages of the Red war machine, and the latter may have--in conjunction with the atomic bomb--knocked Japan out of the war. It certainly also posed a direct Soviet threat to the Japanese heartland due to the threat of potential Soviet control over China. Strategic deception also protects intentions and capabilities in peacetime, such as crucial weapons projects or crucial geopolitical designs. Deception can also make a state seem more powerful than it actually may be. Hitler's Germany integrated numerous deception operations to play on the psychological weakness of Allied decisionmakers in the 1930s, convincing them that his military forces were ready for protracted war in spite of their actual material deficits.
Getting to the root of infomation power requires engagement with the fact that we live, largely, in the world Claude Shannon made. Information--as message rather than content--is key to many massively complex and integrated systems that underpin our day-to-day existence, from the stock exchange to military command and control systems. Thus information warfare and information power might broadly be understood, again, as the plain use of information resources in order to improve our own information resources and degrade, exploit, or otherwise co-opt those of our adversaries. This process is not necessarily entirely technological. From a systems perspective, the British Double-Cross System or the Soviet Trust operation were analog-era attempts to manipulate organizational systems by sending distorting feedback through information channels. In a world increasingly governed by the way information interacts with organizational, technical, and social systems, information power becomes more important. Digitization and the delegation of authority to more and more automated systems in everyday life is creating a "second economy" well-known in the information technology community. There are certainly political and military implications in such a technological shift, as especially when paired with emerging informatized architectures and ecological systems.
So, with this understanding of information, we can go back to the original issues of fungibility Krypt3ia brought up. What can information, taken through the lens of Denning and Libicki, do?
Strategic deception not only distorts the quality of information available to a decisionmaker but also can, when coupled with targeted psychological operations and counterintelligence, disrupt a decisionmaking system by eroding its ability to process and use information. The British did the latter by riddling the Irish Republican Army with informers. The ability to exercise individualized information targeting, as demonstrated through Anonymous and the Chinese "human flesh search engine" opens up intriguing possiblities for both deception and psychological pressures and disruptions.
The informatization of critical infrastructure poses opportunities for countervalue attacks on civilian targets. Though these threats often have been massively inflated, they do exist. They can cause everything from financial damage to injury and death. And air-gapping is not a panacea. This perhaps may be most useful not necessarily as a tool of "cyber-doom" but more as a tool of escalation dominance at the lowest rung.
Industrial espionage can create economic gain. China and Russia, after all, are following a longstanding French practice of using spying to bolster state-suppotted industries. French intelligence, in fact, used to bug first-class sections of Air France jets to record commerical conversations.
The knowledge that crucial systems may be vulnerable could create a deterrent effect, but it is important to note that these threats are of an operational rather than predominately strategic nature.
That being said, there are very many drawbacks. Strategic deception can certainly help realize a given policy objective, but also can significantly backfire. Saddam Hussein attempted to simulate and dissumulate, presentating an ambiguous image of unconventional power to Iran and internal regime audiences while simultaneously trying to hide evidence of the truth from the outside world. The United States eventually decided that it was better to remove him from power than deal with the constant ambiguity his deception efforts created. The German deception efforts from the end of World War I to the late 1930s at first hid re-armament and then exaggerated German strength. But they would not have worked if the Allies had the political will to enforce the terms of the Versailles Treaty. It is hard to see what the Soviet Union gained in the long term beyond immediately tactical and operational gains from its strategic deception efforts.
Individualized information targeting depends on a dauntingly granular degree of information about an individual's worldview, habits, and psychology, paired with an accurate model of how he or she plays a role in the overall ecology of a regime's decisionmaking structure. Playing havoc with an organizational system may also result in undesired side effects. Targed disruption of individual links within the Syrian regime hierarchy should only be attempted if the targeteer is OK with such actions potentially resulting in intensified strife that may result in substantial civilian casualties. James Angleton's mental decline into the "wilderness of mirrors" is also an apt demonstration of what happens when counterintelligence begins to devour the bonds of trust within an organization intead of its adversary's organizational functioning.
It is also true that critical infrastructure can present a countervalue target, but Sean Lawson's review of disaster response research and the historical record of the Air Force's "industrial web" strategy against German critical infrastructure and moral resilience in World War II suggests that disruption may only be temporary. Frederick Kagan has also observed that while command and control links can be reconstituted at a relatively low cost, the destruction of an army itself through annihilation requires an immense amount of resources to rectify.
Finally, as a part of the larger "grey area" of covert and paramilitary power, information power suffers from some of the same defects as special operations direct action or black propaganda. It is dependent on a host of pre-existing factors that may be difficult to be conjured out of thin air. Operation AJAX was only possible because powerful forces within the Iranian political ecosystem were receptive to covert power. American contractor support ended the Bosnian War, but only by utilizing the pre-existing Croatian Army as a hammer for a punishing ground offensive against Serbian forces. Operation BAGRATION may have been enabled by deception but was carried out by a preponderence of Soviet military force. And a determined countersubversion architecture safeguarded the English throne from the threat of subversion in the Elizabethan era. Iranian covert power projection allows it to punch above its weight but still does not make it a hegemon regionally due to the political, material, and military weight of the Gulf states and their external protector in Washington. The specific characteristics of information power also pose some quandries. One can, say, monitor, disrupt, or deny the electromagnetic spectrum but not control it in the way that the "man on the scene with a gun" can when he attacks land targets.
So we have ultimately a mixed picture of the fungiblity of information power. Krypt3ia and others writing on the subject have demonstrated that it should be regarded, like financial power, as a force to be reckoned with in world politics. But it lacks the ability, seen in military force, to be tied to other important issues or exercise ripple effects. To return to the example of Saudi Arabia, American military backing for the Saudi regime enabled beneficial economic effects. It's true that information power can bolster military and financial power, but its impact may be ultimately much more limited than military force in creating linkages. Information power can bolster other forms of power significantly and will certainly transform the nature of "grey area" force in the international aren. Krypt3ia is right that it should not be disregarded, and states should pay heed to how they construct their own information strategies.
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Prince Harry joins Veteran’s Mental Health Conference with Heads Together
Prince Harry attended a Veterans’ Mental Health Conference at King’s College London today where he led a panel discussion with three veterans on the power of conversations and getting the right mental health support.
At the event, organised by the King’s Centre for Military Health Research with Forces in Mind Trust, His Royal Highness also met an inspirational pair of injured UK and US veterans who are running this year’s Boston and London Marathons, six days apart, to raise awareness of military mental health issues.
Prince Harry attended as part of the Heads Together campaign to change the conversation on mental health which he leads with The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and which includes Contact, the military community mental health coalition. Contact aims to make it easier for veterans, service personnel and families to find the right help for the full range of mental health issues, including anxiety and depression.
Prince Harry opened the conference by leading a panel discussion with three former members of the UK and US Armed Forces: Caroline Buckle, Ivan Castro and Philip Eaglesham. During the group discussion the veterans each spoke about their personal experiences of addressing and managing mental health challenges, and the importance of the Armed Forces community working together to encourage an open attitude about mental health.
The discussion also touched on the misconceptions and myths surrounding military mental health which create the stigma that stops people talking about their mental health and getting the additional support they might need.
Prince Harry said:
‘We all have mental health in the same way that we all have physical health.’
‘Our campaign Heads Together is encouraging people to be more open; without the fear of judgement, prejudice or stigma. It starts with a conversation either with a friend, family member or a colleague.’
Phil Eaglesham said:
‘Basically, I breathed in one day and my life changed forever when I contracted Q fever. I struggled from the start with not being able to see something that was affecting me physically. It got to the point when in August 2014 I tried taking my own life and me and my wife didn’t tell anyone for about six months.
‘I finally told my best friend how I was feeling and that conversation got me the help I needed. From there, my mental health has improved and has meant I’m able to be here with you today. Making that first conversation happen is so important. If I’d opened up 6 months before I did about my mental health I’d be a lot further on in my life than I am now.’
A number of representatives of organisations within the Contact coalition attended and spoke at today’s event, including the Chair of Contact, Col David Richmond (Ret’d), who said
“We know from King’s College London that over 66,000 Veterans will need some kind of help with their mental or physical wellbeing in the years to come. Men and women who’ve served face huge issues coming forward for support and with Prince Harry’s help we can deal with these problems head-on. We won’t rest until everyone who has served their country feels able to access the right support for them and their families. Contact was set up to help charities and the NHS work better together and to encourage Government to recognise Veterans deserve a better deal.”
At the conference, Prince Harry also had the chance to speak to Ivan Castro, a US veteran who was blinded in Iraq, and Karl Hinett, a UK veteran badly burned while also serving in Iraq. Karl and Ivan are running together in the Boston Marathon, for Heads Together, before taking on the 2017 Virgin Money London Marathon as part of Team Heads Together, six days later. Heads Together is the London Marathon’s Charity of the Year and is aiming to give all runners and supporters the opportunity to make it the first ever ‘mental health marathon’.
Ivan Castro, Major, US Army (Ret’d) said:
‘During my 28 years of service, I was honored to serve with some incredible soldiers, motivational and inspirational men and women around the world, many from the United Kingdom. There is a special relationship between the US and UK troops on and off the battlefield we have trained together, we have fought together, we have bled together and we have healed together.
‘I am proud to be running alongside Karl, in the Boston and London marathons next month in support of Heads Together. Two marathons in a week will hurt but we are doing this for all veterans and serving brothers who carry the weight of mental health issues every day because we believe that we all feel pressure on our mental health at some point in our lives and, when we understand this the better we can support ourselves and each other.’
Karl Hinett said:
‘I’m very much looking forward to supporting Heads Together by running both the Boston and London marathon, with my good friend from the US Ivan Castro.
‘Despite having run 149 marathons before, the distance never gets shorter, but working hard alongside Ivan, as the UK and US military has done for years, is a great privilege. Together we can change the conversation on mental health.’
Content from the visit:
Images of today’s event are available at:
High res – https://we.tl/VZhsueUxNW
Low resolution – https://we.tl/ImGWxE7k15
A summary film of the panel discussion will be distributed later on today for downloading or embedding
Social Media: Conference hashtag: #VMHC2017 Campaign hashtag #HeadsTogether
Twitter: @kensingtonroyal / @Heads_Together / /@Contact_AF / @KingsloPPN / @kcmhr
Instagram: KensingtonRoyal / Heads_Together
Facebook: @TheBritishMonarchy / @HeadsTogetherCampaign
Contact is a collaboration of leading military charities, support organisations, the NHS, the Ministry of Defence and top academics working together to make the most effective mental health support easily accessible to Service Personnel, Ex-Service Personnel and their families. The Contact coalition incorporates: Big White Wall; Cobseo; Combat Stress; Help for Heroes; Kings Centre for Military Health Research; Kings College London; Ministry of Defence; NHS Wales; NHS England; The Royal British Legion; Uk Psychological Trauma Society; Walking With the Wounded; Veterans First Point.
About Heads Together
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry are spearheading the Heads Together campaign to build on the great work that is already taking place across the country, to ensure that people feel comfortable with their everyday mental wellbeing, feel able to support their friends and families through difficult times, and that fear no longer prevents people talking or getting the help they need.
Heads Together brings together a team of Charity Partners that have achieved great progress in tackling stigma, raising awareness, and providing vital help for people with mental health problems. The team covers a wide range of mental health issues that are close to The Duke and Duchess and Prince Harry’s passions. They are:
Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families
CALM – The Campaign Against Living Miserably
Contact (a military mental health coalition)
The privilege of being the 2017 Virgin Money London Marathon Charity of the Year gives Heads Together a positive platform to raise funds for the support provided by the campaign’s charity partners and to start millions of conversations.
The Heads Together campaign is being generously supported by The Hans & Julia Rausing Trust, ShareGift and the first three Heads Together Founding Partners – Dixons Carphone, Unilever UK and Virgin Money. This support will help amplify the aims of the campaign as well as fund specific projects designed to help us all with mental health.
Louisa Sampson, Louisa.sampson@royalfoundation.com, 07746303905
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‘CDC Triples Number of Possible CCP Virus Symptoms;’ Don’t swallow Lysol to fight COVID-19! What about Zinc? Bloodclots?
Notice the following:
CDC Triples Number of Possible CCP Virus Symptoms
Six possible symptoms of the CCP virus were added to a list of potential signs of the new illness by a federal agency and include chills and loss of taste or smell.
The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, a novel coronavirus that emerged from mainland China last year, causes COVID-19, a disease that’s killed tens of thousands of Americans. https://decisiveliberty.news/DLEM-Latest-News/cdc-triples-number-of-possible-ccp-virus-symptoms/
The US Centers for Disease Control originally warned of the following symptoms were associated with the novel strain of the coronavirus called COVID-19:
The following symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure.*
Shortness of breath https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/symptoms.html accessed 03/05/20
The problem with the above was threefold: 1) you can have COVID-19 for a long time and not show the symptoms, 2) the list was incomplete, and 3) most people with those listed symptoms do NOT have COVID-19.
Here is the CDC’s latest, and more expanded, list:
Watch for symptoms
People with COVID-19 have had a wide range of symptoms reported – ranging from mild symptoms to severe illness.
These symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus:
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
Repeated shaking with chills
New loss of taste or smell https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/symptoms.html accessed 04/24/20
A while back The US Centers for Disease Control put out the following chart:
Now here are the CDC’s officially listed ideas on how to protect yourself from the novel coronavirus:
There is currently no vaccine to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to this virus.
The virus is thought to spread mainly from person-to-person.
Between people who are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet).
Through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks.
These droplets can land in the mouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly be inhaled into the lungs.
Some recent studies have suggested that COVID-19 may be spread by people who are not showing symptoms. …
Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds especially after you have been in a public place, or after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
If soap and water are not readily available, use a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol. Cover all surfaces of your hands and rub them together until they feel dry.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands. …
Stay home as much as possible.pdf iconexternal icon | [Españolpdf iconexternal icon]
Put distance between yourself and other people.
Remember that some people without symptoms may be able to spread virus.
Keeping distance from others is especially important for people who are at higher risk of getting very sick. …
You could spread COVID-19 to others even if you do not feel sick.
Everyone should wear a cloth face cover when they have to go out in public, for example to the grocery store or to pick up other necessities.
Cloth face coverings should not be placed on young children under age 2, anyone who has trouble breathing, or is unconscious, incapacitated or otherwise unable to remove the mask without assistance.
The cloth face cover is meant to protect other people in case you are infected.
Do NOT use a facemask meant for a healthcare worker.
Continue to keep about 6 feet between yourself and others. The cloth face cover is not a substitute for social distancing. …
If you are in a private setting and do not have on your cloth face covering, remember to always cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze or use the inside of your elbow.
Throw used tissues in the trash.
Immediately wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. If soap and water are not readily available, clean your hands with a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol. …
Clean AND disinfect frequently touched surfaces daily. This includes tables, doorknobs, light switches, countertops, handles, desks, phones, keyboards, toilets, faucets, and sinks.
If surfaces are dirty, clean them. Use detergent or soap and water prior to disinfection.
Then, use a household disinfectant. Most common EPA-registered household disinfectantexternal icon will work. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/prevention.html accessed 04/24/20
As far as disinfectants go, do not drink them:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The parent company of Lysol and another disinfectant warned Friday that its products should not be used as an internal treatment for the coronavirus after President Donald Trump wondered about the prospect during a White House briefing.
Trump noted Thursday that researchers were looking at the effects of disinfectants on the virus and wondered aloud if they could be injected into people, saying the virus “does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.”
That prompted a strong warning from the maker of disinfectants Lysol and Dettol, which said it was issuing a statement to combat “recent speculation.”
“As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route),” said the statement from Reckitt Benckiser. https://apnews.com/697d9ecef7f89cf5e9abb3b008c7faa7
Now, getting back to the CDC’s list to protect oneself, it is astounding that the CDC still refuses to tell people to watch their diets, to try to follow the official US government dietary guidelines to consume two or more servings of fruit and three or more servings of vegetables each day, and will not tell people to consider real food nutrient supplements if they may be at risk of being deficient in zinc (like many diabetics are) or other nutrients.
As far as zinc goes, here is something I posted on Facebook (which is a media I do not use much) 11 days ago:
“Zn(2+) inhibits coronavirus and arterivirus RNA polymerase activity in vitro and zinc ionophores block the replication of these viruses in cell culture.”
So says the titled of a MEDLine published study (PLoS Pathog. 2010 Nov 4;6(11); https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2973827/) that I saw in a link that someone forwarded to me today.
Here is the abstract from that paper:
Increasing the intracellular Zn(2+) concentration with zinc-ionophores like pyrithione (PT) can efficiently impair the replication of a variety of RNA viruses, including poliovirus and influenza virus. For some viruses this effect has been attributed to interference with viral polyprotein processing. In this study we demonstrate that the combination of Zn(2+) and PT at low concentrations (2 µM Zn(2+) and 2 µM PT) inhibits the replication of SARS-coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and equine arteritis virus (EAV) in cell culture. The RNA synthesis of these two distantly related nidoviruses is catalyzed by an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp), which is the core enzyme of their multiprotein replication and transcription complex (RTC). Using an activity assay for RTCs isolated from cells infected with SARS-CoV or EAV–thus eliminating the need for PT to transport Zn(2+) across the plasma membrane–we show that Zn(2+) efficiently inhibits the RNA-synthesizing activity of the RTCs of both viruses. Enzymatic studies using recombinant RdRps (SARS-CoV nsp12 and EAV nsp9) purified from E. coli subsequently revealed that Zn(2+) directly inhibited the in vitro activity of both nidovirus polymerases. More specifically, Zn(2+) was found to block the initiation step of EAV RNA synthesis, whereas in the case of the SARS-CoV RdRp elongation was inhibited and template binding reduced. By chelating Zn(2+) with MgEDTA, the inhibitory effect of the divalent cation could be reversed, which provides a novel experimental tool for in vitro studies of the molecular details of nidovirus replication and transcription.”
Now, that study DID NOT involve the novel coronavirus called COVID-19 as it was not known to exist then. But the paper was of interest.
Anyway, one problem people have with supplemental zinc is that it does not enter the cytoplasm of the cell very well.
Though inorganic mineral salt forms are often used in supplements, researchers acknowledge that organic zinc is better absorbed than inorganic zinc [Shils ME, Olson JA, Shike M. Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease, 8th ed. Lea & Febiger, Phil.,1994; Cunnane SC. Zinc: Clinical and Biochemical Significance. CRC Press, Boca Raton (FL), 1988).
Zinc itself is generally found in the human body attached to a peptide (Ibid). It is often attached to albumin [1,2] or alpha2-macroglobulin or exists as part of one of the many zinc metalloenzymes (Ibid). Zinc is not naturally found in the body in forms such as zinc citrate, zinc chloride, or zinc picolinate. Generally speaking, these two-word descriptions indicate a mineral salt (rock) and not zinc as is found in food.
Nutritional yeast is an excellent source of zinc because, “fermenting organisms produce phytases that break down phytate and increase the amount of absorbable zinc” (Shils ME, et al. Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease, 10th ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Balt., 2006:273). Nutritional yeast also contains certain amino acids (Leavening agents, yeast, baker’s, compressed. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 18, 2005) that enhance the absorption of zinc (Shils, p. 273).
Zinc in yeast-containing foods is better absorbed and is a better form for humans than inorganic forms (Andlid TA, Veide J, Sandberg AS. Metabolism of extracellular inositol hexaphosphate (phytate) by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Int J. Food Microbiology. 2004;97(2):157-169; King JC, Cousins RJ. Zinc. In Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease, 10th ed. Lipponcott Williams & Wilkins, Phil., 2005:271-285).
Since diabetics seem to need zinc, but their deficiencies are refractory to zinc salts (Cunningham JJ. Micronutrients as nutriceutical interventions in diabetes mellitus. J Am Coll Nutr. 1998;17(1):7-10), food forms of zinc should also be a better choice for absorption for this population.
Zinc in foods appears to have a smaller particle size than that which is found in inorganic mineral salts. Nutrition scientists understand that smaller particle size improves bioavailability; the main point of digestion is to get food particles small enough to be absorbed by intestinal villi (Shils; Whitney EN, Hamilton EMN. Understanding Nutrition, 4th ed. West Publishing, NY, 1987). This may partially explain why food zinc is superior to zinc found in inorganic mineral salts. Most zinc is absorbed in the small intestine, with the majority of it believed to be absorbed in the jejunum; only small amounts are believed to be absorbed in the stomach or large intestine.
High zinc-containing foods include pumpkin seeds, forms of yeast (S. cerevisiae), wheat bran, beef, miso, spinach, mushrooms, alfalfa sprouts, brewer’s yeast, turkey, lamb, bean sprouts, tofu, and to a lesser degree in whole wheat bread (Whitney).
Studies led by Dr. J. Vinson of the University of Scranton (PA) indicate that food zinc (as found in specially grown S. cerevisiae) appears to be 1.72-1.75 times more absorbed in the blood than zinc sulfate (1.71 times more than zinc chelate; 6.46 times more than zinc gluconate; 3.11 times more than zinc orotate) and 1.75-1.87 times more retained in the liver than zinc sulfate and is 1.45 times more than zinc amino acid chelate; 3.68 times more than zinc gluconate; 1.50 times more than zinc orotate (Vinson J, Bose P, Lemoine L, Hsiao KH. Bioavailability studies. In Nutrient Availability: Chemical and Biological Aspects. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge (UK) 1989:125-127; Vinson JA, Bose P. Comparison of bio-availability of trace elements in inorganic salts, amino acid chelates, and yeast. Mineral Elements 80, Proceedings II, Helsinki, Dec 9-11, 1981; Vinson J. Rat zinc bioavailability study. University of Scranton, Scranton; Note: Some of these studies may not conform to peer review standards. Therefore, the results are not conclusive. Professionals can, and often do, come to different conclusions when reviewing scientific data. None of these statements have been reviewed by the FDA.).
Anyway, for better absorption, I have long taken food zinc (from pumpkin seeds and specially grown S. cerevisiae) as a supplement–and currently still do.
Governments around the world, including the USA, have been loath to tell the public that they can do more than hide and wash to help themselves with COVID-19–that is a disgrace that should shame most public health officials (there are a few that have had the integrity to tell some scientific facts about nutrients that can help, like zinc, vitamin C, vitamin D, etc.).
Notice also the following:
A mysterious blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients
Increasingly, doctors also are reporting bizarre, unsettling cases that don’t seem to follow any of the textbooks they’ve trained on. They describe patients with startlingly low oxygen levels — so low that they would normally be unconscious or near death — talking and swiping on their phones. Asymptomatic pregnant women suddenly in cardiac arrest. Patients who by all conventional measures seem to have mild disease deteriorating within minutes and dying at home.
With no clear patterns in terms of age or chronic conditions, some scientists hypothesize that at least some of these abnormalities may be explained by severe changes in patients’ blood.
The concern is so acute some doctor groups have raised the controversial possibility of giving preventive blood thinners to everyone with covid-19 — even those well enough to endure their illness at home.
Blood clots, in which the red liquid turns gel-like, appear to be the opposite of what occurs in Ebola, Dengue, Lassa and other hemorrhagic fevers that lead to uncontrolled bleeding. But they actually are part of the same phenomenon — and can have similarly devastating consequences.
Autopsies have shown some people’s lungs fill with hundreds of microclots. Errant blood clots of a larger size can break off and travel to the brain or heart, causing a stroke or heart attack. On Saturday, Broadway actor Nick Cordero, 41, had his right leg amputated after being infected with the novel coronavirus and suffering from clots that blocked blood from getting to his toes.
Lewis Kaplan, a University of Pennsylvania physician and head of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, said every year doctors treat people with clotting complications, from those with cancer to victims of severe trauma, “and they don’t clot like this.” c. 04/23/20 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-mysterious-blood-clotting-complication-is-killing-coronavirus-patients/ar-BB1336g0?li=BBnbcA1
Because of my family history, for years I have periodically taken a nattokinase supplement as I believe it can help keep the blood more healthy. But, again, we are not seeing the CDC or others recommending something like that. Note: Nattokinase is an enzyme fermentedly extracted from a slimy, smelly soy ‘cheese’ often eaten in Japan called natto. Natto itself, in my view, is not in the same category as nattokinase.
In addition to zinc and nattokinase, more specific ideas on how to help yourself can be found in the following post: ZH: How The Super Rich Are Preparing For The Coronavirus; COGwriter: What physical steps can others take?
Sadly, instead of focusing on how people can improve their health and strengthen their immune systems, we are seeing fear and the expansion of government control over people’s lives as the official means to deal with aspects of the coronavirus.
Many people are even afraid to use cash (see COVID-19 aiding in moves towards digital currency and 666).
This is not limited to the USA (watch also COVID-19 Leading to 666?).
The Bible shows that the following will happen in Europe, and perhaps elsewhere:
16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (Revelation 13:16-18)
The above prophecies were written over 1900 years ago, and the control of buying and selling was not possibly able to be fulfilled until the 21st century. A century where cash is being replaced by electronic currency that can be fully tracked. And that prophesy is clearly telling of tyranny in such a society.
Fear is a powerful motivator.
However, not only can we do things physically (like eat more foods naturally high in vitamin C), we spiritually should look past the world’s views of many things.
Notice that the Apostle Paul wrote:
17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. (1 John 4:17-18)
Yes, perfect love casts out fear!
True Christians have love as well as hope looking for the coming Kingdom of God.
As far as dealing with fear, check out our latest sermon: Ten Plus Steps to Rid Yourself of Fear.
Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse What is the pale horse of death and pestilences? What will it bring and when? Here is a link to a related sermon: Fourth Horseman, COVID, and the Rise of the Beast of Revelation. Some shorter related videos may include Amphibian Apocalypse: Threat to Humans? and Zombie Deer Disease is Here! Are the 10 Plagues on Egypt Coming? Here is a version of the article in Spanish: El cuarto jinete de Apocalipsis, el caballo pálido de muerte y pestilencia.
COVID 19 is NOT the End, but could it be TEOTWAWKI? The novel coronavirus called COVID-19 is wreaking havoc around the world. Many states of the USA as well as countries in Europe are on lockdown with shelter in place /shelter in residence requirements. In France, a form is required when you are not at your house. In Spain, drones are being used to warn people who are outside to got back to their homes–does that bring up feelings of ‘Big Brother’? Italy, France, and other areas are using police and/or military force to encourage people to stay inside. According to the Bible could this be the end? If not, what has to happen first? Have the second and third of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse started their ride? Could COVID-19 be the fourth horseman? Why or why not? Could we be seeing The End of the World as We Know It (TEOTWAWKI) like the R.E.M.’s 1987 single song discussed? Do Christians need to fear? What did Jesus teach? What did the Psalmist teach? This is a video. Here is a link to a version in the Spanish language: Corona 19 no es el final PERO es el TEOTWAWKI.
COVID-19 Leading to 666? The novel coronavirus of Wuhan, China fame, is now called COVID-19. It has also been called the ‘Coronapocalypse.’ Does COVID-19 have any prophetic ramifications? What did Jesus teach about pestilences and sorrows in the Olivet prophecy in Matthew 24? Could COVID-19 be the ride of the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse? Why was this type of disease expected according to the O. Here is a link to a version in the Spanish language: ld Testament prophecies in Deuteronomy and Leviticus? What has the US Centers for Disease Control warned about? What has the CDC reported about the flu? Were there lessons about fear and infections in the 2011 movie ‘Contagion’? Because of COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO), nation of Iran, and certain French locations are telling people not to use cash, but instead electronic forms of payment. The US Federal Reserve is now quarantining money repatriated from Asia to reduce the potential spread of the coronavirus on US currency bills. Is COVID-19 worse than we have been told or could this all be a ‘false flag’ event to encourage people to move towards a cashless society? If the thousands of deaths associated with COVID-19 are pushing parts of the world towards cashlessness, how much more likely will the ride of the fourth horseman and over a billion human deaths motivate people to move to making electronic payments that can be monitored? The Bible tells of a soon coming society that controls buying and selling to force allegiance to a coming European Beast power, known as 666 (Revelation 13:16-18). Does the ‘great tribulation’ begin before ride of the fourth horseman or with the opening of the fifth seal of Revelation 6? Do the words of Jesus helps us better understand the sequence of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse and the start of the Great Tribulation? Will the ride of the fourth horseman help lead to the rise of 666? Is that ride very close? Dr. Thiel addresses these issues and more in this video. Here is a link to a version in the Spanish language: El COVID-19 ¿Conduce al 666?
Biological Warfare and Prophecy Is biological warfare possible? Was it prophesied? Scientists have long warned that pathogenic organisms like the coronavirus could be weaponized. Furthermore, back in 2017, there were concerns that the biological research facility being constructed in Wuhan, China was risky and that a coronavirus from it could be released. On January 25, 2020, China’s President Xi Jinping publicly stated that the situation with the Wuhan-related strain of the coronavirus was grave. Did Church of God writers like the late evangelist Raymond McNair warn that engineered viruses (the “Doomsday bug”) were consistent with prophecies from Jesus? Did a warning from CCOG leader Bob Thiel warn about risks of genetically-modified (GMO) mosquitoes come to pass? Could human research and/or the consumption of biblically-unclean animals such as bats and snakes be a factor in current outbreaks or coming future pestilences? What about famines? How devastating have pestilences been? How devastating are the prophesied ones going to be? Dr. Thiel addresses these issues and more in this video.
Physical Preparation Scriptures for Christians. We all know the Bible prophecies famines. Should we do something? Here is a version in the Spanish language Escrituras sobre Preparación física para los Cristianos. Here is a link to a related sermon: Physical preparedness for Christians.
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse What do each of the four horseman of the Apocalypse represent? Have they began their ride? Did Jesus discuss the any of this? Might their rides coincide with the “beginning of sorrows? Do they start their ride prior to the Great Tribulation? Did Nostradamus or any other ‘private prophets’ write predictions that may mislead people so that they may not understand the truth of one or more of the four horseman? There is also a related YouTube video titled The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Sweden going to ‘666’ cashlessness? Sweden continues to reduce the amount of currency notes and coins in circulation as more and more Swedes turn to digital forms of payments. Even ‘farmers’ markets’ take debit and credit cards. Will this eliminate crime or lead to the rise of the Beast and Antichrist power? Could what is happening in Sweden be a prelude to the control of buying and selling that Revelation 13:16-18 associates with 666? Dr. Thiel addresses these issues from Stockholm, Sweden.
Blockchain, Karl Guttenberg, and 666. American Express just announced a deal with Ripple related to using its blockchain technology. No longer confined to Bitcoin, blockchain technology is moving towards the mainstream. Former German Economic and later Defense Minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has long been an adviser to Ripple and has plans for internationally-expanding the use of blockchain money. Jim Rickards, Doug Casey, and others have expressed concerns that blockchain money will give governments too much control over buying and selling. Could any of this be related to biblical prophecies in the Books of Daniel and Revelation? Could any of this help fulfill the prophecies related to buying and selling and 666 in Revelation 13? Dr. Thiel addresses these issues and more in this video. A related written article is also available: Amex launches blockchain-based business payments using Ripple: Prelude to the Beast and 666?
The End of US Dollar Dominance Is the USA losing its economic status? What about the petro-gold-yuan? A related video is also available: US Dollar being challenged by Gold-Petro-Yuan.
China, Its Biblical Past and Future, Part 1: Genesis and Chinese Characters Where did the Chinese people come from? Japeth, Javan, Magog? Is there evidence that the Chinese peoples must have known about various accounts in the Book of Genesis up until their dispersion after the Tower of Babel? What do Chinese writings and characters help show? What about the Garden of Eden, Noah’s Flood, and the Tower of Babel? Here is a link to a version of this article in Spanish: ¿Prueban los caracteres chinos la exactitud de la Biblia? A related sermon is also available: China’s biblical past and prophetic actions.
China, Its Biblical Past and Future, Part 2: The Sabbath and Some of God’s Witness in China When did Christianity first come to China? What about the Apostle Thomas? Did Confucius say anything to get the Chinese to possibly consider Christianity? Is there early evidence that they observed the seventh day sabbath? What about the Ten Commandments? What type of Church of God witness has there been to China? What has been happening with China that ties it together with prophecies in Revelation? What about the 200 million man army and Armageddon? What about the Belt and Road Initiative and end time Babylon the Great? A related sermon is also available: China’s biblical past and prophetic actions. Watch also China’s Silk Road and Babylon the Great.
Asia in Prophecy What is Ahead for Asia? Who are the “Kings of the East”? What will happen to nearly all the Chinese, Russians, Indians, and others of Asia? China in prophecy, where? Who has the 200,000,000 man army related to Armageddon? Two YouTube video are Is China THE Threat to the United States of America? and China: A King of the East.
Europa, the Beast, and Revelation Where did Europe get its name? What might Europe have to do with the Book of Revelation? What about “the Beast”? Is an emerging European power “the daughter of Babylon”? What is ahead for Europe? Here is a link to a video titled: Can You Prove that the Beast to Come is European?
European Technology and the Beast of Revelation Will the coming European Beast power would use and develop technology that will result in the taking over of the USA and its Anglo-Saxon allies? Is this possible? What does the Bible teach? Here is a related YouTube video: Military Technology and the Beast of Revelation.
Might German Baron Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg become the King of the North? Is the former German Defense Minister (who is also the former German Minister for Economics and Technology) one to watch? What do Catholic, Byzantine, and biblical prophecies suggest?
Germany’s Assyrian Roots Throughout History Are the Germanic peoples descended from Asshur of the Bible? Have there been real Christians in Germanic history? What about the “Holy Roman Empire”? There is also a You-Tube video sermon on this titled Germany’s Biblical Origins.
Germany in Biblical and Catholic Prophecy Does Assyria in the Bible equate to an end time power inhabiting the area of the old Roman Empire? What does prophecy say Germany will do and what does it say will happen to most of the German people?
Who is the King of the North? Is there one? Do biblical and Roman Catholic prophecies for the Great Monarch point to the same leader? Should he be followed? Who will be the King of the North discussed in Daniel 11? Is a nuclear attack prophesied to happen to the English-speaking peoples of the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand? When do the 1335 days, 1290 days, and 1260 days (the time, times, and half a time) of Daniel 12 begin? When does the Bible show that economic collapse will affect the United States? In the Spanish language check out ¿Quién es el Rey del Norte? Here are links to two related videos: The King of the North is Alive: What to Look Out For and The Future King of the North.
The Great Monarch: Biblical and Catholic Prophecies Is the ‘Great Monarch’ of Catholic prophecies endorsed or condemned by the Bible? Two sermons of related interest are also available: Great Monarch: Messiah or False Christ? and Great Monarch in 50+ Beast Prophecies.
Must the Ten Kings of Revelation 17:12 Rule over Ten Currently Existing Nations? Some claim that these passages refer to a gathering of 10 currently existing nations together, while one group teaches that this is referring to 11 nations getting together. Is that what Revelation 17:12-13 refers to? The ramifications of misunderstanding this are enormous. A related sermon is titled Ten Kings of Revelation and the Great Tribulation.
WTO/TTIP and the Babylonian Beast Will international trade agreements like WTO/TTIP/CETA lead to the fulfillment of end time prophecies concerning the Babylonian Beast power that the Book of Revelation warns against? What does the Bible teach? A related video would be WTO Trade Deal and the Rise of the European Beast Power.
USA in Prophecy: The Strongest Fortresses Can you point to scriptures, like Daniel 11:39, that point to the USA in the 21st century? This article does. Two related sermon are available: Identifying the USA and its Destruction in Prophecy and Do these 7 prophesies point to the end of the USA?
Who is the King of the West? Why is there no Final End-Time King of the West in Bible Prophecy? Is the United States the King of the West? Here is a version in the Spanish language: ¿Quién es el Rey del Occidente? ¿Por qué no hay un Rey del Occidente en la profecía del tiempo del fin? A related sermon is also available: The Bible, the USA, and the King of the West.
Donald Trump in Prophecy Prophecy, Donald Trump? Are there prophecies that Donald Trump may fulfill? Are there any prophecies that he has already helped fulfill? Is a Donald Trump presidency proving to be apocalyptic? Two related videos are available: Donald: ‘Trump of God’ or Apocalyptic? and Donald Trump’s Prophetic Presidency.
Trump Presidency Magic 8 Ball or Bible Prophecy? BBC reported that one might as well use a ‘Magic Eight-Ball’ to try to predict what will happen in the remaining time of Donald Trump’s presidency. What is a ‘Magic Eight-Ball’? Dr. Thiel not only explains that, but also briefly goes over 10 biblically-based warnings he wrote would happen if Donald Trump were elected that have already began to come to pass. He also goes over something he wrote back in 2008 that the Trump presidency is also helping lead to fulfillment. Should you trust Bible prophecy or not? Dr. Thiel says that Bible prophecy can be trusted, despite the view of skeptics and others that either overlook or despise the Bible. This is a video.
Donald Trump and America’s Apocalypse This 188 page book is for people truly interested in prophecies related to Donald Trump and the United States, including learning about several that have already been fulfilled and those that will be fulfilled in the future. The physical book can be purchased at Amazon for $12.99 from the following link: Donald Trump and America’s Apocalypse.
Donald Trump and America’s Apocalypse-Kindle Edition This electronic version of the 188 page print edition is available for only US$3.99. And you do not need an actual Kindle device to read it. Why? Amazon will allow you to download it to almost any device: Please click HERE to download one of Amazon s Free Reader Apps. After you go to for your free Kindle reader and then go to Donald Trump and America’s Apocalypse-Kindle Edition.
Anglo – America in Prophecy & the Lost Tribes of Israel Are the Americans, Canadians, English, Scottish, Welsh, Australians, Anglo-Saxon (non-Dutch) Southern Africans, and New Zealanders descendants of Joseph? Where are the lost ten-tribes of Israel? Who are the lost tribes of Israel? What will happen to Jerusalem and the Jews in Israel? Will God punish the U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, and other Anglo-Saxon nations? Why might God allow them to be punished first? Here is a link to the Spanish version of this article: Anglo-América & las Tribus Perdidas de Israel. Information is also in the YouTube sermons titled Where are the Ten Lost Tribes? Why does it matter? and British are the Covenant People. A short YouTube of prophetic interest may be: Are Chinese threats against Australia for real?
Will the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic Nations be Divided and Have People Taken as Slaves? Will the lands of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand be divided? What about Jerusalem? What does Bible prophecy teach? Are there non-biblical prophecies that support this idea? Who will divide those lands? Who will end up with the lands and the people? Here is a link to a video titled Will the USA and other Anglo-nations be Divided and Their People Made Slaves? Here is a related item in the Spanish language ¿Serán divididas las naciones anglosajonas?
Brexit Happened: Now What? At 11:00 pm January 31, 2020, the United Kingdom formally left the European Union. Many celebrated, while many mourned. Nigel Farage stated, “This is the greatest moment in modern British history.” What will happen to the United Kingdom? Will the UK be involved in trade deals with the United States of America and the Europeans? Will the UK regret the BRitish Exit (Brexit) from the EU?What will happen with the European Union? Is Europe prophesied to have a great army and many ships? Does the Bible prophesy a reorganization of Europe? Does it prophesy that the Europeans will become a conquering military power? Is the United Kingdom prophesied to be conquered? How does the Bible name the British-descended peoples? Was the British Empire the largest in world history? Was Brexit predicted by Church of God leaders in 1970 and the early 1990s? Will the European Union be negatively affected financially by the departure of the UK? Will this turn out well for the UK or the Europeans? Dr. Thiel addresses these issues and more in this video.
Does God Have a 6,000 Year Plan? What Year Does the 6,000 Years End? Was a 6000 year time allowed for humans to rule followed by a literal thousand year reign of Christ on Earth taught by the early Christians? Does God have 7,000 year plan? What year may the six thousand years of human rule end? When will Jesus return? 2027 or 20xx? There is also a video titled 6000 Years: When will God’s Kingdom Come? Here is a link to the article in Spanish: ¿Tiene Dios un plan de 6,000 años?
When Will the Great Tribulation Begin? 2020, 2021, or 2022? Can the Great Tribulation begin today? What happens before the Great Tribulation in the “beginning of sorrows”? What happens in the Great Tribulation and the Day of the Lord? Is this the time of the Gentiles? When is the earliest that the Great Tribulation can begin? What is the Day of the Lord? Who are the 144,000? Here is a version of the article in the Spanish language: ¿Puede la Gran Tribulación comenzar en el 2020 o 2021? ¿Es el Tiempo de los Gentiles? You can also see the English language sermon videos: The Great Tribulation from the Mount of Olives and Can the Great Tribulation begin before 2020? A shorter and newer video is: Could the Great Tribulation Begin in 2020?
The Times of the Gentiles Has there been more than one time of the Gentiles? Are we in it now or in the time of Anglo-America? What will the final time of the Gentiles be like? A related sermon is available and is titled: The Times of the Gentiles.
Armageddon Who is involved and when will this gathering happen? Here is also a video from Dr. Thiel, from Tel Megiddo in Israel: Armageddon. Other videos include: Armageddon Will it come on Trump’s watch?, Iraq, Armageddon, & Prophecy, Freemasonry, Armageddon, and Rome, Is China paving roads to Armageddon?, and Jordan, Petra, and Armageddon.
Ten Steps to Rid Yourself of Fear This is a vastly expanded version of a shorter article by the late Dr. Herman Hoeh on getting past fear. Here is a link to a related sermon: Ten Plus Steps to Rid Yourself of Fear.
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Home Indies Koyama Press announces Spring line with Degen, Schubert, Lapalme and Harbin
Koyama Press announces Spring line with Degen, Schubert, Lapalme and Harbin
Spring catalogs are in the air ad so are book announcements, Koyama Press has just announced its Spring releases with several top-notch books including the return of Alex Schubert’s Blobby Boys and a collection of Dustin Harbin’s diary comics.
MIGHTY STAR AND THE CASTLE OF THE CANCATERVATER
6 ½ x 10, 172 pages, b&w, trade paper
Sci-fi superheroes eschew Gotham and Metropolis in favor of nightmarish neoclassical ruins in this surreal strip.
A. Degen has taken the superhero myth and put it in a baroque blender; the result is the cerebral, sensuous and uncanny Mighty Star and the Castle of the Cancatervater. Equal parts Dalí and Astro Boy, Degen’s mostly silent narrative is both metaphysical and mighty.
A. DEGEN was born in Brooklyn, New York. After a time in Tokyo, he now lives and works Connecticut. He is the author of the books Area CC (Sonatina, 2013) and Soft X- Ray/Mindhunters (Birdcage Bottom Books, 2013), and his work has appeared in a number of anthologies.
PRAISE FOR MIGHTY STAR AND THE CASTLE OF THE CANCATERVATER
“A. Degen is one of the smartest and funniest cartoonists in the game. Every page in the book is filled with about two dozen triumphs and upsets in humor, design, pacing … A real pleasure to pore over.” — Michael DeForge, author of A Body Beneath (Koyama Press, 2014), Ant Colony (Drawn and Quarterly, 2013), and many more
BLOBBY BOYS 2
5 ½ x 8 ½, 52 pages, color, trade paper
Imagine The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as pot-smoking punks.
The Blobby Boys are back and they’ve got acid tongues and acid on their tongues. The salacious and slimy Saturday Morning cast-offs haven’t lost an iota of edge. In fact, the only thing sharper than the comedy in this book just might be the boys’ switchblades.
ALEX SCHUBERT was born in Mascoutah, IL and is based In Los Angeles, CA where he works in illustration and animation. In 2014, the first collection of Blobby Boys was awarded a Silver Medal in the Long Form and Comic Strip category of The Society of Illustrators first Comic and Cartoon Art Annual.
PRAISE FOR BLOBBY BOYS 2
“Alex Schubert’s collection of bold, bizarre comics is short, sharp and shocking — not unlike a quick stabbing.” — Jake Austen, Chicago Tribune
6 x 7 ½, 200 pages, color, trade paper
A colorful celebration of cartoons, creativity and the culture of cute.
Confetti, like its namesake, is a fun and explosive mix of color from the fertile mind of multidisciplinary artist Ginette Lapalme. In comics, paintings, prints, sculpture, and jewelry, Lapalme uses cartoons and junk culture as raw material to make “cute” subversive and “pretty” punk.
GINETTE LAPALME is a Toronto-based illustrator and artist. Lapalme is a graduate of the storied OCADU Illustration program, and is one third of Wowee Zonk, a Toronto-based illustrator collective and contemporary comic book anthology.
PRAISE FOR CONFETTI
“It is a goal of mine to live alone in a big house surrounded by the work of Ginette Lapalme, kind of like a cat lady, but with drawings of cats instead of real cats … Utterly delightful but never too cute, the world Lapalme has created leaves me more attuned to the perverse beauty of the one around us.” — Tavi Gevinson, founder and editor of Rookie
5 x 6 ½, 236 pages, b&w, trade paper
Comic and tragicomic, heartfelt and heartbreaking; these are the panels that make up a life.
Since 2010, Dustin Harbin has been sporadically documenting the ups and downs and sideways of his life in comic form. From their humble beginnings as a sketchbook exercise documenting the quotidian, oftentimes with hilarious results, Harbin’s Diary Comics have grown into quirky existential examinations of life and living.
DUSTIN HARBIN is a cartoonist and illustrator who lives and works in North Carolina. He’s best known for his autobiographical comics, as well as many, many illustrations of people and animals, often mixed and matched.
PRAISE FOR DIARY COMICS
“Dustin’s willingness to push himself in these comics makes them special, opening his mind and life to the audience he’s meant to connect to, taking what is at times the character of himself and revealing the man. That’s always the best part of autobio comics, an ability to confront something true.” — Kate Beaton, author of Hark! A Vagrant
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Home News The Captain’s Log with Somerset’s Tom Abell
The Captain’s Log with Somerset’s Tom Abell
Somerset’s Tom Abell is the latest county skipper to complete PA’s lockdown chronicle, coinciding with Mental Health Awareness Week.
During his unexpected time out Abell has been working with Sporting Minds UK, a charity for athletes between 16 and 30, as an ambassador.
How did you get involved with Sporting Minds UK?
Tom Abell is an ambassador for Sporting Minds UK (Sporting Minds UK)
“Mental health is a huge thing in sport and we have seen increasing numbers of people come out talking about it. I personally haven’t been affected but a number of people close to me have had their own battles. Callum Lea (19-year-old former Worcestershire prospect and SMUK founder) got in touch with on and asked if I could help spread the word because talking to people is the biggest help for anyone who is struggling.”
Is cricket ahead of other sports thanks to the honesty of players like your old captain Marcus Trescothick?
“Some pretty influential figures like Tres have come out and spoken about it and that gives people the confidence to talk too. A lot of sport is about pressure and there’s a lot of judgement, but having inspirational people like that, who you look up to, helps everyone reach out.”
Has lockdown and the change of routine been a challenge?
“It’s a funny thing…when you’re playing your whole year can be intense and mentally very demanding. The nature of cricket is that you learn to deal with failure so I’ve tried to frame it as a chance to relax and switch off. I’ve attempted to take a step back because the intensity will come around again.”
As captain are you checking in with younger players particularly?
SMUK founder Callum Lea talks to Somerset’s Will Smeed (Jim Mayer/Sporting Minds UK)
“That is a demographic that might be particularly anxious about the current situation because it’s a crucial period of your career when you’re that sort of age. The last thing you want is for people to deal with that on their own, especially if they are used to being around people and socialising. It’s important they have people in their cricket circles but having someone available confidentially, removed from the game, is equally important and that’s where the charity comes in.”
How has the club been getting involved in the community?
“We are currently on furlough but as it stands we have been able to ring around the membership voluntarily. We know lots of people who would have been at the cricket might be getting lonely for struggling without it. It’s great to reach out and have a chat with people – it’s not much, but it’s the least we can do.”
What are you missing most about the circuit?
Abell is missing the cut and thrust of competitive cricket (Anthony Devlin/PA)
“I guess it’s that day-to-day interaction with your best mates; that feeling you get after a challenging day when you get back in the dressing room and relax as a team. The other thing I miss is the element of competitive, the edge.”
Is it personally frustrating after your England Lions call-up over the winter?
“I felt incredibly fortunate to some great experiences and my first involvement in an England set-up. We had some good results in Australia and there are few better places to tour. Naturally I wanted to kick of from that, take my game to the next level but I’m trying not to worry too much about cricket matters and just focus on staying fit and healthy.”
What are your lockdown entertainment recommendations?
You know what time it is. #FNL pic.twitter.com/79p29AaIl9
— Friday Night Lights (@nbcfnl) March 26, 2020
“I’ve finished After Life with Ricky Gervais, rewatched Game of Thrones and now I’m getting through Friday Night Lights. I’ve also been learning the ukulele a little bit – Hey Soul Sister is my go tune at the moment but it’s a work in progress.”
:: Sporting Minds UK is a registered charity that provides and promotes mental health support in young sports people. To access one-to-one support, get involved or donate go to: www.sportingmindsuk.org
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Kind Pizza Express staff make heartwarming gesture to Caterham single mum with terminal cancer
The 30-year-old has raise around £70,000 towards potentially lifesaving treatment in Germany
Les Steed
Kind people working at Pizza Express have been donating the lunches they get a work to a single mum in Caterham who has terminal cancer.
Ornela Kotupanova, who is known as her artist name Ornella Sole, had beaten cancer in her sinuses in 2015 and defied the odds and the predictions of doctors by having her son, Luca Jeffrey, two months after she was told she was cancer-free.
But during the 30-year-old's routine review on April 25 this year, to check the cancer had not returned, her doctors sat her down and told her the cancer has unexpectedly spread to the bones in her legs, hips and lower back and she has only months to live.
Since then she has managed to raise around £70,000 towards potentially lifesaving treatment in Germany.
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Living with the return of her cancer has been hard, but four unlikely heroes from Caterham have come to her rescue: Camila Shone, Catherine Hollengenbee, 34, Rudina Hoxhvogli, 43, and Vitor Martins, 32, who work at the Pizza Express on Croydon Road.
Camila, 28, said: “We used to sometimes give her a special discount because she was a single mum with no money. I didn’t know she was sick from the beginning. Lately we’ve been doing a little more for her because she is sick again.
“Most of the time she was coming back from hospital and she’d come in here with Luca just to grab something to eat, so we helped her out.
“We have been skipping lunch to give her our lunches that they give us here.”
Ornella Sole (centre) with staff at Pizza Express in Caterham (Image: Grant Melton)
Ornella, who lives in a flat behind the restaurant, said: “From the beginning they were always there for me, always. From the moment they saw me pregnant and alone .
“Every time they see me going up the hill with my shopping trolley and bags they’d come out and help me home.
“From then we started talking and they have become friends, they get involved in my life.”
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Camila continued: “I was always her friend and I really like the little baby so we’d go next door to speak with her and see the little one.
“We only found out she was ill because we picked up a box of medication that she was waiting for at her house next door. She was also waiting for some photo albums.
“I came back the day after she’d been to hospital and gave her the box of medication and photo albums she wants to put together for baby Luca in case she dies that had been left with us and she broke down crying and was feeling sad because that was the day they told her there was no cure for her."
Ornella Sole was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer shortly after giving birth to her son Luca (Image: Grant Melton)
Ornella said: “I told them recently about the cancer coming back and they’ve really been there for me, they said they’d help with my bags, taking care of Luca, shopping if I need food, they give me rides to hospital."
Ornella has been fundraising to pay for potentially lifesaving treatment. While the odds are slim, she remains upbeat and hopeful for her future and is in talks with a specialist oncology clinic in Germany.
Support her at www.gofundme.com/desiretolive
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